Wednesday - August 23, 2006

Ahhh, The Smell of Pacifism - Updated

via the Geek

Cat-killing raccoons on prowl in west Olympia

OLYMPIA - Raccoons are cute, until they kill one of your cats.

That is what a west Olympia neighborhood is learning this summer.

Raccoons have killed about 10 cats in a three-block area near the Garfield Nature Trail at Harrison Avenue West and Foote Street Southwest.

Problem wildlife coordinator Sean Carrell of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife called the situation “bizarre, weird.”

OK, so we have this neighborhood that has a little varmint problem.  I know the readers of this blog know what the next step is.  Heck, any 12 year old with an once of sense knows what the next step is.

But this is Washington state.

“I’ve never heard a report of 10 cats being killed. It’s something we’re going to have to monitor,” he said. He added that they may have to bring in trappers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Typical liberal response: “let’s do a study.” Oy

The problem got so bad that residents Kari Hall and Tamara Keeton even started a Raccoon Watch after having an emotional neighborhood meeting attended by about 40 people.

“It was a place for people to mourn and cry,” Hall said.

What??  A neighborhood meeting to mourn and cry?  Good grief.

At the meeting, they encouraged people to stop feeding the raccoons. They also decided to keep their pets and pet food inside. And they decided to carry pepper spray to drive off raccoons that attack again.

Keeton and Pam Corwin have decided to have “cat coops” built so their pets can go outside and have some room to roam, with protection.

[snip]

“I’m afraid of them,” she said of the raccoons. “I carry an iron pipe with me” when I go out at night, she added.

[and]

“We were right there trying to get him off the cat,” she said. “The cat was screaming, and the raccoon was ferocious. My husband and a neighbor grabbed a shovel and a bat, and they were waving them until it took off. It was scary.”

Oh for heaven’s sake.  GET A .22 YOU MORONS!!!!!

The neighbors hired trapper Tom Brown, a nuisance wildlife control operator from Rochester.

Normally, Brown said, he can fix a problem in a few weeks, but he has set traps there for six weeks and caught only one.

Brown said he’s going to back off for a while until the food supply dries up.

He said his goal is to make them feel uncomfortable. Until that happens, they aren’t likely to leave.

I think I’m going to puke.  He wants them to feel uncomfortable????

“It’s like a freeway in the back yard,” she said. “It’s like clockwork. They come between 9 and 9:30 every night.”

“You’ve got to watch which ones are bad,” Hall said. “It’s not all of them. We just have to arm ourselves with pepper spray.”

Yeah, that will help, you neutered form of a man.  Six weeks.  This neighborhood has been terrorized by possibly rabid raccoons who have shown a bloodthirst for killing, apparently more concerned for the feelings of the critters than for the safety of their own pets and kids.  They are unwilling to do what needs to be done to rid them of the plague, even though they know exactly where they will be and when.

In the words of Kim DuToit: “I’m off to the range”

***Update***
Oh boy.  I did not realize they had a comments section on this story.  Here’s a gem:

I am one of the pet owners described in this story. I am also a lifelong conservative Republican and a proud WWII vet and I’d like to damn to hell each and everyone one of you southern hicks who are spouting off here. How dare you bring your moronic political rants into my neighborhood, with all your assumptions about Washingtonians and our way of life.

Olympia is a city. We are not some backwood hollow, where we can just come out guns ablazing.

You people need to take care of your own problems (and you certainly have a lot of them) and leave us to sort out our own.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/23/2006 at 07:22 AM   
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   Sunday - August 20, 2006

The Final Solution, Part II

“Europe cannot find peace until the Jewish question has been solved. …One thing I should like to say on this day [the sixth anniversary of his being appointed Chancellor of the Reich] which may be memorable for others as well as for us Germans. In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet and have usually been ridiculed for it. … Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshivization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.”

-- Adolph Hitler, Speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1939

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“Our dear Imam (referring to Ayatollah Khomeini) said that the occupying regime [Israel] must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine. Is it possible to create a new front in the heart of an old front. This would be a defeat and whoever accepts the legitimacy of this regime has in fact, signed the defeat of the Islamic world. Our dear Imam targeted the heart of the world oppressor in his struggle, meaning the occupying regime. I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world.”

