Castro to US: Vote the Communist Ticket with Clinton & Obama

As George Moneo at Babalu Blog says: That's good enough for me!

el comandante has some advice for the voters in the US. He happens to like two candidates to be part of a winning ticket in 2008. Who are his recommendations? Why Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama, of course. These are castro's candidates!

If you think you have already the heard the Clinton/Obama ticket suggested for the Democrat Party ticket in 08, you are correct. Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani are both on the same page with dying Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro. Who said politics makes strange bedfellows?

White Nebraska Racists: No beer for Red Indians.

No firewater for you, Chief.

White racists in Nebraska are stirring up trouble for the Indians this week.

Using the innocent-sounding name Nebraskans for Peace, and couching their racist notions as the White Man's Burden, they are trying to shut down beer distributors who sell beer legally to the Redskins.

These commie killjoys are having some kind of demonstration at a beer distributorship in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. I heard about this from Scott Voorhees on KFAB radio this morning. The man from Nebraskans for Peace that appeared on the show sounded like he needed one of these Ward Churchill Real Indian Kits.

I didn't catch all the details, what with unfairly battered AG Alberto Gonzales' decision to return to private life.
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Update: Here's the skinny on the big demo in Scottsbluff:

High Plains Budweiser distributorship in Scottsbluff Thursday, August 30. Concerned Nebraskans will meet outside the distributorship at 2810 Avenue M at 10:30 a.m. to speak to the ownership and prevail upon them to stop selling Anheuser-Busch products in Whiteclay. In the presence of the media, LaMere will detail the social, cultural and economic devastation alcohol is wreaking on the Pine Ridge Reservation — the target market for Whiteclay’s alcohol sales.

This information came from the website of the anti-American agitators calling themselves Nebraskans for Peace. You should peruse their pages if you want to know more about how disrupting the peace promotes peace. Try to guess where these useful idiots get the money to pay for all this propaganda.
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More: From kduhtv.com in or near Scottsbluff: the alcoholism rate on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is "conservatively estimated at 80%." This in spite of the fact that the reservation itself is officially "dry".

Do you suppose the cats at High Plains Budweiser are forcing these rez indians to drink beer? Perhaps, as Scott Voorhees suggested this morning, some of them just like to get drunk. Same as white folks.

The old feeder suspects it is the never ending patronization of the Red Indians by arguably well-intentioned officious inter-meddlers, both public and private, that drives them to drink. What is worse is the current trend for commie front groups, leftist fellow travelers, mob gambling interests and anti-American agitators to co-opt them. The NFP ought to be ashamed.
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Still More: Could this demonstration directed against the Scottsbluff Budweiser distributor have anything to do with the fact that the man behind the distributorship is an active Republican who has openly supported President Bush and the war in Iraq? From an August 21, 2005 Lincoln Journal Star article:

Jeff Scheinost is a Republican, a supporter of President Bush, a military veteran who served eight years in the Army after the Vietnam war.
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Scheinost, the Budweiser distributor in Scottsbluff, said people in the area do not think the war was a mistake and they're glad Saddam Hussein is gone.

Nothing but love from the Nebraskans for Peace. Do you really think they care about drunken indians on a reservation in another state?
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The story is getting some press in South Dakota. After all, Pine Ridge is their problem.
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Nota Bene: The big Nebraskans for Peace demonstration in Scottsbluff may very well be overshadowed in the media by another, similar group holding a march in Omaha this weekend, the National Socialists.
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Post Demo Roundup: The big demonstration failed to raise much of a stink. Rather like a fart in a hurricane. Read about it here and here. These wackos got more coverage from the Plains Feeder than from any of the regular news media.

Nebraska State Fair - You can't go home again.

What is Kachunga doing with his hand?

The State Fair is the best place to go to see examples of your neighbors. Sure, you won't want to admit that the odd-balls you find there represent the norm in your state. It seems too horrible to be true; you are identified with these fairgoers. It is worth the admission just to see who you are.

The Nebraska State Fair got started this weekend and will run through September third. The biggest headlines our fair has generated this year have to do with alligators and racism. Thats right, alligators and Nebraska's angriest Negro have cast an ugly pall over this year's Fair.

