The Bill Ayers Of A New Millennium?

This past Halloween night, someone pulled up to a Seattle patrol car and, apropos of nothing, opened fire on the cruiser, wounding one officer and outright assassinating the other.

Police said auto design experts tell them the old Datsun most resembles an enhanced video image of a vehicle captured on the dashboard camera of a patrol car that responded to the shooting.

They say the car on the video was in the area at the time of the attack and is similar to the car described by surviving Officer Britt Sweeney. She returned fire, possibly hitting the car.

During the memorial service for slain Officer Timothy Brenton, Seattle police responded to a tip about a Datsun. They apprehended a suspect, who drew a gun and was shot by the police. He was in critical condition in the hospital as of Friday night.

Law-enforcement sources said Monfort also is suspected of the Oct. 22 bombing and arson of a Seattle maintenance yard, where three police cars and an RV used as a mobile precinct were damaged.

Before Monfort was identified, police found distinct evidence that leads them to believe the same person was involved in that crime and the Brenton shooting, sources said.

This Monfort fellow has a most unusual bio. You have got to read it to believe it.

Monfort received a bachelor's degree from the UW in March 2008, according to the university's degree-validation Web site. His major was in Law, Societies and Justice.
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Monfort provided this title for his project with the McNair program: "The Power of Citizenship Your Government Doesn't Want You to Know About: How to Change the Inequity of the Criminal Justice System Immediately, Through Active Citizen Nullification of Laws, As a Juror."

In an abstract of his project, Monfort said he planned to "illuminate and further" the scholarship of Paul Butler, a law professor at George Washington University. Butler is a proponent of jury nullification, a controversial principle whereby jurors feel free to disregard a judge's instructions and acquit a defendant no matter the strength of the evidence.
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"It is the moral responsibility of black jurors to emancipate some guilty black outlaws," Butler wrote in a 1995 Yale Law Journal article, adding: "My goal is the subversion of American criminal justice, at least as it now exists."

Emphasis mine.
Knowing this, don't miss the interview with one of his pivotal professors in college.

The cops nailed his profile, as it is briefly outlined at the first link. Monfort despises police but has expressed an interest in becoming a police officer in the past.

And he recently lost his job...as a security guard.
Oh, and he's a rabid lefty moonbat with missing-daddy issues.
Read the whole thing.

Thanks to Zhenjiss, who snarks, "What I can't figure out is how he was overlooked by the Obama admin. for a high level position at the Justice Dept."

Nice one.

Posted by: LauraW at 08:30 AM | Comments (81)
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I bet you sill wingnuts thought is was the killed, wounded and their family and friends.

First, Mark Steyn points out this headline from the BBC:

Shooting Raises Fears For Muslims In US Army

In response, Steyn snarks,

Really? Right now the body count stands at:

Non-Muslims 13
Muslims 0

Gateway Pundit has the video of Geraldo Rivera on last night's O'Reilly program. This genius wants you to know where his sympathies lay.

And the people I feel the most sorry for tonight are the 12 to 15,000 Muslim GIÂ’s who serve honorably and the four million Muslims in this country the citizens who are patriots and believe that believe in our country and now will be because of this, the way this story is being played will be subjected to more of this kind of undertone, widespread, resentment and prejudice and discrimination thatÂ’s happened really since 9-11.

Be sure to check out the chart at GP which shows that Muslims aren't even close to be the largest target of religious based crimes. Who is? The Jews.

Now, I don't want to be as stupid as the Geraldos of the world in reverse. Of course not every Muslim is a terrorist but every Muslim terrorist is in fact a Muslim.

8+ years after 9/11 and far too many people simply want to rule any notice, let along discussion, of religion as a factor in Islamic terrorism cases as something simply not done in polite society.

Now, if a white guy kills an abortionist, well, then you can damn well rest assured that President Shout Out and his minions will be jumping to conclusions and discussing religion.

