You guys are going to let Joe Biden talk about Foreign Policy?

Perfect. Just freakin’ perfect. Once again, great news from our nation’s capitol, delivered by the “brains” of the Obama administration, VP Joe Biden.

For years, the US has meddled in the foreign affairs of other countries. Normally I abhor this “nation building” approach, as it normally means usurping the natural growth of a countries form of government. That, and it makes us look more like the ass-holish puppet masters that the world wants to believe we are.

However, there is one area that I can almost agreed with our meddling, and that is in the restraint we force upon the state of Israel. Don’t get me wrong, I totally support Israels right to defend herself. I get a little misty-eyed thinking about her brave soldiers, sailors and airmen fighting off despotic Arab invaders in 1948, 1967 and 1973. The Arab nations that have attacked Israel have gotten what they deserved.

But things have changed in the world. The spectre of International Terrorism has made the possibility of a strike anywhere in the world become a stark reality. I don’t want to see Iran become a nuclear power and I agree that Israel has the most to risk if it does. But in the world today, the only difference between the USA and Israel to an Arab OR a Muslim is that the US is over here, and the Israelis live next door. To strike at either is the dream of every two-bit psychopathic Islamo-Fascist.

Now, the current administration is saying “Go ahead, do what you want, we could care less”. We have too much to risk to allow Israel to attack Iran unprovoked. Iran would surely use their limited nuclear arsenal to first destroy Israel, then try and find a way to export that nuclear material to a group who would be willing and able to strike inside the US.

Normally I am a proponent of destroying tyrannical dictatorships that hate America, but I just think we should encourage the Israelis to consider all the options before a preemptive strike. This is the same isolationist spirit, which comes from facing a huge problem at home (the economy) that served to blind us during the Great Dperession. Our disengagement with both friends and enemies (Israel and North Korea for example) allows things to occur in the world that can come back to bite us in a most horrible way. Just my 2 cents worth.

From FoxNews-
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden seemed to give Israel a green light for military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat, saying the U.S. "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do."
Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary and is wary of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who just won a disputed re-election. He repeatedly has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and contends the Holocaust is a "myth."
Israel and the U.S. accuse Iran of seeking to develop weapons under the cover of a nuclear power program. Iran denies that.
"Israel can determine for itself -- it's a sovereign nation -- what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else," Biden told ABC's "This Week" in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"Whether we agree or not. They're entitled to do that. Any sovereign nation is entitled to do that. But there is no pressure from any nation that's going to alter our behavior as to how to proceed," Biden said.
The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it prefers to see Iran's nuclear program stopped through diplomacy but has not ruled out a military strike.
"If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice," Biden said.
Asked about Biden's comments, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday the U.S. position on Iran and a military strike involves a "political decision."
"I have been, for some time, concerned about any strike on Iran. I worry about it being very destabilizing, not just in and of itself but unintended consequences of a strike like that," Mullen said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"At the same time, I'm one that thinks Iran should not have nuclear weapons. I think that is very destabilizing," he said.
While most experts are in agreement that there's a good chance Iran could have a usable nuclear bomb sometime during his presidency, President Barack Obama told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday, "I'm not reconciled with that."
A nuclear-armed Iran, Obama said, probably would lead to an arms race in the volatile Mideast and that would be "a recipe for potential disaster." He said opposing a nuclear weapons capacity for Iran was more than just "a U.S. position" and that "the biggest concern is not simply that Iran can threaten us or our allies, like Israel or its neighbors."
Israel is also concerned about Iran's close support for two of its most committed enemies, Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
Obama said in May, after his first meeting with Netanyahu at the White House, that the Iranians had until year's end to get serious about international talks on curbing their nuclear ambitions. "We're not going to have talks forever," he said.
But Obama sees movement on Israeli-Palestinian peace as key to building a moderate Arab coalition against Iran, while Netanyahu says dealing with the Iranian threat must take precedence over peacemaking with the Palestinians.
Most experts believe that wiping out the Iranian nuclear program is beyond the ability of Israel's military. In 1982 the Israeli air force destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor in a lightning strike. But Iran's facilities are scattered around the country, some of them underground.
Biden was asked in the interview that if the Israelis decide they need to try to take out Iran's nuclear program, would the U.S. stand in the way militarily?
"We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do," the vice president replied. "Israel has a right to determine what's in its interests, and we have a right and we will determine what's in our interests."

