Syracuse Vice

This story is ripped out of the Land of Dim.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A police sting took an odd turn when an officer pretending to be a john met a suspected prostitute pretending to be an officer.

John meet Jane, Jane meet John.

A male undercover officer driving in a neighborhood known for prostitution was flagged down by a woman. The woman got in his car and they went to a nearby parking lot to negotiate a price for sex.

I worked vice for a while. Things could get a little dicey with some of the EDP types and we were instucted never to let a whore get in the car with us. Maybe things have changed.

She asked the officer if he was a cop and he said no.

They always do.
We always say no.
They always believe us.
We always lock them up.

"That's OK, because I am," the woman said as she pulled out handcuffs and a two-way radio. She barked into the radio: "Move in!" The officer, concerned the woman was armed and looking to rob him, forced her from the car.

That's one of the reasons why you don't ever let them in the car.

I did that once when the opportunity presented itself and my back up car wasn't around. This hooker was very hard to arrest because her pimp had a notion that I might be a cop and wouldn't let her near me.

I saw her a few blocks away from her "man" and made the deal. I immediately arrested her for prositution (must be an offer of sex for a specified amount of money). I didn't know that she had a medical condition where her cartidge was incredibly soft and pliable. She scrunched her wrist down smaller than a human being has any right to do, slipped the cuffs off and handed them to me over the back seat. She then said, "You'll probably want this," and handed me her knife.

I usually was very polite to the hookers and only once had a stark raving lunatic on my hands. I was doubly glad I was polite this night because she placed the knife gently in my hand rather than forcibly in the back of my neck.

Moments later, officers who had been monitoring the situation arrived and grabbed Greene and her radio.

You never go out on a prostitution detail alone. There must always be someone watching your six.

The suspect in this scam was arrested for prostitution, conspiracy and impersonating a police officer was 31 year old Lisa Green. Her 20 year old accomplice, Elena Irwin, was also arrested. Fortunately no one got hurt.

Ya Gotta Love This Guy

John Bolton has just smacked another fool right across his clownish brow. Of course it does not get much mention in the MSM, but just the same it was a thing of beauty.

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Wednesday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's speech at the U.N. calling President George W. Bush "the devil" doesn't deserve a response.

That goes without saying. The only response Chavez needs is a size twelve planted up his arse.

The leftist leader, who has joined Iran in opposing U.S. influence, accused Washington of "domination, exploitation and pillage of peoples of the world."

I would love to see some real domination by the U.S for a change. And some pillaging too, lotsa real actual pillaging, not the wearing of funny hats and fraternity pranks that drives the left bonkers. Maybe my taxes would go down if we exploit the peoples of the world instead of rescuing them from every crackpot that thinks he's a king.

"We're not going to address that kind of comic strip approach to international affairs," Bolton said during a televised press conference.

There may be a few of you (very few) of you who remember the comic strip character, Alley Oop. That's where the remarks of the leader of Venezuela belong.

Seabees Can Do !!!!

Our host, ever the humble one sent me this little article.

His nephew is attached to that unit, I'll keep his name private as a courtesy to Sig, but it's a prime example of the caliber and spirit of our military.

During Peace or War, they are indeed our finest.

Thank God for men and women such as these, volunteers all, just like the Minutemen and hundreds of thousands of others that preceded them.

This friends is the heart of and soul of America and her sons and daughters.

Navy Sea Bees help school build a trail


I fear for the Republic seeing and hearing the blather coming out of D.C., but a simple reminder of who is at the tip of the spear does this old heart good.

These are Americans, not the spineless weasels we see on the TV everyday.


Pray for our patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world and the families of those fallen in defense of our liberty.

Seymour St

I was cleaning out my blog, looking for posts that I never published; I found this.

Cookie (The Cook Shack) and I worked together as cops. We didn't share any assignments but know each other and got along. Cookie was a detective and I was a street cop/evidence technician. Over the past few days we exchanged some views on a series of newspaper clippings my brother emailed to me. One of them was this article about a domestic incident resulting in serious injury under rather unusual circumstances.

Cookie replied:

Too bazaar not to be true......but I had something similar at Upstate one night regarding the last news flash. Seems she (59er) was giving head to her 59er boyfriend in the kitchen when she had an epileptic seisure....he wacked her in the head frantically...giving her multiple contusions, abrasions...and a concussion. He lost most of his penis and there was blood all over the Seymour St address...that's right....good old Seymour St.......

Having worked the 59 beat for several years, I knew exactly where Cookie was talking about. And the typical situations (or atypical if you're not a lunatic) one was liable to run into. Particularly if it involved sex. Some of the weirdest calls involved unnatural acts with whatever happened to be at hand. Anyway, I replied:

Where else but Seymour? And Shonnard, Oswego, Kellogg, yes there’s always Kellogg. And Gifford, and Merriman, and …

Cookie sends back:

Remind me to tell ya about the Homicide I had on Shonnard St where a Hispanic man stuck a .12 ga shotgun in his girlfriends mouth during a fight and pulled the trigger....that was a REAL cover yur coffee cup scene if'n ya read me....

Well, I remembered this homicide very well. What Cookie refers to here as a "Cover yur coffee cup" scene is a crime scene that is so incredibly messy that body parts are literally dripping from the ceiling. Ergo "cover yur coffee cup" if you don't want to be drinking someone else's body fluids and swallowing little meaty chunks of whatever.

I emailed Cookie back:

That was in Feb of 1980 I think, 152 Seymour, downstairs on the east side of the house? Is that the one? I was in there for three hours. Heh, that was the house Danny Corbett ran outta there. When I walked in the suspect was on his knees in front of Jensen begging him to kill him. Jensen is going, “Now, now, now calm down now ...”

We were sitting down in the squad room getting ready for roll call just before 2300 when Danny and I were called out by one of the platoon sergeants. "Get down to 152 Seymour," he says, "There's been a shooting."

