Live Death Blogging

Raul Listens for the death rattle

Cuban dictator and communist tyrant fidel castro is possibly dying again. Seems he has developed some well-earned intestinal bleeding. The situation is serious enough that castro has relinquished power to his spry young brother Raul.

Val Prieto at Babalu Blog is ready with his big pot of coffee. He doesn't want to miss his chance for "The Post" that will mark the murdering dog's death. There are rumors and stories leaking out of Cuba to the effect that a popular uprising may be in the works. Perhaps the end of Cuban communism is at hand. What a day that will be! I can't stay up, but I'll be checking for "The Post" first thing in the morning.
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One can only wish that whatever is causing the bearded one's stomach bleeding hurts as much as being gut-shot does.
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Michelle Malkin has pictures of dancing in the streets in Miami's Little Havana. As Val says, it is a celebration earned with blood and tears.

Fiery Weekend for the Panhandle Pundit

Chadron, Nebraska

Since I quit watching the TV news for the most part, I wasn't aware of the seriousness of the wildfire that currently threatens the little 'out-state' berg of Chadron. Then I checked to see if Ryne McClaren, the Panhandle Pundit had come out of his fit of political activism long enough to make one of his now infrequent posts. Ryne has been live-blogging the fire, complete with photos, and still is unless he has been evacuated. The fire story starts here .
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Governor Dave Heineman says Nebraskans will tough it out.

Cop a laugh

Israeli Defense Force Humor

Thanks to Gigi, a commenter on Babalu Blog for pointing out this catchy music video that comes out of the current war. Click on the Feed Trough for another funny video from the same cats.
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The old feeder couldn't help but notice this unusual photo while browsing the news this morning:

Kissing the UN Flag

This photo was on the Drudge Report, used to illustrate news items detailing the great works that the UN has done in Lebanon. Seems some overly grateful Lebanese folks barged into the local UN bribe and skim collection office in Beirut. Their outpouring of love extended to the traditional Lebanese open-mouthed kissing of the flag, depicted above. The Lebs like it rough.

Don't come to Nebraska

Walk right in, sit right down...

Don't come to Nebraska if you are planning to commit a capital crime. You might have to 'sit right down' in the chair shown above. That is the message the latest Nebraska Supreme Court decision in the Carey Dean Moore appeal regarding our 'cruel and unusual' electric chair sends to the rest of the world. Mr. Moore was sentenced to death decades ago for the cold blooded murders of two Omaha cab drivers. I think Mr. Moore got what he had coming, but politically motivated anti-death-penalty lawyers have kept him from the hot seat for so long most folks have forgotten what Mr. Moore did. Here are the facts of the case, from one of Moore's numerous appeals.

The facts underlying Moore's initial conviction and sentencing in Nebraska state court in 1980 are undisputed and have been repeated, in some form, in no less than eight federal or state appellate court decisions. Briefly, in August 1979. Moore purchased a handgun and set out to rob and kill Omaha cab drivers. Moore carefully planned to select older targets because he thought it would be easier for him to shoot an older man rather than a man nearer his own age. In carrying out this scheme, Moore called several cabs over a period of time and hid while watching them arrive, and depart, if the driver was young. Moore confessed to the police that he felt an older victim would be an easier mark. Using this approach. Moore selectively abducted and murdered cab driver Reuel Eugene Van Ness. Jr. on August 22. 1979. and Maynard Helgeland on August 27, 1979

Chalk one up for law and order here in Nebraska. But you can bet that the anti-death-penalty lawyers, bleeding heart liberals who care not for either Mr. Moore, or the safety of law-abiding Nebraskans, won't give up. They are doctrinaire ideologues who can't get the 'reforms' they want through the democratic process and therefore seek to impose their will upon the rest of us benighted, brutal oafs through the courts.

The next thing we need to do here in Nebraska is to clear the backlog of foul miscreants that has been clogging the pipeline from the courthouse to the old oaken chair for so long. It isn't enough to simply have a death penalty. For it to be effective, by any measure, it must be applied. Otherwise, the bleeding hearts who seek to subvert our laws will have won by default.
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Them whose hearts bleed purple kool aid for human garbage like Mr. Moore aren't the only ones with suggestions for changing our state's method of execution. Don't let me stop you from reading Abe's Modest Proposal.

Andrea Yates says...

My kids drove me crazy, but I feel better now.

It is hot and humid here at the Feedlot. The old feeder has to work outside today. How humid is it? I have to dust my balls with corn starch to keep things sliding. Between that and the sunscreen slathered on my head, it can be pretty miserable. These conditions cheese up my outlook. People really are no damn good, the news is appalling, and I don't feel much like blogging. For more on the Yates injustice, check out Merri Musings, but, in keeping with today's 'cruel world' theme, her site seems to be unavailable, probably due to yet another Mohammedan hack attack.

The only good news I've seen today comes from Feeder reader Arabella. It seems she is pregnant. On a day like today, all I can say about her blessing is Maşallah.
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Here is a recipe well suited for tone of the day: Feedlot White Sauce

Ingredients: butter, corn starch, milk, salt & pepper (optional: used, dried dental floss.)

