- The scandal ridden ex-Montague County Sheriff died yesterday. (Thanks emailer, I had missed this completely.)
- The more religious you are, the more you approve of torture. I'm so confused.
- Watched a little of a Boating While Intoxicated case being tried in the Wise County Court at Law yesterday. I can assure you that's the first BWI case ever tried here.
- The video in the case, which showed the Field Sobriety Tests, contained more F Bombs than any other video ever shown in a Wise County court.
- The jury is made up of 5 men and 1 women. And the men did not look like "bubbas" at all.
- Get this, the boater blew a .06 (the legal limit is .08), but the test was a couple of hours after he was seen driving without lights out of Blocker's Camp on Lake Bridgeport.
- I think they might convict him for dropping a bunch of F Bombs.
- Jumping out of his boat while being towed by the Game Warden to Wise County Park doesn't help.
- That's a pretty fun case.
- Oh, by the way, Chrysler announced it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. A story which 10 years ago would have dominated the news for weeks is, in 2009, an afterthought.
- I really like watching Track and Field. Well, at least the "Track" part. And I'm not sure why it's not more popular than it is.
- The Bar Exam results (given twice a year) were just released. Baylor had the highest rating again.
- Flashback: Before I took the Bar Exam (a 2 1/2 day test), we were required to give a fingerprint so, as the proctor told us, "you don't have a real lawyer sneak in here and take the test for you." Note to clueless proctor: There is no lawyer, after one year removed from law school, that could pass the Bar Exam.
- I haven't used the word "proctor" in 20 years.
- Justice Souter is retiring fromthe Supreme Court. Uh, President Obama, let's just say there's a little country lawyer in Decatur that would be a tad bit interested in that gig. (And I promise I'd use spell check more often.)
- Notice how this has been Swine Flu Free? Can't let that happen. I still believe this "panic" is the silliest thing I've ever seen. In a nation of 300,000,000 people we have 114 confirmed cases. And all indications are those 114 will get sick and then get better.
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Today's pic:
Future skin cancer.
In spite of what many are calling an over reaction, please temper those thoughts with this fact. The last four Pandemics, including 1918, started out as a mild variant in the Spring, which died down prior to Summer, only to be followed by a more virulent strain the next Fall.
Autumn is when we will need to worry and it maybe it's not be a bad idea to get this variety now as it might provide for protection to the deadly FallFlu(tm) of 2009. I just hope we can get a good vaccine in time. If not, then we can all start to PANIC!
Closing down schools and banning large gatherings worked in the Fall of 1918, and the sooner cities moved to limit public gatherings or isolate patients, the less severe their experience tended to be (so there haters).
Also I hope that if not much comes to pass of this outbreak, we will not grow lethargic of news of the next one that comes along. Remember the bird flu of a few years ago? It hasn't lately developed the ability to spread via human to human contact but if or when it does, it's mortality rate is close to 60%.
My thoughts on the flu issue:
"Swine Flu Over The Cookoos Nest".
Have a safe and fun weekend,
Chris
MN
More religious people probably believe in a frontier justice toward evil doers. Unlike the bleeding hearts who think the terrorists should be treated like criminals without the death penalty.
Since Obama will not sanction torture, why did he approve the Navy Seals snipers shooting three pirates in the head?
The purpose was to save lives, either way.
It's better to be safe than sorry, right?
"Flashback: Before I took the Bar Exam (a 2 1/2 day test), we were required to give a fingerprint so, as the proctor told us, "you don't have a real lawyer sneak in here and take the test for you." Note to clueless proctor: There is no lawyer, after one year removed from law school, that could pass the Bar Exam.
I haven't used the word "proctor" in 20 years."
Note to BG I have been reading your blog for only about one year and you've said this same exact sentence in a post so this makes at least three uses of the word.
There is one BIG problem with comparing the 1918 flu to the pigdemic.
This is not 1918.
