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Skip to comments.Drunk driver, who killed her boyfriend in the accident, files suit against the driver she hit
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Elizabeth Shelton, 21, filed a lawsuit in Houston in December against the truck driver that she accidentally rear-ended in a 2007 crash, while she was intoxicated, and in which her boyfriend was killed. Though she was convicted of manslaughter, she is now suing for $20,000 damage to her Lexus SUV and for "pain and suffering," basing her claim on the fact that the blameless driver she hit was uninsured. In all, her lawsuit names 16 defendants, including insurance companies and banks. Shelton is the daughter of a state court judge. [Houston Chronicle, 12-18-08]
If we all had fathers that were state court judges....
Surely Texas has some state equivalent of Section 11 sanctions that can be imposed in cases like this?
And there it is. I'm surprised she was even convicted of manslaughter.
Ok I say it........Who's her daddy ?
Video of wreckage here
The Lawyer should go to prison
Is this what they mean by chutzba?
What a retard. Surely the court system has some way of not allowing idiots like this to waste the court and taxpayers time and money.
No kidding. "You can fight it, honey. Really! Here's how..."
The drunk slut had a BAC of THREE TIMES
the legal limit when arrested, spent 120 days in the can and paid a fine of $10, 000. Now I suppose she wants the money back. The boyfriend was partially decapitated, who in their right mind would repair that SUV? I saw a photo of the car, it looks like the Jayne Mansfield deathmobile. Gross!
What a wonderful young lady. I'm sure Judge Pat is proud. /s
Wow,looking at that vehicle she should be on her knees daily thanking the Lord she is not presently worm food.
The truck had no insurance, thus by state law should not have been occupying that particular set of space-time coordinates when she rear-ended it. Had the truck driver been obeying the law, then this particular accident would have never happened. That's not to say that she might not have gotten into a different accident, just not this one.
Second to that is these idiots being allowed to file these frivolous lawsuits against peoples/companies that have nothing directly related to the incident and ignoring the fact that she was the guilty party for all of it.
It kinda like blame the tobacco companies for giving you lung cancer, suing Mc Donalds for getting scalded for mishandling a HOT CUP of COFFEE, blaming the gun mfgrs for making guns that killed people in it 'proper use'.
My wife AND my best friend were still in intensive care.
This dirtball told me he would 'settle' right there if I'd drop the traffic offenses.
I asked him to step outside the Courtroom for a moment so we could have some privacy.
I returned to the Courtroom a few minutes later alone.
Mr. Lawyer found he had someplace else to be rather urgently.
I have nothing to say about his limp.
Wow. What an asshole. Sorry, but there's no other word. No one in our society will take blame for their actions.
Good for you.
But, but Obama just said we must take responsibility.
What a moron!
It doesn't work that way. Sure, the truck should have been insured, but if the driver of the truck was not a fault, it does not make the owner or driver of the truck responsible for the accident.
He told us that several times during my teenage years. I would meet people who would say, "Gee, your Dad's a judge, that must mean you don't have to pay speeding tickets", to which I would respond, "Ah, no, you've never met my Dad, have you?"
To a person, all of the Federal judges I knew through my father's tenure were absolute, upstanding individuals who would never use their position to improperly influence any court decisions on the behalf of their family members. One of the judge's family suffered through a long period of their only son being arrested numerous times for misdemeanor drug possession and DUI, always supporting him emotionally (and I'm sure financially), but never giving him an easy out. He's still a drug and alcohol counselor with 20+ years of sobriety who still credits his father with being his inspiration.
I guess my point here is my father went out of his way to explain to us that we should never expect preferential treatment, and as I grew up with a bunch of judges' families, it seemed that was absolutely the norm and never the exception in my limited experience.
The only reason she has a lawyer who will take this case is because of her daddy. Lawyers like easy money cases - not these uninsured motorist cases.
If only more public servants had the character they used to. Now it's all about what you can get away with. It's about cheating the system, not respecting the system as a good and just governor for all of us.
As the father of three boys, I can't imagine what you went through. I am so sorry for your loss.
She is the living definition for the most vile,despicable word you can use to describe a woman. And it rhymes with runt.
"If only more public servants had the character they used to"
Again, I can only tell you from my limited experience growing up, but there was a certain demeanor that the judges we knew had, they were generally reserved, but very intelligent and reverent of their job - they never seemed to take their positions for granted or ever flaunt it. If anything, they shied away from using their appointments to personal gain in anyway.
