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Gene Lalor | March 16, 2010
The following are updates on recently-published stories on this website:
1) Rielle Is Not a Lonely Hunter: Rielle Hunter, 
paramour of the erstwhile senator and pretentious presidential hopeful, John Edwards, has finally come clean. Well, as clean as she could.
In an interview for GQ, Hunter, mother of Edwards’ love child, 2 year old Quinn Frances, fesses up on her relationship with Edwards which she believes hasn’t ended. Rather, it’s entered a new phase.
Somehow, she also believes she was not the “other woman” in the long-term affair and concludes that “I’m not a predator, I’m not a gold digger, I’m not the stalker. I didn’t have any power in that way in our relationship. He held all the power.” He may have had “the power” but this non-gold digger collected a ton of money from Edwards’ surrogates.
Hunter, who also posed for scantily-clad pictures for GQ, manages to rip Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards as a controlling and domineering harridan at the same time she professes a deep empathy for the woman because of her terminal cancer.
Another reason she feels she didn’t steal John from Elizabeth was because, Rielle says, their marriage was long over before she met Edwards in a hotel bar, and hopped into bed with him that same night.
As for John, he’s just a yummy guy who she describes in born again terms, re-born as a result their sleazey affair and now “living a life of truth,” freed from Elizabeth’s shackles and abuse: http://bit.ly/coQvx2
Edwards should draw consolation from that truth if he ends up in federal prison for misuse of campaign funds by paying Ms. Hunter hush money.
2) Gays Upset with Admirals and Generals: Homosexuals yearning for a life in the military cleaning latrines, sitting butt-to-butt with heteros in mess halls, and shooting those big guns were heartened by recent statements by Sen. Joe Lieberman 
calling for repeal of Bill Clinton’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) 1993 policy on gays in the military.
Then, along came some 1164 retired admirals and generals–including 51 four stars–who added their voices and signatures to a statement calling for retention of DADT, believing it should remain illegal for gays and bi-sexuals to serve openly.
Not to be outdone, a pro-homosexual-in-the-military groups, Servicemembers United, attacked the statement, not because of its content but because “some of the officers who signed the statement were involved in controversies and that most of them are older.”
Well, gosh, a lot of retired people are “older.” That’s the principal reason most retired. It doesn’t mean they’re any more addled than the average homosexual.
This ageism, this imputed discrimination by gays against their elders isn’t much different from discrimination against homosexuals because they’re gay.
Servicemembers United went even further along that ageism path by suggesting that any number of statement-signers were already dead (from old age) and based its whole argument on an unsubstantiated PBS report.
Even so, what’s the point of contending the signatures were invalid even if the signers had died the moment after they affixed their john hancocks opposing gays in the military?
Those 1164 admirals and generals, old or not, now dead or not, were merely concurring with the opinions of top officers from 4 of the 5 branches of the military: http://bit.ly/cSFjei
The Center for Military Readiness (CMR), which issued the statement and gathered the 1,164 signatures, said that the homosexual group’s claims were faulty: http://bit.ly/agUNOJ
I would agree, faulty and ageistically discriminatory.
3) Scott Roeder Was Railroaded: Roeder 
was the man who shot to death late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller on May 31st, 2008 in his Wichita, Kansas church and freely admitted his horrendous act.
A commenter submitted this legalistic link, http://rasmusen.org/special/roeder/, which clearly demonstrates that Roeder may have been found guilty as charged but his case is hardly over.
It’s difficult to defend or to speak in favor of a confessed and convicted murderer unless one appreciates the circumstances of that confession and conviction. In brief, a strong case can be made for the justifiability of the killing as well as for the inequity of the killer’s January trial and conviction.
The presiding judge virtually overruled the defense that Roeder’s court-appointed attorneys tried to present.
He refused to admit into evidence exculpatory material, denied the defendant the right to testify as to his rationale for executing Dr. Tiller, and threw out the voluntary manslaughter defense the day before the trial ended.
Roeder’s reasoning was basically that he committed the crime to save the lives of untold additional pre-born babies at his busy Wichita clinic. His attorneys planned to use the common law justification of “necessity,” which was disallowed.
Even allowing for the paucity of his defense, for the jury to deliberate only 37 minutes in a first degree murder case was unseemly and testimony to the fact of that judge-enforced minimalist defense.
Due to the absence of any aggravating circumstance, under Kansas law, Scott Roeder could not be sentenced to death and accordingly was sentenced to a mandatory life in prison.
His supporters and attorneys indicated that the conviction would be appealed.
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