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  • Virginia schools close for staph cleaning

    The Washington Post reports this morning that a number of Virginia’s schools had to be closed for a thorough cleaning after a student died from staph infection recently;

    Rappahannock Superintendent Bob Chappell said school employees also followed a local hospital’s advice to mop hallways and classrooms with a bleach solution. The cost of the cleanup: more than $10,000.

    “It’s real easy . . . to point fingers all over the place,” said Larry Sells, a parent at Anne Arundel’s Severna Park High School, where several cases are suspected. “But the only finger-pointing that does any good is at the problem and how to get it fixed.”

    Getting ahead of MRSA is a daunting challenge. Hospitals and nursing homes have been dealing for decades with the pathogen, which is especially risky for patients with weakened immune systems or those recovering from surgery or in intensive care.

    A report this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that serious incidences of this strain are far more frequent than previously thought. Every year in the United States, the researchers said, MRSA causes more than 94,000 acute infections and nearly 19,000 deaths.

    19,000 deaths. From infections. Almost sounds like a foreign country, doesn’t it? But it’s the US – the only civilized nation in the world (I’m completely serious when I write that – have you ever been to Europe? It’s a cesspool.)

    The Washington Examiner reports;

    As of Sept. 19, three MRSA outbreaks had been reported this year at other locations including a school, Virginia Department of Health spokesman Robert Parker said. Six outbreaks were reported in 2005 and five in 2004.

    Well, here’s a hint where this stuff is coming from, in the Washington Times, by Audrey Hudson and Sara Carter;

    A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the past year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.

    The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was warned by health officials on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected, but it took Homeland Security officials more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors, according to Homeland Security sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Homeland Security took a further week to tell its own Transportation Security Agency.

    Comforting isn’t it?

  • Kokesh needs help

    Well, it had to happen. Adam Kokesh has gone ’round the bend. This is the banner on the primadonna’s website these days (thanks to Robin from Chickenhawk Express for twigging me to this);

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    He’s been on Hannity and Colmes and he thinks he did such a bang-up job defending himself and his exercise in racist behavior by calling Ann Coulter “Coultergeist” and David Horowitz a “two bit bigot”. Ann Coulter isn’t even scheduled to speak at the Islamo-facism Awareness Week events at George Washington University – but he has to show everyone how clever he is by making up a new hateful word for someone who engages in free speech that happens to run counter to Kokesh’s…um…ideas, so to speak.

    Oh, and Adam, “two-bit” means 25 cents and has nothing to do with bigotry. I know they didn’t cover that at whatever art history or basketweaving class you’re taking at GWU, so I’ll give you a pass on that bit of ignorance.

    Now suddenly, because he has the GWU administration cowed into not punishing him and his cohorts, he’s a “ruthless anti-facist attack dog for hire”. Well, in the real world, he’s a pestering poodle humping rational people’s collective leg.

    But let’s look at stuff that points to Kokesh’s “gone ’round the bend” syndrome (well, besides the fruity banner);

    Frankly, I would be honored to share a stage with Kucinich and Paul. For Kucinich, I’m not so much a supporter as I am an enthusiast. He is one of the few members of Congress who still have principles and stick to them. I’m much more a supporter of Paul because I think his principles about the Constitution and limited government are closer to my own, but I have the same respect for both of them. It’s funny to note that Paul is now lumped in with this communist slur when his (our) views of limited government are really the opposite of communism. It also says “congressman Dennis Kucinich and presidential candidate Ron Paul” when they are actually both congressmen and both presidential candidates.

    That’s the kind of mental illness with which we’re dealing – someone so steeped in a false ideology that Kucinich and Ron Paul seem rational and worthy of support. And the reason Kokesh supports Ron Paul? “I think his principles about the Constitution and limited government are closer to my own” yet, he’s a Leftist and also supports Dennis Kucinich who wants to expand government – quite a disparate view – the view of an irrational person.

    Kokesh should have been honest and told us that the only government he wants restrained is a Republican-led government. He wouldn’t have the same restrictions placed on a Democrat-led government. Kokesh is just another tool of the Democrat party – and he’d support a Ron Paul candidacy right up until after a Paul win in the Republican primary.

