It Pays To Be A Judge

Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention centre in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences.

Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, entered plea agreements in federal court in Scranton admitting that they took payoffs from PA Childcare and a sister company, Western PA Childcare, between 2003 and 2006.

When someone is sent to a detention centre, the company running the facility receives money from the county government to defray the cost of incarceration. So as more children were sentenced to the detention centre, PA Childcare and Western PA Childcare received more money from the government, prosecutors said.

Teenagers who came before Ciavarella in juvenile court often were sentenced to detention centres for minor offences that would typically have been classified as misdemeanours, according to the Juvenile Law Centre, a Philadelphia nonprofit group.

One 17-year-old boy was sentenced to three months’ detention for being in the company of another minor caught shoplifting.

Others were given similar sentences for “simple assault” resulting from a schoolyard scuffle that would normally draw a warning, a spokeswoman for the Juvenile Law Centre said.

The Constitution guarantees the right to legal representation in U.S. courts. But many of the juveniles appeared before Ciavarella without an attorney because they were told by the probation service that their minor offences didn’t require one.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court removed Ciavarella and Conahan from their duties after federal prosecutors filed charges on January 26. The court has also appointed a judge to review all the cases involved.

Well Irene, that is your judicial system hard at work bringing justice to every corner of the country…….if convicted maybe these guys should be put in with the people that they have sentenced over the years so they all can become better acquainted.

GOP Has Declared War On Obama

From the very beginning of his administration, Pres. Obama has been fighting an uphill battle with the GOP.  Regardless of the make nice words from the  minority whips and leaders of both houses of congress, it is evident that it will be nothing but confrontation after confrontation.  The Repubs have said it clearly that they want the president to succeed and that they are looking forward to working with him, but so far they have shown nothing but contempt for him and his attempts to try and use a bipartisan approach.

The cowards will not admit that they want Obama to fail and that they are willing to have him do so at the expense of the nation’s economy.  The GOP and its talk show pundits are willing to have Americans lose jobs and homes and meals all in the name of partisan politics with the hopes that a presidential failure will return them to power in Congress.

Nothing is more important to the GOP than their position of power.  And NOTHING will get in their way of their return to power, including the American people and their livelihood.  The economy is being used as a weapon of mass destruction against the Dems and most importantly against Obama.  They, the GOP, has no plan, other than their tired old tactics of the past, tax cuts, to offer the people, so they will attack everything tried by the new president in the hopes that something negative will stick.  Even to go so far as to use a fictitious CBO report to make their case–in other words they will LIE to get their attack on.

But Wait!  Did I call the Repubs cowards?  Yes I did!  And I will bet you would like me to justify that accussation…..alrighty then….The GOP is putting political party and the grab for power over the well-being of the economy and country…that is a cowardly thing to do.  There is a time and a place for such a political war and now is neither the time or the place.

Are You Angry Yet?

I have not seen too much anger over the crap about the bailout…I mean Wall Street is raping the taxpayer blind and they smile and ask for more…..What will make you micro-cephalics mad?

How about this little tidbit?

A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman’s 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California’s taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.

Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family.

Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.

Nadya Suleman Family Web Site has been set up to collect donations for the children. It features pictures of the mother and each octuplet and has instructions for making donations by check or credit card.

Suleman, whose six older children range in age from 2 to 7, said three of them receive disability payments. She told NBC one is autistic, another has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, and a third experienced a mild speech delay with “tiny characteristics of autism.” She refused to say how much they get in payments.

In California, a low-income family can receive Social Security payments of up to $793 a month for each disabled child. Three children would amount to $2,379.

The Suleman octuplets’ medical costs have not been disclosed, but in 2006, the average cost for a premature baby‘s hospital stay in California was $164,273, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Eight times that equals $1.3 million.

For a single mother, the cost of raising 14 children through age 17 ranges from $1.3 million to $2.7 million, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Now the bitch has gone into hiding….why?  There have been really negative phone calls and emails…even some threatening her.  Let me see…she goes on TV almost bragginbg about what she is doing and she expects people to wish her well?

Told you she was a fucking moron?

Now does this “welfare” pirate anger you?  If not, then please stop bitching about the “welfare moms” that are just riding the system for personal gain without ever having to get a job.

This broad is an idiot–people who allowed this to happen are morons–The doctor is a a/hole looking for fame–and the people who defend this are fucking stupid!

How 2 Build An Economy-Warning

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Hey morons!  This is not rocket science!  You dipsticks in Washington keep playing the same damn stupid game year after year.  And what have you really fucking accomplished?

Not a goddamn thing!

