Delegate of Maryland, Bible-banging zombie, praying in your face and no doubt wishin’ for a little gay-inflicted hellfire and brimstone. Don Dwyer.

Plenty skeert of the me-too nupshiulsexuals. This too good ol’ Don:

The Ann Arundel County Republican kicked up lots of dust last year when he attempted to impeach Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler for directing state agencies to recognize the out-of-state legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples. . .

“Homosexuality will be taught at some level to children attending public schools as has been ordered by the court in various states,” Dwyer said during a morning press conference on Friday.

Heavens. Won’t anybody think of the children? Don? Yoo-hoo Don?

Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr. said Thursday that he had been drinking alcohol when a motorboat he was operating collided with another boat in the Magothy River — an accident that left six people with serious injuries.

In a brief news conference outside a Baltimore hospital, the Pasadena Republican said his blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.2 percent after Wednesday’s crash. The legal limit is .08, according to state law.

No Not Don. Don’s less likely to care about children than to kill them.

The loud noise of the crash — followed by screams — alerted neighbors in the waterfront community by Long Point, residents said.

“I thought it was a bomb. I never heard anything so loud over here,” said Janet Bemkey, who lives with family there. . .

The children — some of whom were being pulled on a tube — were scared and crying, and a “couple of the kids were asking if they were dying,” she said.

I’m betting the boys were holding hands. They deserved to be plowed into by a righteous slobbering drunk. Sadly everyone survived. Don and Jesus work in mysterious ways.

In November of last year, a police shooting occurred in White Plains, New York.

Kenneth Chamberlain was a 68 year-old former Marine with a heart condition. After accidentally triggering his medical alert pendant in the middle of the night, the cops knocked on his door, waking him up. He responds to police by going to the door but not opening it. Frankly, he’s distrustful of the police. He tells them that he’s fine. There’s no problem, they can go away.

They refuse to go away. They keep telling him to open the door. They grow angrier and angrier with him, warning Kenneth that they’re going to break down the door. It becomes a police-driven confrontation that spirals off into hell. Democracy Now interviewed Kenneth Jr., the victim’s son:

KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Ultimately, after using expletives and racial slurs, they broke down the door. You can see on the video from the taser that they fired a taser at him. And I’m assuming that both prongs didn’t go in. He stood about maybe eight to 10 feet away from them with his hands down to his side. And at one point, you hear one of the officers say, “Cut it off.” And it was at that point they shot and killed my father.

Who checks in on a veteran with a heart condition and tasers him? The police report indicates they then shot him with a beanbag. After that, they shot Chamberlain dead, right in his own apartment. Why? They say he wielded a knife. That claim isn’t supported by audio and video of the incident. What’s more likely is that this was a homicide involving racist cops:

KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: I’ve heard—I heard several things on there. One thing you hear is my father pleading with them to leave him alone. Excuse me. You hear him asking them why are they doing this to him. He says, “I’m a 68-year-old man with a heart condition. Why are you doing this to me? I know what you’re going to do: you’re going to come in here, and you’re going to kill me.” You also hear him pleading with the officers again, over and over. And at one point, that’s when the expletive is used by one of the police officers.

AMY GOODMAN: What did they say?

KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: Where they say, “I don’t give a F.” And then they use the N-word. And then, as I said, ultimately, they bust down the door. And it hurts because, as I said, it didn’t have to go to that point. You also hear the operators from the LifeAid company call the police station and say that they want to cancel the call, Mr. Chamberlain is OK. And at one point you hear the officer there at their central office say, “We’re not canceling anything.” They say, “Call his son. Contact his son.” And they say, “We’re not contacting anyone. We don’t need any mediators.” …

KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, JR.: And in 45 years of me being on this earth, that was the very first time that I ever heard my father where he was pleading and begging for his life, someone who I looked at as being extremely strong, to hear him beg for his life, to say that this was his sworn testimony on the audio, which the police did not know that was being recorded. He said, “My name is Kenneth Chamberlain. This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me.”

While Kenneth Jr. and his attorney have seen and heard the tapes, the police refuse to release them to the public. Police won’t release the names of the officers, and won’t say whether they’ve been suspended or are still on active duty. The District Attorney has done nothing so far. The whole thing reeks. Does anybody really wonder why black people still view cops with distrust?

Video and transcript here. The victim’s sister speaks out.

