I am sure the Tea Party candidates who got elected have every intention of carrying out the party’s agenda. But the path to hell is paved with the stones of good intentions.
The Tea Party was formed in protest to the federal government’s bailout of the banks, the economic stimulus package and the healthcare reform bill. The party was successful in electing a number of congressional candidates. The Tea Party candidates promised to cut back the size of government, to lower taxes, to reduce wasteful spending and to reduce the national debt and federal budget deficit.
Unfortunately for the Tea Party members, they are going to be disappointed by the candidates they succeeded in electing. The first priority of the new officeholders - especially those in the House of Representatives who will have to run again in two years - will be to ensure their reelection. That will require them to spend a lot of their time trying to raise funds for the next campaign. And when it comes to keeping their promises, how are they going to propose to do that?
Cut back the size of government? Lots of luck there! Lower taxes? How are they going to do that without cutting way down on defense spending and reducing Social Security and Medicare benefits. The seniors sure as hell are not going to stand for anyone messing with their Social Security and Medicare benefits.
And how much money will be left to repair our highways and bridges when taxes are lowered? How much will the spending on education be reduced? If you lower the taxes that help pay for the nation’s infrastructure and education, the tax burden to pay for those programs will have to be passed on to the states. Thus, any federal tax savings will be offset by an increase in state taxes.
Wasteful spending? That’s in the eye of the beholder. What’s wasteful to one group may be essential to another group. Besides that, wasteful spending comprises only a small fraction of the total federal expenditures.
The national debt and federal budget deficit? Everyone, Democrats, Republicans and independents alike, agree the debt needs to be reduced and the budget balanced. But here is a reality check:
__The national debt cannot be wiped out unless we eliminate the multitude of tax loopholes which include offshore tax havens that cost us $100 billion and tax shelters that cost us $50 billion every year. And the budget cannot be balanced unless taxes are raised. What are the chances that Congress will eliminate the tax loopholes and raise taxes? Slim to none – no, make that none!
__Then there are those entitlements. Reducing the national debt will require deep cuts in, if not elimination of entitlements, programs that the poor, the infirm and people who have lost their jobs depend on to help them survive. Elimination of entitlements will mean the states will have to pick them up, thus requiring an increase in state taxes. Furthermore, in many states the needy will be given far less assistance if entitlements are picked up by the states.
The Tea Party candidates also promised to repeal the health care reform bill. You can bet Obama will veto any measure that tinkers with his healthcare bill and Congress does not have the votes to override his veto.
So what are the Tea Party members going to do when the party’s agenda fails to get passed? Are they going to vote their candidates out of office in two years and replace them with a new batch only to start the cycle all over again? The Tea Party’s lofty goals of reducing spending and taxes are all well and good but, unfortunately, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
FIRST ONE CHILD, NOW ONE DOG; WILL ONE CANARY BE NEXT?
Back in 1983, when I spent three weeks in China, every family there seemed to have at least one canary. Every outdoor market had loads of bamboo cages full of the little yellow birds for sale. You could hear them chirping everywhere.
THIRTY YEARS AFTER CHINA IMPOSES ONE CHILD QUOTA, SHANGHAI TO SET ONE DOG PER FAMILY POLICY
Mail Online
November 12, 2010
Shanghai citizens have had 30 years to grow used to the single child quota. Now they must swallow a new restriction: the one-dog policy.
City authorities have proposed a law that will limit ownership to one hound per home, saying the high population density in a city of 20 million people and limited living space means pets will have to pay.
The draft legislation, which cites the number of dog attacks as around 100,000 a year, is set to become law next year.
An estimated 800,000 dogs live in Shanghai, most as pampered pets of newly rich residents who regard their cherished canines as a sign of wealth not to mention companionship.
It was decided tighter rules were needed due to rampant barking, unscooped waste, and the growing risk of dog attacks – all factors affecting the city’s environment and sanitation.
As an incentive to owners of multiple pets to comply, the city will reduce the fee to buy a licence and for vaccinations and identification chips from as much as 2,000 yuan (£200) a year to 300 yuan.
In Shanghai, owners will also be responsible if their dogs have puppies. There will be no mercy for unplanned pregnancies and owners must have them adopted within three months or send them to approved agencies to rehome them. The only alternative will be sterilization, Shanghai authorities said.
Many pet owners were attracted by the reduction in license fees – long a bone of contention in Chinese cities where many dogs go unregistered because of the cost.
But not everyone was pleased. One dog owner commented in an Internet chat room: ‘One family, one dog is obviously unreasonable. Do dogs have family planning too? This is so inhumane. What about those owning two dogs? Do they have to throw one away? I strongly oppose this rule.’
And owners raged on the Shanghai Dog (www.shdog.net) pet forum. One said: ‘If my dog gives birth to puppies of course I will keep one. Do they want me to kill the mother? If some day raising a dog is forbidden, I will raise many many cats and let them have many many kittens!’
Another was defiant: ‘We are prepared to keep our dogs at home. Will they break into my house to take them away? Try it if they dare!’
Another issued a challenge: ‘We should unite together to establish a Dog Party to fight for our rights. If anyone’s dog is taken away we should demonstrate.
Similar restrictions are already in effect in Beijing, in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou as well as in several other cities.
In Beijing, for example, owners are not allowed to keep dogs taller than 14cms lest they attack or frighten non-canine loving residents. Thus waddling Pekinese, prancing Pomeranians and tiny chihuahuas are to be seen everywhere strolling with their owners down the capital’s streets.
The latest vogue is for caramel-colored poodles. As with so many policies in China, it was not clear how officials would be able to enforce the ‘one-dog’ policy.
One elderly Shanghai resident said: ‘Even if the law gets passed, I doubt whether the government will be able to discover any violations if owners keep their dogs secretly.’
Although the one-child policy is still law in China, family planning officials in Shanghai last year began encouraging residents to have a second child in a bid to ease the burden of the city’s growing senior population.
Officials distributed leaflets and made home visits to spread news of the 'loophole' – applicable if both parents are from ethnic minorities, from rural families or only children themselves.
But the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission was quick to emphasize that the move did not signal any change to the population control rule, rather it was an exception.
THIRTY YEARS AFTER CHINA IMPOSES ONE CHILD QUOTA, SHANGHAI TO SET ONE DOG PER FAMILY POLICY
Mail Online
November 12, 2010
Shanghai citizens have had 30 years to grow used to the single child quota. Now they must swallow a new restriction: the one-dog policy.
City authorities have proposed a law that will limit ownership to one hound per home, saying the high population density in a city of 20 million people and limited living space means pets will have to pay.
The draft legislation, which cites the number of dog attacks as around 100,000 a year, is set to become law next year.
An estimated 800,000 dogs live in Shanghai, most as pampered pets of newly rich residents who regard their cherished canines as a sign of wealth not to mention companionship.
It was decided tighter rules were needed due to rampant barking, unscooped waste, and the growing risk of dog attacks – all factors affecting the city’s environment and sanitation.
As an incentive to owners of multiple pets to comply, the city will reduce the fee to buy a licence and for vaccinations and identification chips from as much as 2,000 yuan (£200) a year to 300 yuan.
In Shanghai, owners will also be responsible if their dogs have puppies. There will be no mercy for unplanned pregnancies and owners must have them adopted within three months or send them to approved agencies to rehome them. The only alternative will be sterilization, Shanghai authorities said.
Many pet owners were attracted by the reduction in license fees – long a bone of contention in Chinese cities where many dogs go unregistered because of the cost.
But not everyone was pleased. One dog owner commented in an Internet chat room: ‘One family, one dog is obviously unreasonable. Do dogs have family planning too? This is so inhumane. What about those owning two dogs? Do they have to throw one away? I strongly oppose this rule.’
And owners raged on the Shanghai Dog (www.shdog.net) pet forum. One said: ‘If my dog gives birth to puppies of course I will keep one. Do they want me to kill the mother? If some day raising a dog is forbidden, I will raise many many cats and let them have many many kittens!’
Another was defiant: ‘We are prepared to keep our dogs at home. Will they break into my house to take them away? Try it if they dare!’
Another issued a challenge: ‘We should unite together to establish a Dog Party to fight for our rights. If anyone’s dog is taken away we should demonstrate.
Similar restrictions are already in effect in Beijing, in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou as well as in several other cities.
In Beijing, for example, owners are not allowed to keep dogs taller than 14cms lest they attack or frighten non-canine loving residents. Thus waddling Pekinese, prancing Pomeranians and tiny chihuahuas are to be seen everywhere strolling with their owners down the capital’s streets.
The latest vogue is for caramel-colored poodles. As with so many policies in China, it was not clear how officials would be able to enforce the ‘one-dog’ policy.
One elderly Shanghai resident said: ‘Even if the law gets passed, I doubt whether the government will be able to discover any violations if owners keep their dogs secretly.’
Although the one-child policy is still law in China, family planning officials in Shanghai last year began encouraging residents to have a second child in a bid to ease the burden of the city’s growing senior population.
Officials distributed leaflets and made home visits to spread news of the 'loophole' – applicable if both parents are from ethnic minorities, from rural families or only children themselves.
But the Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission was quick to emphasize that the move did not signal any change to the population control rule, rather it was an exception.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD
A mouse has one last peek at the cruel world
An unlucky mouse just happened to cross paths with this giant African bull frog. That's one happy meal for the frog.
INJDIA'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER DECLARES THAT SUVs AND BMWs ARE CRIMINALS
It’s a good thing that America’s big car and luxury car lovers don’t live in India!
SUVs ARE ‘CRIMINALS’
The Straits Times
November 12, 2010
NEW DELHI - INDIA'S environment minister attacked the use of large gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) on Indian roads as 'criminal' on Friday, the Press Trust of India reported.
At a UN workshop on low-carbon transport in India, Jairam Ramesh called for minimum fuel efficiency standards and said his country should overhaul its subsidy system for diesel, after deregulating petrol prices in June.
'The use of vehicles like SUVs and BMW in countries like India is criminal,' Mr Ramesh said.
'We have reformed policy as far as petrol is concerned. We are yet to reform as far as the net effect of diesel subsidy is concerned.' He added that the diesel subsidy primarily benefited owners of expensive cars, and not ordinary people.
Mr Ramesh said the transport sector's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions were expected to reach 15 per cent by 2030.
'We are worried and we are looking at how to control these emissions from transport sector. For this to happen, there should be mandatory fuel efficiency standards,' he said. -- AFP
SUVs ARE ‘CRIMINALS’
The Straits Times
November 12, 2010
NEW DELHI - INDIA'S environment minister attacked the use of large gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) on Indian roads as 'criminal' on Friday, the Press Trust of India reported.
At a UN workshop on low-carbon transport in India, Jairam Ramesh called for minimum fuel efficiency standards and said his country should overhaul its subsidy system for diesel, after deregulating petrol prices in June.
'The use of vehicles like SUVs and BMW in countries like India is criminal,' Mr Ramesh said.
'We have reformed policy as far as petrol is concerned. We are yet to reform as far as the net effect of diesel subsidy is concerned.' He added that the diesel subsidy primarily benefited owners of expensive cars, and not ordinary people.
Mr Ramesh said the transport sector's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions were expected to reach 15 per cent by 2030.
'We are worried and we are looking at how to control these emissions from transport sector. For this to happen, there should be mandatory fuel efficiency standards,' he said. -- AFP
YOU CAN BET THE HECKLERS WERE LIBERAL JEWS (2)
Looks like some of the less-liberal Jews roughed up some of the hecklers. Too bad they didn’t kick the supreme shit out of them!
Here is an account by the Jerusalem Post’s Gil Shefler of the heckling against Netanyahu at the New Orleans convention of the Jewish Federations of North America:
Any account of the conference without reference to the heckling by activists of Jewish Voices for Peace, a leftist group involved in attempts to break the blockade on Gaza and relocate the planned Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, would be incomplete. The incident in which they interrupted Netanyahu was very troubling to those who witnessed it. One by one, protesters stood up on chairs with pre-made signs. "The loyalty oath delegitimizes Israel," one shouted. "The occupation delegitimizes Israel," yelled another.
There were five in all. Two of them – a young female and an elderly man – were taken away quietly. Every time another protester appeared the crowd became less patient with the party crashers. Chants of "am Yisrael chai" and "Bibi, Bibi" started up spontaneously. In perhaps the ugliest incident, a protester resisted being carried out, jumping over rows of chairs trying to evade security. He was wrestled down by a combination of guards and vigilante members of the audience and carried out kicking and screaming.
"I saw him later, he was pretty roughed up," Ehud Hechtman, a security guard who witnessed the event, said.
JTA’s Jacob Berkman reported that he saw one audience member put a female protester in a nelson.
Amid the drama, only Netanyahu seemed unfazed.
"If they’re talking about delegitimization, they’ve got the wrong address," he said and received a tremendous round of applause from the delegates.
After the incident I decided to gauge whether the protest reflected a larger sentiment in the audience, especially among youth. I found a group of Orthodox college students who agreed to weigh in their opinion. There was no anger in their voices, but rather disappointment.
"If we allow five butt-heads to hijack the message here by standing on chairs with their homemade signs we’re failing our roles as ambassadors to Israel," Daniel Friedman, a student at the University of California at San Diego, said.
Later that day I spoke to left-leaning seculars, who said they felt ambivalence about the incident.
They oppose the occupation of the West Bank and the loyalty oath, and wished JFNA addressed such issues. Most of them, however, said that while they may agree with the issues raised, the form of the protest was misguided.
Here is an account by the Jerusalem Post’s Gil Shefler of the heckling against Netanyahu at the New Orleans convention of the Jewish Federations of North America:
Any account of the conference without reference to the heckling by activists of Jewish Voices for Peace, a leftist group involved in attempts to break the blockade on Gaza and relocate the planned Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, would be incomplete. The incident in which they interrupted Netanyahu was very troubling to those who witnessed it. One by one, protesters stood up on chairs with pre-made signs. "The loyalty oath delegitimizes Israel," one shouted. "The occupation delegitimizes Israel," yelled another.
There were five in all. Two of them – a young female and an elderly man – were taken away quietly. Every time another protester appeared the crowd became less patient with the party crashers. Chants of "am Yisrael chai" and "Bibi, Bibi" started up spontaneously. In perhaps the ugliest incident, a protester resisted being carried out, jumping over rows of chairs trying to evade security. He was wrestled down by a combination of guards and vigilante members of the audience and carried out kicking and screaming.
"I saw him later, he was pretty roughed up," Ehud Hechtman, a security guard who witnessed the event, said.
JTA’s Jacob Berkman reported that he saw one audience member put a female protester in a nelson.
Amid the drama, only Netanyahu seemed unfazed.
"If they’re talking about delegitimization, they’ve got the wrong address," he said and received a tremendous round of applause from the delegates.
After the incident I decided to gauge whether the protest reflected a larger sentiment in the audience, especially among youth. I found a group of Orthodox college students who agreed to weigh in their opinion. There was no anger in their voices, but rather disappointment.
"If we allow five butt-heads to hijack the message here by standing on chairs with their homemade signs we’re failing our roles as ambassadors to Israel," Daniel Friedman, a student at the University of California at San Diego, said.
Later that day I spoke to left-leaning seculars, who said they felt ambivalence about the incident.
They oppose the occupation of the West Bank and the loyalty oath, and wished JFNA addressed such issues. Most of them, however, said that while they may agree with the issues raised, the form of the protest was misguided.
WHY MEN ARE SO GUNG-HO ON WATCHING SPORTS ON TV
Sportscasters’ terminology causes couch jocks to fantasize. That explains why those guys at the Connelly family Thanksgiving wanted to stay after the meal to watch the games.
TALK DIRTY TO ME: TEN FILTHY-SOUNDING SPORTS TERMS
By Jeff Balke
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 12, 2010
A lot of these slang terms also sound unintentionally dirty and we have taken notice. It's difficult to make it through a Sunday afternoon without chuckling just a little at the announcers during an NFL game as they discuss balls, holes and penetration. We realize not all of you are hip to the lingo of sports, so we've prepared this little list of ten filthy-sounding sports terms to help you stay informed.
10. Penetrate deep into the backfield
When a defensive player in football does this, it often results in a loss of yardage for the offense. In sex, this is really more win-win.
9. Stuff it in the hole
In basketball, this kind of dunk can be violent and there is often celebrating afterward. In sex, well, same thing.
8. High and tight
A pitcher can use this tactic to get the ball up in the strike zone and close to the batter. If he loses control of the pitch, it could end up giving the batter some "chin music." High and tight can also lead to chin music in sex if you aren't careful or are into that sort of thing, you filthy little pervert.
7. Going back door
This is praised in basketball as a good way to score. In sex, it requires the right combination of partner and alcohol or you could get "rejected" as you try to "take it to the hole."
6. Hit it in the rough
This is either a description of a golfer hitting the ball into the long grass off the fairway or a `70's porn title.
5. Double team
This is a common defensive tactic used against particularly good players. To see examples of this in sex, you can to watch late night movies on Cinemax or just close your eyes and dare to dream.
4. Lay the wood
In football and in sex, this is generally a good thing.
3. Facial
When you dunk a basketball in the face of a defender, it can be humiliating for the defender. There have even been posters made of facials. Sexually speaking, humiliating posters of this sort of thing are not normally found outside San Francisco sex shops or Google images with "safe search" turned off.
2. Give the guy a blow
While this phrase may be slang for giving a player a rest, if players really did get a "blow" when they came out of the game, we're pretty sure guys would be winded more often.
1. Come inside
Throwing a ball inside on a batter is considered a risky maneuver because if the ball hits the player, there could be consequences later. Coming inside during sex is pretty much the same thing. It's why both the batter and the sex partner should consider wearing protection.
