Boehner Slams Obama's Birth Control Mandate, Santorum Scrambles for Dollars, UK Stands Firm on Falklands: P.M. Links

Mike Riggs | February 8, 2012

House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama butt heads over birth control.
Rick Santorum needs more money.
UK refuses to relinquish the Falklands (again).
Israel president extends olive branch to the people of Iran.
TSA fires bigoted air marshals.
CNN suspends bigoted Roland Martin.
Georgia (the state) to get two new nuclear reactors.

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Fist of Etiquette|2.8.12 @ 5:02PM|#

Santorum Scrambles for Dollars

I don't get it.

BoscoH|2.8.12 @ 5:06PM|#

Santorum Scramble:

1. Preheat pan on medium heat. Do not grease pan!
2. When pan reaches temperature, pour 2 cups fresh or refrigerated Santorum into pan.
3. As Santorum cooks, slowly stir with spatula. Do not overcook. Serve soft but not runny.

You can also make a Santorum omelette by not stirring the mixture adding cheese and chilis atop as it finishes cooking, then flipping in half before serving.

BoscoH|2.8.12 @ 5:07PM|#

I forgot the "four dollars" part. Actually, served with a large sausage and hash browns, the Santorum Scramble will set you back $3.99 at your local Denny's.

Barney Frank|2.8.12 @ 5:59PM|#

It's my favorite meal!

Narrator|2.8.12 @ 6:22PM|#

Do not order the Santorum Scramble.

Bobarian|2.8.12 @ 9:28PM|#

And for god's sakes, whatever you do, don't eat it!

RoboCain|2.8.12 @ 5:03PM|#

Because "Gun Free Zones" work?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....ampus.html

RoboCain|2.8.12 @ 5:03PM|#

Uncle Sam Determined to Create Loughner Show Trial

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....ore-105169

RoboCain|2.8.12 @ 5:03PM|#

"The number Corrigan called was in fact the National Suicide Hotline. When he stated that he was a veteran, he was asked if he had firearms, to which he said yes. He said nothing about being suicidal or using a firearm or threatening anyone. After a short conversation, Corrigan hung up, turned off the phone, took prescribed sleeping medication, and went to bed.
"At approximately 4 a.m. in the morning of Feb. 3, 2010, Corrigan awoke because he heard his name being called over a bullhorn. There were floodlights outside his front and back doors and an estimated 8 police officers in the back yard and 20 in the front yard."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/06/43643.htm

|2.8.12 @ 5:22PM|#

Matthew Corrigan, who lives alone with his dog, sued the District of Columbia in D.C. Federal Court.
Confronted with a massive police presence after his plea for help, Corrigan says, he denied officers permission to enter his house, but they entered and trashed it anyway, saying, "I don't have time to play this constitutional bullshit!"
Corrigan says the debacle started on Feb. 2, 2010.
"Corrigan telephoned what he believed to be the 'Military's Emotional Support Hotline' because he was depressed and had not slept for several days," the complaint states.

Brett L|2.8.12 @ 5:44PM|#

As I asked yesterday how can a LEO who states, "I don't have time to play this constitutional bullshit" (a) keep his job and (b) not cost his jurisidiction $1M in civil penalties?

Barack the Jaunty Future King|2.8.12 @ 6:06PM|#

I don't have time for Constitutional bullshit, either. I have a country to ruin!

Freud|2.8.12 @ 8:44PM|#

Funny, I read that as "run" and I think you did too.

Barack the Jaunty Future King|2.8.12 @ 10:37PM|#

Check the handle, psych-boy.

tarran|2.8.12 @ 8:29PM|#

A few months ago, I tried to get help for my ex who was getting evicted and had called me and made statements that expressed suicidal intent.

I started calling local shelters trying to find one that can take her. Nobody would without a referral from the cops. They all told me to call 911.

At this point, for whatever reason, I think everyone is going through 911 as far as screening people for help. There's no liability in calling 911. You can't be faulted for an error in judgement.

