Congress has the time for this?
With Rangel and Waters loose in the House Halls and Di-Fi and Babs, the lying Dinge and the Dud Dodd, Sphincter Schumer trolling the Senate leach pit.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Roger Clemens in Steroid Case

[snip]
Clemens faces charges of obstruction of Congress, making false statements and perjury. [snip]

Major league baseball players can be taken care of by the leagues.

Lets start the auto dà fé in Congress.
Voters! Start your fires!

“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”–H. L. Mencken

Man Accused Of Using Hatchet In Home Depot Robbery

WILMINGTON, Del. - A Bear man has been arrested after allegedly using a hatchet to rob a Wilmington home-improvement store.

Police say 45-year-old Andre Walker entered a Home Depot store Thursday night, took a bucket and a hatchet to the checkout, then began hitting the cash register with the hatchet until it opened. Police say he fled to the parking lot and got in a stranger’s car before heading back to the store, where he swung the hatchet at a manager. [snip]

Idiot! When robbing home improvement, hardware and lumber yards, a claw hammer is the proper implement.
Obviously, he flunked both shop and Home Econ.

Hatchets are strictly reserved for looting sporting goods and outfitting stores.

Bobby Rush is no paragon of morals to be running off HIS mouth! He’s as racist as they come.

CVS Shoplifter Death Now An ‘Active’ Investigation

No one’s denying what he might have done was wrong: allegedly stuffing crayons and toothpaste into his pockets and shoplifting.

But the fact that Anthony Kyser was killed after he was caught, and allegedly choked by a store employee — with an off-duty sheriff’s officer watching it happen — continues to hit a nerve. [snip]

It was Saturday morning at a Chicago CVS Pharmacy. Police say Kyser shoplifted. A store employee went after him and made a citizen’s arrest – putting him in a choke hold. Published reports say Kyser resisted. He later died. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide.

The police initially said it was accident. But the department late Thursday issued a statement saying it has an “active” investigation open. [snip]

“They didn’t have to choke him the way he did and when he’s pleading for his life,” she said. “I want the man to be charged with murder.”

Balboa says things may have turned out differently if her ex-husband had been white.  [snip]

And from the bottom of the deck…comes the RACE CARD!

 CBS 2 legal analyst Irv Miller has said when a suspect runs, an employee has a right to chase him and subdue him in a reasonable way. He could face charges only if it’s an intentional, reckless act.  [snip]

An intentional, reckless act would be shoving the crayons and toothpaste down the perps throat, causing choking.

Enough of this variable morality depending upon where one lives and breathes.There is no recidivism with dead perps.

Should he get 20 years in the can?
Probably not, just run his genitals and testes through a meat grinder. That will keep the liberal twit from breeding.

Jury convicts on 2 charges in Palin e-mail hacking

The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted Friday on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008. The federal court jury reached its verdict against David Kernell, 22, after four days of deliberation. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to a computer, but was acquitted on a charge of wire fraud. [snip]

Knoxville Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Weddle, the chief prosecutor in the case, said they had not decided whether to try Kernell again on the identity theft charge. [snip]

A solid felony conviction keeps this bunghole out of the legal community and with the blogs working right, might get his father unelected for good measure.

All on the premise of distance, trees and apples.

For those that believe that crime pays, this delivers a wonderful coin of that realm. Obviates the need for the costly trial too.
.45 ACP has another name, the round also been called the flying ashtray.

Remember, clean up your neighborhood; recycle your brass. Incidentally, this is quite good for YOUR health and longevity!

Oh yeah, gun control is hitting your target, not making people unarmed victims.

This is prima facie evidence of the Tooth Fairy’s existence!

The  money wasted on this fraud and on the non-stimulating Stimulus package can only be explained in this manner.

From the BLOG BRIEFING ROOM

The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that global warming skeptics say prove the phenomenon is not a threat.

Despite the incident, which rocked international headlines last week, climate science is sound, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed this afternoon, and the White House nonetheless believes “climate change is happening.”

Older news but news just the same:

Climate change data dumped

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

Even though this is the UK, doesn’t it sound like Chicago voter rolls. 

The stringent laws on guns in Chicago, actually Illinois, should make you feel safer.

MA has laws (read Boston) quite similar.

So go about your business without a worry!

Bloody Weekend: 8 Dead, Dozens Wounded

4 Killed, 2 Dozen Or More Wounded In Just 6 Hours

At least eight people were killed and some two dozen others were wounded over the weekend. Four of the victims lost their lives during a bloody six hours late Saturday and early Sunday.

Four of the victims lost their lives and at least 22 were wounded during a bloody six hours late Saturday and early Sunday, including an 8-year-old boy.

