Day of the Dead

El Día de los Muertos - Dead Art

I don't do Halloween here at the feedlot. No kid has ever come to my door on All Hallow's Eve, either for trick or for treat. It is enough that I was born during El Día de los Muertos. Having death themed birthdays won't drive you crazy. Just look at me. Or you could ask DadGum, who not only knows me but also has a gun-toting schoolmarm girlfriend born on the same day, different year. She's got her head screwed on straight.

Now that the US is become Norte Mexico, El Día de los Muertos is going mainstream. Lots of places offer traditional decorations and candy, even grotesque greeting cards. Stuff to build the celebratory altars honoring dead friends or relatives. Offerings are made to the dead, but not designed to appease angry dead cats, but gifts to help them enjoy being dead. Tobacco, booze, and cash are popular offerings.

Even the New Age movement has adopted the trappings of El Día de los Muertos. You can build a therapeutic day of the Dead altar and get your dharma tuned up at the same time at this trendy Buddhist retreat.

This doesn't sound good

Infected Fish?

Michelle Malkin warned me not to read the Associated Press, but now and then I get a kick out of reading their idiotic headlines at Newsday. The AP is wont to fill in background on current news stories with timelines or lists. Today, one of their often amusing lists caught my eye. This list was headlined:

List of Fish Banned for Transport

AP: October 29, 2006, 2:05 PM EST
Fish susceptible to viral hemorrhagic septicemia, which poses no risk to humans but causes internal bleeding in fish. A government crackdown on live fish shipments from the Great Lakes states is intended to check the spread of the virus.

Now viral hemorrhagic septicemia sounds serious. That the AP felt they needed to tell me there was no risk to humans made me even more curious. I looked to see what fish were on the list.

Atlantic cod Black crappie Bluegill Bluntnose minnow Brown bullhead Brown trout Burbot Channel catfish Chinook salmon Coho salmon Chum salmon Emerald shiner Freshwater drum Gizzard shad Grayling Haddock Herring Japanese flounder Largemouth bass

Muskellunge Pacific cod Pike Pink salmon Pumpkinseed Rainbow trout Redhorse sucker Rock bass Rockling Round goby Smallmouth bass Sprat Turbot Walleye White bass White perch Whitefish Yellow perch

This list seems pretty comprehensive. Are there any other fish we commonly catch for sport, eating or use for bait? It would appear that everything but carp and suckers are at risk. Looking farther, I found this little story that the list was supposed to illuminate: Fish Farmers Angry Over Shipping Ban - Newsday.com: "In an emergency order last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service banned interstate transport of 37 species of live fish from the eight states adjacent to the Great Lakes. Importing those species from the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec also was prohibited."

Like I said, this doesn't sound good.

Catch-up on the child rape case against John Monetti

Update: Click for the latest post on John Monetti.

"Well, I haven't really done anything wrong."

I'm sure you have seen this scenario play out before. An otherwise well-respected man is arrested for a crime and, at first, the papers are all over it. Then it must become old news or something because you don't hear any more about the case in the media until you read that the culprit has gotten away with a slap on the wrist. By then it is too late; public outrage has diffused, the victims are sick of the process, and the perp's lawyers have struck a nice deal with the prosecutors that shocks the conscience.

That might be what is happening with Mr. John H. Monetti's case just down the road from the feedlot in Blair, Nebraska. By way of background, I will repeat that Mr. Monetti is facing numerous charges, including child rape, resulting from his being caught having repeated sexual trysts with an underage, autistic little girl from Blair. At the time, Monetti was a respected fireman, school teacher, coach, and school administrator living on Long Island, New York. Evidence suggests that Monetti made several trips from New Your to Blair to meet with the girls whom he had met on the internet. If you want more details, I suggest you see the previous posts listed below. (Don't forget to read the comments engendered thereby; some of them are gems of idiocy!)

