I learned long ago to never get between a ‘domestic dispute’, but looking at your Comment (N) count, you could definitely “use”, and should want, mespo.

However, in the interest of full disclosure, you should know that mespo is a PI litigator.

You only say that because the check bounced!

“There’s a bible on the table and a sign put on the door…” Nobody does cheatin’ better than The Oppssum!

Keep your guilt-ridden animal pictures (the Internet version of flowers). Everything seemed just fine at home until that web tramp jesurgislac showed up on the doorstep.

Well if things were great at home, there’d be no wandering. Would one more smiling animal picture kill ya LOL. Here’s a great one:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a160/natalie_pullen/zoo/100_0216.jpg

I surfed over to your blog. Very nice!

I can see a police officer making a judgment call that it was better to stop the two boys from drowning with their father than to allow them to make the attempt.

But tasering the boy? The taser was supposed to be used instead of the gun, not just waved around whenever an officer feels like torturing someone.

And then charging the son with a crime? What? That’s just ridiculous.

You might have a point in another context but here you sound like another law and order nut. The cops are supposed to be our servants not our masters and this overzealous cop had no business with either a badge or a taser. To stop a loved one from trying to save his parent is worse than being wrong, it’s sub-human. ‘People must obey without hesitation?’ You must have me confused with a citizen of a dictatorship.

* Taking any kind of drug, legal or illegal.
* Taking any medication not approved by the FDA.
* Hiring a prostitute.
* Not saving for your retirement (All Americans are now forced to do so.)
* Not wearing a seat belt.
* Manufacturing a car without an airbag.
* Competing with the local power company.
* Minting your own currency.
* Not purchasing any kind of health insurance whatsoever (including Medecare, et al)

…and thousands of other things that I’ll omit for brevity.

After all, these things are all done on your behalf to save you from yourself, and to keep you from doing something foolhardy. If you think any of the above coercive nanystate measures are justified, then you should also be willing to also surrender your right to save your drowning father to the local taser-wielding government thug (Remember: for your own good.)

It is a weapon that can or cannot kill a man.
if you are lucky, you only go numb, if you’re unlucky, your heart stops working, you get a skin infection of you lose sensation in a area of your skin.
It’s like rolling a dice.

Replace the taser with a gun that shoots rubber bullets, and insert one real bullet.
That is a taser.

BAN the taser

What you had is an NDE! I’m so glad your wife was there and you’re writing here instead of communicating through some “underground”, banned medium in New Orleans.

To give you an idea of the issue, the first time I flew after my defibrillator (ICD) was implanted, I had to tell the security officer that I couldn’t go through the X Ray, but had to be patted down. He didn’t understand me when I handed him the implant card and I said to him “I’ve got an IED.” He started going for his gun, when my wife seeing the problem told him “He meant ICD, not IED.” If that guy had a taser and if my wife hadn’t been around, I might have bought the farm.