Tag: Laws

Should GW Be Held Accountable?

With the incoming House in January, there has been lots of copy on the possibility of hundreds of investigations by Rep. Issa…..there are some things that I agree need investigating and then there is my thought that all this drama is a witch hunt against Obama…political theater that will waste millions of taxpayers money…..but beyond that there are a few things that I feel need a closer look….like how government contracts are awarded or why lies and character assassination are allowed in campaigns……unfortunately I am talking about some of the stuff from GW presidency…..and from his days a gov of Texas….

First of all on the subject of torture….from his interview with NBC Matt Lauer…..

“The lawyer said it was legal and it did not fall under the Anti-Torture Act. I’m not a lawyer. I have to trust the people around me.”
Bush defended the tactics of CIA officers during the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, who was suspected to be a member of al Qaeda with information on the 9/11 attacks. He said the tactics “saved lives” and that he was protecting America by allowing what many Americans, including President Barack Obama, would call torture.

The rest of the world considers water-boarding as torture…many people have been tried and convicted on this issue to include Japanese soldiers during WW2 and some police officers in the US…to mention just a few….and since it is recognized by the world as torture and GW admitted to knowing and approving of the technique……should he be held accountable?

Then there is when he was governor of Texas…..and he sent a bunch of people to the other side in the executions in the state….but there is one that stands out….

Claude Howard Jones was convicted of murder during a liquor store robbery in 1989 and put to death on December 7, 2000.

His murder conviction was based on a single piece of forensic evidence recovered from the crime scene — a strand of hair that prosecutors claimed belonged to Jones.

The Texas Observer magazine on Thursday said the DNA tests completed this week at the request of the Observer and the New York-based Innocence Project indicate that Jones was “excluded as the contributor of this questioned hair.”The day before he was put to death in the Texas execution chamber, Jones had asked for a stay of execution so that the strand of hair could be submitted for DNA testing.

His request was denied by the then governor of Texas George W. Bush.

What could have it hurt to delay the execution to determine if the man was innocent of the crime?  Now how does the state of Texas repay for this abortion of justice?  How does it make amends?

Should GW be held accountable for these two cases?

Is This Justice?

I have often thought that the punishment should mirror the crime….if a person sticks another hands in hot grease then that is his punishment………of if a man beats his wife then his punishment should be someone to beat him…..and…..well you get where I am coming from……so what am I getting at?  Newser is running a article about this type of thing….

An eye for an eye—a spine for a spine? A judge in Saudi Arabia has been asking hospitals whether or not they can sever the spinal cord of a man convicted of paralyzing another man in an attack with a cleaver, the AP reports. At least one hospital has refused on ethical grounds. The victim’s brother says “blood money” will not be an acceptable alternative.
Under Saudi law, victims are allowed to request that their attackers receive the same injuries they did, although the country’s leaders have been trying to clamp down on extreme punishment. A man had his teeth pulled out because he knocked somebody else’s out in a fight, and “we have also had cases of people sentenced to blindness because they have caused the blindness of another person,” an Amnesty spokesman says. “But never anything involving a spinal cord.”

Read more: http://www.newser.com/story/98521/saudi-judge-seeks-to-sever-mans-spine.html#ixzz0xBAygCKC

I have mixed feeling about this story….but I guess in the long run I would agree with the punishment…..

Will There Be An Insanity Defense?

From the VOMITORIUM

For all those that follow the sensationalism in the media…you know those pea brains that cannot live with Britney or Lindsey or Kate and her 8 or any of the gossipy crap that floods the media….you know…if you are one of those……

I personally hate gossipy crap….but I will admit that one and a while there comes a story that I cannot pass up….and van der Sloot is one of those stories…..

You know that sleazoid a couple of years ago was the prime suspect in the death of the Alabama blonde….he was arrested more times than I have hairs on my butt and released because there was no case…no body….no witness….NOTHING!  And now this same little rich turd is being accused of killing a 21 year old Peruvian woman……

He was arrested in Chile and sent back to Peru to face the charges….first he confessed to the crime and then he retracted and then he said it was a burglar and then confessed again and …….the show continues.

But that is not what I want to talk about…….unless you are a complete moron or in a coma then you pretty much know the story….what I want to address is his defense.

My guess is they his attorneys are going to go for an insanity plea.  Why?  Easy!  All the games this Sloot dude is playing…..confessing then retracting then confessing and all the antics he is pulling in police custody.  And then games he has been playing trying to make hay out of the blond’s disappearance in Aruba a couple of years ago….trying to get money for the location of her body and the confessing to that and then not knowing anything other than he left her on the beach.  But now his Moma is involved in a recent interview she stated:

CBS News correspondent Betty Nguyen reported on “The Early Show” Monday that van der Sloot’s mother, Anita van der Sloot, has spoken to a Dutch newspaper and says her son suffers from mental problems and needs psychiatric help. But even more shocking is that she is quoted in the same report saying that he may have had something to do with the death of Stephany Flores.

