I know my rights!

.

The videos below show a man being arrested for three separate incidents by the same police officer. Each time the officer subdues the suspect in a different way.

Click link to view the initial confrontation between the officer and a man on a lawnmower.

Here is the same suspect and same officer in a later confrontation.

This time Steve the lawnmower guy has called 911 on his own wife.

.

Standing with Honduras

.
Dennis Prager is doing his radio show from Honduras this week in order to show solidarity with this small Central American country standing firm for democracy and the rule of law in the face of international pressure to capitulate to a Hugo Chavez dictatorial wannabe wearing a white cowboy hat.

.

The Doctor Will See You Now....

.
Some cancers are more urgent than others, and other cancers are not urgent at all. In Scotland the latter are called "non-urgent" cancers.

In total, some 27,000 patients are diagnosed with cancer in Scotland ever year. But only 9,500 of them were classified as "urgent" by GPs. Once the non-urgent cases are included, hospital by hospital analysis of all cancer cases shows that:

• Between January and April last year, head and neck cancer patients at Hairmyres hospital in East Kilbride waited an average of 112 days after GP referral before treatment.

• Average waits at Falkirk and District Royal for gastrointestinal cancer between April and June was 118 days.

• In the same quarter, patients at Stobhill in Glasgow suffering from urological cancer waited an average of 105 days.

The figures also show that lengthy waits are still common for cancers such as breast cancer, where speedy treatment is needed. Of 28 hospitals treating women with breast cancer in 2008's last quarter, 14 had an average wait of over 40 days.

.

A Nation of Cowards

.

Newsweek is running a piece on Attorney General Eric Holder in which we learn that Holder's wife, Malone, compares the racism in America's past to the treatment of terrorists in Gitmo:

At a recent dinner in a leafy corner of Bethesda, Malone drew a direct line from the sins of America's racial past to the abuses of the Guantánamo Bay detention center. Both are examples of "what we have not done in the face of injustice," she said at one point, her Southern accent becoming more discernible as her voice rose with indignation.

.

But, hey, he was democratically elected!

.
'democratizing the airwaves'

Sean Penn's second favorite democratically-elected president, behind the "elegant" Barack Obama, has decided to take hundreds of Venezuelan radio stations from private to government control because "The use of the radio-electric spectrum is one of the few areas where the revolution has not been felt."

.

There is only one word to describe Honduras

.
Los Angeles Times--the impoverished nation

Financial Times--the impoverished Central American country

Pioneer Press--the impoverished Central American nation

GreenvilleOnline-- an impoverished part of the world

The Age--the impoverished nation

Sacramento Bee--the impoverished Central American nation

PR-Inside--the impoverished Central American nation

Episcopal Life--this impoverished country

Sydney Morning Herald--the impoverished country

Reuters--the impoverished country

MiamiHerald--impoverished nation

Red Country--the impoverished nation

Guardian--an impoverished nation

WallStreetJournal--the impoverished nation

TVNZ-- the impoverished nation

AlJazeera--the impoverished nation

NationalPost--an impoverished coffee, textile and banana exporter

Stuff.co.nz--the impoverished nation

NewsandObserver--his impoverished nation


AFP--the impoverished nation

ManilaTimes--the impoverished nation

FinancialDaily--an impoverished nation


.

Coup in Honduras

.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly is condemning the military coup in Honduras and demanding President Manuel Zelaya's immediate return to power.

The world body adopted a resolution by acclamation Tuesday calling on all 192 U.N. member states not to recognize any government in Honduras other than Zelaya's.

The irony is that a coup in Honduras has already been prevented. A coup in progress, led by former President Zelaya, was stopped in its tracks by the Honduran Supreme Court.

The UN and the United States have it wrong. Perhaps President Obama actually read the book given to him by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, and found the book's content persuasive.

.

Three Amigos?