“Britney’s Law” (LAWL)

Anti-stalkerazzi bill in Los Angeles of all places. or should I say, Whale’s Vagina. I am kinda fluent in German, so…::brush off my shoulders:: This bill is being debated because the police in a recent attempt to get Britney Spears in the a Psychiatric ward (finally) they had to enlist several vehicles, a helicopter and an ambulance. which cost about $25,000 – from taxpayers. Yes! lets use money to “save” Britney from paparazzi, but put a limit on property taxes. Property taxes fund the majority of schooling and California set a limit on collecting those taxes by referendum. Sometimes democracy sucks, you uninformed bastards.

Other Paparazzi news:

1. Go Fuck Yourself

2.  You too can be a Paparazzo P of S (peice of shit) or Pofs

3.  You can have your own Stalkerazzi, for a price (no witty sidenote found)

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WikiLeaks Update: “I Took an Oath to Uphold the Constitution.”

WikiLeaks is back up and running after federal judge Jeffrey White a week after ordering the Dynadot, it’s US hosting company, to shut down the site. WikiLeaks publishes thousands of leaked documents was shut down for alleged stolen documents. Thousands of internet users by-passed the block to directly connect to the IP address.

Defendant’s argument: American courts have no authority to order WikiLeaks to remove published material — a term of art known as “prior restraint.”

Plaintiff’s argument: “wanted nothing more” than for WikiLeaks to take down the documents in question. “That’s been the point of the bank all along,” he said. He added that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not afford the right to publish private banking information.

Judge: I’m paraphrasing here: Fuck d00d, courts can’t decide this shit. we don’t wanna be blamed for a unconstitutional act. wtf. wtf!? Put that shit back up, yo!

“When this genie gets out of the bottle, it’s out for all purposes,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said after a more than 3-hour-long hearing here. Earlier, White said he had “an obligation to get it right” and that “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution.”

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Damn Bitch, You Just Got Obama’d!

Obama: “I just want to take a moment to respond to an ad that Senator Clinton is apparently running today that asks, ‘Who do you want answering the phone in the White House when it’s 3am and something has happened in the world?’ We’ve seen these ads before. They’re the kind that play on peoples’ fears to scare up votes. Well it won’t work this time. Because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is – what kind of judgment will you make when you answer? We’ve had a red phone moment. It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer.

But I stood up and said that a war in Iraq would cost us thousands of lives and billions of dollars. I said that it would distract us from the real threat we face – and that we should take the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. That’s the judgment I made on the most important foreign policy decision of our generation, and that’s the kind of judgment I’ll show when I answer that phone in the White House as President of the United States – the judgment to keep us safe, to go after our real enemies, and to provide the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States with the equipment they need when we do send them into battle, and the respect and care they have earned when they come home. And I’ll never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, because it’s a threat that should rally this country around our common enemies. That’s the judgment we need at 3am. And that’s the judgment that I am running for President to provide.”

Please. She Needs Your Help.

Shibani is a 15 year-old girl in India. Her father only brings in 21 US dollars a month. She lives with her brother Joydeb, 14 and sister Bani, 7. Her favorite pastime is jumping rope and she is great at drawing. All 5 family members live in one multi-use room with walls and floors made of mud, and a roof made of corrugated metal. The home is heated with a coal stove. The sleep on the floor with a mat. Although water is not miles away, it is shared with the whole community Electricity is available, but not affordable. Their sanitary facility is an open field.
Please, I’m looking for donations to send to her each month. With being at college and my income level being lower, I need your help. Each month I send 22 dollars to Children International to help Shibani go to school, have clothes and get adequate medical care. She needs your help. I hate to sound like a broken record, but you really can help. Even one dollar will help me get her closer to the comfort we all enjoy.

Obama Stopped Smoking Fags

Sorry, we’re in America? oops, I forget sometimes. Stopped smoking bitches…I mean, cigarettes. ‘cuz please, Obama be smoking bitches left and right in his new musical “Barackula.” Anyways, get some balls and quit cold turkey. you’re only supporting those wealthy bastards by chewing Nicorette.

“I’ve been chewing on this Nicorette, which tastes like you’re chewing on ground pepper _ but it does help,” the Democratic candidate said in an interview that aired Thursday on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” His wife, Michelle, had used his smoking as leverage when the two were discussing whether he should run for president. She would agree only if Obama agreed to give up smoking.

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First Politician to Fall Victim to Myspace

Arlington Oregon voters have voted to recall Carmen Kontur-Grontquist by a vote of 142-139. Carmen posed in black underwear next to a fire truck in hopes to help her status as a single mother. Ain’t nothing wrong with that. If you’ve got the goods, flaunt ‘em! hahaha also, I love the Ass Press “Opponents said it wasn’t fitting for the mayor to be so depicted. They said they also disagreed with her on issues about water and the local golf course.” Can’t disagree with this bod. You want politics, you got two B-cups of Justice right here(I’m being generous, I know). With a name like Carmen Kontur-Grontquist, how can you go wrong? that’s the best pornstar name I’ve ever heard.

“oh yeah, give it to me Carmen Kontur-Gruntquist!”
“Actually it’s Gronquist”
“Actually, shut up”
“no”
“dammit, there goes my hardon”
“and fifty bucks”

Jacki, I’m only kidding. please don’t hurt me.

A Weird Precedent

A Case-by-Case Ruling on Discrimination
New York Times: LINK

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a closely watched job discrimination case that allegations that a plaintiff’s co-workers had also suffered discrimination, offered as evidence of a biased corporate culture, may be admissible in court — some of the time.