State Senator for Life Ernie Chambers has questioned the State Fair Board's decision to continue with a professional alligator wrestling demonstration at this year's Fair. He is concerned that alligator wrestling violates the reptiles' fundamental animal rights. As if that weren't bad enough, the "clean-cut" performers that put on the show are indelicately billed on the State Fair website as:

Kachunga, a real American Bushman who dares to step foot into the wet domain of the alligator, comes from deep in the swamps of Florida. He apprehends a ferocious man-eating reptile with his bare hands.

Ernie is convinced that calling these Florida white boys "Bushmen" is somehow racist. What a stretch. Here are some quotes from the OWH:

Chambers said he objected to putting the alligators "under stress for no reason other than cheap entertainment." He also said the Kachunga show's Web site reference to a gator handler as "a real American bushman" was racist.

Ernie goes on to threaten the Fair Board for failing to cancel the alligator torture show:

"The fair needs all the help they can get. They certainly don't need to create opponents, and they've created considerable opposition on my part," Chambers said. He noted that the Legislature will have a say on the possible moving of the fairgrounds to make way for expansion of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The real concern here, if indeed the Nebraska State Fair can generate any real concern, is this: that the animal rights and PETA types will come out of the woodwork like roaches to call for banning every showing of live animals at the fair. Certainly forcing these poor beasts to perform at the Fair stresses them. This uncalled for animal stressing must stop. No more 4H calves, no Clydesdales, no swine pavilion, no poultry, with no animals the Fair will become a Vegan event. The Nebraska State Fair is in still in real trouble.

These angry protesters will eventually demand we take the dog out of the corn dog.
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Update: Police investigators from the Nebraska State Patrol have raided the State Fair, ostensibly looking for bad carnies and rigged midway games. According to Omaha's Action 3 News, the police have said the rubber duck grab was the prime target of their raid. Grabbing ducks, even if they are rubber ones, sends a message to the the kids that it is OK to distress animals for fun. No doubt this is how Michael Vick got started.

Greek Fires - Political Arson or Terrorism?

Greece: forest fires seen from space

Today this quote appears in numerous stories about the forest fires in southern Greece: Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said, "So many fires sparked simultaneously in so many places is no coincidence". Who would do such a thing? George Bush? Islamo-fascists? Turks? Atlas Shrugs has some compelling evidence of terrorism.

In Moldova, the folks seem pretty sure it is Greeks that are setting their own country on fire for political reasons. I was in Athens for a hotly contested election in the 80's. Mobs were whacking each other on the head with theirs signs, carloads of shouting lunatics were speeding all over the city. There were a couple of bars firebombed. Cradle of Democracy, my itchy, red ass.

As Peter Arnett said, "sometimes you just have to destroy the village to save it."
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Update: Euro-dhimmis are blaming the fires on Capitalist greed. From Germany's Spiegel: How Arson Leads to Profits in Athens. If only the trees could vote, the article laments. Coming soon: the Vegetable Caucus.

Fidel Castro Dead Again

Wait, I have one more speech...

Val Prieto at Babalu blog says he hears that Castro has finally left the island.

Dead from free medical care? Dead from the combined animus of thousands of freedom-loving people everywhere? Dead from a malfunctioning a-hole? Dead from his own poison juices? Dead from being overdue in Hell? Whatever Castro is dead from this time, I just hope he stays dead.
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Breaking: Hugo Chavez will take over the revolution in Cuba. From Blackfive: "This will undoubtedly be the biggest scoop ever, unless it isn't."
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Update: The Iranian press has Castro feeling much better in spite of dying several times.
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Final: Babalu bursts the bubble. It was fun while it lasted. Sort of a warm-up for the real thing. Like a drill.

We are in serious danger of winning the war in Iraq

So lets cut and run!

Silver haired RINO Senator John Warner of Virginia has called for President Bush to bring our soldiers back from Iraq by Christmas. It seems there has been an ugly rumor going around to the effect that the military actions in Iraq might just succeed. This would be intolerable to the Bush haters and their friends, the perennial peaceniks. So lets cut and run now, while we can still say it was a fiasco.

Bring the boys home for Christmas. Has a nice ring to it, no? But I question Warner's insensitive choice of a Christian holiday to associate with their anti-war message. Why not "Home for Ramadan" or "Home for Earth Day"? I thought peaceniks all hated Christianity as much as they hate cheeseburgers and capitalism. Maybe it is a trick.

