Grand Old Police Blotter: Dick's No Cheney Edition

It's been a while since we visited with our friend, the G.O.P. superstud and Christian philanthrope, Dick Dasen, Snr., age 62.

Here, the Daily Inter Lake brings us some highlights of the prosecution's case against Dick:

In a document filed Monday, [D.A. Dan Guzynski] lays out more testimony he plans to introduce.

He will call one woman who will testify that Dasen told her he would give her $1,000 per week, provide her with schooling, a car and a business, as long as she provided him with sex. He also told her that he would pay her if she brought friends who would have sex with Dasen to him. The document lists seven such women she introduced to him.

Another woman will testify that she engaged in sex with Dasen for money and that she brought a woman to meet him so he would pay more money. She will also testify that the woman she introduced to Dasen alleged that he choked her during the sexual encounter.

A third woman will testify that she introduced an acquaintance to Dasen, who said he would pay more to see them together.

Also, Guzynski will introduce at trial a police interview with Dasen in which he allegedly named 11 women he had sex with and was paying money to. Checks will be exhibited for all of the women.

Dasen is not specifically charged with the acts named in the document, but Guzynski said those acts are part of the overall body of evidence in the case.

The actual charges against Dasen involve "prostitution, promotion of prostitution, aggravated promotion of prostitution, sexual intercourse without consent and sexual abuse of children."

Love, Red-State Style!

People Are Imperfect

Especially the idiots who voted for this ass:

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, asked about detainee abuse yesterday on CNN's "Wolf Blitzer Reports," said he was not surprised. Gonzales said that he presumed the military used lawful interrogation techniques but that "sometimes people do things that they shouldn't do. People are imperfect . . . and so the fact that abuses occur, they're unfortunate but I'm not sure that they should be viewed as surprising."

They're not surprising because you validated the authorization of them, you unfortunate dickwad.

Give The People What They Want

Good riddance.

Faith-Based Bigotry

Via Atrios, we learn once again that the blogging anti-Muslim haters are full of shit. Mithras names and shames some of the shit-filled haters: Michelle Malice, Hindelicker, Adam Yoshida, Charles Bird, Junkyardblog, Silent Running and American Jihad. Other haters: Jihad Watch and Daniel "Crack" Pipes. (No links to those scumbags.)

Here's the story:

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The upstairs neighbor of an Egyptian Christian family found slain in their home in January was charged along with another man Friday in the killings, and authorities said the motive was robbery, not religious fanaticism, as some had feared.

Edward McDonald, 25, who rented a second-floor apartment above Hossam Armanious and his family, pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder, as did Hamilton Sanchez, 30. Both men were ordered held on $10 million bail....

Armanious, a 47-year-old Coptic Christian; his wife, and their two daughters, ages 8 and 15, were found bound and gagged with puncture wounds to their throats....

But Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said the killings took place during a robbery by the two men, who owed someone a large sum of money.

"I'd like to make one thing perfectly clear: The motive for these murders was robbery. This was a crime based on greed, the desperate need of money," DeFazio said.

Authorities said thousands of dollars were withdrawn from Armanious' bank account using his ATM card in the days after the slayings.

Each of the above-refenced bloggers was advancing the theory that the killings were an anti-Christian hate crime, perpetrated by Muslims, despite the absence of evidence. Sorry, bigots. The love of money was the root of this evil, not religion.

Religion is, however, the root of the haters' evil. In the haters' collective tiny mind, Muslims killed the Armanious family because the haters wanted it to be so--very, very badly. Call it faith-based bigotry.

An NYT article discusses the religious tensions the bloggers were praying would erupt into a holy war. Of course, this humiliation won't cause any of these idiots to reconsider their irrational hatred, it will simply cause them to hate with more blind (religious) conviction.

Even more painful for the haters: One of the alleged murderers is caucasian. So Malkin and the rest are denied the solace of fixating on the Hispanic surname of the other suspect.

Emphasis On "Tool"

Jim Capozzola takes a blue pencil to Steve Forbes' heartfelt plea for donations to Clownhall.com.

C'mon, Jim, don't be so rough. It's not like Forbes is an editor or author.

Another Victim of the Bush Economy

Why is that a journalist as gifted as James Guckert can't find a job?

