So, I've refrained from posting much about politics in the last year or so (hell, I've refrained from posting much, period, but that's another story...).
The subject invariably frustrates me to the point of anger, and I don't like being angry. I don't want to be angry, I don't want to be negative.
Come Tuesday, I don't think I'm going to be able to help it.
In all likelyhood, we're going to get a socialist idiot into office who's going to further weaken this country, and turn it to shit.
I'm not saying that things are great as it is - the economy is far from perfect, and the idiots who helped to ruin it are being rewarded with $700 billion...
Of course, the Hope-tards I'm around won't shut up about how "BushCo" bailed out the big companies. The Demcrats hold half of the Senate, and a majority of the House - the fucking bailout wouldn't have happened without help from some Democrats, so to blame this idiocy on the Republicans is disingenuous to say the least.
There's lots of talk about the Democrats obtaining a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate this time. Yay, great.
I'm real real real curious who we're going to blame the buggery on when the Democrats own the House, the Senate and the Oval Office.
I'm sure we'll likely blame "the mess we inherited from Bush" for all our woes for at least the next four years.
I keep hearing "For the first time in my life, I'm excited! I've got real hope! Change! Hope! Barack! BLAH BLAH BLAH!"
For the first time in my life, I'm *REALLY* scared. People talk about the PATRIOT Act and other Republican-led bit eroding our freedoms. Just wait until the biggest censors of free speech take office.
Everyone seems to forget that Tipper Gore (supported by her husband, Big Al) who's responsible for the whole "Parental Advisory" horsecrap on music in her attempt to have music that she didn't like banned from public consumption. That's right - she didn't want a warning label put on it, she wanted it banned.
It was Democrats during the Columbine fiasco who tried to put the blame on computer games and music.
It was Democrats who are responsible for the whole "ESRB" horseshit for video games - because they hate video games, which are dangerous, subversive influences on our impressionable youth.
We'll tell you what you can and can't read, what you can and can't say - hell, we'll even let others spend even more of your paycheck, because who gives a fuck that you worked hard to earn more than the arbitrary number that we decided?
Don't worry, though - It's all for the greater good.
Where have I heard that shit before?
Now, excuse me, because I need to go determine if I can make more money for less effort by getting fired from my job, and applying for government benefits under the new Socialist regime.
Maybe the Obama campaign needs a new motto? I like this one:
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
Yay, depression.
Let me preface this with the statement that I'm not condemning (or promoting) the first, and I'm not promoting (or codemning) the latter.
I'm just curious about something.
If it's not the government's place to dictate who can and can't be married, and the government should stay out of the bedroom, homosexuality should be allowed and tolerated, why is it that a state is allowed to place an arbitrary age restriction on sexual activity?
Just curious - people should be allowed to love and be intimate with whoever they want, right?
If it's a violation of a homosexual's civil rights to not allow them to marry, is it not a violation of, say, a 24-year-old's civil rights to not allow him/her to have sex with a 16-year-old (hell, is it not a violation of the 16-year-old's civil rights?)?
I mean, we'll allow the G/L/B/T's to have sex, right?
Give me a break.
This whole nonsense with her dismissing the Director of Public Safety is old news, and by admission of the Democrat moron in charge of the investigation into the supposed "abuse of power", she's been entirely forthcoming and cooperating, so that no subpoenas have been needed - but, of course, we need to treat it like it's something humongous and new. GO MEDIA!
Her husband got a DUI 22 years ago. This has what to do with her? So, he was a fuckup 22 years ago, and should have had the shit beat out of him, and lost his license forever. It didn't happen, it doesn't happen to current offenders, it's old news.
Her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Bonus. Her daughter is kinda cute, and obviously ready for some freakin' - and who the fuck cares? What 17 year old these days ISN'T fucking? Her daughter being a sloot has no bearing on her abiliy to be the Veep. Hell, if her next younger daughter (the one with braces) gets freaky in a few years when she's legal, all the more reason to vote for Palin.
Find something that matters, fucktards.
Fuck yeah, baby!
In a 5-4 decision (which the Brady Campaign whiny bitches are calling "the narrowest of margins" as if that matters somehow), the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed that 2nd Amendment secures, not grants, an INDIVIDUAL right of the people to keep and bear arms, overturning the Murder Capitol of the United States' unconstitutional ban on handguns, as well as their unconstitutional requirement for disassembled firearms and trigger locks.
(Wikipedia has a good write-up on stuff.)
Most excellent- and itt only took us 74 years.
Of course, the corrupt Brady Campaign has wasted no time begging for more money to attempt to subvert this decision...
It's quite telling, though. Idiots like the Brady Bunch and their ilk continually complain that a decision like this would be horrible for the country.
Then Paul Helmke states:
[blockquote]“After the Heller ruling, as before, approximately 80 Americans will continue to die from guns every day. Our weak or non-existent gun laws contribute to the thousands of senseless gun deaths and injuries in this country that occur each year. We must continue to fight for sensible gun laws to help protect our families and our communities.”[/blockquote]
So, what he's saying is, there will be no change?
Two-faced pigfucker.
Maybe I'm just crazy, but hear me out for a second.
It seems that every time we're up for a Presidential election, or that some major gun law is being proposed, there's a dramatic increase in school shootings, prominent violent crimes, etc.
I'm not much for conspiracy theories - I don't really give a lot of credence to the concept of someone pushing nutjobs over the edge so they go on a rampage.
It seems more likely that the liberal media suppresses stories that wouldn't normally rate national coverage, and then just blitzes the coverage in an election year.
It's getting awfully tiring seeing all of this bullshit plastered all over the headlines, when we all know what would fix the problem - full enforcement of our constitutional rights, allowing us to defend ourselves, with lethal force if necessary, in every single state, district and territory.
Fucking Democrats, anyways.
So, I was flipping my stereo from CD over to XM on the drive home last night, and I paused on AM for a bit, catching dumb "conservative" radio cunt "Dr." Laura Schlessinger on 1190.
The "doctor" was admonishing a single mother for neglecting her child - neglecting the child by putting the 2 year-old kid up with it's grandparents while the girl went to school to finish her degree so that she could get a decent job to support herself and the child.
She continued her tirade, chastising the mother for putting her desires before the needs of the child, how selfish the mother was, and how her responsibility isn't school and a job, but to take care of the kid.
Holy fucking shit, what kind of goddamned brain case is this?
If this is the example that some people are presented as conservative, no wonder people think that anyone with "conservative" values is a maniac.
This radio whacko is, essentially, advocating that the mother abandon higher-education and assume unemployment, rather than daycare with the grandparents.
Exactly how would she accomplish this? The only way I can think of is via the socialist entitlement programs like welfare and food stamps.
Yeah, that's a great idea - promote the idea of becoming yet another leech, rather than self-sufficiency.
God DAMN.
The Libertarian Party needs to pull it's head out of it's ass, and field some real candidates, and soon. We're never going to get anywhere with Retarded Gary Busey or The Greatest American Hero.
In 1996, when campaigning for the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama filled out a little questionnaire from an Illinois voter group.
Among the questions asked:
Do you support state legislation to ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns?
"Yes" was all the answer that was given.
When his campaign was questioned recently about his answer, they tried to backpedal, as expected, and claimed that he's consistently supported "common sense limits, but not banning" handguns, and that the questionnaire was filled out someone with the campaign staff, but not him.
You know, either way, this isn't a guy that gun owners need in office, though I'm surely preaching to the choir about that one.
"Common sense limits" is a Democrat weasel-word for "only the police and military should have them."
The scary thing is, this guy, or Billary is going to get the '08 election.
Damn it all to hell.
Thanks to my cousin for the link.
It's funny.
I keep hearing how much Republicans love war, and how evil they are and how they're always starting wars all over the place.
I've asked for an example outside of the current Middle East situation, and nobody can ever seem to cite any.
Just for accuracy's sake, I did about thirty seconds of research:
Yup, those damned Republicans, always starting shit. Paragons of peace, that's what the Democrats are. We need to elect more of them, a'yuck.
So, you know, forgive me if I completely disregard anything the liberal fucking douches have to say. I'm tired of your incessant idiocy.
What is it, these days, with all of the new bullshit laws being passed with a stupid mnemonic anagram name?
Just yesterday, I read something about the "No FEAR" act - Notification and Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination and Retaliation of 2002 Act.
Jumpin' Jesus on a goddamned pogo-stick!
We're likely paying some retarded clowns six figures a year to come up with whatever bullshit edgy crap a brain-dead politician thinks up.
Senator Shiteater: Hey, Bill, I need to propose a new bill this year. Find something that sounds official that I can call "SUPERMAN".Bill The Overpaid Aide: How about the Senate Universal Purpose Error Reporting Management And Notification act?
Senator Shiteater: BRILLIANT! Now we just need to urinate all over the constitution, and figure out what we want this bill to actually do! We've got a catchy name, boys - it's all downhill from here!
This mental rape needs to stop. I propose immediate enactment of the Tackhammer Act.
It's quite simple, really:
Be it enacted on this day that any proposal of idiotic titles comprised of bullshit mnemonics and anagrams shall be punished by a thorough beating of the offending party with a tackhammer.
Short, simple, to the point. Now I just need to figure out what TACKHAMMER stands for.
Police Make Arrest In Fatal StabbingSALEM, Ore. - Police say a man has been arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Salem man in a McDonald's parking lot.
Officers responded to reports of a disturbance just after midnight Oct. 13 at the McDonald's located on Lancaster and Devonshire NE. They found Esteven Zapata had been stabbed during the incident and died shortly after.
Evaristo Antonio Tenorio, 18, was arrested in connection with the stabbing Tuesday. He is due in court Thursday.
So, don't get me wrong - one more dead, another one in jail. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.
I'm curious, though - is murderer now a job that nobody else wants?
So, I'm flipping channels, and while I normally ignore the Maher's sycophantic broadcast, I stopped on it today to witness Carl Bernstein make some amazingly astute statements about the Democrat party.
A while later, they started talking about Hillary Clinton's candidacy for President of the United States, and were commenting on her relationship with her husband.