Start in the morning. Apply several tablespoons of corn starch to your crotch. Work outdoors. When you come in for lunch. use a rubber spatula to scrape the corn starch, now a paste, off your skin. You'll need to recover about a tablespoon. In a saucepan, mix the starch with one cup of milk until smooth and creamy. Add about 2 tablespoons of butter. Stir constantly as you bring the mixture to a boil over medium high heat. Season to taste. Serve as a sauce or use in creamed dishes. For extra flavor, add your used dental floss while heating. In this case, don't forget to strain the floss out before use.

Enjoy!

Eye Candy Break

Ava Gardner

Val Prieto at Babalu Blog has the right idea today: take an Eye Candy break.
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I couldn't bear to leave that hideous picture of Cindy Sheehan's belly on the previous post stay at the top of the page all night.

Stop the war before Cindy Sheehan starves!

World Watches as Cindy Starves for Peace

Cindy Sheehan is into the fourth week of her pathetic hunger strike. Bush hasn't given in and called for the US to 'cut and run' in the War on Terror, so it looks like Cindy is doomed by her own stringent morality and finely honed discipline.

The inset photo above shows the Peace Mom's spare tire as it appeared on the streets of New York last March. She was so chubby the Plains feeder even used her accidently exposed belly fat in a "Guess What" game. Her jelly roll was so plump and white at that time that pictures of it were obscured in the Arabic press.

Now that Cindy has been fasting for nearly a month, the poor woman has lost the pleasing softness that drives Arabic men to distraction. See the picture above of her at a Code Pink demo outside some embassy or another in D.C. this week. She has become a scrawny husk, having lost her formerly voluptuous figure. If we don't pull out of Iraq soon, she will end up looking like her worst enemy before she dies for peace on the barricades .
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Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the inspiration.

The Future King of England Needs Help with Wardrobe

Do you have one with Mohammed?

Someone call the Queen! Prince Harry can't decide which outrageous get-up to wear for his next Royal function. He wants to appear chic and 'with it', especially when cutting ribbons at supermarkets in working class neighborhoods. He needs to pick out a new t-shirt. Should Harry appeal to the traditional skin-heads, go for the old commies, or the new Marxist revolutionaries? It seems some cats are making fun of his Che Guevara shirt; could it be too Spanishy? Che's outdated hairstyle, perhaps? Help!

Michelle Malkin has the Prince's latest fashion faux pas here. Val at Babalu Blog links to more hip choices for the man who might be King.

Hate Couture at the Feedlot

Hateful Hairdressing School Dummy - Reel to Reel

Perhaps you have seen the feedlot hairdressing school head in previous posts. It is my habit to adorn Ms. Rubberhead according to whim. The Keffiyeh Craze that has struck the now openly anti-semitic left inspired me to dig out my old Palestinian-style headgear for the dummy. (Oddly enough, I have a kaffiyeh and Mohammedan prayer bead collection.) Now she looks like she's hep to the jive, no? All decked out for the demo, she's ready for the rally. She likes to ride in the car.
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The way the picture came out, you cant see the rope-like "fan belt" that Mohammedans use to hold the dish towels on their heads. I have a theory that the headgear makes the man, but the Political Correctness Cops probably wouldn't like it. Perhaps I'll propound the 'wear a cowboy hat long enough and...' theory in a later feedlot fashion post.

Car is back and kicking hippies out of the park

Annoying Drum Hippies? Not in Nebraska!

Car, the one man war on Filthy Hippies in Asheville, North Carolina is back. I was beginning to wonder if some hippies had done something to him, but he's been on a long cruise. I'll bet there weren't any freeloading hippies on his ship. Read what happens when he calls 911 to report hippy drumming in his neighborhood.

UN says US has Supercilious Attitude

Good for a laugh. Seen at China View (Xinhua) : United Nations Human Rights Committee criticizes US's supercilious attitude. The rest of the world envies the US. This is how they react to their inability to emulate our success. We have something to be proud of in the United States. The "have-nots" of the world have not.

Israel Attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon as US Media Spies for the Enemy

I have NO sympathy for these idiots!
and publishing pictures of them wailing won't change my mind

I see that Israeli tanks, after days of massing along the Lebanese border are starting to roll. I thought to do a bit of a Plains Feeder Supports Enthusiastically Encourages Israel blog post. What was needed was a good photograph of the heroic Israeli tankers attacking.

Not surprisingly, the pictures I found all seemed to be of Mohammedans weeping and wailing. The same Mohammedan enemies who made the invasion necessary. The Media has become agents of the enemy. They give us enemy propaganda instead of news, they act like camp-followers to the enemy, and they publish the criminal leakings of traitors. M. Malkin notes the New York Times supplying the enemy with secret logistical information garnered from their network of leakers (read: spies). She uses an example the old feeder blogged last month: the atom bomb secrets in WWII.

