"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it."
We'll certainly have some discussion on this today. Suffice it to say for these notes ... when I went to bed last night (after a particularly fun party) I didn't know the name of the shooter. I told my wife that it was my guess the shooter would turn out to be a Muslim. Well .. this morning we're treated to the name ... the shooter was Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Doesn't sound like a Deacon in the local Baptist church to me. It seems that Major Hasan had some problems with American foreign policy. So ... let's just shoot up some soldiers. According to a fellow soldier this Muslim (I'm guessing) goon said that Muslims had a right to rise up attack America. Word is that he is actually a convert to Islam. More news expected today.
Waking up to the wonderful, peaceful, serene, peaceful religion of Islam.
I don't remember why this was ever brought to my attention, but Rhode Island has long remained the only state in the nation (other than parts of Nevada) where indoor prostitution is legal. Or I guess I should say "was" legal. The state has officially closed a loophole from a 1980 law that cracked down on prostitution solicitation in public, but said nothing about transactions in private. Rhode Island's governor says the new law as a step forward and said it ended Rhode Island's "terrible" distinction.
By now, I am sure you have seen the pictures of "I Swastika Obama" etched into golf course in Massachusetts. The Secret Service is now involved to investigate the incident. Who knows, maybe it will be considered ... wait for it ... a hate crime!
Who does this suck for the most? The owner of the golf course. Whomever vandalized his green should absolutely be held responsible for the damage.
But we will see how far this goes with secret service investigations into a possible threat against Obama.
The Swastika is a super-charged icon ... and even if it does represent the very economic system Obama has brought to this country, it represents so much more. Yes, Obama is an economic fascist. We have to find some other way to bring this to the attention of the American people ... the Swastika ain't it.
We have a tax cheat writing our tax laws. That's right ... Charlie Rangel is a tax evader. A tax cheat. And yet the Democrats successfully killed a resolution that would have removed him as Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee. Remember, only Republicans can be corrupt. Democrats? Theirs is a culture of caring ... right?
For those of you who are government educated - all tax bill originate in the House. Charlie Rangel is the chairman of the committee in charge of drafting tax legislation. While writing the tax laws that govern you this clown has done a good job of avoiding the law for his personal finances. Here are just some examples:
1) Failure to report over $1 million in outside income and $3 million in business transactions as required by the House,
2) Failure to disclose at least $650,000 in assets he had previously failed to list on his House financial disclosure forms,
3) Failure to disclose to the IRS or on his financial disclosure forms $75,000 in rental income for a beach villa in the Dominican Republic,
4) Violation of state laws by claiming three primary residences and breaking New York City regulations by maintaining four rent-controlled apartments,
5) Violation of House rules by using congressional letterhead to solicit donations for an education center bearing his name at City College of New York, and
6) Delinquency in paying his property taxes on two New Jersey parcels and failure to report the sale of a $1.3 million brownstone.
This is a man who clearly believes that he's part of some special class - perhaps a class of one - that to which the laws of this country simply do not apply. All that, and all the arrogance you would ever need.
We also have brain-dead members of Congress who came to his defense. Maxine Waters says that "many members" of Congress suffer from the same issues as Charlie Rangel. What affliction is that? The inability to follow the law? We get punished for that stuff ... why not Rangel? The Republicans want to remove the guy as chairman, but the Democrats vote against it. Now THAT is transparency. THAT is change you can believe in!
By the way, if you want to know what good Charlie Rangel is doing in Congress, just check out the $3 million earmark he snuck into a bill for a city college, which has an academic department created by and named after Charlie Rangel!
You may remember this story from a while ago. In California, a man by the name of Enrique Gonzalez had his 7-year-old son tattooed with a gang symbol. The dog paw print on the boys right hip is supposed to represent Fresno's notorious criminal street gang, the Bulldogs.
So now the case is in court. A judge will decide today whether putting a tattoo on his son (obviously a minor) is considered "permanent or painful disfigurement." If that is the case, Enrique Gonzalez would serve life in prison.
Life in prison may be a bit much. Just have "child abuser" tattooed on his forehead. And while we're at it have "HIV Positive" tattooed on his stomach just below his naval. That ought to lead to some interesting times.
