Iran has the latest version of reality TV, it’s called the 15 British POW’s.
 CNN International and Reuters are all over it. Meanwhile, still not a peep about the Geneva Convenience Conventions being violated.Â
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Murder Rate And Murder Mentality
The City of Brotherly Love is having trouble with a seemingly out-of-control criminal element. They reported their 100th murder yesterday. Reminiscent of other milestones in deaths in Iraq, the 500th, 1000th, etc… One would think that there’s a civil war going on in the city.
Philly can take solace in the fact that they’ve got a long way to go to top New Orleans, which now has a higher murder rate than the entire country of Iraq. They have one thing in common with New Orleans that needs to be addressed. The people, not all the people, I’ll call them the insurgents, don’t want to help themselves get rid of the problem. Instead, they are the problem.
New Orleans residents are reluctant to come forward as witnesses, fearing retaliation. And experts say that is one of several reasons homicides are on the rise in the Big Easy at a time when other cities are seeing their murder rates plummet to levels not seen in decades.
Philly has the same problem.
‘Don’t talk to the f-ing cops,’ ” the officer quoted the woman as saying. ” ‘We handle this our own way.’ ”
The mother of a third shooting victim arrived and told police: “I know who did it, and he’s in this crowd.” As the woman looked around for the gunman, the crowd berated her and told her to keep silent, the officer said. “People were telling her to be quiet and saying, ‘We’ll get you, bitch.’ “
What are contributing factors to this mentality? The us vs. them attitude runs rampant and gets ignored by organizations like the NAACP who refuse to step up to address it. The illegal immigration deniers are in the same boat. Schools could help obviously, but the war extends to the hallways too.
The answer might have to be some tough love. Maybe something needs to be tried like the politicians in Washington want to do in Iraq? If it works in Iraq, why wouldn’t it work in New Orleans and Philadelphia?
UPDATE: 04/02/07, Enough is enough, it’s up to 104.
Wizard of Id
Cable News Rankings, March 29
Who is watching and who is being watched? It seems viewers have had enough of the message from the cable version of the MSM. Note who is at the bottom half. Which means you can only expect them to get even more intense and creative in the art of making up news and crisis-ridden stories.
It also makes you wonder why the Democrat party in Nevada dropped out of the Fox-sponsored Primary debates. They might do well to have it on South Park.
CABLE NEWS RACE
THURS., MAR. 29, 2007
VIEWERS
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,844,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 2,299,000
CC SOUTH PARK 1,854,000
FNC GRETA 1,689,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,381,000
FNC HUME 1,336,000
CNN KING 1,062,000
CNN DOBBS 874,000
CNN COOPER 756,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 712,000
CNNHN GRACE 646,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 510,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 463,000
MSM 100, On Political Corruption
Once you read the first paragraph of this story, can you guess which political party this high ranking NJ elected official is affiliated with? After the second para? The third? Still no clue? If you are alert, in the fourth paragraph you will see the single reference to Sen. Wayne Bryant’s party, where the word democrat is mentioned. Â
When was the last time you saw a ‘news’ article having to do with corruption involving a republican where the perp’s party affiliation did not immediately follow his name? It is the usual convention for identifying politicians, umm, when criminal behavior is not an issue I guess? When it is, then the D’s are omitted.
TRENTON – State Sen. Wayne Bryant, until recently one of New Jersey’s most influential lawmakers, was charged today with abusing his power and the public trust.
A federal grand jury indicted Bryant, 59, of Lawnside, on public corruption and fraud charges tied to his employment at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and two other publicly funded agencies and institutions.
The 20-count indictment also charges R. Michael Gallagher, the former dean of UMDNJ’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, whom prosecutors allege schemed with Bryant to defraud the system.
According to the 40-page indictment, the powerful Camden County Democrat effectively sold his political influence to Gallagher and the osteopathic school. In return for lobbying on behalf of the school and securing millions in extra state funds, prosecutors allege, Bryant was rewarded with a $35,000-a-year, no-show job.
Camden, New Jersey is the city where the school system is in shambles, has been taken over by a state appointee, because the administration was more concerned with graft, kickbacks, and cheating on test scores than actually teaching their kids.Â
As for Sen. Wayne Bryant, he has a distinguished record of corruption going back to 1990.