TALK DIRTY TO ME: TEN FILTHY-SOUNDING SPORTS TERMS
By Jeff Balke
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 12, 2010
A lot of these slang terms also sound unintentionally dirty and we have taken notice. It's difficult to make it through a Sunday afternoon without chuckling just a little at the announcers during an NFL game as they discuss balls, holes and penetration. We realize not all of you are hip to the lingo of sports, so we've prepared this little list of ten filthy-sounding sports terms to help you stay informed.
10. Penetrate deep into the backfield
When a defensive player in football does this, it often results in a loss of yardage for the offense. In sex, this is really more win-win.
9. Stuff it in the hole
In basketball, this kind of dunk can be violent and there is often celebrating afterward. In sex, well, same thing.
8. High and tight
A pitcher can use this tactic to get the ball up in the strike zone and close to the batter. If he loses control of the pitch, it could end up giving the batter some "chin music." High and tight can also lead to chin music in sex if you aren't careful or are into that sort of thing, you filthy little pervert.
7. Going back door
This is praised in basketball as a good way to score. In sex, it requires the right combination of partner and alcohol or you could get "rejected" as you try to "take it to the hole."
6. Hit it in the rough
This is either a description of a golfer hitting the ball into the long grass off the fairway or a `70's porn title.
5. Double team
This is a common defensive tactic used against particularly good players. To see examples of this in sex, you can to watch late night movies on Cinemax or just close your eyes and dare to dream.
4. Lay the wood
In football and in sex, this is generally a good thing.
3. Facial
When you dunk a basketball in the face of a defender, it can be humiliating for the defender. There have even been posters made of facials. Sexually speaking, humiliating posters of this sort of thing are not normally found outside San Francisco sex shops or Google images with "safe search" turned off.
2. Give the guy a blow
While this phrase may be slang for giving a player a rest, if players really did get a "blow" when they came out of the game, we're pretty sure guys would be winded more often.
1. Come inside
Throwing a ball inside on a batter is considered a risky maneuver because if the ball hits the player, there could be consequences later. Coming inside during sex is pretty much the same thing. It's why both the batter and the sex partner should consider wearing protection.
Friday, November 12, 2010
OBAMA'S SUCKING UP TO THE MUSLIMS IS SEEN BY THEM AS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS
Obama’s efforts in reaching out to the Islamic world has Muslims thinking: "That's nice, and so what?"
OBAMA’S GRIM PURSUIT OF MUSLIM ROMANCE
By Wesley Pruden
Jesish World Review
November 12, 2010
Unrequited love is a sad thing to watch, whether it's a callow teenager mooning over a photograph of that cute girl in algebra class, Scarlett O'Hara pining for the elusive Ashley — or Barack Obama in relentless pursuit of the affections of uninterested Muslims.
The president seems to have left his heart in Jakarta, where he lived as a child in the late '60s. "Let me begin with a simple statement," he told his Indonesian hosts, "Indonesia is part of me." A nice sentiment, and visitors are expected to indulge in polite exaggeration in thanking their hosts. Mr. Obama continued with the usual diplomatic lies that diplomats count on nobody taking seriously, praising his hosts' "diversity, democracy and tolerance," citing Indonesia as a model for other countries. There was no need to go into the nation's brutal and bloody history; the ethnic cleansing that killed up to 1 million men, women and children; the suppression of those warm and friendly folk by corrupt and oppressive regimes.
The president just can't help himself when he gets amongst Muslims, many of whom take his treacly sentiments as telling evidence of weakness in the face of peril and provocation, proof of the "resolve" of the sappy West. He even indulged a ritual insult of the first lady, saying nothing when the Indonesian minister of communications shook Michelle's hand at a formal reception and then apologized for the sin and shame of having touched her: "I tried to prevent it with my two hands, but Mrs. Michelle [sic] moved her hands too close to me; then we touched." Actually, video footage shows the minister reaching eagerly for Mrs. Obama's outstretched hand, calculating that he could get the cheap thrill of touching the forbidden female flesh that sets Muslim imaginations ablaze. Muslim men have been accused of many things, but kindness and gallantry toward women are not among them.
The next day, Michelle even put on a dowdy "Friday-go-to-meeting" dress for a Wednesday visit to the biggest mosque in Indonesia, testing whether a dowdy dress could make her look dowdy. (The dress failed.)
The president obviously has warm memories of his boyhood in Indonesia, and only a churl would deny his indulging a little nostalgia in recalling a golden boyhood. He took pains to remind his hosts that he is a believing Christian, but he passed up another opportunity to speak bluntly (as a Dutch uncle, you might say) to the Muslim world that mutual respect must be earned.
He could have said something like the remarks of Pope Benedict XVI, who Thursday condemned violence "in the name of God" and told Muslims they must respect freedom of worship even in their own countries. Conversations between Christians and Muslims are all to the good, the pontiff said, but this "dialogue" must be accompanied by "the freedom to practice one's religion in private and in public." He urged heads of state across the Middle East to "guarantee to all the freedom of conscience and religion, and of being able to bear public witness to their own faith." (Saudi newspapers, please copy.)
Such a message from President Obama would have been the needed slap across the face to those who need it most. At the moment, Islam doesn't appear to most of us in the West to be the "religion of peace" that presidents and prime ministers keep telling us it is; some of that "honest dialogue" they invariably prescribe might clear the air. It might even persuade some of the president's fiercest critics that he isn't really a Muslim at heart.
The president should remember the old American adage, "If they'll hang you for stealing a goat, you might as well take a sheep." Mr. Obama's continued pursuit of romance with the Islamic world, little short of abasing both himself and his country, isn't winning him a lot of points from Muslims at home. The Muslim response to his Jakarta speech, similar in tint and tone to his contrite apology last year in Cairo, has been "That's nice, and so what?"
The special pleaders are clear about the price they exact for returning Mr. Obama's respect and attempts at affection. They define "progress" as withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, shutting down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay at once, "protecting" the civil rights of Muslim Americans, and compelling the Israelis to commit suicide. Do all that, Mr. President, and we'll love you - maybe for a whole day. But eventually you'll probably have to put Michelle in a burqa.
OBAMA’S GRIM PURSUIT OF MUSLIM ROMANCE
By Wesley Pruden
Jesish World Review
November 12, 2010
Unrequited love is a sad thing to watch, whether it's a callow teenager mooning over a photograph of that cute girl in algebra class, Scarlett O'Hara pining for the elusive Ashley — or Barack Obama in relentless pursuit of the affections of uninterested Muslims.
The president seems to have left his heart in Jakarta, where he lived as a child in the late '60s. "Let me begin with a simple statement," he told his Indonesian hosts, "Indonesia is part of me." A nice sentiment, and visitors are expected to indulge in polite exaggeration in thanking their hosts. Mr. Obama continued with the usual diplomatic lies that diplomats count on nobody taking seriously, praising his hosts' "diversity, democracy and tolerance," citing Indonesia as a model for other countries. There was no need to go into the nation's brutal and bloody history; the ethnic cleansing that killed up to 1 million men, women and children; the suppression of those warm and friendly folk by corrupt and oppressive regimes.
The president just can't help himself when he gets amongst Muslims, many of whom take his treacly sentiments as telling evidence of weakness in the face of peril and provocation, proof of the "resolve" of the sappy West. He even indulged a ritual insult of the first lady, saying nothing when the Indonesian minister of communications shook Michelle's hand at a formal reception and then apologized for the sin and shame of having touched her: "I tried to prevent it with my two hands, but Mrs. Michelle [sic] moved her hands too close to me; then we touched." Actually, video footage shows the minister reaching eagerly for Mrs. Obama's outstretched hand, calculating that he could get the cheap thrill of touching the forbidden female flesh that sets Muslim imaginations ablaze. Muslim men have been accused of many things, but kindness and gallantry toward women are not among them.
The next day, Michelle even put on a dowdy "Friday-go-to-meeting" dress for a Wednesday visit to the biggest mosque in Indonesia, testing whether a dowdy dress could make her look dowdy. (The dress failed.)
The president obviously has warm memories of his boyhood in Indonesia, and only a churl would deny his indulging a little nostalgia in recalling a golden boyhood. He took pains to remind his hosts that he is a believing Christian, but he passed up another opportunity to speak bluntly (as a Dutch uncle, you might say) to the Muslim world that mutual respect must be earned.
He could have said something like the remarks of Pope Benedict XVI, who Thursday condemned violence "in the name of God" and told Muslims they must respect freedom of worship even in their own countries. Conversations between Christians and Muslims are all to the good, the pontiff said, but this "dialogue" must be accompanied by "the freedom to practice one's religion in private and in public." He urged heads of state across the Middle East to "guarantee to all the freedom of conscience and religion, and of being able to bear public witness to their own faith." (Saudi newspapers, please copy.)
Such a message from President Obama would have been the needed slap across the face to those who need it most. At the moment, Islam doesn't appear to most of us in the West to be the "religion of peace" that presidents and prime ministers keep telling us it is; some of that "honest dialogue" they invariably prescribe might clear the air. It might even persuade some of the president's fiercest critics that he isn't really a Muslim at heart.
The president should remember the old American adage, "If they'll hang you for stealing a goat, you might as well take a sheep." Mr. Obama's continued pursuit of romance with the Islamic world, little short of abasing both himself and his country, isn't winning him a lot of points from Muslims at home. The Muslim response to his Jakarta speech, similar in tint and tone to his contrite apology last year in Cairo, has been "That's nice, and so what?"
The special pleaders are clear about the price they exact for returning Mr. Obama's respect and attempts at affection. They define "progress" as withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, shutting down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay at once, "protecting" the civil rights of Muslim Americans, and compelling the Israelis to commit suicide. Do all that, Mr. President, and we'll love you - maybe for a whole day. But eventually you'll probably have to put Michelle in a burqa.
FIRST IT'S THAT ANNOYING FAMILY THANKSGIVING, THEN IT'S THE GYM
Poor Richard! First he had to endure the 10 worst things about family Thanksgivings, then he had to endure the 10 most annoying people at the gym. Sure looks like some of those annoying people at the gym had also been at the Connelly family Thanksgiving.
THE 10 MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE YOU MEET AT THE GYM
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 11, 2010
Holidays coming up, gotta keep off the pounds, yadda, yadda, yadda. If you're headed to the gym, be prepared to deal with these very highly annoying people.
10. THE GRUNTER
He's lifting weights. Big, heavy, manly weights. In case you aren't studying him closely enough, he will grunt like he's giving birth just to attract attention.
9. THE PERSON WHO ASSUMES YOU’LL ENJOY SITTING IN A POOL OF THEIR SWEAT
What could all these strange, white, terry-cloth, absorbent, small sheet-type things stacked neatly around the gym be for? I must look into it one of these days. Meanwhile, sorry about that puddle but come on -- you probably dig it.
8. THE PERSON WITH ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OF SPACE
Test: If there are, say, ten open ellipticals, and a person using one at the end of the row, which one should you use? If you answered "the one nearest that other person," you failed the test. And are probably failing at life as well.
7. OLD GUYS WHO SPEND WAY TOO MUCH TIME NAKED IN THE LOCKER ROOM
As Mike Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 once put it in a reminiscence of his gym-going youth:
__The men's locker room at the Jewish Community Center was notorious for its old, naked Jewish men. These old men would roam the locker room, their wrinkly asses reflecting the ultraviolet light from the bulbs above as their testicles demonstrated the true forces of Earth's gravity.
We're not sure who these guys are trying to impress, but they're not succeeding in they way they hope. We're told a variant of this phenomenon takes place in women's locker rooms but, you know, naked women, what's not to like?
6. A CO-WORKER. WHILE YOU’RE BOTH NAKED
Awkward.
5. THE TELEPHONE TALKER
Hey, he or she has to work out, you know, but that doesn't mean the VERY FUCKING IMPORTANT phone call about where he or she plans to watch on TV later has to be delayed. In fact, the rest of the folks at the gym will probably get a bit of a lift getting this glimpse into such a glamorous, busy life.
4. GUYS WEARING UNITARDS OR SOME OTHER TYPE OF TIGHT-FITTING GARMENT
You may be telling yourself "No, I don't look like Borat; all the women are checking out my package." You will be deceiving yourself.
3. THE LOUD HEADPHONES PERSON
When you have the best taste in music, it's acceptable to blast the headphones so the person next to you can't help but hear. BUT: You do not have the best taste in music. Trust us. And don't start singing, whatever you do.
2. THE FOX NEWS BLASTER
Maybe you feel that all the insight, the cutting-edge humor and devastatingly sharp commentary of Fox & Friends gets lost if you have to read subtitles instead of hearing Steve Doocy's voice. It's a sacrifice you need to make, for the sake of everyone else around you.
1. THE EQUIPMENT-HOGGING GUY
Like some grandma protecting a row of nickel slots in Vegas, this guy's radar goes off if anyone even considers using the machine before his sets are done. If you somehow slide in while he's busy checking out the babes he believes are checking him out, he will hover over you, expressing disdain and impatience in increasingly frantic style, ready to jump into action the second you've finished.
But yes, even then you have to wipe off the equipment. In fact, take all the time in the world doing it.
THE 10 MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE YOU MEET AT THE GYM
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 11, 2010
Holidays coming up, gotta keep off the pounds, yadda, yadda, yadda. If you're headed to the gym, be prepared to deal with these very highly annoying people.
10. THE GRUNTER
He's lifting weights. Big, heavy, manly weights. In case you aren't studying him closely enough, he will grunt like he's giving birth just to attract attention.
9. THE PERSON WHO ASSUMES YOU’LL ENJOY SITTING IN A POOL OF THEIR SWEAT
What could all these strange, white, terry-cloth, absorbent, small sheet-type things stacked neatly around the gym be for? I must look into it one of these days. Meanwhile, sorry about that puddle but come on -- you probably dig it.
8. THE PERSON WITH ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OF SPACE
Test: If there are, say, ten open ellipticals, and a person using one at the end of the row, which one should you use? If you answered "the one nearest that other person," you failed the test. And are probably failing at life as well.
7. OLD GUYS WHO SPEND WAY TOO MUCH TIME NAKED IN THE LOCKER ROOM
As Mike Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 once put it in a reminiscence of his gym-going youth:
__The men's locker room at the Jewish Community Center was notorious for its old, naked Jewish men. These old men would roam the locker room, their wrinkly asses reflecting the ultraviolet light from the bulbs above as their testicles demonstrated the true forces of Earth's gravity.
We're not sure who these guys are trying to impress, but they're not succeeding in they way they hope. We're told a variant of this phenomenon takes place in women's locker rooms but, you know, naked women, what's not to like?
6. A CO-WORKER. WHILE YOU’RE BOTH NAKED
Awkward.
5. THE TELEPHONE TALKER
Hey, he or she has to work out, you know, but that doesn't mean the VERY FUCKING IMPORTANT phone call about where he or she plans to watch on TV later has to be delayed. In fact, the rest of the folks at the gym will probably get a bit of a lift getting this glimpse into such a glamorous, busy life.
4. GUYS WEARING UNITARDS OR SOME OTHER TYPE OF TIGHT-FITTING GARMENT
You may be telling yourself "No, I don't look like Borat; all the women are checking out my package." You will be deceiving yourself.
3. THE LOUD HEADPHONES PERSON
When you have the best taste in music, it's acceptable to blast the headphones so the person next to you can't help but hear. BUT: You do not have the best taste in music. Trust us. And don't start singing, whatever you do.
2. THE FOX NEWS BLASTER
Maybe you feel that all the insight, the cutting-edge humor and devastatingly sharp commentary of Fox & Friends gets lost if you have to read subtitles instead of hearing Steve Doocy's voice. It's a sacrifice you need to make, for the sake of everyone else around you.
1. THE EQUIPMENT-HOGGING GUY
Like some grandma protecting a row of nickel slots in Vegas, this guy's radar goes off if anyone even considers using the machine before his sets are done. If you somehow slide in while he's busy checking out the babes he believes are checking him out, he will hover over you, expressing disdain and impatience in increasingly frantic style, ready to jump into action the second you've finished.
But yes, even then you have to wipe off the equipment. In fact, take all the time in the world doing it.
WHEN YOU PEAK YOU WIN
As racecar driver Danica Patrick says in her PEAK Antifreeze commercial: "When you peak you win."
WOMAN JAILED FOR MURDERING BOYFRIEND BY LACING MARGARITA COCKTAIL WITH ANTI-FREEZE
Mail Online
November 11, 2010
A woman has been jailed for 23 years for killing her alcoholic boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktail with anti-freeze at her home in Canandaigua, New York.
Cynthia Galens, 52, was charged with murder in January, three months after Stack, a 48-year-old Air Force veteran, died from complications of ethylene glycol poisoning.
A grand jury later opted for a first-degree manslaughter charge and Galens turned down an offer to plead guilty in exchange for an 18-year sentence.
State police say Galens insisted she wanted to make Stack sick, not kill him, by mixing the toxic automotive chemical into a store-bought container of margarita mix.
Galens said she put the cocktail in the refrigerator and went to bed early on October 2 2009, knowing that he would drink it.
She said Stack drank most of the one gallon jug.
Stark was 'feeling poorly' the next morning, Galens said, but she left at noon to visit the grave of her teenage son, who died of a drug overdose in 2005.
When she returned at 4pm she found him unresponsive, foaming from the mouth and breathing loudly.
She said she first called David Galens, her ex-husband, and when he turned up 20 minutes later, they agreed to call an ambulance.
But Galens didn't tell paramedics about the antifreeze.
The judge said Galens had 'many opportunities to undo what she had done' over a 30-hour period.
