Starting to smell funny at Hope college.....

Society (and the police) are supposed to simply accept any accusation of this "senior" who appears to be making a career out of accusations?
Alleged hate crime victim talks about incident: "Burns, a Hope College senior, speaks about homophobia and hate crimes on campus. He decided to go to police after speaking with a Dean and a number of professors. Police have now asked him to take a lie detector test. He initially agreed, but was later advised not to do so.
'I was kinda offended,' says Burns of being asked to take a polygraph.
'It suggests they (police) don't believe the persons story,' says noted defense attorney Chris Yates of Willey Chamberlain and Yates LLP.

It's against the law to even ask?
24 Hour News 8 learned it is actually a crime - a misdemeanor - for a law enforcement officer to ask an alleged victim of a sex crime to take a polygraph. But there is no law or rule when it comes to alleged hate crimes.

'If they can discredit you, then they're gonna do so,' says Burns.
Burns will graduate with a double major in a few days, and he plans to continue to lecture about hate crimes - something he now has firsthand knowledge of.

Sounds kinda grim for the GOPers.

1976!

Instapundit.com -: "REPUBLICANS ARE SAGGING IN THE POLLS: Maybe, in part, it's because Harry Reid is doing better than Bill Frist in fighting pork?
Here's the kind of response that's getting from former GOP supporters: 'Okay, real conservatives, Republicans, and libertarians, stay home. Just...stay home in 2006. Or - what the hell - vote for a Democrat. We have to wake up the Stupid Party, before it completely merges itself into the Republicrat Statist Party.'
I think that a GOP disaster is now officially looming.
posted at 08:44 AM by Glenn Reynolds"
Predicting an election 6 months in advance is like predicting anything 6 months in advance, worthless.

What a rip off!

I don't own an Ipod. Read this before you get one yourself.
The F-Stop Blues: Replace Your Ipod Mini Battery: "You can go either of two ways to replace your Ipod battery: have Apple replace your battery for you for $99 or you can do it yourself for $29. Not one being afraid of a little diy repair, I signed up to replace it myself. I got the replacement battery through Laptops for Less for $29 that included a screwdriver and directions. "

A culture of corruption!

R.I. Democrat drops out of Senate race: "Matt Brown, Rhode Island's secretary of state, abandoned his bid Wednesday for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Sen. Lincoln Chafee after questions surfaced over his fundraising practices."
Startin' to see a pattern here?

About time!

DeVos calls for capping sales tax on gasoline: "As gasoline prices hover around $3 a gallon, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos says it's time to cap the sales tax charged on gasoline."

High energy costs? Blame democrats!

The hypocrisy of the left astounds.
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind - The Boston Globe: "As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project, potentially reviving efforts to construct the sprawling windmill farm in Nantucket Sound.
The chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee said yesterday that when the bill Kennedy backs that would effectively halt the wind farm comes up for a vote in the Senate, they will object on procedural grounds. They say they'll argue that a renewable energy project shouldn't be lumped in with a bill governing the Coast Guard."

A culture of corruption!

Where have we heard that phrase lately.....
Stabenow campaign corrects finance records - Boston.com: "Sen. Debbie Stabenow's campaign has corrected her campaign finance reports to show that some donations from 2002 and 2003 came from an Indian tribe then represented by now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, not an individual as she reported at the time."

No wonder the MSM doesn't report this!

They don't know the significance of the difference between 1 in 10 and 1 in 16. I'm not joking.
Why The Pump Isn't More Painful - Forbes.com: "According to the Bureau of Economic Affairs ( see chart here), American consumer spending on energy as a fraction of total personal consumption has declined considerably since 1980. Whereas 25 years ago, one in every ten consumer dollars was spent on energy, today it's one in every 16. In other words, what it takes to heat and cool our homes and drive to and from our jobs and vacation destinations is relatively less costly than it was then. "
Well, plus it's less of a "STORY" if they report that things are better than most think. Of course, most think things are bad because the drive by media distorts the truth every day. Bummer.....

More Duke Lacrosse abuse

Betsy's Page: "The Durham District Attorney now wants to play hardball by pressuring all the members of the team who attended the party and had a previous citation for misdemeanors such as underage drinking or public urination. They had had deferrals of their prosecution for these misdemeanors on the understanding that they had to stay out of trouble for six months or a year. Now, the DA says that, by attending a party where there was drinking going on, they have violated that requirement and can be prosecuted for the original misdemeanor. Is this really how Durham voters want the DA's office to spend its time, prosecuting these kids? Or is it payback for the defense attorney filing a motion a couple of days ago for more information on the alleged victim? Or is it the DA's way to try to twist a few arms to get some kids to flip on their teammates and start changing their stories? "
Time will tell but this is continuing to look like desperation on the part of the "candidate" DA.

