Saturday - August 27, 2005

Lap Dances Are Now Legal In Missouri

Hmmmm, I wasn’t aware of this law being passed. It must have slipped under my radar somehow. In a nutshell, the State of Missouri declared that lap dancing was, in effect, illegal by making dancers stay at least ten feet from each other and making it a crime to tuck one-dollar bills in a dancers g-string. The clubs sued the state and a circuit judge ruled the law unconstitutional because “The state may not limit persons of majority age from engaging in lawful expressive conduct protected by the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution without a substantial and direct connection to adverse secondary effects, a showing that has not been made”.

Hmmmm (again), the only “adverse secondary effect” I can think of, based on personal experience (done purely for research purposes, I assure you) was the extreme physical exhaustion brought upon my girlfriend at the time after I got home from the club. As she later told me, “Honey, I don’t care where you get your appetite as long as you come home for supper.” Mheh-heh-heh ....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—A new state law banning seminude lap dances at Missouri strip clubs was declared unconstitutional by a judge Friday, two days before it was to go into effect. Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan said provisions of the law violate First Amendment protections and state constitutional limits on amending a bill beyond its original purpose.

“The state may not limit persons of majority age from engaging in lawful expressive conduct protected by the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution without a substantial and direct connection to adverse secondary effects, a showing that has not been made,” Callahan said in the declaratory judgment.

Under the law, signed in July by Gov. Matt Blunt, seminude lap dances would have been banned and dancers would have had to stay at least 10 feet from each other. Customers would have faced misdemeanor charges for tucking money into a dancers’ G-strings, and the minimum age for dancers and customers would have risen from 19 to 21. The adult entertainment industry’s attorneys had argued the law violated free-speech and expression rights, and they also said it violated a state constitutional requirement that bills relate to one subject and remain tied to their original purpose.

The bill that included the strip club restrictions initially was labeled as a bill for alcohol-related traffic offenses but was passed under the heading of “crime.” The attorney general’s office said it was reviewing the judge’s decision and didn’t yet know what actions it might take. Joe Spinello, general manager of the Shady Lady Lounge in Kansas City, said the restrictions probably would have forced him to cut staff. He said clubs hurt most by law would be ones that rely on customers and employees who are under 21.

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Run Away!

Having lived on the Gulf Coast a good part of my life, I’ve learned to recognize the signs of a bad wind rising. One telltale signal is the barometric pressure. From past experience, I’ve seen that the faster it drops and gets down around 900 millibars, the worse it’s gonna be. Hurricane Katrina just blew through Miami and flooded that city. Now, she is over the summer-heated waters of the Gulf and building strength. Barometer is down to 945 mb and falling rapidly. Maximum sustained winds are up to 115 mph and climbing. Katrina is expected to be a Category 4 hurrricane when she hits New Orleans sometime Monday night.

If you live anywhere between Houston, TX and Pensacola, FL you better keep an eye peeled for dark skies and high winds. Where she hits now will depend on steering currents and upper atmospheric wind shears. Regardless, folks as far as several hundred miles inland will probably feel this one .... and it’s gonna hurt ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/27/2005 at 04:59 AM   
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Whigs, Tories & Democrats

_{Steve Sack, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune}

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/27/2005 at 04:34 AM   
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   Friday - August 26, 2005

Camp Sheehan Finances Revealed

Guess who is paying for Cindy Sheehan’s little soiree down in Crawford, Texas? Go ahead, take a wild guess. No, it’s not Karl Rove, you idjit! ABC7 in San Francisco did a little snooping and here are the results ....

Aug. 25 - With the President back at his Crawford ranch, the anti-war protest right outside his ranch is getting a lot more media attention. ABC7 looks at who is financing the operation and who’s providing on-the-ground support. With the president back at his Crawford Ranch, the anti-war protest right outside his ranch is getting a lot more media attention. ABC7 looks at who is financing and who is providing on the ground support.

