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A woman has pleaded guilty to assisting in the rape of her college friend.

A Dobbs Ferry woman admitted yesterday that she helped her boyfriend sexually abuse a friend of hers by secretly drugging her.

Jessica Jacobson, 25, pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse in Westchester County Court in White Plains. She could have faced up to seven years in state prison, but was promised a three-year prison term by county Judge Gerald Loehr, who scheduled sentencing for May 5.

Authorities contend that Kevin Nowell, a married Ossining man who was dating Jacobson, wanted her to arrange a threesome. Jacobson invited her 23-year-old friend to her apartment Aug. 27 for Nowell to have sex with her and slipped Ecstasy into her drink.

The victim became weak from the mixture of the drug and alcohol and Nowell, 42, raped and sodomized her, authorities said. She left to get treated at a hospital after waking up and then contacted police.

The victim, from New Jersey, had been friends with Jacobson since college.

Her defense attorney came out with a great line after court:

"She's extremely remorseful over what occurred," defense lawyer Arthur Del Negro said afterward.

This was the result of a plea deal, so there must be some leniency involved. That said, this is a woman who truly deserves to have Carolyn Hansen post a sign on her front door for all to see. It goes without saying that rapist Kevin Nowell, who is from my town, is a monster. I cannot fathom how a woman could do this to another woman. Had she been plotting this for years because of something the victim did to her back in college? 

Oops

This woman should have checked her sources.

A woman in Benton County hung a sign on a neighbor's door warning people that the man who lived there was a sex offender.

But there were two problems: she had the wrong house, and even if she had the right house, police say sex offender notifications can't be used to harass released convicts.

''Don't play here. Child molester lives here,'' the sign said, according to a police report.

Her daughter was her source of information. She didn't bother to check with the authorities, the state sex offender registry, or an adult. The innocent victim, a better man than I would be about this, declined to press charges.

This is Why I Have THAT Category

If you didn't know that cartoonist/commentator Ted Rall is a hateful rectal cavity, now you know. Via Say Anything and Wizbang:

Wack Job Professor Resigns After Bullying a 19 Year Old Coed

Rebecca Beach, 19, a student at Warren County Community College got an email from her professor, John Daly, filled with leftist kool aid vitriol, complete with grammatical errors. He was responding to her announcement of the speaking engagement of returning Iraq war veteran Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, which he evidently didn't approve of. Among the jewels of wisdom he wrote was the following sentiment:

Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

The student was interviewed on WABC-Am this morning by John Gambling. I heard Gambling mention that the professor resigned before he could be sacked. Aside from his moonbat politics, it takes a special kind of man to bully a 19 year old student. Here is the full text of the email cut and pasted so you can see what a swell guy Professor Daly is.

November 13, 2005

Dear Rebecca:

I am asking my students to boycott your event. I am also going to ask
others to boycott it. Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look
like fascist propaganda and is extremely offensive. Your main poster
"Communism killed 100,000,000" is not only untrue, but ignores the fact that CAPITALISM has killed many more and the evidence for that can be seen in the daily news papers.   

The U.S. government can fly to dominate the people of Iraq in 12 hours, yet it took them five days to assist the people devastated by huricane Katrina. Racism and profits were key to their priorities. Exxon, by the way, made $9 Billion in profits this last quarter -- their highest proft margin ever. Thanks to the students of WCCC and other poor and working class people who are recruited to fight and die for EXXON and other corporations who earning megaprofits from their imperialist plunders. If you want to count the number of deaths based on political systems, you can begin with the more than a million children who have died in Iraq from U.S.-imposed sanctions and war.

Or the million African American people who died from lack of access to
healthcare in the US over the last 10 years.
   
I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like your won't dare show their face on a college campus. Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people's needs -- such freedom fighters can be counted throughout American history and they certainly will be counted again.

Prof. John Daly

I am sure everyone at WCC is very proud of this exceptional (former) faculty member. What a mensch.

