Albeit she was a student…

A 34-year old male teacher at Travis High School in Austin was arrested for having sex with a student:

A male Travis High School teacher was arrested Wednesday and accused of having sex with an 18-year-old female student more than 20 times in five days.

Allen James Cole, 34, was charged with having an improper relationship with a student. He was released Thursday from the Travis County Jail on $10,000 bail.

Teachers should not be having sex with their students — regardless of the age of either of them. Just as a President shouldn’t be having sex with his interns.

But I don’t think, in this case, that Mr. Cole should be arrested and charged with a crime. The student was 18-years old and a consenting adult.

He should be fired and prohibited from ever teaching again. But not thrown in jail.

And 20 times in 5 days? Yeah. I vaguely remember what it was like to be 18.

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Sadly, this is only funny because it’s not too far from the slant the NY Times puts on most stories to make it match their narrative:

A biker is riding by the zoo when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage.

Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage, and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.

Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.

A NYT reporter has seen the whole scene and, addressing the biker,  says, ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life.’

‘Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right.’

‘Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist from the New York Times, you know, and tomorrow’s paper will have this on the first page. What motorcycle do you ride and what political affiliation do you have?’

‘A Harley Davidson and I am a Republican.’ The journalist leaves.

The following morning the biker buys The New York Times to see if  it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads on the first page:

REPUBLICAN BIKER GANG MEMBER ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH.

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There’s a strong but good-natured (mostly) rivalry between Harley Davidson owners and those who ride metric cruisers (cruisers built by Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda, and Kawasaki). Basically — the HD guys think that they, their bikes, their hundreds of dollars of perfectly matching and coordinating Harley Davidson riding gear and assorted HD accessories make them better than everyone else.

Those of use smart enough to pay 1/2 the price for twice the bike know better.

This is a popular joke amongst us “metric cruiser” guys:

On the farm lived a chicken and a horse, both of whom loved to play together.

One day the two were playing, when the horse fell into a bog and began to sink.

Scared for his life, the horse whinnied for the chicken to go get the farmer for help!

Off the chicken ran, back to the farm. Arriving at the farm, he searched and searched for the farmer, but to no avail, for he had gone to town with the only tractor.

Running around, the chicken spied the farmer’s new Harley. Finding the keys in the ignition, the chicken sped off with a length of rope hoping he still had time to save his friend’s life.

Back at the bog, the horse was surprised, but happy, to see the chicken arrive on the shiny Harley, and he managed t o get a hold of the loop of rope the chicken tossed to him.

After tying the other end to the rear bumper of the farmer’s bike, the chicken then drove slowly forward and, with the aid of the powerful bike, rescued the horse!

Happy and proud, the chicken rode the Harley back to the farmhouse, and the farmer was none the wiser when he returned.

The friendship between the two animals was cemented: Best Buddies, Best Pals.

A few weeks later, the chicken fell into a mud pit, and soon, he too, began to sink and cried out to the horse to save his life!

The horse thought a moment, walked over, and straddled the large puddle.

Looking underneath, he told the chicken to grab his hangy-down thingy and he would then lift him out of the pit.

The chicken got a good grip, and the horse pulled him up and out, saving his life.

The moral of the story? (yep, you betcha, there is a moral!)

“When You’re Hung Like A Horse, You Don’t Need A Harley To Pick Up Chicks”

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Channel 7 Action News reporter Peggy Agar had the audacity to ask full-time Presidential Candidate and fraction-of-the-time U.S. Senator Barry Obama a pointed policy question.

And how did The Obamassiah answer? He brushed her off (never answering her question) and then condescended to her by calling her “sweetie.”

The feminists at Shakesville are not happy. Especially since this is not the first time Barry has done this. Recently.

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Realizing that he’d just exercised poor judgment (again) — he quickly sort-of-apologized to the female reporter:

“One was you didn’t get your question answered and I apologize…. Second apology is for using the word ’sweetie.’ That’s a bad habit of mine. I do it sometimes with all kinds of people. I mean no disrespect and so I am duly chastened on that front.”

I wonder if by “all kinds of people” he means men, too. I’d love to see the video of Barry addressing a man as “sweetie”. Or by “all kinds of people” did he really mean “just women”.

Now, imagine if every time a black male news reporter asked Hillary or Sen. McCain a question, and they brushed him off with, “Hold on one second, boy…”

And then tried to play it off as simply a “bad habit”.