RoboCain|2.8.12 @ 5:04PM|#

The Gun and the Rise of Democracy -- Part 1

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....cy-part-1/

Guns and the Rise of Democracy – Part 2

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....ore-105041

RoboCain|2.8.12 @ 5:04PM|#

Kristen Bell does anal:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....ttoos.html

el Commentariosa|2.8.12 @ 5:05PM|#

Capello resigns as England's manager, 4 months before Euro tournament.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/spo.....-live.html

juris imprudent|2.8.12 @ 5:17PM|#

Now if he takes over as manager of Argentina...

Apatheist|2.8.12 @ 5:35PM|#

All over not being allowed to keep the racist John Terry as captain. Oh well he was quitting after anyways.

|2.8.12 @ 5:53PM|#

Seems like an odd about-face for Capello, since he had once stripped Terry of captaincy after Terry slept with a teammate's ex-girlfriend.

Fist of Etiquette|2.8.12 @ 5:07PM|#

Carney said political attacks from Republicans were merely being noted.

"We're not trying to win an argument here. We're trying to implement a policy that will affect millions of women," he said.

"But we're right and the religion-clingers are wrong."

RoboCain|2.8.12 @ 5:07PM|#

No Wonder Obama’s College Records Are Top Secret

http://moonbattery.com/?p=7825

|2.8.12 @ 5:07PM|#

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho.....beria.html

Woolly Mammoth filmed in Siberia.

|2.8.12 @ 5:15PM|#

Big deal. So somebody got a picture of STEVE SMITH's pet dog.

el Commentariosa|2.8.12 @ 5:17PM|#

It's a bear with a fish in it's mouth

el Commentariosa|2.8.12 @ 5:17PM|#

its mouth

MANBEARPIG|2.8.12 @ 5:55PM|#

Wrong.

Ice Nine|2.8.12 @ 6:03PM|#

Wrong.

|2.8.12 @ 5:08PM|#

Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock

"Stop resisting," officers on the video yell, but Greene, his face pushed into the pavement, hasn't resisted. He doesn't even move -- maybe can't move -- because he's gone into diabetic shock caused by low blood sugar.

|2.8.12 @ 5:13PM|#

Horrible.

|2.8.12 @ 5:16PM|#

~~shocking~~ unsurprising.

Fist of Etiquette|2.8.12 @ 5:17PM|#

None of the officers was named in the lawsuit, and authorities have not released their names.

Henderson police said a sergeant involved was disciplined. The sergeant remains employed with the department.

That's pretty much the same for you and me, right? If we gang assaulted someone they would protect our identities, no?

|2.8.12 @ 5:21PM|#

None of the officers was named in the lawsuit, and authorities have not released their names.

Could one thing have to do with the other?

|2.8.12 @ 5:24PM|#

I couldn't find in the story how long those cops had been sentenced for their crimes. Can anybody help me out on this?

Oh, none of them are being identified and none were disciplined. But take comfort! Their policies have been updated.

Dumphy|2.8.12 @ 5:48PM|#

It is the legislature's fault. If the laws about beating people having seizures were clearer, this wouldn't happen.

|2.9.12 @ 6:57AM|#

troll-o-meter: .01

nice to see the obsessives are still at it

a true sign that you have "won" is that people obsessively can't get over themselves in (usually falsely) referencing you.

sloopy is like the disgruntled dumped boyfriend (assuming he has ever had a gf in the first place) who obsesses over the ex and tries to work her into every conversation

|2.8.12 @ 10:58PM|#

Cop chases, but neither catches, or subdues self http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....rglar.html

Anonymous Coward|2.8.12 @ 5:27PM|#

Procedures were followed.

|2.8.12 @ 5:28PM|#

Names were taken. Love was made.

|2.8.12 @ 5:28PM|#

What do you expect from LEO's are who are so obviously underpaid? http://transparentnevada.com/s.....m-lynaugh/

The other douchebags are Francis Shipp, Seth Vanbeveren and Brett Seekatz

|2.8.12 @ 5:31PM|#

oh, and just for kicks...
Douglas M Lynaugh
9937 Silver Cliff St
Las Vegas, NV 89178-7527

Coeus|2.9.12 @ 12:00AM|#

From the article:

Las Vegas doctor Ryan Rich, 33, died in January 2008 after trooper Loren Lazoff used a Taser on him five times.