As if we didn't have enough germs here on Earth

Collecting Microbes on Mars

Scientists are saying they have found new evidence of abundant microbial life on Mars. I'm glad these cats aren't getting any of my money to look for microbes on Mars. We have plenty of micro-organisms right here on Earth. And they seem to be getting nastier. Why take a chance on some kind of Martian germ getting loose here?
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I saw the movie.

What is Madeleine Albright doing in China?

I dare you.

A headline about dirty Chinese chopsticks caught my eye. China Factory Recycled Dirty Chopsticks. I'm no fan of Communist China. The recent spate of stories about poisoned dog food, contaminated toothpaste, and toxic kiddie clothing coming from Red China only confirms my belief that Marxism in any form brings forth the most corrupt aspects of human nature.

I use chopsticks, mostly as cooking tools; bamboo ones that I wash and re-use. So I read the article. No surprises there: of course the godless commies have no moral compunction against poisoning their neighbors for profit.

What did surprise me was to see that, out of the blue, the Reuters story linked here mentions former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as being present at a meeting in Peking with Mr. Bo, the ChiCom Commerce Minister! I quote:

No country can guarantee their food to be 100 percent safe, but if one in 100 or even in 1,000 of our products has quality problems, we will deal with it seriously,' Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said on Tuesday when meeting former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

What is this horrible woman doing in China? Why is she hanging out with a twisted Marxist like Mr. Bo? I hope she is just visiting old pals in between her PR jobs for North Korea's Dear Kim Jong Il. Otherwise, one might suspect that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has plans to put the old bat back to work for Hillary's New Marxist America.

Just another pretty face?

Tuesday Weld

The young feeder spent many hours thinking about Tuesday Weld. The other day I decided I would publish a picture of her when she was young and beautiful. Ms. Weld has had an interesting life, to be sure, but I fell for her when she was still a teen-ager.

The photo I liked was posted at a "Boomer's Pinup" web site, but it looked as though it had been scanned from an old faded magazine. What have I spent my early morning hours doing? Restoring the old picture of Tuesday Weld with Paint Shop Pro. Here is the picture as I found it.

What say you? Was I wasting my time?

John Monetti pleads guilty to federal charges

The end of a long and unpleasant ordeal for Nebraskans is near. Internet predator, child rapist, former school teacher, principal, fireman and riding coach John H. Monetti finally retracts his original claim that "I haven't done anything wrong" and enters a guilty plea. Sentencing to follow in November. From the Omaha World Herald:

A former New York elementary school principal told a federal judge in Omaha today that he made four 2,600-mile, round-trip flights to have secret sexual encounters with an underage girl from Washington County, Neb.

John Monetti, 38, told U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon that he was guilty of two counts of travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile. Three additional federal charges were dismissed under the plea bargain.

The judge told the former Long Island educator that he should expect to serve 144 months (12 years) in federal prison. 'Do you agree to that sentence?' Bataillon asked.

'Yes, I do,' Monetti responded.

Monetti also told the judge that he understood he had no chance for parole under federal sentencing laws and that his guilty pleas would make it nearly impossible to successfully appeal his sentence.

The judge accepted Monetti's guilty pleas, took the agreement under advisement and scheduled sentencing for Nov. 9.

It doesn't appear that the plea bargain includes his having to admit that he actually did rape the underage girl from Blair, Nebraska that was his victim. It was previously reported that he had confessed to having done so on several occasions.

Twelve years in the federal prisons is better than what might have happened to him in Nebraska's hit or miss state courts. Another consolation is that the poor victim never had to testify in open court. If you think his pending sentence will be too lenient, you can always write to Judge Bataillon. I think it is the best we could hope for, given the unpredictable state of Nebraska's courts.

For more background on Mr. Monetti's path to prison, see previous Plains Feeder coverage here.
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More news coverage of Monetti's plea:Washington County Pilot Tribune & Enterprise; Omaha TV stations KETV , WOWT, and KMTV; Newsday from New York.
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Update: Click for the latest post on John Monetti.

SPPNA: Leaders Meet in Montebello

Is President Bush selling the USA out?

Leaders from Canada, the US and Mexico will be meeting in Montebello, Quebec, Canada next week inside a perimeter of secrecy manned by US military forces. The agenda: furthering the Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America. The old feeder has already warned against this nefarious outfit and their dangerous plans. They ought to call it the Screw the Security and Share the Prosperity Partnership.

