Murder in The Villages-The Real Victims

A good friend of Diana and Jim Miller sent me this picture of them.

Diana was brutally slain, and Jim executed and nearly killed, by 3 scum who were friends and acquaintances of their daughter.

The newspapers have plenty of pictures of the murderers and their weeping families.

We must always remember who the real victims were.

(Thanks, "Known Them for 30" for this opportunity.

"For one hour Saturday, turn out the lights"

Another dumb-ass stunt that's supposed to save the planet.

As part of Earth Hour 2008, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is asking Floridians to turn off their lights from 8-9 p.m. on Saturday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Earth Hour is an initiative to increase awareness about each person's impact on the environment and to demonstrate the collective impact people can have in conserving energy and saving money.


Oh, and check out this next paragraph.

Earth Hour began in Sydney, Australia, where more than two million people turned off their lights for an hour. Last year, the energy saved in Sydney during Earth Hour resulted in about a 10 percent reduction in emission for that city.

Let's see: 24 hours in a day. Therefore, one EVENING hour equals 10%. Interesting math...I'd like them to submit their work for review.

Let's guess...they and we will be sitting in the dark for the entire 60 minutes. No batteries, no candles, not fireplaces because they cause environmental problems also. Yep...just hanging with the homies in the dark.

Not likely.

It's amazing the type of bullshit people will believe in.

What's Happening in Marion you ask?

Well, these Ocala Star-Banner articles will tell you lots.

Detective: Child molester says devil made me do it

Detectives look for two after Shores shoot-out

Sheriff's Office: Man threatens to stab a woman, kill himself

Sheriff's Office: Arguing boyfriend throws baby to the floor

'Pregnant' woman charged with fraud

Pretty typical day, actually.

Come to Florida, folks.

(We need more victims for our scum.)

"Legislature apologizes for slavery"

Whatever.

This nation has been paying the price for slavery for a very long time. I've distant relatives who fought, suffered, died, were maimed and impoverished fighting a war between the states that had a hell of a lot to do with slavery. Most of the rest of the family didn't get here until the early 1900s.

Hell of a price was paid by the ones who here in the 1860s.

So, what's an apology worth? Will this do anything?

Here's a hint:

Florida's black lawmakers called the apology the first step toward confronting what they see as racial disparities in health, education and the criminal justice system.

"An expression is just empty words without action," said Rep. Joe Gibbons, a Broward County Democrat and chairman of the legislative Black Caucus. "Yes, this is a historical step for the Florida Legislature, but the real test is what happens next."

In other words, this was bullshit. Just another step in the victim/reparations/race hustle that has become the norm in our 'national conversation on race' or just about anything else involving perceived in justices.

Oh, and check out Gov Charlie.

Gov. Charlie Crist commended lawmakers "for doing the right thing" and did not rule out considering reparations for Floridians whose ancestors were slaves.

Thanks a lot for the sentiment, Chuck. If you want to pay reparations, write your own damned check.

Me? I haven't owned a slave ever. Hell, I'm pretty sure my parents let their slaves go sometime back in the 1950s.

Murder in The Villages-Justice (or something like that)

This Ocala Star-Banner headlines tell you all you need to know:

Family pleads for mercy for killer
Convicted killer to be sentenced in Villages slaying

So you know you're going to get the following:

OCALA - A decent student who loved sports and occasionally wrote poetry. A sensitive, if misguided, boy who suffered abuse as a young child and ran afoul of the law at age 9.

Ultimately, Renaldo McGirth was simply a young man who "made bad choices," in the words of one witness who came to testify at the 19-year-old's presentence hearing in The Villages murder case.

"There really wasn't much structure in his life," said Harry Krot, a licensed psychologist who concluded in an exam that McGirth suffered from anti-social personality disorder.

Diana Miller, 63, was killed from a gunshot wound to the head in July 2006 following an attempted robbery at her home. Miller's 70-year-old husband, James, also was shot in the head but survived. McGirth was found guilty on three charges, but acquitted on a count of armed kidnapping in the alleged abduction of the Millers' daughter.

The last paragraph is all you need to know.

Poor little angelic murderer? Just some hard breaks?

No!

Sentence him to death and let's move on.

Save the tears for those that matter; like Diana and James Miller.

Holy crap!

I just noticed that I've been blogging 3 years (well, by tomorrow).

Not a big anniversary, but a time for reflection.

Wish I had the time.