Danny and I were the Evidence Technicians tonight, or ET's for short, and we rolled on all felonies as sort of a mini-crime lab. It was unusual that there was two of us working the same unit. I worked the ET car on a regular basis and Danny covered for me on my rest days. There was at least one ET car deployed on every shift, sometimes two (units 235 and 236) if there was enough coverage in all the beats. Each car was stuffed with photographic, latent print and evidence collection gear. The 100 block of Seymour St. was less than a mile from the station so we got there in no time.

Cookie arrived a bit later on Seymour St. He replied:

Being the Sgt in the Lab...I had to be present at all homicides and suspicious death scenes...and they've become a blur in my memory. You are most correct...I stand corrected regarding date and location...but that was an unforgettable scene wasn't it?

Yes it was. This was the messiest scene I'd ever had to process. I had an indication that this could be bad when Danny and I first pulled up. I saw the ambulance crew saunter out of the first floor apartment with an empty gurney and not a care in the world. Right away I knew that either it was nothing or it was everything. An empty gurney means that emergency care is not needed or the victim is far beyond any care. As I passed the ambulance crew I asked, "What is it?" They just shrugged and proceded to look there gear back on the rig. Danny stayed behind on the sidewalk and yelled at me, "I can't stand that stuff, let me know how bad it is." I just said "Sure," and walked into the scene.

I emailed Cookie:

High speed Velveta cheese all over the wall. A big piece of the top of her skull completely stripped of flesh and hair on the kitchen floor, upside down like a soup bowl. I could look down her throat into her stomach.

And she was still holding a glass of beer.

It took a few seconds for the sight to sink in. The victim was sitting at a small table in a cheap vinyl kitchen chair. She was slouched over the tale on her left side. About three quarters of her head was completely gone. And she was clutching a glass of beer in her left hand. Gore was everywhere. Brains, hair and blood had painted the wall behind the table and was dripping from the ceiling; much of the rest of her head had spattered over the rest of the room after ricoheting off the walls and ceiling. At the time I imagined that if I shined a flashlight down her throat I could have read a book with the light coming out her ass.

Danny wanted to know what was going on. He called from outside, "Is it bad?"

I answered him, "Nah, it's nothing."

I have been told I have a sadistic streak. So does Cookie.

Danny walked into the scene and ran out like a flash. I didn't see him for several hours. I never asked him what he did all that time. I think he was painting the side of the apartment with his dinner.

Cookie emailed me back:

What you may not have seen or heard about that night was what I did to the then Lt. Smith.

I found something over in the corner of the kitchen...picked it up with a spoon and went outside to Lt. Smith...who by the way was sick from the scene...and I had the spoon behind my back.

I walked up to him and said..."Hey L.T" .....pulled out the spoon from behind my back and put it up to his face and said "Here's lookin at you kid"...it was one of her eyes. Smith lost it right there.....ROFLMAO.....

Yeah. Cops.

Remember Just One

This should be a day of remembrance when every American vows that he or she will do whatever is necessary to bring a swift, victorious conclusion to the War on Terror. Instead, we are yet divided by a relatively small, influential cabal of elitists who place their political interests above the security needs of our country.

We are at war and have been so since at least 1993.

There are those of us who realize that stone cold Islamic radicals plotted the destruction and death of thousands of our fellow citizens and, impossible to comprehend, a number of those who believe that America is responsible for the events of September 11, 2001. There are even some who insist that government operatives actually perpetrated the murder.

We are at war with an implacable foe who views mass murder and mayhem as legitimate tools of international diplomacy and has done so for 1,400 years. Our political leaders failed to realize this, some still do.

2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.
On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggerswill join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11.Each person will pay tribute to a single victim. We will honor them by remembering their lives,and not by remembering their murderers.

Her name is Michelle Herman Goldstein. She was originally from Coral Gables, Florida, and had left her old job as an insurance adjuster for State Farm, specializing in disaster coverage. Just four months before the attack, Michele got a job as a senior specialist with Aon Risk Services on the 98th floor of Tower Two.

September 11, 2001, was her seven-month wedding anniversary.

In Custody

Ralph Phillips was arrested at approximately 8:00 pm last night by members of the New York State Police in a Pennsylvania field just outside the NY border. He was immediately transported back to New York where he will be arraigned this morning for murder and assault.

Phillips' arrest comes two days before the funeral of Trooper Joseph Longobardo, who died last Sunday. One other Trooper, Donald Baker Jr., is still in critical condition. Both men were ambushed by Phillips on August 31st as they watched the house of Phillips' former girlfriend.

New York State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett made a statement that Phillips will spend the rest of his life in prison. There's no doubt that that a more satisfactory ending would have been Phillips being excorted out of that field in a body bag rather than handcuffs, but we'll take what we can get. Praise God there was no further loss of life or injury to the hundreds of police officers who participated in the manhunt.

UPDATE:
From what I hear Trooper Baker is still in very, very critical condition. Please pray for him.

Mickey's Gonna Need Some Ice On That

In February 1996, the American Broadcasting Company was purchased by the Walt Disney Corporation, creating a company with combined assets of more than $30 billion and a market capitalization of some $50 billion, making it the world's biggest media and entertainment conglomerate.

According to Michelle Malkins's Hot Air web site, "ABC agrees to edit “Path to 9/11″ after phone call from Clinton." Rush Limbaugh also mentions "See, I told You So" about the projected cave in of ABC regarding "The Path To 9/11."

Clinton allegedly is demanding that certain offensive portions be edited from the miniseries or the whole thing be shelved. There is mention that congressional democrats are also putting alot of pressure on the Walt Disney Corporation to make changes.

It looks like there is a chance that the home office may bend over, lift up their tail and take it up the mousehole for the democrats.

I Had To Be There

Tonight on Spike TV there was a documentary, "Metal Of Honor," about the ironworkers who risked their lives in the incredible grave yard of jumbled steel and debris that was the World Trade Center after 9/11. The most common thought these men shared was this, "I had to be there, I had to do this." Several men said, "This is our iron. We put it up, and we'll be the ones to take it out." These were the men who raised the World Trade Center from a hole in the ground to over a thousand feet.

There was no pay, and no thought of getting paid.