The camp at Crawford is full of Cindy Sheehan supporters, people from all walks of life, but off to the side are a small group of professionals skilled in politics and public relations who are marketing Cindy Sheehan’s message.  Organizers are set up in a house trailer. Their meetings closed to reporters. Leading the group is Fenton Communications employee, Michele Mulkey, based in San Francisco. Fenton specializes in public relations for liberal non-profits.

Their bills are being paid for by True Majority, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen—of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream fame. Ben Cohen, True Majority: “People are willing to listen to her and we want to do as much as we can to make her voice heard.” Cohen’s group has teamed up with Berkeley based MoveOn.org, an anti-Bush group co-founded by Joan Blades.

Earlier this month, MoveOn helped organize anti-war vigils in support of Cindy Sheehan. Current Democratic National Party Chair Howard Dean’s organization Democracy for America is also involved, as is the more radical anti-war group Code Pink organized by San Francisco’s Medea Benjamin. Money donated through these groups and others is helping to pay for Gold Star families whose children have been killed in Iraq to attend anti-Bush protests.

This week Simi Valley California Gold Star wife Melanie House flew to Idaho for a protest and then flew to Crawford. ABC7’s Mark Matthews: “Can you tell us if you’re getting help in airfare to come down here?”

Melanie House: “What difference does that make?”

There is real reluctance to talk about who’s paying, and the P.R. machine that’s promoting Cindy Sheehan, but not everyone here is completely comfortable with it. Gold Star mother Karen Meredith came here from Mountain View. Her son Ken Ballard died last year. Karen Meredith, Gold Star mother: “Sometimes things don’t feel quite right to me. They don’t feel wrong, but maybe that’s how they do it in the marketing business.”

ABC7’s Mark Matthews: “You feel you’re part of a marketing business?”

Karen Meredith: “Possibly. Yeah I think so.”

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Cindy’s Brain

am trying to put myself inside Cindy Sheehan’s brain. She thinks I (and others) are “right-wing nut jobs”. I know this to be untrue because I am conservative but not far out on the “right wing” and I’ve never been diagnosed with a mental condition of any kind, other than a brief period of depression after my mother’s death in 1991. Plus, I have a regular job so I don’t need to be any kind of “job”. I work hard, collect my paycheck and pay my bills. Nothing extraordinary about any of that. In short, I’m just your everyday average “joe” .... except my name isn’t Joe.

But back to the subject of Cindy’s brain. Upon close examination, we perceive a large block or enflamed brain matter in the frontal lobes. This section is called “grief” and is enlarged at the moment. There are large supplies of blood being forced into this section as this part of the overall brain matter is experiencing enormous pain and inflammation caused by the loss of a loved one, her son. The boy she raised from birth is dead. He lost his life on a lonely battlefield, several thousand miles away from her and she feels a deep loss in her life. The little boy she taught, groomed and loved from baby to man is no longer in this world.

There is nothing she can do to replace this gaping hole in her life and her brain is suffering from the problem of not knowing how to fill that hole. There does not appear to be anything that means as much to her as her son did. She has further exacerbated the loss by alienating herself from her husband, who has filed for divorce. I don’t claim to know the reasons for the breakup. All the public knows is that the divorce was filed by her husband because of “irreconcilable differences”, according to the official divorce petition.

The hole in her life just grows biggger and bigger and the grief section of Cindy’s brain continues to grow and grow until it overwhelms the entire brain, blocking out all else. Cindy is awash in the pain inside and her brain is starting to malfunction. This malfunction is easily evidenced by her persistent vigil in Crawford, Texas insisting on a meeting with the President Of The United States, who has already met with her and tried to console her once before. Why this insistence on meeting the leader of the free world again? What can she tell him that he doesn’t already know? Does she not understand that he is privy to knowledge about world politics and the security of America that she has no access to? What can she possibly add to his already overloaded (but not yet malfunctioning) brain that would help anyone?

