Kentucky Judge Steven D. Combs in Pike County has been temporarily suspended after an array of charges of bizarre comments and actions, including calling officials such names as “Fishface,” “cokehead,” and “Dumbo.” Worst yet, he threatened to put a “bullet in the head” of the next police officer who pulled him over. A temporary suspension until resolution of the 10 charges seems quite modest punishment but his counsel, Stephen Ryan, still conveyed Combs’ “disappointment” with the action taken by the Judicial Conduct Commission.
The complaint detailed Combs use of various, less-than-flattering ways of referring to other people like “Fishface,” “cokehead,” “dumbo,” “retarded,” “coward” and “prick. ” — use of those words has led to the temporary suspension of a Pike County circuit judge.
Combs is accused of conflicts of interest in cases, inappropriate communications, inappropriate political activity, soliciting contributions from attorneys in cases before him, and other violations. One of the most interesting is that he allegedly made inappropriate statements on the gossip website Topix under usernames including “LOL,” “Better Call Wusty,” “Imma Tellinyou,” and “City Hall Patrol.”
That last allegation is problematic and goes again to the right of public employees to engage in social media, particularly when using an alias.
One of the worst charges concerns the alleged statement of Combs that the next officer who pulled him over would get a “bullet in the head.” When confronted by police over the statement, he allegedly replied “I’m elected by the people and not pieces of trash like you-all.”
Combs, who has been a judge since 2003, is paid $124,620 annually.
Thread’s over. It is now cartoon time.
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Drive shooting Gal
Is this an example of self defence?
Why is her height being measured in the photography?
OH….SHE WAS ARRESTED….
But I thought you were allowed to shoot people in America? It’s in your Constitutional Ammendments known as the Bill of Rights.
She has the right to shoot people. Now I understand what this is all about.
Is going to jail some sort of other hobby gun packin’ grannies enjoy?
I want to know why no one from the gun lobby has commented on the regular mass shootings reported in the USA.
How are you going to stop this, because if you don’t they will take your weapons away from you.
Cold dead hand or not….
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Democracy will decide if you want this sort of thing. If this means a change in the Bill of Rights it will be changed.
If your ruling bodies decide “No” these people will be disarmed and / or jailed.
I await to see what happens with great interest.
@Ninian
You said, and I quote—“It is as if massacres have never happened. This is an example of depersonalisation. You see this in areas of civil strife, of Nations at Civil War, where casualties are so frequent and numerous they cease to be shocking. It becomes just another murder and there is generally complete lack of insight. The individual doesn’t recognise that this is an abnormal scenario. Because it is the only thing they have experienced and therefore the only thing they understand.”
Are you saying bad things about our poor black neighborhoods??? Like Chiraq??? Because if you are, then I agree with you. But boy howdy are you going to pi$$ off some of the liberal twits who hang out here.
Might I recommend an Internet Channel where you might become more acquainted with what us civilized people here have to live with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PEx1lOum9k
You might also want to check out one of his books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyALk5WnD-s
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
So what do you think about massacres? Why don’t you share your views?
What do you think about a load of dead kids in schools and the full knowledge that it’s going to happen again?
Yes, guns may be tools, so why the worship? And yes all this gun nuttery smacks of worship. Unreasonable, nutty, insane.
I have yet to see anyone worship even one gun, much less many guns.
After you clean and caress your guns, make sure to give them a big fat kiss
Guns are tools. I also clean, sharpen and oil my hoes, shovels, loppers, pruning saws and trowels at the end of the season. We change the oil and gas in the mowers and lawn tractors as well on an annual basis when we store them for winter.
Taking care and not abusing your tools will make them last longer and be most effective.
Not everyone lives in whitebread Wisconsin or gated communities. Not everyone lives in a place where there are police available in an emergency…..the nearest police station is over 80 miles away and it would be at least 45 minutes to several hours to get a response. I would guess that at least 80% or more of the population here have arms in their homes or in their vehicles.
It is not unreasonable to be protected in the case of predators and dangerous animals, mountain lions, coyotes, bears, rattlesnakes. Dangerous predators can also come in the two legged variety. If some people want to be sitting ducks or roll over like puppies peeing on their own bellies, well….that is their choice. I chose not to.
I have used my guns to hunt and may do so again. Taking care of your tools is a wise thing to do.
