Mohammed Teddy Bear not so bad

Jawa's photo of Teddy Mohammed

The Mohammedan fanatics in the Sudan are calling for the public execution of British teacher Gillian Gibbons. The awful crime that has lynch mobs rioting in Khartoum and other Sudanese towns: allowing her students to name a mascot Teddy Bear "Mohammed". The infidel instructor has allegedly been moved to a more secure location, and the Brits are all a-twitter over her conviction this week.

Some folks think its time to laugh at Sudan and the Mohammedans. Those wacky Islamic Rage Boys, at it again! Others don't think this latest outpouring of hate from the religion of murder is so funny. But nothing is so unfunny that Nebraskan's won't make fun of it.

Mohammed and his favorite wife, Fatima

One of my neighbors who raises hogs had the idea to make over his swine production operation using a Mohammedan Fanatic theme. To start with, he renamed his meanest boar after the Jihadist's prophet himself, Mohammed. All the other hogs have been given Arabic-sounding names, like Fatima, Mohammed's bosomy favorite. The two are pictured above. What a couple!

Mohammed's Harem

Of course, Mohammed has many wives, some of them barely old enough to breed, but even the Prophet has to work on the farm. I don't think he minds "makin' bacon" every day. As long as he keeps knocking them up, he stays out of Mohammedan Jihadist swine paradise.

The newly renamed Grand Mosque

Some of the lucky pigs at this big hog farm get to stay indoors most of the time. We call this method of raising hogs confinement, but as you can see, the pigs love the chance to socialize while they eat. This particular building was renamed The Grand Mosque, another confinement facility is now the Dome of the Hock.

We're laughing all the way to the pack.
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Get yer fatwas right here. Are you on the list?
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Why is Sudan sometimes called The Sudan? Its official name is The Republic of The Sudan.
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Obliquely Related: My Dad e-mailed a copy of this pig story to me today.
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Updated: From WorldNetDaily: "Bill Keller, host of LivePrayer, has posted a video on YouTube featuring a pink pig named Muhammad after the Muslim prophet." It's just a stuffed animal, but its the thought that counts.

This idea seems to be catching on with pork producers, packing houses and now churches. No harm done. Mohammedan fanatics don't eat pork, so they can't very well boycott it. They wouldn't be caught dead in an evangelical Christian church, so they can't hold back when the plate is passed.

Teacher who had sex with her student, fled to Mexico, pleads not guilty

Kelsey Peterson - Victimizer or Victim?

Accused in federal court of crossing a border to have sex with a minor, Kelsey Peterson appeared in court today for her arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty. Omaha's KETV Channel 7 web site has audio of the hearing. She is being held in the Cass County Jail.

Ms. Peterson, a 25 year old Lexington, Nebraska teacher that fled the country with her thirteen year old student, a 13 year old male juvenile delinquent and Mexican illegal immigrant. Evidently, rumors of their improper and illegal relationship were about to surface, so Kelsey sought a new life in Mexico with her boy lover. Now she could get 10 years to life in a federal prison. Peterson also faces various state charges stemming from the incidents.

Her lawyer, James Martin Davis, faces an uphill battle. He wants to get her out on bail, but the US Attorney argued that she was a flight risk, saying, "She professed to being in love with the victim ... and if given the opportunity she said would not do anything differently." Kelsey has agreed to undergo some sort of phony-baloney psych evaluation. Defense attorney Davis seems to think the psych test will persuade the court to bend the law for the air-headed but very local young teacher.

Miss Peterson is due back in Court December 10, when the judge will review the head shrinker's report, and hear further arguments on bail.

Contrast this with the John Monetti case, recently closed with the former Long Island teacher getting 12 years in the federal pen for a sexual relationship with a 15 year old girl. If you listen to Mr. Davis, the student is the victimizer, and poor, innocent Miss Kelsey should get a break.

What do you think? Double standard for the fairer sex? Mexican race card?
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Previously in the Plains Feeder:
November 02, 2007 - Kelsey & student sex toy: headed for Mexico?
November 08, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson & Fernando: an update
November 13, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson: revolting development
November 20, 2007 - Father of Kelsey's daughter gets custody
November 28, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson - she's back in Nebraska

Sabotage?

Video: Explosion shuts down important oil pipeline in Minnesota. Two people were killed in the blast and subsequent fire. The result will be higher prices for petroleum products and more jitters in a market already jumpy over volatile energy costs.

Later reports are claiming there wasn't really an explosion. Well, was there or wasn't there? I've never heard of crude oil exploding in the ordinary sense of the word. If there was an explosion it must have been caused by something besides a leaky pipe.

Just what we need: more 'harmless' rays

Keep your shoes on: T-rays can see right through

From Reuters:

Imagine a trip to the airport without having to slip off your shoes.

A scanner using T-rays, a harmless form of electromagnetic radiation, could make that possible, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory said on Tuesday.

"At airports we have to take off our shoes," Ulrich Welp of Argonne's Materials Science Division said in a telephone interview. "It is kind of a nuisance."

Using T-rays, it would be possible to examine travelers' shoes without the need to disrobe, he said.

Harmless, eh? When have I heard that before. Why is it that the various manifestations and applications of electromagnetic radiation are always presumed harmless until proved otherwise? This presumption has been around since x-rays were discovered, and arguably since the first human became a suntan freak.