It is becoming serious. The American media is abusing their freedom of the press. Because it is not our way to allow the government to tell them to get with the program, it is up to us. We are the ones who consume their product; we have economic and free speech powers of our own. If we can't get them to stop aiding and abetting the enemy with letters to advertisers, complaints to the editors, channel changing and subscription cancelling, then maybe some of these cats aren't just aiding the enemy, but actually are the enemy.

Just because the Constitution forbids the government from effectively pressuring the media doesn't mean that you and I cannot. Lean on the media. Call them out. If that fails, we can boycott the bad guys.

Ricketts: Taxes More Important Than War

Ben Nelson

One more reason Pete Ricketts won't take Senator Ben Nelson's seat in the Senate: his perception of our values is flat wrong. He actually thinks Nebraskans are more concerned about taxation than we are about winning the war on terror. Here's the deal, Pete. If the Mohammedan Jihad isn't defeated, we will be paying taxes to the new Caliph. I suppose you think that would be OK with us Nebraskans as long as the taxes levied by the Caliph were lower that what we pay now? We need to keep Ben Nelson in the Senate.

Nelson is for a strong America, no matter what the threat, even when it is from the leftist UN. Ben has cast his Senate vote in support of President Bush more than 85% of the time. This is the highest percentage of pro-Bush votes for any Democrat in the Senate. He's there even when the RINOs aren't.

He votes his mind, winning the Right to Lifer's endorsement despite pressure brought to bear on the Nebraska chapter from the Republican Party, and despite pressure from his own party to conform to their anti-life platform. Ben opposes that enemy of the family farm and small business, the death tax, which the Democrat party loves for its socialist levelling effect and its net result of creeping Stalinesque land reform.

The list of reasons to trust Ben Nelson goes on and on. Pete Ricketts has nothing to show but his money and goofy ideas like taxes being more important to us that the war on terror.

Mexican Weed Burner

Electric Fence - file photo

A Republican congressman from Iowa, Steve King, has proposed an electric fence to be built along the US - Mexican border. He probably remembers the old weed burner fencing. These gave an unpleasant bite, but were implicated in a number of fires.

It would be cheaper than the Berlin Wall types being considered. I don't think the Mexicans will figure out how to defeat electric fencing with insulated wire cutters. The livestock never did.
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Iowa always sends the creepiest Republicans to Washington. Remember Wiley Mayne? He was still saying that the Watergate case was only, "a series of inferences piled upon other inferences", while Dick was packing his suitcase.

Zapatero: Bring back the auto da fe

Spanish PM Zapatero proudly wears Palestinian Colors

Can you believe those Spaniards? All the Mohammedan terrorists had to do was blow up a few trains right before an election. The wussies rolled over completely; now you can see their commie Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, wearing a Mohammedan-style scarf. His Khaffiyeh is of the design historically associated with sad-sack Palestinian terrs like Yassir Arafat.

The Spanish idiot and his sissy compatriots have joined with the leftist (read: Marxist) movement in the US to criticise Israel's righteous crushing of the Hezbollah terrorists. Actually, it doesn't take much to get a Spaniard to hate Jews, it is in their blood. Remember the Spanish Inquisition?

NewsBusters has the story, with interesting links to other cats wearing the "Palestinan Support Scarves". The fans of the Hezbollah Freedom Fighters and the critics of Israel are in good company.
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Más: The mighty Michelle Malkin blogs more photos of anti-semites nouveaux indulging in "The Keffiyeh Craze".

Hose down the hogs, It is hot!

Don't forget to pack a lunch for them.

The thermometer here at the feedlot reads 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The barn swallows sit on the wire and hang their wings open to catch a breeze. If I was a dog, I'd get under the porch.

Seriously, the heat is hard on animals. Swine don't have sweat glands, so they need to help to cool off. Followers of modern agricultural methods frown on the old hog waller approach to warm weather swine care. With the exception of a few hippy types, most hog producers today use a water mist cooling system. If you only keep a few hogs for the larder, you can just hose 'em down. The pigs like it.

You could just take them to the beach with you. You will have the happiest hogs in the county. So happy that yuppies and non-PETA cognoscenti will pay extra to eat them.

Is Ray Nagin in Lebanon?

The Blame Bush for Everything crowd is now saying that the Bush administration has bungled the evacuation of US citizens from the war zone in Lebanon. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out on his radio show today, someone must have passed out a talking points paper telling the Bush Bashers to compare the evacuation to the hyped up horrors of hurricane Katrina.

These hateful cats who would harm America to regain political power must have noted the dip in Bush's poll numbers following the big Gulf Coast disaster. I'm surprised they aren't comparing it to Viet-Nam. At least Viet-Nam was a war.

I wonder where these goofballs get the notion that Americans who get caught in foreign wars or terrorist actions, far-away natural disasters, or get jammed up in other countries by incomprehensible laws or official corruption have a free ticket home coming to them from Uncle Sugar? The US government's consular presence abroad isn't American Express.