I'll tell you one thing that has struck me that differentiates those judges I knew growing up and the public servants today. Almost to a person, those judges served in the military and many saw combat. The Chief Judge was a Marine in the South Pacific during WWII, the number two (my best friend's father) earned a Silver Star in Korea, my father worked his way through college on an AF ROTC scholarship, and while he never saw combat, served an additional 27 years in the ANG after his four in the AF, finally retiring as a full bird.
The point being those people fought for our freedom - how many people would serve in Congress if one of the criteria was to have experience fighting for this country?
It's no surprise at all. I know two associate circuit judges and a police chief who wiggled out of drunk driving cases during the late-'80s and '90s. And there were deaths in one of those cases. Welcome to your late awakening in our organized crime Nation.
My father was the City Attorney, District Attorney, then a judge. I knew that I would much rather face time in jail than my father, if I had ever gotten in trouble. He would have been the last person to help me out of legal trouble.
I never got into any.
suing Mc Donalds for getting scalded for mishandling a HOT CUP of COFFEEGo here before running your mouth.
I'd hit it.
She should be in prison. A man is dead at her hands.
Old news...
Yup. Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts,' presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to."
The old joke to define chutzpah is of a boy, having just been convicted of murdering his parents, begging the judge for leniency because he is an orphan.
The SUV swerved across two lanes of traffic and hit the cargo truck Lance Bennett was driving, according to police.
"It was going about 100 miles an hour and it hit me from behind," said Bennett. "I saw them come at me at full speed and they just hit me from behind."
"They were driving crazy. If I hadn't been driving this big truck, I'd probably be gone too."
"If we all had fathers that were state court judges...."
...who bought us Lexus SUVs
Is she doing time or is that too much to ask?
What made you think of that old case?
Another moneyed prima donna gets off with a slap on the wrist. If it had been me, I'd have been sent away for 40 years. American jurisprudence sucks. A total disgrace.
Perhaps not surprisingly, he is a juvenile court judge.
And I found this little tidbit about the plaintiff's attorney, Mark Sandoval.
"Sandoval has been suspended twice by the State Bar for a total of four years, thrown in jail for a day for lying to a judge, kicked off a legislative ballot for lying about his residence, fined the maximum by a jury on campaign finance violations after acting as his own lawyer, and had his fees garnisheed by the IRS for several years for failure to pay his taxes."
Rotten apple didn't fall far from the tree, apparently.
"The truck had no insurance, thus by state law should not have been occupying that particular set of space-time coordinates when she rear-ended it. Had the truck driver been obeying the law, then this particular accident would have never happened. Thats not to say that she might not have gotten into a different accident, just not this one."
This might actually have some merit from a legalistic point of view. But one idea from the Arab world that I find attractive, actually an old idea, was that judges should be the wisest persons available. An Arab court would probably throw this out immediately, and additionally have the attorney who actually submitted this lawsuit and the driver without insurance both whipped.
You believe everything you read on the liberal Snopes website?
In all, her lawsuit names 16 defendants, including insurance companies and banks. Shelton is the daughter of a state court judge.
I guess they'll just settle in order to curry favor with the drunken little scumbag's father.
Wink wink, nod nod.
Should the McDonald's woman have known the coffee was hot?
Should she have expected to be hurt if the coffee spilled on her?
Did she do something that risked spilling the coffee?
Did you ever burn your mouth on hot pizza? Whose fault was that? Should the pizza maker not heat up his pie? Not serve it to you when it's cooked?
McDonald's mistake was settling the other suits.
I'm wondering if, instead of wanting it 'repaired', she maybe wants paid for the loss of it. Not knowing what her insurance policy says, nor what Texas laws allow, but just specualtating, there might have been a clause that allowed non-payment of the vehicle damage claim since she was underage & drunk.
Particularly on an open discussion board on that liberal Snopes site!
Coffee... The case was a fraud. The jury a bunch of libtard victim-wannabees.
The claim is that McDonald's coffee was 30-40 degrees hotter than other places.
Hmmm... I have had boiling water on me before. I got a burn - but nowhere near a 3rd degree burn. No hospital, and definitely no skin grafts.
Crazy world - and libtards will lie about anything.
but in the meantime, I am going to make a pot of coffee here at the house in the AM and see what temperature it is when it first comes out.
I like your dad based on what you wrote.
Test complete - using a standard food thermometer, I checked the temperature of a freshly brewed cup of coffee from my nifty home coffeemaker. 184 degrees F Yet that snopes discussion claims that coffee is normally served at 130-135? My tap water is warmer than that!