Time has proved that new 'forms' of radiation, like new 'forms' of food additives, pesticides, medicines and such sometimes evidence their danger only years after the exposure. Cancers can take decades to form and be detected. Sometimes the harm is visited on the offspring of the exposed person. When scientists can't consistently tell me whether or not eating eggs will kill me, how can anyone say something is harmless?
Examples of the presumption of harmlessness:

• My parents, "Get outside and get some sun. Sunshine is good for you boy."
• The shoe salesman, "Step up and put your feet in the fluoroscope machine sonny, so yer Ma can see how these fit."
• The doctor, "We'd better take a few x-rays, just to be sure."
• The dentist, "You are due for a full set of bite wing x-rays."
• Cell phone kiosk cat, "Thats a rumor, man. Cell phones don't cause cancer."
• Gun shop salesman, "These tritium sights don't give off harmful radiation."
  

It all reminds me of hearing, "Asbestos is inert. It won't hurt you. Now get the last of it out of that bag." If I go flying again, I'll remove my shoes. Its no trouble, and my feet don't smell that bad.
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I'll have a slice without so much rat radiation in it. Check the Feed Trough for video.
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Aren't you glad you didn't waste your time watching the faked-up, rat-filled, dishonest CNN/YouTube debate?

Guess who is 60

A little wider through the beam... [Kleek]

This isn't much of a blog post, but I haven't been able to think of anything or anyone else since I heard her at the Poor Farm. Ear worm, indeed, Jeffro.
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Huge Sewer Tiles or Arty Sculpture?

Omaha will become an artsy, fruity, yuppie, liberal bastion or else, says Omaha Nebraska Mayor-Dictator Mike Fahey. He will put art work that looks like concrete sewer parts in a city park whether the folks who will have to suffer its artiness every day want it or not.

Sure, he will have a meeting to discuss the infliction of this monstrous visual carbuncle and threat to their kids on the park's neighbors. But after his minions have taken the names of everyone who opposes him, the little fat tyrant does as he pleases. Read all about this most recent of Fahey's Stalinesque escapades at Eye on Omaha, where Mongo Torrey has what you won't read in the Omaha World Herald.

At least these cement eyesores won't breed rats, like the awful 'park in a pit' Omaha calls a mall.
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In other matters, you might be interested to know that I should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize instead of that mendacious scare-monger Al Gore. Here are a few of the reasons.

Kelsey Peterson Update - she's back in Nebraska

From Omaha's KETV: Kelsey Peterson, the Lexington, Nebraska teacher charged with having sex with a 13-year-old student and then going to Mexico with the boy has been returned to Nebraska by US Marshals and is being held at the Cass County Jail.

The linked article features links previous news stories about this newest case of a female teacher abusing her position of authority to commit statutory rape of a boy under the age of consent. I don't care what her lawyer says, she isn't the victim here, unless you count her misfortune at being an amoral, criminally stupid person as some kind of victimization. 13 is too young by law; you can't touch 'em. Punto final.
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Click here for the most recent Plains Feeder post
about Kelsey and Fernando.
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Previously in the Plains Feeder:
November 02, 2007 - Kelsey & student sex toy: headed for Mexico?
November 08, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson & Fernando: an update
November 13, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson: revolting development
November 20, 2007 - Father of Kelsey's daughter gets custody

Disposable pistol in a bottle of whiskey

This post was determined to be unfit for publication at the Plains Feeder. You may read about the disposable pistol in a bottle of whiskey here.

French Riots: what you are not seeing

Update: Now the Frogamoors are shooting at the police. From Michelle Malkin: "The poor, harmless misguided youth of unnamed ethnic origin in France are now peacefully demonstrating against oppression by…shooting at cops with hunting weapons. Scores of them. Some 80 police officers have been injured." Michelle calls it Flambée de violence.

French kiss the old France goodbye

You might assume that the unruly French mobs that are causing this week's spike in the seemingly perpetual violent "strikes" and "demonstrations" in that country are regular Frenchmen and women. The aren't. Not any more than the "Paris suburb" of Villiers-le-Bel is a regular French suburb.

Villiers-le-Bel is a commune largely populated by African and Middle Eastern immigrants, mostly Mohammedans. The few inhabitants that aren't immigrant Jihadists are French communist agitators. The cats there live in Stalinist style communal apartment blocks; the French equivalent of public housing projects. Most of them are unemployed social parasites that live off of their neighbors as net tax consumers.

You can get a look at the unhappy frogs on parade in this video made before the stone throwing and fire-bombing started. Seems they were sore because two of their number were killed when their motorcycle collided with a police car. Do they mostly look like French cats or Moors to you?

This should be a lesson to the Mohammedan appeasement Dhimmis, the open borders crowd, and the socialist dreamers here in the US. Add the cultural dilution of unfettered immigration to the creeping influence of bankrupt Marxist policies and you get a mess like France. I doubt if even Sarkozy can fix a nation once it is as badly ruined as France is today. Don't let this happen here!

Income Tax Options

Diversity of Democracy

Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has suggested a way to ameliorate our nasty income tax situation. Read about it here. I've never seen a tax on income that I liked. Even the various forms of income taxation called the flat tax.

Flat taxes used to be the norm in most of the civilized world after the French Revolution and before WWI. The idea has an appeal to conservative types; it is less progressive, doesn't penalize success, and in its modern incarnations, provides for a zero tax rate for 'poor folks', who don't pay income tax now.

