Erstwhile feminista fans have given up on the Queen of Spleen. Conservatives dance in the streets.

We sat around the dinner table, a group of 50-something progressive feminists, talking to a friend from England about presidential politics. We were all for Hillary, weren’t we, he asked. Hillary? We hated Hillary. He was taken aback. Weren’t we her base? Wasn’t she one of us? Why did we hate Hillary?

Of course, a lot of people seem to hate Hillary. According to some polls, anywhere from 39 to 50 percent of respondents claim they’d vote against her no matter what; her “negatives” continue to be high. Many of these are Republicans and men. But many are not. According to a Harris poll in March, 52 percent of married women said they would not vote for her. Nearly half of adults say they dislike her personality and her politics. Unlike her husband, people seem to find her cold and don’t see her connecting with everyday people, and this is especially true for married women. Ironically, it is Gen Xers, those between 31 and 42, who give her the most support.

So what gives? For people like my friends and me, her hawkish position on Iraq and her insistence that the U.S. maintain a military presence there even after the troops are withdrawn have been very disappointing. But it’s more than any specific position. Women don’t trust Hillary. They see her as an opportunist; many feel betrayed by her. Why? READ MORE LIBERAL REASONS WHY THEY HATE HILLARY HERE

Muslim women re-virginated in France through the wonders of hymen surgery. So that’s how they get that awesome martyr-to-virgin ratio in Muslim heaven

This 30-minute outpatient procedure, called “hymenoplasty” and costing between 1,500 and 3,000 euros ($2,000-$4,000), is increasingly popular among young women of North African descent in France.

No exact figures exist to say how many such operations are done, but the woman’s surgeon says he gets three to five queries and performs one to three hymenoplasties each week. Demand has been rising for the past three or four years.

BUT WAIT! IT GETS BETTER! No wonder the tax rate is so high in France. Pierre must pay for  Namaba’s coochiectomy.

Surprisingly, French social security reimburses some of the cost of the operation in cases of rape or trauma. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, the claim is a fraud,” he added.

Still, Abecassis defended the operations and said he helped patients who could not pay his 2,500 euro fee. “This surgery gives them another chance,” he said. “It’s a rehabilitation. For many, it’s the only solution.”

READ MORE IF YOU DARE

ED NOTES: What can we say? We’re shocked — SHOCKED — we tells ya.  We were under the impression all Muslim women were virgins, what with the veil and all.

Woman has to pay $2000 to clean up one of those “green” lightbulbs

How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about US$2,004.28, which doesn’t include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health.

Sound crazy? Perhaps no more than the stampede to ban the incandescent light bulb in favour of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).

According to an April 12 article in The Ellsworth American, Bridges had the misfortune of breaking a CFL during installation in her daughter’s bedroom: It dropped and shattered on the carpeted floor.

Aware that CFLs contain potentially hazardous substances, Bridges called her local Home Depot for advice. The store told her that the CFL contained mercury and that she should call the Poison Control hotline, which in turn directed her to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

The DEP sent a specialist to Bridges’ house to test for mercury contamination. The specialist found mercury levels in the bedroom in excess of six times the state’s “safe” level for mercury contamination of 300 billionths of a gram per cubic meter. The DEP specialist recommended that Bridges call an environmental cleanup firm, which reportedly gave her a “low-ball” estimate of US$2,000 to clean up the room. The room then was sealed off with plastic and Bridges began “gathering finances” to pay for the US$2,000 cleaning. Reportedly, her insurance company wouldn’t cover the cleanup costs because mercury is a pollutant.

Given that the replacement of incandescent bulbs with CFLs in the average U.S. household is touted as saving as much as US$180 annually in energy costs — and assuming that Bridges doesn’t break any more CFLs — it will take her more than 11 years to recoup the cleanup costs in the form of energy savings.

The potentially hazardous CFL is being pushed by companies such as Wal-Mart, which wants to sell 100 million CFLs at five times the cost of incandescent bulbs during 2007, and, surprisingly, environmentalists. READ MORE ABOUT THIS NIGHTMARE HERE

ED NOTE: Proving once again, the Greenies are talking out their rumps.But then, who is in the hazardous waste disposal business? I assure you, it’s NOT the Girl Scouts. Can you say M-O-B, kiddies?

Do you see what’s happening here? Regular 4 and 8 foot flourescent tubes also contain mercury. Drop one of those in a dumpster at work, and you can A: Be charged with a huge fine for improperly disposing of hazardous waste B. Face jail . The lamp police will be everywhere.Now that you know, you also know that you’ve disposed of flourescent lamps improperly in the past, now haven’t you? C’mon — confess! Then– turn yourselves in. It’s a vaste GREENIE conspiracy. Once the whole country is on on flouresecents, there will be no more incandescents manufactured.  And then, of course, we’ll have to pay an upfront HAZARDOUS WASTE SURCHARGE  whenever you buy a lamp. And return the old one, just like we have to do with lead-acid batteries.

