Now this take a bit of hubris. Disgraced former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella has moved to discuss federal lawsuits from juveniles who sent to jail after accepting bribes. tax evasion and depriving the public of their honest services for accepting more than $2.6 million in kickbacks in exchange for rulings that benefited the Pa Child Care and Western Pa Child Care centers. In a motion written by himself, Ciavarella demanded dismissal on . . . you guessed it . . . judicial immunity.
Ciavarella first disgraced the court and the bar by selling his office. Now, when confronted with his alleged victims of judicial corruption, he claims that he cannot be sued because he was acting as a judicial officer.
Ciavarella and former judge Michael Conahan pleaded guilty and must serve 87 months in prison — a remarkably light sentence in my view for what they did to these kids. Notably, they were not required to resign from the bar until 10 days after sentencing, so Ciavarella may continue to act as a lawyer. He will not be formally sentenced for at least a month.
Ciavarella cites a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case called the Supreme Court ruling in Stump v. Sparkman (1978) where a women sued a judge who had her sterilized at the request of her mother who described her as her “somewhat retarded daughter.” The girl was told that she having her appendix removed. The Court ruled that circuit judge had ruled within his jurisdiction and thus was immune from liability “even if his approval of the petition was in error.” Of course, the judge did not received a kickback from the hospital.
For the full story, click here.
Good luck with that, Judge Scumbag.
Qualunque porto in una tempesta!
The question that flummoxed the great orator
The Guardian, Friday 3 April 2009
Barack Obama, the World’s Greatest Orator, didn’t exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking …
Nick Robinson: “A question for you both, if I may. The prime minister has repeatedly blamed the United States of America for causing this crisis. France and Germany both blame Britain and America for causing this crisis. Who is right? And isn’t the debate about that at the heart of the debate about what to do now?” Brown immediately swivels to leave Obama in pole position. There is a four-second delay before Obama starts speaking [THANKS FOR NOTHING, GORDY BABY. REMIND ME TO HANG YOU OUT TO DRY ONE DAY.] Barack Obama: “I, I, would say that, er … pause [I HAVEN'T A CLUE] … if you look at … pause [WHO IS THIS NICK ROBINSON JERK?] … the, the sources of this crisis … pause [JUST KEEP GOING, BUDDY] … the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to . . . pause [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system … pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF SHIT BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause [I WANT NICK ROBINSON TO DISAPPEAR] … here in Great Britain … pause [SHIT, GORDY'S THE HOST, DON'T LAND HIM IN IT] … here in continental Europe … pause [DAMN IT, BLAME EVERYONE.] … around the world. We were seeing the same mismatch between the regulatory regimes that were in place and er … pause [I'VE LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT AGAIN] … the highly integrated, er, global capital markets that have emerged … pause [I'M REALLY WINGING IT NOW]. So at this point, I’m less interested in … pause [YOU] … identifying blame than fixing the problem. I think we’ve taken some very aggressive steps in the United States to do so, not just responding to the immediate crisis, ensuring banks are adequately capitalised, er, dealing with the enormous, er … pause [WHY DIDN'T I QUIT WHILE I WAS AHEAD?] … drop-off in demand and contraction that has taken place. More importantly, for the long term, making sure that we’ve got a set of, er, er, regulations that are up to the task, er, and that includes, er, a number that will be discussed at this summit. I think there’s a lot of convergence between all the parties involved about the need, for example, to focus not on the legal form that a particular financial product takes or the institution it emerges from, but rather what’s the risk involved, what’s the function of this product and how do we regulate that adequately, much more effective coordination, er, between countries so we can, er, anticipate the risks that are involved there. Dealing with the, er, problem of derivatives markets, making sure we have set up systems, er, that can reduce some of the risks there. So, I actually think … pause [FANTASTIC. I'VE LOST EVERYONE, INCLUDING MYSELF] … there’s enormous consensus that has emerged in terms of what we need to do now and, er … pause [I'M OUTTA HERE. TIME FOR THE USUAL CLOSING BOLLOCKS] … I’m a great believer in looking forwards than looking backwards.