Fred wants to make the flat tax systems optional. (Not really optional, but as an alternative to the current convoluted code. I think all taxes ought to be optional, but that ship has already sailed.)

I'm curious about what other cats think of this idea. Cats whose opinions aren't influenced by having had Treasury agents draw down on them over a few measly bucks.
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Check out the latest Fredipedia here.

Victory in Iraq is at hand

Update: More good news from Iraq via Wizbang blog: "Iraq and the United States are currently negotiating the terms of troop reductions next year which could leave as few as 50,000 active-duty American military in the country by the time President Bush leaves office."

Its Viet-Nam! Its Viet-Nam! Its Viet-Nam!

I think this New York Times article indicates that the cats who thought to cast the righteous war in Iraq as another Viet-Nam are beginning to see the light. The light that will illuminate their defeatist attitudes is Victory. Iraq might never be a perfect nation, but they will soon be able to join the ranks of the civilized world. Iraq is not and never was another Viet-Nam. We lost in Viet-Nam. We are winning in Iraq.

Free Banner

To celebrate, I've made this nifty victory is at hand banner. Feel free to use it on your blog any way you please. (Same policy with anything you find at the feedlot.)

Perhaps the cut and run surrenderists in our government, a few of whom are are pictured above, will admit they were wrong and, for once, really get behind America's important war efforts. No apologies necessary; pushing for victory will suffice. Except for Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, who needs to shut up and fade away. And what will Ron Paul do if we win?

Nebraska Football Coach Bill Callahan fired

Former Nebraska Football Coaches Solich and Callahan

Whats to say? Things are tough all over.
Click the pic to biggerize.

Good News for the Planet Earth

The only green human is a dead human

This is the best news to come out of the Ecological Disaster movement since Al Gore invented the Carbon Credit: concerned believers are having themselves sterilized to save the world. For once these science is consensus prophets of gloom and doom have got it right. By ceasing to procreate, the planet could be spared a second generation of these idiotic true believers.

The old feeder already has noted at least one instance of this burgeoning trend among the eco-vanguard. Here are a few historical examples.

Remember Heaven's Gate? Before that happy band 'moved to another plane' to catch a ride on a comet, the sex-free group's leader, Marshall Applewhite, had himself castrated. Several of his followers followed suit, giggling like enchanted fools. You won't see them any more.

An earlier American group of true believers that died out because they were doctrinally opposed to the Biblical exhortation to "be fruitful and multiply" was the Shakers. The Shakers of today are mostly old women; few join up and no new ones are born.

Even stranger examples of dead-end, despair prompted, self destructive, non-procreative movements can be found in the unsuccessful Breatharian movement. Believe it AND die. Another outfit that forbade normal sexual practices was Paul Schaefer's Colonia Dignidad in Chile. Sex, even between married members, was verboten in this ex-Nazi child molester's utopia.

No listing of self-limiting cults would be complete without mention of Jim Jones and the horrific mass suicide by the People's Temple in the jungle of Guyana. The Rev. Jones didn't forbid sex among the faithful, but he was in charge of all gonadal goings on in Jonestown. Ultimately, despair won out over Jones' goof-ball plans for the future. The legendary vat of poison Kool-Aid was mixed up, ending the commie cult for good.

It isn't just sterilization, Michelle Malkin points out that abortion and infanticide are part of the penance we must pay for our estrangement from nature. This suggests that the next logical step for the self-loathing, humans are ruining the Earth crowd is self-destruction. The Japanese are already into it, with groups formed on the internets to facilitate mass suicides.

What could we, as compassionate conservatives, do to encourage this hopeful development?

Latest Sports Dope

Marion Jones - Can she make a comeback?

The whole era of chemically enhanced sports is going to be tagged with an asterisk.

Happy Thanksgiving

Let the creator know you are grateful

I have many blessings to be thankful for this year. Little things, like waking up alive today. The Plains Feeder cats wish you and yours a very happy, reflective, and guilt free Thanksgiving. Don't forget our troops and the war they are winning for us in the Middle East. I don't think the Imams of the New Caliphate would approve of our holiday.

This Thanksgiving Day falls on the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Traditionally, the old feeder makes an attempt to get rid of his storage shed full of old Italian rifles on November 22. These two traditions are somewhat incompatible, so I'll simply say I'm grateful that our Republic can survive such an awful assault intact.

Sad Ceremony in Dallas - 1963

I'll bet you are grateful that the Plains Feeder is written for the common American. Educated, but without airs. Understandable without being patronizing. Without apologies...

Thanksgiving Eve

Thanksgiving in America
Before White Folks
Ruined the Neighborhood

no horses no wheel no laws no steel

no plan no scheme no writing no dream

no inclination to bend the world to their will

no euros no future for good or for ill

Attention self-loathing Thanksgiving revisionists:
Deconstruct this most wholesome American holiday all you want, you just show yourselves up for the humorless America haters you really are. It won't stop the rest of us for giving thanks. I'm thankful I live in a land where you get to spout your sick vitriol without fear.

Arrests made in Natalee Holloway case

Satish, Joran & Deepak

Looks like the Hollanders have decided to sacrifice their whitest son, Joran Van der Sloot, along with his creepy Surinamese pals to get the tourists to come back. Nobody wants to get lost in Aruba since Natalee Holloway went missing in 2005. From KVIA.com:

Joran Van der Sloot was arrested in the Netherlands, where he is attending a university. The others, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe were arrested in Aruba. Van der Sloot is expected to be extradited to the Dutch Caribbean island.