These were the men of Ironworkers Local 40. They showed up first as volunteers, helping fire and police workers sort things out almost immediately after the fall of the Towers. In order to organize the site to control the forensic recovery process, bring order to chaotic conditions and prevent further injuries, NYC hired general contractors and assigned them sectors of the site. The ironworkers were then hired by the contractors. Eventually ironworkers from all over the country would show up at the site. Because they had to be there.

The stories of these men were dramatic.

Huge 20, 30, 50 ton pieces of steel twisted and contorted beyond imagination had to be cut into sections and removed. Retired ironworkers with special skills were brought in to teach other ironworkers how to cut into the wreckage without injuring themselves or others. As one ironworker remarked to a new man, "I hope you have bus fare on you 'cause if you cut that wrong you'll end up in Hoboken!"

They worked 12, 14 and 16 hour shifts. They went home, collapsed into their beds and returned to do it all over again for months on end

The site was a huge junkyard; it was like working on a giant pile of pick up sticks ... from hell. Huge pieces of steel half buried in the smoldering wreckage would burst into flame when exposed to the air. Steel does indeed burn. The fires, estimated at over 1200 degrees Fahrenheit, finally went out on December 19, 2001.

Everything was pulverized. Two of the biggest buildings in the country filled with computers, chairs, tables, telephones, fax machines and filing cabinets were reduced to broken steel and dust.

"I was breathing in dead people," stated one worker. The ironworkers, along with fire and police, toiled for over a week without proper masks. Ironworkers became proficient at finding parts of dead bodies, seeing arms and legs that the search dogs missed.

They initially thought that they would find some people still alive in the wreckage and they attacked the site like men possessed. In a relatively short time they were dissuaded of this hope. Later they would rejoice when they simply found a body that was not in pieces.

In eight and a half months the ironworkers removed 190,568 tons of steel. It took 3.1 million man hours. And they finished several months ahead of shedule. The clean up ended in a closing ceremony on May 30, 2002. The last giant column was picked up by a crane and gently laid on the ground.

And the ironworkers paid a price. Although there were no fatal injuries, fifty percent of them suffer from long term health problems because of the fumes and dust.

In your prayers tonight, mention the Ironworkers of America and thank God for men like this..

Must See TV

Let's get the word out. ABC is showing a mini series entitled "The Path To 9/11" on September 10th and 11th at 9 EST, 8 CST. The mini series is an honest appraisal of the events that lead to the murder of 3,000 Americans and initial reviews indicate that it lays the blame squarely on the sheer incompetence of the Clinton administration.

Here are some examples:

Frontpage Magazine:

This is the first Hollywood production I’ve seen that honestly depicts how the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden.also dramatizes the frequent opportunities the Administration had in the 90s to stop Bin Laden in his tracks ‹ but lacked the will to do so.

Conservatives need to really step in here and spread the word via talk radio and the internet. Every American, and everyone alarmed by Islamic terrorism around the world should see this miniseries.

Patterico's Pontifications [posted by Justin Levine]:

For those who have been asking for a clear historical account of the build up to the 9/11 disaster, free of political spin, politically correct whitewashing and partisan wrangling - I can say wholeheartedly that this is the film that you have been waiting for.

Michael Barone [Newsday]:

Last night I attended a screening of the first half of The Path to 9/11 a film that will be broadcast by ABC in two three-hour segments on September 10 and 11. Two and one-half hours is a long time to sit still watching a film, but this one was gripping and tension-filled and visually dazzling.

Source Watch:

The docudrama was written and produced by Cyrus Nowrasteh for ABC and is to air September 10 and 11, 2006. [...] In his interview, Nowrasteh repeated Republican talking points similar to those made by the Bush administration, saying how that the Clinton administration's "response—or lack of response—to Al Qaeda ... emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking American interests."

Rush Limbaugh:

It indicts the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger. It is just devastating to the Clinton administration.

"The Path to 9/11" seems to have generated a lot of interest on both sides of the fence. And I wonder why the moonbats have suddenly crawled out of the woodwork and kicked up a notch or three the effort to spread the insane meme that the government is responsible for 9/11? As one site posited, we'll now see Carville, Begala, et al do the talk show circuits. Interesting, very interesting...

Another Sad Day

Today thirty-two year old Trooper Joseph Longobardo died as a result of injuries received in the line of duty. Trooper Longobado was shot in the thigh, the bullet severing an artery.

On Thursday, August 31, Trooper Longobardo and his partner, Trooper Donald Baker were ambushed in Fredonia, a town near Buffalo, NY. Trooper Baker was also severely injured when bullets fired by a high powered rifle pierced his abdomen; he is now in stable condition. Both men were participating in a massive manhunt for a man accused of shooting another NY State Trooper just eleven weeks ago.

The ambush was in all likelihood perpetrated by escaped convict Ralph Phillips, wanted for the June 10th shooting of Trooper Sean Brown in the town of Veteran, about 65 miles south of Syracuse. Although severely wounded, Trooper Brown is recovering. Phillips escaped from prison on April 2 by using a can opener to force open kitchen ceiling tiles. Phillips was in jail for violaton of parole and was due to be released in only four days when he escaped.

Trooper Longobardo is the third Trooper to lose his life this year. Please pray for the familes of these brave men.

9/4/06 UDATE:
The last I heard, Trooper Baker was in a medically induced coma. The bullet went through his body armor and out his side. Trooper Longobardo was stationed out of Saratoga County north of Albany. He was a member of the NYSP MRT and was assigned to the Task Force hunting Phillips.

Phillips is a complete waste of oxygen. God willing, this will be remedied shortly and a more abundant supply of precious O2 will be available. He is a predicate felon with a very lengthy criminal record, has served time for eight felony convictions and has sworn to kill police. This is probably the only time this worthless POS has ever kept his word.

Phillips' reputation has assumed heroic proportions on NY's Southern Tier among dirt bags, trash and other oxygen depleting reptiles. Since he has native american ancestory, he is receiving assistance from other native americans as well as his family, several of whom have been arrested already. The Troopers were shot while staking out the home of Phillips' ex-girlfriend.

This is a map of where Phillips has been tracked by the NYSP, leaving a crime spree of burglaries, stolen guns (41) and stolen cars in his wake.