    But according to his website, he’ll tell you what’s important for you to think after David Horowitz is done (in a larger room – if that’s even remotely significant).

    We have a venue now for my speech for next week. I will be going on the day after Horowitz in the room (a larger room) next door in the Marvin Center at GWU. The flier reads:
    RECOVERING
    FROM RACISM

    On the effects of war on racism and the dehumanization of the Iraqi people

    Um, Adam, m’boy, I’ll clue you in; dehumanization of the Iraqi people includes jerking our troops out of Iraq immediately and leaving Iraqis to their own devices to establish a working government and security for their people – like you want to do. When your daddy is not selling polo ponies, maybe he can explain it to you.

    And I noticed that Kokesh still calls himself Sergeant Kokesh – further perpetuating the “phony soldier syndrome”. Kokesh hadn’t been a sergeant for at least three years before his discharge, but he still clings to the title – despite the fact he was busted to private for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from the war. That’s the real reason he’s dissatisfied with the war – he got caught being a sociopath.

    Speaking of crackpots, Robin at Chickenhawk Express finds that Cindy Sheehan has discovered our plot to install George W. Bush as our Emporer for Life. My question is; who’s leaking our dastardly plans to the Left? Gateway Pundit has a report of Moonbats Vs. Move America Forward in Berkeley. Its too bad these folks can’t find jobs to occupy them gainfully. Speaking of moonbats Crotchety Old Bastard writes that their queen Cynthia McKinney is planning a run for president from California as the Green party candidate. But we here learned about her impending run from Zombie last week who has pictures of McKinney and Sheehan stumping at Beach Impeach IV.

    Need some more moonbattery? Well watch Diane Watson on Redstate explain to a room full of them why the impeachment of George W. Bush can’t happen until 2009 – then watch out, buddy; narrative from Protein Wisdom. Watson claims Democrats have evidence of impeachable offenses – does anyone truly believe the Democrats have evidence and won’t show us?

  • This is just plain cool

    WBAL has this story about a lucky man, whose life was saved by his clothing:

    BALTIMORE — While motorists who have been in car crashes often attribute the help of air bags to saving their lives, a Maryland motorcycle rider injured in a collision is doing the same — for a jacket.

    Joseph McPhatter, of Randallstown, was injured in a crash on Interstate 83 after being cut off by another motorist in September. According to police, McPhatter was ejected 100 feet, hitting the ground at an impact rate of 140 mph.

    Officials said McPhatter’s crash was the first real-life incident in the U.S. where the jacket was used.

    Not being a motorcyclist, I had not heard of Impact Jackets
     before. Now that I have, I am impressed.

  • Hey, WaPo, you have something on your chin

    Well, if I were a Democrat, I’d probably think this is a wonderful piece that Peter Baker wrote this morning in the Washington Post entitled “Feats Divide Pair Linked by Election” comparing the paths of President Bush and Al Gore over the last seven years. But I’m not a Democrat - I’m human – and so this is just fawning drivel masquerading as front page news;

    What a difference seven years makes. The winner of that struggle went on to capture the White House and to become a wartime leader now heading toward the final year of a struggling presidency. The loser went on to reinvent himself from cautious politician to hero of the activist left now honored as a man of peace.

    For the Gore camp, it was a day of resurrection, a day to salve the wounds of history and to write another narrative that they hope will be as enduring as Florida. “We finally have their respective legacies,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a veteran of the Clinton-Gore White House. “Bush earned the Iraq war, and Al Gore earned the Nobel Prize. Who knew Al Gore would one day thank the Supreme Court for their judgment?

    “A day of resurrection”? I don’t know how many Democrats I heard say, on September 12th, 2001 that they were suddenly glad that Al Gore wasn’t the President. How the Hell do you get resurrected above that? Does anyone at the Washington Post or in the Democrat caucus really think that Gore is happier with his Nobel Prize than he would have been in the Presidency?

    I’ll tell ya, I’m happier that he got the Nobel Prize than I would be if he was President – but Gore isn’t. He thinks he deserved the Presidency, he tried to undermine the electoral process to get it. It wasn’t so hard to undermine the Nobel Committee.

    We deserve a Nobel Peace prize for not choking Gore after having to listen to his whining about losing for the last seven years.

