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October 3rd, 2008 | Tags: foreclosure, homeless | Category: News, Politics | Leave a comment

From CNN:
President Bush signs a federal disaster declaration, freeing up federal funds for families affected by the wildfires.
See?  Nothing to worry about… If you’re mostly rich and white and live in a key state with a Republican governor.
Just saying.

October 24th, 2007 | Category: News, Politics | Leave a comment

From the Bloomington Herald Times:
Indiana University law student Jesse Sneed may have been aiming his assault rifle at his Real Estate Transfer Finance and Development textbook when he fired shots from his westside apartment balcony early Tuesday morning, police say. The book was found later in the parking lot, shot clean through by two rounds, [...]

October 20th, 2007 | Category: Law, News | Comments (1)

According to NBC10:
Frank Cossey tried to buy his son a rifle in 2005, but was not allowed to because he was a felon, prosecutors said. Frank Cossey was sent to prison after pleading guilty in 1981 to manslaughter in a drunken driving death in Oklahoma.
Yes, if you’re doing the math, that means he tried to [...]

October 12th, 2007 | Category: Me, News, Philly | Comments (3)

The AP is now reporting that the mother of the child planning an attack on a local school bought her child more than one assault weapon:
Michele Cossey bought her son a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, authorities said.
She has been charged with a crime.  She should go to jail.  [...]

October 12th, 2007 | Category: Mummy, News, Philly | Leave a comment

Oh yeah.  You think I’m being inappropriate?  Just reporting the news.
I ran across a fabulous story out of Seattle about their new transit system.  A new streetcar line was initially touted as South Lake Union Trolley until someone pointed out that the acronym was SLUT.  Of course, they then changed it to the South Lake [...]

September 22nd, 2007 | Category: News | Leave a comment

This is Andrew Speaker’s defense to the NINE lawsuits that have already been filed against him for possibly exposing them to tuberculosis on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal.
Hmm. I wonder what his reaction to such a statement would be when he was a personal injury lawyer. Probably “I don’t care.”
The plaintiffs [...]

July 13th, 2007 | Category: Law, News | Comments (3)

You’ll recall that I posted an article a fews weeks ago critical of China’s failure to control the quality of their exports, especially as it relates to food, drink and child-related products.
China has responded to the criticism lobbed at them from world sources by… killing someone. That’s right, this week China executed its former [...]

July 10th, 2007 | Category: Food and Drink, News | Leave a comment

It’s been an interesting week with respect to race relations in America.
First, there was Isaiah Washington’s rant about his firing from “Grey’s Anatomy” being racially motivated. He claims he was fired not for his use of a slur against fellow cast mate T. R. Knight but because “someone heard the booming voice of a [...]

June 29th, 2007 | Category: News, Philly | Leave a comment