Duke Faux Rape

DNA from several different boy friends was found on the Duke whore, slut, accuser’s person, albeit none from the three defendents.  Joseph Neff and Benjamin Niolet report, “Lab in lacrosse case found many DNA sources:”

A private laboratory hired by the prosecution in the Duke lacrosse case failed to report that it found DNA from multiple males in the accuser’s body and underwear, according to a defense motion filed today.

The lab, DNA Security of Burlington, found that the DNA did not match the three defendants, their lacrosse teammates or anyone else who submitted their DNA to police, including the accuser’s boyfriend.

The defendents, Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann are innocent.   It is time to formally clear their names and to prosecute Mike Nifong.

More:  Don Surber; Betsy Newmark, Betsy’s Page.

I’m fuming tonight, as I write this. Granted, that I am overtired this evening, and so probably more than a little bit cranky.  But this stuff really has me annoyed.  As such it’ll be the only thing in this evening’s “Ramble”.
Yesterday, we awoke to the news that the immigration and customs enforcement department raided meat packing plants in six different states.  According to the reports I saw, and the ones you saw may actually have read differently, these people were arrested mostly on identity theft charges. The raid , by my understanding was large, indeed; something like a thousand or so agents were involved in these arrests.  The investigation leading up to these arrest took about a year.

I’d like you think about the implications involved here.  We’ve been hearing an awful lot these last couple of years about identity theft; much of its surrounding the issues of computer use, but not all of it.  I don’t think I have to go into long dissertation about what is involved in identity theft and recovering from it. So we should normally be pleased that enforcement is happening.
Well, most of us…. This morning, we see the reaction from the usual bleeding hearts….  We see certain groups from the catholic church complaining that this is unfair to the “immigrants” , that we’re not being humane.  (Which I suppose, means that the people whose identity was stolen, we’re not victimized by these criminals ) and the usual open borders crowd started in with their usual mantra sometime during the night, releasing press statements and flooding the Internet with commentary.

Even the unions, which are unquestionably dominated by last winter’s, are getting into the act.  The union representing the workers over its swift are in Federal court as of this morning trying to get an injunction against the raids.  The union there is asking about violations of the illegals civil rights.  This from people who are formed into a group which was ostensibly to protect the rights of the American worker.  Think about that for a minute.  Tell me again, how the unions are for the worker first and for left wing politics second.  If it’s not left wing politics at their involved with, could it be that these unions were in collusion with the owners as regards the legal status of these workers?  At the very least the union is guilty of malfeasance as regards representing its American work force.

In any event, the complaints from these regulars appears to be having its effect; first of all the illegals that were arrested are apparently not going to be deported automatically, rather there going to be allowed to stay here on our dime one presumes, whilst their cases are educated through the system.  With my limited understanding of the system, that could take up words of another year possibly two.

But one thing that I haven’t seen come up, is arrests of the people who were employing these illegals…these criminals.  I am seeing nothing in any of the articles I have read that suggests that those who employed these illegals are going to be arrested, fined, or anything of this sort.  In my opinion the arrest of the employers, and serious fines, should have been an automatic.

So let me see here.  We had a big show of force, arresting the whole bunch of illegal alien workers at me plants.  They’re not being deported immediately.  They get to stay here and we get to pay for it while we’re on this through the courts and various pleas for sympathy from various quarters occur.  Meantime those who were hiring them, and paying them, aren’t being fined and arrested and run out of business.  And the unions, which are supposed to be protecting the rights of the workers these people are taking jobs from, which is to say American workers, are defending the illegals.

Go ahead.  Tell me again how seriously we’re taking illegal immigration.

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The Guardian- The outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is backing a call for the president of Iran to be charged with inciting genocide because of his speeches advocating the destruction of the state of Israel.

Barely a week after he announced his resignation from the UN post, Mr Bolton will appear tomorrow among a panel of diplomats and lawyers calling for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be prosecuted.

Every once in awhile, no … make that once in a great while, the United Nations actually provides a service to mankind.  But of course, now that the liberals have driven Mr. Bolton from the position that he would be so useful in, what do you wanna bet that this case against  Ahmadinejad is dropped before he’s even got his stuff packed?

From the Whiite House:

The United States supports the Syrian people’s desire for democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. Syrians deserve a government whose legitimacy is grounded in the consent of the people, not brute force.