These are the same cats identified almost immediately as being the last to have been seen with Natalee alive. They were arrested and released a couple of times, in what passes for Dutch jurisprudence. Who knows what has inspired this most recent official spasm; I suspect that tourism is down. Dave at Political Dogs thinks similarly; the arrests may be the effects of a boycott.
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Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan dictator who likes to accuse the US of imperialism, gives the Dutch Empire, whose New World island money-maker is right in his back yard, a pass. Go figure.

Eye Candy: Lupe Velez

Muerte por amor

It is the day before Thanksgiving, there is a nice tracker's dusting of snow and the old feeder is stuck in town. I'm warm, well fed and can watch cable TV. Today's matinee is Mexican Spitfire Out West starring the drop-dead gorgeous Mexican hottie Lupe Velez. I guess there is a Mexican Spitfire marathon on Cox.

Lupe started out in silent films in the 1920's. The Mexican Spitfire proved to be too hot for this world and offed herself by taking pills and drowning in the toilet. The most recent cultural reference to Lupe Velez is found in a down-beat episode of The Simpsons, "Homer's Phobia" where the character voiced by John Waters mentions the store Lupe Velez bought the toilet she drowned in.

Odds and Ends

She's got the odds in the end

Ever niggardly with the leniency, President Bush pardons only two of the millions of eligible American turkeys. By contrast, liberal President Bill Clinton pardoned dozens, making Bush look like a piker.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning drops out of the race for Senator Chuck Hagel's awful Senate seat. I guess it won't be too difficult to rally behind a mild-mannered, well-behaved Republican like Mike Johanns. Mike's platform: Coming Soon. Look for more on Leavenworth Street.

Barack Hussein Obama admits being 'wasted' on drugs, but only when he was Barry Obama, a young white man. If Barry's dope fiend and alcoholic days were the mud that Hillary Clinton hasn't been threatening to sling, then she will have to come up with something else. Its getting harder for pols to take the high road these days. Except for Barry, who now admits to more time spent on the high road than even Hillary's Bill, who "never inhaled".
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Medical insurance isn't the same thing as a medical plan. Insurance is a hedge against perils. Your homeowner's insurance specifically excludes ordinary maintenance and repairs. Health insurance shouldn't pay for similar medical expenses; growing old and suffering from the consequences of ill-advised lifestyle choices should be excluded.

A medical plan is a system of financing some projected health expenses. Think of a dental plan; these schemes are cost-smoothing, like even-pay gas and electric billing. I don't think most cats grasp the distinction. There isn't anything wrong with such plans, but they aren't insurance against unforeseen perils. Without being able to distinguish the two, Americans are in peril of adopting some wretched National Health Scheme thinking they are going to get an insurance policy.

I wouldn't put anything past the sophists and power mongers that yearn to run our lives for us.
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The Supreme Court is threatening to take up a Second Amendment case arising from Washington DC's total ban on handguns. Look for the court to find any imaginable way to resolve this case without having to set forth a bright-line Constitutional rule. Joe's Crabby Shack notes the occasion, provides links, and locates a fine analysis of Shelly Parker, et al. v. District of Columbia and Adrian M. Fenty (pending appeal as District of Columbia v. Heller and Shelly Parker, et al. v. District of Columbia and Adrian M Fenty), 478 F.3d 370 (D.C. Cir. 2007). SCOTUS docket as District of Columbia, et al. v. Dick Anthony Heller.
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There is a manhunt in Arizona for a man suspected of raping a Jack Russell terrier. Shoot on sight?

Father of Kelsey Peterson's 8 yr. old daughter gets custody

Click here for the most recent Plains Feeder post
about Kelsey and Fernando.

Kelsey Peterson, the 25-year-old Nebraska teacher that fled to Mexico with her 13-year-old student paramour, Fernando, has an 8-year-old daughter. Now that Kelsey is in custody facing serious criminal charges resulting from her affair with Fernando, her biological father has sought and won custody of their daughter.

Apparently, Fernando was only 5 years older than Kelsey's daughter when the two began their illegal relationship.

Get all the details here at the World Herald, or better yet, from the Kearney Hub.
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This story is nastier than rat milk: Psycho for Love highlights the lurid details. Grandma and grandpa were caring for the daughter while Kelsey was statutorily raping, as it were, little Fernando. Were they enablers or unwitting dupes?
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Updated: 11/21/07 - Kelsey wants her daughter to be kept in the custody of her parents. Why not? They did such a good job raising Kelsey. Seems that biological dad isn't a bad sort, but is a responsible, employed adult. Best interest of the child is the rule in these cases. Too often, that boils down to which of the contenders is the wealthiest. Wealth, as should be obvious to anyone, does not guarantee a good start in life.
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Previously in the Plains Feeder:
November 02, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson & 13 year old student sex toy: headed for Mexico?
November 08, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson & Fernando: an update
November 13, 2007 - Kelsey Peterson & Fernando: revolting development

Guess What

Guess What

Make your best guess, then click here to see if you were correct. Hint: it has nothing to do with rat milk. Or milk oil.
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Thanks to Bob Parks.
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PF's most popular guess what post: When Omaha wore hats and ties.
Our least popular and most grotesque guess what.

Des Moines, Iowa to be a 'sanctuary city'...

