This Is One Evil “Woman,” Er, Man, Uh…Thing… AP Story Shows Their Politically Correct Bias…

Ohio woman pleads guilty in over-exercising death

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool, repeatedly refusing to let him leave the water.

"Christine Newton John" ...ugly in any gender.

Surveillance video showed Christine Newton-John, 41, pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs, said Middlefield police Chief Joseph Stehlik

The chief said he counted 43 times in which Newton-John prevented her husband from leaving the water, and Mason rested his head on the side of the pool several times while gasping for breath.

“The video is bone-chilling,” Stehlik said. “The whole case is very sinister.”

Mason had a heart attack on June 2 after the extended swim session. An officer who had investigated previous complaints that Mason was being abused pursued the case because he suspected there was more to the death, Stehlik said.

Newton-John pleaded guilty Thursday and faces up to five years in prison. No sentencing date was set.

Police did not immediately respond to a call Saturday seeking comment on a motive.

The video would have had a profound effect on a jury, Geauga County Prosecutor David Joyce said. But that wouldn’t have been enough for a conviction if Newton-John had been charged with murder.

“You can see the man struggling for his life on the tape, but there is no audio, so we couldn’t hear what he was saying,” he said.

Geauga County Chief Public Defender Robert Umholtz, who represented Newton-John, declined to comment.

Mason was a longtime friend of his wife’s family. He knew her as John Vallandingham before she had gender reassignment surgery in 1993 and changed her name in honor of the singer and star of the hit movie version of the musical “Grease.”

The couple were wed in 2006 in Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their birth certificate.

B.S. Report–This AP story clearly shows the wire service’s politically correct bias.  When I came upon this story, every article and TV story– except the AP version, quickly mentioned the fact that the “so-called” woman was a “transgender” woman.

The AP story, however, was different.  Their headline and their lead describe the defendant as an “Ohio woman.”  I don’t care what your personal views are regarding sex-changes, but shouldn’t “she” be described as an Ohio “transgender woman” immediately in the story?”

It’s not until the 2nd to last paragraph of this story that the AP “gently” reveals the totally unrelated fact (in their view), that Mrs. Newton-John just happens to be a transgender woman who had sex-change surgery in 1993 and took the name Newton-John because she admired the well known singer/actress Olivia Newton-John from the Grease films.

The AP mentions the sex-change only in passing; they choose to gloss over this “woman’s” past as if they know it has nothing to do with the present crime for which she has plead guilty.  The AP doesn’t want to be accused of intolerance, or even worse, of actually believing that an individual that pursues this drastic course in their life might be slightly, or even seriously, disturbed.

I’ll go out on a limb and say that any person who has sex-change surgery is “ipso-facto” disturbed.  It might be necessary if that person cannot function otherwise, but don’t tell me that the person isn’t mentally disturbed.

Aside from being deeply troubled, I don’t know what kind of man John Vallandingham was before he became “Christine Newton-John.”  But,  by looks alone, Newton-John is not  “convincing” as a woman.  That can only lead to unhappiness.  And in this case, it probably led to disaster.

Christine Newton-John has plead guilty to a lesser charge of reckless homicide instead of murder and will be lucky to serve a maximum of just 5 years.  She may not have been an evil man…but she has shown herself to be an evil “woman.”

Sounds Like She’s What We Used To Call…A Spy

Woman Accused Of Illegal Export To China

WASHINGTON – A Maryland woman was charged Friday with exporting miniature controls for small unmanned aircraft to China.

Future Chinese toy model aircraft...

The government says the controls are the world’s smallest and involve a technology that cannot be shared with China because of national security concerns. The devices can be used to fly small military reconnaissance planes.  (B.S.–So she’s selling our drone technology to the Chi-Coms.)

Yaming Nina Qi Hanson of Silver Spring, Md., is accused of taking the controls to China last August without a required export license. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

Qi Hanson and her husband, Harold Hanson, arranged over e-mail to buy the controls from a Canadian company, MicroPilot of Manitoba, according to the criminal complaint. Company officials told the couple they could ship the controls to the United States but the couple would have to get an export permit to send the controls to another country.

Harold Hanson claimed the controls were going to be used by a model airplane club in Xi’an, China. But Canadian officials objected, questioning why automated controls would be used for model airplanes that are typically flown manually. Hanson replied that “typical of Asian men, these modelers want the very best product on the market.”  (Read more betrayal here.)   (B.S.–They probably want the finest bombs on the market too–would you also ship those?)

B.S. Report– “Hello, is this Qi Hanson…yeah, I’m building a model nuclear helicopter and I want it to be realistic so I’d like to equip it with the most up-to-date missile technology and guidance systems.  You know, just because I appreciate the best products on the market.  Can you set me up?  Great!”