Violence was reported in every part of the city – with shootings and stabbings on the North, South and West sides.

The violence began with a stabbing at 9:55 p.m. Saturday, when a 26-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the armpit near 71st Street and Vernon Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood. He was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County in critical condition. A suspect is in custody, police said. [snip]

I know:
They smuggled them in from Mexico into Chicago to make Daley look bad.
It’s Bush’s fault.
It’s because they passed the law letting people carry in National Parks.
Mayor Daley should have banned semi-auto assault knives!

Get over it!
Gun Control doesn’t work.
Shooting the criminals does!

(Continuing my regular interest in the silly place called England.)

Word “School” is out for new 4.7M (sterling) Sheffield Primary

The word “school”, you see, has “negative connotations”…probably because  English “schools” are staffed by idiots, or the word is too hard to spell. 

Or maybe when you’re marooned on an island in the path of a lethal typhoon, you tinker with your coconut shell and monkeypod place settings in order to distract yourself from your realities.

The word “school” is derived from the Greek word “skhole” or “skole”, which is roughly defined as “leisure” or the things done in leisure time.  More specifically, it applied to the place where serious intellectual exchanges occur between students and teachers.

We can rule out the second usage for anything that might happen at Sheffield Primary.  Instead:

There are no whistles or bells, or locked doors.  We wanted to de-institutionalize the place and bring the school closer to real life.

Someone has stolen the bells and whistles, and the locked doors wouldn’t stop a yob with the physique of Hugh Grant.  For “real life” in Britain, Google “Britain’s crime rate”.

What do Syria, Myanmar, Darfur, Hell, Afghanistan, Iran and Britain have in common? God-awful places to live is the answer.
However none except Britain are so uncivilized as to keep you from protecting life and property. The U.S. under the Donks and libs strive mightily to get us to that place particularly with the “progressive education” so enjoyed.

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’ house has been under siege from stone-throwing youths. And more than two hours into the latest attack on his family home, the police had yet to respond.

So after a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, the 65-year-old grabbed a plank of wood and ran towards the gang to scare them away. But his desperate act came just as the police finally arrived on the scene - where they promptly arrested him for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison. [snip]

In Britain, protecting oneself by means of a weapon, from assault with intent to maim or kill, is punishable with time in prison, not short either.

How did they get they get to this position. By the liberal method of constantly moving the goal posts back to get a bit more correctness in the law.

When the Donks took over congress in the ‘70’s here, they got their ideas from across the pond. We are about 10 years behind Britain in rampant stupidity, only because of luck and some members of SCOTUS. No problem seeing why the left vilifies the conservative side of the bench, is there?

A sampling of cases illustrates the impact of these measures:

In 1973 a young man running on a road at night was stopped by the police and found to be carrying a length of steel, a cycle chain, and a metal clock weight. He explained that a gang of youths had been after him. At his hearing it was found he had been threatened and had previously notified the police. The justices agreed he had a valid reason to carry the weapons. Indeed, 16 days later he was attacked and beaten so badly he was hospitalized. But the prosecutor appealed the ruling, and the appellate judges insisted that carrying a weapon must be related to an imminent and immediate threat. They sent the case back to the lower court with directions to convict.

A proper and PC verdict, would you say?
Now if the jogger said he was carrying the metal to help him lose weight and build up stamina, what could the prosecutor have said?
The lesson to be learned in this PC world is do not tell the truth!

In 1987 two men assaulted Eric Butler, a 56-year-old British Petroleum executive, in a London subway car, trying to strangle him and smashing his head against the door. No one came to his aid. He later testified, “My air supply was being cut off, my eyes became blurred, and I feared for my life.” In desperation he unsheathed an ornamental sword blade in his walking stick and slashed at one of his attackers, stabbing the man in the stomach. The assailants were charged with wounding. Butler was tried and convicted of carrying an offensive weapon.

NYC has a law that allows prosecution for assault if one defends themselves with their cane. A prosecutor can bring the case to the grand jury, which as you know, will indict a ham sandwich for not having mustard. I presume using your crutch would make matters ever worse.

In 1994 an English homeowner, armed with a toy gun, managed to detain two burglars who had broken into his house while he called the police. When the officers arrived, they arrested the homeowner for using an imitation gun to threaten or intimidate. In a similar incident the following year, when an elderly woman fired a toy cap pistol to drive off a group of youths who were threatening her, she was arrested for putting someone in fear. Now the police are pressing Parliament to make imitation guns illegal.

Absolutely right! We cannot have these young malefactors wetting their pants, can we.

