Have You Ever Seen A 67 Million Dollar Pair of Pants?

A lawyer in Washington, D.C. has filed a lawsuit against a dry cleaners for a lost pair of trousers. Apparently the pants were his favorite and had sentimental value. He is suing for the pain and suffering of not being able to wear his favorite suit on his first day at work as a judge on the bench. I'm thinking the guy may be soon to see his last day as a judge on the bench. This is how idiots are weeded out. For example, Fred Phelps the idiot lawyer from Kansas who had some crazy lawsuit against a court clerk ended up making a stupid mistake and perjuring himself because he was so attached to his case. I would hate to have this guy as a judge in any case I need to have heard. He has basically sealed his political fate on this one as well. Many attorneys and judges have aspirations of becoming political officials ranging from Senators up to President or Supreme Court Justice. This guy has definitely made it easy for any one who may oppose his election to any position. Part of his lawsuit is for pain and suffering, part is for 10 years worth of the drive to another cleaners further from his home. The cleaners is taking donations toward their defense because there have been so many people call their attorney wanting to help.

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Check Out My Television Appearance

Hello All here is the link to my television appearance last night. Hope you enjoy it. I would like to thank CBS46 for airing the story and especially Cynne' Simpson and AJ the camera engineer that was working with her. Also if you are interested scan down below for the videos I made and posted on YouTube.

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Court Case In Atlanta For Horrific Puppy Torture Case

There is a case in the court system currently where two teenage boys have been accused of torturing a small puppy by (among other things) cooking it live in a gas oven. Following are some snips from the article about the case. "Jurors recoiled in horror and wiped their eyes Thursday as prosecutors produced a series of grisly photos of a tiny puppy tortured and then killed in a gas oven...The blood stained oven showed showed scratch marks on the door and walls, indicating that the young dog - it's mouth and feet duct taped - struggled before it died...Beige paint also covered the puppy and the inside of the oven, a final act of cruelty before the animal was tossed into the stove..." The puppy was only 3 months old. (as if age makes a difference in the effect of paint, tape, cooking while live). This is a horrific case and I'm sooooo glad I didn't get called to be on the jury for this one. If I had I'm sure that they would have releived me of my duties pretty quickly because #1 I am a petsitter; #2 I think who ever is guilty should receive the same punishment as they dished out and #3 I would have jumped from the jury box and choked the shit out of the little punk bastards who were found guilty. All good reasons for the defense to decide against me as a juror.

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Conservative Jews Allow Gay Rabbis And Unions

"The highest legal body in conservative Judaism, the centrist movement in worldwide Jewry, voted yesterday to allow the ordination of gay rabbis and the celebration of same-sex commitment ceremonies...The decision, which followed years of debate, was denounced by traditionalists in the movement as an indication that Conservative Judaism had abandoned its commitment to adhere to Jewish law, but celebrated by others as a long-awaited move toward full equality for gay people... To see more click the link above

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Dick Cheney's Daughter Is Expecting A Baby

Cheney's daughter is expecting a baby with her partner of 15 years due some time in the spring. The Dick and his wife are reportedly looking forward to the baby's arrival as it will make the 6th grandchild. Of course all the wackos are using the issue as a point of controversy as opposed to just getting over it and letting the family live their lives. Maybe if people would mind their own business and not harrass the Dick he wouldn't have such a complex about his lesbian daughter and all the gay people in the world. Kudos to him though in recognizing it as a relationship and accepting the results of it as opposed to my own father who thinks it is a phase I've been going through for the last 25 years. He thinks I should move home to BFE Oklahoma and he said I could travel to a city 3 hours away on the weekend to do my gay thing. Little does he know the gay thing includes all the activities of daily life not just screwing whores on the weekend.

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Should Race Be A Factor In School Planning?

Courts are debating whether or not race should be a factor in whether or not students can go to particular schools. Some think that all schools should reflect what the population of our country is as a whole, some think that only people who live in a particular district should get to go to a particular school, and others think that the schools should reflect the population of the city they are in as opposed to the whole nation. Who knows? The Supreme Court?

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Isreali Map Shows West Bank Posts On Arab Land

A potential source of embarrassment for Isreal as they have said that they only take land there legally or for security reasons temporarily. The claims come from a 2004 database of the Civil Administration. The data was given to Peace Now by someone who obtained it from an official inside the Civil Administration. The goal was to expose perceived wide scale violations of private Palestinian property rights by the government and settlers. According to people within the Civil Administration there have been investigations in process for 3 years regarding land ownership and many Palestinians have sold land to Isrealis but would not admit the sales publicly due to fear of retribution.

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Lesbian Couple Married in Massachusetts Files For Divorce In Rhode Island

Lesbian couple files for divorce in Rhode Island creating a confusing situation for the court system there. If they decide it is in their jurisdiction will they be recognizing the marriage? This is the conundrum in the Rhode Island court system. Massachusetts became the only state to allow same sex marriages when the supreme court ruled it was unconstitutional to ban it. The risk for Rhode Island is that if they decide to try the case in their state they are basically recognizing same sex marriage in their state.

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Six Muslim Imams Removed from U.S. Airliner

Six Muslim imams removed from U.S. airliner Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.

I got an email from TBLJ about this and decided to comment on it. Once again someone has been removed from a plan for praying. First it's the Jews and then it's the Muslims. All because either people can't handle religion or people can't handle non-christian religion. Depending on which way you look at it you could argue that this is what happens when we remove prayer from schools or you could argue that this is what happens when ignorant people who have only been exposed to Christian style prayer are allowed to work for the airline industry or to fly. I say the only way to find out which is true is to get a bunch of open minded Christians to pray visibly on a plane and then get someone to complain of it who is on the same plane. If they remove the Christian from the plane then maybe it's a matter of this is what happens when you remove prayer from schools but I would venture to guess that the Christian would be permitted to stay on the plane which would fit with the second theory of Ignorant Christians Gone Wild.