To help us out, Plains Feeder reader Kay has been following the matter and has posted some informed comments to keep us apprised of recent developments (read: delays) at the Washington County courthouse. it seems that the defense, predictably, will insist on dragging the child victim into court to testify. The prosecution tried to quash the subpoenas of the victim and her school guidance counselor, but failed. I don't know what they hope to achieve by interrogating the victim; in statutory rape cases, the consent or lack thereof on the part of the victim is irrelevant. I feel they are just hoping the girl will back out of the case to avoid the pain of public scrutiny. It is a cruel but often effective strategy.

Kay also informs us that another continuance has been granted, delaying Monetti's preliminary hearing which had been scheduled for last week. This time the prosecution sought the delay, giving the reason that the girl Monetti is said to have molested isn't doing well physically or emotionally. Meanwhile, Mr. Monetti remains free on $2.5 million bail. Free to hang out in his old neighborhood on Long Island.

Kay, I appreciate your help in keeping this case from slipping below the outrage radar. The old feeder hasn't the time to bug the Clerk of Court in Blair or to query the the County Attorney's office. Don't forget, if you are a Nebraskan, the prosecutor is bringing these charges against Monetti in your name: you have a right to oversee their work. I hope you will keep holding the officials' feet to the fire, Kay, until this creep gets the long jail term and public humiliation he so richly deserves.
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I can hear Monetti's East Coast apologists already: "He's innocent until proven guilty!" Here is my answer. He is innocent for now in the eyes of the Court. But the Court hasn't seen the evidence. From what I know so far, I have formed my own opinion: I think Mr. Monetti is guilty as hell.
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More from our correspondent Kay: "Other things are coming to light. There is a possibility that while in Nebraska, he was actually at the school & made inappropriate contact with another girl." Perhaps more charges are in the cards for this shameless miscreant.
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Previous John Monetti posts in the Plains Feeder:
August 30, 2006: John Monetti - accused child rapist - update
August 01, 2006: John Monetti back on Long Island?
July 13, 2006: John Monetti Update
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

Back to work

World Series Winners

There are only so many hours in a day, so the old feeder decided to forgo blogging for a few days in an effort to wring a bit of enjoyment from what is ordinarily a dull and prosaic existence. My first cousin once removed, DadGum, came to visit from Iowa. We toured the city of Omaha like the hayseeds we have become, gawking at the new construction and oohing at the new roller coaster West Dodge Skyway.

Then there was the World Series to watch. Baseball is not just our National Pastime, but the only ball-sport that the old feeder can follow. All the rest are either played too quickly or fail to define the players' positions adequately, respective examples being basketball and soccer. During the regular season, baseball provides a sure-fire soporific; the long summer days won't keep you up too late if there is baseball on the radio or TV.

The MLB playoffs and the World Series are different. Baseball at its best never makes me sleepy and is the only thing on broadcast TV that can move the old feeder to shout at the screen. Watching the underdog St. Louis Cardinals win the Championship was no exception. As Joe Strauss at St. Louis Today said it:

The Cardinals won simply. They outplayed a team that for much of the season led both leagues in wins. When it was done, the Tigers had scored 11 runs and committed eight errors. The Cardinals, who endured a losing record for the season's final five months, scored 22 runs, committed four errors and never looked down during an 11-5 October.

OK, fun is over. Back to work.

Dark chocolate thoughts

Our hip and saturnine friend Mickey often says, "the future is prison". That may be, but on an unrelated note the future seems to be coated with chocolate these days. Does it clog your arteries and contribute to your death? Or does it increase circulation and help to keep you around a little longer so that something not so tasty and pleasurable can have a shot at killing you?

Insourcing to Kearney, Nebraska

Comfy Porch in Kearney

You don't hear about high-tech jobs being insourced from India to the US every day, but that is what is happening in Kearney, Nebraska. I saw this story in the Kearney Hub about how such an unusual economic development came to pass.

Atlanta-based Xpanxion will be up and running in two weeks at its new Kearney location at 516 W. 39th St., Suite B. The company plans to move testing operations and quality assurance programs from Pune, India, to central Nebraska.

