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Ex-Rep. Kilpatrick 'waiting to hear' evidence of space aliens

2013-05-01

[DETROITNEWS] Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick said Monday she's excited about presiding over a week's worth of testimony about the existence of extraterrestrials. "Meb! Run, Beldar! They are on to us!" The bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ...a small town in France... Democrat and mother of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick signed up with five other former members of Congress to listen to testimony aimed at proving alien contact with Earth and a government effort to cover it up. "When my people come to colonize this planet, you will be on the protected rolls, and no harm will come to you. "You are wise, Beldar. But there is a sadness to your wisdom." "I've been interested for a while," Kilpatrick said before the kickoff of the hearings, known as the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure sponsored by the Paradigm Research Group, a private ET lobbying organization. "Take my car, its re-enforced alloy superstructure is far superior to that of your broken down, rusted out shit box." The hearing lasts through Friday at the National Press Club and will be the basis for a documentary on UFOs. For her service -- listening to about 30 hours of congressional-style testimony -- the private group will pay her $20,000 plus expenses. "When the High Master hears of this he will surely cut off my plargh and hand it to me. " Kilpatrick said she'll await the evidence before drawing conclusions on whether there's a government effort to hide existence of flying saucers. "What choice do I have? It is as if you have grabbed me by the base of my snarglies!" "I'm waiting to hear," Kilpatrick told The Detroit News as she settled on the panel before the hearings kicked off. "I'm not making any of those kinds of statements. "I have learned much from watching the Garthok battle. It has weaknesses. I believe I can take it." "Uh-huh. And let me know when Elvis gets here." "It's good to be here. We're excited. I've been reading and watching and so I'm looking forward to the week's activities." "My plubar has broken,....the birth spasm has begun!" Joining Kilpatrick on the bipartisan panel are ex-Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska (Democrat and more recently Libertarian), as well as former Reps. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., and Merrill Cook, R-Utah. "Excuse me sir, but should they be in fact, creatures from another planet, isn't that the Air Force's responsibility?" "If they're just visiting, sure... but the minute they try to work here, they're mine!" Bartlett said in opening remarks Congress has failed to do its job by holding investigative ET hearings and he's pleased this private panel can do the work. If I did not fear incarceration from human authority figures, I would terminate your life functions by applying sufficient pressure to your blunt skull so as to force its collapse!

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Hashem Clarke makes history

2010-11-04

[Bangla Daily Star] For the first time in the history of the United States of America, Hansen Hashem Clarke, a Bangladeshi descent democratic member of the Michigan Senate, has won a congressional seat to the United States House of Representatives. After winning the congressional seat, held by Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick for more than 20 years, Clarke said he would try to fulfil the dreams of the people of United States. Clarke was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Bangladeshi American father, Mozaffar Ali Hashem from Sylhet, and an African American mother, Thelma Clarke. Clarke visited his village home a few years ago. His father died when he was a child. Clarke attended Cass Technical High School, and then got admitted to a prestigious east-coast prep school to complete his high school. Clarke studied at Cornell University, graduating with a degree in fine arts. While at the university, he became interested in politics. He was elected to the student seat on the Cornell University Board of Trustees and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He then earned a law degree from Georgetown Law School in 1987. Clarke worked as chief of staff to US Representative John Conyers, as well as in Wayne County during the administration of Edward H McNamara.

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Another incumbent down as Michigan Rep. loses