Instead, prosecutor R Michael Tantillo noted she chose for Stack 'a slow, agonizing and horrific death' by telling doctors she had 'no idea what he may have ingested.'
An autopsy listed the cause of death as 'complications of ethylene glycol intoxication,' referring to the active ingredient in automotive antifreeze.
Galens own daughter, Emily Galens, 19, testified against her in the trial, saying her mother got the idea to use antifreeze in an alcoholic drink from a TV show called Snapped.
She told the jury that while Stack was inside their home suffering the effects of the poisoning, her mother discussed cutting up his body and putting him out with the rubbish.
Galens worked for 30 years at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Canandaigua and met Stack there while he was being treated for alcohol abuse in 2007. They lived on and off at her home in nearly Farmington, about 25 miles southeast of Rochester.
Based on his history of alcoholism, bipolar disorder and depression, state police deemed his death an accident or possibly a suicide.
But during a trip to Clearwater, Florida, in early January, authorities say Galens told a friend what she had done - and her friend tipped off the police.
'It's not as if you were captive in this house,' Judge William Kocher said in imposing a near-maximum penalty on Cynthia Galens, who maintained that victim Thomas Stack was emotionally and physically abusive.
'It's just senseless what you did.'
'I accept the consequences of my actions,' the 52-year-old said in court. 'I am sorry for all the pain I caused everyone. I'm really sorry.'
WOMAN JAILED FOR MURDERING BOYFRIEND BY LACING MARGARITA COCKTAIL WITH ANTI-FREEZE
Mail Online
November 11, 2010
A woman has been jailed for 23 years for killing her alcoholic boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktail with anti-freeze at her home in Canandaigua, New York.
Cynthia Galens, 52, was charged with murder in January, three months after Stack, a 48-year-old Air Force veteran, died from complications of ethylene glycol poisoning.
A grand jury later opted for a first-degree manslaughter charge and Galens turned down an offer to plead guilty in exchange for an 18-year sentence.
State police say Galens insisted she wanted to make Stack sick, not kill him, by mixing the toxic automotive chemical into a store-bought container of margarita mix.
Galens said she put the cocktail in the refrigerator and went to bed early on October 2 2009, knowing that he would drink it.
She said Stack drank most of the one gallon jug.
Stark was 'feeling poorly' the next morning, Galens said, but she left at noon to visit the grave of her teenage son, who died of a drug overdose in 2005.
When she returned at 4pm she found him unresponsive, foaming from the mouth and breathing loudly.
She said she first called David Galens, her ex-husband, and when he turned up 20 minutes later, they agreed to call an ambulance.
But Galens didn't tell paramedics about the antifreeze.
The judge said Galens had 'many opportunities to undo what she had done' over a 30-hour period.
Instead, prosecutor R Michael Tantillo noted she chose for Stack 'a slow, agonizing and horrific death' by telling doctors she had 'no idea what he may have ingested.'
An autopsy listed the cause of death as 'complications of ethylene glycol intoxication,' referring to the active ingredient in automotive antifreeze.
Galens own daughter, Emily Galens, 19, testified against her in the trial, saying her mother got the idea to use antifreeze in an alcoholic drink from a TV show called Snapped.
She told the jury that while Stack was inside their home suffering the effects of the poisoning, her mother discussed cutting up his body and putting him out with the rubbish.
Galens worked for 30 years at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Canandaigua and met Stack there while he was being treated for alcohol abuse in 2007. They lived on and off at her home in nearly Farmington, about 25 miles southeast of Rochester.
Based on his history of alcoholism, bipolar disorder and depression, state police deemed his death an accident or possibly a suicide.
But during a trip to Clearwater, Florida, in early January, authorities say Galens told a friend what she had done - and her friend tipped off the police.
'It's not as if you were captive in this house,' Judge William Kocher said in imposing a near-maximum penalty on Cynthia Galens, who maintained that victim Thomas Stack was emotionally and physically abusive.
'It's just senseless what you did.'
'I accept the consequences of my actions,' the 52-year-old said in court. 'I am sorry for all the pain I caused everyone. I'm really sorry.'
HEY CRIME STOPPERS, WHERE CAN I SCORE SOME DOPE?
When you’re stoned and think you’re calling ‘Crime Starters’ because the woman down the street was selling painkillers you didn’t want.
NY MAN LOOKING FOR DRUGS CALLS ‘CRIME STOPPERS’
The officers didn’t arrest the caller but used him as an informant to lead them to another transaction taking place
Associated Press
November 11, 2010
CLARENCE, N.Y. — A New York man looking to buy drugs misdialed and got the sheriff's "Crime Stoppers" line instead. Erie County Sheriff's Detective Alan Rozansky said he got a call around noon on Monday and answered with his usual "Crime Stoppers." The caller apparently didn't hear that and told Rozansky he was looking "to score" drugs.
Rozansky told WIVB-TV that he was surprised but played along and arranged a meeting with undercover officers. The officers didn't arrest the caller but used him as an informant to lead them to another transaction taking place down the road.
There, police arrested a 35-year-old woman trying to sell her prescription painkillers to a Buffalo man.
The careless caller is off the hook for now.
NY MAN LOOKING FOR DRUGS CALLS ‘CRIME STOPPERS’
The officers didn’t arrest the caller but used him as an informant to lead them to another transaction taking place
Associated Press
November 11, 2010
CLARENCE, N.Y. — A New York man looking to buy drugs misdialed and got the sheriff's "Crime Stoppers" line instead. Erie County Sheriff's Detective Alan Rozansky said he got a call around noon on Monday and answered with his usual "Crime Stoppers." The caller apparently didn't hear that and told Rozansky he was looking "to score" drugs.
Rozansky told WIVB-TV that he was surprised but played along and arranged a meeting with undercover officers. The officers didn't arrest the caller but used him as an informant to lead them to another transaction taking place down the road.
There, police arrested a 35-year-old woman trying to sell her prescription painkillers to a Buffalo man.
The careless caller is off the hook for now.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
SCARE AT DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM
NEWSFLASH
Training at the NFL's Cowboys stadium was delayed nearly two hours this morning, after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the ground.
Initially the NFL team thought it was a prank! Training was immediately suspended, while police and Homeland Security officials were called in to investigate.
After a complete analysis, Dallas Police forensic experts determined that the white substance, unfamiliar to most of the players, was in fact, the goal line.
Practice will resume this afternoon after Police and Homeland Security decided the team is unlikely to encounter the substance again.
Training at the NFL's Cowboys stadium was delayed nearly two hours this morning, after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the ground.
Initially the NFL team thought it was a prank! Training was immediately suspended, while police and Homeland Security officials were called in to investigate.
After a complete analysis, Dallas Police forensic experts determined that the white substance, unfamiliar to most of the players, was in fact, the goal line.
Practice will resume this afternoon after Police and Homeland Security decided the team is unlikely to encounter the substance again.
MY PREFERRED METHOD IS A MORE JUST METHOD
There is no justice in putting a cold blooded murderer to death by putting him to sleep like a beloved pet dog.
No matter how we put a piece of shit to death, the opponents of capital punishment will always claim the method used constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. I would like to see a law passed that would exempt executions from the Constitution’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.
I prefer that someone condemned to die for a capital offense be put to death in the very same manner that he/she killed the victim. Now that would really constitute justice!
OKLAHOMA TO CONSIDER EXECUTING DEATH ROW INMATES WITH DRUGS VETS USE TO PUT DOWN ANIMALS
By Daniel Bates
Mail Online
November 10, 2010
The state of Oklahoma is planning to execute death row inmates with drugs intended for use on animals.
Lawmakers want to switch away from the only brand of anaesthetic that has been used in the US for lethal injections because there is not enough to go around.
The replacement is likely to attract controversy because it is currently used by vets to anesthetise animals for operations.
Other states are watching closely and may well follow suit, but such a move is likely to face a challenge from human rights groups to ensure that it is safe to use.
There could also be public outcry over using animal drugs for ending the life of a human being.
The move by Oklahoma was sparked after Hospira Inc, the only manufacturer of thiopental in the US, announced it had ceased production of the drug until 2011 due to shortage in one of thiopental's raw ingredients.
So severe is the resulting shortage that prison staff have been scrabbling around to find just the few grammes of the drug each time they carry out an execution.
On December 16, Oklahoma is due to execute death row inmate John David Duty, who murdered his cell mate in 2001. The state wants to resolve the issue by then.
In court papers, lawyers for the state said animal anaesthetic pentobarbital was ‘substantially’ similar to thiopental and would work ‘as an ideal anesthetic agent for humane euthanasia in animals’.
But lawyers for Mr Duty have have opposed it and claimed their client would be used a guinea pig for pentobarbital.
They added that it was ‘untested, potentially dangerous, and could well result in a torturous execution’.
The shortage of thiopental has led to some states postponing executions and calls to use foreign suppliers in Oklahoma, although these have met with resistance amid claims inmates could suffer agonising pain during the procedure if the drugs were not up to standard.
Megan McCracken, an attorney with the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, said: ‘Whether or not an execution is humane turns entirely on whether thiopental deeply anesthetizes the inmate.
‘That is why the provenance of thiopental is so important.’
During an execution, the anaesthetic is administered before anything else and put the inmate unconscious before he is given the lethal dose of drugs.
Other states such as Arizona and Tennessee have sourced thiopental abroad and have used it with success, a route Oklahoma will not go down.
The case is due to take place at Oklahoma City Federal Court next week.
No matter how we put a piece of shit to death, the opponents of capital punishment will always claim the method used constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. I would like to see a law passed that would exempt executions from the Constitution’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.
I prefer that someone condemned to die for a capital offense be put to death in the very same manner that he/she killed the victim. Now that would really constitute justice!
OKLAHOMA TO CONSIDER EXECUTING DEATH ROW INMATES WITH DRUGS VETS USE TO PUT DOWN ANIMALS
By Daniel Bates
Mail Online
November 10, 2010
The state of Oklahoma is planning to execute death row inmates with drugs intended for use on animals.
Lawmakers want to switch away from the only brand of anaesthetic that has been used in the US for lethal injections because there is not enough to go around.
The replacement is likely to attract controversy because it is currently used by vets to anesthetise animals for operations.
Other states are watching closely and may well follow suit, but such a move is likely to face a challenge from human rights groups to ensure that it is safe to use.
There could also be public outcry over using animal drugs for ending the life of a human being.
The move by Oklahoma was sparked after Hospira Inc, the only manufacturer of thiopental in the US, announced it had ceased production of the drug until 2011 due to shortage in one of thiopental's raw ingredients.
So severe is the resulting shortage that prison staff have been scrabbling around to find just the few grammes of the drug each time they carry out an execution.
On December 16, Oklahoma is due to execute death row inmate John David Duty, who murdered his cell mate in 2001. The state wants to resolve the issue by then.
In court papers, lawyers for the state said animal anaesthetic pentobarbital was ‘substantially’ similar to thiopental and would work ‘as an ideal anesthetic agent for humane euthanasia in animals’.
But lawyers for Mr Duty have have opposed it and claimed their client would be used a guinea pig for pentobarbital.
They added that it was ‘untested, potentially dangerous, and could well result in a torturous execution’.
The shortage of thiopental has led to some states postponing executions and calls to use foreign suppliers in Oklahoma, although these have met with resistance amid claims inmates could suffer agonising pain during the procedure if the drugs were not up to standard.
Megan McCracken, an attorney with the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, said: ‘Whether or not an execution is humane turns entirely on whether thiopental deeply anesthetizes the inmate.
‘That is why the provenance of thiopental is so important.’
During an execution, the anaesthetic is administered before anything else and put the inmate unconscious before he is given the lethal dose of drugs.
Other states such as Arizona and Tennessee have sourced thiopental abroad and have used it with success, a route Oklahoma will not go down.
The case is due to take place at Oklahoma City Federal Court next week.
THE DRINK THAT MADE A GROWN MAN CRY
There I was just sitting by myself at the bar staring at my untouched drink.
Suddenly, a heavy-set 6' 8" tattooed dirtbag biker steps up next to me and grabs my drink. He then grinned at me and gulped down my drink in one swig.
"Well, whatcha gonna do about it?" he says, menacingly, as I burst into tears.
"Come on, man," the biker says, "I didn't think you'd cry. I just need to kick someone's ass, not watch a grown man crying."
"This is the worst day of my life," I say. "I'm a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen and I don't have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. I found my old lady in bed with the gardener, and then my dog bit me."
"So I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all, I buy a drink, I drop a capsule in and sit here watching the poison dissolve. Then you, you overgrown asshole, show up and drink the whole thing! But enough about me, how's your day going?"
Suddenly, a heavy-set 6' 8" tattooed dirtbag biker steps up next to me and grabs my drink. He then grinned at me and gulped down my drink in one swig.
"Well, whatcha gonna do about it?" he says, menacingly, as I burst into tears.
"Come on, man," the biker says, "I didn't think you'd cry. I just need to kick someone's ass, not watch a grown man crying."
"This is the worst day of my life," I say. "I'm a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen and I don't have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. I found my old lady in bed with the gardener, and then my dog bit me."
"So I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all, I buy a drink, I drop a capsule in and sit here watching the poison dissolve. Then you, you overgrown asshole, show up and drink the whole thing! But enough about me, how's your day going?"
SUCKING UP TO MUSLIMS, OBAMA BASHES ISRAEL AGAIN
While standing next to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during his visit to Indonesia, Obama criticized Israel on Tuesday for its plans to construct 1,300 more apartments in a Jewish neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Sucking up to the Muslims, Obama said, "This kind of activity is never helpful when it comes to peace negotiations."
This is the umpteenth time Obama has bashed Israel during his presidency. He considers any Jewish homes in East Jerusalem to be settlements.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office responded to Obama’s latest criticism by insisting that "Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is the capital of the State of Israel. Israel sees no link between the peace process and its development plans in Jerusalem." His office also insisted that Israel never agreed to halt the construction of new Jewish homes in Jerusalem.
On occasion, the president has also criticized the Palestinians. For the most part however, Obama has made it quite clear that he holds the Jewish state responsible for the conflicts in the Middle East, calling Israel’s policies dangerous for American troops and blaming Israel for the failure to reach a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This is the umpteenth time Obama has bashed Israel during his presidency. He considers any Jewish homes in East Jerusalem to be settlements.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office responded to Obama’s latest criticism by insisting that "Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is the capital of the State of Israel. Israel sees no link between the peace process and its development plans in Jerusalem." His office also insisted that Israel never agreed to halt the construction of new Jewish homes in Jerusalem.
On occasion, the president has also criticized the Palestinians. For the most part however, Obama has made it quite clear that he holds the Jewish state responsible for the conflicts in the Middle East, calling Israel’s policies dangerous for American troops and blaming Israel for the failure to reach a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
WHY THERE IS A BLACK UNDERCLASS
Bob Walsh is a regular contributor to PACOVILLA Corrections blog. He often writes with biting humor and is not shy about expressing politically incorrect views, traits we both share. Bob added the following comments to my posting of WHY OUR PRISON POPULATION IS DISPROPORTIONATELY BLACK (11-9-10). I thought that Bob’s insightful comments about the black underclass merited a separate posting on my blog.
THE NEED TO COLLECTIVELY GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER WITHOUT LOOKING TO JESSE AND AL
By Bob Walsh
This country now has a more or less permanent underclass, mostly but not exclusively black. It is characterized by being undereducated, antisocial and criminal. They are mostly state raised with an absent father. They commit crimes because their family and peer group are criminals.
They view themselves as "gangsters", as Robin Hood without the tights but with hoodies and sagging jeans showing 5" of underwear. They become sexually active young, doing their best to show their manhood by knocking up as many young girls as they can, with no regard for who pays the bills. Some have three children by three different girls before they get out of high school. The only reason they go to school is to meet girls, certainly not to get an education. They are told by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton that all the bad crap that has happened to them isn't their fault, and they believe it, because it is convenient.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are both the worst sort of poverty pimps and Jesse is a shake down artist to boot. If most of the problems in the black community went away tomorrow both of those leeches would be out of work and have to get honest jobs. Hell, Al might even have to pay that judgement against those cops he slandered [in the 1987 Tawana Brawley hoax]. As it is he can hide his assets as belonging to the "church" and not him.
50 years ago the black illegitimate birth rate was much lower than that of whites. Not so any more thanks to three generations of government largess and places like Oakland teaching "Ebonics" so that their students don't have to learn standard English and are thus mostly unemployable.
It will keep happening until the black community starts realizing that believing it when people tell them that they can't get ahead without help from Jesse, Al or government programs is self-destructive.
Black people are not stupid or incapable. They need to collectively get their act together or there will be another 50 years of only 25% high school graduation and more young black men in prison than in college.
THE NEED TO COLLECTIVELY GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER WITHOUT LOOKING TO JESSE AND AL
By Bob Walsh
This country now has a more or less permanent underclass, mostly but not exclusively black. It is characterized by being undereducated, antisocial and criminal. They are mostly state raised with an absent father. They commit crimes because their family and peer group are criminals.
They view themselves as "gangsters", as Robin Hood without the tights but with hoodies and sagging jeans showing 5" of underwear. They become sexually active young, doing their best to show their manhood by knocking up as many young girls as they can, with no regard for who pays the bills. Some have three children by three different girls before they get out of high school. The only reason they go to school is to meet girls, certainly not to get an education. They are told by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton that all the bad crap that has happened to them isn't their fault, and they believe it, because it is convenient.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are both the worst sort of poverty pimps and Jesse is a shake down artist to boot. If most of the problems in the black community went away tomorrow both of those leeches would be out of work and have to get honest jobs. Hell, Al might even have to pay that judgement against those cops he slandered [in the 1987 Tawana Brawley hoax]. As it is he can hide his assets as belonging to the "church" and not him.
