'Beast' Man Has Low Self-Esteem

Sounds like the folks in Australia are also into this touchy-feely self-esteem nonsense.

Here you have a sickening story about a guy caught with thousands of bestiality images, and the judge seems more worried about his teeth and self-esteem.

A TASMANIAN computer technician who considered himself a beast has been given a suspended jail sentence after being caught possessing bestiality images.
Rodney Scott McLagan, 48, of South Arm, today was sentenced after pleading guilty to possessing 31,000 illegal images, most involving human female sex acts with dogs, ponies, snakes, tigers and an octopus.

Although 30 per cent of the total images involved child pornography, Hobart Supreme Court Justice David Porter today said only 20 per cent of those were actually viewed by McLagan.

"Your interests lie in the bestiality material," Justice Porter said in sentencing today.

McLagan's lawyer David Barclay told the court that his client had little or no interest in child pornography, and no relevant prior convictions.

Those images were downloaded in bulk along with the bestiality material, Mr Barclay said.

McLagan, a single man with no children, pleaded guilty on July 4 to possessing bestiality products and child exploitation material.

Police found the images on computers and discs discovered during a search of McLagan's home, near Hobart, on January 6 last year.

A psychiatric report tendered to the court showed McLagan suffers from an avoidant personality disorder, leaving him ill-equipped to achieve normal intimacy.

The disorder often leaves its sufferers with chronic social anxiety and loneliness, without the opportunity for normal sexual relationships, and fantasy is often indulged, the court was told.

Justice Porter said: "It also emerges from the report that you are particularly self-conscious about your teeth".

"One of the consequences of all of this in your case is that you equate yourself with a beast, reflecting the level of your self-esteem.

"It is that which motivated your accessing the material you did."

Sure. Or maybe he's just one sick guy.

Philippines: 'Hey, Let's Give Them a State'

This is a really bad idea if you ask me. But nobody's asking, so they'll figure it out eventually.

When it's too late, of course.

The Philippines will hold a plebiscite early next year in more than 700 southern villages to set up an ancestral homeland for Muslims, part of a deal with the country's biggest rebel group, officials said on Thursday.

Hermogenes Esperon, the president's peace adviser, told reporters the proposed Muslim homeland would also be empowered to collect about 75 percent of taxes from oil, mines and fisheries in the area.

He was speaking in Manila a day after government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiators hammered out a deal in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.

"The government has agreed to grant broader political, social and economic power to the Muslims based on a deal we have reached with the rebels in Malaysia," Esperon said, adding everything that was agreed was within the country's constitution.

"The final political solution will still be negotiated, and, if needed, we will amend the constitution to reflect what was agreed upon with the rebels. It appears we're creating a federal system, but that is not what we have now in our constitution."

The deal would expand the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), an area in the south of the mainly Catholic Philippines that was carved out in an agreement with another Muslim rebel group, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

Esperon said he could not reveal the full details of the deal with the MILF due to the confidentiality of the negotiations, but said it went beyond the earlier agreement with the MNLF.

These people think they can actually draw a bargain with these MILF terrorists, who Reuters lovingly likes to call rebels.

Talk about cutting off your own heads.

Heartless Democrats to 'Hide' the Homeless

These hypocrites love to pretend they care about the homeless, using them as political mascots every opportunity they get.

But when it comes time to throw their lavish shindig in Denver next month, the last thing the limousine liberals want are any television cameras to see are bums wandering about ruining their carefully choreographed show for the television cameras.

Can you imagine if the Republicans tried something like this?

Heck, I can already see the Democrats busing in some homeless just to mess with the GOP when they go to Minneapolis.

The Democratic Party likes to boast that it's a big tent for all - except for the homeless at the upcoming national convention.

A highly unusual effort is planned in Denver, site of Barack Obama's nomination next month, to sweep the city's homeless out of view of convention-goers - by giving them free tickets to the movies, museums and the zoo!

A group that helps the city deal with homelessness says it intends to distribute as many as 500 movie tickets and passes to the Denver Zoo, Museum of Nature and Science and other city venues away from the convention center, with transportation provided, according to the Rocky Mountain News.

Right. As if the patrons of the zoo, museums and movie theaters want some human debris spoiling their time.

One homeless-rights advocate was fuming over the plan.

"It just sounds like another way to get rid of them," Kayne Coy, 17, who volunteers feeding the homeless twice a week, told the paper.