-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, World Without Zionism conference, October 30, 2005

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   Friday - August 18, 2006

Idiots On A Plane

This was in yesterday’s Best Of The Web from James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal. It is quite a revealing look at the dark side of some people on the Left. For those who missed the news, Ms. Mayo was the cause of an airline from London to New York being diverted to Boston on Wednesday. She is a “peace activist”, as described by her son in a recent interview, who spends most of her time overseas. She is also a barking mad loon, as evidenced by her actions on the plane.

Who Is Catherine Mayo?

Passengers on a London-to-Washington flight got quite a scare yesterday, less than a week after the foiling of a massive plot to bomb planes departing from London and the day on which, according to some reports, the plot had been scheduled to be carried out. The Boston Globe reports:

A 59-year-old Vermont woman’s behavior aboard a trans-Atlantic flight triggered a massive security response yesterday, with Air Force F-15 jets escorting the plane to [Boston’s] Logan Airport, where federal agents seized the woman, authorities interrogated passengers, and police dogs sniffed through luggage for explosives.

The woman was found not to be a terrorist threat. . . . The woman, identified by two local security officials as Catherine C. Mayo, will probably be charged today with interfering with a flight crew, authorities said. Mayo’s former husband said she had “emotional issues” and had been on her way home from vacationing in Pakistan. . . .

About an hour into the flight, passengers said in interviews, Mayo began nervously pacing up and down the aisle while wearing an oversized sweatshirt and muttering to herself. At different times, she told passengers that she suffered from claustrophobia and that she was an undercover reporter testing flight security. At one point, Mayo urinated on the floor, passengers said.

Then, Mayo began screaming at flight attendants who were trying to calm her. Two male passengers stepped in, subdued her, and restrained her with handcuffs provided by a flight crew member. The two passengers, a corrections officer and a federal air marshal in training, took the woman to the back of the plane and sat beside her until the plane landed, authorities said. She continued mumbling to herself but seemed calm by the time the plane touched down at Logan, passengers said.

Boston’s WCVB-TV adds some details:

“She showed a lighter and was like, ‘They let me bring this on the plane. I’m a journalist, and I’m going to try to sneak stuff on the plane,’ “ passenger Matthew Bolton said.

That account was unconfirmed by authorities, but NewsCenter 5 learned there was a Catherine Mayo from Vermont who wrote for the Daily Times of Pakistan in 2003. The woman who was arrested is a U.S. citizen, authorities said.

Searching the Pakistan Times Web site, we found five of Mayo’s columns, all from 2003:

• “State of the Union 2003,” Feb. 25
• “The Blue Planet,” March 4
• “Value of Dissent,” March 18
• “Letter to My Granddaughters,” June 24
• “Freedom After 9/11,” July 22

Here’s a sample of her writing, from the first article listed above:

I think the US people have forgotten that President Bush didn’t win the election. He only got the job because they couldn’t decide what to do with pregnant chads in Florida. . . . When President Bush announced that God was telling him to bomb Iraq, my stomach turned over. He has no right to include God in his State of the Union address. It is forbidden by law; the church and state are completely separate in the United States. No politically elected person can use religion for his own ends.

The government of the US has changed in the last few months, and the citizens of the country haven’t noticed yet. It has become an oligarchy. Its leaders rule with a wave of their hands, laughing into their sleeves. They can create any truth they want, and then create proof that it is real. They are accountable to no one. . . .

The people of the US don’t have power anymore. That’s what the Muslim world needs to understand. When President Bush says that he is God, the ordinary people go out and shovel the snow out of their driveways. There is nothing else they can do.

From what we see on some of the blogs, some of the email we get, and even the work of some major newspaper columnists, we’d say quite a few people these days have “emotional issues” that center on politics. Thank goodness most of them manage to control themselves while on airplanes.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/18/2006 at 09:38 AM   
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   Friday - August 11, 2006

Apocalypse Now!

Pravda thinks we all need to head for the bomb shelters, bend over and .... well, you know the drill. They are quoting Bernard Lewis in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal as well as Russian Generals and political experts. Pravda has it all laid out as a drama in four acts. No intermission, enjoy the show as mankind destroys itself and the planet.

Paging Dr. Strangelove! Or to paraphrase Country Joe And The Fish ....

