John Monetti, accused child molester, makes bail

Update: Click for the latest post on John Monetti.

John Monetti Mugs

Jim Brazda, of the Washington County Pilot-Tribune, reports that John Monetti was bailed out of the Washington County Jail yesterday. According to Jim, Monetti paid ten percent of the $2.5 million bond, or $250,000. He also agreed to surrender any passport or travel agent license he might have, stay away from the victim, any witnesses and stay off the internet. He has reportedly already left the area; the terms of his bail will require him to live with his parents in New York, where he was living when he was arrested.

His next court appearance is scheduled for the middle of July. If he fails to appear, the state will be stuck for enforcing a pre-signed extradition agreement and/or collecting the whole $2.5 million. At least he shouldn't be molesting any more Nebraskans any time soon. He may also face charges in New York stemming from porno the authorities found on his home computer, which was seized after his arrest.

Before his arrest, Mr. Monetti was a well-respected teacher, school administrator, coach, and 'coed equestrian instructor', mostly on Long Island. All of these jobs brought him into contact with young girls.

Monetti the Equestrian

I have heard that Mr. Monetti was also active in the St. James Fire Department. Their web site has been unavailable to the general public since his arrest. I don't know what to make of it, but a commenter here at the Plains Feeder has suggested that John Monetti's peccadilloes were just the "tip of the iceberg". The tipster suggested that if one were to dig deeper at the fire department, more wrongdoing would be uncovered. If you wrote that comment, or if you have personal knowledge of anything related to this 'iceberg', please contact me by e-mail: ptg at plainsfeeder.com.

St. James Fireman

I wonder if we will ever see John Monetti here in Nebraska again. The charges against him: first degree sexual assault of a minor, felony sexual assault with use of a computer, felony child abuse and third degree sexual assault carry penalties stiff enough to make life on the lam look pretty good. Especially if you have rich folks to help you out. I don't think our courts should allow bail for out of town child molesters. Not ones like John Monetti, who apparently travelled to Nebraska repeatedly to have illicit sex with an underage, autistic girl from Blair that he met on the internet.
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Update: 7/7/06 A new story from Laura Weir in the Times of Smithtown has appeared. Laura, with cooperation from Jim Brazda and Doug Barber of the Washington County Pilot-Tribune has some excellent background and includes reaction from folks who knew Mr. Monetti in New York.
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Previously in the Feeder:
June 14, 2006: John Monetti's Bond Set In Blair, Nebraska
June 07, 2006: John Monetti Arrested in Nebraska - Update
June 02, 2006: NY Teacher/Pedophile busted in Nebraska

What part of Totalitarian don't we understand?

Red China is a brutal totalitarian state. Never forget that treating them as anything but an evil empire aids and abets the totalitarian repression and communist enslavement of the Chinese people. Give it a thought while you enjoy your freedom by shopping at Wal-Mart, using Google, and happily blogging on a computer that was partly made in China.

Milkweed

Common Milkweed - Asclepias syriaca

Like many old rural homes, the house here at the Feedlot has a bit of an aroma. Warm, humid weather seems to bring out dank old scents as would have put Proust off writing. Of course, there is the 'boar's nest' smell of a lone old coot living a provincial and more or less rustic lifestyle. Previous occupants, who must have smoked truckloads of cigarettes and cigars in here over the years, added a permanent olfactory undertone. What comes out most on these hot days is the outright stink left behind by thousands of cattle, dozens of dogs and legions of mice.

I need an air freshener but, being as tight as a drum, I don't want to pay for it. This is where the handsome milkweed plant comes in. These noble weeds grow wild here, and blossom at the exact time I have a use for their sweet perfume. Their aroma is cloying to some; it certainly is strong. It reminds me of old fashioned perfume. Luca Turin describes the fragrance of Canoë perfume as the "pungent odor of poisonous milkweed".

All I do is bring in one or two of the purple blossom clusters into the house, and the effect is like a pleasant incense, but without the smoke. Certainly better than one of those nasty plug-in devices that cook off chemical fragrance oils. Those fire hazards use costly electricity, make my eyes burn and my clothes stink.

Be sure to shake the bugs off of the blossoms before bringing them in the house.

Milkweed Blossoms (click to ID bug)

The photos above are milkweeds growing at the edge of my grove. I deliberately avoid mowing them off, and even give them some water when they get dry. In return I get air freshener and raw materials for field expedient medicine. In fact there were so many medicinal uses for the various milkweeds that Linnaeus named the genus Asclepias after Asclepius, the Greek god of healing.

The US during WWII tried to make rubber out of the latex or milk that gives the milkweed its name, but the effort wasn't successful. Milkweed was able to help the war effort by supplying a substitute for Japanese controlled sources of tropical kapok, used to stuff life preservers. The floss that wafts milkweed seeds on the breeze could not only be used in place of kapok, but is also a good insulator. The hippies at Mother Earth News even suggest making a field expedient winter coat using milkweed fluff. Somehow, I think a nice furry hide would be better.

