Man o' Law

Forward! says the Hypocrite-in-Chief

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:19:00 +0000

Of course not.

President Obama won't be returning his donations from Bain Capital

By Hunter Walker - Politicker

Though the Obama campaign has repeatedly attacked Mitt Romney for his career at Bain Capital, President Obama still accepted $7,500 in campaign contributions from two Bain executives. His campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt told The Politicker the president has no intention of giving the money back.

“No one aside from Mitt Romney is running for President highlighting their tenure as a corporate buyout specialist as one of job creation, when in fact, his goal was profit maximization,” said Mr. LaBolt. ”The President has support from business leaders across industries who have seen him pull the economy back from the brink of another depression, manufacturing and the auto industry revived, and support his agenda to build an economy that lasts where America outinnovates and outeducates the rest of the world and economic security for the middle class is restored.”

On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden defended the attacks on Mr. Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital. Though he insisted he wasn’t “criticizing private equity firms,” Mr. Biden said there were many examples of Mr. Romney and his Bain colleagues causing tremendous harm.

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Chooming High

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:12:00 +0000

Fair is fair.

You go back to 1965 on Romney and high school you should also get to see what the O was doing in high school too.

Obama and his pot-smoking 'Choom Gang'

By Jonathan Karl - ABC News

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.

In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”

He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.

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Breck Boy is apparently irresistible

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:06:00 +0000

You've got to be kidding me.

Is the juror brain-dead?

Female juror flirts with John Edwards
ABC News -

Here’s a riddle: What comes in group of four and is the color of French’s Mustard?

After a week of deliberations, the four alternate jurors have become the prime distraction for the assembled press corps and spectators in the courtroom.

Today, the judge cleared the court room to discuss what was described as a juror issue. When court resumed, the judge did not indicate what the problem was.

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Stop the madness

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:53:00 +0000

The names change but the situations are the same.

Boyfriend beats girlfriend's kids, Mom says nada.

Toddler hurt; mother, boyfriend charged

By Ana Ley - Express-News

A mother and her boyfriend have been charged after the woman's 2-year-old girl was rushed to Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital with serious injuries.

Officers were dispatched to the hospital early May 18 after hospital staffers said the girl showed up with internal bleeding, rib fractures and bruises to her abdomen, pelvis and forearms.

Police detained and questioned the child's mother, Crystal Marie Apreciado, 20, who initially said she didn't know how the girl was hurt. But Apreciado eventually told police her boyfriend of two years, Jimmy Turner, injured the girl.

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Born to work for the TSA

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:51:00 +0000

You gotta be freaking kidding me!!

I guess however he was imminently qualified to be touching your 'junk' and now is paid to do so.

I-Team: Priest removed from Ministry due to sex abuse allegations now works at PHL
By Ben Simmoneau -CBS Philly

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The CBS 3 I-Team has learned that a Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry over sex abuse allegations now holds a sensitive security post at Philadelphia International Airport.

The security checkpoint between Terminals D and E is a busy place where thousands of people – including lots of kids – pass through every day. But you might not believe who the I-Team observed working as a TSA supervisor at that checkpoint this week: Thomas Harkins.

Until 2002, Harkins was a Catholic priest working at churches across South Jersey. But the Diocese of Camden removed him from ministry because it found he sexually abused two young girls. Now, in a new lawsuit, a third woman is claiming she also is one of Harkins’ victims.

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The naughty teacher

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:43:00 +0000

Former teacher/porn star to attempt to get her job back.

Don't laugh, she might win.

It is California after all.

Teacher with porn past joked about student sex

Stacie Halas to challenge firing by school board
The Smoking Gun -

The California teacher fired last month after her former career as a porn actress was discovered by pupils and school administrators once spoke openly about her work as an educator in behind-the-scenes footage included in one of her X-rated films.

In announcing Halas’s firing, school administrators spoke of their concern about disruptions that could result from her return to the classroom.

Stacie Halas, 31, worked as a science teacher at a public school in Oxnard, where the local school board voted unanimously to can her after learning that she had starred in an array of hardcore porn films (some of which were discovered online by her students at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School, where Halas began working in 2009).