Name: Phillips, Ralph Alias: Bucky Phillips, Daniel Aaron Closs, Ralph James Phillips, Harold Phillips
Sex: M
DOB: 6/19/1962

Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 220 lbs.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Race:Native American
Complexion: Light

Anyone with information regarding this murderer is urged to call (716) 679-1520.

If you think you have seen this man, call the police immediately.
DO NOT APPROACH HIM.

Buddy, Can Ya Spare A Few Trillion?

On July 19 I wrote about a Belgian, Paul Belien, whose blog, The Brussels Journal, reports on the mischief caused by socialist governments in Europe. Using an article written in the Sept. 1 Washington Times by Richard Rahn, Mr. Belien reports that:

The world’s bureaucratic elites, including the United Nations, are demanding that the rich nations spend 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product on development aid. This is more than $300 billion a year, or well over $3 trillion over the next decade. The demand for such huge funds is given as the main rationale for global taxes to be levied on the world’s taxpayers, outside the control of and accountability to national governments.

Now if there is anything that a bureaucrat loves more taxes I couldn't tell you what it is. The ability to impose taxes is only second to waging war as an excerise of political power (well except for Fwance, ya gotta win one every now and then).

Can you imagine Coffee Annan's coffers after receiving an additional $300 billion a year? This amount is over and above the usual tomfoolery that the UN wastes funds on! We'll have every poor relation from every festering hole on the planet flying into Turtle Bay for a handout.

If international taxes were imposed to go directly to such organizations as the U.N., the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD and others, to whom would they be accountable? What would be the economic impact of this increased taxation? How would the taxpayers of the world have their liberties protected from ever increasing global tax tyranny?

They wouldn't be held accountable. And there would be no protection. That's the whole point of taking it from the developed nations and giving it to the poor ones. It just disappears into a black fiscal hole never to be seen again except in the bank accounts of tinpot dictators and terrorists. This is what happened in Palestine and happens every day in Africa, Asia and every place else that American largesse appears.

And what is being done about it?

On July 19, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to prevent the enactment of any international tax by restricting funds appropriated to the U.N. Sen. James Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, has introduced legislation to withhold funds from the U.N., the OECD or other multinational organizations that endorse or promulgate policies that result in global taxes or hinder tax competition. Mr. Inhofe already has 31 co-sponsors to this bi-partisan legislation.

Contact your Senator and Congressman as soon as possible and insist that this legislation be passed.

Hundreds of billions of dollars of development aid have been poured into Africa over the last half century, and in many cases only made matters worse.

International aid is a joke. We have already forgotten the food rotting on the wharves in Mogadishu as tens of thousands of people were systemically starved to death by Somali warlords.

...the U.N. is incapable of presenting a set of books for its own operation that can be audited and was responsible for the largest financial scandal in the world’s history – the Iraq oil-for-food program.

FINI

The Slide Into Dhimmitude Turns Into A Headlong Dive

The Glasgow Daily Record documents just how far the Euroweenies have strayed into Loony Land. A 26 year old Polish goalee, Atur Boruc, playing for the Celtics soccer team was investigated by the police for making the sign of the cross at a match against the Rangers.

Police investigated claims Boruc, 26, angered home fans by making a sign of the cross and other gestures at the start of the second half on February 12.

The "other" gestures were not described. But to involve the police in something like this is unbelieveable.

The Catholic Church in Scotland have condemned the decision to caution the Pole after complaints were made about him crossing himself at Ibrox in February. Kelly, a member of the Catholic Opus Dei organisation, also questioned police action.

The weirdest call I ever got was to a neighborhood where a number of frantic people claimed they witnessed a flying saucer scoot overheard (this occured in the early 80's). And yes I wrote it up and yes the papers had a field day with it. But I wouldn't have the nerve to write up a report accusing someone that they had crossed themselves.

The procurator fiscal decided the Pole's actions had provoked "alarm and crowd trouble" and said he was being cautioned rather than prosecuted for breach of the peace.

A caution is an official finger wagging. Cautions are issued for burglaries and other "minor" felonies.

The Crown Office said it had been in the "public interest" to take action and a more minor incident would have been dealt with informally by police.

And what, pray tell, is a "more minor incident" than this? Obviously a homicide! The British police do not actually report a murder as murder until someone is convicted of it. So it is not a crime until somewhere down the line a jury says so! Making the sign of the cross is more of a concern to the constables then a hacked up corpse.

And we wonder why the UN labeled Scotland as the most violent developed country on the planet! The police are too busy investigating religious expressions rather than violent crime.

Cookie And The TSA

Cookie (The Cook Shack) has something to say about the US Transportation Security Administration. I have never worked for the feds, but I have worked with all levels of government. and what I have found out is this:

It only takes one fool in a high enough position to screw up the whole works.

This fool can have the best organization, the best people and adequate resources - but it won't be enough. His ego (and woman are not exempt from this) will screw it up. He will drive qualified people into other agencies, blame everyone and everything else for his failures and rewrite the goals and objectives to show accomplishment where there is only failure. The best symptom of this when an agency's achievements are reported in terms of output rather than effectiveness.

Now Cookie gets it right when he says that he has no direct experience with any other airport and can only comment on his exposure to the policies of TSA where he worked. Other airports may be run more efficiently with less abrasive personnel at the helm and I imagine (at least I hope) many of these people do serve their country well. But when the Federal Court returns a verdict that

ruled that the FAA(Federal Aviation Agency) and the TSA (Department of Homeland Security) ...get this... DO NOT have to abide by these Veterans Rights. Well then there is something wrong.

If laws are passed then they should apply equally across the board. Actions like this only serve to diminish the respect we should have for the Courts and the government.

Saunter over to the Cook Shack and take a read.

You Can't Handle The Truth!

The author, Larry Bodine, of the Republicans For Duckworth site has soiled his pants. After making ridiculous assertions on gun control and having said assertions rammed down his liberal, lying throat, he states that Jackboot and myself are the same person and deletes all our posts.

It turns out that all the comments by Namvet, Sig4, Jackbook, Commodore and Ensign were all anonymous pseudonyms used by the same malicious person. All of his spurious rants have been deleted. Perhaps he's on the Roskam payroll. I guess he doesn't realize that I get notified everytime someone comments.

