[What to put on road rash?]

 

[To execute or not: A question of cost?]

David Gushee says it is Time for a National Moratorium on the Death Penalty (clcik here) in an Op-Ed for Associated Baptist Press.

 

I'll second that motion.

 

There was a time when I naively believed that those who served within our system of justice would be too conscientious to leave any stone unturned when making a case for a capital offense: I no longer trust the gov't to do the right thing because it will do whatever it can get by with, unless people hold it accountable.

 

Over the years I've seen an all-to-quick-to-judge public ready to try, convict & execute based simply on an arrest.

 

I hear people complain that there is "no need to even have a trial because everyone knows he is guilty."

 

I see DNA tests proving innocence decades after conviction.

 

I hear people being judged because of "no telling what other crimes he has done" or because "you know he is just going to go out & do something else."

 

I see too many people convicted (or at least given harsher sentences) because of race & economics than because of the crime itself.

 

Society is so quick to lock people up; deprive them of liberty; execute the final solution.

 

And let's not forget those criminals that get out on those "technicalities."

 

News flash: our Founding Fathers put those protections in the legal system (read again, "technicalities") to make sure innocent people don't go to jail & lose their liberty. The Founding Fathers had rather 10 guilty people go free than a single innocent person be deprived of their liberty. (Blackstone's Ratio)

 

The death penalty is permanent & the application of the death penalty is flawed.

 

The strongest case for the application of the death penalty is that of Timothy McVeigh, but even the logic of that sentence is flawed. Timothy McVeigh certainly deserved to die for his crimes, but he took valuable information about his co-conspirators with him to his grave. Now that he has been executed, the FBI admits that it failed to adequately follow-up on leads about others who were involved in the plot to bomb the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

 

 

Guilty of a capital crime without ANY doubt as in the case of Brian Nichols fry them at sundown. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, life in prison.

[Bright light in western sky!]

Ever feel like you're on ignore?

More often than not.

[This would be so MMMMMM right now,]

Night duty.Zone Patrol. Keeping one eye open. If i see you pass by just throw up your hand and i will toss one to ya.

Boy you cops sure do love donuts.

 

[Need info from scanner, asap]

Wow nice attitude whats up your arse??

 

 

I don’t know, but I think it may have something to do with post # 26.

[For Every Rat You See There Are 50 You Don't See]

How did this Great Country become infested with so many con artist's?

 

How did people learn to be such good con artist’s?

 

Do our public schools teach people how to con their way through life?

 

Why do con artist’s have such an unfathomable appetite?

 

 

I think there have always been “snake oil salesmen” and con artist throught time. The difference is, we are in an age of instant communication. Back in the 1800s a con artist could move from town to town undetected, due to the lack of instant communication and separate countless people from their money. In other words he moved faster than the news did. Those days are gone and we are inundated daily with reports of scams and rip-offs by people, some on a grand scale. So you see, the “rats” have always been amongst us but at no time in history have they been dumped in our living room daily as they are today.

[For Every Rat You See There Are 50 You Don't See]

Rats, Rats everywhere.

 

 

 

 

 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

 

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the stepdaughter of a Georgia congressman who is employed by District Attorney Paul Howard because Columbus officials report the woman was on their payroll for the same hours she was billing Fulton County.

 

“It is hard to be in two places at once,” said Clifton C. Fay, the city attorney for the Columbus-Muscogee County government.

 

Attempts to reach Howard for comment by e-mail, phone and through his public-information officer were unsuccessful.

 

An internal audit showed Aayesha Owens Reese, stepdaughter of U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Albany), was paid $7,500 as an administrative assistant at the “Junior Marshal” program in the Muscogee County Marshal’s office from Sept. 22 until her pay was suspended about two weeks ago, Fay said.

 

The audit indicated she was being paid for hours that she was also working at Howard’s office, and there was no evidence she had done any work for the Columbus wages, Fay said.

 

Her husband, Stephen Reese, is also being investigated because he received paychecks from the marshal’s office from November 2007 to July 2008, Fay said. He didn’t know how much the husband had been paid although the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported the figure at more than $7,000.

 

Aayesha Reese’s paycheck was directly deposited in her Wachovia Bank account, Fay said. Her husband’s checks were directly deposited into the Columbus Bank & Trust Co. account of his mother-in-law Vivian Creighton-Bishop, the congressman’s wife who is the clerk of the Municipal Court in Columbus.