The Return of the Dark Side

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:35:00 +0000

He apparently needed the money to build a new Death Star.

Gunman Wearing Darth Vader Mask Robs Ohio Bank, Amusingly Makes Getaway On BMX Bike

The Smoking Gun -

A man wearing a Darth Vader mask yesterday robbed a Toledo, Ohio bank, according to the FBI.

As seen in the above surveillance photo from a Huntington Bank branch, the suspect wielded a handgun. He escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash (which he presumably stashed in that backpack).

The suspect fled the scene, of course, on a BMX bike.

Hall Pass handed out by Jury

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:23:00 +0000

Another highway death apparently no big deal to the Bexar County Jury who gave the teacher a "Hall Pass" on the Intoxication Manslaughter.

Party on Dude!

Teacher gets probation in DWI manslaughter
By Craig Kapitan

Jurors ordered probation Thursday for a teacher who killed another motorist four years ago after getting behind the wheel at twice the legal limit for alcohol and driving an estimated 95 mph on Interstate 10.

Attorneys for Jose Castaneda, who was working at O'Connor High School at the time and now teaches in Del Rio, said during closing arguments that he would do society more good in the classroom than in prison.

Prosecutors had sought prison time for the intoxication manslaughter charge, which Castaneda, 34, pleaded guilty to at the outset of the trial. He could have faced up to 20 years in prison.

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Can Ban suit banned in Austin

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:58:00 +0000

On it goes.

'Can Ban' in place as legal fight persists
By Kolten Parker - Express-News

AUSTIN — The “can ban” in place for the Comal and Guadalupe rivers remains adrift in legal waters, sent back to a Comal County court on Wednesday, where riverside businesses hope to sink the ordinance.

Travis County District Judge Scott Jenkins removed two state agencies from a lawsuit filed against New Braunfels by a coalition of businesses over the law banning disposable containers on the rivers — popular tubing routes.

Jenkins dismissed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas General Land Office from the suit. This kept the ban in place and transferred the case back to a district court in Comal County. The case was originally moved to Travis County because a state agency was named as a defendant.

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Insurance fraud - It hurts us all

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:52:00 +0000

I am happy to see this position created in the Bexar County DA's Office.

Hopefully this will enable the State to start cracking down on insurance fraud, which costs all of us money.

DA's office to focus on insurance fraud with new position

By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

Bexar County is now the third metropolitan area in Texas with a Texas Department of Insurance-funded prosecutor solely devoted to “rooting out and convicting individuals committing insurance fraud,” District Attorney Susan Reed announced Wednesday during a press conference with insurance industry representatives.

The position, as well as an accompanying investigator job, will cost the state agency roughly $175,000 per year.

The overall goal, said Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman, is to eventually save taxpayers money on their own insurance bills by putting a large-enough dent in such crimes.

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Oh, he went "above and beyond" allright

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:46:00 +0000

More teacher/student sex shenanigans.

San Marcos teacher accused in sex case

By Robert Kolerik - Express-News

A physical education teacher at Travis Elementary in San Marcos has resigned in the face of allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old, KVUE-TV is reporting.

Physical education teacher Steven De Leon is alleged to have had the relationship last summer with the middle school student in Martindale, which is south of San Marcos, the Austin station says.

De Leon, who resigned Tuesday, is a 16-year veteran who received an Excellence Recognition in 2009 for going “above and beyond to help community schoolchildren,” KVUE notes.

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Intoxication Manslaughter plea

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:07:00 +0000

A modern-day tragedy.

One young life taken and one potentially ruined by drinking too much and driving.

Ex-O'Connor teacher pleads guilty in fatal DWI

By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

A former O'Connor High School math teacher who killed a woman in a drunken driving wreck four years ago after celebrating a possible promotion to head baseball coach began his intoxication manslaughter trial Tuesday by pleading guilty and asking a jury for probation.

Jose Castaneda, 34, a first-year teacher who previously played baseball in the minor leagues system for the New York Mets, was put on leave from Northside Independent School District immediately after informing administrators about the early morning May 10, 2008, arrest.

Since then, he has been hired to teach at Del Rio High, in his hometown.

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Tentacles everywhere

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:36:00 +0000

The reach of the Mexican Cartels is only exceeded by the violence of their methods.

