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Apropos of this horrible story and this one, Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has been keeping track of servant abuse by Saudi royals. It’s not an “isolated” problem.
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Related:
Saudi slavery in America

From AP:
A 21-year-old fast-food employee has been sentenced to probation and six months in jail for double-swiping the credit cards of customers who irritated him. Travis Dominguez pleaded guilty to one count of credit card fraud, a third-degree felony. He was accused of doubled-swiping cards at the Midvale Taco Bell where he worked five times, [...]

Remember Raven Furbert, the little girl harassed by her public school for wearing red, white, and blue beaded jewelry to honor her family members serving in the military overseas?
Well, the school district is still bullying her. Yesterday, the Albany (NY) Times Union reported that Raven was threatened with suspension for continuing to wear her pro-troops [...]

The lady who says she bit into a severed human finger tip while eating chili at a Wendy’s restaurant has a troubling history of filing lawsuits–including a case against another fast-food restaurant. Meanwhile, cops are continuing the search for the finger tip’s owner, including an investigation of the accuser’s home. Now, she’s whining that law [...]

Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine highlights prison inmates with their own blogs, including:
- A convicted felon in New York;
- A Maricopa County (Az.) Jail inmate;
- And Vernon Lee Evans, a Maryland death row inmate who blogs at Meet Vernon.
TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt enthuses:
Meet Vernon even has a blogroll, and TalkLeft is proud to be included on it. [...]

Leftists took aim–literally–at yet another conservative speaking on a college campus yesterday. At Butler University, they threw a pie at David Horowitz.
Robert at Bright Mystery, a college professor in Indiana who is appalled by the rise of physical assaults on controversial speakers, has much more. As he notes, “this kind of behavior is simply incompatible [...]

Sorry, I am not in the mood for April Fools.
Drudge linked last night to a story and video of Pat Buchanan getting attacked by a deranged college student while giving a speech. The assailant doused Buchanan’s face completely with salad dressing. He screamed, “Stop the bigotry!”before charging within inches of Buchanan and nearly hitting him [...]

Just to lighten things up a little…
Kevin at Wizbang beat me to it, but if you haven’t seen this ridiculous story about Snohomish , Wa., public school officials banning t-shirts with the word “Snohos” because it’s “derogatory,” read it now.
Will Ho-Hos be next on the hit list?
How about Boho?
Or SoHo?
And will the P.C. cops now [...]

Okay, did you watch George “Dehydration is Beautiful” Felos’ press conference? Did you get TOTALLY CREEPED OUT, too? How many more times could he drone blandly on about Terri’s “death process?” I stopped counting after the 15th time. Why isn’t anyone in the MSM probing this man’s background, his writings, and his deadly agenda?
Here are [...]

Today’s outrage from the New York Post:
Police are outraged that a protester will not go to jail for beating a plainclothes detective unconscious during last summer’s Republican National Convention.
Jamel Holiday, 20, got the plea bargain, announced yesterday, after he admitted he pulled the cop off his scooter, then punched and kicked him.
The startling assault was [...]

The Detroit News has an update on that dispute between the UAW and local Marine reservists:
The United Auto Workers union waved a white flag Monday in its parking skirmish with neighboring reservists, but the 1st Battalion, 24th Marines are not accepting surrender.
Facing intense criticism, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger reversed his decision to ban Marine Corps [...]

AP caption: Murder suspect Brian Nichols is led to a waiting vehicle by an unidentified police officer at the FBI office in Atlanta, Saturday, March 12, 2005.
Reader Wayne L. comments:
The killer of an Atlanta judge is shown being taken into custody by a woman cop, after this same killer took a gun away from [...]

Cops in New York crack down on a father-daughter duo for possession and distribution of…Girl Scout cookies.

A few days ago, I wrote about the lenient sentence handed down by Judge Rayford Means in the case of a brilliant brain researcher, Tracy McIntosh, who was convicted of drugging then sexually assaulting a 25-year-old woman. Judge Means said he decided not to sentence McIntosh to prison in part because of McIntosh’s “important work [...]

Democrat political operative Zack Exley, known as “the garbage man” for publishing fake photos of President Bush with cocaine residue under his nose, has been hired as a campaign consultant by Britain’s Labour Party. A Labour spokeswoman told The Independent that Exley was hired specifically because of his experience working for MoveOn. For those who [...]

