Now this is the right kind of social justice. Grand jury clears Texas hero Joe Horn in the killing of two pieces of street trash.

It’s a rare thing that we have a reason to celebrate our justice system, but Texas got this one right. Read the whole thing if you don’t know the story of Mr. Horn and his kick-ass shotgun.

In other unexpected news from the bench, a Chattanooga Judge actually spoke words of common sense last Friday, in recommending that a crime victim “arm herself” due to Chattanooga’s increasing crime rate.

That’s good advice no matter where you live. The cops are there to take pictures and collect evidence. Make sure it’s the perp’s blood they’re mopping up and not yours.

In other news this evening, a Yves St. Laurent fashion designer sets the record straight.

Of course by straight, I mean absolutely fab-u-lously flaming.

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There is no measurable bottom to the depth of the diseased liberal mind:

After 22 years in prison, former death row inmate Paul House is going home now that a judge has reduced his bond to $100,000.

His mother, Joyce House, will use her Crossville home to post a property bond to bring her son home. House, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, will remain at the Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs facility in Nashville for a few days, until the bond is posted.

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The U.S. Supreme Court concluded in 2006 that a jury, based upon DNA evidence that emerged years after his trial, could find reasonable doubt in the case.

That last line in the quote is an important one as it gets intentionally misrepresented by House’s rapist-loving sycophancy.  DNA evidence exonerated House of rape in the murder of Carolyn Muncey that was used as an aggravating factor in earning him the death penalty.  Hence, no rape occurred.  Semen found on her person was a result of her having sex with her husband earlier in the day.  All that means is that she wasn’t raped, not that House didn’t murder her or attempt it.

He was spotted crawling out of the wooded area where Muncey’s body was found with torn clothes, scratch marks, and bruised fists shortly after the time of the murder.

The court saying that a jury “could find reasonable doubts” does not mean that they would not still find him guilty.

The face only a failure of a mother could love.

Regardless, the mother who boasts raising this career rapist/murderer might get a chance to bring him home so he can shake a sparkler in his wheelchair as he now has multiple sclerosis.  As we all know, if you are convicted of a heinous crime you should immediately be released from prison if you are diagnosed with a disease twenty years later.

“I’m very pleased that he is going home,” said Stacy Rector, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing.

Due to House’s diminished physical capacity, he should only be able to molest children in arm’s reach.  Congratulations, Ms. Rectum.  You really know how to pick a winner.

Why has no one ever interviewed the two women he raped in Utah?

Both See-Dub and S&L have covered yesterday’s Washington Post article on a professional stalker for the Barack Obama campaign who is doing tax-exempt opposition research on his behalf at the Institute for Advanced Study.  The Institute itself is a playground for eggheads to study whichever intellectual shiny object captures their attention.

Danielle Allen, a presumably smart chick who earned a $500,000 “genius grant” when she was 29, now spends her erudite days and nights stalking commenters on FreeRepublic.com as “research” at the Institute and cataloging their conversations about The Messiah so that she can turn their heretofore anonymous names, ages, and occupations over for print in the Washington Post:

As an Obama supporter — she had met the senator while she worked as a dean at the University of Chicago — it made her angry. And curious.

“I started thinking, ‘How does one stop it?’ ”

Why, the tax-exempt way of course!  Only in America can a “scientist” get paid to google e-mail addresses in a chain of spam to harass private citizens because they had the temerity to ask questions about a political candidate for the highest office in the land.  Chicago, “angry”, and an Obama supporter?  Did she attend Trinity United too?

Allen counted 23 freepers among those engaging in regular discussions about Obama’s religion (shock! and or horror! – ed.), and isolated a handful whom she began to suspect as having a role in the e-mail. Sifting through hundreds of postings, she began to piece together their identities.

This is textbook cyberstalking.  The focus of her campaign is to ferret out the ancestry of the e-mail that the Obamessiah is a rogue Muslim and smash these blasphemers of His True Teachings.  Nice work if you can find it.  The Institute must be very proud to add this chapter to their storied history, whether in collaboration or not with the Obama campaign, in the use of their funding as a de facto campaign contribution to focus solely on dissenting opinions against one politician and outing anonymous characters on the internet when the person responsible for the e-mail has already claimed it.

