Front page material? A fourteen year old girl got interviewed by the secret services because she posted death threats to the President on her “Stab Bush” political web page. Good! Nothing better than a good spanking to straighten up opinionated teenagers and show them that the law applies to them too, and that if one ignores the laws, one better shut up and keep a low profile. That being said, I find it amazing that a fourteen year old can be actively militant and have any strong political orientation. When you total her life experience – the 3 years in diapers, two years crawling at the carpet level, three or four years of Barbie, a year of Barbie and whoever the new boy friend is, the braces, the hormones kicking, the hunt for the black heads, the election of the school treasurer and the so called “molecular science” classes- you wonder where she found out that she was a liberal and that she hated Bush! [Read more…]
Do We Need a National ID Card?
Does it look like we are finally going to have a national ID card?
It is about time we come up with some real ID, let”s say, something like my Green card, half plastic and half digital, hard to counterfeit and easy to scan for detailed identification data. Sure, teenagers and Illegal immigrants are not going to be happy about it; no more underage drinking on a fake ID for our partying kids! No more of anything from driver licenses to voting for illegal aliens! Well, unless the ACLU and liberals have their way of course!
Gee! What a concept! Only legit citizens will be entitled to what they pay for, at least a spark of common sense from our elected officials in DC!
Where Are the Moderate Muslims?
Yesterday I saw a cute but so realistic cartoon in our local fish wrapping grade Democratic newspaper.
Anyways, in the Forum part of the phone book like Sunday edition, among tons of paper spam, was a little cartoon showing an old lady, sitting in an airplane next to a Middle Eastern man in a Turban (without profiling, I would have never guessed that the unshaved person on a turban and a robe was posing as a Middle Eastern traveler! J). Candidly, she was asking him if he was part of the silent world majority of the peace-loving Muslims or if he was a terrorist ready to blow her to pieces.
Five years almost to the day after September 11, Madrid and London, the War on Terror, we are still waiting for moderate Islam to come forward and take a side, denounce the one that blow us up or try when they don’t kill fellow Arabs. [Read more…]
WAR!!!
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill ~ (1868)
Terror Naïveté?
In today’s news, I read that TSA employees will take over from contract employees to check IDs at airports and that they will all attend a training in “psychological profiling”. What the heck is that? Profiling right now should be based on race and religion only, until more newly converted white Caucasian join the terrorist cause for some twisted murderous reason. No more random selection for the extra search should be made by the computers that manage the ticketing!
Political correctness is literally killing us! We need more spies infiltrating the mosques, more devices monitoring radical imams, more control of our borders, more background investigations, more scrutiny, and more common sense! [Read more…]
How Far Should We Go to Accomodate?
I have already complained enough about the abuses of the first amendment and how free speech protects pan-handling, soliciting work on a sidewalk, flag and cross burning, yacking away in a cell phone.
Another thing that literally enrages me is the American Disability Act and the abuses it has generated. It drives me crazy when I see cars loaded with obese people sporting the handicapped sticker so they can park right at the entrance of their favorite junk food place. It drives me nuts when I read about these made up official “illnesses” such as the grooming disorder that protects the psychos and even allow lawsuits and money on top of special working arrangements and preferential treatments. Sure the ADA must have benefited real disabled persons, but its language is so vague that ambulance chasers allied with “disabled” con artists have made fortunes filing up lawsuits left and right and cashing settlements. [Read more…]
Allegations!
“Represented as existing or as being as described but not so proved; supposed.”
This is Represented as existing or as being as described but not so proved; supposed; one of the definitions of a word that is taking more and more importance in the legal and media vocabulary, a word that is often being misused in order to protect the “rights” of the criminals, and, a rather new phenomenon, a word used to smear “out of the blue” and forever a person that has not been proven guilty yet.
The word is alleged!
It used to be in the books that any accused person was innocent until proven guilty! [Read more…]
The Selling of Human Body Parts: How Frightened Are You?
Let us take a break from our Southern borders and our shameless politicians for some introspection, a deeper look to our insides! Literally!
Organ trafficking is a pretty lucrative international market and recently, a mortuary home around Los Angeles had been exposed for “parting out” bodies they were paid to respectfully bury or cremate and selling the removed organs to medical related facilities or individuals. Everything went from kidneys to skull, lungs to limbs.
If in America, legal and ethical barriers have been set, internationally, from China to South America and Africa, harvesting organs from dead and live patients can even be state sponsored. China harvests its incarcerated population (while in the US, inmates and lifers, get access to organ transplants and compete for them with the honest population!) and many countries have laws that actually make it legal for a live person to sell, or buy, organs. Not in my backyard, you are all screaming! Well, actually, in America, even if it is not really legal, we already had some instances of good “matches” being offered loads of cash for selling non-vital parts of their bodies! [Read more…]
Sexual Predators and Your Children: How Safe Are They?
The well known Megan”s Law had been named several years ago after Megan Kanka, a New Jersey seven-year-old girl was raped and killed. The culprit was a convicted child molester who had discreetly settled in the family’s neighborhood. The parents of the martyred child started a movement to have local communities warned when known sex offenders were relocating to their areas and eventually, Megan’s law was born. Anybody can now go to an official website and check by zip code or address if any of such a potential predator is your gentle neighbor. In California, the website is http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov
We are all happy, I am sure, to have such a tool and a quick search of my own town showed “only” 18 offenders, none “high risk” and none in my direct neighborhood, thank you.
So, let us take a look to the John Doe family now! Today, John is glued to the computer monitor, speechless because he has just discovered that a high risk sexual offender lives next door, a living example that the legal and law enforcement institutions have given up their responsibility to protect his children (the risk rating goes all the way to Serious and High Risk!). What happened to the old principle that a convict is only released when he has paid its debt to society and is not a threat anymore? What does John do with the information? Do you think he is happy? [Read more…]
Afghanistan, Massoud: A Missed Opportunity?
September 9 2001, Commander Ahmad Sha Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, the Charismatic leader of the Northern Alliance that was fighting the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, was assassinated by two suicide bombers posing as journalists and commandeered by both the Talibans and Bin Laden. Two days later, the two towers of World Trade Center were collapsing in the streets of New York. Two months later, a US backed Afghan Northern Alliance was routing the Talibans and taking Kabul.
Who was Massoud, why was he killed? [Read more…]
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