When people make bad arguments and then run from them it is an indication that they themselves have lost all confidence in their position. I remain firm in my positions because I have other means to justify them rather than my own say so.

Go to http://moonbats-for-duckworth.blogspot.com/ and see what I mean!

[Udate 8/26: The little 'bat popped his pants and then tried to cover it up. He's restored the original thread, after we pointed out that screen shots were taken of his spanking !!!. He carefully (tried) to cover his tracks, deleting our parting comments and his silly statement above and restoring the original thread. We'll pay him a visit to remind him his little game is over regardless. Leave it to an Idiotarian to screw up and make things worse trying to cover the fact, as if his readers have the attention span of crack-ingesting humminbirds. LC JB, IC]

[Update #2 (5:38 est)- The little jerk is now moderating his comments. Any bets on the chances of my last "Hello" getting posted?. Total Victory is ours !!!!!! Rum rations for all... Pirate Chief JB]

Deaniac Democrats And National Security

by J.B. Williams
Saturday, August 26, 2006

In this Canada Free Press article, Mr. Williams hits it out of the ballpark with regard to the Democratic Party's leadership and our national security needs. Chairman Howard "Mad, Mean, Screaming Machine" Dean, is caught with his mouth unzipped again when he claims:

"Democrats have been playing defense for too long. Over the past few months, though, something has shifted. When it comes to national security, Democrats are playing offense for a change -- and it's working."

Yes indeed. The Democratic Party has been offensive for quite some time now, but it isn't working, for them at least. But it has worked out well for the Republicans. Mr. Williams goes on:

"According to Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean, We have a fundamentally different vision for our security than the Party of Bush." This is a true statement. Today's Democratic Party most certainly does have a fundamentally different vision for our nation's security. They have a different vision of what security is, and a very different vision of how to achieve it.

You can get these fundamentally different visions by using peyote or LSD laced hashish. It all depends on how you want to achieve national security, by having your your bong or your table lamp tell you how to do it.

In his August 24th communique to the drooling zombie core of his fledgling party, Dean pronounced, "We're strong, we're right, and the people know it." Now honestly, Democrats are known for many things in recent years, sex candals,over-taxing, over-spending, over-reaching and over-stating among them. One thing they have never been known for is strong national or international security views, quite the contrary.

How about under-achieving (Nagin and NOLA), under-funding (DoD) and under-handed (emasculating federal intelligence gathering agencies)?

Liberals and their press say their polls indicate a growing distrust in Republicans and increasing trust in Democrats by default, on the subject of national security and the war on terror. Is it true? ... Obviously, the majority of Americans have never been polled and won't be until November. But are the mainstream samplings an accurate view of things to come in November?

The question that needs to be asked is how accurate have these polls been in the past? The answer? Not very. The Dummiecrats have been misled by their own polls in the past two elections. Because their self-serving polls had no basis in reality and they in fact lost the elections, there were cries of fraud throughout many cities where they imagined they were going to win.

The most recent USA Today/Gallup Poll says that when it comes to the war on terror and national security, 55% approve of the Bush administration and 43% disapprove. This is hardly a glowing endorsement of the Deaniac Democrats national security plan, especially after five years of constant attacks on every Bush administration security policy decision.

Ah, what Democratic security plan? You must be referring to the one where we run with our tail between our legs from the lords of terror. Yah, that'll work.

Dean points out his set of "facts", "The President's foreign policies have failed. Iraq is sliding into civil war. Iran and North Korea are more dangerous than they were five and a half years ago. And the Taliban continues to present a threat in Afghanistan."

That the GWoT is going to last longer than we'd like is a given. So did WWII. But we stuck it out in the face of high combat loses (the Axis Powers lost a lot more and so are the terrorists) and defeated our enemies. After all, we didn't sneak off and bomb Tokyo harbor.

I can only assume that he is referring to Bill Clinton here as "The President" whose policies failed in this statement since it was Bill Clinton who failed to confront international terrorism for eight years during countless attacks on US interests, who sold nuclear technology to China and North Korea and allowed European nations to profit from keeping the murderous Hussein regime in business in Iraq as hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children were dozed into mass graves all over the desert.

Thus begins the drum roll of ignominy that is Clintoon's legacy. Let's enumerate the "successful" military exercises of the Clintoon administration:
1) Operation Won Ton Bomb - blowing up the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade (1999);
2) Operation Straphanger - destroying a Serbian commuter train (1999);
3) Operation Heroic Headache - bombing a Sudanese aspirin factory (1998) on the eve of Clintoon's impeachment vote;
4) Operation Strip & Wax - killing the night janitors in an Iraqi military intelligence building with precision guided munitions (1996);
5) Operation Who Me? - Indonesia, with a record of mass murder having killed perhaps 200,000 out of a population of 700,000 in its invasion and occupation of East Timor, received approval for the purchase of F-16 fighter planes and other assault equipment (1994);
6) Operation Incompetent Commander - Blackhawk Down, Somalia (1993).

Despite the well known fact that Iraq remains the only central front in the war against international terror, Democrats see Iraq as completely unrelated to the war on terror. Innocent Iraqi citizens, the Bush administration and most Americans disagree of course, though none of these folks participate in mainstream polls apparently.

I have often wondered why I never get a call for one of these polls. The way the dems and their accomplices in the MSM are constantly throwing poll numbers around you'd think that these pollsters would be tackling us in the streets.

Finally, Dean lays out his plan for national security in as much detail as he can muster. "Democrats are going to reclaim American leadership with a tough, smart plan to transform failed policies in Iraq, the Middle East and around the world." But retreat is their plan for Iraq. Claim victory and pull out,

According to the Deaniacs that's the smart thing to do.

....leaving the Iraqi people in a vacuum of terror at the hands of Syrian and Iranian born terrorists referred to by Democrats as "civil insurgents". Anyone who has ever talked directly to Iraqi citizens knows that this policy change is their greatest fear.

And that sure is tough.

