What’s Wrong With THIS Picture???

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Last weekend, long-time WABC newsman George Weber (above top) was murdered in his Brooklyn apartment.

Weber was stabbed over fifty times by a “knife-obsessed” Satanist.

All of that is horrible and George Weber, with his dynamic on-air personality, was certainly a victim of a violent crime, but the back-story is revealing and it makes the entire story a lot more complex.

Turns out that the 47 y/o Weber met his alleged killer (John Katehis - also pictured above bottom) through an online ad on Craigslist. An ad that offered $60 for rough sex.

OK, here’s what’s wrong with this picture, in grieving for George Weber, we lose site of the fact that he TOO committed a series of crimes here, the LEAST of which is offering to pay for sex (promoting prostitution) and the MOST SERIOUS being, put in the most charitable light, statutory rape – sex with a minor!

While neither of those crimes is worthy of death, they are serious issues and they speak to the moral crisis we face as a country today. Put it this way, IF George Weber had survived the attack, we'd still want John Katehis punished for his crimes, and once Mr. Weber got out of the hospital, we'd have wanted him to answer for his, as well.

But we seem to see it so often now-a-days that we’ve become numb to it – MSNBC’s “To Catch a Predator” has shown dozens of men of all backgrounds and income strata seeking out and driving hundreds of miles to engage in sex with 12 and 14 year-olds!

This kind of debased morality is inconsistent with freedom as Liberty and we cannot long survive as a nation so long as this plague is so widespread and remains so unaddressed.

Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government

British Parlimentarian Daniel Hannan rips Gordon Brown over his Keynesian policies! Excoriating Prime Minister Brown over trying to "spend his way out of recession," declaring "You have run out of OUR money." GREAT video with almost 1.5 MILLION hits.

Obama Administration: We Love the Troops so MUCH We’re Gonna Make’m Pay for Their Own Healthcare Costs...

The Obama administration is looking into ways of saving money.

Good, you say?

Maybe they’ll cut some of those pork-ladden social programs and slash government funds going to radical groups like ACORN?

No such luck.

How’s about America’s servicemen paying for their own healthcare to cover the costs of injuries incurred in fighting on behalf of their country?

Yup, that seems to be about the size of it.


"Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

"But the proposal would be "dead on arrival" if it's sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.

"Murray used that blunt terminology when she told Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. Her remarks came during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs about the 2010 budget.

"Asked about the proposal, Shinseki said it was under "consideration."

"A final decision hasn't been made yet," he said.

"Currently, veterans' private insurance is charged only when they receive health care from the VA for medical issues that are not related to service injuries, like getting the flu.

"Charging for service-related injuries would violate "a sacred trust," Veterans of Foreign Wars spokesman Joe Davis said. Davis said the move would risk private health care for veterans and their families by potentially maxing out benefits paying for costly war injury treatments."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/veterans.health.insurance/index.html

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So, WHY the pretense of "supporting our troops", especially NOW, when such a pretense is hardly needed? So, the Left wants to punish America's Vets for fighting for a nation THEY view as imperialist and evil...OK, then why not just have the guts to say that?!

Key Dems KNEW About AIG’s Bonuses!...

Amidst all the faux outrage over the AIG bonuses, there’s now a lot of ducking and covering.

Turns out that the Senate version of TARP, which came out of the Senate Finance Committee run by Chris Dodd, had in place ironclad protections for any bonuses contracted BEFORE February 9, 2009.

Now, Dodd is throwing Tim Geithner and by extension, Barack Obama under the bus to save himself (he’s trailing badly in re-election polls for his Senate seat), by claiming “We didn’t write that line, the treasury Department did.”

Really?Notice, Dodd didn’t say he didn’t KNOW about it, just that he “didn’t write it.”

The “writing” apparently done by Tim Geithner.

Oddly enough, it’s CONGRESS, NOT the Treasury Department that is charged with writing legislation, so it’s doubtful that Tim Geithner wrote that line.

But accuracy is never all that important when you’re trying to save your own skin.

After all, aside from those VIP Mortgages he glommed from Countrywide, Dodd also happily took $103,000 from AIG!

Hmmmm, BIG DONATION and a line that provides an ironclad protection for contracted bonuses written on or before 2/9/09 gets passed over in the Bill.

Coincidence?

PLEASE Connecticut, do the right thing (you did it in re-electing Lieberman) and flush this guy, once and for all!

Nancy Pelosi Lauds Protections for Illegal Immigrant Workers, While More and MORE Americans Lose Their Jobs...

Calling workplace enforcement “raids”, ICE officials “thugs” and illegal immigrants “heros” called for worker protections for illegal immigrants and the end to things like E-Verify.

Again, while it’s understandable why Liberal/Moderate “Country Club” Republicans would support illegal immigration (CHEAP LABOR), Pelosi’s reasoning seems more convoluted and flat-out wrong.

For demographic trends show that Hispanic Americans are very entrepreneurial and very religious, putting them at odds with the Leftist agenda of folks like Nancy Pelosi.

In fact, Hispanic-American citizens tend to vote more Conservatively than most other ethnic groups.

Either way, it’s a shame that an “American” politician seems MORE concerned with protecting the jobs of NON-citizens than she does America’s working people!

What’s Wrong With America’s Healthcare?

Well one thing, is that over 25% of the costs for American healthcare are due to administrative costs, complying with various government and insurance regulations.

Makes for an inherently inefficient system.

Which is the Most Effective law Enforcement Agency

This is an old one, sent to me in an email by my friend P-Mac.

It’s a fictitious but humorous account of an administration trying to find the most effective law enforcement agency in the country.

The President was trying to determine the most effective law enforcement agency in the country and after months of eliminations had come down to three agencies – the CIA, the FBI and the NYPD.

The government decided to run a test to determine which of the three was really the best. So, they spray painted three rabbits gold and set them loose in three separate forests and let the three agencies have at it.

First the CIA planted cameras and listening devices throughout the forest, used look-alike rodents (fake squirrels and gophers) to try and ferret the golden rabbit out of the forest.

After six months the CIA issued a 1,027 page report that, in essence, said, “There’s no such thing as a golden rabbit."

The FBI surrounded the forest, brought in tanks to deploy tear gas and demanded the golden rabbit come out peacefully, when it didn’t respond, the FBI set fire to the forest and issued a statement saying, “The golden rabbit deserved that fate.”

The NYPD sent its officers into its forest to “search for suspects and interrogate them.”

After a day and a half the NYPD officers brought out a badly beaten bear, who kept shouting, "I’m the f*cking rabbit! I AM the f*cking RABBIT!!!"

I guess it just goes to show you, if you really want a crime SOLVED, with minimal environmental damage or eye strain, go get an NYPD cop!



H/T to P-Mac