It is with a heavy heart that I bid farewell to one of Hollywoods true class acts, Ed McMahon, who passed away today at the age of 86. Ed was best known as Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show, but not many folks know he was a decorated Marine pilot in WW2, and left showbiz temporarily to fly spotter planes in Korea. Ed, you will be missed.

Ed McMahon, the loyal "Tonight Show" sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and later carved out his own niche as the host of "Star Search," has died at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 86.
According to his publicist Howard Bragman, the former "Tonight Show" announcer passed away at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in California this morning.
Earlier this year, McMahon was in and out of the hospital for pneumonia and other medical issues, according to sources close to him.
While Bragman did not give a cause of death, he said McMahon had "a multitude of health problems the last few months."
McMahon had bone cancer, among other illnesses, according to a person close to the entertainer. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Best known for his famous catchphrase "Heeeeeere's Johnny," said every night when Johnny Carson took the stage, McMahon spent three decades as the legendary comedian's sidekick.
McMahon and Carson had worked together for nearly five years on the game show "Who Do You Trust?" when Carson took over NBC's late-night show from Jack Paar in October 1962. McMahon played second banana on "Tonight" until Carson retired in 1992.
"You can't imagine hooking up with a guy like Carson," McMahon said an interview with The Associated Press in 1993. "There's the old phrase, hook your wagon to a star. I hitched my wagon to a great star."
McMahon, who never failed to laugh at his Carson's quips, kept his supporting role in perspective.
"It's like a pitcher who has a favorite catcher," he said. "The pitcher gets a little help from the catcher, but the pitcher's got to throw the ball. Well, Johnny Carson had to throw the ball, but I could give him a little help."
The highlight for McMahon came just after the monologue, when he and Carson would chat before the guests took the stage.
"We would just have a free-for-all," he told the AP. "Now to sit there, with one of the brightest, most well-read men I've ever met, the funniest, and just to hold your own in that conversation. ... I loved that."
When Carson died in 2005, McMahon said he was "like a brother to me" and recalled bantering with him on the phone a few months earlier.
"We could have gone on (television) that night and done a 'Carnac' skit. We were that crisp and hot."
His medical and financial problems kept him in the headlines in his last years. It was reported in June 2008 that he was facing possible foreclosure on his Beverly Hills home.
By year's end, a deal was worked out allowing him to stay in his home, but legal action involving other alleged debts continued.
Among those who had stepped up with offers of help was Donald Trump.
"When I was at the Wharton School of Business I'd watch him every night," Trump told the Los Angeles Times in August. "How could this happen?"
McMahon even spoofed his own problems with a spot that aired during the 2009 Super Bowl promoting a cash-for-gold business. Pairing up with rap artist MC Hammer, he explained how easy it is to turn gold items into cash, jokingly saying "Goodbye, old friend" to a gold toilet and rolling out a convincing "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's money!"
Born Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. on March 6, 1923, in Detroit, McMahon grew up in Lowell, Mass. He got his start on television playing a circus clown on the 1950-51 variety series "Big Top." But the World War II Marine veteran interrupted his career to serve as a fighter pilot in Korea.
He joined "Who Do You Trust? in 1958, its second year, the start of his long association with Carson. It was a partnership that outlasted their multiple marriages, which provided regular on-air fodder for jokes.
While Carson built his career around "Tonight" and withdrew from the limelight after his retirement, McMahon took a different path. He was host of several shows over the years, including "The Kraft Music Hall" (1968) and the amateur talent contest "Star Search."
He was a longtime co-host of the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon, a Labor Day weekend institution, and was co-host with Dick Clark of "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes."
McMahon and Clark also teamed up as pitchmen for American Family Publishers' sweepstakes, with their faces a familiar sight on contest entry forms and in TV commercials. McMahon was known for his ongoing commercials for Budweiser as well.
He had supporting roles in several movies, including "Fun with Dick and Jane" (1977) and "Just Write" (1997). He took on his first regular TV series job in the 1997 WB sitcom "The Tom Show" with Tom Arnold.
McMahon married his third wife, advertising executive Pam Hurn in 1992, and adopted her son. McMahon and his second wife, Victoria Valentine, had an adopted daughter, and McMahon and first wife Alyce Ferrill had four children.
One son, Michael Edward McMahon, who worked as a counselor for abused children, died of cancer in 1995 at 44.
Ed McMahon released his autobiography, "For Laughing Out Loud: My Life and Good Times," in 1998. In it, he recounts the birth of "Tonight."
"Let's just go down there and entertain the hell out of them," Carson told him before the first show. Wrote McMahon: "That was the only advice I ever got from him."
In 1993, he recalled his first meeting with Carson after they left "Tonight."
"The first thing he said was, 'I really miss you. You know, it was fun, wasn't it?"' McMahon recalled. "I said, 'It was great.' And it was. It was just great."
Besides his wife, McMahon is survived by children Claudia, Katherine, Linda, Jeffrey and Lex.
Bragman said no funeral arrangements have been made.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

