This is Maurice Clemmons, sought by the police of Washington state, for possible involvement in the ambush/ assassination of 4 police officers Sunday morning in Tacoma. Reading Clemmons’ recent and not so recent criminal history makes any sensible person ask, “What is this animal doing out on the street?” The short answer is, “You just can’t lock up crazy and dangerous people any longer.” The longer answer, in fewer words, is “We don’t have the guts to jail the nuts.”

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Clemmons was given a 60-year sentence in Arkansas while “he was already serving 48 years on five felony convictions and facing up to 95 more years on charges of robbery, theft of property and possessing a handgun on school property. Records from Clemmons’ sentencing described him as 5-foot-7 and 108 pounds. The crimes were committed when he was 17. Clemmons served 11 years before being released.”

His sentence was commuted due to the “mercy” of then governor Mike Huckabee who cited his tender years at the time his crimes were committed [emphasis added]. Should Clemmons turn out to be responsible for the killings of the four police officers, I’d say Mike Huckabee should hang up his further political aspirations in America for good. This would be Huckabee’s Willie Horton moment only several orders of magnitude larger.

[...] Full story @ American Digest…

h/t: Morgan Freeberg

UPDATE
Lone Seattle policeman shoots, kills suspect in ambush of 4 officers at suburban coffee shop

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HISTORY.com:

Mayflower Myths

“The reason that we have so many myths associated with Thanksgiving is that it is an invented tradition. It doesn’t originate in any one event. It is based on the New England puritan Thanksgiving, which is a religious Thanksgiving, and the traditional harvest celebrations of England and New England and maybe other ideas like commemorating the pilgrims. All of these have been gathered together and transformed into something different from the original parts.”

– James W. Baker
Senior Historian at Plimoth Plantation

Myth: The first Thanksgiving was in 1621 and the pilgrims celebrated it every year thereafter.

Fact: The first feast wasn’t repeated, so it wasn’t the beginning of a tradition. In fact, the colonists didn’t even call the day Thanksgiving. To them, a thanksgiving was a religious holiday in which they would go to church and thank God for a specific event, such as the winning of a battle. On such a religious day, the types of recreational activities that the pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians participated in during the 1621 harvest feast–dancing, singing secular songs, playing games–wouldn’t have been allowed. The feast was a secular celebration, so it never would have been considered a thanksgiving in the pilgrims minds.

[...] More Thanksgiving myths….

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Well boys and girls… Its that time of year when we are compelled to impart information that we know you can’t live without. So here goes…

DID YOU KNOW?

Bill Clinton was the first President, while in office, to be a defendant in a civil court case. He was the first to give evidence on oath to a Grand Jury and the first to have a woman Secretary of State, Madelaine Albright.

George H. W. Bush was the first President who had been Director of the CIA. In fact, Bush was the first person from any intelligence agency to become President.

Ronald Reagan was the only President to have been divorced, and the first to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor.

Jimmy Carter was the first sitting President to debate on TV with his main opponent, Ronald Reagan.

Gerald Ford is the only person to become President due to the resignation of his predecessor and the only President by succession after having been appointed Vice President. Of course, Richard Nixon was the only President to resign the office, August 9, 1974.

John F Kennedy is the only President who was a Roman Catholic and the first to become President after debating on TV with his chief opponent, Richard Nixon.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first President who was a licensed pilot. (Since Eisenhower, both George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were experienced pilots with military fighter planes.)

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only President to be elected to four terms, to serve three terms, and he was the first to have a woman in his Cabinet, Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor. He was the first to travel abroad while the U. S. was at war and the first to appear on TV.

Calvin Coolidge is the only President born on Independence Day and the first to broadcast on radio from the White House.

Warren G. Harding is the only President who was a newspaper publisher. He was the first to broadcast live on radio. He also was first to have his funeral broadcast on radio.

William H. Taft was the first President to open the baseball season (throwing out the first pitch) by tossing the ball to a player on the field. He is the only President to become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first to travel abroad while President (to Panama). He was the only President awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for a bona fide reason), for his role in settling a war between Japan and Russia. Barack Obama was awarded the prize in 2009 but nobody, including Obama, can figure out why.

Benjamin Harrison is the only President who was the grandson of another President. He also was the first President to have electric lights in the White House. John Quincy Adams was the first President who was the son of a former President. George W. Bush is the second.

Grover Cleveland was the first (and only) President married in the White House. He is the only President elected for a second non-consecutive term. He is the only President to have a child born in the White House. (Jackie Kennedy gave birth while her husband was President, but not in the White House.)

