Victory In Iraq Day

And since the morons in Congress mostly don't have the balls to say it flat-out, or- in some cases- don't want it to be true, we have to say it:
WE WON THE WAR IN IRAQ


The bad guys have had their collective ass kicked. To borrow some words,
"By every measure, The United States and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all enemies in Iraq, pacified the country, deposed the previous regime, successfully helped to establish a new functioning democratic government, and suppressed any lingering insurgencies. The war has come to an end. And we won.

What more indication do you need? An announcement from the outgoing Bush administration? It's not gonna happen. An announcement from the incoming Obama administration? That's really not gonna happen. A declaration of victory by the media? Please. Don't make me laugh. A concession of surrender by what few remaining insurgents remain in hiding? Forget about it."

So we say it. To every Soldier, Marine, Airman and Sailor who put their ass on the line, to those who paid the price, we say thank you. The God-cursed politicians may not say it, but we do.

On the theme of spreading the word,

further evidence that some homosexual activists are fascist jerks:
That’s right. Activists have published an “Anti-Gay Black List” of Prop. 8 donors on the Internet. If the tables had been turned and Prop. 8 proponents created such an enemies’ list, everyone in Hollywood would be screaming “McCarthyism” faster than you can count to eight. A Los Angeles restaurant whose manager made a small donation to the Prop. 8 campaign has been besieged nightly by hordes of protesters who have disrupted the business, intimidated patrons, and brought employees there to tears. In fear for their jobs and their lives, workers at El Coyote Mexican Café pooled together $500 to pay off the bullies.
The only proper response to the threats these dirtbags are making is the racking of a shotgun. If any of you happen to find this post, and don't like it, I have a suggestion: grow up and start acting like a rational human being, not a spoiled brat with a machete.

From one of the links:
I’ve gotten into a discussion about it on Michelle Malkin’s site, and have even gotten in a few hits with JoeMyGod himself for his and his readers’ outright bumbling stupidity. I might be able to understand being upset about it, but seriously–you idiots are trying to preach against hate and you’re calling for gays and lesbians to “burn their f—ing churches to the ground and tax the charred timbers”? You must be joking!
Unfortunately, they're not. They think they have some right to ruin people who disagree with them. They're a bunch of (fill in appropriate description here), and they think they are privileged to destroy anyone who doesn't go along with their wishes.

Let's see, why does this not give me a warm feeling?

I just got an e-mail from Eric Cantor(Stupid Party-VA), just elected minority whip. It included this:
When the new Congress convenes in January, our nation will still be faced with economic turmoil at home and challenges abroad. We need leadership not partisanship in Washington. Our role as Republicans is to work with the new President where we can find common ground. It is also our role to serve as a check and balance on the excesses of the Obama-Pelosi team in Washington.
Every time some jackass pops out with some variation of 'leadership not partisanship' it tends to mean 'if we're nice and go along, they won't be mean to us'. Bullcrap.

If this continues to be the attitude of the Stupid Party, the Evil Party will continue screwing us all. And blaming the Stupid Party for it.

I am so damn sick of these people...

THIS is what Obama wants for Attorney General

Earlier this year, Eric Holder--along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice--co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief was filed in support of DC's ban on all handguns, and ban on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home. The brief argued that the Second Amendment is a "collective" right, not an individual one, and asserted that belief in the collective right had been the consistent policy of the U.S. Department of Justice since the FDR administration. A brief filed by some other former DOJ officials (including several Attorneys General, and Stuart Gerson, who was Acting Attorney General until Janet Reno was confirmed)took issue with the Reno-Holder brief's characterization of DOJ's viewpoint.
Aww, what's a little lying about a legal viewpoint? Especially in a lawyer sworn to the truth? Who works for the government?

But at the least, the Reno-Holder brief accurately expressed the position of the Department of Justice when Janet Reno was Attorney General and Eric Holder was Deputy Attorney General. At the oral argument before the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Emerson, the Assistant U.S. Attorney told the panel that the Second Amendment was no barrier to gun confiscation, not even of the confiscation of guns from on-duty National Guardsmen.
I mean, hell, why should the Guard be immune to having their arms seized? After all, they're just more of the peasants who need the gummint to control their lives, aren't they?

