Archive for October 5, 2009

I was going to use the famous Flip Wilson line for this story…

Posted: October 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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but that would have been tasteless:

Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. The respected circuit judge once was the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama.

Then his career collapsed under allegations that he brought inmates to his office and spanked them with a paddle. Later, an indictment accused him of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial on charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations is set to start Monday.

The details get worse:

Some inmates in those cases described being checked out of the jail for meetings with Thomas in his car or in his private office in the county courthouse. First, there were reports of inmates having to pull down their underwear for spankings with a wooden paddle. Then came allegations of oral and anal sex, according to court records.

Sounds like quite a scandal so I guess this will be big news…for the BBC:

The trial of a former US judge accused of having sex with male inmates in exchange for leniency is set to start in Mobile, Alabama.

Herman Thomas, 48, denies the charges, which include sodomy, kidnapping, extortion, sex abuse and assault.

And Cambodia News:

A black Democrat judge from Alabama in the US has been accused of having sex with male prison inmates in exchange for lesser sentences.

Herman Thomas, who was once the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama, allegedly took inmates to his office and spanked them before having sex.

CAMBODIA NEWS? Cambodia news has scooped the MSM on a corrupt judge sex story in Alabama?

Well the judge is a democrat and is black, and is apparently Gay.

I submit to you that if the party label was changed this trial would be the lead story all over the morning shows, but if you are reading this blog then you likely already know that.

At least nobody in Hollywood is starting a petition for him.

Update: Dan beat me and the Cambodia news.

I guess we can confirm the book is selling…

Posted: October 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…because Todd Palin has quit his day job:

The husband of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has quit his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin’s resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC comes almost two months after his wife stepped down as Alaska governor and shortly before the release of her highly anticipated memoir in a deal rumored to be worth millions.

How much of a hit is it?

Todd Palin earned nearly $34,472 working part-time last year for BP in Prudhoe Bay and about $51,679 in the family’s commercial fishing business, according to state financial disclosures. He also had $5,600 in snowmobile race winnings and an undisclosed discount on snowmobiles from racing sponsor Arctic Cat.

The nice thing about people who worked hard for their money hitting it big is they tend to remember working hard and don’t lose those values that came with it.

I’m happy for them.

8 of our guys killed…

Posted: October 5, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…in a battle in the war in Afghanistan.

You know I wonder how many of the other guys were killed?

Remember the battle of Mogadishu? The enemy lost anywhere from 10 to 60 times dead as we did, and that is a loss?

You know it would be nice if the media wouldn’t play cheerleader against our army, but then again we made fun of the president over the Olympics so I guess we’re even.

Just a thought. The number of Americans killed in that battle is the same number that were killed at Lexington Green in April of 1775. If the same media and pols where in charge at that time Joe Scarborough would be in trouble for his Queen on Trampoline line this morning and we would be flying the Union Jack over our public buildings.

Update: It’s the top story at Michelle’s

Conservative Jekyll conservative Hyde

Posted: October 5, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Morning Joe makes my head spin. He plays the “conservatives hate the US” over the Chicago stuff and then turns around and is the only guy who points out that 60 million were murdered by the China and the snubbing of the Dali Lama.

Then he goes and brings on Katrina vanden Heuvel and mainstreams her. It’s like a schizophrenic uncle.

Katty Kay makes a great point about the international press and not having a clue.

6:45: a.m. They are talking about anger in Rush’s voice? Are they watching the same clip that I was? Did they even listen to what he said?

Then again they are trying to leach off of him for eyeballs.

6:46 a.m. And Katty Kay not only decides that “Hussein” is an evil middle name again, they didn’t have a problem with it when the kids were chanting it.

Who wants to bet that in the next hour Vandel Heuvel goes with the “White Supremacist” stuff?

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