Border Agents May Have Sentences Commuted

This makes me embarrassed to be an American!

President Bush has still yet to issue a pardon for jailed U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ramos & Compean. Bush has issued a pardon for a man convicted of hiring, aiding and harboring illegal immigrants - the same people Ramos & Compean were protecting us from - and in an unprecedented action, after handing out pardons like candy, Bush rescinded a pardon issued to a New York developer - but our Border Agents get ignored. He should be ashamed!

In a new turn of events, the agents may have their sentences commuted...

From WND --

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a file on imprisoned U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and a commutation of their sentences is under review, the office of agency pardon attorney Ronald L. Rodgers confirmed to WND.

Rodgers spoke directly about the case by telephone with Stephen J. Eichler, J.D., executive director of Jim Gilchrist's Minuteman Project Inc.. More...

Commuted? Bullcrap! Not only should they not be in jail - but if anyone was ever deserving of a pardon these men are! They should have never even been arrested.

Speeding Tickets & Stop Signs

Get a speeding or stop sign ticket and want to fight it? Being well versed on this issue, I would say more often than not, the traffic signage is incorrectly installed thus making the ticket void.

Below is a recent example...

From Reno Gazette Journal --

James Killian, a civil engineer with the Nevada Department of Transportation, argued the ticket he received in April for going 39 mph in a 25 mph zone was unenforceable because the speed limit sign was too small and didn’t comply with uniform traffic codes adopted by the state in 2003.

Elko Justice of the Peace Al Kacin agreed, and dismissed the citation.

Now county and Spring Creek Association employees are taking inventory of traffic signs, trying to determine how many may need to be replaced if the local jurisdictions are required to comply with the updated standards.

Traffic signage location is a very critical aspect of road construction. In the above incident it only resulted in a speeding ticket being dismissed. Imagine the lawsuits if there were a fatal accident at a 4-way intersection and the Stop sign was incorrectly installed. Because of these liabilities, some of the more pro-active municipalities are using traffic engineers to review city-wide signage for violations. I would say the county and Spring Creek Association should be grateful.

In Ohio, the regulations for traffic signage and anything traffic related (striping, traffic signals, construction zones, etc...) is very specific and can be found in the Ohio Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices (OMUTCD). Everything from the size of the sign, lettering, color scheme, height of sign, angle of sign, type of post and all the way down to the type of bolts to fasten the sign is regulated.

Inauguration Ticket Becomes Available

Are you having a hard time finding a ticket and hotel reservations for the upcoming anointing of President-elect Odumbo? If you are, today is your lucky day! It appears there will be an extra ticket.

Initially planning to attend the anointing, Mayor Gary Becker of Racine, WI had an abrupt change in plans after a trip to the shopping mall...

From AJC --

Authorities said he went there to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl but actually was a state agent.

A criminal complaint filed against him Thursday included sexually explicit chats he had with the other person. He faces six felony charges and has been freed on $165,000 cash bond.

City Administrator Ben Hughes said canceling Becker's airline ticket and a four-night stay in an expensive D.C. hotel will cost the city hundreds of dollars. He said city officials learned this week that Becker chose the most expensive of three options — at $550 a night — when booking hotel accommodations.

The pervert was charged with child enticement, possession of child pornography, exposing a child to harmful materials, attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and misconduct in public office.

Best Obama Picture Yet!

One could only ask... is Obama getting ready for a meeting with Larry Craig or has he finally realized his place in history?

Girlieman of the Week: Barry "Prompter Punk" Obama

From Politically Incorrect Gazette --

Girlieman of the Week
Date Awarded: January 16, 2009

Girlieman: Barry "Prompter Punk" Obama
Antics: Hiding from a fawning media

Messiah Barry is painfully aware that his unscripted utterances tell intellectually active rational adults how utterly unprepared, unqualified, he is for that Oval Office job. His fear of getting too real makes him take extreme measures, when faced with a question and answer session.

He has to know that every female ‘alleged’ journalist wants to bed him. He has to know that every male "alleged" journalist wants to bend over and ‘take it like a man’ from their Messiah, Presfo Barry. Despite that, as revealed by the following quote, he goes gutless and girlie during his news conferences.

A Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Carol Marin, let the cat out of the bag when she wrote:

"The press corps, most of us, don't even bother raising our hands any more to ask questions because Obama always has before him a list of correspondents who've been advised they will be called upon that day. "

Gutless to the core, Prompter Punk preselects certain trusted acolytes within the press core. After a ‘you ask me this, and I’ll answer thusly’, planning session, Prompter Punk programs his teleprompter accordingly. Stage managed press conferences? You better believe it, ‘he’s George Soros’ finger puppet’ Sparky.

