How refreshing it must be to live in that modern nation known as Saudi Arabia, where human rights and the rights of women come before all else.
What’s that you say? No way?
Oh, all right then. I was only kidding — but the marriage was for money, so it must be perfectly legal and above-board.
Link to article here.
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Judge Roy Bean, err, Judge Pearson, who sued his Korean dry cleaner for 54 million dollars over a pair of missing pants, finally got his ass handed to him when his suit (minus the pants) was recently thrown out in Washington District’s highest court.
In June of 2007, when Pearson lost his first lawsuit against the dry cleaning store, he also lost his job because “his lawsuit showed bad judgment and reflected poorly on the city.”
Amen to that, brother.
Link to article here.
Link to my initial post here.
Update: This guy has a real obsession going on. Just this month (January, 2009), he filed another petition, this time with the full nine-judge D.C. Court of Appeals, whining that the three-judge panel in the previous ruling didn’t didn’t address all of the issues in his appeal.
What a mockery of the court system – although there’s really nothing new in that.
Danny Williams, the Premier of Newfoundland, went toe-to-toe with big oil over revenue-sharing. When the offshore oil companies withdrew their services and said they wouldn’t do business with Newfoundland as a result of the tax revenue Williams wanted for his Province, Danny stood his ground and refused to kiss oil company ass. Consequently, 18 months later, big oil went back to work in Newfoundland and started paying the piper.
Recently in Alberta, Premier Ed Stelmach tried to do the same thing to big oil. The only trouble is, he blinked, and gave in when the price of oil tanked. Like the gutless jerk that he is, he came up with a new revenue plan that will eventually leave the province broke.
Now, Danny Williams is at it one more time with AbitibiBowater, who just closed their pulp and paper mill in Grand Falls, Newfoundland. Danny passed Provincial legislation to take ownership of all hydroelectricity rights from the generating station at Star Lake, as well as timber rights to forests on Crown land which were previously owned or granted to AbitibiBowater.
“That corporation has the right to do whatever it has to do to keep their company profitable … but from my perspective as premier, and on behalf of people of Newfoundland and Labrador, we’re willing to tell them to go on and do their business in other parts of the country and other parts of the world,” Williams said. “You came in with none of those resources, you leave with none of those resources, we wish you well.” — cbc.ca
Link to article here.
AbitibiBowater will be compensated for infrastructure investments, but not for the loss of rights to the natural resources themselves.
Go Danny-boy!
But of course, what would you expect when the Mounties investigate themselves?
According to the RCMP whitewash, Robert Dziekanski
That’s why he died at the Vancouver airport in October, 2007 — at least according to a report released by the RCMP’s own investigative committee. The fact that he was tasered at least three FIVE times with 50,000 volts of electricity had nothing to do with his death.
Robert Dziekanski’s death was not directly caused by the Taser jolts — by STEVE MERTL AND JAMES KELLER, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Yes, of course. It must be so. Canada’s most reputable police force says it is so. But then, what can one expect from big dumb oxen, otherwise known as RCMP officers, who investigate themselves? What a bunch of hypocrites. Cover your big fat dumb asses, boys.
And the Mounties wonder why no one has respect for them any longer.
Here’s a link to another post on how sensitive the Mounties can be when dealing with an 82-year-old criminal in a hospital bed. And another on Mr. Dziekanski.
Those shoes were made for walking his ignorant ass back home to America.
Here’s a more informative report on the insult added to injury of Bush & Co.’s recent visit to Iraq courtesy of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). Are there any actual reporters left in America?
Bettie was remarkable for the contribution she made to the sexual revolution. Although her photos were taken mostly in the ’50s, she certainly was a part of the revolution by way of the display of her photos in military barracks and garages. She endured harassment, mental illness, multiple unsuccessful marriages and time spent in an orphanage as a child but managed to persevere through all of it.
Thank you, Bettie.
Canada has chosen a new Liberal party leader following on the disaster that was Stephane Dion. Michael Ignatief, a former Harvard professor of human rights and former member of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, was recently anointed to lead the Canadian Liberal party to the next election by any means possible, including torture.
Here’s a summary link to a 2005 article by Mariano Aguirre detailing some of Mr. Ignatief’s reasons on why torture is so much more preferable than any other method for igniting the fires of democracy around the world.
The world no sooner gets rid of one by free elections, and another pops up to parrot the idiocy. I suppose Canadians must now prepare to be picked up off of their cold winter streets and rendered to a vacation spot of their choice in a warm climate, where brutality and torture come highly recommended by Mr. Ignatief. After all, winter is now upon us in this northern clime, and a warm-weather respite is well-deserved by all.
Let’s hope that the Canadian electorate has the common sense, come their next Federal election, to show Mr. Ignatief where to shove the eternal sunshine of his spotless mind.