CBS News?!!!!!

Amazing article coming from the Editorial Director of CBS News. Pretty good.
'We Know What's Best For You' - CBS News: "The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne this week. Dionne was arguing with a fellow liberal who wrote what the Democrats need to do is destroy today's 'radical individualism' and replace it with 'a politics of a 'common good.' That's fine, Dionne said, but we need to hear 'more about self-interest, rightly understood.'
That phrase made me cringe. It still does.
'Self-interest, rightly understood' is a fancy-pants way of saying, 'I know what is in your interest better than you do.' It is, in my view, a politically stupid and morally diseased position. Democrats, by temperament, are slightly more susceptible to it than Republicans.
I do not mean to condemn Dionne for a phrase. But I will. It reminded me of something written on the very first page of a book that lots of Democrats think is absolutely brilliant, 'What's the Matter with Kansas' by Thomas Frank.
In the third paragraph of his book, Frank writes: 'People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.' That, too, is a fancy-pants way of saying: 'I know what is in your interest better than you do.' "

Free speach liberals on campus.

Anti-Coke protesters logic falls flat: "One student began the rally by announcing the group's intent to silence Coke's representatives. He told everyone that when the time came for the representatives to speak in their defense at the meeting inside, he would signal for all to scream and holler.
'You can't speak here,' he yelled. 'It's our school and we'll tell you when to speak.' "
Same old thuggish tactics from the left, this time at UCLA.

Railroad!

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Law or Lynch Law?: "A lineup should include not only people suspected of a crime but also other people, so that it tests whether the accuser or witness can tell the difference, and is therefore credible. But the stripper who claimed to have been raped by members of the Duke lacrosse team was presented with a lineup consisting exclusively of photographs of members of the lacrosse team."
I hadn't read or heard about this anywhere else. Wonder why.
Read it all.

Porky gets one day reprieve.

Seaboard pork plant to close for immigration rally: "Seaboard Corp. said it will close its Guymon, Oklahoma, pork plant on Monday to allow workers to attend rallies planned for that day in support of immigration reform, the company said.
The plant has a daily hog slaughter capacity of about 16,000 head, the company said.
On Tuesday, Cargill Inc. said its five beef plants and two hog plants will be closed on Monday for the rallies."
I'm wonderin' just what kind of "immigration reform" they're talkin' about. Is that the new code word for "amnesty for illegals"?

Holy post office, Batman!

Tom McMahon: Another Great Idea: The Jayne Mansfield 44-Cent Stamp
"But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

Bush's fault!

Stock Market News and Investment Information Reuters.com: "WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - New orders for U.S.-made durable goods surged a much larger-than-expected 6.1 percent in March on hefty aircraft, computer, and manufacturing orders, a government report showed on Wednesday".
Yeah, but gas is expensive! We gotta blame someone! ..... don't we? ..... that's what Perky Katie suggests.....

We're doomed!

Nuclear industry promotes new reactors The San Diego Union-Tribune: "The nuclear industry has hired Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, the environmental organization, to lead a public relations campaign for new reactors. "
Doesn't this stuff cause cancer in cell phones?
And yeah, I gotta boycott the oil companies.... and with global warming destroying the world, can't we all just get along.......
Dang, gotta get to the mall. See ya!

We're doomed!

The "Mother Earth" greenies must like this kind of "Earth Revenge" stuff. The sooner us humans are gone the better....
Man is killed by hole in home - sacbee.com: "A 27-year-old man was killed Friday night when he was sucked into a 10-foot-deep hole that opened up suddenly in a two-story home in rural Alta, Placer County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.
The victim's body remained in the hole Saturday night"

RINO alert!

News Forum Home Page: "More Americans would be forced to pay taxes subsidizing broadband service in ''unserved'' locales, and cities would be free to go into the Wi-Fi business under an upcoming U.S. Senate bill. Later this week, Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican, "
Watch your wallets! Wild RINOs in the Senate!

Oil Company Profits

Oil Company Profits: "An industry-wide study in the late 1990s showed that oil industry profits amounted to an estimated 7.3
cents on each gallon sold.1 More recently, ConocoPhillips reported that during the third quarter of 2005 earnings from its U.S. refining and marketing operations amounted to 9 cents per gallon. This compares with a national average retail price of $2.60 per gallon during the third quarter, the period of highest gasoline prices in 2005."