Rich's vehicle had crashed into two vehicles and then the center median on Interstate 15.

Lazoff said Rich appeared intoxicated, dazed and was combative, but an autopsy later revealed he only had seizure medication in his system. Rich had been diagnosed with the seizure disorder shortly before he died.

The Clark County Coroner's inquest jury ruled the death excusable.

Interesting. I was told by someone who trains officers to use tasers that people only died when they were on stimulants.

|2.9.12 @ 6:55AM|#

really? who was that. i have never said that. i have said that there are a host of factors that are USUALLY present, but none are NECESSARY (obesity, malnutrition, poor health, pre-existing heart conditions, stimulants, polydrug combos, etc. etc.)

however, i have also said several times, that it is almost always excessive IMO (regardless of case law) to tase anybody more than 3 times.

3 times is the max imo

if it aint workin', move to some other force option

the point of a taser (generally speaking) is to cause NMI so officers can effect an arrest. even tasing somebody 3 times should be very rare

5 times should be (imo) prima facie UNreasonable. iow, rebuttable, but requiring a substantially high standard

i'd be interested to see what %age of taser RELATED deaths happen when the person is tased in excess of X times, and especially when compared to what % of tasing employ that many taserings.

iow, i wouldn't be surprised if tasing somebody 5 times, even if only 1% of tasings (#'s used for sake of argument), might result in , for example, 20% of taser related deaths

Coeus|2.9.12 @ 4:47PM|#

really? who was that. i have never said that.

That paper you linked to for excited delerium stated exactly that (and for the record, the author was a cop who taught taser use as well). And I'm still waiting for an example of that being used as a cause of death for someone who wasn't in government custody.

however, i have also said several times, that it is almost always excessive IMO (regardless of case law) to tase anybody more than 3 times.

3 times is the max imo

if it aint workin', move to some other force option

the point of a taser (generally speaking) is to cause NMI so officers can effect an arrest. even tasing somebody 3 times should be very rare

5 times should be (imo) prima facie UNreasonable. iow, rebuttable, but requiring a substantially high standard

Interesting. I almost never see a video of it being used less than 3 times. Just goes to show, cops can't be trusted with an electro-torture device. If it's not being used as an excuse for murder (I thought I drew my taser, my bad), it's being used the second a mis-identifed, confused person hesitates for a second in complying with unreasonable demands. And lets not forget all the times it gets used when an already in-custody suspect gets "mouthy".

Yes, they're far less damaging (unless you're killed by it) than other pain compliance techniques, but that just lowers the bar for their use, which in turn increases the number of deaths amoung the at-risk-for-death population.

And I'm tired of hearing the "cops just need more training" canard. If there were any repercussions for abuse, they'd damn well read and remember all the documentation.

The fucking things are inherently dangerous. If they weren't, you'd be putting the electrodes on the chest of the officer volunteers. The fact that taser explicitly warns doing this speaks volumes.

Coeus|2.9.12 @ 4:49PM|#

warns against doing this speaks volumes.

Fist of Etiquette|2.8.12 @ 5:10PM|#

Roland Martin shocked viewers when he tweeted that any male fans of David Beckham’s underwear commercial for H&M were not “real bruhs.”

“If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl” he added.

But doing something called "tweeting" is akin to bare knuckle boxing a grizzly bear into submission.