    Perhaps Ari Fleischer said it best, in the Post article;

    “I’m sure the president, and many Republicans, roll their eyes about how political the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming,” said former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer. “For Al Gore, it’s a high honor. But for what’s probably a growing group of Americans, the Nobel Peace Prize comes coated with some strong political veneer.”

    Imagine, people might actually be thinking that the Nobel Committee isn’t the high and mighty arbiter of what’s important to the rest of the people in the world.

    Newsbusters’ Brent Baker reports similar knob-slobbering at the Big Three networks last night.

    Thank goodness that Michael Goldfarb reads “The Plank” so I don’t have to.

  • GWU prez; no expulsion for hateful seven

    George Washington University President Steven Knapp has already decided that there will be no expulsion for the seven little wantwits who posted fliers around GWU that proclaimed “Hate Muslims? So Do We!” according to David C. Lipscomb of the Washington Times;

    George Washington University President Steven Knapp has no plans to take disciplinary action against a group of students involved in an anti-Muslim flier hoax, a university spokeswoman said yesterday.

    “We have established judicial policies and procedures,” university spokeswoman Tracy Schario said. “I am confident that President Knapp will let them take their course.”

    However, Mr. Knapp “reserves the right to intervene” in the university’s student-judicial process, she said.

    Intervene in what? You mean just in case the student body decides to hang them from a crane above a flatbed truck? This is just a prelude to nothing happening.

    Jason Mattera, spokesman for the national conservative group Young America’s Foundation said Mr. Knapp’s inaction shows political bias and is unfair to the campus chapter of the group, whose name was inserted the fliers.

    “He’s going to expose himself as a liar,” Mr. Mattera said. “When it first emerged, he said we’re not going to tolerate it. Now that it turns out it’s liberals he’s going to show where his political views lie.”

    Yeah, this is a typical Leftist trick – they’ll just keep making promises until everyone forgets about it – then when finally questioned they smuggly quip that it’s “old news”.

    Mr. Mattera thinks a hearing would not be necessary because the students have admitted to posting the fliers and said they should be suspended immediately.

    The Washington Times reported Wednesday that the university’s Student Association Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger wrote a letter saying he would “support expulsion.”

    Got news for ya, guys, nothing will happen to spoiled little brat Adam Kokesh – like John Murtha, he is under protection of the worn out hags of Code Pink and the ANSWER sheep. Anything he does will have those barren, childless pimps’ approval – and the permission of gutless sissies like Steven Knapp. But you can bet cash money that if YAP ever steps out of line, they’ll be off campus so fast, the Blue Line train couldn’t catch up to them.

    In fact, if we look back to Tuesday, Knapp said about the incident (before Kokesh fessed up);

    “We do not condone, and we will not tolerate, the dissemination of fliers or other documents that vilify any religious, ethnic, or racial group,” Knapp said in the release. “This flier does not represent, in any way, shape or form, the views of the administration of GW.”

    Another Knapp quote before the Kokesh admission;

    University President Steven Knapp said in a statement, “There is no place for expressions of hatred on our campus.”

    Looks like he changed his tune, huh? Cuz it sure sounds like he’s tolerating it now. When students thought it was conservatives, they sang a different ditty, too;

    Kareem Shibib, a senior from Cornell University who came to gathering after hearing about the poster, said that the flyer is racist.

    Â “I think this is a rather overt form of racism,” Shibib said. “What is important (is) to look further into this.”

    Another muslim student;

    “I was really shocked that this sort of hatred exists on our campus. You never think this would come so close to home, from people you’re in classes with. it’s scary,” a New York Muslim student, Najah El Bash, a leader of the conservative Muslim Student Association was quoted as saying

    When everyone suspected YAF, it was hatred. But suddenly it’s Kokesh and everthing is just fine and dandy. Naked hypocrisy.

  • Inconvenient facts; Gore gets Nobel Prize for propaganda

     

    Photo from Comedy Central’s South Park

    DrewM at Ace of Spades linked the video 

    Well, we all knew it’d happen, didn’t we? The Nobel Prize committee awarded Al Gore the prize for his manbearpig documentary;

    Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
     
    Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.

