Well Folks,
No posts today, I have a lot of stuff to do to get ready for MidSouthCon and not a lot of time to do it in. The con starts in about 24 hours and I’m going to love living this weekend. I am going to game until I puke, then get back up and game some more. I am going to live off of Bawls and snacks, and I am going to get the T-shirt that says I was there.
If you have never been to a Con of any type, then you haven’t lived. I’ve been to several Star Trek Cons, comic book Cons and gaming Cons. The gaming Cons are by far the most fun, as you are an active participant in a whole bunch of stuff.
I am going to play in at least a dozen different types of games, from ancient to the far flung future. Card games, miniatures games, board games, you name it, I’m playing it.
I’ll be sure to bring my camera and take a bunch of pictures this year so I can show you the fun.
That’s it for now, I need to get things in order and ready to go. I’ll make my usual posts tomorrow and give you a report by Monday afternoon. Hey, I gotta sleep sometime….

I found this and wanted to share this good idea with you. I think I’ve already discussed it, but it’s been a while and it doesn’t hurt to bring it up again. If You Sue And Lose, You Pay The Bill!
I think this would cut down on the frivolous lawsuits if the loser had to pay all of the court costs. It would put a down side on what has been until now all gravy.
Let’s do it.

Restraining Orders are a joke. A lot of them are filed frivolously as part of a divorce decree, diluting the effect of those who are for real and imminent dangers. But even then RO’s are not worth the paper they are written on. It is up to the citizen taking out the RO to enforce it, not the police.
Here is a story about a woman suing the police for failing to enforce a RO. Mother Sues Cops For Failing to Protect Kids. Here in Memphis, we also had a heart wrenching story about a woman who also had an RO against an ex-husband/boyfriend. He found her dropping their kid off at the baby sitters and he shot her in the head, in front of the kid. Later on, he killed himself over it.
I doubt this case will fly, as South vs. Maryland (1856) and DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dept. of Soc. Servs. (1989) both lay out the fact that police cannot be held responsible for protection of private individuals. The police cannot be everywhere, nor can they enforce every RO on the books.

From todays Neal Boortz:A Disaster for Race Relations in the State of Georgia.
I quote it all here because it’s short and it will scroll off tomorrow:

Race warlords in Georgia are screaming. They are mightily upset. “Governor Perdue, don’t sign this bill!!!!” Oh the humanity. This hideous and horrible bill is being cast by race pimps as “a disaster for race relations in the State of Georgia.” One black legislator said that this new bill was “spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr.” This bill is so bad that black lawmakers staged a walkout when the measure was debated earlier this month. They said that it could turn back the clock on civil rights. “It’s an attack on the rights of minorities.”
So, what’s going on? Well, it seems that both the Georgia House and Senate have passed bills requiring all voters to show some kind of picture ID before they can cast a vote. [HB 244 | SB 84] Any one of six different types of picture ID will do. A driver’s license will work, even if it is expired. The law provides for free state-issued picture IDs for anyone who wants one. Still, the race pimps aren’t satisfied.
You know what’s going on here, don’t you? Voter fraud is a reality, and across this country most of the votes that are illegally cast are cast for Democrats. It is Democrats who are driving the demands that non-citizens be allowed to vote in local elections. It is Democrats who are even insisting that illegal aliens be permitted to vote in some areas. It is Democrats who have opposed each and every move, no matter where, to attempt to clean up the election process by making sure that people who vote are actually legally qualified to vote. It is Democrats who want felons to vote! They know that felons will, by and large, vote for Democrats.
I’ll say it again. Most illegally cast votes are cast for Democrats. Democrats have been at the forefront of every move to loosen voting restrictions and to counter any attempt to combat voter fraud.
Now .. if you really want to hear Democrats howl … make it easier for military personnel to vote. Military personnel, you see, usually vote Republican.

You can’t argue with the truth. 9 out of 10 times when someone got their hand caught in the cookie jar of voting fraud, it’s been the Democrats. They stand behind every bill and measure that franchises those who shouldn’t be voting. If I recall correctly, the Dems also want illegal aliens to be able to vote…..
All of these efforts to extend the franchise to those who don’t deserve it are absolutely horrendous. And the Democrats proudly stand up for it. Let them do that and get smacked down.
Voting is a sacred duty, and it is every citizens duty to do so. But let’s keep those who don’t need to be voting out of the mix, okay?