June the Sixth

An original RipperBravo6 poem. Thanks WW2 vets, for your service and your shining example.

A boy I was,

from far off lands.

Who heard the call,

and came to fight.

A farmers son,

from Illinois.

Who came to do,

what he thought right.

For months we trained,

we learned our jobs.

Then boarded ships,

to cross the sea.

To land in England,

to stay a while.

Then on to Europe,

to set it free.

Be still my heart,

I whispered down.

To that beating thing,

inside my chest.

Waiting, worrying.

Just biding my time,

A scared little boy,

like all the rest.

When, o' when,

O' day of days.

Like hammer cocked,

we were forced to wait.

Til weather broke,

til stars aligned.

Til mighty fortune,

made our fate.

We trained and trained,

and prayed for war

And then it came,

on wing-ed feet.

That fateful morning,

June the Sixth.

We sauntered out,

the foe to meet.

We shouldered packs,

had one last smoke.

Shook a hand,

and checked our sights.

Then crossed The Channel,

on that morn.

To help our comrades,

who dropped by night.

A Big Red One,

upon my sleeve.

I braved the surf,

the sand, the shale.

The German guns,

which spit such fire.

Turning beach,

to living hell.

The things I saw,

men should not see.

The things I felt,

I cannot share.

By grace of God,

or sheer damn luck.

I left that beach,

my life was spared.

I turned my back,

on Omaha.

Joined the line,

and took my place.

Too many good friends,

left behind.

To sleep eternal,

in cold grounds embrace.

When Crossbows Are Outlawed...

Just found this on the "Interwebs" and I was wondering why we aren't hearing a huge anti-crossbow backlash? I mean, attempted murder is attempted murder whether it is done with a crossbow, a handgun or a piece of watermelon rind, correct? Why the vitriolic response whenever a gun is involved? Is it the mystery surrounding guns? Because there should not be any mystery. A gun is a simple machine that harnesses a chemical reaction to fire a projectile. Less than 50 years ago, guns were an accepted part of American culture. In fact, it would not be uncommon to see a skeet shooting club in a High School Yearbook back in the Fifties. What happened? I don't think there is a simple answer to this question.

Perhaps a shift from a rural to an urban existence has caused gun ownership and use to become a rare thing. Perhaps vilification in the Main Stream Media has given guns their stigma. Perhaps a Liberal Agenda in our government, bent on disarming the more Conservative portions of our society has legislated gun appreciation into oblivion (I admit I might be reaching with that last one, but there is some fire behind that smoke).

Whatever the cause, I lament the result. Lack of interaction between parent and child regarding firearms has led to a dangerous gap in many young peoples understanding of the impact of firearms and the care and responsibility they require. I also believe that by disarming the general populace, we have allowed our country to become weaker. We have sold off our Constitutional Right to defend ourselves and what we hold dear. A challenge to the Second Amendment made during the 1950's or early 60's would have been laughed out of court. From the very beginning, it was understood that the Second Amendment applied to individuals and that it was there to protect us from the very real tyranny that our Founding Fathers faced.

Consider that when making your decision about your stance on gun ownership in America.

