No…I’m NOT kidding. That’s how pathetic San Francisco has become. Reason #4,589…why I left California. Moral equivalency run amok.

An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival, officials said Monday.

The walkaways are the latest in a string of embarrassments for city officials who are protecting illegal-immigrant drug dealers from federal authorities and possible deportation because of San Francisco’s 1989 declaration that the city is a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.

Yes…you read that correctly. Keeping crack dealers who are ILLEGAL aliens in the United States is more important than deporting them. How twisted is that?

When federal law enforcement authorities demanded that San Francisco halt the flights and began a criminal investigation, the city decided to house some of the dealers in long-term youth rehabilitation centers. Some of those centers are run by a nonprofitcompany called Silverlake Youth Services in mountain towns southeast of San Bernardino.

Eight Honduran juveniles who had been convicted of dealing drugs in San Francisco were sent within the past few weeks to the company’s group homes, where one month’s placement costs $7,000 per youth - an expense borne by San Francisco taxpayers.

Um….I’m speechless.

Man and Man. Uh….I mean…wife and wife.

With a series of simple “I dos,” gay couples across California inaugurated the state’s court-approved and potentially short-lived legalization of same-sex marriage on Monday, the first of what is expected to be a crush of such unions in coming weeks.

Massachusetts was first….now California. You can bet the states that already recognize ‘civil unions’ between same-sex partners, will be next. (New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, and Connecticut). And along with Hawaii….it’s only a matter of time.

I’m actually quite done with this subject…knowing the inevitable will occur. Every state that has put it on a ballot, to be voted on- has overwhelmingly DISAPPROVED it. Yet, gay activists continue to hammer the courts- completely ignoring the Vox Populi. Adam and Steve- they’re here, they’re queer- get used to it.

Uh…I’m straight…it’s innate…we rejected it!

Charles Manson follower and vicious MURDERER Susan Atkins is asking for a ‘compassionate release’ from prison. Yah…seems she has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has requested a “compassionate release” from prison because she has less than six months to live, a California prisons spokeswoman said Friday.

Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four others. She had been incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California. But Atkins, the state’s longest- serving female inmate, has been hospitalized since March 18 and is listed in serious condition, state corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said.

Atkins’ husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, was quoted as saying she has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, according to a blog called Manson Family Today. She also has had a leg amputated, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the case.

And of course, the surviving Tate family and the good people of California are now asked to show compassion and let her out so that she can die peacefully as a free woman.

According to historical accounts of the murders, Atkins stabbed Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant, and scawled the word “pig” in blood on the door of the home the actress shared with director Roman Polanski.

“I don’t want to seem like a heartless creature, but in all my years, I never considered this could happen,” Debra Tate, the actress’ sister, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

“She showed no compassion. She told my sister as she slit her throat that she didn’t (care) for her or her unborn baby,” Tate added.

Ms. Tate…I couldn’t agree more. She should die alone and suffer horribly. Evil of this magnitude deserves no respite. EVER.

When it comes to art, I’m quite liberal. Nudity? No problem. Controversial topics? Sure. Offensive and taboo subject matter? Um….maybe. But therein lies the rub….what is considered art, what is not?…and what exactly separates art from nothing more than say- complete RUBBISH?

Lately, the boundaries- even by my standards- are getting pushed.

Ira Isaacs readily admits he produced and sold movies depicting bestiality and sexual activity involving feces and urine. The judge warned potential jurors that the hours of fetish videos included violence against women, and many of them said they don’t want to serve because watching would make them sick to their stomachs.

“It’s the most extreme material that’s ever been put on trial. I don’t know of anything more disgusting,” said Roger Jon Diamond, Isaacs’ own defense attorney. The case is the most visible effort of a new federal task force designed to crack down on smut in America. Isaacs, however, says his work is an extreme but constitutionally protected form of art.

“There’s no question the stuff is disgusting,” said Diamond, who has spent much of his career representing pornographers. “The question is should we throw people in jail for it?”

Isaacs, 57, a Los Angeles advertising agency owner who says he used to market fine art in commercial projects, calls himself a “shock artist” and says he went into distributing and producing films about fetishes because “I wanted to do something extreme.”

“I’m fighting for art,” he said in an interview before his federal trial got under way. “Art is on trial.”

Uh…wait just a Van Gogh minute. ART is on trial? Uh…wrong there Cecil B. De-knucklehead, you are.

Although I can’t for the LIFE OF ME understand why someone would be turned on to seeing feces and urine (gee….call me a prude), I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. I am. But YOUR argument that ‘art is on trial’ is definitely the wrong approach. All you’re really trying to do is- frame the argument to effectively remove yourself from the debate- and more importantly…the obscenity charges.

You’re not trying to separate what is art from what is not, you are trying to separate yourself from what you’ve done. Face it…you’ve behaved rather badly and rather than cop to it and explain your behavior and what drove you to film this filth- you’re trying to tell us ‘art is on trial’.

Diamond said Isaacs also will tell jurors the works have therapeutic value for people with the same fetishes depicted on screen. “They don’t feel so isolated,” Diamond said. “They have fetishes that other people have.”