After 9/11, he penned a Washington Post op-ed, "Keeping Guns Away From Terrorists" arguing that a new law should give "the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale." He also stated that prospective gun buyers should be checked against the secret "watch lists" compiled by various government entities. (In an Issue Paper on the watch list proposal, I quote a FBI spokesman stating that there is no cause to deny gun ownership to someone simply because she is on the FBI list.)

After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the D.C. handgun ban and self-defense ban were unconstitutional in 2007, Holder complained that the decision "opens the door to more people having more access to guns and putting guns on the streets."
Yeah, there's that pesky 'Constitutional' thing getting in the way of doing what's needed for the good of the State and peasantsmasses.

Definitely read the whole damn thing. And take note of this:
Holder played a key role in the gunpoint, night-time kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez. The pretext for the paramilitary invasion of the six-year-old's home was that someone in his family might have been licensed to carry a handgun under Florida law.
Now, just think what the FBI and ATF & Co. could do if they could use registration lists as excuse for 'dynamic entry' raids every time they wanted. Why, just think of all the dead dogs, kittens, smashed homes and terrified peoplepractice the ninja troops could get!
Although a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showed a federal agent dressed like a soldier and pointing a machine gun at the man who was holding the terrified child, Holder claimed that Gonzalez "was not taken at the point of a gun" and that the federal agents whom Holder had sent to capture Gonzalez had acted "very sensitively."
Dammit, if us dummies keep wanting officials to actually have some regard for the truth, how will we move into the progressive future?

I think the AG position has to go through the approval process; this would be a good time to yell at the congresscritters again.


You know, I've come to the view that one of the big uses of a blog like this is spreading the word. I posted on that idiot ammunition serial-numbering scheme the other day and a guy said he'd not been aware his state was considering this crap; so I wound up helping someone get word. That's a good thing.

This is getting rediculous

Went to the Sportsmans Warehouse where I usually get bullets and primers nowadays. Empty spaces outnumbered in-stock bullets by about 4-1. Rifle, handgun, all. I did get my primers; I wanted a brick(1000), but got the last 800 CCI Large Rifle they had.

Lots of rifles and shotguns on the racks, but NO AR15 variants. None. When I got the .22's at Academy yesterday, they had one of the new Sig variants, and that was all.

Damn.

Victory in Iraq Day;

since Congress won't declare it, Zombie thinks we should.

I like it.

Even on the local level, PC media is a plague

The other day one of the big stories was the #2 Nutcase of al Qaeda called Obama a house negro. Except that most of the media weenies just couldn't bring themselves to report that: it was some kind of 'racial epithet'. Local news weenie actually put it that 'accused President-Elect Obama of being a black man who serves white men'. These people have no balls at all.(added: it seems some of the translators decided to clean things up: actually, he called him a 'house slave')

Or integrity. When Harry Bellafonte called Colin Powell a house negro, they played that; but they won't say this. Morons.

This just in: John Murtha(D Sleazebag-PA, and thanks a lot for reelecting him, you morons) is a chickenshit. Who doesn't have the balls to stand behind his words, and has a government lawyer(i.e., paid for by other people) saying "...a member of Congress is “absolutely immune” from a defamation suit because there’s no circumstance in which speaking to the media is not within the scope of a lawmaker’s employment." In other words, silly peasant, the claim is it doesn't matter where he is or what he does, Murtha(and every other moron in Congress) can slander and lie about people and has immunity from being nailed for it. Which is patent bullcrap, same as the crap a year or so ago that their offices are immune from being searched in a criminal investigation("Your home or business can be searched, but not OUR offices, you peasants!"). On this, I can't decide which would be the best attention-getter for these politicians: tar & feathers, a whip, or just go straight to the rope/lamppost thing.

