Judge “ready” to toss cases unless Federal prosecutors get their act together.
Cases highlight competing interests in immigration policy
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A local federal judge calls it the most “bizarre, Alice-in-Wonderland” scenario he ever has encountered in the world of government prosecutions. |
“Given the facts of the case, I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to have respect for this country’s immigration laws,” Judge Mattice said in choosing not to jail Juana Montano-Perez, the first of nine illegal immigrants who have admitted to Social Security fraud. |
During a court hearing Monday, Judge Mattice said he remained “confused and frustrated” by the issue. He refused to sentence any more defendants, ordering that the cases be consolidated and that an investigation be conducted into whether their due process rights may have been violated. Read more at www.timesfreepress.com |
| Gerber Legendary Blades Recalls Machetes Due to Laceration Hazard |
Hazard: The saw side of the machete can stick in wood during use, and if the user’s hand slips off the handle and slides forward across the machete blade, this poses a laceration hazard. |
| Gerber has received five reports of individuals cutting themselves while using the Gator Machete, all of whom required stitches. |
| The Gator Machete with the original handle - Included in this recall |
| Close-up: Machete with the modified handle (with extended hand guard) - NOT included in this recall |
Corporations are not really people that writers of our Constitution and Bill of Rights had in mind when they protected free speech - it was to guarantee our right to free speech to overcome power that had been bought or handed down from father to son and not to women, indigenous people or Black-Americans. “Populism” is the most overused and misused word in the lexicon of commentary. But thanks to a reckless decision by Chief Justice John Roberts’s Supreme Court and the greed of the nation’s financial barons, we have reached a true populist moment in American politics.
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Death row exonerations point to flaws in system |
Eight men have been found innocent of the crimes that put them on Louisiana’s death row. All were exonerated before they were put to death and ultimately freed from prison. |
Nationwide, 139 people sentenced to death since 1973 subsequently have been found innocent and released from death row, according to data provided by the Washington D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Read more at www.shreveporttimes.com |
You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing I voted on the premise of transitional change. I wanted a shaking up of the status quo; and while I know that does not happen overnight nor am I privy to what goes into his decision-making, I did not expect the wind to swing first in the other direction so brutally.
I did not expect to be discouraged in the first quarter of the game. |
Politics as usual in Washington has become politics as usual in Washington. Again.
We are STILL in Iraq.
We are sending another nightmare to Afghanistan.
Nobody can find a job.
We have spent enough money on this useless war to feed and clothe half the children in Darfur.
Trillion dollar debt? Trillion?
Did I mention we are still in Iraq?
I don’t care what the financial wizards say about the state of the economy or the rise and fall of inflation - the price of everything has increased
Except peace.
And that should be the highest priority of all. Read more at mimiwrites.blogspot.com |
No brain and no heart on trying to score points on bad . Maybe that’s why so many people - not - thought he’d make a good President. Giuliani: US avoided terror under Bush |
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani set off a tempest about terrorism Friday with his claim that the United States “had no domestic attacks” under former US president George W. Bush.
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| Giuliani somehow neglected to mention the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in his own city as he contrasted US President Barack Obama’s handling of terror cases with that of Bush in light of the failed Christmas Day attempt by a passenger to blow up a US-bound flight. |
Every time you see someone pulling up to an intersection or turning right on red , with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a cell phone, each time someone puts off a repair to “save” money - think about the promises made about the safety of this well, or that gene modification, or the newest wonder drug, pesticide, synthetic whatever. | We closed out 2009 with another stunning reminder that human error still poses a major risk for oil spills and other environmentally significant accidents: a high-tech escort tug, the Pathfinder, hit the very same well-mapped reef in Prince William Sound that the Exxon Valdez ran up against twenty years ago. |
Bombing in Karachi Kills 25 |
| On Monday, a suicide bomber attacked a Shia procession commemorating Ashura in Karachi, killing at least 25 people and injuring 50. Today’s incident on MA Jinnah Road was the latest in a string of violence in Pakistan this past weekend. Following the assassination of mid-level political administrator Sarfaraz Khan and his family in the Kurram tribal area Sunday, a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 80 during a Shia religious procession in Muzaffarabad,Read more at changinguppakistan.wordpress.com |
Health Care Reform: The 10 Most Destructive Lies , and the 10 Most Constructive Insights, Suggestions, and Questions of 2009 |
| By Naomi Freundlich and Maggie Mahar |
1.) Seniors and the disabled “will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care.” |
| Diving Equipment Recalled by Dive Rite Due to Drowning Hazard |
| Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. |
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Left-hand, right-hand Fed disconnect on immigration cases