Eco-Friendly Free Ride ~ Omaha to Des Moines

Thats what the Drudge Report headline reads today: Des Moines, Iowa to be a 'sanctuary city'. Here is the Des Moines Register article about this stupid but predictable development.

I'm sure most of you will think "Here is another anti-American, liberal, Democrat-ridden town that believes in open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, trying to jump on the post 9/11 self-destruction bandwagon." I believe this tragedy for Iowans could be good news for Nebraskans.

We should use the Nebraska Soybean Program's biodiesel powered bus to provide free one-way trips to Des Moines, Iowa for anyone claiming to be an illegal immigrant and hasn't any papers to prove it. The free sanctuary city rides could be advertised locally, and the cost offset by taking legal, paying passengers on the return trip.

It would also be good exposure for our soybean producers; it has been ages since the beanerbus was in the news. I had to look all over to find a picture of it.
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Update: Michelle Malkin reports that the San Francisco City Board of Supervisors has decided:

In a 10-1 vote, the city’s board of supervisors — the equivalent of a city council — approved giving identification cards to all residents, including illegal immigrants. The move makes San Francisco the largest U.S. city to back such a plan.

Residents will be able to obtain the resident cards by presenting photo identification and proof they live in the city, such as a utility bill. It was unclear if the new cards, which will be accepted at libraries and health clinics, will carry photos.

San Francisco, always in the vanguard of dysfunctional oddness, has been a sanctuary city since before it was cool. What a great idea: legit ID cards for all, no matter who or what you are. I'll bet you can wear a burqa or other religious disguise for the picture. Tres PeeCee! Can Des Moines be far behind?

Dog dreams

"What are you lookin' at?"

I just finished reading Michael Crichton's Congo, a tepid techno-mystery from the pre-internet days. Not to bother with the ridiculous plot, a researcher is amazed to find that his experiments with teaching a gorilla sign language reveal that the ape has dreams. In the book, this is treated as a major revelation. If you have ever had a dog, you know that dogs dream quite a bit. I imagine other species also have dreams.

The dog in the picture was my Beagle hound, Snoopy. He is shown sucking up to a visitor, circa 1960. Snoopy used to have the most vivid dreams. In the middle of one of his many naps he would start to make whimpering noises and moving his feet as though running. Soon, his breathing would accelerate, making what passes for lips on a hound flap noisily. This would all come to a big, animated crescendo. Then Snoopy would suddenly sit up and bay as only a Beagle can bay. The howl would wake him up, after which he always looked sort of sheepish or embarrassed. Toward the end of his long life, Snoopy farted more than he bayed, but still had vivid dreams.
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The Span Of Life by Robert Frost:

The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.

Some days I still miss my old hound.

Citizens For A Free Nebraska

Citizens For A Free Nebraska

The feeder reported yesterday that he was interested in last night's meeting in Elkhorn concerning Omaha's unwanted and ill-advised annexation. My fly-on-the-wall has reported back. The meeting was well attended, the cats who spoke were sincere and had their strategic thoughts well organized. The attendees weren't there just to get out of the wind. The ones responsible for this last, best chance for Nebraska to right a wrong (and keep such a travesty from happening again) call themselves the Citizens For A Free Nebraska.

Yesterday I got a tip that last night's meeting was going to be more than just a petty gripe-fest. I checked out Citizens For A Free Nebraska's unassuming web site. From all reports in to the feedlot so far, these cats appear to have their heads screwed on straight. They have wisely taken the stance that Nebraska's "you have no say in the matter" statutory system of annexation needs a grass-roots legislative fix. Just because the Solons of the Nebraska Supreme Court think it doesn't violate our Constitution doesn't mean that the law is a good idea. (Nor does it mean the law actually passes constitutional muster, no offense to our justices intended.)

You know what I think of government that forces itself (and its taxes) on cats without their having any say in the matter. It just isn't the American way. The feeder called the Elkhorn debacle taxation without representation from the get-go. The Elkhorn annexation isn't just a case of 'unintended consequences' causing the unjust result; the theft of Elkhorn's wealth, honor and reputation was deliberate.

Read what the Citizens For A Free Nebraska have to say to other Nebraska communities that risk for the same sort of home invasion by nearby Metro wannabes. Don't think "It can't happen here."

The fair solution: put the matter to a vote. Here is the plan:

"No other state in the union allows one municipality to take over another without a vote of its citizens," said Jason Fuller of Citizens For A Free Nebraska. "We intend to correct (that)."

Citizens For A Free Nebraska unveiled its citizen-run petition drive for two ballot initiatives. The first would make annexations of any incorporated area subject to a vote of the people being annexed. The second would allow any city annexed in the last five years to vote for re-establishment -- incidentally allowing Elkhorn to de-annex from Omaha.

The movement needs 72,000 signatures from residents in 38 counties to get it on the ballot.

(From the KETV meeting coverage.)
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What do you think? Is Elkhorn going to be a feather in Mayor Fahey's political cap or an albatross around his political neck? I'm thinking it depends on how fast his electorate can swallow the ballpark boondoggle.

Elkhorn wants out of Omaha

Old Town Elkhorn under a cloud

The folks in little Elkhorn, Nebraska are not going to take Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey's hostile annexation of their little berg lying down. The Elkhorn patriots met last night with their so-called city councilmen to discuss why the unwelcome annexation isn't working for anyone. Another meeting, open to the public, is planned for this evening. The meeting will establish support for putting the whole issue on the ballot. If you like liberty, self-determination and local government, you should attend. This isn't just an Elkhorn problem. The usurpers of liberty may well have your town in their sights next.

