Archive for January 16th, 2006
WCBSTV.com: Controversial Words At Sharpton’s MLK Event
The Martin Luther King Day celebration at Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network is a rite of passage in an election year. And with so many big races this year, candidates and controversy were the order of the day.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, who had launched into an impassioned attack on the Bush administration.
“We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism we have incompetence I predict to you that this administration will go down on history as one of the worst that has ever governed out country.â€
Clinton actually got an easy question. “I need you to tell us what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans right now,†she was asked.
Clinton’s answer was provocative.
Said Clinton, “When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I’m talking about…”
Hillary, the race baiter on Martin Luther King Day……figures – she will do anything to win the Presidency in 2008.
Some House Republicans took immediate offense at Senator Clinton’s choice of words.
Said Republican Congressman Peter King, of Long Island, “It’s always wrong to play the race card for political gain by using a loaded word like plantation. But it is particularly wrong to do so on Martin Luther King Day.”
Hillary will play the RACE CARD or whatver card to win the presidency.
But, can you imagine the disaster with her in the White House? She will be more unprincipled than her husband Bill……
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s outrage….. and not from the MSM.
Update #1:
Michelle Malkin: HILLARY’S MLK DAY DEMAGOGUERY
Captain’s Quarters: Hillary On MLK Day: Senate Democrats Are Slaves
Riehl World View: CBS: Hillary Clinton Pays Homage To Al Sharpton
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 Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, right, along with his wife Martha look on during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, Monday, Jan. 9, 2006.
Reuters: Democrats force delay on high court nominee vote
Democrats on Monday forced a one-week delay on a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, but the 55-year-old conservative was still expected to be confirmed by the full Republican-led Senate.
Still, the Democratic action ended hopes by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, to have President George W. Bush’s nominee confirmed by the end of this week for a seat on the nation’s highest court.
“The Democrats’ decision to delay … is unjustified and desperate partisan obstructionism,” Frist said in a statement.
“Despite these tactics, Judge Alito remains on track to be confirmed as Justice Alito,” Frist said. “A Justice delayed will not be a Justice denied.”
The Senate Democrats do NOT have the votes to block Alito’s confirmation. So, they have to be JERKS and pull an immature delay stunt.
How juvenile…….
Alito WILL BE CONFIRMED but after another senseless week of delay……
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Samuel Alito Watch: Senator Dianne Feinstein Warns Against Filibuster
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San Francisco Chronicle: Supreme Court denies stay of execution
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Clarence Ray Allen’s request for a stay of execution today, clearing the way for the state to put the 76-year-old inmate to death by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday for ordering three murders from his prison cell a quarter century ago.
The court turned down Allen’s final appeals at 2:05 p.m. today. One justice, Stephen Breyer, cast a dissenting vote, saying Allen was entitled to review of his claim that his execution would be unconstitutional because of his age, feeble condition and multiple illnesses.
Allen “is 76 years old, blind, suffers from diabetes, is confined to a wheelchair and has been on death row for 12 years,” Breyer said. “I believe that in the circumstances he raises a significant question as to whether his execution would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.”
There were no comments from the other justices. Five votes on the nine-member court were needed for a stay of execution.
End of the road for Clarence Ray Allen.
Allen was first convicted of murder for the 1974 killing of his son’s girlfriend, Mary Sue Kitts, a witness to a Fresno grocery store burglary by a gang of thieves led by Allen. While serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison, he was convicted of ordering the 1980 murders of three people at the same grocery store, one of them a witness to the earlier killing.
The gunman in the 1980 killings, Billy Ray Hamilton, was also sentenced to death and is on San Quentin’s death row. Prosecutors said Hamilton, a fellow inmate at Folsom before his parole, was given a list of eight people who had testified against Allen for the 1974 murder. Another inmate testified that Allen offered Hamilton $25,000 to kill them.
Over thirty years to execute this scum. And while in prison he conjures up the murder of three others.
Justice for his victims………
Mary Sue Kitts
Bryon Schletewitz
Douglas White
Josephine Rocha
The Case:
The case involved the murders of Bryon Schletewitz, 27, Douglas White, 18, and Josephine Rocha, 17. Prosecutors told a jury in Fresno that Allen had organized the murder and paid a fellow inmate, Billy Ray Hamilton, to carry it out.