As for the Middle East, the Middle East began to spin out of control under Jimmy Carter some thirty years ago. It was left to fester and grow into an international threat with global reach under Bill Clinton. China, North Korea, Iraq and Iran became more dangerous throughout the 90's and Bush walked into that hornet's nest in January of 2001, greeted eight months into a new administration with the events of 9/11. To tell this story any other way is an outright lie.

Political victory is the sole concern of the Deaniacs. It is the complete fulfillment of their twisted, narrow dreams. Political victory provides them with the affirmation of their strategy that justifies the lies and deceit used to achieve "success." As far as realizing real strategic gains and strengthening national security, the Deaniacs rely on the MSM to cover the stench of their dismal failures with silence.

At San Francisco's Wharf, a Fight for Medical Marijuana Ensues

Regulations Severely Limit Where Cannabis Clubs Can Operate

By JAKE TAPPER and DAN MORRIS

July 25, 2006 — - San Francisco has more cannibus clubs -- the dispensaries of marijuana for the medical treatment of the nasty side effects of chemotherapy, glaucoma or AIDS -- than any other city in the nation.

But then again, it's only one of the few "nasty" side effects SanFranWeirdo has.

Yet, that doesn't mean cannabis clubs make welcome neighbors, even in bluest of the blue San Francisco, a city that prides itself on being tolerant of almost every lifestyle. A ballot proposition in 2002 that called for the Board of Supervisors to explore the possibility of establishing a program whereby the city would grow its own medical marijuana and distribute it was supported by 62 percent of voters.

Maybe I'm being a little intolerant here, but in a city that prides itself on tourism, is it really a good thing to promote yet another "tolerant lifestyle"? I think the rest of the state rejected your pride by a vote of around 70% vs. 30% against your "tolerant"promotion of sodomy and just about any other perverted practice that seems en vogue to your denizens.

Betcha you didn't think I knew that word, huh?

But the reality of the program is apparently harsher than the notion. However accepting San Francisco may consider itself to be, the city may also be showing standard-issue NIMBYism.

The Green Cross is one of about 40 cannabis clubs in San Francisco. It is owned and operated by Kevin Reed, who explains that there are differences among the 55 different types of marijuana his store offers.

Color me impressed, a veritable ganja buffet. The entire state of Kaliforniastan is committing suicide by terminal NIMBYism, why should the City by the Gay be different.

"'Indica' would be used more for the body pain, somebody that had extreme body pain or insomnia. It would help people sleep. It is what most people identify when they think of marijuana is," explained to Nightline. "'Sativa' is the more euphoric high. It is what most people use for depression."

Uhuhuh and here I thought cannabis only helped to make you have an unusual craving for twinkies and moon-pies. So, you should hit the bong of Sativa to beat depression, substituting paranoia instead?

But the controversy in San Francisco isn't about what Reed is selling, but where he wants to do it.

Touristy Fisherman's Wharf is known for families of tourists, cable cars, and seafood. But many business owners and neighbors there do not want marijuana users added to that mix -- even if they have prescriptions to buy it.

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom sees their point. "I'm not sure that's the message we want to send folks. 'Get your crab and maybe your clam chowder and sourdough bread, and maybe walk next door and see a medical marijuana club.'"

Newsom is concerned about business owners? That can't be the same Newsom that flipped off state law and permitted gay marriage. Something strange indeed is happening in SanFranWeirdo.
The old saw says follow the money. Newsom is concerned over the loss of revenue for his favorite socialist city programs. Seems his favorite constituents don't contribute very much to the tax base. There's a good progressive politician that recognizes which side of the fruit is buttered on.

But the mayor himself is in part responsible for the eruption of this controversy.

Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that stricter federal drug laws overrule more permissive ones passed by the states, like the medial marijuana provision passed by California.

Since then, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency has arrested some cannabis club owners. Those arrests led Newsom to draft news rules and regulations for his city's cannabis clubs, so as to fend off future DEA busts.

"In the past there was no process," Newsom explains. "You could just open up. All of a sudden you're a neighbor and you look next door and all of a sudden there's a medical marijuana club and you had no input, and no ability to have any feedback."

Welllll, imagine that... you decided to moon the U.S. Supreme court in your little duchy of touchey, the scumbag dope dealers move right into your open arms and now you're crying about it? Happens when you declare state/federal laws void in favor of progressive, opinioned-based, PC culture. Grab a clue moron, most laws in society are enacted to maintain an orderly social structure. You pick and chose the ones you decide to enforce and not to enforce, unintended consequences happen.

Newsom adds: "I believe very strongly in medical marijuana. So does the rest of the state of California. And I would argue the majority of Americans. But it's got to be done right."

Can you back that up with any, you know facts? I know it's all about feelings, but you're telling us if we don't happen to agree with your broad statement, we are just too stupid to know it. I don't see a rush in other states (outside of the Leftist Coast) to nullify existing State and Federal legislation so they can get it right.

Pardon me, but your stunning lack of veracity is showing......yer Honor

When the clubs first opened, neighbors were complaining that they attracted too much traffic, crime and customers who didn't seem to have any actual ailments. Some of those customers smoked marijuana right outside the store, or resold it.

What exactly did you really expect from the club customers?

Either you are completely divorced from reality or stark raving bonkers. Which is your favorite club? Obviously you've been doing some field research on your own.

So, now the Bay Area cannabis clubs have restricted locations. They are no longer allowed to be within 1,000 feet of a school or community center. They are barred from certain residential neighborhoods. And every club has to go through a registration process, with a $10,000 application fee.

"We felt we needed to put in some common sense restrictions. Because if it is being abused -- if we're flaunting ourselves in an arrogant way -- if we're jumping up and down and saying, 'We don't care about the federal government's feelings,' clearly we're inviting ourselves to put the whole program at risk," the mayor says.

Well you are jumping up and down like the baboon on crack, and your arrogance isn't about the federal government's feelings, it's about adherence to duly enacted LAW. You know, the sort of things covered by the constitution that you took an oath to uphold. But this is all about you, now isn't it?

By the way, we will NEVER expect anything resembling common sense to come out of your office.