 

Muscogee Marshal Gregory Countryman said he hired both Reeses on a part-time basis and contended they telecommuted from their Lithonia home. He said he asked the GBI to investigate to ensure that politics didn’t color the investigation.

 

“I understand how this may look on the surface,” he said. “But a lot of this stuff could have been answered by sitting down and talking.”

 

He said Aayesha Reese has a Master’s degree in criminal justice and was paid $75 for each day she performed some task, with no required work hours.

 

Her payroll records, as outlined by Fay, suggested she billed each week for between five and seven days of work. She would have had to perform one duty a day for more than 100 days to earn what Columbus said she was paid.

 

Countryman said he started the “Junior Marshal” program in 2005 to mentor to “at-risk children” with the help of a $118,000 federal grant that Bishop had helped secure.

 

Bishop learned after the controversy erupted that his daughter was employed with the program and wrote a letter saying that she shouldn’t be a staffer because of his involvement in securing the grant, Countryman said.

 

Attempts to reach Aayesha and Stephen Reese by telephone for comment were unsuccessful.

 

Her voicemail at Howard’s office said she worked in the appellate division and dealt with expungements, which is the removal of criminal convictions, usually for people convicted under the state’s first-time offender law. She is not listed on the State Bar of Georgia’s Web site as a lawyer.

 

[citi group to reduce irresponsible homeowners monthly payments to $500 per month]

If it is any consolation I doubt most of them will even pay 500 a month. Most folks that this “bail out” is targeting are financially irresponsible in the first place and it doesn’t matter if their mortgage is 1,000 a month or 500. a month. these people already have a track record of fiscal irresponsibility, hence them having to go with the subprime loan to begin with in order to even qualify for the mortgage in the first place.

[How true it is]

This doesn't even go back as far as 50years ago. I graduated in 90 and it was still the "good ol days"

 

 

Yep class of 83 here, and we also had gun racks in out trucks at school, usually with one shotgun and one rifle in it. All of the guys had a buck knife on our belt or at least a pocket knife.And if you chewed tobacco Mr. Tanner, our Ag teacher would bum it from you during AG class, especially if you chewed Levi Garret.

[Parents PLEASE teach your kids Manners]

The same people who raise children and allow them to violate others property rights are the same ones who will turn around and sue you if said children get hurt while TRESPASSING on your property.

 

 

Looking through some case law and court decisions, it appears SNOW+ a HILL could be considered an attractive nuisance.

 

 

Now go forth and remove thy hill lest ye be referred to as “respondent”.

 

 

 

 

 

"Under the attractive nuisance doctrine of the law of torts, a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by a hazardous object or condition on the land that is likely to attract children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or condition. The doctrine has been applied to hold landowners liable for injuries caused by abandoned cars, piles of lumber or sand, trampolines, and swimming pools. However, it can be applied to virtually anything on the property of the landowner.

 

According to the Restatement of Torts standard, which is followed in many jurisdictions, there are five conditions that must be met for a land owner to be liable for tort damages to a child trespasser. The five conditions are:

 

The place where the condition exists is one on which the possessor knows or has reason to know that children are likely to trespass, and

The condition is one of which the possessor knows or has reason to know and which he realizes or should realize will involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children,

The children, because of their youth, do not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in inter-meddling with it or in coming within the area made dangerous by it

The utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger are slight as compared with the risk to children involved, and

The possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise to protect the children"

[Mail box baseball]

That is why I enjoy living in the country. I don't have to have a certain kind of mailbox..And the people that lived here before us already had a metal mailbox. So if they hit it ----well they probably won't hit it again. I hope you catch whoever it is and allow the proper ones to handle it.

 

 

When we lived on the farm in south GA our mail box sat on a piece of channel iron welded to an I beam for a post, set in concrete. I actually hit the thing when I was 13 or so, the mail box didn't budge but the truck was left with a gash in the front side of the hood.

 

My original post was hyperbole obviously, but if I do catch them in the act I will confront them and their actions will determine where it goes from there. If I catch them on CCTV the perpetrators and their actions will be posted everywhere I can think to post it and presented to the S/O for investigation purposes/evidence.