Kearney, (rhymes with Barney) is a nice little town of about 30,000 souls, including Uncle Wiggily, along Interstate 80 which seems to be doing pretty well for itself. This in spite of what the liberal hand-wringers would have us believe is a failing economy ruined by Bush tax cuts and another Viet-Nam in Iraq. (For example, here is how Reuters covered the Dow passing the record-breaking 12,000 mark the other day.) Not to mention the Willie Nelsons who wail about the demise of the family farm. If you read only the MSM, you would think rural America was finished; we might as well give the land back to the buffaloes.

In fact, Kearney is doing so well and feeling so dang civilized that the Busybody Planning Commission wants to ban the hick-like practice of furnishing the front porch with 'indoor' furniture. Well, what can you expect from cats only a couple generations out of the soddie.

Tyranny Without Borders

Banned By Allah-Tube

Poor Vinnie de Mille. His nifty videos posted at Vince aut Morire keep getting dumped off of You-Tube because he has the audacity and poor taste to produce videos critical of our sworn blood enemies among the Mohammedans. Michelle Malkin has the same trouble with her HotAir Rants. Now the European Union wants to implement an international internet video censorship plan called Television Without Frontiers. Talk about a euphemistic moniker. And Capt. Ed says Iran is limiting bandwidth in addition to their state censorship of the internets.

The totalitarian tyrants of the world can't bear the fact that the internets might allow the light of truth to shine upon their nefarious works. The tyrants' fellow travellers and useful idiots go along with their schemes to protect their fiefdoms for numerous reasons, most of which are green and have pictures of American Presidents on them. Google sells out to the ChiComs, censoring the web like good little leftist comrades all the while justifying their perfidy with their capitalist balance sheet.

Now that Google has bought out You Tube, I don't expect to see them change their ways, unless it be for the worse. You-Tube started dumping non-PC videos before Google bought them. I don't think they were just 'cleaning up their image' to command a better price, they were taking the censorship step before the consummation of the sale so that Google could avoid taking the blame for it. Google isn't so much biased against America as it is committed to One-World-ism. They serve tyrants because totalitarianism is the only way the One-Worlders can prevail.

Why don't the EuroWussies and Googlistas just call a spade a spade. Their internet censorship schemes serve only to support Tyranny Without Borders.
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Re: the banner above. Arabic reads from right to left. Just trying to be a good Dhimmi here.

Nebraska Population Issues

Central Nebraska Baby Boom

As the US population passes the 300 million mark, the old feeder observes that Malthusian fears seem to have subsided from the 1960's and 70's, when everyone thought there would be standing room only by now. There are still some who fret that they will have to share the world's riches with huge crowds of unwashed, hungry rabble who will rise up and kill us if they don't starve to death first, leaving us feeling guilty.

Nebraska has been adding to the population bomb disproportionately, according to this article from Hastings, Nebraska's KHAS-TV web site. Iowans are to blame, as well. At least the Solons in Lincoln and Lancaster County here in Nebraska are taking steps to reverse this selfish tendency of ours to over-populate.
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File this under: another reason to distrust Democracy.

Lights for Little Kim

Huge Candlelight March in North Korea

The grateful nearly dead of the North Korean communist worker's paradise held a huge candlelight parade for Dear Little Leader Kim Jong Il's first public appearance since his first atomic bomb sales demo. The reason for all the candles: Mr. Kim has used up all of North Korea's resources to build his war machines and atom bombs; there isn't any electricity to spare lighting up parades. The satellite photo below showing Korea by night puts the lie to any claim NorKor might have to being anything but a communism-ridden third world country. I wonder if there will be a candle shortage this winter after Mr. Kim's big parade. Let them burn pine knots for light.