Now ... remember this. This comes from a Hall of Fame radio personality and New York Times bestselling author .. then throw in hot air balloon pilot and lawyer (both requiring a lot of hot air) and you have the complete package. Ready? No woman anywhere at any time has ever enhanced her appearance with the addition of a tattoo. And for you fat chicks out there. Those ankle tats don't take off one ounce.
Adult male drugs 13-year-old girl. Then he takes some nude pictures. Then he sodomizes her. Then he runs to avoid jail. He manages to escape justice for 30 years and is finally caught. Extradition proceedings are initiated. Hollywood comes to his rescue and wants all forgiven. Lesson? Rape a 13-year-old, and if you can just hide long enough all will be forgiven ... at least by the Hollywood culture; if, that is, you have some talent important to Hollywood. If you're a gardener things might be different.
You do know who Hannah Giles is, don't you? She's the 20-year-old who posed as a prostitute in those videos that exposed Obama's favorite community organizing group, ACORN, and brought them down. Now Dana Loesch at biggovernment.com is reporting that liberals are out there turning over leaves and busting their sensitive arses trying to uncover some lewd or naked photos of Giles. They just can't stand being exposed as the libertine, immoral bums we know them to be ... now they can't rest until they've brought Hannah Giles down. Politics of personal destruction, anyone?
The body of a 51-year-old man was found hanged in rural Kentucky earlier this month. Bill Sparkman was a part-time census field worker. He reportedly also worked as what the AP describes as an "occasional teacher." There's an unconfirmed report that the man had the word "fed" written on his chest. As of now officials aren't saying much, including whether this is a murder or a suicide.
One thing for certain ... suicide or murder, this is going to be seized on by the left to paint all Americans concerned with government growth, and especially all Americans who are opposed to our intrusive census, as homicidal maniacs. This is the way the left works. They'll find some bizarre and isolated incident - like the possible lynching of a census worker - and from that point on every person who isn't willing or, in fact, eager to answer in excruciating detail every question on the long census form is a threat to all mankind.
If this Kentucky incident is, in fact, a homicide ... then let's hope the murder is caught and eventually executed ... by hanging. Remember, I'm so warped that I believe murderers ought to die the way they killed their victims.
Clearly we know of the recent scandals involving ACORN ... unless you have been living under a rock. Or you are Charlie Gibson. But at any rate, it turns out that after all the fuss and calls for ACORN to sue FOX News ... ACORN can't legally operate in the state of Maryland. Here's the deal:
According to the following documents, ACORN, Inc. - the parent organization of all things ACORN - forfeited its corporate charter in Maryland in 2006. ACORN Housing forfeited its corporate charter in 2008. Any ACORN office in the state of Maryland is potentially operating illegally.
This leads me to the latest Republican endeavor ... defunding ACORN. House Republicans have introduced the Defund ACORN Act to make sure that ACORN does not receive one more penny from the taxpayers.
This, as we've already pointed out, is most certainly based on racism.
If the Democrats treat this the same way they have treated Republicans proposals, bills and amendments on healthcare ... it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
By now you know that some thug shot and killed an anti-abortion protestor outside of a school in Michigan last week. James Pouillon was standing across the street from a school holding aloft pictures that were purported to represent aborted fetuses when he was gunned down. A man has been arrested and charged with Pouillon's murder.
Now .. .make no mistake. I believe that the man who gunned down Pouillon should be convicted and then executed. In keeping with my oft-stated position, I think that he should die the same way his victim did. He should stand before a firing squad.
So .. why this column? Well, two reasons, actually, First ... I want to address the way the media defined the players in this sad story. Secondly; I just feel like really stirring up the pudding here with the anti-abortion crowd. Since most of these anti-abortion activists are men and will never really come face-to-face with the issue, I just enjoy getting under their skin.
You will notice that I've been using the sobriquet "anti-abortion" thus far in this piece. For the most part the media has been defining him as "pro-life." Well, I have a problem with that ... so let's proceed with making a huge number of people mad as a hornet's next. Just send your "I'm never going to listen to you again" emails to getoveritfool@hotmail.com.