Because gun control will happen
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There is no doubt gun control will happen.
Armed malitia patrolling the streets will not be permitted by government.
The analogy of Somalia is a good one.
If the gun lobby does not demonstrate responsible thinking it will be squashed
The height of vulgarity is to read the gun worship on this thread just days after another massacre. Vulgar and insane.
It demonstrates an insensitivity and I have tried to explain why this happens…. repetitive outrages appear to desensitise people and they come to accept these things as normal. It can affect whole populations. We saw a lot of this in Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles and we are now seeing it in connection with Syria and Iraq.
This is where America is heading if nothing is done
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Unreasonable fear……
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After you clean and caress your guns, make sure to give them a big fat kiss
Absolutely. Much better than bending over and kissing you @ss goodbye because you are defenseless.
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If we are concerned about the spate of young men doing mass shootings, we should consider the root cause (no pun intended) since it is clear that Root was on some serious mind altering narcotic drugs. The gun was his weapon of choice. It could just as easily been a pressure cooker bomb full of ball bearings and naitl or a SUV running through a crowd.
http://www.ibtimes.com/what-drugs-was-dylann-roof-suboxone-powerful-narcotic-found-charleston-shooter-1973919
The anti gun crowd wants to ignore the source or the cause and jump right to the end by blaming the tool that the insane person used.
Absolutely true drug abuse and mental disease go hand in hand.
Should these guys be disarmed?
You need to be part of the decision making process or the decision will be made by someone else.
ninianpeckitt – I have avoided answering several of your missives because you know not of what you speak. You are ignorant of the United States, the United States Constitution and how governments work in the United States.
I do not know what your background is, but it is not in history, or civics. All I can figure out is that you do NOT know enough about the United States to be throwing stones at us.
I am going to make you an offer. If you come to the United States, please come to Gilbert, AZ and look me up. I will be happy to spend the next week teaching you how the system works and how it doesn’t work. BTW, come in the winter, it is 112F right now.
After you clean and caress your guns, make sure to give them a big fat kiss.
But how do you stop murder and especially mass murder?
Well, that is a completely different issue from controlling the legal purchase, use and ownership of guns.
Since most of the recent shootings have been done by young men who have been taking mind altering PRESCRIPTION drugs. When you drug your children and especially drug your young men, what can you think might be some unintended consequences? Suicide, drug induced rages, depression, manic states, personality changes.
http://www.naturalnews.com/050117_Charleston_shooting_Big_Pharma_psych_drugs.html
American children are three times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medications for conditions such as ADHD and bipolar disease than European children are, a new study finds.
Maybe we should ban drugs first.
How you can stop CRIMINALS and the drug addled from committing crimes? You tell us. I can think of a few ways, however, they would be politically incorrect at best and certainly illegal.
I barely know one end of a gun from the other.
Then for God’s sake, don’t buy one or even TOUCH one until you do!! Here is a hint though. The part with the open hole at the end of a metal tube…..don’t look into it or point that thingy at anyone. I would also recommend you don’t drive a car until you know how to operate one. Walking and chewing gum may also be problematic for you.
Please show the statistic and a LINK to a reputable source that indicates that the “majority of Americans” support more gun control.
Gun abuse
The gun experts are more than capable of producing guide lines for individual weapon use maintenance safety on the target range etc.
But how do you stop murder and especially mass murder?
That may lie in the area of your leaders, and it is important for gun people to play a part in this process or they may end up being sidelined. Because gun control will happen,
ninianpeckitt –
Most of the people who are involved in mass killings seem to be mentally unstable. I don’t see that as the problem of gun people except that when they are also armed they have the opportunity to fire back, which they have done.
You are right. It’s not a problem for gun people. It’s a problem for America and Americans.
What bothers me is that you don’t appear to be shocked or sad about something like this.
And the risk for you is that if gun people don’t engage and contribute to the solution they may take your guns away from you.
Another thought is that assuming you are OK now what happens if you became mentally ill in the future?
Is a mentally ill person capable of owning a weapon with safety? Some are and some aren’t I guess. But how do you tell the difference?
And what’s to be done about it?
If you don’t engage in the decision making process someone else will decide for you
Goodness me…… it isn’t a British Dictionary it is a British English Dictionary.
Well that is a new one on me! I remember reading an American dictionary a long time ago and just for fun trying the new words out on some American friends to see if they understood what I was talking about, but I couldn’t get the accent right.
