Finally, Mike Nifong has decided to call it quits.

“It has become increasingly apparent, during the course of this week, in some ways that it might not have been before, that my presence as the district attorney in Durham is not furthering the cause of justice,” Nifong said.

Yeah, well, that was apparent to the rest of the world a year ago, you publicity seeking freak.

“It was an obvious cynical ploy to save his law license, and his apology to these people is far too little and comes far too late,” said defense lawyer Joseph Cheshire.

Yup.

Why? For allowing this to continue, not only unabated, but at an accelerated pace with increased taxpayer funding.

Despite a drop in donations and the first fall in income from clinics in its history, the nation’s biggest abortion provider made a high profit last year, thanks to the American taxpayer. Pro-lifers want this to stop.

During its 2005-2006 fiscal year, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America performed a record 264,943 abortions, attained a high profit of $55.8 million and received record taxpayer funding of $305.3 million.

How exactly does a drop in donations and a drop in fees for services rendered equal $55.6 million in profits? With your tax money, that is how.

“The final category of Planned Parenthood revenue sources is you and me — the American taxpayer,” Sedlak said. He noted that the amount of taxpayer funding reported by PPFA exceeded that of the previous year by $32.6 million, or 12 percent.

A 12 percent increase in taxpayer money. 12 percent! Did your salary go up 12 percent?

It is interesting to note that the current comprehensive immigration bill called for allowing 200,000 guest workers a year. This single organization, Planned Parenthood, ended the lives of 264,943 Americans in one year, the vast, vast majority of them for simple convenience. And profit.

One day, we will wake up and realize what a travesty this has been to our country. One day.

A promotional email just landed in my inbox. This apparently is intended to convince me that I can’t live without Houston’s Leading Information Source. Here’s the subject line:

Read all about a Father’s search to find the perfect toy for his child. Pick up Sunday’s Chronicle!

Yeah, that sounds compelling.

Do Dad a favor on Father’s Day: get him a subscription to the Wall Street Journal.

The fine folks at Americans for Prosperity, an economic-freedom group, have teamed up with CLOUT to launch a free summit — to be held next Friday — entitled “Defending the American Dream: The Texas Challenge.” Here are the details:

AFPF and CLOUT are partnering for the first Texas conference in Houston on Friday, June 22, 2007, from 3pm to 6pm. A post-legislative session wrap-up, the conference will serve as a springboard for action to empower taxpayers to rein in spiraling property taxes and out-of-control government spending and ultimately, to take back Texas government.

The event will include local heavy-hitters in the conservative movement, including Paul Bettencourt, Cheryl Johnson (hubba hubba), Ben Streusand and Peggy Venable.

It’s a week from today. That’s Friday, June 22, 2007, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. It’ll be at the Sheraton North Houston Hotel; 15700 John F. Kennedy Blvd. It’s right between the Beltway and Bush Intercontinental Airport.

Anyone that thinks politics isn’t a bloodsport needs to talk to Rep. Beverly Woolley, R-Houston, who is being trashed for allowing an amendment to an eminent domain bill that is now on the governor’s desk.

The amendment, by Sen. Glenn Hegar Jr., R-Katy, allows property owners to sue for “diminished access” to their property. In other words, if your pet project causes a business owner to shut his doors because of losses, he can sue for damages.

Cities and counties across the state have been lobbying the governor to oppose the bill.

Why are they lobbying against this bill so hard? They claim that it is because it will add costs to the taxpayer but in reality, they just don’t want anything that even hints at limiting government growth. What does the bill do?

• It has strong language protecting the rights of Texas Property owners
• It mandates “fair market” offer be made before starting condemnation
• It mandates public condemnation hearings and mandates that ALL appraisals be made public
• It mandates that property owners attorney’s fees be paid

It adds protection and hopefully makes government think long and hard before taking someone’s private property. Sen. Hegar’s amendment strengthens those protections.