Maher made a statement of "what couple that's been together for 25 years HASN'T fooled around?"
Is this what today's Democrats thing about family values?
The fact that after a statement like this, you morons would maintain your support of a mouthpiece like Maher is astounding.
Oh, yeah, and he also said that Republicans are afraid of science.
Fuck you, Democrats. I am beyond tired of your idiocy.
So, unless you're a fan of the lowest-common-denominator tripe like "American Idol", you've likely never heard of this complete nobody.
Piers Morgan is a British newspaper hack. In 2003, he was the editor for the Daily Mirror, a job he was fired from due to, among other things, publishined obviously faked photographs of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. During his tenure at the Mirror, Morgan published a slam on President Bush, documenting how much of an idiot Bush was, because he couldn't ride the "idiot-proof" Segway scooter.
So, yeah, the guy is a piece of shit, AND a treasonist.
Ouch! The moment Piers Morgan broke three ribs falling off the Segway he said was 'idiot-proof'By JAMES TAPPER
Last updated at 08:29am on 2nd September 2007
If he didn't believe in karma before, Piers Morgan must surely do now.
The ex-newspaper editor, now a columnist for The Mail on Sunday's Live magazine, took great delight in making fun of President Bush for falling off a Segway - the two-wheeled, motorised, gyroscopically balanced scooter that, its makers promise, will never fall over.
His paper, the Daily Mirror, ran the headline in 2003: "You'd have to be an idiot to fall off, wouldn't you Mr President." It added: "If anyone can make a pig's ear of riding a sophisticated, self-balancing machine like this, Dubya can." So, it seems, can Mr Morgan.
He broke three ribs after falling off the Segway at 12mph in California - just three days before he was due to make his biggest TV appearance to date, as a judge on the grand final of reality show America's Got Talent.
Quite what he was doing on a Segway - labelled 'the geek machine' by critics - Morgan has yet to explain, but these pictures reveal the moment of the undignified crash.
He can be seen cruising comfortably along the promenade at Santa Monica beach. Inexplicably, his delicate sense of balance fails him. The Segway swerves to the right, mounting the kerb. Morgan's 'toned muscular, tanned, superfit torso' (as he describes it) continues straight along the road but sadly his feet remain planted to the rogue Segway.
Inevitably he falls victim to gravity and crunches on to the baking concrete, where he lies, agonised, until a companion can come to his rescue.
He had to be taken to hospital to be patched up, but despite his misfortune, Morgan made it to the TV studio. His celebrity friends have been chortling at his expense. Simon Cowell has urged people to make Morgan laugh because 'it causes Piers absolute agony'.
Writing in Live magazine this week, Morgan is rueful about the comments on Mr Bush. He says: "Since only he and I appear to have ever fallen off one, I think the makers of the Segway can probably still justifiably claim the machines are "idiot-proof"."
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...
On another note, what the hell is Segway still doing in business? I mean, come on - the things are just retarded, and for all the idiocy about how fat we are in the United States, like these dumb pieces of shit help.
And for $5000-$6000+ ?? Get real. Only idiots buy these things in the first place.
So, I'm sure everyone has heard about the whole Larry Craig incident.
OK. The guy is a fag, he cheated on his wife, and he solicited prostitution. All valid reasons he shouldn't be representing the people of the United States (and yes, I just said homosexuality is a reason he shouldn't be in office).
You want to know the real fucked-up part of this? MSNBC/Newsweek ran an article about outing prominent closeted gays, and there's actually a hypocrite fag journalist who's advocating going after and outing these people.
Excuse me?!
This dumb son-of-a-bitch, "Michelangelo Signorile" (like that's his birth name) actually thinks that it's a matter of public interest.
I thought we were supposed to leave people alone, and let them live their lives how they want - especially when they're some kind of minority. Instead, this dipshit is advocating their persecution.
This is awesome. Is this one of the first signs of the left's implosion? Let's hope so.
...don't believe me?
Public indecency report leads to drug chargesBy Carrie Petersen
Albany Democrat-HeraldAlbany police found more than 8 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of a broken-down car Monday after they responded to a report of public indecency.
According to police, here’s what happened:
At about noon police received a call that a man was driving in the Heritage Mall parking lot and masturbating.
By the time officers caught up with the man, at Geary Street and 14th Avenue S.E., his car had broken down.
A witness told police she saw the driver move a duffel bag from inside the car to the trunk. When officers opened the trunk, they found the bag was full of marijuana.
The driver was arrested and taken to the police station.
Police then obtained a search warrant to go to the suspect’s apartment in the 3400 block of Pacific Boulevard. They found another 2 pounds of marijuana as well as methamphetamine and cocaine.
Police said they also found smoking devices, packaging materials, scales, and fraudulent Social Security and resident alien cards.
The street value of the marijuana is estimated at more than $30,000, police said.
Cain Viayra Calderon, 25, was charged with public indecency; possession and delivery of marijuana, meth and cocaine; and two counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument.
He was lodged in the Linn County Jail, and immigration authorities placed a hold on him.
Anyone with information about the case or Calderon is asked to call the police at 917-7680.
See? He brought us his penis AND 8 pounds of weed!
This is fucking ridiculous. Now we're not only importing drug dealers, we're importing a probable rapist/child molester who is also a drug dealer.
Wonderful.
Orlando police ask for guns, get missile launcherHenry Pierson Curtis | Sentinel Staff Writer
7:40 PM EDT, August 17, 2007Orlando emptied its bureau drawers and closets on Friday of more than 250 unwanted guns -- and one surface-to-air missile launcher.
The shoulder-fired weapon showed about 6 p.m. when an Ocoee man drove to the Citrus Bowl to trade the 4-foot-long launcher for size-3 Reebok sneakers for his daughter.
"I didn't know what to do with it, so I brought it here," explained the man, who said he found the missile in a shed he tore down last week. "I took it to three dumps to try to get rid of it and they told me to get lost."
After hefting the weapon designed to blow jets out of the sky, police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones commented: "I tell you, you never know what you're going to get."
Ancient pistols, zip guns, shotguns and assault rifles began appearing shortly after 7 a.m. in what became the most successful gun exchange yet in Orlando and Orange County.
"Anytime we can sit out here and have people bring us guns it's good for the community," sheriff's Cmdr. Al Rollins said.
Traded for sneakers or $50 gift certificates, the guns that filled boxes at the Pine Castle Woman's Center on South Orange Avenue would never reach the hands of criminals.
And each gun came with a story never to be told.
"No questions asked, right?" asked one man, who questioned the promise of anonymity for everyone turning in a gun.
"Absolutely," responded deputies, who later described the fellow as looking like an old biker.
Moments later, he returned with a plastic bag and extracted what deputies described as a portable crime scene worth a 5-year mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison. The homemade, 40-shot assault pistol turned out to be a cut-down rifle with an illegal short barrel.
"That would scare the pants off you," commented Rollins, who said the old biker left with a $50 gift certificate.
Deputies in Pine Castle and Orlando police officers working at a second exchange outside the Citrus Bowl checked each gun against state and federal lists to find out if it had been reported stolen.
At least four turned in at the Citrus Bowl were hot guns because police say the serial numbers had been filed off in violation of federal law.
Many could not be traced because they were made before 1968, when serial numbers became mandatory for new firearms sold in the U.S.
An unblemished 1903 .32-caliber Colt pistol caught the eye of a knowledgeable deputy who checked the Internet and found it was worth about $1,400.
Despite being more than 100 years old, it and dozens of other old handguns in various calibers still worked and would be deadly, deputies and officers said. Few of the exchanged weapons were late-model 9-millimeter and .45-caliber pistols, the sort used in many of the more than 100 murders last year in Orlando and Orange County.
"It's a huge success," Orlando police Detective Barb Bergin said shortly after 1 p.m. when the exchange already exceeded 200 guns. "Clearly some of the guns we took off the street today were not for sport or self-protection. Those sawed-off shotguns were clearly for committing crimes."
The gun exchange in Orlando has been held periodically for eight years with assistance of Clear Channel radio stations and local media, according to Bergin, who coordinates Crimeline's cash-for-tips program.
"They're the ones who give us air time and encourage people to come out," she said.
The number of obvious "crime guns" collected Friday surprised Bergin as well as the officers and deputies logging the firearms.
The Orlando program and others like it nationwide give residents a legal, safe way to dispose of unwanted firearms. At the same time, police say the guns taken in reduce the number that can be stolen in burglaries to arm criminals.
Last year's "Kicks for Guns" sneaker exchange collected 113 firearms and about 20 BB pistols and toy guns that had been altered to look like real weapons.
Friday's exchange had discoveries similar to a PBS Antiques Roadshow episode in which a participant comes in with an unexpected treasure.
That moment for gun aficionados was the pre-noon appearance at the Citrus Bowl of an unidentified man carrying three firearms. He dropped them off and left, saying he didn't want anything.
"I wish he'd been my father," said Officer Kevin Williams, an assistant rangemaster and gun instructor at the Orlando Police Department. "I'd love to have them."
Worth more than $3,000, those three military-style target rifles will be destroyed just like the rusted guns worth less than $50 that were turned in, organizers said. Before going under cutting torches, guns that work will be test fired so the bullets and cartridges can be compared to evidence in unsolved murder cases, they said.
"Somebody took really good care of this," said Williams, holding a .308-caliber M1-A Springfield rifle worth about $1,500. "I'd bet a body part this was never used in a crime."
Henry Pierson Curtis can be reached at 407-420-5257 or hcurtis@orlandosentinel.com.
So, you can click on the link to view the article, and the accompanying picture of an empty TOW tube.
Beyond the idiot journalism (the inability to recognize that it's an empty tube, not a launcher, the fact that it's not an ground-to-air weapon "designed to blow jets out of the sky"), the whole concept of this event is a damned farce.
At least three rifles taken in (the "three military-style target rifles") were obviously never used in a crime, nor would they ever have been.
The real issue here is the fact that these retarded fucking gun buybacks accomplish nothing good, and, in fact, promote violent crime.
