Lea Hernandez House Fire

This is terrible!

Lea Hernandez, the award winning comic writer and artist, has suffered a major housefire that destroyed most of her home.

Thankfully she and her family are OK but a good deal of her possessions were destroyed and, tragically, six of her pets died in the fire.

More info here including donation information.




Via Colleen Doran.

4,000 and climbing

After the Tsunami nothing shocks me anymore, but this latest calamity to befall Indonesia is heartwrenching.

Latest from BBC here

Instapundit is putting up his list of charities.

Bird Flu
Tsunami
Islamic Millitants
A particularly lethal volcano
Now the earthquake
.... followed by torrential rains to drown those buried in the rubble.

I am without words.

Orianna Falacci

Beth over at the Cotillion blogs what is likely the last speech of Orianna Fallaci. It's a good piece.

While I am very pleased with the presidents efforts to not make this a war on Islam (his sticking up for his Afgani Barber for instance). I am not convinced that it is a doable option in Europe where ghettoism, lack of assimilation and a more radical imigrant population seems to have given rise to a rather nasty pathology.

Send a Letter to Haley Barbour Now!!!

A travesty of justice is looming in Alabama.

Cory Maye, a man with no criminal record had his house broken into by masked me wielding guns. He positioned himself between them and his 18 month old daughter. He fired at and killed one of the assailants.

They turned out to be cops....on a drug bust with a "no knock warrant".....busting into the WRONG HOUSE!!!

3 abominations of government in a row.

Now the prosecutor has thrown in a fourth.

Cory Maye is on death row!

Full story here and here.....

If the facts are as stated this man did NOTHING wrong. This is why government should be reigned in. This is also why we have the concept of executive clemency, for those times that committee-think breaks down and does something as stupid, unjust, ignorant, pigheaded, and evil as this.

While a murdering gangbanger is being plead for and toasted by the professional whining class this man who has done what anyone with a brain, a conscience and a shred of responsibility would have done in the same circumstances moves anonymously towards death at the hands of the state.

Via the Blogfather there is also this link to Silent Running's letter and contact information.

Update:Instapundit links to several takes on this case...there seems to be considerable bipartisan outrage, though the tookiephiles are still oblivious or don't care.

Thanks to the Instapundit for highlighting this and Radley Balko for digging it up and staying on it like ugly on a moose.(his site has numerous updates)