AlmightyJB|2.8.12 @ 5:14PM|#

He no doubt did not get the irony:)

Heroic Mulatto|2.8.12 @ 5:37PM|#

Roland Martin is the dude who is trying to bring back the ascot.

I'm absolutely flabbergasted to find out he's straight.

BakedPenguin|2.8.12 @ 5:49PM|#

Or he's overcompensating.

Heroic Mulatto|2.8.12 @ 6:19PM|#

CNN apologizes to Roland Martin.

Suki|2.8.12 @ 5:46PM|#

CNN suspends bigoted Roland Martin.

RACISTS!

Regarding Roland Martin|2.8.12 @ 5:12PM|#

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

AlmightyJB|2.8.12 @ 5:13PM|#

TSA: "people were fired after an investigation into allegations of sexism, bigotry and incompetence".

I highly doubt anyone was investigated for imcompetance.

Brett L|2.8.12 @ 5:51PM|#

No, its just something they tag on as being part of the TSA is prima facie evidence.

Pip|2.8.12 @ 5:14PM|#

~~Rick Santorum~~ America needs more money.

Suki|2.8.12 @ 5:48PM|#

Rick Santorum America needs to spend ~~more~~ less money.

Some editor you are.

el Commentariosa|2.8.12 @ 5:14PM|#

The office mean girls shut me out
http://bit.ly/zsa9LT

Brett L|2.8.12 @ 5:53PM|#

"I’ve tried talking to a higher-up, but he’s in another province and isn’t interested. What should I do?"

As I see it you've got two choices: you can either go full Heathers on these chicks or, if prison isn't your style, put on your big girl panties, go to work, and develop a social circle outside of work.

Brandon|2.8.12 @ 5:14PM|#

Hey John, does this mean Israel's President hates Israel and wants it to die?

|2.8.12 @ 5:18PM|#

No it just means he is stupid. Did Chamberlain hate England?

Suki|2.8.12 @ 5:49PM|#

Would you rather live in London or in Gaza?

Dumphy|2.8.12 @ 5:50PM|#

Chamberlain traded a land that he couldn't defend for a few years of peace to build the UK's armies.

BakedPenguin|2.8.12 @ 5:55PM|#

The Czechs had a pretty good army, including modern tanks. They also had very good defensive fortifications, with the additional benefit of mountains.

|2.8.12 @ 5:59PM|#

They might've been able to make it very unpleasant for the Germans for a while. Maybe long enough for people to realize Hitler was full of shit.

BakedPenguin|2.8.12 @ 6:10PM|#

Definitely. The German generals looked over the fortifications Bohemia was swiped, and said they would not have been able to breach them.

AlmightyJB|2.8.12 @ 5:19PM|#

IT sounds like there's quite of few anti-semite bigots occupying positions of power in the Israeli government.

Killazontherun|2.8.12 @ 5:15PM|#

Emma Stone looking has still got it:

http://www.wwtdd.com/enlargedi.....tid=982121

I'd do things to that that would get me arrested in some states.

|2.8.12 @ 5:18PM|#

Wow

Apatheist|2.8.12 @ 5:41PM|#

Yeah shes hot.

Pip|2.8.12 @ 5:18PM|#

A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all.

The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia.

The jaw-dropping footage was caught by a government-employed engineer last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, it is claimed.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho.....beria.html

el Commentariosa|2.8.12 @ 5:19PM|#

See John @ 5:07

Pip|2.8.12 @ 5:21PM|#

Fuck John.

(I keed)

Rick Santorum|2.8.12 @ 5:25PM|#

See John @ 5:07

** flips open Bible **

Pip|2.8.12 @ 5:36PM|#

+1 would read again

RoboCain|2.8.12 @ 5:44PM|#

"The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me."
-- John 5:07

Brett L|2.8.12 @ 5:55PM|#

In Russia, hoax film you.

Brett L|2.8.12 @ 6:05PM|#

Totally OT, except that much of it is set in Siberia, I just read this book, and would recommend it to the sci-fi lovers of H&R.