From the article:
Few of the exchanged weapons were late-model 9-millimeter and .45-caliber pistols, the sort used in many of the more than 100 murders last year in Orlando and Orange County.
So, they're not taking the guns off the street that are being used to commit the majority of murders out there.
Better still, they're quite probably accepting back criminal evidence "no questions asked", and they're going to destroy it, leaving homicides unsolved.
Shit, I can't wait until Portland or some such other liberal bastion in Oregon attempts something like this. I'll go pop someone, and take the hot piece to be destroyed by the very people that swore to uphold the law. No evidence = no crime, right?
...not the criminal.
City looks at fining victims of graffitiProposed bylaw would put onus for cleanup on owners
Jeff Holubitsky, The Edmonton Journal
Published: 7:55 amEDMONTON - Property owners who fail to clean graffiti from their walls or litter from boulevards could be fined up to $250 under a proposed city bylaw.
"In the last 10 years we've gone from a very clean, very well-structured city, and now we're suffering from some of the urban decay issues because of the growth," Ward 5 Coun. Mike Nickel said Thursday.
"Graffiti, litter, potholes, crime and the nature of crime (are) changing. ... We have to move Edmonton from where we were to where we are going."
The blight of graffiti, evident in Whyte Avenue's back alleys and along the LRT line, has become a major civic issue. The proposed bylaw comes before other city committees release major reports on different aspects of the problem and programs to deal with it.
Currently, the city lacks regulations to control graffiti and depends on the police to charge offenders or taggers with mischief or with creating racially or sexually hateful messages.
The proposed bylaw, which would give the city its first legal teeth to deal with the graffiti and litter problems, goes to the city's community services committee Monday.
That group will then decide when the proposals, which also include increasing several fines, would be considered by city council. However, that is unlikely to happen before the Oct. 19 civic election.
If the proposal passes, city bylaw officers will be able to charge property owners who fail to paint over graffiti. The same goes for businesses, such as fast food restaurants, that don't clean up neighbouring public boulevards.
"I'm the guy who doesn't believe in a lot of regulations or red tape, but these are problems that we don't have a handle on and that we are not committing sufficient resources to," Nickel said.
"It's not just a downtown thing anymore, it's moving into the 'burbs and everywhere you look, and if you don't tackle it quickly, it escalates."
Nickel wants Edmonton to adopt Calgary's idea of providing a graffiti van for a fee to help business owners voluntarily cover offending artwork when they can't find painters because of the booming economy.
"You just can't give them a ticket, you have to give them an out," he said. "But at the end of the day the graffiti has to come down."
David Aitken, director of the city's complaints and investigations section, said it's likely that only property owners who consistently ignore cleanup orders would be fined.
"The city recognizes that the businesses have been victimized," Aitken said. "That's why we wouldn't take an aggressive approach to get it removed. We would always seek their compliance."
He said if the city is to control the problem, it has to get rid of it every time it appears.
"They have stats on this to show that if it is quickly covered up, after a certain amount of time they don't come back."
The draft bylaw also suggests raising fines from $100 to $250 for offences such as messy garbage storage, storage of a locking fridge or freezer and pruning elm trees. The fine for failing to shovel snow would go to $100 from $85.
So, because the city is unable or unwilling to punish those who create the grafitti, they're going to start fining the victims for not cleaning up the mess?
What the hell is wrong with this picture?
Perhaps the double-victims (victims of vandalism, and victim of rape by their city) should sue the local government for failure to uphold the laws against vandalism in the first place.
Better yet, why don't they just start actually punishing the so-called grafitti "artists" who blatantly vandalize private property? Instead of fines that they'll never pay, virtual slaps on the wrist, why not beat the crap out of them? Even better, remove their hand. If they're going to continue to vandalize someone's private property, remove their ability to do so.
Man, seriously, fuck Canada. I'm quite sure something like this, if not already in place, has been proposed in some of the more libtarded areas around here, but I'm getting sick and tired of these friggin' moonbats punishing everyone but the person responsible.
Two Arrested In Girl's MurderOREGON CITY - Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a teenage girl.
The murder happened in the early morning of Saturday, July 28, after an all-night party at the Balboa Apartments in Milwaukie. It was a going-away party for 16-year-old Dani Countryman, a Texas girl who had been visiting her relatives in Milwaukie.
Dani's older sister Ashley Countryman, who took her to the party, and other party-goers found her lying dead on a couch at around 5 a.m. She had been strangled. Her body was only a few feet away from where other teenage partyers were sleeping on the floor.
Clackamas County deputies quickly launched a homicide investigation, questioning all the known party-goers, along with other residents of the Balboa Apartments. They also combed the area for clues. The Sheriff's Major Crime Unit worked around the clock to track down the killers.
Nine days later, they had their suspects. Monday night they arrested two men: 24-year-old Alejandro "Alex" Rivera Gamboa, and 23-year-old Gilberto "Gabe" Rivera Gamboa. The two are related; detectives initially described them as cousins.
The two men will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon on charges of Aggravated Murder. Other charges could be added.
And people wonder why there's an increasing dislike of Hispanics, whether they're here legally or not.
I hope these fuckers get the fucking chair, and I can't wait until they decide to launch their reconquista bullshit, because I'll be one of the first to start popping these pieces of shit.
BIIIIIIIIIG Surprise!
Runner Feigns Off Alleged Rapist, At LargeSALEM, Ore. - A woman feigned off an attacker who allegedly tried to rape her at Chemeketa Community College Friday night, and police are looking for the suspect.
The 26-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, was running with several other people at the college's outdoor track about 10 p.m. Thursday.
As the other runners left, a man came up behind her and pushed her to the ground. He tried to pull her clothing off, but she had a set of keys in her hand, and hit him in the face with them.
The man gave up and ran away.
Marion County and Salem police responded with dogs but were unable to find him.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, about 25, with a medium build. He has short black hair and no facial hair. He was last seen wearing black shorts and a black sleeveless shirt.
You know what's sad about this story?
I clicked on the link after reading this blurb:
Runner Feigns Off Alleged Rapist, At Large
A woman feigned off an attacker who allegedly tried to rape her at Chemeketa Community College outdoor track, and police are looking for the suspect.
And as I was clicking, my first thought was "It's probably a Mexican..."
Of course, the disproportion between Salem's 15% Hispanic population as of the 2006, and the Marion County Jail's Hispanic population does nothing more than to prove that I'm just a big nasty racist, and that's the only reason I suspected a Mexican rapist.
When the fuck are we going to do something about this problem? We're not importing people who simply want a job or a better life - we're importing violent criminals who come here because they know our law enforcement and legal system are far more lax than those in their own country.
So, it appears that Kulongoski is going to be signing SB 571, banning smoking in bars and restaurants, as well as many other restrictions.
Several asshole municipalities have already pulled this bullshit (like the fucktards in Corvallis), but now it looks like it's going to be statewide.
Yay.
Seriously - I love this intrusion into private property rights.
I'm not a smoker, exactly - I'll occasionally smoke with friends, but I don't buy cigarettes, and I don't often smoke.
As this really won't directly affect me that much, why am I angry?
Because nobody should be telling anyone what he or she can't do with their business - especially these liberal anti-freedom cocksuckers in the Oregon State Senate (like that cunt Ginny Burdick).
Proponents of the ban bitch and whine about how non-smokers would like to go out to bars, but can't, because of the smoke.
Here's a clue, assholes - OPEN A NON-SMOKING BAR!
This is how the free market is supposed to work - if there's a demand for something, someone will fill that demand.
Oh, they have other bullshit reasons - like protecting employee's health (hrmm - get a new fucking job? It's not like being a waitress or a barslut is really all that skill-demanding), or protecting the non-smoking patrons (GO ELSEWHERE!), but it's all bullshit - it all boils down to a bunch of busybody assholes telling people how to live their lives.
Just you wait and see, Oregon - soon, we're going to see a ban on smoking inside your own home, for fear it might endanger non-smoking occupants (do it for the children!) or those poor innocent pets.
It's hilarious - these idiots tax the shit out of things like tobacco for their bullshit socialist projects, and then work to eliminate the source of their funding.
Fucking morons.
Stay the fuck out of my life, my business, and my rights.
Of course, it's Australia. If it wasn't Australia or Britain, I'd be REAL surprised.
Gay bar wins right to ban heterosexualsMonday May 28 05:00 AEST
By ninemsn staff
A Melbourne gay bar has been granted an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act in a landmark ruling which will allow security to refuse entry to heterosexuals.
The owners of Collingwood's Peel Hotel, which came under fire in April for promoting a gay Anzac Day party, successfully argued to the state planning tribunal that banning heterosexuals from the club would prevent "sexually based insults and violence".
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal granted the controversial powers to the club last week, the Herald Sun reports.
VCAT deputy president Cate McKenzie claimed that allowing straight men and women into the club would defeat the purpose of the venue."This would undermine or destroy the atmosphere which the company wishes to create," McKenzie said.
"Sometimes heterosexual groups and lesbian groups insult and deride and are even physically violent towards the gay male patrons."
McKenzie said some straight women came to the club because they found the gay patrons entertaining.
"To regard the gay male patrons of the venue as providing an entertainment or spectacle to be stared at, as one would at an animal at a zoo, devalues and dehumanises them," she said.
"(This exemption) seeks to give gay men a space in which they may, without inhibition, meet, socialise and express physical attraction to each other in a non-threatening atmosphere."
A spokeswoman for the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Lobby Group told the Herald Sun that gay men at the Peel had been made to feel like "zoo animals".
"This exemption was not sought to exclude members of the community but to try to maintain a safe space for men to meet," the spokeswoman said.
"It's sad that members of our community would have to go to the VCAT to preserve their rights.
"This is one of the only free venues with live music in the area, so certainly some people may feel a bit unhappy about the decision."
So - let's get this straight.
You can't discriminate against women, so men-only establishments are verboten, but women are allowed to open women-only establishments (Curves, anyone?).
You can't discriminate against gays, so straight-only establishments are verboten, but gays are now allowed to open gay-only establishments...
That's just fucking amazing.