Milkweed Seed Pods - Floss

Believe it or not, there is a 'milkweed business' these days. It is small and struggling. Nebraska is trying to promote milkweed agriculture and to develop a market for milkweed products. Just this month, Governor Dave Heineman awarded a $33,400 grant "to educate farmers about uses for the alternative crop syriaca, better known as milkweed. The money will go to some outfit named Syriaca, and matching funds will come from the Nebraska Syriaca Cooperative, along with Natural Fibers Corporation of Ogallala, Southeast Community College and some local weed growers. They use the downy floss to make hypo-allergenic pillow stuffing and such. Growing milkweed to attract butterflies is becoming popular in some circles.

Milkweed farming: the next ostrich ranch.

Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson Supports Line Item Veto

Yesterday President Bush renewed the call for the line item veto, asking the Senate to join the House, which voted to give grant President Bush a modified version of the power. Congress previously gave the Presidency a line item veto in 1996, but the Supreme Court saw fit to take it away.

Today I found this article in the Southwest Nebraska News: Line Item Veto One Step to Responsible Spending by our Democrat Senator Ben Nelson. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, this cat makes a better Republican than our real Republican Senator Chuck Hagel.

Just Say NO to Blue Helmeted Gun Grabbers

The UN wants to Help Liberals Take Your Guns

Cam Edwards has a good story for those that agree with Thomas Jefferson that the price of freedom includes eternal vigilance. Both the UN and our own gun grabbing liberals believe that weapons are for government, not for people. As David Codrea says at the War on Guns, they are the "only ones" that can be trusted with weapons. Read about how our cats at the UN are fighting the good fight at Michelle Malkins link laden post. The Second Amendment lives.

Serial Killer, Satanist and Illegal Alien Executed

Angel Resendiz

Angel Resendiz thought he was possessed; half angel, half man. He didn't think he could ever die or be killed. Last night, his delusions were dispelled as the State of Texas sent him to his reward. And what a reward must be in store for this Satanic monster! He presents another argument for controlling our borders.

I recall when this nasty cat was riding the rails. Mr. Resendiz (or Resendez), an Undocumented Mexican Guest Serial Killer, travelled across the US by hopping freight trains. He would jump off the train near a populated area, sneak up on and murder some hapless victim, then hop another train to make his getaway. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to his selection of victims.

The old feeder seldom pays much attention to the comings and goings of serial killers in this blog, but Resendez had me worried. The Feedlot is just a stone's throw from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks that cross Nebraska. While Resendez was on his killing spree, I was certain that the creep would choose my place to jump off the train next. I wouldn't mow the grass or operate noisy machinery unless I was packing heat. I didn't want him sneaking up on me.

The Railroad Killer seems to have repented of his wickedness. Just before his execution he said, "I deserve what I am getting," and confessed that he "allowed the devil to rule" his life. Good riddance, or as Wizbang Bomb Squad blogger alwaysontheright put it, "One less illegal alien to deport." I'm just glad he didn't get caught in Nebraska. We would be fattening him up on our death row for the next 30 years.

A Little Tittle Tattle

Queen of the Sudan in exile Kola Boof

I was reading Tittle Tattle , the Post-Chronicle's entertainment blog and discovered Kola Boof. She is a self-described 'womanist', something I hadn't heard of before. The Tittle-Tattle article was mostly about Kola's new gig writing for the NBC Soap Opera "Days of Our Lives". While her womanism thing is interesting in its own right, what really stands out (besides the obvious) is her life story. For a young lady, Boof has led quite a life.

The oddest part of her bio involves her having been held as a sex slave by none other than Osama bin Laden, who fathered a son with her. How this fits in with the rest of her story is fascinating. Kola was born in that African hell-hole, the Sudan, eventually adopted by an American family and raised in the Anacostia Park neighborhood of Washington D.C., arguably another hell-hole. The old feeder wondered why he hadn't heard of this wild-woman earlier. You have to respect anyone who has earned the ultimate Fatwa from the Mohammedan terrorist crowd.

The photo I selected to illustrate this post wasn't picked for its prurient interest; Kola insists that her publishers depict her bare-breasted on all her books' dust jackets. Makes her look more like the queen of Sheba, I guess, but she says: "I would like to embrace my bare breasts. For they represent Africa to me." I haven't read any of Queen Boof's books, but I just might have to. There are so many really captivating articles about Kola and interviews with her on the 'net, the old feeder spent over an hour Googling her name.

Even her Wiki entry is fraught with controversy: "this article or section may be compromised by 'weasel words'." I'm inspired to write an analysis of the lives of 'women of power' to include a linear life-line comparison between Kola Boof and Hillary R. Clinton. By the time I finish it, no one will remember either of them.

