I despise public corruption.  And while I am not a big fan of the death penalty, I do think that public officials -- elected and otherwise -- should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on rail when found guilty of public malfeasance.

If you live in the North County -- and specifically, in the Cockeysville Precinct -- this important for you.  If not, you can read on...

An article in today's Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter sheds some serious light on the trend toward the "straight vegetable oil" fuel options.  It turns out that using vegetable oil in your diesel engine is illegal on both the State and Federal levels.

Foreign Policy magazine has a list of the worst places in the world to be a terrorist.  Missing from the list -- despite the protestations of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama -- is Guantanamo Bay.

Sort of makes you wonder.

Over at Mahmoud Albero's cyberterrorism headquarters, he is all excited because the Powellville Volunteer Fire Departmet allowed him to pariticipate in a live fire training exercise.  There is just one problem:  they may have violated NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Standard 1403: Standard on Live Fire Training Evolutions.

TomCat points this out on his blog "A Class Act".

Social conservatives all over the land are schvitzing over the fact that California's notoriously liberal Supreme Court has just ruled that gay marriage must be made in legal in one of the nation's largest state.

I suppose that as a social conservative, I should join in the renting of my clothes and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.  But I can't.  Because while I despise the ruling, I do so for far different reasons.

Of course, the ACLU and the liberal lawyers are leading the way.

Just ask the victims of former Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Salih Al Ajmi.

I am no huge fan of the Baltimore Sun-- AKA the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter -- but I do like Greg Kane.  He is one of the best columnists of any Tribune paper.

And today's column is right on:  give me concealed carry, or give me police protection 24-7.

Not as poetic as "give me liberty or give me death", but the point is still valid.

Frederick County's new policy of inqiuring on the immigration status of people they arrest is drawing fire from CASA of Maryland, including some seriously trumped up figures of costs.  The truth is always the first casualty in the immigration fight.

Public schools have more problems than just funding, or hiring qualified teachers, or feeding malnourished children.

They have 13 year olds attempting to rape staff members.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised, given the number of attacks against school officials this year -- 120-- and the number of charges filed -- 7.  There is no real discipline for these little shitbirds or their worthless, feckless, parents. 

Personally, I hope this little 13-year pile of walking turd gets charged as an adult.  Let him spend a little time in Hagerstown or ECI -- say, 8 years -- and find out how tough he isn't.

He needs to learn the lesson:  if you want to act like a man, you've to to take it like a man.