 

[don't ya just freak]

your cable, power, phone or PCOM go out

 

welcome back pcom

 

 

Not really, i knew it would be back soon,but I did freak when I pulled Pcom up a little while ago and I got a flood control msg. My membership evidently expired today sometime, so I just renewed. flood control is d debil

[Mail box baseball]

I use to have that problem until I moved it back some, the carrier could pull over to reach it, but teens would have to actually pull over , hit it and leave, they could not reach it from the road without pulling off, try that, and good luck

My folks live in a community where the rules regarding mail box type and placement require them to be uniform throughout the neighborhood. Unfortunately there is not much I can do proactively to prevent it from happening again.

I will be installing a CCTV system in the next few days so maybe if it happens again and they are fortunate enough to not encounter me in the process, at least we can get a look at who they are and what they drive.

[Mail box baseball]

You gonna take matters into your own hands?

 

If I catch them in the act, you better believe I will take matters into my own hands.

[Mail box baseball]

Mailboxes are expensive to replace. My son had a car accident last year that took out someone's mailbox. The post, box, brackets, paint and all that goes with was $78. It was our responsibilty to fix it, but yeah it stinks that these kids are getting away with doing this. Sorry for your parents.

 

 

Yea that is part of the problem. In my parents ‘hood all of the mail boxes are alike and have this black post and wrought iron ornamental support that the box sits on, so it’s not like I can just run up to home depot and get another one

[Mail box baseball]

you know I think having the parents use a PO Box for a little while and filling the "mail box" with something hard (cement) and closing it back up to wait for the next time they take a swing at it would be loads of fun.

That thought had crossed my mind.

 

But then they would turn around and sue us for putting something in the mail box that we knew would possibly cause harm if someone hit it with something.

[Mail box baseball]

To the person(s) who bashed my folks mailbox again last night (second time in two months). Be warned, I have a pickup, tarps, shovel excavator, 1300 acres and a lot of time at my disposal. What I do not have is, a sense of humor in matters such as this, compassion for people who do things like this or sympathy for people who do things like this. The previous mentioned haves and havnots are a BAD combination should I catch you in the act.

 

 

Not implying that any PCOMers would commit acts of random destruction of property like this, but just in case they (perpetrators) are snooping around here maybe they will get the message.

[Sounds a lot like the Bruce Harris story w/ Randy Travis]

Don't inflame wcso NaveEagle, he's been posting cool aviation photos from RYY.

 

He's now going to have to disrupt this quality work and come over to set the record straight.

Well nothing really to say. If the place is posted properly, the officers are in the wrong and the mayor in my opinion sounds like a bumpkin.

Having a fire service background (engineer) and having firsthand experience in having to “work around” cars parked in the fire lane I concur, that the officers are in the wrong. NOW I will say this. I think it is PI$$ poor journalism if the best they can do is an “exclusive” on police parking in a no parking zone at the city hall after hours. How much time did they devote to the dirtbag charged in the SCT assault? Not near what they put into this “exposé” on corrupt unethical cops and their flagrant violation of the law. Next time I see one of their link up trucks parked illegally (I see it all the time) I will be sure to post the pix and alert the head news guy of a good story. With that said, if I was still in the fire service and encountered a improperly parked vehicle I would take actions necessary to get the job done, regardless of who owned the vehicle.

 

Like these guys did.

 

[Photographers~]

If you go to adobe.com you can download 30 day trial versions of a lot of their products including Photoshop. They are kind of pricy if you choose to buy, but at least you can get a feel for the program.

[i have an issue]

well, i have no expectation of criminal charges, this is a tiny town with 4 full time officers and i know 2 of them, one being the chief of police, i dont think they would mind perhaps talking to the kid or his parents, like i said, the parents themselves seem as though they would be hostile if we were to approach them among other things that i can PM you about but will not post publicly. the officers are very friendly here, they wave as they drive by and stoopto talk to neighbors and such, im hoping they wouldnt mind to stop by and chat with the kid, it may help him down the road in life as well.

 

 

Well most of us are. I am sure they won’t mind having a talk with them.

I just sometimes get on the defensive on issues like this because often when we are called out on these things and we are not able to wave our magic…. whatever and make the problem go away, we become the a$$hats in the complainants eyes. Not implying that you would have the same reaction. But really, most of us get into this profession with a desire to solve problems, and not being able to is very frustrating for us in the first place, and then being accused of “not willing to do anything” and to be vilified for not being able to, by the public just makes it that much worse.

 

Feel free to pm me with any other issues, I’ll be glad to try to help. But for now I’m goin to bed.