There doesn't seem to be much we can do about this anti-national, open border crap. It is being foisted off on us in a most undemocratic fashion, under the guise of the President's broad power to make agreements and near-treaties with foreign countries. Some few in Congress have seen fit to complain about the SPP Montebello meeting and the unpopular trend it represents.

Here's my suggestion: call or e-mail your Congressional representatives in Washington, both House and Senate, to protest this undermining of our national sovereignty. More importantly send President Bush an e-mail telling him to knock it off. I have his work address right here: President George W. Bush.
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Being concerned that Bush secretly supports a North American Union is like worrying about global warming, or so he would have you believe.

Light Reading: The Count of Monte Cristo

An Indulgence in Revenge

The old feeder likes to read good books over and over again. Miser that I am, this requires me to try to keep my old, second-hand paperbacks readable well past their intended recycling date. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is presently keeping me entertained again. It is a great book, even in translation.

This is the finest work you can find if you have any interest in the nature of revenge. Dumas, the author and an unlikely ladies man, captures this sweet wickedness better than De Sade did his own painful proclivities. I admit that my own blood ran hot with revenge for many years, but that is all in the past. (Nothing to see here folks; move along.) The powerful motive of vengeance, however, continues to interest. I like the book.
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Epstein's Books

Examining my old, yellowed Bantam edition, now nearly a looseleaf, I saw that I bought it used at Epstein's Bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. The place was a University of Iowa institution for a time when the very odd Glen Epstein and his brother ran it back in the near-beatnik days. Glen is now a calligrapher somehow connected with Tom Waits. Too much, man.

Cop a laugh

Suddenly the newsroom grew very quiet...

From Are We Lumberjacks? Click on over for some serious funny.

Busy canning

In the Garden

At the feedlot the clink of canning jar lids and rings is heard. It has been a good year for tomatoes all over the area this year. The old feeder grew a few of the popular heirloom varieties, along with the usual freakishly big hybrids. They seem more like normal tomatoes to me, and are nice and tasty.

It is hard to believe that Europeans had no tomatoes before they were imported from the Americas. Mediterranean cuisine relies so heavily on this member of the nightshade family, you might think the cooks there had been using them forever.

When first introduced to white folks they were afraid to eat them, fearing they might be poisonous. Medieval reasoning was at the same time transforming itself into a more modern, rational mode of thought. When folks saw people eat tomatoes without having visions or dropping dead, the fruit's nickname went from "Moor's Apple" (not a good name when the memories of the Crusades were still fresh) to "Love Apple".

Tomatoes didn't catch on among the Europeans settling in North America until catsup (or ketchup) came along. From that moment on, the American palate was doomed to a future of Big Macs, Whoppers and french fries.

Chinese toy boss 'kills himself'

Another inscrutable story from China, via the BBC:

Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned the Lee Der Toy Company, was reportedly found dead at his factory in southern China. About 1.5 million toys made for Fisher Price, a subsidiary of US giant Mattel, were withdrawn from sale earlier this month. Many were made by Lee Der.

You remember the lead-paint scare. If you believe this cat wasn't either encouraged or helped to hang himself, I've got some colorful toys and transplantable Chinese organs you might want to buy.
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I can't decide if the name of the dead cat's company, Lee Der, is a clever phonetic distortion of Leader, or a transliteration of Chinese characters. If the latter, how do you suppose it translates? Probably means something like "Eat lead!"
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Update: As Mr. Creosote says, "There's still more!" From the WSJ, August 14th: Mattel Recalls 8.8 Million More Toys. I wonder if there will be any more 'suicides'?

Karl Rove going to deep cover

Karl Rove - into the shadows?

Paul Gigot at the Wall Street Journal reports that Karl Rove is quitting his job at the White House. I can't wait to see what the liberals will make of this move. I think he is just moving from his job as the eminence grise of the GW Bush administration to his new position as eminence noir in the coming elections.
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The cats at Another Rovian Conspiracy won't need to change their name any time soon.
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Update: CBS News stooge Bill Plant attends Rove's farewell at the White House and shouts at President Bush, "If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?" Perhaps it is because Karl is only allowed to vote once.

Is this all they have on Fred Thompson?

