An Actual Smart Criminal

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Phil Kadath

We’ve all heard about stupid criminals. Well, this guy isn’t one of them.

William “Billy” Cottrell was such an exceptional student at the University of Chicago that he was described by his professors as something of an eccentric genius. He even won the award for best senior thesis in physics, addressing string theory, which seeks a single way to explain all forces and all forms of matter.

Today the 27-year-old is in jail.

Two years after his 2002 graduation with honors as a double major in physics and math, Cottrell was charged and convicted as one of the nation’s first ecoterrorists of the post-Sept. 11 era. He was found guilty of conspiracy and arson in the 2003 firebombings of Hummer and other sport-utility vehicle dealerships in the Los Angeles area to advocate a radical environmentalism. Two conspirators remain at large.

Cottrell is appealing his conviction. One mitigating factor, his supporters argue, is that he is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which can make his behavior at times inappropriate.

Ahh, so burning down car dealerships (aka: other people’s property) isn’t criminal or morally wrong, it is just “inappropriate”?

Nice theory, though not one I’d bank on no matter how many PhDs I had on my side.

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You can always count on them

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Phil Kadath

To be cowardly.

France: Hizbullah not a terror group

Hizbullah is part of Lebanese politics and must not be regarded as a terror organization, said the French Foreign Ministry in a statement Thursday night.

The statement was an apparent about-turn by France after President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Hizbullah was indeed a terrorist group when he met with the captured IDF soldiers’ families in Paris last week. Thursday’s statement was prompted by protests from Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

So a terror group’s leader objects to terror group being properly called a group of terrorists, and some minister sticks his tale between his legs and recants the Prime Minister’s statement faster than you can say “White Flag”.

Found at LGF

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You’d think

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Phil Kadath

That they could have smelled it?

Giant Marijuana Farm Found 200 Yards From DEA Office

Drug Enforcement Administration officials discovered a large number of marijuana plants growing in a wooded area near the Trinity River in Dallas Thursday afternoon.

The secret pot farm was practically right under their noses. In fact, if you could walk in a straight line from the riverbank through the marshy underbrush and tangled wilderness, you’d walk just 200 yards before you hit the DEA’s office building.

And the leftoids want to give this government the ability to mandate our health? Hell, I wouldn’t trust them to keep the borders closed and dangerous people from entering the country.

Oh, wait.

Found at Right Thinking

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Keeping your perspective

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Phil Kadath

I’ve touched upon this subject in the By Ourselves, For Ourselves post #2, but this Motivational Poster” created by Mugwug of Moral Flexibility states this fact very well too.

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He does one of these almost every Friday and you can see the bank of them here

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In Remembrance: The Booty Eulogies

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Phil Kadath

My apologies for not filing one of these posts last Sunday. I was much to taken with trying to get ready for going back to work to apparently even remember until the afternoon.

Anyway, on we go.

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Hello. I cannot give you my name or let you see my face to due the prudishness of the politics that my family holds. We Luxembourgers must take pride in what we can, you see.

One of the things I pride deeply was that I knew and loved John Thomas Booty. He will forever be in my heart and I will wear the chain he presented to me to the grave.

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What’s the Cartridge?

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Alaska

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You get three guesses; put ’em in the comments. Answer on Monday. First with the answer gets a big No-Prize.

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This is what happens

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Phil Kadath

When you let both sexual predators and immigration go unchecked. 

Since the night of the 4th of July, we here in the Seattle/Tacoma Metro area have been searching for 12yr old Zina Linnik. She was last seen behind her home in the central Tacoma area after the fireworks display.

Last night, she was found. Her corpse.

Police have one Terapon Dang Adhahn in custody. Adhahn is a known child rapist. He is being held on both an unrelated immigration charge and a charge of failing to register as a sex offender for the 1990 violent rape of a 16yr old female relative. He was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of 1st degree incest with the total sentence of 60 months of “sexual deviancy couselling”.

Adhahn is residing in the US with an unknown immigration status, though since he is being held on an immigration charge, I think it is safe to say that his visa is probably expired.

Why Adhahn is even in the US is a mystery to me. You would think that INS would have thrown his ass out in 1990, when he plead guilty to “incest” charge, or in 1995 when he completed his sentence. Or maybe the new ICE would have deemed him criminal enough to round up and toss back.

But apparently not.

They didn’t, and now a 12 year old girl is dead, after suffering what was probably an unspeakable ordeal.

One thing you probably won’t read about in the media anywhere, unless Stefan Sharkansky of Sound Politics gets a Drudge hit is that Adhahn the felon, Adhahn the child rapist, Adhahn the non-US citizen has been registered to vote in Washington State since 2002.

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Antique Bobbleheads

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Alaska

Just in case you thought the bobblehead fad was a recent invention, here’s proof to the contrary:

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The ubiquitous shot glass gives some idea of the size. My grandmother gave these to me a few years ago, as I’m the political junkie of the family. According to her, they date from the late 1920s or early 1930s. They appear to be made of clay or a similar material.
I tried to take a picture of the heads bobbling to and fro, but wasn’t all that successful.

Got any rare or unique bobbleheads or political memorabilia? Send me a pic and I’ll post it.

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Score One for the Good Guys

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Alaska

The Tiahrt Amendment passed in the House Appropriations Committee yesterday, much to the PBS NewsHour’s chagrin. An even stronger version — the Shelby Amendment, which goes so far as to impose criminal penalties on LEOs who misuse trace data — earlier passed in the Senate Appropriations Committee. So now both houses’ budget bills have a version of the Tiahrt Amendment, which means it’s extremely unlikely that any final compromise budget will fail to include it.

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False Flags In the Gun Debate

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Alaska

Last night PBS’ NewsHour chose to focus on the debate and vote today in Congress on the Tiahrt Amendment. Dave Kopel has a nice writeup here on the real significance of the Amendment to gun owners. Don’t forget to CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER TODAY and urge him or her to support the Amendment (it’s pronounced TEE-ART).

UPDATE: The NewsHour didn’t make it clear, but apparently the vote today is not on the House floor, but only in the Appropriations Committee. Committee members are listed here. I called my local Congresspersons, and as none of them are on the Appropriations Committee, their staff had no idea what the Tiahrt Amendment was. Hopefully a flood of calls from NRA types will “wake them up.”

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What I found hilarious about the NewsHour segment (transcript here) was that neither Congressman Tiahrt nor the Mayor debating him would admit what the debate’s really about. This is unusual for the NewsHour; generally if a guest tries to just recite talking points, the anchor sees right through it and starts asking more difficult questions.

It seems to me everybody in Washington knows the Mayors don’t want the trace data in order to prevent crimes; they want it so they and their plaintiffs’ attorneys can build better lawsuits against gun dealers and distributors, now that manufacturers are off-limits.

On the other side, Tiahrt’s amendment is about protecting not merely undercover ATF officers, as he asserts, but more importantly the privacy of individual citizens who happen to own firearms. But despite plenty of opportunities to discuss that aspect of the bill, he stuck to his talking points (“the amendment protects those who protect us,” which is a nice slogan but starts to sound trite after he repeats it a bunch of times).

Sometimes it’s fun to watch this inside-baseball stuff (you can listen to it here) but really, anchor Judy Woodruff should have put these two in their place 30 seconds into the debate and gotten to the real issues here. Unless she has some sort of agenda….? Naaw, couldn’t be….
BTW, is it just me, or has the NewsHour been running more left-of-center pieces than usual now that Judy Woodruff’s back?

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