Singularity by Bill DeSmedt, who I believe has not written anything else.

Rich|2.8.12 @ 5:19PM|#

Georgia (the state) to get two new nuclear reactors.

Surely there's a Gingrich joke in there *somewhere*.

BakedPenguin|2.8.12 @ 5:51PM|#

One for each tit?

|2.8.12 @ 5:20PM|#

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho.....ld-me.html

What happens when you buy a pet from Jezebele.

Pip|2.8.12 @ 5:28PM|#

Size matters.

Paul|2.8.12 @ 5:20PM|#

The head of the Transportation Security Administration said today that people were fired after an investigation into allegations of sexism, bigotry and incompetence in the Federal Air Marshal Service -- charges described in a government report obtained by ABC News.

So how did they know which agents to fire?

Rich|2.8.12 @ 5:23PM|#

Damn your quick fingers, Paul!

Anyway: "I thought they wanted agents that blended in."

|2.8.12 @ 5:21PM|#

I wonder if Georgia has nuclear club ambitions?

|2.8.12 @ 5:23PM|#

Yes. Florida should be very afraid.

|2.8.12 @ 5:27PM|#

Don't tell anyone, but we already have nuclear weapons. And python delivery systems.

|2.8.12 @ 5:28PM|#

No wonder Georgia is engaging such a desperate arms race.

|2.8.12 @ 5:30PM|#

They started it when they launched Newcular Titties back in the 90s.

Xenocles|2.8.12 @ 7:17PM|#

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N....._Kings_Bay

Xenocles|2.8.12 @ 7:20PM|#

Georgia probably has more nuclear weapons than India, Pakistan, the UK, and France put together.

SIV|2.8.12 @ 10:35PM|#

And we're not afraid to use 'em on yr Yankee ass.

|2.8.12 @ 5:34PM|#

Cops in Nevada are amateurs when it comes to torturing people with medical conditions (see above).

Cops in Ohio take it to the next level.

|2.8.12 @ 5:39PM|#

McCormick said he ordered Boucher to put his hands on the car or be shot with the stun gun. Boucher didn’t change his stance, but relented when Fry moved up beside him near the car.

As Fry got one handcuff on, Boucher spun around, punched Fry in the face with his free fist then bashed him over the head with the cuffed hand. The two fell to the ground and McCormick shot Boucher with the Taser as Fry rolled away.

Boucher ripped out the Taser prongs, jumped to his feet and ran back toward the front of the station, screaming, “I’m going to get you!” at the female clerk, who had leaned out the door to see what was happening.

She ran, Boucher chased her, and the two officers pursued him.

When Boucher refused to stop running, Fry shot him with a Taser again.

I'm going to call complete bullshit on this one. Just a hunch.

|2.8.12 @ 5:42PM|#

Well, it certainly seems a stretch, since it totally contradicts the coroner's report for cause of death. But, you know, these are our best and brightest filling out these arrest reports...unless, of course, you read the story below.

AlmightyJB|2.8.12 @ 7:24PM|#

Bipolar disorder is not something that is always real evident. Cops probably could use better training in that regards, but Mason not exactly a metropolis. While this was certainly a tradgedy, I didn't see anything to indicate malice on the part of the cops. For all they knew, he could have been drunk. How would you have handled it?

|2.8.12 @ 8:17PM|#

JB...psssst...the cops are lying.

AlmightyJB|2.9.12 @ 11:06AM|#

Evidence?

|2.8.12 @ 5:39PM|#

In other news...If you consistently assault a person without cause and then falsify official records and lie in sworn statements, it will only cost you your job and not your freedom.

If you'r a cop, that is. Real people get put in prison for torturing others.

Binky|2.8.12 @ 5:43PM|#

Sheriff Deryl Loar calls this a black eye for the department.

RACIST!

Killazontherun|2.8.12 @ 5:45PM|#

That Ron Paul doll, excuse me, action figure, looks like that no neck guy that got the nomination last time.