Obviously, Prompter Punk doesn’t trust himself to speak freely, unscripted, when he’s surrounded by the slavishly devoted Broadcast Blowjob Brigade. What the hell will he do when he faces one of America’s sworn enemies?

We can smell the rancid stench of cowardice coming off you, Prompter Punk, and it’s not our idea of a good time. For being gutless wonder with delusions of godhood, you, Barry "Prompter Punk" Obama, are the Politically Incorrect Gazette’s Girlieman of the Week.

Steaming Load Award - Bullhead City (Arizona) buttheads snuff out the Eternal Flame.

From Politically Incorrect Gazette --

Steaming Load of the Week

Steaming Load #1: Bullhead City (Arizona) buttheads snuff out the Eternal Flame.

It’s called the Medal of Honor Memorial and it’s located at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Park, alongside the Colorado River. Paid for, and built by, American veterans, the memorial had a special meaning for any patriotic individual who wants to honor those who died defending us. That’s why the memorial includes an eternal flame, which signifies, among other things, they we remember, we honor, those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

The problems started, after the memorial was turned over to the Elected Tormentors in Bullhead City. Everything was spiffy, for these political punks, until the first gas bill for the eternal flame landed on the desk of a Bullhead City bean counter, in late December. Patriotism is one thing, but they’re not willing to spend $961 a month to prove it.

"It caught us by surprise," City Manager Tim Ernster said Thursday. "What we decided to do for the time being is to turn the flame on ... for special events, for Veterans Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day — those types of activities." (Mohave Daily News)

The asshats snuffed out the flame on a Monday. On the following Friday, the local fishwrap published the thrilling news. By the next Monday, the blowback was so impressive that the Elected Tormentors relit the flame. Game, set, match? Not quite yet.

The Bullhead City bean counters are still whining about the gas bill, but they’re backing away from snuffing it out. Now, they want to have a ‘smaller’ flame for regular use, and reserve the bigger, more impressive, one, for those special, remember the troops occasions. The idea sucks, and you can quote me.

If Bullhead City’s bean counter can’t carve $1,000 a month out of the city’s budget to pay for this flame to salute our honored dead, then it’s time for Bullhead City’s rational adults, to flush these Elected Tormentor turds.

What in Cuyahoga County cost $407,936.83 to run in 2007?

So what’s your guess? DiMora’s lunch tab? No, its not Jimmy. The county commissioners’ chauffer service? No, it’s not the commissioners. A county judge’s or a suburban Mayor’s campaign? No, it was not a campaign. The Republican Party of Cuyahoga County?????????????? BINGO!!!!!!

Let’s take a look at some of the highlights or lowlights for 2007.

POLITICAL WORK IS A CALLING

IN-HOUSE PHONE SYSTEM
$10,192.68

PARTY PROVIDED CELL PHONES
$4,193.15 (First 6 Months)
$6,059.00 (Last 6 Months)
TOTAL: $10,252.15

IN-HOUSE PHONE SYSTEM + CELL PHONES = $20,444.83

And you get pissed at Verizon for charging you roaming minutes? Maybe someone at RPCC Headquarters should be taking that annoying phone call from AT&T about switching plans for a better rate.

RENT: AND YOU DON’T EVEN GET SNAPPY SHOW TUNES

RENT AND UTILITIES
$19,729.67 (First 6 Months)
$20,179.29 (Last 6 Months)
TOTAL: $39,908.96

Well you know downtown D.C. rent is just astronomical. Oh, wait we are in downtown Cleveland, not D.C. A downtown that can not fill office space to save its life. You would think with the mortgage crisis the media keeps going on about we could get a sweet deal and buy a place. When you buy it, you don’t have to pay rent. Hmmm… At least it has ample parking, oh wait…

PARK IT!

PARKING PASSES
$3,450.00 (First 6 Months)
$3,725.00 (Last 6 Months)
TOTAL: $7,175.00

There is ample downtown parking. Or at least that’s what they tell the ward leaders when they have to trek down their for a meeting. Costs range from $.25/hr for a meter to $25 for a parking ticket and everything in between. Hopefully there is a Cavs or Indians game too. It is so ample that we pay for it. Funny thing is they work right next to tower city which has a rapid stop and a set of bus stops right in front of the building. Let’s see $75 per monthly pass X 12 months X 3 people = $2,700. A savings of almost $5,000. I bet if we tell them this they would gladly save the party that money, heck they may even offer to pay for their own parking, if they’re not so inclined to take the bus, saving us even more!

