Here Comes the Judge. Maybe some Pepperoni Pizza would be in Order!

I have a difficult time with judges. And in all fairness since the judge has to decide who is telling the truth then most of their results are bogus. Judge Judy More »

In Praise of a Do-nothing Congress

Here’s a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it? It’s always a disturbing experience when you’re accosted with a picture of More »

Musings on the week ending 1/21/2012

Media – “If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you read the newspaper you are misinformed. ” Mark Twain. Politics – The class warfare argument is false since More »

Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamists win big in Egypt’s elections

The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, won 235 or 47.2 percent of the seats in the People’s Assembly (lower house of parliament), a senior party official said More »

Lloyd’s Life Lessons: 93 Year Old White Woman Taught Me A Little About Race & People

Mary’s mom and dad who raised her are loving in-laws. Despite years of marriage, Mary’s “birth” mother still refuses to meet me or acknowledge our marriage because I am black. Her More »

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Did Obama Commit Fraud?

Today there was a hearing held in a Georgia court to hear testimony about potential fraud. There was evidence supplied to the court that the social security card belonging to Obama may belong to someone else, possibly from the 1800′s. We all know that people commit identity fraud everyday. So why is it so hard to believe that Obama may have done it? I for one have never believed he is a natural born citizen. Now there may be proof he isn’t. Watch some of the video testimony below. More will come later today.

 


Here Comes the Judge. Maybe some Pepperoni Pizza would be in Order!