I'll be sending a Plains Feeder representative to the meeting tonight, and will report on it tomorrow. I can't attend for health reasons, but I feel strongly about this type heavy handed, non-democratic exercise of raw government power. America wasn't made great by little Stalins yanking us along some planned path in chains.

The old feeder doesn't live in Elkhorn, but it is my favorite of the towns that ring Omaha to the West. I shop there, dine there and root for the Antlers. I don't like Omaha, and haven't for about 30 years. I wouldn't live in Omaha if you paid me. It is an ugly misfit; a blue island in a state of red, a leftist yuppie wannabe city in a state of ranchers and farmers who love their small towns. Centralized government may seem like Valhalla to the pinkos that run Omaha, but the rest of us prefer local control.
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Previously in the Plains Feeder:
March 10, 2005 - Elkhorn Annexation
March 15, 2005 - Elkhorn Annexation Update
March 16, 2005 - Elkhorn annexes Omaha's intended victims!
March 18, 2005 - Elkhorn - Omaha annexation: a draw for now
March 22, 2005 - Elkhorn looks at Keystone lawsuit, cringes
June 08, 2005 - Omaha Tax Grab, Part 2: the schools
August 10, 2005 - One Omaha
February 21, 2007 - Omaha's hostile annexation of Elkhorn
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Show your support for Elkhorn and the principle of local control with this free banner and link:

Citizens for a Free Nebraska
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Its easy for him to say

Omaha billionaire and liberal Democrat fruit Warren Buffett backs U.S. estate tax and decries wealth gap.

It is easy for Warren to say this. He doesn't have a small business or family farm he'd like to pass on to his kids. Who elected Warren Buffet to anything anyhow?

Kelsey Peterson & Fernando: revolting development

Click here for the most recent Plains Feeder post
about Kelsey and Fernando.

Kelsey Peterson

High-profile Omaha criminal defense attorney, James Martin Davis, will be representing Kelsey Peterson. She is the Lexington, Nebraska teacher that ran away to Mexico with her underage illegal immigrant student. When she gets back here for trial, Mr. Davis will give her a vigorous defense. Davis has defended all manner of distasteful wretches. He's good at it. I think he enjoys his work and sleeps soundly at night. I wonder who will be footing the bill?

Expect James Davis to go after the victim. He used this tactic effectively to defend lawsuits filed against Boys Town alleging priest sex abuse. When Mr. Davis finishes his closing argument, at least one juror will blame little Fernando for debauching and waylaying poor, innocent Kelsey.

Now for the revolting development part. From KDUH/KOTA:

The boy is an illegal immigrant, but a new government visa program enacted just a week before his abduction could make him eligible to return to this country.

Under the program, illegal immigrants that are crime victims could live in the US for up to four years and eventually apply for permanent resident status.

It would also extend temporary residency to his parents and his unmarried siblings under 18.

Little Fernando might be returning to the land of opportunity real soon. Thanks to some back door to America program I've never heard of before. Amnesty for illegal aliens has been creeping up on us while we slept. Or perhaps it was while we were distracted by our lawmakers' blatant efforts to ram blanket Amnesty down our throats.
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Revolting Update: Nebraska's Senator Chuck 'Amnesty Now' Hagel wants you to feel sorry for poor little Fernando. Wake up, Chuck! The blame for Mexican kids dragged across the US border illegally properly falls upon the kids' criminal parents, not on the decent Americans who want our laws enforced. If these kids are jammed up, it is a collateral consequence of their parents' crimes, same as the kids who must grow up with a parent in prison. Is there no end to Hagel's long guilt trip?
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More: Miss Peterson has been fired from her teaching job by the Lexington School Board. Hat tip to Psycho for Love.
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Now it would appear that Fernando was only 12 years old when he began to victimize poor Kelsey. Or was it the other way around? I guess latino men macho-up young.
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Liberal Blog Reaction
Even the PC crowd is getting fed up. From the Huffington Post's Larry Womack:

When sixth grade teacher Kelsey Peterson fled to Mexico with her 13 year old "lover" late last month, my heart told me it was time to speak out. But fear told me not to; in today's PC world, there's no sin so great as speaking the truth. Then, last night, I opened the paper to find that Norma Giannini, a 79 year old Roman Catholic nun had pleaded no contest to repeatedly sexually abusing two middle school boys. [I]t's time that somebody spoke up for our children, and pulled them out of the clutches of these sick, perverted heterosexual women.

What a goofus! Larry thinks the problem is that child molesters are heterosexual. There aren't any homosexual child molesters in our schools? There aren't any homos in Iran, either. Liberal logic is objectively comprehensible only to medievalists.

Fly your Flag for Veteran's Day

World War II Veterans

This photo was taken a few months ago at a reunion of one of the outfits my Dad flew with in WWII. We owe much to cats like these and those resting in the field behind them. Fly your flag today.

Internet predator and child rapist John Monetti sentenced

John H. Monetti

Internet predator, child rapist, former school teacher, principal, fireman and riding coach John H. Monetti of New York was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for two counts of traveling across state lines to Blair, Nebraska with intent to engage in a sexual act with a child.