Clever? You betcha! Billions and billions of dollars just waiting to be collected and then blown on social consciousness programs.

Making the choice for the next President of the United States is actually very simple.

The country is at war, and will remain at war for the forseeable future. (Even the most rabid peacenik Socialistas will admit there is a war)

The only persons qualified to conduct a war are military veterans who know war closeup and personal and have the cojones to pull the triggers on the bad guys.

McCain is the only candidate with these credentials.

Therefore, ergo, to wit: McCain is the only qualified candidate  with the experience  to run the military as Commander-in-Chief.

As Porche states, there is NO substitute. National security trumps all other political issues, and McCain has been at the forefront of defending this country since he took the oath and joined the Navy as did his father and grandfather , John S. McCain Sr, and John S. McCain, Jr.

This journal joins with patriots everywhere to proudly and  enthusiastically endorse Senator John McCain for the Presidency of the United States of America.

Editors

The Catskill Commentator, Catskill Mountains, New York April 29, 2007

NOTE: The two editors of this journal are Vietnam Veterans.

The mad homicidal rampages in American schools will halt when attackers find out that faculty and students sometimes are armed and trained to use those weapons effectively, so an expert in the defensive use of guns is offering free training to educators.

“In our country, every time a misguided individual on psychiatric drugs goes on a killing spree, anti-self defense legislators watch the polls and exploit the dead victims in order to fool the public into accepting more gun control,” said Ignatius Piazza, founder of Front Sight Firearms Training Institute.

“It is time our country finds some resolve and the will to tackle the real problem – which is rooting out the actual influences in the lives of our youth that predispose them to commit atrocities such as those we saw at Virginia Tech,” he said.

“The problem is not guns. Guns don’t cause these incidents to occur any more than cameras cause child pornography or automobiles cause traffic fatalities,” he said. “Society is safer when we train and arm our law abiding citizens.”

His feelings are so strong on the subject he’s launched a two-part campaign: to honor the heroes of the Virginia Tech massacre and to make sure that defensive firearms training is available to those who will be in a position to halt the next one CONTINUE READING HERE

ED NOTE: I like that — let’s blame cameras for porno. Let’s regulate the hell out of Kodak — 5 day waiting period to buy film, fingerprints required! We all know that porno is the favorite vice of pedophiles, if there were no cameras there would be no porno !!!

Apparently all you need is a high school diploma to decide who gets into one of the nations highest tuition and prestigious houses of higher learning…

To stressed-out parents and students, MIT admissions dean Marilee Jones was a rare voice of reason in the high-pressure world of college admissions. With colleges demanding kids who play sports, run student government and take the heaviest course load they can, Jones shouted back the opposite: daydream, stay healthy, and don’t worry so much about building a resume just to impress an elite college.

Yet it turns out that Jones was susceptible to pressure herself. She falsely bolstered her credentials to get a job with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and over the course of her career claimed to have earned degrees from three schools. MIT officials say now they have no evidence she ever graduated from college at all.

The school announced Thursday that Jones had resigned after acknowledging she had misrepresented her education when she started working at the university 28 years ago, and declined to correct multiple incorrect claims since then.

A senior MIT official said that by claiming degrees she had never earned, Jones could no longer lead an admissions office that occasionally rescinds the acceptance letters sent to applicants who are untruthful about their own accomplishments.

“We have to uphold the integrity of the institution, because that’s what we’ve been trying to sell and she’s our chief spokesperson on that,” MIT Chancellor Phil Clay said. It’s “regrettable, ironic, sad, but that’s where we are.” READ MORE HERE  ED. NOTES: And that, dear readers, is why women white collars earn less than men. Men have to PROVE their qualifications, women can Monica their way to the top.

Trooper David Brinkerhoff was shot in the back of the head, possibly by ricochet, by one of his fellow troopers during a firefight in a Delaware County farmhouse two days ago, State Police Superintendent Preston Felton disclosed Friday.

Brinkerhoff was among seven troopers who stormed the house looking for Travis Trim, who had shot, but not killed, a trooper during a traffic stop on Monday. He had holed up in a home in Margaretville in the Catskill Mountains. Four troopers and Trim opened fire, Felton said, with Brinkerhoff initially hit in the chest by Trim. His armored vest kept him from being wounded.

Brinkerhoff possibly fell to a knee as the exchange continued — troopers with assault rifles, Trim with a small-caliber weapon and a 30.30 rifle. At some point, Brinkerhoff “was hit with a shot across the line of fire,” Felton said. He said investigators had not determined whether Brinkerhoff — who was wearing a Kevlar helmet — was hit directly or by ricochet.

Trooper Richard Matt-son also was wounded. But he was hit in the arm with a round from Trim’s rifle. State police could not confirm reports that Mattson suffered a severed artery. Felton said he’s in serious but stable condition at Albany Medical Center. READ MORE HERE

ED NOTE: Law enforcement’s  a dangerous business as we all should know and appreciate. When the shooting starts, you’re just as likely to be hit by shrapnel as by a projectile, no matter who’s firing what.