From Fox News- Crossbow-Wielding Stalker Attacks Actress
Monday, June 08, 2009
MADRID — A stalker obsessed with a young Spanish actress shot at her with a crossbow before being wrestled to the ground and arrested outside a Madrid theater, police said Monday.
The official says the arrow from the crossbow aimed at Sara Casasnovas hit a male bystander, who was not seriously hurt in the attack Sunday evening.
The suspected attacker is a 39-year-old German, who became obsessed with Casasnovas after seeing her a year and a half ago on Spanish National Television's international channel.
The official told The Associated Press the man had been sending the 25-year-old actress love letters and attacked her outside a theater where she had just finished a performance of "Night of the Iguana," after she told him she wanted nothing to do with him.
The man was carrying a military-style backpack that contained a second crossbow, arrows with harpoon-style tips, a can of gasoline, handcuffs, rope, a canister of mace and a poster from a play in which Casasnovas had performed a few months ago, the official said.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department rules.

Social SCREW-curity

Keep looking over your shoulder America, the screwings will continue until morale improves. Here is some great news on how the Federal Government has been stealing from you for years.

From Fox News- WASHINGTON -- The financial health of the government's two biggest benefit programs may have slipped over the past year, reflecting the deep recession that has already bitten into other areas of the budget.
The trustees for Social Security and Medicare are scheduled to provide their annual report on the finances of both programs on Tuesday. In advance of the release, many private analysts said they expected both programs could run out of cash sooner than last predicted.
A year ago, the trustees projected that the Social Security trust fund would start paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes in 2017 and that the trust fund would be depleted in 2041.

I wish they would stop using the term “trustees” to describe this bunch of malcontents. Trust is the last thing we should have in the folks running (ruining?) Social Security.

For the Medicare trust fund, which pays for hospital care, the situation was more urgent. It was projected to start paying more in benefits than it collects in taxes within a year, and the trustees forecast that it would be depleted by 2019.

Wow, great news. I hope I don’t get sick in 10 years. Wait, I have a job and I pay for insurance, I don’t need Medicare! Why is everyone surprised by this? Creating a program to pay for medical expenses for people who don’t work and funding it by taxing those who do, who came up with this? Well, the answer should be obvious…LBJ. You remember him, Vietnam, The Great Society, civil rights. LBJ?
Come one, you remember.

OK, he killed Kennedy. Yea! That guy!

The Great Society was another New Deal style program designed to compensate for liberal guilt over the class disparity in America. Another spoonful of Socialism, candy coated social engineering designed to make us all feel good again. BTW, FDR was the A$$ who saddled us with Social Security. I hope they are dancing in Hell with Hitler and Stalin. Well, I guess FDR is probably not dancing.

But many analysts said the worst recession in decades will produce a bleaker forecast for both Social Security and Medicare in the new trustees' report. The downturn has resulted in a loss of 5.7 million payroll jobs since it began in December 2007 and an unemployment rate that hit a 25-year high of 8.9 percent in April.
Fewer people working means less being paid into the trust funds for Social Security and Medicare.

I think we have found the weakness in the plan here. Apparently no one ever considered, when designing these something-for-nothing plans, that the golden goose (the American taxpayer) would ever stop laying. Our incredulous belief in our own supremacy and money making ability has hoisted us on our own petard. Crap.

The Congressional Budget Office recently projected that Social Security will collect just $3 billion more in 2010 than it will pay out in benefits. A year ago, the CBO had projected that Social Security would have a much higher $86 billion cash surplus for the 2010 budget year, which begins Oct. 1. The difference in the two estimates is the result of the recession.
While the smaller surplus will not have any impact on Social Security benefit payments, the government will need to borrow more at a time when the federal deficit is already exploding because of the recession and the billions of dollars being spent to prop up a shaky banking system.

Exactly. We won’t pay less to those currently collecting, we will just screw everyone who is paying in right now. No retirement for you!

For years, the Social Security trust fund has taken in more than it spent on benefits, resulting in a cushion of billions of dollars that the government could spend on other programs while giving the trust fund an IOU.

Except for one thing…This is not the government’s money to play with. This is my money. This is your money. We pay it in so when we retire it will be available. This may come as a surprise if you have not been paying attention for the last 3 decades, but the program is going bankrupt. If you are working now, your money is going to pay for everyone collecting Social Security RIGHT NOW! Uncle Sugar is not saving that money for you. Nope, he has his hand in your pocket, stealing from you. There, I said it. The Federal Government is stealing from us! There is nothing left. Federally mandate robbery has been used for years to support a program that is a complete failure. If I had the option to invest the amount that the government has been stealing from me since I was 17, I could have a nice retirement nest egg set up by now (even considering the current economic downturn).