To our other bloggers I freely admit that I know very little about your system. I barely know one end of a gun from the other. To some that is funny – and it is always great fun to poke fun – and I hope I give as good as I get.
But some of this discussion is about the recurring problem of gun culture based massacres which are happening on a fairly regular frequency in the United States. And the fact that a large number of people want this to stop through better gun control. And the really interesting observation I have witnessed is that of an irrational herd in denial. That’s what interests me most. It is really really interesting that no pro-gun lobbyist on this blog has mentioned any concern or regret about these casualties. It is as if massacres have never happened. This is an example of depersonalisation. You see this in areas of civil strife, of Nations at Civil War, where casualties are so frequent and numerous they cease to be shocking. It becomes just another murder and there is generally complete lack of insight. The individual doesn’t recognise that this is an abnormal scenario. Because it is the only thing they have experienced and therefore the only thing they understand.
I think that this is what is going on, at least in some sections of society and I don’t know of any intrinsic solution. Historically the solution usually comes from outside e.g. World War II for example.
It is quite clear that (desensitised) individuals don’t want to discuss this seriously and this is to be expected. But they do run the risk of being sidelined when future decisions are made and this may not be in their interest.
Of course these comments will be rejected that usually what happens…..
But a solution will be forthcoming… Why? because the current situation is unsustainable and unacceptable by what appears to be the majority of Americans.
That’s what will happen…… and it has already started.
ninianpeckitt – let me be the first to offer you a loaded pistol with the safety either off or on. You will have to guess or find it. Or whatever. I will be wearing body armour or armor depending on which English you speak.
BTW do you know why Noah Webster spell American English differently?
What’s a safety catch?
I think Noah found some difficulty in reading and he wanted to homogenise the principles of spelling. This was probably a good idea but didn’t help me get through medical school as some books were “American” and I had no idea what they were talking about -and couldn’t find the words in my “English” dictionary. I spent 3 months trying to find out what “tecnic” meant until someone told me it was the American spelling for “technique” and that’s the truth. So you will now understand I am a hopeless case.
In English, or what I am now reliably advised is British English, there are different ways of spelling a word which don’t match the articulation.
Noah wanted to rationilise this and spell the words as they sound. So it was probably a good idea for anyone else except the British, but there are exceptions.
Eg “herb” in English is pronounced “herb” and “erb” in American English. But for some reason the spelling isn’t erb. Never understood that….
Fred Aistaire and Ginger Rogers called the whole thing off when they got into tomato which should be spelled tom-ate-o in America but for some reason isn’t. And yet potato isn’t spelled how it sounds on any side of the Pond. And New York isn’t spelled as Noo York.
Constitution in English is spelled as it is pronounced but is not spelled as Constitootion in American English.
And finally “Mass Murder” in English appears to be spelled as “the Right to Bear Arms” in American English.
I understand that the spelling of this term is shortly to be revised….
You don’t know what abuse is As in gun abuse?
Gun abuse to me, is not cleaning your gun/rifle/shotgun properly after each use to avoid rust and discoloration of the bluing or other metal parts from oils in your hands or other chemicals.. Throwing your gun on the ground. Dropping your weapon. Not placing your gun back in its case, holder or storage area when not in use. Getting it scratched and dirty. Causing the sights to become misaligned. Using improper ammunition.
Is this what you mean by gun abuse? Cuz. That’s is what gun abuse means to me.
If you mean improper USE of the weapon, then you might need to be more clear. Improper use might be shooting your gun into the air where the projectile can come back down on people or houses etc. Shooting your weapon without being aware of the background behind your target…..for example shooting at a mountain lion or deer when there are structures in the direct line behind your target.
Those are some examples.
DBQ – don’t forget ‘taking sound shots.’
This is a funny thread. Ninianpeckitt seems to be from another planet (or of another species) and has zero knowledge of guns or the existing gun regulations in the US.
DBQ – there is a difference between funny ha-ha and funny peculiar. 😉
Paul
You don’t know what abuse is – because you asked me to define it for you twice – and I have done – twice
I will say one thing though American English is very different to English.
I have never heard of a British Dictionary.
But I want to stick to guns on this blog site, so this is what I am only going to talk about.
I am only going to volunteer new information as well from now on.
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