Michigan Woman Gets Jail in Sex Case

(Muskegon, Michigan) In May 2008, a 29-year-old local woman, Anna Marie Glass, was arrested and charged with engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy.

Last month, Glass pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person between the ages of 13 and 15. Yesterday, Glass was sentenced by Muskegon County Circuit Judge Timothy G. Hicks to one year in the Muskegon County Jail. The sentence was the very least punishment that Glass could have received according to state sentencing guidelines.

Glass did not speak during the proceeding.

Hicks acknowledged receiving many letters from supporters of Glass, attesting to her lack of a criminal record, her otherwise good character, her condition of bipolar disorder diagnosed last year, and the fact that the sexual contact was consensual and that the boy was physically much larger than Glass.

But, Hicks said, "this was not a Romeo and Juliet case (of two teenagers in love). You were almost twice his age, and you knew him a long time."

It's not known if Glass will be ordered to register as a sex offender.

Interestingly, we have another bipolar disorder excuse from a female sex offender to go along with the dozens of others documented on this site. Strangely, I've not seen the excuse generally used by male sex offenders.

Some things speak for themselves



(Via Fausta)

If you enjoy life, I think this tells you which way to vote. And if you don't, likewise.

Posted by John Ray.

A Town Named Obama

(Marin County, California) Not too far from the birthplace of the ebonics education proposition, we get this experiment in preferential spelling.

Motorists entering the quaint, woodsy town of Olema near the sea in Marin County may notice a subtle change as they enter: it appears the burg's name has been changed to ''Obama.''

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama supporter and bed and breakfast owner Kelly Emery created a perfect mirror of the green sign people read as they enter the town's limits.

Now people unfamiliar with the area may think they are entering the town of Obama, population: 55.

Since the area is dilettante-deep in snooty liberals, there has been little fuss.

Tip: Charley Nestor

Also: Jawa Report

Dog Brings Home a Child's Severed Foot

(Russellville, Alabama) This is ominous.

A family dog brought home a child’s foot, but searchers combing surrounding woods in northwest Alabama found no signs of any other remains and don’t know where the child might be.

No children have been reported missing, killed or maimed in or around Russellville. Police Chief Chris Hargett said investigators were studying missing persons reports from nearby areas and sent the severed foot for forensic tests in a bid to narrow the search.

The foot is believed to have been exposed to the elements for only a few days. An orthopedist indicated the foot was severed below the ankle.

Forensics may determine the child's age, race and gender. Cadaver-sniffing dogs will be searching again today.

Fannie and Freddie Simplified

There's true blame to divvy out but the MSM is seeing and hearing none of it. With the MSM and the Dems, obfuscation is preferable.

Now that the collapse has occurred, the roadblock built by Senate Democrats in 2005 is unforgivable. Many who opposed the bill doubtlessly did so for honorable reasons. Fannie and Freddie provided mounds of materials defending their practices. Perhaps some found their propaganda convincing.

But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.

Throughout his political career, Obama has gotten more than $125,000 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, second only to Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who received more than $165,000.

It's noteworthy to mention that Obama received his contributions in a much shorter period of time than the others. So, it can be said that Obama's account was flooded at a faster rate.

More.

Watch Your Back Around Mary Winkler

In March 2006, after administering a premeditated shotgun blast to the back of her sleeping husband, Mary Winkler fled with her three children and was arrested days later in another state.

After claiming, without proof or corroboration, that her husband Matthew abused her, Mary Winkler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.

Give or take a few days, she served five months behind bars and was freed.

Last week, Mary Winkler was granted full custody of her children. More here.

So, a Mary Winkler kills her sleeping husband with a shotgun blast in the back and, less than three years hence, she's a free woman enjoying life with her three children as if nothing at all had happened. I wonder if anyone visits Matthew Winkler's grave or reminisces over his image in the family picture albums. Probably not.

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I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean are in federal prison doing more than a decade each for wounding a drug smuggler while doing their jobs. Winkler got five months and custody of her kids for the cold-blooded execution of her sleeping husband.

Also for comparison, Kristen Rene Santoya, a special education assistant at Camarillo High School in Oxnard, CA, got six months behind bars for stealing students' lunch money. Winkler got five months and custody of her kids for the cold-blooded execution of her sleeping husband.

I could go on but you get the point. I believe that Mary Winkler got away with murder. It would be prudent for all her acquaintances to watch their backs. Testimony from executioners indicates that the first one is troubling but all the others come easily -- like getting olives out of a jar.

Ohio: McCain Leads Obama 48-42 Percent

Published yesterday, the Ohio Newspaper Poll by Ohio's eight largest newspapers found McCain leading Obama by six percentage points based upon a survey of Ohio voters conducted September 12-16.

