A married guy is stalking his mistress and threatening suicide if she breaks up with him. His wife gets in a fight with her, and beats her up. He shows up at her home in the middle of the night, and she is so scared, she calls 911:
“I’m in my room. I am armed right now. I don’t know what he’s going to do,”
The woman is so afraid of the man and his wife that she won’t even go home. The police won’t investigate, and claim that there are no violations of the law here. Why do they say that?
Food stamp recipients are turning the government handouts into quick cash with ads on Craigslist, despite efforts to stem fraud.
In Florida during 2010, there were 53 fatal accidents that were caused by red light running. In 2011, Florida began allowing red light cameras, for safety reasons, they said. That year, there were 72 fatal crashes caused by red light running.
The tickets are not reported on the violating driver’s license, and so they cannot be a factor in suspending a license, nor can the insurance company raise your rates as a result. What these cameras do is perform as a cash cow for local governments that are eager to take more of your money. The scheme does not ticket the offender. Unlike an officer-issued ticket, the scheme tickets the vehicle owner, relies upon a guilty until proven innocent clause in the law
to provide government leverage to ensure private sector profit, and thus turns a function of government into a for-profit enterprise. The huge amount of money involved is a source of corruption for those
in government.
Meanwhile, in Texas, American Traffic Solutions (ATS) is threatening Texas vehicle owners
with drivers’ license suspensions if they fail to pay up when a red
light camera ticket is sent in the mail. Under state law, the company
cannot make good on its threat. A red light camera ticket fine is $75,
or $100 if not paid within thirty days. To encourage payment, ATS
includes a brochure with the citation that purports to describe
additional consequences of not sending in a check immediately.
So Schwarzenegger wants to run for President. There is a Constitutional issue here, in that he is not a natural born citizen.
This sets up an interesting dilemma. Regardless of whether or not you believe in the birthers’ theory that Obama is not a natural born citizen, the court battles surrounding the claim raised an interesting point: According to the US Court system, no one has standing to enforce the Constitution in the even that someone is elected President in defiance of the Constitution.
I stumbled on a website where women can buy fashionable articles of clothing to hide their concealed weapon. I have no idea about quality or suitability, I am just aware that many women have problems finding things like this, and thought I would pass it along.
A couple gets arrested for having oral sex on a plane. Consensual activity. They are fined $250 each in a plea deal. The man loses his job.
A Federal Air Marshal gets arrested for taking pictures up women’s skirts on board an airplane while he is supposed to be looking for terrorists. A non-consensual act. Bartsch was arrested, and according to a police report had taken 10 to 12 photos. He told authorities he had done it before. He MAY be suspended or terminated. He is charged with ‘disorderly conduct’ (a misdemeanor) instead of being charged under Tennessee’s video voyeurism law. That law is a class E felony, and carries a penalty of 1-6 years in prison.
This guy was charged for the same thing in my neck of the woods. It must be good to be one of the anointed ones.
A woman is attacked in a Wal Mart parking lot, and an employee of the store tried to help her. He was fired, because the retail store has a policy against it.Businesses do not care about you. To them, you are a walking wallet with a potential lawsuit attached, and they will do whatever the law will allow to escape that liability.
This is why I do not follow “no guns” signs. The law says that they can avoid the liability of a lawsuit if they prohibit weapons, even if prohibiting weapons means that the criminals are free to kill everyone in the store. It also says they are liable if there is not a policy, and someone with a weapon injures someone. No brainer: they prohibit weapons.
The law also says that they are liable if one of their employees uses force to injure someone, even if that someone is a criminal. So the result here is that you, as a customer, are on your own.
However, at least in Florida, the law also says that I am free to ignore your silly sign, and that is exactly what I do.
The Republicans prove that they pay mere lip service to their stated principles:
We can preempt the debt explosion. Backed by a Republican Senate and
House, our next President will propose immediate reductions in federal
spending, as a down payment on the much larger task of long-range fiscal
control. We suggest a tripartite test for every federal activity.
First, is it within the constitutional scope of the federal government?
Second, is it effective and absolutely necessary? And third, is it
sufficiently important to justify borrowing, especially foreign
borrowing, to fund it? Against those standards we will measure programs
from international population control to California’s federally
subsidized high-speed train to nowhere, and terminate programs that
don’t measure up.
They always tell you that they want to cut the deficit, but never do. The politics always get in the way. The recent government shutdown was ended because certain Republican congressmen were paid off with pork being sent to their districts.
Key
Republicans get pork for their district, Federal workers got paid for
the time they missed during the shutdown, proving that this was
political theater and politics as usual in Washington. Party of
principles, my ass.
This train wreck is not going to be avoided. We are on a road to ruin, and there is no avoiding it. $17 trillion already borrowed, more printed, and $100 trillion promised. Sooner or later, the house of cards will fall.
The Osceola School Board admitted wrongdoing Tuesday night after
administrators suspended an 8-year-old for using his finger as a toy gun
in September. After a public outcry, the school initially offered to change Jordan’s
punishment from an “act of violence” to an “inappropriate or obscene
gesture,” but the boy’s mother refused to accept the punishment.
After some debate, the school board agreed to reinstate the boy, and count the suspension as an excused absence. I want to know which school board members were on the side of the debate that wanted to keep the suspension in place. That way, we know who to campaign for removal from office, come next election.
EDITED TO ADD ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
Video of the school board meeting can be found here. The portion of the meeting that is applicable begins at 49:00 and ends at 61:03 of the video labelled “October 01, 2013 Board Meeting.”
Board Members with common sense:
Jay Wheeler “We are elected to represent the public, not the school district.”
Kelvin Soto “That doesn’t mean that you can’t come to us. I don’t subscribe to the idea that the principal has the final say. The parents do have a voice through us, the school board.”
Board members who deserve to lose their jobs in the next election. Each of them adopted an attitude towards the parent that it was not the school board’s place to second guess the principal, and basically told the parent to sit down and shut up.
Tom Long “It is not this board’s job to intervene in individual cases of discipline.” That is exactly your job, tool. That is why we have an elected board.
Tim Weisheyer
Barbara Horn
In addition, the school superintendent Melba Luciano and deputy superintendent Tom Phelps need to be out as well. They are appointed by the board.
She had to hire a lawyer, Mr Nejame, to protect her son for making a finger gun. The county’s attorney pointed out that there is no appeals process for a child being suspended: the principal has the final say in all discipline matters. This is insanity. A child attends school under mandatory order of the government, and the child is having his or her permanent school record damaged by this discipline, there needs to be a review process.
I will be voting accordingly in the next election.