Even with the big drop in the Social Security surplus, Medicare's condition is more precarious, reflecting the pressures from soaring health care costs as well as the drop in tax collections. For that reason, President Barack Obama is expected to focus on Medicare before he addresses Social Security.
Obama on Monday praised a pledge by the health care industry to achieve $2 trillion in savings on health care costs over the next decade, but it was unclear how much help those pledges would be in achieving Obama's goal of extending coverage to some 50 million uninsured Americans. The administration is pushing Congress to pass legislation in this area this year, preferring to tackle health care before Social Security.
The trustees report is still expected to set off a heated debate over the government's two large benefit programs, with critics saying it will highlight the failure of the Obama administration to take on the most serious problems in the budget -- soaring entitlement spending, before the retirement of 78 million baby boomers makes the problems even worse.
The administration on Monday revised its deficit forecasts upward to project an imbalance this year of $1.84 trillion, four times last year's record deficit, and said the deficits will remain above $500 billion every year over the next decade.

Dear Uncle Sam,
Please stop stealing from me to pay for failed entitlement programs.
Sincerely,
RipperBravo6

Our Douchebag of the Month is a dirty hippy lawyer

Well, we needed a new Douchebag of the Month, but I am really torn on this one. One one hand, you can look at the guys career and it just screams "D-Bag" However, dirty liberal hippy lawyers do serve a purpose in this country. And no, I don't mean as fertilizer. They are the last forlorn hope of the obviously guilty. And on the off chance that someone of this ilk is innocent (has to be a 1 in 16,542,337 chance, right?) they might be the only ones willing to stand up and fight. And to make their case even more compelling, they frequently are fighting against an unjust and unfeeling government. I like that. However, rolling a turd in rainbow sprinkles does not make it a delicious pastry treat. So, decision made. I salute you, Ron Kuby, our "Douchebag of the Month".

From Fox News-NEW YORK — The sole surviving Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of an American ship captain arrived in New York on Monday, smiling for a gaggle of cameras and reporters as federal agents led him into custody to face charges in the attack.
Abduhl Wali-i-Musi was handcuffed and had a chain wrapped around his waist. His left hand was heavily bandaged from the wound he suffered during the skirmish on the ship two weeks ago.
The smiling teenager seemed poised as he entered a federal building in a rainstorm, but he didn't say anything in response to reporters' shouted questions about whether he had any comment about the pirate episode.
This skidmark is smiling because he is facing trial in the one country that has made being a captured high-profile criminal one of the safest career paths ever. Anywhere else and this dude would have been dancing a jolly jig from a yardarm about 5 minutes after being caught.
Wali-i-Musi is the first person to be tried in the United States on piracy charges in more than a century. He was flown from Africa to a New York airport and taken into custody ahead of a court hearing Tuesday.
A law enforcement official familiar with the case said that the teenager was being charged under two obscure federal laws that deal with piracy and hostage-taking. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the charges had not been announced.
The teenager's arrival came on the same day that his mother appealed to President Barack Obama for his release. She says her son was coaxed into piracy by "gangsters with money."
Yes, that would be an apt definition of "Pirates". Thanks Mom.
"I appeal to President Obama to pardon my teenager; I request him to release my son or at least allow me to see him and be with him during the trial," Adar Abdirahman Hassan said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from her home in Galka'yo town in Somalia.
Ah, so it begins. A plea to be allowed to come to the US. How much you want to be that when Mom gets here, she will never want to leave? Any excuse to leave Somalia is a good excuse.
The age and real name of the young pirate remained unclear. The mother said he is only 16 years old and is named Abdi Wali Abdulqadir Muse. The law enforcement official says he is at least 18, meaning prosecutors will not have to take extra legal steps to put him on trial in a U.S. court.
She also said he was a "good boy" and just a little "high spirited". And, he always keeps his AK-47 clean.
The suspect was taken aboard a U.S. Navy ship shortly before Navy SEAL snipers killed three of his colleagues who had held Capt. Richard Phillips hostage.
Making him the luckiest Somali in the world. If he hadn't have turned bitch, his brains would be part of a Modern Art project on the walls of a lifeboat in the Gulf of Aden with the rest of his buddies.
The U.S. officials said the teenager was brought to New York to face trial in part because the FBI office here has a history of handling cases in Africa involving major crimes against Americans, such as the al-Qaida bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998.
Ron Kuby, a New York-based civil rights lawyer, said he has been in discussions about forming a legal team to represent the Somalian.
And so the Douchebaggery begins.
"I think in this particular case, there's a grave question as to whether America was in violation of principles of truce in warfare on the high seas," said Kuby. "This man seemed to come onto the Bainbridge under a flag of truce to negotiate. He was then captured. There is a question whether he is lawfully in American custody and serious questions as to whether he can be prosecuted because of his age."
Truce in warfare? Well. let's get back out on that lifeboat and give Wali-al-Dumbfuck a chance NOT to surrender.Kuby intrigues me, so at this point I had to go to the old stand by, Wikipedia...