After every terrorist attack people lament that no one "connected the dots". Well, "connecting the dots" is irrelevant if you are unwilling to ever step back and look at the picture that they draw.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:56 AM | Comments (103)
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Democrats are lining up female members to support the health care bill and giving a quick speech as part of their "unanimous consent request to revise and extend" their remarks.

Tom Price (R-GA) is now objecting and generally mucking up the works.

Now, Rep. Drier is doing it.

John Dingell who, God bless him, is about 125 years old is in the chair and getting pissed.

It's awesome.

The Republicans finally got a female member down to do the objects. A good idea but the "Republicans are trying to shut women up" meme already has plenty of video.

The Democrats are providing their female members with quick talking points printed out for them.

Dingle is now reading something handed to him, no doubt from Pelosi's office, saying that each full request will be heard. In other words, it's now out of order to object before the Democrats make their little pre-written 'speech'.

Republicans wisely don't object to Debbie Wasserman-Shultz's speech about breast cancer (she's a breast cancer survivor). Good to see someone is paying attention.

Dingell now says if they keep doing this they will be charged time and warns the Republicans they will be charged when they try it. So what happens now is that the Dems get 10-12 freebies but when the Republicans try it they will get zero freebies.

It looks like the Republicans are giving up, probably in the hope they will get these freebies. Somehow I doubt it will work that way.

Now the Republicans are doing it and Dingell is cracking down after 3 Republicans.

Funny how the rules are automatically applied to the GOP and not Dems. Elections have consequences.

They are all saying "job killing bill" when the Democrats had individual talking points. The Republicans got caught flat footed with this.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:05 AM | Comments (226)
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I don't hate Alabama. I was bornded there.

But dad graduated from Auburn so screw them. They mean nothing to me.

That's teh big game today, Alabama (2) and LSU (9) at 3:30 EST. Also OSU (15) lookin to be the spoiler for Penn State (11), same bat time.

Just an oddity in my mostly Texan lifetime, when the hell was TCU ever 6th in the polls?

Enjoy the weekend you moron football lovers.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 06:51 AM | Comments (103)
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He Likes Bad Boys

Remember when Barney Frank's live-in boyfriend was running a male bordello out of his home 'without his knowledge?'

Apparently he was present in 2007 when a subsequent boyfriend was arrested for growing pot and possessing drug paraphernalia. Innocent bystander again. Poor Barney! Always in the middle of these things, never has a clue.

Link contains audio of Barney Frank getting aggravated at a Fox reporter. She's incredulous that he didn't know what a pot plant looks like. Her tone of voice ticked him off.

Posted by: LauraW at 04:09 AM | Comments (128)
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Everything is a matter of perception and how you present your ummm...."alternate truth":

...Business wasn't going well for Schneider, a mid-sized company in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at the beginning of the year. But the company, which manufactures camera lenses and filters, did not lay off any of its workers. Instead, it put 230 employees onto a short-time working program, including Dirk Christian, a technical supervisor in a final assembly plant.

Christian, 33, took advantage of his free time to renovate his apartment -- and to get married. "Short-term work prevents layoffs," says Christian, "which, of course, makes it easier to make important life decisions, like getting married."

Germany currently has 1.1 million workers participating in short-time working programs, known in German as Kurzarbeit. They include people like Christian, who don't have enough work, but who also are nevertheless not being let go. They stay at home for days or even weeks at a time, and yet they receive 80 to 90 percent of their wages, thanks to subsidies paid by the Federal Employment Agency...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 06:18 PM | Comments (94)
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A little late, but here's the usual thread.

Oh, yeah, all the negativity from certain fans people who are inexplicably still watching this show despite their massive hate for it is getting to the cast, crew, and their family members. Really.

My suggestion if you hate it so much, don't watch it. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Personally, though, I like watching something where the characters are dealing with fairly basic, but dire issues of survival rather than quipping at drama-glam cross-dressers with electronically deepened and auto-tuned voices. That got a little faggy after the first eight seasons, y'know?