“… these men died for their country. Send some flowers to their bitches and ho’s.” — Leslie Nielsen, Scary Movie 3. 2003

“Now everybody in the 202, throw your hands in the air ’cause Fat Joe is through / Now everybody in the 202, throw ‘em up! Check it out / I’m a white boy, but my neck is red / I put Miracle Whip on my Wonder Bread / My face is pale, nah, I’ve never been in jail / Me and Buffy spend every winter at Vail / How many bitches have I slapped? Zero. Unh! / And Martha Stewart happens to be my hero / I grew up on a farm and I was born with no rhythm / Dr. Phil’s my uncle and I like to hang with him / I can’t dance / I wear khaki pants / My middle name’s Lance / My Grandma’s from France / So maybe I’m wack / ‘Cause my skin ain’t black / But you can’t talk smack / ‘Cause whitey just struck back” — Scary Movie 3 …

Bush and Cheney impeachment resolution rejected by the House of Comrades of the People’s Republic of Vermont

The Vermont House has rejected a resolution calling for a congressional impeachment investigation of President George W.Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

On a roll call vote of 60-87, the House voted against the resolution that the Senate passed last week. That vote came as hundreds of supporters of the resolution were gathered at the Statehouse to lobby for the measure’s passage.

Rep. Thomas Koch, R-Barre Town, was the first legislator to speak out against the resolution on the floor Wednesday. Passing the resolution would add to the acrimony of modern politics and “not make our troops any safer,” he said.

“One of the lessons we learned from the Clinton impeachment is that it should not be treated lightly,” Koch said. “It ought to be reserved for the most egregious, most urgent high crimes and misdemeanors. It should not be about whether or not you support the president or the war.”

Rep. David Sunderland, R-Rutland Town, questioned if Bush’s alleged misdeeds rose to the level of impeachment. To prove his point, he referenced congressional testimony indicating that the president has the right to “wiretap terrorists” and read statements from prominent Democrats on the threat Saddam Hussein posed to the world.

“I don’t think it is the intent to impeach these other individuals based on statements made and actions taken based on the best information available at the time,” Sunderland said. STORY LINK HERE

ED. NOTES: Looks like the Czaristas who’ve ruined the lovely State of Vermont (including the town of Bummington, the Greenwich Village of the state) are losing! It’s about time.

As evidenced by reports in The Daily Star and the Binghamton Press today, many residents of Delaware County, including 3 persons who write for this journal, took prudent action and exercised their Second Amendment rights during the past two days of uncertainty in the county.

Exercising one’s rights under the Constitution is something a patriot and citizen is obligated to do! If the teachings of just Thomas Jefferson were to be insisted upon in the public school system, we’d all be aware of that fact.

Another fact is:  Forewarned is forearmed. For Carl Spackler, it’s  a .38 snubbie. For Roger Thornhill, it’s a Mossberg 500 pump. For myself, it’s a .30 cal M1 Carbine — a legacy of my father’s service in France in WW2.

Suffice it to say had Mr. Trim walked down my driveway or knocked upon our doors, we would have been ready.

Right handy thing, that Second Amendment. — Al Czervic, The Catskill Commentator, Andes, New York

MARGARETVILLE — A body was recovered in the wreckage of a house destroyed by a towering fire after a police raided it Wednesday evening in the search for a man suspected of shooting three New York state troopers, one of whom died.

Police could not immediately confirm the body was that of Travis D. Trim, a 23-year-old from northern New York whom police had been looking for since a trooper was shot during a routine traffic stop on Tuesday in rural upstate New York.

“The body was slumped in a doorway holding a rifle,” Preston Felton, acting superintendent of the New York State Police, said at a news conference Wednesday night. READ MORE HERE

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE  713PM; FOX NEWS WILL HAVE EXTENSIVE LIVE COVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING WITH RICK LEVENTHAL. AS OF THIS REPORT, THE PERPETRATOR IS STILL UNFOUND! FIRE STILL RAGES PART OF HOUSE. FOX NEWS IS ON DIRECTTV CHANNEL 360 AND CABLE.TEAR GAS CANNISTER APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN CHUCKED BACK ONTO LAWN AFTER FIRING INTO BUILDING BY SUSPECT, CANNISTERS MAY HAVE STARTED FIRE. …. STAY TUNED ….

FIRE APPEARS TO BE MOSTLY OUT, STILL SMOKING, STRUCTURE GUTTED –MOPUP CONTINUES ..AT 7 PM WABC — MORE FIRE UNITS ACTIVATED FOR STANDBYE COVERAGE — RIGHT HAND PORTION OF HOUSE STILL RELATIVELY UNTOUCHED ..

HAIL OF GUNFIRE !!! NYPD EXPERT ON WABC-TV REPORTS CONCUSSION GRENADE STARTED FIRE…GUNSHOTS OR AMMO COOKING OFF IS BEING HEARD BY REPORTER AND ON TV AT 620 PM  WABC SAYS SPECIAL UPDATE AT 7 PM..