Coeus|2.8.12 @ 6:24PM|#

Let's play "Guess the age of the blogger".

For some guys, it may be possible to masturbate regularly to images of 20-year-olds in high school cheerleader outfits without any loss of passion for their 30- or 40-something partner. But I'm leery of that claim.

http://jezebel.com/5881335/why.....legal-porn

Heroic Mulatto|2.8.12 @ 6:27PM|#

The dude has never heard of MILF porn?

Coeus|2.8.12 @ 6:28PM|#

Yes, but his readers don't want to hear about it, since it doesn't explain away their husband's lack of interest in a way that won't make them get on a diet.

Coeus|2.8.12 @ 6:27PM|#

Never mind. It's that damn uncle tom Schwyzer (would uncle tom be appropiate in this context?). Christ, he knows his audience.

Brett L|2.8.12 @ 6:30PM|#

Man, what a narrow slice of the internet this person inhabits.

Coeus|2.8.12 @ 6:43PM|#

Hehe:

yourestillinadream Wed 08 Feb 2012 5:24 PM
Why are men fascinated with 'Barely Legal' porn?

Personally, I believe it has something to do with the fact that young women- girls- are among the most disenfranchised, abused, and oppressed populations in this world. Broadly speaking, girls/teens/young women have very little social power;

|2.8.12 @ 6:51PM|#

"Why are men fascinated with 'Barely Legal' porn?"

Killazontherun|2.8.12 @ 5:15PM|#
Emma Stone looking has still got it:

http://www.wwtdd.com/enlargedi.....tid=982121

I'd do things to that that would get me arrested in some states.

Killazontherun|2.8.12 @ 7:59PM|#

8 to 80, blind, crippled or crazy, I do not discriminate, except for fatties.

Killazontherun|2.8.12 @ 8:01PM|#

And Emma Stone is not barely legal you fucking retarded whore. And definitely not 'disenfranchised, abused', or a member of the 'oppressed populations in this world', asshole.

Killazontherun|2.8.12 @ 8:36PM|#

Throw a bone to an aging starlet and the thanks I get.

el Commentariosa|2.8.12 @ 6:27PM|#

Is there a thing tonight?

AuH20|2.8.12 @ 6:46PM|#

This Catholic birth control thing may drive me back to the church, if nothing else to throw a few bucks in the collection plate.

It is also rich to see the Jezzies riot over the idea of public funding cut off to PP because of their providing abortions, but with Catholics they argue "Well, you DO take federal money..."

cynical|2.8.12 @ 7:01PM|#

Georgia (the state)

Aha! I was wondering what all the Russia Today shit was about, and now I know. So the other Georgia isn't even a state now in the eyes of Reason staff. Fucking Russian nationalist propaganda.

Juice|2.8.12 @ 7:20PM|#

Poor Roland Martin. I guess it's his turn to feel the wrath of the professionally offended.

Cytotoxic|2.8.12 @ 7:24PM|#

He may not be the most popular guy here, but Mark Steyn is pretty smart and can write. He's said some nice things about Ron Paul, but in this article he makes some poignant criticisms. You should read it.

http://www.steynonline.com/4812/paul-the-parochial

Juice|2.8.12 @ 7:34PM|#

in this article he makes some poignant criticisms

No, he didn't.

Cytotoxic|2.8.12 @ 7:45PM|#

Yes he did. I should've added "poignant criticisms that may leave fanboys butthurtted".

tarran|2.8.12 @ 8:12PM|#

What an ignorant article.

Ron Paul is naive for not wanting to indiscriminately slaughter the haystack of innocents to kill a handful of guilty needles?

It's not naivete. It's called not being a fucking collectivist.

The Iranians are dorks for hating the British? I guess the systematic fraud conducted by the British officers of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company never occured? The British must have played no role in getting the U.S. government to conduct terrorist attacks within Iran?