The WaPo includes the names, ages, former occupations and city/states of these dastardly people wondering aloud in a public forum about a Presidential candidate’s religious leanings.  However, the true purveyor of the e-mail asks some good questions of the Institute for Stalking’s mandate in the comments of the WaPo piece:

1. In my news conference yesterday I raised the question of Ms. Allen using a tax-exempt facility to do partisan political research when she was presumably hired to pursue more meaningful activity at the Princeton IAS. Some of the many posts on your web site raised the same topic. Is Allen’s “e-mail” project something Allen is claiming as an academic pursuit under the IAS? People would want to know. I am surprised that Mr. Mosk did not question why a tax-exempt facility is being used as a political opposition research operation, or whether Allen applied to be funded to pursue this activity.

2. Closely associated with the first question is the more critical question of how Mr. Mosk identified Ms. Allen to do a full-page article on an unknown person.

I would only have one two more questions to add to this:

1)  Have you shared any of your “research” with the Obama campaign?

2) Is this your My Barack Obama page, honey?  Because those comments about John McCain being unelectable because he has Alzheimer’s probably aren’t too nice for somebody who likes researching “smears”.

Those glasses look familiar.  That’s all I’m saying.
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Gee, do you think Letterman’s ratings suck because he’s been trying to become the Keith Olbermann of late night tv except without all the comic relief?

“Late Show” averaged a 0.9 rating in adults 18-49, Nielsen Media Research said. That is its lowest ever for an original since the program premiered in 1993.

For those not masochistic enough to sit through a Genuine Soviet Show Trial, several former counsels for the administration faced a House Committee in hopes that Jerry “Go” Nadler could get the quote he was looking for.

That quote was “Bush wants to torture terrorists’ kids”.  As if strapping a bomb to them and sending them into the pizza parlor is how the terrorists got to be Father of the Year.

Regardless, David Addington and John Yoo schooled the Not-Ready-For-Primetime congressional comrades on what a real attorney looks and sounds like.

What follows is one of the most despicable comments I have heard in a hearing ever.

Via RedState -

David Addington is the Vice President’s Chief of Staff. Yesterday, he testified before Congress.

During the course of the hearing, Congressman and Obama Superdelegate William Delahunt (MA-10) asked Mr. Addington about water boarding. Mr. Addington responded that he would not go into details because Al Qaeda is probably watching.

Congressman Delahunt’s response was, “I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you.”

A sitting Congressman snidely suggesting that he is glad al Qaeda is getting a good look at one of the attorneys who advised the CIA how to interrogate the people who organized the September 11th attack.

This committee effectively used a subpoena so they could advertise the face of someone they hated politically and begged the enemies of this country to get a good look at him.

The comment itself isn’t treason.  No, Delahunt’s existence is that.  This was something else.  This was a Congressman rooting for al Qaeda to kill the Vice President’s Chief of Staff in full viewing of cameras in a Congressional Hearing.

He should at the very least be censured and at the most thrown out of Congress.

Contact your representative today to let them know that Delahunt said was beyond the pale and demands censure.

The Prowler:

Delahunt claims he didn’t mean what he said. But enough other Democrats on Capitol Hill clearly understood what he had done. Sen. Charles Schumer, who bunks down with Delahunt when they are in Washington, D.C., made sure his schedule was such that he wouldn’t be in contact with Delahunt for several more days, according to a Senate leadership aide. “We don’t want any part of that guy right now. We expect he’s going to be in the middle of something pretty ugly, pretty quickly.”

Oh, now it’s going to get ugly?

Hope and Change ™ are coming and the reactionaries, long-suffering and bitter in their undeserved sense of entitlement, are none too happy about it.  Seems clearing out the deadwood in the White House is always a good idea in favor of the new guy with a fresh perspective but when it comes to a complacent newsroom we can’t change horses in midstream and need to side with local experience over some untested punk kid.

