Whack Woman Wednesday, Pt. 1

Yep. Today I'm just writing about Whacky Women...and not the good kind.

I'll start with this one--Martena Clinton.Looks pretty whiny, doesn't she? It's even more ridiculous when you realize that she did something stupid, went home, called the Washington Post, then arranged to meet them back down where she did the stupid thing, put her black party dress back on, and stood and posed for the picture and the accompanying story that was supposed to make America feel sorry for her and angry at the US Secret Service and Washington DC Police Department. And now it's backfiring onto both her and the Washington Post.

Basically, it all began on Saturday when Clinton drove down from her home in Randallsville, MD to attend a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus at the Washington Convention Center where Obama was scheduled to speak. She parked her car outside the auditorium and ran inside like a good little racist Democrat, only to return later and find that her car was gone. Turns out that it, along with several other cars, had been relocated a few blocks as a security precaution related to Obama's visit. With help of her fellow racist friend Gardine Tiggle, she eventually found her car, just like everyone else presumably did.

Now most people would just accept that, but not Martena Clinton. She is entitled to...well...to something. So she arranged the press conference and posed for the story, and admitted proudly that she'd parked her car in a handicapped spot near the convention center because she didn't want to be late and possibly miss even a minute of the program.

Of course she's not handicapped. She's able-bodied and doesn't have a handicapped placard. But since her husband does, she decided that she automatically gains the right to use it for her own purposes, too, even when he's not with her, as was the case Saturday night. So screw any real handicapped people, because, dammit...Martena Clinton is not going to walk an extra block and miss out on seeing even a few seconds of Obama.

Well Martena got her 15 minutes of fame, only it's not from people sympathizing with her and bashing the mean old police...it's from regular decent people and handicapped-rights organizations, who are outraged that she'd so flagrantly abuse her husband's disabled parking placard and even have the nerve to admit it as if she'd done nothing wrong. The Washington Post, her collaborator on this stupid stunt, got hundreds of angry comments about her conduct, and the city has reportedly been called upon to issue Martena a ticket for parking illegally in that spot--a $250 ticket in DC.
Now I won't hold my breath on her getting one, since it happened in DC, a Democrat-controlled city, and since she's an active supporter of the Democrats.

And how do I know this last fact, you ask? Well it's simple. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, it took me about thirty seconds to discover that Martena Clinton of 18 Vivian Vale Court, Randallstown, MD, 21133, gave a hundred dollars to help elect at least one Democrat to office back in 2006. So now if you're still incensed at Martena's selfishness and her belief that she's more deserving of handicapped parking spots than any mere wheelchair-bound cripple is, you have her address and can drop her a letter explaining how life is supposed to work.

More on the Webb gun episode

Update: Today's Washington Post is all over this, doing a two-page "story" that basically just tells us all kinds of nice things about Web and Thompson. Apparently Thompson was carrying Webb's gun now, and the Post is working overtime to do damage control on both of these guys, for no other reason that I can fathom other than that they are Democrats. We all know that if it was a staffer to a Republican Congressman and it was discovered that a Republican Congressman like Duncan Hunter or Tom Tancredo was trying to carry a gun into the Capitol, the Post and other Liberal publications would be bombarding us with two weeks of op-eds about how egregious it was, what a safety threat it posed, and how wrong it was for Congressmen to get a pass on gun laws that affect ordinary citizens. We'd probably be getting tons of front page news items about people getting shot too, just to further drive the point home that guns and people who carry them are bad. But this is a Democrat, and one who has been quite vocal in his opposition to the war and his hatred of our elected President so the Post is just going to tell us what a nice guy he is and remind us than anyone can make a mistake.

No wonder America prefers Fox News.

Hero of the week: Tim Bono of Bono Film & Video, Arlington VA.

Tim Bono, owner of Bono Film and Video in Arlington, VA is a hero today.

Last month there was a story in the Washington Post about how this mean, bigoted Christian had discriminated against a gentle, kind, violin-playing gay-rights activist named Lilli Vincenz and been found guilty of said discrimination by the Arlinton County Human Rights Commission. Looking past the Post's slanted (90 degrees +) story, I found that Mr. Bono operated a film-reproducing business called Bono Film and Video.

Mr. Bono chose to run his business in accord with his Christian values and he had a disclaimer on his website stating that he would not reproduce works which contained pornographic or other immoral content. Lilli Vicenz, a professional gay-right activist, presumably saw this disclaimer and e-mailed Bono, asking if he would reproduce a couple of old films she'd made about early gay rights protests. No money ever changed hands and nothing more specific was ever asked, because as soon as Mr. Bono discovered that the films contained homosexual context, he sent he an e-mail back stating that he did not wish to take on this job. And instead of taking her videos to any other store and just getting them copied, Vincenz ran down to the Arlington County Courthouse and filed a suit against Bono, alleging the he'd discriminated against her. Now mind you--there was never a contract and no money changed hands. She sent an e-mail asking if he'd be interested in doing this job and he sent one back that said no. Frankly it smacked of a set-up by this self-described "life-long gay activist" who just didn't like the idea behind Bono's disclaimer and saw a chance to get some free publicity for herself and her cause.

Outrageously, the Arlington Human Rights Commission immediately decided against Mr. Bono and ordered him to either reproduce Vincenz's films or reach into his own pocket and pay another photo lab to do it for her. They backed this order up with the threat of a $5,000 sanction if he refused to comply, in effect telling him and everyone else that we have no right to turn down business offers no matter how objectionable if the person making the offer is gay. presumably Bono would have turned down a similar request to reproduce straight porn or videos revolving around witchcraft, and that would have been ok according to the commission. But enter a gay activist with an agenda and everything changes.

But Bono stood his ground and the Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal-rights group, backed him up. They filed a suit on his behalf against the Arlington Human Rights Commission as outlined in this short Press Release. The premise was that local government does not have the right to pass legislation that gives special status to people that the state legislature has not given it to, in this case, people who simply prefer to have sex with members of their own gender. And no sooner was this suit filed, than the 6-11-06 edition of the Washington Post reported a change of opinion by the Arlington Human Rights Commission. That board voted to reverse itself and absolved Mr. Bono completely of any and all charges of discrimination.

So thanks to the Liberty Counsel and Tim Bono for standing up against the forces of political correctness and liberalism. it's good to know that in the year 2006, Americans are still free to turn down offers to do business that are morally objectionable no matter who asks.