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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
No Research Again?
This week, "Fear of Terrorism, Terrorism of Fear" makes some suggestions that show through and through that Mr. Smart and the Lancaster Newspapers do not thoroughly review their paper.
Let me show an example:
Read the bold lettering.
Now look at the votes on these issues.
HR 3162 Vote Summary for the House
HR 3162 Vote Summary for the Senate
In the House, 145 Democrats voted YES to the Patriot Act. 62 did not.
In the Senate, all but two voted YES to the Patriot Act. One was absent.
Also, the "warrantless wiretapping" bill can be found here. Background.
All this did was update an existing law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
This would have been the 95th Congress (1977-1979), Majority Party: Democrat (61 seats), Minority Party: Republican (38 seats) and 1 Independent. (Source)
Do some research next time?
Let me show an example:
...For conservatism in its current form is largely predicated upon fear. Fear of the big bad "Islamo-fascist" wolf; fear that this nation, the mightiest ever to stride the earth, could be decimated, not just harmed but actually brought to its knees, by terrorism.
The notion is ridiculous. Even the absolute worst-case scenario, a dirty bomb in a crowded urban center, could not destroy us. Yet we proceed as if it would. And in so doing, we may destroy ourselves.
If you consider the measures passed these past few years, the Patriot Acts, the warrantless wiretapping, we see a government that has in place the apparatus by which the population might be monitored and controlled...
Read the bold lettering.
Now look at the votes on these issues.
HR 3162 Vote Summary for the House
HR 3162 Vote Summary for the Senate
In the House, 145 Democrats voted YES to the Patriot Act. 62 did not.
In the Senate, all but two voted YES to the Patriot Act. One was absent.
Also, the "warrantless wiretapping" bill can be found here. Background.
All this did was update an existing law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
This would have been the 95th Congress (1977-1979), Majority Party: Democrat (61 seats), Minority Party: Republican (38 seats) and 1 Independent. (Source)
Do some research next time?
Friday, March 23, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Democrat = Big Fat Liar
Three months after promising to stop pork spending...
Spend, spend, spend - USAToday
Flashback:
Senate Democrats stall pork-reform vote
Spend, spend, spend - USAToday
WASHINGTON — Three months after promising to curtail spending on pet legislative projects, House Democrats have salted the Iraq emergency spending bill with $3.7 billion for farm interests that make significant donations to Democrats.
Rep. Sanford Bishop, a Georgia Democrat who refers to himself as "the peanut congressman," makes no apologies for helping to put $74 million into the spending bill to cover storage fees for peanut growers.
Flashback:
Senate Democrats stall pork-reform vote
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
So, how's that Iran-U.S. attack going?
Gil swears up and down we will be at war with Iran any day now.
Does he realize that the U.S. returned sovereignty to Iraq almost three years ago? Story
Does he realize that the Iraqi army is in the lead? Story
Does he realize that since Dems took office in January, the trend in Coalition fatalities in Iraq remained relatively unchanged, and if it did change - it went up? Maybe someone should draw him a graph. Here's your graph.
Instead of ending the war, Democrat plan after Democrat plan has failed - leaving our "stupid" U.S. soldiers "stuck in Iraq", thanks to the brilliant strategies of the likes of John Kerry and his ilk.
Some people will just never get it. I guess Forest Gump was right.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Does he realize that the U.S. returned sovereignty to Iraq almost three years ago? Story
Does he realize that the Iraqi army is in the lead? Story
Does he realize that since Dems took office in January, the trend in Coalition fatalities in Iraq remained relatively unchanged, and if it did change - it went up? Maybe someone should draw him a graph. Here's your graph.
Instead of ending the war, Democrat plan after Democrat plan has failed - leaving our "stupid" U.S. soldiers "stuck in Iraq", thanks to the brilliant strategies of the likes of John Kerry and his ilk.
Some people will just never get it. I guess Forest Gump was right.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Why can't more Dems be like this one?
Full Story
Former Sen. Zell Miller says abortion has claimed the lives of more than 45 million Americans since 1973, and is to blame for manpower shortages in the U.S. military and the looming Social Security crisis.
"How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?” Miller asked during a recent fund-raiser in Macon, Ga. "Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973.”
"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security,” Miller said, according to LifeSiteNews.com. "Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.”
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Former Sen. Zell Miller says abortion has claimed the lives of more than 45 million Americans since 1973, and is to blame for manpower shortages in the U.S. military and the looming Social Security crisis.
"How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?” Miller asked during a recent fund-raiser in Macon, Ga. "Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed. Over 45 million since Roe v. Wade in 1973.”
"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security,” Miller said, according to LifeSiteNews.com. "Still, we watch as 3,700 babies are killed every single day in America. It is unbelievable that a nation under God would allow this.”
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? LOL!
THE RUFF! THE RUFF! THE RUFF IS ON FIRE! WE DON'T NEED NO WATER...
LOOKING AT LANCASTER TURNS ON MADDOG (TOO EARLY TO CROW)
LANCASTER INDEPENDENT PRESS CALLS FOR FIRING OF MARV ADAMS (TOO OLD TO CROW)
Who is the queerest, flaming liberal of them all?
