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Phil Spector better hope that none of his new prison pals have any Gollum fetishes.

On April 13th 2009 Spector was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson.  He was sentenced to 19 years to life in a California State Prison.

Well she hasn’t ruled directly on any abortion rights.  However she has ruled in three abortion related decisions on the side that Pro-Life groups support.  In Center for Reproductive Law & Policy v. Bush, 304 F.3d 183 she ruled in favor of the Bush Administration’s policy of not giving money to foreign organizations that perform abortions.

The second case was Port Washington Teachers’ Association v. Board of Education. The teacher’s union was challenging a policy that teacher’s report student pregnancies to the parents.  The case was tossed out as it wasn’t a requirement that the reports be made and therefore the argument had no standing.

The third case was Amnesty America v. Town of West Hartford. In a nutshell a Pro-Life group was demonstrating and the police got involved. The demonstrators sued charging that the West Hartford Police Department used excessive force in actions taken against the demonstrators. Sotomayor ruled in favor of the Pro-Life group in a statement

“Because a reasonable jury could find that the officers gratuitously inflicted pain in a manner that was not a reasonable response to the circumstances…”

It was a ruling that really had little to do with abortion itself.  It was a ruling on the police department’s practices in regards to protestors/demonstrators.

Other than the first one that clearly allowed the Bush Administration the ability to withhold funds from groups that were preforming abortions, essentially ending those abortions,  I’m not sure that any of those cases really give a clear picture of her stance on abortion.   However all three rulings were heralded by Pro-Life groups.

I have looked for statements by Pro-Choice groups about Ms Sotomayor and her stance on abortion and they pretty much all say the same thing.  Their not sure about her and hope that she will respect precident.  Here are some quotes from Pro-Choice groups from an article from the AP.

From NARAL Pro Choice America president Nancy Keenan.

“We look forward to learning more about Judge Sotomayor’s views on the right to privacy and the landmark Roe v. Wade decision as the Senate’s hearing process moves forward,”

From National Abortion Federation president Vicky Saporta.

“We don’t have enough information to take a position at this time. We’re waiting to learn more about Judge Sotomayor’s views on the constitutional right to privacy, including the right to choose.”

Hardly any ringing endorsements there.

Rachel Maddow, whom I’m not much of a fan of, hit the nail on the head with this one.

“A New Legal Regime” is what bothers me most about this whole statement.  Will this regime operate within the current legal framework or will they have a whole new set of laws outside the current Justice System and Consitution?  Will they be above the current Justice System?  Will a judge in the current system be able to review their rulings and be able to overturn them?  Or will they be above all others and answerable to no one?

Well is anyone really surprised?  I’m not.  Dispite the left’s claims it’s all for women’s rights and everyone else’s rights they just can’t stop letting their bigotry shine through.

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Meet Rhiannon Marie Volpe, Barack Obama supporter and Feminist.  When word of these disgusting t-shirts first got out Ben Smith of politico was asked by people who was behind these shirts.  He got an answer from Rhiannon.  She is even selling the t-shirts online.  Warning lots of NSFW content!!

So if it’s acceptable for a female Obama supporter to distribute “SARAH PALIN IS A CUNT” t-shirts does that make it acceptable for a black McCain supporter to distribute “BARACK OBAMA IS A NIGGER” t-shirts?  Somehow I think that would receive far more coverage on CNN, MSNBC, and the big 3 and it would all be negotive.  Actually  should say it would receive coverage on CNN, MSNBC, and the big 3 as they are going to try and bury this story from their airwaves anyway they can.

Free Republic Article

When Jason R. Beatrice, 31 of Raynham took his 4 year old son to Market Basket he didn’t expect to have to protect him from molestation by an employee of the supermarket while using the restroom.  But that is exactly what happened.  Valerio Rodriguez, 71, of Providence reached under the bathroon stall partition and was touching the child’s leg while the child was standing on a bucket.  I am assuming he was using the bucket as a step stool.  Mr Beatrice threw open the stall door and punched Rodriguez in the mouth to stop him from molesting his son.

Guess who went to jail?  Remember it’s Massachusetts!

That’s right Beatrice went to jail.

I received a comment from Beatrice’s sister correcting me on his going to jail.  Beatrice was not arrested but was charged with assault and released.

Rodriguez, who is also an illegal alien, was given a court date to answer to the molestation charges but wasn’t even arrested.  the man confessed to police through a translator and they still didn’t arrest him.

In fact he wasn’t even fired by Market Basket.

A spokesman for Tewksbury-based Demoulas’ Supermarkets, owner of the Market Basket chain, said Rodriguez “has been suspended pending investigation by law enforcement authorities.”

This is what Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley had to say about it.

“We can’t have people taking the law into their own hands. The father should have waited for the police.”

That’s right, if someone is in the act of molesting your child don’t stop them. Call the police and wait!!

Here is Martha’s contact info. Let her know what you think.