The ensuing FARK discussion is quite amusing - you have gems like this, from some moron named "thamike", in response to a comment on how the government shouldn't have gotten involved:
Well, they did. And if it avoids violence, then I am all for it. Besides, only troublemakers would be die hard about getting into a place where they are obviously not wanted. It doesn't sound like anybody, besides the media, is making a big stink about it.
I guess we can use his brilliant logic to say that all women and blacks are troublemakers, for wanting to get into places they weren't wanted.
Don't get me wrong here, fags - I think you should be able to ban whoever you want from your faaaaaaaabulous little club. By the same token, I think that heterosexuals should be able to kick your flaming little prancing ass out of their club when you start acting like a fucking moron.
Are you black, and want no-whites policy? Go for it. Are you white, and want a no-Hispanics policy? Hispanic, and no-blacks?
More power to you. Private property should be private property, and if an establishment wants to be a racist/sexist/idiot fucktard, let them - they'll soon establish themselves as such, and anyone with half-a-brain can make their own decision to patronize that place of business.
See how the free market works?
Discrimination laws and Affirmative Action were something that we needed, once upon a time. Those days are gone now, and we'll do just fine without them.
Idiots.
I feel a hate-crime coming on.
Theory Of Gun Control Meets Reality Of CrimeFriday, May 25, 2007
A May 15 story in The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) serves as a good reminder of how a person’s support for gun control often changes after a personal experience with crime.
State Representative Michael DeBose (D-12) of Cleveland was an opponent of Right-to-Carry, having voted against the measure twice. All that changed on the night of May 1, when he was confronted by two men, one of whom was wielding a gun. On that night, Rep. DeBose’s sense of security in his neighborhood changed, as did his view on lawful citizens being able to defend themselves.
Rep. DeBose was lucky—this time—that his running, screaming, and summons for help prevented him from being harmed. When asked how this recent experience may change the prism through which he views Right-to-Carry, Rep. DeBose was crystal clear: "I was wrong. I'm going to get a permit and so is my wife. I've changed my mind. You need a way to protect yourself and your family. I don't want to hurt anyone. But I never again want to be in the position where I'm approached by someone with a gun and I don't have one. There are too many people who are just evil and mean-spirited. They will hurt you for no reason. If more people were packing guns, it might serve as a deterrent.”
We welcome Rep. DeBose to the growing list of Right-to-Carry converts. While it is too bad it took a life-threatening situation to convert him, we hope he will share his experience, and his newfound respect for the right to self-defense, with his other colleagues who still don’t get it. It is our hope they won’t have to endure a similar experience to do so.
Well, no shit? I can't get behind that last paragraph enough. While it's great that this guy is now a pro-carry (and possibly more pro-2A) politician, he's still a fucking idiot if it took him this long to come around.
Hopefully, he'll do a LOT more to redeem himself. Ohio could use some help.
70 who quit over prayer time return to workSomali Muslims had wanted to be able to pray at sundown
Updated: 2:49 p.m. PT May 25, 2007
OMAHA, Nebraska - Dozens of Somali meatpacking workers who quit their jobs because they were not given enough time off for Muslim prayers have returned to work, but the issue could resurface as sundown inches later through the summer, a union official said Friday.
About 70 of 120 Somali workers are back on the job at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant after abruptly quitting last week. The workers complained that existing break time rules did not let them leave lines to pray at sundown.
Similar requests for workplace accommodations of Muslim religious obligations have become common around the country, says Muslim advocates.
“I don’t know how it’s going to work, and I feel bad about it,” said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
Later summertime sunsets could run past allotted breaks that keep workers from long stretches on production lines.
“We do those things to prevent injuries and to give them a little rest,” Hoppes said.
The workers agreed to come back after company and union officials met with workers and the head of a Somali community group to discuss the conflicts between Muslim prayer and workplace rules. The company agreed to accommodate the workers as much as it could within the contract, company and union officials said.
Religion and rules
“We live in a country where religious beliefs are important to us, and I don’t care what religion it is and we should try to do our best to support those things,” Hoppes said. “But we’ve got a contract with Swift.”
Company officials worry that sunset prayers could take too many workers off production lines, forcing them to be shut down, Hoppes said.
“It’s difficult to speculate on what a worker may or may not do,” said Sean McHugh, spokesman for Swift, which is based in Greeley, Colo. “All I can say is that the workers understand the work site rules that we have in place, and the 70 who have come back have accepted or are comfortable with these rules.”
It was the largest single-day employee loss at the plant since December, when 261 workers were arrested as part of a raid of Swift plants in six states by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
Mohamed Rage, chairman of the Omaha Somali-American Community Organization, said some of the Somalis who left went to Kansas and Denver, while others remained in Nebraska and were planning to go back to work at Swift.
“They have to earn their living; at the same time they have to fulfill their faith,” Rage said. “There will always be a friction, but we have to have the tool to fix any problem that arises at the future.”
A spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Rabiah Ahmed, said “there is some flexibility when it comes to prayer if it’s conflicting with something as serious as your job and your work environment.”
“But (prayer) doesn’t take very long — really it only takes five minutes,” she said.
The council, which describes itself as a civil rights and advocacy group, has been able to mediate between companies and workers on the issue in most cases.
Other recent cases
Some Muslim cashiers at Target stores in Minnesota were shifted to other positions in March because they objected to handling pork products.
An ongoing dispute also exists among cab drivers who serve Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport — many of whom are Muslim — who refuse to take passengers who are carrying alcohol.
In 2005, 30 workers walked off the job at a Dell, Inc. plant in Nashville, Tenn., after alleging the company refused to let them pray at sunset.
A federal lawsuit brought by nine Somalis against Gold’n Plump Poultry Inc. in October made similar allegations.
Fucking shitcan them all.
Seriously.
And if Sunday is a normal day of work (which it likely is at a facility such as that), and Christians refuse to work on Sunday's due to their religious beliefs, shitcan them, too.
Your religion is your business, and nobody elses. If you can't comply with the requirements and regulations of your employment, you don't fucking belong there.
Target should have shitcanned the pigfuckers they "re-positioned" as well.
Oh, and Mohamed Rage? Tell me that bullshit name isn't made up.
White House fires back at Jimmy Carter39th president said Bush has done severe damage to U.S. reputation abroad
CRAWFORD, Texas - The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him ”increasingly irrelevant” a day after Carter described President Bush’s presidency as the worst in history in international relations.
Carter, a Democrat, said on Saturday in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that “as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.”
White House spokesman Tony Fratto had declined to react on Saturday but on Sunday fired back.
“I think it’s sad that President Carter’s reckless personal criticism is out there,” Fratto told reporters. “I think it’s unfortunate. And I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments.”
Carter has been an outspoken critic of Bush, but the White House has largely refrained from attacking him in return. Sunday’s sharp response marks a departure from the deference that sitting presidents traditionally have shown their predecessors.
In the newspaper interview, Carter said Bush had taken a ”radical departure from all previous administration policies” with the Iraq war.
“We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered,” Carter said.
In a separate BBC interview, Carter also denounced the close relationship between Bush and outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
“Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient,” Carter said when asked how he would characterize Blair’s relationship with Bush.
“I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world,” Carter said.
Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981 and won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his charitable work, was an outspoken opponent of the invasion of Iraq before it was launched in 2003.
Man, that's rich - Grand Fuckhead Jimmy Carter, criticizing President Bush on Middle Eastern policy.
Hey, Jimmy?
If you hadn't screwed the pooch with the whole Shah fiasco, we wouldn't be in this boat, you stupid motherfucker.
Go choke on a Billy Beer, you worthless son of a bitch.
Hot and BotheredGlobal warming-fighting duo takes on senior Bush Administration official
By Kate Sheppard
After two weeks of traveling the country in a biodiesel-powered bus, Laurie David, Sheryl Crow, and crew rolled into our nation's capitol on Saturday. It was last stop on their college tour, and the Thelma and Louise of climate change were set to play an Earth Day show the following evening just spitting distance from the Hill. The purpose of their tour had been to raise awareness on college campuses about climate change, and with the last stop, they were set to bring that awareness to our elected officials.
That evening, Crow and David made a stop at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, where they got an unexpected chance take the tour directly to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Conversation between the two parties got heated pretty quickly when the ladies brought up global warming, asking Rove to take a "fresh look" at climate change and U.S. policy toward addressing it.
According to the pair, Rove "immediately got combative," and began reciting official talking points about China and research funding. In Joe Stupp's account of the event in Editor & Publisher, Crow and Rove were " jawing like a baseball manager and an umpire arguing a call," while David stood beside her offering support. Rove brushed them off and turned to head back toward his table.
As the pair recounted on the Huffington Post and on Crow's blog, the singer-activist then reached out to touch Rove's arm. The senior Bush administration official swung around and growled, "Don't touch me."
"You can't speak to us like that, you work for us," Crow told him.
"I don't work for you, I work for the American people," he replied.
"We are the American people," Crow said.
Of course, the two parties later had differing accounts of the events.
"She came over to insult me and she succeeded," Rove said to the Washington Post.
"I am floored by what I just experienced with Karl Rove," David told the Post. "He went zero to 100 with me … I've never had anyone be so rude."
"I honestly thought that I was going to change his mind, like, right there and then," David later told the Associated Press.
The encounter quickly became the story-of-the-moment on all the major mainstream media outlets, landing in the Washington Post, Hollywood Daily, E! Online, Fox News, and the New York Times, among plenty of others. Early Sunday morning it was on all the major television news networks including CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
It didn't take long for liberal conservative, and green blogs and the gossip columns to catch on, either:
Think Progress.org
National Review Online
Ecorazzi.com
NYDAILYNEWS.COM
socialitelife.com
Even some red-staters have come out in support of the ladies, including MSNBC's Joe Scarborough:
"Whether you agree or disagree with their environmental message, I suspect you would be impressed with these women's dedication if you got the chance to spend the day with them … The female version of the Blues Brothers took their ministry to save the planet Saturday night from the tour bus to the White House Correspondent's Dinner, where Laurie tried to convert Karl Rove," writes Scarborough. "She soon found out that college kids listening to a rock star are more open-minded than presidential aides who feel besieged."
