Tuesday - July 18, 2006

More good news from Iraq

800 children will now have a school thanks to the Marines, who not only helped build the school but saved it from an IED planted by terrorists to frustrate the project.

Marines help build, save school
Monday, 17 July 2006

Story and photo by Cpl. Antonio Rosas
1st Marine Division

KARABILAH - Thanks to the work of Marines and Iraqi security forces, 800 elementary-aged girls will now have a school to attend this fall.

Marines from 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment unveiled a brand-new grade school in this city of about 30,000 on the Iraq-Syria border in western al-Anbar province on July 7.

About one week before its ribbon cutting, insurgents planted an improvised explosive device inside the school that would have leveled a good portion of the building, destroying nearly three months of work by Marines and locals, said Gunnery Sgt. Joseph S. Mallicoat, team leader for the civil affairs team here.

Posted by Christopher     on 07/18/2006 at 08:24 PM   
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The Armed Citizen

My favortie article in my NRA magazine is The Armed Citizen. I especially like it when the perps end up DRT (Dead Right There)

When a man heard his doorbell ringing incessantly, he ignored it in hopes that the person would go away. But, shortly thereafter, he heard a pounding at his back door; so he grabbed a firearm as a precaution and went to investigate. According to police, the man then saw someone trying to force his door open, and when he pulled back the window blinds, he saw an arm reach through a broken window. The homeowner fired one shot, striking his assailant in the chest. The would-be intruder ran around the front of the home, collapsed and died. (Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, IN, 04/13/06)

Jason Goettsch knew something wasn’t right when he saw a man in his back yard in the early morning hours, because it meant the prowler had scaled Goettsch’s fence. According to authorities, Goettsch went into his back yard with a handgun, yelling that he was armed and had called the police. At first, he didn’t see anyone, but when he walked around the corner of his home, the prowler appeared and swung a baseball bat at him. Goettsch shot his attacker twice, killing him. (The Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 3/14/06)

Good shooting!

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The Wrath Of Khan

Thanks to James Taranto at WSJ’s Opinion Journal (who is finally back from vacation) we were informed about this little tidbit concerning the way some people’s minds just seem to gravitate in the same direction ....

Great Minds Think Alike

“They had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”

-- John Kerry on U.S. servicemen, April 22, 1971



“The Zionists think that they are victims of Hitler, but they act like Hitler and behave worse than Genghis Khan.”

-- Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, July 16, 2006

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Through The Looking Glass

“Orion Nebula”
-by-
Hubble

This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region, called the Orion Nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon.

The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The bright central region is the home of the four heftiest stars in the nebula. The stars are called the Trapezium because they are arranged in a trapezoid pattern. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars. Located near the Trapezium stars are stars still young enough to have disks of material encircling them. These disks are called protoplanetary disks or “proplyds” and are too small to see clearly in this image. The disks are the building blocks of solar systems.

The bright glow at upper left is from M43, a small region being shaped by a massive, young star’s ultraviolet light. Astronomers call the region a miniature Orion Nebula because only one star is sculpting the landscape. The Orion Nebula has four such stars. Next to M43 are dense, dark pillars of dust and gas that point toward the Trapezium. These pillars are resisting erosion from the Trapezium’s intense ultraviolet light. The glowing region on the right reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected from the Trapezium stars — collide with material.

The faint red stars near the bottom are the myriad brown dwarfs that Hubble spied for the first time in the nebula in visible light. Sometimes called “failed stars,” brown dwarfs are cool objects that are too small to be ordinary stars because they cannot sustain nuclear fusion in their cores the way our Sun does. The dark red column, below, left, shows an illuminated edge of the cavity wall.

The Orion Nebula is 1,500 light-years away, the nearest star-forming region to Earth. Astronomers used 520 Hubble images, taken in five colors, to make this picture. They also added ground-based photos to fill out the nebula. The ACS mosaic covers approximately the apparent angular size of the full moon.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2006 at 05:06 PM   
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Requiem For A Dinosaur

Extinction is always a sad affair. In this case, the Gutenberg Era is coming to a close. After six hundred years, the print press is dying out.