With all the attention on pirates lately, and various hand-wringing "What can we do?" fretting, I'll make a suggestion: British & American* navies in particular, start sinking them. Just like we did for so long. They're at sea, they're pirates attacking people, "CIC Bridge, commence fire." Cuts down on recidivism something fierce.

Bill Ayers is a terrorist, murderer, a liar and and chickenshit.

I do not watch The View; I'd rather clean cosmoline off a hundred-year-old rifle with my tongue than listen to that collection of bigots and bullies, as evidenced by the contempt of one of these oh-so-sensitive liberal jerks toward home schooling. Yeah, public schooling is full of such wonderful moments for kids to remember.

Kim has a couple up today about men looking at women, and what women look like. As to the first, hell YES we look. Guys who aren't jerks try not to be obnoxious about it, but we look. And ladies, you damn well know it, so don't get huffy. Few years back some of my daughters friends were bitching about guys looking at them, daughter mentioned. I told her to give them a guys' view: if you're wearing a top cut down damn near to bisecting the shirt, and/or tied up to the boobs, and pants low-riding to the point of falling down or a skirt short enough to flash their crotch, not only do they know guys are looking but they want them to, and we know it; so knock off the bitching. Or change their mode of dress.
As to the second, what the hell is WRONG with these women? Emaciation is not sexy, dammit.

And now, I need to go out into the cold wind and look for ammo that I couldn't find yesterday. Or primers. Or powder. Can always use more of any of it.

*I don't have to mention the Indian Navy; they seem to have the idea just fine.

Word from the son

whose unit rotated back to Germany first of the month. So they went from 70's & 80's to 30's & 40's. And he doesn't care for cold any more than I do.

But they're back, with lots of PT and other joys to keep them busy for a while. Further on that later.

I know it's been mentioned before, but the ammunition registration

clowns are still with us and pushing their crap. Basically, they want to serial-number each and every bullet, which means when you buy ammo the ammo would be registered to you(which means it's also backdoor firearm registration).

According to their site, this crap is being pushed
Alabama
Alabama Senate Bill 541

Arizona
Arizona House Bill 2833

California
California Senate Bill 997 (Carried Over from 2007)

Connecticut
Connecticut Senate Bill 603

Hawaii
Hawaii House Bill 2392
Hawaii Senate Bill 2020
Hawaii Senate Bill 2076
Hawaii House Resolution 82-07 (Carried Over from 2007)
Hawaii Concurrent Resolution 104-06 (Carried Over from 2007)

Illinois
Illinois House Bill 4258
Illinois House Bill 4259
Illinois House Bill 4269
Illinois House Bill 4349
Illinois Senate Bill 1095 (Carried Over from 2007)

Indiana
Indiana House Bill 1260

Kentucky
Kentucky House Bill 715

Maryland
Maryland House Bill 517

Mississippi
Mississippi Senate Bill 2286

Missouri
Missouri Senate Bill 1200

New Jersey
New Jersey Assembly Bill 2490

New York
New York Assembly Bill 10259
New York Assembly Bill 6920 (Carried Over from 2007)
New York Assembly Bill 7300 (Carried Over from 2007)
New York Senate Bill 1177 (Carried Over from 2007)
New York Senate Bill 3731 (Carried Over from 2007)

Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania House Bill

Rhode Island
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2742

South Carolina
South Carolina Senate Bill 1259

Tennessee
Tennessee House Bill 3245
Tennessee Senate Bill 3395

Washington
Washington House Bill 3359

If your state is there, you might want to yell at your state government varmints about it.

National Ammo Day

is today. Which, to my shame, I forgot about completely with all the insanity running around the last while.

What I really wanted to buy, everyone was out of. And I mean everyone. To make up partially for that, Academy has the 525-packs of Remington .22 hollowpoints on sale, so I got two. That makes 1050 rounds of future noisemaking. Since the day was officially expanded to Ammo Week, I'll check for the other stuff tomorrow(weather supposed to turn ratty, so taking care of outdoor stuff while it's decent outside today).