At Sunday's concert, Crow dedicated the last song of the night to her "new friend," Karl Rove. The tune? A cover of the Beatle's "We Can Work It Out."
Holy Jesus, this is hilarious!
Rove with the smackdown - "I don't work for you, I work for the American people."
And, of course, that just went right over Crow's stupid fucking head.
It also amuses me that Rove is considered "rude" when, after walking away, attempting to leave a hostile situation, Crow grabs him, and he commands her not to touch him. Man, the Secret Service should have tackled that bitch right there.
And who the fuck is Laurie David? Seems that she's famous for being Larry David's wife. So, of course, we should listen to her.
Especially since she presents such a compelling argument:
"...David stood beside her offering support."
"I honestly thought that I was going to change his mind, like, right there and then," David later told the Associated Press.
Hell, I change people's mind all the time, just by standing there like a slack-jawed idiot. Of course Laurie David is going to have a much greater effect, since she's married to someone famous!
Seriously, this dumb bitch is fucking ridiculous. It's bad enough that actors/actresses/musicians/comedians/etc. think that somehow their status as a celebrity somehow lends credence to their opinion - now we've got their fucking families/friends/sycophants playing the same game.
"Tonight, on ABC World News, we're interviewing Hank Jenkins, the former roommate of Kevin Bacon's brother's nephew's sister's cousin's boyfriend. He's here to give us his opinion on GLOBAL WARMING!"
And what the fuck happened to Joe Scarborough? Female version of the Blues Brothers?! Give me a fucking break.
Of course, there's this fabulous gem:
"She soon found out that college kids listening to a rock star are more open-minded than presidential aides who feel besieged."
I wouldn't call that open-minded, Joe. I'd call that "fawning witlessness". College kids will listen and adhere to whatever hot pop-culture icon tells them they should. There's a reason that people like Sheryl Crow are entertainers and not policy makers for this nation.
May you rot in Hell for all eternity, Larry Hincker and Charles Steger.
Not that anyone needs alerting, but, Rosie "Butter-Fried Butter" O'Donnell is a dumb fucking cunt.
If we need only one quote to sum up her complete and utter stupidity, it's this:
"I do believe that it was the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel."
Nevermind that no official or unofficial explanation of the 9-11 tragedy ever claimed that the buildings collapse was due to melted steel. Nevermind that rigid steel support structures lose lots of their strength when superheated (but nowhere near melting point), causing them to bend and buckle under the weight they support.
I'm curious, at least in Rosie's fantasy-world, exactly how the fuck steel is smelted? See, I was pretty sure it had something to do with fire. Fire hotter than damnation, sure, but fire nonetheless.
Though, my beliefs are probably all part of this big government conspiracy on 9-11 (You know, the conspiracy where the government can pull off 9-11, but can't "find" some WMD in Iraq). I did attend government-funded public school, you know.
God damn, can someone get this bitch to choke on a sandwich and die already?
I remember a day when those were punishable by death.
ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against IranApril 03, 2007 5:25 PM
Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across the border from Iran.
It has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials.
U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight.
Tribal sources tell ABC News that money for Jundullah is funneled to its youthful leader, Abd el Malik Regi, through Iranian exiles who have connections with European and Gulf states.
Jundullah has produced its own videos showing Iranian soldiers and border guards it says it has captured and brought back to Pakistan.
The leader, Regi, claims to have personally executed some of the Iranians.
"He used to fight with the Taliban. He's part drug smuggler, part Taliban, part Sunni activist," said Alexis Debat, a senior fellow on counterterrorism at the Nixon Center and an ABC News consultant who recently met with Pakistani officials and tribal members.
"Regi is essentially commanding a force of several hundred guerrilla fighters that stage attacks across the border into Iran on Iranian military officers, Iranian intelligence officers, kidnapping them, executing them on camera," Debat said.
Most recently, Jundullah took credit for an attack in February that killed at least 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard riding on a bus in the Iranian city of Zahedan.
Last month, Iranian state television broadcast what it said were confessions by those responsible for the bus attack.
They reportedly admitted to being members of Jundullah and said they had been trained for the mission at a secret location in Pakistan.
The Iranian TV broadcast is interspersed with the logo of the CIA, which the broadcast blamed for the plot.
A CIA spokesperson said "the account of alleged CIA action is false" and reiterated that the U.S. provides no funding of the Jundullah group.
Pakistani government sources say the secret campaign against Iran by Jundullah was on the agenda when Vice President Dick Cheney met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.
A senior U.S. government official said groups such as Jundullah have been helpful in tracking al Qaeda figures and that it was appropriate for the U.S. to deal with such groups in that context.
Some former CIA officers say the arrangement is reminiscent of how the U.S. government used proxy armies, funded by other countries including Saudi Arabia, to destabilize the government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Someone needs to track down these "sources" and silence them, permanently.
Why is it that the media has gone from being a beacon of light in our dark society to a black hole of darkness?
Whatever happened to tact and common sense?
I cannot fathom the treasonous mindset of these traitorous fucks who pass out sensitive intelligence information to the news media, or the anti-American newspapers that print that damaging information.
If we lose any kind of war, anywhere, it'll be because of the media, and the traitors that supply them with information.
Photos of soldier burned in effigy stir outrage05:41 PM PDT on Saturday, March 24, 2007
By DAVID KROUGH and kgw.com Staff
Some photos that surfaced on the Internet revealed a darker side of the recent Iraq war protests in Portland.
Photos taken by Rachael Palinkas, a Linfield College student, showed masked protesters burning an effigy of what appears to be a U.S. soldier in the Park Blocks.
Thousands marched in Portland downtown streets Sunday to protest the fourth anniversary of the start of the war. As the march along 24 blocks ended, a group of young people led police on bicycles, horses and motorcycles through downtown.
A few scuffles broke out, with police using pepper spray at one point, and several people were led away in plastic cuffs.
The photos showed protesters gathered around a figure wearing U.S. military fatigues and a crude skull for a head as it and an American flag were lit on fire.
Other black-clad, masked protesters carried a black banner that read, "No Gods, no country, no masters," and a circle A anarchy symbol.
Palinkas went to the protest march Sunday because some friends were going and she thought it a good opportunity to snap photos.
"I was shocked! Cause I haven’t seen anything like that before, you know, so I was kind of scared and confused like, ‘what's going on who are these people?’ I'd never seen anyone burn the American flag or any act of burning an effigy."
She published the pics Sunday on her Facebook account. The Drudge Report grabbed it Wednesday and it took off nationally.
She's received dozens of email in angry reaction to publishing the photos.
“They and their friends are not anti-war: they are for anyone opposing this country,” one viewer wrote in the Vanguard blog, where the photos appeared. “The people they hate most are the American soldiers (whom they term “mercenaries” and in a different era called “baby-killers”) who dare bring freedom to an oppressed people under our flag.”
There was no word on the identity of the protesters.
(KGW Reporter Pat Dooris contributed to this story)
Someone needs to execute these treasonous fucking cowards.
Chickenshit fuckers wearing masks, yeah, you're real brave.
You want to make a statement? Have the balls to show your face, you worthless slime.
God, I hope Portland gets hit by terrorist attack. That town is so useless.
Police refuse to chase 'helmetless' bike thievesLast Updated: 2:05am GMT 27/01/2007
A mother has spoken of her fury after police refused to chase her sons' stolen motorbikes — because the thieves weren't wearing helmets.
Pauline Nolan, of Droylsden, Greater Manchester, claims traffic officers told her they could not pursue the pair in case they fell off and sued the police force.
She says her sons Bradley, 11, and Ashley, 18, are devastated. They usually spend every weekend travelling to motocross competitions up and down the country, but are now stuck at home.
Mrs Nolan, 44, was on her way home from work at 1.45pm when the thieves raced past her at 60mph on her son's bikes.
"I recognised them immediately, but they were gone in a flash," she said.
"I arrived home to find the garage door had been forced open.
"They had drilled through the locks and cut the chains. They had even pushed our Corsa out of the way to steal Ashley's bike, which was purposefully blocked in.
"I can't believe they had the cheek to do it in broad daylight. I was minutes away from catching them red-handed. I called the police and someone arrived to take a statement."
She says the police officer then told her that the bikes had been spotted in Beswick, Manchester. She said: "I thought 'we've got them', until he sheepishly added they couldn't give chase because they weren't wearing helmets. I was speechless. How pathetic is that?
"I've never heard such a stupid law. It seems everything is weighed in favour of criminals nowadays."
Inspector Martin O'Connor, of the road policing unit, said: "In situations like this officers need to carefully consider the safety of all road users before deciding whether or not to begin a pursuit.
"This means taking into consideration the time of day, weather, traffic conditions, the nature of the original offence and then make a risk assessment based on all these circumstances.
"In this case a decision was made that it would not have been safe to pursue the bikes."
Mrs Nolan has put up a cash reward for the bikes' return — an orange and black KTM 250 and a black and green Kawasaki 65 with distinctive "Monster Energy" graphics.
She said: "My kids live for motocross. We can't afford £7,000 to replace them. The 11-year-old said he's going to sell his toys and his X-Box to save up for a new one. It's heartbreaking."
(Original Source)
So, really, I think the gist of this article is summed up by Ms. Nolan's line:
"I've never heard such a stupid law. It seems everything is weighed in favour of criminals nowadays."
Welcome to England, honey. You've lived there how long?
Seriously, though - this is completely asinine. The police don't want to risk injuring the criminals for fear of being sued?!
Goodbye personal responsibility, hello anarchy!
The dark times, they're here, folks.
Sadly, I must admit, we have similar laws and protections for criminals here in the United States.
What we need is some reform of the legal system that stipulates that all suits of that nature (personal injury, etc.) brought by a suspect are put on hold until conviction, and if convicted, tossed. We need to stop pussy-footing around on punishments (I've said it before, I'll say it again) and kill murderers. Hard labor for the rest.
Perhaps pdb's suggestion for the 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate is a good one: Duncan Hunter.