At the time, Allen was in prison, convicted of the murder in 1974 of Mary Sue Kitts. California did not have a death penalty statute at that time.
Kitts, the girlfriend of Allen’s son, Kenneth, was found strangled to death after telling the owners of a market in Fresno that Allen’s gang had burglarized their store. Schletewitz was the son of those store owners, and he had testified against Allen in the Kitts case.
According to prosecutors, Allen, who was seeking a retrial in the Kitts case, paid Hamilton to kill Schletewitz and others potential witnesses. According to testimony, Hamilton went to the store, Fran’s Market, with a sawed-off shotgun, ordered Schletewitz and three other store employees to lie on the floor and then shot all four. One employee, Joe Rios, was shot in the face but survived and testified at the trial.
Hamilton was arrested during a liquor store robbery a week after the murders. When he was captured, police found that he had the names and addresses of seven others Allen wanted killed. Hamilton also was sentenced to death. Kenneth Allen, who provided the shotgun to Hamilton, received a life term for his role in the crime, as did his girlfriend Connie Barbo.
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Clarence Ray Allen Watch: Federal Appeals Court Denies Reprieve
Clarence Ray Allen Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency
Clarence Ray Allen Watch: California Supreme Court Refuses to Block January 17 Execution
Clarence Ray Allen Watch: NO Clemency Hearing Vs. NO PUBLIC Clemency Hearing
Clarence Ray Allen Watch: NO Clemency Hearing
Clarence Ray Allen Watch: Americans With Disabilities Act – The Latest Excuse
Clarence Ray Allen Watch: Asks for STAY of Execution
Clarence Ray Allen Watch: Petitions California Governor Schwarzenegger for Clemency
Technorati Tags: ClarenceRayAllen, JosephGrodin, ArnoldSchwarzenegger, SanQuentin
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 An anti-Iran protester in a mock hangman’s noose demonstrates outside the British Foreign office in Whitehall, London, during a meeting of the United States and its European allies with representatives of Russia and China on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006 in the hopes of resolving their differences over what action to take against Iran for restarting its nuclear program. The question of whether to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, was at the top of the agenda at the closed London meeting of the council’s top powers.
ASSociated Press: Big Security Council Members Agree on Iran
Powerful members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Monday that Iran must fully suspend its nuclear program, Britain’s Foreign Office said following a meeting aimed at forging a common response to Tehran’s decision to resume uranium enrichment activities.
Diplomats also announced plans to call for an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency board of directors on Feb. 2-3 to discuss what action to take against Tehran for removing some U.N. seals from its main uranium enrichment facility in Natanz last week.
The Foreign Office said all five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council – the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China – and Germany had shown “serious concern over Iranian moves to restart uranium enrichment activities.”
They agreed on the need for Iran to “return to full suspension,” according to a statement.
Iran will NOT voluntarily return to full suspension. And it is doubtful that either China or Russia would sustain a Security Council veto.
The IAEA meeting in February is for SHOW.
When will Israel and the United States reach the point of NO return? Proabably March.
Americans should prepare for another Iranian oil boycott and/or blockage of Iranian waterways – spelled high gasoline prices.
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The Iran Files
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 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a news conference in Tehran January 14, 2006. Iran will not be deflected from its drive to develop nuclear technology if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions, Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.
Reuters: CNN banned in Iran for translation gaffe
Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working there after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons, the ISNA students news agency said.
CNN’s simultaneous translation of Ahmadinejad’s lengthy news conference on Saturday included the phrase “the use of nuclear weapons is Iran’s right”.
In fact, what the Iranian president said was that “Iran has the right to nuclear energy,” the official IRNA news agency reported. CNN later clarified in an apology on Sunday night.
Iran denies any intention of seeking nuclear weapons, saying it wants atomic technology merely for the generation of electricity.
ISNA said Iran’s Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry deemed the error a “violation of professional ethics” and suspended CNN journalists from working in Iran until further notice.
CNN does not have a permanent bureau in Iran but a local journalist is a contributor to the network and visiting correspondents are occasionally given permission to enter the country on short assignments.
No first amendment Flap supposes.
Wonder what they do to someone who publishes Iranian state secrets/leaks?
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The Iran Files
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