The meteor causing the event this time was the computer, which slammed into the Earth a few decades ago and changed the information atmosphere. The old dinosaurs like the NY Times and Washington Post are gradually disappearing, only to be replaced by the smaller, more agile internet and blogs.

Another factor that speeded up the disappearance of dinosaurs was their dependence on a single diet: Liberal Lunacy. That wild weed has also been in retreat from civilization as bloggers spray it down with reason and logic wherever it sprouts up.

So let us say farewell to the monsters of YourAssic Park. Perhaps they will evolve into on-line birds and survive this social climate change. We can only hope they change their diet if they do. Otherwise, it’s open season on pigeons ...

NY Times To Cut Paper Size And Close Plant
_{—NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:36am ET13}

The New York Times Co. plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.

The changes, set to take place in April 2008, include the closure of a printing plant in Edison, New Jersey. The company will sublet the plant and consolidate its regional printing facilities at a plant in Queens, the paper said.

The newspaper will be narrower by 1 1/2 inches. The redesign will result in the loss of 250 production jobs, the company said. The New York Times said it expected the changes to result in savings of $42 million. The narrower format, offset by some additional pages, will reduce the space the paper has for news by 5 percent, Executive Editor Bill Keller said in the article.

The Times will join a list of several other papers from The Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times that have reduced their size as they cut newsprint and other production costs and try to stem a loss of readers and advertising to the Internet and other media.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2006 at 10:28 AM   
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Meanwhile …

These are not the warships you’re looking for. Move along. Nothing to see here.

So says the US Navy. Of course the visit was planned months in advance. The logistics of deploying this much hardware requires that much lead time. It is convenient though ... and somewhat comforting to know that the carrier group is on hand in case Kim Jung Mentally Ill decides to get uppity - especially after the recent bottle rockets the NoKos fired off.

Which brings me to the crux of the matter ... if we’re constantly being tasked to be the world’s policeman then why in hell are we paying dues to the United Notions. They ought to be paying us for this crap! Instead, they make us pay more than any other country, squat on prime real estate in New York and give us a hard time.

It’s time to tell Kofi And Gang to “pony up for protection” ... and sit down and STFU when we bust the bad guys for them. Send them a bill for Saddam’s capture - which they approved. A few trillion dollars ought to do it ...

U.S. Warship in S.Korea
Amid Missile Issue
—SEOUL, South Korea (AP)
July 18, 2006, 4:21 AM EDT

The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise arrived in South Korea Tuesday for a routine port call, officials said, amid heightened tensions in the region over North Korea’s missile launches.

The group led by the nuclear-powered carrier USS Enterprise, and including a guided missile cruiser, attack submarine and other ships, arrived for a previously planned port call at the southeastern city of Pusan, the U.S. Navy said in a statement.

“The Norfolk, Virginia-based carrier’s deployment to the Western Pacific was planned months in advance and is not in response to any current or recent events,” the statement said. U.S. military officials would not say how long the naval strike group would be in Pusan, but local media said it would stay for four days.

The communist North fired seven missiles earlier this month, including one believed capable of reaching the U.S. The missiles plunged into the sea east of the Korean Peninsula without causing any known damage or injuries, but prompted strong international condemnation. It wasn’t clear how long the vessel will stay at the port.

It is the first time in 17 years for the Norfolk, Virginia-based Enterprise to travel to Pacific waters. The carrier’s deployment to the Asia-Pacific region is “part of a regular rotation of vessels in support of U.S. commitments to around the world,” the Navy said.

