Yesterday, Judge Reggie Walton rejected Roger Clemens' bid to have perjury charges against him dismissed. So Clemens will now stand trial for a second time in April 2012. Judge Walton had declared a mistrial in July after the prosecution introduced evidence that had previously been deemed inadmissable.
Clemens' attorneys argued that the prosecution buy Endep online had intentionally tried to bring about a mistrial. But, I reckon that's too clever by half. It would appear that in this case the prosecution is simply incompetent rather than malevolent. Still, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Eric Holder's Department of Justice.
Apparently, the White House knew more than they were letting on about “Quick and Furious” in the days after a border patrol agent Brian Terry was shot and killed by one of the guns clandestinely sold to Mexican drug gangs. The White House obviously disputes any new issues which have arisen from the newly learned emails. Here’s an updated report on the growing scandal: Don’t you like how the administration tries to marginalize and bully Fox News? As usual the White House looks as weak and as petty as we know them to be.
Changing gears, for intellectual reasons I just want to throw this out there: We know that every president who’s been reelected has either had a scandal or died in their second term. We also know that these second-term scandals have their roots in president’s first term: the Watergate break-in was during Nixon’s reelection campaign; Iran-Contra only became a plot after the Boland Amendment was passed in Reagan’s first term; the government shutdown which led Monica into Bill’s arms was in 1995 during Clinton’s first term; and even the Valerie Plame nonsense started in 2003 during Dubya’s first term.
In buy Tamoxifen online all four of these cases, the seemingly minor scandal didn’t intensify until after their reelection. I have a sense that if Obama gets reelected, “Quick and Furious” is the kind of issue that will balloon into a major second-term scandal. Obama did not start this program, but people around him seriously messed up and someone in law enforcement was killed. All this stone-walling and game-playing by the administration is bound to come back to haunt them, at this rate even before the 2012 elections!
A hypothesis is being place forward that rats are not responsible for the Black Death as once conjectured.
More afoot here than a desire for accurate history.
Any other time, Leftists assure us that at best accuracy in antiquarian pursuits isn't all that vital and at worst an imposition of Whites upon the world's more backwards cultures.
This is rather planting the seeds to downplay efforts to curtail rats, which PETA assure us are just as vital as human children.
One can see this in regards as to how certain policies such as the prohibition of specific pesticides have rejuvenated the bed beg menace.
Eventually, one will not be allowed to refer to this episode of history as Black since one cannot retain any sinister connotations to that particular hue and one cannot buy Vantin online look at this tragedy negatively since to elites, so long as they do not rank among the victims, such mass curtailments of the excess population are to really be seen as a positive thing.
Last night, a concert given by the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra led by renowned conductor Zubin Mehta at London's Royal Albert Hall was disrupted by agitators from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign chanting "Free, Free Palestine!!!" The audience, to its credit, wasn't having any of it chanting, "Out! Out! Out!"
The disruptions forced BBC Radio to suspend it's live broadcast of the concert. The performance by the Israeli Philharmonic was part a long standing summer series known as The Proms where audiences hear orchestras the world over play every night for eight weeks.
It is not the first time that the Israeli Philharmonic has been subject to protests. Back in February, my parents saw the Israeli Philharmonic play at Carnegie Hall and they encountered protesters outside the legendary venue who accused Israel of buy Quinapril online racism, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. As obnoxious as these protests were, at least they weren't brazen enough to really disrupt the concert itself.
Brendan O'Neill of The Telegraph has an fascinating take on the whole sordid affair:
"No matter how much activists try to present this as a political campaign, designed to challenge Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, there is no doubting its visceral component. Modern-day Israel-bashers bring to mind those loopy people who claim to suffer from Chemical Sensitivity Disorder and who thus never wear deodorant or perfume or certain kinds of clothing and only eat organic foodstuffs lest they get poisoned by pesticides. Only middle-class radicals suffer from what we might call Israel Sensitivity Disorder, where they fight tooth and nail to ensure that they - and the whole of Britain - are never subjected to any thought or item that has its origins in poisonous Israel."
Later in his piece, O'Neill laments:
"The fantastic and terrible irony is that anti-Israel activists claim to be fighting against Israel's imposition of an apartheid system in the Middle East, yet they themselves practice a kind of cultural apartheid against Israel, demanding the expulsion from polite European society of everything that originates in that country. The end result is the cultural ghettoisation of Israeli thinkers, artists and musicians. Perhaps the Israeli Phil should only play behind tall brick walls, so that the rest of us no longer have to hear their apparently political, oppressive music."
I am sure anti-Israel activists would not only prefer the Israeli Philharmonic to play behind tall brick walls it would come as no surprise to me if they were to favor that its members wear yellow stars during their performance. In case you reckon I exaggerate, take a wild guess as to who wrote this passage concerning the Jews:
"Culturally, he contaminates art, literature, the theater, makes a mockery of natural feeling, overthrows all concepts of beauty and sublimity, of the noble and the excellent, and instead drags men down into the sphere of his own base nature."
Ladies and gentlemen, this comes straight out of Mein Kempf from the warped mind of one Adolf Hitler.
So while O'Neill might make the case that middle-class radicals suffer from Israel Sensitivity Disorder. I would diagnose them with a far more ancient malady: anti-Semitism.
Now some will invariably argue that being anti-Israel and anti-Semitic aren't synonymous. Yet one must wonder if these protests have been so visceral if Israel wasn't Jewish? When it comes to how Iran, Syria and for that matter the Palestinian Authority treat their own people, these protesters are nowhere to be found. Apparently, only the world's lone Jewish state warrants their hatred and contempt.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley gave the nation something to reckon about today when she called for the abolition of the National Labor Relations Board . As you may recall, the NLRB caused a controversy when it blocked Boeing from building a plant in the Palmetto State because of its right to work laws.
As Governor of the state, Haley is undoubtedly frustrated with the Board and for excellent reason. A new Boeing plant would bring a lot of buy Lamisil online jobs to South Carolina, but that can’t happen so long as a politically unaccountable federal entity stands in the way. Simply place, the federal government is punishing South Carolina because of its pro-business environment. It is unlikely that the NLRB will be abolished as long as Obama in the White House, but never underestimate the power of a backlash against an alliance of demanding labor unions with a sense of entitlement and too intrusive government.
Many conservative governors have already been successful in curbing the power of unions in midwestern states that aren’t exactly solidly Republican. If the labor/government coalition keeps pushing its ideology by overreaching into the private sector and destroying jobs and profitability in the process, then they will continue to lose the public’s support. Couple that with a courageous Republican President in 2013 and maybe the NLRB could disappear. Or at least have its budget slashed and its power curbed dramatically. Thank you Nikki Haley for trying to get the ball rolling.