Simply put, the "pro-life" label is bogus. It doesn't work. These labels have to define both sides of this issue on comparative terms. "Pro-life" fails the test. If one side is "pro-life," than the other side must be "anti-life." You simply cannot take people who support the idea of a woman's right to chose as "anti-life." Being "anti-life" would mean that in virtually all cases where a decision had to be made between life and death, that person would chose death. I would hate to be a bicyclist on a narrow road in front of such a person.
OK .. let's move on to "anti-abortion" and "pro-abortion." Again, it doesn't work. I'll use me as the example here. I am most definitely anti-abortion with exceptions, of course, to protect the health and life of the mother. Having said that; I do not want our government to have the power to use a gun to force a woman to have a child that she does not want to have. Now don't give me a hard time with this "use a gun" thing. Government is force. Government is the only entity in our society that can use deadly force to accomplish its goals. That's what the so-called "pro-life" activists are after ... giving the government the authority to use force in this manner. Anyway; to use the "pro-abortion" label to describe me would be factually wrong.
So, where does this leave us? Well, just what are we discussing here? That would be whether or not a woman should be able to make the choice between terminating a pregnancy or going full term. And there is our solution. There we have the proper way to describe the combatants in this seemingly endless argument. If you believe the ultimate choice should rest with the woman, then you would be pro-choice. If you believe that instead of choice there should be compulsion, then you're anti-choice.
If the media in this country actually gave a rip about accurate and objective journalism these are the phrases that would be used in reporting on the controversy.
The mainstream media also had a hard time covering the ACORN scandal that hit last week. To my knowledge, FOX was the only channel carrying the story that went a little something like this: James O'Keefe video tapped his counseling session with an ACORN employee. He posed as a pimp and brought along a "prostitute" and was advised by an ACORN employee how they could get loans for their prostitution business, etc.
Somehow, the revelation of this video turned into an issue of race.
Here's a statement released by Margaret Williams, a board member of Maryland's ACORN office: It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage.
Here's another statement from ACORN's chief organizer Bertha Lewis. She says that conservative forces were conspiring to make ACORN the "Willie Horton for 2009." She also says, "We are the boogeyman for the right wing and its echo chambers."
The latest? Now ACORN is claiming that the video was altered and in no way represents what went on in that office in Baltimore.
Meanwhile, the fallout from this ACORN expose is not looking good for James O'Keefe. He is now facing the prospect of being prosecuted by Baltimore City's State Attorney. His crime? Violating a Maryland law that makes it illegal to tape someone without prior permission. If he is convicted, he could go to state prison for five years.
Isn't this just rich? O'Keefe vividly illustrates for the American people the essential corrupt nature of the ACORN organization .. and now he's facing the possibility of criminal prosecution. The ACORN workers who aided and abetted the illegal prostitution business? They can't be prosecuted because the only evidence against them was illegally obtained .... In Maryland you can't videotape someone without their permission.
Something good has come from this whole episode. The Census bureau has informed ACORN that they will have no role assisting the federal government in the 2010 Census. I say watch this one closely. The Obama Administration is going to do all it can go inflate the census numbers in minority areas, especially Hispanic areas, so we'll see if this ban of ACORN actually holds. My guess? ACORN will be up to its usual corrupt tricks during the Census. We'll see if I get a big "I told you so" on this one.
You know the story by now. Some independent filmmaker and a 20-year-old flatbelly walk into an ACORN office in Baltimore. They're there for some tax help. ACORN, you see, will help people with tax forms ...for a fee. He tells the ACORN workers that he's a pimp and the girl is his prostitute. They need help in reporting her income. The ACORN workers don't bat an eye ... they suggest that she should report here income as a performance artist. Then it gets good. They tell the ACORN staffers that they're bringing in some "very young" girls from El Salvador and the girls will be turning tricks for them. Now understand what we're talking about here .. slavery. These young teens will be held and forced to work as teen hookers for this guy. What did the ACORN workers do? They offered some advice to the "pimp" and his "prostitute" on how to hide these girls and get some tax write-offs for their care.
This is ACORN folks. These are the people who are under investigation throughout the country for voter fraud. These are the people who nurtured our President as he community activated his way to the White House. These people are crooks. Their very reason for being is to destroy the fabric of our country in order to prepare us to be a nation of government.