Denver's homeless also will be given the bum's rush to shelters normally designed to house them only during the winter.

Big-screen TVs are being donated to the shelters so the "patrons" can watch the convention and stay informed about the issues being discussed.

Sure. As if the homeless are going to sit around breathlessly awaiting some political speeches.

You can be sure while the Democrats are busy hiding them, they'll probably also be registering them to vote multiple times.

But shuffling the homeless away from the convention is not because Democrats don't want to encounter them, said B.J. Iacino, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

"We are keen advocates of the homeless and want to protect their rights and give them options," she said.

Sure. SO if that's the case, why not just let them in to the Pepsi Center where they can enjoy all that great fat-free food at the convention?

Speaking of the homeless and hypocritical liberals, one wonders why they're treated so harshlay in a "a socially acknowledged, nature-loving town"?

Moonbat Sets 'Moon Shot'

You really have to wonder whether the bloated former Vice President and national embarrassment Al Gore ever reads the news.

He can't really be this clueless.

Can he?

Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.

The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president said fellow Democrat Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain are "way ahead" of most politicians in the fight against global climate change.

Rising fuel costs, climate change and the national security threats posed by U.S. dependence on foreign oil are conspiring to create "a new political environment" that Gore said will sustain bold and expensive steps to wean the nation off fossil fuels.

Tell it to the Chinese and Indians, fatboy. They'll be burning more fossil fuels the next 30 years than we could ever imagine.

Read the rest of this drivel from AP if you can stomach it.

Such shameless propaganda is yet another reason to avoid thier nonsense.

Why The November Elections Scare Me

Georgia had their primary elections yesterday and the outcome of a couple of the races is very telling. It involves the candidates running under the Democrat banner. It is very apparent to the Democrats in this country that candidates with a history of corruption and even criminal offenses is not enough reason for them to be denied election to office. Here are 2 cases in point.
The first is the race to determine the Democrat challenger to Saxby Chambliss for Senator from Georgia. There were five candidates on the ballot and no winner has been decided. They will have to go to a runoff to determine who the candidate will be. What is shocking is who the 2 candidates are that will be facing off in this runoff. They are Jim Martin and Vernon Jones.
Vernon Jones won the most votes, but why is that so shocking? Vernon Jones was the former CEO of Dekalb county Georgia, the same area that is home to Cynthia McKinney. Vernon Jones has been involved in one after another case involving abuse of his position while CEO, charges of corruption and even criminal charges of rape. If you Google "Vernon Jones Rape" you will receive 50,300 articles talking about the topic.
For Vernon Jones corruption you will get 48,900 articles.
Sometimes he was accused of doing both at the same time. What is also interesting in that article is that one of the reporters who contributed to that report, Dale Cardwell, was also on the Democrat ballot to challenge for this seat.
The rape charges were later dropped under mysterious circumstances and rumors of the victim being paid off.

The Democratic candidate himself is likely to be subject to questions about his personal life. As DeKalb CEO, Jones was the center of several controversies — including a 2005 rape allegation, in which a woman alleged Jones, who is not married, had assaulted her after a night of consentual sex with her and a second woman.

After a nine-month investigation, the woman withdrew the charges, but never recanted.

Jim Martin the other guy in this run off is a career politician and highly touted by the "Progressive Democrats". Progressives is code word for the folks who frequent web sites like the Daily Kos. Click on that link only if you are prepared to be subjected to some very vile, crude, and profanity laced reading. So the Dems have to choose between a candidate who ought to be in jail and one who has the endorsement of Kos crowd.

The second case is the one for my congressional district (GA-13). The Republicans have their candidate Deborah Honeycutt. The Democrat, who is the incumbent, is David Scott. This time he had some challengers, mainly because when you appear on the list of 25 most corrupt politicians in DC you would think there was some weakness. By the way that group is a liberal group. Well you would be wrong. He beat his competition 64% to 36%.
The reason to be scared is because come November it is expected that the Dems will be turning out in large numbers so that they can cast a vote for the Obama Messiah. They will go into the polling booth and ask for a Democrat ballot and vote for these guys right along with Changemeister. The voter either doesn't bother to get informed or else they are just apathetic to the personal flaws and politics of the candidates. Obviously they must be if they can follow blindly the rhetoric of Barack, who if he presented his resume to a Fortune 500 company, might have trouble getting hired based on how thin it is.