I have a hard time with judges. And in all fairness since the judge has to choose who is telling the truth then most of their results are bogus. Judge Judy wins out because there is at least $5,000 in the pot thanks to the studio and all the costs are covered. And there are no useless and expensive lawyers involved.   This is a amusing tale. I have been fighting a corrupt judge and township and developers for a long time. So I filed an appeal in Pennsylvania. I filed it in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. And this court has a lot of rules and basically if the case is not ripened, they won’t look at it. But the case carried a special provision that the judge had obstructed justice. And it really didn’t make any sense (common or legal) to wait until the case was in its final stages. The Superior Court didn’t want to hear anything about it. And let’s face it why should they do any work. Just deny the appeal and they vote themselves a vacation. So I questioned for reconsideration and again I was denied. They wouldn’t even look at the case.   So I questioned them how long was I permitted to file an appeal to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. They said my case would have 30 days. So I filed the appeal in less then 30 days. I immediately had the appeal returned. The clerks in the Supreme Court office said I only had 15 days to file an appeal.   The best part is it didn’t go to a judge for determination, but the clerk’s office decides whether the appeal is timely. . How bone idle can you get? Remember they get their paycheck and lifetime benefits for life no matter how many cases they hear. So I call the Superior Court back and questioned again how long do I have to file an appeal in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania? They again said 30 days. So I file a motion in the Supreme Court to allow a late appeal even though it was not late. Months latter the motion is denied and the motion is not signed by any judges.   So you can be the dumbest person on the planet, but the taxpayer spends a fortune for all these courthouses and Judges and staff. They all get lifetime benefits and some heavy duty vacations. But it looks like they really don’t want to work. So if you get a bent judge in the lower court, unless you have a lot of money or some connections you are screwed.   Remember that American that was tried for Murder in Italy. Amanda Knox was accused of murder. This is a criminal case so it takes on a different level of importance. But if you are going to waste your time and money appealing a poor choice, you want someone to really work on it and not just to pass over it. Also some Appeals in the United States take years to free innocent victims of judicial error.   And if you are “privileged” to appeal all the way to the US Supreme Ct, your chances of being heard are slim to none. So for all concerned the appeal process is really a waste of time and money.    There is a case in NY right now. Two parents are accused of killing their baby. Since they have no money, they sit in prison for several years waiting to be tried. Holder and his firm fought for the rights of the terrorists in Gitmo, how come his law firm doesn’t fight for these folks? It could just be that you are guilty until you are proven innocent in NY.   What is different in Italy is that the appeal process is really another trial. Keep in mind most civil cases in America do not go to trial unless you have a corrupt judge.   Reckon about the appeal process in America. Some how or way you need to preserve the record. That means you have to get all the vital stuff on the record and not only on the record but it must reproducible. When you reckon about it a week of a trial could include 25 to 30 hours of testimony, arguments and motions.   And when you read most verdicts they are empty for the most part. So tell me how you get a bunch of appellate judges to know what happened at trial? And it will cost a fortune just to get the information to the judges. So if the lower court judge is shrewd, you have no chance to win!   And what is really cool in America is that they really don’t look at the facts . They really can’t. So if you have a bent court, and they doctor the facts, and they don’t allow a jury, you are screwed. Isn’t there a constitutional right to a honest trial? I guess it only applies to criminal cases…Sometimes!   Back to Pennsylvania, if the Superior Court knows that the Supreme Court is allowing only 15 days to file an appeal, don’t you reckon they should change their advice? It nearly looks like they are setting you up. You have to pay the filing fee. They deny your appeal and then they give you the incorrect information as to the time allowed to appeal to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.   Some stupid lawyer will say something like if you are appealing a case, you should know that. I reckon if the Superior Court of Pennsylvania is giving out information it should be right. It sounds like the case of maybe they have 2 interpretations of the same law. But the end result is that they collect the money and they do nothing for it.   So if you are going to argue an appeal and you are limited to the interpretation of law rather then the truth and understanding of the facts, I reckon you are wasting your time and money. And it is time to make some changes.   Up to now most of these changes come from the lawyers themselves as they make their services less expendable and more expensive. And you don’t get a FREE lawyer for civil matters.   Instead of having to go through the appeal process which is quite an ordeal from a lower court choice, it would make more sense to just have another trial. Of course this would be by another judge. If you get 2 corrupt judges, then this country has a larger problem to deal with.   Most judges live in an Ivory Tower and for the most part have a job for life. If they did a fantastic job and were honest to all people involved that would be fantastic. But in most cases it is becoming evident that judges rule more on doing less work then finding a honest verdict.   So the first rule should be to take the judges out of their Ivory Tower.   Most people don’t know the judges that sit on the US Supreme Court; no one knows who sits on the local courts. The communities should assign committees to follow each and every judge. And questionnaires should be offered to all the people involved in the cases. And from these questionnaires and committees make the judges accountable for their decisions.   Today nobody is keeping an eye on the judges. No practicing lawyer is going to complain to the judicial board or newspapers. If they did they would be ostracized by the legal community including the judge they have offended. Even the liberal newspapers like the Morning Call and the Express-Times will not take on these judges. I wonder why?   When you look at the Judicial Code, it is very much like the Professional Code of Conduct for lawyers. Basically both groups can lie at will and there is no recourse. But if Judges were not appointed to lifetime positions, they would be concerned about the outcomes they have delivered. The fact that the verdict is not appealed means nothing. The appeal process is bogus. And every few years the community should assess the facts and choose whether the judge should be retained on the bench.     Their findings should be made public and the people can choose whether a corrupt or incompetent judge should be retained on the bench.   So at the end of the day, American justice except on TV shows is unfair and a waste of time and money. Italian food is one of the most well loved foods out there. You can have pizza delivered nearly anywhere in the country. But is it time to change the appeal process and go the Italian way? It would be fantastic if a honest trial could be delivered anywhere in America . Here Comes the Judge. Maybe some Pepperoni Pizza would be in Order! by Dr. Phil Taverna syndicated from The Land of the Free .

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In Praise of a Do-nothing Congress

