Entries from March 2008

March 31, 2008

GENERAL HILLARY

PMSNBC’s Daryl Cagle on the Hildabeast’s battle zone experience:

March 31, 2008

OPENING DAY

Cross-posted at Badger Blog Alliance:
In honor of Opening Day, here’s the classic Abbott & Costello routine “Who’s On First.”

March 30, 2008

SUPPORTING THE POLICE

From Badger Blogger:

We have a rally of whiny professional victims and several elected officials appear in support of a drunk driver who assaulted a police officer, including using his vehicle in that assault. Not one cowardly elected official speaks up in support of the police. Not one. Not the cowardly, yellow-stripe-down-the-back Mayor-on-the-Milk Carton. No members [...]

March 30, 2008

WHAT’S MISSING HERE?

Let’s play “Spot the media bias,” shall we?
In this al-Associated Press article, check out this headline:
Hundreds Rally Against Police Brutality
How about maybe the word “alleged”? How about re-wording it to eliminate the false accusation completely?
Remember what we said here about the Drive By Media:
[F]or the most part they’re a bunch of race baiters and cop [...]

March 30, 2008

MARINE KICKS THUG’S BUTT

H/T to Tim Blair.
A thug tried to rob an 84-year-old retired Marine and paid the price for it.
SANTA ROSA - A boy in his mid-teens learned Wednesday afternoon that it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, even if the former Marine is 84 years old, police [...]

March 30, 2008

WHINY PROFESSIONAL VICTIMS ON DISPLAY

Memo to the group of whiny professional victims that pitched a fit in public on Saturday protesting against the Milwaukee Police Department: shut up and go away. Please. We’re sick of you.
You and the rest of your ilk are like a bunch of spoiled toddlers in the store when Mom won’t buy you a toy. [...]

March 29, 2008

SPORTS AND CHARACTER

One of the best kept secrets in Racine is Peter Jackel, sports columnist for the Racine Journal Times. I consider Pete a friend from the number of years I worked with the sports department in promoting American Legion baseball in Racine.
Pete’s written two excellent columns over the past three weeks about two extraordinary men — [...]

March 28, 2008

LIBRARIAN FIRED FOR REPORTING KIDDIE PORN VIEWER

If this doesn’t get your blood boiling …
A librarian in Looneyfornia has been fired for calling the police to report a convicted child molester who was viewing child pornography on the library computers.
Brenda Biesterfeld, a librarian at the Lindsay Branch library, notice a man identified as Donny Crisler, a convicted child molester, viewing child pornography [...]

March 28, 2008

CHIEF FLYNN BACKS OFFICERS

Looks like Milwaukee may have its first real police chief since Harold Breier.
Chief Ed Flynn offered a show of public support for a police officer involved in an altercation with a Hmong driver who resisted arrest and used his vehicle to assault the officer attempting to arrest him. Flynn released the 911 calls with witnesses [...]

March 27, 2008

NOT THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

As bad as things are for the Yucks this year, at least they don’t have David Letterman poking fun at them on national TV.
Said Letterman as to why he won’t be attending the Ringling Brothers Circus, which is in New York City this week:
If I want to see clowns at Madison Square Garden, I’ll go [...]