The old feeder has been jammed up as a civilian overseas in all of the above mentioned scenarios, once I even went to a US Embassy in the middle east to get help. I couldn't get past the Marines and all I wanted to do was use their Autovon phone to tell the folks at the office what I was up to. I had two US passports at the time. I knew I was going to have to get my own sorry butt out of Dodge. You travel in foreign countries at your own risk and at your own expense.
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If this effort to connect Katrina to Lebanon grows legs, I wonder if we will see stories of poor, (probably black) US expats and 'tourists' in Lebanon being euthanized Katrina-style by George Bush's desperately unprepared functionaries.
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Update: State 29 tells of an Iowa family who actually their vacation in Beirut, which came to a "shocking end" when the current war started. Read about it here; National lampoon's Beirut Vacation, with State 29's observation on the Des Moines Register's editorial position prohibiting mention of how gosh-awful stupid these tourists were to travel to lebanon in spite of ample warning.

Euthanasia in Louisiana - 2nd Degree Murder

I need to go to safety now...

I'm glad the cowardly and despicable health care professionals who allegedly gave their inconvenient charges lethal injections so they wouldn't have to deal with them during a hurricane are going to be called to account. The Plains Feeder noted the suspicions that were in the news after hurricane Katrina. I figured the stories were probably true. Now a jury will get to decide.

It is a frightening thought: doctors and nurses killing helpless seniors so they could leave work to take care of themselves and their property. Telling them with that square smile they all have, "I'm going to give you something to make you feel better!", as they pump poison into their veins. Be careful where you fall ill or become incapacitated. Keep an eye on the weather. Some panicky doc might give you a hot shot so she can hurry home to save her household. Perhaps you'll feel better about it knowing she will probably be opposed to using lethal injections for executions.
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Dr. Kevorkian was convicted of second degree murder. He got 10 to 25 years, and the cats he killed were begging for it. Whatever else happens to them, Dr. Anna Pou and the nurses, Cheri Landry and Laura Bubo, should never be working in health care again.

Don't get your news from Ms. Magazine

Pretty Crude

Headline seen at Ms. Magazine's web site: Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Nebraska Gay Marriage. These gals haven't got a clue.
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Update: The reporterettes at Ms. caught the error and fixed it. Here is the cached original.

Valles Marineris - NASA's World Wind software

Valles Marineris

Have you had a chance to download and use Google Earth? I've been using it for a while. I copped this picture of the Nebraska State Capitol using Google Earth. You can use your mouse to 'fly' over a 3D world, for the most part in great detail. Very nifty.

One of my favorite niche blogs, Future Feeder, tipped me to a similar piece of software available free from NASA called World Wind. It not only has the Earth, but also the Moon, Mars and more. The overlays or 'layers' offer a wealth of informational views. See the earth in different wavelengths of light, in colors that show crop data, even USGS topo maps. I just downloaded it today, so I have barely scratched the surface.

I was on Mars, zooming over the Valles Marineris this afternoon, taking a break from working outside in the heat, when the image on my screen reminded me of the cracks in my heels. Goes to show how my mind works. Here is a picture I took of my heels today. See the resemblance?

Bush to Hezbollah: "Stop doing this shit"

Knock that shit off!

Call it "caught on an open microphone" if you want. It sounded more like straight shooting to me when US President George Bush was heard to use some earthy language in discussing the fighting in the eastern Mediterranean region. More Bush quotes from the G8 summit meeting in St Petersburg, Russia:

Talking to British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a working lunch at the G8 summit, Bush also hinted that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would take a bigger role in the crisis, and appeared to express frustration about UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

'I think Condi's going to go pretty soon,' the US president said, leaving Rice's destination unclear, though she is widely expected to travel to the region after a UN fact-finding team returns.

Later, Bush added that 'the irony is, what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it's over,' though he does not specify who 'they' are.

And he appeared to express frustration about Annan, saying 'I felt like telling Kofi to get on the phone with Assad, make something happen.'

The recording picked up as Bush, apparently expected to make remarks, declared: 'I'm just going to make it up. I'm not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them. Some of these guys talk too long.'

You tell 'em, W! Don't hold back on Kofi Anan, either. We can use some tough talk for this tough situation.

'Too Short for Jail' Molester Gets Class III Sex Offender Rating

Update: Sentence Upheld - 7/18/07


Richard Thompson: 5' 2" with neck outstretched

Richard Thompson, the short child molester from Sidney, Nebraska that Cheyenne County Judge Kristine Cecava pronounced 'too short for prison' was back in the news last week. The news wasn't good, it shows our criminal justice system's inability to deal with the problem of child sex abuse. Our system's catch and release program does the same thing for child molesters as catch and release fishing does for fish: increases their numbers.

Last week the Nebraska State Patrol finished their legally mandated evaluation and classification of Mr. Thompson's sex offender status. Their conclusion: Thompson is a Class III sex offender, at the greatest for becoming a repeat offender. I'd say that makes him too dangerous for the streets.