50 years ago the black illegitimate birth rate was much lower than that of whites. Not so any more thanks to three generations of government largess and places like Oakland teaching "Ebonics" so that their students don't have to learn standard English and are thus mostly unemployable.
It will keep happening until the black community starts realizing that believing it when people tell them that they can't get ahead without help from Jesse, Al or government programs is self-destructive.
Black people are not stupid or incapable. They need to collectively get their act together or there will be another 50 years of only 25% high school graduation and more young black men in prison than in college.
YOU CAN BET THE HECKLERS WERE LIBERAL JEWS
The significance of this report is not what the Israeli Prime Minister said but that he was heckled at the annual convention of the Jewish Federations of North America to which he had been invited. It’s really sad that the most anti-Israel Americans are liberal Jews. The hecklers must have made George Soros proud. And they most likely pleased Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as well.
The following report is from The Straits Times, a Singapore newspaper:
ISRAEL ‘WILL NOT BE DICTATED TO’
The Straits Times
November 9, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged Palestinians to return to the negotiating table, warning that the Jewish state will not yield to international dictates.
Speaking before a gathering of the Jewish Federations of North America in New Orleans, the premier said the Palestinians should stop imposing preconditions on a resumption of US-backed direct talks.
'If you want to live peacefully next to us come and negotiate peace with us. Palestinian leaders who genuinely want peace should stop placing preconditions and start negotiating peace,' Mr Netanyahu said.
Direct peace talks which began in early September quickly ran aground when an Israeli moratorium on West Bank settlement construction expired six weeks ago, prompting the Palestinians to freeze ties until Israel reimposes the ban.
'Why does the Palestinian Authority shirk away from peace? Perhaps the Palestinians think that they can avoid negotiations. Perhaps they think the world will dictate Palestinian demands to Israel,' he said.
'I firmly believe that that will not happen, because we will not be dictated to, because I am also confident that the friends of Israel led by the United States will not let that happen.'
The prime minister's speech was interrupted several times by hecklers, some of whom were ushered out of the conference hall by security guards. -- AFP
The following report is from The Straits Times, a Singapore newspaper:
ISRAEL ‘WILL NOT BE DICTATED TO’
The Straits Times
November 9, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged Palestinians to return to the negotiating table, warning that the Jewish state will not yield to international dictates.
Speaking before a gathering of the Jewish Federations of North America in New Orleans, the premier said the Palestinians should stop imposing preconditions on a resumption of US-backed direct talks.
'If you want to live peacefully next to us come and negotiate peace with us. Palestinian leaders who genuinely want peace should stop placing preconditions and start negotiating peace,' Mr Netanyahu said.
Direct peace talks which began in early September quickly ran aground when an Israeli moratorium on West Bank settlement construction expired six weeks ago, prompting the Palestinians to freeze ties until Israel reimposes the ban.
'Why does the Palestinian Authority shirk away from peace? Perhaps the Palestinians think that they can avoid negotiations. Perhaps they think the world will dictate Palestinian demands to Israel,' he said.
'I firmly believe that that will not happen, because we will not be dictated to, because I am also confident that the friends of Israel led by the United States will not let that happen.'
The prime minister's speech was interrupted several times by hecklers, some of whom were ushered out of the conference hall by security guards. -- AFP
THE CONNELLY FAMILY THANKSGIVING
I can only conclude that this is how the Richard Connelly family has been celebrating Thanksgiving.
THE 10 WORST THINGS ABOUT FAMILY THANKSGIVINGS
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 9, 2010
It's coming, people: Thanksgiving.
There's nothing you can do about it. You will not be allowed to sit around alone at home. If you're lucky, you'll be with friends or with a nice, fun, easy-going bunch of relatives.
But not everyone's that lucky. So if you're one of the unfortunates, you know what you must endure at a family Thanksgiving.
10. THE LONG-WINDED PRAYER
If your family's only as religious as it needs to be, then the most religious person in it will grab this opportunity and milk it for all its worth. Completely oblivious to everyone else around the table straining not to roll their eyes, the preacher wannabe will drone on about Jesus and the bounty in front of you, which is quickly getting cold.
9. THE SETTLING-SCORES PRAYER
"And Lord, though some of us have chosen to test your love by getting DWIs, or not telling their parents they've skipped half their algebra classes this semester, or think they will get a job by sitting around with an xBox all day....."
8. VERY STRANGE LOOKING SIDE DISHES
Aunt Bridget's squash surprise didn't quite come out like Redbook said it would, but by God it's on the table and someone's going to eat it or your Mom will know the reason why.
7. THE TEA PARTY DUDE
He's related, somehow, but you're not sure how. All you know is he's cracking jokes about "hope and change" and being thankful Osama hasn't figured out a way yet to tax turkey. And if he does get the floor when it's time to say grace, get ready for something about taking the country back. At least he'll remove his "No You Can't" gimme cap for that brief moment.
6. THE PEOPLE WHO THINK NO ONE KNOWS THEY’RE STONED
A little Visine, an Altoid's, they're good to go. And no one will know, especially as you huddle in a group in the corner, laughing uproariously every so often.
5. DRUNK AUNT
She'll want to hear everything about your social life at college. And suggest that maybe she could "friend" you on the Friendbook thing, which will remind her about how she got "a friendly request" from this person she knew in high school who was always stuck up, but now shezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
4. DRUNK UNCLE
He has plenty of sympathetic, man of the world advice for the nieces who he just can't believe how much they've grown.
3. THE PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS OVER HELPING WITH THE DISHES
"Let me help." "No, it's fine." "No, really." "Oh, just go and relax" -- Good Christ, the UN Law of the Sea Treaty was worked out with less protracted formality. Our rule: We offer once; if we get turned down once, that's good for the night unless you change your mind and ask. We don't beg to do dishes or clear a table.
2. LISTENING TO THE FAUX "FAMILY" TOGETHERNESS OF THE TV CREWS ON THE FOOTBALL GAMES
These heroes, away from their families, it's inspiring. Especially when the announcers act like they're good buddies with the cameramen and just love sharing an on-the-road Thanksgiving with them. At least we no longer have to hear John Madden yammering on about turducken.
1. THE INEVITABLE ANYONE UNDER 24 TRYING TO GO OUT FOR THE NIGHT AND EVERYONE OVER 24 TRYING TO TALK THEM INTO STAYING IN AND PLAYING SOME GAMES
You know it's coming; the tension builds throughout the meal. At some point it's shit or get off the pot time -- you've done your penance, you've sat through the meal, and now it is time to get the hell out of there. All you have to do is run a gantlet of pleading, drunk relatives pressing you to stay around for "just one game" of Trivia Pursuit or Jenga or god knows what.
THE 10 WORST THINGS ABOUT FAMILY THANKSGIVINGS
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 9, 2010
It's coming, people: Thanksgiving.
There's nothing you can do about it. You will not be allowed to sit around alone at home. If you're lucky, you'll be with friends or with a nice, fun, easy-going bunch of relatives.
But not everyone's that lucky. So if you're one of the unfortunates, you know what you must endure at a family Thanksgiving.
10. THE LONG-WINDED PRAYER
If your family's only as religious as it needs to be, then the most religious person in it will grab this opportunity and milk it for all its worth. Completely oblivious to everyone else around the table straining not to roll their eyes, the preacher wannabe will drone on about Jesus and the bounty in front of you, which is quickly getting cold.
9. THE SETTLING-SCORES PRAYER
"And Lord, though some of us have chosen to test your love by getting DWIs, or not telling their parents they've skipped half their algebra classes this semester, or think they will get a job by sitting around with an xBox all day....."
8. VERY STRANGE LOOKING SIDE DISHES
Aunt Bridget's squash surprise didn't quite come out like Redbook said it would, but by God it's on the table and someone's going to eat it or your Mom will know the reason why.
7. THE TEA PARTY DUDE
He's related, somehow, but you're not sure how. All you know is he's cracking jokes about "hope and change" and being thankful Osama hasn't figured out a way yet to tax turkey. And if he does get the floor when it's time to say grace, get ready for something about taking the country back. At least he'll remove his "No You Can't" gimme cap for that brief moment.
6. THE PEOPLE WHO THINK NO ONE KNOWS THEY’RE STONED
A little Visine, an Altoid's, they're good to go. And no one will know, especially as you huddle in a group in the corner, laughing uproariously every so often.
5. DRUNK AUNT
She'll want to hear everything about your social life at college. And suggest that maybe she could "friend" you on the Friendbook thing, which will remind her about how she got "a friendly request" from this person she knew in high school who was always stuck up, but now shezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
4. DRUNK UNCLE
He has plenty of sympathetic, man of the world advice for the nieces who he just can't believe how much they've grown.
3. THE PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS OVER HELPING WITH THE DISHES
"Let me help." "No, it's fine." "No, really." "Oh, just go and relax" -- Good Christ, the UN Law of the Sea Treaty was worked out with less protracted formality. Our rule: We offer once; if we get turned down once, that's good for the night unless you change your mind and ask. We don't beg to do dishes or clear a table.
2. LISTENING TO THE FAUX "FAMILY" TOGETHERNESS OF THE TV CREWS ON THE FOOTBALL GAMES
These heroes, away from their families, it's inspiring. Especially when the announcers act like they're good buddies with the cameramen and just love sharing an on-the-road Thanksgiving with them. At least we no longer have to hear John Madden yammering on about turducken.
1. THE INEVITABLE ANYONE UNDER 24 TRYING TO GO OUT FOR THE NIGHT AND EVERYONE OVER 24 TRYING TO TALK THEM INTO STAYING IN AND PLAYING SOME GAMES
You know it's coming; the tension builds throughout the meal. At some point it's shit or get off the pot time -- you've done your penance, you've sat through the meal, and now it is time to get the hell out of there. All you have to do is run a gantlet of pleading, drunk relatives pressing you to stay around for "just one game" of Trivia Pursuit or Jenga or god knows what.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
WHAT EVER TOOK THEM SO LONG?
In POSTER BOYS FOR THE DEATH PENALTY (9-16-10) I wrote about the 2007 home invasion robbery-rape-murders committed by two parolees, Steven Hayes, 47, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 30. I described these two pieces of shit as poster boys for the death penalty. They had broken into the home of William Petit, a prominent Connecticut physician, and held him, his wife, and their 17 and 11-year-old daughters captive.
Petit’s wife was raped and strangled to death. The 11-year-old daughter was also raped. The two pieces of shit set Petit’s house on fire. The doctor, who was tied up in the basement while the rest of his family was being held upstairs, managed to free himself and escaped just in the nick of time. His daughters died of smoke inhalation.
Last month a Connecticut jury of five men and seven women convicted Steven Hayes of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Hayley, 17. and Michaela, 11, in their Cheshire home. (Komisarjevsky will be tried later.)
Hayes was convicted of six capital felony counts, three for murder and two for sexually assaulting Hawke-Petit. The capital offenses were for killing two or more people, the killing of a person under 16, murder in the course of a sexual assault and three counts of intentionally causing a death during a kidnapping.
Last week the jury returned for the punishment phase of the trial. One or more of the jurors must have had serious reservations about capital punishment because the jury deliberated the better part of four days on whether or not Hayes should be given the death penalty. Yesterday, the jury finally recommended that Hayes be put to death for all six counts.
My questions about the jury’s decision are: How can anyone have any reservations about the death penalty for a crime like this? And what the hell ever took them so long?
Petit’s wife was raped and strangled to death. The 11-year-old daughter was also raped. The two pieces of shit set Petit’s house on fire. The doctor, who was tied up in the basement while the rest of his family was being held upstairs, managed to free himself and escaped just in the nick of time. His daughters died of smoke inhalation.
Last month a Connecticut jury of five men and seven women convicted Steven Hayes of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Hayley, 17. and Michaela, 11, in their Cheshire home. (Komisarjevsky will be tried later.)
Hayes was convicted of six capital felony counts, three for murder and two for sexually assaulting Hawke-Petit. The capital offenses were for killing two or more people, the killing of a person under 16, murder in the course of a sexual assault and three counts of intentionally causing a death during a kidnapping.
Last week the jury returned for the punishment phase of the trial. One or more of the jurors must have had serious reservations about capital punishment because the jury deliberated the better part of four days on whether or not Hayes should be given the death penalty. Yesterday, the jury finally recommended that Hayes be put to death for all six counts.
My questions about the jury’s decision are: How can anyone have any reservations about the death penalty for a crime like this? And what the hell ever took them so long?
WHY OUR PRISON POPULATION IS DISPROPORTIONATELY BLACK
The future looks bright for more prisons.
The birth rate among unmarried mothers is one of the main reasons we will have to continue building prisons. And the rate among blacks will ensure that blacks will continue to constitute a disproportionate number of prison inmates.
Seventy-two percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, according to government statistics.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have some credibility with me if they put half as much effort in trying to solve this problem as they do raising hell blaming ‘white’ racism for all the problems blacks experience in America. These two charlatans and their white liberal admirers have long complained about the disproportionate number of blacks in prison, blaming the large numbers on a racist criminal justice system.
By the way, where are all those absentee black fathers? Deys out in da hood knocking up mo hos. And that’s very good for the future of the prison industry.
Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock.
The black community's 72 percent rate is remarkably higher than that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available. The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.
Yes, the future sure looks bright for more prisons.
The birth rate among unmarried mothers is one of the main reasons we will have to continue building prisons. And the rate among blacks will ensure that blacks will continue to constitute a disproportionate number of prison inmates.
Seventy-two percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, according to government statistics.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have some credibility with me if they put half as much effort in trying to solve this problem as they do raising hell blaming ‘white’ racism for all the problems blacks experience in America. These two charlatans and their white liberal admirers have long complained about the disproportionate number of blacks in prison, blaming the large numbers on a racist criminal justice system.
By the way, where are all those absentee black fathers? Deys out in da hood knocking up mo hos. And that’s very good for the future of the prison industry.
Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock.
The black community's 72 percent rate is remarkably higher than that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available. The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.
Yes, the future sure looks bright for more prisons.
Monday, November 08, 2010
CAMPAIGN 2010: CASH FOR CLUNKERS
In today’s Houston Chronicle, the headline for a story about the campaign that ended with last Tuesday’s election read: ELECTION SPENDING RIVALED ‘CASH FOR CLUNKERS’ PLAN.
Come to think of it, that also pretty well describes the election outcome. As usual, we elected a bunch of clunkers to Congress.
Come to think of it, that also pretty well describes the election outcome. As usual, we elected a bunch of clunkers to Congress.
HEY YOU JERKS, GIVE IT UP!
I definitely do not like most of the Obama administration’s policies. I fervently hope Obama will be only a one-term president. However, I am thoroughly disgusted by all of the false smears against him that inundate the internet and radio broadcasts by conservative commentators. There’s plenty of accurate material to criticize the president with so that his detractors don’t need to attack him with a bunch of complete crap. And that crap keeps getting forwarded all over cyberspace because so many people want to believe it.
It is utterly amazing that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and well-known commentators Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin would all be so stupid as to believe that Obama’s 10-day trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan would cost $200 million per day and that the president would be guarded by 34 U.S. Navy warships. Beck screamed that the trip would cost the taxpayers $2 billion. Didn’t the researchers employed by Bachmann, Limbaugh, Beck and Malkin inform them that the war in Afghanistan costs ‘only’ $190 million per day?
Common sense would tell anyone with half a brain that the daily cost of a 10-day presidential trip would not cost anywhere as much as the daily cost of a major war. It is obvious that Bachmann, Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin and their ilk are so eager to besmirch Obama that they’ll blindly accept any accusations that make the president look bad.
This brings me to the ‘birthers’ among the Obama haters who continue to insist that the president was not born in the U.S. and that, according to constitutional law, he does not qualify to serve in that office. These same jerks continue to insist that Obama is a Muslim, when he has been attending Christian churches for well over 20 years. And it doesn’t stop there. These jerks continue to question Obama’s attendance at and degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
There are those who excuse this garbage by arguing that the liberals trashed George W. Bush every day during the eight years he was president. While true, that’s a piss poor excuse for deliberately spreading falsehoods! Apparently these jerks don’t agree that the old saying ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ still applies.
At this point in time, what difference does it make where Obama was born or if he is a Muslim? He’s been president for almost two years and will continue to be president for at least two more years. The Obama haters are dreaming when they believe they can get him removed from office on the birthing bit. And if his critics continue to smear him with a lot of phony crap, they may actually end up helping him to win a second term. That would be a damn shame and that’s why I say, HEY YOU JERKS, GIVE IT UP!
It is utterly amazing that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and well-known commentators Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin would all be so stupid as to believe that Obama’s 10-day trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan would cost $200 million per day and that the president would be guarded by 34 U.S. Navy warships. Beck screamed that the trip would cost the taxpayers $2 billion. Didn’t the researchers employed by Bachmann, Limbaugh, Beck and Malkin inform them that the war in Afghanistan costs ‘only’ $190 million per day?
Common sense would tell anyone with half a brain that the daily cost of a 10-day presidential trip would not cost anywhere as much as the daily cost of a major war. It is obvious that Bachmann, Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin and their ilk are so eager to besmirch Obama that they’ll blindly accept any accusations that make the president look bad.
This brings me to the ‘birthers’ among the Obama haters who continue to insist that the president was not born in the U.S. and that, according to constitutional law, he does not qualify to serve in that office. These same jerks continue to insist that Obama is a Muslim, when he has been attending Christian churches for well over 20 years. And it doesn’t stop there. These jerks continue to question Obama’s attendance at and degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
There are those who excuse this garbage by arguing that the liberals trashed George W. Bush every day during the eight years he was president. While true, that’s a piss poor excuse for deliberately spreading falsehoods! Apparently these jerks don’t agree that the old saying ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ still applies.