What was Winston Smith’s crime? Having sex with Julia. Falling in love with Julia.

O’Brien picked up the cage, and, as he did so, pressed something in it. There was a sharp click. Winston made a frantic effort to tear himself loose from the chair. It was hopeless; every part of him, even his head, was held immovably. O’Brien moved the cage nearer. It was less than a metre from Winston’s face.

“I have pressed the first lever,” said O’Brien. “You understand the construction of this cage. The mask will fit over your head, leaving no exit. When I press this other lever, the door of the cage will slide up. These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets.”

Rats. Remember that? Now consider the legislation about to be signed into law by the governor of Virginia. Imagine what Big Brother will soon force upon many panicked and love-struck women:

The Virginia legislature has passed a bill that will force women seeking an abortion to undergo a medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound. The mandated procedure requires that a woman’s vagina be distended with a speculum and that a probe be inserted into the vagina and manipulated around so as to produce a high-resolution picture of the uterus and surrounding organs — once again, for no medically sound reason. Governor Bob McDonnell has said that he will sign the bill.

See the Virginia government:

Rats on your face. How about a rat in your ass?

This Mark Berndt case is so vile, so disgusting, it turns your stomach. It troubles me in so many ways, it’s difficult to be analytical about it. Miramonte Elementary is only about 12 miles from where I live, a couple miles east of the infamous Florence and Normandie intersection dubbed the ‘flashpoint’ of the 1992 riots. In Los Angeles’ terms, it’s a stone’s throw away. In neighborhood terms, it’s in another world. I haven’t even begun to wonder if poverty plays any role in this. Anyway, I can’t wonder while I’m sitting here holding my head.

Los Angeles teacher charged with lewd acts
Scott Gold, Richard Winton and Paloma Esquivel | Los Angeles Times

In the fall of 2010, a drugstore photo technician was running a batch of 35-millimeter film when a disturbing image tumbled out of the machine — a child, blindfolded with a white cloth and gagged with clear packing tape. From that first photograph, detectives spent the next year following a trail that led them to a South Los Angeles elementary school.

They say they found acts of staggering depravity.

There were more photos, it turned out — 400 more, traced to an apartment in nearby Torrance, then to a bustling schoolhouse in South Los Angeles. There, officials alleged Tuesday, a veteran third-grade teacher sought sexual gratification by spoon-feeding his semen to his students.

The question today is: If they had photos of his “staggering depravity” in, say, October of 2010, why was he fired in March 2011? Why was he arrested only this week? There’s an extraordinary time lapse between his acts being discovered and his being put in jail.

I can understand that some evidence may be difficult to gather. The victims were often blindfolded, meaning they couldn’t even act as witnesses to some of what was going on. They maybe never knew they were being photographed. That no one reported him earlier and that he was a veteran of 30 years of teaching tell us he knew his victims and the school system well enough. He exploited both for his own ends, with horrific results.

But why wouldn’t these facts cause authorities greater alarm? Given the potential nightmare being visited upon the victims and the Miramonte school system (whose working class reputation is probably now forever shrouded in horror), why did it take months to identify him? Why would it take so long to remove him and then fire him?

The authorities’ likely assertions of the need to gather evidence should be scrupulously vetted. Perhaps the most shocking ‘report’ (we don’t yet know if this is true) is how they ‘proved’ he was feeding his semen to children.

Others depicted girls with what appears to be a spoon up to their mouths as if they were going to ingest a clear-white liquid. Children were fed Berndt’s semen from a spoon or on cookies, Marquez said.

Kids reported being fed something distasteful. A blue plastic spoon and container found in the trash in his classroom tested positive for his semen, authorities said.

Police recommended the children in the photos be tested for sexually transmitted diseases. There also may be more victims given the length of time that Berndt taught at the school, Marquez said.

If the above is correct, even though the photographs had been discovered, Berndt was allowed to continue doing as he pleased. They merely kept him under some surveillance. But for some reason they wondered about the spoon he threw in the trash . . ? So they tested it and found his semen. The authorities are going to have to explain how they couldn’t have prevented that particular child from being victimized.

And after that, it only took how long to arrest him? 10 months? Wow.

Fundamentalists are apparently uneasy with October. The end of the month drags evil into this world. The “Halloween” poses a serious challenge for real Christians, and the costume party would best be eradicated.