§ 798. Disclosure of classified information

Chilling Effect on Free Speech

There is talk of criminal prosecutions resulting from the damaging revelation of classified war secrets ferreted out and published by the New York Times and other select members of the news media. I, for one am all for throwing the book at them. If you think you need to have an opinion in the matter, perhaps you would care to read what I think is the relevant section of the US Code. (Forget about charging these traitors with the Constitutional crime of Treason , that isn't in the cards.) Read the law and decide for yourself whether the facts fit the elements of the crime. Here it is:

TITLE 18 PART I > CHAPTER 37 ESPIONAGE AND CENSORSHIP > § 798. Disclosure of classified information (a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information— (1) concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or (2) concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or (3) concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or (4) obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (b) As used in subsection (a) of this section— The term “classified information” means information which, at the time of a violation of this section, is, for reasons of national security, specifically designated by a United States Government Agency for limited or restricted dissemination or distribution; The terms “code,” “cipher,” and “cryptographic system” include in their meanings, in addition to their usual meanings, any method of secret writing and any mechanical or electrical device or method used for the purpose of disguising or concealing the contents, significance, or meanings of communications; The term “foreign government” includes in its meaning any person or persons acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of any faction, party, department, agency, bureau, or military force of or within a foreign country, or for or on behalf of any government or any person or persons purporting to act as a government within a foreign country, whether or not such government is recognized by the United States; The term “communication intelligence” means all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than the intended recipients; The term “unauthorized person” means any person who, or agency which, is not authorized to receive information of the categories set forth in subsection (a) of this section, by the President, or by the head of a department or agency of the United States Government which is expressly designated by the President to engage in communication intelligence activities for the United States. (c) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the furnishing, upon lawful demand, of information to any regularly constituted committee of the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States of America, or joint committee thereof. (d) (1) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall forfeit to the United States irrespective of any provision of State law— - - - (A) any property constituting, or derived from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, as the result of such violation; and - - - (B) any of the person’s property used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part, to commit, or to facilitate the commission of, such violation. (2) The court, in imposing sentence on a defendant for a conviction of a violation of this section, shall order that the defendant forfeit to the United States all property described in paragraph (1). (3) Except as provided in paragraph (4), the provisions of subsections (b), (c), and (e) through (p) of section 413 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 853 (b), (c), and (e)–(p)), shall apply to— - - - (A) property subject to forfeiture under this subsection; - - - (B) any seizure or disposition of such property; and - - - (C) any administrative or judicial proceeding in relation to such property, if not inconsistent with this subsection. (4) Notwithstanding section 524 (c) of title 28, there shall be deposited in the Crime Victims Fund established under section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10601) all amounts from the forfeiture of property under this subsection remaining after the payment of expenses for forfeiture and sale authorized by law. (5) As used in this subsection, the term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession of the United States.

Well, did you find any loopholes big enough for the New York Times and their partners in crime to slip through? I think it is an easy call. Book 'em, Danno. Get 'em in front of a jury.
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Update: I highlighted the applicable portions for those readers easily put off by statutory jargon.

Prosecute the Enemy Spies at the New York Times

Our National Dish?

I don't think most folks realize what a tortuous process was involved in the US decision to drop atom bombs on Japan to end WWII. The development of the atom bomb was the one of the biggest secrets America had at that time. Very few in government knew just how powerful our new weapon was, or even that it existed.

Even fewer cats were privy to the fact that we had only been able to produce three devices, and we used up one of them to see if they would work. The US had only two atom bombs left for Harry Truman to use to end the war. When the debate over under what circumstances the A-Bomb might be deployed, (Warn the Japs? Give them a demonstration shot?) our short inventory of these new weapons was the deciding factor not to warn the Japs or give them a 'demo' blast before dropping one on a city.

If the Japanese had known that we only had three nukes, the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been for naught. The enemy would have fought to the bitter end; hundreds of thousands of our boys might have been killed trying to invade the mainland of Japan. The 'what ifs' are numerous and disturbing.

How might the Japanese enemy have discovered our paucity of nuclear power? Spies of the day like Klaus Fuchs, David Greenglass, Morton Sobell, the Rosenbergs and others appear to have all been working for the Russkies. The Japanese, much like the Germans, were never able to run an effective spy network in the US during WWII. The only way the Japs could have discovered our 'two bomb' secret would be if an American source had spilled the beans. Like the New York Times. Or the L.A. Times.

In those days, no good American newspaper reporter would have dreamed of breaking so devastating a story. Most of them would have reported their 'source' to the authorities immediately. At the very least, they would have sought editorial guidance and consulted with the Truman administration before revealing such a state secret. But not today. The press has become, to their great disgrace, the Mohammedan terrorists' 5th column.