Linked to the Political Teen

Noam Chomsky: Capitalist

Ironic. Tech Central ran this article on noted anti-capitalist Noam Chomsky's business practices, his substantial holdings and the lengths he has gone to set up his estate. Just like any other millionaire.

Chomsky, for all of his moral dudgeon against American corporations, finds that they make a pretty good investment. When he made investment decisions for his retirement plan at MIT, he chose not to go with a money market fund, or even a government bond fund. Instead, he threw the money into blue chips and invested in the TIAA-CREF stock fund. A look at the stock fund portfolio quickly reveals that it invests in all sorts of businesses that Chomsky says he finds abhorrent: oil companies, military contractors, pharmaceuticals, you name it.

When I asked Chomsky about his investment portfolio he reverted to a "what else can I do" defense: "Should I live in a cabin in

Montana

?" he asked. It was a clever rhetorical dodge. Chomsky was declaring that there is simply no way to avoid getting involved in the stock market short of complete withdrawal from the capitalist system. He certainly knows better. There are many alternative funds these days that allow you to invest your money in "green" or "socially responsible" enterprises. They just don't yield the maximum available return.

Check out the hole thing and you'll see (if you don't know it already) what a flaming hypocrite the man is.

Another Cogent Point

...NOT. Hence the name of my blog. My blue neighbors can be downright scary.

With oil producers using their position to bleed every buck they can from the people of the United States, it would appear to me that they have moved up to the position of No. 1 terrorist. I'm sure you could find millions who would agree with me — all those SUV owners,

No doubt another member of the "reality based" community, right? Are the guys who get $6 a beer at Yankee Stadium terrorists too? How dumbed down can a term get?

Don't Put it in Writing

Some really dumb local politician foolishly posted a message on a Yahoo group calling his constituents idiots.

In an e-mail inadvertently posted this week to Brewster10509, a Yahoo group focusing on local issues, Assemblyman Willis Stephens, R-Southeast, referred to the members and their Internet opinions as "watching the idiots pontificate."

Stephens, an attorney, followed about an hour later with an apology — a mea culpa he stood by yesterday. He blamed his misplaced missive on his dismay over his expected 2006 primary opponent hijacking his name for a Web site address.

The posting sparked a criticism from his opponent and various opinions from residents participating on the site. Comments ranged from forgiving Stephens for his boo-boo to politics-is-politics remarks. Others faulted Greg Ball, a former Air Force officer planning to challenge Stephens next year, for an insincere denouncement of the lawmaker's faux pas. Many, though, adopted a tongue-in-cheek attitude.

"I'm disappointed he would call us pontificating idiots," said Peter Hansen, 51, of Patterson, a laboratory equipment salesman. "It's an oxymoron. It's sort of like an honest politician or an ethical attorney."

Or an assemblyman with common sense.

Oh, Thank Goodness (I Think)

Message from Randi
05.25.2005

What a week!

Thank you to all the New Yorkers who made it out the Operation-Truth fundraiser on Saturday (pictured). Even though the media refuses to cover these wars and why we're fighting them, this great group of vets are still working day and night to get the truth out there.

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington. I testified at a House Forum on the sorry state of our news media and spoke with several Senators and Representatives on and off the air.

I'll be honest, it is rough out there. You've got to stay informed. The truth is on our side. We may have to fight twice as hard to get it, but that's only because the Republicans will do ANYTHING to twist or suppress it.

Thanks for listening...I'm coming home now!

Love ALLways,

Randi

Randi as in Randi Rhodes, personality on Air America radio. She's fighting for us and the fringe cause. In this case, Operation Truth. I don't know much about them, but they claim to be a non-profit advocacy organization for veterans, and nonpartisan.

Let's see...non partisan...advocacy...non-profit...Oh,just like the AARP. I'm sure they aligned with Randi Rhodes because they were non partisan. Groups that link to them include impeachbush.org. How dumb do I look?