At this point in time, what difference does it make where Obama was born or if he is a Muslim? He’s been president for almost two years and will continue to be president for at least two more years. The Obama haters are dreaming when they believe they can get him removed from office on the birthing bit. And if his critics continue to smear him with a lot of phony crap, they may actually end up helping him to win a second term. That would be a damn shame and that’s why I say, HEY YOU JERKS, GIVE IT UP!
Sunday, November 07, 2010
DESIGNATED DRIVER
She was only following all those TV public service ads which tell you to chose a designated driver who is not going to drink when you’re going out to drink. Why doesn’t the judge appreciate that?
DRUNK WOMAN WHO HELD SON, 12, ON HER LAP AND LET HIM DRIVE HOME IS BRANDED ‘EVIL’ BY JUDGE
By David Gardner
Mail Online
November 5, 2010
A mother claimed she was acting responsibly when she decided she was too drunk to drive.
But Misty McCollister, 35, was arrested after she came up with an even more dangerous alternative - putting her 12-year-old son behind the wheel.
McCollister told a judge in Minden, Nevada, that a woman friend refused to drive because she had forgot her glasses.
So she put her son on her lap so he was high enough to see through the windscreen of her brown Buick and told him to get them home.
The Gardnerville Record-Courier reported that the mother was arrested a few streets away from her home last month after another motorist saw her car weaving in and out of its lane and varying its speed.
Also in the car was another child, aged seven.
McCollister pleaded guilty to attempted child abuse or neglect and could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Her sentencing is on December 14.
She reportedly told police she was a recovering alcoholic who had fallen off the wagon and had been drinking all weekend before the incident.
She was found to have a breath-alcohol content of .299, so high that she required a medical clearance to be taken into custody.
McCollister blamed a friend for insisting that she took him home first.
She said: ‘He kept pressuring me to take him home. He drove himself home, and we were in the car. I was pretty much passed out all the way.
‘He pulled into his driveway and just left us there. There was another lady with us, but she didn't have her glasses, so she refused to drive.
'I had my son get on my lap and drive us.'
But Judge Dave Gamble said there was no excuse for her ‘absolute evilness’.
The Judge added: ‘You just gave me the identities of three or four people whose fault this was, and none of it was yours.
‘As long as you think this was anyone else's fault but yours, I have no reason to show any leniency toward you.
‘All that conspired from your perspective to force you to commit felony child abuse. That's nonsense. Next time you're in here, I hope I don't hear a pocketful of excuses for the absolute evilness and irrationality of putting your son on your lap while you're drunk and driving you home.’
DRUNK WOMAN WHO HELD SON, 12, ON HER LAP AND LET HIM DRIVE HOME IS BRANDED ‘EVIL’ BY JUDGE
By David Gardner
Mail Online
November 5, 2010
A mother claimed she was acting responsibly when she decided she was too drunk to drive.
But Misty McCollister, 35, was arrested after she came up with an even more dangerous alternative - putting her 12-year-old son behind the wheel.
McCollister told a judge in Minden, Nevada, that a woman friend refused to drive because she had forgot her glasses.
So she put her son on her lap so he was high enough to see through the windscreen of her brown Buick and told him to get them home.
The Gardnerville Record-Courier reported that the mother was arrested a few streets away from her home last month after another motorist saw her car weaving in and out of its lane and varying its speed.
Also in the car was another child, aged seven.
McCollister pleaded guilty to attempted child abuse or neglect and could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Her sentencing is on December 14.
She reportedly told police she was a recovering alcoholic who had fallen off the wagon and had been drinking all weekend before the incident.
She was found to have a breath-alcohol content of .299, so high that she required a medical clearance to be taken into custody.
McCollister blamed a friend for insisting that she took him home first.
She said: ‘He kept pressuring me to take him home. He drove himself home, and we were in the car. I was pretty much passed out all the way.
‘He pulled into his driveway and just left us there. There was another lady with us, but she didn't have her glasses, so she refused to drive.
'I had my son get on my lap and drive us.'
But Judge Dave Gamble said there was no excuse for her ‘absolute evilness’.
The Judge added: ‘You just gave me the identities of three or four people whose fault this was, and none of it was yours.
‘As long as you think this was anyone else's fault but yours, I have no reason to show any leniency toward you.
‘All that conspired from your perspective to force you to commit felony child abuse. That's nonsense. Next time you're in here, I hope I don't hear a pocketful of excuses for the absolute evilness and irrationality of putting your son on your lap while you're drunk and driving you home.’
HEY, DON'T KNOCK IT TILL YOU'VE TRIED IT
Just kidding, of course.
MANE OFFENDER: ALABAMA MAN ARRESTED FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING MINIATURE HORSE
Mail Online
November 5, 2010
An Alabama man has been arrested for sexually abusing a miniature horse after police found his wallet in the stable.
However, he could not be charged with bestiality because there is no local law against it.
Eric Steven Easley, 27, was instead charged with killing or disabling livestock.
The charge was the only relevant felony available to police.
Easley was arrested at the weekend after authorities discovered a trail of evidence suggesting the crime and pointing to him as the perpetrator.
Police spokesman Lori Myles said officers were first called on Saturday afternoon to a house which serves as a breeding facility for miniature horses, because the owner said one of the animals was acting strangely.
Myles said the owner and deputies found hair tied to a post, indicating someone had tried to tie the female's tail to the post.
According to Myles, police and a vet discovered blood and other evidence that indicated the horse had been sexually abused.
They also found a wallet containing Easley's driver’s license and Social Security card.
Easley, from Wilmer in Alabama, was questioned on Sunday and charged on Tuesday, before being released on $4,000 bail about two hours later.
The home address he gave to police was two miles north of the facility.
MANE OFFENDER: ALABAMA MAN ARRESTED FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING MINIATURE HORSE
Mail Online
November 5, 2010
An Alabama man has been arrested for sexually abusing a miniature horse after police found his wallet in the stable.
However, he could not be charged with bestiality because there is no local law against it.
Eric Steven Easley, 27, was instead charged with killing or disabling livestock.
The charge was the only relevant felony available to police.
Easley was arrested at the weekend after authorities discovered a trail of evidence suggesting the crime and pointing to him as the perpetrator.
Police spokesman Lori Myles said officers were first called on Saturday afternoon to a house which serves as a breeding facility for miniature horses, because the owner said one of the animals was acting strangely.
Myles said the owner and deputies found hair tied to a post, indicating someone had tried to tie the female's tail to the post.
According to Myles, police and a vet discovered blood and other evidence that indicated the horse had been sexually abused.
They also found a wallet containing Easley's driver’s license and Social Security card.
Easley, from Wilmer in Alabama, was questioned on Sunday and charged on Tuesday, before being released on $4,000 bail about two hours later.
The home address he gave to police was two miles north of the facility.
DR. GHANEM SHOULD HANG HIS SHINGLE IN CALIFORNIA
This dipshit ought to move to California where he is free to grow his pot, for medical use of course. We sure as hell don't need any doctors like him in the Lone Star State!
DR. FADI GHANEM: THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW, ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT HOME-GROWN WEED
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 5, 2010
Dr. Fadi Ghanem is a 48-year-old family practitioner in The Woodlands. He also, apparently, is something of a weed horticulturalist who pissed someone off.
Police say he had a hyroponic marijuana set-up in his home. It sounds like he took a lot of precautions with it -- arrest reports describe a "secret room" next to the master bedroom that was only accessible by a hidden door.
(We can only hope the door was a fake wall-shelf full of phony books, because those are cool.)
All his precautions were for naught, however, as a tipster blabbed to the cops.
Now, if you're running your highly hidden pot-growing operation in any kind of decent manner, the number of people who could have blabbed about your hidden room is pretty small. Then again, if you were using the product your were allegedly growing, maybe you got chatty.
Police got a search warrant and found everything, including, according to Woodlands Online, prescription pills containing morphine and Xanax. Then again, you're a doctor.
Ghanem was charged only with possession of the morphine, at least so far.
DR. FADI GHANEM: THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW, ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT HOME-GROWN WEED
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 5, 2010
Dr. Fadi Ghanem is a 48-year-old family practitioner in The Woodlands. He also, apparently, is something of a weed horticulturalist who pissed someone off.
Police say he had a hyroponic marijuana set-up in his home. It sounds like he took a lot of precautions with it -- arrest reports describe a "secret room" next to the master bedroom that was only accessible by a hidden door.
(We can only hope the door was a fake wall-shelf full of phony books, because those are cool.)
All his precautions were for naught, however, as a tipster blabbed to the cops.
Now, if you're running your highly hidden pot-growing operation in any kind of decent manner, the number of people who could have blabbed about your hidden room is pretty small. Then again, if you were using the product your were allegedly growing, maybe you got chatty.
Police got a search warrant and found everything, including, according to Woodlands Online, prescription pills containing morphine and Xanax. Then again, you're a doctor.
Ghanem was charged only with possession of the morphine, at least so far.
SHARIA LAW IN THE U.S.
Who says them Okies are backward?
OKLAHOMA!
By Leslie S. Lebl
politicalmavens.com
November 6, 2010
Tuesday, the state of Oklahoma approved a referendum banning the application of sharia law. Various Islamic representatives called this fear-mongering that would hurt Muslims; I call it an excellent idea.
While there may not yet be any examples of Oklahoma courts seeking to apply sharia law, that has already occurred in other states. In a notable case in Michigan, the court decided in favor of a husband who divorced his wife by returning to India and saying "I divorce thee" three times. That ruling was overturned on appeal. In Maryland, a judge resisted a similar attempt to substitute sharia for U.S. divorce law. In New Jersey, a judge ruled that a Muslim man could not be guilty of raping his wife because, in Islam, a woman is required to have sex with her husband. That decision too was overturned.
But what people don’t realize is that many of the non-judicial ‘accommodations’ sought by Muslim groups are in fact steps toward the imposition of sharia law. For example, something as simple as setting aside separate swimming pool times for men and women can be interpreted as fulfilling a legal requirement of sharia.
As for increasing fear of Muslims, here’s what the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said: "This amendment will create a sense of fear, a sense of Islamophobia in the community, which is really not ethical." CAIR is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood; as a good rule of thumb, anything it condemns is probably very good for the rest of us.
Meanwhile, supporters of the initiative say that their real target is not Muslims but activist judges who think ‘customary international law’ should trump the Constitution. The supporters hope to have similar initiatives on the ballot in a dozen other states in 2012.
OKLAHOMA!
By Leslie S. Lebl
politicalmavens.com
November 6, 2010
Tuesday, the state of Oklahoma approved a referendum banning the application of sharia law. Various Islamic representatives called this fear-mongering that would hurt Muslims; I call it an excellent idea.
While there may not yet be any examples of Oklahoma courts seeking to apply sharia law, that has already occurred in other states. In a notable case in Michigan, the court decided in favor of a husband who divorced his wife by returning to India and saying "I divorce thee" three times. That ruling was overturned on appeal. In Maryland, a judge resisted a similar attempt to substitute sharia for U.S. divorce law. In New Jersey, a judge ruled that a Muslim man could not be guilty of raping his wife because, in Islam, a woman is required to have sex with her husband. That decision too was overturned.
But what people don’t realize is that many of the non-judicial ‘accommodations’ sought by Muslim groups are in fact steps toward the imposition of sharia law. For example, something as simple as setting aside separate swimming pool times for men and women can be interpreted as fulfilling a legal requirement of sharia.
As for increasing fear of Muslims, here’s what the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said: "This amendment will create a sense of fear, a sense of Islamophobia in the community, which is really not ethical." CAIR is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood; as a good rule of thumb, anything it condemns is probably very good for the rest of us.
Meanwhile, supporters of the initiative say that their real target is not Muslims but activist judges who think ‘customary international law’ should trump the Constitution. The supporters hope to have similar initiatives on the ballot in a dozen other states in 2012.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
'HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW HIS VOTE COUNTS THE SAME AS YOURS?'
Thursday. in my favorite comic strip PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, rat, goat and pig were discussing Tuesday’s election results. Now pig, along with Larry the crock, is the really stupid character in the strip. Accordingly, rat asked goat ‘How does it feel to know his vote counts the same as yours?’ The way I see it, rat made a really good point.
Too many people in this country do not cast intelligent votes. Just look at how Obama got elected in spite of McCain’s far superior qualifications. Americans do not vote for the most qualified candidates, be they Democrats or Republicans. More often than not, they vote for candidates they can personally identify with. Blacks vote for black candidates, Latinos vote for Hispanic candidates, Jews vote for Jewish candidates, etc. even when their opponents are obviously more qualified.
If it’s not an identity vote, dumb voters will base their vote on the TV and radio ads which flood the airwaves or they will blindly follow the recommendations of their local newspapers without knowing anything else about the candidates. Others vote strictly along party lines even when some candidates are out and out kooks.
How do I feel that these stupid and ignorant votes count the same as those cast by intelligent voters? It really pisses me off!
A case in point. In Texas, each county is governed by the County Judge who presides over a County Commissioners Court which consists of four commissioners, each serving one of four county precincts. For the past eight years, Sylvia Garcia has served as the commissioner in my precinct and she has done a mighty fine job serving the people in her precinct. No incumbent Harris County (Houston) commissioner had lost an election since 1974, yet Garcia got booted out of office by an unknown first-time candidate.
Sylvia Garcia is a Democrat who had a huge name recognition advantage over her Republican challenger and she had a $1 million campaign chest to boot. Her opponent is a lawyer who no one ever heard of and who raised less than $20,000 for his campaign. His wife ran around with a homemade sign which read ‘Please vote for my husband.’ So how could an unknown candidate with hardly any campaign funds beat a well-known candidate with a huge war chest?
In EVERYTHING IN TEXAS IS BIGGER (10-19-10), I noted that the election ballot for Harris County had 175 candidates and propositions on it, including 70 judges. I wrote that such a jungle ballot prevents most voters from making intelligent choices in selecting many of the candidates. And I predicted that many voters would just vote a straight party ticket so they wouldn’t have to bother with making so many choices.
And that’s exactly what happened. Garcia, whose precinct is predominantly Republican, fell victim to a straight party-line vote.
And that’s why I’m pissed off that the ignorant vote of someone who doesn’t bother to take the time to make an intelligent choice counts the same as that of an intelligent voter.
Too many people in this country do not cast intelligent votes. Just look at how Obama got elected in spite of McCain’s far superior qualifications. Americans do not vote for the most qualified candidates, be they Democrats or Republicans. More often than not, they vote for candidates they can personally identify with. Blacks vote for black candidates, Latinos vote for Hispanic candidates, Jews vote for Jewish candidates, etc. even when their opponents are obviously more qualified.
If it’s not an identity vote, dumb voters will base their vote on the TV and radio ads which flood the airwaves or they will blindly follow the recommendations of their local newspapers without knowing anything else about the candidates. Others vote strictly along party lines even when some candidates are out and out kooks.
How do I feel that these stupid and ignorant votes count the same as those cast by intelligent voters? It really pisses me off!
A case in point. In Texas, each county is governed by the County Judge who presides over a County Commissioners Court which consists of four commissioners, each serving one of four county precincts. For the past eight years, Sylvia Garcia has served as the commissioner in my precinct and she has done a mighty fine job serving the people in her precinct. No incumbent Harris County (Houston) commissioner had lost an election since 1974, yet Garcia got booted out of office by an unknown first-time candidate.
Sylvia Garcia is a Democrat who had a huge name recognition advantage over her Republican challenger and she had a $1 million campaign chest to boot. Her opponent is a lawyer who no one ever heard of and who raised less than $20,000 for his campaign. His wife ran around with a homemade sign which read ‘Please vote for my husband.’ So how could an unknown candidate with hardly any campaign funds beat a well-known candidate with a huge war chest?
In EVERYTHING IN TEXAS IS BIGGER (10-19-10), I noted that the election ballot for Harris County had 175 candidates and propositions on it, including 70 judges. I wrote that such a jungle ballot prevents most voters from making intelligent choices in selecting many of the candidates. And I predicted that many voters would just vote a straight party ticket so they wouldn’t have to bother with making so many choices.
And that’s exactly what happened. Garcia, whose precinct is predominantly Republican, fell victim to a straight party-line vote.
And that’s why I’m pissed off that the ignorant vote of someone who doesn’t bother to take the time to make an intelligent choice counts the same as that of an intelligent voter.
THE FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT THAT LIED TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Three cheers for Jon Voight. This Academy Award winning actor tells it like it really is. Too bad that America’s liberal Jews either have not read his letter or if they did, they must have disregarded it.
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM JON VOIGHT
The Washington Times
June 22, 2010
President Obama:
You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against all their enemies. You have done just the opposite. You have propagandized Israel, until they look like they are everyone's enemy — and it has resonated throughout the world. You are putting Israel in harm's way, and you have promoted anti-Semitism throughout the world.
You have brought this to a people who have given the world the Ten Commandments and most laws we live by today. The Jewish people have given the world our greatest scientists and philosophers, and the cures for many diseases, and now you play a very dangerous game so you can look like a true martyr to what you see and say are the underdogs. But the underdogs you defend are murderers and criminals who want Israel eradicated.
You have brought to Arizona a civil war, once again defending the criminals and illegals, creating a meltdown for good, loyal, law-abiding citizens. Your destruction of this country may never be remedied, and we may never recover. I pray to God you stop, and I hope the people in this great country realize your agenda is not for the betterment of mankind, but for the betterment of your politics.