The Syrian regime should immediately free all political prisoners, including Aref Dalila, Michel Kilo, Anwar al-Bunni, Mahmoud Issa, and Kamal Labwani. I am deeply troubled by reports that some ailing political prisoners are denied health care while others are held in cells with violent criminals.

Syria should disclose the fate and whereabouts of the many missing Lebanese citizens who “disappeared” following their arrest in Lebanon during the decades of Syrian military occupation. The Syrian regime should also cease its efforts to undermine Lebanese sovereignty by denying the Lebanese people their right to participate in the democratic process free of foreign intimidation and interference.

The people of Syria hope for a prosperous future with greater opportunities for their children, and for a government that fights corruption, respects the rule of law, guarantees the rights of all Syrians, and works toward achieving peace in the region.

The President continues to come down on the side of freedom.   I quess Jim Baker never got the memo.

Peter Boyle,has died at age 71.

 A good serious actor AND a sense of humor? A hard combo to beat.

Alexander Bolton, over at The Hill; (In this case, an ironic name)…

Burns Strider, one of the Democratic Party’s leading strategists on winning over evangelicals and other values-driven voters, will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she prepares to launch her 2008 presidential campaign.

Strider now heads religious outreach for the House Democratic Caucus, and is the lead staffer for the Democrats’ Faith Working Group, headed by incoming Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.).

Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) created the working group in 2005 when Democratic strategists recognized that the party lost ground in the previous election because of trouble appealing to centrist and conservative voters in rural areas, who tend to be church-goers driven by moral issues. Strider was an aide to Pelosi when the group formed and joined Clyburn’s staff as policy director of the Democratic Caucus in 2006.

I am reminded once again, of that picture of Bill Clinton departing a Washington DC church with a huge Bible in his hand, one that you know darn well he’s not cracked in 30 years. Made a great photo-op, though… and he certainly LOOKED religious.
More to the point; that such consultants are required, tells me that Hillary Clinton does not operate from the same moral makeup as said centrists and conservatives, and particularly the religious, and is not those driven by those moral values that drive the voters she’s trying to attract…. and thereby does not understand them at all… and one may even aver she has little in the way of bedrock values, herself.

Clearly, she feels the need is there for someone to translate for her these values so that she LOOKS like she’s one of them. Rather than actually operating from a set of moral values similar to the voters that she’s trying to sell herself to, she’s buying herself a consultant, so that she can take on that appearance.

It is, in the end, nothing but a facade, a fake, a phony, a fraud.

As is Hillary Clinton, herself.

Welcome to the world with the Democrats in charge. Like what you see, America?

I’m not much of a television watcher anymore.  I’ll watch football and poker, cartoons with the little one, and if I am in the mood I might flip through the channels and watch Discovery, Speed or the History (or Military) Channels.  Last night after getting the little one to bed and playing a little football on the 360, I came upstairs while my wife was watching the remaining 20 minutes of Part II of The Lost Room.  I had seen some trailers last week and earlier last night I caught about 5 minutes of Part I and it seemed interesting.

After watching the last 20 minutes of Part II, I had to watch the first 30 minutes of Part II that played as an encore presentation.  I finally had to tear myself away and make myself get ready for bed.  Part II is replaying tonight at 7pm and Part III, which I believe is the final part, comes on at 9pm.  I’ll update tomorrow or Friday about the show, but if you are interested you can visit here to learn more.

I’d like to say this is unbelievable, but the problem is that it’s quite believable… and exactly as expected.

WASHINGTON —London Times- He is expected to have an acute understanding of terrorist groups and their threats to American interests. But the incoming chairman of a congressional intelligence committee was yesterday struggling to explain his ignorance of Al Qaeda and Hezbollah.  Silvestre Reyes, the Democrat chosen to head the House of Representatives committee, was asked whether members of Al Qaeda came from the Sunni or the Shia branch of Islam.  “Al Qaeda, they have both,” he answered, adding: “Predominantly probably Shi’ite.”  In fact, Al Qaeda was founded by Usama bin Laden as a Sunni organisation and views Shia Muslims as heretics. The centuries-old now fuels the militias and death squads in Iraq.

If anyone needed further proof (I doubt they did) that the Democrats have absolutely no idea whatsoever what to do about the situation in Iraq, that they really don’t have “a better way”, they need look no further than this.

People, this is the guy they want to run the intelligence area for the Democrats, and he doesn’t have a bloody clue as to what’s happening over there.

Welcome to the world of government with Democrats in charge.