About 29,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea, which remains technically at war with the communist North since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2006 at 09:52 AM   
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Heat Wave, British Version

One of the nice things about the metric system is that 37°C just doesn’t seem as hot as 100°F - unless you’re out in that heat. The current heat wave is affecting Britain almost as badly as the US. The only difference is we have nicer beaches and skimpier bikinis. If this keeps up, our Brit friends may even have to start drinking cold beer.

Of course you all realize that this is just more evidence of glowball warming and it’s all George Bush’s fault. It’s true. Al Gore said so ... and Al Gore is an expert on weather and climate. In much the same manner as Bill Clinton is an expert on gynecology.

Temperatures Due To Go On Soaring
(BBC) - Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 01:42 GMT 02:42 UK

The heatwave across England is set to continue, with temperatures expected to hit up to 34C (93F). Monday was the hottest day of the year so far with a reading of 32.7C (90.9F) at Heathrow airport, and the south east is again due for the highest figures.

Forecasters say Yorkshire and Humber is expected to experience the hottest July weather in nearly two decades. Monday’s heat caused rail lines to buckle in the Midlands, while glass panels fell at a Newcastle bus station.

Temperatures topped those in Spanish resorts, with 33C (91F) recorded in the south of England, higher than in Ibiza - 31C (88F) - and the Canary Islands - 27C (81F). The BBC Weather Centre said it expected London temperatures to reach 37C (99F) on Wednesday, breaking the July record of 36C (97F), seen in Epsom, Surrey, in 1911.

BBC weather forecaster Tomasz Schafernaker added there was a “10% chance” the UK’s all-time record of 38.5C (101F), recorded in August 2003, could even be beaten. “On Tuesday and Wednesday, temperatures in the Midlands will rise to around 34C and 35C so already there will be some local records broken for July,” he said.

He said temperatures would ease off to around 30C in the Midlands and South East on Thursday and Friday. Meanwhile, the Met Office recommended people stay hydrated in the heatwave conditions. Transport for London repeated its advice to passengers to carry water with them on the Underground.

Precautionary speed restrictions were in place on the District, Piccadilly, Metropolitan, Jubilee and Northern lines. North-east England had around a 70% chance of meeting its heatwave conditions, said the Met Office. The region must be 28C (82F) for two days, with a night temperature or 15C (59F).

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2006 at 01:29 AM   
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Obituary

Going through childhood in the 1950’s was tough. I had no Nintendo, computer or iPod to play with. In fact, Dad didn’t buy a TV until 1956 ... and even then there were only two channels to watch - from 7:00am to station sign-off around 11:00pm. Kids like me had to fend for ourselves when it came to entertainment. I spent a lot of time at the local movie theatre, playing with friends or .... reading books.

I read voraciously ... any book I could get my hands on. For non-fiction I preferred history, biographies, war stories and science. For fiction, I had two loves: the first was science fiction from the likes of Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke and all the writers in John Campbell’s stable of writers during the golden age of Sci-Fi. My second favorite fiction literature was mystery books and one name stood at the top of the list of writers in that genre - Mickey Spillane.

“I, The Jury” was the first Spillane book I picked up (paperback - .25¢) and I was hooked. I thought Mike Hammer was the coolest dude who ever walked the mean streets of the city. And he had a knockout female secretary named Velda that every boy lusted after. Hammer was a “take-no-prisoners” kind of private dick and he took no crap off of anyone. Hard and to the point, you could depend on Mike Hammer to bring the crooks to justice and in some cases he was judge, jury and executioner.

Mike Hammer has all but disappeared from today’s modern touchy-feely, pussified society. Mickey Spillane created a real character who was larger than life and he entertained an entire generation by reminding us that it’s a mean, tough world out there and sometimes you just gotta take out a crowbar and beat the living crap out of some weasel just as an example to the others. Mike Hammer was about as politically incorrect as you could get - but that was back in the days before people started getting offended at the drop of a hat.

Rest in peace, Mickey. You will be missed.

Mickey Spillane
(1918-2006)

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-’em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88. Spillane’s death was confirmed by Brad Stephens of Goldfinch Funeral Home in his hometown of Murrells Inlet. Details about his death were not immediately available.

