Doc is being particularly annoying today.  In other words, she is behaving just like a cat.  As I type, she is sitting beside the little Viao, propped up on the now dead HP DZ8000, her head resting on my head.  When I do not do what she wants, she either smacks or bites me.

 

The Politico has a piece about baseball in NYC being a Dem-GOP thing with Dems pulling for the Mets and the GOP pulling for the Yanks.  Oye – I pull for the Mets and intensely dislike the Yanks!

 

What really happened during that NASA shooting.  

 

‘Kryptonite’ has been found in a Siberian mine.

 

Have you heard the one about the rainforest discovered in a coal mine?

 

Brendan Miniter in today’s Opinion Journal’s Political Diary wrote:

“Senate Votes to Impeach Bush:" The Far Left has longed to read those words in its morning paper, and now a legislature somewhere has finally obliged. The Vermont State Senate voted late last week for a resolution demanding impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on grounds of "constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of public trust." The vote was 16-9, with six Republicans and three Democrats voting against it.

 

The Vermont effort took off after 40 towns in the tiny state passed similar resolutions, but advocates had to wait until Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, a Republican who controls the Senate, was absent before they could rush through the non-binding resolution. In the State House, Speaker Gaye Symington, a Democrat, has kept the resolution from coming to the floor on grounds that it would be needlessly divisive. The state's congressional delegation -- which includes socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders -- is also cold to the idea of impeaching President Bush.

 

Lawmakers in Washington State, Wisconsin and other states have pushed for similar resolutions and have gotten nowhere too. As popular as impeachment may be with the bathrobe activist set, most party professionals suspect it would put Democrats on a fast track to losing the confidence of American voters. If the Vermont episode has any significance at all, it's merely evidence that a substantial subset of the activist community can't engage in a policy disagreement (Iraq) without trying to turn it into a legal dispute and an occasion for moral grandstanding.”

I don’t quite understand where the authority to appoint a Special Council to persecute Karl Rove comes from, but evidently it is going to happen.  The Dems are not going to stop until Rove is in jail and GWB is there along-side him.  It doesn’t’ matter that they’ve done nothing wrong.  That’s just a minor technicality.  The LATimes alleges that the inquiry comes from within the Administration, but that doesn’t make sense.   Neither does the fact that there is nothing wrong with dismissing a political appointment for political reasons.  Mac’s Mind

 

The Prez is disappointed with the Dems.  No dodo (other word not used).

 

IMMIGRATION

We will never hear the end of this one as a Border Patrol agent is charged with murder. Naturally Nicholas Corbett’s killing of Francisco Dominguez-Rivera of Mexico was justified.  After all, the latter was an illegal immigrant breaking the law.   

 

From the Douglas Dispatch

“…Adney and fellow Sheriff's Office detective Ursula Ritchie asked the witnesses to describe Corbett's demeanor during the incident. "Rene stated that the agent that shot Francisco was aggressive, but after the second agent arrived, the first agent changed, like he was sorry," Adney wrote. Ritchie added: "Rene said the second agent appeared more sad, since he saw tears coming from his eyes." Soon, more agents arrived, and the three family members were loaded into the back of another Border Patrol SUV. "Jorge said that some of the agents who arrived later were laughing," Ritchie reported. "Others were shaking their heads."…”

T. J. Bonner then lies for the BP (as usual)

“…The Border Patrol agents' union has complained that Mexican consular officials were allowed to interview four of the six witnesses at the Naco Border Patrol station after the shooting, before sheriff's and other investigators could conduct their interviews.  T.J. Bonner, the union's president, told The Associated Press that the procedural misstep would explain why Sandra, Jorge and Rene's stories "are in lockstep, because they could easily have been coached."

However, in her Jan. 12 report, Adney wrote she and Raul Hernandez, an agent with the Border Patrol's critical incident team, had already interviewed the three men in the back seat of Corbett's truck and were in the process of interviewing Sandra when three officials arrived from the Mexican Consulate in Douglas. The consular group waited in another room until the investigators were finished talking to Sandra, Adney reported. They were then given permission to speak to the four people who had already been interviewed. The three eyewitnesses told the sheriff's detectives that they talked with each other about what had happened, but did not discuss what they should or should not say. They also denied that anyone had coached them on their stories.

Their accounts do not appear to conflict with other, non-testimonial evidence in the case, which includes an autopsy report, ballistics tests and a grainy surveillance video from a Border Patrol camera tower.”

From the AZ Daily Star

“…The bullet that killed Domínguez-Rivera entered the left side of his chest, passed through his heart and liver, and settled in his right lower abdomen, a couple of inches to the right of his navel, according to an autopsy report by the Cochise County Medical Examiner's Office. The report was released with hundreds of other pages of documents related to the shooting investigation.

 

Domínguez-Rivera was shot from between 3 inches and 2 1/2 feet away, according to Arizona Department of Public Safety lab information included in the report.

 

Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer said he had not yet decided whether the agent would face charges, noting that the decision will not be made until he's had a chance to review a video of the incident captured by a Border Patrol surveillance camera. The digital video on compact disc is in the hands of the FBI, he said, where it is undergoing "video enhancement."

Corbett has returned to full active duty according to agency protocol and will continue working pending the results of the investigation, said Gustavo Soto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. …”

The conservative anti-immigration take on this story is going to be interesting, especially since the video evidence supports the murder charge against Corbett. And according to the Tucson Citizen, the forensic evidence contradicts Corbitt’s story.

