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Thursday, February 14th, 2008This is the vote I was waiting for. The torture vote. This vote would require the intelligence community to follow the Army Field Manual in regards to torture. This would effectively make waterboarding illegal.
McCain, a former POW who was tortured, has spoken about waterboarding on several occasions saying waterboarding “is not a complicated procedure. It is torture.” and “very exquisite torture.” In fact McCain was one of the few Republicans that spoke out against torture. He even supported the Detainee Treatment Act back in ‘06, which would “bar cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of any detainee.”
So how did he vote? Did he stick to his guns even though they are unpopular with the idiots in his party or did he sell out?
The fucker sold out. Maybe McCain needs a refresher course on what it is like to be tortured.
On top of all this Daisy Cutter over at Daily Kos did a little bit of digging and found that McCain monetarily supported the Nicaraguan Contras.
McCain supporters, you have been fleeced. Now touch the monolith little monkeys and see the truth.
Oh, Those Dangerous MySpaces!
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008The bigwigs at MySpace have finally decided to cave into the pressure being put on them by idiot parents and try to ‘protect’ its younger users from the threats that sicko pedophiles pose on the website.
That’s all well and good, but some of the ideas they have, and are going to put into place, really won’t work. They just aren’t practical.
Although this is my opinion, I’ve been discovering in my travels around the interwebs that this opinion is shared with bloggers from all corners of the globe. Here’s the gist of what they want to do:
1.) Set all profiles of 15-and-under users to private, and prevent those profiles from getting any sort of communication from any adult they do now know.
2.) Default all 16 and 17-year-old users’ profiles to private, which they can change to public if they so wish.
3.) Deny any registered sex offenders access to the site.
While all of those are pretty good ideas, how does MySpace propose to enforce them? Any 13-year-old can go on there and create a profile with the britdate set to 1982. It’s not difficult.
Also, suppose Joe Smith the Molester wants a profile on MySpace but he’s a registered sex offender. How does he get around that? Easily, by signing up as Bobby Jones, the nice guy from Detroit.
MySpace should be thanked for the effort, but politely told that none of this is going to work.
What would work, on the other hand, is better parenting. I’m so sick of hearing parents declare to the media that their child was raped or put in danger because of MySpace or some other internet bases social network. I ask you this, parents: Where were you while your child was chatting it up with Chester the Molester online? Why are you not monitoring your minor’s internet activity, when you hear every day about a child who falls prey to some online predator? WHy are you not protecting your child?
It’s sad to say, but I truly believe that a lot of these “parents” are hoping their child will get injured due to a MySpace rendezvous so that they can try to sue.
’nuff said.
Guilty!
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Damien Echols sits on death row, waiting for justice.
In 1993, he and two other teenage boys in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas were arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of three young boys.
It was said the murders were part of a satanic ritual, performed by the boys known nowadays as the West Memphis Three. They were satanists because they had long hair and listened to Metallica.
The trial was a joke. The conviction was an even bigger joke, only not a funny one.
You can read all about them at www.wm3.org, or watch the film Paradise Lost. I’m not here to talk about them. I’m here to talk about another case that’s been in the news recently that has quite a few things in common with the three boys from West Memphis.
The victim’s name is Stacy Peterson, the suspect her husband Drew.
I’ll say it right off: I don’t like Drew Peterson. I don’t like the attitude he seems to have, nor the fact that he doesn’t seem to care about the welfare of his missing wife. It wouldn’t surprise me if he did, in fact, murder her.
See what I did there? I implied that he may have killed his wife by making a statement to which a lot of people would argue I’ve already tried and convicted him in my mind.
Which is exactly what the media has done to this man. Every news story has basically come out and said he killed her. He’s been tried and convicted before even being arrested, or before it’s even been proven that his young wife is dead.
Sure, it’s been proven by one of the top medical examiners in the nation that his previous wife, Kathleen Savio, was murdered in her bathtub. It was never proven, however, that Peterson killed her.
The problem that’s being created here by the sensationalism of this news story is that our justice system now can’t possibly provide a fair trial for this man if he is indeed arrested. The court system would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been following this story and who hasn’t already formed an opinion of Drew Peterson.
This is the same thing that happened in West Memphis. The town had already tried and convicted these three boys, and thus the prosecution needed no physical evidence lock in a guilty verdict. The same thing is going to happen to Drew Peterson if he goes on trial.
We see this investigation every day in the news, but is Peterson the only lead the police are following? The only suspect? If so, they should arrest him. If there’s any doubt, they should be finding other avenues to pursue and say so. If Peterson can be all over the news, so should any other lead that the police are following. That’s the only ay this horrible journalism can be made unbiased.
I’ll be interested to see how all of this unfolds.
Any opinions?
Another Update on Pants-Gate
Thursday, June 14th, 2007I recently found this:
Anyone wishing to contact Roy Pearson directly to express their opinion of his actions may do at:
Pearson, Roy L Jr
3012 Pineview Ct NE
Washington, DC 20018-1617Tel: (202) 269-1191
Email: roypearsonjr@verizon.net
Enjoy.
I would also like to announce that he is the most recent winner of our Giant Douchenozzle Award! I urge everyone to contact him to congratulate him.
(If, by chance, you don’t know who this waste of skin is read Rob’s first post about him here and my follow up here)
Pants-Gate Update
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
The man pictured below is a massive fuckstain.
If you see this man please to not attempt to engage him in conversation as he is considered to be a massive fuckstain and extremely stupid.
Just kick him in the nuts.
Rob posted earlier about this and I just had to follow up.
“Judge” Roy L. Person Jr. broke down in court yesterday. Over a pair of pants. I’m going to actually hand this over to the Washington post for a moment. I’ve bolded the more amusing bits.