Good Reporting…Here’s A Valentine’s Day Editorial For You Mr. President!

Now This Is Some Real Hard-Boiled Journalism

WASHINGTON (AP) – America is bringing shock and awe to the home front, using dollars instead of bombs.  (B.S.–This will probably be more damaging to our country than bombing it.)

It’s the military doctrine of lightning force — fast and brute, or as brute as the shaken country can manage — applied to the campaign for economic recovery.  (B.S.–Yes, and based on the solid economic doctrine that if you owe a ton of money; borrow, print up and spend a ton more.)

With a record-busting stimulus plan, the U.S. is marshaling resources against economic catastrophe in ways not seen since Franklin Roosevelt put the New Deal in motion. (B.S.–A solid strategy that FDR used to extend the Depression by about 9 years, many economists now believe.)

President Barack Obama is going with the best deal he could get.  The stimulus bill is a landmark legislative achievement for a new president who inherited economic spoilage along with the spoils of power.  Now the nation anxiously waits to see if it works.  (B.S.–Some of us wouldn’t call attempting to destroy the country’s foundations a “legislative achievement.”)

Yes, he's nothing short of a miracle...

Undermining federal balance sheets that were already deeply in the red, Obama and Congress settled on a nearly $800 billion plan that aims to spend more on the crisis at hand than the government has spent waging the Iraq war for six years.  (B.S.–Yes, it’s so sad that he wasn’t able to steal more of our money…as well as our children and grandchildren’s money.)

The idea: fast cash, and lots of it, but with a strategic view to the future.  (B.S.–Yes, but whose fast cash?  And by what power is he granted the authority to grab someone else’s cash–show us the passage in the Constitution permitting this type of government theft.)

Some dollars will flow quickly into wallets — and right out again.

The stimulus plan will mean thousands of dollars in tax breaks for first-time home buyers and people buying new cars. Lower- and middle-income taxpayers will get an extra $13 a week in their paychecks this year, and about $8 a week next year. Unemployment checks will go up $25 a week, and keep coming longer. Food stamp benefits for 30 million Americans will rise. Short-term health insurance will become more affordable for many losing their jobs.

The success of the stimulus package may be measured less by visible achievements than by what does not happen — the home that is not foreclosed, the family that doesn’t slip into poverty, the disease that does not go undiagnosed.  (Read more of this love letter to President Obama here.)

(B.S.–Two can play this game about what is not seen-see Frederic Bastiat’s classic essay here.  How about the businesses that are not started; the businesses that are not expanded either by updating their equipment or by hiring additional employees.  In other words, we’re not allowed to evaluate the “stimulus” plan on its merit because no matter how bad it is…it’s better than what we would have seen without it.  How about pointing out one single instance in all of history where this approach succeeded.)

B.S. Report–This “editorial” is nothing more than Presidential fan mail.  I wonder if we’re ever going to see a mainstream media article critical of Obama–but, I digress, this bill has already passed so it really doesn’t matter now.  Well, it’s Valentine’s Day, so I’ll help the 2 authors of this “piece of journalism” sign off appropriately:

Goodnight, Mr. President!

This guy must have just seen a replay of the Tyson-Holyfield fight…

Oregon Roommates fight over parking spot; one loses an earlobe

MILWAUKIE, Ore. – Police said two roommates began fighting over a parking space on Thursday night, and the dispute ended when one man bit off the other man’s earlobe. Officer Kevin Krebs said it appeared that the victim came home and parked in a spot preferred by his roommate, starting the fight.

Police said a 25-year-old man was treated for the ear injury and released from the hospital. Krebs said doctors were unable to reattach his right earlobe.

The man was booked on an assault charge. Bail was set at $250,000.

B.S. Report–That must have been one great parking spot!  Here’s another man who used similar tactics:

I Finally Found A College Course I Could Ace… I Think I’ll Major In BBQ!

College Students Eat BBQ For Course Credit

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Four college students walk into a smoky restaurant, sit at a table under a blaring TV and order up their class work for the day – two slabs of spare ribs dripping with reddish sauce, white bread on the side.

But this isn’t lunch. It’s writing about barbecue for an A.

The four spent January visiting some of the South’s best barbecue restaurants for course credit from Birmingham-Southern College in a self-designed class that combines heaping mounds of meat with academics, all spread across five states.

They’ve eaten sweet sauces and dry rub, ribs and sandwiches, cole slaw, potato salad and banana pudding. “You want sweet tea with that?” a waitress asked at Dreamland Bar-B-Que in Tuscaloosa, stop No. 17 on the journey.

After cleaning their plates and licking their fingers, the group would leave each joint with bulging bellies to document their experience with stories, photos and video posted on a blog and the Web site they built, southernbbqboys.com. Those components, along with a final essay each one is currently finishing, are being graded by the English instructor who helped them design the class.