When President Bush refused to interrupt his vacation and meet with her, she found a national audience in the media, which had nothing better to report on this month and who have shown a pronounced bias against the President in the past. Cindy’s brain now had a platform from which she could share the pain in her head with everyone. Grief is always a lonely thing and any individual’s first response to grief is to share it. That is just human nature.

Unfortunately, something happened then that made this a problem for every American: Cindy’s brain was joined by several hundred other malfunctioning brains which have been in severe pain and grief since November 7, 2000 when George Bush won the Presidency. Suddenly, Cindy had a whole bunch of new friends and Cindy’s brain had other similarly malfunctioning brains to commiserate with.

Like them, she has adopted their strident, vulgar accusations and language. She called Presdient Bush a “lying bastard” and a “filth-spewer and warmonger.” Further quotes include: “and if you think I won’t say bullshit to the President, I say move on, cuz I’ll say what’s on my mind.” and “It’s okay for Israel to occupy Palestine, but it’s - yeah - and it’s okay for Iraq to occupy - I mean, for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it’s not okay for Syria to be in Lebanon. They’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites!”

And the beat goes on. Drums keep a-pounding rhythm in her brain.

This morning I read that Cindy has returned to her vigil in Crawford and the camp is now swollen with leftist, anti-war activists, most of whom have their travel expenses paid for by organizations like MoveOn.org which were organized after the 2000 election to try to drive George Bush from office and over-rule the American people’s decision in that election. The camp now has caterers, medical facilities and even an “orientation tent”. That last sounds pretty ominous to me. Do these people with malfunctioning brains really need “orientation” or is some evil force trying to take advantage of these malfunctioning brains, while they are in a weak state, to bend them to some unknown purpose?

Things at the camp are starting to settle into a pattern now, it seems. According to the post from Cindy, last night the campers were treated to a concert by none other than Joan Baez, who was kind enough to sing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”.

When I arrived at Camp Casey II this afternoon I was amazed at what has changed since I was gone. Now, we have a huge tent to get out of the sun; caterers; an orientation tent; a medic tent (with medics); a chapel, etc.

So, after Joan Baez gave us a great concert tonight, I got up and I talked about Casey. About the sweet boy who grew up to be a remarkable young man. Joan sang the song Joe Hill In it Joe Hill says: “I never died.” Well, looking out at the faces here at Camp Casey, and knowing that for everyone who is present here, there are thousands of others who support our work, I am convinced that Casey never died, and he never will. Joan also sang “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” A thousand angels waiting there for me? I know Casey will be waiting for me when it is my turn, and I know when I finally get there he?’s going to hug me and say: “Good job, Mom.”

According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s 1970 book on death and dying, there are seven distinct stages of grief: (1) Shock or Disbelief that the loss has occured. (2) Denial is the stage in which the person refuses to accept the loss has occured. (3) In the Bargaining stage, the person attempts to reconcile the loss by making deals with other people, sometimes also with Diety. (4) Guilt is marked by statements of “if only I had done/been . . . “. (5) Anger is a natural stage everyone must pass. Anger may be directed toward the loss, the person lost, or even Diety. (6) Depression is a stage that comes and goes throughout the grief process. Resignation at the end of the depression indicates that the truth of the loss has been accepted and the person is ready to move on. (7) Acceptance and Hope means that you understand your life will never be the same but it will go on with meaning and hope.

I empathize with Cindy Sheehan over her loss but sooner or later, she and her brain are going to have to get through Stage 5. The new friends she has found are hopelessly locked in Stage 5 as are their friends in the Democratic Party and Hollywood and the mainstream media. They must all be willing to accept their loss and resign themselves to the fact that they need to move on. Only then can all these malfunctioning brains even begin to reach acceptance and the hope that things will get better for all of them.

