Duke's latest rape case

The story started out like any other child sexual abuse story.
An alleged disgusting pervert.

But the focus is changing...
Gay parents hope abuse case does not limit adoptions

While Frank Lombard awaits his transfer to Washington, D.C., to face child sex charges, some Triangle dads worry that his alleged crimes could reflect poorly on their desire to raise a family.

Here we have a new rape case involving Duke University. The first one turned out to be a great big "egg-on-your-facer" for the media, prosecutor, accuser, and 88 faculty. It seems that media coverage for the new case is pretty much local only. Is the national media now "once bitten, twice shy" when it comes to Duke rape cases?

Perhaps the lack of coverage is because the alleged per(p/v). is a distinguished university administrator (Lombard is associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke.)? We wouldn't want to ruin more reputations with another trial in the media. Never mind the fact that the victim in this one is a 5 year old child. The reputation of a fine university is at stake. The child is seemingly being portrayed as cannon-fodder in the battle for gay rights.

No, this is not about raping children, it is now about Gay Rights. Yes! that is the issue here. The media likes to portray the real victim of these alleged horrible crimes as the misunderstood, gay adoptive parent of the child or the minority single mother, etc. The plight of these misunderstood people is the real story. We should show empathy (right, Sotomayor?). Forget that laws have been broken.

It is a shame what happened to this child. And it is a shame to see the selfishness of people who are worried how these events will affect their ability to adopt children. We can only hope and pray that justice is served. And may the wounds inflicted by this case be healed by the grace of God.

UPDATE: CNN buried the story on their crime page.

Taxes = Lose-Lose

The greedy politicians up in Raleigh are making it harder for us little people to make a few bucks.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Amazon.com said Friday it has pulled the plug on commissions for North Carolina Web sites that make referrals to the online retailer, because a law designed to collect taxes on some of its sales transactions could soon be enacted.

So what is the result? Us little folks will have less $$ to spend on the items that they are raising taxs on like movie tickets, alcohol, etc.
It's a Lose-Lose, but the politicians vision is fogged by greed and power.

Crime pays $1.86

Here is Rex Harold Smith.

Here is the story of this dirtbag. Rex Harold Smith, begged his cousin to rent a house to him. Of course he didn't pay the bottom of the barrel rate of $100/month. Instead he started taking the aluminum siding off the house to sell for scrap...which he cashed in for a whopping $1.86 at the local scrap metal recycler.

His cousin asked what he was doing with the siding. His response...

Well, I thought there might be termites under.

So now, the taxpayers are paying his rent as he sits his ass in the Johnston County jail for obtaining property by false pretense and felony conspiracy. Bond was set at $7500. We'll be paying his rent for quite a while...