Here you go. The Rule Of Law V. The Rule Of Judges.
What we need are judges who interpret the law instead of making up their own minds. Constructionists vs. deconstructionists you might say.
I can’t advocate term limits for judges, as this would exacerbate the swings we already see, as far as Conservative vs. Liberal biases, depending on who was in power at the time.
But I do think we should make it easier to impeach judges for cause. The recent arbitration of the Terri Schiavo is a good case in point. Congress passed a law, and the judge who was supposed to hear the case because of the law just ignored the law.
Maybe we could elect our Federal judges, just like we elect our local judges. But that could throw a wrench into the works. I don’t know, I’m just a crazy guy with a blog.
Judges are not the final arbiters of the law. They took that job on themselves, and we need to take it back. There are too many judges who are intent on legislating from the bench, furthering their pet causes because they have the power to, and we need to stop it.
Please help. Convince your lawmakers to pass the appropriate legislation to make it easier to impeach judges for cause. Use the button to the right and find out who your lawmakers are.

Here is a three part investigation by Frosty Wooldridge into how often police come across illegal immigrants and how much the illegals respect our laws: From an Officer’s Squad Car: Illegal Immigration Crime Wave.
It’s a sad story about how the police are fighting a losing war against illegal immigrants. They flagrantly violate our laws, seek out the weak spots and take advantage of us en masse.
This has got to stop, and it has to stop now. The laws need to be changed 180 degrees. We need to immediately arrest and deport these illegals, confiscate their property and sell it to recoup costs.
While normally I have a problem with seizure without due process, in this case their lack of citizenship is a de facto proof of the crime, i.e. they are illegal immigrants and have no right for them or their possessions to be in the country.
We must make this country inhospitable to illegals. Otherwise there is no reason for them to go through the process of becoming legal residents if they don’t have to.
President Bush is going to royally screw up this country as far as illegals go if he isn’t set straight. Email him at President@whitehouse.gov today.

I am bringing this subject back up again because of some information in this article: Gun Banners Shooting Themselves in the Foot.
I’ve already talked about how the gun-control groups (called “The Brady Bunch” in the article: I like that) keep calling for the disarmament of citizens when we are our own first line of defense. Like the old adage goes, there is never a cop around when you need one. Also, it is better to have and not need then to need and not have.
The armed citizen is proven to stop or drastically reduce the number of casualties in a mass shooting like we have seen here in just the past couple of weeks.

This [arming school administrators and faculty] is the solution that works in the real world, where at least two massacres have been prevented by law-abiding gun owners. First there was Joel Myrick, an assistant principal, who defied the law and used his own gun to stop Luke Woodham’s shooting spree at a Mississippi high school in 1997.
Then there were two law school students at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia, who similarly used their own personal guns to stop Peter Odighizuwa’s rampage in 2002.

Real world solutions to real world problems.

I’ve been seeing a commercial for Burger King lately with Darius Rucker, lead singer from Hootie and the Blowfish in it. He’s singing some sort of lame Country and Western song, complete with Whoppers growing on trees and Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
Anyway, if you watch his face, really carefully, right at the end of the commercial, just before they cut away, you see a “PLEASE HELP ME, WHAT HAVE I DONE?!” look in the strained smile and glint in his eyes. It used to hang there for a bit, but I think the execs saw the look as well and shaved a few frames off so you can’t see it as well. But it’s still there.
Hat tip to Mike for telling me about it.

This is interesting. Selective Restraint: Liberals cheered when Janet Reno defied the courts to seize Elian Gonzalez.
This is but one of the excesses of the Clinton Administration, the Elian Gonzalez case. This pretty well sets it up:

The sad case of Terri Schiavo has raised passions not seen since five years ago. Then another bitterly divided family argued in Florida courts over someone who couldn’t speak on his own behalf: Elian Gonzalez.
In both cases, those who were unhappy with the courts’ decisions strained to assert the federal government’s power to produce a different outcome. The difference is that in Mrs. Schiavo’s case, Congress backed off after passing a bill that merely asked a federal court to hear the case from scratch, something that U.S. District Judge James Whittemore declined to do. By contrast, those who wanted the federal government to intervene in Elian Gonzalez’s case went all the way, supporting a predawn armed federal raid on the morning before Easter to seize the 6-year-old boy despite a federal appeals court’s refusal to order his surrender.

Hm. Here we have two cases, where the future of innocents lie in the balance. One administration abides by the courts decision, the other does not. Can you guess which one did what?

But liberals have gotten off easy for some of the somersaulting arguments they have made on behalf of judicial independence and states’ rights to justify their position that Terri Schiavo should not be saved. Many made the opposite arguments in the Elian Gonzalez case.

Liberals can do triple-backflips while standing on the ground when it comes to comparing cases like this. They side with whomever appeals to them and consistency be damned. Either the administration should abide by the ruling of the courts or they should take action to “protect” the innocent.