More on the run on gunny stuff

Found this at the AIM Surplus site:
As you know, we at AIM and others in the firearms industry are experiencing an extraordinarily high demand for the products we sell.
This extreme demand compares only to the spike experienced in 1993-1994 when the Brady Bill became law.
Although we will do all we can to insure the fulfillment of your order(s) in its entirety, we are experiencing product shortages that may result in backorders or delays of specific product from your order.
We ask for your patience as we work diligently to process orders, answer phone calls and respond to the thousands of emails requesting information about orders placed and product status.
Although some have responded to this spike by raising their prices immediately after the election. You have our promise that we will make every effort to maintain our advertised prices until our suppliers increase our costs.
In an effort to better control our remaining inventory, we are allowing only selected products to be purchased via our website.
Thank you again for your business and your patient understanding.

Right below a big notice that 'the walk-in counter closed until further notice'.

I did some browsing around, decided "Ok, Browning High Power, that has a mag the GFWs consider scary, so how about those?" At Midway, every mag for the High Power shows sold out. Every brand and size.

Damn. Ok, just looked at Centerfire Systems, same thing: lots of mags sold out. If you're looking for some, you may have a problem.

And the GFW dirtbags begin

And the crapheads in the lead have an 'R' as their party designation.
These five supposed Republican are nothing more than jackasses in elephant's clothing. Rep. Mark Kirk has introduced a bill, H.R. 6257: Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008, which would "reinstate the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act." The bill has been co-sponsored by the other four jackasses listed above. All of them claim to be Republicans.

All of them need to leave the party.

Seriously.

Go.
I agree.

The gentleman at Right Wing News notes that Kirk's office number is 202-225-4835, just in case you'd like to let him know what you think of this.

New pharmaceuticals

usually need advertising...



Thanks to Theo for word of this advance in medical science

I bet many muslims 'are outraged'

over this:
MÜNSTER, Germany -- Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany's first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn't like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.

So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the fruit of his theological research. His conclusion: The Prophet Muhammad probably never existed.
And his colleagues, too:
"We had no idea he would have ideas like this," says Thomas Bauer, a fellow academic at Münster University who sat on a committee that appointed Prof. Kalisch. "I'm a more orthodox Muslim than he is, and I'm not a Muslim."
Which would tell the moron something, if he thought about it.

Prof. Kalisch, who insists he's still a Muslim, says he knew he would get in trouble but wanted to subject Islam to the same scrutiny as Christianity and Judaism. German scholars of the 19th century, he notes, were among the first to raise questions about the historical accuracy of the Bible.
Apparently the professor doesn't understand that he's not allowed to raise such questions about Islam; that's a protected species of religion.

"Of course Muhammad existed," says Tilman Nagel, a scholar in Göttingen and author of a new book, "Muhammad: Life and Legend." The Prophet differed from the flawless figure of Islamic tradition, Prof. Nagel says, but "it is quite astonishing to say that thousands and thousands of pages about him were all forged" and there was no such person.
Um, Mr. Nagel, that would be 'fictionalized' not 'forged'.

All the same, Prof. Nagel has signed a petition in support of Prof. Kalisch, who has faced blistering criticism from Muslim groups and some secular German academics. "We are in Europe," Prof. Nagel says. "Education is about thinking, not just learning by heart."
Apparently Prof. Nagel hasn't been paying attention to what's been happening around him in the 'thinking' process of Europe, especially that touching on Islam and muslims. Speaking of which,
Prof. Kalisch's religious studies center recently removed a sign and erased its address from its Web site. The professor, a burly 42-year-old, says he has received no specific threats but has been denounced as apostate, a capital offense in some readings of Islam.

"Maybe people are speculating that some idiot will come and cut off my head," he said during an interview in his study.

A few minutes later, an assistant arrived in a panic to say a suspicious-looking digital clock had been found lying in the hallway. Police, called to the scene, declared the clock harmless.
He'd better get used to it.

