February 24, 2008
Ted Kennedy tells Texans to treat Obama as they did JFK
Utterly stupid, to the point of betraying an appalling lack of historical knowledge, journalistic competence, or both.
Where did this atrocious headline appear? On the Washington, DC bureau blog of the Houston Chronicle!
The headline was changed -- but would that have satisfied the lefties if the blog had belonged to Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrissey, or even me?
H/T Kevin Whited, Lone Star Times
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February 21, 2008
Although Chuck Rosenthal is gone, allegations of racism in the Harris County District Attorney's Office on his watch have those in charge of hiring about 50 new prosecutors in the next two years paying closer attention to diversity."I think we're below where I would like to see us as far as African-Americans and Hispanics — I would like to see more," said Marie Munier, a 29-year veteran of the DA's office who has headed up recruiting for the past two years. "With all the stuff in the media lately, it's been like someone dumped a bucket of cold water on my head and made me say, 'We do need to look at this.' "
Rosenthal was attacked after office e-mails were made public that contained racist jokes and images, along with sexually explicit images.
Several groups, including county Republican Party officials and black community groups, called for Rosenthal's resignation. He stepped down Friday, saying his judgment had been clouded by prescription drugs. Rosenthal's departure won't slow hiring, Munier said.
Munier, who is white, said she is working more with the three black attorneys on the 12-person hiring committee to address problems she had not considered.
"They pointed out some things that I hadn't thought about before, on how we're interviewing and about what strikes us as a good candidate," she said.
Munier also is adding three new seats on the committee, to include more diversity and youth. Munier said the committee will see several black and Hispanic candidates out of the 15 people they plan to interview this week. She also is focusing more closely on retaining black prosecutors, who account for 15 of the 262 positions — or about
5 percent of the staff. Eighteen prosecutors are Hispanic.
Now that is all well and good, and I certainly have no objection to hiring the best prosecutors out there, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other irrelevant criteria. But what I want is the best.
Still, I wonder if discrimination has really been a problem. Look at the Chronicle's own numbers -- a graphic available on the website, but lacking in the newspaper.
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See, the number of minority attorneys in the Harris County DA's office is roughly equal to the percentages of minority lawyers in Texas. Now I've not been able to track down the figures for Houston, but since recruitment covers a wider area than just Harris County, the Texas numbers are a good measure to use for the pool of available lawyers.
Now that leads me to ask a question. Does this emphasis on increasing diversity in the office mean that we are not interested not in proportional representation of minorities, but in SUPER-proportional representation of those minorities? Will the policy of the office be to pass over well-qualified white lawyers in the interest of achieving this super-diversity? And how does this fit with civil rights law?
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February 20, 2008
A missile interceptor launched from a Navy warship has struck a dying American spy satellite orbiting 130 miles over the Pacific Ocean, the Pentagon announced late Wednesday.Officials cautioned that while early information indicated that the interceptor’s “kill vehicle” had hit the satellite, it would be 24 hours before it could be determined whether the fuel tank with 1,000 pounds of toxic hydrazine had been destroyed as planned.
Even so, one official who received a late-night briefing on the mission expressed confidence that the impact had been so powerful that the fuel tank probably had been ruptured.
Completing a mission in which an interceptor designed for missile defense was used for the first time to attack a satellite, the Lake Erie, an Aegis-class cruiser, fired a single missile just before 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, and the missile hit the satellite as it traveled at more than 17,000 miles per hour, the Pentagon said in its official announcement.
“A network of land-, air-, sea- and spaced-based sensors confirms that the U.S. military intercepted a nonfunctioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite which was in its final orbits before entering the Earth’s atmosphere,” the statement said.
Hitting that target was a significant accomplishment, and it is highly likely that they hit the fuel tank on the first try. If not, there are additional opportunities to take an additional shot at the satellite before it reenters the atmosphere. And while the odds of the craft striking a person were always quite small, the elimination of the hydrazine has been the major issue.
Oh, and for those who wondered why the Navy was concerned about undertaking the mission under less than perfect conditions, let me offer you the best non-conspiratorial answer -- when you have several days to complete a mission, multiple windows for doing so, and the option of waiting until the most favorable conditions prevail, you take that option. It isn't like there was only one chance to hit that satellite. So don't go arguing, as I've seen a number of liberals do, that concerns about the weather means that the Aegis system is unreliable. Rather, it is a sign of prudent judgment in a situation where timing was critical but time was not.