As you may recall, folks were disgusted with Judge Cecava's sympathy for this low criminal. She was afraid he might be picked on in prison because he was so short. Wah, wah. So the creepy child molester is out on the street. Maybe he will move to your town, get a place near where you live.

At least the sex offender label will follow him as long as he doesn't skip out on his court paper and go underground, as some sex offenders have done. The unpleasant juxtaposition of Judge Cecava's decision to leave this cat free to prowl with last week's Class III determination has got even the national news pointing out how stupid this case has made us Nebraskans look.

At least his mug will be enshrined on the internets at the Nebraska State Patrol Sex Offender Registry. I guess that is a good thing.
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Bass Ackwards Blogging Addendum: Merri alredy posted her musings on this story, see: “Small Sex Offender Listed As Big Risk”. She nutshells the case better than I did. I don't know how I missed her post. Probably reading the Rachel Ray stuff there.

World War Worries

Civil Defense Poster

Vinnie at Vince aut Morire blogs the chatter on the internets reflecting concern in some parts that World War III is imminent. The concern is that the current ass whupping the Israelis are giving their nasty, terrorist loving neighbors will escalate into a world consuming war. Vinnie thinks it won't, and I tend to agree. But, what if it did?

I don't think that large scale wars, ones in which many issues get settled at once, are necessarily bad. Especially if you take the long view, admittedly difficult when your town is getting bombed. Consider, for example, what shape the World would be in today if the powerful nations of 1939 hadn't ultimately had it out by fighting WWII. What kind of government would you have today? How much liberty would you enjoy? How wealthy would you be? What god would you worship? Would you even be alive today if it weren't for the outcome of WWII?

Some have said that war on a grand scale is cathartic. I say it is more laxative. The world takes a difficult, unpleasant and long-overdue dump, after which the system works again for a while.
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Update: Here is something new for decent folks to worry about: remote controlled airplanes full of explosives. Seems the Hezbollah terrorists have badly damaged an Israeli warship with one. It was the first time the Mohammedan baddies used a drone to hit a ship, but they have evidently tried them before. These things give me the willies worse than submarines.
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Hep Cat Update: Ferdy has a very thoughtful analysis.

So, the question is not how to stop the violence. This is not violence, it's a war, and if history is any indication, it will stop when Israel wins. The real question is what to do when it's over: what is the safest way for Israel to prevent another terrorist group from setting up shop on its northern border?

Not bad for a feline.
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Technical Update: The worst damage done to the Israeli warship mentioned in the first update to this post is now thought not to have been done by a crude drone aircraft. Reports now implicate the C-802 guided missile. This nasty device is a shore to ship turbojet powered weapon somewhat like the cruise missiles in the US arsenal. Iran originally bought these devices from China after the first Gulf War in '91. Recently it is thought that Iran and North Korea are working on improvements to the original design and building more of them. NorKor know-how and Iranian money are behind these newer, more lethal missiles. Do I sense an AXIS being identified?

Ben Nelson or Chuck Hagel: Which is the Republican?

Señator Chuck 'Amnesty Now' Hagel

In a frenzy of feel-good legislating last spring, the US Senate voted to build a measly 370 miles of new fence along the US - Mexico border. Now the Senate amnesty crowd have voted not to fund the fence, in the hope, I suppose, that the voters who were howling about the need for improved border controls would forget. Maybe they thought they could fly this chicanery behind the smokescreen of international squabbling over the Israelis pounding the be-mohammed out of their nasty neighbors. Not surprising from the wimps in the Senate.

Another not surprising aspect of this duplicitous vote was that Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel again took sides with the Democrats and the rest of the wetback amnesty wussies. Again, no surprise, our Senator Ben Nelson was one of only two Democrat Senators voting to give the American people what they so desperately want: secure borders. Check out how the Senate voted here.

Who is the real Republican in Nebraska's Senatorial duo? It ain't Chuck Hagel. Too bad there are otherwise politically astute cats who think we should dump Ben Nelson for a "real" Republican, Pete Ricketts. I say we shouldn't take a chance on getting stuck with another RINO like Hagel. Partisan numbers don't count in Congress, votes do. Ben Nelson has my support
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Mas: A Senate vote in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Update: From Futurama at Blog-Sothoth,

Funny to hear Chuck Hagel on Larry King last night suggesting Jim Baker go to the Middle East to broker peace: does Hagel (whom occasionally I find agreeable) remember Baker saying "Fuck the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway?"

What a statesman! If that's how Chuck would handle delicate diplomatic maneuvering if he were President, I'll take vanilla. Or Jeb Bush.

She caught the Katie

Katie's Black Eye

Katie Couric has to be my very least favorite person on TV. I'm glad she is moving to CBS News, because I don't ever watch CBS News. She could have taken her act to The View for all I care. The perky little skank is barnstorming the country holding focus groups to "introduce Katie Couric to the nation."