If you dipshits really wanted to build an economy you would not listen to the asshole Geithner.  Recently he talked and talked and said nothing, which is pretty much staus quo from Washington.  He gave NO specifics he did however give us a vague outline of things to come…..and those things are to help out those damn greedy assholes in the banking industry…nothing new there…I think that was pretty much expected when you hire a guy from the banking industry…YA THINK!

Shall I break it down for you MORONS?  If demand cannot be created–no amount of tax cuts or bank handouts will help.

Liquidity is NOT the answer!  The old tired mantra of Repybs and their goddamn stupid supply side economics will not do it.  Supply siders put way too much faith in tax cuts to increase investment.  That is not always the case, just look at the last 8 years of tax cuts.  What have we gained from those?

Want it simpler, dipstick?

If consumers are not buying, an increase in investment will not happen.  Business will hire when demand dictates it.  no hiring–no buying–no investment–no growth.  Silly people!  The Laffer Curve has been a conservative religion for decades–too bad it is a false god, the morons  they worship.

Try to keep up…I know it is difficult with your head up your ass….but give it a try.

There is a three word answer to building an economy when all is tanking rapidly….DEMAND…DEMAND…DEMAND.

The GOP Alernative For Stimulus

House GOP Leader John Boehner on plans for an economic stimulus and working with Barack Obama to craft such a plan:

“Republicans stand ready to work with President-elect Obama and our Democratic counterparts in Congress to enact an economic recovery bill that focuses on tax relief for working families and small businesses, rather than increased spending on government programs and higher taxes. House Republicans have put forth a plan that would do what Americans are asking Washington to do on the economy. President-elect Obama has expressed a desire to govern from the center. In that spirit, I’m hopeful he will give our plan his full consideration as he assembles his economic team – not for our sake, but for the sake of the American people, who are struggling in this economy.”

That is the alternative—it has been the alternative for decades.  It does not necessarily prove to be accurate–but the Repubs keep harping and pushing a tired, lame ass tactic.  We have had 8 years of tax cuts and it did NOTHING to stop the economic meltdown we are experiencing at this time.  But it will now somehow miraculously save the economy.

The only answer I have to his pile of steaming bovine fecal matter is a quote from John Stuart Mills, “I am not saying conservatives are stupid, but most stupid people are conservative”.

A-Rod Is An A-Hole!

Good old A-Rod is playing the same game as politicians….,come clean and ask for sympathy.  First of all, if he wants sympathy I suggest he go to the dictionary and look between shit and syphyllis and there will be his sympathy.

He is playing a game that has been played for a long time…..

“You know, one thing I’m learning as I get older, and hopefully a little wiser, is that honesty … the truth will set you free. And I’m just proud that I’m here sharing my story. Regardless of what the union — this is no one’s fault. This is my fault. I’m responsible for this.   And I’m deeply sorry for that.”

He is deeply sorry…..for what?  Getting caught in a lie?  He is so remorseful, but is it because of what he did with steroids or was it being caught?

He came out now trying to head off any backlash.  He figures if he sounds like he is sorry and a bit sad, then the fans will forgive him.  I pray that the fans are not as stupid as he hopes they are…but I am probably just wishful thinking.

Yes Irene, There Is More

The mother of octuplets was implanted with those embryos at a Beverly Hills fertility clinic run by a well-known — and controversial — specialist who pioneered a method of implantation. Dr. Michael Kamrava’s name emerged Monday as a result of an interview aired Monday on NBC with Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to eight babies Jan. 26.

Over the past two weeks, the identity of Suleman’s fertility doctor has been a source of great mystery because of questions over the ethics of implanting numerous embryos in a woman who already had six children.

In the NBC interview, Suleman did not identify her doctor by name, but said that she went to the West Coast IVF Clinic in Beverly Hills — of which Kamrava is director — and that all 14 of her children were conceived with help from the same doctor. In 2006, Los Angeles TV station KTLA ran a story on infertility that showed Kamrava treating Suleman and discussing embryo implantation.

Kamrava graduated from the University of Illinois and went to medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, according to state records and his Web site.

Some fertility specialists said Kamrava is a controversial figure in the field.

An in-vitro procedure typically costs between $8,000 and $15,000. Asked on NBC how she was able to afford the treatments, Suleman said she had saved money and used some of the more than $165,000 in disability payments she received after being injured in a 1999 riot at a state mental hospital where she worked.

She also told NBC that she does not intend to go on welfare, though her publicist confirmed Monday that Suleman already receives food stamps and child disability payments to help feed and care for her six other children.

Suleman’s publicist Mike Furtney said she receives $490 a month in food stamps. Furtney said Suleman did not want to disclose the nature of her children’s disabilities or the nature of those payments.