Ulysses S. Grant was given a traffic ticket while he was President. He was fined $20 for riding his horse too fast on a Washington street.

Abraham Lincoln was the first President: Born outside the original 13 states; who had been previously granted a patent, in 1849 for a type of buoy; to suspend the writ of habeas corpus by holding Southern sympathizers in the North against their will; to choose a Vice President of a different party; to be assassinated; to have his portrait on paper money — 1862, $10; to have his image on a U.S. coin — 1909, 1 cent.

James Buchanan is the only President who was never married.

Franklin Pierce was the first President to affirm, not swear, the oath of office.

James K. Polk, a North Carolina native, is the only President who had been Speaker of the House. He also was the first to have gaslights in the White House and the first photographed while President — 1849.

John Tyler was the first to become President who was born in the United States of America, after the Constitution was ratified. He was first to become President by succession on the death of his predecessor, William H. Harrison, who was the first to die in office. Tyler was the first President: To have no Vice President; widowed in office; married while in office (June 25, 1844 in New York City, he eloped); to have a veto overridden — 1845; expelled from his own party (Whig); and to be formally threatened with impeachment — 1843.

Martin Van Buren was the first President born after independence and the first to have been a (U.S.) State Governor.

Andrew Jackson was the first President: born in a log cabin; who had previously fought and killed a man in a duel (still the only one); to have been nominated at a national party convention; elected with a majority of a recorded popular vote; to walk from the Capitol to the White House after his inauguration; whose assassination was attempted; to have a Cabinet nominee rejected by the Senate; and the first censured by the Senate.

John Quincy Adams, in addition to being the first President who was the son of a President, was also the first who had married in a foreign country (England). He was the first to serve in Congress after leaving office. He died after collapsing on the floor of the House.

James Monroe was the first President who had been a U.S. Senator. He also was inaugurated a day late because March 4, 1821 fell on a Sunday.

James Madison, the fourth President, was the first who had been a congressman.

Thomas Jefferson, the third President, was the first inaugurated in Washington at the Capitol. He died at his home, Monticello, on Independence Day, July 4, 1826, a few hours before John Adams died at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts.

John Adams, the second President, was the first to lose the race for re-election.

George Washington was the first President who was first. For eight years, no matter what he did, he was the first to do it.

Barack Hussein Obama was the first socialist president. Jimmy Carter was close, but Obama was first to openly espouse socialism. Obama was also the first openly Islamic and Communist sympathizer and the first to go abroad to apologize for: U.S. virtuousness, strength, freedom, economy, and quality of life. Obama was the first president to have an illegal alien aunt residing in the U.S. Obama was the first who’s wife publically stated that she had never been proud of the United States until February 18, 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when she said: “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”

SOURCE: Golden Nuggets of U.S. History

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Rather than look like a quiter now, our SEFAP (sorry excuss for a president) has decided to alert his soul mates — the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, George Soros and the Communist PartyUSA — that they will win the war in Afghanistan if they maintain a steady kill-rate of Americans and NATO troops through June, 2010.

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A U.S. military official used the term “decisional” to describe Monday evening’s meeting among Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Gates, Clinton, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, Eikenberry and senior U.S. military commanders.

The administration’s plan [to send in 34,000 new troops over an extended period] contains “off-ramps,” points starting next June at which Obama could decide to continue the flow of troops, halt the deployments and adopt a more limited strategy or “begin looking very quickly at exiting” the country, depending on political and military progress, one defense official said. [Bold added]

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First, Obama bows to the King of Saudi Arabia and the Emperor of Japan. Now comes Best Buy…

From Debbie Schlussel:

Yup, Best Buy wants non-Muslims to spend their Thanksgiving time–and, more important, dollars–at the store. But it only extends holiday greetings to Muslims. Normally, this whoring to Muslims is for dollars or votes. But in this case, Best Buy is whoring to Muslims, yet expecting the Infidel dopes to pay the bills. …Read all about it….

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Here’re your choices for representation in Congress: a “Blue Dog Democrat” (who says s/he is a conservative Democrat) or Barbara Boxer.

Which do you prefer?

It’s a no-brainer for me. As a conservative independent I would prefer Boxer because she’s far more honest than the low-life pieces of shit that deceive voters by calling themselves “Blue Dogs.”

The House has 52 members that call themselves Blue Dogs. By my count, 27 of them voted for Pelosi’s health care bill (HR 3962) which is socialized medicine, plain and simple.

Conservative? You can’t get more liberal than that.