DA DA DA DA DA DA - - - - CHARGE!

PARTY CREDIT CARD CHARGES
$7,620.00 (First 6 Months)
$7,300.00 (Last 6 Months)
TOTAL: $14,920.00

You thought your teenager was bad? Yes, while it is wise to keep little Susie away from Legacy Village with pa pa’s American Express, you may want to keep your RPCC children under just as tight of a leash.

WORKIN’ 9 TO 5

SALARIES (Frost, Backiel, Cizmadia/Luketic)
$99, 849.75 (First 6 months)
$99, 935.44 (Last 6 months)
TOTAL: $199,785.19

Now you say, wait they work incredibly long hours, especially during campaign season. Never forget Confucius say, one man’s “work” is another man’s web surfing time.” Although they do put in long hours, what exactly is accomplished by them, what about down time when they are not directly in the midst of a campaign's height?

FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF $407,936.83

So we return to where we started. What is this money buying? This number is a most fruitful point of discussion. The point is, are you getting what you pay for? Or better yet, who is paying for this and why are they? What are they getting for it?

See my fellow members of King's court, a good blog post poses more questions than it answers. Champaign wishes and caviar dreams!

For the whole detailed RPCC Budget –
Click http://www.scribd.com/doc/9416914/RPCC-2007expenditures

Team Obama Throws Richardson Under the Bus

Again making excuses for Obama's poor judgment of a persons character....

Sources tell ABC News that officials on the Obama Transition Team feel that before he was formally offered the job of commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was not forthcoming with them about the federal investigation that is looking into whether the governor steered a state contract towards a major financial contributor.

Once the investigation became more widely known through national media reports last month, sources tell ABC News, the Obama Transition Team realized the FBI would not be able to give Richardson a clean political bill of health before the new administration is ready to send his nomination up to the Senate for confirmation.

The Richardson camp says the governor was forthcoming, with sources close to the governor noting that there had been reports about the controversy in local media such as the Albuquerque Journal as far back as August 2008. The governor discussed the investigation with the Obama team, they say, and believes that he and his administration have done nothing wrong.

From 2004 to 2005, CDR Financial Products, a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based company founded and run by David Rubin, received nearly $1.5 million through the New Mexico Finance Authority for advising the state in a complex highway funding project pushed by Richardson. In roughly that same time period, CDR and Rubin gave approximately $100,000 to political organizations run by Richardson, including one that paid for his and his staff's expenses at the 2004 Democratic convention. Neither the grand jury nor the FBI has interviewed Richardson.

President-elect Obama did not ask Richardson to withdraw his name from consideration, sources from both camps say, but the fact that the confirmation seemed untenable in the short term was apparent to everyone involved.

Franken Wins Minnesota Senate Race

How's this for a kick in the conservative cookies! Beaten by a washed-up SNL comedian turned liberal talk show host!

From Yahoo News --

Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday.

But Coleman, the incumbent, has asked Minnesota's supreme court to require that a few hundred additional absentee ballots be included in the recount -- and he could then ask the court to investigate the contest all over again.

"At the moment, Franken has a 225-vote lead," after the weekend counting of what were deemed the last uncounted absentee ballots, said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat who oversaw the process.

Senate Republicans have pledged not to seat Franken provisionally while the race is still in doubt. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York urged that Franken be seated, which would expand the party's majority to 58 of the 100 members. More...

Please no comments how Franken stole the election from Coleman because of a Democrat was Secretary of State. Coleman should be ashamed that Franken even made it a race!

Iranian AIDS doctors tried in secret in Iran's Islamic dungeon

And people complain about our justice system!

From Persian Journal --

Dr. Kamiar Alaei, an internationally recognized AIDS physician who is a doctoral student in the University at Albany's School of Public Health, was tried in a secret army trial Wednesday in Iran along with his brother, Dr. Arash Alaei. A verdict is expected Wednesday.

The highly irregular one-day trial of the brothers, who operated AIDS clinics in their home country of Iran for years with tacit government approval, involved secret charges along with public indictments that the brothers conspired to overthrow the Iranian government.

The prosecution cited the brothers' participation at international AIDS conferences as part of their scheme to foment a so-called "velvet revolution" against Tehran, according to the Physicians for Human Rights.

Their court appearance followed a six-month detention in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. If convicted, it's unclear what the severity of the sentence might be since some of the charges have not been revealed. More...

With the love the Iranian government shows for gay's - These guy's obviously don't stand a chance of getting a fair trial.

The usual punishment in Iran for being a pansy-fied Persian is the death penalty. That these guys were giving medical care to gay guys - forget about it - they too will be swinging from a rope.