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Have you seen the new ad for Beyoncé Knowles line of children’s clothing? The one where she dresses up a bunch of pre-teen girls to look like sluts and hookers (and not the $1000/hour ‘escorts’ preferred by high-ranking Democrats, either — I’m talking $25 for a blow-job in the alley hookers)?

Michelle Malkin has the pictures up at her place, and some strong words about them.

Girl on the Right calls them “Tiny little hip hop whores”, and gets right to the uncomfortable truth:

Tell me again why with over 60% of black children in America residing in single parent families headed by promiscuous mothers who breed from a variety of “baby-daddies” (a terrible cultural term that reminds us that the men have absolutely no responsibility for these children), we still don’t seem to be getting the fact that we’re dealing with a broken culture. Now they’re tricking out their daughters to get started as “baby mommas” at as young an age as possible.

And if you don’t believe that this is indicative and representative of a tremendous self-made problem within the black American communities and culture — you haven’t been watching enough videos, or listening to enough rap music, or watching enough of the news, or watching enough NBA.

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Over on this post about multiple-murderer and current long-time denizen of Texas’ death row, Charles Dean Hood, an anonymous commenter pointed us to this court ruling in the case of Hood, which was handed down yesterday.

In the order, Hood’s defense asks for a motion to “stay [his] execution and suspend rules of appellate procedure to permit rehearing of direct appeal.”

Sounds like a last-ditch desperate attempt to prolong the inevitable.

The judge ruled against Hood:

Appellant now asks that we suspend the Rules of Appellate Procedure and again review one of his claims he raised on direct appeal. We rejected that claim over 14 years ago because, procedurally, it did not meet the requirements of a properly briefed point of error and, in the alternative, because we found it to be without merit. Hood, AP-71,167 (slip op at 19-20). When the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari on October 11, 1994, this appeal became final. Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 2 does not allow this Court to create jurisdiction where none exists. See generally Garza v. State, 896 S.W.2d 192 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995). Appellant’s motion is denied.

IT IS SO ORDERED THIS THE 14TH DAY OF MAY, 2008.

34 days and counting, Charlie.

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Jackie was just a puppy when Shannon and I first met. A gift from the boyfriend previous to me.

Guess what, sucker? She’s my dog now!

Anyway…I got in good with Shannon early on (and bonded with Jackie) because my office was close to her apartment in Houston at the time, and I would go over there at lunch time to walk Jackie (whose real name is Lady Jack of Nacogdoches — my wife graduated from SFA).

Even stranger than her real name is her nickname: Poodle.

Even though she’s clearly not a Poodle.

Now she’s 12 years old. She’s mostly deaf. I think she’s going blind. She has fatty (but thankfully benign) tumors all over — the one on her belly is the size of a softball. She’s a little over weight at 39 lbs. And she just cost me $526 at the vet last week to treat what turned out to be a stomach virus.

But she’s still our little princess, and she definitely keeps Angus and Otis in their place.

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Here are two novel ideas — 1) a states’ Attorney General recommending following federal immigration laws, and 2) local colleges actually agreeing to abide by the law.

North Carolina’s 58 community colleges will no longer allow illegal immigrants to enroll, officials said Tuesday.

The move follows an advisory letter issued a week ago by the state Attorney General’s Office recommending that community colleges tighten their admissions standards to be more in line with federal laws.

Now imagine if we could get all government agencies, local governments, and employers to simply follow the federal immigrations laws…

Michelle Malkin, “From sanctuary nation to sovereign nation. One step at a time.”

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My wife embarrassed poor Angus today by making him wear a silly bandanna when they went to the dog park (Auditorium Shores):

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Everyone knows that the only way a white person could possibly not vote for Barry Obama is because they are a Klan-loving racist.

Now you can let everybody know that you’re not just another bitter, gun ‘n religion clinging typical white person. Buy this t-shirt to let people know that you wouldn’t vote for Barry Obama even if he was white:

I Wouldn’t Vote for Obama
Get this custom shirt at Zazzle

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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has updated their Scheduled Executions web site. The updated site lists 8 upcoming executions.

Derick J. Sonnier is scheduled for execution on June 3. He will be the first inmate executed in Texas since Michael Wayne Richards was put to death on Sept. 25, 2007.

Sonnier is being put to death for raping, stabbing, strangling, and beating to death Melody Flowers. He also stabbed and beat to death her 2-year old son, Patrick.

