June 2006

Duke Rape Case: Reduced Bond, New Candidate, Etc.

by La Shawn on 06.29.06

in Duke "Rape" Case

Collin Finnerty*** Scroll down for updates ***

The bond for Collin Finnerty, dangerous “rapist,” has been reduced from $400,000 to $100,000, according to The News & Observer.

In other news, Durham County Commissioner Lewis Cheek, another Democrat, has obtained enough signatures to challenge DA Mike Nifong on the November ballot.

Reade Seligmann’s attorney, Kirk Osborn, filled two motions last week:

1) Second Motion For Specific Discovery (PDF): The defense requests access to the accuser’s computer, Durham Access Center records, Duke University Hospital records, and other information. See this op-ed for background.

2) Motion For Bill Of Particulars (PDF): Reade Seligmann offers a “complete alibi” to the charges. According to the motion, the defense carefully reviewed Nifong’s discovery and claims it consists “mainly of extraneous, irrelevant material.” (Hence, the term “document dump.”) According to the discovery, no crime occurred, claims defense.

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Racialist Double Standards

by La Shawn on 06.29.06

in Cultural Decline, Illegal Aliens

confederate flagThursday, July 13: This post is old news. Read the latest.

Tuesday, July 5: A belated “Happy Independence Day” to all the left-leaning (and sometimes vulgar) bloggers linking to this wonderfully controversial post! From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for all the links, which have caused this blog to rise in the TTLB Ecosystem (#22 out of 50,000+ registered blogs ain’t bad!).

And the traffic meter is looking good, too. I’m touched. Really. If this post has your knickers in a wad, you should read some of my earlier stuff (est. November 2003). Grab a feed, sign up for e-mail updates, and keep checking LBC because controversy is my life. ;)

Update II (7/4): A sharp and well-meaning commenter wants to make sure I’m not sued for libel, so here’s a correction: I wrote that the NAACP gave out awards to pedophiles, plural. That’s not true. The dinosaur nominated a pedophile, singular, for an Image Award, but the pedophile didn’t win the award. Sorry for the confusion.

Update: You should see the kind of trolls trying to get through the spam filter. It is unfitting for a black person to write about such things, they imply (with the usual name-calling)…which only encourages me. When racial double standards are dismantled (as well as archaic ideas about what blacks should or shouldn’t write) I’ll change the subject. (Tip: If you can refrain from ad hominem, I’ll approve your comments.)

What do you think is motivating black liberals’ animosity toward me? Could it have something to do with “racial pride?” Do they consider me a “race traitor” because I seem to lack racial pride? I say that blacks can succeed without skin color preferences; they say otherwise. But I am the traitor, the one who lacks pride in my race? If that’s how their mental processes work, perhaps they’re right and I’m wrong. :?
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Stop the presses! Jewish World Review columnist Julia Gorin defends white racialists, tongue-in-cheek, in her latest column, Razablanca.

And I agree with her wholeheartedly.

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Harry Potter: Who Will Die in Book 7?

by La Shawn on 06.28.06

in Pop Culture

JKR meeting Queen Elizabeth II J.K. Rowling (in blue on the right), author of the popular Harry Potter series (+ Book 6), revealed on a British talk show that at least two characters will die in Book 7.

We already know more characters will die, but the question is, which ones?

Diehard fans know Rowling mapped out the seven-book series and wrote the final chapter of Book 7 before she sold the first book. But something changed while she was writing the final book, and she had to alter the final chapter (which is locked away somewhere) slightly. Rowling said, “One character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn’t intend to die,” she said.

If you want to talk about your who-dies theories, click over to my other blog, Fantasy Fiction for Christians. You’ll find links to MP3s of Rowling’s interview and other good stuff.

Voting for American Interests

by La Shawn on 06.27.06

in General

voting rightsUpdate (6:08 p.m.): I just realized this post is very similar to the second half of Roger Clegg’s article, which I read only 10 minutes ago. I admit to reading only the first half before I published this post, so the similarities are coincidental, in a way. Since conservatives tend to see through special interest props and racial group entitlements like Section 203, we tend to hold the same opinions about them and express those opinions in a similar way.

Update II (7/1): I can’t wait to read this series. :?
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I have a feeling the average person doesn’t really care about maintaining a cohesive nation. By that I mean borders, language, and culture, a refrain uttered often by Michael Savage, one of my favorite radio talk show hosts. (I was on his show a couple of years ago.)