Which is where we find ourselves at this fine hour as the deadwood in question, soon-to-be former Scene editor Liz Garrigan, is getting the business end of the boot lodged and subsequently broken off in her ultraliberal ass while her apparatchiks are dealing with a mighty middlefinger in response to the idea that one of them is sparkling fresh enough to be the Ty-D-Bol Man and helm the flagging alt-weekly.  The turds of their careers make a farewell swirl around the bowl: (more…)

No, I didn’t hate George Carlin that much.  Nor is it a wishlist.  I hate to get my hopes up like that.

This is about the death penalty in general as our local, occasional daily The City Paper stokes the fires of the Justice Denialists over at TCASK with all this talk of our “system being broken”.

From a detached position, you can put your designer coffee down, sit Indian-style in your drum circle and marvel at what a pious soul you are for trying to stop someone from having retribution after a grievous offense against their person or family.

But much like Scene flack Sarah Kelley, all you are really doing is banging on your bongos for the scum of the earth.   You’d rape them yourself but Obama stickers don’t pass themselves out.  Besides, that pen is good for a thousand cuts isn’t it?

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We’re about a centrist as they come. Oh, well.

Playing Internet Dork beats fumbling through Falkin’s Maze any day of the week.

Here’s a quick guide for you closet and not-so-closeted racists to keep when trying to explain why you think Obama is wrong for America.

Hopefully, you won’t reveal your inner true feelings by avoiding these dead-givaways.

Past:
Well-spoken
Articulate

Present:
Fairy Tale
Elitist

Future:
Inexperienced
Unqualified
Messianic
Anti-Israel
Jimmy Freakin’ Carter Clone

You’ve been called out before the first shot has been fired, so be on your guard.

So now that the hippie is pushin’ up daisies, does this mean that people will stop sending that stupid “bad American” e-mail?

Last night, I dreamed that I was standing in a snack bar line. I let the person behind me go ahead but he declined then John Denver who was behind him, runs up to the counter in front of me.

We exchanged some heated words and it ended in a shoving match.

John Denver? Hello? I think I need help.

I’d like to imagine the way that line was delivered when a CIA interrogator responded to Khalid Shaihk Mohammed’s innocuous, post 9/11, post-Afghanistan invasion offered a Rodney King-esque “can’t we all just get along?”

I’m not going to quote this piece at length from, dare I say this – The International Herald Tribune, but the whole thing is worth a read.

One of the more detail-oriented descriptions of the interrogation techniques and the story of a narcotics investigator with no terrorism background achieving success in the much-maligned US efforts to gather information from the diseased abscesses of Islam that murder innocents with joy at any opportunity.

Mohammed’s initial reaction to being captured was one of licking his chops at the thought of getting the same regular, old criminal justice treatment his nephew Ramzi Yousef, one of the 1993 WTC Bombers:

Mohammed met his captors at first with cocky defiance, telling one veteran CIA officer, a former Pakistan station chief, that he would talk only when he got to New York and was assigned a lawyer — the experience of his nephew and partner in terrorism, Ramzi Yousef, after Yousef’s arrest in 1995.

But the rules had changed…

Thankfully, the rules had changed. No Lynne Stewart for you, jerk.

Like I said, read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Having said that, GP correctly notes that the New York Times, or IHT if we’re reading overseas periodicals, certainly has different standards when it comes to putting intelligence officers at risk for retribution by naming the officer in this instance.

Valerie Plame was a desk jockey but Martinez was actually out in the field interrogating the planners of 9/11. I hope the Congressional investigations will start shortly into these traitors who claim to have agonized over this decision to intentionally putting this man at risk.

I guess he wasn’t white or blonde enough for the Times/IHT to consider important enough in protecting the security of this country.

At first read, I did not read the Editor’s note and assumed that Agency officials did not consider him in danger. Upon further review:

a lawyer representing Mr. Martinez asked that he not be named in this article, saying that the former interrogator believed that the use of his name would invade his privacy and might jeopardize his safety.