If not, then the rest of America will eventually have to deal with the problem of all of these malfunctioning brains in a way that brings them through their grief and back into the society of normal human beings. That may be the hardest task any of us “right-wing nut jobs” may ever face.

Disclaimer: No, I’m not a psychiatrist .... but I play one in the Blogosphere.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/26/2005 at 11:33 AM   
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Amnesty?

This truck was burned by a Mexican illegal alien on July 26. It was but one of seven fires started by Mario Martinez Gurrola of Mexicali, Mexico. As reported in the Bisbee Observer, Gurrola was charged with at least seven counts of arson and three counts of defacing property. Delores Gayden, a Palominas, Arizona resident for over 20 years, was one of the first victims of the arsonist with the loss of her commercial semi-truck. “The bleeding hearts and humanitarians better wake up and realize it could happen to anybody, including them,” Gayden told the Bisbee Observer. The arsonist also torched a Bisbee emergency response vehicle.

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Is The Mexican Border Out Of Control Yet?

Now the MESS-CANS are downing border patrol helicopters by slinging rocks at the flying gringo police. Do you suppose they’d be doing that if the border patrol’s puny choppers were replaced with the US Army and a few hundred AH-64 Apaches? An M230-30mm automatic gun can be a powerful argument against rock throwers. Then again, a 2.75 inch rocket up a MESS-CAN’s butt might prove the point even better. Ah, decisions, decisions ....

(BREITBART) - YUMA, Ariz.—Illegal immigrants threw rocks at a Border Patrol helicopter, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing when one of the rocks damaged the rotor, the agency said.

Neither the pilot nor the Border Patrol observer was injured. The A-Star helicopter was two miles west of the U.S. Port of Entry in Andrade, Calif., on Tuesday when a group of immigrants began throwing rocks at the aircraft.

One baseball-sized rock gashed the rotor, forcing the pilot to land nearby, said Michael Gramley, spokesman for the Border Patrol sector based in Yuma, Ariz. Gramley said he did not know how high the helicopter was hovering when it was struck, but he said it was being repaired and is expected back in service soon.

After the incident, 17 people were apprehended for illegally crossing the border, and two of them were being investigated for smuggling. Ten immigrants evaded capture. The investigation into the rock-throwing was continuing.

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John Bolton: First Strike

John Bolton has already launched the first strike against the chattering monkeys at the UN. Bolton has thrown a monkey wrench into the UN’s latest proposal with 750 requested changes to the UN’s draft reorganization plan. The UK’s Guardian (notoriously liberal) has some decidely biased language in their coverage but one thing I find interesting is Bolton’s refusal to just go along with several very bad provisions. One of which is the proposal to force all developing nations to donate at least 0.7% of GDP to developing nations.

The US currently donates 0.2% of GDP, while several Euro-nations (like Norway) donate 0.7% and more. The problem I have with that is that Norway’s GDP is $183 billion, which means the Norwegians donate $366 million. The US GDP, on the other hand is $11.75 trillion and 0.2% of that is $23.5 billion, which is more than the entire GDP of half the nations in the UN (source: CIA World Factbook).

(GUARDIAN - UK)—John Bolton, Washington’s new ambassador to the United Nations, has called for wholesale changes to a draft document due to go before a UN summit next month aimed at reshaping the world body.

Mr Bolton, a long-standing UN critic who was given a temporary appointment by George Bush three weeks ago after the United States Senate failed to agree on his nomination, has proposed 750 amendments to the draft and called for immediate talks on them.

The 29-page document has been drawn up by a committee under the UN general assembly president, Jean Ping of Gambia, over the past year, during which time several drafts have been circulated.

Critics complained that the US objections had come towards the end of the drafting process, with only three weeks to go before the summit.

But Benjamin Chang, a spokesman for the American team at the UN, said Mr Bolton had simply been restating long-held US opinions. “Those are not new positions; surprise positions,” he said. “We’ve been engaged in this process, since the first meeting.”