After starting out in comic books, Spillane wrote his first Mike Hammer novel, “I, the Jury,” in 1946. Twelve more followed, with sales topping 100 million. Notable titles included “The Killing Man,""The Girl Hunters” and “One Lonely Night.”

Many Hammer books were made into movies, including the classic film noir “Kiss Me, Deadly” and “The Girl Hunters,” in which Spillane himself starred. Hammer stories were also featured on television in the series “Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer” and in made-for-TV movies. In the 1980s, Spillane appeared in a string of Miller Lite beer commercials.

Besides the Hammer novels, Spillane wrote a dozen other books, including some award-winning volumes for young people. Nonetheless, by the end of the 20th century, many of his novels were out of print or hard to find. In 2001, the New American Library began reissuing them. As a stylist Spillane was no innovator; the prose was hard-boiled boilerplate. In a typical scene, from “The Big Kill,” Hammer slugs a little punk with “pig eyes.”

“I snapped the side of the rod across his jaw and laid the flesh open to the bone. I pounded his teeth back into his mouth with the end of the barrel ... and I took my own damn time about kicking him in the face. He smashed into the door and lay there bubbling. So I kicked him again and he stopped bubbling.”

Mainstream critics had little use for Spillane, but he got his due in the mystery world, receiving lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America and the Private Eye Writers of America. Spillane, a bearish man who wrote on an old manual Smith Corona, always claimed he didn’t care about reviews. He considered himself a “writer” as opposed to an “author,” defining a writer as someone whose books sell.

Spillane was born Frank Morrison Spillane on March 9, 1918, in the New York borough of Brooklyn. He grew up in Elizabeth, N.J., and attended Fort Hays State College in Kansas where he was a standout swimmer before beginning his career writing for magazines. World War II broke out and Spillane enlisted. When he came home, he needed $1,000 to buy some land and thought novels the best way to go. Within three weeks, he had completed “I, the Jury” and sent it to Dutton. The editors there doubted the writing, but not the market for it; a literary franchise began. His books helped reveal the power of the paperback market and became so popular they were parodied in movies, including the Fred Astaire musical “The Band Wagon.”

He was a quintessential Cold War writer, an unconditional believer in good and evil. He was also a rare political conservative in the book world. Communists were villains in his work and liberals took some hits as well. He was not above using crude racial and sexual stereotypes.While the Hammer books were set in New York, Spillane was a longtime resident of Murrells Inlet, a coastal community near Myrtle Beach.

He moved to South Carolina in 1954 when the area, now jammed with motels and tourist attractions, was still predominantly tobacco and corn fields. Spillane said he fell in love with the long stretches of deserted beaches when he first saw the area from an airplane.

The writer, who became a Jehovah’s Witness in 1951 and helped build the group’s Kingdom Hall in Murrells Inlet, spent his time boating and fishing when he wasn’t writing. In the 1950s, he also worked as a circus performer, allowing himself to be shot out of a cannon and appearing in the circus film “Ring of Fear.”

The home where he lived for 35 years was destroyed by the 135 mph winds of Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Married three times, Spillane was the father of four children.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2006 at 12:21 AM   
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The Deal’s Off

_{Gary Varvel - The Indianapolis Star-News}

Ehud Olmert: We’ll Fight On Until Attacks End, Soldiers Returned
—(HAARETZ.COM) - July 18, 2006

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his conditions for an end to the military operation in Lebanon on Monday evening, saying that only when those three demands are met will Israel consider a cease-fire.

In his first public address since the start of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon last week, Olmert said a cease-fire would first require the return of the two soldiers whose abduction sparked the current conflict, an end to Hezbollah rocket attacks and the deployment of the Lebanese army along the shared border.

