AN APPROACH TO THE 18 GAME SEASON

How about this:  Teams Play 18 games with one bye week....BUT every player must sit out two non-consecutive hiatus games.  Hiatus players must be announced by noon local time Wed. and may not practice with the team Wed. or after.


Hiatus time may be merged with injured time but the hiatus games must be non-consecutive. 

LESSONS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AG "RACISM" RESIGNATION

One of the smartest people I ever knew once told me the two intellectually laziest things one could do were to accuse another of being a racist or to accuse another of being an "Uncle Tom."  Boy, does this bring that wisdom foursquare back to my mind!

The other thing that sticks in my mind here is real disappointment in Andrew Breitbart.  I don't care that he broke the story.  It is sad that his people didn't fully investigate it (or did and decided to jam a square peg into a round hole) but that doesn't trouble me much.  There will always be dishonest or incompetent practitioners of any profession.  Here's what I found really disappointing, to the point where it changed a rather positive opinion of him:  He went on Hannity and, in effect, said he ran the story because the NAACP said something untrue about the Tea Party.  Is that how a journalist decides what is worthy of reportage?  Is that how we ferret out the truth?  Retaliation by pseudo-journalism is crappy journalism and crappy policy.  If he would have simply stood up for his story, no problem.  Justifying one's questionable conduct with the conduct of others is another way of adopting situational ethics, of saying one's standards exist on a sliding scale.  I didn't think that was Breitbart but he just told me it is.

This is not to pass on Vilsak.  I thought he was better than that.  So afraid of the race card you can't do a decent investigation, Tom?  Maybe we have the wrong resignation here.

In the words of Ray Donovan "Where do I go to get my good name back?"

JACKSON COUNTY: EXAMPLE NUMBER 9,327 WHY LAWYERS SHOULDN'T TALK TO THE PRESS ABOUT LIVE CASES

Click here First.

After you've read this nice, coherent article, you will realize that this case presents a poignant example of the tension between honorable military service by policemen and the administration of justice.  Hard question and one that should be reviewed by the appellate courts.

But then the prosecutor tries to "blame" the defendant for for "asking" that the evidence custodian be subject to cross-examination.  This is totally intellectually dishonest.  The Defendant already had that right.  He was not required to give it up.  

This is probably a terrible result and I feel for the victim's family and the police and prosecutors who, no doubt, worked their guts out on this case.  But turning the case into something that it's not is unseemly and casts the administration of justice in a worse light than the dismissal alone did.

When you're in a hole, stop digging. 

GULF AND BUSH WAR VETS: FIND A VIET VET AND SAY "THANK YOU"

After 35 years of screwing Viet vets by requiring the vet prove a specific trauma to qualify for a PTSD disability, the government has finally folded that stupid tent.  Viet vets absorbed most of the hosing, did most of the lobbying and legal work and now gulf and Bush war vets will no longer have to jump that hurdle.  Did you know that Vietnam Veterans of America is the only organization that exists solely to see to the uniform and fair treatment of ALL veterans of ALL conflicts?

That requirement is now gone.  A lot of your Vietnam brothers lived in sleeping bags and pushed shopping carts and lot of their brothers worked hard to make this happen.  Live well, get care, modern brothers but thank a viet vet next chance you get.

THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE ON THE SAME DOG'S TAIL EVERY DAY

If you know someone who's been hounded by a collection firm, represented someone, or been hounded yourself, you have gotta read this

I guess it's all a matter of which side of the cash flow you're on.

Enjoy

THIS HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOCKED

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I'm not one of them.

IN THE NAVY THEY CALL THIS "PISSING UP A ROPE"

This is an actual excerpt from an actual letter from an actual attorney (for the present) to an actual Judge.  He gets an A for spunk and whatever is below F for judgment.

I must note further that during our telephone conference on February 8, 2008, you personally stated: "I have no problem with the matter being heard in LaSalle County." If that is correct, and no Motions are pending in Cook County, it is extremely difficult to comprehend any justification or motivation whatsoever for requiring the appearance of counsel other than the interjection of your personal vendetta in an attempt to rationalize your own mistake in summarily placing a 14 year old child with a drug and alcohol addict.

As an officer of the court, I must bluntly state that you appear to have serious mental issues involving extreme narcissism and illusions of grandiosity which effectively interferes with your ability to act as a Judge. I am certain this is the opinion of many other lawyers who are acquainted with you. I am aware of your tendency toward self-promotion and your blatant insinuation that you somehow have a superior ability to ascertain peremptorily and without the presentation of appropriate evidence the best interests of children. Do you in any manner accept the reality of the jeopardy in which you placed this child? Is it possible that you could apologize to my client, who has had custody of this child since birth and suffered weeks of sleepless nights wondering whether her child would return safely from her substance addicted and irresponsible former husband? Are you capable of self-examination, or do you simply react negatively and defensively to any suggestion that you are incapable of error? 

It's just a wild guess, but I don't think this is going to end well.