What's really interesting isn't the outrage and threats from various muslims and groups; it's the actions and words of people in the university system having horror fits about what he's said. If he'd said nasty things about Jesus or the Torah, no problem; say something about Muhammed? "You can't do that!"

Just so much garbage for a Monday,

and no time to go to the range. Dammit.

As Kim notes, if this man is charged, those responsible ought to be scourged out of office or their job, whichever. Absolute bullcrap.

It's just so interesting what the 'most honest House and Senate EVER!!!' gets us, isn't it? Tax-Evader Rangel, Fannie Mae Frank, Countrywide Dodd, aides trying to sneak guns onto airplanes and child-porn charges.

Well, well, Dallas commits social security fraud and identity theft, and works with illegal aliens, but "It was just a mistake, no crime committed." Bullcrap.

Kathleen Parker is whining because people are mad at her. And, of course, it's because "I criticized the Republican ticket." No, dumbass, WE were 'criticizing the Stupid Party ticket' because McCain was on it; we're pissed at you and others like you for dumping on Sarah Palin and blaming her for the loss. And crapping(again) on conservatives.

More idiocy due to the Pork, Payoffs & Bribes Bailout Bill:
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Schiff says. "People are going to feel like complete morons if they don't participate. The people getting punished are the ones who never made an irresponsible decision to buy a house they couldn't afford."

The government is offering loan servicers $800 for every homeowner they get into the plan.
The line to borrow a whip and head into the House and Senate forms on the left.

Blah. I need some lunch.

Tam has noted some things on which she is

unplugged from current music, etc. I sympathize. Or agree with. Whatever. In the truck I tend to listen to a local AM station during the day for news and talk shows; evening I may try a couple of the FM stations, but not often; just don't like most of what they play, so on goes the CD player.

Back a couple of years I worked a lot of late nights. We had cable and could watch it when things were quiet, and sometimes I'd just have it on for background noise. One of the channels I'd turn on was VH1 for music, which allowed me to catch some new music I liked, and I'd just ignore the rest. Then VH1 started doing the same thing MTV had done: only playing music videos for a few hours very late night/early morning, the rest of the time it was idiot 'reality' shows and excuses for current pop or other idiots to spout off about things. CMT's about as bad last time I looked, so started ignoring those channels completely. Which hasn't exactly troubled my life.

Movies? Rarely go to a theater; most of the stuff is crap, and the few that aren't, unless I can catch a discount showing, aren't worth the money and pain in the ass of going to a theater(hello, DVD).

So I'm in the same boat. Which seems to be sailing along nicely, thank you. I still haven't decided if I'm going to get one of the converters for HDTV in February, or just use the tv for watching discs and tapes. Mind you, if I could get cable with maybe eight channels(Discovery, History, etc.) I'd probably buy it, but the whole package? With all those channels I'd never watch? Nope.

A somewhat better day than the last couple

Friday I wound up leaving work early, due to a certain uncontrollable need to evacuate my system of everything I'd eaten over the last, oh, 12 hours or so. Which did cause certain problems, among them not being able to answer the phone while taking care of said need.

Which led to Saturday, which was cold and windy, which in this case was fine, as I had no desire to go outside and do anything.

So today started out a bit cold, but warmed up nicely. Good on two counts:
First, I was fully over the "You didn't need that in your system" problem, and
Second, I'd promised a friend to help him put up a storage shed. Which mostly got done.
"Mostly" as in all framing, all walls and about 1/3 of the roof. This is the third of these aluminum sheds I've done/helped with, and if this'd been the same size as mine we'd have finished it. But he got a BIG one, so not quite.

If you get the urge to put one of these in the yard, I have one piece of advice: level, solid base for the floor. Doesn't have to be a slab, but level and solid. Because any unevenness in the floor, or if it's not square, will cause holes to not line up, thus causing large amounts of language practice and commentary on the designers of these instruments of mental torture. When I did mine I leveled a space a little bigger than the floor, then put down a bunch of the half-cinder blocks: one at each corner, one on each end and in the center of the doors, and one everywhere the floor joists either joined the outside frame or crossed. Every damn one of them leveled using a long piece of angle iron and a level. And then, before actually screwed any pieces, checked the floor frame for square about five times, making tiny adjustments. Took a while, but worth it: everything lined up, and it's been very solid; no apparent shifting over three years. One thing I did do later was lift up the floor panels and put a bunch of pea gravel between all the blocks and around the edges; the yard has a fair amount of slope back there and that keeps it from washing out under the thing.

