Archive for the ‘Legal News’ Category
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
John Ashcroft, for all his evangelical world view mentality, is beginning to look like some kind of Hall of Justice Superhero when compared with Alberto Gonzales. And that's saying a lot about a man who needed to cover up a statue to obscure her nude breasts, a statue which would ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Impeachment, Legal News, Police State, Politics, Terrorism | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
A Federal Appeals Court has issued a ruling that holds a website (roommate.com) liable for the postings of some of its users. The court ruled that if a website constructs a format that is designed to elicit responses that can be viewed to violate established law, then the owner of ...
Posted in Gonzo's Grab Bag, Legal News, Technology, Weblogs | No Comments »
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
The President is completely insane. I really don't know how else to put it. His constant refusal to accept the reality of his failures is one thing. His compulsive lying and incompetence in nearly every task he undertakes are others. But some of his most recent remarks concerning recent ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, General, Health, Homeland Security, IDIOT, Iraq War, Legal News, Middle East, Military, Politics, Right Wing Nut, Science | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 20th, 2007
Government regulations of business and industry, whether federal or state regulations, are designed to protect the consumer and the natural world from the excesses of unbridled capitalistic business desires. In many cases (but not all) state regulation goes farther than federal regulations in protecting people and places. Perhaps it is ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Legal News, Politics | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Rove Emails Deleted - According to the White House, nearly four years worth of emails sought by the Senate Judiciary Committee were accidentally deleted by President Bush's political advisor Karl Rove. White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The President believes the emails were deleted by Al Qaeda operatives. He is ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, IDIOT, Iraq War, Legal News, Miscellaneous, Politics, Right Wing Nut, World News | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
A recent Time magazine cover story raised some interesting questions about the role of the Bible in public education. Although the article wasn't nearly as skeptical as I would have liked, the premise was interesting - the Bible might be a valuable teaching tool offering valuable insight into why our ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Education, General, Legal News, Miscellaneous, Politics | 27 Comments »
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
I'm honest. I'll cop to sometimes not being the sharpest tool in the shed. I'm sure some wing nut will chirp in here and back me up on that - and come to think of it, probably a moon bat or two as well. On a good day I have ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, Iraq War, Legal News, Miscellaneous, Politics | 3 Comments »
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Telling lies is like laying a mine field behind you as you walk down your driveway. Odds are you'll be walking back that way again, and if you forget where you laid all the mines you just may end up losing your life, or at least having your foot forcibly ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Legal News, Politics | 13 Comments »
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Following the lead of last summer's Israeli attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Great Britain today began bombing the hell out of Iranian infrastructure after the Iranian Navy detained 15 British sailors operating in the persian Gulf.
Former UN Ambassador from the United States John Bolton noted that he was "damned proud" ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Israel, Middle East, Military, World News | 6 Comments »
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
In an interview with the BBC, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said that during the Israeli-Hezbollah in Lebanon last summer, Washington did not support any sort of cease fire between the warring parties until Israel eliminated Hezbollah's military capability. Only once it was cleaer that Israel's campaign ...
Posted in Current Affairs, IDIOT, Israel, Middle East, Military, Politics, Terrorism, World News | 4 Comments »