“Citizens of Israel, there are moments in the life of a nation, when it is compelled to look directly into the face of reality and say: no more,” he said. “And I say to everyone: no more. Israel will not be held hostage - not by terror gangs or by a terrorist authority or by any sovereign state,”

“There is nothing we want more than peace on all of our borders,” Olmert told the Knesset. But he said, “Israel will not agree to live with rockets fired on its citizens, he added. “Only a nation that can protect its freedom deserves it,” he stated.

Olmert said that Israel held the Lebanese government responsible for the abductions of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev last Wednesday, even if the government itself was not directly behind the kidnappings.

The prime minister also drew a parallel between the current operations in Gaza and Lebanon, saying that Israel was acting in self-defense on both fronts. Three weeks ago, Corporal Gilad Shalit was snatched from his base close to the Gaza border and has been held by Palestinian militants since.

He said that Israel has “no territorial dispute with our southern neighbors or our northern neighbors,” but warned that while “Israel did not ask for this confrontation,” it would “continue to fight with full force to stop terror” on both fronts.

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   Monday - July 17, 2006

Through The Looking Glass

For those of you who are sweltering in 105-degree heat today, The Skipper feels your pain (and I didn’t even need any interns or cigars to do it). It’s hotter than a (fill in the blank) in St. Louis today. Therefore, as a public service I present to you all a little therapy.

Click the image below and when the larger version pops up and fills your screen, wipe the sweat off your forehead, sit down, mix a good stiff margarita and gaze steadily at the image for ten minutes.

Picture yourself standing there at the entrance to this bridge ... nekkid as a jaybird ... shivering and shaking ... body parts going numb ... thinking to yourself ... WHAT THE F**K AM I DOING OUT HERE NEKKID IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE FREEZING MY ASS OFF?

There! Feel better now? I thought so. Now go get dressed before you freeze to death.

“Snow Bridge”
_{Ozaukee Interurban Trail, Wisconsin
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Indiana Gore And The Temple of Gloom

Al Gore has decided to re-invent himself all over again (for the fifteenth time). This time he is a cross between Indiana Jones and George Clooney - at least that’s what he wants to believe. Of course, Hollywood has fallen in love with the GoreBot after his environmental movie “An Inconvenient Truth” wowed the Frogs at Cannes. Mais, oui! You can read about the transformation into the Great White Environmentalist at Entertainment Weekly ... or you can have a little fun and try to figure out which famous line from any of the Indiana Jones’ movies fits this ridiculous weenie below ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/17/2006 at 01:46 PM   
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Home Again

They’re back and everything went well up there. It’s too bad things are deteriorating rather quickly down here. Personlly, I think it’s past time to retire the fleet of “freight train” shuttles and go ahead and deploy the newer Scramjet launch vehicles. The shuttle fleet served its purpose just as the Apollo vehicles before them.

Also, like the Apollo vehicles, their day is over. It’s time we took this to the next level and stopped playing around in space exploration. By my calculations we don’t have long before we’ll need to pack all the reasonable, intelligent people on a rocket and bug out of here.

This planet is going to the dogs. I say we get the heck out of Dodge and leave the Liberal Loons, Euro-Peons and Arabs to fight it out amongst themselves. We can watch the show from our new home in the Alpha Centauri system.

Anyway, congratulations to NASA for another good job. Onward and Upward ....

Space Shuttle Discovery
Lands Safely
_{CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
July 17, 2006 09:20am EDT}

Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of six returned to Earth through thick clouds Monday, ending an impressive mission that put NASA’s space program back on a solid, safer course.

Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center at 9:14 a.m. in only the second shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster.

“Welcome back, Discovery, and congratulations on a great mission,” Mission Control told shuttle commander Steven Lindsey after Discovery rolled to a stop.

“It was a great mission, a really great mission, and enjoyed the entry and the landing,” Lindsey replied.

The smooth landing was sure to leave NASA officials jubilant, after conquering the chronic threat of foam chunks that break off the external fuel tank during launch — still a problem, but not a serious one in this mission.

