Reporting that it took 20 months for the victim to identify her step-father has her attacker, while failing to mention the mountain of evidence against him.

And, by the way, they got even that factoid wrong -- while she did originally claim to have been raped by two strangers, she did accuse her stepfather of the rape to a family member almost immediately. And she told her mother who the actual culprit was 3-4 months after the event.

A long time, to be sure, but not 20 months as AP claims.

I do understand concerns about child rape accusations leading to rushes to judgment, which put innocents behind bars (or worse). It's happened before, of course. (Read about the harrowing McMartin case in California, or watch the very good James-Woods-starring Indictment from HBO films about that travesty. Geraldo Rivera makes a real-life costarring appearance. And of course on the wrong side.)

But AP could have generally raised this concern without falsely suggesting that the cocksucker in this particular case was factually innocent of the crime.

Which he's not.

Here's some fairly graphic evidence he'd raped her. Having raped her so viciously he tore her vagina so that her anus was partly perforating through it, he had a blood problem to take care of.

Police also found that petitioner made two telephone calls on the morning of the rape. Sometime before 6:15 a.m., petitioner called his employer and left a message that he was unavailable to work that day. Petitioner called back between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. to ask a colleague how to get blood out of a white carpet because his daughter had “ ‘just become a young lady.’ ” Brief for Respondent 12.

At 7:37 a.m., petitioner called B & B Carpet Cleaning and requested urgent assistance in removing bloodstains from a carpet. Petitioner did not call 911 until about an hour and a half later.

His daughter had "just become a young lady." Wonderful. Girl, you'll be a woman soon. How's just after Mom leaves work for you?

I predicted yesterday that the MSM would attempt to downplay this story so as not to rile the public against runaway bleeding heart judicial activism. And so the cocksuckers at AP play this card -- pretending the decision is actually about the facts, and that he's simply an innocent man sprung by the court, rather than a categorical ban on the death penalty for all such monsters (oh, and, ps, he's guilty as fuck).

Who can be against overturning the death penalty wrongly imposed on an innocent man? Well, no one at all.

But that's not what happened here, AP's shameless intimations to the contrary.

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Breaking.

Thanks to CJ.

Correction: Indicted, not convicted. Apologies, and thanks to DPUD.

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Well, criticism of all religions supposedly, but you know who demanded this, and you know the only Religion of Peace that will actually be protected under the ban.

Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, the representative from Pakistan, echoed the ever-echoing refrain of all Islamic apologists in the West, when he complained that Littman’s initiative on genital mutilation, stoning and child marriage amounted to an “out-of-context, selective discussion on the Sharia law.” He asked that Littman not be allowed to speak: “I would therefore request the president to exercise his judgment and authority and request the speaker not to touch issues which have already been debarred from discussion in this Council.”

And so it was ultimately agreed.

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Jeeze, sorry, I'm late to this.

Here's the direct stream.

They're requesting donations for care packages and that sort of thing.

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And keep it flowin', baby.

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Is this now officially out-of-control?

Just give me a second to put in my "date teeth"

A 60-year-old Brevard County [Florida yet again?] science teacher arrested late Wednesday for what police said was a sexual relationship with a juvenile she met in a detention center, remains in jail on a $525,000 bond.

Understandable. Detention centers positively glow with the promise of romance.

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The longtime Brevard public schools employee – just under two years from retirement - was charged by Palm Bay Police with 15 counts of unlawful sex with minors and one count of filing a false police report, records show.

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“The boy told us there was another teen involved in at least one of the sexual encounters. We haven’t identified that second boy at this time."

Thanks to lauraw.

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It does explain why Arctic ice is receding while Antarctic ice is thickening.

Thanks to dri.

More: Bjorn Lomberg writes that, even conceding that global warming is a problem (which I don't, but I sure would like to reduce dependency on oil), research into new technologies will return far more bang for the buck:

Research for the project was done by a lead author of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- the group that shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with former vice president Al Gore -- who noted that spending $800 billion over 100 years solely on mitigating emissions would reduce inevitable temperature increases by just 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. Even accounting for the key environmental damage from warming, we would lose money, with avoided damage of just $685 billion for our $800 billion

investment.

The economists didn't conclude that the world should ignore the effects of climate change. They pointed out that a better response than cutting emissions would be to dramatically increase research and development on low-carbon energy -- such as solar panels and second-generation biofuels.

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Even if every nation spent 0.05 percent of its gross domestic product on research and development of low-carbon energy, this would be only about one-tenth as costly as the Kyoto Protocol and would save dramatically more than any of Kyoto's likely successors.