Monica Hesse, a Washington Post writer whose name presumably sounds intelligent, has written a piece designed to paint Fred Thompson as a poor choice for US President because she thinks his first name sounds funny. Or stupid. Or not-sexy. If that is all they have on Fred Thompson, they might as well give up now.
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Like Barack doesn't sound odd to some ears. It is lightning to the semitic listener, apricot brandy to the Hungarian. A Barack appears in the Bible as a military leader. Wolf Blitzer uses Barak as a less German sounding pseudonym. Blitzkrieg anyone? Do you suppose Obama's goofy parents named him for this Australian cat?
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File this under Liberal Desperation. Along with the smears of his lovely wife, Jeri Kehn.

Despair

The Sin of Despair

In the Manure Spreaders blogroll here at the Plains Feeder, I tried to select exemplary leftist nut cases. These are blogs that represent the worst of their particular genre: the hideous, angry lesbian wingnut Rosie O'Donnell; the sublime Marxist idiocy of Barbra Streisand; the terr in training at Radical Muslim blog; and some old hyper-liberal standbys like the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. As you might expect, the old feeder seldom reads any of these manure spreader blogs.

Checking for dead links, I found a truly sad story unfolding at the blog I had chosen to exemplify Marxist exploitation of pipe-dream progressivism, Our Tomorrow. I had captioned the link Bearded Commie, just because I thought it fit better than the Pollyanna title Denny, the hippie looking writer, had chosen.

Now I feel sorry for picking on Denny and his blog. In one of the saddest blog posts I've read so far today, Denny describes his slide into the sin of despair. The title says it all: On giving up. I quote the self-proclaimed atheist's cry to a God he cannot deny:

I'd guess the planet would be best served by our extinction. If I believed in god that's what I'd pray for.

Please read his pitiful post in full. Then offer your fellow blogger some encouragement; no one should feel this low, no matter what their opinions. Offer something more hopeful than the eco-religionist drivel his friends have seen fit to inflict upon Denny. Putting up solar panels won't help him. He needs the support only the truly hopeful have to offer. Have you got any hope to share?
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I'm not a Catholic, but I have studied the faith in some detail. You won't find a better explication of the sin of despair than theirs.

Iowa's Great Lakes

Live WebCam: Lake Okoboji from the Dry Dock Lounge

The old feeder's few days off turned into a week. The relatives I went to visit live in Arnolds Park, Iowa during the summer. It is a lake resort area the Chamber of Commerce touts as the Iowa Great Lakes. West Lake Okoboji, one of a number of fair sized lakes (for Iowa) is quite deep, and therefore often appears a beautiful blue. It is also the main campus of the University of Okoboji, a renowned school for slackers. Here is their on-line entrance exam.

My family's roots in this area go back a few generations, and the town has really changed since I was a kid. The Iowa lakes of my youth exuded a quintessential seediness: tiny cabins, rowdy bars, raunchy entertainments, and a rickety, peeling amusement park with Gypsy fortune tellers. It sure ain't the same now. The place was packed with giddy vacationers and grinning bible beaters last week.

I heard at least one cat lamenting that "the park has been ruined" by the new, almost Disney Landish clean and painted look. I checked the place out pretty thoroughly, and there are still a few pockets of seediness to be found. Even some raunchiness remains. So the vacation took a bit longer than expected, what with all this investigating.
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Dry Dock deck from the air - click

Plains Feeder contributor DadGum, who just happens to be my first cousin once removed, put me up for a few nights at his surrealist pad. He lives in the next county to the south of the Iowa Great Lakes. Driving back and forth, I was surprised to see small crowds of political sign waving Iowans gathered on the streets. These Iowa cats are already all hopped up on the next General Election. How can they keep it up for another year?

Who looks at Hillary's cleavage?

Hillary's Lard Sculpture Bust

I was sickened to see the continuing public fascination with the fact that Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi sometimes wear clothing that reveals the upper portions of their breasts. The term cleavage has been loosely applied to the phenomenon.

It was funny at first, but the continuing fixation on these two pairs of breasts is disturbing. It is so pervasive that CBS News Tart Katie Couric is concerned. Even oversexed teenage boys with X-Ray Gogs wouldn't want to look at these wizened old babes.

Now here is a candid picture of Hillary using a part of her anatomy in a manner that potential voters have good reason to be concerned about. How does she do it? How will she apply this talent to the Presidency?

Men's room of a Georgetown bar

The old feeder is taking a couple of days off to visit relatives in Iowa. Back next week.
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The girls tell me that peeing like this is called taking an Arkansas whiz.

Cloud Formation

See anything?