Accused cartel front man has business in S.A.

By Guillermo Contreras and Jason Buch - Express-News

Federal prosecutors charged a Mexican businessman with San Antonio ties with money laundering Tuesday and accused him of being a front for corrupt officials from the border state of Tamaulipas.

In a related civil filing, prosecutors said Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the former governor of that border state, took millions from drug cartels and ran his own extortion and bribery schemes.

An indictment in Brownsville charges Fernando Alejandro Cano Martinez, 55, with taking millions from the Matamoros-based Gulf Cartel and its one-time enforcers, the Zetas.

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First shots fired?

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:27:00 +0000

Is this the start of retaliation against Catholics for filing suit over the contraception mandate in Obamacare?

Which is NOT an issue of contraception but an abridgment of religious freedom.

Time will tell.

Jesus statue decapitated on South Side

By Robert Kolarik - Express-News

Vandals have damaged a statue of Jesus at a South Side Catholic center, WOAI-TV is reporting.

A worker at the Catholic Center for Charismatic Renewal in the 1700 block of South Flores Street told the station that someone knocked the head off the statue Sunday night. The head was left on the ground behind the statue.

Apparently, the cover from a San Antonio Water System utility hole was used to bash the statue, WOAI adds.

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So a horse walks into a bar and the bartender looks at him and says "Why the long face?"

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:19:00 +0000

Okay.

When I first saw this headline I thought it was the start of a bad joke.

Except DWI is not a joke.

Man arrested for OWI with Zebra, Parrot in front seat of truck

By Katie Wiedemann - KCRG-TV

DUBUQUE, Iowa - A Cascade man was arrested outside of a Dubuque bar on Sunday night with a pet zebra and a macaw parrot in the front seat of his truck.

Officers charged Jerald Reiter, 55, with OWI. Police reports say officers stopped him in the parking lot of the Dog House Lounge as he drove away in his truck. According to police, field sobriety tests showed Reiter had a blood alcohol level of .14. The legal limit in Iowa is .08.

Reiter tells KCRG.com that he and his girlfriend, Vickey Teters, see the animals like their kids and often take them for rides. On Sunday night, they say they took the zebra and the macaw to the bar because it often lets people bring their animals inside.

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In 3...2...1...

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:56:00 +0000

Lawsuits to follow I am sure.

Restaurant Mistakenly Serves Daiquiris To Pair Of Four-Year-Old Patrons. Predictable Results Follow.

The Smoking Gun -

A pair of four-year-old boys were accidentally served daiquiris containing alcohol in a restaurant mishap that landed one child in a Florida hospital, police report.

, the boys were eating lunch with their mothers last Sunday (Mother’s Day) when “two virgin strawberry daiquiri’s were ordered for their table.”

However, a waitress at Frenchy’s South Beach Café “incorrectly entered the order and two daiquiri’s containing alcohol were made and served to the table,” reported cops.

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Fight club

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:47:00 +0000

They broke the 1st and 2d rules of Fight Club.

Middle school kids in trouble over fight video

By Robert Kolarik - Express-News

The parents of several students at Rudder Middle School were called after a fight video was posted on Facebook, KABB-TV is reporting.

In the video, a child is struck repeatedly by another juvenile and has her head hit against concrete.

“It was horrible. What is behind that?” one parent whose child goes to the Northside ISD school and asked to remain anonymous told the station.

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Char-broiled

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:42:00 +0000

I guess the steaks were a bit over-cooked?

North Side steakhouse catches fire

By Roger Kolarik - Express-News

Fire erupted early today at a Texas Land and Cattle steakhouse on the North Side, WOAI-TV is reporting.

Firefighters were summoned to the restaurant at Loop 410 and McCullough Avenue about 3:30 a.m., the station says. They found the fire at an outside wall, near a cigarette-butt canister and a dumpster.

Although the flames were quickly contained and no one was injured, the fire caused an estimated $25,000 in damage, WOAI says.

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Mulligan

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:32:00 +0000

Reindicted and set for new trial.

Kennedy retrial tops indictments
By Dalondo Moultrie New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung

NEW BRAUNFELS — The monthly Comal County grand jury list of indictments was released Monday, and one of the highlights is a case more than seven years old.