Some members of the Senate try to win over moderate voters by clinging to the soiled coattails of House Blue Dogs. Off the top of my head three Senators come to mind: Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu. But, alas, they are just as deceptive as House Blue Dogs.

To illustrate, take Harry Reid’s health care bill now being debated. We know Boxer is four-square behind the bill while Blue Dog pretenders like Nelson, Lincoln and Landrieu say they are against the guts of the bill: the public option and tax funded abortions.

However, following the lead of the 27 Pelosi ass kissers, Nelson, Lincoln and Landrieu licked Harry Reid’s ass and voted AGAINST cloture. That stopped a Republican filibuster which would have killed the abomination in its tracks. Then they rushed to the cameras to posture and pretend that they will join Republicans and vote against the final bill if it contains a public option or tax funded abortions.

There’s just one little problem with that fakery: Reid can make sure the objectionable provisions are removed so that 60 Senators will vote to bring the bill to the floor. On the floor, the bill needs only 51 votes for approval.

Then the approved Senate version (sans a public option and tax funded abortions) will go to conference with the approved House version which includes a public option and tax funded abortions. The conference members — all appointed by Pelosi and Reid — will quickly settle on inclusion of the controversial provisions. The bill and Conference Report will then go straight to the Senate floor where, under the rules, it cannot be filibustered and it needs only 51 votes for passage.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Blue Dogs and Blue Dog pretenders are lower than whale shit.

Mark Steyn NRO:

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Barack Obama … video address on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: “Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent.”

Tear down that wall . . . so they can get a better look at me!!! Is there no one in the White House grown-up enough to say, “Er, Mr. President, that’s really the kind of line you get someone else to say about you”? And maybe somebody could have pointed out that Nov. 9, 1989, isn’t about him but about millions of nobodies whose names are unknown, who lead dreary lives doing unglamorous jobs and going home to drab accommodations, but who at a critical moment in history decided they were no longer going to live in a prison state. They’re no big deal; they’re never going to land a photoshoot for Vanity Fair. But it’s their day, not yours. It’s not the narcissism, so much as the crassly parochial nature of it.

Is it the only template in the White House speechwriters’ computer? “Few would have foreseen at the Elamite sack of Ur/Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow/the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand/the passage of the Dubrovnik Airport Parking Lot Expansion Bill that one day I would be standing before you talking about how few would have foreseen that one day I would be standing before you.”

Some years ago, when Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian and ensuing episodes of her sitcom grew somewhat overly preoccupied with the subject, Elton John remarked: “Okay, we know you’re gay. Now try being funny.” I wonder if Sir Elton might be prevailed upon to try a similar pitch at the next all-star White House gala: Okay, we know you’re black. Now try being president. …

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Roy Beck @ NumbersUSA has posted a long list of groups advocating “immigration reform.” Of course we know that “immigration reform” (from the Left) is an euphemism for open borders and more cheap H1b visa workers to take American jobs.

Here’s an excerpt from Roy’s post:

With 10.2% Unemployment, These Groups Are Lobbying For More Foreign Workers (give them a call)

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LOBBYING FOR MORE FOREIGN WORKERS

Every one of these large organization is pushing Congress to pass “comprehensive immigration reform” that would increase the number of foreign workers to take jobs from Americans:

Examples from the list (the usual suspects):
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- AFL-CIO
- Anti-Defamation League
- Chamber of Commerce (U.S.)
- Change To Win (union)
- Democratic National Committee (DNC)

But the most infuriating names on the list are the hypocritical bastards that head up American religious groups, such as: American Jewish Committee, Catholics, evangelicals, Protestants, et al. All entries at NumbersUSA have contact info: phone numbers, email addresses.

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Doug Ross @ Journal:

In the early 20th century, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world. Great Britain’s maritime power and its far-flung empire had propelled it to a dominant position among the world’s economies. Only the United States challenged Argentina for the position of the world’s second-most powerful economy.

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How’d I miss this?

Inside AF.mil: Humble chief gains national attention

11/10/2006 – MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. (AFPN) — All of the attention embarrasses him, but as this chief master sergeant learned recently, a lifetime of caring and good deeds is bound to catch up with you eventually.

Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt, superintendent of the 22nd Wing Medical Group here, recently gained worldwide attention for a photo of him holding an injured Iraqi child. The photo was taken about a month ago, while he was deployed to Balad Air Base in Iraq.

The young infant had received extensive gunshot injuries to her head when insurgents attacked her family killing both of her parents and many of her siblings. The chief had a knack for comforting her and they often would catch a cat nap together in a chair.

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