A protest yesterday in Ft Lauderdale, Florida by Hamas supporting Palestinians calling for the death of Jews and to “get back in the oven”, featured some of the people and groups we love here at Digger’s Realm. From one…
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The Jew, I said. Not the Israeli.
Though raised Catholic, my father was Jewish (Lithuanian and Romanian). The most WASP-ish Jew you’ll ever meet, though, he imparted none of his ancestral religion to me. My wife, who’s of Scot-Irish descent, likes to joke that she knows more about Judaism than me.
But whenever Israel launches an offensive against Palestine, it brings the Jewish in me to the fore. (more…)
From today’s News & Messenger:
As investigators wrangle with how a 17-year-old with a record of small crimes turned into an alleged cold-blooded killer, police say they’re investigating whether accused killer Xavier Pinckney had gang ties in his Dale City neighborhood.
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When police checked Pinckney’s record they learned he had a prior conviction for grand larceny from a burglary. He had also been arrested for committing daytime burglaries in houses with doors or windows left open around his neighborhood, said court documents.
Take note, they only refer to ONE conviction, but state that he was arrested for MULTIPLE other crimes. What about those other arrests? Was he not tried? Was he not convicted? Is this yet ANOTHER instance where Paul Ebert’s Commonwealth’s Attorney office botched prosecutions or else let things slide because they couldn’t be bothered?
As Timothy Watson pointed out in a prior comment:
It’s damn sad that Prince William, Manassas, and Manassas Park only have 31.52% of persons charged with felonies actually being sentenced on felonies.
The rest either had their charges dropped (nolle prossed) or reduced to misdemeanors.
Ebert’s office barely ranks above those offices that have part-time Commonwealth’s Attorneys.
The more one reads about Pinckney’s criminal history, the more one realizes that Jean and Jim Smith did not have to die. Had someone, ANYONE – a prosecutor, a judge or someone involved in the juvenile justice system – been doing their job, Pinckney would not have been out on the streets and free to murder.
We will continue raising these questions until the community gets answers, no matter how uncomfortable it makes any public official who may be involved in this travesty. I have already corresponded with Delegates Jeff Frederick and Bob Marshall and contacted Scott Lingamfelter as well to see what they might be able to do in the upcoming General Assembly session to start getting us the answer that we need and enact any necessary reforms that they might see fit. No family should ever have to go through what the Smiths have had to endure. The justice system failed them. We cannot allow it to fail another family.
On a final note, I have an answer to this:
investigators wrangle with how a 17-year-old with a record of small crimes turned into an alleged cold-blooded killer
Simple. He was allowed to get away with relative slaps on the wrist for his prior crimes, so of course his crime spree would progress to more major things. No one should be surprised by that. We as a society need to come to the conclusion that once a juvenile commits a second offense, we should stop treating them as an “at risk” youth and start treating THEM as a “risk” to the community’s public safety. Only then can we truly begin to fix our broken juvenile justice system.
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More bad news for the Old Grey Lady as the NY Times is sued for $27 million by the woman they portrayed as having potentially had an affair with Sen. John McCain.
With the NYT running low on cash reserves and mortgaging their shiny new HQ, a loss in this case could be devastating. Before you know it, Rupert Murdoch will swoop in and buy it up at a firesale price as some have speculated. At least then the NYT might return to its roots as when it was first founded by the then-Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Perhaps we need to add the NYTimes to our Blue2Red program…
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The I-80 corridor in eastern Iowa, for those motorists interested only in hastening their way between Des Moines to the west and Iowa City to the east, may appear empty save for fields that produce part of the state’s 2 billion bushels of corn each year.
But north and south of I-80 lie many small towns, populated by only a few hundred or few thousand Iowans. Towns like Belle Plaine, Brooklyn, Benton, Marengo, Montezuma, North English, Williamsburg, Parnell, Homestead, Oxford and Holbrook. These are towns whose median household income is less than the $47,000 statewide average.
The people who live in those towns need information to effectively make political and consumer decisions. They need it just as much as people in big cities do. But come Monday, local news may not flow quite so freely in Benton and Poweshiek counties.
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By now you’ve probably seen the clip of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today. In measured tones, he weighed in on the Gaza crisis with host Joe Scarborough. In return for his troubles, he was subjected to the traditional “Hamas shoots rockets at Israel, which has the right to defend itself by any means necessary” line.
At one point Brzezinski said:
“You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it’s almost embarrassing to listen to you.”
California has launched a program for illegal aliens called Bank on California that would make the Matricula Consular acceptable at all banks and the program is being pushed with gusto by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. As many of you know banks…
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For 3 years now Gina Elise has been creating Pinups for Vets calendars which benefit our veterans. She shoots them in the vintage style of voluptuous pinups of a bye gone day. I can’t speak highly enough for that style!…
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Chrysler, fresh off of receiving billions of taxpayers dollars, actually had the audacity to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to take out full page ads thanking Americans for “investing” in their company. Yeah, they dubbed it “investing” as if…
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