The propaganda the Iranian government spews to keep its oppressed populace in line - that there are enemies bent on their destruction - resonates because there are guys like Mark Steyn who are enemies bent on their destruction.

If I were one of the mullahs I would thank Allah every day for guys like Steyn who made it easier for me to stay in power.

And, oddly enough, if the U.S. followed Ron Paul's advice, wouldn't you know, the Iranian economy would boom from the lack of sanctions, the populace would cease being so desperately poor that they had no time and energy to look to kicking the mullahs out.

If Ron Paul is naive, guys like Mark Steyn are ostriches whose heads are so deeply buried in the sand that their tail feathers are 5 feet below the surface.

|2.8.12 @ 8:19PM|#

Ron Paul is naive for not wanting to indiscriminately slaughter the haystack of innocents to kill a handful of guilty needles?

It's not naivete. It's called not being a fucking collectivist.

You, sir, win tonight's Internets.

Cytotoxic|2.8.12 @ 11:07PM|#

Neither of you understand the meaning of the word collectivist. It does not mean 'war' for instance.

Doktor Kapitalism|2.8.12 @ 11:03PM|#

You people are really mean to ostriches...

Cytotoxic|2.8.12 @ 11:06PM|#

Nice rant too bad it doesn't address any of the points in the article whatsoever. Just the kind of childish anger I expect from you.

Cytotoxic|2.8.12 @ 11:09PM|#

Oh and of course tarran's favorite word: ignorant. I can see why you're divorced.

tarran|2.8.12 @ 11:50PM|#

Oh I'm sorry. Let me address his one point. That Ron Paul is parochial because he doesn't believe in using nuclear weapons on cities, dislikes extra judicial executions and recognizes that commerce brings civilization and prosperity to barbaric lands and makes everyone better off.

Stein evidently prefers a despot who can kill at will and will slaughter the innocent to get at his enemies with the sort of implacable will that moved Col Kurtz to tears.

I guess we're supposed to rue the fact that Ron Paul is no Attilla or Ghengiz Khan - because anybody lacking their ruthless willingness to violate custom and law is 'parochial'.

tarran|2.8.12 @ 11:59PM|#

Of course, what Stein describes as parochial most people recognize as a support for civilized concepts like the rule of law, respect for basic rights, due process, and freedom - principles that have led to the growth of civilization and spread prosperity wherever they have been adopted...

yonemoto|2.9.12 @ 5:21AM|#

steyn forgot air piracy. Air pirates!

tarran|2.8.12 @ 10:47PM|#

They had barcodes on student ID's in the early 1980's?

|2.9.12 @ 7:03AM|#

this cop should win scumbag cop of the year award. note also, (yet again, as happens so often and i have cited numerous examples), his crime was discovered by a fellow officer and he was turned in by same

note also the lakewood union goes by the acronym LPIG. lol

A Lakewood police officer allegedly embezzled about $150,000 intended for the families of the four officers killed in a coffeehouse shootout in 2009, spending some of the money on a Las Vegas trip and REI shopping spree, according to charges filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court.

Skeeter Timothy Manos is charged in a federal complaint with 10 counts of wire fraud, a felony, for allegedly stealing from the fund set up in the days after the officers were gunned down by Maurice Clemmons in November 2009.

The complaint alleges the 34-year-old Manos used some of the money to take his wife to Las Vegas, where he withdrew $1,000 from ATMs and spent about $1,200 on rooms at the Bellagio hotel and tickets to a Cirque du Soleil performance.

He spent more than $7,000 at Home Depot and later dropped about $1,700 on snowboarding and other outdoor gear at REI, the complaint alleges.

Other purchases included a high-definition video camera, computer, stainless-steel refrigerator and a high-definition TV.

Between Feb. 12, 2010, and Feb. 20, 2011, he also withdrew about $50,000 from ATMs, according to the complaint.