Hegar said he offered the amendment because he wanted to ensure adequate protections for property owners and is stunned by the uproar. The amendment was identical to a bill he carried that failed in committee this past session.

In a classic example of what opponents will do to kill a bill when they have no valid reason to, they are accusing the bill’s author of letting this amendment through for personal gain.

Black, who said Woolley refused to strip the Hegar amendment from her bill even though the governor warned her he might veto the whole legislation, took a hard line: “The governor does not believe that anyone in public office should use that office to benefit themselves,” Black said. Asked if the governor believed Woolley had used her office to do that, Black replied: “If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck.”

Woolley had an obligation to publicly disclose that she could benefit personally from a bill she was pushing — and to abstain from voting, Black said.

Note that she did not add the amendment, in fact, the amendment wasn’t even added in the House. But these guys will stoop to any level to stop anything that has a remote possibility of slowing down government growth.

This is shameful behavior and should not be tolerated by the Republicans, especially doing it to one of their own.

The governor should have enough of a spine to ignore the city and county lobbying efforts and sign this landowner protection bill into law. Please call Gov. Perry at 512.463.2000.

This guy takes that old saying seriously!

A 73-year-old man who failed his 10th grade high school exams for the 39th time vowed Friday to try again next year in the hopes that an education will improve his job and marriage prospects.

“I could not get married as the girls told my family members that I was not properly educated. It’s my fate that deprived me of education and a married life,” he said.

Good luck!

Trent Lott, nominal Republican and former Senate Majority Leader - who showed himself a faux conservative during the Clinton Administration - is starting to lash out at we troublemakers who oppose this amnesty bill and (egad!) listen to talk radio. He told the New York Times:

“Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”

Lott showed himself a true elitist with this quote in the Washington Post:

“I’m sure senators on both sides of the aisle are being pounded by these talk-radio people who don’t even know what’s in the bill,” Lott said. He added that the “leadership will have to be prepared to do what needs to be done.”

In other words, the elites in the Senate will ignore what we low lifes want and do the bidding of the President and illegal immigration lobby (including the Democrats). (Is it completely lost on the GOP that turning a bunch of criminals into citizens/voters benefits only the Democrats?)

He also, according to the Times, doesn’t seem to care for the Senators who are new enough to actually listen to their constituents:

At some point, Mr. Lott said, Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in “younger guys who are huffing and puffing against the bill.”

The Times says Lott, earlier identified as “on the fence” (his usual position anyway), now supports the amnesty legislation.

At least one political analyst thinks it is the President who should keep quiet if GOP Senators want to pass this bill:

Matthew A. Towery, a political analyst in Atlanta who was once a campaign chairman for Newt Gingrich and is now chief executive of a polling firm, Insider Advantage, said: “Having George W. Bush come out and speak in favor of the immigration bill does not do any good for Republican senators. He just irritates the conservative base of the Republican Party, which has abandoned him on this issue.”

Lott’s collaboration with liberal Democrats is nothing new. He has long been a disgrace to the GOP and Mississippi (and I am sad to see my former state continuing to elect him by wide margins). But at least Lott’s insults show that the heat is still on, to the extent that the snake oil salesmen behind this bill fill the need to beat up on you and me.

There is no doubt that a lot of those in Washington share Lott’s disdain for the views of the American public. Perhaps Senators Cornyn and Hutchison feel the same way. Usually, though, even the most entrenched politician isn’t stupid enough to actually say it (or dumb enough to be convinced by his handlers to do their dirty work).

The arrogance of these unprincipled phonies is breathtaking.

Let’s stay under their skin, shall we?

Aren’t you tired of LEO’s invading your privacy? I know I am.

Officers pulled over a car Wednesday night and as one of the officers approached the driver’s side, “he noticed the driver was choking on a large Baggie” of marijuana, said police spokesman Gordon Bassham.

The officers performed the Heimlich maneuver on the driver without success. Bassham said the man was passing out when one of the officers reached down his throat and pulled the Baggie out.