What makes these focus groups even worth mentioning is this little run in with a blogger in the Twin Cities. CBS TV station staffers at the event made the blogger, Matt Bartel, give up his pen or get out. Their effort to shine up Katie's phony Anchorwoman Persona instead gave it a shiner.

Cop a laugh at Michelle's take on the CBS effort to introduce Katie as if, "we haven't seen and heard enough of her over the last 20 years."
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If Katie only would catch the Katy. Her going to CBS will just have to do.

John Monetti

Update: Click for the latest post on John Monetti.

John Monetti

Some readers are wondering if Mr. John H. Monetti, the 37 year old Long Island, New York man who was arrested in Blair Nebraska, made a court appearance yesterday. It has been reported that Mr. Monetti was to appear on the 12th, but I'm guessing his attorney has the notion to delay the start of John's trial as long as he can. Perhaps he is working out a plea bargain, or just wants some time for things to cool off here.

Monetti's predicament has, for the most part, fallen below the radar of the news media. The Times of Smithtown has a new story by Laura Weir about John's making bail. The story includes more background and notes that Mr. Monetti has not been charged with anything in New York as yet. We don't know what was found on his home computer. Some reports say child pornography was found, but the Suffolk County Police detective on the case says what he saw wasn't exactly pornographic. Is that his call to make?

I'm not certain whether or not John Monetti has even left the state of Nebraska. It has been reported that he left Washington County. Blair, where John had been jailed, is the Washington County seat. He may not wish to return to New York, and may well be laying low. His lawyer, understandably, isn't talking.
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Something that continues to bother me about this case, Mr. Monetti's own words of denial at the time of his arrest: "Well, I haven't really done anything wrong." That and the fact that many Plains Feeder readers seem to agree with him. Really.
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Previously in the Feeder:
June 30, 2006 : John Monetti, accused child molester, makes bail
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

Democrats: no 9/11 photos, just dead US soldiers

How low can you go?

Democrats have started using pictures of dead US soldiers in their campaign to take back Congress. I saw it first at Blackfive. You can get a passionate rant about it there. I'm too disgusted.
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Who else uses photos of dead US soldiers as political speech? Guess.
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Update: The offensive ad has been pulled in response to pressure from folk with their heads screwed on straight. These cats know nothing at all of what military service means. Remember when the Democrat party shined up John Kerry's dismal military record and tried to foist him off as a war hero? Reporting for duty!

Fidel Castro Dead Already

No Rest for the Wicked

Is the nasty Cuban dictator and stubborn to the last Communist Fidel Castro dead? Hopes are up as rumors fly. Val Prieto at Babalu has a surveillance video that purports to show the actual assassination. Don't watch if you are squeamish. Fausta thinks Castro's bitch Hugo Chávez knows something. Babalu has more links and stories anticipating what Val calls The Post.

The Bush administration, anticipating the soon to be 80 year old tyrant's demise, has prepared a plan to see to it that La Revolución dies right along with the old goat. Naturally the Marxists holdovers of the world are aghast. Meanwhile, back here at home, the Fair Play for Cuba types are still at it.

Poultry poltergeist purloiners?

It's that damn ghost again, Jugjit!

I should be blogging about the bomb blasts in India that have killed 100 people, but I'm often drawn to arcane situations people find themselves in. Sunil Das, a farmer in northeastern India, is convinced that some witchy neighbors are using ghosts or a version thereof to steal his chickens.

The cops laughed in his face until a judge ordered them to find the chicken thieves, whoever or whatever they are. So now the police are supposedly on the trail of these chicken grabbers who have a knack for vanishing into thin air.

Is there a Viagra for Hatred? We cant get it up.

Kick Me

JayTea at Wizbang takes on the paucity of truly effective anti-Islam hate crimes perpetrated here in the US. It seems the Mohammedan loonies at CAIR are still pissing and moaning about the expected (deserved?) backlash against ordinary "peace loving" Mohammedans since 9/11. Jay says we need to get with it!

Come on, people! Every day we see countless examples of how to properly terrorize Muslims -- as demonstrated by other Muslims. We should be blowing up mosques, kidnapping and beheading them, arranging massacres in schools and markets, firing rockets into Muslim communities, and so on. They've been showing us the way for decades, and we have been very, very poor learners.

We don't see too many Mohammedans rolling out their rugs in Nebraska, but we know they are here. We keep them hiding by carrying pre-printed sticky notes that read, "I've got a Bomb" which we stick to their backs when we see them downtown.

Watch Your Step - Surveillance Cameras in Use

Watching Your Gait

Drudge linked a story today about new and improved surveillance techniques that are sure to get the civil libertarians squawking. First it was face recognition software that could pick 'persons of interest' out of a crowd. Cats with warrants were afraid to go to the Superbowl until they discovered they could stuff their cheeks with cotton balls make a face. at least I heard it would fool the camera.

Disguising your face won't work if your town cops are equipped with the latest in gait recognition software. I guess folks' gaits are as "individual as fingerprints", so even if you don't leave fingerprints or DNA, and wear a mask for the surveillance camera, your gait captured on video will enable a positive ID.