The formerly well respected Long Island man was also was ordered to pay $31,000 to cover fees and for counseling for his underage victim. Monetti will have five years of supervised release after he serves the full 12 years.

This ends, for now, an ugly chapter in the annals of Nebraska child rape law. It would appear that our state prosecutors have wised up to Nebraska's miserable catch and release system of dealing with sexual deviants that harm our kids. To get justice, or at least to get these foul miscreants off our streets, we must rely upon the Federal Department of Justice. One may hope Mr. Monetti will not re-offend when he gets out, but...
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Previous Plains Feeder posts about Mr. John Monetti.

Kelsey Peterson & Fernando: an update

Click here for the most recent Plains Feeder post
about Kelsey and Fernando.
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Kelsey's latest mug shot

From this picture taken at the Imperial County Jail in El Centro, California it appears Mexican food didn't agree with sex-crazed teacher Kelsey Peterson. She is facing up to life in prison if convicted. Little Fernando, her delinquent illegal Mexican immigrant victim is basking in the spotlight back home. In interviews he says the two only did it "maybe twice".

When she will be transported back to Omaha, Nebraska for trial on federal charges is anyone's guess. The feds transport prisoners in secret, and they often take the long way.

Kids at risk as Nebraska's child molesters get off easy

Josh Barney's second arrest in four years for using the internet to entice little girls to have sex with him should be a wake-up call for Nebraskans. This ugly predator was busted last Tuesday by the Nebraska State Patrol Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit. The evidence is pretty clear to me, child molesters can't be controlled by anything but life in prison or the death penalty

Jail can't change them, treatments don't work, fear of social stigma has no effect and yet our Nebraska courts routinely put these creeps back on the street. I'm sure most folks won't agree, but I'm for throwing these defective humans away. They are going to be dangerous to kids as long as they live. The damage they do to kids is so awful we shouldn't take any chances. Until we know how to stop these abhorrent aberrations from going right back to their old ways, they should not be allowed to mix with the rest of us.

ChiCom Beemers

Smart Red Chinese Yuppies drive a Brilliance BMW!

Fred Thompson returns to television

Fred's new TV spot

The old feeder, holed up in town and watching cable, just saw US Presidential candidate Fred Thompson's new Iowa television ad. Its pretty good; Fred actually smiles a little. You can watch it at: Fred '08 - Friends of Fred Thompson. Fred is the man for 2008.

Ted Kennedy and the fear of drowning

Ted Kennedy: the terrifying fear of drowning

Senator Ted Kennedy thinks waterboarding smacks of torture. (I say, so, what?) He should know. From the Rush Limbaugh radio show, the hero of Chappaquiddick on tape:

My concerns began with Judge Mukasey's answers to our questions about waterboarding. Waterboarding is a barbaric practice in which water is poured down the mouth and nose of a detainee, to simulate drowning. It's an ancient technique of tyrants. The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in, and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to an almost instant plea to bring the treatment to a halt. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia. When done right, it is controlled death.

Click the Limbaugh link above to read Rush's response.

Young Teddy Kennedy - 1969

Ted's first experience with the agonies of drowning has haunted him ever since that shameful night when he drove off Dyke Bridge. He saved himself and left his companion, a young lady campaign worker, to die, trapped underwater in the car. He lied as only a Magic Kennedy could lie, got the Camelot treatment and copped a walk, but Chappaquiddick had sapped his Kennedy mojo. His life went into a self destructive spiral. Excessive drinking, womanizing and self-loathing liberalism, while perhaps partly genetic, were exacerbated by his tormenting memories of Mary Jo Kopechne's last horrible minutes of life.

On the other hand, Ted might just be a large, well-funded, alcoholic sociopath.

The solution to Pakistan election troubles

The Election Fixer

Let the Conservative Cat explain why it is time for the US to deploy our secret weapon in Pakistan.

Canada on the Skids

Canadians prefer graphite sticks to wood

The Canadian Loonie dollar may be up compared to the US dollar, but other, more disturbing signs point to a looming crisis for our neighbors to the North. Indeed, this headline bodes ill for Canada's all important forest products industry: Sher-Wood to stop making wooden hockey sticks.

They've scored untold millions of goals on rinks, ponds and streets across the country, but in a few weeks' time workers will lovingly fashion the last of Sher-Wood's signature Quebec-made wooden hockey sticks.

It's yet another sign of changing times: After 58 years, Sherwood-Drolet will, starting in January, farm out the mass production of wooden sticks and concentrate on the increasingly popular – and vastly profitable – business of making composite sticks fashioned from graphite, Kevlar and other synthetics.

Forestry experts warn that if this trend toward outsourcing and plastic composites continues, most of Canada will soon be covered with an impenetrable canopy of trees, like the forests of the Carboniferous period. Al Gore, the wealthy American climbitallogist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient predicted this calamity in his award winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does the production of composite plastics consume precious petroleum, but leaving Canada's vast forests unharvested will cause a dangerous imbalance in the oxygen content of our atmosphere, robbing the rain forests in South America of needed carbon dioxide.

What can you do to save Canada (and perhaps all of human civilization)? Go to your nearest sporting goods store and demand that the petroleum based hockey sticks be removed from the shelves. Write to Sher-Wood and tell them you want only natural, eco-friendly wooden sticks. Ruining our planet shouldn't be a sport.
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The impending demise of the big-circulation print newspapers is expected to add to Canada's over-forestation problems. The misguided American toilet paper rebellion may play a role in this crisis as well.

