THE PEDOPHILE HAD A BLOG . . .

Joseph Edward Duncan, the pedophile at the centre of the high profile case of the kidnapping of an Idaho girl Shasta Groene whose family was found beaten to death, kept a blog.

BLOGGING THE FIFTH NAIL has its last post as May 13, three days before Shasta Groene’s mother, older brother and mother’s boyfriend were discovered bound and bludgeoned to death in their home in Coeur D’alene, Idaho.

A typical assertion:

"If you knew without doubt that closing 9 out of 10 prisons and releasing the 9 least violent out of 10 prisoners would reduce new crimes by more than half in less than 5 years, would you be for it?"

As things appear to stand, ex-con duncan would NOT less violent or likely to commit crimes outside of prison.

He also writes:

“My blog entries lately are erratic and full of a lot of B.S., for that I apologize…I am just trying to put down what is in my head, regardless. As far as ‘taking people with me’ well, I don’t know if that is right or wrong. In fact, I don’t know much any more what right and wrong even is. My view is either everything is right (in some regard) or everything is wrong (in some other regard).”

Beyond that, Duncan mostly boo-hoos about his "demons". I propose that he and his demons be permanently segregated from society.

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DOVER

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JEFFERSON, AGAIN:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." - [Thomas Jefferson]

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ITEM: VICENTE FOX MAKES ANOTHER RACIST FAUX PAS

Remember when the "co-presidente" of Los Unidos Estados opined that we shouldn't get all worked up about illegals streamin' across our borders to take jobs from Americans - 'cuz even "blacks" won't take those jobs?

At the time, we learned that Mexican culture still includes entertainments similar to blackface minstrelsy of the 1890s in the US.

SIGNIFYIN' MONKEYS SIGNIFYIN' WHAT?

The series of five stamps released for general use Wednesday depicts a child character from a comic book started in the 1940s that is still published in Mexico.

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Mexican President Vicente Fox denied these
caricatures were racist or even inappropriate ...

The boy is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes. His appearance, speech and mannerisms are the subject of "kidding" by white characters in the comic book ... Activists said the stamp was offensive, though officials denied it.

“One would hope the Mexican government would be a little more careful and avoid continually opening wounds,” said Sergio Penalosa, an activist in Mexico’s small black community on the southern Pacific coast.

Years ago I read about a Native American lady who brought her young son to see a Cleveland Indians game. As they passed by the ridiculous caricature of a red man depicted as a grinning idiot that STILL stands as the mascot for the Indians team - the little boy looked up to his mom with tears welling in his eyes and asked, "Mama, do I look like THAT?"

It's of no use for Fox or white majority Americans to try to arbit what is or isn't hurtful to people of minority ethnic, racial, religious, or cultural groups. It is not surprising that derogatory and stereotypical art and literature fail to offend some people who have never been on the RECEIVING END of de jure or de facto exclusionary public policies.

Vincente Fox has demonstrated his capacity for ignorance in trying to explain the ingrained racist attitudes that sometimes surface in the stratified Mexican cultural landscape and shock the sensibilities of all but the most bigoted of Americans.

So far, Speedy Gonzalez has been unavailable for comment . . .

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Connie DuToit  struck out phrases in the Bill of Rights to make a point or several. Hmmm ... she may have sum'pin here.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property,

without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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MANY A  RICH & FAMOUS WOMAN HAS
PUT ALL HER MONEY IN HER NOSE

Paula Jones is looking for a sponsor to pay her to wear a T-shirt carrying the sponsor's logo during her first visit to the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark.

She says the $850,000 she won in the settlement of her sexual harassment suit against Clinton was gone years ago, most of it claimed by the lawyers who represented her: "I got $151,000 … I never made bunches of money," Jones told the press , adding enviously, "Mary Kay LeTourneau can molest a child, then turn around and marry him, and make $1 million off their TV wedding!" (Rush & Molloy)

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DUBYA TO ANNOUNCE O'CONNOR's REPLACEMENT!

The advance transcript of Bush’s address to the nation on his nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor’s successor:

My fellow Americans, under my blustering façade—yes, I’m familiar with the word “façade”—I am tormented by remorse and self-doubt. I know I’ve run the country into the ground financially, and though my friends and I will make out like bandits, just as we did with Arbusto and Harken, I know it’ll take you all at least another fifty years to clamber out of the hole I’ve dug for you. Friends, neighbors, fellow citizens, I don’t want to be remembered as a man who used the office of the Presidency like some two-bit, tinhorn generalissimo ...

And for that reason, my fellow Americans, I am nominating LANI GUINIER to the Supreme Court of the United States."

[The foregoing is SATIRE from Blogger Michael Berube ]

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BERNARD GOLDBERG SKEWERS THAT
LIBERALLY-BIASED MEDIA AGAIN . . .

Bernie's cobbled together another book. It's called
"The Worst 100 People that are Screwing Up America".

(Yass, Al Franken is #37!)

Hey Bernie, it looks like you just made a list of liberals. Does this beat havin' a JOB, Bernie? Hmmm, just off the top o' me noggin, I think I can make a list that's a l'il more balanced:

DEAN ORNISH! Rumsfeld, Rove, Cheney, DUBYA, DeLay, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, David Horowitz, James Dobson, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, Evangelist Rod Parsley (Columbus), Rev. Fred Phelps, Tony Blankley, Beverly LaHaye, Mel Gibson, Dr. Dino (Creationist), Bill Frist, M.D., Ed Begley, Jr., Sam Brownback, Bob Novak, Star Jones, Senator James Imhofe, Co-Presidente Vicente Fox, Rob Reiner, Phyllis Schaffley, Rick Santorum, Michelle Malkin, Scalia, Robert Bork, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Jackson, Bill O'Reilly, Shemp Hannity, Ann Coulter, Rash Limbo, Jack Kelly, Cal Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Dennis Prager, Mona Charen, Ralph Nader ... well, you get the idea.

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REPORTERS IN CHAINS!

WONKETTE

Pundit Craig Crawford (National Journal, MSNBC, others) would like to see Matt Cooper chained up. To each his own, we suppose, but it's the reasoning that really gets us:

I want him to go to jail. We need this. Americans must see a reporter in handcuffs to understand what is happening to the freedom of the press. He should do a Martha Stewart and immediately volunteer to go to a minimum security facility where there will be no issue about his safety. And he should insist on a perp walk to the squad car. That picture will be as provocative and illuminating as the brave soul standing before the tank in Tiananmen Square.

Craig, let me buy ya a beer . . .

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Slate

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HERE'S A NOD TO ABC NEWS 20/20

They gave great expose on the (nominally - Jewish) Kaballah cult. Sure, it's a cult, a rip-off, and a Scientology-like scam (complete with high-intellect celebrities like Paris Hilton, Ashton Kutcher).

They even have $40 water that cures cancer, $28 bracelets made of string, and Hebrew text that protects your "energy" - even if you don't speak Hebrew!

But what I liked the best is the huge mansions, owned by the cult, where the practitioners live. Beautiful mansions, yet on paper they've taken a vow of poverty. Their defense? Simple. "If the Catholics can do it, so can we". They're right on that one!

REMEMBER - your taxes pay for this. Everything they make, they keep. You pay taxes for them!

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Artist: Ton Smits

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JESUS IS COMING ___  SôôN !

Hey, doncha think the REAL reason JC hasn't returned is those crosses you Christianists wear? D'ya think JFK would wanna come back if you wore little rifles on your lapels?

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A Fucking Nice Pub

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So Long Ol' Paint . . .