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- m.xero.com will continue to be supported for lower-level devices (unfortunately lower-level includes WIndows Phone 7 at this stage – the phone is pretty great but the browser is crap)
- even though this mobile app will scale well on an iPad, we are currently NOT working on a specific iPad version. Currently the "normal" version of Xero works pretty well on an iPad but we're hoping to improve the usability of all our applications for touch-based tablet devices (which may include tablet specific features)
- you won't have to apply to be in the beta – we'll release it to everyone as soon as it's ready but expect some rough edges
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Is it ready yet??? 😀
Very useful blog – we are just on the verge of making that major decision of how to support both iOS and Android in particular for our market research survey software and have been considering exactly this set of tools so it's good to know that we can leverage someone else's scars on the back! Thanks for sharing…
Well now that it is late March and we are yet to see the APp released Rod must now be very disappointed… Definitely looking forward to it coming out and seeing it work on an iPad. Being able to take photos of invoices would be a good feature however I wouldn't reccomend throwing out the physical receipts just yet, each device has differing camera qualities so the photo of the invoice might not stand up to IRD scrutiny epecially since they would most liekly prefer to see the original rather than a copy.
Any update on a release date?
i hope this is not the start of xero becoming like other companies that are unable to deliver on what they promise…. i have very high hopes for xero and express my belief in the product regularly to clients, i really hope this doesn't become a trend
"I'm happy to call his bluff and state publicly I would be very disappointed if it is as long as late March."
Aww, Rod's making a sad face… 🙁
Any update on when we can expect a release?
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I wouldn't be expecting it anytime soon Lars. I got quite excited about the release of Xero touch and was very let down. I have now pretty much given up all hope of it coming out anytime in the near future. I understand why Xero would withhold a release to iron out bugs and make sure we got a good workable product but to say that it would be out in march to me meant that it was nearly finished, to get this far into april and it still not be out suggests that it was never as close to being ready for release as Xero made out. This for me is the biggest let down I have had from Xero so far.
We're sorry it took a bit longer than planned. As you'll see Xero Touch is a pretty big V1 release. Go and have a play (http://m.xero.com) and give us feedback before we submit to the app store.
I just tried out Xero Touch on my ipad with wifi and accessing it from Rod's link and something must be wrong because I was left scratching my head at Xero Touch. All I could access was Expense claims, even from the dashboard there was only expense claims and this i for clients that I knew had items to reconcile. I also tried Xero Touch from my android using 3G and after 2 minutes the page still hadn't loaded so I gave up. Accessed the mobile site from my laptop and was able to see the items to reconcile as well as expense claims so clearly there must be an issue with running xero touch on my ipad, I wonder what is the point of having Xero Touch if it doesn't work on touch devices?
Craig I am definitely a financial advisor in all 40+ clients and even after mulitple refreshes, closing browsers and reopening I still only get the expense claim screen for my clients. I have an Ipad 1. I am going to the link Rod gives above m.xero.com and it then changes to the Xero Touch link. I give up on Xero Touch
Thanks for the help Rod but honestly I don't think it's worth the trouble. I was grossly disappointed by the delay in the release and then to find that it is too slow to work on my android smartphone and not work on my iPad 1 was just the icing on the cake. I won't be attempting to use Xero touch anytime in the near future and I unfortunately must say that I can't recommend the product to clients when it doesn't work on my iPad. Sorry guys but since i can't see it working on the iPad I won't be going anywhere near Xero touch.
I find the main web interface works very well on the iPad (v1) – and is fully featured. (I don't mind that the few graphs don't work.) Touch, once it is an appstore app rather than just a website is going to be brilliant as a portable version for expenses in particular.
Maybe you should brand it as Xero Handheld so people don't worry so much about it working on their iPads and other tablets.
It works well on my IPad, looks like Ben is purposely trying to discourage others from using Xero.
Definately not Anna, I am a big fan of Xero that's why im so disappointed. I recommend the Xero system to all of my clients. For the record I only have an issue with Xero touch. Feel free to come an try Xero touch on my ipad if you think im just trying to put people off xero and you will see that it doesn't work on my iPad. I am aware it is working on others peoples devices but it's not working on mine. Xero as accessed from a desktop computer is fantastic and the best accounting software I have had the pleasure of using. I believe that Xero is setting the standard for how future accounting is going to go and I LOVE the web broswer version. All I can do is put forward my issues with Xero touch, that's great it's working for you but for me it doesn't work simple as that.
