This is outrageous!

Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava in Sydney, Nebraska has handed out a sentence of 10 years of probation to child molester Richard Thompsonbecause at 5′1″ he is too short for prison. Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has vowed to appeal the sentence as soon as possible. Hopefully the appeals court does the right thing and puts this slimeball in prison. Height should have nothing to do with it, the only thing that matters is the crime he commited, which should put him in prison. If you are that worried about his safety in prison then put him in solitary, but personally I’m more worried about what he could possibly do on the outside of the prison walls, rather than what happens to him while he’s on the inside.
Robert Schwartz thinks the judge should serve the prison sentence, I would have to agree. This judge is criminally negligent.

Fox News is reporting that Capital police are investigating shots that were fired at the House of Representatives office building, reportedly in the parking garage level.

Update: It is now being reported that 4 ambulances have arrived at the Rayburn house, although there have not been reports of anyone being wounded.

Update: It is now being reported that a man with a gun has been found and the capitol has been locked down again.
The DC police and the FBI terrorist task force are also investigating now.

The House was not in session and most Representatives have already left for the holiday weekend. The building has been locked down and the capitol police are going door to door in the building. The rest of the capitol has been reopened.

Update: A gurney has been brought into the building although there has still been no report of injuries. The Capitol Police will have a press conference at 12:00 PM Eastern.

Allahpundit and Jim Lynch are also following the story .

Update: A woman has been brought out on a gurney because of an anxiety attack, still no reported injuries because of gun fire. Police are still searching the building for a gunman.

Update: Capitol Building is open again but Rayburn is still closed. There will be another press conference at 1:30 Eastern.

Update: The press conference gave no new information. Just said that they are doing a door to door search and checking to make sure everyone that is there should be there, which we already knew. There will be another report in about an hour.

Update: It is now being reported that people are being allowed out of the building, other than that there are is no new information. In the meantime, let the conspiracy theories begin. *snicker*

Update: The Rayburn Office Building was reopened at about 3:30, it is believed that what was heard was construction workers and not gun shots. Representative Jim Saxton has admitted to being the one who reported the alleged gunfire.

Even though this turned out to be nothing, I believe the Capitol Police took the correct action in shutting down the building and checking it out thoroughly. They had no way to know that this was not actual gun fire. It also provided good practice in case there is a real incident in the future.

White House lawyer Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as a federal appeals judge after waiting for 3 years. Democrats have opposed his confirmation because of his conservative philosophy, but the 7 Democrats in the “Gang of 14″ agreed
not to filibuster if there was a Second Judiciary Committee hearing.

This is good news, we need good constitutionalist judges in our courts. Hopefully we can get some more of the judicial nominees confirmed that have been waiting. One has to wonder however if this push on nominees is a play by the Senate for conservative votes this November.

Update:  Allah Pundit has links to the roll:

Byrd, Carper, Landrieu, and Nelson from Nebraska voted with the GOP to confirm. Otherwise it was party line.

The NRO has the 50 greatest conservative rock songs of all time. Some interesting choices there, over all a pretty good list. Check it out.

H/T: Michelle Malkin

General Michael Hayden has just been confirmed as the new CIA director by a 78-15 vote. I believe that he was a good choice for the job and am glad that he was confirmed with very little problems.

Update: Allah Pundit has links to the roll:

Voting no: Bayh (D-IN)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Obama (D-IL)
Specter (R-PA)
Wyden (D-OR)

Here’s a video from a couple of our soldiers in Iraq. It’s pretty funny.

Michelle Malkin found the backstory.

I don’t think your nominations in any danger.

Check out this ad for Joe Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primaries, Ned Lamont. The people that come in at the end are the KOS Kiddies, lead by Markos Zuniga.
Of course I don’t think anyone that’s been backed by KOS has ever actually won, looks like Ned may have recieved the kiss of death.

After you get done laughing, check out the re-mix. I’m still rolling.

