GUILTY(ish)

Perjurer-at-large Joe Albero blinked today:

A Delmar, Del. man best known for his Web blog and ongoing disputes with Salisbury officials was sentenced to probation before judgement on a perjury charge this morning.

Joe Albero, 46, entered in Alford plea in Wicomico County Circuit Court. By using an Alford plea, Albero does not admit guilt but acknowledges that the prosecution had enough evidence to convict him if the case were to go to trial.

Albero was indicted in April for perjury in connection with a 2005 land deal in Pittsville in which he reportedly stated his was a Maryland resident. However, voting records indicate Albero has been registered to vote in Delaware since 2005.

I would also note that the Daily Times broke the story before sbynews.com did. Looks like Albero "got blogged" by the Times....

Incidentally before Albero tries to weasel his way out of this and say that he didn't plead guilty, don't forget that an Alford plea is in fact a form of a guilty plea:

More recently, the Supreme Court has approved so-called Alford pleas, in which defendants plead guilty while simultaneously protesting their innocence.³ Far from criticizing these practices, Judge Frank Easterbrook and most other scholars praise these pleas as efficient, constitutional means of resolving cases.⁴ Even Albert Alschuler, a leading critic of plea bargaining generally, supports Alford pleas. He views them as a lesser evil, a way to empower defendants within a flawed system. As long as we have plea bargaining, he maintains, innocent defendants should be free to use these pleas to enter advantageous plea bargains without lying. And guilty defendants who are in denial should be empowered to use these pleas instead of being forced to stand trial.

Emphasis mine.

I'd say that now that Albero has copped a guilty plea that he would lose his credibility, but given his antics, criminal history and plagiarism, it's not like he had any credibility to begin with....

Crybaby

Apparently Susan Reimer never learned the Golden Rule: "treat others as you would like to be treated."

After Reimer's hateful, bitter, pathetic, puerile, lame hate screed against Governor Sarah Palin published in Monday's paper, she seems legitimately shocked that people were offended, and she was the subject of hateful attacks against her person.

Now I'm not going to defend personal attacks made by readers against Reimer. Just because Reimer launched a series of unnecessary personal shots at Senator McCain and Governor Palin doesn't mean people should respond in kind. But questioning Reimer's charachter and judgment are completely in line, and can be expected after the kind of crap that she wrote under her own name.

One line that did give me a chuckle was this:

So much pent-up anger, so much barely concealed hate was released in those e-mails and those postings. I wonder where next they will find a vent.

Gee, I wonder who unleashed pent-up agner and barely concealed first? Perhaps in was an in-over-her-head Baltimore Sun columnist maybe?

Obviously, given Reimer's column, this is clearly how she wanted to be treated though. Otherwise, she would not have subjected Senator McCain and Governor Palin to this kind of treatment...

Even for the Sun this is stupid

Wow:

If a Democrat wins the presidency in November, the overwhelmingly Democratic city of Baltimore could have a unique way to celebrate: by removing that silver elephant otherwise known as Male/Female from in front of Penn Station. More than any other artwork in the city, that sculpture seems to exemplify the era of the Bush administration.

How so? First, it was foisted upon the people in a technically legal but generally galling way. What the Supreme Court did for George W. Bush in December 2000, the Municipal Art Society did for Male/Female in 2004. Second, it's big and brash and totally insensitive to the reality that surrounds it. Third, its much-vaunted heart is artificial, and its brain is pretty well hidden. Also, its approval ratings are minuscule.

Defenders of Male/Female love to sneer that any criticism of it is unsophisticated. People used to think that criticism of the Bush administration was unsophisticated, too. This sculpture perfectly caught the essence of its time - and we believe that by next year that time will have passed. Send it over to MICA, where the art students can study an artifact of a bygone era.

What an immature, petty, stupid rant. Words can't even describe how lame this is, and pretty much sums up in three asinine paragraphs how devoid the Sun's obstinate Editorial Board is of even vaguely intelligent or critical thinking.

Joe Albero and Andy Harris deserve each other

Now, Joe Albero decides he wants to tell a bold face lie:

However, Brian had been begging for months to get a link on my Site and I refused to do so and once again, I was right.

Which, of course, is a complete crock. I have never asked anybody to link to my site. Especially not a site from such a factually challenged third-rate jackass from Delaware.

No wonder Albero likes Andy Harris so much, given Harris' truthiness problem...

So....freaking......what

So....Joe Albero whined about the Blognetnews ratings, and is now happy. And....what exactly has this accomplished, other than him looking like a dim-witted bumbling idiot?

My new policy regarding Albero is to ignore him. He adds nothing to the conversation other than the jackassery Streiff noted, so it's best just to not give him the attention that he craves so much....

Inside the Fringe Left Mind

I don't think anybody ever accused Andrew Kujan (left) of ever getting it when it comes to the discussion of issues and the undertaking of political discourse. So needless to say when he "replied" to my challenge to a debate today, even I was somewhat stunned that instead of actually sticking to the issues, he went off in directions that even I could not fathom that Kujan could come up with.

Are we in Jr. High Brian? Are you going to give a me purple-nurple and take my lunch money? Maybe give me a wedgie or throw some spitballs?

Huh? But it gets better....

While debating a conservative parody might be interesting, I think I will take a pass.

Because God knows we couldn't possibly talk about issues in a public forum.

I mean, you got what you wanted already, right? You got to humiliate several people you have never met.

No, what I wanted was a freaking debate on issues with you, Smith, Luedtke, or some of the other spewers of vitriolic, hate-filled babble over at FSP; maybe you didn't get the memo. Bruce Godfrey stepped up, and he has never been afraid to take on the issues. Robb Black asked to participate and I think it's great to include a third perspective. I was never out to embarrass anybody. The only thing that would seem embarrassing, in my eyes, would be that you and some others got called out on the carpet and backed down when challenged on your ideas; and Kujan did that to himself.

Readers of this blog are familiar with conservative wet dreams of liberal humiliation. I would appreciate if you would LEAVE ME OUT OF YOURS in the future.

Uh....I'm not even sure how to respond to this claptrap, though I think he's projecting again.

Kujan's screed about my "bravado" just proves my point about the far left who wish to scream about issues and cry about Conservative bullies. When it's time to talk issues, they are no where to be seen. It's why liberal talk radio fails. It's why the mass media is losing readership to the internet. And it's why certain members of Free State Politics won't debate me....