Ron Kuby

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born July 31, 1956 (1956-07-31) (age 52)Cleveland, Ohio Nationality United States Occupation Trial attorney Ronald L. Kuby (born July 31, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, radio talk show host and TV commentator. He is currently hosting Doing Time with Ron Kuby on Air America Radio.
Contents [hide]1 Beginnings 2 Partnership with William Kunstler 3 Post-Kunstler Career 4 Radio and television personality 5 Testimony/Controversy during John Gotti Jr. retrial 6 Personal life 7 Pop Culture References 8 References 9 External links
[edit] BeginningsAfter his parents divorced when he was five years old, Kuby lived with his mother. At thirteen, he joined the Jewish Defense League under the influence of his father, a follower of Meir David Kahane. He would later defend El Sayyid Nosair, convicted of Kahane's murder as part of his conviction for conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
So this guy defended, in court, the cowardly terrorist murderer of his Dad's hero? Sorry, if someone had killed Mickey Mantle or John Wayne, I would have done something different than offer to defend them in court, but that is just me, and thankfully my Dad had different heros.
In junior high school, Kuby was nearly expelled for publishing an underground newspaper critical of the school administration.[1] As a teenager, he visited Israel, but soon returned to the United States complaining of "anti-Arab racism".[2][citation needed]
Anti-arab racisism in Israel? Unheard of! The Middle East is the land of hugs.
After dropping out of college, Kuby briefly worked on a tug boat in the U.S. Virgin Islands, then moved to New England, and Kansas, where he eventually completed his degree at the University of Kansas.[3]
[edit] Partnership with William KunstlerWhile in college, Kuby interned with William Kunstler, a lawyer known for his defense of the Chicago Seven. Kuby earned his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 1983.
From 1983 until Kunstler's death in 1995, the two worked together on civil rights and criminal cases. They represented Gregory Lee Johnson, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (head of the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya); Colin Ferguson (the man responsible for the LIRR shootings, who would later choose to represent himself at trial); Qubilah Shabazz (daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam); Glenn Harris (a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen year-old girl for two months), Darrell Cabey (one of the persons who assaulted Bernard Goetz ); Yu Kikumura, and associates of the Gambino Crime Family. During the Gulf War, they represented American soldiers claiming "conscientious objector" status. They also represented El Sayyid Nosair, assassin of the late extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, whom Kuby's father had admired.
This guys client list is a Who's Who of scumbags. Petty criminals, child rapists, murderers, terrorists and deserters, very impressive.
[edit] Post-Kunstler CareerAfter Kunstler's death, Kuby continued the work of his late mentor. In 1996, he won a judgment of forty three million dollars against Bernhard Goetz. He also won nearly a million dollars for members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, who were wrongfully arrested by the New York City Police Department. He won the 2001 release of two men imprisoned 13 years for a murder they did not commit, winning a judgment of 3.3 million dollars for the pair. He secured a reversal of a murder conviction for a mentally-ill homeless man whose candle accidentally caused the death of a firefighter. In 2005, Kuby won close to a million dollars for another wrongfully convicted man who spent eight years in prison. Kuby now leads the Law Office of Ronald L. Kuby, one of the premiere criminal defense and civil rights firms in New York City.[5]
OK, I have to give him his dirty hippy props for standing up for the little guy (even if that guy is the Hell's Angels). Still a Douchebag, but I won't spit in your face if we meet.
[edit] Radio and television personality Until November 1, 2007, Kuby co-hosted (with Curtis Sliwa) the popular Curtis and Kuby in the Morning program aired on weekdays from 5 to 10 am on WABC-AM 770 in New York City.[6] The show featured commentary and debate on current issues, and a Court of Kuby segment on notable legal cases and periodic "Shout Outs" to current and former clients.
He is also a frequent pundit and substitute anchor on Court TV. He and Sliwa once shared a short-lived midday television program on MSNBC.
Kuby has often claimed to be a Communist. However, Kuby's political beliefs moderated considerably after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Of Jewish heritage, Kuby has also said he is an atheist.
He is interviewed in Kevin Keating's documentary Giuliani Time (which is concerned with Rudy Giuliani's career).
Kuby was fired by WABC on November 1, 2007 as part of a plan to bring back Don Imus to morning radio, in place of the station's Curtis and Kuby in the Morning show. WABC program director Phil Boyce publicly stated that he did not intend to keep Kuby.
Kuby was surprised that he was the first casualty of Imus – "Imus makes a racist comment, they fire a civil rights lawyer, and Imus gets my job," Kuby said.[7]
OK, this is funny. Just plain funny. Irony anyone?
On June 3, 2008, Ron Kuby returned to the air with his own show. He was hired by Air America Radio to replace Randi Rhodes on weekday afternoons. Doing Time with Ron Kuby airs weekdays from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. Eastern Time
So, Mr. Kuby will go on to defend this pirate, and probably save him from the death penalty (if that is even considered). People like Ron Kuby are a neccessary part of our society, but they are still douchebags.

