PA abortionists plead guilty to murder

Now there's a headline you won't read every day. In fact, Walt can't recall ever having seen it before. In our decadent and amoral society, where millions of unborn children are deliberately killed every month, what are the chances of the baby-killers ever being brought to justice?

According to a Reuters report from Philadelphia, the difference between the murder of "Baby D" and that of the millions of others was that "Baby D" was not in utero but alive. "Baby D" was delivered by its mother into a toilet, following a botched abortion. Adrienne Morton, aged 34, an employee of the abortionist, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, reached into the toilet, pulled out the baby and cut its throat.

But "Baby D" was not the only one, nor was Ms Morton the only killer. Seven more defendants face charges in the case, including Dr. Gosnell, who a grand jury in January said, "killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors."

Another of the good doctor's employees, Sherry West, 52, was accused of murder in the death of a 41-year-old patient. "The evidence presented to the grand jury established that Karnamaya Mongar died of cardiac arrest because she was overdosed with Demerol," the grand jurors said. The grand jury said West and another employee administered the drug at Gosnell's direction and that Mongar died as a result of "wanton reckless conduct."

Of course this must be an isolated incident. Surely this kind of thing doesn't happen in more than one of the 1000s of abortuaries which exist to uphold the principle of Roe v. Wade. Does it?

MA town bans Rosary rally which "might offend someone"

The Boston Herald reports that the selectmen (town council) of tiny Upton MA refused permission for residents to organize a Rosary vigil on the town common.

Selectmen Jim Pickard and Jim Brochu -- religious affiliations unknown -- said that they declined a request from a local resident, Michael Casey, because they feared some residents might be offended by the prayer rally. The selectmen attempted to justify their decision by citing the constitutional “separation of church and state”.

The rally went ahead anyway, outside St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic church. Walt wonders what would have happened had the parish priest attempted to say Mass on the common. "Mass not allowed in Mass."?

Is this the scariest goalie mask of all time?

Hey hockey fans! The Big Debate about whether players should wear visors has surfaced again after Philthydelphia's Chris Pronger got poked just above the right eye. Here's a guy who's singlehandedly hurt more players than anyone in the modern NHL, and we worry becaues he gets nicked. Is hockey getting wimpy or what?

Meanwhile... questions are also being raised (again) about the optimal design for goalie masks. Is the current "cage" design the safest? What if someone pokes a stick -- a very small stick -- through the mesh or in an eye-hole? Maybe the old solid masks were better? They were certainly better canvases for strange and scary paint jobs.

Ever since they were introduced in the modern game, by Montréal's Jacques Plante, goalies have been searching for ways to make their masks just as terrifying as the horrific disfiguration they are intended to prevent. The better to scare the opposing players, you see.

Click here to see a photo gallery of the ten scariest goalie masks of all time. Just in time to give you an idea of what to wear when you're out trick-or-treating.

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Master Corporal Byron Greff, RIP

Astonishing and deeply saddening news from Aghanistan. Six NATO troops were killed in Kabul yesterday. One of them was a Canadian.

Master Cpl. Byron Greff was riding in an armoured shuttle bus on a routine convoy through the jam-packed streets of Kabul when a car packed with explosives and driven by a Taliban suicide bomber slammed into it and blew up in a fireball. 17 people aboard the bus died: MCpl. Greff and five American soldiers, eight "civilian security contractors" [read "mercenaries", Ed.] and four Afghans.

This wasn't supposed to happen. Prime Minister Harpoon assured Canadians that it wasn't necessary to pull out all of Canada's armed forces this summer, as he had previously promised. It couldn't hurt to leave behind a few hundred to act as "trainers" and continue the mission for Peace, Democracy, the Emancipation of Afghan Women and other Good Things.

At the time, Walt said that it was ridiculous to think that "trainers" could do their job from the safety of some kind of fortress within the capital city. Sooner or later they would have to go out, in uniform. And, Walt said, the Taliban don't make any distinction between trainers and combatants.

Turns out Walt was right.

An "Occupier" explains what they really want

The LIANE (Lefties Indignant About Nearly Everything) are still at it, making nuisances of themselves in cities all over North America and western Europe. Don't see much of this nonsense in Beijing or Moscow, though. Many normal people -- the kind who get up and go to work, do the yardwork on Saturday and go to church on Sunday -- are scratching their heads in puzzlement, wondering just what it is that the "Occupiers" are against, or for. At last we have the answer, straight from the mouth of one of their number in Atlanta.


So there you have it. They're "protesting against equality and change"...you know.

Thanks to Agent 17 for sending this along. [That's two good ones in one week! Ed.] He says that if the speaker is a product of Georgia education, he, as a taxpayer, would demand his money back!

All I want for Christmas is a Kackel-Dackel

Another marvel of German engineering is proving to be this season's hottest toy. Don't be surprised to see it at the top of your kid's Christmas wish list.

Yes, it's the Kackel-Dackel, or, in English, Doggie Doo! It's a plastic dachshund that emits farting noises and plops out...well...simulated dog shit. It actually turns this activity into a great game, where two to four players roll a die to see who can be first to scoop up three of the turds.

Kackel-Dackel is marketed by Goliath Games and you can find it at Walmart. Of course. Here's the video.

Cookies too bizarre for bazaar

Agent 1, whose baking is simply superb, reports that her parish CWL wouldn't accept the cookies she made for the Christmas bazaar. Can't understand why...