Now miscreants, scofflaws and terrorists who want to go to big sporting events will have to start sticking a pebble in one shoe or wearing someone else's orthotic insert. At least the bad guys won't be enjoying their surveillance. Imagine trying to eat nachos and drink beer with cotton balls in your mouth while the blisters on your feet throb.

Ralph Ginzburg is Dead

Barry Goldwater

As the title indicates, the reason for the old feeder writing this morning was the news that Ralph Ginzburg has died in New York. I suppose it dates me a bit, but when I read of his passing, I couldn't help but think of Senator Barry Goldwater. Hence the campaign poster. What a different world we would be living in today had he been elected president in 1964. ¡Ai, mi cabeza! What does Barry G's '64 campaign have to do with Ginzburg croaking? Read on.

Commies, sexual hedonists, and weirdos that still read that other Ginzberg will mourn the creepy looking stationery store and luncheonette operator who got jammed up for selling two 'girlie magazines' to a 16 year old boy. He later became what he called a "brandied fruitcake of a publisher." Some cats credit this artless creep with fathering the '60's sexual revolution. His admirers praise him as an iconoclast (then oddly go on to call him an icon). He most notably published two hard cover, but hardly hard core, magazines, Eros and Fact.

I shoulda checked his ID

Mr. Ginsburg published a sort of 'fake but accurate' story in his Fact magazine a month before the 1964 election entitled: 1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater Is Unfit To Be President!" For this, Barry sued Ralph for libel and actually won. The Supreme Court denied certiorari in this opinion, interesting mainly for the dissent. The vindication of Goldwater's sanity came too late to make any difference in the '64 election. Lyndon Johnson, the perpetrator of the Great Society, would have won anyhow.
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Fuggedabout Ginzburg, you won't see him no more. Read or listen to Senator Goldwater's great "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice" speech from the 1964 Republican convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

Tax and Spend - The American Way

Not Ben Nelson

David Hahn, Democrat party candidate for Governor of Nebraska, has been trying to make a proposed spending lid an issue in the campaign. Governor Heineman wouldn't take the bait. There has been a well-financed petition campaign to get a statewide spending lid in the news of late. The last day of the campaign saw David Hahn out on the street telling folks not to sign.

I don't know the details of the spending lid or if anyone actually believes it will cut taxes. The state will be spending damn little of my money, lid or not. I already have my own state spending lid. The petition campaign itself became a bigger public issue than the spending lid. People bitched about pushy paid signature gatherers from out of town pestering them wherever they went. I'll bet we Nebraskans see some changes made to the petition procedure before we see any real tax relief.

We know where Smilin' Dave Hahn stands on this issue. As a Democrat, any kind of limitation on the government's power to tax and spend is anathema. Most Democrat party pols would rather drink poison than to see any such limit actually reduced to law. Not when they can get away with paying lip service to fiscal resposibility and still get elected by hapless voters. The Democrat's constituency always seem to believe higher taxes will fall more heavily on someone else.
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Ain't Democracy grand? You get to steal your neighbors' money and property so you can enjoy life a bit more. Who wouldn't want to participate?

Ethnic Jokes

Gandhi Pumping Gas in St. Louis

Michelle Malkin has video of Senator Joe Biden's sorry attempt at ethnic humor. The goofball Democrat Senator from Delaware and perennial Presidential nomination loser tried to curry favor with his Indian constituency (not the red ones), by cracking funny about how they own all the convenience stores. (read: Apu). She says it is no big deal. I note that even Google isn't carrying the story: "Your search - biden indian joke - did not match any documents. "

Ms. Malkin also reminds us of a similar Democrat attempt at poking fun at our immigrants from India. Then it was Hillary Clinton sticking it to the cats who answer the phone when you call your bank.

World's Biggest Corn Maze

Corn Maze Path

Here is yet another reason to take your vacation in the hinterlands of Nebraska: to see the World's Largest Corn Maze. We didn't make money with our phony space alien crop circles here, so corn farmers have been mowing mazes into cornfields and luring tourists to get lost in them for a few bucks. Other farmers make corn messages for flyers to see, but that is a different story.

The new corn maze opens this fall near Columbus, Nebraska and, according to the high school student builders, it will gain them a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest. The record is currently held by Belgians, possibly the only world record not connected with lace-making the Belgians have ever held.

The Future Farmers of America (FFA) kids at Columbus' Lakeview High School, home of the Vikings and Viqueens, are cutting out the excess corn and otherwise preparing the cornfield outside of town. The maze is being built with help from a Utah outfit dedicated to "good farmin' fun": The Maize. The hot, sweaty work involved is the kind of thing that earned Nebraskans the nickname bugeaters.

If you are so broke or so travel-jaded that your fall vacation will find you in Nebraska, don't forget to get lost in the big corn maze at Columbus. And, as Abe would say, don't forget to visit Carhenge while you are here.