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February 19, 2008
The Atlantis astronauts on Tuesday prepared to return to Earth ahead of an attempt by the Navy to destroy a falling spy satellite. Forecasters predicted sunny skies over the ship's primary landing site in Florida.The seven shuttle fliers, who were completing a 13-day mission to the international space station, plan to touch down today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 8:07 a.m. CST, with a backup landing opportunity at 9:42 a.m. CST.
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., where the outlook included a chance for rain and high runway crosswinds, was also prepared for landing opportunities at 11:12 a.m. and 12:47 p.m. CST.
"I'm real optimistic, looking at the weather briefs, that things will play out really well for the Kennedy Space Center — to land there on the first try," flight director Bryan Lunney, who will orchestrate the shuttle's return from Mission Control, said Tuesday.
Congratulations on a job well done -- to both the astronauts and all the NASA employees who have made the mission a success. Most folks don't think about the long shifts and strange hours you have to keep while these birds are flying, but those of us who live around you do.
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February 17, 2008
Nancy Reagan was hospitalized on Sunday after falling in her home, a spokeswoman said.The spokeswoman, Joanne Drake, said Mrs. Reagan, 87, was taken to St. JohnÂ’s Health Center in Santa Monica for examination and would stay in the hospital overnight. Doctors said she did not break a hip as had been initially feared.
Ms. Drake said Mrs. Reagan was staying in the room where former President Ronald Reagan stayed after breaking his hip in their home, in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, in 2001.
It appears that this is just a minor incident, with no long term consequences. Still, I'd like to ask folks to take a moment and offer up a prayer or a positive thought for this dear lady, who spent years devoted to the greatest president of my lifetime.
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A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.F.B.I. officials blamed an “apparent miscommunication” with the unnamed Internet provider, which mistakenly turned over all the e-mail from a small e-mail domain for which it served as host. The records were ultimately destroyed, officials said.
Bureau officials noticed a “surge” in the e-mail activity they were monitoring and realized that the provider had mistakenly set its filtering equipment to trap far more data than a judge had actually authorized.
The episode is an unusual example of what has become a regular if little-noticed occurrence, as American officials have expanded their technological tools: government officials, or the private companies they rely on for surveillance operations, sometimes foul up their instructions about what they can and cannot collect.
So what we have here is not overreaching by government. What we actually have is human error. And let me be quite blunt -- as long as we have human beings involved in the process of collecting intelligence, there will continue to be human error. If the New York Times wants to make a scandal out of these occurrences it can try to do so -- but I think it will look pretty silly doing so when its own reporting indicates that these are not terribly common and not intentional misdeeds.
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February 14, 2008
A former graduate student armed with two handguns and a shotgun opened fire Thursday in a large lecture hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, killing five students and wounding 16 others before killing himself, authorities said.University President John G. Peters said six students — four women, the shooter and another man — were killed in what he described as a “very brief, rapid-fire assault.” Sixteen other students were injured by gunfire or flying glass, authorities said.
All of the victims were students, including the shooter and the instructor, a graduate teaching assistant, who survived, Peters said. At least two of the wounded were hospitalized in critical condition.
There is a lot more to be learned here, but we don't have the details. Was there a specific target? Why this class in this room?
This event again raises the question of gun-free zones and their danger to students -- but now is not the time to discuss it at length. Instead, it is time to pray for those killed and wounded, and for all their loved ones.
For me this strikes close to home. Having grown up in Illinois, I visited the NIU campus a number of times and had many friends who went to school there. I interviewed at schools in the area some years ago, and could have been teaching just down the road from the campus had I gotten one of the jobs -- and former students could have been among those in the classroom if that had been the case. It does give one pause.
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President Bush has ordered the Pentagon to use a Navy missile to attempt to destroy a broken U.S. spy satellite — and thereby minimize the risk to humans from its toxic fuel — by intercepting it just before it re-enters the atmosphere, officials said Thursday.The effort — the first of its kind — will be undertaken because of the potential that people in the area where the satellite would otherwise crash could be harmed, the officials said.
Deputy National Security Adviser James Jeffrey, briefing reporters at the Pentagon, did not say when the attempted intercept would be conducted, but the satellite is expected to hit Earth during the first week of March.
Yes, there are concerns about classified technology and injuries to people on the ground, but the big concern is the hydrazine fuel. We down here in Texas learned about that when Columbia broke up over the state just minutes from landing. Folks were urged not to touch the wreckage because of the toxic nature of the fuel -- and friends of min from NASA told me privately that the description is NOT an exaggeration. Indeed, the best outcome is to puncture the fuel tank of the satellite in order to dissipate the contents before it can enter the atmosphere.