Thanks for those who've stopped by, particularly those who left comments. Even though not all agreed with me, the comments were most welcome.

And Special Thanks for antimedia at Media Lies. He was so very generous with advice and encouragement to me at the beginning. I'm sure he doesn't remember, but it's so much appreciated. Thanks, man! (Now, what the hell has happened to your site? Where are you?)

"The Changing Artic" circa 1922

Per Tim Blair's excellent site, another in a series of articles and posts that show just what BS the Church of Global Warming is smearing.

This includes an article from the November 1922 Monthly Weather Review that notes how little ice there was in the Artic at that time.

He also notes the following:

Via Anthony Watts, whose readers discover a great wealth of ye olde warmening in the NYT archives:
• 1923:
Glaciers have disappeared and land once covered with field ice is bare.
• 1924:
Glaciers are moving from their age-old beds, pouring greater quantities of ice into the sea than recorded history has known. Broad areas of land are sinking to new levels. A number of islands have disappeared.
• 1930:
The Alpine glaciers are in full retreat. Out of 102 glaciers observed by Professor P.L. Mercanton of the University of Lausanne and his associates more than twothirds have been found to be shrinking.
• 1935:
The great glaciers of the West, last remnants of the Ice Age on continental United States, have been retreating from their strongholds in the mountains at double time since last year.
• 1947:
A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a “serious international problem,” Dr. Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist, said today.

Of course, the same archives also yield collosal climate coldness concerns:
• 1895:
The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow of the polar regions.
• 1961:
Winters Since ‘40 Found Colder In Studies by Weather Bureau; Data Indicate, a Reversal of a Warming Trend That Began in 1881
• 1961:
After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder.
• 1975:
Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate Is Changing; a Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable
• 1978:
An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.

Same crap then, different purveyors of crap today.

Iraq War - 5 Years In

Well, this is an anniversary of sorts isn't it.

Five years into a long war on terror and America-hating terrorists.

Barry O'Bama and Hillary are in the news about it, of course. They say it's been too long, too costly, too....Bushy.

O'Bama knows his history....says this war has lasted longer than the Civil War and WWII.

He didn't say how quickly this could have been over if he and his party put America first. Our nation has had to fight its adversaries...both abroad and here. Wars always take longer when any nation has saboteurs in its midst.

Hey, Barry...another history lesson. The Civil War may have taken so long because our nation also had Democrats working against Republicans, to the detriment of all.

Quick Thoughts: Church and State

I'm not religious, but I've never had a real problem with religion being brought into government. I've always felt that religious people have right to be heard and have the right to petition for redress, and that includes being a member of government.

My real problem was taking any religion's dogma and making that the law. But, let's face it, that's never been a significant problem in America on the national level.

Funny, but you must remember just how much a religious nut President Bush was made out to be when he first ran in 2000? The Dems and other leftists carried on so about how his Christianity would usher in the next Inquisition.

Now, notice just how quiet the Dems, the mainstream media and other leftists have been about Barry O'Bama's (and "proud of America" wife) frequently expressed Christianity. His membership in a racially biased church wasn't mentioned except in the most positive terms.

This religious angle has the same feel as in 2000 and 2004 in another area...military service. The Dems, the mainstream media and other leftists made so much about President Bush's limited (and avoidance) of military service when compared to the military warrior-heroes like AlGore and JFKerry. Well, this time military experience seems not to be an issue for them. Sorta seems like 1992 and 1996 doesn't it? You remember, when the military hating Bill Clinton was running against true warriors like GHW Bush and Bob Dole.

Democrat motto: we only bitch when the Republican candidate is better than our guy in all the ways that matter. (Which is all the time.)

(Yeah, I know I'm rambling. I'm sitting here on a Sunday morning trying to catch up on work I didn't finish last week. And I'm just a little pissy. But that doesn't make me any less right.)

Where am I?

Gone, mostly. Stuff to do and, apparently, a blog to ignore.

Gotta say, though, that I can't quite get into the right frame of mind to blog.

But first...it's pretty damned funny what's going on in the Democrat party primaries. The Clinton's are being themselves and it's pissing off their fellows. A lot of them anyhow.

And the party of race-baiters are being overt racists.

Again, too damned funny. Sad-for the nation-at the same time.

But about the Florida Dems "do-over" - what the hell is it with the Democrats. Common decency and love of country is too much to expect of them. But they can't even follow their own rules.

Will be back pretty soon.