The Bolton amendments, published in the US press, seek to play down the emphasis given to alleviating poverty, and expunge all references to the millennium development goals, including the target for wealthy countries to donate at least 0.7 % of national income to the developing world. America currently gives less than 0.2% in such aid.

The changes would also scrap provisions in the draft calling for action against global warming, and remove endorsements of the international criminal court and the comprehensive test-ban treaty - both of which are opposed by the Bush administration.

Instead, Washington is pushing for more emphasis on international measures against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/26/2005 at 06:20 AM   
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Don’t Do As I Say

_{Mike Lester, Rome News-Tribune, Rome, GA}

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   Thursday - August 25, 2005

MAGGOTS!

From CNS News: the horrifying, bastardly behavior of anti-war activists protesting at Walter Reed Hospital. I first heard about this on Drudge yesterday and Baldilocks posted about it earlier today. I waited until CNS finally released the entire article a few hours ago. Right now I want to go break some of these leftist bastards legs and arms and heads and ....

Washington (CNSNews.com) - The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the current home of hundreds of wounded veterans from the war in Iraq, has been the target of weekly anti-war demonstrations since March. The protesters hold signs that read “Maimed for Lies” and “Enlist here and die for Halliburton.”

The anti-war demonstrators, who obtain their protest permits from the Washington, D.C., police department, position themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center, which is located in northwest D.C., about five miles from the White House.

Among the props used by the protesters are mock caskets, lined up on the sidewalk to represent the death toll in Iraq.

Code Pink Women for Peace, one of the groups backing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan’s vigil outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford Texas, organizes the protests at Walter Reed as well.

Some conservative supporters of the war call the protests, which have been ignored by the establishment media, “shameless” and have taken to conducting counter-demonstrations at Walter Reed. “[The anti-war protesters] should not be demonstrating at a hospital. A hospital is not a suitable location for an anti-war demonstration,” said Bill Floyd of the D.C. chapter of FreeRepublic.com, who stood across the street from the anti-war demonstrators on Aug. 19.

“I believe they are tormenting our wounded soldiers and they should just leave them alone,” Floyd added.

According to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, nearly 4,000 individuals involved in the Iraq war were treated at the facility as of March of this year, 1,050 of whom were wounded in battle.

One anti-war protester, who would only identify himself as “Luke,” told Cybercast News Service that “the price of George Bush’s foreign policy can be seen right here at Walter Reed—young men who returned from Iraq with their bodies shattered after George Bush sent them to war for a lie.”

Luke accused President Bush of “exploiting American soldiers” while “oppressing the other nations of earth.” The president “has killed far too many people,” he added.

On Aug. 19, as the anti-war protesters chanted slogans such as “George Bush kills American soldiers,” Cybercast News Service observed several wounded war veterans entering and departing the gates of Walter Reed, some with prosthetic limbs. Most of the demonstrations have been held on Friday evenings, a popular time for the family members of wounded soldiers to visit the hospital.

But the anti-war activists were unapologetic when asked whether they considered such signs as “Maimed for Lies” offensive to wounded war veterans and their families.

“I am more offended by the fact that many were maimed for life. I am more offended by the fact that they (wounded veterans) have been kept out of the news,” said Kevin McCarron, a member of the anti-war group Veterans for Peace.

Kevin Pannell, who was recently treated at Walter Reed and had both legs amputated after an ambush grenade attack near Baghdad in 2004, considers the presence of the anti-war protesters in front of the hospital “distasteful.”

When he was a patient at the hospital, Pannell said he initially tried to ignore the anti-war activists camped out in front of Walter Reed, until witnessing something that enraged him.

“We went by there one day and I drove by and [the anti-war protesters] had a bunch of flag-draped coffins laid out on the sidewalk. That, I thought, was probably the most distasteful thing I had ever seen. Ever,” Pannell, a member of the Army’s First Cavalry Division, told Cybercast News Service.