FROM WNBC NEW YORK LIVE MOMENTS AGO…TEAR GAS GRENADES LAUNCHED INTO HOUSE.. 605 pm 610 house fully involved, more SWAT rush towards burning building,— WNBC-TV …owned by former Law Enforcement Officer (seasonal) …WABC IS REPORTING FIRMEN AND POLICE WERE FIRED UPON WHILE TRYING TO FIGHT FIRE —-

UPDATING: 5 PM:  ARKVILLE FARMHOUSE CORDONED OFF, LIVE TV PICTURES FROM WNBC-TV. SUSPECT HAS LONG GUNS, AMMO. AREA LOCKED DOWN. RADIO COMMUNICATIONS CUT OFF, SATELLITE TELEPHONES BEING USED AS NO CELL COVERAGE IN AREA.

He served us well and true.

..UPDATE 3:55pm Dead is Trooper David Brinckerhoff (fNews) –

The state trooper killed while looking for fugitive Travis Trim was an 8 1/2 year veteran of New York State Police.

Twenty nine year old David Brinkerhoff(left) was a member of the elite Mobile Response Team involved in the search for Trim in Delaware County.

Brinkerhoff and Trooper Richard Mattson were shot while searching a home on the Cemetery Road in the town of Margaretville.

Brinkerhoff suffered a fatal gunshot to the head. Mattson escaped with a hand injury.

Trooper Brinkerhoff is survived by his wife and seven month old daughter.

Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time. CREDIT CLEAR CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS  posted 4.08 PM

WOUNDED: Trooper Matteson, Trp. K. is in stable condition, Albany Medical Center.

10:57 –RADIO SILENCE ON EVENT IS MAINTAINED ON DELCO REPEATER, 156.03. DEC REPEATER ACTIVE  HOWEVER. SUBJECT STILL IN HOUSE AT THIS TIME .. [CZERVIC} THIS JUST IN FROM BINGHAMTON PRESS: MAP

NOON UPDATE:  ABC NEWS REPORTING ONE TROOPER DEAD !!DEC IS SUPPLYING DIESEL FUEL TO COMMAND POST VEHICLES. SUSPECT STILL INSIDE HOUSE...STAY TUNED. WBNG TV JUST REPORTS SWAT VEHICLE NOW PULLING UP TO HOUSE  12.05 PM NEWS CONFERENCE PLANNED SOON ON WABC-TV  WITH NYSP .....[SPACKLER SENDS]UPDATE –1220 pm

One state trooper has been killed in the hunt for a man suspected of shooting at least two other troopers, a spokeswoman for Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.

Spokeswoman Christine Anderson did not identify the trooper. She said Spitzer has cancelled a speech in New York City and was on his way back to Albany.

Neither of the troopers is from Troop C, said Lt. Robert Galletto, with Troop C in Sidney. It’s likely it’s the same person who shot the trooper yesterday, he said.

CATSKILL COMMENTATOR IS ON THE SCENE AND TWO OTHER STRATEGIC LOCATIONS LIVE BLOGGING THIS EVENT. STAY TUNED AS IT FURTHER DEVELOPS. AL CZERVIC EDITOR.

ENFORCEMENT TAKING FIRE FROM HOUSE, PLANNING TO STORM RESIDENCE.  0915 AM …CZERVIC SENDS…DETAILS AS SOON AS AVAIL….STAGING AREA FOR BLOCKADING IS FIRE HOUSE IN MARGARETVILLE… YELLOW HOUSE, GREEN ROOF, RED BARN IN BACK ..PLANS TO TEARGAS THE HIDEOUT…

FROM THE ALBANY TIMES UNION CLICK HERE

 LEFT: THE SUSPECT, TRAVIS TRIM MARGARETVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Two state troopers were shot Wednesday morning as police surrounded a suspect in the wounding of a trooper who was shot during a traffic stop in Delaware County on Tuesday, according to print and broadcast reports.

A state police spokesman said that two troopers were flown by helicopter to a hospital and the extent of their injuries was not immediately clear, according to the reports.

The confrontation came as police activity intensified Wednesday morning during the manhunt for a suspect in the shooting of Trooper Matthew Gombosi, who was shot in the torso in Margaretville on the edge of Catskill Park at about 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. He was saved from serious injury by his body armor, police said.

After the shooting, police launched a search for a Dodge Caravan that was later found abandoned on a road nearby Middletown. The minivan had been stolen Monday in St. Lawrence County, police said.