Keep Laughing MotherF****rs

Axelrod: Tea Party Anger is Misdirected

Obama senior adviser says frustration over spending and taxes is "unhealthy."

AP
Sunday, April 19, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Damn the tea bags. A top adviser to President Barack Obama takes a dim view of last week's anti-tax "tea parties," promoted by organizers in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party.

"The thing that bewilders me is this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. So I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere because he certainly understands the burden that people face," David Axelrod said Sunday.

This Axlerod guy is clueless. Obama's minuscule tax cuts come on the heels of creating the largest tax burden in history, something our children and grandchildren will have to pay off. Don't you think we might be a little pissed about that still? In the land of government supplied Bread and Circus, Axlerod expects our societal ADD to kick in. He thinks we should only be concerned with what the President has done for us lately. Well, sorry Ms. Jackson, we don't forget.

And I find it more than a little humorous that Mr. Axlerod is actually going to assert that a man with a 1.3 million dollar net worth understands the burden that the common man in America faces. Sorry Dave, no dice. The common man in America did not attend Columbia University or Harvard Law. The common man did not learn at the feet of Marxist liberals. The common man goes to work in a store, a factory or an office, not at a CIA front like Business International Corporation (look it up if you don't believe me), or a "community organizing institute" like the Gamaliel Foundation or at a liberal law firm like David, Miner, Barnhill & Galland.

The rallies coincided with the deadline to file income taxes, and gave people a chance also to voice frustrations about government spending and corporate bailouts.

The tea parties were promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington and led by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, who is now a lobbyist.

Axelrod was asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" for his opinion on what the show's host described as "this spreading and very public disaffection with not only the government, but especially the Obama administration."

Axelrod replied: "I think any time that you have severe economic conditions, there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that's unhealthy."

Or maybe We The People have grown weary of our government (Left or Right, Blue or Red) promising one thing, doing the polar opposite, then trotting out spin doctors like this Axelrod to place blame anywhere but squarely on their shoulders.

"Unhealthy?" the moderator repeated.

"This is a country where we value our liberties and our ability to express ourselves. And so far these are expressions," Axelrod answered.

What the frack does that mean? Is that a threat? Is Axelrod saying that as long as our dissent takes to form of mindless, impotent whining about our taxes being too high, then it will be allowed? There is a real, palatable anger taking shape in this country, and it comes not from the hallowed halls of Washington DC, or the ghettos and slums of the inner city. It comes from middle America, from small towns, from suburbs, and straight from the mouths of the working middle class in America. It comes from the hopelessly unrepresented millions, who have no special interest lobbyist whispering in a politician's ear for them. It comes from people who were taught early on that the greatness of our country comes from a fair Constitution and a government that works for the people who elected it.

David Axelrod and the rest of America's government will ignore that at great peril.