Isn't Faux News hiring? Doesn't the Moonie Times have a spot for a Republican with national reporting experience? MSNBC couldn't sink any lower in the ratings if it started the Tucker/Guckert News Hour. Why isn't NewsMax or AIM offering our boy a column or a fellowship? Why won't CBN help a brother out?

Instacracker and Powerline aren't even linking to Guckert's blog. (Although maybe they're the "highly-paid legal team" Guckert brags about at his site. If Guckert's unemployed, is he paying his legal team in trade?) Perhaps WizBang could loan Guckert his blog name so James can start a new dating service.

It's shameful how the right turns its back on one of its own.

The Matter With Hairless Hacks (Repubs)

Republican hack Mickey Kaus once again demonstrates his irrational, all-consuming hatred of the Democratic Party in the following post:

The Matter With Kansas (Dems): From Lawrence Journal-World account of DNC chair Howard Dean's visit to Kansas:

"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."

--Howard Dean

"I feel like he could have gone even stronger with his language."

--Katherine Dessert, a student and preschool teacher in the audience.

P.S.: Does Dean now come with such built-in expectations in the Righteous Anti-GOP Fury department that he inevitably fails to meet them, with the result that he is actually unable to rally the hard-core faithful he supposedly had the unique ability to rally? ... [Via Polipundit] Update/Correction: There were two Dean speeches. Dean made the "evil" remark at a closed fundraiser, while Dessert was responding to Dean's speech at a larger, more public event. ... 11:40 P.M.

Kaus is willing to attack anyone who doesn't drink the Bush Kool-Aid, even by misrepresenting their opinions. And note the weaselly "Update." The friggin' article makes it abundantly clear which speech Dessert was commenting on. There was no new information for Kaus to "update" -- he was simply wrong. Either Kaus is brain-dead or he deliberately misrepresented Dessert's statement.

Or both.

It's not even clear that Dessert is a Dem. She's quoted on the same page as saying: "This is sort of a problem I have between Democrats and Republicans: the constant language that the other side is wrong. I don't think that kind of language or approach is very effective." Hardly a rabid GOP hater.

Just imagine what kind of foul thoughts Kaus has about a real Dean supporter such as Sarah Stacey, 21, Kansas University student.

Whenever you read something which contains the word "kerfuffle" (except in context of expressing contempt for the use -- and user -- of the word), stop reading immediately.

Then make note of the author's name. And never read anything else written by that author. Ever.

Your life will be immeasurably better.

Roger's Mail Sac

I rarely publish reader e-mails, but this one offers a rare insight on Middle East politics:

Dear Friend,

I am Mrs. Suha Arafat, the wife of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died recently in Paris. Since his death and even prior to the announcement, I have been thrown into a state of antagonism, confusion, humiliation, frustration and hopelessness by the present leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the new Prime Minister. I have even been subjected to physical and psychological torture. As a widow that is so traumatized, I have lost confidence with everybody in the country at the moment.

You must have heard over the media reports and the Internet on the discovery of some fund in my husband secret bank account and companies and the allegations of some huge sums of money deposited by my husband in my name of which I have refuses to disclose or give up to the corrupt Palestine Government.

In fact the total sum allegedly discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of about $6.5 Billion Dollars. And they are not relenting on their effort to make me poor for life. As you know, the Moslem community has no regards for woman, more importantly when the woman is from a Christian background, hence my desire for a foreign assistance.

I have deposited the sum of 21 million dollars with a Security financial firm in whose name is withheld for now until we open communication. I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your bank account for safe keeping and Investment opportunity. This arrangement will be known to you and I alone and all our correspondence should be strictly on email alone because our government has tapped all my lines and are monitoring all my moves.

In view of the above, if you are willing to assist for our mutual benefits, we will have to negotiate on your Percentage share of the $21,000,000 that will be kept in your position for a while and invested in your name for my trust pending when my Daughter, Zahwa, will come off age and take full responsibility of her Family Estate/inheritance. Please, if you are honest, I am going to entrust more funds in your care as this is one of the legacy we keep for our children. In case you don't accept please do not let me out to the security and international media as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith and send to me your complete personal contact information.

May God bless you and your household.

Yours sincerely,

Suha Arafat
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Roger's Farm Film Blowup

I still haven't seen any of the nominated films, so I don't care who/what wins.

But an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby would be a nice Guckert shower ... right in Michael Medved's ignorant puss.