Religious or not - anyone with any brains should do all they can to get information from terrorists. No need to worry...they like beheading on camera even more than torture. Therefore addressing your statistical statment, perhaps the religious have more to live for and therefore more to lose (freedom and this country)than the humanist or heathen.
Waterboarding someone 136 times (Or whatever) is torture. If you havent gotten any information or gotten all the information after one Waterboard then you are at a point were it becomes a failed tool and you try something else.
Its the amount of times not the tools that I think are in question. And the Americans who died that 911 were liberals and conservatives alike.
I bet the girl in the pic weighs more from the hips down than she does from the hips up. Just say'n!
Souter is far and away the "weirdest" of the SC justices. I think it was in Jeff Toobin's book that he was described as having been born 100 years too late? At any rate, he is an interesting cat.
I wonder what the odds are of Obama appointing a liberal SC justice that "flips" like Souter did after GHWB appointed him?
We can dream can't we?
Worst case scenario is that Obama gets to appoint 3 freaky-ass leftists to the court and the SCOTUS' activist tradition marches on.
At least we have Alito, Roberts, Scalia and Thomas. They'll never flip.
Ha, somebody said,"failed tool." Now that's funny!
Has there been a snoutbreak in Wise County yet?
Ha, I kill myself sometimes
It isn't torture that I approve of...it is the stuff liberals define as torture tha I approve of. If someone who conspires against the US has to spend the night in a cold room with a catepiller... and it scares the bejebbers out of him...I don't care. I don't really care that much about waterboarding...or loud music ...or keeping terrorists awake for long periods. I find all this handwringing over such activities to be preposterous. Show me Americans pulling teeth with channel locks or putting cigarettes out in their eyes and I will get exercised ....but this stuff is pretty tame and the outcry is pretty lame.
obama will appoint someone that he already owns. and the senet will rubber stamp. they will voice concern over some mickey mouse thing but will confirm.
healthy butt....
double fake Sir Mix-alot .
I got waterboarded at my dentist office the other day, and I didn't give up a thing! I've seen my kids do worse things to each other and their friends than the torture they describe they do to a bunch of pansy butt terrorist. I'm just not getting it!
you can bet the new sc judge will be a rabid pro-abotionist.
shennanigans!!!!!
I find it humorous that a bunch of folks who sit in the comfortable living rooms each night listening to commentators/talking heads on the TV that they don't really know are the ones deciding what is and isn't torture and what is or isn't right. I'd rather hear from a few people who are actually in trenches instead of people who may have never been engaged in the battle.
I'm completely against shutting stuff down for pig fever unless it benefits me. If I get a few free days off, then it's a pandemic.
"I haven't used the word "proctor" in 20 years."
In 1991 when I was working on my grad. degree, I had to "proctor" an evaluaiton for my major professor. I went in first thing one April morning and announced to the class that "I would be proctoring the evaluation for Dr. Thomas." This HUGE guy stands up in the back of the room and says" Me and Homeboy plays football and we done had our physicals. Do we still have to get proctored?" For one instant, you could have heard a pin drop.
10:57, the whole thing is a bunch of shennanigins!
I need me some swine flu in good ol' Bridgeport!
Did 9:45 really spell Senate, senet? Hard to take a point seriously after that egregious diction erratum.
Heck, I proctor last Saturday night!
In the early '80s, there was a voice & diction prof in the UTA Communications department with the last name of Proctor.
Wouldn't allow anyone to call him Doctor Proctor, as he said it sounded like a hemorrhoid ointment.
"The only known cure for Swine Flu has been found to be the liberal application of oinkment."
Jarhead -
You think the justices you mentioned aren't activist?
PLEASE - They are not any more or less activist than the other guys. It ALL depends on the issue.
Conservatives like to claim the believe in states' rights; but it's only a states rights issue when you agree with the state; when you don't, it's something else........ like when your guys overruled the Florida STATE SC in Bush v. Gore - giving Bush the election............or when your guys wanted to overturn Oregon's STATE law in regard to physician-assisted suicide.
ETCETERA...