Cross posted at The Lighthouse on the Right

Good News: Zimbabwe Inflation Now 2.2 Million Percent

Now here are some folks who really need change. As in, do you have change for a $500,000,000 bill?

The annual rate of inflation in Zimbabwe, already the highest in the world, has hit a new record level of 2.2 million percent, the central bank's governor revealed on Wednesday.

"Statistics provided by the CSO (central statistical office) indicate that it is now at 2.2 (million percent)," Gideon Gono said in a brief address in Harare ahead of a speech by veteran President Robert Mugabe.

The figure is the first from the authorities in Zimbabwe since the announcement of the rate for February, when it was put at around 165,000 percent.

The head of the CSO, Moffat Nyoni, confirmed the figure but said it was only a rough barometer as it was based on limited data.

"We can confirm that that is the figure we have given to... users, but that is not the sort of data we would normally publish with confidence because it was not based on the sort of information we would normally use," Nyoni told AFP.

"The information was based on fewer observations than we would be confident with due to scarcities.

"However, with the information we have managed to obtain, this is the rate of inflation."

Mugabe, who was controversially re-elected for a sixth term in office last month in a ballot boycotted by the opposition, said that increasing levels of production was key to efforts to tame inflation.

"As a country our declared battle against the scourge of high inflation must be accomplished," he said.

"The more goods we have, the less demand there will be.... Once demand is satisfied, then prices will begin to fall."

The 84-year-old president, who has frequently blamed the country's economic woes on a package of targeted sanctions imposed by the West, reiterated his attack on the "illegal" measures.

Yes, always someone else' fault.

Must be racist.

'Narcissus Award' Winner Rangel Facing More Heat

Let's face it. If New York Democrat Charles Rangel were a Republican, he'd have been driven from office just for that cushy arrangement where he managed to finagle four rent-controlled apartments in one building.

Well, what do you know. This shining exemplar of the self-proclaimed Most Ethical Congress Ever is now in even more hot water for raising money for a monument to himself using Congessional letterhead, a definite no-no. If you're a Republican that is.

Rangel, you see, has special privileges, primary among them being a Democrat.

Rep. Charles Rangel acknowledged yesterday he may have violated House ethics rules when he used congressional stationery to solicit donations for a Harlem "center for public service" that will be named after him.

Rangel has used his office letterhead to try to raise funds for the controversial center in Harlem from Donald Trump, Hank Greenberg, the former head of the AIG insurance giant, and others, it was revealed yesterday - even though congressional rules bar the stationery from being used for solicitations.

"The entire thing appears dicey, and there's no question that, as soon as I can, I'm going to take a look at it," Rangel said following a report in yesterday's Washington Post exposing the practice.

As soon as he can. Translation: Get the f--- out of my face and we'll fix this.

The Post reported last year that Rangel sent letters asking for donations for the Charles B. Rangel Center to several potential corporate donors with business before his committee.

Last year, Rangel's office provided The Post with a list of some of the donations he had already helped secure for the project, which included $10 million from AIG; $500,000 from the Verizon Foundation; and $1 million from Eugene Isenberg, CEO of energy firm Nabors Industries.

The Rangel Center, which would be part of City College, has been a target for Republicans and taxpayer groups since he secured nearly $2 million in "earmarks" last year to build it.

The project also earned Rangel the mocking "Narcissus Award" from the Citizens Against Public Waste, which publishes a list of federal projects it deems to be pork.

A spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called for the House Ethics Committee to look into Rangel's actions.

That, no doubt, will have Boehner labeled racist before long.

Laughably, Rangel, who's been in Congress since 1972, claims it was vague House rules which left him confused.

Sure.

Rangel, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, told the New York Post yesterday that the House rules have left him unsure of what is permissible.

"The laws have been so vague in what we can solicit for not-for-profits that I am certain that they're making them up as we go along," Rangel said.

Lame.

More here on Rangel's Monument to Me.

Now Rangel is turning to the private sector - sending out 100 letters (on congressional letterhead, just to drive home the point) to assorted corporations and foundations, asking them to fund a home for "the inspirational aspects of my legacy."

And it's worked - the effort's already raised $12 million.

Not surprisingly, CCNY is doing its bit - proclaiming that the Rangel Center will "rank with the [Bill] Clinton and [Jimmy] Carter libraries" in importance.

Give us a break.