Remember that GOP conference call, back in 1996 run by, among other people Newt Gingrich? Remember how it had been given to the Democrats and suddenly ended up on the air?

Seattle, Wa- KNDO WASHINGTON A House ethics panel says Congressman Jim McDermott of Seattle violated rules by giving reporters an illegally taped phone call.

In a report released after Congress adjourned, the ethics panel says McDermott failed to meet his obligations as a committee leader. The committee took no further action.The ethics complaint involves a 1966 cell phone call recorded by a Florida couple who gave the recording to McDermott. On the call, the Speaker Newt Gingrich is heard talking with other Republicans about a separate ethics investigation of Gingrich.McDermott leaked the tape to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The New York Times, which published stories on the case in January of 1997.

Gingrich was later fined 300-thousand dollars and reprimanded by the House.

Trouble was, we found out later that the ethics committee realized Newt was innocent of any wrongdoing. Newt never did get his money back, of course.  Nor did he get an apology of Democrats.  McDermott, meantime, managed to hold onto his office, to among other things, sign onto a bill offered by full-goose moonbat Cynthia “Get Whitey” McKinney, which attempted to impeach the President.

Apparently, someone was hoping that this whole thing would just go away.  And I suppose a ten years late ruling which doesn’t remove McDermott from office could be qualified as doing that.

We still haven’t gotten a ruling out of the FCC on the whole deal.  … Ummm….  For those of you not familiar with the FCC regulations on the matter, they essentially point out that it is illegal for you to tell your wife what your mother- in- law just said on the phone.  Now, you and I both know that if Newt had been responsible for taping a meeting of Democrats by means of monitoring phone calls, the FCC would be using it’s full power to bring federal charges, and making them stick.  But these are Democrats… and the commission knows who butters it’s bread… so no charges were ever filed.
Now, mind you, this committee, is the same one that jumped all over the Mark Foley issue, yet took ten years to cough up a ruling with regards to Mr. McDermott and his nonsense.

By the way, McDermott was sued by John Boehner, who was one of the people on that tape… and Boener won… but the case is of course being appealed.

It seems clear that the ethics of Mr. McDermott are at least questionable. But such is life, with the Democrats.

Welcome my friends to the world of government with Democrats in charge.

Cathy Sieipp can use some good thoughts. It’s totally not unexpected, but she’s going through a rough patch just now in her fight with cancer.  Pray em if you got ’em, folks.  If you don’t, at least send her some good thoughts.

It’s nice to see that we started getting notice from the search engines.  The global reports that my “Gopher” system runs every night, are starting to tell me that there are a number of links in Google, already, and my hitcounter says they’re starting to get traffic.  Still, given the number of years that the other site was up, it’s going to be some time before those old links disappear…. and the confusion can’t be helping.

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It’s 55° outside right now.  I can’t help but think we’re going to get some extraordinarily cold weather sometime in January to make up for this.

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Leave it to that little twerp, David Duke, to go to Iran, and tell them what they want hear; there was no gas chambers at NAZI camps. I suppose we can list him among the useful idiots.

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Sometime in the last six months, and I’m not exactly sure when, my wife has become addicted to watching “America’s funniest home videos” reruns.  I’ve watched a few of them to0, and yes some of them cause serious opportunities for chuckling.  Some of them. THe first time you see them. But after a certain point, you begin to perceive that most of their fare, is the three B’s.  … Baby Barf, Ballshots, and Backside bumpers. If mindless entertainment is what they’re after, they’ve succeeded.

Having said this, I’m quite sure I will find a pillow and a blanket on the couch this evening. Or, better yet, in the garage.

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I’m not an overly aggressive driver.  I certainly don’t mind going fast, and Bitsbox does exactly that , easily. But, even I have my limits.  They were tested today, by a left lane roadblock. The two worst drivers in the world, in my opinion, are right lane obsessives, and left lane road blocks.

The right lane obsessive is of the type that will come off a left lane feeder ramp , and within the next 50ft. cut over six lanes at a 45° angle to get to the right lane because he’s not going to go very fast.  Invariably, he or she driving a sandstone colored Buick.  Probably a Century.  (Sad, they really are nice vehicles…but without fail, they’re under-driven by about 90%) In which vehicle, he will then occupy the right lane for the next 62 miles, with the left hand turn signal on.  The bullets usually playing in the left lane will be playing the “is he coming out, or not” game, for all that time… and the result is a line of traffic in BOTH lanes, that the state police can never quite figure out.