We Americans (along with the rest of the world) would be eating sauerkraut with chopsticks if the press had behaved as seditiously during WWII as they do with such arrogance today. And we will be slaughtered for infidels if we let them keep doing it now. Prosecute them. Throw them in jail. Make examples of them.

Nobody elected the New York Times to do anything for America. Michelle Malkin says we should write to the Department of Justice and ask them to bring charges. Their e-mail address: askdoj@usdoj.gov
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Afterthought: These assholes at the NYT and the LAT are the same sort of reporters who wanted to see prosecutions for leakers blowing Valerie Plame's phony-baloney CIA 'cover' go all the way to the top. (Even though any given CIA operative's overt/covert status is established by their boss, the President, and therefore by definition, neither the President nor anyone acting on his behalf can improperly 'out' an agent.) This isn't just bias or hypocrisy or a 'double standard'; it goes far beyond these euphemistic characterizations. It is nothing less than glaring evidence of treason.

Khobar Towers - not forgotten

Khobar Damage - 1996 - click for more

The old feeder belongs to the Air Force Association. I'm not generally a joiner, but the AFA has attractive group insurance. I get a supplemental health policy through the AFA, and a very slick monthly magazine, Air Force Times, in the bargain. This month's issue had a great recap of the Khobar Towers truck bomb attack and the ugly blaming and bungling that followed. I made a mental note to blog the anniversary of that grim day. It has been 10 years.

But the world's hardest working blogger, Michelle Malkin, beat me to it. See her excellent Khobar remembrance post here.
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For a bit of relief, cop a laugh at this oddball who theorizes that the Khobar blast was caused by a tiny nuclear device!

Not selling enough gasoline? Raise the price!

This news will help promote Nebraska tourism: State To Increase Gasoline Tax By 1 Cent. Ostensibly, the increase is needed to offset revenues lost by frugal Nebraskans' conservation measures. This should make us even more frugal, and will guarantee more gasoline tax increases in future.
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Yet another reason for Omaha folk to 'Drive to Iowa and Save'. You might as well take your wretched vacation in Iowa as well. Nebraska doesn't want vacationers this summer, anyhow.

Photoshop Fun

Beware Al-Qaeda's New York Times Bureau

The old feeder just can't resist an opportunity to photoshop something fun. When Michelle Malkin issued a call for folks to update some old WWII posters to shame the blabbermouths at the New York Times, I couldn't resist. Michelle published the 'poster' above on her site. She has been right on top of this latest escalation of the MSM's War on Bush. First it was the NSA phone record source that was blown, now it is the fact that we have ways to catch terrs through their banking practices.
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The NYT seems to derive pleasure from revealing our terror war secrets to the enemy. I say it is treason. These cats are no better than Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and they ought to get the same treatment.
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Addendum: Greg, the World History teacher in Texas responsible for Rhymes With Right has a nice rattlesnake poster on the same theme, plus links to a number of other Malkin inspired photoshops.

US Constitution's 'takings clause' - just an executive order?

Takings Clause Void ?

President Bush signed an Executive Order today entitled: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People. I can't figure out why we need such an animal.

The stated purpose of the new order is to restrict the application of eminent domain, which has been sorely abused of late. I'm not sure if I am supposed to be happy about this or not. Why do we need it when we already have the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution with its 'takings clause'.

The 'takings clause' assures me that my property won't be taken by the authorities without my consent unless a real public purpose requires it. And afterward, I can rely on the Fifth Amendment to require that these same authorities compensate me justly.

The way I see it, our Constitutional property rights have long been profoundly ignored by our legislatures, degraded and diluted by our courts, all while their ruin has been expedited by our executive branch. Why do we need this executive order? Is it just lip service?

Summer feels good

Cucurbita Pepo

Photo taken early this morning, when the sun was low enough to light up my zucchini blossoms. And some folks say there was no creator.
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In other news: heaven is now available on a bun for a mere $100.

LA Catholics trade kids' safety for Illegal Alien PC

Omaha Pederast Dan Herek

The Catholic dioceses of Los Angeles and Orange County have decided that it is more important to accommodate the concerns of illegal aliens than to protect their kids from criminals, including child-molesters and rapists. The Lunatic Asylum Times reports that the church's child day care centers will not be conducting background checks on walk-in volunteers. Why? Because they are afraid the checks would put off illegal immigrants who might want to volunteer to work with the kids.

These idiot church leaders would sacrifice their parishoner's kids on the altar of Political Correctness and anti-Bushism. Talk about Godless.
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The unflattering, but unphotoshopped, photo of former Catholic Priest, convicted child molester and local Omaha pervert Dan Herek is a gratuitous dig at the creep. Since he is back out on the street, he is frequently in the news, none of it good.