He certainly looks the part, and talks the right talk. As pdb mentions, he's very pro-gun/pro-2A, and very pro-military and pro-War on Terror (he also mentions some sure-fire ways for Hunter to raise his media stature).
These ARE good things, people.
Of course, we could have already had some serious common-sense legal reform when the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate and the Oval Office.
Unfortunately, things got distracted by the events of 9/11.
We'll blame that on the Democrats, too. It's their idiotic foriegn policy that encouraged and enabled such an attack. Had Republicans been allowed to do things the right way, this situation never would have arisen.
Congratulate Jimmy Cocksucker Carter and his bungling of the Iran situation for that one. You can't tell me that a Muslim leader who openly supported the State of Israel wasn't a good thing for that region.
So, Barack Obama has decided that he's not going to run as Hillary's bitch, but he's going to push for the Presidency himself.
I think this is a good thing.
First, while he's a dingbat, I don't think he's as unhinged as Hillary is.
Secondly, this will cause a fight for the Democrat nomination, and if there's anything that could beat a Hillary ticket, it's one with a black President.
Conveniently, that may be just the thing to ensure a Republican win in 2008.
The much-vaunted "swing voters" out there may not be happy with the Republicans, but something tells me the majority of the country just isn't ready for a black President quite yet, and they'll swing back over to the right come the election.
Maybe in 2016 or 2020, Barack.
Oh well. Only time will tell.
Here's some OH-SO-HAPPY news:
I'm not even going to quote an article today, or link anything. If you can't find a news link about it from somewhere, you're a retard.
Seriously, this is just beyond being fucked up.
The fact that she was elected Senator of New York is just a joke, and speaks loads of the mentality of New Yorkers.
"Hey, yeah, let's vote for some bitch who's claim to fame is being the wife of the former President. She's not a New Yorker, she just bought property here because we're the only state with an opening who's dumb enough to elect her!"
Oh, the libtards are creaming about this, I'm sure.
God, if only Clinton, Schumer, Rangel and McCarthy would re-enact Heaven's Gate, things might be decent around here for a while.
I'm bored, I'm awake, and I'm going to post today, out of sequence.
Don't worry, it'll be short.
So.
I keep reading in the news, or seeing on TV, all this bitching and complaining about these greedy CEO-types who are raking in millions of dollars in salaries, or have these awesome retirement benefits, and how it's so horrible that the companies are doing this, and how the collective boards of directors must be asleep at the wheel, oh my god, it's so bad, blah blah blah, we can't shut the fuck up, ad nauseum.
I have a question for anyone who's pissy about this situation:
IS IT ANY OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS?! Do you own stock in the company? Do you work for the company, and your wages/benefits/employment are being adversely impacted by these situations?
If not, SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ, what the fuck are you fucking busybodies going to bitch about next?
How the hell does it affect you if the CEO of Jerkhole Industries made a hojillion dollars last year, and is going to retire on a private island that the company bought for him?
Seriously, I really don't get it.
I mean, if you're somehow connected to the company, I can accept that. You may have a valid complaint.
But if you're not, what the fuck is your problem?
I mean, I've heard all kinds of complaints along the lines of "Oh, Blahblah Inc. products have fallen in quality, but increased in price, and it's not right that their CEO profits blah blah blah!"
Here's an idea: BUY SOMETHING ELSE, YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!
Of course, you have every right to be pissy about a company, but you don't have a right to mentally rape me.
If you don't like a particular company, don't patronize them. Buy a competitor's product.
And for God's sake, let the goddamned company manage itself. They don't need your help, they don't want your help. If you were truly some miracle business guru, you'd be on the board of directors, making changes, not bitching about it like the goddamned pansy idiot that you are.
If a company goes out of business due to CEO salaries and perks, then it deserves to. If, like most companies, they stay in business, and increase their profits, then obviously something is being done right, and it makes sense to compensate the guy (or gal) in charge.
I'm probably going to end up pissing someone off...
Despite lessons, some unaware of King's dreamCollege survey shows some think he was advocating the abolition of slavery
By Valerie Strauss
Updated: 7:26 a.m. PT Jan 15, 2007WASHINGTON - In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for "racial justice and brotherhood" in his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
That's the good news.
Most of the rest surveyed thought King was advocating the abolition of slavery.
The findings indicate that years of efforts by primary and secondary schools to steep young people in the basics of the civil rights leader's life and activities have resulted in a mixed bag. Most college students know who he is -- even if they're not quite clear on what he worked to achieve.
Students and teachers say today's federal holiday marking King's birthday is the one that receives the most attention in schools, in part because the events surrounding the man it commemorates are the most recent.
"I think if there is one holiday on the calendar that is really reflective and thoughtful and has historical content, it is the King holiday," said Cynthia Mosteller, a history teacher at Deal Junior High School in the District. "It is a topic about which literally every student knows something."
How long students will continue to learn it, however, is open to question, students and educators say.
Social studies takes a back seat
The recent survey of college students, conducted by the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy for the nonprofit Intercollegiate Studies Institute, suggests that schools are not doing as much as they could to go beyond a cursory history lesson. More than 14,000 college freshmen and seniors at 50 colleges and universities earned an average score of 53.2 percent in the survey.
Many of the 10 federal holidays have become little more than days off school or work, even if they are dedicated to significant Americans, such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Many people have no idea what Labor Day commemorates, educators say."Honestly, I never knew what Veterans Day was until last year," said Taneisha Rodney, 14, a ninth-grader at William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts in Northeast Washington.
In many schools across the country, teachers say social studies has taken a back seat under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which stresses math and reading. Squeezing history into the curriculum can be difficult, educators say, and taking time out of a scheduled lesson to use a federal holiday -- even King's -- as a teaching moment can be tough.
"It depends on the teacher and how much they want to deviate from what they are doing," said Adam Zemel, 17, a senior at Yorktown High School in Arlington.
Mark J. Stout, a social studies curriculum coordinator for Howard County schools, said in an e-mail: "We really have a fairly tight and regimented curriculum, so most teachers will either try to integrate holidays into their regular instruction (if there is a connection), or spend a few moments in the beginning of the class talking to the students about the event or person being commemorated. Most likely, they do the latter, but there is no expectation or requirement."
'Heroes and holidays'
King and the civil rights movement are part of the curriculum in many school systems, although lessons do not always coordinate with the holiday. This is true especially in higher grades where broad issues in U.S. history, such as social justice, are addressed in depth.
But for elementary school teachers, federal holidays sometimes are the only chance to teach students about subjects for which they otherwise have little time.
"One of the raps on elementary social studies is that it is all about heroes and holidays, and with standardized testing, it often becomes that," said Andrea S. Libresco, an education professor at Hofstra University in New York who teaches prospective teachers how to use the holidays as teaching opportunities. "People tend to concentrate on English and math."
A danger, educators say, is that lessons about King can become repetitive from year to year, especially when using the same theatrical performances and movies. As a consequence, many students know about King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech but not about his seminal "Letter From Birmingham Jail," also written in 1963.
That is why each year Deal Junior High rotates the focus of its assembly , Mosteller said.
Rachel Gillette, 17, a senior at E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg, Va., said that although the holiday is not a focus in her school, the importance of the day remains strong.
"Despite the lack of class time spent on this day, Martin Luther King Day means much more than Lincoln or Washington's Birthday," Gillette said in an e-mail. "There are local breakfasts in his honor, and the street that he marched down has now been named Martin Luther King Boulevard. Everyone I know knows exactly who he is and what he accomplished."
But some students readily acknowledge that the holiday amounts to little more than a day off school. Some say they fear that King's message of nonviolence is losing relevance in today's violent world.
"It's fading away a little bit, but if we can keep the true value of Martin Luther King in schools, it may come back," said Shanay Miles, 14, a ninth-grader at Doar.
To honor King's legacy, a group of students from Shanay's school will spend today doing community service -- not lounging at home. They will be going to a Boys & Girls Club to help clean, do inventory and other tasks, Doar teacher Terrence Carter said, adding that giving back to the community is the best way to keep King's spirit alive.
So, I've got to say, I'd love to see the racial breakdown of the 19% who don't know who King, Jr. is - especially when we put quotes like
"Honestly, I never knew what Veterans Day was until last year."
from "Taneisha Rodney" in the article.
But hey - definitely, we need to be teaching more MLK in the schools. When we have idiot fucking black communities who show up to protest a white supremacist group march, and are victorious in making said group cancel their hate march, pack up and go home, and then the blacks decide to fucking riot and demolish THEIR OWN COMMUNITY (to the utter glee of the white supremacists, of course), these dumb fuckers need all the education that they can get on someone like MLK.
At the same time, we also need to stop propping King up on such a pedestal, and educate everyone as to how he was a plagiarist and an adulterer, among other things.
The message is good, the man wasn't. MLK was no unique genius - he just happened to be a bit more charismatic, and a lot less psychotic than Malcolm X, and got lucky enough to have people listen to him.
Bet you didn't learn that in high school, did you?
Suddenly It's ArcaneDespite having taken over Congress, Democrats may find it difficult to obstruct President Bush's plans for Iraq. One reason, as the New York Times notes:
While Democrats control both houses of Congress, their margin in the Senate is so slender that Republican supporters there can fight back, using their chamber's arcane rules to frustrate Democrats on other issues.Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican minority leader, hinted in morning television appearances that any legislation expressing disapproval of the president's plan might be blocked by a filibuster, the stalling move that requires 60 votes to overcome, well short of Democratic strength.
OK, how about a little flashback--to a May 24, 2005 Times article by Sheryl Gay Stolberg:
In the end, it was the language of the Constitution itself and two old bulls of the Senate--Robert C. Byrd and John W. Warner--that averted a grim showdown over federal judicial nominees that had threatened to wreak lasting damage on Capitol Hill. . . .The sticking points were always the same, [Sen. Ben] Nelson said. Democrats wanted assurances that they would not lose the right to filibuster judges, particularly a Supreme Court nominee, and that Republicans would not invoke the nuclear option. Republicans wanted assurances that they were not giving up the right to the nuclear option, and that Democrats would use the filibuster only rarely. . . .