Any volunteers out there willing to test the theory?

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Dude Who Plays Kramer Makes Loads of Racist Statements

The guy who plays Kramer on the hit TV series Seinfeld was caught on a cell phone video making all sorts of racist comments. He apparently felt as if he was being heckled by some black people in the crowd. Other people in the crowd and back stage felt more as if it was just black people talking to each other during the performance which offended him. Either way the guy busted out with all sorts of crap spewing from his mouth. People began getting up and leaving and the workers at the Laugh Factory had to get up on stage to calm the situation. Later Kramer was asked by Jerry Seinfeld to make an apology on the David Letterman Show since Jerry was already scheduled to be on. You could tell that Jerry was a bit uncomfortable and so was Richards (Kramer). One thing I can say for the guy is that he admitted he did it and that he has anger issues and blah, blah, blah. I think that is better than him trying to say he was drunk and making excuses like all the other dumbasses in the public eye. Either way I say a drunk/angry man's words are a sober man's thoughts so who cares what the reason is you're an idiot. The guy needs help but who doesn't the fact is that he said what a bunch of bigoted white people wish they could say every day and he just happened to be a famous guy who got caught. I am very happy with the whole video on your cell phone though. It makes for great posts from You Tube and it helps catch all the bad cops and the like.

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The Dutch Are Backing a Burqa Ban

Once again the Dutch are making stupid decisions. Wasn't it the Dutch that apologized a few years back for something they did wrong as it relates to oppression. I never can keep track of all the dumb crackers who buy, trade and steal Africans and others of color and take them to the Carribean or the U.S. to make them into slaves and then apologize for it years later to boost their tourism. I had an African American ex with a Dutch last name that she got from her white father. I used to listen to her tell her daughter we're not peasants we're Dutch royalty. I get the whole you can do whatever you want and don't let any one stop you lesson and I support being proud of the people who raised you healthily(if it can be said), but I used to wonder why anyone would associate themselves with something that is not them. Especially when you are associating yourself with someone who needs to apologize for all the oppression each time their economy needs a boost. The main reason they stated for their decision was "burqas disturb public order, citizens and safety." Maybe the Dutch are vastly different than us but I have never seen any one who wears a burqa disturbing public order. Do the Dutch begin running in chaotic crazy stampeding mobs when they see a burqa or something? If that's the case maybe they should pass a law against stampeding idiots. I'm wondering how many citizens are truly disturbed by the only 100 people who actually wear burqas out of like 16 million people. If it is a large amount I would be surprised. I think the "disturbed" ones were the government people who made the decision in the first place. I tell ya I worry about the IQ's of the Dutch and the French for making these types of decisions. I mean if I go by this country's record it would seem the places with the lowest levels of education are the one's making laws and supporting laws that are furthering in-equality. I'm just hoping that when I visit the goofballs over there they look like Amish because if they don't then I think it could be disturbing to public order. I mean who knows what kind of dangerous fashion statement may come into play next. Maybe someone will show their ankles. Oh My!!!

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UCLA Student "Shocks" Onlookers at the Campus Library

Has anyone seen the video of the UCLA student getting zapped 5 times with a taser by the police. Apparently the guy didn't have an ID and was at the library. Campus policy is that after 1130pm you must have a valid campus ID in order to be in the library. The guy came in and refused to show ID to the librarian who in turn called the police. When they came he then challenged them and so they pulled out a tazer. He then began screaming at them in order to bring attention to himself and the situation. He told them that he would walk out on his own and asked them not to touch him. As they touched him to get him out of the chair and walking he began to scream more and more and he resisted them by refusing to walk. They told him he had a choice walk or get tased. He chose to get tased all the while he was screaming for attention. They again told him to walk he again refused and they again tased him. After one or two times of being tased I would think it would become difficult to walk. I would think it would become difficult to keep piss and shit inside your body as opposed to outside it. I don't know the technicalities of what it does to the body to be tased so I can only assume. But in my opinion more than 2 or 3 tases in one particular arrest attempt should be the limit. I think these officers were in the right for tasing the guy the first two times but after that they were totally out of line. I also think the kid is exploiting the state of the nation right now and his own race. He was outside the policy and he knew it but instead of leaving when the librarian or the police asked him the first time he decided to exercise whatever privilege he grew up with in his family life (even if it was simply that every time he cried his mommy came running) and challenge them. Little did he know that momma's little boy doesn't always get his way and his immature, emotional and egotistical behavior deserves a couple of extra tases any way. If I was the judge in this case I would rule that the kid get nothing because he acted like a frickin spoiled ungrateful brat, and that the cops in this situation be punished for their actions. They were definitely out of line.

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New York City to Ease ID Changes for Transgender Residents

New York City is thinking of changing the way they go about birth certificate changes for transgender residents. The city currently allows birth certificate changes but only to omit the gender for those with proof of having had the surgery. Now they are going to actually change the gender on the licence. The city currently does a dozen or so changes each year. The reason they are considering changing the actual gender is because of the increased security since 9/11 as well as harrassment from police etc. and job security. The issue is one of safety for the people who are transgender. I think it is too bad that any one at all has to fear from their safety from the authorities whose job it is to protect us, but unfortunately that is not the case. In this country you are free as long as you are within whatever the Prez thinks is right. After that you could be put in custody without cause, you may have an FBI file, you can beat a guy on video and get away with it as long as you're a police officer. The list goes on and in the end you really aren't as safe as you think you are. I wish I could change my gender on my ID so that I could get a pay increase. (Just Joking!! - But not about the pay increase)

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