Regular folks pretending to be demons, children dressing as witches — these are wild, satanic behaviors. Who knew? They did: souls are lost to “Halloween.” And, but, what the hell do you care? Naw, nothing. Typical. Yes, this is exactly as Lucifer operates.

Well, here come the Calvary:

The Lord Christ finally gets a holiday all his own. Check the fireworks:

Whew. Temporary-evil children come to your house, come upon your door, dressed as angels, or rapists, or dentists. You shall fill their candy-sacks with Bibles . .

. . or, perhaps, bleach-white Press On Nails. Imagine the joy on their faces. Imagine the acrylic and poisonous polymer on their cuticles. Imagine the catcalls from 9 year-old Johns.

Imagine going as a crazy Christian for Halloween. Then the deal’s not so bad . .

Away blogging: Yikes. Wishing I hadn’t found this computer just off the foyer.

This guy is a thoroughly rancid talking head who Fox trots out to throw around nasty shit. See here and here and here and here.

It’s too early to say what the massacre at Foot Hood was–we just don’t have enough reliable information about the mass murderer, Hasan, and his thoughts and motives to say what his intentions were. But, generally, a terrorist act is a small part of a large overall plan. Terrorism usually has large political aims, and a single act doesn’t likely change anything, including even the perpetrator’s goals, if he survives.

If Hasan acted out of extreme emotional stress without any thought as to what his actions meant in a larger context, then I don’t see how you call that ‘terrorism.’ The facts that he was being deployed, was adamantly opposed to it and was increasingly distressed as the date approached probably point in the opposite direction, but we’ll see. Because of the great symbolism attached to terrorists’ acts, the dates they choose to attack are not generally random.

This, for example, is clearly terrorism.

Don’t worry, I’m sure the Muslim-bashing has only begun. This is one of the most pure-hate screeds I’ve ever heard, but then we’ve been waiting for this bigotry Hall of Famer to speak up. He doesn’t disappoint.

“…but if we don’t stop covering up what Islam is…Islam is a violent…I wouldn’t consider it a religion, but it’s not a religion, it’s a political system. It’s a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and the, and world domination. That is the ultimate aim. And they talk about infidels and all this, but the truth is that’s what the game is. So you are dealing with a, not a religion. You’re dealing with a political system. And I think we should treat it as such and treat its adherents as such as we would members of the Communist Party or members of some fascist group…”

*sigh*

I really wish they’d get past the formality of pretending to be cool-headed and sober and get to settling in with wild-eyed hysteria. These ‘intellectuals’ are annoying.

Fort Hood: Let’s Drop the Political Correctness
By David Warren

For a person with old-fashioned values, and an old-fashioned sense of English word meanings, the reports of the Fort Hood massacre were almost as provoking as what happened there.

With Warren’s surprising post-modern sense of Aramaic word meanings, if he’d been reading those reports of the massacre, we would have been deprived of this post. Lucky us. Here’s an English word that’s old enough: provocative.

In the larger view of things, they may be more consequential.

Let me make that latter point plain. I am saying the words and attitudes conveyed in the reporting of a massacre can be, and in this case are, more consequential than the massacre itself.

Well, this is some sort of job security ploy, isn’t it? ‘Sure, a massacre is bad, but the words on the internet that follow it are what’s really dangerous. And I should know because I read, write and criticize words on the internet.’ Warren’s an idiot. You can ‘report’ whatever you like about me, but please don’t shoot me in the face and kill me. Given what a bullet ripping through my grey matter will do to my life, bloggers and their attitudes are pretty inconsequential.

Having said that, I must not leave the impression I think little of the loss of a dozen human beings, the perhaps permanent maiming of many more, and all the consequences of this horror in the lives of their families and friends. But we must not shed crocodile tears. My heart goes out to the victims, but from a great distance: I know none of them personally, I know no one who knows them.

Given that he claims to have an essential and classic grasp of the English language, you’d think he would know the origin of ‘crocodile tears’. The phrase came from witnessing crocs appear to cry as they ate their victims. So it’s a false expression of sadness by the perpetrator. Either Warren thinks that ‘we’ shot everybody or he’s not as smart as he’d like to pretend. No matter your relationship to the language, you’re not seeing any universal insincerity of sadness over the massacre, so I have no idea what he’s getting at.