"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions," said Ann Coulter, whose comment was followed by laughter and applause.
Let me see if I have this right. Mock Presidential candidates = wrong. Mock sitting Presidents = OK.
Liberals are up in arms over the "offensive term" used by Coulter.
Nevermind that they continually call our Commander-in-Chief "Chimp". (Google "bush chimp" and get over 1,000,000 hits). Nevermind that they routinely call him "stupid". (Google has over 4,000,000 hits). Nevermind that they compare Bush to Hitler.
Nevermind that they refer to our vice-President as "Darth Cheney". Or that they mocked him regularly after he accidentally shot a guy over a year ago while hunting.
Nevermind that they referred to Condi Rice as "Brown Sugar" in a cartoon.
But - suggest that John Edwards is light in the loafers and prepare to hold a rally!
Kindly remove the plank from your eye.
Interesting note:
George Chauncey, in his excellent 1994 work Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, says that the terms fairy, faggot, and queen were used by homosexuals to refer to men who were ostentatiously effeminate. Homosexuals who were not as showy referred to themselves as "queer" in the first decades of the 20th century. But the general public mainly called homosexuals "fairies." If you were in London in the 1920s through the 1940s and used the term "fag," the man in the street might have offered you a cigarette, and quite possibly that would have been the case with many Americans at the time.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Was Columbia police/Computer Outlet story a huge hoax??
ColumbiaPaOnline.com requested this press release, and was given permission to post it on the site.
For: Immediate Release Date: March 07, 2007
From: Michael L. Landis, Chief County Detective
On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, the proprietor of a computer repair shop in Columbia, PA contacted the Office of the District Attorney and arranged to turn over a personal computer that he believed contained confidential information originating with the Columbia Borough Police Department. The gentleman reported that he had taken the computer in trade for the purchase of a used computer system by Robert E. Warfel, Jr., a Columbia resident.
An investigation conducted by Lancaster County Detectives determined that the computer was an obsolete computer taken out of service at the Columbia Borough Police station in July 2004. The shop owner credited Mr. Warfel $25.00 for the computer toward his purchase of the used system. Detectives learned that the computer had been given to Mr. Warfel by the girlfriend of Sergeant William L. Meyers, a member of the Columbia Borough Police Department. This computer had little value. Investigators learned that Sergeant Meyers has donated personal equipment to the police department to use that had far greater value, in one case having a personal laptop computer refurbished and given to investigators to use to take statements. Sergeant Meyers owns a personal computer that is newer and superior in quality to the police department computer. Thus there was little motive for Sergeant Meyers to take the computer for his own personal benefit.
Sergeant Meyers was interviewed by detectives and stated that he had taken the computer from the Columbia Borough Police Department to his home in order to review the contents of the computer and remove and transfer relevant files at his leisure. Sergeant Meyers stated that he took the computer home sometime in July 2006, but did not have time to work with the computer and forgot about it. Sergeant Meyers told detectives that his girlfriend inadvertently gave the computer to Mr. Warfel, a tenant in a property Meyers owns, believing it was an old computer that Meyers had previously used. Mr. Meyers stated that until he was approached by someone, editor of some web site, he had no idea the computer had left his home. Mr. Meyers stated that it was always his intent to return the computer to the police station when he was finished with it.
A forensic examination of the computer revealed that it was not used after the time that Sergeant Meyers states he took it to his home, with the exception of the evening of December 31, 2006. It was found that this was when Mr. Warfel had possession of the computer and first used it in an attempt to install a high speed Internet connection. This further supports the contention of Sergeant Meyers that he had no intent to utilize the computer for his own personal use.
In order to prove the crime of Theft by Unlawful Taking or Disposition, 18 Pa.C.S.A. 3921, the Commonwealth would have to prove Sergeant Meyers exercised unlawful control over the computer with the intent to deprive the Borough of the computer. The investigation has failed to find that requisite intent on the part of Sergeant Meyers. While there is no doubt that the Sergeant took the computer from the police station without asking permission, he holds supervisory rank essentially making him second in command and affording him a degree of discretion in that regard.
The forensic examination found files on the computer that would constitute criminal history and protected information under the Pennsylvania Criminal History Record Information Act (CHRIA), 18 Pa.C.S.A. 9101. The examination, however, found no files that contained information that could compromise the security of other computer systems, or investigations. There are no criminal penalties provided for under CHRIA and enforcement of the Act through civil and administrative action is the responsibility of the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General. The Office of the Attorney General has been notified of the investigation.
The investigation of this matter has failed to find grounds for filing criminal charges against anyone involved. Issues relating to inappropriate material found on the computer or violations of any policies or procedures of the police department or Borough are personnel issues for Borough and police officials to address. The issue related to the unauthorized accessing of CHRIA information on the computer has been referred to the solicitor for Columbia Borough. The Office of the District Attorney considers this matter closed.