Anita van der Sloot told the paper, “I now believe that Joran may have indeed done something to Stephany in Peru. Maybe in a burst of anger? I don’t know.”

She said the two spoke on the phone just after Flores’ murder. She told him, “You’re being searched. A girl is dead. Where are you?”

Joran van der Sloot reportedly replied, “It’s not Stephany, is it? No, not Stephany.”

My first thought was, “if not Stephany, then who is dead?”

All this theatrics smell like the set up for an insanity plea.  I do not know what the insanity laws are in Peru, but I would bet that it would be better to be judged insane than to spend 25 years in a Peruvian prison.

IMO, this arrogant tool is a murder….he is just playing games trying to somehow beat the rap.

What Is Your Vice?

We all have them….admit it or not…you to have a vice…whether it is smoking or chocolate or weed or coke or porn or….well I bet you get the idea….some of us will not admit to having a vice because it is illegal……the point of this post is that the government does not have the right to interfere with me chasing me vice if I am hurting NO one but myself ……..

Now for a little history….

The radical American individualist legal theorist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) argues in a collection of essays on the prohibition of alcohol that all laws against “vice” were unjust, immoral, and counter-productive, and that practising a vice was no crime at all:

VICES are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.

Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

In vices, the very essence of crime—that is, the design to injure the person or property of another—is wanting.

It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practises a vice with any such criminal intent. He practises his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.

Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property; no such things as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and co-equal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

I agree with Spooner…..and sounds  a lot like some of the beliefs of Libertarians…….I believe that such programs as the War on Drugs is a waste of money for it can NEVER be won and that cash would better serve the American people than flushed down some third world toilet…….and anything that effects NO one but me….should not be a crime….I am have my vices but they only harm me and NO one else.

2010 Anal-Ocity #13

I always enjoy it when someone, anyone makes a comment, anal or otherwise that flies in the face of the Constitution……this time it was yet another Repub, Rep. Duncan L. hunter of California….not that Duncan Hunter but rather his son….apples do not fall far from the tree, huh?

“Would you support deportation of natural-born American citizens that are the children of illegal aliens,” Hunter was asked. “I would have to, yes,” Hunter said. “… We simply cannot afford what we’re doing right now,” he said. “… It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It’s what’s in our souls. …”

Repubs seem to be the ones that yell the loudest about things are unconstitutional and yet it appears that they seldom know what the document says……let me help:

14th Amendment of the US Constitution:

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

May I suggest that people read and understand the Constitution before you open your idiot mouths……I expect more out of a group that pretends to care so deeply about the Constitution…….

Which Breast Was It?

There comes a time, now and again, where I must cast aside my principle of not posting gossip…..there comes a time when I see a report that just begs me to comment……and I finally could not stand it anymore…..

This from the “Fair and Balanced” Network:

A Kentucky woman was charged with assault after she allegedly squirted breast milk into the face of a deputy.

Toni Tramel, 31, was arrested Thursday for public intoxication in Owensboro, WYMT-TV reported, but it is what she did next which has attracted headlines.

As Tramel changed into an inmate uniform, she squirted a stream of breast milk into the face of the female deputy watching over her.

A press release from the Daviess County, Kentucky, Detention Center, said that after the deputy decontaminated herself from the “bio-hazard”, Tramel was charged with third degree assault.

While the public drunkenness was merely a misdemeanor offense, the assault is a felony charge and a US$10,000 bond was set.

Reports of the case have sparked debates about whether using breast milk as a weapon should constitute a felony assault case, with many readers likening it to an accused person spitting on an officer.

All I can ask is….was it the right or the left?  I am sorry I was so caught up in the moment that I am left speechless….

But if you liked that one…..then you will cream your pants over this one……we have all seen those guys shaving while driving to work, but there is even more to that concept…..

A two-car crash on a Florida highway was caused by a 37-year-old woman who was shaving her bikini area while in the driver’s seat, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Her ex-husband was steering from the passenger seat.

Megan Mariah Barnes and her ex-husband Charles Judy were driving southbound Tuesday morning when they slammed into the back of a pick-up driven by David Schoff after he slowed to take a turn, CBS station WFOR-TV reports.

Barnes said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be “ready for the visit,” trooper Gary Dunick explained.

It is really hard to make this sh*t up….but why?  People are just stupid enough to keep us all busy…..I have been told that a person needs to be well-groomed….the this is taking it a bit to far……

Have you read enough…think again….YES!  There is more!

Titty Cheese!

Daniel Angerer is used to getting attention for the food served at his restaurant, Klee Brasserie — but the New York chef is making more headlines than ever over a new dish that has its source in his fiancee’s brassiere.

In Angerer’s case, that mother is his longtime fiancee, Lori Mason, who was producing more milk than she knew what to do with while nursing their now 10-week-old daughter, Arabella.

“Mommy’s Milk Cheese” is exactly what it sounds like: cheese made from the breast milk of a nursing mother.

