By now, most of you have heard about the man in Texas who, while defending his daughter from a man who was trying to molest her, beat said molesting piece of amphibian crap to death with his bare hands.  As Jay said, he was lucky to die quickly.

Now the local prosecutor has decided to take the case to a grand jury rather than make an executive decision to not prosecute.  I think I’m not alone when I say that this gentleman shouldn’t be going through this.  He saw his child in danger, reacted in a normal fashion, his child is still alive, and the good people of Texas are spared the cost of a trial, incarceration, and “treatment” for a slime that should have been strangled with his own umbilical cord and saved us all the trouble.  Instead of racking up attorney’s fees, he ought to be given a medal.

Of course, the bleeding hearts in that bastion of wishful thinking in an otherwise reality-based state, Austin, have an issue with the fact that the molesting jerk assumed ambient temperature after trying to diddle the wrong toddler:

“Assuming it’s true that this guy was molesting the daughter, and we don’t know what exactly happened at this point, he would then have the right to defend [her], and hit him enough to have him stop,” Harrington told FoxNews.com. “But you cannot summarily execute him, even though I can understand the anger he would have.”

Hippie, please.  The difference between “Get the hell off my daughter!” and “Someone get a hose” isn’t that much.  This guy was going off of a primal instinct to protect offspring.  My guess is he wasn’t exactly calibrating his pummeling to deliver just enough damage to make the mutant inbred bucktoothed twinkletoed piece of worm shit get away without turning his head from an innie into an outie.

The prosecutor in questions needs to cowboy up, and proclaim to the masses that killing to protect innocent life is not something to be investigated and prosecuted, and Mr. Harrington needs to get out of his ivory tower and into the real world where men who try to violate four year olds ought to be put down like rabid dogs.  No wait, that’s an insult to rabid dogs.  I at least support the use of pain-free methods to dispose of them.  Either way, I wish I was on that grand jury.

If you’re of the praying sort, Robb and his family could use a little help.

And even if you’re not, please head on over and let him know he’s got lots of people thinking good thoughts for iMac.

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country. — George Washington

My Take – There is no shame in any service to the nation.  From the lowest recruit to the President, all should be honored for the good they do, and all should be held responsible for the evil they do.

OK, after doing it a bit at a time for quite some time, I’ve finished bringing over my blogroll from the old site.

Please check to see if you’re listed and that I have the correct link for your places.  If I’ve missed anyone, I sincerely apologize.  If you want to be in the list or if you need to correct my link, just leave a comment here and I’ll take care of it.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. — John Adams

My Take – Once we let go of what has been bestowed upon us, we will never get it back.  We have to fight to keep our freedoms every time someone tries to find a way to chip at them one pebble at a time.

• From the “Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full’ Department – Two small asteroids buzzed by the Earth recently. giving rise to a back to back marathon of death-from-the-sky movies on networks owned by Ted Turner.  Scientists believe that even if these space rocks had impacted our planet, their diminuitive size would have kept them from doing much harm.   Of course, when a 3 inch piece of hot rock from the heavens punches a hole in your newly-restored classic muscle car, I don’t think it’s going to matter much that it could have been a lot worse.  No word yet from the White House on the administration’s reaction to the news, but I have it on good authority that Mr. Obama was disappointed that he could not use widespread destruction and loss of life to distract people away from his record as president.
• From the “Derp!” Department – The Romney campaign is wiping egg off its face after an app it released  went out with “America” misspelled as “Amercia”.   Not to be outdone, President Obama put out an app that misspelled “Socialism” as “Domestic Policy”.
• From the “I’d Hire Him” Department – A physics teacher in Canada has been fired after giving zero’s for uncompleted work.  The school he taught at decided that zeroes were unfair, and banned them from the workbook.  Instead, the little snowflakes are being graded on the work they actually motivated themselves to do.  I fondly remember telling my oldest’s teachers that if he didn’t do the work, to give him the F he earned.  It was fun to watch their eyes bug out at the thought of a parent who wasn’t threatening them with a lawsuit and/or bodily harm for having the temerity of treating a student in the manner he earned.
• From the “Meh” Department – As part of its reboot of its comic universe, DC Comics is re-casting the Green Lantern as an openly gay man.  Anyone who cares please raise your hand
• From the “Wasn’t Me” Department – A black bear raised some blood pressure the other day when it wandered onto school grounds in California.  Students at the elementary and middle school were in no danger, and the bruin wandered off before being hit with a stun gun, collected, and released back into the wild.  The bear may have heard the rumor that schoolchildren are full of chocolate and wandered over to see if it is true. We all know it’s not true, because schoolchildren are full of crack.  At least the ones I’ve had to interact with have acted like they are filled to the brim with the stuff.
• From the “Nothing to See Here” Department – A support group for military mothers has set off a firestorm by publishing a picture of two Air Force females breastfeeding their children in uniform.  I’m not sure what the kerfluffle is all about.  Women join the military.  Women tend to have breasts.  Women sometimes have babies.  When women have babies, they have to feed the babies, and a lot of them choose to feed them straight from the tap.  Women in the military wear uniforms, even after having babies and wanting to breastfeed, and the baby isn’t going to wait until you change into civilian attire.  My only quibble on this was that it might have been in better taste to use a shawl or something, but that’s between the ladies in the picture and their commander.  Don’t the rest of us have something  better to do?
• From the “Not Helping” Department – A spokesman for a New York Congressman is probably looking for a new job and a clue after posting “Let’s hurl some acid at those female Democratic Senators” on a forum.  Here’s a hint:  If you’re bringing the method by which ignorant bastards in the Hindu Kush punish women who don’t cover their faces into the American political process, you need to step away and go do something else with your life that more suits your personality.  Consider goat castration, mopping out the troughs in the men’s rooms at major league baseball stadiums, or possibly elephant masturbation at the zoo.  On second thought, those are all honorable professions, so never mind.  Just go away.

I’m off to lovely Delaware to learn a new job skill this weekend.  I may or may not be able to get anything fresh on the blog while I’m there, but I’ve got a couple of things lined up, so enjoy.

See y’all on Monday morning.

In one of the books that Girlie Bear is reading, the main character creates her own coat of arms for a shield.  She thinks this is  a great project, so she’s started working on a family coat of arms.  If she follows through on it, I’ll see if I can create something she can hang on her wall using her design.

Of course, every family coat of arms needs a motto.  I did some bopping around and thinking about it, and I think I’ve found one that fits us to a tee –

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc – We gladly feast on those who would subdue us

Yes, it’s from the Addams Family, and if you’ve ever met my family, you’ll understand.

I’ll keep y’all updated.