There will more to this story to come, of that I am sure.  A PUBLICIST?  Why does she need the PR?  I smell a book and/or a made for tv movie.

Keep It Simple, Stupid!

K.I.S.S.—we all have heard this old acronym along with the usual  FUBAR and SNAFU…well KISS should be used by the Idiots in Congress when debating the future economic stability of the country.

Okay, I will try to keep it simple……

If you want Econ 101….all this boils down to the Law of Supply and Demand…..there is plenty of supply and little or no demand…..in other words plenty of stuff to buy but no one is buying….got it so far?

The Repubs agrument for the economy is to cut taxes and that will jump start the wheels of recovery……they say that it will make companies start making stuff and hiring people……not so tough so far……now if the supply is there but no demand….why would making more supply create demand?

Guess what?  It will NOT create demand…it may tickle the gears with a feather but will not bring us out of the situation the economy is in.  I am waiting for one of the Repubs to bring up the Laffer Curve theory, which basically states that “if left unattended a recession will right itself”  Another one of those complex things they will throw out there to confuse and hopeful persuade.

It is all so simple….to create demand, money must be put into the hands of people who will spend it.  money does not need to be saved, itr must be churned back into the economy as consumer spending.

Just ask your representative to explain it as if you were his/her grandparents…if he uses words with 4 or more syllables make them stop and start over.  It is not as complicated as they want you to believe and there is a simple explanation….you deserve to know and to understand……MAKE THEM DO IT!

How About A Gag Order?—-Warning

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Enough Assholes enough!

From now on both parties in the economic debate need to shut the fuck up!  The stimulus plan has not divided the country–it is the media and paritsan politics.  A gag order is seriously needed.

I will say that most, but not all, of the media is trying to give bot5h sides of the debate.  Unfortunbately too many host are partisan and get a lot my air time than those who support the bill.  The problem is that they do not present the news in away that would help the viewers understand what is going on with the bill.  And some keep using the “I won” statement is just plain silly.  It is hearsay or it would be posted on line by now.  It is one of the main tools being used to divide the country.  The economy is a  trainwreck–we do not need more observers we need lots more EMS.

The division of the country is doing NO good–nothing is being accomplished, but some goddamn political game–The Dems as well as the Repubs are playing this moronic game of political tennis.  They stuck a bunch of crap from the last 8 years into this bill–that is called partisanship.  Incase you were wondering.

This game has got to stop if the economy is to ever get rolling again.    Change has not come to Washington.  It is the same shit, different adminstration—guess what?  That is called partisanship!

Here is a piece of goddamn bi-partisanship–stop paying these assholes until they cease the political bullshit and work to solve the country’s problems.  Here is anmother piece for the dipshits!  Take all the spending parts out of the 675 pages, the parts that actually stimulate the economy, and pass them as a seperate bill.  Then they can go back to playing the stupid little mindless bullshit we pay them for.

A GAG ORDER!  Is the only answer.  Or this slimy crap will continue ad nauseum!

Make Punishment Fit The Crime–WARNING

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A seven week old puppy is now recovering after he was found tied and frozen to a tree. The Washington County Humane Society is investigating to figure out who’s responsible.

The puppy was spotted on Friday in the woods behind the North Spring apartment complex in Hagerstown. The owners were no where to be found.

The person who found the puppy called the Washington County Humane Society. When they found him, he was shivering from the freezing temperatures. It was so cold; they had to physically pull him off the tree, resulting in a loss of fur from his side.

After reading this story it brought up all my rage at shit like this……in my area in the past we have had similar stories like the group that dognaped and tied them to a tree so their fighting Pits had targets or the kid that worked in a fast food chain and stuck a kittens feet into the hot grease…..I am sure that you have heard stories like these in your own area.

It all made me think about other crimes as well…the ones above you just sentence the culprit to the same abuse that he/she inflicted on the animal.  Maybe then we can stop the fucking morons from inflicting pain, becuase it seldom stops with the animals.

For example. a person who physcially abuses another, you start with the little finger of the left hand and you cut off a joint everytime they are convicted….eventually the stupid mother fucker will either stop their abudive ways or be left with nubs…it is that easy!  Or those screaming fucking idiots that want to commit abuse so they can put it on youtube….their sentence to be beaten horribly and without mercy and put on youtube so everyone can see what a strong he man type of assholes looks like when he is being beaten.

There is a steady increase of physical abuse carried out against animals and humans and eventually a solution will have to be found…so how about getting off yoiur asses and find one!

All I am saying is make the punishment fit the crime…..spank their hands with court orders or leisure time at some white collar lockup….AIN”T DOING IT!

If you found this post offensive then…tough shit!  YOU WERE WARNED!