With heartfelt and deep concern for America and Israel,
Jon Voight
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM JON VOIGHT
The Washington Times
June 22, 2010
President Obama:
You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against all their enemies. You have done just the opposite. You have propagandized Israel, until they look like they are everyone's enemy — and it has resonated throughout the world. You are putting Israel in harm's way, and you have promoted anti-Semitism throughout the world.
You have brought this to a people who have given the world the Ten Commandments and most laws we live by today. The Jewish people have given the world our greatest scientists and philosophers, and the cures for many diseases, and now you play a very dangerous game so you can look like a true martyr to what you see and say are the underdogs. But the underdogs you defend are murderers and criminals who want Israel eradicated.
You have brought to Arizona a civil war, once again defending the criminals and illegals, creating a meltdown for good, loyal, law-abiding citizens. Your destruction of this country may never be remedied, and we may never recover. I pray to God you stop, and I hope the people in this great country realize your agenda is not for the betterment of mankind, but for the betterment of your politics.
With heartfelt and deep concern for America and Israel,
Jon Voight
JESSICA'S LAW RESIDENCE RESTRICTIONS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
I think it took a lot of guts for Judge Espinoza to make an unpopular but righteous decision. I have long writeen about the absurdity of sex offender laws that make it impossible for a convicted sex offender to live just about anywhere. In some Florida cities, they have been forced to live under freeway overpasses.
PACO: A CHILD MOLESTER IN HOME IS WORTH 2 IN THE BUSH
By Jeff Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 5, 2010
Paco applauds Judge Espinoza’s decision.
As frequently noted here, there is simply no evidence sex offenders residing near schools or parks commit their offenses near home. Yet, numerous statutes prior to Jessica’s Law imposed buffer zones around these facilities in order to protect our children from a widely perceived yet virtually non-existent threat. In point of fact, by forcing offenders into transiency, these are self-defeating regulations.
Paco maintains offenders deemed so dangerous as to require "registration" do not belong in the community.
Since they are here, common sense says we want to know where they live. I daresay our kids would be a Helluva lot safer if child molesters were required to live near parks and schools.
LAW RESTRICTING WHERE SEX OFFENDERS CAN LIVE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, L.A. JUDGE RULES
By Andrew Blankenstein,
Los Angeles Times
November 4, 2010
Saying sex offenders are being forced to choose between prison and homelessness, a Los Angeles judge issued an opinion this week blocking enforcement of provisions a state law restricting how close those offenders can live from parks or schools.
Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza issued the 10-page ruling after four registered sex offenders petitioned the court, arguing that the legislation known as Jessica’s Law was unconstitutional.
He said the court had received about 650 habeas corpus petitions raising similar legal issues, and that hundreds more were being prepared by the public defender’s and alternate public defender’s offices.
"The court is not a ‘potted plant’ and need not sit idly by in the face of immediate, ongoing and significant violations of parolee constitutional rights," Espinoza wrote…
Civil rights attorneys have argued that provisions of the law make it impossible for some registered sex offenders to live in densely populated citiesNearly all of San Francisco, for example, is off-limits to sex offenders because of the number of parks and schools close to housing. Los Angeles officials also said that there are few places in the city where sex offenders can find housing that meets Jessica’s Law requirements.
The California Supreme Court ruled in February that registered sex offenders could challenge residency requirements in the law if it proves impossible to avoid living near parks and schools…(Full text at Los Angeles Times-LA Now)
EDITOR’S NOTES:
Here is how ‘SK’ responded to Paco: So predators are pushed out of major cities. So. This is not unlike you or I being priced out of certain towns like La Jolla, Malibu and Pacific Palisades. Are we creating another protected class (sex offenders)? Is this the new "little guy" for Civil rights? NUTS. …..Restricting documented sex offenders from preying in areas where children congregate is simply good public safety. Because it denies them the opportunity to commit additional serious crimes.
And here is my response to that: To say that when sex offenders are prevented from living in a city, it is akin to us common folk ‘being priced out of certain towns like La Jolla, Malibu and Pacific Palisades’ is preposterous. Those offenders are not being prevented from living in a city because they can’t afford to live there, they are prevented by an unreasonable law.
I don’t have any sympathy for brutal rapists and I really detest child molesters, but once these scumbags have been put on probation or released on parole, the law should not make it impossible for them to live in a community.
PACO: A CHILD MOLESTER IN HOME IS WORTH 2 IN THE BUSH
By Jeff Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 5, 2010
Paco applauds Judge Espinoza’s decision.
As frequently noted here, there is simply no evidence sex offenders residing near schools or parks commit their offenses near home. Yet, numerous statutes prior to Jessica’s Law imposed buffer zones around these facilities in order to protect our children from a widely perceived yet virtually non-existent threat. In point of fact, by forcing offenders into transiency, these are self-defeating regulations.
Paco maintains offenders deemed so dangerous as to require "registration" do not belong in the community.
Since they are here, common sense says we want to know where they live. I daresay our kids would be a Helluva lot safer if child molesters were required to live near parks and schools.
LAW RESTRICTING WHERE SEX OFFENDERS CAN LIVE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, L.A. JUDGE RULES
By Andrew Blankenstein,
Los Angeles Times
November 4, 2010
Saying sex offenders are being forced to choose between prison and homelessness, a Los Angeles judge issued an opinion this week blocking enforcement of provisions a state law restricting how close those offenders can live from parks or schools.
Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza issued the 10-page ruling after four registered sex offenders petitioned the court, arguing that the legislation known as Jessica’s Law was unconstitutional.
He said the court had received about 650 habeas corpus petitions raising similar legal issues, and that hundreds more were being prepared by the public defender’s and alternate public defender’s offices.
"The court is not a ‘potted plant’ and need not sit idly by in the face of immediate, ongoing and significant violations of parolee constitutional rights," Espinoza wrote…
Civil rights attorneys have argued that provisions of the law make it impossible for some registered sex offenders to live in densely populated citiesNearly all of San Francisco, for example, is off-limits to sex offenders because of the number of parks and schools close to housing. Los Angeles officials also said that there are few places in the city where sex offenders can find housing that meets Jessica’s Law requirements.
The California Supreme Court ruled in February that registered sex offenders could challenge residency requirements in the law if it proves impossible to avoid living near parks and schools…(Full text at Los Angeles Times-LA Now)
EDITOR’S NOTES:
Here is how ‘SK’ responded to Paco: So predators are pushed out of major cities. So. This is not unlike you or I being priced out of certain towns like La Jolla, Malibu and Pacific Palisades. Are we creating another protected class (sex offenders)? Is this the new "little guy" for Civil rights? NUTS. …..Restricting documented sex offenders from preying in areas where children congregate is simply good public safety. Because it denies them the opportunity to commit additional serious crimes.
And here is my response to that: To say that when sex offenders are prevented from living in a city, it is akin to us common folk ‘being priced out of certain towns like La Jolla, Malibu and Pacific Palisades’ is preposterous. Those offenders are not being prevented from living in a city because they can’t afford to live there, they are prevented by an unreasonable law.
I don’t have any sympathy for brutal rapists and I really detest child molesters, but once these scumbags have been put on probation or released on parole, the law should not make it impossible for them to live in a community.
TWO IN A ROW BY THOSE GOOD SAN BERDOO COPS
Those San Berdoo cops are really good. That's two parolees they've terminally rehabilitated within a couple of days. Apparently, things haven't changed since the time I used to work closely with them.
COPS REHABILITATE WANTED CHESTER
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 5, 2010
A wanted parolee sex offender who cut off his GPS tracker was terminally rehabilitated by the local constabulary in San Berdoo yesterday.
Nathaniel Henry, 41, was approached on the street by a couple of detectives from the San Bernadrino County S. O. who were specifically looking for him. Henry pulled a gat, the cops shot first. Happy ending for the taxpayers. Henry was pronounced rehabilitated at the scene.
Clicking here will link to a very brief news article on this subject.
COPS REHABILITATE WANTED CHESTER
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 5, 2010
A wanted parolee sex offender who cut off his GPS tracker was terminally rehabilitated by the local constabulary in San Berdoo yesterday.
Nathaniel Henry, 41, was approached on the street by a couple of detectives from the San Bernadrino County S. O. who were specifically looking for him. Henry pulled a gat, the cops shot first. Happy ending for the taxpayers. Henry was pronounced rehabilitated at the scene.
Clicking here will link to a very brief news article on this subject.
Friday, November 05, 2010
OBAMA'S INDIA TRIP ALLEGED TO COST MORE PER DAY THAN THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
More phony baloney on the internet.
By now many of you have received e-mails screaming about the $200 million per day cost of Obama’s 10-day trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan in which he was taking along 3,000 people in addition to Michelle and his two daughters while deploying 34 U.S. navy warships, including an aircraft carrier, off Mumbai for his protection.
Among the deluge of e-mails was this comment from www.dailyjot.com by Bill Wilson of the Word of Life Ministry: ‘As part of the checks and balances of the Constitution, Congress should morally and justly demand scrutiny of every expense of a 10 day trip to South Korea and India the man who occupies the Oval Office is taking with his wife and children that is projected to cost taxpayers some $2 billion. Yes, you heard it right--$2 BILLION for 10 days.’
$200 million per day? How absurd! The Goddamn war in Afghanistan ‘only’ costs $190 million per day. 34 warships? Shit, that’s 10 percent of the whole fucking U.S. Navy.
Many of the e-mails also claimed that Obama had rented the whole Taj Mahal for the 3,000 people accompanying him and that 40 aircraft were being used to transport everybody.
It all got started on November 2nd when the Press Trust, an Indian newspaper, published an article reporting that an unnamed government source claimed the president's trip would cost $200 million a day, that he was bringing 3,000 people and had rented the whole Taj Mahal Palace Hotel for them (not the Taj Mahal, as much of the internet crap had Obama doing), that he would be guarded by 34 American warships and that 40 aircraft would be making the trip.
That story was quickly picked up and spread all over the internet. All of it was pure hogwash and those who originally picked it up and passed it on damn well knew it. For the Obama haters it was just another way to falsely smear the president. But what really gets me though is that so many people - among them Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., a Tea Party leader - actually believed this $200 million per day shit.
By now many of you have received e-mails screaming about the $200 million per day cost of Obama’s 10-day trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan in which he was taking along 3,000 people in addition to Michelle and his two daughters while deploying 34 U.S. navy warships, including an aircraft carrier, off Mumbai for his protection.
Among the deluge of e-mails was this comment from www.dailyjot.com by Bill Wilson of the Word of Life Ministry: ‘As part of the checks and balances of the Constitution, Congress should morally and justly demand scrutiny of every expense of a 10 day trip to South Korea and India the man who occupies the Oval Office is taking with his wife and children that is projected to cost taxpayers some $2 billion. Yes, you heard it right--$2 BILLION for 10 days.’
$200 million per day? How absurd! The Goddamn war in Afghanistan ‘only’ costs $190 million per day. 34 warships? Shit, that’s 10 percent of the whole fucking U.S. Navy.
Many of the e-mails also claimed that Obama had rented the whole Taj Mahal for the 3,000 people accompanying him and that 40 aircraft were being used to transport everybody.
It all got started on November 2nd when the Press Trust, an Indian newspaper, published an article reporting that an unnamed government source claimed the president's trip would cost $200 million a day, that he was bringing 3,000 people and had rented the whole Taj Mahal Palace Hotel for them (not the Taj Mahal, as much of the internet crap had Obama doing), that he would be guarded by 34 American warships and that 40 aircraft would be making the trip.
That story was quickly picked up and spread all over the internet. All of it was pure hogwash and those who originally picked it up and passed it on damn well knew it. For the Obama haters it was just another way to falsely smear the president. But what really gets me though is that so many people - among them Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., a Tea Party leader - actually believed this $200 million per day shit.
SHOCKING BUSINESS NEWS
When will the Justice Department realize that bribery is just the cost of doing business in many other countries. The only thing USDJ is accomplishing is to let companies that have no presence in the U.S. get the business American companies would otherwise get. Uncle Sam is not going to stop the worldwide practice of business bribery.
Besides that, bribery is not uncommon in the U.S. The pharmaceutical companies ply doctors with gifts. Salesmen often take their clients out to eat, to play golf, to strip clubs and sometimes even - hold your breath - furnish them with prostitutes. And what do you think all those lobbyists in Washington do?
WHAT?!? COMPANIES PAY BRIBES TO DO BUSINESS IN RUSSIA AND ANGOLA?
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 4, 2010
Be prepared to lose all faith in -- well, if not humanity, per se, at least capitalism and government officials in Nigeria.
It appears -- are you sitting down? -- that bribery is sometimes used when American companies try to do business in Russia, Nigeria, Angola and Kazakhstan. Yes, a country that ends in "stan" has people who take bribes.
The U.S. Attorney's Office here in Houston announced today that a bunch of companies will be paying more than $156 million in fines because of all the bribes they paid to "git r done" in various locales around the world.
The court documents are here, but the bare, shocking truth is that many bureaucrats' families in Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan will be going hungry, or at the very least slumming down to store brands instead of imports.
The Swiss company Panalpina World Transport got the biggest hit in terms of fines, but others Royal Dutch Shell, Transocean, Tidewater Marine, Noble Corporation and Pride International.
The full line-up of bribe-taking countries: Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
We are glad to report that the bribery problem is now apparently solved in all these places.
Besides that, bribery is not uncommon in the U.S. The pharmaceutical companies ply doctors with gifts. Salesmen often take their clients out to eat, to play golf, to strip clubs and sometimes even - hold your breath - furnish them with prostitutes. And what do you think all those lobbyists in Washington do?
WHAT?!? COMPANIES PAY BRIBES TO DO BUSINESS IN RUSSIA AND ANGOLA?
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 4, 2010
Be prepared to lose all faith in -- well, if not humanity, per se, at least capitalism and government officials in Nigeria.
It appears -- are you sitting down? -- that bribery is sometimes used when American companies try to do business in Russia, Nigeria, Angola and Kazakhstan. Yes, a country that ends in "stan" has people who take bribes.
The U.S. Attorney's Office here in Houston announced today that a bunch of companies will be paying more than $156 million in fines because of all the bribes they paid to "git r done" in various locales around the world.
The court documents are here, but the bare, shocking truth is that many bureaucrats' families in Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan will be going hungry, or at the very least slumming down to store brands instead of imports.
The Swiss company Panalpina World Transport got the biggest hit in terms of fines, but others Royal Dutch Shell, Transocean, Tidewater Marine, Noble Corporation and Pride International.
The full line-up of bribe-taking countries: Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
We are glad to report that the bribery problem is now apparently solved in all these places.
IF YOU'RE WILLING TO FREEZE YOUR BUTT OFF, NORWAY MAY BE THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE
According to an annual United Nations quality of life study, Norway comes in number one for the eighth time. This time the U.S. came in fourth. Zimbabwe – what do you expect with a name like that – has been at the bottom of the list for the past five years.
NORWAY BEST FOR THE GOOD LIFE: UN REPORT
Yahoo! News
November 4, 2010
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The going only seems to get better in Norway which on Thursday was named by the United Nations as the country with the best quality of life for a record-matching eighth time.
The UN's annual A-to-Z of global wealth, poverty, health and education highlighted in its 20th anniversary edition though that despite "growth surges" in the Asia-Pacific region, it is becoming ever more difficult to break into the rich club of nations.
Oil-rich Norway -- with its 81.0 years of life expectancy, average annual income of 58,810 dollars and 12.6 years of schooling -- has now topped the Human Development Index (HDI) for all but two years since 2001.
It is not the best in any individual category -- average income in Liechtenstein for example is a wallet-busting 81,011 dollars -- but Norway's all-round performance gave it a crushing superiority in the UN Development Programme (UNDP) annual rankings.
Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Ireland took the following places in the top five. Zimbabwe came bottom of the 169 nations ranked, behind Mozambique, Burundi, Niger and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Zimbabwe, where in stark contrast life expectancy is just 47 years and per capita income 176 dollars, has come bottom of the table for the past five years.
DR Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe have seen their HDI value fall below 1970 levels in the four decades since, said the study.
"These countries offer lessons on the devastating impact of conflict, the AIDS epidemic and economic and political mismanagement," said UNDP administrator Helen Clarke, the former New Zealand prime minister.
The nations which have risen most up the rankings in the 20 years that the report has been produced include "growth miracles" such as China, which has risen eight places in the last five years to 89th, Indonesia and South Korea.
NORWAY BEST FOR THE GOOD LIFE: UN REPORT
Yahoo! News
November 4, 2010
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The going only seems to get better in Norway which on Thursday was named by the United Nations as the country with the best quality of life for a record-matching eighth time.
The UN's annual A-to-Z of global wealth, poverty, health and education highlighted in its 20th anniversary edition though that despite "growth surges" in the Asia-Pacific region, it is becoming ever more difficult to break into the rich club of nations.
Oil-rich Norway -- with its 81.0 years of life expectancy, average annual income of 58,810 dollars and 12.6 years of schooling -- has now topped the Human Development Index (HDI) for all but two years since 2001.
It is not the best in any individual category -- average income in Liechtenstein for example is a wallet-busting 81,011 dollars -- but Norway's all-round performance gave it a crushing superiority in the UN Development Programme (UNDP) annual rankings.
Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Ireland took the following places in the top five. Zimbabwe came bottom of the 169 nations ranked, behind Mozambique, Burundi, Niger and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Zimbabwe, where in stark contrast life expectancy is just 47 years and per capita income 176 dollars, has come bottom of the table for the past five years.
DR Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe have seen their HDI value fall below 1970 levels in the four decades since, said the study.
