It's bad. But it gets worse.

He molested, impregnated and shot her eight times, but he still wishes her and her new husband luck.

While sitting in the St. Clair County Jail, William Camplin's eyes filled with tears as he talked about his stepdaughter, whom he molested, got pregnant, then shot eight times.

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Circuit Judge John Baricevic sentenced Camplin last week to 34 years in jail on an attempted murder charge for the 1999 shooting of his stepdaughter, then 17, and her guardian at the time, Robert L. Pinnegar. The two got married in 2001.

Camplin married his victim's mother when the girl was 2 years old. Camplin and her mother have two daughters together.

"He was the only father I ever knew," she said in a telephone interview on Friday. "That turned into an obsessive, controlling, abusive relationship."
Camplin admitted he shot Pinnegar and his stepdaughter, but claimed he was desperate, after being charged with the statutory rape of the young woman.

That's bad enough. Check this out, though:

"Love is the most powerful thing in the world. You don't pick it," [the molester explained]. "Even if it's wrong, you don't choose it."

Camplin told the judge he loved his stepdaughter like a husband loves a wife or a boyfriend loves a girlfriend.

"It's disgusting," said Camplin's stepdaughter, now 23 and whose identity is being withheld because she is the victim of a sex crime. "He raped me. It had nothing to do with love."

In completely unrelated news, Woody Allen is scheduled to begin filming his new film, I Hear Ya, Brother.

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The free-speech absolutists in the media suddenly discover quite a few nuanced caveats about "offensiveness" and "responsbility" when radical Islamofascits are angry.

Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister, proclaimed free speech "a right that all Canadians enjoy," but regretted "the publication of this material in several media outlets," because "this issue is divisive."

Ah, yes, let's have free speech only over those non-divisive issues on which we all agree (and about which, therefore, we would not need to speak freely).

Peter MacKay, the foreign minister, went further. "Freedom of expression is a legally enshrined principle in Canada," he said. "But it must be exercised responsibly," and with "respect for cultural diversity."

Nice words. The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations even praised MacKay for striking "the right note between freedom of speech and responsible freedom of speech."

It's his "but" that's the key, though. Anyone who claims to be in favour of free speech "but," isn't truly in favour of free speech. Typically, he means he is only in favour of speech he agrees with; or speech that falls within parameters he finds acceptable; or speech that doesn't disturb the calm, challenge too many assumptions or anger those who will riot, burn down embassies and fly jetliners into buildings.

Mohamed Elmasry, national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), said about the Western Standard magazine's decision to reproduce eight of the 12 Danish cartoons in its current issue, that the magazine and its defenders were wrong to insist "freedom of speech trumps political correctness."

But since politically correct speech is speech that has been deemed acceptable by the political class, then permitting political correctness to trump free speech means authorizing the political establishment to determine what speech is and isn't fit for public utterance. Pretty soon, the only speech that will be allowed is that which doesn't threaten their hold on power.

In countries dominated by Muslims, the Muslim religion is usually the state-sponsored one, with all other religions relegated to second-class (if that) status, or dhimmitude.

We cannot allow angry Islamists, by protesting, bombing, and killing, to force upon us the same priviledged status for Islam in the West -- where any religion or belief can be parodied, derided, or blasphemed, except the Muslim faith, which must and shall be protected from all insult at any cost.

This isn't just about cartoons. This is about the Islamists' attempts to inflict their theocracy upon us. Not even through war and conquest, which would be terrible enough. But through something even worse-- sheer cowardice on our part. They are attempting to impose their belief system upon us through our own voluntary submission to Islamic law, just for fear of speaking up for ourselves and making some radical Islamists somewhere very cross.

It's one thing to be forced to accept an alien religion and culture through military conquest. It is simply craven to accept such things while still ostensibly free and unconquered.

Submission. The key tenet of Islam. It is strange that many of those in our nation who are most hostile to religion, and most angered that anyone with a religious viewpoint even argue a political point in the public square, for fear of poluting it with their Jesus-talk, are so willing to submit entirely to the tenets of fundamentalist Islam.

I don't think that Islam should be discriminated against in the West. But I'll be God-Damned To Hell before I see it elevated, as quasi-official state doctrine enforced by our cultural guardians in the media and the academy, above every other faith in the country.

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Ex-strippers are ministering to current strippers by paying for lap-dances and using their time to testify.

Finally, something that can unite the social & South Park Republicans.

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Cool kids only.

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We got a Silver Medal in the synchronized Ice Whore competition. Or something. I don't know.

Look at that extension... she's like a beautiful, glorious, soaring ice-eagle, but with dirty parts.

Be back in ten minutes.

No... make it five.

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Coming soon to democratic republic near you.

For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.