UPDATE: The NY Times offers up an editorial about the shoot-down (siding with Russia and China against the US, naturally), and an article about the impact of the plan on missile defense systems (slanted, of course, to fit the paper's editorial policy). Interesting pieces, but not for those looking for an unbiased look at the plan.
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Astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets.“It looks like a scale model of our solar system,” said Scott Gaudi, an assistant professor of astronomy at Ohio State University. Dr. Gaudi led an international team of 69 professional and amateur astronomers who announced the discovery in a news conference with reporters.
Their results are being published Friday in the journal Science. The discovery, they said, means that our solar system may be more typical of planetary systems across the universe than had been thought.
In the newly discovered system, a planet about two-thirds of the mass of Jupiter and another about 90 percent of the mass of Saturn are orbiting a reddish star at about half the distances that Jupiter and Saturn circle our own Sun. The star is about half the mass of the Sun.
Neither of the two giant planets is a likely abode for life as we know it. But, Dr. Gaudi said, warm rocky planets — suitable for life — could exist undetected in the inner parts of the system.
What is truly fascinating with this one is not just that they found this solar system, but how. It involves application of some of Einstein's principles to determine whether a star has planets -- and is explained better in the article than I could possibly do. Suffice it to say it involves the bending of light from one star around another star -- something that almost sounds like science fiction, but clearly is not.
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February 13, 2008
I want to take a journey 68 million years back in time to see a Tyrannosaurus rex couple mating. What was it like? Did they trumpet and bellow and stamp their feet? Did they thrash their enormous tails? Did he bite her neck in rapture and exude a musky scent? Somehow, I imagine that when two T. rex got it on, the earth shook for miles around.And if I could only take this journey, I could answer a question that sometimes bothers me. Did T. rex have a penis? Did he even, as lizards do, have two?
Uhhhhhhh. . . YEAH.
I'm pretty sure that the above will be the single most unusual thing i will read today.
And require years of therapy to expunge it from my brain.
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February 07, 2008
A gunman with a history of acrimony against civic leaders stormed City Hall during a council meeting Thursday night, killing two police officers and three city officials before law enforcers fatally shot him, authorities said. The mayor was critically injured in the rampage.The victims at the meeting in suburban St. Louis were killed after the gunman rushed the council chambers and began firing as he yelled "Shoot the mayor!" according to St. Louis County Police spokeswoman Tracy Panus. Two people were wounded before Kirkwood police fatally shot him, she said.
Panus said the names of the victims would not be released until a news conference Friday morning. But the wounded included Mayor Mike Swoboda, who was in critical condition late Thursday in the intensive-care unit of St. John's Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur, hospital spokesman Bill McShane said, declining to discuss the nature of the injuries. McShane said another victim, Suburban Journals newspaper reporter Todd Smith, was in satisfactory condition.
The gunman killed one officer outside City Hall, then walked into the chambers and shot another before continuing to fire, Panus said.
I used to live not far from Kirkwood. It is a nice town filled with decent people. In the coming days we will find out why this incident happened. But in the mean time, let's just mourn for the loss of dedicated public servants who were murdered as tehy worked for the people of Kirkwood.
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February 05, 2008
A new $5-per-patron fee the state is charging strip clubs is really a tax and should be declared unconstitutional, a lawyer for the clubs argued in court Tuesday."They are simply taking money from my clients and funding other purposes," said Stewart Whitehead.
The Legislature enacted the fee, effective Jan. 1, and dedicated the first $25 million to sexual assault prevention and additional revenue to low-income health care. Clubs will have to send their first quarterly check to the state in April.
The Texas Entertainment Association and the owner of an Amarillo strip club are challenging the fee. Although a trial is scheduled for March 3, the clubs asked state District Judge Margaret Cooper to declare the fee unconstitutional.
Cooper said she will issue a ruling in advance of the trial.
Whitehead, said a fee must be related to regulation, and the state is not using the fee to "abate an alleged nuisance" or benefit the industry.
Now let's consider this. Under such a legal theory, a sales tax could only be used to deal directly with commerce related issues, and income tax (unconstitutional in Texas) could only be used o deal with employment and work issues, and a tax on entertainment (such as a strip club) could only be used to fund entertainment related issues. There would be no way to fund schools or parks, and all highways would ahve to be tollways. (actually, we're headed that way if we aren't careful).
I'm curious -- how would this idiot fund the Department of Defense?
Granted, I'm not a fan of the "pole tax" (and no, I don't go to strip clubs), but I am even less of a fan of inane legal arguments.