That Baggie should be excluded from evidence! The officer could not have obtained prior permission to search that man’s throat!

Readers comments from the past Friday - Thursday that caught my eye.

In the category of “Are You SURE You Want To Jump On This Bandwagon?” goes:

molly49 Says:
June 14th, 2007 at 7:59 am e

I have said this before. John Glenn wiped the floor with Fred during impeachment. Fred was a total embarisment. Move on.

We need to look at the governor of Mississippi. He is compotent southern governor who did a great job post Katrina. It would be great to put the question to the electorate: Do you want a U.S. that looks like Lousianna under Democrats or a successfully rebuilt Mississippi under Haley Barbour?

Would not be a hard choice.

In the category of “Aw, C’mon, Even T-shirt Makers Need Assitants!” goes:

Fasternu 426 Says:
June 14th, 2007 at 11:19 am e

The problems are the end result of high up “Assistant” Chiefs and non sworn personnel. HPD management has been in crisis for years and years. Look into HPD command structure and see how top heavy they are. Everything revolves around doing the least they can and covering their butts, protecting their turf, and screwing the other guy!!

There are 4 Executive Assistant Chiefs and 9 Assistant Chiefs. Is that top heavy or what? HPD isn’t that big!!

Yearly salary for these 13 “assistant chiefs” low and high numbers:
low: $1,563,617
high: $1642,403
http://www.houstontx.gov/police/careers.htm

Why 13 assistants? How many captains could do the job? That’s a lot of money that could go to training, salaries and such for people that will be doing the real police work. But, the patrol officers will take it on the nose…. again.

But, what do I know, I make t shirts!

In the category of “I Can See Clearly Now” goes:

Dov Says:
June 15th, 2007 at 2:15 am e

In my honest opinion this bill if passed will benefit only the companies seeking cheap labor and will work to the detriment of the United States. By giving Amnesty to 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants we will immediately burden our medical, educational and welfare system with an overload that will cripple these services and the cost will have to be borne by the taxpayers already paying into the system.

The backers of this bill consist of mainly the large corporations that stand to benefit from cheap labor. This “cheap” labor is grossly misunderstood. As a senior citizen I am working for $ 10.00 per hour and paying taxes, social security, medical etc out of my earnings. The day labor camps in this area demand $ 10.00 per hour, 8 hour minimum, lunch to be supplied and they pay no social security, no taxes, no medical and when they need medical they fill our county hospital system emergency rooms. This is cheap labor ?

It has been a long while since we (and by “we” I mean ALL Americans) have been in such a direct confrontation with our government. Normally we entrust our elected officials to deal with the ugly process of “making sausage” in congress. And we expect them to represent our interests while doing that.

This time the process has spilt into the public arena, and we are beginning to see exactly how deceitful and underhanded it really is. And in this instance we are seeing that the deceitful stratagems and plots of lawmaking are not arrayed against opponents on the hill, but against us, the [gullible, naïve, clueless impotent] American voting public.

This started as and will remain a direct struggle of the American voter against our own elected representatives, the national business associations, and their K Street political whores. It’s clear that Congress and the President now realize they are in a direct assault against us and they will do anything to win, no matter how transparent, ruthless, unethical, or destructive. We are witnessing an unprecedented exercise of corrupt and ruthless power being exercised against the average American citizen, without any restraint or shame whatsoever.

It’s now beyond argument that certain members of Congress and George W Bush are aligned, plotting, and scheming against the American people. This is not representative government.. It’s naked and shameless tyranny.

Our founders warned us of this 230 years ago. They were not kidding.

( hat-tip LST member Shannon)

 

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As mentioned by Edd Hendee, here is the contact info for Saturday’s motorcycle protest in front of US Attorney Johnny Sutton’s office on behalf of imprisoned border patrol agents.

WHEN
Noon to 2 pm - Saturday, June 30th, 2007

WHERE
B of A Building, 601 NW Loop 410 - San Antonio, Texas

MORE INFO
www.americanfreedomriders.com

 

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