You Can’t Say There Isn’t a Bomb Either…
According to the police report, the note, which was placed on top of clothes in a black gym bag read: ”[Expletive] you. Stay the [expletive] out of my bag you [expletive] sucker. Have you found a [expletive] bomb yet? No, just clothes. Am I right? Yea, so [expletive] you.”
This sounds like a good old piece of non-violent civil disobedience to me. The “authorities” ,however, didn’t think so. The teen is now charged with one count of making a bomb/highjacking threat; a felony.
Courtesy of Hit and Run
Alleged brutality in jail for Amityville man
Ardellas Page’s 18-year-old son Shakie Williams was serving a 20-day sentence there for marijuana possession. Williams now has severe head injuries, a broken leg and is suffering from bleeding kidneys.
Isn’t it time for we, as a society, to get our priorities straightened out? What causes more harm? A man in possession of a small amount of marijuana (most likely for self use), or a man being brutally pummeled or raped or shanked as punishment for possession of a small amount of marijuana.
Do non-violent drug offenders really deserve a life sentence of depression, physical ailments or worse, AIDS for something as mundane as marijuana use?
City makes mom drain kiddie pool
Following up on a neighbor’s complaint, a police officer and city inspector went to Holsten’s home earlier this week, according to the paper, and issued her a ticket.
Talk about a neighbor from hell!
And don’t the police have something better to do with their time? Maybe a murderer or a rapist to catch or something?
Ice-cream suits leave folks cold
Last week, John Banzhaff III, a law professor at George Washington University and leader of the movement, sent out letters to six major ice-cream companies. The letter warned that ice-cream companies will face litigation if they do not put the fat content on menu boards. The letters also were signed by Michael F. Jacobson, executive director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit health advocacy group in the District.
I’m going to paraphrase what a subscriber to the Politechbot mailing list had to say about Volvo’s lawsuit madness
In a sane world, these lawyers would end up disbarred and would end up hit with such a large countersuit judgment that they would have work at McDonalds as fry clerks to pay off even part of it.
In a sane world, every other lawyer involved in these Fast Food games would make a note to himself to never, *ever* try such a stunt.
In a sane world, the consequences for doing what this would be *so* severe that law schools would teach budding lawyers to strictly avoid such nonsense.
From the Website:
The intent of stupidsecurity.com is to expose a particularly seamy aspect of modern life — misguided thrashings labeled “security” and defended — if at all — by an appeal to paranoia. My hope is that by providing a chronicle of really stupid security measures, we can make it more uncomfortable for pointy haired bosses of various types to approve really stupid security measures.
Hell Yeah!
Wherever he is, he has been releasing more bootleg recordings than Dylan and the Dead combined, turning up almost every other day with a taped commentary on events. Think about it: he’s the object of an incredibly intense manhunt, yet he manages to be quoted on the news almost as often as Bush.
The Great Unificator, as if jealous of the spotlight, held a rare news conference this week and heroically came out … against gay marriage. Excuse me? Did we elect Pat Robertson president while I was out looking for Osama and Saddam? No, right, I remember now — we elected Al Gore.
There are no longer any American troops being wounded in Iraq.
Now they are “injured.” Listen closely to the news and you will be hard pressed to hear the word “wounded.” “Wounded” conjures up a different image than “injured,” and here we see yet again the invertebrate nature of the American press. Yesterday, while preparing some onions and butternut squash, I got carried away with the knife and injured myself. That injury was treated with cold running water and a band aid that I’m not even using today.