Hate's always easier to sell than logic

Democratic demagoguery won't cut gas prices: "One thing you can always count on, as soon as the price of a gallon of gasoline nears $3, Democrats will start demagoguing."
Let's see. The folks who vote against oil exploration, against new refineries, against nuclear power, against coal, for more gas taxes, for more enviro-looney additives, for ethanol-idiocy all blame Georgie? Oh, yeah, they vote against hydro power and wind power too.

Recruited from prison?

Mlive.com's Printer-Friendly Page: "When Smith was appointed director shortly after he was released from state prison in February 2004, he said he'd take the festival to the 'next level.' "
Maybe we ought to take a look see at who hired this crook?

Power to the people!

Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired: "NEW YORK
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.
Administrative Law Judge John Spooner reached his decision in the case of Toquir Choudhri, a 14-year veteran of the Department of Education who had been accused of ignoring supervisors who told him to stop browsing the Internet at work.
The ruling came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a worker in the city's legislative office in Albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer."
Who the heck do his supervisors think they are, Supervisors?

CIA Leaker is from MSU

I'm so proud!

CIA Leaker is from MSU - SpartanTailgate.com - Michigan State Spartans Forums:
Washington -- National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced une 16 the appointment of Mary O'Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant
to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.
She succeeds Rand Beers in that post, an announcement by the office of
the White House Press Secretary said.....
McCarthy has a B.A. and M.A. in history from Michigan State University
and an M.A and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota."

More Hero photos

2006 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY, Works

Gob bless our heros and their families

These made my cry at work.
These photos were among those that won the Pulitzer Prize in photography this year.

Everyone count your blessings and when you want to complain, think about these two pictures.
















Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as one of the most powerful in the process: "See the people in the windows? They'll sit right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home," he said. "They're going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should."
















Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. "I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it," she said. "I think that's what he would have wanted."

Slow results are convenient as heck!

Betsy's Page: "Well, Isn't that Convenient?

District Attorney Nifong says that the results from the second set of DNA tests won't be back before May 15. That is when the next court date is for the two indicted players. And it's almost two weeks past the primary election for DA in which Nifong is in a tight fight to keep his job. Apparently, the defense attorneys thought that the results would be back next week and the media kept reporting that. If those results had come back negative again, it would have definitely been good night for Nifong."

Bush's fault?

Vote for Mayor Points to Change in New Orleans - New York Times: "Black residents, whose neighborhoods were the most devastated by the storm, voted in much smaller numbers than whites did on Saturday, even more so than usual"
Maybe they all were at the Duke "rape" protest?

TigerHawk

TigerHawk: "Apart from the list's comic aspects, it is fascinating for its omissions. Why didn't bin Laden talk about Iraq?

Less than 2 1/2 years ago, al Qaeda broke the news to the Taliban that it was diverting resources to Iraq so as to humiliate the American 'Crusaders.'

All this was on the orders of bin Laden himself, the sources said. Why? Because the terror chieftain and his top lieutenants see a great opportunity for killing Americans and their allies in Iraq and neighboring countries such as Turkey, according to Taliban sources who complain that their own movement will suffer... Bin Laden believes that Iraq is becoming the perfect battlefield to fight the �American crusaders� and that the Iraqi insurgency has been �100 percent successful so far,� according to a Taliban participant at the mid-November meeting who goes by the nom de guerre Sharafullah.

Al Qaeda drew a line in the sands of the Sunni Triangle, and the United States Army and Marines walked right across it. First, al Qaeda tried to kill Americans, per bin Laden's orders. It largely failed. Then al Qaeda went after America's allies, and succeeded only in turning public opinion against itself in every Muslim country it attacked. After thirty months of battlefield defeats and political embarrassments, bin Laden won't even mention Iraq in one of his rare public utterances, and he rallies his troops to fight a war where American soldiers aren't. How humiliating. How delightful.

Al Qaeda has lost in Iraq, and bin Laden is desperate to change the subject. He and his organization are at grave risk of being discredited, and when that happens it will be much harder for al Qaeda to attract recruits, raise money, or deal with governments."

So that's what was in her glass......

The Observer Magazine Julian Dibbell repors on 'women's viagra': "Horn of rhinoceros. Penis of tiger. Root of sea holly. Husk of the emerald-green blister beetle known as the Spanish fly. So colourful and exotic is the list of substances that have been claimed to heighten sexual appetite that it is hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment on first beholding the latest entry - a small, white plastic nasal inhaler containing an odourless, colourless synthetic chemical called PT-141. Plain as it is, however, there is one thing that distinguishes PT-141 from the 4,000 years' worth of recorded medicinal aphrodisiacs that precede it: this one actually works."

"Thou reeky knotty-pated bugbear!"

Shakespearean Insulter:
Thou'rt by no means valiant;For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork of a poor worm.
I think Shakey is talking about democrats....