E-mail:
office@marthacoakley.com

Phone:
617-628-4200

Mailing Address:
Martha Coakley Committee
PMB #312
One Kendall Square, Building 600
Cambridge, MA 02139

Office Address:
Martha Coakley Committee
56 Roland Street
Suite 207-C
Charlestown, MA 02129

Also since Market Basket won’t fire the illegal alien molester even after he confessed I think a boycott of Market Basket stores is in order.  I am trying to find contact information for their main office but it isn’t wasy.  Their main website(www.mbfoods.com) is currently not working.  But I didn’t find a contact form here.

UPDATE – July 17, 2008
Raynham Police Chief Lou Pacheco doesn’t understand what anyone is upset about.

“It is unfortunate that there appears to be some type of public assumption that the police stopped a father from protecting his son and let a child molester go, that is absolutely not true,” Pacheco wrote in a prepared statement.

Really?

The story stirred up a media frenzy, much of it critical of police for arresting the father.
Pacheco said people have left anonymous phone messages at the station assuming, wrongly, that police arrested the father and let the suspect go or that there was incontrovertible evidence of a sexual assault and the father used force to stop it.
But, Pacheco said, his officers had probable cause to believe that both parties had possibly committed arrestable felonies. Neither party had any record or warrants
And while the father claims the incident was an outright sexual assault, there was an arguable dispute on the facts as the elderly man who could only speak through an interpreter, said he was “just joking around,” he said.
He said his officers used their discretion not to arrest the man right away because the reason for an arrest is to protect the public by stopping the crime or similar ones from continuing and to ensure the parties will appear in court.
“None of those are the facts as I know them or as the officers knew them at the time. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land and people on their own can’t become judge jury and executioner. That is not the way the system works,” he said.

Another Massachusetts Official that believes that you have no right to defend yourself or anyone else.  Just let the crime continue to occur and wait for the police to arrive and stop it.  Oh and it’s not sexual assault if you’re “just joking around”.

You can let Police Pacheco know what you think using the contact info on the Raynham Police Depratment webpage.

UPDATE – August 31, 2008

According to the Patriot Ledger the assault charge against Jason Beatrice, the father charged with assault for defending his 4 year old son from a child molester, has been dropped.  He still faces a battery charge but that will likely be dropped as the “victim” is unavaliable to testify.  The child molester Valerio Rodriguez, 71, ran away back to Guatemala when he was released instead of arrested.

Oh and here’s another nugget about Ms. Coakley.  She was interviewed on 96.9 WTKK radio in Boston and when asked about charging the father for defending his child she responded:

We… We try and discourage people from self help.

Michelle Malkin has a post on it too.

This is hands down the worst movie I have seen in a long time if not the worst ever. People, this ain’t even a rental, unless you have a morbid sense of curiosity. It’s Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project meets Aliens meets War of the Worlds meets Monty Python. It starts off real enough but by 15 minutes in it had completely lost me. The storyline, if it can even be called one, is atrociously non existent. The performances were fair, however no one will get any Oscar nominations, in fact I don’t think anything about this movie will get any Oscar attention. However it could very well sweep the Razzies. The special effects were really good but nothing new. **Spoiler Warning** If you still think that you might wanna see this film and and would rather let the film ruin your experience instead of me don’t read any further. Here’s the scoop, the whole movie takes place from the perspective of a home movie camera(Blair Witch ripoff). A bunch of 20 somethings are having a going away party. It gets interrupted by some monster type thing stomping around Manhattan destroying things and eating people(Godzilla rip off). The military starts hammering the hell out of it with tanks and rocket launchers. At one point you see B2 bombers dropping what looks like 5000lbs bombs right on it’s back and it merely falls down and gets back up with no wounds or even any apparent effect(War of the Worlds ripoff). Then it immediately jumps up in to the air and slaps a helicopter out of the sky(King Kong ripoff). Oh and the laser guided bombs miss all over the place doing more damage than the monster. There is even a 9/11 esque moment when a building collapses just like the towers, the big dust cloud comes billowing down the street and people run into a store with a glass front while the dust goes floating by. 30 seconds later the dust is completely settled. One girl spends a couple hours impaled on a blunt piece of reinforcement bar. It’s through her back and sticking out of her chest. Her friends lift her off of it and few minutes later she is running down the street(inadvertent Monty Python ’tis but a flesh wound’ ripoff). Oh and when one of the little monsters(Alien face hugger with teeth ripoff) bite someone they have about 45 minutes before they start bleeding from the eyes and their chest explodes like a blood filled balloon with a cherry bomb in it(Alien rip off #2). Oh yea and there is no ending at all. The movie ends with two of the characters hiding under a bridge and the military bombing the hell outta the monster. A bombs collapses the bridge on them, the camera cuts off and the credits roll. No explanation of where the monster came from, where it was going, why it was trashing Manhattan, and no explanation of how things end.

I have to admit, when I first heard this on the news this morning I was ready to declare this girl the dumbest person alive and advocate throwing the book at her. I thought it must be another MIT prank. Then I saw this picture.