What did ACORN have to say when the video surfaced? They called it "gotcha journalism." What in the hell does that mean? I guess it means that a journalist checks out an organization that is receiving boatloads of public funds to see what they'll do if presented with a clear-cut plan for sex slavery and child exploitation. Then the journalist finds that the organization seems willing to actually help the bad guys get away with their scheme! Then the journalist spreads the word ... and this is "gotcha journalism?" Well then I guess you can say that I love "gotcha journalism."
Oh ... and ACORN fired the two workers that were involved in this mess. But don't expect anything to change here. It will be ACORN business as usual. And prosecution? Are you kidding? Do you think that the federal government would even consider prosecution for aiding and abetting? Are you forgetting who's in the White House and who is running Justice?
Lancaster, Pennsylvania is about to become the Big Brother of the United States. The community is installing 165 surveillance cameras, making their system larger than systems in cities like Boston or San Francisco.
So what are the people of Lancaster upset about?
The fact that these cameras will be monitored by ordinary citizens rather than the police. They will be monitored 18 to 24 hours a day by the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition, which is a nonprofit board that works with police.
Now, all of the sudden, the people are concerned about their privacy. They aren't concerned when it is the government monitoring their communities ....
Is there a problem here? Only if these cameras can observe what people are doing in private. If these cameras are monitoring the streets and sidewalks then the people monitoring these cameras can't see a thing they wouldn't see if they were standing there on that very same street. I don't really see the problem here.
Every once in a while I just get lucky. I make an offhanded remark on the air that sends the looters into such paroxysms of angst and outrage that I get about a weeks worth of a free ride in blogs, columns and radio and TV shows.
Such was the case about 10 days ago when I made a comment about Barack Obama's plans to spend even more money that we don't have to "rebuild" New Orleans. I wondered why we would spend all of that money on an effort that would simply serve to bring back much of the debris that Hurricane Katrina washed out.
Look .. I guess I'm not as perfect a human being as so many of you are. When someone asks me if I think that some people are better than others, I'm not afraid to answer "Oh HELL yes." I understand and support the concept of equal rights under the law. Having equal rights does not make one equal. There are worthy human beings out there, and there are people you would have to be generous to call trash.
Let's take a look at New Orleans before Katrina struck. Here are some statistics from City Journal:
"New Orleans's poor population includes a sizable underclass. Before Katrina struck, fully 10 percent of New Orleanians lived either in public housing or Section 8 housing, far above the rates in Houston or New York. Only 36 percent of New Orleans's adults were married, compared with more than 49 percent in Houston, and more than half of mothers were unmarried, compared with 28 percent in Houston. In some New Orleans neighborhoods, only a quarter of the children lived with married parents. More than two-thirds of female-headed black households lived in poverty. Though many of New Orleans's underclass had moved from idleness into low-wage, tourist-trade jobs over the past decade, thanks to federal welfare reform and an abundance of such work in the city, their family structures and social skills hadn't improved along with this fledgling work ethic. The concentration of weak families partly explains why the city endured some of the nation's highest violent-crime rates."
Who were these people described in City Journal? Many of them were the people who were put on busses and sent to places like Houston. It didn't take any great amount of brainpower to see how this was going to work out for Houstonians. I can remember the day that the busses rolled out of New Orleans on Interstate 10. I told my listeners "Houston, you have a problem." What kind of a problem? Here's more from City Journal:
"Houston has slowly acknowledged, Katrina evacuees pushed up Houston's rates for some crimes, particularly homicide, not just the raw number of offenses. Houston's post-Katrina crime surge is an extension of the pre-Katrina violence of New Orleans's criminal underclass. Before Katrina, New Orleans had the highest murder rate of any big U.S. city, almost four times Houston's, with 58 people killed per year for every 100,000 citizens. The murder numbers Houston has racked up since Katrina prove that violent New Orleanians haven't changed their ways, but only their scenery.
Since Katrina, Houston police have identified New Orleans evacuees as either suspects or victims (or often both) in more than 30 Houston-area homicides. Of an evacuee population of 175,000, this works out to a per-capita annual murder rate of about 34 per 100,000, well above Houston's pre-Katrina rate. News of violent murders committed by and against Katrina evacuees has created a bit of a backlash in Houston. In a recent Rice University poll of Houston-area residents, two-thirds of the participants blamed Katrina evacuees for the crime spike and for a "considerable strain" on community resources."