A while ago Larwyn tipped me to a review of climate/global warming books by noted physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. I got lost in it one day instead of blogging. It's quite long but worth reading in full if you have the time and interest.

The main conclusion of the Nordhaus analysis is that the ambitious proposals, "Stern" and "Gore," are disastrously expensive, the "low-cost backstop" [basically a hypothetical but quite likely technological solution that will mature sometime down the road, such as bioengineering carbon-sequestering trees] is enormously advantageous if it can be achieved, and the other policies including business-as-usual and Kyoto are only moderately worse than the optimal policy. The practical consequence for global-warming policy is that we should pursue the following objectives in order of priority. (1) Avoid the ambitious proposals. (2) Develop the science and technology for a low-cost backstop. (3) Negotiate an international treaty coming as close as possible to the optimal policy, in case the low-cost backstop fails. (4) Avoid an international treaty making the Kyoto Protocol policy permanent. These objectives are valid for economic reasons, independent of the scientific details of global warming.

His conclusion is something most of us have noted, but then, most of us are morons. He's not.

All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming, including the two books under review, miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific. There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible. The ethics of environmentalism are being taught to children in kindergartens, schools, and colleges all over the world.

Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion...

Unfortunately, some members of the environmental movement have also adopted as an article of faith the be-lief that global warming is the greatest threat to the ecology of our planet. That is one reason why the arguments about global warming have become bitter and passionate. Much of the public has come to believe that anyone who is skeptical about the dangers of global warming is an enemy of the environment. The skeptics now have the difficult task of convincing the public that the opposite is true. Many of the skeptics are passionate environmentalists. They are horrified to see the obsession with global warming distracting public attention from what they see as more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet, including problems of nuclear weaponry, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Whether they turn out to be right or wrong, their arguments on these issues deserve to be heard.

I do give John McCain some amount of slack, confronted, as he is, with the hard reality of the unreality of this entire debate. He has to make nods towards the God of Nature for the same reason impious politicians have to pretend a belief in the Judeo-Christian God.

Still, the cheapest and most effective method of mitigating "global warming" (even if it's due to carbon dioxide rather than the sun) is research -- and not additional taxes on energy use, whether direct or disguised as in McCain's favored cap-and-trade dodge.

As Michael Crichton has also argued, it's not merely possible but downright likely that an earth 20 or 30 years more technologically advanced than the current one can fix these problems relatively cheaply.

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Take my rights, please.

Ms. Pardy [the complainant] could not be reached yesterday for comment. However, the tribunal's decision says she alleges she was discriminated against over her sex and sexual orientation when Mr. Earle [the comic/defendant] made public comments "intended to humiliate her."

Um, yeah, that's the point of most anti-heckler comebacks.

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Reached yesterday, Mr. Earle said he was the show's emcee when Ms. Pardy and two of her friends walked in, sat in the booth closest to the stage and began heckling him and other comics.

"Two of them started making out, flipping me the bird and saying I hated lesbians," he said.

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"They were drunk, they were being jerks and I was very rude and visceral to them because, like I said, if you have a heckler what you want to do is put them in their place by offending them, so I tried to hit them where it hurts and the only thing I had to key on was the fact that they were lesbians.

"I don't care if they're lesbians, heterosexuals, homosexuals or giraffes."

Mr. Earle said the complaint is an attack on comedians' right to perform. "I would never have expected it would get escalated to a philosophical battle."

I can only hope that Canadians are beginning to wake up to the threat of PC thought police armed with the full power of the state.

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Stay classy, Bathtub Boy.

The source said Olbermann was screaming into the phone on Tuesday because there were no first-class train tickets available for [the trip to DC for the Russert funeral], and he wanted to make sure he would ride first-class on Wednesday. According to the source, Olbermann berated a staffer who was coordinating Wednesday's Kennedy Center memorial by yelling, "You better hope to God there is a first-class train ticket tomorrow."

Our insider elaborated, "MSNBC was dealing with who could come to the private ceremony Tuesday and who couldn't, among the hundreds of people who worked with or for Russert - and Keith was ranting about not getting a first-class ticket."

We're told Olbermann didn't get to Tuesday's ceremony, and went to Washington by car to broadcast from outside the Kennedy Center the next day. An aghast witness there said, "As guests were making their way into the memorial, Keith went apoplectic because there were no ketchup packets at the Kennedy Center."

Have you no ketchup packets? At long last, Sir, have you no ketchup packets at all?

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Hope and Change of Position.

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