Also scheduled:

• Karl Eugene Chamberlain — June 11 — On 08/02/91 in Dallas, Texas Chamberlain fatally shot the victim, a 30-year old white female, Felicia Prechtl. Chamberlain was a resident of the same apartment complex and had gone to the victim’s apartment under the pretense of borrowing sugar. Chamberlain left the apartment and returned minutes later with duct tape and a rifle. Chamberlain entered the apartment and forced the victim into a bedroom. He then taped her hands and feet and raped her. Chamberlain took then took her into the bathroom and shot her one time in the head with a .30 caliber rifle.
• Charles Dean Hood — June 27 — I’ve written about Hood numerous times (here, here, here, and here) and have become friends with the sister of one of Hood’s victims. Hood is being executed for the 1989 murders of Ronald Williamson and Traci Lynn Wallace.
• Carlton Aker Turner — July 10 — On 08/08/98 in Irving, Texas, Turner fatally shot his adoptive parents. The victim’ co-workers became alarmed when they had not seen or heard from the victims in several days. Irving Police obtained a search warrant for the victim’s residence and they discovered both victims in the garage where they had been shot to death.
• Lester Leroy Bower — July 22 — In October of 1983, he shot 4 men to death at an ultralight airplane hangar near Sherman, TX during a robbery. One of those men was Philip Good, a 29-year old sheriff’s deputy.
• Larry Donell Davis — July 31 — On 08/28/95, in Amarillo, Texas, Davis and co-defendants, Raydon Drew, Donald Drew, Jr. and Christie Castillo stabbed to death a man as part of a gang initiation. According to Amarillo Law Enforcement, the offense was a committed to earn co-defendant Raydon Drew a tear drop from the Crips. The Drew brothers were familiar with the victim. They entered the home under the pretense of visiting. Lookouts were parked in vehicles at each end of the street. The victim was stabbed numerous times with knives and an ice pick. The victim was also beaten with a pipe.
• Michael Anthony Rodriguez — August 14 — While on escape from TDCJ (for a prior life sentence for capital murder), Rodriguez and 6 co-defendants robbed a sporting goods store at gunpoint. An Irving police officer, Aubrey Hawkins, was murdered outside the store as Rivas and co-defendants left the scene.
• Denard Manns — August 20 — On 11/18/1998 in Killeen, Manns entered the home of a 26-year old Michelle Robson. He raped her and then shot her in the head and chest 5 times. Manns was on parole from prison after his second conviction for armed robbery. Robson was a US Army Combat Medic with the 21st Combat Support Hospital at Ft. Hood.

These are all executions that are long, long overdue.

Some people are just no damned good, and the world is a better place without them in it. All of these men are such people.

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As the price of metal continues to rise, so has the rate of theft of aluminum, brass, and copper. And now thieves are targeting military bases where they are stealing brass casings and unexploded ordnance.

These thieves are not only risking their own lives, but they are costing the US Military hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost training time.

And guess who is doing most of the stealing? That’s right. Illegal immigrants.

Stealing the metal that Americans are too lazy to steal.

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Personally, I think that the military should change their policy to halt training exercises when these thieves interrupt them. Instead, the military should make them a part of the exercise. A live target, if you will. If you want to stop people from stealing from the military bases, just put a few rounds from an AH-1 Super Cobra on them.

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Despite the best efforts of anti-military groups like Code Pink, Moveon.org, and numerous Lefty college associations — the military is still hitting all of its recruiting goals.

Especially the Marine Corps, which has met 142% of its recruiting goal:

The Marine Corps far surpassed its recruiting goal last month and could eventually be more than a year ahead of schedule in its plan to grow the force to 202,000 members.

All military services met or exceeded their monthly recruiting goals in April, with the Marine Corps signing 142 percent of the number it was looking for, the Pentagon said.

The Army signed 101 percent of its goal, recruiting 5,681 against a goal of 5,650. The Navy and Air Force met their goals — 2,905 sailors and 2,435 airmen.

The Marine Corps enlisted 2,233 recruits against a goal of 1,577.

I’d like to thank Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, who has probably done more to encourage young men and women to join the Marine Corps than she has do dissuade them.

I’m sure the NY Times will bury this great news somewhere at the back of their failing daily rag. But just imagine if the Marine Corps were 42% behind their recruiting goals, I’ll bet you dimes to nickels that this would be in 48 pt type at the top of Page 1.

The US Army should change their slogan to “just a bunch of bitter people clinging to their guns and religion” — lots of gun and God loving going on in the US Army. Which is why the Military is just one more segment of American society that Obama looks down his nose at and doesn’t even begin to understand.

(h/t to Tiger Hawk)

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