Okay, I just have to say something……..!

When I tried to make my own cheese all the recipes called of at least a gallon or more of milk…..Now, just how much milk does she produce and how damn big are those boobs?

PETA once suggested that Ben & Jerry should use breast milk to make their ice cream….so this story should have the PETA lunatics jerking off in the corner…..

Animal Abuse

From time to time, when I get brain worms, I try to change the subject from the seriousness of the stupidity of politics and post something else….sometimes it is humor…or sex…or something…..well you get the idea…….

I am an animal lover, not the rabid crazy that is PETA, but rather the type that does not think that animals should be forced to amuse me….I mean…come on…what do you have to do to a bvear to get him to ride a bicycle?  Or to a tiger to make it jump through a ring of fire?……I do not believe that these creatures would do this on their own….

Anyway the state of California is doing some thing that I think is a great idea……

People who abuse animals could soon be treated the same way as sex offenders in California. State lawmakers are considering a bill to create an online registry for people convicted of animal cruelty, similar to the sex offender database.

The people pushing for this law say those who abuse animals are often abusive to human beings as well, which is why an online registry for animal abusers makes perfect sense.

The registry would include people like Michael Vick — animal abusers convicted of felonies. Such crimes include animal fighting, torture and mutilation, bestiality and repeated hoarding.

For the average dog owner, that would cost an extra $10 a year — an amount that will likely bring about some opposition, especially from Republicans who oppose new taxes, but Tischler is holding out hope.

If a national registry of sexual abuse is a good idea…..so is one the a/holes that abuse animals……..On a personal note…….when it comes to animal abuse it should pain for pain as the punishment…..if the animal is starved then so should the abuser or beat or mutilated……I think that could stop a lot of the abuse both animal and sexual and anything else that involves inflicting pain on another being for no other reason than amusement…….

We can move on to the Killer whale incident at SeaWorld…..a trainer was drowned by the Shamu (it was not Shamu, but another one)…….first of all ….what part of Killer Whale do they not understand?  You take an animal that is use to roaming the Pacific from top to bottom and put it in a tank about the size of a city block and then do not understand why it gets agitated….geez sounds like people are as stupid about animal behavior as they are about politics.  Here is a novel idea…..Let them all go home!…….enough said?

More On ACORN

By now all the people that hate ACORN are applauding loudly at the possible demise of the much hated organization.  But there is more to the story than FOX has reported and any other news media for that matter.

The authorities in Baltimore are beginning to look into the whole situation.

State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy has ordered an investigation of right-wing operatives James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who posed as a prostitute and pimp and illegally videotaped two ACORN receptionists at the group’s Baltimore office. The ACORN staffers are shown on the video advising the two tricksters dressed in outlandish garb on how to set up a brothel in the city.

Maryland law forbids taping people without their prior consent. Jessamy issued a statement Sept. 11 announcing that in response to numerous inquiries from the public she has launched a probe to determine if O’Keefe and Giles violated Article 10-402 of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

When the vid surfaced I made mention that I thought it was odd that a filmmaker took the tape to a right wing website instead of the authorities.

The media has sadly left this fact out of the reporting, that what the people at ACORN did was reprehensible but the fact that it was a hidden camera that it might not have been a legal thing to do.

With the possibility of the demise of ACORN, which organization that helps the poor will the conservatives go after?  If they no longer have ACORN to blame for all their problems, where will they look next?

A Disgusting Smear Campaign

The Associated Press had reported on a most disgusting individual and his technique of protest.

ELGIN, Iowa – A man faces criminal mischief charges after he allegedly defecated on a downtown Elgin sidewalk and smeared feces on the door of a building. Authorities said the building houses the Valley Community Coalition. Officials believe the man targeted the organization, but they aren’t sure why.

Matthew J. Sodoma, 21, was arrested early Thursday and was also charged with defecating on a public sidewalk or building

Fayette County Sheriff Marty Fisher said the man’s action defies the basic morals of the community and was unacceptable.

Authorities said the charges are misdemeanors and are punishable by a fine between $65 and $650 and up to 30 days in jail.

Damn!  I would like to know what pised this guy so much….I would suggest that he also be forced into anger management…..jusr a thought.

Get The Crapper Out Of The Yard

The AP has had a great story:

The planters in Tina Asmus’ front yard aren’t too pleasing to some of her neighbors, and village officials in Lakemoor have told her to remove them, or face a fine. Asmus, who likes to recycle discarded items, created the planters out of two old toilets and a pedestal sink. Mayor Todd Weihoffen, who is a plumber by trade, said he stands behind police who have given Asmus 30 days to remove the toilets.He said she faces a fine of $25 to $500 if she doesn’t comply by June 15.

Asmus, though, said she will not remove what she calls her “art pieces.” She said each toilet planter cost about $100 to make and holds an assortment of daisies, angel’s breath, lilies and other flowers.

Would not this be a form of recycling?  Kept a bunch of broken porcelin out of a local landfill.