Guess Who Killed The Census Worker?

That’s right. We did.

Never mind that the police aren’t even finished investigating, have no suspects, and know very little about the case.

But we’re guilty just as if we had actually done it ourselves.

We first blogged about it here and pointed out how al-AP slanted the article so badly as to implicate anyone opposed to Our Lord and Savior’s agenda.

More details are emerging. For example, contrary to the al-AP story we cited earlier, Bill Sparkman was not hanged from a tree but rather had a rope around his neck and was tied to a tree. The cause of death was asphyxiation.

 From the Washington Compost:

The Census Bureau employee who was found dead and tied to a tree in Kentucky this month died of asphyxiation, according to a preliminary medical report.

State and federal law enforcement officials on Thursday dismissed the suggestion from a news service report that the man, William Sparkman, 51, may have been targeted because he worked for the federal government, calling that speculative.

The body of Sparkman, a part-time field worker for the agency, was found Sept. 12 in the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeastern Kentucky. A rope was wrapped around his neck and tied to a tree; his feet were in contact with the ground, according to the Kentucky state police and the FBI.

The cause of Sparkman’s death is under investigation, and authorities have not ruled out suicide, an accident or homicide, said Kentucky state police spokesman Don Trosper. A full medical report on Sparkman’s death is not complete.

That’s right. Law enforcement officials have not determined a cause of death, have not even determined it was a homicide or a suicide, and are blasting away at the biased news reports already attempting to indict ordinary Americans opposing the government in his death.

They don’t even know if Sparkman was performing census work when he died.

State and federal officials would not say whether Sparkman was found with the word “fed” scrawled on his chest, as the Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing a law enforcement source. They would also not discuss whether he was working on census matters before or at the time of his death.

“I think to give this impression that he was strung up because he was a federal employee is giving a bad impression to the nation,” said David Beyer, spokesman for the FBI field office in Louisville, which is working with state officials on the investigation.

None of this mattered, according to Michelle Malkin, who was accused by a moonbat at DUmmyland of being personally responsible.

There are some other good links as well:

• Via NewsBusters, Allison Kilkenny from the PuffHo blames “right-wing fear and paranoia” eminating from Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
• Via Allahpundit at Hot Air, a particular disgusting graphic showing a hanged man with the word “FED” on his chest and the words “he reaped what they sowed” on the bottom. The rest of the image contains names and phrases implicating the usual suspects (Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, criticisms of socialism, ACORN, SEIU, ObamaCare, etc.)
• Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer finds a leftwing talker blaming Rep. Joe Wilson as well as conservative talk radio.

Malkin writes:

To recap:

1) Police have not determined yet that this was murder.

2) He wasn’t hanging from the tree.

3) It hasn’t been determined if he was even working as a Census data collector at the time of his death or whether that job had anything at all to do with his demise.

But:

I killed the Kentucky Census worker — along with every man and woman in America who is guilty of having said or written anything critical of government.

The criminalization of conservatism continues.

Our Next Governor in Action

Current Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker — and Wisconsin’s next governor — took another bold anti-tax stand by seeking across-the-board wage and benefit cuts for county employees.

Milwaukee County employees would bear a heavy burden of budget-balancing pain in County Executive Scott Walker’s proposed 2010 budget, with nearly $41 million in pay and benefit cuts.

The trims include a 3% across-the-board wage cut for all county workers, a new employee pension contribution of 5% of a worker’s salary, a boost in health care contributions and more furloughs.

The loaded language on the part of the Sentinel Journal implies his sympathies lie with the poor gummint workers, that they bear a heavy burden.

Rubbing my thumb and forefinger together, playing the World’s Smallest Violin just for them.

Walker’s comments are right on target:

With so many private sector workers seeing their wages and benefits frozen or cut, it is hard not to expect the same from those in government.

Not to mention jobs simply lost, due in no small part to bad economic policies eminating from Madison and Washington. It’s about time the government sector felt pain in the same way the private sector has. Why should they be sacrosanct and immune from the people living and working in the real world?

Maybe we could eliminate them or at least privatize them? Don’t forget this classic video from 2006 of county workers sleeping on the job as part of a WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) investigative report:

Here’s what will happen. The proposed cuts will have to be bargaind with da union and da County Board, which means it ain’t happening. But like in past years, Walker will no doubt veto the proposals from the crowd which has never seen a tax they didn’t hike, which will in turn override the veto and raise taxes and protect the fat behinds of the lazy overpaid underworked county employees.

Would be nice to fire them all and tell them to go get a real job (including the County Board) … but that’s wishful thinking.

Nice to see our next governor standing up for the taxpayers of Milwaukee County.