At the same time, the justices said that such evidence should be kept out of court — some of the time.

The unanimous decision, in an age-discrimination case against Sprint/Nextel, did not answer the bottom-line question in the case: whether five co-workers of the plaintiff, Ellen Mendelsohn, should have been allowed to testify. All had lost their jobs in the same reduction in force and claimed, as she did, to be victims of age discrimination…

Gay? Principal Says “Don’t Be”

Teen sues over gay rights
Northwest Florida Daily News: LINK

PONCE DE LEON — A heterosexual high school junior sued the Holmes County School Board on Thursday, claiming she was prevented from peacefully supporting gay rights.
Heather Gillman, who is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit in federal court against the School Board and Ponce de Leon High School Principal David Davis. According to the complaint, Davis suspended several students for “expressing their support for the fair treatment of gays and lesbians.”
“I think everybody should be able to support what they believe in and not be punished for it,” Gillman said Thursday during a conference call with reporters. She said she does not expect any problems from fellow students over the lawsuit.
“Maybe from the administration, but not from any of the students,” she said
Gillman, 16, said she believes gay students could be accepted at Ponce de Leon High School by other students, but not the administration. ACLU lawyer Benjamin Stevenson wrote in the complaint that Gillman’s cousin, an admitted lesbian identified as “Jane Doe,” complained to Davis about being harassed by students on Sept. 7. “He explained that Jane Doe should not be gay and she should not tell people she is gay,” Stevenson wrote of Davis. “Defendant Davis also told Jane Doe the ‘gay pride’ was a disgrace to the school.”
The School Board stated its position in a Nov. 2 letter from its lawyer, Brandon Young. Young wrote that the School Board has no policy that classifies “pro-gay speech” as “inherently disruptive and/or inappropriate for the school environment.” …

What Worries Me is, What Happens if the Jury is Wrong?

 Court Considers Protecting Drug Makers From Lawsuits
New York Times: LINK 

If you can’t sue drug makers, can you sue the government or FDA for approving it? or does the warning label merit a risk? who reads warning labels anyways? I do. I don’t want to die, so you should too.

WASHINGTON — Less than a week after issuing a sweeping ruling that bars most lawsuits against medical device makers, the Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in the first of two cases that could determine whether drug makers receive similar protection.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the fundamental question in the cases was who should make the decisions that will determine whether a drug is “on balance, going to save people or, on balance, going to hurt people?”

“An expert agency on the one hand or 12 people pulled randomly for a jury role who see before them only the people whom the drug hurt and don’t see those who need the drug to cure them?” Justice Breyer asked.

Normally a member of the court’s liberal wing, Justice Breyer came down squarely on the industry’s side when he answered his own question, saying Congress left the role of policing the medicine market exclusively to the Food and Drug Administration.

“What worries me is, what happens if the jury is wrong?” he said.

If the justice’s view prevails, most lawsuits against drug makers, thousands of which have been filed in recent years and settled in some cases for billions of dollars, would be barred. But the Supreme Court is likely to wait until next year to answer Justice Breyer’s question completely.

That is because the question before the court Monday in Warner-Lambert v. Kent was in part restricted to the effects of a Michigan statute that bars personal injury suits against drug makers unless injured patients can show that the company deliberately withheld information from the F.D.A. that would have led the government to block the medicine from being sold.

The case was brought by 27 Michigan plaintiffs who claim they were injured as a result of taking a Warner-Lambert diabetes pill, Rezulin, which has since been withdrawn from the market. The plaintiffs claim the company withheld from the F.D.A. evidence of Rezulin’s dangers to the liver that would have led the agency to deny an approval.

But in a 2001 case involving the Buckman Company, the Supreme Court held that plaintiffs cannot sue based upon claims that a manufacturer defrauded the F.D.A…

Freedom from Speech

Thomas: No Questions in 2 Years
Associated Press: LINK 

WASHINGTON — Two years and 144 cases have passed since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments. It is a period of unbroken silence that contrasts with the rest of the court’s unceasing inquiries.

Hardly a case goes by, including two appeals that were argued Monday, without eight justices peppering lawyers with questions. Oral arguments offer justices the chance to resolve nagging doubts about a case, probe its weaknesses or make a point to their colleagues.

Left, right and center, the justices ask and they ask and they ask. Sometimes they debate each other, leaving the lawyer at the podium helpless to jump in. “I think you’re handling these questions very well,” Chief Justice John Roberts quipped to a lawyer recently in the midst of one such exchange.

Leaning back in his leather chair, often looking up at the ceiling, Thomas takes it all in, but he never joins in.

Monday was no different. Thomas said nothing.

He occasionally leans to his right to share a comment or a laugh with Justice Stephen Breyer. Less often, he talks to Justice Anthony Kennedy, to his immediate left.

Thomas, characteristically, declined to comment for this article. But in the course of his publicity tour for his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son,” the 59-year-old justice discussed his reticence on the bench on several occasions.

The questions may be helpful to the others, Thomas said, but not to him.

“One thing I’ve demonstrated often in 16 years is you can do this job without asking a single question,” he told an adoring crowd at the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.

The book tour showed that the topic comes up even among friendly audiences.

Indeed, Thomas’ comment was provoked by this question: Why do your colleagues ask so many questions?

His response: “I did not plant that question. That’s a fine question. When you figure out the answer, you let me know,” he said…