Nebraska teacher Kelsey Peterson & 13 year old student sex toy: headed for Mexico?

Click here for the most recent Plains Feeder post
about Kelsey and Fernando.
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Updated - Kelsey and Fernando arrested in Mexico.
Kelsey back in US, facing federal charges.
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Mexican rights group lodges complaint.

Kelsey and Fernando

Nebraskans are on the look-out for a 25 year old female teacher, Kelsey Peterson, and her under-age lover. Kelsey, a teacher with the Lexington, Nebraska Public Schools is a fugitive from an arrest warrant accusing her of sexual impropriety with, and kidnapping of a 13 year old eighth-grade student, Fernando Rodriguez. It is believed that Ms Peterson and her little latin lover may be headed for Mexico. From the Kearney Hub:

Monday, Rodriguez’s mother and sister told police they had received a call from him between 1 and 2 a.m. Saturday saying he was in Grand Island with Peterson. The student also sent a text message to his brother saying he was with Peterson and he is OK, and the student’s aunt said he had asked her on the phone if a visa or passport is needed to enter Mexico.

The warrant says that Lexington Superintendent Todd Chessmore seized Peterson’s school-issued laptop, and officers found several e-mails and letters that say she loves Rodriguez and that she thought he also loved her.

Peterson’s father also gave several letters that were found inside her home to the Lexington Police Department. The letters were written by Rodriguez from the Nebraska Boys’ Ranch in Alliance and call Peterson his “Baby Gurl.” One letter also says that, “his relationship with her is just not about the sex.”

The story is titillating newspaper readers all over outstate Nebraska. I'll be watching the Lexington Clipper-Herald, the Beatrice Daily Sun, and the Kearney Hub, among others. You can read the lurid arrest warrant documents (pdf) here. So far I only see one blogger on the case, the Blog of Hilarity, where it is pointed out that Ms. Peterson is no Debra LaFave. For tisk-tisking and discussion, Fox News has this forum, and WebSleuths has one here about the runaway chico and the chub. I'm guessing they won't be caught soon.

It looks like the two illicit lovers intend to flee to Mexico. If she has no papers, Kelsey will have to make an illegal border crossing. Bucking the tide of un-papered Mexicans trying to get into the US in time for the coming amnesty won't be easy. I look for her to end up in a shallow grave out in some Mexamericanadian desert.
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Addendum: The Nebraska Boy's Ranch where Fernando Rodriguez was living is a place for young men who are wards of the State. Parents can commit their kids to this dude ranch reform school, but most of their customers are on the state's tab for crimes we used to call juvenile delinquency.
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Some blog reactions:

• Legal Pub suggests this might be a form of sex education.
• Pat at BelchSpeak says "If only we could figure out a way for all illegal aliens to take a child rapist with them to Mexico..."
• The various crime blogs have picked up the story, e.g. MyCrimeSpace.
• Protein Wisdom links to video and a related topical "Lolito" lyrics contest.
• Sista at Hello, Negro asks "What is up with White female teachers and these little boys?"
• Merri muses that she wasn't interested in 8th grade boys when she was 25.
  

Update: From the AP:

The car owned by a female middle school teacher believed to be on the run with a 13-year-old boy has crossed the California border into Mexico, a police investigator said Friday.

Those Border Patrol cats, always on the ball. The report doesn't say who was in the car. I still suspect teacher is taking a dirt nap by now.
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Update: From the AP: Teacher, Student Arrested in Mexico.

A female schoolteacher and the 13-year-old boy she allegedly ran away with have been arrested in Mexico, a prosecutor said Saturday.

Dawson County Attorney Elizabeth Waterman said Kelsey Peterson, a 25-year-old sixth-grade math teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School, and the boy had been apprehended.
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Peterson, a sixth-grade math teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School, fled with the boy after police began investigating whether the pair had an intimate relationship, authorities said. Court documents said the boy was last seen Oct. 26.

A judge issued an arrest warrant Monday charging Peterson with kidnapping, child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Peterson also faces federal charges, including transporting a minor across state lines or a foreign border for sexual activity, U.S. Attorney Joe Stecher said. Those charges were filed Thursday.

"The FBI is doing what we need to do to make the Mexican authorities aware that she is wanted," Stecher said.
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Peterson's car crossed into Mexico on Tuesday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, which separates San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, Lexington police said. The car's license plate was captured by an automated system that scans the plates of all vehicles passing through the entry point.
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[Fernando's aunt] believed Peterson gave the boy a cell phone without his family's knowledge so she could reach him more easily. Messages left on a cell phone for a Kelsey Peterson of Lexington were not returned.

Lexington Schools Superintendent Todd Chessmore said he placed Peterson on paid administrative leave on Oct. 25.

She will be lucky if the Mexican officials send her back to the US. I wonder if Fernando will return for Peterson's trial. Won't they need him to convict her? Or perhaps the poor 'baby Gurl' just needs some more lessons in avoiding the consequences of her actions. Its a good thing the FBI and Mighty Joe Stecher, the US Attorney here are on the case. He's the man that made sure child rapist John Monetti didn't benefit from Nebraska's notoriously soft on pedophiles justice system.
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Update: Monday, 11/05/07: Kelsey Peterson is now held on federal charges in California. This is good. There is no need to let some bleeding heart Nebraska judge let her escape life's lessons.