Manos, of DuPont, was arrested Wednesday at Lakewood City Hall. He made an initial appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma and was released on his own recognizance.

Manos, who according to the state retirement database made $93,347 a year, was also assigned a court-appointed defense attorney.

"It's disgusting and it makes me sick to my stomach," Bret Farrar, the chief of police for the Lakewood Police Department, said of the charges against Manos. "I've been putting criminals in jail a long time. This is just another criminal that we're gonna throw in jail and that we're gonna prosecute to the fullest extent of the law."

Manos, who joined the Lakewood department in September 2004, is treasurer of the Lakewood Police Independent Guild (LPIG), although his name was removed Wednesday from the LPIG website. He has been placed on unpaid administrative leave, according to the department.

On Nov. 29, 2009, Clemmons fatally shot Sgt. Mark Renninger and officers Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold and Gregory Richards as they sat in a coffee shop in Parkland. In an exchange of gunfire, Clemmons was wounded by Richards.

Clemmons was killed two days later by a Seattle police officer.

Immediately after the shootings, the Lakewood Officers Charity set up a fund to collect donations for the families of the slain officers As donations poured in, some were sent to LPIG, where Manos was treasurer, according to Sgt. John Unfred, the treasurer of the Lakewood Officers Charity.

At some point, Manos allegedly started skimming off the top of the donations and depositing them into a private account.

A total of $3.2 million was collected on behalf of the dead officers, though about $300,000 of the funds have been placed in an account for families of future fallen officers.

"I just cannot imagine anything lower than stealing money from fallen officers' children," said Unfred, who knew three of the four slain officers.

"I go between hurt and anger. It takes me back to 2009, and we've kind of moved on from all that, but it brings up all of those emotions again," he said.

For more than a year, the federal complaint alleges, Manos funneled some of the donations into a bank account he set up in the name of LPIG, though apparently no one at the police-officers union or the Lakewood Officers Charity knew it existed.

Kevin Bigler, an Oregon police officer who owns Timberwolf Outdoor Products, imprinted knives for other police officers to buy in memory of the Lakewood Four, intending for the profits to go to the officers' charity. He sent the first knife he made, along with $5,000, to LPIG.

But according to the complaint, both the knife and the money wound up in Manos' pocket.

"Being a police officer myself, I was shocked and very disappointed that someone would take this for their own gain," Bigler told The Seattle Times. "It was upsetting."

The alleged fraud was discovered by Jeremy Vahle, an officer who was concerned about how LPIG was handling its finances and discovered the secret bank account, according to the complaint.

The head of LPIG, Brian Wurts, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of the FBI investigation, to ensure he had no knowledge of what Manos was allegedly doing.

Wurts did not respond to phone calls requesting a comment.

"People gave money in tight times, and they certainly didn't give it to somebody to blow in Vegas," Unfred said. "It was meant to help these children."

Lark Turner: 206-464-2761 or lturner@seattletimes.com.

Seattle Times news researcher David Turim contributed.

tarran|2.9.12 @ 9:27AM|#

dunphy,

One thing I should point out: the victims he stole from were the widows and kids of dead cops.

That's not to denigrate the guy who turned him in: but it's different from the kind of irritating situation were the police protect their own when he or she injures or defrauds a little people.

|2.9.12 @ 11:14PM|#

tarran, i've pointed out plenty of cases where cops have turned in other cops. people have this serpico-era mentality where they think (unjustifiably) that there is this massive wall of blue silence

let's get real. cops can and do protect their own TO SOME EXTENT, but surprisingly often - they do NOT

i've mentioned at least a 1/2 dozen examples JUST in my area alone. remember the SPD guy who killed himself after being arrested for drugs was turned in by fellow officers (with just a suspicion btw, they didn't have any actual knowledge of lawbreaking on his behalf at the time). schene was turned in by a fellow cop, etc.

i am just saying it's a lot more common than people think

otoh, it IS true that TO SOME extent, cops protect their own