Senseless.

The head football coach at Aplington-Parkersburg, Ed Thomas, has been shot and killed by a former player in a weight room at the high school, in front of a couple dozen current players. Very shocking, very sad...

I'm more of an avenger than an empathizer. To me it looks like another data point for allowing licensed and permit-ed teachers to carry to work--I don't know if Coach Thomas would have chosen to do so, but why should the state make his decision for him*?--and to commenters at the Des Moines Marxist-Register the perp is simultaneously an evil right-wing nut (because he had a gun) and an obvious victim of abuse (because high school football is the same as child abuse, duh!). Don't ever read the comments.

The part that intrigues me is the perp was arrested for a minor crime spree over the weekend and instead of being jailed until bail was posted, he was turned over to a local hospital for a mental health eval--apparently they concluded he wasn't dangerous to anyone, because they released him after 72 hours and didn't bother to notify the arresting agency. Nice work.

* I thought had a post from last summer asking the same question with regard to women in Wisconsin whose ex-husbands promised to kill them, then followed through, but I can't find it. Sigh.

Indiana Feticide Bill

A follow-up, of sorts.

The Indiana House approved a bill today that would impose up to 20 years in prison for crimes that lead to the death of an unborn child at any stage of development.

The catalyst was a bank robber who shot a pregnant teller in the stomach, killing her twins; murder charges could not be made because she wasn't seven months along. They still can't; the new bill just increases the sentence.

Yeah, I still want the death penalty for the bank shooter.

The saddest thing I've read in weeks.

Armed robber shoots pregnant woman, killing her unborn twins, and the piece of garbage can't be charged with murder because she was only five months along.

Good grief. Even pro-abortion feminists say "the products of conception" are a human baby if the mother wants it to be a human baby. She wanted the babies, ergo double homicide--and during the commission of a felony, which is grounds for a needle in the arm.

C'mon, Indiana, what's the point of having a death penalty if you can't use it on something this disgusting?

(And Wisconsin needs a death penalty. Duct tape a plastic bag around this guy's head.)

Well.

The guy from Oak Creek who beat his beagle to death instead of calling the Human Society for a cut-rate euthanasia is going to the House of Corrections (don't read the article if your squeamish or eating breakfast). And how unsurprising to learn he's been on drugs and was drinking the night before he killed his dog--had enough money for beer, but not for a sliding-scale vet fee? I feel sorry for the kid, I know I'll be crazy with grief if Satan's Little Helper gets sick, but not crazy enough to beat him to death with a baseball bat to save ten bucks.

Maybe they can teach him some priorities while he's being "corrected", but I doubt it.

I'm getting really sick of good people getting stuck paying room and board for worthless people. Whack the guy in the head with a baseball bat a few times and call it done. The guy who beat his girlfriend's baby to death with a video game controller? Beat him to death with a video game controller and call it done (insert criticism of 19-year-olds with toddlers dating 26-y-o men here). The illegal alien who got "so damn drunk" and shot the sheriff's deputy on the side of the road? Shoot him and leave him on the side of the road. Maybe it won't deter anyone from being a violent shit-head, but it should cut down on repeat offenders and ease prison overcrowding.


Actually, I'm just getting sick of the Marxist direction U.S. society is taking. Everytime Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton get applause from morons after promising to take my wages away for redistribution, I start thinking about emigrating somewhere people realize Communism is oppressive--except I can't figure out where that might be. Rich women, married to rich men, insisting spinsters with a negative debt-to-asset ratio don't deserve to keep their wages because the government should pay for other women's maternity care (that's the message I got from Mrs. Obama's speech in PA...)? This can't possibly be what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

(I can't blog about politics without getting angry and sad and regretful and angry. It might just be beer and quilts for awhile.)

Curious...

From the J-S:

In what Milwaukee County prosecutors say is the first in a series of criminal cases alleging fraud in the November 2006 election, a Milwaukee woman was charged this morning with two felonies for registering on election day and voting even though she was a felon on probation.

She must have registered as a Republican.

If convicted of the felony counts of voting as an ineligible voter and providing false information to election officials, she could face up to seven years in prison and a $20,000 fine total.

I don't even like dogs...

A residential burglary suspect this morning shot and killed Bo, an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department canine.

You have to be a real piece of shit to shoot a dog.

*sniff* Poor Bo. I hope his human partner heals.

Killing an officer in commission of a crime (or getaway) should always be a capital offense. Ordinarily, I value humans more than animals--human officers are more important than animal officers--but service animals are infinitely more valuable than criminals. Life imprisonment seems fair--less than the penalty for killing a human officer, but more than a random "animal abuse" charge.

In Indiana, killing a police dog is a Class D felony, up to three years in prison.

Good grief. You spend more time in Michigan City for stealing a laptop.