The suspect was identified Tuesday as Travis D. Trim, 23, of North Lawrence

UPDATE: SUBJECT STILL AT LARGE THIS AM. DETAILS HERE

3:22 PM: OFFICER SAFETY ITEM DELCO SHERIFF, ALL LOCAL/STATE LEO’S :

URGENT ROADBLOCKS SETUP RT 28 PINDARS CORNERS DELAWARE COUNTY , RT 28 ANDES,  RT 30 AT BRUSHY CREEK RD 335pm CEMETERY ROAD MARGARETTVILLE–TOWER MOUNTAIN ROAD –338 PM RT 23 GRAND GORGE — DINGLE HILL TOWN OF ANDES — RT 6 NEW KINGSTON –3 COUNTYWIDE MANHUNT –czervic sends –3:40 3:50 SHARON SPRINGS

4:20 : HELICOPTER BROUGHT IN FOR SEARCH

428: SP ESCORTING SCHOOL BUSSES FROM ROXBURY …vehicle located on SEARLES ROAD, in dense cover, near MARGARETVILLE near cemetery road 4:58!!SEARCH EXPANDS ON FOOT AND AIR IN TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN…5:00 pm

UPDATED DESCRIPTION  448pm

BE ON LOOK OUT :  FOR 1997  MAROON DODGE CARAVAN,  two white front quarter panels, white front bumper, no front plate, rear DFL8304 , CONTAINING WHITE MALE, eyebrow ring, baseball cap,  AGE 23 5-11″ Brown Hair, Blue eyes, Red flannel shirt. Weapon used: small calibre Handgun. REPORT! SUCCESSFUL USE OF BODY ARMOR! BAD GUY HIT THE COP ! 342 pm 

Fired at Law Enforcement Officer on Route 30 Margaretville.  last seen headed north Route 30 Towards Roxbury. UPDATED FREQUENTLY…MONITOR FREQ’S 154.760 , 156.060, 154.655 HC28 is the helicopter

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Drawing stick figures in school is still OK, unless one of the stick figures is holding a gun, in which case you call in the FBI and any nearby National Guard units

It was a crude animation of one stick figure shooting another created for a school graphics class in Gloucester County last week.

But during the same week of a shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, officials at Williamstown High School in Monroe found nothing innocent about the sketch. As a result, the student says a vice principal told him he would not be allowed to attend classes again until he passes a mental-health evaluation.

In response, the 18-year-old, identified in court papers only as “J.K.,” filed a lawsuit yesterday asking a federal judge to order school officials to allow him back to class and to pay for damages.

During a graphics design class on April 16 - hours before the world knew that Seung-Hui Cho had killed 32 people at Virginia Tech - J.K. said he was asked to make animations for a program they were learning.

J.K.’s sketch consisted of two stick figures, one with a raised gun that had dashes leading from it to the head of the other one.

The next morning, he said, he showed the drawing to a teacher, but told her he was not done with it. In court papers, he said he planned to show the victim deflecting or destroying the bullet. But, he said, the teacher did not listen to him further.

Two days later, he said, Vice Principal Paul Deal told him that he was not being suspended or expelled, but that he might be a threat to the school or himself. J.K. said he was told to leave and not return until being cleared by a mental-health professional.

Monroe Schools Superintendent Robert E. Terrill said that “the administration at the high school felt it was necessary to remove” the student until a threat assessment was conducted by a school psychologist as a precaution.READ MORE HERE

Ed Notes: Apparently school administrators are not only qualified animation art experts, but also excel in child psychology, physiology, and 45 other master’s degree medical specialties including law degrees. GIMME ONE FAT BREAK PEOPLE! CONGRATS PAUL DEAL, YOU ARE TODAY’S RECIPIENT OF THE COVETED ‘DOUCHEBAG’ AWARD.

“…yeah and i got a quote for that douche harry reid. these families need us here. obviously he has never been in iraq. or atleast the area worth seeing. the parts where insurgency is rampant and the buildings are blown to pieces. we need to stay here and help rebuild. if iraq didnt want us here then why do we have IP’s voluntering everyday to rebuild their cities. and working directly with us too. same with the IA’s. it sucks that iraqi’s have more patriotism for a country that has turned to complete shit more than the people in america who drink starbucks everyday. we could leave this place and say we are sorry to the terrorists. and then we could wait for 3,000 more american civilians to die before we say “hey thats not nice” again. and the sad thing is after we WIN this war. people like him will say he was there for us the whole time.”

–Corporal Tyler Rock, 1/6 Charlie Company, Ramadi, Iraq

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ED NOTES: Seems to me that we labeled Harry “Schmuck of the Month” a few days ago (check archives). Hehehhehheheh.

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When it comes to Sheryl Crow’s touring requirements, if it’s Tuesday, this must be Bombay. Gin that is. The rock star’s performance contract includes specific day-to-day instructions on what kind of booze Sheryl needs in her dressing room (TSG has never seen such attention to detail in any other concert rider we’ve posted). For each show, Crow requires 12 bottles of Grolsch beer, 6 bottles of “local” beer, and a bottle each of “good Australian Cabernet” and “good Merlot.” As for the harder stuff, promoters are directed to purchase specific booze depending on what day of the week the concert falls, as the below rider excerpt reveals. Additionally, when the global warming warrior hits the road, her touring entourage (and equipment) travels in three tractor trailers, four buses, and six cars. Now that’s a carbon footprint! READ MORE HERE!