A Poorly Lit Country

World reaction to Kim's new nuclear capabilities has been much like the reaction of a man who has stepped on dog shit in town. Everyone is trying to scrape their shoes clean on the UN instead of looking to kill the dog. The Kim apologists say we shouldn't blame the dog, he's just doing what comes naturally. The best suggestion I have heard so far comes from Taiwan, and hints at a fate for little Kim like the comical trial and execution of Romania's Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. Too bad the North Korean people are so enfeebled by decades of eating at the barren communist table set by Mr. Kim and his dad. I doubt they could mount a Romanian-style uprising without a good meal first.

Kim's Cognac Embargoed

On a lighter note, I saw this widely published photo of Dear Leader sipping cognac. UN fans believe that an embargo on luxury goods bound for North Korea will put the hurt on Mr. Kim, who is said to enjoy fancy imported goods. Cut off his cognac, and he will straighten up and fly right. I don't believe it.

How can Kim Jong Il enjoy the rich nose of fine cognac when he doesn't have one?

Venezuela's Big Chance

Val Prieto at Babalu Blog points out that the real big chance for Venezuela lies not in the Kangaroo vote now taking place at the United Nations. It will come on December 3rd, when Venezuelan voters will get a crack at deposing the horrid little communist tyrant, Hugo Chavez. Sez Val:

While hugo chavez was busy gallivanting around the world visiting with the North Koreans and the Iranians and the Syrians and everyone else trying to buy his way - his way, not Venezuela's way - into the UN Security Council, while hugo chavez was in the US promising cheap heating oil and standing in front of the United Nations calling President Bush the devil and while he was away trying to spread his Bolivarian Revolution to all four corners of the world, among other things, there were people in Venezuela digging through piles of rubbish for sustenance:

Grocery Shopping in Venezuela

Two Years Old

The Old Feeder

Plains Feeder is two years old. Time flies when you are having fun.

Reid decides to amend ethics reports after facts come to light

It was just a little crooked.

I guess Harry Reid decided that the Main Stream Media was never going to report on his diligent efforts to clean up the problems with his Senate Ethics Reports. Now he is acting like he is happy to see these mistakes corrected. Seen on Drudge:

"Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid announced Monday he is amending his ethics reports to Congress to more fully account for a land deal that allowed him to collect $1.1 million for property he hadn't personally owned for three years.

Reid acted several days after The Associated Press reported the senator didn't disclose to Congress that he first sold the land to a friend's company back in 2001 and took an ownership stake in the company. He didn't collect the seven-figure payout until the company sold the land again in 2004 to others.

Reid said his amended ethics reports will list the 2001 sale."

Noting that there might be a few other small discrepancies in his ethics reports, Reid said: "I believe in ensuring all facts come to light." Sure, Harry, now that you've been caught.

Freddy Fender's Wasted Days and Wasted Nights End

Freddy Fender 1937-2006

I always liked Freddy's distinctive sound. I probably liked his music better in my drinking days, when I enjoyed many wasted days and wasted nights. From the Dallas Morning News:

"Freddy Fender, the heralded bilingual Texas singer whose slightly high-pitched mixture of twang and tenderness made him one of the first Mexican-American country and pop crossover stars of the 1970s, died Saturday. He was 69.

Mr. Fender died at his home in Corpus Christi with his family at his bedside, said Ron Rogers, a family spokesman. This year, the three-time Grammy-winner – who over the decades had grappled with drug and alcohol abuse and complications of diabetes and hepatitis C – battled lung cancer, too."

That 'wasting' catches up to us all. Adios, Freddy.

Weekend Funnies

Fistfighting Prophets

Jesus lands a solid right on Mohammed's beard, exposing the bomb under the false prophet's turban. The crowd goes wild!

Nice New Nebraska Blog

Plains Feeder has added Heartland Notebook to the blogroll. It is a new blog produced by a self-described rock-ribbed retrocon in Kearney, Nebraska who calls himself Uncle Wiggily. I think you will find his stuff well-written, witty and enlightening. Pay the rascal a visit.