Now we have the abject failure of Barack Obama to use his “smart power” to shake loose any new troop commitments for Afghanistan from our NATO partners.
While Obama prostrated himself in Europe, apologizing for American arrogance in the past, our allies were so unimpressed that at first only the French offered any new assistance at all, 300 more troops — and will not allow them to fight.
Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities.
But though he continued to dazzle Europeans on his debut international tour, the Continent’s leaders turned their backs on the US President.
Gordon Brown finally offered to send several hundred extra British soldiers to provide security during the August election, but even that fell short of the thousands of combat troops that the US was hoping to prise from the Prime Minister.
Just two other allies made firm offers of troops. Belgium offered to send 35 military trainers and Spain offered 12.
The derisory response threatened to tarnish Mr Obama’s European tour, which yesterday included a performance in Strasbourg in which he offered the world a vision of a future free of nuclear weapons, without providing a plan as to how he would convince the numerous nuclear countries in the world to give up a single nuclear bomb.
So Rex has become Rexa. Are you guys twins? Twin Trolls?? It is amazing that you jump on Obama for his lack of oratorial skills. You have to be kidding, right?? Were you awake during the last 8 years of the word butcher?
Buddha,
You hit the nail on the head. This judge is a snake that should be locked up for life.
Failure
April 4, 2009
The London Times says that Europe’s leaders were “dazzled” but bewildered by Barack Obama and his trip was a failure:
Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities. But the Continent’s leaders turned their backs on the US President.
Gordon Brown was the only one to offer substantial help. He offered to send several hundred extra British soldiers to provide security during the August election.
Just two other allies made firm offers of troops. Belgium offered to send 35 military trainers and Spain offered 12. Mr Obama’s host, Nicolas Sarkozy, at first refused his request then relented to 300 non-combat French troops.
Europe’s leaders are happy to humor Americans and reporters; it costs nothing to tell them how charming they think Barack is.
What they actually do will depend on their assessment of where their country’s interests lie.
Hey Hass,
You can join your cousins, Rex and Rexa, in Troll land and leave the serious issues to people who actually care about the facts and the truth. by the way, nice moniker.
rafflaw:
“So Rex has become Rexa. Are you guys twins?”
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More like gender confusion.
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number of guns reaching Mexico.
By William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott
Saturday, April 4,2009
EXCLUSIVE: You’ve heard this shocking “fact” before — on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City.
– CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to it while interviewing President Obama.
– California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: “It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors … come from the United States.”
– William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that “there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States.”
There’s just one problem with the 90 percent “statistic” and it’s a big one:
It’s just not true.
In fact, it’s not even close. By all accounts, it’s probably around 17 percent.
What’s true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency’s assistant director, “is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S.”
But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.
“Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market,” Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.
Video: Click here to watch more on where the guns come from.
A Look at the Numbers
In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced — and of those, 90 percent — 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover — were found to have come from the U.S.
But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.
In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
So, if not from the U.S., where do they come from? There are a variety of sources:
– The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.
– Russian crime organizations. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.
- South America. During the late 1990s, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling and drug trafficking partnership with the Tijuana cartel, according to the Federal Research Division report from the Library of Congress.
– Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International Report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico.
– The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers deserted in the last six years, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo. Many took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium.
– Guatemala. U.S. intelligence agencies say traffickers move immigrants, stolen cars, guns and drugs, including most of America’s cocaine, along the porous Mexican-Guatemalan border. On March 27, La Hora, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported that police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border. Police say the cache was transported by a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Ixcan, a border town.
‘These Don’t Come From El Paso’
Ed Head, a firearms instructor in Arizona who spent 24 years with the U.S. Border Patrol, recently displayed an array of weapons considered “assault rifles” that are similar to those recovered in Mexico, but are unavailable for sale in the U.S.