ED NOTES: by Carl Spackler, Entertainment Editor. All that booze! Is Ted Kennedy a member of her entourage? And what about toidy-paper? Oh, right, she’s using her sleeve these days. Just what the world needs — a world class drunk preaching social responsibility while burning up thousands of gallons of gas/diesel just to sing whiny out-of-key earbusting drivel.

By Mark Stein, Special to the Chicago Tribune

I live in northern New England, which has a very low crime rate, in part because it has a high rate of gun ownership. We do have the occasional murder, however. A few years back, a couple of alienated loser teens from a small Vermont town decided they were going to kill somebody, steal his ATM cards, and go to Australia. So they went to a remote house in the woods a couple of towns away, knocked on the door, and said their car had broken down. The guy thought their story smelled funny so he picked up his Glock and told ‘em to get lost. So they concocted a better story, and pretended to be students doing an environmental survey. Unfortunately, the next old coot in the woods was sick of environmentalists and chased ‘em away. Eventually they figured they could spend months knocking on doors in rural Vermont and New Hampshire and seeing nothing for their pains but cranky guys in plaid leveling both barrels through the screen door. So even these idiots worked it out: Where’s the nearest place around here where you’re most likely to encounter gullible defenseless types who have foresworn all means of resistance? Answer: Dartmouth College. So they drove over the Connecticut River, rang the doorbell, and brutally murdered a couple of well-meaning liberal professors. Two depraved misfits of crushing stupidity (to judge from their diaries) had nevertheless identified precisely the easiest murder victims in the twin-state area. To promote vulnerability as a moral virtue is not merely foolish. Like the new Yale props department policy, it signals to everyone that you’re not in the real world.

The “gun-free zone” fraud isn’t just about banning firearms or even a symptom of academia’s distaste for an entire sensibility of which the Second Amendment is part and parcel but part of a deeper reluctance of critical segments of our culture to engage with reality. Michelle Malkin wrote a column a few days ago connecting the prohibition against physical self-defense with “the erosion of intellectual self-defense,” and the retreat of college campuses into a smothering security blanket of speech codes and “safe spaces” that’s the very opposite of the principles of honest enquiry and vigorous debate on which university life was founded. And so we “fear guns,” and “verbal violence,” and excessively realistic swashbuckling in the varsity production of ”The Three Musketeers.” What kind of functioning society can emerge from such a cocoon? READ STORY HERE

 ED NOTES: The Malkin column about the erosion of intellectual self-defense is exactly what Kim DuToit is speaking about in “The Pussification of the American Male”. Still another excellent piece of logic from Ted Nugent here. Go Ted, Go. HATTIP: The Educated Shoprat.

On Jan. 16, 2002, Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old student from Nigeria, walked into the Appalachian School of Law offices of Dean Anthony Sutin, 42, a former acting assistant U.S. attorney, and professor Thomas Blackwell, 41, and opened fire with a .380 ACP semi-automatic handgun – shooting them at close range.

Also killed in the same building was student Angela Denise Dales, 33. Three others were wounded.

As soon as the gunfire erupted, two students acting independently of one another, Tracy Bridges and Mikael Gross, ran to their vehicles to retrieve firearms. Gross, an off-duty police officer in his home state of North Carolina, got his 9mm pistol and body armor. Bridges got out his .357 Magnum.

Bridges and Gross went back to the building where the shots were heard and as Odighizuwa exited, they approached from different angles. Bridges yelled for him to drop his weapon and the shooter was subdued by several unarmed students.

Gross went back to his car and got handcuffs to detain the shooter until police arrived.

Most news reports of the incident failed to mention the presence of two armed students and their role in subduing the shooter, saying only that he was tackled by bystanders.

Odighizuwa was tried for the murders and sentenced to multiple life terms in prison.

Virginia Tech, like many of the nation’s schools and college campuses, is a so-called “gun-free zone,” which Second Amendment supporters say invites gun violence – especially from disturbed individuals seeking to kill as many victims as possible.

Foreign-born student Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 and wounded another 15 before turning his gun on himself.

A year earlier, the Virginia legislature banned all guns on campus in the interest of safety. STORY LINK HERE

ED NOTES: Fact like these are inconvenient truths to the likes of Mary Pat Hyland, of the Binghamton Press, who live with their heads firmly impacted where the sun doan’ shine…

Oakridge High School in Muskegon, Michigan, is one of many schools across the U.S. that took part in Wednesday’s “National Day of Silence” — an event promoted heavily by homosexual activist groups, which view it as a day to protest alleged discrimination faced by students who identify as “gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT).” At Oakridge High, duct tape was passed out for students to wear over their lips as a way to show solidarity with homosexual students who are purportedly suffering in silence.

