… of trees, that is. I live near North Hollywood High School and they have been chopping down trees since the morning of December 26th, starting promptly at 8:30 am. This has been going on all day. Every day. Finally today I called the police station, somewhat apologetically, but the Officer on desk duty told me that he was sorry, tree trimming is not illegal, unless it was on Sundays.
Three chainsaws have been revving up for the fourth day in a row and all I can do is picture how I’d use those chainsaws on the tree trimmers.
Last night, we had a brownout. All of the lights dimmed and stayed that way for a few hours. Too many christmas lawn displays perhaps?
(CNN) — The government asked a federal court Tuesday to order former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick to keep on hand assets valued at more than $900,000 — the amount earmarked for the care of 54 pit bulls. The animals were found on his property when a dogfighting operation was busted last April.
Vick turned himself in to authorities Monday to get a jump start on serving his sentence for running the ring.
In a motion filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson noted that Vick, in his plea agreement, agreed to pay “restitution for the full amount of the costs associated with the disposition of all dogs” in the case.
Vick agreed that those costs could include “the long-term care and/or the humane euthanasia of some or all of those animals,” which were seized from the “Bad Newz Kennels” on his property in Surry County, Virginia.
Laguna Beach lifeguards found another headless bird on a city beach, the seventh beheaded animal discovered since last week.
The animal, a dove or pigeon, was found at the north end of Main Beach, said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jason Kravetz. Two goats, three chickens and a rooster have also been found since Nov. 8.
“It appears to be related to the other ones. It was a headless animal and we’ve had a spate over seven days,” Kravetz said.
. . . former Secretary of Defense and bespectacled herald of doom and destruction Donald Rumsfeld had to make a break for it when a coalition of the way-more-than willing human rights groups filed a complaint with the French courts over his authorization of torture at Gitmo and elsewhere. Just the thought that, even for a moment or two, after his attendance at a breakfast in Paris sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine, Rumsfeld feared he might be jailed and told to answer for his crimes is enough to sustain this blogger for a while. It’s orgasm-inducing, isn’t it? The notion that Rumsfeld was sweating, wondering if at any moment French officials might actually have les couilles to do it?
Sounds too good to be true. Can you imagine Rummy giving his typical byzantine answers in a court of law?
More on from the IHT:
A group of U.S. and European human rights organizations is pursuing a legal complaint against Donald Rumsfeld in a Paris court that accuses the former defense secretary of being responsible for torture.
The group, which includes the International Federation for Human Rights, the French League for Human Rights and the Nork York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, filed the complaint late Thursday and unsuccessfully sought to confront Rumsfeld as he left a breakfast meeting in central Paris on Friday.
Jeanne Sulzer, a lawyer for the group, said the complaint was filed with a state prosecutor, Jean-Claude Marin, who has the power to pursue the case because of Rumsfeld’s presence in France.
I’m right there with you, The same thing happened to me.
“There is a close-up of a woman having a baby, a close up straight up her vagina, and that’s all you see, and these are thirteen year old boys and girls, and its bloody and disgusting. Within thirty seconds two boys had fainted and the lights went on and they were carried out. I put my hands over my face because I realised I couldn’t watch this.”
The actress, who is married to American director Taylor Hackford, said she was deeply affected by the film: “I swear it traumatised me, I haven’t had children and I can’t look at anything to do with childbirth, it absolutely disgusts me.”
Is she disgusted by gallbladders? This is straight out of Dr. Moreau … or
MONDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) — French surgeons report removing a gallbladder through a woman’s vagina, joining a handful of surgeons around the world who have tried the novel technique because it eliminates visible scarring and minimizes postoperative pain. In March, surgeons at Columbia University in New York City performed a similar operation, and, last week, so did surgeons at the University of California, San Diego. The procedure has also been used for removing the appendix.
What next? Your Costco groceries? Even kids, for the most part, are “optional,” as is everything else that goes in/out … but not through. Seriously. That is just plain wrong. What sick bastard came up with the “let’s try this exit” approach? I’d rather have a scar on my side then a gallbladder in my - oh, I can barely even write about this. Dame Helen, where are you?
Thank the Virgin Mary that there is someone on our side:
“As a woman, I find it distasteful and invasive to have the vagina used as a midtown tunnel for the traffic of surgery, simply because there are a few surgeons who are looking to find something new to do,” said Dr. Christine Ren, an assistant professor of surgery at New York University School of Medicine.
Think of it this way: knowing that a gallbladder had taken the tunnel would you stop at that rest stop for a bite? I think not.
Dana Johnson, who had her gallbladder removed through her vagina at the University of California at San Diego on Sept. 11, “I think it would be more gross to have it taken out of my mouth, but that’s just me,” said Johnson, 42.
After the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Geneva Conventions applied to prisoners who belonged to Al Qaeda, President Bush for the first time acknowledged the C.I.A.?s secret jails and ordered their inmates moved to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The C.I.A. halted its use of waterboarding, or pouring water over a bound prisoner?s cloth-covered face to induce fear of suffocation.