The Green Cross is the first cannabis club to go through the city's new regulation process. And because of the restrictions, it had to move from its semi-residential location, and find a new place to do business. Joe Elford, the attorney for Green Cross's owner says the Fisherman's Wharf location was one of the few options his client had.

"You end up with only very small slivers of the city even being available for cannabis dispensaries to operate," Elford says. "And that's why Mr. Reed (the owner) in large part, chose this location."

Fisherman's Wharf ? I haven't visited your little bastion of MoonBats for quite awhile, but I do recall Fisherman's Wharf was a prime location for business. You aren't telling me there is "all of a sudden" open locations there? Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but it does seem like your People's Village is experiencing a net loss in revenue generating business.

But many of Fisherman's Wharf's residents are not happy about that decision. Ryan Chamberlain is a neighborhood activist and he has made it his mission to keep the Green Cross cannabis club out of Fisherman's Wharf.

"It's not so much the marijuana. If a patient was discreetly walking in and out of a location, if that were like a dental office, not a big deal. What we're worried about is the things that seem to surround those clubs," Chamberlain says. "What we're worried about is an increase in people camping out in those parks smoking marijuana."

An excellent mission Mr. Chamberlain, perhaps you should expand it to include voting your city government out of office as a first step. Try to understand that in most rational communities, chronic druggies only become patient when waiting for mug shots and finger printing.

And the new regulations that Mayor Newsom instituted offer neighborhood planning boards the power of the veto.

Ten years ago, 56 percent of Californian voters supported Proposition 215, legalizing medical use of marijuana. But just try to find a Californian today who wants a marijuana store in his neighborhood.

Well no accounting for the 56% of the voters being sold a pig-in-a-poke and thought the medical use of marijuana meant under the control of real doctors, dispensed by pharmacies and such. I have a hard time believing they would have accepted smelly Dead-Heads hawking designer dope in their neighborhoods.

The result is that even though Green Cross met the city's rules and regulations, its fate was still left up to the neighborhood planning commission, which earlier this month held a hearing on the issue.

A parade of professionals, business owners, a park ranger and a policeman all came before the commission to say essentially the same thing: medical marijuana, yes, but not in my backyard.

"We feel that it is an inappropriate location for this site to be a cannabis house," one neighbor told the commission.

Yet some neighbors in support of the cannabis clubs countered those arguments.

Neighbor Maria Molloy said, "I thought we already voted on this? ... I'm not sure how these conservative neighbors got the impression that they could override the city's vote. But I urge you to please hear the voice of our progressive city."

That's a good neighbor Maria, keeping pushing your progressive city utopia plan, trust me it'll get better and better all the time....nasty conservatives actually overriding your agenda by eeevil voting, can't have THAT can we? Where's a friendly leftist robe when you need one?

One of Green Cross' medical marijuana customers, Michael Aldrich raised another issue for the commission: "Please remember that in every one of these neighborhoods there are patients like myself who need to have a dispensary reasonably nearby."

Try a cab or public transportation nitwit. I'm sure Hizzoner could promptly come up with a "plan" to reimburse you for medical transportation "expenses".

But when the planning commission voted, the result was 4 to 2, against Green Cross.

"That's classic,'" complains Mayor Newsom. "I mean, everybody wants to treat drug addicts, heroin addicts, they want to provide them methadone, but just don't open the methadone clinic near me. Everyone says, 'I want more supportive housing and affordable housing for the poor and working families, but just don't open it near me. Homeless shelters, but not near me. ... It's no different with medical marijuana clubs."

Gavin-Boy bangs his rattle, stomps his feet and holds his breath, because actual citizens disagree with your assinine social experiment.

The board vote was a crushing blow to Green Cross owner, Kevin Reed, who is also a medical marijuana user.

"I'm in daily pain," he says. "My back is always in a very constant pain."

Reed says he prefers medical marijuana as a treatment for his chronic pain because he worries about the side effects of more traditional pain killers. "I've seen the effects of people getting prescribed drugs, pills. I've seen so many people throughout my life get addicted to these pills. I just don't want to be that person."

Buuwaaahhhhaaahaaaa- He'd rather hit the bong instead of popping a few vicodin, of course we ALL know that MaryJane isn't addicting right?

Reed's attorney plans to appeal the commission's decision. "Hopefully they will do the right thing and give Mr. Reed the opportunity to open his club," Elford says.

If he fails, Elford worries that the law that allows cannabis clubs in San Francisco will be meaningless. "If you can't even open it up in one of these small slivers, then where can you open it up? ... That's the problem. It appears you can no longer open it up anywhere in the city of San Francisco."

The mayor is not backing down in his support of legal medicinal marijuana.

While he worries that these "not in my backyard" activists could eliminate all medical marijuana clubs, he says, "We're going to fight against that temptation. I believe so fundamentally, so strongly in medical marijuana. We believe that it also needs to be done appropriately. So it's a balance. And it's a work in progress, like anything else."

Indeed a work in progress, apparently to make your city increasingly irrelevant to the rest of the country. Do continue however, it's most entertaining.

Watch The Birdie

In a New York Sun article, Warren Kozak warns us that we must pay attention to the canary in the coal mine.

Years ago, before modern devices could register poisonous gas levels in mines, miners would take canaries into the shafts with them. The birds, which are more susceptible to toxins, served a very useful purpose. If the canary fell over, it was time for the miners to get out...

The canary served as an indication that conditions were not safe and that immediate action needed to be taken.

Kozak posits that there is an international canary that we should all be watching, it's name is Israel. From the ancient Babylonians to German Nazis to today's Islamic fascists, tyrannical regimes always seem to have one common link — their deep hatred for Jews. At the same time there has been another continuum throughout the ages — a small fringe in every society that blames not the tyrants, but instead, blames their victims.

Kozak likens the rise of anti-semitism to the miner blaming the canary for his dangerous situation. Anti-semitism is nothing new in America. Kozal uses quotes from Charles Lindberg to illustrate this point:

On September 11, 1941, less than three months before Pearl Harbor, Mr. Lindbergh appeared before a huge anti-war rally sponsored by the group America First in Des Moines, Iowa.

Considering the present international cirsumstances, there is an eerie coincidence to this.

