Very cute squirrel.
Reprehensible theft of Senate seat give Dems supermajority
July 7, 2009I have had to wait a few days after the shocking miscarriage of justice which has allowed an oafish boor like Al Franken entry into the United States Senate. Such was my disgust at this bottom feeder successfully stealing a Senate seat, and making himself the most outrageous choice for a Senator since Caligula appointed a horse, I needed to calm down lest I write something negative…
Franken lost a close election in Minnesota, and then went running to liberal moneybags, America hating George Soros for the funds to steal the election. And after 8 months of finding votes in car trunks (and counting them!!) and finding votes from dead and ficticious people (and counting them) low and behold, Franken ended up a few hundred votes ahead.
Norm Coleman, unfortunately, conceded after the Supreme Court of Minnesota accepted the argument that different precincts in Minnesota could count ballots using different standards of acceptability, and presumably couldn’t care less about the bogus votes. I had hoped that Coleman would take the matter to Federal Court, where surely it would be obvious that precinct A should use the same standard of acceptable votes as Precinct B, for example, hanging chads, if counted in A would also be counted in B. Except in Minnesota.
I had also hope that the governor would refuse to certify the theft of the election. For whatever reason, the republican governor went ahead and certified Franken as a senator. Pawlenty was a disappointment in this instance, since he could have refused. Paolenty should not expect a primary vote from me– I found him weak in fighting for principle.
Russian Press Coverage of American Tea Parties
July 7, 2009Are we in the Twilight Zone or What? The Russian Press covers news which the American Press refuses to cover.
Sarah Palin to step down as Governor of Alaska
July 3, 2009
To the shock and surprise of everyone outside her family circle, Sarah Palin announced today that she will be stepping down as Governor of Alaska on July 26. It was widely rumored that she would not run for a second term in 2010 and concentrate (perhaps) on running for national office. Yet today when she announced that she wouldn’t run again, she also said that she would be stepping down so that there was no “lame duck” period in Alaska’s government.
She has gone through 15 ethics complaints. Most extremely trivial (such as having worn a jacket with a logo on it). All the ethics complaints have been dismissed. She was looking at 500K in legal fees because of the continual harassment of partisan democrats who brought these complaints.
Whether Sarah has been exhausted by the continual ethics complaints and political fighting in Alaska, or whether she has decided to take time to do a lower 48 state tour in preparation for a Presidential run remains to be seen.
A new Sarahism from today’s speech, “Only dead fish go with the flow.”
Mystery surrounds capture of American soldier by Taliban
July 2, 2009ABC International reports the story
The Pentagon confirms that an American soldier is missing from his remote forward base in remote outpost in Paktika Province, Afghanistan–which borders with South Waziristan, Pakistan, the area which is believed to be harboring Osama bin Laden. ABC reports,
He was discovered missing when his bulletproof body armor and rifle were found at the base.
A strange disclosure.
Further investigation leads the military to believe that this soldier left the boundries of the U.S. base without permission, without his armor, without his rifle. When the private first class did not show up for formation on Tuesday, a search of his quarters revealed his absence.
Why would the soldier inexplicably leave his weapons and armor and walk out of the U.S. encampment? The military now believes that there were several Afghan nationals with him. Did they have a weapon on him which went unseen by the rest of his unit? In this case the young man is entirely a victim of a kidnapping.
If he was not,forced off base against he will, was the soldier deserting? Did he believe that he would meet with someone and be coming back? How was he enticed off base? Or in the worst of situations, has he defected to the enemy and the claims that he is being held against his will are subterfuge?
I have hopes for the soldier’s safe return to his family. He is the first soldier to be captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban has a history of murdering its captives.
But he has some serious questions to answer. The Pentagon is not yet identifying the soldier in question, although they insist that all possible assets are searching for the soldier.
Pythons are Not Pets
July 1, 2009
A two-year old girl was strangled by a twelve foot python in her home. The parents of the two-year-old were home at the time, but under as yet to be discovered circumstances, the child was left alone with the snake.
Pythons have undergone rapid population growth in Florida, a place in which the snakes are not native. Snake owners have released pythons into the wild in Florida when they can and will no longer take care of them. There have been many incidents of pets having been killed and eaten by pythons.
Snakes are not pet material. They cannot love their owner. They do not have the brain or reasoning capability to feel empathy or much of anything else. They react to hunger and threat. To a python the two-year-old was a potential meal–nothing more or less. The next door neighbor’s small dog, cats, and small children I am not ophidiophobic, as the phobia about snakes is called, and I have touched and petted an enormous burmese python. However, at the time I did so, two snake experts had control of the snake.
There is no excuse for having a child and a snake big enough to eat them in the same place. Snakes capable of killing people should not be kept as pets, they need expert handlers. I almost always come down of the side of less government regulation, but I believe that exotic, non-native, dangerous animals should not be allowed in neighborhoods with small children.
There is no word yet on whether the parents will be charged with negligence, or whether they have other children in the home.
North Korean ship Changes Course
July 1, 2009On being told that the cargo of the North Korean ship would be inspected as soon as it reached port, the Kan Nam turned around and headed back towards North Korea. The U.S.S. Lassen continues the shadowing of the vessel which began when the Kan Nam left North Korea. The Kan Nam was known for weapons proliferation, and was suspected of again carrying illicit armaments.
The United States has also instituted more strict monetary sanctions against North Korea, by cutting off North Korean banks, Hong Kong Electronics (which is owned by North Korea and was giving nuclear weapons technology to Iran) and Nam Chang Gang (which was instrumental in building the Syrian nuclear production plant later bombed by Israel). This, according to Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, in an attempt to “financially strangle the Kim Jong IL Regime.”
Supreme Court Rules for White Firefighters in Reverse Discrimination Case
June 29, 2009Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been reversed by the United States Supreme Court, one week before her Senate Confirmation Hearings begin. The Supreme Court overturned the decisions of District and Appeals Court to find in favor of the plaintiffs.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. Yahoo News
Maddoff gets 150 years
June 29, 2009Maddoff was sentenced today to 150 years in prison for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history. After hearing testimony from Maddoff victims, the prosecutor (who asked for 50 years) and the defense (who asked for 12 years because of Maddoff’s age of 71) the judge sentenced Maddof to the statutory maximum.
Thousands of investors were defrauded of millions of dollars. Maddoff has claimed that he engineered this scam alone, and has not cooperated with investigators who are trying to find the lost money. Federal Judge Chin commented on Maddoff’s lack of transparency during the sentencing.
Two of Maddoff’s victims have committed suicide since they realized their money had disappeared.
Iran Seizes British Embassy Workers
June 28, 2009The Iranian Government has detained Iranians who were employed by the British Embassy in Tehran.
Iranian media said eight local embassy staff were detained for an alleged role in postelection protests, but gave no further details. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said “about nine” employees were detained Saturday and that four had been released.