So what do you learn in such a course? Eat enough barbecue and you’ll gain weight, get sick, or both. And 3,100 miles is a long, long way to drive for dinner in a 1998 Ford Expedition with a plastic pig’s nose attached to the front.

“It’s been great,” said senior Art Richey, who came up with the idea for the epicurean odyssey. “But I’m definitely not going to have barbecue for a while after this.”  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–I sometimes wonder if we’re producing any native-born, exceptionally smart people here in the U.S.  I mean, every doctor I see is almost always from a foreign country.  When I see scientists interviewed on T.V. they are usually Asians.

This isn’t about bashing foreigners–I just want us to be more competitive. It seems that virtually all American-born students have given up on the hard sciences and are focused on Mickey Mouse courses like…well, like BBQ 101.  Than again…don’t get me wrong, I also like BBQ…

Hi Mom. I did it! I did it! I just got my Master's degree in BBQ!

KKK Imperial Wizard Dies…So Sad, Too Bad!

Leader of North Carolina Chapter of Ku Klux Klan dies

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. (AP) — The man who led a Ku Klux Klan chapter in North Carolina that was involved in a deadly 1979 clash with members of the Communist Workers Party has died.

Virgil Griffin, 64, died Wednesday at Gaston Memorial Hospital, his son James said.

Griffin, a member of the Klan for 40 years, became known nationally when five communist marchers were killed in a clash with members of the Klan in Greensboro. He was imperial wizard of the Cleveland Knights of the KKK.

(B.S.–He was an Imperial Wizard…Here’s a wizard–I’m not sure if this was him.)

"I'm a genuine, respectable wizard, not a Klansman!"

Griffin was tried and cleared of state murder charges and federal civil rights conspiracy charges. Several Klan members also were acquitted of murder charges in state court.

In a civil trial, the Klan, the American Nazi Party and the Greensboro Police Department were found jointly liable for the wrongful deaths of the five people killed. The city paid $350,000.

Five people were killed and 10 were injured during the Communist-sponsored “Death to the Klan” rally on Nov. 3, 1979.

(B.S.–Communists vs. The Klan–I can’t say I’d miss either bunch-we should have kept both sides well armed!)

Griffin maintained that the shootings weren’t planned.

He testified in 2005 at the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission that his Klansmen came to the demonstration area to hold a counter-protest.

When shooting broke out, Griffin testified, Communist Workers Party members were killed and not Klansmen because “my people hunt for food. Maybe God guided the bullets, I don’t know.”

(B.S.–So Griffin is claiming that G_d  was rooting for the Klan.  Lets hope that he’s finding out right this second how wrong he was.)

After the commission meeting, Griffin told reporters the hearings were “a total waste of time. It would have been forgotten 20 years ago if you didn’t keep it in the news.”

Klansmen said the fight broke out between the groups because Communists tried to pull a 79-year-old Klansman out of his car.

An employee at Woodlawn Funeral Home in Mount Holly said visitation was scheduled Friday night and Griffin’s funeral would be held Saturday afternoon. (B.S.–That ought to be a hot ticket…well, I’ll go, but only if they have an exceptional deli-platter!)

B.S. Report–Is this the paper’s obituary or was it paid for by the family–or by his fellow haters in the KKK?  If it’s the newpaper’s own obituary section I have to ask them why they think a Klansman merits a write-up in the paper?  Secondly, and more important, did he ask to be buried in his Imperial Wizard outfit?  Hey, don’t laugh, didn’t Bela Lugosi get buried in his dracula costume?

Imperial Wizard Outfit--Not very threatening--Kind of looks like Friar Tuck with a dunce cap... "Does Purple make me look fat?" Yes, it does.

Woman suing Disneyworld; says ride caused her stroke…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — A British woman is suing Walt Disney World, claiming a ride caused her to suffer a disabling heart attack and stroke in 2005.

Leanne Deacon and her mother, both of Kibworth, England, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Orlando circuit court. They are seeking at least $15,000.

(B.S.–They are seeking whatever they can get because their lawsuit is a bunch of bull.)

Leanne Deacon was 16 when she rode the Disney World-MGM Studios’ “The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror” ride several times. 

(B.S.–She rode it several times…nothing happened the first bunch of times and the ride doesn’t get any scarier, does it?…)

Shortly after one ride, Deacon’s heart stopped and she had a brain hemorrhage.

The Deacons accuse Disney of negligence in the ride’s design and operation. They say Disney failed to adequately warn of the risks or provide adequate safety restraints.  (B.S.–Yeah, how many other people have been harmed by that oh so terrifying ride?)