The shuttle came in from the south, swooping over the Pacific, Yucatan Peninsula, Gulf of Mexico and across Florida to cap a 5.3 million-mile journey that began on the Fourth of July.

A last-minute buildup of clouds prompted NASA to switch the shuttle’s direction for landing. By the time Discovery approached, it was so cloudy, Lindsey couldn’t spot the runway until about a minute before landing.

At touchdown, hoots and whistles came from the few hundred astronauts’ relatives and space center workers at the runway. NASA officials had been certain going into Monday’s landing that Discovery’s heat shield was intact and capable of protecting the spaceship during the fiery re-entry.

- More on the story here ...

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The Obsolete Gender

Sorry, guys. It’s all over for us now. They can make their own sperm now so we men will soon join T-Rex in the catalog of “Animals Who Disappeared”. The feminazis are probably already planning our extinction after this breakthrough discovery. We’re doomed, I tells ya ...

Women Could Make Sperm
—_{(IRISH HEALTH) - Tue 11/07/2006}

A new scientific breakthrough may lead to women in future being able to produce sperm. Scientists in England have turned stem cells from am embryo into sperm which are capable of producing offspring.

The breakthrough is likely to lead to new advances in treating male infertility and even the possibility that women could manufacture sperm.

The researchers at Newcastle University say that the advance, when developed further, could help men with certain types of infertility to become fertile and even one day could enable a lesbian couple to have children that genetically would be their own.

The experiment used embryo cells to produce seven baby mice, six of whom lived into adulthood, although the survivors suffered adverse events of the kind seen in cloning experiments.

The researchers isolated embryonic stem cells from an embryo only a few days old consisting of a cluster of cells. The cells were grown in a laboratory and screened to isolate the spermatogonial stem calls which were grown and then injected into female mouse eggs and grown in early stage embryos.

The research team says its project will aid the understanding of the biological process through which sperm is produced, which should help in the future treatment of infertility. It is hoped that this new knowledge could be translated into treatments for men whose sperm is dysfunctional, although could be some years into the future. The research was published in the journal Developmental Cell.

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The Little Dutch Boy

The little Dutch Boy is in trouble. He better get his finger out of the dyke because there’s a dirty old man sneaking up on him. It’s official. The Dutch can now have a pedophile party to run for elections and serve in government making laws if elected.

I was barely making it through this news story when I came to the last sentence below and completely cracked up. Who knew the Dutch had trailer parks? Is there possibly a Euro-Peon version of Jerry Springer who is willing to cover these jerks ...

Dutch Court OKs ‘Pedophile’ Political Party
_{THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - July 17, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT}

A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters’ right to judge the appeal of political parties. The party has only three known members, one of whom was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. Widely dubbed the “pedophile” party, it is unlikely ever to win a seat in parliament. The group would need around 60,000 votes, and pollsters estimate it would get fewer than 1,000.

Opponents had asked The Hague District Court to bar the party from registering for national elections in November, arguing that children have the right not to be confronted with the party’s platform. “Freedom of expression, freedom ... of association, including the freedom to set up a political party, can be seen as the basis for a democratic society,” Judge H. Hofhuis said in his ruling.

“These freedoms give citizens the opportunity to, for example, use a political party to appeal for change to the constitution, law, or policy.” He noted that the PNVD party, the Dutch abbreviation of Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity, had not committed a crime, but was calling for a change in the law. “It is the right of the voter to judge the appeal of political parties,” he said.

The party sparked outrage when it proclaimed its existence in late May, but prosecutors declined to prosecute its members as a threat to public order. “We expected this result,” said party treasurer Ad van den Berg, 62. “We are not doing anything illegal so there is no reason to ban us.” Van den Berg was fined and given a suspended prison sentence for molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. After his background became known last month, he was chased from the trailer park where he lived in the city of Oostvoorne.

- More pedo-crap from AP here ...

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