In 1999 Tony Martin, a 55-year-old Norfolk farmer living alone in a shabby farmhouse, awakened to the sound of breaking glass as two burglars, both with long criminal records, burst into his home. He had been robbed six times before, and his village, like 70 percent of rural English communities, had no police presence. He sneaked downstairs with a shotgun and shot at the intruders. Martin received life in prison for killing one burglar, 10 years for wounding the second, and a year for having an unregistered shotgun. The wounded burglar, having served 18 months of a three-year sentence, is now free and has been granted $5,000 of legal assistance to sue Martin.

Comparison
Bernard Hugo Goetz, known as Bernhard or Bernie (born November 7, 1947) was dubbed the “Subway Vigilante” by the New York press. How the BBC views this.

Vermonters of all political persuasions can get behinds this novel and green innovation. Rechargeable batteries in series connected to a capacitor delivers proper amperage with a short cycling time.

Solar-Powered Electric Chair

AUSTIN, TX—Garrett Durning of the Texas Environmental Defense League has spent the last three months campaigning tirelessly for the installation of solar-powered electric chairs in state prisons. “Texas wastes more than 500,000 watts of electricity on every criminal it executes,” Durning told reporters Monday. “We live in the 21st century, and it’s high time we acted like it. Let’s stop depleting our non-renewable fossil fuels. Solar power is a more energy-efficient way to execute the condemned.” Durning added that wrist and ankle restraints should be made of hemp rather than leather, the use of which is cruel.

Furthermore, by using found and recycled materials the state can save a tree. I’m sure the Burlington/Middlebury peoples artist collectives will create a suitably shaped device honoring the victims and all with no carbon footprint.

Toss aside a harmonic convergence of this level dispassionately. I should say not!

Massachusetts voters wanted change, and now they are going to get it.

What’s that? You thought you were going to get lower property taxes? Not quite, but how about we free some convicted murderers as a consolation prize!

Howie Carr has the story (HT: Deval Patrick Watch):

The Parole Board is open Under New Management - liberal bleeding-heart management.

This is splendid news for stone killers and rapists, bad news for everybody else.

This week we got the first of what will no doubt be a long line of murderers being cut loose: Karter Reed, who wept at his Parole Board hearing in March. Of course Killer Karter wasn’t crying at Dartmouth High School back in 1993, when he fatally stabbed a teenager he didn’t even know, laughing and jeering as his victim lay dying on the classroom floor. Even Deval’s Parole Board had to stipulate that.

“The Parole Board does acknowledge this tragic senseless loss of a young and innocent victim but . . . ”

But we’re liberals, and it’s our $90,000-a-year job to fling open the prison doors for murderers. For 16 years, these horrid Republicans would never release any of these poor young men who’ve been turning their lives around, and now it’s payback time.

The vote to let Killer Karter go was 4-3. It was close only because the Parole Board still includes some holdovers not appointed by Gov. Deval Patrick, that great benefactor of rapists. Next year the votes will be 5-2, then 6-1.

“Mr. Reed was incarcerated at a very young and susceptible age,” the limousine liberals wrote. But not to worry, Killer Karter has rehabilitated himself. Here are some of the prison programs he availed himself of: Alternatives to Violence, Training for Trainers, Training for Facilitators and Welcome Diversity, Anger Management, Toastmasters and, my favorite, Barber School.

Together We Can … empty the prisons!

We can expect more of this type of “Change” if Obama wins in November too! The only difference is that it will be terrorists being set free by him.

Oh well, you can’t say we didn’t warn you Massachusetts:

• Together We Can… Put Rapists Back on the Street
• The Gift That Keeps On Giving
• “Free ‘em all” Deval sort of apologizes for his Benjamin LaGuer missteps
• Dukakis Defends “Free ‘em all” Deval
• The Gift That Keeps On Giving - Part 2

Has it occurred to you that any American citizen wishing employment needs to produce more paper than can be culled from a hectare of Canadian woods. That’s for cleaning toilets to working in a bank. Speaking of banks, try opening an account with just your Social Security card, not going to happen. You need to prove beyond unreasonable doubt of your bona fides.

If arrested for a criminal act or even a DUI, you’ll be questioned and charged with no delay. Bring money, you’ll need an armored car full.

However, to avoid these roadblocks, merely claim you are an illegal.

Do you have a criminal background? Not a problem, since the Liberals won’t ask and forbid local powers from inquiring. Consider driver’s licenses an inconvenience, since purchasing insurance isn’t on the vehicle operating agenda. Taxes are impedimenta to our appreciating our beer. Illegals treasure their Corona with abandon then motor off to relish a night on the town. Don’t worry about that DUI, CA wants to make it illegal to notify ICE if they believe deportation would occur.