John Gardner is pastor of Holton Family Life Worship Center in Holton, a community of approximately 2,500 about 17 miles northeast of Muskegon. Pastor Gardner says his 15-year-old son David, a student at Oakridge High, was suspended for a day by the school because he wrote with a black marker “I’m straight” on a piece of duct tape and attached it to his shirt. He explains that David donned the message to voice his objection to the school’s participation in the Day of Silence.

“They asked him, at that point, to take it off,” Gardner says, “and David [asked] why do the rest of the kids in the class get to wear theirs and I can’t wear something about what I believe?” According to the pastor, the teacher then instructed David to remove the message or he would be “kicked out” of class. “And he said, ‘Well then, you’ll have to kick me out’ — and that’s what they did,” says David’s father. READ MORE HERE

 

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ED NOTES: Where’s Sharpton, Jackson, and the rest of the usual suspects on this blatent case of racism, discrimination, and outrage? Oh, that’s right — they’re busy piling on Imus because of 3 words he said.   Never mind.

Seung-Hui Cho’s deadly rampage through the Virginia Tech campus brought back painful memories of how Jeanne Ann Clery was murdered in her Lehigh University dorm 21 years ago.

It sent shock waves of fear through a national college community of 17 million students and parents who believed they sent their children off to safe campuses.

But the annual campus crime database that serves as a monument to Clery’s life shows that of the more than 300,000 crimes reported at the nation’s 9,200 colleges and universities in 2005, 11 were for homicide. Most were petty crimes, such as underage drinking, committed by students, not against them.

”Worry that their computer will be stolen, or that they’ll be arrested for drinking, or that they’ll get lousy grades,” said George Mason University Detective Thomas Bacigalupi, who founded the nation’s largest annual campus crime conference, just outside Fairfax, Va. ”But murder on a college campus is not something they need to be concerned about. It’s just incredibly rare.”

Based on the U.S. Department of Education crime statistics only made possible in the wake of Clery’s death, a college student is more likely to win $1 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery, and twice as likely to be struck by lightning, than be murdered on campus. STORY CREDIT HERE

ED NOTES: That’s why it’s news, folks. When something is RARE it’s news.When it’s commonplace, it’s not. – Carl Spackler, Weekend Correspondent

ASHLAND, Ore. — A candidate for Southern Oregon University student body president has admitted she was lying when she claimed she had a cousin who was killed in the Virginia Tech shootings.

Brandi Freeman spoke at a candlelight vigil held by students at the university campus in Ashland Thursday night.

With tears streaming down her face, she had claimed she had lost her cousin in the shootings that left 33 dead at Virginia Tech.

By Friday, Freeman admitted to making up the story to appeal to voters for the student body election next week. She also said she suffers from bipolar disorder.

Freeman is a dean’s list student and a member of the student senate. But she said she’ll likely drop out of the student body elections because of her actions. STORY LINK HERE

ED NOTES: Brandi, you’re a swine girl.  Well, don’t you have to be a whore to run for public office these days? I’ll bet a dollar to a hole in a rubber donut the term ‘bipolar’ means more underneath that yentl exterior than is evident, Brandi.

The more time that passes, the more it seems that former vice president Al Gore may indeed run for the White House next year.

According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, staff members who worked on Gore’s unsuccessful presidential bid in 2000 have been approached to work on a possible campaign for 2008.
“I was asked whether I would be available towards the end of the year if I am needed,” one of Gore’s former campaign workers reportedly said. “They know he has not ruled out running and if he decides to jump in, he will have to move very fast.”

Gore has repeatedly said in the past that he has no plans and no intention of running for president again. But in politics, that particular language is ambiguous – meaning that it doesn’t fully rule out a bid. [Ah, but we know how Al "I invented the internet" lies]

Just two days ago, Gore’s former boss,  Bill Clinton also mentioned the possibility that Gore might run again.
During an interview with CNN’s Larry King on April 19, Clinton said, “You’ve got the prospect that Vice President Gore might run.”

Although former campaign workers acknowledge that Gore himself has not asked them to prepare a 2008 presidential campaign, they say he has not asked them not to, either.
Gore supporters are said to believe that the current Democratic frontrunner, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, may win the nomination but that she cannot win the actual election. Given this belief, and Gore’s priorities on climate change, it is possible that the former vice president has received new motivation to take aim at the White House.

ED. NOTE: Remember, Al “Mr. Internet” Gore worked for Clinton and found that Clinton did nothing wrong and defended Mr. Zipper. And he says he won’t run? Right. That’s the ticket. That’ll work. Good news — insiders high up in the party have already doomed Hillary. Bye Bye Beeyotch.

AS we mark the 38th Earth Day tomorrow, it’s worth noting that this secular “religion” has led many Americans to fervently believe some things that just aren’t true.

Environmentalist values plainly deserve a place in making public policy. But we shouldn’t be guided by myths that are provably false.

Yet a recent survey by Zogby International for the Manhattan Institute found that, when it comes to energy and the environment, the public is more inclined to believe myths than to have a firm grasp of basic facts.