This might be a hard sell on a blog that has been known to photoshop, but that's one of PT's many skills. The other night I looked at the sky and found this ghostly image hanging around. It held together for 20 minutes or so before diffusing.

All it needs is a UFO and it would fit right in on Coast to Coast AM.

Drudge crashes Omaha World Herald web site.

Toe to toe

Drudge Report features a story about a near altercation between Nebraska Congressman Lee Terry and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. The headline: Lee Terry, Jackson go toe-to-toe on House floor must have overloaded the Omaha World Herald servers, because it is inaccessible at the moment.

Used to being disappointed by the OWH, I get my serious Nebraska political news from the Street Sweeper over on Leavenworth Street. He's got the skinny on the brawling between The Rev'rund and Little Lee Tee.

Don't drink the water

Seen in the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald: "There's something strange in the water in little Omaha, Nebraska." The report says it produces a propensity for fruity energy, tattoos, piercings and tap shoes. If you don't want to turn into an insufferable wuss like Connor Oberst or start chewing bubblegum, don't even touch the bottled water in the city. I don't think you can filter out fruity energy.

This doesn't look good

Bad News

This is a nasty catastrophe. In places it is 65' feet down from the bridge to the water. As high as a 6 story building.

The Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge near University Avenue has collapsed into the river and onto businesses underneath the highway.

The Minneapolis could be anything: engineering problems, maintenance or renovation trouble, crooked bridge inspectors, sabotage or a Jihadist truck bomb. I have friends and family in the Minneapolis area.
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The Minnesota Twins afternoon game with the visiting Kansas City Royals was nearly postponed. But it seems the teams played baseball in spite of the disaster to prevent dumping the game traffic into the scene of the bridge collapse.
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Pictures of the intact I-35W bridge structure with stats, by John A. Weeks III. A quote from his I35W page: "Claim to fame: was built with a single 458 foot long steel arch to avoid putting any piers in the water to impede river navigation." ***Mr. Weeks' page may not be available - see a cached copy here. It doesn't look all that sturdy to me, but what do I know.
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I wouldn't be surprised if some sort of security camera has captured the collapse on video. No surprise, CNN has video of the bridge collapsing here.

Accused molester John Monetti to change plea

"I haven't done anything wrong"

Recently, there appeared in the comments sections a statement that Mr. John Monetti has reached a plea bargain agreement with the federal prosecutors. Today one of my readers called the Federal District Court and discovered that Mr. Monetti has scheduled a Change of Plea appearance early in the morning August 20th. I believe Mr. Monetti will be present in court for this procedure, and may very well receive his sentence at the same time.

I can't confirm, but the tipster who prefers to go unnamed says he has agreed to a sentence of 12 years. That will be a hard 12, with no time off for good behavior or chance of early release on parole. I know lots of you will howl that Mr. Monetti deserves worse, but we are talking about the real legal system here.

We must be grateful for the good job our public servants have done in this case: the good Samaritan that tipped the police; the Sheriff that smelled something amiss and acted on it; the local prosecutor who developed preserved the case, then wisely sought to have it moved to federal court; and the tough federal prosecutor here in our district that took the case. We can thank all these folks that we won't see a repeat of the short shrift such cases sometimes receive in our state courts.

If you are not familiar with the story of Mr. Monetti, former school teacher, principal, and volunteer firefighter now facing federal charges for having repeatedly traveled to Nebraska from Long Island, New York for sex with an underage autistic girl, click here. The Plains Feeder has been following this case closely since it broke, largely because the victim's home is just down the road from the feedlot.

Call the Clerk of the Federal District Court in Omaha for details, should you wish to attend. Their number is 402-661-7350.
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Update: Click for the latest post on John Monetti.

Barack O-Bomba

Barack the Hawk-eared

Performing what has been called his "Safety Dance" Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has declared that he will invade Pakistan if our shaky pal Musharraf doesn't put a stop to nastiness in the Tribal Regions. Two thoughts: Pakistan has nuclear weapons; Islamabad has never, ever had control over the Tribal Regions.

As Michelle Malkin points out, the Democrat contenders seem to be falling over themselves to show which one is warrior enough to take on the Jihad. Edwards wants to mess with Saudi Arabia, the site of Mecca. So far, the lady in the race, Hillary Clinton, has displayed more brass than all the girlie-men seeking the Democrat nomination put together.
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Ann Coulter on the YouTube Democrat debate: Hip or hippie?
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Update: Barack blinks.