Check out this example of “tolerance” by the left:

wonkette: OMG I AM WATCHING MICHELLE MALKIN’S INTERNET VIDEOS FOR THE FIRST TIME
operative: she has internet videos?
operative: does she do the thing with the ping-pong balls?
(source)

Not surprisingly Michelle is pretty upset, here’s her response:

Pat yourselves on the backs, you tolerant liberal bastards.
***This is hardly
the first
time
liberals
have
made Asian whore ping-pong ball jokes
about me.
But Wonkette has now mainstreamed it.
And I’m sick of it. Are you proud of yourselves? Do you get a bonus from Nick Denton for scraping the bottom of the barrel?

And right-winged conservatives are racist bigots?

Others who are sick of it:

The Anchoress
The Jawa Report
Don’t Go Into the Light
Riehl World View
Leaning Straight Up
EL Frederick
Old Controller
The Political Pitbull

Michelle Malkin has a must see commencement address for all graduates. Of course there aren’t any colleges that would let her give one.

Condoleezza Rice and John McCain are greeted with protests.

Federal Judge blocks prayer at high school commencement ceremony at behest of the ACLU.

Jodie Foster raps to Eminem.

Nope, the education systems not biased at all… *rolls eyes*

An Islamic fundamentalist lawyer walked into a court chambe in Turkey and opened fire, wounding 4 judges and killing one. From Rueters:

A Turkish gunman, proclaiming his Islamic faith, killed one judge and injured four other judges on Wednesday in a shooting in a top court which Turkey’s president condemned as an attack on its secular establishment.

The top administrative court’s deputy chairwoman said the assailant described himself as a “soldier of Allah” as he carried out the attack. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said it would go down as a “black mark in the Republic’s history”.

The court, the Council of State, has faced fierce criticism in Islamist circles for hardline implementation of secular laws such as a headscarf ban in universities and state offices.

The attack is a stark reminder of the great divide between Turkey’s secularists and those they perceive as Islamists bent on reviving the influence of religion in national life.

The attacker, a young lawyer, burst into the court’s second chamber and started shooting with a handgun during a committee meeting at around 10 a.m. (0700 GMT). He was arrested soon after.

The CNN Turk Web site reported the assailant as saying in interrogation he had targeted the judges because of a ruling in February preventing a woman from becoming a head teacher because she wore a headscarf. It did not give a source for the report.

“It is seen that this is an attack against our Republic and our Republic’s irrevocable democratic and secular character,” Sezer, a staunch secularist, said in a rare comment to reporters after visiting the court.

SOLDIERS OF ALLAH

Islamic militants, Kurdish separatists and far-leftists have all carried out attacks in Turkey, which began European Union accession talks last October, in recent years.

Suicide bombings blamed on al Qaeda killed more than 60 people in Istanbul in 2003.

“The target of the attack is the constitution as well as the Council of State … Turkey is being dragged towards a very dangerous place,” opposition leader Deniz Baykal told reporters.

Television pictures showed injured people being carried away to ambulances from the court in the heart of Ankara. Police imposed tight security around the building.

The gunman had shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and “may God’s wrath be upon you” as he carried out the attack, private news channel NTV reported witnesses as saying.

“The attacker entered the chamber during a meeting and opened fire on each of the members, saying ‘we are soldiers of Allah,” the court’s deputy chairwoman Tansel Colasan said.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose government is campaigning for rules on headscarves to be changed, quickly condemned the shooting, calling it an attack against all the Republic’s institutions.

Last week unknown assailants, shouting “God is greatest”, lobbed a percussion bomb at the office of Turkey’s most staunchly secular newspaper, the third attack in a few days.

The left-leaning Cumhuriyet, the traditional mouthpiece of Turkey’s secular establishment, recently ran a media campaign warning of what it sees as rising Islamic fundamentalism.

Tensions between the secularists — who also include the armed forces — and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have intensified ahead of next year’s elections.

Secularists accuse the highly popular AKP, with roots in political Islam, of having a hidden Islamist agenda. The AKP denies this.

These are the people we are dealing with. He attacked the court over a decision regarding the wearing of headscarfs, in the name of Allah. These people don’t care if you are Christian, Jew, or secular, either follow Islamic law or die. We must win this war.