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When Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll crashed yet another military funeral (this time for fallen hero Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich) and said to one of the grieving relatives “I want you to know our government is against this war” (while she passed out her quite important business cards to all who would take one—during Communion no less), I wondered to which government the lady was referring. Certainly, it was not the US government. And why did she show up, uninvited, in the first place? One would think, out of any common courtesy, she might have called to ask permission...

Moore used footage of Maj. Stone's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in his antiwar propaganda film, Fahrenheit 9/11. He did so without the permission of Maj. Stone's family. The family was not pleased. Maj. Stone's mother called Moore a "maggot that eats off the dead." Catherine Baker Knoll has done Moore one better (or worse). On July 19th, a funeral service was held at St. John Lutheran Church in Carnegie for Staff Sergeant Joseph Goodrich, 32. Goodrich and fellow Marine reservist Lance Corporal Ryan Kovacicek, 22, were killed by mortar fire July 10th while conducting combat operations in Hit, in...

"Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll apologized Monday to the family of a Marine killed in Iraq for showing up uninvited for his funeral last week and giving out a business card. Knoll went to the funeral of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich and family members said she told his aunt that 'our government' was opposed to the war." What is missing from this article?Notice that there is not a single mention of the fact that Lt. Governor Catherine Baker Knoll is a DEMOCRAT in the AP article posted on CNN. You can bet if a Republican politician publicly screwed up like...