Day: August 11, 2006

Mary Winkler was set to be released on bond today, but at the last minute, it was discovered that her bonding company’s license had been suspended since 1999. So for now, she’s back behind bars.

Defense attorney Steve Farese Jr. said Friday afternoon that Judge Weber McCraw had approved the details of a $750,000 bond arranged by the family through Williams Bail Bond of Alamo. He said administrators were processing the paperwork to release her by Friday evening.

But shortly after 5 p.m., McCraw was informed by a judge in another county that Williams Bail Bond had been suspended over a 1999 incident, Farese said.

“The judge is just doing his job,” Farese said. “It would have been an error if she had been released.”

Williams Bail Bond employees would try to resolve any disputes and work toward a deal for Winkler’s release early next week, Farese said.

Winkler is charged with killing her husband Matthew with a single blast from a 12-gauge shotgun as he lay in bed at their church parsonage following a night of arguing over strained family finances and other matters. She has been in jail since March 23, the day after his death, awaiting trial.

Previously: Winkler’s Caught Up in Email Scam | Shot Dead Over Family Finances | Winkler: Opening Up | Winkler Attorneys Waive Fees | The Innocent Victims | Winkler Family Fund | Possible Winkler Defense? | Mary Winkler: “Overwhelmed and Confused” | Winkler Vs. the State of Tennessee | She Did It |

Will he? Won’t he? Will he? Won’t he?

That’s how the whole day went today. At one point, it seemed as though Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was ratcheting up his war machine to include a ground invasion of 40,000 troops. Next thing you know, he’s signed on to a cease fire agreement. Or has he?

What the ?

I’ve thought from the beginning that a cease fire means nothing more than a loss for Israel. While they adhere to the terms of the agreement, the Hezbollah terrorists will catch their breath, restock their weapons, repair what’s been broken, and then start all over again. I mean come on…THEY’RE TERRORISTS! They’re not a State.

And forget about those pansies in the Lebanese government. They haven’t pulled their heads out from under their bed covers for weeks.

Even the Brits are misguided.

“You never get a deal like this with everybody getting everything that they want,” British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said. “The question is, has everybody got enough for this to stick and for it to be enforceable? Nobody wants to go back to where we were before this last episode started.”

She obviously forgot she was negotiating with terrorists. A cease fire won’t “stick”. It’s merely a lull. A ‘time-out’ for Hezbollah. I predict they’ll start up again in no time.

And as for Olmert – his agreeing to the terms moves him one step closer to the exit door.

This certainly isn’t a surprise.

British officials Friday identified 19 of the suspects accused of planning to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft in the biggest terrorist plot to be uncovered since 9/11. In Pakistan, officials reported signs of an Al Qaeda connection and said they had detained a “key person” in the case.

That’s Al Qaeda, the Islamofacists. The terrorists. The people who want to kill you and me.

Somehow I feel like I have to remind people of that. Listening to talk radio today and watching television reports last night, it’s clear that a few people (OK, entire political parties and the MSM) have forgotten who Al Qaeda is.

Don’t forget.

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