Godless Mythology - Che as mere Icon without substance

Deconstructing the Che Myth

An exhibit at a London museum with an arguably respectable name like The Victoria and Albert dedicated to the Korda photograph of Che Guevara? Yes, the one you see on the tee-shirts of filthy hippies and on the walls of leftie-chic sandalista homes. Thanks to Val Prieto of Babalu Blog for pointing this out a couple of weeks ago, then following up with this post: Godless Mythology.

Val points out the emptiness of the Che myth as embodied by the Korda photo, and links to Academic Elephant's Go-go Che at the V and A. I agree with Val, "I don't think I've read a better breakdown of the reality of Korda's che image."

Damn the Defeatists - Americans want Victory in Iraq

I've used some old WWII posters to illustrate what many of our legislators cum defense experts ought to be talking about, instead of "Lets cut and run because it's Viet-Nam". Victory in Iraq. So, come on Senators and Congressfolks, raise your snouts up out of the slop bucket and get a clue:

And to a large extent, we are counting on you, our elected ones, to help us do it:

If we lose this war, the terrorists will kill us for infidels. Unless, of course, we throw a pinch of incense on the altar of Mohammed's evil Allah. And even then, our Mohammedan conquerors will make us burn down Las Vegas, put all our women into bags and start eating mutton. We want Victory, and we will have it. The defeatists heard today in the Senate will be remembered as fools at best. They deserve to be openly reviled for their defeatism.

Meanwhile, I'd like to see the word Victory returned to common public parlance. The Marxists running our public schools have done their best these last 40 years to discourage the very notion of competition. I guess competition reminds these leftist educators of dread capitalism. I don't care. This is a war, there will necessarily be winners and losers. I think most Americans grasp this reality, and will proudly choose Victory. I don't know about some of those creeps in Washington, D.C., maybe they really want us to get whipped by these demonic Mohammedans. I'll take Victory.

Solstice

The Solstice takes place tomorrow at 12:26 Universal Time. I'm taking the day off and going to town.

Missing soldiers' bodies recovered

Fallen in Combat

You have heard the news. The missing US soldiers, Private Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, and Private Kristian Menchaca, 23 were KIA in Iraq. Michelle Malkin has the blog and press reaction. I'd like to think they went down fighting, instead of having their throats cut while hog-tied. Either way, these brave cats gave their all for you and me.

Private Tommy Tucker's family have graciously shared a recording of their son's last call home. Listen here.

Omaha in the News -or- the AP hates Nebraska

Nebraska Stash

I have come to the conclusion that the Associated Press hates Nebraska. They publish embarrassing stories like this about us just to make us look bad to the rest of the country and the world.

Why would the AP do this? Because Nebraska's pervasive conservatism irks Ed Howard at their Nebraska bureau. Ed is a 60's throwback, an anti-war, Bush-hating leftist Dan Rather wannabe. If you have a doubt, just read Statepaper.com, largely Ed's product. Ed doesn't like being stationed in the heart of red-state Nebraska.

Will George Bush Swat Down Kim Jong Il's Big Dong?

Dear Leader Kim Jong Il in Secret Missile Launch Bunker

St Wendeler at Another Rovian Conspiracy wonders if the US might try out it missile defense goodies soon. Crazy North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Il is giving George and Condi a pretty good excuse. Dear Leader seems ready to test his latest and biggest addition to his Dong series of ballistic missiles. The Japanese are nervous, the ever-hopeful South Koreans are saying it ain't so, even the Arabs think Little Kim is nuts to try this. The headline in Pravda would have you thinking the Koreans are aiming the ICBM right at America.

The US military has gone 'shields up', Secretary of State Rice has said the launch would be considered a "provocative act", even the editorial board of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer advises North Korea: Talk, don't fire. I suppose they mean we should call Madlenka out of retirement.

I'd like to see if our Star Wars stuff really works. If it doesn't we can always send in Madeleine Albright.
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Want to read a North Korean blog? Start with Banner Of Songun, which features such riveting posts as "Bush Leading "USA" To Fascism" and "Invincible Anti-imperialist Super Songun Steel Fist". The post titles alone will have you laughing even if you are a progressive or a liberal. Communists, however, will not get a laugh out of this or anything else.

It can't be anthropogeneric global warming

Dry Corn at the Feedlot

On the national scene this afternoon, it looks like the bad guys are on the ropes. Jihadis, commies, useful idiots, dupes, moonbats and eco-nuts are having a rough time lately. The Democrat party came out with a cut and run war platform. I can't even hear Senator Chuck Hagel crying "It's Viet-Nam! It's Viet-Nam!" over the fuss about Representative John Murtha's retreat to Okinawa redeployment scheme. Even the

Things are good with the world at large. But, here at the Feedlot, it is too hot and too dry. The corn is starting to roll up its leaves. Al Gore would say it must be anthropogeneric global warming. It can't be just an ordinary geology book climate shift, the sort variously blamed on solar fluctuation, volcanic eruptions, comet or meteor impacts. And it can't be God's wrath, as with Noah, because cats like Al Gore are Godless, no? But mere physics can't take the credit for punishing the human race for their wickedness and greed. Maybe Al believes in some kind of vengeful planetary numen, like a touchy, bitchy Mother Nature. One we could appease. Al doesn't think it is too late for absolution and salvation, does he? Repent! The Heat Wave is near!