    “His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change,” the citation said. “He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”

    The fact that British courts even decided last week that the documentary is full of inaccuracies, it didn’t deter the committee from making the politically-correct decision;

    A British judge has ruled the Oscar-winning film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” contains “nine errors.”

    High Court Judge Michael Burton, deciding a lawsuit that questioned the film’s suitability for showing in British classrooms, said it builds a “powerful” case that global warming is caused by humans and that urgent means are needed to counter it.

    But he also said former Vice President Al Gore, the documentary’s moderator, makes nine statements in the film that are not supported by current mainstream scientific consensus.

    And the “inaccuracies”? Curt from Flopping Aces enumerates;

    • The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming.  The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
    • The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years.  The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
    • The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
    • The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
    • The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice.  It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
    • The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
    • The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching.  The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
    • The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously.  The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
    • The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
    • The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
    • The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand.  The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

     

    The Nobel Prize panel is merely following a precedent they set sometime ago, though. They gave the Peace Prize to the blood-drenched terrorist Yassir Arafat, and Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency for making the world a more dangerous place by ignoring Iran’s march towards nuclear weapons, they might as well give a science prize to someone who makes a science film that has no science in it.

    Greg Gutfield has a similar take;

    Winning the Nobel Peace prize is like getting Miss Congeniality — it’s saying: Nice job, now leave the building, you homely pig. It’s why Arafat and Jimmy Carter each won one. It was the only way to get them off the stage without a giant hook.

    Junk Science writes;

    Since Al Gore was offered the opportunity (in person) to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 1 year, 9 months, 1 week, 20 hours, 1 minute, and 56 seconds have elapsed.

    From Hot Air;

    There are few things more important to the American left than the approval of the international left (a.k.a. “the way the world sees us”), though, which is why this really will turn up the volume on the “draft Gore” nonsense. 

    Michele Malkin has a link roundup full of more inconvenient truths. 

    Fausta calls it the “Norwegian Badge of Uselessness”

    Don Surber reports the proper way to receive the news of your Nobel Prize. Persia-born British citizen and new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is now being claimed by Iran according to Kamangir. Apparently this another Zionist plot.

    Jammie Wearing Fool uncovers the guy that sells Al Gore his carbon credits.

    Protein Wisdom’s Karl tells “A Tale of Two Oslos”

    Wall Street Journal has the Norwegian Noble Committee Peace Prize 2007 citation.

    Past winners from Associated Press;

    • 2007: Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    • 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded
    • 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency
    • 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya
    • 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran
    • 2002: Jimmy Carter, U.S.
    • 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
    • 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea
    • 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
    • 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland
    • 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, U.S.

    The Washington Post records Gore’s reaction to the announcement;

    In a brief public appearance in California, Gore vowed to use the award to increase awareness and push for a more urgent response to climate change.
    “It truly is a planetary emergency, and we have to respond quickly,” he said.
     

    I’m super serial. Excelsior!

    Footnote: I’m honored that PajamasMedia picked this post up this morning – especially since this was my first-ever post written while still in my pajamas. I guess I’ve arrived.

  • EJ Dionne; stop beating this child

    Since the SCHIP bill was vetoed last week by an astute (finally) President and I had my say about the wisdom in halting irresponsible spending, I stepped out of the fight and deferred to much more capable bloggers who tore the Democrats’ to pieces. Bloggers like Michele Malkin, and Chickenhawk Express and Freeper ICWHATUDO who tore down the Democrats attempt to use a twelve-year-old boy as a poster child for President Bush’s veto.

    Well, this morning, I got my hackles up when I read Washington Post’s EJ Dionne’s “Meanies and Hypocrits” Dionne wrote:

    Okay, the Democrats are “fair game,” but a 12-year-old? No wonder nobody talks about compassionate conservatism anymore.

    Um, show me one blog where anyone attacked “a 12-year-old”? You can find plenty of examples where bloggers attacked his parents who apparently spent their money “keeping up with the Joneses” instead of paying for health insurance – but no one has gone after the boy.

    I made choices in my life that had to do with putting my children first while my own desires took a back seat. The major reason I stayed in the military after I became a father was to protect my family’s health, but the Army didn’t provide dental coverage for my family, so I paid for a dental plan. Know why? Cuz I just figured that it was my responsibility to my family. And I think people who don’t consider health insurance for their kids are just as guilty of child abuse as anyone else – and it’s not the responsibility of the federal government to parent for children.