“These kinds of guns — the auto versions of these guns — they are not coming from El Paso,” he said. “They are coming from other sources. They are brought in from Guatemala. They are brought in from places like China. They are being diverted from the military. But you don’t get these guns from the U.S.”
Some guns, he said, “are legitimately shipped to the government of Mexico, by Colt, for example, in the United States. They are approved by the U.S. government for use by the Mexican military service. The guns end up in Mexico that way — the fully auto versions — they are not smuggled in across the river.”
Many of the fully automatic weapons that have been seized in Mexico cannot be found in the U.S., but they are not uncommon in the Third World.
The Mexican government said it has seized 2,239 grenades in the last two years — but those grenades and the rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) are unavailable in U.S. gun shops. The ones used in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey in October and a TV station in January were made in South Korea. Almost 70 similar grenades were seized in February in the bottom of a truck entering Mexico from Guatemala.
“Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semi-automatic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California,” according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Boatloads of Weapons
So why would the Mexican drug cartels, which last year grossed between $17 billion and $38 billion, bother buying single-shot rifles, and force thousands of unknown “straw” buyers in the U.S. through a government background check, when they can buy boatloads of fully automatic M-16s and assault rifles from China, Israel or South Africa?
Alberto Islas, a security consultant who advises the Mexican government, says the drug cartels are using the Guatemalan border to move black market weapons. Some are left over from the Central American wars the United States helped fight; others, like the grenades and launchers, are South Korean, Israeli and Spanish. Some were legally supplied to the Mexican government; others were sold by corrupt military officers or officials.
The exaggeration of United States “responsibility” for the lawlessness in Mexico extends even beyond the “90-percent” falsehood — and some Second Amendment activists believe it’s designed to promote more restrictive gun-control laws in the U.S.
In a remarkable claim, Auturo Sarukhan, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., said Mexico seizes 2,000 guns a day from the United States — 730,000 a year. That’s a far cry from the official statistic from the Mexican attorney general’s office, which says Mexico seized 29,000 weapons in all of 2007 and 2008.
Chris Cox, spokesman for the National Rifle Association, blames the media and anti-gun politicians in the U.S. for misrepresenting where Mexican weapons come from.
“Reporter after politician after news anchor just disregards the truth on this,” Cox said. “The numbers are intentionally used to weaken the Second Amendment.”
“The predominant source of guns in Mexico is Central and South America. You also have Russian, Chinese and Israeli guns. It’s estimated that over 100,000 soldiers deserted the army to work for the drug cartels, and that ignores all the police. How many of them took their weapons with them?”
But Tom Diaz, senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, called the “90 percent” issue a red herring and said that it should not detract from the effort to stop gun trafficking into Mexico.
“Let’s do what we can with what we know,” he said. “We know that one hell of a lot of firearms come from the United States because our gun market is wide open.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/04/02/myth-percent-guns-mexico-fraction-number-claimed/
TURLEY< YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE for printing garbage articles again. You were wrong.
