Online story: "According to a full toxicology report released Wednesday afternoon by the Miami-Dade medical examiner, the only drug detected in the lifeless body of infamous Miami face-chewer Rudy Eugene was marijuana. " -- Guess proponents of legalizing marijuana will claim Eugene just had a bad case of the "munchies". --- Online story: "CHICAGO — Chicago's City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance that allows police to ticket people found with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them, saying aldermen had to do something to keep officers on the street where they can combat the surging homicide rate and not be tied up for hours doing paperwork. * The 43-3 vote in favor of the ordinance, which allows officers to write a ticket for $250 to $500 for possessing as much as 15 grams of marijuana or about 15 marijuana cigarettes, was expected after a council committee voted 13-1 last week to approve the measure. * But aldermen still debated about two hours before passing the ordinance, with many saying they were not comfortable with a measure that could be seen as sending a message that they are condoning drug use. * Others said they needed to act to protect an increasingly nervous city where homicides are up 38 percent this year compared to the same period last year." -- Ticketing criminals who have ONLY 15 or less marijuana cigarettes on them? Can you imagine the number of teens/preteens that drug gangs will have on the street selling from an inventory of 15 marijuana cigarettes? Can you imagine the number of street deaths increasing as kids with 15 marijuana cigarettes make claims on their street corner 'turf'? Hey Chicago, are you going to arrest them if they open up marijuana laced cookies at an unlicensed lemonade stand? And to think of the number of Chicagoans that have jobs with potUS Arpege... --- Online story: "The (Rhode Island) General Assembly voted this month to repeal an obscure 1989 law that made fibbing on the Internet a misdemeanor punishable by fines of up to $500 and as much as a year in prison. Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the measure. * "This law made virtually the entire population of Rhode Island a criminal," said Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union." -- Just wished Rhode Island had applied the 'lie law' to politicians when ir was in effect! What a wasted opportunity to rid the Rhode Island DIM&DUMBERats from Congress! --- Nine or so white DIM&DUMBERat Congresspersons have already announced they would not be attending the D&D National Convention, and the chair of the Democrats Re-election Committee has recommended all Democrats who are running for re-election this year to stay in their districts to campaign rather than come to the convention. If nine black OR white Republicans announced they were going to boycott a potUS Arpege Congressional speech, the media would be calling them racists! --- From the "Inquiring minds want to know" department: With the expansion of Muslim influence around the world as Muslim's from dominant Muslim countries seek relief from the violence and intolerance of Muslim law, why do the emigrants try to establish their ways and culture to the new places? --- Liberal's L-E "soundoff": "Let me be clear. I love this country they call the United States of America, but before I see Mitt Romney and his thugs get their hands on it, I’d rather see it in ruins. " -- Huh? Does this guy agree with potUS Arpege that he hasn't ruined America enough already? --- L-E headline/story: "Madoff’s brother to plead guilty * Madoff agreed to serve 10 years in prison, the court papers say." -- "Agreed"? How can our Court System even look itself in the mirror? What would have happened if Madoff DIDN'T "agree"? Would the federal judge have asked him what he thought was fair? This is pitiful! --- L-E headline/story: "Ex-Auburn attorney sentenced to nearly 4 years for real estate fraud * James “Jim” Boyd Doug-las Jr. pleaded guilty to wire fraud in March and was sentenced Tuesday to 45 months behind bars, a below-the-guidelines punishment that prosecutors said nevertheless fit the crime. * “Douglas was a lawyer, and lawyers who commit crimes must be held to the same standard as everyone else and must receive the same treatment as everyone else,” Jared Morris, an assistant U.S. attorney in Montgomery, Ala., said in a statement." -- This is a major problem...Douglas was sentenced to a 'below-the-line' penalty, and the assistant U.S attorney said, "Douglas was a lawyer, and lawyers who commit crimes must be held to the same standard as everyone else and must receive the same treatment as everyone else". Lawyers should not receive a 'below-the-line' sentence when they violate laws meant to protect non-lawyers. If anything, lawyers should be held even more accountable, and accountable for the intent rather than the letter of the law. Now, where is the case against Michael Eddings' legal shenanigans? ---