...the flyer delivered an articulate and compelling speech entitled,"Who Are The War Agitators?" Answering his own question, Mr. Lindbergh told his audience there were three main forces pushing America into an unnecessary war with Germany: Franklin Roosevelt, Great Britain, and the Jews.

Substitute Bush for Roosevelt and Iraq for Germany and, voilà, instant Deaniac, no?

Almost 70 years later, the words have changed but not the meaning. Today, we hear about the "neocons" who seem to control the mind of Dick Cheney. The "Zionists," we are told, are enflaming the Islamic world with their occupation of the Palestinians. And with a dark, evil hand, it's the "Israel Lobby" that controls the White House and almost the entire American Congress.

It's like a script was written three generations ago. But for one thing:

There is one big difference now than in 1941. Today's anti-Semitism comes from the left and not the extreme political right.

This is quite a read. You won't be disappointed... or bored.

Sunday Funny

It's a bit early to delve into some serious stuff, but I caught this giggle worth postin' up !!!

Next thing PETA will be seeking federal research grants to study the effects of second-hand smoke on our insect friends.

Think I'm kidding....I sure hope so.

Hat Tip to LC Red.

btw- Working on a technical issue here. CRS today...arggghh

Byline Should Read: LC JackBoot IC/A

Why Liberalism Is A Crime Redux

On our own shores, the Washington, D.C. police seem to be emulating the Brits. In a WaPo article, In D.C., a Crime Goes Unchecked, Drew Pulley relates how he witnessed a savage beating and tried to get the police to make an arrest. Pulley even followed the perpetrator and pointed him out to police but they refused to act.

I have been the target of unsubstantiated claims by citizens and so I must take this story with a grain of salt. But in the mid 1990's the DC police hired a black woman as a police officer; she then shot her boy friend. This woman was later discovered to be legally retarded (IQ under 75). How in the world did she pass the civil service entrance exam and the "stringent" qualifications of the police academy?

If the story Mr. Pulley relates is true anywhere in this country, it is true in DC.

Why Liberalism Is A Crime

Tell me something I don't know.

I have previously blogged (Fun With Numbers: Part II) on how the Brits have legislated their decline into a crime ridden society by all but banning the right to self defense and coddling criminals. Now City Journal has an article on how the liberals in England have turned the entire country into a game preserve for violent criminals. The author, Theodore Dalrymple, starts off with this:

For the last 40 years, government policy in Britain, de facto if not always de jure, has been to render the British population virtually defenseless against criminals and criminality. ...no Briton nowadays goes many hours without wondering how to avoid being victimized by a criminal intent on theft, burglary, or violence.

What finally has more people questioning the status quo is the murder of a young woman, Naomi Bryant, by a foul piece of filth named Anthony Rice. Mr. Rice has acquired quite a nasty habit, namely, he

had been assaulting women since 1972. He had been convicted for assaulting or raping a total of 15 women before murdering Naomi Bryant, and it is a fair supposition that he had assaulted or raped many more who did not go to the police.

It has been estimated that only 25% of all rape victims actually notify the police. It is possible that this man raped 30 to 40 women before finally being sentenced to prison.

In 1982, he grabbed a woman by the throat, held a knife to her, and raped her. Five years later, while out of prison on home leave, he grabbed a woman, pushed her into a garden, held a knife to her, and raped her for an hour. Receiving a life sentence, he was transferred to an open prison in 2002 and then released two years later on parole as a low-risk parolee.

Rice's first "life" sentence lasted for a mere five years. After this career of violent crime, he is then classified as a low risk offender!! The person(s) responsible for this should be drawn and quartered!! Only five months after being released from this "life" sentence because he was a low risk, he murdered Ms. Bryant.

For all intents and purposes, the British government has sentenced, without trial, the entire country to a life sentence in a lunatic asylum. But the criminals are running the shop.

An unholy alliance between politicians and bureaucrats who want to keep prison costs to a minimum, and liberal intellectuals who pretend to see in crime a natural and understandable response to social injustice, which it would be a further injustice to punish, has engendered a prolonged and so far unfinished experiment in leniency that has debased the quality of life of millions of people, especially the poor.

The Brits' suicidal, hands off policy towards criminal immigrants hasn't helped at all.

1,023 prisoners of foreign origin had been released from British prisons between 1999 and 2006 without having been deported. Among them were 5 killers, 7 kidnappers, 9 rapists and 39 other sex offenders, 4 arsonists, 41 burglars, 52 thieves, 93 robbers, and 204 drug offenders. Of the 1,023 prisoners, only 106 had since been traced.

And don't forget a pedophile in a pear tree. Of course the government agency responsible for this mess, the Home Office, is clueless.

The Home Office, responsible for both prisons and immigration, still doesn't know how many of the killers, arsonists, rapists, and kidnappers are at large; but it admits that most of them will never be found, at least until they are caught after committing another offense.

Now that is a comfort. These savages will re-offend and, by George, we'll get them back behind bars for a few more months before letting them go again! And don't you dare threaten them with a knife or gun when they come after you.

This is the nanny state in action, and we're seeing the same kind of action, or more accurately, inaction, on our own shores. The PC police will hound you to the Gates of Hell for engaging in speech that they consider offensive, but will give you a kiss, a clean suit and a pat on the ass just before releasing you back into mainstream society for committing mayhem.

Instead of fighting crime:

the authorities want the police to use a sanction known as the caution—a mere verbal warning. Indeed, as Fraser points out, the Home Office even reprimanded the West Midlands Police Force for bringing too many apprehended offenders to court, instead of merely giving them a caution.

No longer even a slap on the wrist. Now it's a stern warning with perhaps the threat of a reprimand and a finger shaking.

Doesn't this sound like the UN's treatment of terrorists? And where has it gotten them?

The police [...] are like a nearly defeated occupying colonial force that,while mayhem reigns everywhere else, has retreated to safe enclaves, there to shuffle paper and produce bogus information to propitiate their political masters. Their first line of defense is to refuse to record half the crime that comes to their attention, which itself is less than half the crime committed.

The Brits are certainly long overdue for one doozy of a bloody riot to protest these policies. And it will probably take just that for them to stop this senseless cycle.