The left lane road block is invariably the same type of individual, who doesn’t give a damn what lane they’re in.  They will drive in 54mph, in the left hand lane, (White knuckled grip at ten and twelve, which is invariably well over the brim of the hat they’ll be wearing) with the right hand turn signal on, creating the same effect.  If after twenty miles of this abuse you go around either type of driver, and you look up in the mirror as you go by, you’ll notice a shaking fist out the window, and some of the more daring ones will include an upraised middle finger in the gesture…. As if you, not they, are the problem.

I swear, by all that is drivable, that these two types of individuals, are the basis for 50% of the traffic accidents on the highways today.  Where excessive speed is concerned around these individuals, it is invariably because the persons behind such an individual, finally lost their temper , looking at the “ask me about my grandchildren” bumper sticker.

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I quess it only would be natural for an education major to expect that  high expectations are somehow unnatural and should be avoided.   After all low expectations are what kept Abraham Lincoln an uneducated farm boy.   Low expectation are how we put a man on the Moon. 

Jim Boyd reports on one school plan to deal with “High Expectations:”

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Needham High School has abandoned its long-standing practice of publishing the names of students who make the honor roll in the local newspaper.

Principal Paul Richards said a key reason for stopping the practice is its contribution to students’ stress level in “This high expectations-high-achievement culture.”

Think low, and you too can someday be principle of a school.

Cow farts.

No, really… that’s the claim.

Hume:

A report by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization says cattle and other livestock cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together. Britain’s Independent News says the report blames cow flatulence and manure for one-third of all methane emissions — which warm the earth 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.

The world’s 1.5 billion cows are also blamed for everything from acid rain to desertification and the destruction of coral reefs. And while cows are taking the heat in one U.N. report, another says humans are doing less harm to the environment than previously thought. The Sunday Telegraph says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reduced its estimate of human affect on global warming by 25 percent. And it has lowered its prediction of how much sea levels will rise by half. The Panel cites improved data for the revisions.

Well, in my experience, worst of all is the enviro-wackos farting around. At some point, they’re simply going to admit they don’t know what they’re talking about.

I had a problem with Thomas Sowell’s column.   It was difficult to pick which paragraph to quote.

To be blunt, I find the reasoning the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision, “Brown v. Board of Education to be absurd.   In 1954, many school boards  believed in the theory of segregation, which to say the theory that races should be seperated.    In Brown, the Court found that particular theory to be inherently unconstitutional.

Now some fifty years later, school boards have adopted a new and different theory, to wit, diversity.   The diversity theory holds that somehow races must  be mixed with some undeterminable amounts of so-called “critical mass” in order for school chldren to learn. 

Now, school boards which were told in  Brown, that they could not discriminate by race are askng the Supreme Court for the power to discriminate by race, all in the name of diversity.

Dr. Sowell, the classic economist, pits empirical data versus judicial theory in “Supreme Farce:”

Some of the learned justices are pondering whether there is a “compelling” government interest in creating the educational and social benefits of racial “diversity.” If so, then supposedly it is OK to do to white kids today what the Supreme Court back in 1954 said could not be done to black kids — namely, assign children to schools according to their race.

Read the “Constitution of the United States”   The Constitution talks a lot about power, articulation of, seperation of,   It spends no time talking about social goals.   As the Constitution does not mention approved social goals at all, it should be impossible for the Supreme Court to find any constitutional basis for any particular social goal, be it segregation, desegregation or diversity.

Byron York over at The Corner raises an interesting issue:

I have a new story up about reports that U.S. intelligence tapped Princess Diana’s phones in 1997.  It’s tempting to dismiss such accounts, especially given the sensational nature of some British papers, but reports that the wiretaps included U.S. businessman — and prominent Republican — Theodore Forstmann make this a very serious issue.  If the U.S. listened in on his conversations — Forstmann is what’s known in the intel/legal trade as a “U.S. person” — did it have a warrant?  And if not, does that make this the Clinton administration’s version of “domestic spying?”

Well, swerves into it, seems to fit better.

We’ve spent an awful lot of spittle and fury over GWB’s suppsoedly illegal ‘domestic spying’. Why nothing about Bill Clinton, given the evidence in front of us?

Appendum: (DavidL)   Over on Powerline,  Scott and John have an intertesting story, “Mickey Kaus claims to have cracked the Di/Forstmann case,”   I am not signing on to Kaus’ theory.   It does seem pausible and certainly interesting.

Addenedum II: (Bit) York puts it in long form.