In 2006, Michael Patrick Kennedy, 55, of Bulverde, pleaded guilty to a March 3, 2005 shooting in which he allegedly fired 30 to 50 rounds at Schertz police officer Richard Kunz during a traffic stop on Interstate 35. Kunz returned fire and shot Kennedy three times.

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Give me a S, give me a T, give me a U, give me an A, give me an I and a D! Whats that spell? STUPID!! YAY!!

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:21:00 +0000

Jeeze!!

What is it with teachers, mentors, and coaches recently?

Valley cheer coach arrested in sex assault of child

by Robert Kolarik - Express-News

A Harlingen cheer coach has been arrested on a child of aggravated sexual assault of a child, KGBT-TV is reporting.

Andrew Gonzales, co-owner and coach of Elite Cheer Force, a cheer and tumbling school, was jailed Sunday evening, the Harlingen station says.

Gonzales was to be arraigned this morning, KGBT adds.

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Saved us the trouble

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:14:00 +0000

Well, this will save us a bunch of money in trial costs and appellate costs etc.

I guess thanks are in order?

Murder suspect found dead in cell

By Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News

Capital murder suspect Corey Hiller committed suicide at Bexar County Jail in a medical infirmary unit early today, officials said.

Sources said Hiller, 36, was found hanging from a bedsheet around 4:20 a.m.

Hiller was accused of fatally stabbing of Rhonda Hammonds, 39, and Casey Sweetwood, 48, on April 19. Hiller also was accused of severely injuring Hammonds' son Curtis Hammonds, who recently celebrated his 11th birthday while still recovering from multiple stab wounds at University Hospital.

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Wanted: Special Prosecutor

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:10:00 +0000

Well it seems like they will be getting a special prosecutor after all to handle this.

Special prosecutor sought in Seguin sex-assault case

by John MacCormack - Express-News

Controversy over a sexual assault case in Seguin led the district attorney there Monday to ask a judge to appoint someone from outside her office to handle the matter.

“We received the case late Friday afternoon (from police) and have filed for a special prosecutor today,” Guadalupe County District Attorney Heather McMinn wrote in an email Monday.

Rhonda Gonzales, 39, said her landlord, Roger Sanchez, forced her to perform a sexual act on April 17. In a secretly recorded audio tape of the encounter, she is heard repeatedly saying no and “stop it” to someone named Roger.

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Can you read this?

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:42:00 +0000

Over 50% flunk??

Are they going to lower the pass rate on this as well?

I weep for the future.

Half of Florida high school students flunk reading test

Reuters -

MIAMI (Reuters) - Nearly half of Florida high school students failed the reading portion of the state's new toughened standardized test, education officials said on Friday.

Results this year from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test showed 52 percent of freshman students and 50 percent of sophomores scored at their grade levels.

Students in the 10th grade must pass the exam in order to eventually graduate but can retake it if they fail.

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Doc, I have a stabbing pain in my chest

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Talk about lucky.

Go out and buy some lottery tickets, Man!

Man's defibrillator stops knife during attack

Associated Press -

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man's implanted heart defibrillator may have saved his life in an unexpected way — by stopping a knife.

San Diego police say the 57-year-old got into an argument with an acquaintance early Thursday near some elevators at the trolley station for the Fashion Valley shopping mall.

Police say the acquaintance pulled a folding knife and stabbed the man in the chest. The knife hit the man's defibrillator, a device that shocks the heart if it gets dangerously out of rhythm.

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Cilck it or Ticket in the Hill Country

noreply@blogger.com (Sam) — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:30:00 +0000

Same goes on starting Monday in new Braunfels and Comal as well.

Buckle Up! Be Safe!

'Click it or Ticket' campaign to begin Monday
By Peter McCrady Staff Writer - Daily Times

The Kerrville Police Department is gearing up, along with many other law enforcement departments, for the Click It or Ticket campaign that begins Monday and runs until June 3.

“We want to make sure that people are safe while operating a motor vehicle in the event of a crash,” said community services officer Paul Gonzales, adding that wearing a seat belt while driving is the law. “The overall reason is to prevent serious injury or death when in a crash.”