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Month: May 2013

Head Down, Stay Quiet, Do Your Job, Pay Taxes, Then Die

Head Down, Stay Quiet, Do Your Job, Pay Taxes, Then Die

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America, Volume II (1840); Book Four, Chapter VI

Armed Robber’s Widow Suing Store Clerk Who Shot and Killed Her Husband During Robbery Attempt

Armed Robber’s Widow Suing Store Clerk Who Shot and Killed Her Husband During Robbery Attempt

You just can’t make this shit up. The lawsuit should be tossed and the attorney fined for filing the complaint. That would shut a few of these asshole lawyers down. Oh yeah, his immigration status may be in question, and he has already been up on murder charges once before in 2003.

Cases like this are exactly why if your state does not have a self defense immunity law, you need to be pushing for one. Many states have laws stating that if a shooting is ruled justifiable you cannot be sued in civil court over the incident.

On to the story. In New Mexico a widow is suing a store clerk who shot and killed her husband when he tried to rob the clerk’s store in 2010.

The widow’s case alleges that the shop clerk bears more of the blame for her husband’s death than her husband does because he had time to call the police instead of shooting her armed husband.

Yes, that’s right, she thinks the clerk is more at fault.

Sedillo’s attorney, Amavalise Jaramillo, the attorney for Sedillo’s widow, said it all comes down to who had more fault in the case.

While Jaramillo acknowledges the suspect’s role in what happened, he said Beasley shares more blame.

“He does bear some fault, but it’s like a pie. You divide out the fault accordingly, and Mr. Beasley could have done something different,” Jaramillo said.

Seriously? This isn’t a car accident where two people both did something stupid resulting in a car accident. This suspect chose to rob this store. He chose to bring a gun. He chose to point that gun at the clerk. The only choice the clerk made was refusing to be a victim.

The attorney went on, “He had no basis to believe that his life was in danger,” Jaramillo said. “Most robberies end with an attempt to get money. They really don’t kill the clerks.”

WTF? So the clerk was just supposed to put the trust for his life in the hands of a man who was pointing a gun at him, and apparently a bit desperate?

The lawsuit is also going after the owner of the shop as well as the local police department, because you can never sue enough people, right?

Hagel Kid Gets Special Treatment

Hagel Kid Gets Special Treatment

Nothing surprises me anymore, but the fact that they do this knowingly, and the story will come out eventually, shows that these people don’t care about how they are perceived after an election, only that they are elected.

This liberal attitude is telling and is exactly what Obama did with the IRS scandal, keep it under wraps until after the election.

A 20-year-old Virginia resident had possession of marijuana charges dismissed Wednesday morning following a brief appearance in a Fairfax County courtroom.

Charles Ziller Hagel, a.k.a. “Zilla Thrilla,” the son of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, appeared before Fairfax County Judge Thomas E. Gallahue during a brief criminal court appearance relating to the drug charge.

Hagel was arrested on May 19, 2012, and charged with possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor charge, according to court records.

The arrest came just months before Hagel’s father was nominated to replace former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Ziller was originally scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 8, 2012, but a continuance was granted.

Three additional continuances were granted over the next several months as Hagel’s father faced a contentious nomination process on Capitol Hill before his confirmation in late February.

Hagel’s case was postponed on Aug. 27, 2012; Dec. 3, 1012; and on March 6, 2012 before Hagel finally appeared in court with lawyer on Wednesday.

Hagel, wearing a light blue dress shirt, sat next to his lawyer Nina Ginsberg until Judge Gallahue dismissed the charges in a proceeding that lasted mere seconds.

The courtroom was packed with more than a dozen other lawyers and clients waiting to have their criminal cases heard.

Asked why multiple continuances had been granted in the case, Ginsberg told the Washington Free Beacon that it “happens all the time.”

When pushed for a specific reason, she declined to discuss the matter further.

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Well Said

Well Said

“It is my right to be uncommon…if I can. I seek opportunity….not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficience nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.” All this is what it means to be an American.”

— Dean Alfange

 

 

Alfange was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, to two ethnic Greek parents.[2] His parents moved to New York when he was still an infant, where they raised him in Utica, New York.[1][2] He graduated from Utica Free Academy in 1918, and joined the United States Army during World War I.After the war, he attended Hamilton College and graduated in 1922 with honors in philosophy, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society.[2][3] Alfange remained active at the college, and when he received the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Award for his book The Supreme Court and the National Will, he donated the prize to Hamilton College, establishing the ongoing Dean Alfange Essay Award, given to two students each year for essays on American constitutional government.[4] He received a juris doctor from Columbia University Law School and became a lawyer in Manhattan.[2]

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Hard Work For Some…Not So Much For Others

Hard Work For Some…Not So Much For Others

Update: Sorry forgot salary info in earlier post.

I would usually feel sympathy for a person in this shape, I always assume it is a medical condition that makes them so obese. 

Not this guy. Take note of when he starts his day, and when he leaves, then try and fathom his salary


“He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,” said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.

“Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, ‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.’ He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.”

 

The 400-pound president of Local 983 of District Council 37 — New York City’s largest blue-collar municipal-workers union.

Mark Rosenthal, who pulls in $156,000 a year as head of Local 983 .