From my Lord Scalia files:
“We never have had a rule of absolute judicial immunity from prospective relief, and there is no evidence that the absence of that immunity has had a chilling effect on judicial independence. None of the seminal opinions on judicial immunity, either in England or in this country, has involved immunity from injunctive relief. No Court of Appeals ever has concluded that immunity bars injunctive relief against a judge.” Pulliam v. Allen, 466 U.S. 522 at 536-537 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=466&page=522
“It is essential in all courts that the judges who are appointed to administer the law should be permitted to administer it under the protection of the law, independently and freely, without favor and without fear. THIS PROVISION OF THE LAW IS NOT FOR THE PROTECTION OR BENEFIT OF A MALICIOUS OR CORRUPT JUDGE, but for the benefit of the public, whose interest it is that the judges should be at liberty to exercise their functions with independence, and without fear of consequences.” Scott v. Stansfield, 3 L. R. Ex., at 223
The fundamental question in case of judicial immunity is “whether a judicial officer acting in her judicial capacity should be immune from prospective … relief.” Id at 528
The doctrine of judicial immunity is one of the earliest products of the English common law. It was established to protect the finality of judgments from continual collateral attack in courts of competing jurisdiction n5 and to protect judicial decision-making from intimidation and outside interference.” (Id at 547-548)
Common-law writs against judges were primarily “intended only to control the proper exercise of jurisdiction.” … [They] posed no threat to judicial independence and implicated none of the policies of judicial immunity. Thus, the judges of England’s inferior courts were subject to suit for writs of mandamus and prohibition, but judicial immunity barred all suits attacking judicial decisions made within the proper scope of their jurisdiction.” Id at 549-550
The common law recognized that the threat of personal litigation would jeopardize the independence of judicial decision-making: judges, to avoid being called before a hostile tribunal to account for their judicial acts, could be deterred by personal considerations from judging dispassionately the merits of the cases before them. LOL See Taaffe v. Downes, 13 Eng. Rep., at 23, n. (a) (“A Judge … ought to be uninfluenced by any personal consideration whatsoever operating upon his mind, when he is hearing a discussion concerning the rights of contending parties; otherwise, instead of hearing them abstractedly, a considerable portion of his attention must be devolved to himself”). Id at 549
“It has long been recognized at common law that judicial immunity protects only those acts committed within the proper scope of a judge’s jurisdiction, but provides no protection for acts committed in excess of jurisdiction.” Id at 549
Id refers to Pulliam
hasshole
“But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.”
“So, if not from the U.S., where do they come from? There are a variety of sources:
– The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea,
Fragmentation grenades are not guns.
“AK-47s from China,”
By your logic, a Mauser 98 would also count as “not from the U.S. since it was built in Germany before and during WWII; yet it remains one of the most sought after rifles in the United States, next to the Winchester Model 70, for its supreme accuracy.
“and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.”
Once again Sherlock; those aren’t guns.
You’re nothing more than a Right Wing ditto-head sans a clue about which you speak.
bob esq; you jerkbait: read the article with your eyes open:
So why would the Mexican drug cartels, which last year grossed between $17 billion and $38 billion, bother buying semi-automatic rifles, and force thousands of unknown “straw” buyers in the U.S. through a government background check, when they can buy boatloads of fully automatic M-16s, AK-47′s, etc. from China, Russia, South Africa, Zenezuela, North Korea, Syria, Iran, or Libya as just a few examples?
Alberto Islas, a security consultant who advises the Mexican government, says the drug cartels are using the Guatemalan border to move black market weapons. Some are left over from the Central American wars; others, like the grenades and launchers, are South Korean & Spanish. Some were legally supplied to the Mexican government; others were sold by corrupt military officers or officials.
Friday-night doc dump: Summers took millions from TARP recipients
The Obama administration has mastered the art of the Friday Night Disclosure. They tried to avoid media scrutiny over the revelation that National Economic Council chair Lawrence Summers made millions from the same people demonized by Barack Obama and the Democrats for the economic collapse:
Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, earned millions working at a hedge fund and speaking to banks such as Citigroup Inc. that later received taxpayer bailout money.
Hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. paid Summers more than $5 million in salary and other compensation in the past 16 months, according to a financial disclosure form released by the White House yesterday. Summers served as a managing director at the New York-based firm. Summers, a former Treasury secretary, also earned more than $2.7 million in speaking fees.
Bob,Esq.,
The trolls are out in full, non-sensical and repetitive force. It doesn’t matter what the thread is discussing, they have their marching orders for the day and they must control the “internets”.
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Saturday, April 04, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that just 34% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
Thirty-one percent (31%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +3, matching his lowest rating to date (see trends).
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Why did Barack Obama give a deep bow to the King of Saudi Arabia?