…We should not allow ourselves to be moved by the cold hearts of professional tear-jerkers because when we reward that kind of thing we help perpetuate an emotional order that is dangerously false. We should instead be annoyed by attempts to manipulate us.

Falsehood has more consequences than the revelation of personal insincerity.

Err, wha? What does that even mean? If I said ‘I really think David Warren wrote a great post,’ wouldn’t that be both a falsehood and personally insincere? And what does the ‘revelation’ of insincerity have to do with anything? The distinctions are…what? The greater danger is…?

What happened at Fort Hood was no kind of “tragedy.” It was a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by a man acting upon known Islamist motives.

Okay, boing, we’re done. Warren is just foisting spastic rhetoric. He’s an alien to his precious English and to rational thought, so he’s not adding anything to the discussion other than digital epilepsy. To him, 9/11 was also ‘a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by [men] acting upon known Islamist motives‘, and therefore ‘no kind of “tragedy.”‘

Nidal Malik Hasan

The guy who posted this, Tunku Varadarajan, obviously thinks he’s pretty sharp for dispensing with the annoying political correctness and calling the Ft. Hood massacre for what it is. We’ve gotten unfortunately used to events where a worker ‘goes postal’, so maybe it’s time we started calling these Muslim killings ‘going Muslim.’ Except for the fact that nothing like it has ever happened before, duh.

‘Going Muslim‘
Tunku Varadarajan, 11.09.09, 12:00 AM EST

America after Fort Hood.

“Going postal” is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker–archetypically a postal worker–”snaps” and guns down his colleagues.

As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent rage, one we might dub–disconcertingly–”Going Muslim.” This phrase would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American–a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood–discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans. This would appear to be what happened in the case of Maj. Hasan.

The stupidity and laziness apparent here are obvious, but I’ll point it out anyway. There’s no reason to assign a familiar name to a ‘phenomenon’ when it’s an unprecedented event. If a little green man broke into your house and shot your dog, would you call it ‘going alien’? If he came down the chimney, would you call it ‘going Santa’?

And there’s an obvious taint of ‘Muslims are dirty foreigners’ here throughout Varadarajan’s post. When an over-wrought worker ‘goes postal’, he’s apparently not a ‘seemingly integrated’ guy who ‘discards his apparent integration into American society’. That’s just what happens when Muslims do it.

Note to Tunku: Hasan was born in Arlington, Virginia.

The difference between “going postal,” in the conventional sense, and “going Muslim,” in the sense that I suggest, is that there would not necessarily be a psychological “snapping” point in the case of the imminently violent Muslim; instead, there could be a calculated discarding of camouflage–the camouflage of integration–in an act of revelatory catharsis. In spite of suggestions by some who know him that he had a history of “harassment” as a Muslim in the army, Maj. Hasan did not “snap” in the “postal” manner. He gave away his possessions on the morning of his day of murder. He even gave away–to a neighbor–a packet of frozen broccoli that he did not wish to see go to waste, even as he mapped in his mind the laying waste of lives at Fort Hood. His was a meticulous, even punctilious “departure.”

So not only was he a dirty foreigner, he was a sneaky dirty foreigner.

It’d be more accurate to say that a thinly veiled internet slur upon American Muslims is ‘going Varadarajan’, don’t you think? Incidentally, any of you seen what this guy looks like?

That’s one filthy-looking beard. And who the hell spells their name with two Us and five As? Somebody at Forbes should take a loooooong look at this guy.

How much longer will it be before ACORN will have killed Bill? Days? Hours?

Dead Census worker: Victim of open borders?
Roger Hedgecock
Posted: September 28, 2009

Two weeks ago, Census taker Bill Sparkman died choking, hands and feet bound, hanging naked from a tree in a remote site in Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, Ky. Someone had scrawled “fed” on his chest with a felt-tipped pen.

Last week, Sparkman’s death became fodder for more attacks on “right-wing violence.” Bloggers wanted to “send the body to Glenn Beck,” and a Time magazine piece speculated that Sparkman was a victim of the culture of another McCain-voting Southern state

Now it looks more like Sparkman was yet another victim of illegal drug operations on national forest land, and possibly also a victim of our still open border with Mexico.