    I wish I could remember what blog had it – but someone listed the States that had like 40% of Schip recipients who were childless. What’s the “C” stand for again?

    But Dionne continues along the child abuse vein;

    The real issue here is whether uninsured families with earnings similar to the Frosts’ need government help to buy health coverage. With the average family policy in employer-provided plans now costing more than $12,000 annually — the price is usually higher for families trying to buy it on their own — the answer is plainly yes. All the conservative attacks on a boy from Baltimore who dared to speak out will not make this issue go away.

    Maybe potential parents should take the cost of health insurance into account before they start a family – huh? I beat this into my son-in-law’s head after he married my daughter – it took some time, but he finally got it. Just before they got pregnant. Now they’re not destitute paying hospital bills for her difficult pregnancy – thanks to Gramps. Maybe there needs to be more people who aren’t afraid to coerce their family members into doing the responsible thing.

    Again, EJ, we’re not attacking the child – we’re trying to impress upon parents that protecting their child is their responsibilty – not ours. It takes a village to point out the local idiots.

  • GWU reacts to Kokesh’s latest theater

    The George Washington University newspaper “The Hatchet“, less than an hour ago has posted their reaction to the Adam Kokesh-led “free speech exercise” on GWU campus last Monday. Anyone hoping that a bit of outrage from students was warranted will be sorely disappointed;

    While the sponsors of the poster said they wanted to help the Islamic community by exposing the extremism of YAF, their actions ultimately defeated their well-intentioned goal. The central issues both sides want to debate – hate, racism and the threat terrorism poses to America today – were lost in a blame game.

    So it was the reaction of people opposed to Kokesh and his merry band of haters who muddied the message not that the message was muddied from the start. Hyperbole is never a good tool for communication.

    Many critics are calling for the expulsion of these students but the only technical offenses they are guilty of is the improper use of the University logo and of not obtaining permission to post the materials. Such an extreme act as expulsion would be inappropriate and only further exacerbate the situation.

    I wonder what the “editorial staff” of the The Hatchet would think if the message had actually been from an extemist Conservative student group – as most of the world thought from Monday morning until the culprits admitted their guilt that evening – in an email. Â

    The Hatchet also published some background on Kokesh little band of pseudo-illectual weinies;

    Freshmen Yong Kwon and Ned Goodwin and graduate student Amal Rammah were not available for comment Wednesday. Group members would not comment on when the group was founded, or why it was founded. It is not registered with the University.

    Though many students said they missed the satirical message, the group said the responses their fliers received are what they had hoped for.

    “I think we are pleased by how the students reacted to it,” Masri said. “The main point was to raise awareness and that is exactly what we’ve done,”

    Graduate student Adam Kokesh is the de-facto leader of the group. A veteran of the Iraq War and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh was arrested by U.S. Park Police in September for hanging fliers advertising an anti-war protest.

    Kokesh said he and other members of Students for Conservativo-Facism Awareness said the misunderstanding about the intent of their fliers arose because many people heard rumors of the flyers but did not read them.

    “The intent was to raise awareness of (Isamo-Facism Awareness) Week,” Kokesh said. “We understood that at first glance, the flier would be offensive.”

    So they’re pleased that their false depiction of YAF caused such a furor. I wonder what their reaction would be if I started passing out fliers depicting them as child abusers – just to make a point, of course.

    GWU students saved their real anger for Horowitz’ Islamo-Facism Awareness Week;

    “We’re only asking for dialogue and awareness,” Kokesh said.

    “I feel like it is plain human decency to be anti-racist, anti-bigotry,” said Maxine Nwigwe, a graduate student. “As soon as I heard about this week, I was outraged.”

    Senior Brian Tierney said, “We don’t believe that this kind of racist hate speech should come to campus unopposed.”

    I’ll bet Little Brian Tierney hasn’t even heard David Horowitz speak or read his writings – yet automatically it’s “racist hate speech”.