"They think they have won the debate," he says with a sigh. "They believe that the British Government has capitulated to them, because it feared the consequences if it did not.

"The cartoons, you see, have not been published in this country, and the Government has been very critical of those countries in which they were published. To many of the Islamic clerics, that's a clear victory.

"It's confirmation of what they believe to be a familiar pattern: if spokesmen for British Muslims threaten what they call 'adverse consequences' - violence to the rest of us - then the British Government will cave in. I think it is a very dangerous precedent."

It gets worse. One of the more dispiriting articles I've read:

[Western leaders such as Tony Blair] simply do not realise how seriously Muslims take their religion. Islamic clerics regard themselves as locked in mortal combat with secularism.

"For example, one of the fundamental notions of a secular society is the moral importance of freedom, of individual choice. But in Islam, choice is not allowable: there cannot be free choice about whether to choose or reject any of the fundamental aspects of the religion, because they are all divinely ordained. God has laid down the law, and man must obey.

'Islamic clerics do not believe in a society in which Islam is one religion among others in a society ruled by basically non-religious laws. They believe it must be the dominant religion - and it is their aim to achieve this.

"That is why they do not believe in integration. In 1980, the Islamic Council of Europe laid out their strategy for the future - and the fundamental rule was never dilute your presence. That is to say, do not integrate.

"Rather, concentrate Muslim presence in a particular area until you are a majority in that area, so that the institutions of the local community come to reflect Islamic structures. The education system will be Islamic, the shops will serve only halal food, there will be no advertisements showing naked or semi-naked women, and so on."

That plan, says Dr Sookhdeo, is being followed in Britain. "That is why you are seeing areas which are now almost totally Muslim. The next step will be pushing the Government to recognise sharia law for Muslim communities - which will be backed up by the claim that it is "racist" or "Islamophobic" or "violating the rights of Muslims" to deny them sharia law.

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Was there really ever any doubt?

HereÂ’s what the [captured Iraqi Intelligence Service] documents tell us:

On February 26th, 1993 the first world trade center was attacked by al-Qaeda and the EIJ (really two organizations that cooperated in 1993 and eventually merged).

A month later an official from EIJ was meeting with Saddam in Baghdad.

We have a document showing Saddam authorizing the IIS to “provide technical support” to the EIJ, and by extension, al-Qaeda.

And then al-Qaeda and the EIJ attacked the U.S. on September 11th, 2001 led by an Egyptian Jihadist, Mohammed Atta.

Now you have proof Saddam provided support to the EIJ and by extension al-Qaeda, both of which attacked us on 9/11.

Dennis Miller jokes that we should assume all of these assholes have each other on speed-dial.

It's not really a joke. It's just common sense. It takes a powerful level of fantasization on the part of the liberals and the media to imagine that outlaw Muslims, united in hatred against the US, would never cooperate with each other against their common enemy.

Oh, right, Saddam would never be so crazy to provoke the US in such a fashion. Except, of course, when he's hiring assassins to kill a former US President and his family (and Colin Powell, too, just for the for bonus points).

And "secular" Ba'athists and Al Qaeda fanatics could never put aside their differences to work together. Except, of course, in the current fighting in Iraq.

How much of an idiot does one have to be to confidently assert they "know" there was never any likelihood, or even possibility, of these murderous bastards working in concert?

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Yep:

Hundreds of Afghan students shouted support on Monday for Osama bin Laden and threatened to join al Qaeda during a protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

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Pakistan's main Islamist alliance vowed to broaden its campaign with more protests targeted at the U.S. and Pakistani presidents.

The protest in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad passed off without violence. Students gathered at the university campus chanted "Death to Denmark", "Death to America" and "Death to France", a witness said.

They also shouted support for al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri.

Shouting "Death to Karzai", they demanded President Hamid Karzai close the embassies of Denmark, the United States and France and expel their forces from Afghanistan.

"If they abuse the Prophet of Islam again we will all become al Qaeda," the students shouted.

It may be time to begin considering the possibility that Bush was wrong, the Muslim mindset cannot be changed, and that the only possible approach to the Islamic world is quarrantine with occasional airstrikes.

I'm in a Pat Buchanan neoisolationist kind of mood. I'm just about done with any fantasies about "reforming" this sick culture of death.

Thanks to Jack "Slublog" Straw.

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Part of an ongoing series:

"[Hollywood executives will] make a movie with DENZEL (WASHINGTON) and JAMIE (FOXX)and EDDIE (MURPHY), but only because they can make money off them.

Shut up, really?

Can anyone explain, by the way, why Spike Lee is permitted to continue making movies? Certainly he doesn't make any money on them. I think it's mostly because people fear he'll bully them and say nasty things about white-controlled media if they don't continue wasting their money on his crap student movies.

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