William K. Wolfrum

Behavior of Concern not all that concerning:

From Reuters:

“Dutch authorities will release all 12 passengers arrested on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India later on Thursday, prosecutors said.

‘From the statement of suspects and witnesses, no evidence could be brought forward that these men were about to commit an act of violence,’ a prosecution statement said, adding police had searched for explosives on the plane, but found none.”

As an apology, the men will now have “not TERRORISTS” stamped to their foreheads for the rest of their lives. They were also admonished to cease and desist all behaviors that would require concern.

Netherlands officials also noted that their terror alert status has been dropped from “Incoherently babbling” to “Just really baked” as a result of the findings.

–WKW

From the Associated Press:

“Presidential adviser Karl Rove criticized a federal judge’s order for an immediate end to the government’s warrantless surveillance program, saying Wednesday such a program might have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

‘Imagine if we could have done that before 9/11. It might have been a different outcome,’ he said.”

Rove reportedly then talked about how Mexican people smell like beans and beat the living crap out of an elderly lady that had been complaining of chest pains.

Rove went on to say: “If leading Democrats had their way, their policies would make our nation weaker and the enemies of our nation would be stronger”

And then ate a live baby in three bites, using the Constitution to tidy up afterward, insiders say.

–WKW

From today’s New York Times, in regards to the recent opinion given in the the ACLU v. National Security Agency case:

It is a serious argument, and judges need to take it seriously. If they do not, we ought to wonder why a court gets to decide what the law is and not the president. After all, the president has a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution; he has his advisers, and they’ve concluded that the program is legal. Why should the judicial view prevail over the president’s?

This was written by Ann Althouse .

Edit: Ok, I can admit I got overly hyped on that point. She was trying to make a point, and did so flailingly. However, my assessment was wrong. No apologies necessary, of course. Dear God, man, she’s a lawyer, and publicity-seeking one at that. Plus, her argument was inane and weak, as pointed out here.

So, by all means, I admit my error. I’m old-school that way and can admit to my foibles. But that doesn’t mean I need to have any type of respect for a law professor enamored with herself.

–WKW

Dear CNN:

When you started the “Breaking News” e-mail campaign, it was in response to 9/11, when there was plenty of breaking news that people wanted to know immediately. By sending e-mails such as this as “Breaking News”:

– A source involved in returning John Mark Karr to the United States
says the man accused of killing JonBenet Ramsey made unsolicited
statements to law enforcement officers while being taken to L.A. County Jail.

You do every human who as ever worked at any level of journalism a disservice. Anonymous heresay, on a week-old story, about a 10-year-old murder case is not breaking news. In fact, it’s nothing but another step in CNN’s transformation into the National Enquirer.

You have informed no one of anything. And you have been doing that at an obscene pace.

–WKW

In humiliating German champions Bayern Munich for the Hans Gamper trophy at the Nou Camp, Barcelona showed two things to be blatantly obvious.

First, the defending La Liga and Champions League titlists are in much stronger form than any soccer team has a right to be at this juncture of the campaign. And second, only a slew of devastating injuries and/or perhaps Chelsea will stand in the squad’s way of repeating its impressive double of 2005.

More juggernaut than team, Barcelona takes the term “loaded” to its highest level. Led by the other-worldly talent of Ronaldinho Gaucho — adequately humbled by a poor showing at the 2006 World Cup — the Spanish side has an offense of the highest quality.

In Ronaldinho, Deco, Samuel Eto’o and Leo Messi, Barca is able to field four of the most inventive offensive forces in football. Add to that a healthy Xavi, Carles Puyol and three brilliant off-season heists - Eidur Gudjohnsen, Gianluca Zambrotta and Lilian Thuram to go along with experienced role players and fans at Nou Camp should expect to be showered with fireworks throughout the campaign.

Real Madrid and Valencia would go into any other season as heavy favorites, but with each team battling new coach and chemistry issues, it appears unlikely they could make a solid run at Barca, where harmony has been as much an advantage as talent. Nonetheless, Madrid’s signings of Fabio Cannavaro, Emerson, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Mahamadou Diarra should help the team stave off some of the on- and off-field embarrassments the Galacticos have suffered the past several seasons.

In the end, however, only mighty Chelsea could keep Joan Laporta’s side from sweeping the Spanish and Champions’ titles, as its talent-laden squad that includes Michael Ballack, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Michael Essien, Didier Drogba and Andriy Shevchenko will hopefully force a third consecutive, delicious Champions League showdown with the team from Barcelona.

It is conceivable that ennui could be a foe, as well, but as the season fights through its birth pangs, it seems increasingly likely that Barcelona may well have a team, and a season for the ages.

–WKW

Hey, I woke up this morning and was reminded the world was going to end because Iran was preparing something, right?

I mean, every, last, right-wing site made sure we knew about this day, that will forever live in nonfamy. Heck, I even got to have some fun with it.

But, it just goes to show you: every threat a country like Iran makes must be taken extremely seriously at all times. Just because they’ve been rattling the sabres for some 500,000 years doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take them seriously every single time.

Luckily, our friends in Saudi Arabia have our backs.