Of course, there are differences between the Gonzalez and Schiavo cases. But clearly many of the people who approved of dramatic federal intervention to return Elian to Cuba took a completely different tack when it came to the argument over saving Terri Schiavo. Rep. Frank makes a compelling argument that Congress took an extraordinary step when it met in special session to create a procedure whereby the federal courts could decide whether Ms. Schiavo’s rights were being violated. He may have a point when he accuses Republicans of “trying to command judicial activism and dictate outcomes when they don’t like” rulings. But where were Mr. Frank and other liberals when the Clinton administration decided to sidestep a federal appeals court and order an armed raid against Elian Gonzalez? While Mr. Frank allowed that the use of assault rifles in the Elian raid was “excessive” and “frightening,” he also defended the Justice Department’s view that “of course [agents] had to use force.”
According to some reports, Gov. Jeb Bush considered seizing Mrs. Schiavo, à la Elian, and taking her to a hospital so she could be fed. But he did not do so. “I’ve consistently said that I can’t go beyond what my powers are, and I’m not going to do it,” the governor says. Janet Reno and the Clinton administration showed no such restraint when it came to Elian Gonzalez.

It just goes to show you who is more appreciative of the Constitution. Conservatives passed a law, Liberals just use force.

For those of you, like me, who have trouble getting up in the morning comes this: Clocky.
A motorized clock that after you hit the snooze button, it runs off the nightstand and hides in a corner of your bedroom, forcing you to get out of bed to shut it up.
It might work for me if I didn’t sleep on the floor.

The eco-nuts are stepping up their attacks on development of the Third World. Bank Must Take Stand for Third World.

Last week, RAN expanded its campaign against the U.S. financial services industry into tiny Greenwich, Conn., to the very street where J.P. Morgan Chase’s CEO, William Harrison, lives.
RAN activists put up old-fashioned Wild West-type “Wanted” posters featuring Mr. Harrison as “Billy the Kid.” The posters criticized the bank for “reckless investment in environmentally and socially destructive projects in dozens of countries” and urged Mr. Harrison’s neighbors and friends to “ask him to do the right thing.”
RAN wants to control J.P. Morgan Chase’s lending policies in developing countries, especially with regard to energy projects and logging. As an extremist group that rails against oil, wood, and meat consumption, RAN wants to block lending to projects it claims may contribute to global warming or involve logging in “sensitive” areas. [emphasis mine]

Chase is trying to develop the Third world and bring those people out of no less than the Stone Age. They want to improve the standard of living of these people, and the people want it to happen. But these eco-nuts think people are better off in the Stone Age.

The World Health Organization reported in May 2002 that 5,500 children die every day from consumption of food and water contaminated with bacteria. The WHO painted a shockingly bleak picture for millions of third-world children: 1.3 million under the age of five die annually from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe food and water; another 2.2 million die from respiratory infections caused or exacerbated by poor sanitation.
This death toll equates to about 40 jumbo jets filled with kids crashing every day — a death toll that can only be alleviated by economic development.

That’s the cost that RAN wants them to pay. 5,500 children a day. Every day. That’s working out to a child every 15.7 seconds.
Something must be done to stop these eco-nuts.

I’ve been jumping up and down about this for a while now. Immigration Without Assimilation Equals Invasion.
We are rapidly unbecoming the great melting pot. Our national uniqueness as the home for everybody in the world to come and be American is rapidly becoming lost.
Unless the illegals are ejected and our legal immigrants assimilate into our culture, we risk fracturing into regional states and the downfall of the United States will not be far behind. Oh, we’ll be a superpower for a long time, but there will be a sea change and a gradual decline will ensue.
Let’s not let that happen.

Finally, something from Cox and Forkum:

I can’t put my finger on it, but something is wrong with me this morning. I can’t concentrate, can’t get excited, can’t get mad. I’m going to curl up for a while and see if I can’t start again later.

The shooting in Minnesota is a tremendous tragedy. But it only highlights something. It is extraordinarily difficult to stop a person who is committed to a particular course of action. The only way to stop a person on such a course as this kid was is by violence.
Minnesota is one of the states that have a ’shall-issue’ CCW law. That means that as long as the applicant meets the tests of the law, they must be issued the permit.
It has been shown time and time again that armed citizens stop such rampages. But when you declare a particular area “gun-free” you are inviting such massacres to happen. And so it is with schools. By federal law they are gun-free, which means only police can have guns near schools. But the police can’t be everywhere, and there are times when an armed citizen must step in.
If there had been an armed teacher there, there wouldn’t have been 10+ dead. There would have been likely only 2-3 dead, including the shooter. While 2-3 dead is still tragic, it is better by far than 10-15 dead.
There are some people who say a safe would have prevented this, but I don’t think so. There was a case, in Arkansas I believe, where a school shooting took place. The kids doing the shooting used a cutting torch to get into a safe where the firearms they used were kept. You can’t stop someone who is fully committed to such a course of action like this, especially when they know they will die at the end of the rampage.
Guns in the right hands prevents things like this from happening. Start arming teachers like airline pilots and watch this not happen again. Or if it does, it ends quickly with only the gunman paying the ultimate price.