Well, I have been quiet on the presidential race until now. I don't have much to say except to state that I find Sarah Palin to be a breath of fresh air in a fetid political cesspool.

John McCain is, well, boring, passe even. Pass the salt, please, this man is bland.

Palin is Emeril's Essence for the Republican ticket. Dynamic and aggressive, she stands firmly on her beliefs and dares the lamescream media to give her a target to shoot.

I believe she has good aim. Time will tell, but I doubt that her appeal will be found wanting. I wish she was my mother. Or my wife. I admire her.

Is it possible to have her and McCain swap positions?

Wouldn't that put Hillary into spasms?


OK, enough politics. Jon Burge, Chicago's very own Torquemada, has been indicted on perjury charges. Couldn't have happened to a more apt target. Should not have taken so long, though. Too bad we couldn't have Daley indicted as a co-conspirator.

I'm not going to do a bad cop of the period this time. I don't have the time to sift through all the candidates. For a list, just do a Google search on police brutality, or look to the left of this blog for stories under my "what I am reading" area.

Unabashed plug section: Go read eric's stuff at blacktygrrrr:

http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/

He is worth the read!

Stay healthy by avoiding badges!

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There have been a lot of cases of people dying after being tased repeatedly. The rationale for these tasings is "compliance." This is remarkable because the taser is intended to assure that a person have no voluntary movement for a short period of time. How can this be a "compliance" tool if the person being tased is rendered incapable of compliance? The really ironic thing is that the repetition of the tasing is based on the idea that it will force compliance.

First, you tie rocks to their feet, then you shoot them because they don't float. Absolutely bizarre. And irrational.

But the police know everything, and the rest of us are ignorant rubes, at least that is what they want you to believe.

Tasers are not compliance tools. They are torture devices, intended solely to render someone helpless. Once helpless, compliance is not a choice. Repeating their use on a subject simply makes no sense. Either it has the desired effect, or it doesn't. If not, the level of force used is inappropriate. It's that simple.

Poor guy:

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1438019

He was serving a court ordered public service sentence, and got arrested for it. The cop "was sure" he smelled marijuana on the cookies. The guy winds up in jail. The cookies are tested for drugs and the results are negative. Charges are dropped.

Cops are absolutely out of control here. No one reported being sick from the cookies, and it was cops that ate them. Never mind that, let's arrest this guy based on our noses. The chief says that the procedures were followed. Whoever wrote these procedures is a moron. This insane rush to give cops every benefit of the doubt will come to no good. No way.

A cop administering a field drug test is just as competent at that as he is at rocket fuel science. He is not a chemist, and his opinion has the same worth in both fields. None.

To put it bluntly, LSD and marijuana share NO chemical similarities. They "smelled" pot and the field test "detected" LSD. Seems like any rational person would question every bit of "judgment" these officers exercised. At the very least, the chief ought to be wondering if these officers need some more training.

But it's all OK now. The charges are dropped and all the young man has to face is his probation officer for being arrested again. Never mind that the arrest was totally baseless. He will probably get life for breaking probation. That is how these badges and judges work.

Let us hope that his family has the means to pursue a civil case, if for nothing else, for the sheer stupidity of the cops.

This is so laughably preposterous as to reek of criminal cop stupidity. I am talking about the POLICIES that led to this silliness. This is our tax money at work.