–WKW

One of these things is not like the other:

1. “If we ever give up the desire to help people who want to live in a free society, we will have lost our soul as a nation.”

–President George W. Bush on America’s occupation of Iraq.

2. “This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it.”

– President Bush on his veto of Bill H.R. 810, the “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005″

3. 40,592 to 45,144

– Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq according to Iraq Body Count.

–WKW

From Merriam-Webster

Hysteria

Main Entry: hys·te·ria
Pronunciation: his-’ter-E-&, -’tir-
Function: noun

Etymology: New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus

1: a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions
2: behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess.

Now, let’s use it in a sentence:

Rush Limbaugh and people at places like Little Green Footballs are hysterical.

–WKW

Now that John Mark Karr has been arrested and confessed to the brutal slaying of young beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey - in effect ending a decade of holding a nation’s children hostage - now is the time for those in charge of protecting the children of America to step forward and do the right thing.

That Karr wasn’t marked as a pedophile earlier in his life shows the ghastly holes in a system gone insane. Aside from a history of acts that repeatedly ran him afoul of the law, the federal government, as so often it does, chose to ignore this problem, thus putting all of our children at risk.

And the raped, brutalized and murdered body of JonBenet was the reward.

We as a nation have not done enough to stop pedophiles, with liberal thinkers allowing these twisted individuals full reign over us all. These are the same liberals who want us to become a nation of islamofacists. The same liberals who scream for civil liberties. The same liberals who hate the United States of America.

From Dr. Judith Reisman in an article printed at WorldNetDaily.com:

“Lobbying behind the scenes” in the USA, a secret cadre of pedophile political operatives and legislators are working “step by step” to legally wrest children from their parents for personal pleasure and often to profit the thriving child sex industry.

It is time to stop this cadre, so there will never be another John Mark Karr allowed to roam free. This is a mission that will require courage and determination. But these are OUR children. They must be protected from the animals that would use them only as sex toys before strangling the life out of them, as so often happens.

This mission will require several elements. First of all, regardless of science, statistical analysis or philosophical nonsense, in the case of an adult male molesting an underage male, this is clearly a homosexual issue, and one that can only be handled by eliminating homosexuals from society as a whole. While it is obviously true that not all homosexuals are pedophiles, this is not something we, as caring individuals who love our children, can tolerate. Homosexuals must be driven from our society, violently if necessary.

Second, have you seen the picture of John Mark Karr? Is it of any surprise that he is a murderous pedophile? This is where the liberal agenda shows that once again, it despises America, and common sense. It is time that we give the federal government the authority it needs to arrest obvious pedophiles like Karr. For him to be allowed to walk free and commit his sinister crimes is an abomination, when all it took was to look at him to see hat he held in his heart.

Why must we avoid common sense at every angle? Why must we protect the civil liberties of child killers? The answer: We don’t have to. We must protect our children.

It is also clear that more often than not, pedophiles are Caucasian. As a race, Caucasians are still tied by the umbilical cord to their forefathers in Europe, where pedophilia is considered a sport on par with soccer or bullfighting. It is a defect in these people and one that we can either watch closely, or allow our children to suffer the fate of JonBenet.

Sweeping legislation must be passed to give our government the authority it needs to watch the moves of these Caucasians. Many of these pre-pedophiles are hard at work, scanning the Internet to enhance their lurid, inner demons. For proof of this, see my previous article “The Internet: A pedophile’s paradise that must be banned.”

By outlawing homosexuality and maintaining vigilance over the Caucasians amongst us, we will have taken the first steps to wiping the scourge of pedophilia off our planet. We must fight the enemy within. Then, and only then, can we reach out militarily to nations like Thailand, the Dominican Republic, Iran and others that promote pedophilia, and destroy them, before they destroy our children.

We must not be weak in this fight. We must win, we must crush our enemies. We must put the power in the hands of the government, because they are our servants. And it is time they serve us by watching our every move, and destroying those who share the characteristics of those that would destroy our children.

While this will interrupt the fun of watching a creepy pedophile act non-chalant, something good happened today.

From CNN:

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately.

Now, before you listen to the people who scream “Dear God, how will we ever catch the terrorists! We’re all Doomed!” Keep in mind, that the government can still eavesdrop in situations they deem it necessary. They can still do what’s necessary to gather intelligence and keep the country safe. They can even do it for up to three days before the need to get a warrant. But that’s the thing:

They need a warrant. They need judicial review. The U.S. has three branches of government, the Bush Administration was trying to, and actually did, circumvent this process.

This is the checks and balances portion of the United States government. Keep in mind, if you disagree with this, then you disagree with everything the U.S. is, and stands for. If you disagree with U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s decision, then you are Pro-Dictatorship, Anti-Democracy, Anti-Freedom and Anti-American. Period.

Glenn Greenwald has done a lot on this subject, and you would be remiss not to take a look at what he has to say, and the discussions it has created.

The decision is a very good thing, regardless of what Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney or the other cheerleaders for military dictatorship say. Keep that in mind as the personal attacks come raining down on Judge Taylor.

Now, you may go back to the creepy pedophile.

–WKW