Taking the Census in our national forests is dangerous business. Law enforcement sources say meth labs and marijuana plantations are “prevalent” in the area of Sparkman’s death. Did he stumble across a drug operation in the Daniel Boone National Forest? No one is saying for sure, but the locals believe it…

Our open border with Mexico has been changing American society in a number of unpleasant ways. These fires, these destroyed national forest lands, and maybe even Bill Sparkman’s death, may just be the latest way.

So now it’s wild-eyed drug pushers. But not the white American ones, the brown Mexican ones. This latest story I don’t find very compelling given that illegal immigrants, even, or especially, the ones running drug operations, are very wary of police and the government. When law enforcement drops by, they run.

And when it’s some harmless guy from the Census Bureau, they don’t abduct, kill and hang him. And then write ‘fed’ on the body. That’s a particularly lurid, public message that doesn’t really serve a foreign drug operation. Perhaps Mexican drug-dealer/manufacturers in Mexico, maybe, but not here.

This murder really looks like an act of rage, and Conservatives just refuse to admit they have had a hand in pouring gasoline on already-present anti-government feelings in that part of Kentucky. I don’t imagine the moonshining days are all that far back. Instead, they’re going to keep coming up with ever-more preposterous scenarios, some that obscenely blame the blameless Sparkman for his own murder because, frankly, these right-wingers are cowards.

If it does turn out to be some paranoid ‘Federal Government Rapes and Kills!’ lunatic, watch them pile on that the killer was actually a hard core liberal. Yes, they are that dumb and shameless.

Why wouldn’t somebody understandably enraged at a child molester plan and follow him to some far-flung precinct, abduct him, bind his hands and feet, kill him, strip his body naked, hang it from a tree, and scrawl ‘fed’ across his belly? Slap his census i.d. to his side? It’s all so simple.

So many questions…
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Was blogger Dan Riehl cramming his balls up a goat’s ass?

…look, before any more people start going bonkers that I’m accusing Riehl of anything, take a breath…

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Was Dan Riehl chatter-chewing the hair off the bunghole of an African Elephant?

…hey, before any more Liberals start staining their g-strings that I’m accusing Riehl of anything, take a breath…

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>Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator?
Riehl World View
Sunday, September 27, 2009

UPDATE: Before any more people start going bonkers that I’m accusing Sparkman of anything, take a breath. I’ve done a fair amount of crime blogging mixed in with politics over time. One doesn’t rule anything in or out without some firm answers. People feel free to speculate about Meth labs and pot fields but none have been reported in the area, yet. All I’m doing is looking at any and all possibilities. You’d think a moonshiner, or Meth head would have just buried the guy. Why hang him and invite the Feds into it by writing Fed on his chest? Why strip him naked and bind and gag him, which has serious sexual overtones?

I have no idea what happened, but from the reporting I’ve seen, neither does anyone else. If he adopted a boy as a single man, or was married and split with the wife and kids, who knows. But I never assume I know a story or motive until I know it. Right now we don’t. I’m simply speculating on one possible alternative, however impolite.

Someone may as well say it given some peculiar details. The strangest quote I’ve seen in all the reporting around apparently murdered Census worker Bill Sparkman is this one from his Mother located in Florida.

“I have my own ideas, but I can’t say them out loud. Not at this point,” she said. “Right now, what I’m doing, I’m just waiting on the FBI to come to some conclusion.”

She didn’t say she had been advised not to speculate. Being in Florida she has nothing to fear from Kentucky locals, so why the secrecy? Add that to the somewhat mysterious way this case is being revealed by authorities and whatever is behind it, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another surprise in store here.

The condition of the body and his being naked also seems curious. Why strip someone down to their socks only to kill them? Finally Sparkman’s bio and work history suggests at the least he was not just your average guy. No teaching degree, no full-time means of employment and no wife or kids so far as I am aware. But he certainly did gravitate towards children. I can’t help but wonder if this wasn’t a revenge killing disguised to look like something else. If he did have issues in this regard and messed with the wrong kid, it isn’t as if something like that can be ruled out until we know more.

Sparkman’s mother, Henrie Sparkman of Inverness, Fla., told The Associated Press her son was an Eagle scout who moved to the area to be a local director for the Boy Scouts of America. She said he later became a substitute teacher in Laurel County and supplemented that income as a Census worker.

There also seems to be a huge number of small unnamed cemeteries in that area. I haven’t even seen the name of the cemetery he was found in released. Interesting case, if nothing else. But I’m far from certain it has any political ramifications.