The thing on the left is clearly not a bomb to anyone that knows anything about electronics. The person on the right used really poor judgment. Neither is criminal. They are charging Star Simpson with possession of a hoax device. It’s a bread board a battery some LEDs and some jumpers(short pieces of wire). A bread board is used by technicians, students, whoever to assist in designing and building an electronic circuit. Electronic components can be “plugged” into the bread board and “unplugged” to build a circuit. It’s used to build test circuits. As an electronics guy myself that is a really bush league setup she has there. It was clearly put together in a hurry. It was a REALLY bad idea to wear it into Logan Airport with the level of paranoia today. But it’s not a bomb and wasn’t intended to be a hoax bomb.

How many terrorists outside of Hollywood put lights on their bombs?!?! When terrorists try to sneak bombs onto planes they generally try to conceal them, not wear them in the middle of their chests with lights in star shaped patterns on them!!! Think about this people. It’s a young girl that had a serious lapse in judgment.

I will be following this as she doesn’t deserve a criminal record for this. Once they figured out what they had she should have gotten a stern lecture about how stupid it was to walk in there with that and that’s it. She should be back on campus with her sweatshirt and “artwork” feeling quite embarrassed. I don’t knock the police reaction to the report they got. Until they had control of her and could inspect what she had all they knew is someone thinks she has a bomb.

NBC17 Link

Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.

Another zero tolerance, zero thought, zero accountability policy. Just a blanket ban that makes very little sense. I am sure that they did this to prevent kid from displaying “gang colors”. I don’t think the American Flag qualifies as “Gang colors” but apparently it is to these people.

Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her Stars and Stripes t-shirt.

And on September 11th of all days. Our forefathers must be rolling in their graves.

This is an update to an earlier post regarding the Massachusetts’ Attorney General’s stance on immigration. The original post can be read here. Well here is the non answer I received today from Carollyn Ward who apparently is on the AG’s staff.

Thank you for contacting the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley. This office is pleased to hear from all concerned parties on important issues facing the Commonwealth. Illegal immigration is a critical issue for our country and must be dealt with in a comprehensive and thoughtful manner that addresses the undocumented immigrants living in the United States as well as public safety issues.

Federal law governs immigration policy and enforcement. As a state entity, the Office of the Attorney General does not have any enforcement authority when it comes to violations of federal immigration law. In answer to your specific question regarding the use of state police, that policy decision was made by Governor Deval Patrick. Governor Patrick determined that the use of the Massachusetts State Police to enforce federal immigration law undermines the growth of a positive relationship between law enforcement and immigrant communities.

Again, thank you for contacting the Attorney General’s Office. Please do not hesitate to contact us in the future with additional questions and concerns.

Sincerely,

Community Information and Education Division

As you can see, I didn’t get an answer as to the Attorney General’s stance. I got a canned party line answer, that indicates to me that no one actually took anything I had to say in my letter under any level of consideration. At least not enough to actually read and understand the questions I was asking. Apparently someone needs to educate the “Community Information and Education Division” in the area of reading comprehension. Because it’s clear to me that her staff caught the key words and just sent off the canned answer without actually comprehending the questions.

So I resent them with a request that my question actually be addressed by the AG herself and I don’t just get a canned party line answer from some staffer that couldn’t be bothered to actually consider what I was asking.

Here is my reply:

I am resending my original questions because there was no answer to them in the reply I received. I don’t care who sets the policy and I don’t care if it’s technically the federal governments responsibility to enforce immigration law. My questions are as follows,

1. Are you in favor of enforcing immigration laws or are you in favor of setting an example that our laws are meaningless?

2. Are you in favor of deporting illegal aliens, especially ones that are already in custody for other offenses, or in favor of risking further tragedies such as the one in Newark New Jersey?

I am asking the Attorney General for her position on these questions and not the party line. I am not asking for the Governor’s position, I’m not asking for the federal government’s position. I am not asking for the canned answer that staffers are instructed to send out when certain key words appear in the letter. I’m asking for an real considerate response from the Attorney General herself.

We’ll wait and see what happens.

Mr. Micheal Righi was arrested over the weekend for not allowing his rights to be trampled at a Brooklyn, Ohio Circuit City. Mr Righi purchased two items and was on his way out the door when a Circuit City loss prevention employee asked for his receipt. Mr Righi had people waiting for him and declines with a polite “No Thank You” and went out the door. The LP then called for his manager and he and the manager blocked the vehicle he was a passenger in from leaving the parking lot. Mr Righi called the police and when the officer arrived he was arrested for not handing over his license at the demand of the officer. Since Mr Righi was not driving he does not have to provide his license only his name, address, and date of birth. The officer then arrested Mr Righi and he was transported to the station, booked and released on $300 bail. He was NEVER read his Miranda rights which is required by law.

Please take a look at his site above for ther details and consider a donation if you agree that the police and businesses should not be allowed to trample your rights as a citizen just so their lives are made easier.