Huh? So now this is therapy? Look Spielberg…unless, the viewer is constipated and you can prove that your films act as an enema or a diuretic- I think you’re going to lose. Uh…for therapy: might I suggest you call a DOCTOR?

Perhaps a Psychiatrist.

I’m not going to kick him when he’s down. I’m not. Ted Kennedy has the fight of his life on his hands…so rather than lambaste him- which I normally do with relish- I want to put into CONTEXT the soaring praise and well wishes that have come flooding in like a Katrina in September.

This from the Dhali-bama:

Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday that it is “heartbreaking” to hear that Sen. Edward Kennedy is suffering from a brain tumor, crediting the ailing lawmaker with making it possible for him to run for president.

“I would not be sitting here as a presidential candidate were it not for some of the battles he fought as a senator: He battled for voting rights and civil rights when I was a child. I stand on his shoulders,” Obama said. 

SAY WHAT?

Lyndon Johnson SIGNED the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Ted Kennedy had just replaced his brother John in 1962 when JFK became President and vacated the Massachusetts seat. By then, Martin Luther King was already a national figure. At best, Ted as a first-time Senator cast 1 Senate vote in favor of the act. The Voting Rights Act? That was passed in 1965. As a junior senator, how much influence could Teddy have had? Give me a break.

Next up….we have Hellary Rotten Clinton:

Sen. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Kennedy’s “courage and resolve are unmatched, and they have made him one of the greatest legislators in Senate history.”

You’re kidding right?

Even if he were: ‘one of the greatest legislators in Senate history’….you had to go and throw in HYPERBOLIC words like “courage and resolve are unmatched”? How misplaced is that statement? I’m sure Mary Jo Kopechne (if she were still alive) would refute that.

And last but not least- Juan McAmnesty:

“I have described Ted Kennedy as the last lion in the Senate,” a tearful McCain said on his campaign bus in Florida. “And I have held that view because he remains the single most effective member of the Senate.” 

Wow.

A ‘tearful McCain’? Teddy ‘remains the single most effective member’? Juan….for goodness sake…just change party affiliation now- and be done with it. You were doing fine with the - our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family- type of rhetoric. Now you’re crying and lauding him as ‘a lion’ and unparalleled statesman?

For the record: I hope Ted Kennedy wins his fight against cancer. And I also hope he retires. But let’s be clear- Ted Kennedy is not Mother Teresa- so stick to prayers and best wishes.

Not to be confused with the Soviet Socialist Republic of Santa Monica (a well known Marxist community). New Jersey, that ridiculous state that is home to my uncle, is working on their own version of a ’sin’ tax. Yah….hold on to your soft taco, here comes a fast food tax.

The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial “sin” tax on fast food.

Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is actually being tossed around, and it’s not settling well with many residents. “They’re taxing everything. Now you’re gonna tax fast food? That’s crazy,” said Newark resident Miriam Robertson.

Well, you poor schlub, welcome to New Jersey.

“I think this country has gone too much in the direction of fast and unhealthy food, and if people are taxed they may terminate that and turn toward more healthy foods,” said West Orange resident Maureen Felix.

Ahhhh….the typical liberal mindset. Tax ‘em ’til they CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR. Don’t forget- Los Angeles could introduce a Global Warming tax. C’mon…you Philistines- start thinking like a liberal for goodness sake! Having lived amongst them for 22 long and PAINFUL years, I believe I can offer some insight. Basically- ideally- liberals would love everyone to be vegan, secular, anti-military, and anti-American.

In their perfect world, it would be more difficult to: buy beef, buy a gun, buy a Bible, or purchase an American flag. Uh no- I’m not kidding. (FYI….burgers, fall under fast food.)

Everyone of us…each and every day makes a varitable COMPENDIUM of choices. A few will be moral, but blessedly, most will be trivial and unimportant in the grand scheme of life.

Then there are these types:

Alexander Letkemann, 18, of Westland, was sentenced to 20-30 years in prison for his role in what prosecutors have labeled the “thrill kill” of Daniel Sorensen, 26. Letkemann took a plea deal last month and testified against Jean Pierre Orlewicz, who was found guilty of first-degree murder in Sorensen’s killing.

During sentencing, Wayne County Circuit Judge Annette Berry called in beyond comprehension that Letkemann knew about the planned killing, helped prepare for it, did nothing to stop it and did not report it after it happened. “This was a premeditated, calculated act of nothing short of violence, sadistic pleasure,” Berry said. “How is it, sir? Help us understand.”

Letkemann, answering in a low voice, could only offer that his mind froze. He could not explain it.

Your mind FROZE? A murder that was premediated, planned and carried out over a period of days and your mind froze for the entire period?

Two others knew about the planned killing of Sorensen and did nothing to stop it. One got immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony. The judge, however, said they all should have been charged.

ABSOLUTELY charged. That makes a total of 3 young people who could’ve saved a 26 year old man’s life. They did nothing. Nada.

These kinds of moral decisions are what I call- no brainers. And no, you don’t have to be a Christian or a Jew or a Buddhist to step in. But you do have to have a basic sense of right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and evil.

In this tragedy, they chose: Wrong, Immoral, and Evil. Now there’s a trifecta. 20 to 30 years in prison should be sufficient time for Letkemann’s mind to THAW!