 

[i have an issue]

this rental looks like it is falling apart, there is siding on the back that is hanging off and the back steps dont look fit to be walked on, but they do keep up the inside, in the last year there have been 3 renters, each worse than the one before, i can only hope that they too will get behind on rent. also, i dont think he meant that he wouldnt interfere if it was necessary, but the homeowner can really only control what is stated in the lease/ rental agreement. i would, as a neighbor, prefer the police, just because they actually enforce the law and not just rules or guidelines, not to mention calling the police usually has a special affect on folks that nobody else can match.

 

 

But that is the point. We do not and cannot enforce “rules and guidelines”. Usually in matters such as you describe there is nothing going on that we can take action on unless we see the act committed. You know the trash is coming from the house but failing to properly dispose of trash is not something we can act on. If it “blows” from their place onto yours no violation of law has been committed. We cannot charge them with trespass unless they have been served notice by you to keep off of the property, and then we almost need to catch them in violation of a no trespass order to be able to make a case, add a juvenile into this mix it complicates things tenfold. A good landlord should really be the one to handle these issues. But from the way you describe the house and what state of repair it is in it sounds to me like the landlord is just as bad as the folks he is renting to.

I wish I had some reasonable suggestions for you on this matter. We get calls like this all the time and more times than not there is just not anything that we can do, and the bad part about it is these folks know it, they know how to play the system. So when folks call us on things like this and we are not able to do something at that moment, the rubes are over on the porch thumbing their noses at ya.cAnd the complainants are mad at us because we didn’t solve the problem.

Usually, and as a last resort you get a better resolution in civil court in matters like these.

[i have an issue]

i own rental property and when someone calls me to complain i tell them to call the police if they are having trouble, then i call my renter and let them know i got called, i will not try to tick my renter off if they are good renters

 

 

So what you are saying is you will allow any A$$hat to live in/on your property and diminish the quality of life of those surrounding your property as long as they pay the rent, and then try to pawn off any problems they cause with the neighbors on law enforcement in the name of “not ticking off your renters” ?

 

A lot of times these “bad neighbors” wreak havoc on those surrounding them, they know how to do so and stay within the confines of or one step ahead of the law. It appears to me a property owner that cares about the well being of the neighborhood would take action on people like this in the name maintaining the quality/standard of living in that neighborhood.

 

[Advice needed regarding children]

Can any of you give him better??? He makes great grades-lowest on his progress report is a 95.

If you'll holler back, I'll be happy to give him the message.

 

 

I’ll take him off of your hands for a while. Read this to him this may put a fear in him.

 

I believe children should be up doing chores at 0430(not getting up at 0430.), eat breakfast before leaving for school. Perform well in school and come home promptly after school to complete the chores that were not finished before he had to leave for school. Take a break for supper, complete homework, by this time it is time for bed, 0400 comes early. Saturdays you can sleep in a bit, till about 0530 or so before you leave the house for chores. It takes most of the day because this is the only day you have to do those that you do not have time to tend to during the week. Sunday is a day of rest. Church until 1300, then off to friends or family for fellowship and dinner. Get home relax for a few hours, go to bed, 0430 comes early. TV you ask, no time for it. Video games? Nope, no time for them, if you have time for that stuff you obviously have not completed all that needs to be done around the farm. Four wheelers, sure use them when feeding the horses or mending fence or running other errands. BUT….. What about FUN STUFF???? Sure there is fun stuff, like, see who can guess where you will run out of barbed wire while setting a fence, watch the hogs and dogs fight over the table scraps you just dumped in the pen, climb to the top of the butler bins and jump down into the corn in the bottom and then dig your way out, fishing in the ponds, Take some apples or sugar cubes out to the pasture and tease the horses with them while they chase you across the field, (what’s this???? Exercise???).

Yea, ask him if he would like to spend a couple of weeks on a farm in July….. that is about all it would take for him to FULLY APPRICEATE all that he has, and probably stifle any further notions of wanting a different family.

 

 

I no longer live on a farm but I do go to South Dakota in July to help friends with wheat harvest. The 18 hr days still kick MY butt, but there is not anything else I would rather be doing those two weeks. I think all children should experience this. A course in the subject of life, BASIC 101.

[To Tattoo or not to Tattoo?]

They actually have ink that is mostly invisible UNLESS it's under a UV light and then it glows....

 

 

 

O.M.G. The fun I could have with this.

 

 

[To Tattoo or not to Tattoo?]

Go for it. I was 38 when I got my first (and only) tattoo. Still haven’t had ANYTHING pierced and not planning on it.