"These countries offer lessons on the devastating impact of conflict, the AIDS epidemic and economic and political mismanagement," said UNDP administrator Helen Clarke, the former New Zealand prime minister.
The nations which have risen most up the rankings in the 20 years that the report has been produced include "growth miracles" such as China, which has risen eight places in the last five years to 89th, Indonesia and South Korea.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
PROPOSITION 19'S DEFEAT DOESN'T COUNT FOR ALL THAT MUCH BECAUSE CALIFORNIA'S 'MEDICAL' MARIJUANA LAW HAS ALREADY LED TO A DE FACTO LEGALIZATION OF POT
Since Proposition 19 went down in flames - even though the voters elected Governor Moonbeam and returned Barbara Boxer to the U.S. Senate - I am going to stop using the terms ‘Kookfornia’ and ‘Kookfornians’, at least for a while. The proposition to legalize marijuana for recreational use lost by a comfortable 55-45 percent margin. Now, George ‘Soreass’ Soros can go back to donating millions of dollars to groups that are bent on destroying the State of Israel.
The majority of Californians had the good sense to vote against the legalization of pot. But the ‘no’ vote really did not count for all that much. The ‘medical’ marijuana law they approved in 1996 has been so perverted by doctors that it has led to a de facto legalization for recreational use. At best, the defeat of Propostion 19 will prevent a significant increase in the abuse of marijuana and will keep the highway carnage from getting a lot worse.
The pissed-off sponsors of Proposition 19, who would have made a ton of money had it passed, were quick to cast blame for their defeat - primarily on older voters, but also on the younger ones. They blamed the older voters for turning out in large numbers. And they blamed the younger voters for not turning out. The younger voters - after a large turnout in 2008 - reverted to type. Eligible young voters are very vocal on political issues, but on election day they’re nowhere to be found. In this case, GOOD FOR THEM!
While the Obama administration has ordered the DEA not to bust any of the growers, distributors and users of ‘medical’ pot, the DEA should go after the doctors who are getting rich off prescribing pot to anyone who wants it. These doctors are no different than the pushers of heroin, coke and crystal meth. Unfortunately, the medical marijuana law was deliberately written so that just about anyone can get a prescription with no oversight of, or reporting requirements for the doctors who are prescribing pot.
Here are some excerpts from an article by Associated Press writers Lisa Leff and Marcus Wohlsen:
CALIFORNIA POT DOCTORS CASHING IN
Pot made available to anyone who wants it; prescriptions are easy to get and hard to track
By Lisa Leff and Marcus Wohlsen
Associated Press
November 1, 2010
Fourteen years since Californians passed the first-in-the-nation medical marijuana law, pot is not just for the sick. Hundreds of medical marijuana doctors, operating without official scrutiny, have helped make it available to nearly anyone who wants it.
They are practicing a lucrative and thriving specialty, becoming the linchpins of a billion-dollar industry. And yet they do not have to report to whom they recommend the drug to, how many referrals they give or for what ailments.
"There is something inappropriate about doctors being the gatekeepers," said Timmen Cermak, president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine. "They are secretaries here ... All they are doing is telling the police to keep their hands off."
The medical marijuana system voters helped establish in 1996 has effectively become a legal cover to smoke pot.
Under California's law, medical doctors and osteopaths can recommend the drug for any illness "for which marijuana provides relief," a category that has come to encompass conditions such as alcoholism, anxiety, asthma and insomnia.
Obtaining approval in the other 13 states that allow pot for medical use is far more difficult.
Those states limit the drug to residents suffering from one or more specific serious conditions, such as AIDS or cancer. Most require patients to register, creating a paper trail for tracking both users and their physicians.
In California, however, there is no central database to track doctors or patients. Beyond a medical license, the pot physicians do not need to have any relevant training, familiarity with the scientific literature on pot's benefits and side-effects or special certification.
They can simply hang a shingle, and start practicing.
Because there are no reporting requirements, figuring out who these doctors are is difficult.
Clinics typically charge $50 to $150 per visit for new patients. Seeing 10 patients a day, pot doctors can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Some battle it out for customers with ads in alternative newsweeklies offering discounts for older patients and two-for-one specials.
Still, many pot doctors maintain low profiles.
They work at one or more of 140-plus clinics that opened in the last few years, only a handful of which identify their physicians in marketing materials. Some of the largest clinics, including Talleyrand's, declined requests from the AP to give their staff doctors' names.
Even as the number of these doctors has soared into the hundreds, the risk of getting in trouble for improper recommendations is low.
Disciplinary action is rare because the state medical board lacks the staff and only launches investigations when complaints are brought, said Julie D'Angelo Fellmeth, a University of California, San Diego law professor who spent two years as the board's independent enforcement monitor.
The people they rely upon to submit those complaints are patients.
They "are not going to be filing the complaints," she said. "They are happy as clams."
The majority of Californians had the good sense to vote against the legalization of pot. But the ‘no’ vote really did not count for all that much. The ‘medical’ marijuana law they approved in 1996 has been so perverted by doctors that it has led to a de facto legalization for recreational use. At best, the defeat of Propostion 19 will prevent a significant increase in the abuse of marijuana and will keep the highway carnage from getting a lot worse.
The pissed-off sponsors of Proposition 19, who would have made a ton of money had it passed, were quick to cast blame for their defeat - primarily on older voters, but also on the younger ones. They blamed the older voters for turning out in large numbers. And they blamed the younger voters for not turning out. The younger voters - after a large turnout in 2008 - reverted to type. Eligible young voters are very vocal on political issues, but on election day they’re nowhere to be found. In this case, GOOD FOR THEM!
While the Obama administration has ordered the DEA not to bust any of the growers, distributors and users of ‘medical’ pot, the DEA should go after the doctors who are getting rich off prescribing pot to anyone who wants it. These doctors are no different than the pushers of heroin, coke and crystal meth. Unfortunately, the medical marijuana law was deliberately written so that just about anyone can get a prescription with no oversight of, or reporting requirements for the doctors who are prescribing pot.
Here are some excerpts from an article by Associated Press writers Lisa Leff and Marcus Wohlsen:
CALIFORNIA POT DOCTORS CASHING IN
Pot made available to anyone who wants it; prescriptions are easy to get and hard to track
By Lisa Leff and Marcus Wohlsen
Associated Press
November 1, 2010
Fourteen years since Californians passed the first-in-the-nation medical marijuana law, pot is not just for the sick. Hundreds of medical marijuana doctors, operating without official scrutiny, have helped make it available to nearly anyone who wants it.
They are practicing a lucrative and thriving specialty, becoming the linchpins of a billion-dollar industry. And yet they do not have to report to whom they recommend the drug to, how many referrals they give or for what ailments.
"There is something inappropriate about doctors being the gatekeepers," said Timmen Cermak, president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine. "They are secretaries here ... All they are doing is telling the police to keep their hands off."
The medical marijuana system voters helped establish in 1996 has effectively become a legal cover to smoke pot.
Under California's law, medical doctors and osteopaths can recommend the drug for any illness "for which marijuana provides relief," a category that has come to encompass conditions such as alcoholism, anxiety, asthma and insomnia.
Obtaining approval in the other 13 states that allow pot for medical use is far more difficult.
Those states limit the drug to residents suffering from one or more specific serious conditions, such as AIDS or cancer. Most require patients to register, creating a paper trail for tracking both users and their physicians.
In California, however, there is no central database to track doctors or patients. Beyond a medical license, the pot physicians do not need to have any relevant training, familiarity with the scientific literature on pot's benefits and side-effects or special certification.
They can simply hang a shingle, and start practicing.
Because there are no reporting requirements, figuring out who these doctors are is difficult.
Clinics typically charge $50 to $150 per visit for new patients. Seeing 10 patients a day, pot doctors can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Some battle it out for customers with ads in alternative newsweeklies offering discounts for older patients and two-for-one specials.
Still, many pot doctors maintain low profiles.
They work at one or more of 140-plus clinics that opened in the last few years, only a handful of which identify their physicians in marketing materials. Some of the largest clinics, including Talleyrand's, declined requests from the AP to give their staff doctors' names.
Even as the number of these doctors has soared into the hundreds, the risk of getting in trouble for improper recommendations is low.
Disciplinary action is rare because the state medical board lacks the staff and only launches investigations when complaints are brought, said Julie D'Angelo Fellmeth, a University of California, San Diego law professor who spent two years as the board's independent enforcement monitor.
The people they rely upon to submit those complaints are patients.
They "are not going to be filing the complaints," she said. "They are happy as clams."
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RESEARCHERS MAKE AMAZING DISCOVERY
We would never have believed this if it weren't for the findings of this study. And California’s hard-pressed taxpayers must be grateful for having to foot the bill for this extremely important research.
ORAL SEX LEADS TO INTERCOURSE AMONG TEENS, STUDY SOMEHOW DISCOVERS
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 2, 2010
The Houston Chronicle's Mom blog led us to this amazing piece of scientific research. We'll let the official press release headline speak for itself: "Having oral sex increases likelihood of intercourse among teens."
That was the profound conclusion reached by a study conducted by the University of California-San Francisco and UC-Merced.
It's six months from initial blow job to losing your virginity, the study found, and half the teens who have oral sex in 9th grade will be having intercourse by 11th grade. Which means half won't, but we're sure those are just the kids who have discovered abstinence-only classes.
"Health care providers, health educators and parents need to not be shy about discussing oral sex with teens," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, one of the authors of the study and a UCSF pediatrics professor. "I see most of the health policies out there and guidelines for preventive services talking about sex generally, but they do not specify oral sex. That is an important distinction because teens don't consider oral sex to be sex, and many are not aware of the risks involved."
It is difficult to overstate how shocking these results are. Kids who give or get blow jobs, discover them to be pleasurable and then discover the female body has another orifice? Consider our minds fully boggled.
Next, a study will find that teenage boys who have intercourse with girls will want to do it again at some point. The world is indeed full of wonders.
Researchers interviewed 600 northern California high school students. "From 2002 to 2005, the students completed a survey every six months during class time about their sexual experiences. Responses were consistent across different ethnic groups, socioeconomic levels and genders," the study said.
Another amazing finding: "Adolescents who delayed oral sex until the end of 11th grade had only a 16 percent chance of having intercourse by the end of that school year."
(This finding builds on the research first done by approximately 4,528 cheap-ass comedies about high school guys trying to lose their virginity before graduation. It is formally known as the American Pie theory.)
ORAL SEX LEADS TO INTERCOURSE AMONG TEENS, STUDY SOMEHOW DISCOVERS
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 2, 2010
The Houston Chronicle's Mom blog led us to this amazing piece of scientific research. We'll let the official press release headline speak for itself: "Having oral sex increases likelihood of intercourse among teens."
That was the profound conclusion reached by a study conducted by the University of California-San Francisco and UC-Merced.
It's six months from initial blow job to losing your virginity, the study found, and half the teens who have oral sex in 9th grade will be having intercourse by 11th grade. Which means half won't, but we're sure those are just the kids who have discovered abstinence-only classes.
"Health care providers, health educators and parents need to not be shy about discussing oral sex with teens," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, one of the authors of the study and a UCSF pediatrics professor. "I see most of the health policies out there and guidelines for preventive services talking about sex generally, but they do not specify oral sex. That is an important distinction because teens don't consider oral sex to be sex, and many are not aware of the risks involved."
It is difficult to overstate how shocking these results are. Kids who give or get blow jobs, discover them to be pleasurable and then discover the female body has another orifice? Consider our minds fully boggled.
Next, a study will find that teenage boys who have intercourse with girls will want to do it again at some point. The world is indeed full of wonders.
Researchers interviewed 600 northern California high school students. "From 2002 to 2005, the students completed a survey every six months during class time about their sexual experiences. Responses were consistent across different ethnic groups, socioeconomic levels and genders," the study said.
Another amazing finding: "Adolescents who delayed oral sex until the end of 11th grade had only a 16 percent chance of having intercourse by the end of that school year."
(This finding builds on the research first done by approximately 4,528 cheap-ass comedies about high school guys trying to lose their virginity before graduation. It is formally known as the American Pie theory.)
HIS DRIVING WAS A LITTLE RUSTY, AND SO WAS HIS MARKSMANSHIP
Having just been released from the joint, it is understandable why his driving and his marksmanship were a little rusty.
COP REHABILITATES GOLD STAR PAROLEE
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 2, 2010
The local constabulary terminally rehabilitated a Gold Star Parolee in beautiful downtown San Berdoo early today.
Adrian Gutierrez, 28, of San Bernardino, just got out of the slammer last month and was on parole. A cop saw a traffic violation and attempted to stop him. Instead Gutierrez took off. I guess his driving was a little rusty, he crashed into a tree at 17th and G about 2:00 a.m., after fleeing about two blocks. At that point he jumped out of the car and beat feet, then stopped, turned with two guns and opened fire on the cop.
He found out the hard way that it is actually very hard to shoot accurately with two guns. The cop shot much better with only one. The cop was not hurt. Gutierrez was terminally rehabilitated. Too bad, so sad.
Clicking here will link to a brief San Bernardino Sun article on this subject.
COP REHABILITATES GOLD STAR PAROLEE
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 2, 2010
The local constabulary terminally rehabilitated a Gold Star Parolee in beautiful downtown San Berdoo early today.
Adrian Gutierrez, 28, of San Bernardino, just got out of the slammer last month and was on parole. A cop saw a traffic violation and attempted to stop him. Instead Gutierrez took off. I guess his driving was a little rusty, he crashed into a tree at 17th and G about 2:00 a.m., after fleeing about two blocks. At that point he jumped out of the car and beat feet, then stopped, turned with two guns and opened fire on the cop.
He found out the hard way that it is actually very hard to shoot accurately with two guns. The cop shot much better with only one. The cop was not hurt. Gutierrez was terminally rehabilitated. Too bad, so sad.
Clicking here will link to a brief San Bernardino Sun article on this subject.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
CIUDAD JUAREZ MAKES NEW ORLEANS LOOK LIKE A BOY SCOUT CAMP
And we think that the murder rates in New Orleans, Chicago, Baltimore. St. Louis, Houston and other American cities are high.
OCTOBER WAS YEAR’S BLOODIEST MONTH IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
By Beat Reporter Buggs
Borderland Beat
November 2, 2010
A total of 350 murders were registered in Ciudad Juarez last month, making October the bloodiest month of the year in the Mexican border city, prosecutors said.
There were 227 homicides in January, 163 in February, 240 in March, 203 in April, 262 in May, 313 in June, 291 in July, 338 in August, 289 in September and 350 in October in the border city, the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office said.
A total of 10 homicides were reported on the last day of October in Ciudad Juarez, a gritty border metropolis that has become Mexico’s murder capital.
Six people were murdered across Juarez in the early hours of Sunday, while two men were gunned down in the afternoon on the front porch of a house.
A man was shot and tossed out of a moving vehicle an hour later, while a 25-year-old man was shot dead later in the day.
Police found a bullet-riddled body in another part of Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, Texas, while a person was murdered on the east side of the city on Sunday night.
A total of 2,666 murders, according to a press tally compiled using Chihuahua AG’s office figures, have been committed in Ciudad Juarez this year.
The Juarez and Sinaloa cartels, backed by hitmen from local street gangs, have been fighting for control of the border city.
Ciudad Juarez, where more than 6,000 people have been murdered since 2008, has been plagued by drug-related violence for years.
The murder rate took off in the border city of 1.5 million people in 2007, when 310 people were killed, then it more than tripled to 1,607 in 2008, according to state Attorney General’s office figures, with the number of killings climbing to 2,754 last year.
Juarez first gained notoriety in the early 1990s when young women began to disappear in the area.
More than 500 women have been killed in Juarez since 1993, with the majority of the cases going unsolved.
Ciudad Juarez, with 191 homicides per 100,000 residents, was the most violent city in the world in 2009, registering a higher murder rate than San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Caracas and Guatemala, two Mexican non-governmental organizations said in a report released earlier this year.
Some 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexico’s cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.
More than 7,000 gangland killings have occurred so far this year in Mexico, Attorney General Arturo Chavez Chavez said last month.
The death toll for all of 2009 was 7,724.
OCTOBER WAS YEAR’S BLOODIEST MONTH IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
By Beat Reporter Buggs
Borderland Beat
November 2, 2010
A total of 350 murders were registered in Ciudad Juarez last month, making October the bloodiest month of the year in the Mexican border city, prosecutors said.
There were 227 homicides in January, 163 in February, 240 in March, 203 in April, 262 in May, 313 in June, 291 in July, 338 in August, 289 in September and 350 in October in the border city, the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office said.
A total of 10 homicides were reported on the last day of October in Ciudad Juarez, a gritty border metropolis that has become Mexico’s murder capital.
Six people were murdered across Juarez in the early hours of Sunday, while two men were gunned down in the afternoon on the front porch of a house.
A man was shot and tossed out of a moving vehicle an hour later, while a 25-year-old man was shot dead later in the day.
Police found a bullet-riddled body in another part of Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, Texas, while a person was murdered on the east side of the city on Sunday night.
A total of 2,666 murders, according to a press tally compiled using Chihuahua AG’s office figures, have been committed in Ciudad Juarez this year.
The Juarez and Sinaloa cartels, backed by hitmen from local street gangs, have been fighting for control of the border city.
Ciudad Juarez, where more than 6,000 people have been murdered since 2008, has been plagued by drug-related violence for years.
The murder rate took off in the border city of 1.5 million people in 2007, when 310 people were killed, then it more than tripled to 1,607 in 2008, according to state Attorney General’s office figures, with the number of killings climbing to 2,754 last year.
Juarez first gained notoriety in the early 1990s when young women began to disappear in the area.