Look what this woman did while her toddler was in the back seat of her car.
Trevor Bothwell of The Right Report has much more, if you can stomach it.

Mexican school libraries are stocking up on copies of a book that glamorizes violent drug traffickers. From AP:
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s school libraries are stocking a book that includes the lyrics of “narcocorridos” – folk songs that glorify drug traffickers – causing a storm of criticism in a country where the drug market and its [...]

Didja hear about the hypersensitive woman who accused a cop of racism last month during a Martin Luther King Day event because he ate a banana?
Not making it up. Read more at Rambling’s Journal with a hat tip to one of my favorite guys, Neal Boortz.
The ululations of the aggrieved never cease…

My birthplace, Philadelphia, threw a welcome party over the weekend for French leftists who are infatuated with convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. You are not going to believe the gifts the city showered on their French visitors:
Liberty bells.
That’s right. LIBERTY BELLS! From the Philly Daily News:
Mjenzi Traylor, the city’s first deputy director of commerce, told [...]

The New York Sun’s Tim Marchman has an excellent deconstruction of N.Y. Yankee Jason Giambi’s press conference, wherein he apologized to everyone for something he wouldn’t name:
It says something about a man when he’s willing to apologize, as Jason Giambi did yesterday. It says even more when he apologizes to people whom he hasn’t wronged, [...]

From AP:
A Georgia judge ordered a mother of seven who pleaded guilty to killing her 5-week-old daughter to have a medical procedure to prevent her from having more children…
Yup, you guessed it:
A tubal ligation is a surgical sterilization technique for women in which the fallopian tubes are closed or tied. Medicaid is covering the cost [...]

Ward Churchill was bad enough. Now we have the Democrat mayor of Baltimore likening President Bush to the Sept. 11 terrorists over the issue of budget cuts. From the Washington Post:
Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley yesterday compared President Bush’s proposed budget cuts to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying that Bush, like the al Qaeda [...]

You’ll love this story about how the French are partying it up on their humanitarian mission to Indonesia:
The naval ship’s pantry is stocked with wines, baguettes and pate, and its casual dress code is shorts and sandals. There’s even an artist - a painter to keep an illustrated record of the trip.
With a panache all [...]

In Canada, six federal prisons are ignoring the safety concerns of security guards and setting up tax-subsidized tattoo parlors for convicts:
Inmates will be trained to operate the tattoo services, which are designed to stem the spread of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C.
Correctional Service Canada officials say prisoners have long used odd objects to give [...]

I’m embarrassed to say I’m a Jersey girl.
First this.
Now, this.
There is definitely something in the water (or as we south Jerseyans say: “wutter.”)

Did you see the new children’s marijuana book? I wish I could tell you it’s an Onion spoof. But it’s not.
(Hat tip: Law and Sausages)

This isn’t getting a lot of attention, but unhinged counter-inaugural protesters in Washington, D.C., went on a last-hurrah rampage in the Adams Morgan neighborhood last night–breaking windows, spraying anarchist grafitti all over shops and buildings, vandalizing a cop’s car, and smashing doors at a local police precinct office. Nearly 80 people were arrested. According to [...]

Russia has resurrected Stalin…in marble, anyway. The Putin government is erecting a new Stalin statue in Moscow.
Meanwhile, a writer for the lefty alternative rag, The Seattle Weekly, is actually calling for the Lenin statue in the kitsch-loving Fremont neighborhood (a few miles from where I lived in Seattle) to be torn down:
[T]opple him in a [...]

No good deed goes unpunished by bone-headed regulators. From Tallahassee, Fla.:
A 10-year-old girl who wanted to open a lemonade stand to raise money for tsunami victims saw her plan hit a brick wall, thanks to government regulations.
All 10-year-old Carolyn Lipsick wanted to do was help kids hurt by the tsunami, because, she says, “you can’t [...]

Did you catch this? From AP:
PATONG BEACH, Thailand - Many believe the tsunami that devastated this tourist hotspot and killed thousands had one positive side: By washing away rampant development, it returned the beaches to nature.
Greg Ferrando glistened with sweat and sea water as he went for a barefoot jog up the immaculate white sand [...]