It's probably too late for this election cycle and his ego is so massive, but I suspect Rangel's tenure in Congress will thankfully come to an end before long.

He has only himself to blame.

By the way, that most ethical Congress ever is now at 14% approval. Good job, Nancy!

Running for Cover

New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick continues to smear the right with the absurd explanation that the cover portraying Saint Obama and his wife is a mere caricature of how the right allegedly "smears" Barack Obama.

The editor of The New Yorker magazine said Monday his cover cartoon showing Michelle and Barack Obama as fist-bumping terrorists was designed to "provoke a discussion" about campaign smear tactics.

The controversial July 21 issue cover created a national uproar as Americans across the country weighed in on the provocative image.

Some called for New Yorker editor David Remnick to step down, while others praised him for calling attention to the smear tactics.

"I published the cover not to 'get attention' gratuitously but because it had something important to say and to provoke a discussion," Remnick told the Daily News.
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Remnick appeared on national TV to explain the decision, saying the cover was meant to "attack lies and misconceptions and distortions about the Obamas."

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but what evidence exactly does he have that the right has done anything like this?

If there was anyone allegedly smearing Obama the past few months it was other Democrats themselves. Apparently Remnick has no recollection of an ugly primary fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton.

This is the same nonsense that followed the alleged "Whitey tape" that was foisted on the public by Democrats themselves, which was then turned around and blamed on the right.

If you needed any further evidence the right has had nothing to do with this Obama is a Muslim nonsense, is there a single major news outlet or blog that has declared Obama a Muslim?

No, there isn't. And the John McCain campaign has bent over backward to avoid "smearing" Obama. Of course, using a person's own words against him nowadays is considered a smear by the weak-kneed left.

To further illustrate the point, since the Obama campaign unveiled this absurd Fight the Smears website, there has not been a single "smear" added to it. In fact, the first alleged "smear" is a smear against Rush Limbaugh which has not yet been retracted.

So it's time for the leftwing media and Obama campaign to stop smearing the right.

Previously.

Just Words; Just Speeches

He's desperate to not appear as a radical leftist. Consequently, Barack [deleted] Obama has yet to find a position that he hasn't thrown under the bus. Must be pleading for mercy from the Koslings and other malcontents, misfits and loons.

Obama backtracks on an undivided J'lem
In his first major speech minutes after clinching the Democrat nomination as the party's candidate for the US presidential election, Barack Obama surprised listeners at an AIPAC convention by saying Jerusalem should be Israel's "undivided" capital. However, the Illinois senator retracted his comments on Sunday, saying that they were "badly phrased."

"You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the and we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given," Obama said during an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria - GPS."

"The point we were simply making was that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the '67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent. I was not trying to predetermine what are essentially final-status issues," he continued.

Then why bring it up, asshat?

The senator explained that despite the error in conveying his message, he did not intend to abandon the notion that the two sides - Israel and the Palestinians - should discuss such issues on their own, with strong backing from the United States.

Israel, Obama said, must realize that its existence in the long term is dependent on its ability to achieve peace with its neighbors, while the Palestinian leadership must recognize the fact that the battles it fights, the direction in which it is going and the rhetoric it uses do not "deliver the goods" for the Palestinian people.

The uproarious laughter comes from Hamastan.

What Israeli citizens want and what the residents of the West Bank long for is a pragmatic approach that would allow them to be safe, live their lives and educate their children, Obama added.

Wow. Stating the obvious is certainly a stroke of freakin' genius.

Obama is scheduled to come to Israel for a brief 24-hour visit next week as part of a European and Middle Easter tour (during which he will visit Germany, France, the United Kingdom and also Iraq and Jordan).

Heh. Maybe he'll speak from the east side of where the Berlin Wall stood: 'Madame Merkel, rebuild this wall!'[/sarc for the clueless]

Obama's campaign headquarters have not yet published his itinerary and the precise date of his arrival, but he is scheduled to visit the Western Wall, Yad Vashem and take a helicopter trip to Sderot.

Additionally, Obama will meet Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu.

Assuming, of course, Olmert's still around to assure Israel's path to suicide grovel at his feet.

A Palestinian official said on Monday that Obama will visit the West Bank during the trip.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Democratic presidential contender will travel to Ramallah on July 23. He said Obama is scheduled to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Erekat said the Palestinians "welcome this meeting," and added that if he is elected US president, the Palestinians hope "he will stay the course between Israel and the Palestinians in reaching peace."