Regardless of whether he was undercover or not, the Times and IHT just printed his name in hope of putting him at risk. You can’t pound “Plame, Plame, Plame” for two years or hyping Scott McClellan’s nonsense and expect people to not question your cavalier role in jeopardizing the agent who broke down one of the 9/11 terrorist masterminds after harping about Valerie Plame who was relegated to desk duty and sending out donations to political candidates from her “undercover” front.

I realize that most of you don’t care, but Monday marks the beginning of Wimbledon 2008. When I think of Wimbledon, I think of all those times as a kid sitting in front of the TV watching John McEnroe vs. Bjorn Borg rooting against the hippie Swede.

If I’d known what a complete prick the guy was in real life I might have done otherwise. I didn’t get to see Mac when he was in town a few years ago for an exhibition, but I heard from a reliable source that, even at a small-time exhibition he was cussing up a storm in front of kids arguing line calls. It was cute at 18, not so much at 47. Check out the fine example he’s setting for the young ball-boy in the first clip below.

Stay classy, John, stay classy.

I Am The Possum*

It’s the ecomony, stupid.

with apologies to George Jones*

Slublog’s unicorn PS rocks on multiple levels.

When Congressional approval is being edged out by the wit and guile of the HMOs, maybe you shouldn’t keep harping on the public having twice as much confidence in the President than you.

13, 14, and 15 – Scottie. Time’s up!

You see, the point of being a rat snitch is that you actually have some information that proves what you contend:

Two senior administration officials say the White House decided not to invoke executive privilege to stop McClellan’s testimony because “there’s nothing new.”

That’s got to hurt. Not as much as when Rachel Maddow was clubbing you about the head and neck with her snakeskin double dong while Keith Olbermann’s balls were uvula deep in your mouth…but hurt nonetheless.

For the regular fact-free analysis of the AP and anyone else still covering McClellan earning his paycheck from Soros, Richard Armitage is always just a phone call away.

But don’t let that little factoid get in your narrative of “Secretive White House Didn’t Tell Rat Fink Everything”.

Gee Boss, I get the feeling you’re not being completely honest with me?

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Down at Sundown in the City last night I tried to get the sad sacks at the Obamessiah pimp table to sell me an Obamessiah mask for $1. They said the price was $2 and there was “no haggling”. Even more shocking, they were selling their cheap-ass Obamessiah t-shirts for $15!

This led me to two thoughts. First, how are all the unemployed Obamessiah voters going to afford $15 for t-shirts? Last, for a bunch of people who are eager to take my income and give it away to others, they’re not very good about giving away their merchandise. Cheap bastards.

On the heels of the President’s call to lift the domestic drilling moratorium, the well-crafted Democratic response was as follows:

Is that all you got – class warfare and “Big Oil”? Of course oil companies stand to profit from increased drilling. It’s what they do, you know, sell oil. But in the process something wonderful happens which is invisible to the enlightened – oil supply goes up and prices come down.

By Reid saying that, the move is a “cynical campaign ploy that will do nothing to lower energy prices”, he is either lying or referring to the fact that there will be no immediate increase in supply.

The latter being the case I would respond that he is completly right, but since the Dems are the party of “The Children”, why do they seem so opposed to investing for the future? They sung the same tune when the personal social security accounts proposition was shot down.

Since this election is shaping up to be a Democrat and a Sandinista, it may be the energy question that turns voters out.

Remember, regardless of what the Left says, you can be judged by the company you keep.

Background

UPDATE: I question the credibility of this source. But there appears to be some backstory.

Obama’s Sept. 10th mindset is on display in Britain and when Osama’s “right hand men” get a chance to meet Obama’s leftwing Justice Department, the streets will flow with the blood of Hope and Conversion Change:

Abu Qatada, the radical Islamic cleric described as Osama bin Laden’s “right-hand man in Europe”, has been released from jail after a judge ruled that there were no grounds to keep him in prison.
The decision to allow him to return to his home in London – where he will receive around £1,000 per month in state benefits – made a mockery of the government’s promise to crack down on terror suspects, and embarrassed the Home Office, which had pledged to deport Qatada to Jordan to face terror charges.