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 06:01 PM | Comments (119)
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Edited - OK, I removed the offensive tariff. Now the only government interference is allowing manufacturers to write off the cost differential between a foreign manufacturer and a domestic one. Does that change anyone's position. In essence it is a tax cut, and tax cuts are good right? They stimulate the economy and lead to increased revenues as well as economic growth. So if American workers really are the most productive in the world and we are competing on a level playing field then there should be a net gain not a net cost to us. end

Recently I entered a contest to write an op-ed for the Washington Post. I called my submission The Wal-Mart Solution and suggested that with the right application of tax incentives and penalties Wal-Mart (and other retailers) could be persuaded to begin buying American manufactured goods again which would lead to an increase in manufacturing jobs and help alleviate unemployment:

Why Wal-Mart? As the worldÂ’s largest publicly traded corporation, with annual revenues that would verge on qualifying it for membership in the G-20 if it were a country, Wal-Mart is in a unique position to drive economic activity in the United States. In fact it has done so in the past.

In the 1990Â’s Chinese imports made up 6% of Wal-MartÂ’s stock. Between 1995 and 2005 those imports increased to 60% and made Wal-Mart ChinaÂ’s 8th largest trade partner, accounting for 10% of all Chinese exports. It is estimated that this has resulted in a loss of 1,500,000 American jobs to China.

What if those jobs were brought back on-shore?

Employment would increase assuredly. Not only because of the recovered manufacturing jobs but because in general every manufacturing job in a community creates other jobs to support it. In addition because manufacturing jobs are traditionally well paid the middle class should see an expansion. This should lead to increased tax revenues for the government which should help decrease the national debt and arrest the decline of the dollar. As a side benefit our trade deficit goes down and ChinaÂ’s ability to threaten America economically, politically or militarily is greatly diminished. A win all the way around.

So, how do we get the jobs back onshore? The old stand-by TAX INCENTIVES.

My proposal has two parts, a carrot and a stick. Part one, we allow manufacturers to write off the difference between wages paid to foreign workers and American workers. This should go a long way to eliminating the competitive advantage that Chinese industries currently have. ThatÂ’s the carrot. Part two, we add a tax on foreign made products assessed on the retailer. This tax would be 105% of the sales price and would be assessed after the sale. That way the retailer canÂ’t simply pass the price on to the customer. The more he charges the more he pays. (Some products would have to be exempt of course but that list should be strictly limited.) ThatÂ’s the stick.

Between those two changes we should be able to drag a good number of manufacturing jobs back onshore and get America back to what it does best. Build things .

I was limited to 400 words so the ideas sound kind of simplistic, and a lot of background material got cut so it's a little choppy, but it seems to me this type of approach could work. It certainly can't do much worse that the current plans.

I don't know - what do you guys think. more...

Posted by: Open Blog at 04:30 PM | Comments (166)
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Welcome to Friday all. It's been a long week and I'm glad we made it with only minor loss of limbs and dignity.

Remembering Medal of Honor-recipient John D. Bulkeley
I first heard about John D. Bulkeley while reading William Manchester's biography of Douglas MacArthur. After Pearl Harbor he valiantly lead a small group of PT boats in defense of the Philippines despite a hopeless situation. In April 1942 he carried MacArthur to safety in a rickety PT boat across 600 miles of Japan-infested open ocean. For all this he was awarded the Medal of Honor. And in 1944 he led torpedo boats and minesweepers in clearing the lanes to Utah Beach as part of D-Day.

Posted by: Open Blog at 06:00 PM | Comments (742)
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Well Bob-O, I don't some much imagine it as I do remember it.

"I will continue to say what I've said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People -- imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler.

Hopefully we can get back to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country that we can do so without being personally disagreeable and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any profession or walk of life would be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities."

Follow the link to the Weekly Standard for some reminders of just how often the left invoked Hitler.

Given that there's a little more than 3 years left in this administration I think it's safe to paraphrase Chief Brody and say, "We're going to need a bigger memory hole".

Posted by: DrewM at 02:12 PM | Comments (250)
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