Posts from — March 2006

You read the story and find out the “interceptor missile” did launch, and the new Japanese warhead seemed to work as hoped, but then you get to the “target”.

The interceptor hit the “target”…well, it hit the point the “target” would have been, if it were real and not simply part of a computer program.

This test proved nothing worth talking about or funding.

They bring in people to perform jobs and don’t make any provision for them. They sign agreements and ignore them. They don’t seem to understand the shortages in New Orleans.

Food and shelter are rather basic to any enterprise, and after 6 months they still can’t provide them.

Nothing else comes close to this direct relationship, and it has been known and written about in criminal justice literature for decades.

This is exactly how you create international incidents. Everyone working at an embassy has to keep the professionals from the State Department apprised of what they are doing, because it affects the diplomatic relations between the US and the country involved.

People in my Air Force specialty received embassy assignments. I left the Air Force in part because I was passed over for an assignment to the Moscow embassy due to my being single. If I had received the assignment I would have had the American ambassador inserted into my chain of command.

This sort of “cowboy operation” is going to get somebody killed and there is no “plausible deniability” when the people involved are in the US military. In a lot of countries such operations would be considered a casus belli.

August J. Pollock explains why there’s no reason to worry about the Biondi Internet bill.

There is a specific breed of cattle horse called the Florida Cracker horse and a specific breed of cattle, Florida Cracker cattle associated with the livestock industry in Florida.

The name was later associated with any rootless person of low regard, which is more suited to such people in other states, like Georgia.

§ 22-16-1. “Homicide” defined.

Homicide is the killing of one human being, including an unborn child, by another. It is either:

(1) Murder;
(2) Manslaughter;
(3) Excusable homicide;
(4) Justifiable homicide; or
(5) Vehicular homicide.

§ 22-16-3. Relationship between accused and victim bearing on degree of homicide.

Whenever the degree of homicide is made to depend upon its having been committed under circumstances evidencing a depraved mind or unusual cruelty, or in a cruel manner, the jury may take into consideration any domestic or confidential relationship which existed between the accused and the person killed.

§ 22-16-4. Murder in the first degree – Premeditated design – Felony murder – Homicide as murder in the first degree.

Homicide is murder in the first degree when perpetrated without authority of law and with a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed or of any other human being, or when committed by a person engaged in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, or unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or explosive. Homicide is also murder in the first degree if committed by a person who perpetrated, or who attempted to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping or unlawful throwing, placing or discharging of a destructive device or explosive and who subsequently effects the death of any victim of such crime to prevent detection or prosecution of the crime.

All that was required was to define a fetus as an unborn child and eliminate the existing “authority of law” for abortion and the current criminal law of the state of South Dakota is applicable.

For those who think they won’t charge a woman in these circumstance, all I can say is that you haven’t been paying attention – they have been calling it murder for years. There is nothing to stop a prosecutor from charging murder, as the law is clear.

I plead reading the MSM, who of course don’t seem to have noticed.

Many apologists for the Shrubbery have been having vapors because Iran Threatens ‘Harm and Pain’ to United States .

When American officials spoke before the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee and make threats towards Iran, they were silent.

Sunday, 03/06/2006: IAEA chief: Iran deal possible

Meanwhile, John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told an American-Israeli organization that the United States would use “all tools at our disposal” to address the threat an Iranian nuclear program might pose.

“We must not ignore Tehran’s refusal to address the concerns of the international community,” Bolton told the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington on Sunday.

Monday, 0307/2006: Cheney: Iran must not have nuclear weapons

“The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences,” Cheney said in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobbying group.

If you go around threatening people, you shouldn’t act surprised when they respond in kind.

One of the major reasons no one wanted Saddam removed was that he kept Iran occupied. Iran has the military capability of eliminating all oil production in the Persian Gulf and all the world can do at this point is retaliate as the price of gas hits $10+/gallon and the world economy goes down the tubes.

The Shrubbery might want to have someone explain the meaning of a Pyrrhic victory to him.

Israel has also made threats, but they might want to consider that Iran has intermediate range ballistic missiles that are quite capable of reaching them and the Iranians have SCUDs to take out the oil fields.

Three Birmingham college students were arrested Wednesday in connection with 10 church fires in Alabama last month, state and federal officials said.

One of the suspects said the fires began as a joke that “got out of hand,” according to court papers filed Wednesday citing what a witness told investigators.

Two of those arrested were identified as Ben Moseley and Russell Debusk, both 19 and students at Birmingham-Southern College, which is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. They appeared in federal court in Birmingham late Wednesday morning.

Soaping windows is a joke. TP-ing is a joke. Firebombing buildings is not a joke. Jokes don’t involve the FBI and BATF.

If burning houses that are being built because of environmental beliefs is terrorism, then burning down ten churches in rural locations is terrorism, especially when some of those churches had black congregations and the history of burning black churches in the South.

Anybody who thinks this won’t cause trouble between the Baptists and the United Methodists doesn’t understand the politics of the Southern churches.

Update: The President of Birmingham Southern College has has announced that the school will help to rebuild the burned churches. A very good move for all concerned.

This is the reason no professional uses torture: IT DOES NOT WORK!

PATRIOT Act goes to the Shrubbery for his mark.

Why are we paying these 535 people?

Hey, it’s a common belief that you shouldn’t say the name of demons out loud. On the other hand, with his approval ratings it is not exactly a bonus to be linked to Dead-Eye Dick.