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I have no words. You read this and see if you have any. I just have rage. Yeah, ok, he’s no threat to young girls, even though she admitted to being a little girl and he still came to find her, raped her on her school lunch break and tried to rape her again in an alley. Yeah, no threat, no threat at all. Just let him go. Yeah, ok then. Judge Atherton, I hope to christ you don’t have any children or grandchildren.

I have no problem if someone chooses not to stand for their country’s anthem or the pledge of allegiance in the case of the States because they’re protesting something, but if the person refusing to stand is just being a lazy little prick like these eighth-graders were, then suspend the little prick. But one of their mommies says they should have just written a paper on it. Ok, mommy, let’s make them write a paper on it too. I think that’s a fine idea. Better yet, let’s stand them up in front of a room full of veterans, have them explain to the veterans that they just didn’t feel like it, and see how it goes over.

Ug. I don’t know exactly why this story pisses me off so much. It just does. Maybe it’s the fact that someone is using someone else’s right to free speech as an excuse to be lazy. Maybe it’s the fact that there are so many little idiot kids running around and so many parents want to encourage the idiocy. Maybe it’s all of that wrapped up together in a not so cute little bundle. But it makes me mad. Am I nuts?

Carrollton, Texas Mayor Becky Miller has lived quite the life, the only problem is that she hasn’t. And to make matters worse, the Dallas Morning News has decided to call her out on it. the paper has been systematically debunking her various claims, among them that she used to sing backup for both Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne (neither of them remember her), was once engaged to Don Henley (he doesn’t either) and that she had a brother die in the Vietnam war (her family doesn’t remember him not to mention that the name she gave was that of some black guy somewhere).

Watching her get progressively more and more angry as the article goes on is fine entertainment. You really get the sense that if things continue on for too much longer she’s going to start throwing things, perhaps even herself, from a bridge.

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I’ve got all the respect in the world for police officers, but when 3 of them can’t subdue an 82-year-old man in a hospital bed hooked to an oxygen tank without hitting him 3 times with a Taser, it’s time to find a new line of work, preferably one that never allows them to roam free in the world.

Yeah I know the guy was “delirious” and had a small knife in his hand, but again, there were 3 of you, and he’s old as the hills, not to mention sick. Are we honestly supposed to believe that one of you couldn’t have grabbed an arm or flicked the thing out of his hand while the others held him in place? I know some of those old guys are pretty feisty, but methinks this is just a tad beyond the ridiculous to put it mildly.