SCOTUS rules 13 year old school girl strip search illegal.
Holy fuckamoly..really? That’s a friggin no-brainer for me folks. She was also accused of bringing naproxen to school..not an illegal drug..an over the counter medication.
It was an 8-1 ruling. The lone idiot..I mean dissenter is…drum roll please…
Justice Clarence Thomas
Christ, was a tool Thomas is. From the McClatchy writeup:
“What was missing from the suspected facts that [...]
Hypocrisy 101- Mark Sanford took that class.
The Party of No has it’s second philanderer in as many weeks today. Poor Governor Mark Sanford has professed to a few goodies today:
He lied about where he was for the last week. Putting his state at risk.
He has been having an affair with a married woman.
He possibly lied about spending South Carolinian’s money to [...]
Pro-life nutjobs murder Dr. George Tiller
He has fought for a woman’s right to choose for decades. He has been charged in a court of law and beat the politcally-motivated case with an aquittal. They have shot him in both arms trying to end his practice of medicine. They have bombed his clinic and picketed his clinic regularly.
They finally silenced Dr. [...]
It’s All A Game…Right???
Yesterday North Korea tested a nuclear device that upset the world. Rightly so considering what a global danger those things are, Even a small scale explosion has nasty effects on the rest of the world. Along with the pollution that gets out, there is a big fear factor when the loonies with the stupid things [...]
SCOTUS refuses to hear medical marijuana challenges by San Diego and San Bernadino counties.
Thank Gawd for small miracles! From FindLaw:
The Supreme Court won’t hear another challenge to California’s decade-old law permitting marijuana use for medical purposes.
The high court on Monday refused to hear appeals from San Diego and San Bernardino counties, which say the justices have never directly ruled on whether California’s law trumps the federal controlled substances [...]
Arlen Specter switches to Democratic Party
His statement is here. But I will also provide it below:
April 28, 2009
Statement by Senator Arlen Specter
I have been a Republican since 1966. I have been working extremely hard for the Party, for its candidates and for the ideals of a Republican Party whose tent is big enough to welcome diverse [...]
Chrysler preparing bankruptcy filing.
From MSNBC via the NYT:
The Treasury Department is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for struggling U.S. automaker Chrysler that could come as soon as next week, according to a New York Times report.People with direct knowledge of the action told the newspaper that the U.S. Treasury has an agreement in principle with the United [...]
Et tu Obama?
Well, I couldn’t stay away from Countdown. Nope, and lemme tell ya..today was one helluva doozy. I learned all about the newly released torture memo’s (courtesy of TPM Muckraker) and how Obama has no interest what so evah in prosecuting those who tortured. I will look at the redacted memo’s shortly, but let me say [...]
VT overrides governor’s veto..first state to legislate equality in marriage.
From ThinkProgress:
Yesterday, Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas (R) vetoed a bill legalizing gay marriage that passed the state legislature last week. Now the legislature has voted to override Douglas’ veto: The Senate voted 23-5 in favor of the override, and the House voted 100-49. Vermont joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa as the only states where gay [...]
August 31, 2010
US President Barack Hussein Obama announced today that combat in Iraq would end August 31, 2010.
The plan he laid out also includes a provision to leave 50 thousand troops for peacekeeping purposes.
Looks like McCain will get the thousand years of occupation he said he wanted and the official fighting will be over.
YAYYYYY?????
If they really [...]
Politicians work up compromise on Stimulus Plan…yeah right.
The Senate version actually had an amendment that would give a $15k tax incentive to upper class folks to buy more homes and cars. Forget that people are becoming homeless at an alarming rate and folks on fixed incomes are having to choose between staying warm and buying their meds. From the NYT:
Negotiations had been [...]
Obama signs executive order to close Gitmo, end torture.
Oh Happy Day! He just finished signing the executive order to close Gitmo within one year of today. He also signed an E.O that disallows torture of prisoners. From MSNBC:
Moving quickly to reverse his predecessor’s policies on the treatment of terror suspects, President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order to shut down the [...]
120-day Hold put on Gitmo trials.
AP WaPo and Reuters are reporting that a 120 day hold has been placed on any military tribunal trials at Gitmo…by order of President Obama. From the Reuters writeup:
Hours after taking office on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all [...]
Adolph Hitler Removed From Home
NBC is reporting that Adolph Hitler Campbell and his two siblings have been removed from his parents’ home by child protective services. Regular readers will recall the previous posting here “The Cluelss Losers File: Heath & Deobrah Campbell” describing their shakedown attempt from supermarket company Shop Rite.
It was only a matter of time before [...]
Happy New Year!
Welcome 2009
The True Meaning of Life
We are visitors on this planet.
We are here for ninety
or one hundred years
at the very most.
During that period,
we must try to do
something good,
something useful
with our lives.
If you contribute
to other people’s happiness,
you will find the true goal,
the true meaning of life.
~His [...]