I don't mince words. I'm not controlled by the dictates of political correctness. There are human beings out there - human beings that will readily export their culture of dependency and predatory violence to wherever they travel - that are deserving of the title "debris."
I love New Orleans. Been there many times, and the Boortz Crew was there in the French Quarter the night before Katrina hit. New Orleans is critically important to the US economy. The Port of New Orleans is the principal export point for the millions of tons of grain produced in America's heartland. Clearly New Orleans had to be brought back from the brink after Katrina. But for the life of me I don't see the need to spend taxpayer's money to rebuild New Orleans as it was before the storm .. a haven for welfare criminal parasites. Those who stayed and rebuilt .. fine. Those are the type of citizens of which New Orleans can be proud. These people ought to be screaming over the prospects of a federal rebuilding program that would bring back much of the welfare and criminal element that Katrina chased away.
There is a movement happening in the UK right now. Insurance companies are considering the idea of raising insurance premiums for anyone who uses social networking sites. This includes sites like Facebook or Twitter. They say premiums could rise, even if only your children are on social networking sites. Why? Because burglars are using the sites to "shop for victims" ... keeping track of when you are on vacation, home addresses, birthdays, etc.
The question here is whether or not the insurance regulations in the UK will allow insurance companies to compete on something like this. The private market can take care of asinine ideas like raising premiums on Facebook customers. Let some company try this, and another company comes along and steals their customers. All you need is competition. Unfortunately, competition is poison to governments. We'll see what happens.
Just watched a few episode of Cops over the weekend. Some conclusions are obvious. I'm sure cops already know these truths .. but if not, I'm only too glad to help.
The term "trailer trash" didn't just appear out of thin air.
Perp's pants never fit
There are plenty of minorities in prime time television.
Bad teeth apparently cause criminal behavior
So, apparently, do neck tattoos.
A cop in full uniform with street shoes, a Kevlar vest and 20 pounds of stuff on his belt will always outrun a shirtless perp in running shoes.
Nobody ever has a clue as to how those drugs got into their pocket
If you see a man driving with no shirt on, pull him over. He's a perp
That goes double for shirtless with a mullet
Perps never clean their homes or wash dishes
Street hookers are just flat-out ugly
At the end of one episode a special treat. Part of the show was filmed in Atlanta and the credits said "Special Thanks to Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell." Ole Bill just got out of jail. He was worse than the crooks they showed in the program.
.... especially those who live in Cambridge, Mass., the home of Harvard University and, not coincidentally, Professor Henry Louis (You do realize I'm important and black, don't you?) Gates. Now I really don't think that it's cool to make your living breaking into folks houses and stealing their stuff. But, if that's the way it's going to be, you might as well choose your targets wisely.
Man ... do I have the house for you. The house is on Ware Street in Cambridge, Mass. The owner and presumably sole occupant of the house is none other than esteemed Harvard Professor Henry ("you don't know who you're messin' with) Gates. I can almost promise you that if you decide to burglarize Mr. Gates' home there isn't a Cambridge police officer who would respond to the call. You'll have pretty much a free shot at all of the professor's stuff until he gets home. At that time you'll have to endure a screaming tirade about "this is what happens to a black man in America" and that you are a "racist burglar."
Really, though, you'll probably be able to get away because you'll hear Professor Gates coming a mile away. They say he's somewhat loud.
It's the 100th anniversary of the NAACP. I used to be a member. I no longer am. Let me tell you about their convention in New York City and you'll see why.
At their convention the NAACP announced what they call a "rapid response system." The idea is to get people with cell phones to capture videos and pictures of police "misconduct" and send those videos to the NAACP. The NAACP will then send back a form to be filled out giving details of the bad po-po.
The NAACP does NOT, however, have a program whereby citizens can take cell phone videos of gang activity or people committing crimes and forward them to any one for any action.
In case you don't know, Brinks security is now Broadview security. I saw their latest ad on television this morning. You have some guy stalking a winsome young mother and her daughter. Finally he tries to break into her home. The security alarm goes off and Broadview saves the day. As usual - as is the case in every single television ad ever put on television by Brinks - the perp is white. In the wonderful world of Brinks/Broadview only white guys try to break into houses to rob and rape. Political correctness to the extreme.
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