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Ship contracted by US Navy fires warning shots at unmarked fast boats, believed to be Iranian, in the Persian Gulf.

Judge in New York acquits 3 policemen for murdering, though the charge was only manslaughter for some reason, 1 and wounding 2unarmed men in New York. The police used the magic phrase, "suspected one of the men of carrying a gun", and when police utter that magic phrase, it makes them immune from the law, and they can kill anybody they want with impunity. Our society is twisted when it gives government officials, the power to be above the law. If a few of us got together and killed and unarmed man and wounded his 2 friends by firing 50 shots into 
their car, and we "suspected one of the men of carrying a gun", we would spend the rest of our
lives in jail. And rightly so. These cops should be spending the rest of their lives in jail too. Their job does not put them above the law. This has nothing to do with race - the could very well have been white. This has to do with policemen thinking they are above the law and having it confirmed in court.

FBI wants to filter Internet backbone data to preempt crimes. This will lead to government databases of American's internet usage. Our country has gone nuts with this preemption concept. Some bad drivers may hurt somebody, so we punish all drivers with draconian drunk driving laws. Some drug users may hurt somebody, so we punish all Americans 
with draconian drug laws. I'm willing to bet you that our courts have more cases of 
victimless crimes than with crimes with victims. I bet Americans are more likely to be victimized by government than by criminals.

Europe to scan faces of airline passengers. In no time, this will be used to create databases of faces and travel information for every person who travels through Europe. Shortly after that, they'll link these databases to city surveillance cameras and internet usage databases, and they'll add the face scanning technology to city surveillance cameras as well. In 10 years, anybody who visits a big city or flies will have a huge database of everywhere they went every day for however long they were in sight of the all-seeing eye. Government will create profiling programs that examine this database and kick out warrant requests for anybody who fits the profile. It'll be fun!

Israel has Hamas on the ropes. You can tell because Hamas has offered a truce. Israel should press the advantage and not worry about the Gazans who can't food or fuel because those Gazan support terrorists. It's a folly of anti-terrorism policy that the people supporting the terrorists are "innocent".

China to meet with envoy of the Dalai Lama.

Supreme Court hears case on District Attorney immunity from lawsuits. Hell no, they shouldn't be immune. That immunity allows them to railroad innocent people with impunity. DA's must be forced to perform thorough investigations in order to assure they bring the proper charges if they bring any charges at all, otherwise budget issues and re-election concerns undercut justice.

NYTime prepares for mass firing of reporters. Serves them right for their yellow journalism.

Nancy Pelosi considers dream ticket a bad idea.

Clinton pressure's Obama for more debates. Obama's a lot of things, but I think he's dumb enough to fall for that.

Obama's pastor Wright puts himself back on the front page by criticizing the media for publicizing his anti-American, loony rants. I think this NC GOP ad that links Wright, Obama, and some NC Democrats, painting them all as extreme by showing one of Rev. Wright's anti-American rants is an excellent, honest ad. If Obama didn't want to be linked to Rev. Wright, he shouldn't have stayed in his church 20 years, had Wright marry him, invited Wright to his campaign (before he disinvited him), celebrated Wright in his book, named his book after a Wright sermon, etc., and if Democrats don't want to be linked with Wright, they should distance themselves from Obama. Or they could just whine like usual. You can bet the Democrat superdelegates are watching this.

Linked just for the headline: Dems always find way not to win. That's because no matter how bad the Republican candidate and policies, the Dems always run a worse candidate with worse policies. This isn't rocket science, some great mystery, a curse, bad luck, or anything other than stupidity.

The gun dealer who sold one of the guns used in the Virginia Tech massacre visits campus to promote carrying arms on campus. This guy did nothing wrong. He had no way of knowing his costumer was a lunatic mass murderer. And he's right on about the benefits of concealed carry. But I have to wonder about him being the messenger.

It's nice to see a woman in a typically liberal blog explain why women often make less money than men, and say that legislation has no place in this issue.

Food crisis eclipses climate crisis. Duh. How long have skeptics been saying that all the proposed solutions to climate change will harm the poor disproportionately without having any effect on climate? That's exactly what we're seeing the biofuels subsidies do. This isn't rocket science. If 
implement any of these idiotic, Marxist plans to reduce man-made CO2, poor people are going to suffer and die, and climate will continue to change the same as it has for 4 billion years.

Professional panhandler pockets $50 an hour. This has been going on for over a decade at least.

Genetic analysis shows that humanity almost went extinct 70,000 years ago. I think this is old news. I wonder what neandertals would  have done if we hadn't outcompeted them.

Greenpeace founder understands real environmental problems, promotes nuclear power, and realizes global warming is not caused by man.

Cato explains that the failure after Katrina was a big-government failure, not a Bush failure, any more than it would have been McCain's failure had he been in office.

Cato calls BPA worries false.

Cato explains that to fix the education crisis in America, we must not only abolish the Dept. of Education, but we must transfer power and accountability for education from bureaucrats at all levels back to parents.

Rahm Emanuel says that global warming is an issue for the elites, not the masses. I don't know exactly what that means, but I know it's bad for all of us. When the elites are making decisions instead of the people, we all lose.

I guess I would be remiss if I didn't mention Al Gore used fake footage in The Inconveniet Truth. Personally, I this is waste of my time an electrons to post. Gore, his movie, and his religion are frauds and always have been frauds, the magnitude of which are so dishonest and dangerous that they rival communism. 
Bringing this up is like pointing out a pimple on a demon.