The Least of Many Bad Transgressions

The San Francisco affiliate of Planned Parenthood recently had a cartoon up on their website. Reportedly, the cartoon depicted a pro-life U.S. Senator being drowned in a trash can full of water, simulated gun shots at Christians, as well as other, sundry ridicule and mocking of Christians and other abstinence and Pro-Life advocates.

Also, NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) is taking out an ad on cable news networks and northeastern over-the-air TV stations (hoping to influence liberal Republican Senators to vote against John Roberts), an ad which slanders Roberts, insinuating that he endorses the bombing of aborticide mills. The substance of the ad has been proven false by a somewhat left-of-center media watchdog think tank, so most people will interpret the ad as the maniacal rantings and ravings of pro-aborticide fanatics.

Still, both the cartoon and the ad have many conservatives upset. Their consternation is understandable, but I don’t think we should get too exorcized over them.

After all, NARAL staunchly advocates, and Planned Parenthood actually carries out, what most readers to this website consider to be the wanton murder of unborn babies. When you consider that, a tasteless cartoon and a slanderous TV ad look virtuous.

I only WISH that the activites of NARAL and P.P. were so virtuous that things like the cartoon and the TV ad could be considered so devilishly out-of-character for them such that we could get incensed over them. Frankly, any Pro-Life conservative (or otherwise) who displays too much angst over these things has lost sight of the tragedy of the legalized murder of unborn babies.

Ap-Pirro-ances May Be Deceiving

Hillary Clinton is going to have some credible competition for her Senate seat in 2006 in New York State.

Westchester County (N.Y.) prosecuting attorney Jeannie Pirro threw her hat in the ring. She is almost virtually assured to win the Republican Party primary. She cites her work as a prosecuting attorney in cracking down on pedophiles and underage drinking as her qualifications to be elected Senator.

I personally am not fond of prosecutors showboating like that when they want to run for higher office. What is she saying, that she thinks that voters should think that her efforts to lock up that child-diddling screwball and that 18-year old guy who just wants a beer is good enough to send her to the world’s most exclusive Old Boys Club. Maybe she should pick on someone her own size.

Perhaps she also thinks that there’s enough of an anti-Clinton sentiment in the state that she could ride the wave to victory over someone with that surname. The trouble is, if it was there, it should have presented itself when Hillary Clinton carpetbagged from the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Flop House that her husband ran to New York state (“moving” to Westchester County, ironically) in 2000. The truth is that she beat Rick Lazio (remember him?) by about ten percent (if you don’t believe stories of voter fraud, and Republican-heavy ballot boxes being dumped into the water).

There’s another theory circulating that the Republicans are only putting up someone with credible political chops so that, while they fully realize that Mrs. Clinton will win, she won’t win by a blowout margin, therefore possibly lowering her morale when she runs for President in 2008.

If she is serious, Mrs. Pirro isn’t helping herself with her pro-abortion and anti-2nd amendment positions. New York State has a credible Conservative political party, and if the Republican nominee in any statewide election has a prayer of winning, they need the Conservative Party to stand down and either not make a nomination or pull the rug out from under their own. Her liberal positions may be one that any northeastern Republican thinks s/he needs to win, but ones that won’t endear her to the Conservative party, precluding her victory, if it’s possible against a big name like HRC.

Still, this Jeannie Pirro character is someone to keep an eye on, and not because of her self-created political situation. As stated before, she is the prosecutor in Westchester County. Now, that county contains the town of White Plains, and that town has a mall, where, not too many weeks ago, a black man who was out on parole and a registered sex offender, committed a hate crime against a white woman at that mall, by murdering her. He murdered her with a weapon that was not a firearm, because I recall reading a story about the murder where he said that if he would have had a gun, he would have killed more white people, and that he only killed this particular white woman because she (pph) “had blonde hair and blue eyes and needed to die.”

Funny that you don’t hear any caterwauling about race hate from Morris Dees, SPLC, ADL, mainstream news media, and all of the rest of the usual suspects and hustlers. Reverse the races of the suspect and the victim, and people in India would know about the murder.

Pirro and her office must prosecute this case, and I think their actions will communicate a lot about her and her viability. The black suspect is being charged with a hate crime tacked on to second-degree murder, but Pirro was not responsible for the hate crime charge — a grand jury was. If she and her office play the race angle like it should be played, then perhaps she could make a name for herself in her run for Senate — after all, she’ll be taking on the entire left-wing racial zeitgeist that promulgates the notion that hateful and violent racism is only a white thing, an enemy far closer to her size than a wacko child molester or a teenager with a beer in his hand.

Giving the Cities the Byrd

Here is a quote from last week, from West Virginia’s Sen. Robert Byrd:

One’s life is probably in no greater danger in the jungles of deepest Africa than in the jungles of America’s large cities…..In my judgment, much of the problem has been brought about by the mollycoddling of criminals by some of the liberal judges who have been placed on the nation’s courts in recent years.

Now, where would he get a silly idea like that?

Um, perhaps comparative crime statistics?

Remember, this is an elected Democrat speaking, someone who probably helped launch the careers of some of those “liberal judges” he now bemoans.

Computer 54, Where Are You

The Los Angeles Police Department will now use a computer system to attempt to weed out potential “rouge” or “bad” cops, something that the LAPD has had too many of.

In a LOS ANGELES TIMES article on the new computer system, there was this interesting quote:

“I don’t think any single thing will solve problems with the Police Department. But this could go a long way toward doing it,” said the Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, an activist and former pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church, an influential congregation in South Los Angeles.

It is interesting and ironic that the newspaper sought the opinion of an influential African-American in the city.

The implication that the LOS ANGELES TIMES wants us to take away from it is that the epidemic of LAPD “rouge” cops are entirely white bubba cracker honkeys whacking their batons on poor innocent gentlemen of color. The truth of the matter, and the irony of it (ironic considering that an African-American minister is welcoming a move to eradicate “rogue” cops) is that the bad-cop scandals in the LAPD revolve entirely around black and other assorted non-white cops who had strong and demonstrable affiliations with the low-life street drug gangs of their racial bretheren.

Bad cop, bad cop.