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Really - based on what he thinks the job requirements are:

I'm over-qualified to replace this guy,...

 

Maybe They Should Get Together And Like, You Know, "Do It" (Hee-Hee) On A Bed Of Money

We just saw this over at the Instapundit:

ANN ALTHOUSE: A Columbia professor is arrested for incest — but isn’t there a constitutional right to incest between consenting adults?

Also, why are they only charging the man in what’s said to have been a consensual relationship between adults? Isn’t that an equal protection violation? Where’s the civil rights community on this?

Yep, just as Glenn Reynolds needs to start our day pushing his fetishes for materialism and sex, (Gee, Glenn, no articles by Frisky hookers yet? What's the matter, slow news day?) leave it to Feminist Annie's magnificent mind to leap into considerations of whether a man can sleep with his daughter and get away with it, while totally oblivious to the unfairness of that man being busted while the adult woman walks free for the same crime.

As lawyers go, these two are both great examples for us all.

As influential figures, well, we don't always know what to think.

The Perfect Excuse For Everything Because - SURPRISE - He's Never Stepped In To Stop Shit

"I always respected him as my father and he is my father. He never spoke about,...why we were doing it. Sometimes I would ask him and he would say it was God's will."

-- Arcedio Alvarez's daughter, speaking of the man Columbia is now calling the "monster of Mariquita", and this latest case of incest to make the news - producing 11 children - according to the BBC.

Real Americans Bust Another NewAge Bubble

"I don’t want to attack her, but the truth is very savage. We were infected enough with her behavior in the jungle. Now I just want to get immunized.

I can get over just about anything, but I don’t know about Ingrid. Forgive? Yes. Move on? Yes. Respect? No."

-- Keith Stansell, ex-Marine, former captive of Columbia's FARC - and one of the authors of the book, “Out of Captivity” - on Ingrid Betancourt (his celebrated fellow captive) who the Americans described as "a rotten piece of fruit," in The New York Times.

Another former captive, Luis Eladio Pérez, strengthens the NewAge outlines of the story, saying:

“Ingrid is a person who generates a great deal of envy. Not even the kidnapping had taken away that karma, above all because 90 percent of the news stories that were heard about the kidnapping were about her, as if the rest of us did not exist.”

Of course, it's that (nonexistent) "karma" at work - not her behavior with others - and who in our NewAge news media cares about a bunch of men in captivity? (No one's rushing to save Ashton Kutcher, after all,...)

Ingrid, BTW, is now living in France, the "selfish and haughty" capital of the world.

Bubble, Bubble, Toil And Trouble

"Now for being stupid and believing in witchcraft you will have to work much harder to recoup the money you gave us."

-- Thieves, in a note to thousands of "investors" - left on the office door where a Columbian pyramid scheme was conducted - sparking riots, according to The BBC.

Another note read: "We wish you a sad Christmas and a shameful New Year."

Proof: Getting Captured Makes You Patriotic

“I owe everything to France. France is my home. You are my family. I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day,...I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.”

-- Ingrid Betancourt (once she was rescued, with American help, from guerrillas in the Colombian jungle) discovering the same love of country I did - after a similar ordeal - living in France, in the New York Times.

Busted! Who's "The Devil", Now, Asshole?

"Colombia's military scored a major antiterror victory this weekend by killing the second in command of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and 16 other FARC guerrillas. Venezuelan President and FARC ally Hugo Chávez has reacted by threatening war against Bogotá. But the real news is that the raid produced a laptop computer belonging to the expired comandante that reveals some of Mr. Chávez's secrets.

According to Colombia's top police official, General Oscar Naranjo, the computer contains evidence supporting the claim that the FARC is working with Mr. Chávez. General Naranjo said Monday that Reyes's laptop records showed that Venezuela may have paid $300 million to the FARC in exchange for its recent release of six civilian hostages. Mr. Chávez had spun those releases as a triumph of his personal mediation.

General Naranjo said the laptop also contains documents showing that the FARC was seeking to buy 50 kilos of uranium, and the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo has reported that the records revealed the sale of 700 kilograms of cocaine valued at $1.5 million. The general added that the military found a thank-you note from Mr. Chávez to the FARC for some $150,000 that the rebels had sent him when he was in prison for his attempted coup d'etat in 1992."

- The Wall Street Journal