This would be awesome if i could enter my petrol costs into the system whilst im on the go. Fingers crossed for the future…
I'm new to Xero and so far am very impressed with its ease of use whilst having Xero mobile would be hugely beneficial to me, i would rather wait until they've pushed out a few releases and ironed out bugs. The demand is obviously high but Xero should not rush this especially as they have had a fantastic response to the existing system. Whilst i'm eager please take your time in making this awesome. 🙂
I like it is a good step in the right direction. How do I add receipts that are not expenses to be reimbursed back to me. I am a freelance, all my expenses are direct receipts so I do not need to add a new expense to be claimed just a new receipt.
When can I download it from the Apps store?
@fran It's on the internets…
Where can this app for my iphone be downloaded. I have searched the APP store and cant find it. Thanks.
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American observers of UK politics would do well to see the U.S. parallels here. The dilemma facing the UK Labour Party is basically the one faced by Democratic presidential candidates as they seek victory in 2016. If either major UK political party fails to find its way, the US stands poised to lose its most reliable European ally.
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After years of horror, mischief and mayhem, the long running series-of-miniseries 30 Days Of Night is pulling out the stops and becoming a full-fledged ongoing series. IDW has announced co-creator Steve Niles is returning to write the series and is joined by epic illustrator Sam Kieth, as they take the original story of Alaskan vampires into the bright lights and big city of Los Angeles.
According to the press releases, the ongoing begins when a cryptic letter carrying a postmark from Barrow, Alaska lands in the mailbox of a curious woman who begins delving into the vampire mystery.
"I've been wanting to get back into the 30 Days of Night universe and shake things up for awhile now," said Niles in a press release. "I've just been waiting for the right moment and the right artist. I have the right artist in Sam Kieth, and the time is now."
Best known for his work on The Maxx and various projects for Marvel and DC, Sam Kieth is no stranger to the 30 Days of Night universe; the artist illustrated the recent 30 Days of Night: Night, Again miniseries and has been doing a flurry of work both in the indies and at the Big Two.
Although he's the writer and co-creator of the series, Niles has been in and out of the 30 Days of Night world, which is co-owned by him, IDW and artist Ben Templesmith. There's no word on Templesmith's involvement in the series as of yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if he popped up with a variant cover down the road.
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy on Wednesday based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a "Splurge" item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList if you'd like to play along in our comments section.
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If I had $15 this week, I'd immediately go for Flashpoint #1 (DC Comics, $3.99) – I am very, very unsure about the number of tie-ins DC are pushing out for the new crossover event, but with Geoff Johns in charge, I'm suspecting that the main book will be worth a look at least. I'd also grab the relaunched GI Joe #1 (IDW, $3.99), if only to follow up on the "Cobra Civil War" storyline that I admit has completely caught my attention unexpectedly. Curiosity would also get me to pick up both Moriarty #1 (Image, $2.99) and Total Recall #1 (Dynamite, $1.99), two new launches that will hopefully take familiar ideas and characters in directions I wouldn't expect…
Kevin noted last September that IDW is launching a new 30 Days of Night series, and here it is: The first issue of 30 Days of Night: Night Again is listed in the March Previews for a May release.
Horror writer Joe Lansdale and artist Sam Kieth (The Maxx) are taking over the series, which was created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith and was the bases for two feature films and countless spinoffs. In the original, published in 2002, vampires came to Alaska to take advantage of the 30-day-long night of the Arctic winter, using it for a prolonged feeding frenzy. In 30 Days of Night: Night Again, a group of survivors comes to an Alaskan research facility, where scientists are puzzling over a strange object found in the ice. It's probably safe to say that bloody carnage results.
The press release is deliberately vague, but IDW editor-in-chief Chris Ryall shows off some of Davide Furno's variant covers at his blog that hint at the nature of the story.
IDW Publishing will launch a new 30 Days of Night series next spring by author Joe R. Lansdale and artist Sam Kieth.
The comic, announced this morning in a very brief statement on the publisher's Formspring account, will be at least the 13th title spun out of the popular 2002 miniseries by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith.
In the original, which was the basis for the 2007 film, vampires flock to Barrow, Alaska, where the sun sets for about 30 days, allowing them to feed on the residents. Although several of the sequels, such as Dark Days and Return to Barrow, center on the city or the survivors of the attacks, others are expansions of the "30 Days universe." A six-issue X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover, by Niles, Adam Jones and Tom Mandrake, debuted from WildStorm in July.