“You know that 95 percent of the guys in the hospital bed lost guys whenever they got hurt and survivors’ guilt is the worst thing you can deal with,” Pannell said, adding that other veterans recovering from wounds at Walter Reed share his resentment for the anti-war protesters.

“We don’t like them and we don’t like the fact that they can hang their signs and stuff on the fence at Walter Reed,” he said. “[The wounded veterans] are there to recuperate. Once they get out in the real world, then they can start seeing that stuff (anti-war protests). I mean Walter Reed is a sheltered environment and it needs to stay that way.”

McCarron said he dislikes having to resort to such controversial tactics, “but this stuff can’t be hidden,” he insisted. “The real cost of this war cannot be kept from the American public.”

The anti-war protesters claim their presence at the hospital is necessary to publicize the arrivals of newly wounded soldiers from Iraq, who the protesters allege are being smuggled in at night by the Pentagon to avoid media scrutiny. The protesters also argue that the military hospital is the most appropriate place for the demonstrations and that the vigils are designed to ultimately help the wounded veterans.

“If I went to war and lost a leg and then found out from my hospital bed that I had been lied to, that the weapons I was sent to search for never existed, that the person who sent me to war had no plan but to exploit me, exploit the country I was sent to, I would be pretty angry,” Luke told Cybercast News Service.

“I would want people to do something about it and if I couldn’t get out of my bed and protest myself, I would want someone else to do it in my name,” he added.

The conservative counter-demonstrators carry signs reading “Troops out when the job’s done,” “Thank you U.S. Armed Forces” and “Shameless Pinkos go home.” Many wear the orange T-shirts reading “Club G’itmo” that are marketed by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

“[The anti-war protesters] have no business here. If they want to protest policy, they should be at the Capitol, they should be at the White House,” said Nina Burke. “The only reason for being here is to talk to [the] wounded and [anti-war protests are] just completely inappropriate.”

Albion Wilde concurred, arguing that “it’s very easy to pick on the families of the wounded. They are very vulnerable ... I feel disgusted.

“[The anti-war protesters] are really showing an enormous lack of respect for just everything that America has always stood for. They lost the election and now they are really, really angry and so they are picking on the wrong people,” Wilde added.

At least one anti-war demonstrator conceded that standing out in front of a military hospital where wounded soldiers and their families are entering and exiting, might not be appropriate.

“Maybe there is a better place to have a protest. I am not sure,” said a man holding a sign reading “Stop the War,” who declined to be identified.

But Luke and the other anti-war protesters dismissed the message of the counter demonstrators. “We know most of the George Bush supporters have never spent a day in uniform, have never been closer to a battlefield than seeing it through the television screen,” Luke said.

Code Pink, the group organizing the anti-war demonstrations in front of the Walter Reed hospital, has a controversial leader and affiliations. As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin has expressed support for the Communist Viet Cong in Vietnam and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas.

In 2001, Benjamin was asked about anti-war protesters sympathizing with nations considered to be enemies of U.S. foreign policy, including the Viet Cong and the Sandinistas. “There’s no one who will talk about how the other side is good,” she reportedly told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Benjamin has also reportedly praised the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro. Benjamin told the San Francisco Chronicle that her visit to Cuba in the 1980s revealed to her a great country. “It seem[ed] like I died and went to heaven,” she reportedly said.

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Ask Professor Peabody

Sherman: Professor Peabody, my question today is about left-handed people. Why are they called “southpaws”?

Professor Peabody: Very good question, Sherman and the answer is quite simple. This term for a left handed person originated in the late 1800’s in the new sport of baseball. Baseball diamonds of that day were arranged so that the batters were facing east to avoid looking into the afternoon sun since all baseball games were played in the daytime in the afternoon. This meant left handed pitchers were facing South when they stood on the mound and their pitching hand was on the southern ("South") side. “Paw” refers to their pitching hand. Oddly enough, in ancient times left-handed people were always viewed suspiciously because the left hand was thought to be the evil side of things. Thus, our English word “sinister” is directly derived from the Latin word ”sinister” which translates as “left”. Modern day Muslims still treat the left hand as evil or unclean and will not eat with the left hand and for a Muslim to offer to shake hands with his left hand is considered a terrible insult.

