The wheels of justice move at all speeds. That is to say, it moves faster for some than others. Take the 10 year old case of (Baghdad) Jim McDermott. Just yesterday, he lost his appeal, owes $700,000 in restitution.
For more on Nancy Pelosi’s housecleaning efforts that you won’t see anywhere else, check Michelle Malkin’s post.
When trouble knocks on your door, don’t let it in. So NASA says no thanks to Russia’s offer to pool resources to do a joint moon exploration project. NASA is reportedly taking this project on without international partners.  Russia’s space agency head Anatoly Perminov said . . .
We were ready to cooperate but for unknown reasons, the United States have said they will undertake this programme themselves.
Here’s an ‘unknown reason’ for ya.  Putin’s latest clamp on freedom where he says that “the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy.” His words.  That’s the message radio broadcasters got after being taken over by the State, among other things. I in no way know that Putin’s ‘enemy’ statement had anything to do with NASA’s response.   IMHO, I couldn’t throw him far enough, even on the moon’s surface, to trust him. Putin’s enemy fixation sort of blows the whole trust thing out the window for me.
There are standards. And in politics there are double standards. Some might conclude there are even moving standards. Such is the case with Phillip Thompson, aide to Virginia Senator Jim Webb (D-Va). Thompson was arrested in Washington for gun violations. He carried an unregistered firearm onto government property without a permit. Two violations that really need no explanation, unless you’re a democrat I guess. Charges against him were dropped.
After reviewing and analyzing all of the evidence in the case, we do not believe the essential elements of the crime of carrying a pistol without a license can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,” U.S. Attorney Jeff Taylor, top prosecutor in the District of Columbia, said in a short statement.
You either have a permit to carry, or you don’t. Where is there any doubt? The ‘gee, I didn’t know I had it’ defense, apparently, is enough for prosecutor Jeff Taylor.  Which still does not answer the ‘unregistered’ aspect of the case?  What happened to that? Here’s another U.S. Attorney that needs replacing.Â
We are lucky to be alive during a time when the earth can now be managed by man. Who would have thought? Did you know we can do it by changing our work / living habits? Also, toilet paper usage is a big factor. And, it is now possible to increase oil supply without drilling more wells.
We are among geniuses. We have a lot to be thankful for. Like where would we be without them?
Which statement causes more harm to Americans; ‘nappy headed hos’ or ‘the war is lost?’ To answer this all one needs to do is look at who is affected and who is saying it. A basketball team of women who have accepted a radio DJ’s apology for an airing that reached (originally) only about 300,000 people, and, over 150,000 soldiers and over a million family members supporting and praying for their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, who are fighting to protect us against Islamofascists (murderers who pervert Islam), by the political leader of the Senate of the United States of over 300 million.
We’ve seen Don Imus lose his job and possibly career over a racial comment, meant to be irreverent humor, that came from the vernacular of today’s hip hop culture. We’ve seen another Senate majority leader like Harry Reid, Trent Lott, lose his leadership position due to popular demand of the ‘opposition party’ for making what was meant to be a joke at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party.
In Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid’s case, his ‘the war is lost’ comment doesn’t even come close to the negative impact fomented from what was said by Don Imus or Trent Lott.
The total impact of Harry Reid’s statement is hurtful to the morale of our troops during a time of war, while they are in harms way. It hurt the sensibilities of the families behind the troops. It gives aid and comfort to the enemy, alQaeda and other like-minded Islamofascists.
Let’s be at least a little consistent shall we? Harry Reid must go. He must at least give up his position as leader of the Senate. Today wouldn’t be soon enough for me.
You have to listen real fast when the network news comes on the radio. At the top-of-the-hour news broadcast, this ABC story was about an al-Qaida double truck bomb attack on a U.S. patrol base in Diyala, a city northeast of Baghdad. They didn’t report the big news in this story. The big news in this story is the fact that the surge in Baghdad is working, in as much as it is being credited with “the efforts to halt violence there.”
This quote below, seems to be the blurb that I heard on the radio. You have to imagine listening to this in the 10 second blurbs you get on the network radio news. So you have to listen fast.
The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of Sunni militants that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, said it was behind Monday’s double attack on a U.S. patrol base in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad — an area that has seen violence spike since American troops surged into the capital to halt violence there.
The rest of the article recounts various truck bombs and suicide bombers. The usual. No further mention of the surge.
Wonder how long it will take the MSM to report any progress from the surge? As long as it is working, they won’t.
related: when good news is bad
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to squash freedom, yearning for those good old communist days. This time it is the press and he gives them his template. Portray the United States as an enemy.
MOSCOW, April 21 At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be positive.
In addition, opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.
With neither candidate getting over 50% of the vote, France’s presidential election will be decided in a run-off election on May 6. Nicolas Sarkozy, characterized as the pro-west, pro-capitalism candidate got 30.44 percent of the vote and Segolene Royal, the socialist candidate got 24.79 percent of the vote. The French people now have a stark choice before them.
But don’t expect that the runoff will produce the same outcome. Royal had a significant opponent, François Bayrou, a centrist candidate who got 18.31 percent of the vote. The determining factor will be where that 18.31 percent chooses to hang their hat. Â
They each have their views on how to save the French economy. Sarkozy’s idea is through capitalism and by reducing taxes from 60% to 50%, and have more flexible weekly work hours. Royal, on the other hand, wants to spur the economy by increasing the minimum wage by 20 percent and adding half a million government subsidized jobs and a shorter work week, more holidays, more benefits, less employer autonomy.
What Sir Winston Churchill said:
| We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. |
Here’s hoping the French people will see that the Sarkozy ideology will be their best bet for whatever they think ailes them.
Suspects v. Christians, What? More evidence that the so-called religion of peace extends its influence into the media, this CNN article (buried in the World section) can’t seem to identify the religion of the murderers. They call them suspects. However, the three people who had their throats slit were properly identified as Christians.   This PC crap is masking terrorism and the scope and scale of it. Don’t you think it is time to quit ignoring the elephant in the room?Â
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Eleven suspects in the slayings of three Christians at a publishing house in eastern Turkey were charged with murder Sunday, court officials said.
The three victims — one German and two Turkish men — were tied up and had their throats slit on Wednesday at a publishing house in the town of Malatya that was at the center of protests by some nationalists because it distributed Bibles.
On this day, and in days to come, our prayers go with the family of Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis, a 
native of Pittsfield, Mass.. Kevin was piloting the F-18 Blue Angel number 6 when it went down Saturday during an airshow in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Pensacola loves the ‘Blues.’ They’re all family in Pensacola. Our prayers are also with the rest of those who make up The Blue Angels; all the pilots and families and everyone else that is a part of the squadron.
Blue Angels spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Garrett Kasper said the team will return to Pensacola this afternoon.
“We will regroup,” he said.
Miraculously there were no other fatalities.