Religious or not - anyone with any brains should do all they can to get information from terrorists. No need to worry...they like beheading on camera even more than torture. Therefore addressing your statistical statment, perhaps the religious have more to live for and therefore more to lose (freedom and this country)than the humanist or heathen.Arguments like that are arguments in favor of atheism. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to want to share the religious faith of those who think it's okay to torture other human beings, even as they worship a God who was tortured to death by the state.
I am interested in why the religious have more to live for than those who are not religious.
12:48...all the recounts showed Bush beating Gore in Florida...you still beating this dead horse? Good lord...shut up.
It's simple.
Religious people live in a black and white world. They think everything is either wrong or right and nothing in between.
It's a very simple way to live.
How about that BWI trial? Pretty good outcome, I'd say!
RE Hot Girl:
In the immortal words of Sir Mix-A-Lot.
So ladies, Ladies
If you wanna role in my Mercedes
Then turn around
Stick it out
Even white boys got to shout
Baby got back
My Other Brother Darryl
It seems like there is stuff cropping up about the Wise County Health Department. Is there such a thing? Never heard we had one.
Why is this just now coming out. How come no one from that office has made a statement? What is going on???!!!!??? Somebody from the Wise County Health Department needs to make a statement!!! We've heard from the schools! What about the people that claim to be in charge!!
Or...maybe there just isn't one....maybe a constable got all riled up and took it upon himself.
It would sorta be funny if Obama appointed Anita Hill!
Even funnier if Thomas had to sit next to her for the rest of his term. Now that's term life.
Guys take a breath. There is no such thing as a non-activist judge.
That ole pendulum swings both ways and America just keeps rollin on.
Best example: latest ruling on guns. They went with pragmatism, popularity, party etc, not a strict reading of the constitutional context.
And the other side taught them how.
1:45 - You missed the point completely.
Beheading and being shot in the head with a .308 is painless or at least there have been no complaints. Thinking about it may be pretty tough; irrevelent in the end.
1248 and (I assume) 433 - In deciding in favor of Bush in Bush v Gore, the Supreme Court adhered to the United States Constitution under the Equal Protection clause. The Florida Supreme Court violated its own legislature's rules for choosing electors, thus violating the Fourteenth Amendment. And Bush won all the official recounts, too, by the way.
Re: Montague Co. sheriff
The reason we have so many idiots in public office is that we continue to allow idiots to vote.
This POS and his death make me reconsider my belief that there is no god
Wonder if in olden days a person ever confessed to being a witch to stop the pain? The religious have more to live for than those who are not religious because someone has to make sure nobody else has fun. You would think the religious would want to be with the Lord as soon as possible, so don't know the point of more to live for.
Chupie, thinking a good dose of conservative oilment helps too. Oilment is strong enough to start wars. Aren't Chupacabra's from Mexico? Quiick! Git back across the border where you belong.
Christians have ALWAYS been okay with torture. The Inquisition and Protestant Reformation are just a few of the more notable examples of Christians embracing torture to get what they wanted.
To Xanthippas...It was not the Christian God who was tortured by the Roman State, it was their demi-God, Jesus of Nazareth.
Bush v. Gore didn't decide anything. It remanded the case back to the FL SC [for the third time, see Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing et.al.] because the lower court once again violated the 14th Amendment [to that pesky U.S. Constitution]. Gore's advisors felt his support for a prolonged fight in both the FL SC and the public opinion eroding, so he decided not to pursue any further action [i.e. he quit]. Bush won.
Please read the court opinion, legal analyses on both sides and the 14th Amendment before popping off your spoon-fed-by the MSM gar-bage [pronounced with a snotty French accent].
Dang. My posts are starting to look like mzchief’s with all the bold and italics.
damn
Double Fake Greggo
Makes you wonder what "Sunny side up" means in this sitcheasian.
To Jarhead....
Keep in mind, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. *;).
Incidentally, your new avatar looks more like sliced okra than the H1N1 virus. *;)
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