The old feeder is still horribly busy with the harvest, and suffering hay fever he wouldn't wish on anyone but a Jihadist. Some blog projects that need attention have gone unblogged, like new blogger and old radio jock Tom Becka's woes over what I thought was a right-on parody, “Discover North Omaha”. I guess the Dhimmis at KFAB just don't like to hear the truth about Omaha's isolated and neglected N-wordtown.

John Monetti, the New York school teacher accused of child rape. He is the one who travelled to Nebraska for sex with an underage autistic girl he met on the internets. Monetti was supposed to have had a court date last week. I haven't had time to call the Washington County courthouse to find out what happened.

And then there is our homegrown Nebraska exhibitionist and amateur porn star, Melissa Harrington, aka Melissa Midwest. The let it all hang out babe from Lincoln, Nebraska is back in the news. This time she is being sued for, well, lets just say it involves Bubba the Love Sponge, another semi-pro porn star, and wrongdoing with a dildo.
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So much to blog. So little time.

Evidence

The Old Feeder
See: Non Compos Mentis

Sheehan Wins Nobel Piece Prize

Cindy the Militant (hagas clik)

In the news tonight from KHOU.com: "[Peace Mom Cindy] Sheehan claims she's Nobel Peace Prize finalist". Piece of work prize, maybe.

She is trying to become a better person

Twyana Davis

Woman Who Lied About Rape Gets Prison - Newsday.com: "A woman who lied about getting pregnant through date rape and abandoned her newborn in a trash bin was sentenced to prison for the statutory rape of the baby's father, her 12-year-old cousin. "

File this under: Our handbasket arrives in Hell ahead of schedule. And Oprah helped.

Killing Fields

Pardon the title; it's actually hunting season. Unless the supermarkets run out of food my hunting days are probably over. You're more apt to find me scrounging around the woods with a camera or a bow saw to retrieve an interesting piece of wood. But that doesn't mean I'm anti-hunting. Far from it.

When I was a teenager I used to live for hunting season so I know how much it means to the people who wait all year for it and tend to stay out of their way so as not to spoil their solitude and chances of success.. When done right taking the life of an animal is not a bad thing. I believe a good hunter knows more about the life and habits of his prey than most anti-hunters. And I think a reflective hunter has a good understanding of death and our finite span of years on this wondrous earth.

There are also a number of yahoos with guns who have little respect for anything or anyone and I've done what I could over the years to make trouble for them.

Autumn is here and there is game in the field for those who want to go after it.

Freeze Warning

The Sower

It looks like there will be a hard freeze here at the feedlot in the next day or two. This means extra work for gentlemen farmers with gardens. The old feeder may not be a gentleman, but he has a garden. Therefore, I will be busy the next couple days putting away my bountiful harvest.

This reminds me of the parabolic message within Christ's story about the sower. If, indeed, Jesus spoke in parables, then why do folks continue to (mis)interpret them as allegorical parallels? A true parable impinges upon the truth therein at exactly one and only one point. Allegories run alongside the truth, matching it point for point. You geometers know what I mean. Jesus spoke in parables, but his not-so-holy disciples claim he later explained the stories to them in secret. Was Jesus trying to hide his message? I think not. Parables must be interpreted as parables.

The point of the parable of the sower is, for me, the bountiful harvest. If you have faith, whatever happens, the result will be a good harvest. Hence, I'll be busy for a couple of days!

Che Guevara's Big Day

The coward crapped his pants!

On this day in history, Che Guevara was dispatched to hell by the Bolivian Army. Maybe Fidel Castro will cease what Val at Babalu Blog calls his aliveness today as well. What a holiday that would make!

No future for North Korea?

Click to get your Kim Tee

Looks like it is too late to persuade Kim Jong Il not to add nuclear weapons to his inventory of WMD. It is bad enough that the oddball commie now has a working a-bomb himself, but you can bet he will now add nukes to his catalogue of weapons for sale. I wonder how many Islamo-fascist Mohammedan fanatics were on hand for the demo, and if they brought their checkbooks.