Some of the more adventurous may even engage in a spot of rape. Oh to live la dolce vita with such lack of inhibition.

We know where Clinton and Obama stand on this problem, offer amnesty. McCain has been quiet, he does have an ardent open border believer running his candidacy, Juan Hernandez. Where does this bring us to in November?

“Pirates can claim UK asylum”

Not just a problem for Penzance: “The Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights.

Here’s another idea that will go far in “making the world safe for the children.”

Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been warned that there is also a risk that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain” on the grounds that if sent back to Somalia they could face cruel punishments such as beheading or hand-chopping. (Marie Woolf, Times Online, Apr. 13).

Vermont court to decide if disliked prison food is punishment

MONTPELIER, Vt. (Map, News) - When shooting suspect Christopher Williams acted up in prison, he was given nutraloaf - a mixture of cubed whole wheat bread, nondairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes.

Prison officials call it a complete meal. Inmates say it’s so awful they’d rather go hungry.

On Monday, the Vermont Supreme Court will hear arguments in a class action suit brought by inmates who say it’s not food but punishment and that anyone subjected to it should get a formal disciplinary process first.

Prison officials see nutraloaf as a tool for behavior modification. http://federalism.typepad.com/crime_federalism/

“It’s commonplace in other states as a way of providing nutrition in a mechanism that dissuades inmates from throwing feces, urine, trays and silverware,” said Vermont Corrections Commissioner Rob Hofmann.

“It tends to have the desired outcome,” Hofmann said. [snip]

Most Vermont inmates given nutraloaf have used their eating utensils to throw body waste. Nutraloaf, however, is served on a simple piece of paper, removing from the inmate’s reach the utensils that can be used to store the waste before it is thrown.[snip]

Christopher Williams, 29, who is charged in a 2006 school shooting that killed two people in Essex, was given nutraloaf after he’d assaulted guards and smeared excrement in his cell.
Since then, his name hasn’t appeared on the list of inmates given nutraloaf.
“His name was nowhere to be found,” Hofmann said. “I presume it was effective.”

What has Vermont come to, serving prisoners wholesome food after they misbehave? Put them on a broccoli rabe diet for a month (that will stop the feces throwing) or beat them to within an inch of stupidity with a waterboard, since it’s impolite to use it as intended. Actually, given the level of intelligence extant, holding up the board should be sufficient.

If the inmates worked on road gangs 10 hours a day, they be too tired to cause troubles. Who knows, they might even recognize the work ethic when they step up to it. The state also saves a large portion of tax dollars used to pay state employees to do the lump work. Realizing additional savings by canceling the cable TV and converting the workout room to additional cell space helps the taxpayers.

Furthermore, having the correctional facilities a bit inconvenient may produce a sharp drop in recidivism, either by modifying their behavior or by leaving the state. I care not which they choose.

Just Say No?

Jeffrey Wennberg on Crime, Drugs, and Vermont’s quality of life

(Wennberg is a former mayor of Rutland)

On Monday, March 24th, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in Rutland to look into the explosion of violent crime and drug offenses in Vermont. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who chairs the panel, notes that while violent crime is growing at 1 percent nationally, it is growing at ten times that rate in Vermont. Meanwhile Governor Douglas and law enforcement leaders have recently made page-one news with statewide drug busts netting crack cocaine, heroin and a significant number of big-city drug entrepreneurs.

And yet, just weeks ago, the Vermont Senate voted 22 to 7 to approve the bill that would give those caught with small amounts of marijuana the choice of participating in the Diversion program, and by so doing avoid a criminal record. Public opinion polls indicate a solid majority of Vermonters support the measure.

So why are they so upset with the burgeoning community dope market in Rutland and Barre, which merely supplies the adjunct desires? They believe a little bit of dope is just the thing to start the day.
Sensitive Vermonters wish to rehabilitate, not incarcerate, to prevent damage to tender psyches. Wagging fingers, wrist slaps and court diversion are the chastisements of preference.

Now that some of the capitalists wish to practice horizontal integration to corner the market, the locals become upset. Is something wrong with their laissez-faire policy that heretofore was undiscovered?
Purveyors of recreational drugs no longer are welcome in town. Now what to do. Since all these interlopers have poor self-esteem from bad potty training, hearing the word no spoken harshly, or poor schooling, Vermonters wished not to further ding their mellow. They simply asked them to go elsewhere.
Via incarceration and labeling, elsewhere however rejected them. The return hegira to Rutland, which holds self-esteem and image paramount produces quandary. For the prodigals are violent, bringing big city solutions to little city Vermont.

Stay tuned; let us see what actually happens after the legislative hand wringing phase. You know the good Senator Leahy has all the answers