Obama bent over so deep in the bow it almost looked like he was licking the King’s boots.
rafflaw,
When you’re right you’re right.
The beautiful thing about it is that the trolls have been reduced to the most pitiful and blatant forms of trolling and thus stick out like a sore thumb. They aren’t even trying to convert any more, just to disrupt. That smells like maple syrup to me. I don’t worry about propaganda that’s easy to discern and minimally effective. It’s a sign of fear and regression of tactics after being routed by the regulars too often. They are in essence firing blindly at our entrenched and fortified positions as they run away.
Like chickens with their heads cut off . . .
I do wonder if the “h” in hasshole stands for Harry though.
Buddha:
“I do wonder if the “h” in hasshole stands for Harry though.”
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I just assumed is was “horse’s.”
Just watched “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” set in Nazi Germany and came to the realization you half dozen weasels here would let it all happen again.
Just look at our “President”, bowing to the Saudi Arabian King like some kind of servant to him at the the G20 meeting. My God, what a way to send a signal to the world that we are weak.
YOU half dozen WEASELS would let another holocaust happen while you make excuses and blame America.
Shame.
greta:
And I suspect you and your half dozen “christian patriots,” would happily push the world toward nuclear annihilation confident that your deity would ride to the rescue to save you and Israel. If Israel really believes this delusion that they were immune from the forces of this world, why do you suppose they put an army in the field?
By the way, we only blame America when she’s wrong. Don’t you correct your children when they are about to do something wrong or foolish, or do you care so little about them so as to praise them regardless of their conduct?
Well, North Korea launched their missile 15 minutes ago, precisely while our President Obama is having another of his famous COCKTAIL parties with the rich and famous; this time in Europe.
What did they say about Nero?
Hasshole,
I am shocked that you brought up the allegedely improper bow by Obama to the King of Saudi Arabia. Isn’t this the same guy who strolled,holding hands with a guy named W around the Crawford, Texas ranch of your BFF George Bush? You are kidding aren’t you? Wake up and do a little research.
lenin…:
“As someone above pointed out. You half dozen WEASELS here are very sick people led by a very sick party that is intent on making the US of A a second rate maybe even third world country for personal gain.”
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Good idea, but Bush, Cheney, Haliburton, and Blackwater beat us to it!
lenin…:
“Obama thus repeats the slander that the pointless abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib by a handful of low-life Army Reservists was part of President Bush’s “strategy to battle terrorism.” This is an absurdity. The Reservists in question violated every known policy, which is why they went to jail when their crimes were discovered.”
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I think truth is an absolute defense to the charge of slander.
From the Christian Science Monitor in 2004 (new stuff you see):
“Already, interviews with members of military intelligence and police units who served at the prison suggest that abuses did not simply result from a handful of low-level soldiers in the facility’s loosely supervised and undermanned military police force. So far, only seven such soldiers have been charged in the case.
Instead, as details emerge of the physical abuse and deaths of scores of Iraqi and Afghan detainees in US military custody, other documents and reports suggest a contributing factor was the top-down weakening of military standards of humane prisoner treatment as part of the Bush administration’s drive for intelligence in the war on terrorism.”
Now of course we know that Bushie, Condie, Cheney et crooks all discussed the torture at Gitmo and one must assume their conspiracy to commit war crimes extended to that terroist reruiting bonanza, Abu Graib:
“In a stunning admission to ABC news Friday night, President Bush declared that he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details of the CIA’s use of torture. Bush reportedly told ABC, “I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.” Bush also defended the use of waterboarding. Recent reports indicate that high-level advisers including Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and George Tenet were part of the National Security Council’s “Principals Committee” that met regularly and approved the CIA’s use of “combined” “enhanced” interrogation techniques, even pushing the limits of the now infamous 2002 Justice Department “torture memo.” These top advisers reportedly signed off on how the CIA would interrogate suspects – whether they would be slapped, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning.
