On this July 4th, remember that for every political scandal, needless neocon war or story of how we’re hated the world over, you can reflect on these too:

Foreign Aid

USAID With a 2007 budget of 1 Billion

World Vision - Assisting in the Myamar Cyclone recovery.

U.S. Navy

Immigration

Though very few real immigration stories are of the “rags to riches” variety, read why people still flock to the United States.

It is really easy to gripe, but between $150 fill-ups this weekend, remember how the United States is a true force for good (not perfection) and offers us so much for which we can be thankful.

Brian Beutler, a well-known progressive blogger, was shot and seriously injured during a mugging last night in Washington, D.C.

But before you can say “give peace a chance” the comments descend into the usual nutballery that makes up the liberal electorate.

So your argument is that Beutler should have whipped out his Colt and started banging away? Yeah, let’s all be violent and indifferent to the taking of human life … just like the criminals.

Because using a gun for self-defense is the same thing as robbing someone.

Come on guys!  Think.

If you’d been wearing your Obama stickers like the good lemmings you are, that felon would have likely tried to scope out a McCain supporter.  Instead of trying to defend himself perhaps he could have fallen on the ground, rolled into the fetal position, and pissed himself.

You can’t just roam the street and not know these basic survival skills.

Regardless, let’s hope Beutler recovers enough to be a walking ATM machine for his fellow Obamatards soon.

If the oil producing nations can bring the price down, no doubt the clamor for “energy independence” will quickly die down and our politicians can return to their all important work in self-enriching real estate development deals.

Guilty as sin and now free as a bird.

A perverted, cross-eyed, gap-toothed, crippled, murdering bird.

An anonymous TCASK scumbag came up with the money to spring a two time convicted rapist and convicted murderer from jail:

Under conditions of the bond, House will be monitored 24 hours a day and will have to register as a sex offender.  A judge reduced the bond in his retrial from $500,000 to $100,000.

Now he can stay with the poor excuse for a mother that raised him to be the rapist that he is.  The Ghost of Carolyn Muncey was unavailable for comment so Stacy Rectum of TCASK took the opportunity to speak for her:

“We are so grateful to all the Tennesseans and people all over the country who have supported our work to free Paul House. Because of you, this injustice is finally being addressed, not only for Paul but for the Muncey family as well.”

Until he gets wheelchaired back up that ADA approved ramp to Justice that is.  Police need to watch these deranged TCASK supporters carefully because when he is convicted again they will try to help him escape.

The Real Paul House Update: Katie Allison Granju, who I have recently given possibly unwarranted hell to, did what every other journalistic malpracticing reporter in the State of Tennessee has failed to do (The Tennessean and the Nashville Scene I am looking in your direction) and that is to call the State of Utah and have them send the record of the conviction Paul House was sentenced to in Utah.  An account that was intentionally ignored for several years while these bastards have been trying to spring House out of Death Row.  How do you ignore the details of the crime for years on end without doing so on purpose?

Absolutely disgusting. The shorter version, he twice anally raped a 17-year old girl with a knife to her throat as well as to another girl.   He was a cokehead and raped the other girl who offered him a ride thinking that he was a woman.

He claimed they “made love”.  And nothing says love like a knife to your throat.

Naturally, momma and daddy tried to help him by telling him to shut up unless he had an attorney present.  He was sentenced to possibly Life and no less than five years in prison after pleading guilty.  He was out in 4.

Carolyn Muncey was dead just months later when he fled to Tennessee where no one knew what he was.

There’s your hero, TCASK.  Predictably, they are flooding the comments section wherever this is reported to show their support.  As seen here where “threedoginn” is the TCASK member (first one at The Tennessean).  6MB readers will remember him as the sick individual who defaced the Wikipedia page of Lance Corporal Suzanne Collins (since restored) who was raped and murdered by the since executed criminal -  Sedley Alley.

Will one of you brave assholes push his rapist ass around so he can introduce himself as a sex offender to his new neighbors or would that violate his house arrest?

The Scene jokes - heh…“Lock Up Your Daughters”.  They think this shit is funny.  Hopefully their new editor will fire these jerkoffs.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a party whose most ethusiastic followers support killing a human baby up to, and in some cases, moments past its birth, exonerates murderers based on their skin color and vehemently hates religious people provided that faith isn’t in Global Warming, would hang out with Satan. I just would have thought that openly acknowledging the Prince of Darkness was kind of, what’s the word I’m looking for? - oh yeah - gauche.

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.

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

Yes, yes, the quote originally was from Plato, but that isn’t what he meant - unless there is some form of time transcendent homo-to-homo message I missed.

Then again, maybe there is something happening evolutionarily speaking.

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.

Thanks for playing.  Btw, I use Google too.  (Correction:  I use Scroogle.)  Can I be a scientist?

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