Oh, and get a friend. Especially if there's any wind, those light panels have an amazing amount of sail area.

To a whole bunch of homosexual activists

Especially the so very progressive ones: fuck you. And the horse you rode in on, along with every flea on it.

I personally don't care who you sleep with. And while I'd prefer it be a civil union as opposed to marriage(that word means a lot; I'd hate to see it changed), it's not something I'm going to lose sleep over.

However. Far as I'm concerned, if this garbage is your reaction to a loss at the polls, fuck you. You don't deserve to win in a legal vote if this is your reaction to this loss. You're acting like a bunch of Soviet commissars and deserve to be treated as such, you and every suckup politician involved.

Oh, and I stopped calling Jew-haters 'anti-semites' a long time ago; so you're not going to be referred to as 'gay' in this place. Not after this shit.

This just about

sums it up.

Ok, there's such a pile of stuff out there

I can be lazy and just linkbe a public servant; nay, virtually a community organizer of information, and point you eight people who read this to these things:

Lots of lawyers wonder why people don't respect them for their intrinsic worth, since they're the most important people in the country; specifically, trial lawyers:
Lawyer Gerry Spence, who was awarded the CAOC Lifetime Achievement Award, told conference attendees that legal representation is essential, even more important than health care, for people.

"We have to redefine who we are: We are the most important people in America," Spence said. "There is no other profession in America that fights for freedom, that fights for what America is about, that fights for justice for ordinary people."

To make his point, Spence -- founder of the Trial Lawyers College, which trains lawyers to be more effective in the courtroom -- said to imagine that all of the doctors and healers somehow vanished.

"I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared?" he asked. "We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice."
... Um. Yeah. Gd knows, first thing I think of when I get hurt or need help is calling a trial lawyer. Unless, y'know, I'm actually hurt or something, in which case a doctor sounds like a real good idea. It's after I'm not bleeding to death or something I look for someone to help me sue somebody else for my being a dumbass or something. Yeah. Them lawyers are REAL important, then.

Let's see, Memphis PD spent about $88,000 trying to find the ID of a blogger who was critical of the PD:
The legal bill for that suit has arrived, and The Commercial Appeal reports it totals about $88,000. The city’s legal department declined giving a breakdown on the legal expenses, and the police department had no comment.

When the suit was filed earlier this year, authorities said they were upset because a picture of an undercover officer was posted on the site. It was later determined, however, that the officer’s picture was also on the police department Web site.
Oh, wait, my bad; it's the people of the city who're paying almost $90k for this bullcrap. Yeah, I'm sure they think it's worth every penny.

Sen. Chris Countrywide Dodd(Fraudster-CT) is still getting a pass on his corruption, including by a lot of media:
A news-talk radio station in New Haven, Connecticut, is refusing to air a spirited interview between a conservative host and the powerful chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Chris Dodd.

NBC News reports that a federal criminal investigation into possible wrongdoing by mortgage giant Countrywide Home Loans now includes scrutiny of Countrywide's VIP program that gave special mortgage deals to government officials, including Senators Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota) and Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut).

Connecticut conservative radio talk-show host Tom Scott says up until now, fellow senators and the media have not questioned Dodd about his personal scandal.
Yeah, I'm going to be holding my breath until the investigation turns out to be real. And actually holds them responsible. And the media gives it the kind of coverage they did bullcrap rumors about Palin. HOLDING IT, I tell you!

This just in: Rep. Barney Fannie Mae Frank(Corrupticrat Socialist-MA) is a jackass who wants all your money:
Even more persuasive, there are tons of reasons why Fan and Fred should evanesce. Their business model--publicly subsidized but privately profited firms--yields massively leveraged portfolios, incompetent but grossly compensated management, a huge lobbying establishment and political pork galore.