“We have always known that the CIA’s use of torture was approved from the very top levels of the U.S. government, yet the latest revelations about knowledge from the president himself and authorization from his top advisers only confirms our worst fears,” said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. “It is a very sad day when the president of the United States subverts the Constitution, the rule of law, and American values of justice.”
Lenin, facts are fun; you should try them sometimes when you argue, because they might fool us into thinking you actually know something instead our current opinion of you: that you are merely a tool for the neo-con criminals that ran this Country for eight long years.
greta,
How precious, you watched “The Boy in The Striped Pajama’s.
As a Jew that warms my heart, nothing like a film whose sole emotional pivot was that a German boy, whose father was in the SS get mistakenly killed as a Jew. It like “The Reader” was a basically dishonest movie of the Holocaust, that so lovingly showed those poor, helpless Jewish victims. Your insight was that President Obama shouldn’t have bowed to the Saudi King, while the King’s relative Prince Bandar was known as Bandar Bush and was seen holding hands with George W. frequently. Facts would be a good thing for you to know and if your’e not Jewish, please we don’t need any false Shoah sympathy from you.
Want to see a “good” movie about the Shoah, see “Defiance,” which was based on fact. I know this is so since my daughter is friendly with the granddaughter of the lead character played by Mandy Patimkin. So many Christians would like to believe the myth of Jews passively going to their deaths and are warmed by the pathos. The Warsaw Ghetto battle is subsumed by visions of Jews passively lining up to die. How relevant for Christian’s who talk of Jesus “as a lamb to the slaughter.” I, however, prefer history closer to the truth and one that doen’t portray Jews as passive victims. You don’t hang around as a tiny culture for more than three thousand years without some grit.
Now if you happen to be Jewish than greta you are way out of step. Three quarters of Jewish Americans voted for President Obama and still enthusiastically support him. The remaining 25% are led by Jews who complete misunderstand the needs of Israel and were Republicans to begin with. A Jewish Republican by the way is like a Black Republican. A stranger in a strange land that’s willing to sit down with people that covertly revile them.
Mespo:
“Buddha:
“I do wonder if the “h” in hasshole stands for Harry though.”
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I just assumed is was “horse’s.””
Another wonderful example of good humor!
MikeS:
Those guys did kick some NAZI ass and good on them. Defiance also had Daniel Craig right? If that was the movie it was great. Those 2 brothers and the others were magnificiant.
I support Israel all the way and I am a conservative. It just makes logical sense as they are the only democracy in the middle east plus they are some tough people being able to make and keep a country under conditions like they live with. They are worth our blood and treasure. Please dont think all republicans/conservatives think alike.
I think that Judicial Immunity shall apply to all Judges that are acting within the scope of their Judicial authority. Come on isn’t PA, close to NY or on the way to Chicago? Where the best Justice can be bought?
I think that this guy should be burried in the Hot Arizona sand up to his neck. dribble honey on his forehead and plant an anthill next to him. Thats all, I wish him the best.
This judge will walk. Definitely. The level of corruption is so astounding within our courts tht most people simply would not believe how the system actually works. I could hardly believe it myself had I not witnessed it for myself. Any justice being dispensed is purely by accident. Lord Byron was right in saying absolute power corrupts absolutely. And so, it has.
I thought it was Lord Acton in 1887 who wrote: “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power, corrupts absolutely.”
But the again the only thing I know absolutely is Absolut.
Slipery One:
Actually Acton wrote:
“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”
–Letter to Mandell Creighton (April [3? or 5?], 1887)
A little different that commonly quoted. I find the next sentence more prescient.
Ah leave it to my learned scholar.
Rhodes I am not. a Stoned scholar I have been and I had been known to have inhale. It was generally impossible to have done so, as much as I tried though. And I climbed that Mountain of success. See how much I have forgotten. But then again, one could not read too well in those days. We were spoon fed at the dread that we would go to the 7-11 and steal the Twinkies.
mespo and Bron,
I concede. The “h” is most certainly for “horse’s”.
