“I will explore every legal avenue to expedite this matter and bring it to a swift conclusion,” Rick said Saturday in a statement. “I am confident we will ultimately prevail, that this farce of a prosecution will be revealed for what it is, and that those responsible will be held to account.”
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: The Texas Chainsaw Prosecution: “…the D.A.’s office is trying to criminalize the normal process of constitutional government.”
Figures, and by our (Austin’s) longtime Democrat prosecutors office. No, no conflict there.
“The Texas Democrat… Party called on Perry to resign after the indictment [for “coercion”] was announced, calling the situation ‘unbecoming’ of a Texas governor.” No, no conflict here.
It’s a funny story, if you like tales about alcoholic Democrat prosecutors who throw fits when arrested for drunk driving, and therefore serve 45 days in jail, which is where this began. But not so funny now that they’ve got Rick facing prison time if his defenders lose the case to a (very highly probable) all-Democrat jury.
It’s all too obvious what they’re doing: prepping the battlespace for the Queen of Benghazi. Can’t be having her lizardness facing anyone too strong in 2016. She and Slick Willie might lose. Oh, the horror.
Via FoxNews.
UPDATE: Conservatives, predictably, are not amused. But I bet the drunk-driving district attorney whose grand jury indicted Rick is having a belly laugh. Now. Then, she threw a hissy fit.
MORE: Law professor Eugene Volokh, of the Volokh Conspiracy, seems to be saying he thinks the indictment can’t be legally sustained, though he admits he’s no expert on Texas law.
“Soldiers and police are supposed to be different. … Police look inward. They’re supposed to protect their fellow citizens from criminals, and to maintain order with a minimum of force.
“It’s the difference between Audie Murphy and Andy Griffith. But nowadays, police are looking, and acting, more like soldiers than cops, with bad consequences. And those who suffer the consequences are usually innocent civilians.”
Just as true post-Ferguson as it was eight years ago. Nevermind the race-baiters bottom-feeders Jackson and Sharpton, who’re there just to make their bucks with their usual b.s., the real story is the armored-automatic-rifled-flashbang-grenade-throwing cops who make the whole scene look like 1984. Enough, already.
Remember Michael Brown? Hell, remember Miriam Carey!
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: “The Ferguson police must prevent rioting and looting and protect their own safety, though it is reasonable to wonder when law enforcement became a paramilitary operation. The sniper rifles, black armored convoys and waves of tear gas deployed across Ferguson neighborhoods are jarring in a free society.”
MORE: “The buzz phrase in policing today is officer safety. You’ll also hear lots of references to preserving order, and fighting wars, be it on crime, drugs, or terrorism. Those are all concepts that emphasize confrontation. It’s a view that pits the officers as the enforcer, and the public as the entity upon which laws and policies and procedures are to be enforced.”
Posted in Blogosphere, Guns, The Culture
…one uneaten packet of French Dressing at a time.
Just what nine and 10-year-old boys bored with the nanny-state b.s. (which the girls are pretending to soak up, of course) could use.
And, hey, the school provided the packets. Is that cool, or what?
Via Cobb.
Posted in Blogosphere, Mr. Boy, Obsessions, The Culture
Tagged Cobb, defeating the public schools, French Dressing & Democracy
“The political opportunist always lacks the courage of his, or her, convictions. That’s not necessarily because there aren’t any convictions. It’s because the convictions are always subordinated to the needs of ambition and ingratiation.”
She’s watching the polls (always), backing Bibi (for now), lamenting the jihadi takeover of Iraq (for now), and talking tough on the Russians and Iran (for now), all in obvious prep for her run for the White House in 2016.
And if she wins? Then we’ll see the duplicitous lizard emerge from behind the mask, slithering tongue and all, saying: “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Via WSJ.
BTW, the White House’s latest opportunist, who is a master of deceit, says her criticism of his Syrian policy is “horsesh*t” —a substance the Classy One is a lot more familiar with than most.
Posted in Israel, Obamalot, Obsessions, The Culture, The War
Tagged Bret Stephens, Queen of Benghazi, The Lizard Queen, the new neoconservative Clinton
Heard the one about how Hamas keeps its Gaza headquarters in the basement of Shifa Hospital? Not unless you read WaPo Jerusalem reporter William Booth’s latest to the last sentence of the eighth paragraph.
Talk about burying the lede. We know you didn’t learn that here, Billy, when you worked for the Austin daily. Or maybe we just hardly knew ye? Gotta keep those terrorists happy, eh?
Well, in fairness to Billy, he and the WaPo (which is notorious for rewriting its reporters) must cooperate in pushing Hamas propaganda the way the terrorists like it—including the latest wrenching and probably staged pix from Pallywood—or they’ll kidnap him for ransom like they did BBC reporter Alan Johnson back in 2007.
Just don’t let the WaPo convince you that Billy’s an objective reporter on the fighting in Gaza or the doings of Hamas. No one is.
“In recent days alone, we’ve heard the account of Gabriele Barbati, an Italian journalist who, once leaving Gaza, tweeted: “Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children yday in Shati. Witness: militants rushed and cleared debris.” We’ve also heard from Radjaa Abou Dagga, a former correspondent for France’s Liberation whose attempts at practicing honest journalism got him summoned by Hamas thugs, accused of collaborating with Israel, and told to stop working as a reporter and leave the strip at once.”
Indeed, as one of my favorite bloggers, Elder of Ziyon, puts it: “Every single report on TV from Gaza should have this disclaimer: ‘Our reporters have been threatened, implicitly and perhaps explicitly, by Hamas to only report one side of the story. Viewers must not trust anything they are saying.’”
Works for newspaper reporters and editors, too. And their Internet clones.
Via The Algemeiner.
Posted in Israel, The Culture, The War
Tagged Hamas headquarters in a Gaza hospital, WaPo correspondents, William Booth
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