Mr. Warner said Mr. Byrd, who is the longest-serving senator, opened every meeting with a reminder: "Country, institution, and next, us."
Less than two years ago, preserving the filibuster was a high-minded matter of serving "country" and "institution." Now the filibuster is an "arcane" "stalling move." Disputes about process are seldom really about process.
(Original Source)
Gotta love 'em!
From the same page:
How Many Iraqs Are There?"If you think about everyday life, people are more likely to take responsibility when no one else is helping them or propping them up," John Edwards told Larry King the other night.
Wow, this is news. Is Edwards abandoning his class-warfare rhetoric about "two Americas" and embracing an ethos of personal responsibility?
Well, not quite, as evidenced by the next words out of his mouth: "It's time for the Iraqis to do this."
There's two Americas, according to Edwards - and one of those is comprised of people that he insists need others helping them or propping them up.
So what? Those Americans aren't capable of fending for themselves, but Third-World Iraqis can?
Bah.
‘Superlab’ case not quite overIt’s been a year and a half since federal agents raided a methamphetamine “superlab” in Linn County, and while most of the defendants have been sentenced, the case still is not over.
One defendant will be sentenced in February. Ten others have already been sentenced during the past year.
The lab, in which officials found 200 pounds of chemicals and three pounds of meth, had been operating on Sheep Head Drive near Brownsville and was raided in May 2005.
The case remains open for a 12th defendant, Victor Manuel Zamora-Arrellano, who is still listed in U.S. District Court records as a fugitive.
The 12 defendants were named in a federal indictment. Eleven have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
Sentences in federal prison in California were handed out as follows:
Arturo Arevalo-Cuevas: 11 years, three months.
Jose Artemio Chavez Orozco: 5 years, three months.
Eulalio Valencia Contreras: 9 years.
Adriana Arevalo-Cuevas and Irania Arevalo-Cuevas: three years, 10 months.
Minerva Arevalo-Cuevas: four years, three months.
Andres Ortiz-Morales: 14 years.
Pedro Chavez-Minera, Miguel Ortiz-Chavez and Ramon Soto-Chavez: four year, nine months.
Sentencing for Sonia Violet Garcia is scheduled for Feb. 5 in Portland.
At the time of the raid, officials said that some of the defendants were Mexican nationals.
Democrat-Herald
Gosh, I'm sure glad we aren't doing anything at all about the fallacious complaints about the state of immigration, both legal and illegal!
I'm sure glad that there's this huge movement to encourage visitors from south of the border to come here, ignore our laws, and preserve their culture!
And it sure sucks that these poor entrepreneuers are being harassed and persecuted simply because of the color of their skin!
God damn those evil neo-con Republicans for ever suggesting that the influx of Hispanics into this country is responsible for any kind of increase in the rate of crime or drug use.
Fucking racists, the lot of you!
Clinton-Obama Ticket Stirs Fear in GOPBy Paul Bedard
Posted 12/11/06The possibility that a potential Democratic presidential primary matchup between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama could lead to a Clinton-Obama ticket is raising concerns in GOP circles that it might be unbeatable.
While Democratic strategists are more skeptical of the success of a ticket composed of two minorities, some Republican advisers to the White House and leading 2008 hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani see the ticket as an easy winner built on the enthusiasm it would generate in Democratic circles.
Their theory is that Clinton would stand a good chance to pick up the states that Sen. John Kerry won in 2004. While not enough to win the election on her own, the addition of Obama would help push closely divided states like Ohio over into the Democratic column, thereby giving the Clinton-Obama ticket the White House.
"Listen, we've got some lackluster people running on our side, and that is exactly the kind of ticket that would get their side in a fever pitch," said a Bush ally. Democrats aren't so sure it would work, though, because of Clinton's high negatives and Obama's short résumé and race. But the Bush adviser said those factors are actually winners: Obama could help soften Clinton's image and bring more African-American voters to the ticket as well as independents seeking real and symbolic change.
So, let me get this straight - the only reason the Democrats would add Obama is to get the black vote?
Rather than put him at the front, the Democrats want to keep him at the back of the bus, in the hope that it makes them seem even more progressive.
If Obama was any kind of man, he'd tell them to piss off, and demand to be pushed as President - but it won't happen. Instead, he'll play house-negro to the white woman to further his own political and economic succes - and nobody else's.
Don't be fooled, Black America - Obama doesn't care about you. The guy is half black, half white, yet he plays up his heritage as if he's a black man.
Seriously, is it only the conservative blacks that don't bring up race in politics?
Hell, Obama carries on about his black heritage, even though his black father ditched his mother and fled the country back to Africa. There's something to be REAL proud of.
Nearly every single black Democrat constantly harps on the fact that they're a different color or race than the majority, and preach on about how we have to be "color-blind".
Kinda impossible to do that when you won't stop reminding us of everyone's color, assholes.
You know, I've got to say, I'm getting awful tired of the stupidity propagated by Comedy Central of late.
Last Laugh '06 was on tonight, billing itself as "taking an equal opportunity jab" at everything of 2006.
What a fucking joke.
Instead, what we got was a not-very-funny rehash of all of the idiotic bashing of Bush and the right - complete with voting GW as "biggest tool of 2006".
Wooo, what a load of horseshit.
I must say, I find it truly amusing (and infuriating) that the left can bash the right for anything they construe as mildly racist or intolerant, yet all the fucking libtards in the audience laugh their ass off at Lewis Black's bashing of Christians left and right, or Greg Giraldo's immensely racist comments in regards to the Chinese.
Do as we say, not as we do, huh, lefties?
Oh well.
The lefties seem convinced that we're provoking World War III, and recent news reports indicate that come April of '07, more than half the world's population will be living in urban/metro areas.
Considering that most urban/metro areas predominantly vote Democrat, and that most urban/metro areas are more likely to be targeted in any kind of war, it's all good.
Keep moving to the cities, lefties. With any luck, you're right, and we're going to become embroiled in a gigantic war, and your stupid asses will all be radioactive ash.
I'm not going to paste the article, but if you want to read it, go here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15710584?GT1=8717
Suffice it to say, pig-fucking ragheads kidnapped 150 people at an Iraqi Education Ministry office this week.
These animals are willing to kidnap, torture and murder their own people because they know that it will affect the United States. Tens of thousands of leftards will be decrying this kidnapping, and blaming it on Bush, the military, the United States, something.
And that's the problem. This war is being fought by public opinion.
Bush and the Pentagon are allowing the liberals to dictate how we fight - and the enemy couldn't be happier.
Witness this article (regarding the latest video from al-Qaida):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061110/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_al_qaida
The speaker praised the outcome of Tuesday's elections in which Democrats swept to power in the House and the Senate, in large part due to U.S. voter dissatisfaction over the handling of the war in Iraq."The American people have put their feet on the right path by ... realizing their president's betrayal in supporting Israel," the terror leader said. "So they voted for something reasonable in the last elections."
Al-Qaida supports the Democrat party.
What got said that twisted the panties of all the lefties? "If you're not with us, you're against us." ??
Well, there you go. If you're not with Bush and the Republicans, you're with al-Qaida.
As long as we're required to fight wearing a blindfold and with one hand tied behind our back, we're not going to win, and more innocent people will die.
The Oregon Lottery's unlucky numbersProblem gamblers: The Oregonians who give everything they have, and then some, to the state budget
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
It's an article of faith now that Oregon can't live without its video lottery games, which pump hundreds of millions of dollars a year into schools, parks and other services.
But look at all the human misery linked to problem gambling, and it makes you wonder how Oregon can live with its lottery.
In The Sunday Oregonian, reporter Lisa Grace Lednicer described a support group of 10 women addicted to the state's video games. Their tales of desperation, deceit and despair would be troubling under any circumstances, but they are horrifying when you realize they all spiral from "games" run by their own state government.
It's no secret: Oregon is partially funding its schools and other essential services with money these 10 women -- along with thousands of other problem gamblers -- acquired by hocking jewelry and anything else of value, lying to their spouses, stealing from friends and employers and bankrupting their families.
It's not small change. Just the 10 women who allowed Lednicer into their circle say that together they gambled away $3 million. Their losses alone are enough to pay for at least three days of school in the Portland school district.
Maybe that's fine with you. That's $3 million neither you nor your neighbors have to pay in taxes. Playing the lottery is voluntary, right?
Not when it's an addiction. The women that Lednicer met were so desperate to gamble that they swiped thousands of dollars from their employers, so hooked they burned through their own children's college funds, so obsessed they couldn't be distracted from video gambling by a mother dying of cancer.
All of this ought to make you uncomfortable even if you've never once pulled a lever, or pushed a button on one of Oregon's video lottery machines. It ought to bother you -- and the leaders of this state -- that Oregon is paying for kindergarten classes with stolen money, retirement accounts and hard-saved college funds.
We'll grant you that the Oregon Lottery is harmless fun for a whole lot of people. We'll concede that most of the people who play the Oregon Lottery never develop a gambling addiction.
But there are Oregonians with gambling addictions who have taken their own lives. There are problem gamblers who have lost everything, their marriages, their jobs, their homes and their retirements. There are Oregonians who have gone to jail for crimes they committed in pursuit of gambling.
In an recent interview, Gov. Ted Kulongoski talked about "all my dreams" of one day persuading Oregonians to revamp their system of public finance and approve a better, fairer, more stable tax system.
In all our dreams, Oregonians not only approve a new tax system, but decide they will never again fund essential public services by exploiting the gambling addictions of their fellow citizens.
Whatever happened to that whole "greater good" argument that the leftards liked to use all the time?
You know, the one they use to try to ban firearms. The one they use as justification of their unfair and unconstitutional taxation-funded socialist programs. The one they use when they place restrictions on every damned last little thing because "if it saves only one life, then it's for the greater good!"
Where is that argument now?
Fuck these "addicted" gamblers. I've debated addiction with J a few times recently, and while we're at loggerheads at part of it (he believes that addiction is psychosomatic, while I think that there's physical causes for some of them), we can both agree that an "addiction" to gambling is horseshit.