To think that this miserable heat and dryness has been caused by people and their wicked, greedy ways is utter bunk. Sure, if you shit where you live, you'll be sorry, but that can't be causing the whole darn world to heat up. The world is still a big place. Believing that we humans, with our barely discernible scratching and fire-making on the surface of the earth could do a job that properly belongs to the sun and our own earth's vast core is the hubris of our age. The most recent example of such thinking was the mistaken belief that an 'all out' nuclear war would destroy life on earth. Same kind of bullshit with no science to support it, only the big scare.

Brueghel the Elder explored earlier examples of human arrogance in myth and from the Bible. This is a good excuse to post two of my favorite paintings:

The Fall of Icarus (big)


The Tower of Babel (big)

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How dry is it? Nebraska Governor Heineman has authorized farmers and ranchers to cut hay along the state's roadsides.

Fencing

Hot Fences Make Good Neighbors

Some Texas ranchers provided ladders on their cattle fences so the Mexicans could climb over without having to wreck the fence and let the cattle out. Apparently the ladders smelled like a trap to the mexicats so they didn't use them and now the ranchers are removing them.

That paradoxical border. Is there another one like it in this world?

The long overdue goodbye

Fake But Accurate

Dan Rather takes early retirement. I just can't work up any sympathy for this disgraced, drummed-out loser. Sure, his own kind in the media have tried to make it seem like Dan is just getting tired and needs to retire, or, that lie failing, like he was eased out for a mistake that wasn't really his fault. But we know better. More like his denouement has been inexplicably drawn out. This time, I hope it's really goodbye.

Any bets on his not getting totally flushed away until someone drives a stake through his heart?
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Check out Viacom's Daily Show advert skewering Katie Couric, which inspired the photoshop.

Cop a Laugh: Coulter and Becka

Tom Becka

I don't care what you think about Ann Coulter or her new book, this radio interview with her conducted today by KFAB (Omaha, NE) radio personality Tom Becka should make you laugh. Click and select Ann Coulter Interview to hear it.
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Update: Seems like everyone is getting a laugh at the expense of liberal reaction to Ann Coulter's book tour. For a nifty compendium of laughable knee jerks see Michelle Malkin's Rant "Coultermania" over at Hot Air. The video includes clips of Ann's appearance with Jay Leno and more.

John Monetti's Bond Set In Blair, Nebraska

Update: Click for the latest post on John Monetti.

Bond has been set for John Monetti, the accused pedophile from New York arrested in Nebraska for sexually assaulting an underage, autistic Blair, Nebraska girl. I got the news from KETV:

Bond was set Wednesday for a New York man accused of sexually assaulting a Blair teenager.

A judge set bond for John Monetti at $2 million. Monetti waived extradition.

Monetti, 37, was arrested on Monday by Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies.

I don't know what the writer means by "waived extradition". Who is trying to extradite accused child molester John Monetti? I don't believe Monetti is charged with crimes anywhere but here, unless it would be New York charges for the smut found on a computer at his home in that state.
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Previously in the Feeder:
June 07, 2006: John Monetti Arrested in Nebraska - Update
June 02, 2006: NY Teacher/Pedophile busted in Nebraska

More Evidence to Support the PANG Theory

Free Money from the Giver-Mint

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trusted hurricane Katrina victims when they handed out FEMA "debit cards". The unfortunate wretches were to use these cards for the emergency at hand: Katrina. The trust was misplaced; much of the money was squandered.

Many folks that got these cards might have just as well gone on a looting spree. Only instead of looting their own neighbors, this time they were looting you, assuming you are a net tax contibutor. To the tune of about a 1.4 Billion Dollars.

Wizbang calls FEMA FUBAR for this revolting development. I'd say their only fault was to trust the folks in New Orleans. It isn't that FEMA is FUBAR, but that People Are No Good. You can't trust them. PANG
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But see: The Lunatic Asylum Times: "obsessing about the spending habits of refugees comes perilously close to blaming the victim." ¡Ai, mi cabeza!

Flag Day

Flying over the Feedlot

Today is Flag Day here in the USA. Fly 'em if you got 'em.

A Little Nebraska in the News

Cyborgs in Nebraska

The old feeder likes to look for stories about Nebraska in the foreign and US overseas press. I ran across this in the Voice of America (VOA) News, a story about UNL researcher Dr. Ravi Saraf making a scientific breakthrough:

Scientists have figured out how to give robots a sense of touch nearly as sensitive as that of humans. They have created an electronic skin that can distinguish extremely subtle texture differences far beyond the capabilities of current robotic sensing devices. One area where the technology would be useful is in surgery.