Berkeley Tree-Sitters Must Pay

The University of California - Berkeley is seeking reimbursement of more than $800,000 from the infamous campus tree-sitters for expenses incurred by police and security forces. It looks like each participating activist will be assessed more than $10,000 which goes straight to the university.

That's a shame. Of course, it may mean that the eco-radicals will think twice before pulling another stunt on the UC Berkeley campus.

Must not criticize Islam


British critic to be banned from teaching because of his "intolerance". British teachers are generally very Leftist and so are those who control and represent them.

"A teacher could face being struck off over allegations of racial and religious intolerance. Adam Walker, who taught at Houghton Kepier School, is believed to be the first teacher to be hauled before England's General Teaching Council (GTC) to face the charge. It is believed he is accused of expressing views "suggestive of racial and religious intolerance" in an Internet forum.

The 39-year-old, from County Durham, has stood as a candidate for the British National Party (BNP) in local elections. He claims the allegations against him are driven by "politically motivated spite". Mr Walker, a design teacher, resigned from Houghton Kepier Sports College after the school began disciplinary action in early 2007.

Source

The BNP is an anti-immigration party.

Note the following Leftist comment from another report of the matter:

"But Christina McAnea, of the Unison union, questioned whether BNP members should be allowed to teach. "Schools should be centres of learning and tolerance, not a breeding ground for the poisonous views of the BNP," she said.

Christina sounds pretty intolerant herself. Perhaps she too should be banned from teaching.

Posted by John Ray.

Airport Terminals Evacuated

Less than an hour ago, the Jet Blue terminal at JFK Airport was evacuated because grenades were found.

Five hours ago, the Qantas terminal at Brisbane, Australia, airport was evacuated because three passengers slipped by screeners.

About 15 hours ago, a terminal at the Newark International Airport was evacuated because a suspicious package was found. It was proven harmless.

Germany's Dumbest Bankers

Three German bankers with KfW Bankengruppe were suspended after it became known that they wired more than $500 million to Lehman Brothers just as it was collapsing.

Oops!

Chinese Baby Milk Crisis Widens

Thus far, four children have died and 53,000 are sick from consuming melamine-contaminated baby milk.

Sarah Palin Smear Campaign Professionally Orchestrated

Regarding the series of false charges aimed at Sarah Palin, the Jawa Report conducted a review of available Internet data to verify that the false claims were arbitrary reactions by a number of unrelated emotional web users prone to exaggeration.

Review findings, however, indicate that the Sarah Palin smears are linked to a few individuals tied to one of the nation's largest public relations firms with close connections to the Obama campaign.

Consequently, the Palin smears appear not to have resulted from the grassroots of American politics, rather evidence indicates the smears were professionally orchestrated by political operatives while being surreptitiously disseminated to appear as a grassroots effort.

Remember the story of the dumb criminal who steals a credit card and stupidly signs his own name when he uses it? That's essentially what happened with the Palin smears. A bulk of evidence regarding the creation and promulgation of the false charges leads back to several people who, metaphorically, signed their own names to stolen credit cards.

[Full disclosure: Interested-Participant is a Jawa Report contributor]

FBI Cases Alleged Palin Email Hacker

(Knoxville, Tennessee) According to sources, the FBI served a search warrant around midnight last night on the residence of University of Tennessee student David Kernell, the suspected hacker who allegedly accessed Sarah Palin's personal email account.

According to the witness, several agents arrived at The Commons of Knoxville around midnight.

They presented their badges upon entering Kernell's apartment, where several students were having a party, and took down their names.

The witness tells us they asked him and those who did not live in the unit to go outside. He believes the investigators took about 1.5 to 2 hours taking pictures of everything inside the apartment.

He says Kernell's three roommates were also subpoenaed, and must testify this week in Chattanooga.

Hopefully, the invasion of privacy case will be prosecuted to the fullest extent and, thereby, possibly establishing a precedent for future misbehavior on the Internet. Also, the expected silence from the ACLU would expose, once again, its inherent bias and hypocrisy.

Tip: Canadian Guy via Stable Hand

Massive Oil Deposit in U.S. Announced

Tell me, why hasn't this story, dated April 2008, been prominent in the news?

Reston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.

A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.

Technically recoverable oil resources are those producible using currently available technology and industry practices. USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources.

New geologic models applied to the Bakken Formation, advances in drilling and production technologies, and recent oil discoveries have resulted in these substantially larger technically recoverable oil volumes. About 105 million barrels of oil were produced from the Bakken Formation by the end of 2007.

The USGS Bakken study was undertaken as part of a nationwide project assessing domestic petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol as required by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 2000.

The Bakken Formation estimate is larger than all other current USGS oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest "continuous" oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS. A "continuous" oil accumulation means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next largest "continuous" oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk of Texas and Louisiana, with an undiscovered estimate of 1.0 billions of barrels of technically recoverable oil.