Bob Dylan Retains Same Illuminati Law Firm as George W. Bush in Fifteen Year Plagiarism Law Suit. Also suppresses Plaintiff’s First Amendment Rights acquiring a protective order designating all video taped depositions that are incriminating to Dylan confidential
Bob Dylan & his law firm acquired a confidentiality order in a fifteen year plagiarism law suit designating all discovery materials including fifty hours of incriminating video taped depositions as confidential suppressing Plaintiff James Damiano’s first amendment rights to warn the public of Judicial favoritism and corruption.
Camden NJ June 2, 2009 -Few artists can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the career of songwriter James Damiano. Twenty-two years ago James Damiano began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds.
As the curtain rises on the stage of deceit we learn that CBS used songs and
lyrics for international recording artist, Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan’s name is credited to the songs. One of those songs is nominated for a Grammy as best rock song of the year. Ironically the title of that song is Dignity.
Since auditioning for the legendary CBS Record producer John Hammond, Sr., who influenced the careers of music industry icons Billy Holiday, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan, James has engaged in a multimillion dollar copyright infringement law suit with Bob Dylan.
It is judicially uncontested by Bob Dylan and or Bob Dylan’s law firms Manatt, Phelps & Phillips , Parcher Hayes & Snyder, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Heck Brown and Sherry and Sony House Counsel that Bob Dylan and people in Bob Dylan’s entourage have solicited James Damiano’s songs and music for over ten years and eleven months, as per the law suit.
District Judge Jerome B. Simandle states in his decision “This court will accept as true Plaintiff’s allegations that Sony represented to him that he would be credited and compensated for his work if Dylan used it. Judge Simandle also stated in his decision “Plaintiff has demonstrated a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendants had access to his work.
http://www.jamesdamiano.com/
Richard Clark
uslawjournal@gmail.com
In 2007, I filed a lawsuit against the Hooksett School District (New Hampshire) for abusing my son, and not giving him a fair and appropriate public education: Because I have steadfastly refused to withdraw my lawsuit (our rights) the Chief judge provided the cover so that the school’s attorney Jeanne Kincaid could hack into my computer and send me porn, and death threats, and contact my employers and keep chronically unemployed. I lost my condo, pets, piano, books, furniture, and family mementos; my credit, was driven in and out of bankruptcy and had porn, and death threats and annoyance phone calls, as well as dead cats at my door. In depth information can be found at: http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Blogs/83.php Elizabeth Campbell
PS they have left messages on my phone that states I am not receiving calls, and they have locked me out of my AOL and Gmail accounts! I now live in Maryland, and just lost another job, the first in Maryland…see I have a pending case before the Supreme Court.
Essentially because Judge Steven McAuliffe provided the cover for Kincaid to deny my rights: IDEA, 504 anti retaliation, Federal and State tort, amendments, 1, 5, and 14 and more. Recently and in response to that info in the above website I loss my job at the Holly Hill Nursing home in Towson, MD. When Kincaid continued her destruction of me at the appellate level, and when my complaints to the Chief Judge Sandra Lea Lynch went un noticed,…ALL MY MOTIUONS DENIED; HARASSMENT OF MY MOTHER AND FRIENDS ETC I realized THAT WAS BECAUSE THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT IS HEAVILY INVOLVED.
WHAT CAN I SAY NOW THAT I HAVE APPEALED MY CASE TO THE HIGHEST KCOURT IN THE LAND? AND KINCAID HAS STRIKED AGAIN, CAUSING MY TERMINATION?
Elizabeth Juanita Campbell
443-627-8546
I need publicity, Please help! Thank you
Elizabeth Juanita Campbell (place my name in Google)I imagine that Jeanne et al is racing to remove the online porn she had placed under my name!.
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