Dr. Ravi F. Saraf of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, is into nano-tech (or meso-tech). The field of nanotechnology is the unacknowledged bastard son of chemistry and physics who was sent away to engineering school. This stuff is pretty sci-fi, and is dimly viewed as a scary no-no technology by some folks.

Some other odd bits of research by Dr. Saraf also seem to be directed towards creating a cyborg, or cybernetic organism. Who said UNL was a cow college?

Fitzmas Cancelled

Rove won't be charged. Fitzmas has been cancelled. There will be no frog-march. Wailing and tooth gnashing in D.C. can be heard in Baltimore.

Women's rights concerns: doctrine before gender?

Butch Cops in Tehran
Enforce Sharia with Phallic Batons

The Main Stream Media has decided to give some attention to the plight of women under Islamic Law or Sharia, covering a gaggle of 'women's rights' ladies getting caned on the street in Tehran. Because the MSM and so-called Women's Rights outfits have consistently chosen to ignore the stultifying oppression of fundamentalist Mohammedan women, I was surprised to see this story being covered by the bastions of leftist bias linked here at all.

Then it jumped out at me: These women getting beaten by the Sharia police were Communists! Guess who they invited to cover their little demo in Iran? The local Tehran Associated Press bureau, naturally.

The protest by about 200 women was organized by a previously unknown group calling itself the Labor and Communist Party. An invitation delivered to The Associated Press on Sunday demanded equal rights for women and the nullification of a law allowing Iranian men to have four wives.

No wonder the MSM has deigned to report this one incident of the kind of treatment fundamentalist Islamic women get dished out to them every day. There is no other reason that the AP would report on a few desperate Mohammedan housewives getting the business for making a fuss. Happens every day in the harem. Or worse.
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Related: Michelle Malkin blogs the incredible 'world turned up side down story of Oriana Fallaci's trial in Italy. Previously: Plains Feeder Oriana blog post by DadGum.

Tagged?

Chester A. Riley

The old feeder has never been "tagged". I have seen it done, but I'm one of those cats that breaks chain letters. Now I discover that JB at A Voice for Freedom has tagged me. At least it isn't one of those kind that requires the tagee to give dozens of answers.

The tag requires that I declare "what sitcom character I would like to grow up to be?" Never having considered this before, I had to give it some thought. I'm not apt to 'grow up to be' anything; I'm past grown-up. Taking this into account, I will state which sitcom character I most nearly grew up to be: Chester A. Riley. Specifically, the William Bendix portrayal of him in The Life of Riley TV sitcom.

As I said, I never wished to grow up to be any sitcom personality, let alone Riley. It just turned out that way. I'm not going to reveal the names of the three bloggers I am required to 'tag' with this same question. You know who you are.
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In other bloggy matters, here are a couple of blogs that are new to me:

This head-screwed-on-straight Nebraska blog, come what may, is the product of a self defined Gen-X lady, stephanie, who likes C.S. Lewis. Her Macbethic motto: Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Blogata Amata by Jason caught my attention with a great post on the magnificent "Bridge of Love", coming soon to Omaha. The looming Bob Kerrey footbridge to nowhere has peeved me for years.

David Hahn: Trade with Euro-socialists, not Cuban commies

¿Cuba, Nebraska, una Grande Libre?

Only in Nebraska have I found Democrat politicians that make good sense. I'm not endorsing David Hahn for Governor; I'm satisfied with Mr. Heineman. But that doesn't mean I'm going to be critical of everything Dave Hahn says.

I wasn't happy when Governor Heineman went to Cuba to deal soybeans to Fidel Castro. I found the idea of trading with the monster repugnant. We help prop up his cruel tyranny by trading with Cuba. This grinds salt into the wounds we have inflicted (by omission) on the Cuban people. Wounds we continue to inflict every day we allow that festering carbuncle on the Caribbean to continue breathing.

Dave Hahn thinks we should focus our energy on increasing exports to Europeans. They might be socialist ninnies, but at least they aren't actively trying to poison the rest of the world with their discredited Marxist Thought. Hahn, speaking to Platte County Democrats, is quoted in The Columbus Telegram on the subject:

Nebraska “recently sold some beans to Cuba,” he said, “but it is a small market and they are hard bargainers, and won't be profitable in the long term.”

Hahn said he would promote greater sales to European nations that would lead to greater benefits.

His reasoning is off kilter. What makes him think the Euros will buy our genetically modified beans? But the impetus is in the right direction. I wonder how Dave knows that the Cubans drive a hard bargain? Buying cigars while helping out with the sugar cane harvest?