2010-08-04

Welcome to the revolution... Democratic Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan lost her bid for an eighth term on Tuesday, the crap splatter from her son Kwame, the former Detroit mayor, prompting her constituents to throw her out on her ear in a year when disgusted voters seem eager to fire their would-be rulers. She's the sixth -- and the fourth in the House -- to bite the dust so far this year. And infuriated voters could deal others the same fate in primaries over the next two months, not to mention the general election in November, when nothing less than unchecked Dem power will be at stake. In another nod to fresh blood, Michigan voters chose political newcomer Rick Snyder as the Republican nominee in the race to succeed outgoing Democratic Gov. Jennifer "Placidly Surveying the Rubble" Granholm in a state severely battered by ineptitude and mismanagement. He automatically became the favorite in the ailing state in his race against Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, who grabbed the Democratic nomination by beating House Speaker Andy Dillon. Michigan has the nation's second-highest unemployment rate -- at 13.2 percent -- and scores of foreclosures, and that has been a drag on Granholm, the Democratic governor who must leave office because of term limits. The voters wouldn't toss her, of course... The two outcomes reflected the electorate's strong tar and feathers sentiment and intense desire to turn the bastards out just three months before midterm elections. Other races in Missouri and Kansas were more predictable in what otherwise has been a primary season filled with unanticipated results, as tea party hopefuls shook up races and voters threw rotting fruit and vegetables at candidates aligned with the political parties. In Kansas, two-term Sen. Sam Brownback sailed to the GOP nomination in the gubernatorial race. Democrat Robin Carnahan -- the privileged scion of a famed Missouri political dynasty -- and seven-term GOP Rep. Roy Blunt secured spots on the November ballot in that state's Senate race. Another veteran politician -- GOP Rep. Jerry Moran -- narrowly topped fellow Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt in the race for the party's Senate nod in Kansas and will face Democrat Lisa Johnston, who's regarded as toast. Moran had the backing of Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., while Tiahrt had the support of Sarah Palin. Victory in the GOP primary was tantamount to a general election win, as Kansas hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. The 2010 midterm elections already have seen five incumbents lose. Sens. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, and Arlen Specter, R-D-Pa., were ousted by their respective constituencies, if any. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., Parker Griffith, R-Ala., and Bob Inglis, R-S.C., have crashed and burned. State Sen. Hansen Clarke of Detroit beat Kilpatrick in Michigan's Democratic primary. Throughout the campaign, he stressed the oozing corruption of Kilpatrick's son, who was kicked out as Detroit mayor in 2008 after copping a plea to obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick tried to overcome her son's record by emphasizing her membership on the House Appropriations Committee and what she called her record of providing boodle for the metropolitan Detroit district, which is rolling in dough as anyone with half an eye can see. In the governor's race, Snyder -- who grabbed attention with ads promoting himself as "one tough nerd" -- overcame Attorney General Mike Cox, Rep. Pete Hoekstra and two others. The former president and chief operating officer of computer maker Gateway Inc. spent $6 million of his own money to purchase the primary. In Kansas, Brownback easily won the GOP gubernatorial nomination over a single opponent and already was considered a shoo-in. He is giving up a Senate seat he's held since 1997. The conservative made a brief run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination before dropping out because nobody noticed. State Sen. Tom Holland is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. They will square off to succeed Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, who was finishing out the remainder of Kathleen Sebelius' term. She left office last year to join the B.O. team as Health and Human Services Secretary. In Missouri, Carnahan, the heir of a former governor and a former senator, easily defeated two token opponents. Her Senate bid comes 10 years after the death of her father and one of her brothers in a plane crash. Still waving the bloody shirt, is she? Carnahan, the two-term secretary of state, will face Blunt, another dynast who has served in the House since 1996 and whose son is a former governor. He beat eight opponents for the GOP nomination, including tea party favorite state Sen. Chuck Purgason. Four-term Sen. Kit Bond is retiring. Missouri also became the first state to test the popularity of Obama's health care fiasco. Voters jumped on a new law that prohibits the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them from paying for their own health care. That conflicts with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014 which means the fed are going to take them to court before the next month is out. The legal effect is questionable, because federal laws generally supersede those in states, which is why they're going to court. But its passage is a thumb in the eye to Obama and the Democrats.

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Democrats call Zarqawi killing a stunt

2006-06-08

Some Democrats, breaking ranks from their leadership, today said the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq was a stunt to divert attention from an unpopular and hopeless war. "This is just to cover Bush's [rear] so he doesn't have to answer" for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military and his own sagging poll numbers, said Rep. Pete Stark, California Democrat. "Iraq is still a mess -- get out." Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, said Zarqawi was a small part of "a growing anti-American insurgency" and that it's time to get out. "We're there for all the wrong reasons," Mr. Kucinich said. Officially, Democratic leaders reacted positively to the news and praised the troops that successfully targeted al Qaeda's leader in Iraq with 500-pound bombs at his safe house 30 miles from Baghdad. "This is a good day for the Iraqi people, the U.S. military and our intelligence community," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. President Bush said that yesterday's killing of the 39-year-old Jordanian-born terrorist offers an opportunity to "turn the tide" in the war and that Tuesday he will discuss with Iraqi leaders "how to best deploy America's resources in Iraq." A senior White House official cautioned that Mr. Bush was not hinting at possible early reductions in U.S. troops there, according to Reuters news agency. Meanwhile, Democrats sprinkled caveats throughout their praise. "That is good news; he was a dreadful, vicious person," said Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat. Mr. Conrad added that he hopes the military can get Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, another top al Qaeda leader. "They're even more important," he said. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Michigan Democrat, said it was good news but added, "I think we have a long way to go." Republicans called Zarqawi's death a positive step and thanked Iraqi citizens for standing up to a threat against their nascent Democracy.

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