For: Immediate Release Date: March 07, 2007
From: Michael L. Landis, Chief County Detective
On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, the proprietor of a computer repair shop in Columbia, PA contacted the Office of the District Attorney and arranged to turn over a personal computer that he believed contained confidential information originating with the Columbia Borough Police Department. The gentleman reported that he had taken the computer in trade for the purchase of a used computer system by Robert E. Warfel, Jr., a Columbia resident.
An investigation conducted by Lancaster County Detectives determined that the computer was an obsolete computer taken out of service at the Columbia Borough Police station in July 2004. The shop owner credited Mr. Warfel $25.00 for the computer toward his purchase of the used system. Detectives learned that the computer had been given to Mr. Warfel by the girlfriend of Sergeant William L. Meyers, a member of the Columbia Borough Police Department. This computer had little value. Investigators learned that Sergeant Meyers has donated personal equipment to the police department to use that had far greater value, in one case having a personal laptop computer refurbished and given to investigators to use to take statements. Sergeant Meyers owns a personal computer that is newer and superior in quality to the police department computer. Thus there was little motive for Sergeant Meyers to take the computer for his own personal benefit.
Sergeant Meyers was interviewed by detectives and stated that he had taken the computer from the Columbia Borough Police Department to his home in order to review the contents of the computer and remove and transfer relevant files at his leisure. Sergeant Meyers stated that he took the computer home sometime in July 2006, but did not have time to work with the computer and forgot about it. Sergeant Meyers told detectives that his girlfriend inadvertently gave the computer to Mr. Warfel, a tenant in a property Meyers owns, believing it was an old computer that Meyers had previously used. Mr. Meyers stated that until he was approached by someone, editor of some web site, he had no idea the computer had left his home. Mr. Meyers stated that it was always his intent to return the computer to the police station when he was finished with it.
A forensic examination of the computer revealed that it was not used after the time that Sergeant Meyers states he took it to his home, with the exception of the evening of December 31, 2006. It was found that this was when Mr. Warfel had possession of the computer and first used it in an attempt to install a high speed Internet connection. This further supports the contention of Sergeant Meyers that he had no intent to utilize the computer for his own personal use.
In order to prove the crime of Theft by Unlawful Taking or Disposition, 18 Pa.C.S.A. 3921, the Commonwealth would have to prove Sergeant Meyers exercised unlawful control over the computer with the intent to deprive the Borough of the computer. The investigation has failed to find that requisite intent on the part of Sergeant Meyers. While there is no doubt that the Sergeant took the computer from the police station without asking permission, he holds supervisory rank essentially making him second in command and affording him a degree of discretion in that regard.
The forensic examination found files on the computer that would constitute criminal history and protected information under the Pennsylvania Criminal History Record Information Act (CHRIA), 18 Pa.C.S.A. 9101. The examination, however, found no files that contained information that could compromise the security of other computer systems, or investigations. There are no criminal penalties provided for under CHRIA and enforcement of the Act through civil and administrative action is the responsibility of the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General. The Office of the Attorney General has been notified of the investigation.
The investigation of this matter has failed to find grounds for filing criminal charges against anyone involved. Issues relating to inappropriate material found on the computer or violations of any policies or procedures of the police department or Borough are personnel issues for Borough and police officials to address. The issue related to the unauthorized accessing of CHRIA information on the computer has been referred to the solicitor for Columbia Borough. The Office of the District Attorney considers this matter closed.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Not-so-marvelous Marv Adams takes last stand for crappy column
This week, under the heading of "Smart Remarks", Marv Adams has apparently received so many complaints (both externally and internally) that he has leaped to the defense of Smart Remarks, ensuring us that Mr. Smart's opinion is - quote- "his own".
I call bullshit. Big, fat, gigantic bullshit. Marv himself says:
Yeah, I bet he bounces those ideas right off their heads and knocks them out.
Autocratic is synonymous with despotic - meaning " a : a ruler with absolute power and authority b : a person exercising power tyrannically" (Merriam Webster).
Thanks Marv. I couldn't have put it much better myself. You've just about summed it up.
I call bullshit. Big, fat, gigantic bullshit. Marv himself says:
The editorial policy is set by the editor (yours truly). If that sounds autocratic, well, it is, although I do bounce ideas off staff members.
Yeah, I bet he bounces those ideas right off their heads and knocks them out.
Autocratic is synonymous with despotic - meaning " a : a ruler with absolute power and authority b : a person exercising power tyrannically" (Merriam Webster).
Thanks Marv. I couldn't have put it much better myself. You've just about summed it up.
Friday, March 02, 2007
The Crow
Rumor has it some cowards are posting on certain messageboards about the "Kroe". They are repeatedly blaming the "Kroe" for a variety of their own problems.
You name it, "Kroe" gets the blame.
Lack of IT skills. Inability to write interesting articles. Global warming. Toe nail fungus. Halitosis... the list goes on and on.
Don't believe a word of it (except the halitosis part, I really did cause their breath to smell bad whenever they open their mouths).
Better get some of that Harv1 chili to cover the foul odor eminating from your facial orifice.
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