You can read Walker’s budget message here.

Duffy For Congress

Folks, we have a real chance to retire one of the longest tenured and biggest sacks of manure in Congress, Rep. David Obey (S-Wis.). For those of you new to our blog, we have chosen to replace D for Democrat with S for Statist.

In past years, Obey hasn’t even come close to being challenged since he first won election in 1969.

That’s about to change. Not only is 2010 shaping up to be an anti-incumbent year, particular “blue” incumbents on the side of advancing socialism such as Obey, the Republicans have come up with a solid candidate in Sean Duffy to run against the tired old entrenched Beltway incumbent in Obey.

Sean’s a Wisconsin native serving his fourth term as the District Attorney of Ashland County. He’s exactly the type of fresh face the GOP needs to put against the tired old faces of Washington in races all over the country.

Candidate recruitment is one area in which the Democrats have outpaced the Republicans in recent election cycles. While the Democrats have found candidates that can at least be portrayed as centrists and moderates (even if they aren’t) and as not Washington insiders (even if they are), the Republicans have gone with either the comfortable old slippers like John McCain, believing it’s his turn to run, or squishy, softies that mouth platitudes on Reaganesque conservatism but inevitably become me-too Statist-lite types.

Sean’s background is interesting, to say the least. You can read more about him here. There’s a slide show on him here. His political hero? Same as mine: Ronald Reagan. You can read him on the issues here.

Biggest thing he needs is money. Go here to support Sean’s race to the top to whatever extent you can help.

Mackenzie Phillips: ‘I Had Sexual Relationship With Dad’

This falls into the bizarre category.

Appearing on Oprah, actress Mackenzie Phillips alleges an incestuous relationship with her father, the late singer John Phillips, that began when she was 19 and lasted for 10 years.

I don’t know what to make of this. Both Mackenzie and John Phillips battled longstanding drug problems, so certainly it’s within the realm of possibility; however, both his wife at the time and his second wife, actress Michelle Phillips, deny Mackenzie’s charges.

What I do know is this: Phillips, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is no longer around to defend himself, having assumed room temperature in 2001.

Which means … he’s eligible to vote. Democrat, of course. ACORN registered him.

‘Have You No Shame?’

From Breitbart TV:

So asks Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu of the U(seless) N(itwits), which gave a forum to Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pronounced “I’m A Nutjob”) of Iran.

That Dear Leader Video

Update on the story about the brainwashing of elementary school students to sing praises a la Jesus Loves The Little Children to Deaar Leader that we had here, via Michelle Malkin on Twitter.

The school district has issued a statement … of defiance. They even attack those who made what happened here public.

Here’s the letter from the New Jersey school district (via the Exurban League):

September 24, 2009

Dear Burlington Township Families:

Today we became aware of a video that was placed on the internet which has been reported in the media. The video is of a class of students singing a song about President Obama. The activity took place during Black History Month in 2009, which is recognized each February to honor the contributions of African Americans to our country. Our curriculum studies, honors and recognizes those who serve our country. The recording and distribution of the class activity were unauthorized (italics mine).

If you have any further questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me or Dr. King, Principal of B. Bernice Young School, directly.

Sincerely,
Dr. Christopher M. Manno,
Superintendent of Schools

Attacking the person who videotaped it and made it public and in effect defending the shameful behavior.

Says the Exurban League:

So, a public school had an official lesson using impressionable children to praise Barack Obama. The song they used even co-opted lyrics from “Jesus Loves the Little Children” with Obama’s name inserted in place of God.

There’s a reference in the comments thread over at the Exurban League that describes this as “cultlike hosannas.” That pretty much nails it.

Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey found this indoctrination video on YouTube:

It’s actually a clip from the film Cabaret, but it is the end result of the type of indoctrination that we saw in the video from the New Jersey school. Those kids are way too young to understand when Joseph Goebbels and friends, er, NEA union thugs are trying to fill their young skulls full of mush with agitprop for Dear Leader.

And to raise this man to the level of God is scary frightening. And reckless. A result of a Messiah Kool-Aid overdose.

Ed notes:

Having children chant about Obama as if he were a deity is what leads eventually to the kind of conditions depicted in the first clip. I don’t mean that as an accusation that Obama wants that, but it’s that kind of cult of personality that creates conditions for political disasters like fascism and dictatorships. People who think of themselves as free citizens and politicians as public servants should be embarrassed by this kind of worship — and the parents of these children should be at the school today demanding an accounting for the cult-like indoctrination attempted by these administrators.

Tackling Those Tough Issues

Once again, our lawmakers in Madison have shown the courage and backbone to take on yet another tough issue facing the state.