    The Hatchet also posted letters from students;

    While University officials are investigating the situation, there was no serious crime committed. These posters are not a hate crime or an expression of hate because all they do is bringing attention to the appalling campaign by the ultra-right youth. The only offense committed by the author(s) of the materials is impersonation and possible violation of the University’s postering regulations. Thus, University officials should concentrate their efforts on investigating “Terrorism Awareness Week” sponsored by YAF, which openly and loudly calls to fight Muslims.

    Denis Baranov, Junior

    And;

    Authors of posters still guaranteed free speech

    The “anti-Muslim” posters around campus Monday were ignorant, hateful and offensive. They were also free speech. The seven students responsible for the posters should be reprimanded for illegal posting on private property and using the University logo without permission. However, they should not be punished for the constitutionally protected content of their message.

    If anyone has a right to free speecxh, certainly a combat veteran like Adam Kokesh does. Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “Rather than stifle ‘bad’ or unpopular speech, the remedy is more speech, and the result will be an informed citizenry and a vibrant democratic society.” The GW Peace Forum, Tuesday night’s SA resolution and the plethora of student organization statements condemning the posters are appropriate responses to this “bad” speech. These satirical posters did exactly what free speech is supposed to do: encourage debate.

    Ironically, if posters such as these satirized a more-or-less government position in an “Islamo-fascist” state like Iran, the individuals responsible would likely be imprisoned, beaten or worse. GW should lead by example by not punishing people for free speech, no matter how ignorant that speech may be.

    Joshua Sacks, Sophomore

    So, like I said, anyone hoping for a little outrage from these minds of mush will be disappointed. It seems some of us are more equal than others. The writers and editors are obviously giving the Kokesh Klowns a pass because they’re well-credentialed Leftists – that’s a little sad, but not surprising. Before the leftists admitted their guilt, evey news program, every interviewee was calling for the heads of the conservatives that wrote the posters.

    I’d remind these very forgiving students at GWU that every writer of satire believes a portion of what they write to be true to some degree – that’s what makes it satire and not fiction. Â

    Kokesh is a criminal – a sociopathic, spoiled rich child with too much time on his hands. Chickenhawk Express ferrets out his background and digs up his father;

    Charles Kokesh, a Santa Fe venture capitalist, founder of a firm called Technology Funding and owner of the Santa Fe Horse Park….

    Typical of the 60s rich kids who protested that war. In fact, while his son is playing at being a hippie protester, Daddy is trying to organize a polo tournament at poloblogs.com.

    Michele Malkin has the letter from YAF to the GWU administration. The Sniper takes a few well-placed and well-deserved shots at Kokesh. Hot Air has the audio of his defense of his actions. Johnny Dollar’s Place has the video. Liberal D.C. Universe even sees the hypocrisy.

    Chickenhawk Express emailed me last night and told me that Kokesh is due for trial on his previous poster offense. (WTOP Radio)

    Adam Kokesh, Tina Richards and Ian Thompson appeared in court Thursday. The antiwar ANSWER Coalition says they could face up to six months in jail if convicted of the charge.

    The D.C. Department of Public Works fined the group for pasting hundreds of signs with an adhesive that city officials say makes them difficult to remove. Protesters have said the adhesive was water-soluble.

    The ANSWER Coalition has responded by suing the city, alleging their constitutional rights were violated.

    Their constitutional right to litter DC with garish yellow posters – as I said yesterday, those posters still litter the city, as well as some posters I saw in Bethesda from the March protest. For the story of his arrest, go to this previous post.

    Kokesh is a nuisance that no one holds responsible for his actions. In fact, he still calls himself Sergeant Kokesh at his blog – even though he was busted from the rank three years ago for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back to the States – I think that qualifies him as a phony soldier. Wonkette can barely control her drooling as she reports another Kokesh arrest at the Capitol back in April, while Kokesh himself admits to an arrest at Fort Benning in July.

    Since apparently someone else is paying for his misbehavior, I think it’s time GWU and the DC district courts teach his little punk-ass a lesson. GWU should suspend him for anti-social behavior (that’s three arrests on Federal property since he became a GWU student) and the District should toss him in cell for 6-months until he learns that when a cop tells him not to do something, he won’t just go ahead and do it anyway.

    Kokesh is double-dog daring – someone should take him up on it.