Kola Boof - Days of Our Lives Update

Kola Boof

Remember Kola Boof? The buff womanist author, adventurer, and Queen of the Sudan is getting right into her new job as a script writer for the soap opera, Days of Our Lives. She is going to add a new character based upon, you guessed it: her old slave-master, Osama bin Laden! From Lindy McDowell:

Kola reveals she is planning to introduce a new nasty character to the show, based on a former boyfriend, Osama bin Laden. Kola claims she dated, if that's the right word, Osama back in 1996.

Osama not boyfriend material? Isn't the truth supposed to be stranger than fiction? Or was it the other way round?

Ken Lay not mourned in Omaha

Ken Lay

Ken Lay is dead, but few folks in Omaha will shed a tear. The man whose name has become permanently associated with the Enron 'bookkeeping problems', Ken Lay not only moved the company out of Omaha, costing us jobs, but his peculations cost Enron investors, many of them Omaha folks, scads of money.

Omaha is such a crappy place to live, Lay said, that there was no way he could attract the kind of employees he needed. Now it appears he meant he couldn't find enough crooked managers and 'look the other way' accountants here. Omaha folks will get over this insult, but those among us that lost their savings as a result of trusting Mr. Lay are still SOL.

Ken was recently convicted of serious criminal charges stemming from his Enron shenanigans. He was awaiting sentencing when he croaked. Now his guilt will go unpunished. I guess Ken Lay just couldn't pass up on one more chance to cheat the American public.

Projectile dysfunction

"She wants to see your big dong, Kim"

So little Kim was going to co-opt our 4th of July festivities with a few missiles, but their big one was a dud. It's as if you sat through your local fireworks display only to watch the grand finale rockets fizzle out.

Too bad they're not our primary concern instead of the Islamic Jihad. If not for the Jimmy Carter's in our midst, couldn't we send a couple missiles over their treetops to show them how it's done? China wouldn't mind. They're probably sore because North Korea hijacked a couple of their trains.

Independence Day

Click to Sign the Declaration of Independence - ptg did!

The folks at the Feedlot want to wish you and yours a suitably celebratory Fourth of July. Please take some time to reflect on the tremendous courage of the signers when they, "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence", pledged their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor to create this nation.

The National Archives has a nifty little script on their web site that enables you to add your own name to the signatures on the Declaration of Independence, suitable for printing. Fun for the kids, and educational as well.
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Today is one of those days you should fly your US flag. No household should be without one. What are the Jihadis going to burn after they cut your throat?

Adios, everybody! Just in case...

Asteroid 2004 XP14 - Orbit in Blue

Just in case the big asteroid that is supposed to pass within 250,000 miles at about midnight hits the earth. How close is that? The way I picture it is; I have a car with more miles on it than that, therefore it isn't far enough. The scientists, and even the Chinese, who have more to lose from an extinction event, say we shouldn't worry. If you click here, you will be able to jigger with the nifty JPL/NASA program that shows the orbits of things in space. From this perspective, the big asteroid's pass looks 'way too close:

So, just in case it hits the earth tonight and smacks us all into oblivion: Adios, everybody. It has been a whale of a ride.

Wah wah wah! The Jews won't be nice!

Nits

The BBC whines that the Palestinians face Gaza hardships. As far as I'm concerned, they've got it coming. The Israelis have shown more forbearance in dealing with these irrational fanatics than I ever would. I didn't say the 'stinos deserve to suffer these 'hardships', although some of them might. I said they've got it coming; there is a difference.

It is a shame that the Palestinian kids will suffer, but the shame falls upon their parents. But for the madness of the Palestinian adults, the kids might have half a chance at normal lives. It is likely too late. What the hey, nits just grow into lice anyhow.

Nebraska blogger in the news

The Gunscribe

You have to read Abe's post over at Don't let Me Stop You about a fellow Nebraska blogger, shooter, hunter and Second Amendment defender, the Gunscribe of From the Heartland. This cat is dedicated!

It seems the Gunscribe carried a pistol into a Lincoln City Council meeting last week. They were debating a city concealed weapon ban, a ridiculous knee-jerk reaction to the state Legislature's having passed a concealed carry permit law this year.

Nebraska's Deadbeat Dads Hopeful

For a minute last week it looked like a hacker might have swiped data from the Nebraska child support system's server. I'll bet there were numerous shiftless, irresponsible sperm donors who happily thought they might be getting off the hook. Now it seems the hacker attack was either just 'vandalism' or an attempt to steal personal data that was foiled.

Nebraska State Treasurer Ron Ross says he doesn't think the "personally identifiable information on 300,000 people and 9,000 employers, including names, addresses, Social Security and federal tax ID numbers, and bank information" was stolen. But I'm always suspicious when the state tells me not to worry.

In the worst case scenario, a few honest employers who collect Nebraska child support for the state might have been compromised. As for the deadbeat dads that might get robbed as a result of this incident, I have a hard time caring about their woes. Just so they don't get 'off the hook' for their genetic obligations.

Now the local authorities must lay the blame. The finger pointing and recriminations are just getting started.