After solving the perplexing problem of what would happen if they all of a sudden would have been kidnapped by space aliens and taken away to co-exist along with Elvis by appointing secret successors, the state Legislature has voted unanimously to allow visiting teams in town to play the Green Bay Packers to run red lights while traveling from their hotel to Lambeau Field.

No kidding.

As Ernst-Ulrich Franzen of JSOnline notes:

That would make traffic signals in Green Bay as effective as the Packers’ defensive and offensive lines at stopping players from opposing teams.

Ron Kind Out For Wisconsin Governor

H/T to Steve at NRE.

WisPolitics is reporting that Rep. Ron Kind will not seek the Democrat nomination for governor in 2010.

U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, is expected to announce later today that he will not run for governor in 2010, top Democratic sources said.

Kind has scheduled satellite TV time today, but his office has declined to comment on the nature of his announcement other than saying it is related to the campaign.

Several sources indicated that Kind wants to stay in Congress to continue to work on health care reform.

Steve observes this would be a huge bullet dodged by the Republicans.

I tend to agree, and for the same reasons. While Kind does bring the baggage from Washington, along with his very liberal voting record, he does not have the same stench that Democrats that have been in Wisconsin will carry around, namely the stench of Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone and the Democrats in Madison. He’d be able to continue to run as a new kind (no pun intended) of Democrat and be able to raise money from outside the usual group of Democrat suspects (WEAC, trial lawyers, AFSCME, etc.).

But there’s more to it than just Kind’s desire to work on health care reform. That appears to be a dead-in-the-water issue. Kind may see the handwriting on the wall as to what a trainwreck 2010 will be for the Democrats on all levels. Although He Who Shall Not Be Named will not be on the ballot until 2012, His socialist stench, on par with that of a rotting, decomposing corpse, will be.

Kind may be saving his powder for that race for the future, when the odds of winning might be greater.

Census Worker Found In Cemetery

A man doing extra work for the U.S. Census in Kentucky was found hanged in a cemetery with the word “FED” scrawled on his chest.

Watch what al-Associated Press tried to do with the story:

MANCHESTER, Ky. — When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drawing on years of experience warned: “Be careful.”

The 51-year-old Sparkman was found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery and had the word “fed” scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

“Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as ‘the government.’ I just was afraid that he might meet the wrong character along the way up there,” said Acciardo, who directs an after-school program at an elementary school where Sparkman was a frequent substitute teacher.

“and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment …”

There’s not one support quote in the rest of the story from the FBI or any other law enforcement official that implies this. Not one. What’s worse, the al-AP reporter even invokes Timothy McVeigh to support the case that somehow this man was the victim of someone all agitated after attending a Tea Party or consumed with hatred toward the federal government.

This is another attempt by the state-run media to falsely connect the tea parties and those opposed to runaway federal spending and an increasing role of government in the lives of ordinary citizen with random acts of violence.

Although this man was found murdered September 12 and had been dead for some time, since the coroner’s office said the body was decomposed to the point he recommended cremation to the family, the state-run media is attempting to use this to provide support for Bela Pelosi’s insane ramblings about political assassinations and other acts of violence resulting from the opposition to the socialist agenda in Washington.

Shameful. Just shameful.

More Lying Liars

Remember all those words on how the Democrats were opposing the war in Iraq because they supported the war in Afghanistan? Never mind that they were separate fronts in the same war …

Guess what? They were lying.

From the lefty blog Hullabaloo:

The Democrats backed themselves into defending the idea of Afghanistan being The Good War because they felt they needed to prove their macho bonafides when they called for withdrawal from Iraq. Nobody asked too many questions sat the time, including me. But none of us should forget that it was a political strategy, not a serious foreign policy (boldface mine).

A political strategery, not serious foreign policy. In other words, they were playing politics, not really supporting the troops or the war effort. Just trying to fool voters into believing that they, too, were tough on the jihadists and were willing to fight to defend this country.

They don’t support the war. They don’t support the troops. It’s why you see their base attacking military recruiting offices and attempting to get ROTC banned from the campuses of institutions of higher learning.

I have serious doubts as to whether they support this country the w the Founding Fathers intended it to be. No wonder they’re always attacking its traditions, institutions, culture and history.

Says Jim Geraghty at the Campaign Spot at National Review:

The average Democrat doesn’t like fighting wars. They don’t like using military force. They don’t just dislike collateral damage and civilian casualties and flag-draped coffins; they cringe at the concept of combat with citizens of another country …

The base of the Democratic party is fundamentally pacifist and isolationist and has extraordinary, although not complete, leverage over this White House. They want the rest of the world to go away so we can focus on creating the perfect health-care system.