Here’s a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it? It’s always a disturbing experience when you’re accosted with a picture of Harry Reid, as I was upon logging on to Drudge last Monday afternoon.  But at least his image bore a fitting caption: “MOST FUTILE EVER.”  I then clicked the link and found myself at The Washington Times – normally a quite sane organ of the media – and learned the meaning of the caption: the Times was lamenting a do-nothing Congress and presented Reid as its poster boy.  Writes the paper , “It’s official: Congress finished its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills – fewer than during any other session since year-end records started being kept in 1947.”   Writes Duke, “It’s official: conservatives are completely confused about what begets huge government.” The paper then expanded on its theme, pointing out that Congress set a record for “legislative futility” according to something called the “futility index.” I’ll tell you what’s futile: complaining about a loss of freedom while chastising legislators for not spawning enough bills. Perhaps I’m missing something, but my understanding is that a “bill” that’s signed by the president becomes a law.  I also have this goofy notion that, except for certain housekeeping measures and repeals of ancient legislation, a law is by definition a removal of a freedom, as it states that there’s something you must or must not do.  Ergo, enslaved as I am by the ancient math, my figuring informs that the more laws we have, the less free we are.  It then seems to follow – at least using my white male linear logic – that since we continually enact more laws but hardly ever rescind any, every year the progressives make us progressively less free. Thus, when I see “do-nothing” and “Congress” in close proximity, it occurs to me that “do” has many definitions.  And when government doeth, I reckon of the definition in the following Lord of the Flies dialogue: “The Chief and Roger….  They despise you, Ralph.  They’re going to do you.” So if you complain about a do-nothing Congress, I question, what is it exactly that you want them to “do,” whom do you reckon they’ll “do” it to, and what do you reckon will be done to you?  Our current Congress passed 80 bills.  How many more do you want and how many more until we’re done for? The excellent news is that many of 2011′s bills were simply housekeeping measures – such as spending reauthorization acts or extensions of already existing laws – so we probably didn’t lose as many freedoms this time around as the bod…er…bill count would indicate.  Really, though, what does it say about third-millennium America when Uncle Sam disgorges 80 pieces of legislation and we, like excellent small masochists, bend over and say, “Thank you, sir!  May I have another?”? The reality is that we should want a do-nothing Congress.  In fact, we should want a do-nothing president, do-nothing bureaucrats and hope that our military, police, firefighters and judges have to do small.  And let’s just reckon about where we’d be today if we really had a do-nothing government for the last many years. First and foremost, we wouldn’t have ObamaCare.  We wouldn’t have had the bailouts that transferred trillions of dollars from the middle class to rich stout cats and Barack Obama cronies.  Billions wouldn’t have been wasted on Solyndra and numerous other green-energy scam companies.  We wouldn’t have McCain-Feingold, Dodd-Frank or the repeal of Don’t Question, Don’t Tell.  We wouldn’t have the October 2009 federal despise-crimes bill, which, like all such legislation, is an effort at thought control.  We wouldn’t have No Child Left Behind.  We’d be free of the new taxes and plethora of regulations that Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus said would make it impossible for him to start his company today.  There wouldn’t be the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gives unelected bureaucrats at the FDA the power to regulate the tobacco industry.  There wouldn’t be the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, which gives Huge Brother unprecedented control over the people’s ability to grow food.  And we wouldn’t have the National Defense Authorization Act, which empowers the government to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial.  Are we “done” yet? Note that the above examples are just a (very) small list, are virtually all unconstitutional, and all cost us dearly in terms of money, rights or both.  And how many freedoms did we lose, from No Child Left Behind to Obama’s kicking of the Constitution’s behind?  I’m not sure, but I’m guessing it’d probably take Deep Blue or Rain Man to crunch those numbers. So should we really be lamenting a government that isn’t “productive” when the word doesn’t quite mean in government what it does elsewhere?  When an auto company is more productive, you get more cars.  When a footwear maker is more productive, you get more shoes.  When yours truly is more productive, you get more sage and scintillating prose.  And when the state is more productive? You get fewer freedoms. This is why congress’ legislation count is just like a golf score: the lower, the better But if the Times really thinks it’s like a bowling score, don’t blame Dirty Harry Reid for 2011′s lack of liberty strikes.  After all, I can assure you that he aspires to be a very “productive” man.  And if he and his gang retain the Senate and presidency and regain control of the House, they’ll “do” a lot.  In fact, they may do ya’ permanent. Place the blame for the 112 th Congress’ relatively law-less state where it belongs: on the Tea Party types in power.  They just don’t do. In Praise of a Do-nothing Congress by Selwyn Duke syndicated from The Land of the Free .

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