Of course there was no rejoicing from one of Fan and Fred's chief cheerleaders--Congressman Barney Frank. When asked about the shrinkage of Fan and Fred's portfolios, he responded: "Good luck on that." And then went on to characterize such an idea as a "sop" to the right, not a policy possibility. Simply put: It ain't going to happen on his watch.
Which, of course, means he and his buttmonkeys sticking their hands deeper into our pockets to fuel his passion for this crap. Wasn't there once an anti-pickpocket device that was a kind of pocket guillotine?

Ohio needs to clean up it's damned government. Or(maybe and/or) get out a lot of rope:
Kohlstrand said that the AG's office wanted access to the records so they could turn over to the national media lien information that was a public record in Lucas County. He said the national media did not have reporters in Toledo, so the attorney general's office was helping them out with public records.
These people need to be fired, and then criminally prosecuted. There is NO EXCUSE for this kind of corruption. None. And I hope Joe sues the collective ass off the people and agencies involved. Maybe, just maybe, that'll get their attention.

Ah, the tolerance of believers in The One. And this crap is going on in school?

This is one brave 14 year old girl.

Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain's name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.

But wait! It gets better.

"One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed," Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.

Note the tolerance and compassion of the JHE supporters. Yeah, these are kids but at that age they get their beliefs from their parents. Ironically, they are prolly for abortion and against capital punishment but think a 14 year old should be killed for supporting McRINO.

But students weren't the only ones surprised that she wore a shirt supporting McCain.

"In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain," Catherine said.

Just friggin' amazing. I'd take three guesses what the teachers are 'teaching', but I probably wouldn't need two of them.

This is disturbing on multiple levels:
For the second time this year, a professor at the University of Iowa has taken his own life after being accused of sexual harassment
...
After Miller was arrested in August, the university announced that it would require all faculty members to undergo training about sexual harassment. That process is now going on.

Asked what the university should do following this latest incident, O’Hara said that “we have to separate the issue of sexual harassment from the issue of why a professor or anybody for that matter would commit suicide in the face of kind of public disclosure of something that is personally extremely embarrassing if not humiliating. Those are two different issues — people face criminal charges all the time and don’t commit suicide. It’s not an inevitable consequence.”

O’Hara added: “We have to continue on campus to educate ourselves and to be vigilant about sexual harassment and help everyone understand that as an academic community, these things aren’t to be tolerated.” At the same time, he said that the two deaths made him wonder about the treatment of “alleged perpetrators.” It is important to remember, he said, that “being accused doesn’t mean that something happened.”.
OK, anyone who thinks that ANY university hasn't already had 'watch out for sexual harassment classes' until everyone's sick of them is a moron. Second, what seems to be missing in the 'we don't understand' crap is recognition that an accusation of this type can ruin someones career even when proven innocent. And some people just can't face that. Were they guilty? Don't know. Do know that bullcrap accusations have been used against mainly men far too many times to ignore the possibility. And with the examples of lives and careers ruined, it's not surprising some would decide they couldn't deal with it. Don't say it's a good way to deal with it, but understand why it happens.

And, just to close this, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, as dishonest a name as a group every came up with, wants higher taxes on alcohol to save lives. And, in truth, to pump up the tax base:
”In addition to public health implications, state governments should re-examine their alcohol excise taxes on for fiscal reasons, said George Hacker, director of Alcohol Policies Project for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.”

“Given state budgets are in the toilet bowl, it's an available source of revenue that has not been looked to for a very long time," Hacker said. "The tax increases are long overdue. The product doesn't pay its way in covering economic and social costs associated with its use."
Note that progressive bullcrap: 'the product doesn't pay its way'. Kind of like the 'if you're not working and paying taxes, you won't repay the State for health care so you should die' attitude of the NHS in Britain.

I need to so something soothing, like clean guns or sharpen knives or something.