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February 04, 2008
The four new options are:• New Texas: This red, white and blue design features a composite of Texas urban skylines at the bottom, and the word "Texas" in black at the top. Sharp-eyed Houston Chronicle readers pointed out that the online image of this plate omitted the Houston skyline. TxDOT officials quickly posted a corrected version, with Houston's skyline intact by late afternoon. Perkes explained the agency accidentally posted an earlier version of the plate design before the Houston skyline was added.
• Traditional Texas. This plate features blue highlights and a stark, white background with a gold Lone Star at the bottom and a bold, red "TEXAS" at the top.
• Lone Star Texas. A white Lone Star stands out in the top, left-hand corner of the plate against a large Texas sky along the top of the plate. A low-lying mountain range is pictured across the bottom of the plate.
• Natural Texas. The plate is covered with a picture of wildflowers.
Also an option is a slightly modified version of the current Texas plate, with the space shuttle, cowboy, and oil rig, which they have nsmed "My Texas".
Personally, I like Lone Star Texas, but could also be happy with Traditional Texas or the current plate. I just don't like either the New Texas or Natural Texas plate.
So, be sure to vote -- and feel free to leave a comment saying how you voted.
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Things have gone the next step in Great Britain, where the public now is not sure whether folks like Winston Churchill and Gandhi existed – but are reasonably confident that Sherlock Holmes was a real person.
Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.
And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist.
Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of Britain's most famous writers, is a work of fiction himself.
Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of Waterloo victor the Duke of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.
Meanwhile, 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Holmes actually existed; 33 percent thought the same of W. E. Johns' fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles.
The scary thing is that there are adults alive today who actually saw Churchill in person, and we have an ample video and photographic record of his actions. But I would guess that we have reached the point where the line between fact and fiction has blurred so completely – consider the ability to use computers to manufacture documents and photos – that people just are not sure any more what is real.
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Botched abortions mean that scores of babies are being born alive and left to die, an official report has revealed.A total of 66 infants survived NHS termination attempts in one year alone, it emerged.
Rather than dying at birth as was intended, they were able to breathe unaided. About half were alive for an hour, while one survived ten hours.
I guess the thought is that a woman is entitled to a dead baby, no matter what it takes. In this country, we have laws requiring medical care for such newborns – but they are not often enforced.
I guess that we have become so accustomed to the notion of “choice” that we do not, as a society, give any value to the lives that someone else has chosen to end.
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February 03, 2008
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton inched closer Sunday to explaining how she would enforce her proposal that everyone have health insurance, but declined to specify — as she has throughout the campaign — how she would penalize those who refuse.Mrs. Clinton, who did not answer Senator Barack Obama’s question on the topic in a debate last Thursday, was pressed repeatedly to do so Sunday by George Stephanopoulos on the ABC program “This Week.” When Mr. Stephanopoulos asked a third time whether she would garnish people’s wages, Mrs. Clinton responded, “George, we will have an enforcement mechanism, whether it’s that or it’s some other mechanism through the tax system or automatic enrollments.”
She then added that the focus on enforcement clouded a more important point, that her proposal to cover the uninsured was superior to Mr. ObamaÂ’s because she would mandate coverage for all, while he would require it only for children.
But let's ignore the anti-freedom, and potentially anti-poor, approach of fining folks who cannot afford Clinton's plan -- she is also proposing a huge tax increase to fund this program.
Mrs. Clinton argues that she can make premiums affordable for low-income workers by spending $110 billion on subsidies and cost-saving devices. Like Mr. Obama, she would pay for her plan primarily by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest Americans. She would not allow exemptions from the insurance mandate, as Massachusetts does for those who cannot afford even subsidized premiums.
That's right -- your tax bill will increase to pay for HillaryCare II. and since the Bush tax cuts took some low-income Americans completely off the income tax rolls, that means that there are Americans currently exempt from the income tax who will suddenly be required to pay, in addition to needing to scrape together the cash to pay for their health insurance.
Sounds to me like Hillary's health care "plan", details of which she refuses to disclose to the American public before the election, is bad medicine for America.
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But when you are talking about seeking an exception that endangers the health of patients because your religious beliefs go against basic hygiene rules, I have no sympathy for you.
Muslim medical students are refusing to obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, because they say it is against their religion.Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam.
Universities and NHS trusts fear many more will refuse to co-operate with new Department of Health guidance, introduced this month, which stipulates that all doctors must be "bare below the elbow".
The measure is deemed necessary to stop the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have killed hundreds.
Minutes of a clinical academics' meeting at Liverpool University revealed that female Muslim students at Alder Hey children's hospital had objected to rolling up their sleeves to wear gowns.