Send your questions to Professor Peabody. All mysteries solved. Sorry, but access to the WAYBACK machine is strictly limited to official time travelers like Sherman and the Professor. Underdog and Sweet Polly Purebred are disallowed from asking questions after last week’s incident.

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John Bolton’s First Task: Nuke The UN

OK, enough is enough. The UNgodly, UNbelievable critters at the UN are starting to get on my nerves real bad. I’ve about had a gutful of these pusillanimous purveyors of putrid pretentious pragmatism. Sitting in a building just off Turtle Bay in New York is the most dangerous collection of Moonbats on the damned planet and I’m ready to use the nuclear option on their asses. This latest bloviating bullshit from the UN just leaves me speechless.

Somebody unleash John Bolton. Give him whatever he wants - guns, tanks, bombs, nukes .... whatever. When I wake up tomorrow morning, all I want to see in that corner of New York is a great big smoking hole in the ground.

Yes, the ol’ Skipper is really pissed this time. I haven’t been this mad since that day I caught Gilligan peeping into Mrs. Howell’s dressing room while spanking his monkey ....

Expulsions Illegal, UN Tells Clarke

(GUARDIAN - UK)—A senior UN representative last night threatened to cite the British government for violation of human rights over its planned deportations of alleged terrorist sympathisers. Manfred Novak, the UN human rights commission’s special investigator on torture, told the Guardian he is seeking permission through the Foreign Office to visit Britain to discuss the issue with the home secretary, Charles Clarke.

In a statement on Tuesday night, Prof Novak said that the government’s intention to return radical preachers to their countries of origin, even though some of those countries have a track record of human rights abuses, “reflects a tendency in Europe to circumvent the international obligation not to deport anybody if there is a serious risk that he or she might be subjected to torture”.

His intervention came as Mr Clarke, in response to the London bombings, yesterday introduced a list of “unacceptable behaviour” which would allowing him to deport or exclude foreign citizens for glorifying or encouraging terrorism. Mr Clarke said the first exclusions and deportations would take place within the “next few days”.

He rejected the UN criticism. He said “the human rights of those people who were blown up on the tube in London on July 7 are, to be quite frank, more important than the human rights of the people who committed those acts.” He added: “I wish the UN would look at human rights in the round, rather than simply focusing all the time on the terrorist.”

But Prof Novak refused to accept the rebuke. “The UN is strongly concerned about terrorism and counter-terrorism. But there are certain standards that have to be observed in the context of counter-terrorism,” he said last night. “We in the western democratic countries, in the fight against terrorism, should not step over these limits by violating international law.”

Prof Novak, whose investigations take him round the world, said he could cite Britain when he reports to the UN general assembly in October but he hoped the issue could be sorted out before then. His main objection is to the government’s policy of seeking memoranda of understanding from countries to which people would be deported that they would not be tortured. He said the memoranda were not an appropriate tool to eradicate the risk of torture.

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Cleaning Out The Gene Pool, Part MMDCLXVII

The moral of this story is really quite simple: never bring a tire-iron to a gun fight ....

15-Year-Old Burglar Dies After Being Shot By Woman

LOS ANGELES (AP)—A 15-year-old boy shot during a California burglary has died.

Police said a 59-year-old woman returned to her South Los Angeles home Tuesday morning after a walk and was confronted by a boy wielding a tire iron. She shot him with a handgun she keeps for protection. The woman wasn’t hurt.

The district attorney’s office will determine if the woman will face any charges.

Authorities aren’t releasing the boy’s name.

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Job Insecurity

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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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