More than 500 women have been killed in Juarez since 1993, with the majority of the cases going unsolved.
Ciudad Juarez, with 191 homicides per 100,000 residents, was the most violent city in the world in 2009, registering a higher murder rate than San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Caracas and Guatemala, two Mexican non-governmental organizations said in a report released earlier this year.
Some 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexico’s cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.
More than 7,000 gangland killings have occurred so far this year in Mexico, Attorney General Arturo Chavez Chavez said last month.
The death toll for all of 2009 was 7,724.
THANKS TO DR. WANG, HE SINGS ALTO NOW
Before Dr. Wang, he used to sing bass. If both his balls had been removed, Safwat Kamel would be singing soprano now.
SAFWAT KAMEL: WHEN A DOCTOR NAMED WANG CUTS OF YOUR BALL AND YOU CAN’T SUE
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 2, 2010
You go to a doctor because you have an enlarged testicle. Clearly you're not having a run of good luck to begin with.
The doctor you get at LBJ Hospital is Dr. Run Wang. Maybe you feel encouraged by this, maybe you don't. He and another doctor diagnose excess fluid around your ball and put you under the knife to take out the fluid.
While they're all up in your business, Wang decides he doesn't like the looks of your testicle. It's not so much a matter of aesthetics as it is he thinks it appears "very abnormal" and therefore believes your colon cancer had spread. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am, he eliminates the alleged problem by eliminating your ball.
Except your ball turns out to be just fine, at least in terms of not having cancer. (How it looks, we can't judge.) So you sue. And your run of bad luck continues.You can't sue Wang or the other doctor because they're working for a state hospital and the court rules they were acting in the normal course of business there.
So you sue the hospital, or more specifically the entity that runs it, the UT Health Science at Houston.
They squawk, saying they have immunity from such suits. You argue on about how you didn't give consent to have your ball removed, and that you'd think someone might have informed you of the possibility.
But you get nowhere. The 1st Court of Appeals finds that the UT Health Science Center can't be sued over the incident.
You resolve, we can only assume, never to trust anyone named Wang with your remaining testicle.
SAFWAT KAMEL: WHEN A DOCTOR NAMED WANG CUTS OF YOUR BALL AND YOU CAN’T SUE
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
November 2, 2010
You go to a doctor because you have an enlarged testicle. Clearly you're not having a run of good luck to begin with.
The doctor you get at LBJ Hospital is Dr. Run Wang. Maybe you feel encouraged by this, maybe you don't. He and another doctor diagnose excess fluid around your ball and put you under the knife to take out the fluid.
While they're all up in your business, Wang decides he doesn't like the looks of your testicle. It's not so much a matter of aesthetics as it is he thinks it appears "very abnormal" and therefore believes your colon cancer had spread. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am, he eliminates the alleged problem by eliminating your ball.
Except your ball turns out to be just fine, at least in terms of not having cancer. (How it looks, we can't judge.) So you sue. And your run of bad luck continues.You can't sue Wang or the other doctor because they're working for a state hospital and the court rules they were acting in the normal course of business there.
So you sue the hospital, or more specifically the entity that runs it, the UT Health Science at Houston.
They squawk, saying they have immunity from such suits. You argue on about how you didn't give consent to have your ball removed, and that you'd think someone might have informed you of the possibility.
But you get nowhere. The 1st Court of Appeals finds that the UT Health Science Center can't be sued over the incident.
You resolve, we can only assume, never to trust anyone named Wang with your remaining testicle.
HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS WOULD REJECT THIS PLOT FOR BEING TOO FAR-FETCHED
I think this story would make a great movie. With some makeup to make her look 60-ish, Lindsay Lohan would be just perfect for the leading role.
WOMAN CONVICTED OF BIZARRE PLOT TO ROB BANK USING ‘PIZZA DELIVERY BOY’ … WITH A BOMB AROUND HIS NECK
Mail Online
November 2, 2010
A 61-year-old woman has been convicted of masterminding a bizarre plot to get a man dressed as a pizza delivery man to rob a bank wearing a metal bomb collar.
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong of Erie, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of armed bank robbery, conspiracy and using a destructive device in a crime of violence for bank robbery.
The explosive neck brace was worn by Brian Wells, 46, and exploded shortly after the heist.
The plot of the robbery was so convoluted it would have been turned away by many Hollywood directors for being too far-fetched.
The jury deliberated for 12 hours on Friday and part of Monday before reaching their verdict to convict Diehl-Armstrong.
Wells walked into a PNC bank in August 2003 with the collar bomb around his neck. Dressed as a pizza delivery man he escaped with $8,702 but was stopped by police shortly after.
They handcuffed him while they waited for a bomb squad to arrive, but before they got there, the bomb exploded, killing Wells.
Prosecutors later revealed that they believed the crime had been plotted by five people.
They said that Wells was in on the plot at first but probably didn't realise until the last moment that his life was in danger.
Diehl-Armstrong and three other men were also involved. One has since died of cancer, another was killed by Diehl-Armstrong and the third pleaded guilty and testified against her.
Defense attorney Douglas Sughrue argued that Diehl-Armstrong's mental disorders and a hostile relationship with at least one of the plotters made it unlikely she participated.
In expletive-filled testimony over two days, Diehl-Armstrong acknowledged knowing two other plotters - but denied knowing Wells - and argued they were all framing her.
William Rothstein, was a handyman and substitute science teacher who prosecutors say constructed the bomb collar using two egg timers supplied by Diehl-Armstrong. He has since died of cancer.
Kenneth Barnes, 57, pleaded guilty and is serving 45 years in prison. He testified that Diehl-Armstrong planned the heist because she wanted to use the money to pay Barnes to kill her father.
Diehl-Armstrong is serving seven to 20 years after pleading guilty, but mentally ill, to killing her live-in boyfriend James Roden, 45, but said she killed him because he was abusive.
U.S. Attorney Marshall Piccinini contended that Diehl-Armstrong killed Roden more than two weeks before the robbery because he was in on the plot and threatened to reveal it.
Diehl-Armstrong argued with her attorney Mr Sughrue throughout the trial, claiming he wasn't asking questions to properly let her spell out her story.
Mr Sughrue defended her behavior in light of the grisly allegations, telling the jury in his argument before the verdict: 'Your job's not to like her or invite her over for dinner or have a birthday party for her.'
After the verdict, Diehl-Armstrong took a parting shot at her lawyer.
She had whispered to Mr Sughrue if she could keep the $1,200 worth of clothes he had purchased for her court appearances and the lawyer said he would 'take care of' it.
'Like you took care of this case that you didn't do your job on?', she responded loudly.
'There'll be an appeal, that's all I have to say', Diehl-Armstrong yelled before U.S. Marshalls led her from the courtroom.
Attorney David Hickton said the verdict was the result of 'thousands of hours of difficult and painstaking work by our law enforcement partners and this office'.
Diehl-Armstrong faces a mandatory life sentence when she is sentenced on February 28.
The long term is driven by her conviction on the armed bank robbery charge and because the heist resulted in Wells' death.
WOMAN CONVICTED OF BIZARRE PLOT TO ROB BANK USING ‘PIZZA DELIVERY BOY’ … WITH A BOMB AROUND HIS NECK
Mail Online
November 2, 2010
A 61-year-old woman has been convicted of masterminding a bizarre plot to get a man dressed as a pizza delivery man to rob a bank wearing a metal bomb collar.
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong of Erie, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of armed bank robbery, conspiracy and using a destructive device in a crime of violence for bank robbery.
The explosive neck brace was worn by Brian Wells, 46, and exploded shortly after the heist.
The plot of the robbery was so convoluted it would have been turned away by many Hollywood directors for being too far-fetched.
The jury deliberated for 12 hours on Friday and part of Monday before reaching their verdict to convict Diehl-Armstrong.
Wells walked into a PNC bank in August 2003 with the collar bomb around his neck. Dressed as a pizza delivery man he escaped with $8,702 but was stopped by police shortly after.
They handcuffed him while they waited for a bomb squad to arrive, but before they got there, the bomb exploded, killing Wells.
Prosecutors later revealed that they believed the crime had been plotted by five people.
They said that Wells was in on the plot at first but probably didn't realise until the last moment that his life was in danger.
Diehl-Armstrong and three other men were also involved. One has since died of cancer, another was killed by Diehl-Armstrong and the third pleaded guilty and testified against her.
Defense attorney Douglas Sughrue argued that Diehl-Armstrong's mental disorders and a hostile relationship with at least one of the plotters made it unlikely she participated.
In expletive-filled testimony over two days, Diehl-Armstrong acknowledged knowing two other plotters - but denied knowing Wells - and argued they were all framing her.
William Rothstein, was a handyman and substitute science teacher who prosecutors say constructed the bomb collar using two egg timers supplied by Diehl-Armstrong. He has since died of cancer.
Kenneth Barnes, 57, pleaded guilty and is serving 45 years in prison. He testified that Diehl-Armstrong planned the heist because she wanted to use the money to pay Barnes to kill her father.
Diehl-Armstrong is serving seven to 20 years after pleading guilty, but mentally ill, to killing her live-in boyfriend James Roden, 45, but said she killed him because he was abusive.
U.S. Attorney Marshall Piccinini contended that Diehl-Armstrong killed Roden more than two weeks before the robbery because he was in on the plot and threatened to reveal it.
Diehl-Armstrong argued with her attorney Mr Sughrue throughout the trial, claiming he wasn't asking questions to properly let her spell out her story.
Mr Sughrue defended her behavior in light of the grisly allegations, telling the jury in his argument before the verdict: 'Your job's not to like her or invite her over for dinner or have a birthday party for her.'
After the verdict, Diehl-Armstrong took a parting shot at her lawyer.
She had whispered to Mr Sughrue if she could keep the $1,200 worth of clothes he had purchased for her court appearances and the lawyer said he would 'take care of' it.
'Like you took care of this case that you didn't do your job on?', she responded loudly.
'There'll be an appeal, that's all I have to say', Diehl-Armstrong yelled before U.S. Marshalls led her from the courtroom.
Attorney David Hickton said the verdict was the result of 'thousands of hours of difficult and painstaking work by our law enforcement partners and this office'.
Diehl-Armstrong faces a mandatory life sentence when she is sentenced on February 28.
The long term is driven by her conviction on the armed bank robbery charge and because the heist resulted in Wells' death.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
NEW PROCEDURE FOR PROSTATE CHECK-UP
An old guy goes to his doctor for his physical and gets sent to the Urologist as a precaution. When he gets there, he discovers the Urologist is a very pretty female doctor.
The female doctor says, "I'm going to check your prostate today, but this new procedure is a little different from what you are probably used to. I want you to lie on your right side, bend your knees, then while I check your prostate, take a deep breath and say, 'Ninety-nine'."
The old guy obeys and says,"99."
The doctor says, "Great. Now turn over on your left side and again, while I repeat the check, take a deep breath and say, '99'."
Again, the old guy says, "99."
The doctor says, "Very good. Now then, I want you to lie on your back with your knees raised slightly. I'm going to check your prostate with this hand, and with the other hand I'm going to hold on to your penis to keep it out of the way. Now take a deep breath and say, '99'."
The old guy starts counting very, very slowly, "Ninety … Ninety-one ... Ninety-two ...Ninety-three ..."
The female doctor says, "I'm going to check your prostate today, but this new procedure is a little different from what you are probably used to. I want you to lie on your right side, bend your knees, then while I check your prostate, take a deep breath and say, 'Ninety-nine'."
The old guy obeys and says,"99."
The doctor says, "Great. Now turn over on your left side and again, while I repeat the check, take a deep breath and say, '99'."
Again, the old guy says, "99."
The doctor says, "Very good. Now then, I want you to lie on your back with your knees raised slightly. I'm going to check your prostate with this hand, and with the other hand I'm going to hold on to your penis to keep it out of the way. Now take a deep breath and say, '99'."
The old guy starts counting very, very slowly, "Ninety … Ninety-one ... Ninety-two ...Ninety-three ..."
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE OLD?
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.
I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 & 70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ..... I will.
I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.
So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think.. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.
So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).
EDITOR'S NOTE: This was sent to me by Jay Wall who has yet to get old.
I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 & 70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ..... I will.
I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.
So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think.. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.
So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).
EDITOR'S NOTE: This was sent to me by Jay Wall who has yet to get old.
10 BULLETS FOR ONE EGG
There are several morals to this story, the most important of which seems to be: Don’t piss off a Mercedes-Benz owner!
DAMN, THAT IS HARSH
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 1, 2010
Tivarus King was a not atypical jerk teenager in Atlanta. He egged a Mercedes on Halloween. The driver was not appreciative and shot the young man twice. One shot killed him.
The 17-year old shooting victim was confronted by the driver at about 8:00 p.m. on Halloween who fired the ten rounds at him. The egg thrower was taken by ambulance to Grady Memorial Hospital but died in route.
The driver of a car matching the description was taken into custody shortly after the incident, but was later determined to have not been involved.
I grant you that egging a car is not nice and should not be tolerated. I don’t think, however, that it is a capital offense. Mercedes owners might disagree.
DAMN, THAT IS HARSH
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 1, 2010
Tivarus King was a not atypical jerk teenager in Atlanta. He egged a Mercedes on Halloween. The driver was not appreciative and shot the young man twice. One shot killed him.
The 17-year old shooting victim was confronted by the driver at about 8:00 p.m. on Halloween who fired the ten rounds at him. The egg thrower was taken by ambulance to Grady Memorial Hospital but died in route.
The driver of a car matching the description was taken into custody shortly after the incident, but was later determined to have not been involved.
I grant you that egging a car is not nice and should not be tolerated. I don’t think, however, that it is a capital offense. Mercedes owners might disagree.
Monday, November 01, 2010
THERE ARE 14 BLACK REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES
In Tuesday’s election, there are 14 black Republican candidates running for Congress. That’s right, 14 of the Republicans running for seats in Congress are African-Americans. And each one of them is expressing strong opposition to the policies of America’s first black president.
Here is a partial list of the black Republican congressional candidates:
Charlotte Bergmann: 9th Congressional District of Tennessee
Stephen Broden: 30th Congressional District of Texas
Ryan Frazier: 7th Congressional District of Colorado
Isaac Hayes: 2nd Congressional District of Illinois
Bill Marcy: 2nd Congressional District of Mississippi
Star Parker: 37th Congressional District of California
Bill Randall: 13th Congressional District of North Carolina
Tim Scott: 1st Congressional District of South Carolina
Chuck Smith: 3rd Congressional District of Virginia
Allen West: 22nd Congressional District of Florida
USMC Maj. Charles Lollar: 5th Congressional District of Maryland
Rev. Michel J. Faulkner: 15th Congressional District of New York
(I was unable to obtain the names of the remaining two black Republican candidates.)
Most of the 14 are running all-but-hopeless races against black Democratic incumbents in black majority districts. But Tim Scott of South Carolina, Allen West of Florida, and Ryan Frazier of Colorado are running in predominantly white districts and are expected to win their races.
Black Republican candidates? Sumbich, what this country isn’t coming to!
Here is a partial list of the black Republican congressional candidates:
Charlotte Bergmann: 9th Congressional District of Tennessee
Stephen Broden: 30th Congressional District of Texas
Ryan Frazier: 7th Congressional District of Colorado
Isaac Hayes: 2nd Congressional District of Illinois
Bill Marcy: 2nd Congressional District of Mississippi
Star Parker: 37th Congressional District of California
Bill Randall: 13th Congressional District of North Carolina
Tim Scott: 1st Congressional District of South Carolina
Chuck Smith: 3rd Congressional District of Virginia
Allen West: 22nd Congressional District of Florida
USMC Maj. Charles Lollar: 5th Congressional District of Maryland
Rev. Michel J. Faulkner: 15th Congressional District of New York
(I was unable to obtain the names of the remaining two black Republican candidates.)
Most of the 14 are running all-but-hopeless races against black Democratic incumbents in black majority districts. But Tim Scott of South Carolina, Allen West of Florida, and Ryan Frazier of Colorado are running in predominantly white districts and are expected to win their races.
Black Republican candidates? Sumbich, what this country isn’t coming to!
LOOK AT WHO GAVE $1 MILLION DOLLARS TO THE PROPONENTS OF PROPOSTION 19
Attention Kookfornians: Here is another very good reason to vote against Proposition 19, the legalization of pot for recreational use.
George Soreass – oops, I mean George Soros - has donated $1 million to the Proposition 19 backers. Almost everything Soreass is associated with turns out to be bad news.
In 1996, Soreass was one of the principal financial backers of the proposition that legalized ‘medical’ marijuana in Kookfornia. And everyone now knows how that law has been perverted by the medical profession. The ‘medical’ use of marijuana has turned out to be a de facto legalization of pot for recreational use.
You can bet that if Proposition 19 passes, Kookfornians will see a significant increase in the abuse of marijuana and an increase in the number of motor vehicle operators driving under the influence of pot. You can bet that with the passage of Proposition 19, the highway traffic death toll will rise dramatically.
George Soreass – oops, I mean George Soros - has donated $1 million to the Proposition 19 backers. Almost everything Soreass is associated with turns out to be bad news.
In 1996, Soreass was one of the principal financial backers of the proposition that legalized ‘medical’ marijuana in Kookfornia. And everyone now knows how that law has been perverted by the medical profession. The ‘medical’ use of marijuana has turned out to be a de facto legalization of pot for recreational use.
You can bet that if Proposition 19 passes, Kookfornians will see a significant increase in the abuse of marijuana and an increase in the number of motor vehicle operators driving under the influence of pot. You can bet that with the passage of Proposition 19, the highway traffic death toll will rise dramatically.
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