A poll published by Newsweek recently found that Obama is still the favored candidate, though by a smaller margin than last month. Obama enjoys 44 percent of support, while Republican nominee John McCain enjoys 41%. In a similar poll conducted last month, Obama led with 51% support and McCain was trailing with only 36%.

Change. Change we can believe in.

Spit.

Via The Jerusalem Post

Our friend Carl in Jerusalem has more

Swarthy Munchkin Returning to UN

Wonderful. I'll assume this little maggot will again be visiting his friends at Columbia University.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he plans on going to New York to attend the 2008 United Nations General Assembly session.

It will be President Ahmadinejad's third trip to New York since he took office in August 2005.

During his last trip to New York in September 2007, Ahmadinejad requested to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center, the site of the September 11 attacks, to pay tribute to the victims of the attack. His bid, however, was rejected by city authorities.

Meanwhile, the hirsute Hitler said the United States empire is soon coming to an end.

Bring it on, little man.

British Women Busted for 'Sex Competition'

Nothing like a relaxing holiday on the Greek islands. A little sun, surf, fine dining and a blowjob contest on the side.

Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos, police said on Monday.

Six British and six Greek men, including two bar owners, were also charged in the incident, which took place at Laganas beach in the south of the Ionian island, which lies off the west coast of mainland Greece, police said.

The women, who came to the popular resort on holiday, had been paid to take part in the competition, which was video recorded and was to be posted on the Internet, police said.

The men were charged with encouraging obscene behavior.

In recent years, Laganas has established itself as one of Greece's most popular destinations for twenty-something holidaymakers and is known for its wild party scene.

Seems now it'll be more popular than ever.

Peaceful Religious Men Admit Bomb Plot Role

They look like such fine, upstanding young men, don't they?

Well, they're admitting to having a role in a plot to bomb Heathrow, but aren't quite ready to divulge all.

Though the way things are going in Britain, they'll probably be walking free by the weekend.

Three British Muslims accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic planes flying out of Heathrow with liquid bombs admitted today attempting to cause explosions.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, Assad Sarwar, 28, and Tanvir Hussain, 27, admitted the offence at Woolwich Crown Court, in South-East London.

But they still deny that their bombs were part of a wave of suicide attacks on US-bound passenger jets using homemade devices made of hydrogen peroxide smuggled on board in Lucozade and Oasis soft drinks bottles.

Instead they claim they were only planning to set off small devices around London in protest at UK foreign policy and had no intention to kill or cause injuries.

The three men listed potential targets as the Houses of Parliament, Heathrow Terminal Three, other 'iconic' buildings or sites such as oil refineries.

The jury must now decide whether they - and five other defendants - are guilty of conspiracy to murder.

The three men also admitted conspiring to cause public nuisance by distributing videos threatening suicide bomb attacks in Britain.

Two of their co-defendants, Ibrahim Savant, 27, and Umar Islam, 30, also admitted conspiring to cause a public nuisance.

Threatening to blow up an airport is now a nuisance?

Whoops! Miss USA Tumbles, Miss Venezuela Wins

For the second year in a row, Miss USA slipped and fell during evening gown competition at the Miss Universe pageant and is sure to become a YouTube hit.

Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008.

Mendoza and three other Latin Americans women made the final five at Sunday's contest. The four other finalists were runner-up Miss Colombia Tailana Vargas, Miss Dominican Republic Marianne Cruz Gonzalez, Miss Mexico Elisa Najera, and Miss Russia Vera Krasova.

An elated Dayana Mendoza received the crown from her predecessor, Riyo Mori of Japan, and then prepared to meet a gaggle of reporters. Miss Venezuela, 22, was once kidnapped in her homeland and says the experience taught her to remain poised under pressure.

Tension got under the skin of Crystle Steward of Texas, the second Miss USA in a row to fall down during the the evening gown competition at the Miss Universe pageant. She was in the top 10 but tripped on the train of her bejeweled evening gown as she made her entrance.

During the 2007 Miss Universe contest in Mexico City, Miss USA Rachel Smith also tumbled during the evening gown competition and became an unintended star on You Tube, where the video was shown over and over again.

And you can bet this one will also be getting plenty of attention.

Speaking of attention, feast your eyes upon the lovely Ms. Mendoza.