It only gets worse the higher up the food chain you go. Take Rep. William ‘Dollar Bill’ Jefferson (D-La) for example. That investigation isn’t finished.  Did you even know there was one? Think hurricane Katrina, National Guard, and you might remember his name. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi recently put him on the House Homeland Security Committee.  Having $90,000 in bribe money in your freezer is just one of the criteria for getting appointed to that highly sensitive and important committee. Majority leader Pelosi apparently isn’t concerned with that ‘culture of corruption’ thing when one of her own is concerned.
Packing Heat In New Orleans
Apparently that’s what Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) did. In explaining how a gun could have found its way into his assistant’s possession and be carried onto the grounds of the Russell Senate Office building, Webb seemed to say, ‘well hey, we had the gun because we had been in New Orleans over the weekend.’
Hear that Mayor Ray Nagin? The senator feels compelled to arm himself when visiting your fine city. He actually said it more like this in speaking of his staffer’s arrest:
‘I think this is one of those very unfortunate situations where, completely inadvertently, he took the weapon into the Senate yesterday,’ Webb added. The senator noted that he was in New Orleans from Friday until Monday. He speculated that the incident happened because three of his cars were moved because of the trip.
I don’t think it will do much for the city’s recovery when lawmakers are afraid to visit without the special protection of Smith and Wesson.
In a related post, there is a solution to the crime problem in N.O. I wonder if the mayor saw it?
Philip Thompson, Not Above The Law
Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-Va.) staffer, Philip Thompson, was arrested for violating D.C. gun laws by taking a pistol to the Russell Senate office building. He was charged with carrying it without a permit, and possession of an unregistered gun. Webb denies giving Thompson the gun, which is irrelevant in this case. The only relevant thing is was the law followed? In his explanation, Webb also admits to another potential violation of gun laws, in Louisiana. That is, unless Philip Thompson and/or Webb have a permit to carry in the state of Louisiana, either he or Webb violated that state’s laws as well.
I think this is one of those very unfortunate situations where, completely inadvertently, he took the weapon into the Senate yesterday,†Webb added. The senator noted that he was in New Orleans from Friday until Monday. He speculated that the incident happened because three of his cars were moved because of the trip.
If 50-state armed security is what the Senator wishes, there are security firms that can provide it, legally. Otherwise, supporting the second amendment by violating state ‘gun control’ laws is not a privilege granted to lawmakers and their entourage. It’s right up there with alleging to support the troops while planning for defeat.
Rock Whore Endorses Gore
Now here’s an endorsement former vice-president Gore can be proud of. “I would 
publicly support him if he joins the race” says Madonna.
Related link which adds to her credentials as a political force, to the wacko left.
From Magic Negro To Screw The Poor
LA Times refers to Sen. Barack Obama as “the magic negro.” A “less-than-real black man.” Listen carefully for the outrage? Hear it? Me neither. Liberal editors and democrats being racist is apparently OK. The National Black Republicans don’t think so. Neither do I.
 Al Gore gets called on his rich-get-warmer, poor-get-colder global warming offset policies by black activist network Project 21. They say climate regulations and carbon offsets would harm poor and minority households. While Al Gore warns the the planet is sick and we’re all going to die, he also believes it’s OK to pay money for causing harm to the ‘sick’ planet. There’s a feel-good word for it. It’s called ‘carbon offsets.’ Can you say limousine liberal?
Wikipedia: magical negro
Civil Unions Less Than Expected
After all the media coverage of demonstrations and court cases, who didn’t have the impression that there was genuine demand for civil unions, as the New Jersey legislature coded their version of ‘gay marriage?’ So much so that the law needed to be changed. Apparently not, judging from the number of civil unions that have actually taken place. Only 230 have decided to take the plunge. 219 of those were in South Jersey.
About 230 gay couples – just a fraction of those living in New Jersey – have entered into civil unions in the month since the state began allowing the ceremonies, according to state figures released yesterday.
I’ll leave it to the so-called experts to figure out why the numbers are as low as they are, but one can’t deny that expectations of something higher than that could very well be the product of all the media hype promoting, promulgating the gay agenda over the last couple years. Controversy sells newspapers.
The state Department of Health and Senior Services had received 219 applications for civil-union licenses from local registrars as of Monday. The breakdown by county in southern New Jersey is:
Atlantic 14 Burlington 10 Camden 14 Cape May 8 Cumberland 6 Gloucester 7 Ocean 11 Salem 1 SOURCE: New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
There seems to be no participation in North Jersey, compared to South Jersey. Only 11 from the most densely populated part of the state, and 219 in the southern half. Why is that? It is also odd that Cape May, with its reputation for a large gay population, registered only 8.