I note that the suspected test area in North Korea has provisions for "VIP Accommodations". If you use Google Earth, you can download a 'kmz' file to show the location here. (Right click and save) Hat Tip to the Arms Control Wonk. This is what I saw:

NorKor nuke test site?

The time for tough talk with this diminutive Korean madman has passed. In the The Australian, US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill is quoted: "(North Korea) can have a future or it can have these weapons, it cannot have both." Mighty tough talk, but we have tried jawboning this creep before. Even the hideously powerful Maddy Albright didn't scare little Kim.

Mr. Kim! Is that a nuke in your pocket or ...

So just how do we go about insuring that a nuclear North Korea has no future? Perhaps our Democrat or moonbat friends have some ideas. Perhaps the Chinese will step up, or even the newly militant Japanese, but I doubt it. It must be a job for the miracle workers at the UN.
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Addendum: You really need to look at my favorite NorKor blog. The rhetoric is so... well, you'll see.

Democrat Party Supports Generic Troops

Canadian Soldier: not even a Democrat

You have heard the story about the Democrat National Committee using a generic photo of an unhappy soldier on one of their web pages purporting to blame President Bush for his frown. It was their way of extolling Democrat "support" for our cats in unform.

Trouble was, the idiots that put together the web page hadn't a clue as to what an American soldier looks like. The photo they used was a photoshop of the worthy Canadian troop pictured above. The Democrat site has been fixed, a flag replacing the fake American soldier. But the Democrat leadership remains as stupid as always.

The links above are to Michelle Malkin's coverage of the screw-up, but you can read more at the Jawa Report, LGF, Blackfive, and Florida Cracker. It would be funny if it weren't so definitive of what is wrong with the Democrat party leadership these days.

I have some pictures the DNC could use to great effect on their web pages. To show the voters how in touch with the people Democrats are, there is nothing that can beat showing support for Motherhood:

and Apple Pie:

Not to mention All American support for our Youth, National Parks, Neighborhoods, Country Music, Southern-Fried Chicken, Transportation, Welfare Reform and Housing. If the Democrats have issues they want to webify, I have the photoshops they need.

Yankee Free World Series

No Yankees

It was a great pleasure to see the dark scowl on wicked Joe Torre's face after the Detroit Tigers eliminated the New York Yankees from the playoffs today. Now I'm certain to enjoy the World Series, even if the Dodgers are eliminated. The thought of disappointed Yankees fans pissing and moaning soothes me.
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Update: The Dodgers lost to the Mets, but there was no sting. I had to 'flick' between channels to check in on the Huskers as they beat Iowa State. The old feeder is an alumnus of both institutions. I can't root for them both.

Senator Chuck Hagel - friend of the enemy?

Hagel in Viet-Nam

The old feeder has maintained that Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel is afflicted with Viet-Nam War PTSD. His war experience left him so mentally scarred that he can no longer stand up to America's enemies. He believes that America can never again fight to preserve the American Way or the result will be "another Viet-Nam."

Now Senator Hagel is visiting Viet-Nam again. The horror! What is he doing there? Here is a story about Senator Hagel fielding questions from a commie economics and public policy class in country. Sample of Hagel's obsequiousness:

When asked by a Fulbright School student about why the United States often played big-country politics, Senator Hagel said that the US needs to look at the world through a new set of optics. This requires appreciating how other countries view the United States.

If that isn't enough to make you gag, Robert 'the leak' Novak, writing in the Islamist magazine Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, quotes Senator Chuck Hagel as evidence that not all Republicans believe in winning the war on terror. "The war against Hezbollah and Hamas will not be won on the battle field.” Gosh, Chuck! Do you suppose it could turn into another Viet-Nam?
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Senator Hagel may still dream of running for President; almost no one shares his dream but our enemies.
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Meanwhile, back at the turkey ranch.
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Next stop for Senator Hagel: Ho Chi Minh City and Normalization.

North Korea's Holiday Hi-Jinks

Nuke-ee, nuke-ee!