If you can't stop gambling, it's because you don't want to stop. You want to continue to blow through money that may or may not be yours, and you want to pretend to be the victim during all of this.
Well, fuck you.
If you waste all of your money gambling, such to the point that you can't support yourself anymore, tough shit. There's always Oregon's socialist bullshit programs for you to take advantage of. There's always room for someone else on the dole.
If you commit a crime in the process, then you should be punished with the full extent of the law. Guess what, shitbag? You can't gamble in jail! Cold-turkey for your "addiction". Jail's a good place for you. Free rent, 3 squares a day, and no ability to gamble away other people's money.
Someone needs to slap the shit out of the author of that little puff piece. The Oregon Lottery is a 100% voluntary contribution system that funds a LOT of good programs (and a few pointless ones). If a few dirtbags "ruin their lives" through it for the GREATER GOOD of the State and it's citizens, so be it.
God DAMN, there's an addiction excuse for EVERYTHING these days. I think I'm coming down with a bad case of frotteurism. When I get busted by the police, I'll claim that I'm addicted, and I can't help myself.
Douchebags.
Let me correct what I said a moment ago to the "addicted" gamblers. Jail's not a good place for you. Go buy a semi-automatic handgun, and play Russian Roulette. There's a gamble we'll all win.
So, Fark has always been a haven for retarded liberal asswipes ever since I started visiting it.
Since I'm a naturally argumentive person, the Fark discussions were a very attractive outlet, but they only served one purpose - to piss me off (or in the case of discussion on an issue that already pissed me off, further piss me off).
Soooooo, I've tried to avoid them. I still browse Fark, and read news articles, but I try to stay out of the discussion threads. Occasionally I'll read them, but even that pisses me off sometimes.
Avoidance really is the best policy.
Unless the stupidity bleeds over to article title/descriptions.
Take one of today's topics, regarding the decision to send our National Guard troops on a second tour overseas:
Apparently Tuesday's election results were not understood by the Pentagon, as they prepare to re-deploy National Guard units to Iraq
Maybe I'm overreacting, but seriously, fuck these morons.
In what fucking reality do these stupid motherfucking asshole shitbags think that the war is going badly?
I just looked up a few figures to gauge just how "bad" the war is going.
Pearl Harbor attack: nearly 1,200 deaths brought us into WW2
September 11th attack: nearly 3,000 deaths brought us into the War on Terror
Total U.S. Military fatalities from WW2: 407,000
Total U.S. Civilian fatalities from WW2: 11,200
Total U.S. Military fatalities from the War on Terror: about 3,200
Total U.S. Civilian fatalities from the War on Terror: about 3,200
We entered WW2 on December 8th, 1941. WW2 ended "officially" on September 9, 1945. A little less than 4 years.
We entere the War on Terror on September 11th, 2001. It's currently ongoing. A little more than 5 years, currently.
Apparently, this is the ONLY metric that these retarded fucking morons have to gauge how bad the war is going - yet, the reason it's lasted this long is because of the touchy-feely liberal bullshit that prohibits our military from doing everything they can.
We're required to minimize civilian casualties (which I'm not saying is a bad thing), which virtually eliminates our ability to get this shit done quickly.
Now, casualties are part of war. Civilians get hurt. It's a fact of war, and a fact of life - but when we harm a few civilians, the liberal idiots in this country treat the military and the supporters of the war like the 3rd Fucking Reich.
So, I've got a proposition.
You want the war over. You want everyone to recognize that things are going badly. Let's assume that half the population is leftarded, and agrees with you.
I want you all to assemble in one area, devoid of anyone else but you and fellow leftards.
And then I want you to invite the Middle Eastern fanatics over to eliminate you.
I think 148 million U.S. civilian casualties will convince everyone that things are going badly. The remaining 148 million people will then do everything in their power to end the war in about five minutes.
Fuck you fucking fuckers.
ETA: A few morons have tried to compare Iraq to Vietnam.
Hrmm...
3,200 deaths compared to 58,000.
Again: Fuck you fucking fuckers. The only thing common factor these two wars share is that the Democrats are going to fuck this one up just like they did 'Nam.
You know, I'm really not surprised.
The crucial "swing" votes in this country, the voters that aren't party-loyal, I hate to say, aren't the brightest out there.
It was great when they voted Republican a few years back, and the country (and world) has benefited from it, but too much bullshit lying hype from the media, which these voters have bought, and the Democrats have the House back, and quite probably the Senate.
Seriously, though - how can you believe, without your own fact-checking, anything this media says? I just read an article yesterday talking about how the Bush administration was "already failing" prior to 9/11, and that 9/11 served as an effective smokescreen for that failure.
Seriously, the left is fucking delusional.
But, as I said, I'm not surprised. I really didn't expect to see the Republicans hold the national offices.
In Oregon, though, that's another story.
Ron Saxton lost by about 7% to Kulongoski. Way to go, Oregonians! Let's keep the ineffective fucking dipshit in office! Yay!
My district did elect Fred Girod as our Representative, over "FARMER DAN! FARMER DAN! I'M FARMER DAN! I'M A FARMER!" Thackaberry.
Gun-grabbing waterhead Bill Morrisette kept his Senate position - no big surprise, considering that the former Mayor of Springfield's district comprises a large chunk of liberal Lane county, and a tiny chunk of mostly-conservative Linn.
Total votes for the Senate position? 35,849 from Lane, 4543 from Linn. While a majority of Linn voters chose Morrisette's opponent, it wouldn't have mattered if ALL voters chose her - however his Lane constituents vote, that's what matters.
Why is Lebanon part of this fuckhole's district? I got the opportunity to meet this idiot at a senate hearing regarding licensed conceal carry in schools, and the guy has zero rational thought.
Oregon ballot measures faired worse than I expected, as well. The biggest surprise was that Measure 45, term limits for Senators and Representatives, was shot down.
Two or three different times, Oregon voters with a commanding majority approved term limits, and each time, lawsuits brought by useless career politicians were used to overturn the will of the people.
This time, when the measure was finally written so narrowly as to avoid any bogus loophole lawsuit, Oregon voters just shrug their shoulders and vote against it.
What gives, people?
I'm not surprised that the anti-family lefties overturned Measure 43, which would have required parental notification of an unemancipated minor's abortion. Oh no, we can't have that. We'll hold you legally and financially responsible for anything your child does, and we'll take away more of your authority as a parent while we're doing it.
The anti-socialism budget-related measures got stomped down - thank you Multnomah county. I guess we should have known better than to try to do anything that affects the government handout that so many receive.
The voters of Lane, Marion and Multnomah counties overwhelmingly voted to keep all Supreme Court and Appeals Court judges in their pockets (Measure 40), rather than spread the judiciary across the state. Big surprise.
And, last, but not least, Measure 42 got trounced. Insurance companies are still allowed to utilize your credit information, even though they're not providing any form of credit to you.
Another foot in the grave for this state.
There will be another election. Here's hoping the local media hype about earthquakes comes true, and the Portland metro area gets trashed.
Maybe then, this state will have a chance.
Keep squawkin', Kerry. The Republicans need all the help they can get right now.
SAY IT AIN'T SO!
Buyback has not cut gun violence: studyOctober 23, 2006 04:24pm
AUSTRALIA'S guns buyback has not reduced rates of gun murder or suicide, a new study says.
The paper, published in the British Journal of Criminology and written by pro-gun lobbyists Jeanine Baker and Samara McPhedran, found the buyback of 640,000 guns at a cost of some $500 million failed to make Australia safer.
That contrasts with the views of other studies and Prime Minister John Howard, who say the guns buyback has made Australia safer.
The buyback and tough national gun laws were instituted in the wake of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, when lone gunman Martin Bryant armed himself with an arsenal of semi-automatic weapons and killed 35 people.
Self-loading rifles and self-loading and pump-action shotguns were banned, with a 12-month amnesty period for people to hand in their weapons and receive compensation.
The laws outraged farmers and recreational shooters but were widely accepted as necessary to stop future massacres.
The new paper disputes whether the laws have worked.
Ms McPhedran is the chairwoman of the International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting, while Dr Baker is the South Australian president of the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia.
They cited data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) to say the gun law reforms had not affected actual gun murder rates per 100,000 of population.
Neither could the reforms be shown to have altered firearm suicide rates because suicide rates by other means had also begun to decline in the late 1990s.
“Reducing the number of legally held firearms, banning certain firearms, and increasing the requirements that must be met to legally own firearms has not produced the desired outcome of a safer society,” Ms McPhedran said.
“We cannot say firearm suicide rates were affected by the laws. Social changes and emphasis on prevention initiatives appear to have lowered suicides using all methods.”
AIC figures point to a long-term trend in falling gun death which preceded the 1996 gun laws reforms and continued after it.
In the period 1991-2001 the number of firearm deaths in Australia, including murder, suicide and accidents, dropped by almost 50 per cent.
But University of Sydney public health professor Simon Chapman attacked the report, complaining aspects were “verging on academic dishonesty”.
Professor Chapman said the study failed to differentiate between gun deaths where one or two people were killed and the large-scale massacres that the tough gun laws were designed to prevent.
Prof Chapman said the best evidence that Mr Howard's gun laws were working was that there had been no mass shooting sprees since they were introduced.
The professor said the paper was based on “statistical smoke and mirrors”.
Go figure, huh?
It's about time someone did something about it - and in California, no less!
Calif. city bars illegal immigrants from rentingWed Oct 18, 2006 8:11pm ET
By Tim Gaynor
ESCONDIDO, California (Reuters) - Local authorities in Escondido, California passed a controversial measure on Wednesday to prohibit landlords from renting to illegal immigrants, a law which opponents say is racist.
The city is the latest of several from California to Pennsylvania which have passed laws in recent months to deny access to housing or jobs to illegal immigrants in their communities.
Lawmakers in Escondido, which lies about 50 miles north of the Mexican border near San Diego, passed the measure by a 3-2 vote following a heated debate that was interrupted by shouts, chants and catcalls.
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