Well, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He’s got himself in a terrible jam
Way over yonder in Teheran
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We’re gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it’s one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Teheran;
And it’s five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.

“I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die” (1967)

Nuclear War Starting In 10 Days?
(PRAVDA) - August 11, 2006

Such was the conclusion reached in the U.S. Russian generals and political scientists disagree only about its exact starting date. Our world is on the brink of another world war. It will originate August 22nd in the Middle East.

The prediction was presented not by Vagna or Nostradamus but by an American political scientist Bernard Lewis in the acclaimed publication of Wall Street Journal. He is a man with close ties to the Bush administration as well as to the non-conservatives pushing for the radical solution of the “Iranian Threat.”

Lewis believes it will be precisely Teheran who will unleash the ultimate conflict by attacking Israel. Why August 22nd? Perhaps simply because Washington has set a deadline for the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and has demanded a complete wrap up of the nuclear program by that day. It is obvious that Teheran has no intention to comply.

Curiously, this year the night of August 22nd happens to be night Muslims will celebrate the journey of their prophet Mohammed to Jerusalem and his ascension into heaven. According to Lewis the followers of Mohammed have a perfect opportunity to enrich their celebration by throwing an attack on Israel. An immediate retaliation will follow.

“Such a scenario does not seem too unrealistic to me,” comments Sergey Markov, a Russian political scientist, “These days anything is possible in the Middle East. People living there are crazy and they constantly keep playing with fire. Their situation has gone out of control and is ready to explode any minute. In fact, the new world war is already going in that place.”

The First Act

As the Israeli invasion of Lebanon continues it is becoming clearer that Tel-Aviv actually aims at much more than the elimination of Hezbollah. Israel could have long since used its omnipresent scouts to put an end to the resistance’s activity. Neither does the complete destruction of all Hezbollah’s rocket-launching sites present a problem for the Israeli army with its tremendous equipment and might.

So why the endless bombing of Lebanese cities and villages? And why the overwhelming U.S. support? All this is happening precisely during the time when Americans seem unable to force Iran to comply with their demands. Lebanese occupation under the excuse of defending against Hezbollah is itself an excuse for solving the Iranian problem.

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   Thursday - July 06, 2006

Far East Follies

Lemme see ... North Korea is China’s client and the NoKo’s are splashing missiles all over the Sea Of Japan in an attempt to piss off the US. Now, just to the South of there, Taiwan, which is the US’s client in the region has decided to splash missiles into the ocean too.

Is this an attempt to piss off the Red Chinese who are backing North Korea who is trying to piss off the US who is ... never mind. Realpolitik and global strategery gives me a major headache. Especially when the ChiCom’s know we need their cheap crap at Wal-Mart in exchange for the US propping up their extremely undervalued currency which results in ... major headaches for The Skipper who can’t finger all this out.

Does anyone out there have a clue about what the heck is going on? If so, drop me a line. Preferably before the next missile launch by North Vietnam, Japan, the Philipines, Mongolia, Nepal and/or Australia. Thanks!

Taiwan To Test-Fire Missile
_{July 6, 5:08 AM (ET)}

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan plans to test-fire a missile capable of hitting China, alarming the island’s main ally, the United States, a cable news network said on Thursday.

The Hsiung Feng III, developed by Taiwan’s Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, has a range of 600 km (360 miles) and is accurate to within half a meter, the online edition of cable news network ETTV (http://www.ettoday.com) said, quoting unnamed military sources.

That range would put areas along China’s coast from Fuzhou in Fujian Province to Nan’ao in Guangdong within striking distance of the missile, the Web site said.

A defense ministry spokesman declined to comment on the report when reached by telephone. A spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry also declined to comment.

China, which has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since their split in 1949 at the end of the Chinese civil war, has deployed nearly 800 short-range ballistic missiles aimed at the self-ruled island in case it formally declares independence. Taiwan successfully test-fired the missile last year, local media have reported, and the Web site said the next test was planned for September.

The United States, which recognizes Beijing’s “one China” policy but is Taiwan’s major supplier of arms, had expressed its concern to the Taiwan government, the Web site said. North Korea acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that it had launched several missiles, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use force if the international community tried to stop it.