Look for Kim Jong Il and his merry band of kimchi-breath pranksters to threaten a real, live nuclear test all weekend. That the North Koreans would threaten to blow off an a-bomb on the Columbus Day weekend proves that little Kim hates America and especially Italian Americans.

Be careful, Mr. Kim. You wouldn't want one of these to go off in your face.

US seeks solution to China's laser attacks on spy satellites

Artist's conception of Ray-Ban's proposed laser defense

Everyone seems concerned about recent revelations that Communist China's grotesque totalitarian regime is trying to blind US spy satellites with powerful ground based lasers. The Chinese are using their Wal-Mart money on a military build-up based on the plans they got from former President Clinton. This includes new space warfare capabilities.

Some folks think the attempted (?) burning of our space eyes amounts to an act of war. Most likely there are some chicoms who think our spy satellites flying overhead is an act of war. Obviously, neither country seeks to go to war with the other in the near future. China wants to annex Taiwan like Omaha, Nebraska Mayor Mike Fahey wants to annex Elkhorn. They might try to take it by force if they thought the US would be afraid to help their Taiwanese friends avoid communist enslavement. It is an ugly balance of power. The Cold War continues.
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When I want to spy on China, I use Google Earth's newest beta.

JonBenet confession creep Karr cops a walk

John Mark Karr

First he 'confesses' to molesting and murdering JonBenet Ramsey, complete with lurid details. The confession was proved a lie by DNA after Karr bilked Colorado taxpayers out of a first class trip back from Bangkok, Thailand, where he was jammed up with the locals. His confession and the facts that came out subsequently clearly indicate that Karr is a dangerous pervert. Now the creepy weasel has avoided prosecution for the child pornography charges that sent him on the lam in the first place.

I guess the prosecutors lost the evidence. Too bad the California judge that set him free wouldn't take the free advice I gave to the court in Colorado: lock him up.

Judge Rene Chouteau ordered Karr released immediately, bringing an end to his two-month odyssey in the U.S. criminal justice system after he was extradited from Thailand on suspicion of killing JonBenet. [Fox]

Ain't the Rule of Law just grand?

Political Perversion

I'm not a pedophile, Chris, honest!

Disgraced, (but I question the timing) former Representative Mark Foley, R. Fl., isn't really a pervert. He just drinks too much and has a few treatable 'behavioral problems'. So say his lawyers.

I wonder if he has a confession book in the works, like Jim McGreevey. Oprah will gladly grease the way for Foley's rehabilitation as she did for McGreasy's Comeback Mountain Tour.

My other habit

Peppers

The old feeder hasn't been slow to blog of late for no reason. It is harvest time here on the plains, and there is no shortage of work. Even for gentleman farmers, there is plenty to do in the fall. Besides mowing the grass, mending the roof, fixing storm windows and plugging mouse holes, there is the garden. And my other habit: eating.

The capsicums were good to me this year, as usual. I'll be eating hot all winter. My tomatoes were a near failure; a pesky wilt disease keeps them from producing more than I can eat. I have nice fruit all season, but not enough to can or share. I'll have a few green ones to store after the first freeze.

Feedlot Homemade Sausage

Genetically, the old feeder is half Norwegian. I ought to like stinking cheeses and rotting fish, but I prefer to eat OPC. (Other People's Cuisine) I'd rather have any Mediterranean dish, even pulpo Gallego or Moroccan cinnamon chicken, than dine like a Viking on lutefisk and lefse.

Once all my peppers are either set out to dry or pickled, there will be more time for the Plains Feeder. Meanwhile, I'm going to have a dish of linguini with the peppers, sausage and ripe tomatoes.

In - and out of - perspective

It appears that American military forces have killed precious few Muslims when compared to other forces. Check the breakdown at Small Dead Animals.

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Now I see that Al Gore, self-appointed guardian of the climate, has revealed that cigarette smokers have the power to melt icebergs. If I'm twisting his thoughts out of perspective they were out of it to begin with.