 

Then read how Judicial Watch spins the story:

“…Caving in to pressure from the Mexican government and relying on testimony of fellow illegal border crossers, prosecutors in one Arizona county have criminally charged a United States Border Patrol agent for shooting an aggressive illegal immigrant in the act of violating federal law.

 

Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett has actually been charged with first-degree murder for the January shooting of the illegal alien who was part of a group apprehended about a 150 yards north of the Mexico-Arizona border between Bisbee and Douglas. Corbett said the Mexican man, Francisco Javier Dominguez, became aggressive and attacked him with rocks after being detained.

 

Dominguez had illegally crossed into the U.S. with three others—his two brothers and a sister-in-law—who have become the prosecution’s main witnesses. Based on their testimony, Cochise County prosecutors say the shooting was not legally justified because Dominguez did not represent a threat when he was shot.”

And check out the Lone Star Times’ take on it as you read the comments.  When people begin condoning first degree murder simply because the individual who was the victim of FIRST DEGREE MURDER is in the US illegally or is Hispanic, we have a very serious problem. 

DIRTY LYIN’ DEMS

According to the Politico, the Dems are planning to highlight GOP scandals.  There is something ‘endearing’ about the Dem approach:  Just ignore their own problems and go for the enemy’s jugular.  The GOP could learn quite a bit from their approach.  Too bad the GOP doesn’t have the you know whats to go after the Dems on their scandals.

 

Tom Delay says both Dirty Harry (D-Las Vegas) and HRM Nancy I are very close to treason. 

 

Harry Reid – what is going on in that man’s mind:

Protein Wisdom

Mac’s Mind

Jawa Report

OpFor

Cadillactight

Mudville Gazette

Confederate Yankee

Jules Crittenden

Called As Seen

Captain’s Quarters

 

Why won’t NRM Nancy I attend the Petraeus briefing?

 

A MINI RANT

Has Harry Reid lost his mind?  What on earth is he thinking?  Is the man blinded by his own ambition, pure hatred of the President, or is something else at play? Sister Toldja’s posting makes me wonder if Reid is even rational. After reading her commentary, I’ve begin wondering if the man is even firing on all thrusters.  Earlier today I caught a glimpse of him on FOX.  The man does not appear to be stable.  Check out the video link from Hot Air.

 

The man actually stated that he would listen to General Petraeus, but will not believe a word he is saying.  AllahPundit thinks Reid is more interested in gaining Senate seats than winning the war or doing what is right.  I think AllahPundit is being too generous with Reid.  I think something else is at play here.  When the Senate Majority leader says that he’s not going to answer comments by someone with a small approval rating like the VP, I think we are dealing with a very petty individual who is more like a little child, having a temper tantrum now that he isn’t going to get his way. I think the speech by Cheney  has completely exposed Reid’s childish and petulant behavior.   I don’t want to keep dwelling on this, but there is something in Reid’s behavior that is not rational.  

 

Our precious House Republicans are a bit like the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz.  Maybe things are changing after Waxman and associates have decided to go after Rice.

 

Kucinich files articles of impeachment against Cheney. Add the first Muslim Congressman to the list of those wanting to impeach Cheney.    I thought Pelosi promised – before the election – if the Dems won they wouldn’t pull something like this.  Guess they lied about that too.

 

Rich Lowry on the actual story of the rescue of Jessica Lynch.

 

PRIMARIES 2008

MY MINI-RANT OF THE DAY

I finally know what is bothering me about Fred Thompson.  He is being just a little too cute in the is he or isn’t he.  We hear that he’s not going to run if he can’t win it all.  That’s nice.  It shows a certain bull-dog determination, but this is politics.  Anything can happen. A winner (Howard Dean) can become a loser (Howard Dean) in a matter of moments.  Perhaps, if the POTUS game had not started so early this time we would not be having this conversation.  Then again, maybe we would. 

 

There is nothing more exciting than a last minute entry to a race.  It’s the “dark” horse, coming from nowhere, just barely qualifying for the Kentucky Derby who goes on to win it all. Or maybe it is the unknown dirt track driver who scrounges enough together to get a beat-up stock car into a NASCAR race, and takes the checkered flag.  Then there’s the pretty girl sitting on the soda fountain who just happens to catch the right eye and ends up a legend of the silver screen.  These stories, myths, and legends are the stuff of fantasy.  Like the Maltese Falcon, they are the stuff dreams are made of. 

 

Like cute pink strappy summer sandals, this sort of behavior is coy.  It garners headlines.  It steals the show from other who are playing by the rules.  But, like cute little pink strappy sandals, this sort of behavior doesn’t wear well.  It isn’t stable.  The thong breaks and you throw them out like yesterday’s bath-water.

 

Is this what we want in a GOP Presidential candidate?

 

Gingrich is adding staff. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3659.html

Obama (the messiah) was unaware his friend of nearly 20 years was a slum lord because he was never approached by his friend’s tenants, complaining about his friend.

McCain takes NH!

Yesterday we heard how well Rudy was doing with conservatives.  Today, it is a different story.

Gingrich “help wanted” sign

Romney’s deputy campaign manager resigns.

Giuliani on how to keep the US safe!