I blogged before that fringe left causes often give themselves names that imply that they are the last bastion of democracy and/or truth. Typically, they do things like quote Voltaire about how "dangerous it is to be right when the government is wrong." Here's a good clip from the "about" page from the Voltaire-quoting, Operation Truth linking dangerouscitizen.org:

“Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and the keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in people’s heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry-rot, and men with matches.”
-- Ray Bradbury, narration from the novel, Fahrenheit 451

The purpose of this site is to educate the reader about her/his right and duty, as an American Citizen, to dissent whenever the government acts unjustly. This site offers articles for learning about some of those unjust actions, like the "war on terrorism" and the "war on drugs", both which involve the "war on democracy". This site also offers resources for dissenting without resorting to violence.

The Hangman's Noose pictured in the Dangerous Citizen logo is a symbol of persecution, inspired by the trials and hangings of 19 people unjustly accused of witchcraft in 1692. The noose is used here as representation of the consequences often risked by those who dissent.

They disagree, so they don intellectual flak jackets and act like they are Mel Gibson in The Patriot. Debating on the substance of issues and policy hasn't worked, so they resort to quoting futuristic nightmare novels and philosophes to pimp themselves as freedom fighters instead of 60's wannabes. This is why, short of economic calamity or a Watergate type event I am fairly certain that the 2008 election will look like 1972 again. Moderates get repelled by the fringe.

Another Open Letter

Dear Mr/Ms Stock Tip and Florida Vacation Fax Person:

Thank you for your kind offer. Last night (or should I say this morning?) when my wife and I were foolish enough to forget to turn off the fax machine, you took time from your busy day just to make us aware of your wonderful opportunity. Because of our forgetfulness, the ringer woke up our infant son (it was 3am) after a tough day of restless teething. What can I say? I guess the ensuing sleep deprived suffering builds character.

Here is the thing: My brother is a stock broker and I have friends on both coasts of Florida who will allow us free lodging whenever we wish. We are pretty much covered. If you would be kind enough, please stop faxing us your financial advice and vacation offers.

I must admit that my wife does not share my gratitude for your thoughtfulness. She would like to reach down your throat and pull out your intestines before setting your extremities on fire. She would then like to jam red hot knitting needles into your nostrils and ear canals and balm your wounds with red ants. She is somewhat embittered that we have to shell out money for a fax software program that will allow us to avoid your late night visits and that unplugging the regular fax machine has become as much of our daily ritual as drawing the shades and closing the windows. What can I say? Hormonal women.

At any rate, I must also inform you of a small glitch in your service. Your number to call to be removed from your list appears to have the opposite effect. My dear wife thinks you are liars, but I prefer to give you the benefit of the doubt. I am sure that when you receive this letter, you'll fix everything and and make things just right again*. Have a great day!

*dopo il mio penis sviluppa un'unghia !

URGENT COMMUNIQUE

TO: Barrister and Advocate Montgomery Constantine

FROM: Me

Sir:

I am in receipt of your elaborately worded email informing me of the tragic death of the assistant ambassador and his family in the automobile accident. I share your regret at his loss, and can sympathize that the $21 million is now left with no heir or beneficiary.

I could actually use the cash. Honest. However, it seems to me that you guys in Nigeria have a bit of a problem. You see, this is about the 400th time I have been informed of the premature death of a rich foreigner with no living heirs in your country. Why someone like that would deposit all their cash in a Nigerian Bank is beyond me (hello? Cayman Islands?), but I digress. Someone must be deliberately targeting them, no? It seems to me that a serial killer is running rich heirless foreigners (and their families) who have lawyers with fancy names off the road with alarming frequency in West Africa. So thanks for the kind offer, but no thanks. I wouldn't want to get in the cross hairs of whoever is offing all the rich guys over there. Oh, and God Bless You as well. Good luck with finding a safe repository for the money before it gets confiscated by the governmental authorities.