Before trial began yesterday in the case of the D.C. judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaners after they lost his pants, the most extraordinary fact was Roy Pearson’s demand for $65 million in damages.
That was before Pearson, an administrative law judge, broke down while testifying about the emotional pain of having the cleaners give him the wrong pants. It was before an 89-year-old woman in a wheelchair told of being chased out of the cleaners by an angry owner. And it was before she compared the owners of Custom Cleaners in open court to Nazis.
“I knew it: It’s all my fault,” said the reporter from German television who was sitting next to me.
The global import of Pearson v. Custom Cleaners was evident from the start. The courtroom was packed with members of the Korean Dry Cleaners Association and reporters from print and broadcast outlets in at least five countries. The guy from the tort reform lobby handed out bright green buttons protesting the $65 million “pantsuit.” The gent from Fox TV sported neon-color paisley pants.
And Pearson, who by his account has spent more than 1,400 hours preparing his case, arrived in a black pinstripe suit. I hope he won’t sue me if I mention that the pants could have used a pressing.
“Never before in recorded history have a group of defendants engaged in such misleading and unfair business practices,” Pearson said in his opening statement. You don’t get a lot of firsts in recorded history in D.C. Superior Court, though I should add that Marion Barry was in the building for his day in traffic court, and the pants suit easily outdrew the ex-mayor-for-life.
The “willful and malicious conduct” Pearson described consisted of this: In 2005, Pearson was starting his new job as a judge and therefore needed to start wearing suits again after a couple of years of unemployment. He brought five suits in for alterations because he’d put on 20 pounds and needed to have the pants let out. Four suits came back fine. One came back without the pants.
Pearson says the Chung family — Korean immigrants who came here from the charcoal factories of Seoul in 1992 and now own three cleaners, including the one a short walk from Pearson’s place in the Fort Lincoln section of Northeast — had no intention of living up to the sign in their shop that said “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” Therefore, Pearson said, he had no choice but to take on “the awesome responsibility” of suing the Chungs on behalf of every resident of the District of Columbia.
Judge Judith Bartnoff went to remarkable lengths to try to keep Pearson moving along while disabusing him of the notion that he represented either the tens of thousands of people who have used Custom Cleaners or the half million people in Washington who might theoretically be at risk of being dissatisfied with the shop’s service.
From the start, Pearson kept referring to himself as “we,” as if he were representing everyone in town. Bartnoff was having none of it: “Mr. Pearson, you are not a ‘we.’ You are an ‘I.’ “
Defense lawyer Christopher Manning depicted Pearson as a bitter, wildly litigious man who emerged from a recent divorce with financial difficulties and who held a deep grudge against the Chungs stemming from a previous run-in. Back in 2002, after the cleaners lost another pair of his pants, Pearson was compensated with a check for $150. The Chungs then tried to ban him from their shop, but Pearson implored them to let him come back because Custom was the only cleaners within walking distance of his home, and he doesn’t have a car.
Pearson presented a series of witnesses who told of unhappy experiences at Custom. Their satisfaction, they said, was hardly guaranteed. But every one of Pearson’s witnesses told the defense that in fact, they would have been entirely satisfied if they had been given credit for free cleaning or compensation in the amount of the value of their damaged or lost garment. Most of the witnesses said they’d generally had good experiences at Custom, and not one of Pearson’s witnesses said anything about deserving millions of dollars.
Witnesses depicted Soo Chung, the mom in the Mom and Pop operation, as someone who was pleasant and professional — until a dispute arose, at which point she told several of the customers that it was they who had brought in damaged goods, not the shop that had caused any problem with an article of clothing.
Grace Hewell, a retired congressional staffer, said Jin Chung, Soo’s husband, “chased me out of the store” when she complained that her suit pants “looked like they had been washed” and no longer fit properly. “At 89, I’m not ready to be chased,” she said. “But I was in World War II as a WAC, so I think I can take care of myself. Having lived in Germany and knowing the people who were victims of the Nazis, I thought he was going to beat me up. I thought of what Hitler had done to thousands of Jews.”
After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the $10.50 alteration that went awry proved to be too much.
“These are not my pants,” Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with cuffs. “I have in my adult life, with one exception, never worn pants with cuffs.”
“And she said, ‘These are your pants.’ ”
Pearson paused. He struggled to breathe deeply. He could not continue. Pearson blurted a request for a break, stood up, turned around and walked out of the courtroom, tears dripping from his full and reddened eyes.
When he returned, he called that moment when Chung offered him the wrong pants “a Twilight Zone experience,” and again, he welled up and had to halt the proceedings. Pearson wanted to submit the remainder of his testimony in writing, but Judge Bartnoff wouldn’t hear of it.
The trial is expected to end today. Pearson has reduced his claim to $54 million. But he told the judge that he also wants to be awarded attorney’s fees, even though he represents himself. He would like to be paid at a rate of between $390 and $425 an hour.
Earlier in the day, Pearson called his 30-year-old son as a witness. The son testified that he was surprised that his father had filed this suit. “I know you don’t like litigation at all,” he said.
Boy, that is a lot of bold text but since the bolded bits are so damn funny I couldn’t help myself.
Who does this cockholster think he is pretending to represent all of D.C.? Hell if he wants to represent them all let him. It should just mean that if he wins he should have to split it evenly will every god damned resident.
Oh look, here is the record of his divorce. It is a fun read I’ll tell ya. The one bit that stood out for me is:
The trial court found that husband was substantially responsible for “excessive driving
up” of the legal costs by “threatening both wife and her lawyer with disbarment [sic],” and
creating unnecessary litigation. Consequently, it awarded wife $12,000 in legal fees to be paid
by husband.
Looks like he has been an unreasonable fuckstick for a while now. Hey junior, being a “judge” does not entitle you to abuse the system.
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