The Wandering Minstrel

From Armed Citizen (American Rifleman) . . .

Michael Hommes’ German shepherd was strangely upset in the middle of the night, running frantically to various windows in the home. Trusting his dog’s intuition, Hommes released it outside. The German shepherd likely saw the prowler in the yard. The next thing Hommes heard was his dog being shot. He ran back into the home and grabbed a pistol. By the time he returned to the front door, the prowler had already forced his way inside. Hommes shot at the armed intruder, causing him to flee the home. Hommes’ loyal dog was treated by a veterinarian for its injuries and will survive. An investigation is under way. (Star-Beacon, Ashtabula, OH, 02/16/10)

R_x: Tie the perp to a post, douse his junk with gravy and sic the rottweilers on him.

NRO’s Mark Krikorian catches up on last week’s news:

Your Tired, Your Poor, et al

• America’s first case of “extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis” (XXDR TB) has surfaced — “a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English.” A TB doctor warns against crimethink: “It’s not a foreign problem, you can’t keep these TB patients out.” Actually, this guy could very easily have been kept out. And this: “His treatment cost Florida taxpayers an estimated $500,000.” And finally: “The last time doctors saw him, he was walking out of the sanitarium into south Florida’s soupy heat.” Think he went home once his visa expired? Me neither.
• An illegal alien in Florida murdered a co-worker for speaking English instead of Spanish. An argument for 287(g) if there ever was one: “Escalante provided four different names to detectives before he was identified through fingerprints at the jail.”
• A “university” in California was selling student visas to enable people to come to the U.S. The school’s founder has been arrested but, for some reason, the “students” aren’t being prosecuted, though ICE assures us they’ll be deported. Yeah, and I’ll respect you in the morning.
• Under a new one-year pilot program, temporary workers leaving from two points in Arizona will now have to register their departure to make sure they don’t overstay and become illegal aliens. Oh, you thought they had to do that already? Ha ha ha ha!

Regarding the despicable Senate Majority Leader’s choice of using the race card by equating opposition to the health care debate to be against abolishment of slavery, James Taranto, of the Wall Street Journal made these conclusions about Reid:

This, however, raises a question that has long puzzled us about Reid: How did such an unappealing man who says so many foolish things get so far in politics? He has been elected to Congress six times, and the Senate’s Democrats chose him as their leader. Maybe he has exceptional backroom skills, or comes across better in person than on television. And of course the polls show he is in trouble with the voters back in Nevada. Still, his success to this point seems something of a miracle–an inspiration to dour, foolish men everywhere.

Emphasis added . . . I used the soft, green glow in the graphic to indicate that the son of a bitch is radioactive, and should be out on his ear come 2011. Good riddance.

Circa 2002 Jaguar S-Type seen this week in Lennox, CA.

Occupation of the occupant? You make the call. Clickable image.

Every once in a while, the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon phenomenon rears it’s head. Today, I read about a former acquaintance and co-worker in the local news.

The former aerospace worker who killed a Los Angeles airport officer by dragging him along the side of his carjacked patrol car believed he was Jesus Christ on a mission to save Russia, jurors heard Monday on the first day of his trial.

William Sadowski was blinded to his actions by the voice in his head telling him to save a Russian woman he loved from hell, Sadowski’s attorney told the Los Angeles Superior Court jury in Judge Lance Ito’s courtroom.

Deputy Public Defender Irene Nunez said her client’s only intent was to kill himself to get to hell.

Sadowski, a 51-year-old divorced father of two with a long history of mental illness, did not have the intent to commit murder, nor did he deliberate or premeditate Officer Tommy Scott’s death in April 2005, Nunez said.

But Deputy District Attorney Linda Loftfield noted that Sadowski clearly said in a tape-recorded interview with a Los Angeles police detective that he knew Scott was hanging on to the car, and he drove fast and swerved to shake him off.

Note the presiding Judge, Lance Ito, is the same one who screwed up the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

This is weird shit, alright, but it pales in comparison to seeing another creepy co-worker acquaintance to turn up in the news back in 1977 - the Trash Bag Murderer.

I must say that I had a lot of problems with “Dubya” when he was in the Oval Office. For example: Harriett Who? For the Supreme Court? And Shamnesty? The McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Act? He rankled the most ardent conservative nerves with those, for sure.

But the Bush Administration never let us down when it came to protecting Americans from a repeat of 9/11 or the USS Cole incident. They were not nice to terrorists and they did not give a shit what CAIR and the ACLU might think about it. Props to them for that.

It’s like comparing a vigilant watch to a right twice a day cuckoo clock á lá the Obamination . . .

Note the time on the watch. Hat tip Patriot Post.

Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s attempt to defuse the Gates controversy:

I think it was important, because the Democrats have suffered for almost a half a century of a reputation of being soft on crime. The flip side of that is tough on cops, or insensitive to the duties and the sacrifices of law enforcement. …When the Cambridge police came out–a multi-racial police force came out–and spoke unanimously about how this was wrong, this was not about race, and the president really ought to apologize, they [the White House] understood it was a serious political issue. It seems that a lot of the Obama presidency is a contest between his intelligence and his arrogance. And I think he thought when he was asked that question [the Gates arrest] Wednesday night that he can say anything on race and is so smart that he will be untouchable. And one reason is that he gave the famous speech in Philadelphia, the race speech, during the campaign in which, in fact, he did not renounce Jeremiah Wright. He blamed everybody for racism–black, white and grandmother–except for himself, and was hailed by a supine press as the second coming of Lincoln at Cooper Union. So after that, you think you can say anything on race and be hailed as a genius. Well, he now understands that you can’t get away with that forever, and he got really caught on this one.

Emphasis mine. One of many instances where the Obamination continues to demonstrate why he should never have been elected.

WTF? A man INTENTIONALLY runs down some people in a parking lot with a vehicle and gets off with “vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury.”

If this asshole had used a GUN instead of a vehicle, how much time do you think he would be doing? One hell of a lot more than eight years!

San Pedro Man pleads no contest to car assault charges

A driver who intentionally ran down several men, killing one, in a San Pedro parking lot will spend more than eight years in prison, prosecutors said Friday.

Samuel Pinto, 38, pleaded no contest on April 17 to one count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s Office.

Pinto apparently fought with one of the men inside the 7-Eleven at 1519 N. Gaffey St. around 1:15 a.m. on Jan. 19, 2008.

Outside the store, the man and his friends, who had just left a birthday celebration, were going back to their limousine bus when Pinto, who was waiting, backed up his van and rammed the men.

Francisco Aguirre Jr., 31, of San Pedro was dragged from the lot into the street and died immediately.

The other two men were injured.

Pinto left the scene but was later arrested.

Pinto was originally charged with murder and attempted murder in Long Beach Superior Court.

Aguirre’s brother told the Los Angeles Times’ Homicide Report blog that Aguirre, who was known as “Pancho,” was planning to marry his longtime girlfriend.

Face it people - the instruments of death have NOTHING to do with the motivation of the perpetrator. Death by flatiron and death by vehicle are still DEATH.

The court system is BROKEN.