Come election time, the average American will vote for the party that closely matches his beliefs and interests. The rest of the time he couldn’t care less that his country is becoming a balkanized, socialistic, and indebted mess, or that his fundamental rights as an American citizen are rapidly diminishing, as long as his TiVo is working.

He probably doesn’t care that some liberal columnist misrepresents the intent of the Voting Rights Act and compares its nonrenewal — because of a bilingual ballots provision— to southern Democrats making up requirements to keep blacks from voting.

It seems like only yesterday when I was agreeing with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, left-leaning journalist. His column about blacks holding themselves to higher standards reminded me of the old-school “working twice as hard” axiom that blacks in my generation and older heard growing up. Now he’s back on the usual liberal warpath, accusing Republicans of pandering to white voters by delaying a vote to renew the Voter Rights Act of 1965.

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Rob at Gut Rumbles…

June 26, 2006

…has died. Rob Smith, aka Acidman, was a plainspoken and prolific blogger out in the ‘sphere since 2002 (with close to three million visitors). Rob was a recovering alcoholic who had some health problems recently. Gut Rumbles was a blog I read through Bloglines, and Rob made me laugh most of the time. One thing [...]

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Spanish-Speaking Firefighters of America

June 26, 2006

Update (1:41 p.m.): Rod Nichols, an information officer for the Oregon Department of Forestry, responded to the e-mail I sent Jim Walker. He said the story I linked to is inaccurate. The main points: 1) There is no Spanish language requirement for private firefighting crews or supervisors. The department relies heavily on private contractors, who [...]

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Patsy Ramsey, 1957-2006

June 24, 2006

Wednesday, August 16: Welcome, searchers. There’s been an arrest in this case. Read and discuss the latest. —————————————————- Ten years after the death of her slain daughter, Patsy Ramsey is dead of cancer. She leaves behind husband John Bennett Ramsey and son Burke Ramsey (who’s probably in college by now). When I first heard about [...]

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Scottsboro, NYT, and Hauntings

June 23, 2006

Update (1:44 p.m.): Durham Investigator Linwood Wilson criticized the defense for asserting that the accuser’s story was inconsistent, and he asked for proof. In response, Joseph Cheshire, Dave Evans’s attorney, sent Wilson a letter (PDF) with the proof attached. Now that Nifong has muzzled himself, he’d be wise to muzzle his people, too. I don’t [...]

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New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi, on Lockdown

June 22, 2006

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s police force can’t police, so he called in state troopers and the National Guard. The spate of crime in the Big Easy has been in majority-black communities. Nagin waxed sentimentally about bringing back a “chocolate” New Orleans earlier this year. I doubt this is what he had in mind, though. [...]

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Duke Rape Case: $2 million Hush Money Offer?

June 22, 2006

Friday, June 23: I’m closing this post because I think it’s veering off into bawdiness. Ideally, commenters focus on the facts at hand and civilly discuss differences of opinion. I don’t like negative remarks about people’s physical appearance, and I’m beginning to wonder if there’s any value in talking about the stripping and “escort” professions [...]

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Dead Amnesty-For-Illegal-Aliens Bill?

June 22, 2006

Update (6/23): Firefighters fired because they don’t speak Spanish… ————————————————————————————– Thanks to Dennis Hastert’s hardball maneuver, it looks like President Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill is floating on the surface of the political pond like a putrid dead fish. Shame on all Republicans who voted for it. Keep border and interior enforcement provisions and dump all provisions [...]

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Family Meals: It’s the Values, Stupid!

June 22, 2006

My attributing the decline of the culture to the loss of “family meal” time (see post category below) may be a stretch for some, but such losses accumulate and correlate with other problems. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Eating dinner together as a family isn’t just an isolated event. No matter how tense it may [...]

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Individuality

June 21, 2006

I found an “old” essay written by Shelby Steele, author of recently released White Guilt. The main topic is individuality. I thought you might enjoy it. An excerpt: Not long ago C-SPAN carried a Harvard debate on affirmative action between conservative reformer Ward Connerly and liberal law professor Christopher Edley. During the Q and A [...]

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Yahoo! E-Mail Issues

June 21, 2006

Yahoo! e-mail seems to be down at the moment. I haven’t been able to log in all morning. If you’re waiting for a reply from me, please be patient.

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Thug Guards Rape Teenage Inmates; Generates Minimal News Coverage

June 20, 2006
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