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   Monday - June 19, 2006

Murtha Math

Try as hard as I can, I just cannot figure out where John Murtha is coming from. I realize he is a decorated war veteran but his recent comments and actions only serve to convince me he is suffering from some form of dementia or early senility. First he says, pull the troops out now, then he says we need to change direction in Iraq, then he gets in a cat-fight with Nancy Pelosi over who will be House Speaker “when” the Democrats win in November, now he says we can pull all our troops out and station them in Okinawa.

WTF?

I can’t figure this one out at all. How will having the troops 5,000 miles away help the Iraq people? Doesn’t he realize we gave Okinawa back to Japan years ago and have scaled back our presence on that tiny island? Congressman Murtha is becoming more and more like the Angry Left that now controls the Democratic Party. This is why we need term limits, folks. We could also probably use an annual mental examination of every member of Congress to determine if they are rational or not. After all, we don’t need to leave the lunatics in charge do we ... ?

Murtha’s Fuzzy Math
_{June 19, 2006 9:40AM ET}

Congressman John Murtha continues to make a fool of himself by suggesting we can effectively fight the terrorist insurgency in Iraq by “redeploying” our troops to a military base in Japan. Here’s what he told Tim Russert yesterday in the course of arguing that we don’t need a presence in Iraq to conduct the sort of quick-strike missions like the one that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:

REP. MURTHA: So--and we don’t have to be right there. We can go to Okinawa. We, we don’t have--we can redeploy there almost instantly. So that’s not--that’s, that’s a fallacy. That, that’s just a statement to rial [sic] up people to support a failed policy wrapped in illusion.

MR. RUSSERT: But it’d be tough to have a timely response from Okinawa.

REP. MURTHA: Well, it--you know, they--when I say Okinawa, I, I’m saying troops in Okinawa. When I say a timely response, you know, our fighters can fly from Okinawa very quickly.

They can? The two 500-lb bombs that killed Zarqawi were dropped by F-16 fighter aircraft. According to the U.S. military: In an air-to-surface role, the F-16 can fly more than 500 miles (860 kilometers), deliver its weapons with superior accuracy, defend itself against enemy aircraft, and return to its starting point. Okinawa is 4,899 miles from Baghdad. Do the math.

Murtha also continued to play fast and loose with certain poll data points. He once again said “80 percent of the Iraqis want us out of there” a claim which many people questioned and which was eventually sourced by the liberal Think Progress to a single poll question from March 2006 contained in this report put out by the Brookings Institution. The question is worded “do you approve the government endorsing a timeline for U.S. withdrawal.” Not to be a stickler, but Iraqis endorsing a “timeline for withdrawal” is not quite the same as saying they “want us out of there.”

Another example: Murtha stated flatly to Russert yesterday, “The public is two-to-one against what we’re doing, and they want a change in direction.” That was news to me, because I distinctly remember the latest NBC/WSJ poll results on the question of whether Iraq was worth it or not: 40% said ‘yes,’ 52% said ‘no.’ Same thing with the most recent CNN poll (54% said the Iraq war was a mistake, 42% said it was not) and the latest USA Today/Gallup poll (51% say mistake, 46% not). You do not need an advanced degree in mathematics to know these numbers aren’t even close to two-to-one.

So where did Murtha get his “2-1” ratio? It looks like he cherry picked it from the latest CBS News poll in which 33% responded the war in Iraq was “worth it” and 62% said it was “not worth it.” As you can see, however, the CBS numbers are by far the worst of the entire batch of polls - which is no doubt why Murtha chose to cite them. Ironically, the next question on the CBS survey asks the following: “Looking back, do you think the United States did the right thing in taking military action against Iraq, or should the U.S. have stayed out?” Forty-four percent said we did the right thing, 51% said we should have stayed out.

Congressman Murtha is free to spin the absurd notion of pulling out of Iraq as a simple “change of direction” as he did yesterday, but at least he could do it without misstatements and mischaracterizations.

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Here We Go Again

Kim Jung Il is one sick, insane madman. He is racheting up the saber-rattling another notch with a new missile that is capable of reaching the US. Japan is worried and has already issued a warning about any missile overflight. The NOKO’s also reportedly have nukes. It’s enough to make you tear your hair out.

All Kim wants is a payoff of some form or another. He has starved his people to build these blackmail weapons and he thinks the Bush administration will cave in like the Clinton administration did. That’s the problem with asshats like Kim. As soon as you pay them off once you establish a precedent and only encourage them to scream for more. This is Clinton’s “legacy” and we’ll be paying for it for a long time ....