Polling 1,000 average Americans on assorted energy and environmental issues, we found a wide disconnect between what people “know” and what is actually true.

What are the myths propagated by the Church of Environmentalism? Consider the pronouncements from the greens’ “Vatican”: Last Earth Day, Greenpeace USA exhorted its followers to action because “our forests are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate.” More, we must switch to “clean alternative” energies like wind power, because “we all know that fossil fuels contribute to global warming.”

A lot of people agree. Nearly 67 percent of those in our survey said they believe human activity, such as logging and development, is shrinking our forests. It seems self-evident; after all, the population continues to grow, and we build more and bigger buildings. So why wouldn’t we be losing forestland?

But it’s not so. Yes, the United States lost forestland throughout much of the 19th century, as the new nation grew - but the amount of forestland stabilized throughout much of the 20th century.

You can thank technology and progress for that, not any government scheme to save trees. The fact is that our footprint over nature is shrinking - because housing and industry don’t require anything approaching the acreage that farming demands, and we now need smaller and smaller spaces to provide the necessities of life. CONTINUE READING HERE

ED NOTES: I’ll be celebrating Earth Day by digging holes, starting a hot fire,barbecuing dead animals, and contributing huge amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere and some of my own methane when the beer and beans kick in.

All Greenies are hereby invited to my pants to partake in the release of the potentially relieveing Greenhouse Gasses.

Then said Greenies are invited to lie down in the holes, and remove themselves from contributing to the awfulness perpetrated upon Mankind by their hideous and traitorous bleatings.–Carl Spackler, The Catskill Commentator

Technorati tags: GREEN PARTY, GLOBAL WARMING, AL GORE, EARTH DAY, GREENHOUSE GAS, GREEN, METHANE, LEFT WING, MORONS, SCHMUCK

The state attorney general iin Maine is sending an investigator to the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, which says about 25 handguns are missing from its evidence room.

Sheriff Donnie Smith, who notified county commissioners last week, said two guns in the evidence room can be traced to one person, but he didn’t elaborate. Also, $450 in cash is missing from the department’s administrative office, he said.

An investigator from the attorney general’s office is expected to be in Machias in two weeks to look into the thefts. The sheriff said that if the investigation reveals that someone in his department was involved, the person will be fired.

The department discovered the loss after a lawyer sent a letter to Smith, saying his client wanted his weapon back. When officials looked for it, it was missing. That’s when the investigation turned up other missing weapons.

Guns are placed in the evidence room for a variety of reasons. Some are taken from crime scenes or seized from individuals.

Seized guns are returned to owners at their request if they not charged with an offense, or if they are found not guilty of an offense.

Smith said he has instituted stricter standards for handling evidence. The only people in the department with keys are the sheriff, chief deputy and full-time deputies. STORY LINK

ED NOTES: Looks like one of the good guys is a bad guy. Are the cops robbers? Which proves what I’ve been saying for a long time–even if there was some magical monster magnet that could sweep up all the guns in the world an dispose of them, someone would make them and sell them.

Q: If you can’t secure guns in police stations, keep them (and drugs) out of Federal maximum security prisons, how are you going to keep guns from the street or schools?A. It can’t be done. Every capable person must rely on him/herself to protect same and others.

Venus Ramey has earned lots of fame in her 82 years.

She was Miss America 1944 and later a candidate for Cincinnati City Council and worked to save Over-the-Rhine’s historic buildings. She performed on Broadway and in movies.

Now, though, she’s in the news for another reason.

After confronting a man she said was stealing from her Kentucky farm, Ramey pulled out a gun and shot out a tire on his truck so he couldn’t leave, allowing police to arrest him and two others.

“He was probably wetting his pants,” Ramey said Thursday from her home in Waynesburg, about 140 miles south of Cincinnati.

Ramey was on her Lincoln County farm last week - “Friday the 13th, apropos date, isn’t it?” she noted Thursday - feeding a horse when she saw her dog run to a nearby building where she stores old steel-shaping machines, lathes and other equipment.

Ramey left Cincinnati in 1990 to return to the quiet farm life she loves.

Now, she just wants to be left alone - especially by criminals.

“I’m trying to live a quiet, peaceful life and stay out of trouble, and all it is, is one thing after another.”

STORY LINK HERE

Technorati tags: GUNS, NRA, MISS AMERICA, SELF DEFENSE, SECOND AMENDMENT

ED. NOTE: She’s so right! It’s just one damn thing after another. Good shootin’,pardner! That’s a right smart pair of 38’s you got there, gal.

Harry Reid, Democrat, a moron with no military experience, declared yesterday that the war is lost.

Thanks for endangering our troops and providing aid and comfort to the enemy, you idiot.

If Reid had said this during WW1 or WW2, he’d be locked up for treason, tried, convicted, and executed.

What happened?  Can you say “Nevada Mob”, kiddies?

The Editors.