Similar concerns have been raised at Leicester University. Minutes from a medical school committee said that "a number of Muslim females had difficulty in complying with the procedures to roll up sleeves to the elbow for appropriate handwashing".
Sheffield University also reported a case of a Muslim medic who refused to "scrub" as this left her forearms exposed.
Documents from Birmingham University reveal that some students would prefer to quit the course rather than expose their arms, and warn that it could leave trusts open to legal action.
It is very simple -- if the burqa babes want to follow sharia law, they can. However, they can't be doctors if they do. After all, you do not have the right to infect a patient with a life-threatening disease in the name of your religious faith.
After all, this isn't a medical professional refusing to participate in abortions or refusing to dispense birth control or abortifacient drugs. This is someone who insists that they can't follow basic medical protocol to provide even a minimum amount of protection to patients.
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Former Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz, who was forced from office in 1976 after making a racial joke and was once a dean at Purdue University, died Saturday. He was 98.Mr. Butz had been in poor health recently and died during a family visit at his sonÂ’s home in Washington, said Randy Woodson, dean of the College of Agriculture at Purdue.
Mr. Butz, a farm economist and free-market advocate, had a relaxed and earthy style that won him acclaim as an after-dinner speaker but caused problems in his public life. Controversy began swirling around him after President Nixon appointed him secretary of agriculture in 1971. He figured in public disputes on issues like foreign grain sales and high meat prices.
Mr. Butz was forced to resign in October 1976 after telling a joke that was derogatory to blacks. The slur was overheard by John W. Dean III, the White House counsel to Nixon who was jailed in the Watergate scandal, and Mr. DeanÂ’s report on it was published in Rolling Stone magazine.
Two years earlier, Mr. Butz apologized to the Vatican after criticizing the Roman Catholic ChurchÂ’s stand on birth control by using a mock Italian accent while referring to the pope.
“Let’s be honest, I’m controversial,” he said at the time. “I don’t hesitate to speak my mind.”
Oddly enough, the responses to the to the two incidents shows the relative level of acceptance of different forms of bigotry in America. The relatively mild racial joke was, and remains, grounds for ending the career of anyone in political life. On the other hand, the same sort of joke and/or statement regarding Catholic moral teachings are now considered to be mainstream, and I've heard the same sentiment that Butz expressed come out of the mouth of left-wing political with no consequence. In other words, anti-black racism has been marginalized, while anti-Catholicism (along with a number of other forms of religious bigotry expressed towards those with traditional religious beliefs) has become an accepted part of political dialogue in this country.
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February 02, 2008
What scum they are!
The State Attorney's Office will decide whether to charge two teens who admit they robbed a 9-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies outside of a Boynton Beach supermarket."I thought that it was a really mean thing to do, and I was sad after," Girl Scout Gracie Smith told WPBF News 25.
Authorities said that a 17-year-old girl in a hot-pink sweatshirt approached Smith outside of a Winn-Dixie supermarket at Hypoluxo and Jog roads in Boynton Beach Wednesday evening and asked the girl what her favorite cookies were. Police told WPBF that, while Smith was telling the teen about her favorite Cinna-Spins, the teen snatched an envelope containing about $167 off of Smith's table, hopped into another teen's car and drove away.
You know, that would be offensive enough, but it actually gets worse.
Smith's mother, Charlene Rubenstrunk, told WPBF that the girls returned to the store Thursday to taunt her daughter."They are within 10 feet of the same kid they just robbed last night and there is nothing anybody can do about it. I find that offensive," Rubenstrunk said.
The girls, whose names are not being released because they are minors, told WPBF that they were not remorseful for the crime, and that they did it because they "needed money."
"We went through all that effort to get it, we got all these charges and we had to give the money back. I'm kind of pissed," one of the girls told WPBF.
The other girl told WPBF that she was upset because police found them.
"I'm not sorry, I'm just pissed that I got caught," the girl said.
Seems to me that this pair needs to be charged and sentenced as adults, with a little time in jail. After all, the sentence would be nothing more than career skills training for these two girls, who no doubt have many years of prostitution and drug dealing arrests ahead of them, before they get sentence to life in prison for allowing their latest crack-dealing boyfriends sexually abuse and murder their children.
In the mean time, I hope someone exposes the names of these two thieving bitches so that the world can hold them up to the ridicule they deserve.
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February 01, 2008
FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you'll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.
I guess that Mayhall, Read, and Shows donÂ’t believe that Mississippi has any real problems in need of legislative action, and are therefore looking to intrude into areas where the state has no business. As such, it is time for them to submit their resignations, or for the voters to remove their sorry carcasses from office.
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