It's our oil. Let's go get it.

Tip: Rita and Eugene

Hot Biden Rumor

Snopes is investigating. Current status is indeterminate.

On or about October 5th, Biden will excuse himself from the ticket, citing health problems, and he will be replaced by Hillary. This is timed to occur after the VP debate on 10/2.

There have been talks all weekend about how to proceed with this info. Generally, the feeling is that we should all go ahead and get it out there to as many blog sites and personal email lists as is possible. I have already seen a few short blurbs about this - the 'health problem' cited in those articles was aneurysm. Probably many of you have heard the same rumblings.

More here.

Male Lesbian Discrimination Case

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) successfully represented Diane Schroer, a lesbian trapped in a man's body, in a discrimination case against the Library of Congress. It was claimed that Schroer had been denied employment because of sexual nonconformity.

Frankly, I see the ruling as counterproductive. Given that a small segment of society is flummoxed because the biology doesn't coincide with the psychology should not mean that the rest of society has to be forced into confusion.

I'll confess to being clueless about sexually nonconforming people. In the case of Schroer, I guess the original equipment remains while the behavior and appearance has shifted to the female side. And while presenting as a female, Schroer expresses a preference for female lovers.

However, if you rub off the lipstick and remove the female clothing, what are you left with? A guy who likes girls. How's that different from the rest of American men?

Now if Schoer has had male genitalia sliced away and a female prothesis crafted, then Schroer could legitimately be classified as female since the anatomy largely matches. But if Schroer still sports a penis and testicles, then the male classification is appropriate. Most people are understandably apprehensive around people of indeterminate biology.

Transgenders are ill-defined and, in all candor, nobody can say exactly what they are. Currently, transgender status puts a person in a biological waiting room with no requirement to ever leave.

Blogger in Muslim country 'arrested for upside-down flag'

We read:

"MALAYSIAN authorities have arrested a second blogger, this time for displaying an upside-down national flag on his website, according to reports. Syed Azidi Syed Aziz, better known as Sheih Kickdefella, was picked up by police late yesterday under the Sedition Act from his home in opposition-held northern Kelantan state, the Star daily reported.

Mr Syed Azidi, known for his links to the opposition conservative Islamic PAS party, had recently organised a nationwide Internet campaign to fly the Malaysian flag upside down in a sign of protest over the country's political and economic turmoil. The campaign caused outrage in the conservative Muslim-led country with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ordering a police investigation into the matter.

Source

I'm guessing that they would have shot him if he had done what American Leftists routinely do to the American flag. An old pal of Mr Obama below:




Posted by John Ray.

Sex Education Mistakes

An excerpt from a Minette Marrin column at TimesOnLine.co.uk:

Judged by its results -- not a bad way of judging -- sex education has been an utter failure. The increase in sex education here in recent years has coincided with an explosion of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease (STD) far worse than anywhere else in Europe. Since the government’s teenage pregnancy strategy was introduced in 1999, the number of girls having abortions has soared. You might well be tempted to argue that sex education causes sexual delinquency.

Only two months ago the Health Protection Agency reported that a culture of promiscuity among the young had driven the rate of STDs to a record. Almost 400,000 people -- half of them under 25 -- were newly diagnosed, 6% more than in 2006.

When something fails, the usual procedure is to drop it and try something else. With sex education, the worse it gets, the more people cry out for more of it and earlier. Ministers are considering whether to make schools offer more sex education, offer it earlier and deny parents the right to withdraw their children from it.

Primary complaints are that sex education teachers are often inexperienced, albeit politically correct, and the sex education curricula is based on incorrect assumptions that all children come from similar backgrounds and they mature at the same rate.

Common sense would customarily dictate that policies which create undesirable conditions should be abandoned as opposed to fortified. Arguably, the Brits are not using common sense regarding sex education.

How to Poison Your Dog

Dog owners, take note.

With fewer calories than sugar, Xylitol is a natural sweetener that is harmless to humans but deadly to dogs. It's used in sugar-free gum, breath mints, muffins, candy, Jell-O, ice cream and other products.

Dogs metabolize xylitol differently from humans.

[Xylitol] can send canine blood sugar plummeting to life-threatening lows in just minutes, followed within 12 to 24 hours by liver failure, which is often fatal. In fact, it's so deadly that as few as three pieces of xylitol-sweetened sugar-free gum can kill a 20-pound dog.

Because dogs love sweets and can sniff out food better than almost any other mammal, dogs owners need to be extremely careful to keep xylitol out of dogs' reach.

Cats, reportedly are not affected by xylitol. Ferrets and rabbits, maybe. In any event, check all labels.