New York City's Homeland Security Loss is Omaha's Gain

Rest easy, Omaha

Walt Handelsman is a syndicated editorial cartoonist. I see his stuff on the NewsDay web site. Truth is, I browse NewsDay regularly just to see how the Associated Press is slanting the news. Canuckguy, a non-farm agitator and long-suffering feedlot commenter, tipped me to this one. Osama must have been reading the New York Times.

Burn some gasoline this weekend

Our friends in the oil business, like Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Venezuela, want you to take a road trip this weekend. Hell, you should take a whole week of vacation and drive somewhere. Never mind the cost of gas; it isn't likely to get any cheaper in the future. Burn some now, while you can still afford it.

I suggest readers in or near Nebraska get the whole family in the car and take a scenic drive to North Platte. The highly touted Nebraskaland Days is starting now, and here is just a sampler of the things you'll see if you go.

Patriotic Displays	Big Belt Buckles
Buffalo Bill stuff	Naughty Cowgirls
Rodeo Cowboys	Country Music

This big event looks like a real bit of Nebraska-style wild west fun. Just right for those seeking the feel of the frontier without the extremes one might encounter at competing events, e.g. Cheyenne, Wyoming's Frontier Days. Not so many German tourists.

So, what are you waiting for? Get in the car. Burn some gas.

Iraq Death Toll Rises

Al-Zarqawi Dead in Iraq

"Death toll in Iraq rises as Al-Zarqawi is killed" No kidding. That was how an ABC radio news feed I heard this morning introduced the news that Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi had been killed. Our troops deserve a big thank you for their great work in ferreting out and killing this dangerous monster. Instead, they get this all but seditious anti-American spin on an otherwise positive step in the war on the Islamic jihad.

It disgusts me to see how disappointed the MSM newstwisters are as they announce the successful killing of this Al-Qaeda cutthroat. He's dead but now he's a martyr. He's dead but now there will be repercussions. He's dead but Osama bin Laden is still alive. He's dead but there was collateral damage, innocent folks were hurt or traumatized. He's dead but we should question the timing. He's dead but but but...

You just can't please these anti-american defeatist terrorist sympathisers. They seem to have partaken of some mighty powerful Kool Aid, that even Michael Berg, below, feels sorry for Zarqawi and still blames President Bush for his son's nasty beheading.

Michael Berg with son Nick's head

Click to download a video clip of Nick's beheading in .wmv format.

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Gag on this: The Washington Post publishes the murderous al-Zarqawi's Biography. It reads almost like a glowing obituary. They call the murdering criminal an "insurgent leader" and recap his "accomplishments" as if he were a famous entertainer or beloved statesman that died.

John Monetti Arrested in Nebraska - Update

Update: Click for the latest post on John Monetti.

John Monetti

The Plains Feeder has logged a relatively large number of "john monetti" search engine hits since I posted NY Teacher/Pedophile busted in Nebraska last friday. I have a few links to add, but the old post is stale and frieghted with squabbling commenters, so here is the new stuff.

I never linked to the Omaha World Herald stories about this matter because they don't want folks reading their web site. They make you register, cobble up your 'web experience' with ads, and after 21 days they make you pay money to read the story their precious archive. But here is a non-OWH reprint of most of their coverage of John Monetti's arrest in Washington County.

The New York News12 website has a busy and interesting discussion forum on the Monetti arrest in their Long Island section. Read what the accused molester 's home folks are saying about his arrest .

Finally, here is a link to the official William Floyd School District statement. Evidently, John Monetti was employed there.

I still think there was something fishy going on in New York following Mr. Monetti's getting fired from his job as a principal. I'll keep trying to sniff it out.
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Update I: Reporter Jim Brazda at the PT&E has a new story about Monetti, with more about the 'respectable' position he held back in New York.

Update II: Laura Weir writing for the Times of Smithtown wrote this piece to fill in the folks back in New York.

Update III: A reader from New York sent the old feeder an e-mail:

People here in NY are shocked, appalled and sickened. How could everyone not know?

He is also a volunteer Fireman and EMT in St. James fire dept. however the web site is currently blocked, and the coach of the NYU Equestrian Team.

The same reader also sent along a link to some disturbing equestrian photographs . If these are pictures of Mr. Monetti with young girls, it is no wonder the folks in New York are apalled.
Click for the most recent Plains Feeder post on this subject.
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Update IV: NY tipster says the above-referenced photos do include Mr. Monetti. Example:

John Monetti and friends - (I fuzzed the girls' faces)

The feeder's New York correspondent also said that Monetti lived "with his parents in St. James, several blocks away from Harbor Country Day School a private elementary school, [he] is an alumnus and advisor of the Knox School and has several siblings, two of which are twins of college age. His father is a well known and respected Doctor. " He seemingly fits no profile, if there is such a thing, for sexual predators.
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In other news, President Bush was in Omaha. He gave a speech in which he illustrated his plans for amnesty solving the illegal Mexican immigration problem. Comprehensive Immigration Reform, I think he called it.

President Bush in Omaha