North Koreans Said to Be Near a Missile Test
_{June 19, 2006}

WASHINGTON — North Korea appears to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile, American officials said Sunday, a move that greatly increases the probability that it will go ahead with its first important test launching in eight years. A senior American official said that intelligence from satellite photographs suggested that booster rockets had been loaded onto a launching pad, and liquid-fuel tanks fitted to a missile at a site on North Korea’s remote east coast.

While there have been steady reports in recent days about preparations for a test, fueling is regarded as a critical step as well as a probable bellwether of North Korea’s intentions. Siphoning the liquid fuel out of a missile is a complex undertaking. “Yes, looks like all systems are ‘go’ and fueling appears to be done,” said the official who discussed the matter only after being promised anonymity because he was addressing delicate diplomatic and intelligence issues. A second senior official, who declined to speak on the record for similar reasons, also indicated that the United States believed the missile had been fueled.

A launching would be a milestone in the North’s missile capacity and effectively scrap a moratorium on such tests declared by the North Koreans after their last test in 1998. Moreover, a launching would have enormous importance for American security because it would be North Korea’s first flight test of a new long-range missile that might eventually have the capacity to strike the United States.

- More on the story at the NY Times...

As if the missile test launch isn’t enough, Dear Leader is also threatening Armageddon and “wipe out US troops” and blah-blah-blah. I say we give the go-ahead to a few of those sub commanders just off the Korean coast. Kim has already laid waste the entire country with his sadistic methods. Nuking it will be a mercy killing. Besides, it will certainly quieten things down on the Korean peninsula for a long time ...

North Korea Threatens To ‘Wipe Out’ US Forces
_{6/19/2006 4:48:50}

PYONGYANG—North Korea yesterday threatened to “mercilessly wipe out” US forces in case of war during a national meeting to mark leader Kim Jong-Il’s 42 years’ work at the ruling party. The threat, in a ruling party report carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), came as North Korea was reportedly preparing to test-fire a long-range missile despite strong protests from the United States and its allies.

Choe Thae Bok, a ranking Workers’ Party official, said Washington was “hell-bent on provocations of war of aggression” in the report to mark the 42nd anniversary of Kim’s start at the party, KCNA said. “If the enemies ignite a war eventually, the Korean army and people will mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and give vent to the deep-rooted grudge of the nation,” Choe was quoted as telling the meeting.

South Korea, which seeks to reconcile with N Korea after decades of hostility since the 1950-1953 Korean War, has urged Pyongyang to abandon any plans to test-fire the missile. But South Korea maintained its usual level of military alert yesterday despite the news reports about an imminent missile test launch. “The military is on the same level of alert as usual. There has been no upgrade in the military alert yet,” a defence ministry spokesman said.

- More insane saber-rattling here...

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   Monday - June 12, 2006

Weekend Smackdown

In case you missed the shouting match on Fox News over the weekend, Jay at StopTheACLU has the film of the battle between Julie Banderas and The Phelps Beeyatch From Hell. I tried to watch it all the way through but I just cannot do it - I had to shut it off after a few minutes.

This woman and the evil spawn of Satan that she represents is just too much for me to understand. Just listening to her makes my skin crawl and my blood boil. Not because of my sins - as she would try to make me believe ... but for her sins, which are much, much worse than anything wrong that I have ever contemplated. There is serious mental illness at work in this cult. Very serious.

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   Wednesday - June 07, 2006

My Little Pony

Poor Henry Lewis. Not only is he a sick individual but he has PETA jumping all over him. To make matters worse, now Henry’s story is being presented here to the entire world, courtesy of the internet. I’m afraid there will be absolutely nothing in today’s news that can top Henry’s story. I may as well pack it in and go read a good book. You however, may feel free to discuss Henry and his little pony. If you follow the link to the PETA web site you will learn a new word for the day: zoophile. Don’t ask ...

South Alabama Man Facing Bestiality Charge
_{June 5, 2006 08:29 PM}

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA-TV) - The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is bringing attention to a case of alleged bestiality in Alabama. Henry Lewis of Sweetwater is accused of having sex with a pony.