Disney spokeswoman Kim Prunty said the company hadn’t seen the lawsuit. Prunty said the ride was working properly when Deacon rode it.

B.S. Report–I have to admit that I once had a similar experience at Disneyland on a terrifying ride…here it is but don’t watch it if you have a weak heart–I will not be held personally responsible:

Jack Cover, Inventor of Taser Gun dies at 88

Jack Cover named his Taser after his favorite childhood character.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Cover, who invented the Taser stun gun now used by thousands of police agencies as a better way to subdue suspects, has died. He was 88.

Cover, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died of pneumonia Saturday at Golden Coast Senior Living in Mission Viejo, according to a statement from Taser International, the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company that now makes the stun gun.

Rick Smith, Taser International’s chief executive, called Cover “one of the most influential inventors of modern times.”

The Taser issues darts attached to wires that deliver electric shocks that temporarily subdue aggressive suspects. While the device has become a common tool for police officers, it is still controversial because it has been linked to a number of deaths.

Cover, a one-time NASA scientist, began developing the Taser as a nonlethal weapon to combat the hijackings and riots that were happening in the 1960s, Smith said.

He derived its name from a fictional weapon in a favorite childhood book, “Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle,” one of a series of adventure stories by Victor Appleton.

“What an amazing thought, stunning people with blue balls of electricity,” Cover told The Washington Post in 1976, recalling his fascination with the book. He added that an “A” was added to the name of his invention because “we got tired of answering the phone `TSER’ for Tom Swift’s Electric Rifle.”

The Los Angeles police department began using the devices, still somewhat of a novelty, in 1980, and other departments also began using them. More than 13,400 law enforcement, correctional and military agencies in 44 countries now use Taser guns, according to Taser International’s Web site.

The Taser’s popularity grew after Smith and his brother Tom contacted the inventor in the early 1990s. Working together, they developed a new version that used compressed air, rather than gun powder, to propel the darts.

But critics note that numerous suspects have died in confrontations in which the Taser has been used. The American Civil Liberties Union is pressing to have it classified as a deadly weapon. Others say the suspects’ deaths are really linked to drugs or an underlying health problem.

In 2007, Taser International said that they had won more than 60 wrongful death cases, either beating the lawsuits in court or getting them dismissed with no payout or penalty.

“Pigulus” Passes…A Travesty

Not One Member Has Read This Bill!

The New America: Just Beg and Ye Shall Receive

Successful beggar Henrietta Hughes

Press Conference Beggar Henrietta Hughes Gets New Home

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA – A woman making national headlines after a tearful moment with President Obama has a new home.

Thursday morning, Chene Thompson handed Henrietta Hughes the keys to her home in Hendry County. Thompson is the wife of State Representative Nick Thompson (R-District 73). Hughes and her son will live at the home rent free.

However, a local organization is coming forward saying Hughes isn’t being honest about how much help she’s had in the past.

The director of We Care Outreach Ministry, Tanya Johnson, says just last month she offered Henrietta Hughes permanent housing and a place to stay free for three months, but Hughes refused.

“We would have allowed her to stay for the first 90 days, no income. You know free,” said Tanya Johnson.

We Care Outreach Ministry is a faith based organization in Fort Myers.

Johnson says she also gave Henrietta and her son Corey, money, food and offered Corey job training courses, but it was refused.

“We have extended a lot of her services to her,” Johnson said.

But Henrietta Hughes says these services weren’t free and the apartment in East Fort Myers came with a price tag.

Hughes says Tanya Johnson wanted $400 a month immediately.

The disability check Hughes gets is a little more than $800 a month.

Hughes owes money on a loan, has her car insurance payment, a monthly storage bill and says she couldn’t afford the rent.

“Where was I going to get $400 a month to give her if I got these expenses,” Hughes told WINK News.  (Read more.)

WINK News Reporter Nick Spinetto went back to talk to Tanya Johnson and she stands by her story.

B.S. Report–What a healthy message this sends to her fellow Americans.  Just bitch and moan and cry and beg and you’ll get your way?  She says she’s not “milking the system” but what else can you call what she’s doing?  What lesson do we take away from this but the “squeaky wheel gets the grease?”

Worse though is the fact that the politicians she hit up for the money/property don’t reach into their own pockets to help her out–they reach into yours and mine.  Giving charity on your own is laudable and commendable…but reaching into others’ pockets to give your charity is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

Not too long ago, Americans had the pride in themselves to do anything they could to avoid going “on the dole” and needing to accept help from “the government.”  There was something tremendously honorable about our citizens’ fiercely independent streak and the belief that they could overcome any and all obstacles impeding their path to success.

That’s obviously no longer the case when we don’t stigmatize people who go on television directly begging for public assistance to the President of the United States himself!  And then getting it!  This is indeed a new America.