Overdue update

Dooval is just a lying toad. So it turns out that not only has he written to the parole board (twice) and allowed a published letter of recommendation on a website (since removed) supporting a convicted rapist, he also donated money to provide for DNA testing to exonerate the man. Of course, he could remember none of this -- he blamed his staff for not checking up on this matter before denying all of the above. But then generously "took the blame" for their failure. What? That is saying that you didn't do it, others did. The trouble is, YOU DID LIE.

Why not, you ask? Why not spend money to exonerate a potentially innocent man? Well, you see, this particular case was not even close. Dooval only initially decided to get involved because he thought that racism might have been involved in the decision to prosecute, not that the evidence was weak.

Dooval also turns out to have been the NAACP appellate advocate for an ADMITTED cop killer in Florida. Dude gets pulled over by a state trooper there and pumps five into the trooper from point blank. Got his sentence reduced. THAT is why cops look nervous when pulling over skeezy looking people: they are not racist or against hippies, druggies, long hairs, latinos, rednecks, etc. per se ... they are just worried about getting their ass shot off. AND the people that are statistically most likely to do that are members of the above list. Call that profiling or whatever the crap you will (and you liberals will no doubt bemoan the fascist cops), but when it is your life on the line -- personally -- you will do what you can to prevent its loss. Liberals might say that those people shouldn't be cops in that case if they can't take the heat. But I might remind them that if it wasn't for cops, their liberal asses would be the prime targets for gun wielding thugs looking for an easy mark (us conservative / independents just might have a 12 gauge semi under the seat, in the closet, etc.).

Or course liberals would then whine that the government isn't protecting "the people" and that it is the guns that make them unsafe, the guns supplied by the radical right. News flash: crooks will get guns. Unless you make crime unacceptable, you will get crime. Lots of people apparently adhere to the maxim "I robbed the bank because that is where the money is." (For my UK readers -- I have a few -- please note that Uk crooks, in particular your lovely refugee/asylum seekers, have plenty of guns.)

I am all for banning handguns outright, except for law enforcement and the military: you get caught with one, you do hard time, no exceptions. I want to preserve the right of Americans to blow in half the SOB who comes to burgle, rape and kidnap members their families. None of this Masshole crap that the criminal has rights. Provided the creep is in your house, you should have the right to terminate him, right there and then. Outside the house, no right to terminate except in defense of your life -- but since you, the law abiding citizen would have no handgun, you would be walking around with a legal racked and loaded 12 gauge semi, it is unlikely that someone is going to threaten your life. In fact, the very act of carrying it would likely cause someone else to feel threatened -- but since they would be on your property, tough. Off of your property, guns of any form may only be used for hunting or target shooting and you need to be on your way too or from that purpose and be able to prove it.

I stray. The thing is, do you want that advocate, so uniquely motivated by race and his notions of racial equality, to the exclusion of reality and your wellfare, as your governor? His slogan "together we can" ... do what? Free the felons, oppressed by the white, slave-owning majority? Cut a check to every minority family because of past sins of other people's ancestors (mine were peaceably starving in peat bogs)? Look what the people of New Orleans did with their checks: bought plasma TVs (that is not mere allegation folks, it is truth). So when Dooval picks your Masshole pockets, you rich, unworthy-capitalist-oppressor, you may have a pretty darn good idea where the money is going to go. Not that he is telling you anything before the election -- and why would he? You might just wake up.

The Airbus A380 sucks more wind. So far the airlines that ordered it are just collecting checks from the builder for non-delivery. Boeing must be loving this. And it turns out that Branson, Quantas and Emirates are looking seriously at a stretched version of the 747, the 747-800 as a stop gap. That might be gamesmanship, but it might also be real.

And North Korea. Friends, the cat that made a treaty/agreement with Kims in 1994 was the (let's say this out loud) CLINTON administration. You see Bill, thought he could trust a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone that starved a whole nation for the privilege of fielding a million man army. Silly Bill. Now they are going to test a nuke and there is little that anyone can do to prevent it. And why, actually, do they want to prevent it. He claims he has them, he can therefore send them to his allies in the Taliban and Hamas (remember those ship loads of weapons that Arafat denied he knew about, even though his closest aides were more or less on the shipping manifests and bills of lading?), as well as anyone else in the world. Would exploding one really change that much except to finally dispell all the bullpoop that the South Koreans and appeasement wonks (that would include most US liberals and Democrats) --oh, that might be it. If they do it, then they are all proven wrong.... As if the threat to do it is not proof by itself.

So let's say they blow one up this weekend. Japan will then decide that they need them too. My guess is that they already have warheads (very nicely miniaturized, indeed) all ready to go, just lacking some enriched plutonium -- that is unless they have not already figured out a way to use household products available at a spuermarket. So they fire up the enrichment process, and voila, 6 months later they have an arsenal. Of course, they will claim it will take years and they have to launch a whole program, etc. But remember folks, these are the people who brought you the walkman, the CD (with Philips), excellent HD TVs, flat panels for your watch ... and Pearl Harbor. That program is ready to go. Now.

The South Koreans will truly be in the poop up to their eyebrows. For so many years they have followed the "sunshine" policy. The students have rioted on an annual basis for North Korean rights and to enforce the idea that the North really has peaceful intentions (nice irony there). The North paid their agents handsomely for this. And it worked. South Korea became an industrial giant under the US umbrella of safety -- and bit that hand so many times, it looks more like mush. What now? There is only one option, and that is for the South to arm to the teeth and spend money to do so that previously we subsidized. We should leave the South. Just pick up and go. Now that would put the cat among the pigeons!!

The world needs to cut them off to starve them out. China has to get on board with the fact that complete lunatics are in the North -- crazies that in effect threaten their well-being too. Whether they will or not is a big question, and if they run true to form they will not do what is needed for the good of the world. The US is only really threatened in that our sources of those Samsung LCD TVs might vanish. The notion that we are more at risk because they "got the bomb" is a joke. The vast numbers of ex-Soviet tactical nukes that are unaccounted for are a much greater threat because they are not under the control of a government, however crazy. They are more than likely for sale unerneath a tarp in the back of some Lada in one of the 'Stans.

And while we are at it, we know Pakistan has them. We know that Pakistan also assists the Taliban, while pretending to be our friends. We know that Pakistan is the center for Al Qaeda madrassas and training centers. Why the hell are we worried about a crazy with a bad perm and not the tens of thousands of far out lunatic crazies bent and a personal interview with Allah? If Kim launched a nuke at us, or Japan, we would be perfectly entitled to level the place. Russia and China would step back and take a deep sigh of relief -- while making lots of noise about the terrible thing that we did just because they shot a few nukes at us. Contrast that with our inability to do poop if a Paki bomb were to get loose. What, nuke Lahore? Declare formal war on all of Islam? Kim is that weirdo kid in the playground that wants to be noticed, but that everyone shies away from because he is too creepy. His country too.

Since in my estimation the detonation of a nuke by Kim will do absolutely nothing to change anything in real terms, let him have a go. The political fall-out in the West will be funny to watch.