According to PETA, at least two people witnessed the act about a month ago. A few days later, the pony was reported dead.

“Research shows that offenders who commit bestiality often go on to commit sex crimes against humans,” said PETA’s Stephanie Bell.

“Our belief is that the community should be following this case closely because anyone capable of this kind of cruelty poses a definitive risk to the entire community.”

PETA is urging the district attorney to prosecute Lewis vigorously and require mandatory counseling. An initial hearing in the case was scheduled for Wednesday.

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PETA Demands Jail Time, Psychiatric Intervention
If Alleged Pony Rapist Is Convicted
Community Should Fear Future Incidents, Say Experts
_{June 5, 2006}

SWEETWATER, Ala. (PETA MEDIA CENTER) - This morning, PETA sent an urgent plea to District Attorney Greg Griggers urging him to vigorously prosecute Henry Lewis of Sweetwater. Lewis faces charges stemming from an incident last month in which he allegedly raped a 6-week-old pony. At least two people reportedly witnessed Lewis’ penetrating the animal, who was found dead several days later by her guardian.

“Studies show that offenders who commit bestiality often go on to commit sex crimes against humans,” says PETA Cruelty Caseworker Stephanie Bell. “The community should follow this case closely, because anyone capable of this kind of cruelty poses a definitive risk to the entire community.”

PETA is asking that¯if convicted and in addition to serving a period of incarceration—Lewis be prohibited from owning or harboring animals and that authorities seize any other animals currently in his custody. PETA is also asking that Lewis be required to undergo a thorough psychological evaluation followed by mandatory counseling.

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   Friday - May 19, 2006

Men: Do Not Click This Link

“I mean she just grabbed me all down there and yanking and yanking and tearing me up with those fingernails.”

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   Friday - April 28, 2006

South Of The (Drug) Border

I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I have a feeling it’s going to create more problems than it solves. Now the Mexicans streaming across our borders will be stoned as well as illegal. To praphrase Ross Perot, “that great sucking sound you hear will be all the blow going up someone’s nose as they wade the Rio Grande” ...

Mexico Proposes Decriminalizing Pot And Cocaine
_{Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:49pm ET17}

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Owning marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by the Congress. Police will not penalize people for possessing up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin or 500 milligrams of cocaine, under a bill passed by senators late on Thursday and earlier approved by the lower house.

People caught with larger quantities of drugs will be treated as narcotics dealers and face increased jail terms under the plan. The government says the measure allows police to focus on major drug dealers, and President Fox is expected to sign it into law. “This law provides more judicial tools for authorities to fight crime,” presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Friday.

Hundreds of people including several police officers have been killed in the past year as drug cartels battle authorities and compete with each other for control of lucrative cocaine, marijuana and heroin smuggling routes from Mexico into the United States. The violence has raged mostly in northern Mexico but in recent months has spread south to cities like vacation resort Acapulco.

Under current law, it is up to local judges and police to decide on a case-by-case basis whether people should be prosecuted for possessing small quantities of drugs, a source at the Senate’s health commission told Reuters. “The object of this law is to not put consumers in jail, but rather those who sell and poison,” said Sen. Jorge Zermeno of the ruling National Action Party. Fifty-three senators voted for the bill with 26 votes against it.

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   Thursday - April 20, 2006

Space Aliens In Court

I know why the Supreme Court decided to hear this case. It’s because Ruth Bader Ginsburg is actually a Martian herself. No, really. I mean ... just look at the woman. No human looks that weird. Besides, the voices told me so ...

Supreme Court Takes Up Insanity Defense
_{Wednesday, April 19, 2006}

WASHINGTON (AP)—Supreme Court justices rarely talk about Martians. But on Wednesday, extraterrestrials were at the heart of a case brought by a schizophrenic teenager who says he killed an Arizona police officer because he thought the lawman was a space alien. Until now, the high court has avoided challenges to insanity defense laws, even as states around the country toughened their laws following John Hinckley’s acquittal by reason of insanity in the 1981 shooting of President Reagan.

It was a surprise when justices agreed to review Eric Michael Clark’s case, and they seemed uninterested Wednesday in broadly addressing the constitutional rights of psychotic criminal defendants whose lawyers want them sentenced to psychiatric facilities instead of prisons. Court members, however, did repeatedly refer to the unusual facts of Clark’s case, signaling that they are likely to rule very narrowly. He was a popular football star until he became convinced that aliens had taken over his town, Flagstaff, Ariz., as a “platinum city” and that his own parents were aliens.

Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer both mentioned Martians. Justices John Paul Stevens questioned whether someone who thought he was on a mission to kill space aliens could receive the death penalty for killing a person instead. When Arizona lawyer Randall Howe said that the slain officer was wearing a uniform and driving a police cruiser, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that Clark’s lawyer “wants to introduce (evidence) on the other side, `I had delusions, I thought I killed an alien.’”

The Supreme Court has never said mentally ill accused criminals have the right to an insanity defense, and four states do not allow for that: Idaho, Kansas, Montana and Utah. The remaining states have a variety of standards for proving insanity, and Clark’s lawyer argued that Arizona’s is almost impossible to meet, violating the constitutional rights of mentally ill defendants.

- More Space Aliens Here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/20/2006 at 09:51 AM   
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   Wednesday - April 19, 2006

Most Ridiculous headline Of All Time (and then some)

You can’t make this s**t up. All you have to do is sit and wait for the United Nations to issue another statement. It just gets better and better every day. I disagree with John Bolton in his assessment of the UN - the top ten floors are not enough ... raze the building to the ground and into the ground about a hundred feet, then fumigate the entire site with a small tactical nuke. Removal of the “diplomats” beforehand is optional ...

Iran Elected Deputy For Asian Nations Of UN Commission On Disarmament
_{New York, April 11, IRNA}

UN-Disarmament-Iran: United Nations Commission on Disarmament on Tuesday elected Iran as deputy for Asian nations. The UN Commission opened its annual meeting on Monday which will work until April 28. The UN Commission on Disarmament which is subsidiary organ of the General Assembly will review disarmament and international security.

The Commission could not reach unanimity in the past two year owing to US objection to put disarmament on the agenda of the specialized commission and adopt an action plan for enforcing disarmament at international level. Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states have pushed for the agenda of disarmament and Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in the current annual meeting.

NAM member states issued a statement on the first day of the annual meeting calling on nuclear states to respect their commitments of demolishing their nuclear arms. They also called on Israel to sign up to NPT and give access to all its nuclear sites for monitoring by UN nuclear agency.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/19/2006 at 11:07 AM   
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   Wednesday - April 12, 2006

Screech Owl

There are times when I figure the rest of the world looks at America, sees people like Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, Howard Dean and others of that ilk, and decides we must all be barking mad over here. Well, I’m here to tell them that yes, we have our share of lunatics and we’re hatching more and more every day. Some days it seems the Democrats and the Liberal Left in America seem to be cloning these creatures.

“Mother” Sheehan just doesn’t know when to shut up and act rational. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately. Is there some great cosmic conspiracy going on that I’m unaware of? It seems that way when Cindy starts throwing out phrases like those highlighted below. Somebody is coordinating this madness and feeding their puppets, like this madwoman, these little lines. I wonder who is pulling her strings. Hmmmm ....

Cindy Sheehan: Don’t Attack Iran
Activist finds no justification for military response to atomic threat
_{April 11, 2006 - 4:52 p.m. Eastern}

(WORLDNET DAILY)—Turning her attention from Iraq to Iran, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan insists the U.S. has no justification for any kind of military response to the emerging nuclear threat from Iran, which today declared it successfully has enriched uranium.

Writing in the left-wing Buzzflash.com, Sheehan said that after a war in Iraq, President Bush, the ”swaggering imbecile of a ‘leaker in chief’ has the nerve to be trying to sell all of us on a new war in Iran.”

“Do the warped neocons with their puppet president think that we are all stupid? Fool us once, shame on us, fool us,—well, we just can’t be fooled again,” she writes. Sheehan said the U.S. possession of nuclear weapons is “crazy, but talking about deploying them is sheer insanity.” She fears this could lead to a world war.

“With all of the ‘Left Behind’ religious fanatics praying for Armageddon, this thought is made even scarier by the fake believers in the White House who are exploiting the neo-Christian idea that Jesus was a war monger and anything our great leader does is okay, because he is a Christian man!” she declares.

- More babbling nonsense can be found at WorldNet Daily ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2006 at 03:45 AM   
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