Mr Justice Mitting signed an order to release Qatada on bail, with strict conditions, following an earlier Court of Appeal decision to refuse his deportation on the grounds that it would breach human rights law.

What would those strict conditions be exactly? No jihad after 9 pm? And what would violation merit? An increase in the size of his welfare check more than likely.  Work related injuries and whatnot.

The taxpayer will also fund at least £12,000 per year in benefits for Qatada, his wife and five children, even though Qatada was once found to have £170,000 in cash in his possession when he was stopped by police.

Qatada, 47, has been accused of helping to inspire the September 11 attacks after videos of his sermons were found in the flat used by three of the hijackers, including their leader Mohammed Atta.

£170,000 on his person? That’s practically Reverend Wright sized folding money. However, thanks to the criminal’s justice system, Qatada is unlikely to take his vast terrorist fortune and spend his remaining 30 or 40 years on this planet behind the bars of a gated community.

He is wanted in his native Jordan for allegedly plotting a series of bomb attacks in Amman in 1998 and for providing finance and advice to terrorists planning a series of explosions there on Millennium night.

But deporting him to his native country is a violation of his “human rights”. Let’s look at the Obama plan to grant habeas corpus rights to terrorists:

“In previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center — we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial,” he told ABC. “They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated.”

By “incapacitated”, the De-Gaffeinated one is apparently forgetting that the Blind Sheik ordered the attack on the Luxor resort in Egypt from his jail cell through his now celebrity college tour lecturer/scumbag attorney Lynne Stewart. The 62 people killed while he was “incapacitated” are unavailable for comment unless John Edwards can take time away from talking to dead babies to channel them.

Giving terrorists access to America’s legions of traitor defense attorneys, like Stewart, isn’t just begging for another attack – it’s providing logistical support. It’s the G.I. Bill for terrorists.

It’s change we can bereave in!

I just noticed that there are a ton of old Memphis wrestling clips on youtube. This explains where the last two hours of my life went.

When I was a kid, I never noticed the homoeroticism going on between Lawler and Dundee. I’d say that’s for the best.

Hopefully Sergio Aguiar is currently burning in Hell and being subjected to eternal torture for the rest of time, but that’s just me. Unfortunately I can’t be sure of that, but at the very least, I’m glad he’s dead.

Yes, he needed to die, but a bullet to the forehead is far too kind. On the bright side, if he hadn’t been taken out, we’d be subjected to decades of Tookie Williams-type pleas for mercy from the bedwetting leftists who dominate our court systems. It would be nice to find out if Aguiar was an illegal, but don’t expect those types of probing questions from a SF Chronicle writer. Is this just another undocumented worker doing a job that Americans won’t do? Or is he just a run-of-the-mill American scumbag?

And to those of you who sat back and watched? You deserve to have those images fixed in your heads.

Burn in hell, human debris

h/t WOA

Especially now that they’re all considering jumping back onto the Dim-O-Crack slave ship to pull the lever for the Obamessiah – you know – because he’s brown.

Never fear, however, because (1) the list doesn’t include Clarence Thomas, and (2) Baldilocks has the straight dope.

With quotes like this…

…it appears that J.C. Watts has gone the way of the ’94 Republican Revolution. I suppose it was all about the campaign dough all along. Bros before Hos, yo.

And what of Colon Cleanse Powell? He has never been a conservative, even if that’s what the Old Media has always disingenuously called him. I would expect him not only to vote for the Obamessiah, but to be on the short list for VP.

The sad truth is that if skin color is enough to turn guys like Watts and Williams, then principle means no more to them than it does to backstabbing RINOs like McCain, Graham, Snowe, Bush Sr, and the rest of the sordid lot. Then again, when was politics ever about principle in the first place?