But in July, after a monthlong debate inside the administration, President Bush signed a new executive order authorizing the use of what the administration calls ?enhanced? interrogation techniques ? the details remain secret ? and officials say the C.I.A. again is holding prisoners in ?black sites? overseas. The executive order was reviewed and approved by Mr. Bradbury and the Office of Legal Counsel.
The arrogance of these people is just staggering. Told by no less an authority than the Supreme Court of the United States that what they are doing is illegal, the Bush administration publicly discontinues the illegal practice — then reinitiates the same illegality in secret.
The significance of this cannot be understated. Legal Positivist H.L.A. Hart, in The Concept of Law, described the complex interplay between what he called primary and secondary rules of law — the first being laws of command, the second being the laws which determine how primary rules are created, modified, interpreted, or abolished.
What the Bush administration has done has gone far beyond simply breaking the law; his brazen acts erode the very means by which America has, for centuries, formulated and administered its system of laws. This administration no longer recognizes Marbury v. Madison, which posited that the Supreme Court was the ultimate arbiter of what is and what isn’t law, as legitimate. He has arrogated that to the executive branch, and his contempt for our system of laws, and the notion that we are a nation of laws and not men, is manifest.
I can’t even write about that girl who was because I know I’ll go off the deep end, which is what I did when I saw the mugshots of those 6 inbred hillbillies. But I can’t hold their social status responsible when you have crimes like this one:
MINEOLA, N.Y. - A resident of an exclusive gated community has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the slaying of a neighbor whose head was found in the trunk of his car.
Evan Marshall, 32, a bedding salesman, entered the plea Wednesday to murder, assault and other charges about a week before jury selection was to begin in his trial.
Marshall was arrested a year ago in the death of retired schoolteacher Denice Fox, his neighbor in Glen Cove on Long Island.
He made a deal and will only get 30 years instead of life.
“I know it does little but I want to apologize to all the families involved,” Marshall said in court, reading from a statement. “I feel absolutely terrible.”
I’m sure you do.
He’ll get out, as will who’s gonna walk out early, albeit with some trouble:
“You understand that this procedure is the removal of your testicles?” Overstreet asked Allen.
Allen said he wanted to be castrated, The News Herald reported Tuesday.
The obviously mentally ill mother, or the sleepy social worker, who used words like “skinny” to describe a baby,
The investigation into the death of a baby at a skid row shelter last month is focusing on a social worker who was ordered by a supervisor to take baby Jasmine from her mother to see a doctor but instead went home because she had worked a long shift without a break. The social worker arrived early the next morning to find the 7-week-old child dead.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has ruled the death a homicide, saying Jasmine died of starvation, dehydration and neglect even though she had lived all of her seven weeks with her mother at the Union Rescue Mission.
The social worker from the Department of Children and Family Services, whose name has not been released, had checked the child during an emergency visit early on Aug. 9, and had reported that the baby’s face was “narrow and skinny.”
Did that prompt any … concern, perhaps? The social worker’s interview with the mother is almost as incredulous:
During the social worker’s visit, Maxwell described herself as a weight trainer who “watches what she eats,” according to the documents released by the county.
She insisted Jasmine was fine but acknowledged that she needed to “put some fat on the baby.”
Sure, a weight trainer with a “narrow and skinny” faced baby who live at a homeless shelter. Oh and guess what? They didn’t even know it was a girl until after she died, because they never bothered to look past the narrow and skinny face at her body.
Sadly, a heat wave brings out another kind of wave - bad parenting skills at the expense of poor kids too little to get out of cars. I guess the only “bright side” is that they no longer have to suffer at the hands of idiots who are unable to comprehend taking care of a child.
forgot because she stopped to buy donuts. And she had been warned previously.
We’re not sure if was also getting donuts, but luckily they saved the kid.
forgot to drop the kid off at day care, and went to her job instead at guess where? City Hall! Meanwhile the other couple in the story, who are French and went to Wal-Mart*, had their kid rescued, who thankfully was taken away from them (and adopted out to non-Wal-Mart shoppers, one hopes.)
*somebody please, make the joke, these stories are too depressing for me to think of a good one.
This went to Circuit City to buy a cel phone, presumably so she could call 911 on herself in the future, while went to buy groceries; said the reason she left her kid in the car (well, the AC was on) was because she wasn’t properly dressed.
Still, nothing compares to who left his baby in the car - at a whorehouse!
Alex: That is the most awesomest bad parenting story evar!
DL: Y’know how easy it was to write? I just google news’d “child die car.” That’s how bad it is.
The people of New Orleans suffered, and in some cases died, while waiting for FEMA.
Meanwhile, after ignoring from the National Hurricane Center, Bush flew to sunny, warm California, and fooled around in sun-drenched San Diego pretending to play guitar, like the incompetent, , uncaring prick he is.
Before rolling up his sleeves for a Photo Op, and complimenting his incompetent GOP crony, FEMA Director Michael “Brownie” Brown, on the magnificent job he was doing completely fucking up and mismanaging the federal government’s emergency response to the worst natural disaster in our nation’s history.