Lansdale is an award-winning author known for his "Hap and Leonard" series of mystery novels, the novella Bubba Ho-Tep and comics like Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such, Conan and the Songs of the Dead, and Pigeons from Hell. He also wrote episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, as well as the screenplay to the animated DC Showcase: Jonah Hex.
Kieth is best known for his comic turned animated series The Maxx, Zero Girl, Batman/Lobo: Deadly Serious and Arkham Asylum: Madness. He provided a variant cover for The X-Files/30 Days of Night #1.
The first-ever C2E2 — Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo — is all but over, and no doubt Brigid and Michael will have more to say about the whole experience here soon. For now, here's a roundup of news and info coming out of various panels from today, to go with our roundups from Friday and Saturday.


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Multi-platinum R&B recording artist Keyshia Cole and leading footwear designer and marketer Steve Madden are at it again. Cole and Madden announced their second partnership with products to be released this month including a variety of heeled and platform styles, ranging from pumps to gladiators to ankle booties. The shoes will feature new prints and colors, along with the platform and cut-out details that are said to showcase the fusion of Steve Madden's and Keyshia Cole's style. Next month to kick off the launch, Cole and Madden will make a series of personal appearances beginning with the Dillard's at the Galleria in Houston, Texas, on April 5. "Keyshia is great to work with. She brings fresh ideas to the table, and knows what girls want. It was a pleasure to work with her again," said Steve Madden. "As my second line with Steve Madden gets released, I want young women to feel they are the latest trend setters, feeling sexy and being comfortable at the same time," said Cole.


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Skip to comments.Rush Limbaugh: Rush Answers Abortion Question
Posted on 07/08/2005 6:06:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
I've saved this and the response to it for today, Open Line Friday, to share with you. This woman is a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. She said, "Rush..." Her name is Anita. "Rush, I'm a die-hard fan. Though I was raised to support a woman's right to choose, since becoming a mother and listening to you over these many years, I've come to strongly believe that abortion is wrong. But because I'm conservative and believe in property rights, I can't reconcile the government's involvement in the ultimate property right to your own body. Can you help me?"
So I thought about this, and I wrote her back. I said: Dear Anita, perhaps I can. Our Declaration of Independence states that as free human beings, we are entitled to LIFE," and I put that in all caps, "liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration also says that these rights are "inalienable" and "granted by our Creator," God. If our government does not stand for and protect these basic rights, which are the essence of our creation and humanity, then it will not protect any others. In our history, we've had human beings, members of the Supreme Court, give us the disastrous Dred Scott decision, which established that we as human beings could consider certain of our fellow human beings as our property.
Dred Scott permitted whites in this country to own black slaves and eventually this decision was struck down. So, Anita, your child is not your personal property. Your body may be, but your child isn't. Your child is a distinct and individual human being that you helped to create and produce -- and no one owns that child's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So she wrote back and she thanked me, said she "hadn't looked at it that way;" she "appreciated that perspective." So I wanted to share that with you. One of the reasons why is because here we've had these Supreme Court decisions on property rights, private property rights, and you can see how some people interpret all of these, and extrapolate them to other issues in what may be the beginning of their education process. So I thought it was a great question that she asked and I was happy to be able to answer it for her.
Pro-life ping.
Choose what?
Bump. I heard this today.
I'm glad my kids didn't hear this. When they are disobedient I tell them that they've all been bought and paid for, I own them and they must do as I say.
Other than that, Rush has an excellent response to someone who was raised on liberal propaganda.
Life first, everything else second.
Not to mention that the body inside the woman is not actually her body. Therefore, as the child is merely within her temporarily and not part of her, she has no right to destroy it.
Excellent little piece. As much as we think these things are plain, to many folks they are not.
A child is not property. A child is a person. People are not things, or property.
But the problem starts with the idea that your body is your property. That's nonsense too. Your body is you. Every human being is a combination of body and soul. If you are a materialist and don't believe in souls, then all the more reason to say that your body is you.
Possessive individualism was a philosophical error that has led to a lot of trouble.
Inalienable or unalienable?
Very succinctly put Rush!
Either Rush made a mistake or his webmaster did, "unalienable" is how it appears in the Declaration of Independence.
There are some who would follow up with the question, "Well, granted that the baby is not part of my body, still my womb definitely is: so why can;t I ejecte an embryo or fetus from my womb, just as I would eject an invader from my property?"
And the answer is, the baby didn't "invade" you. You in effect invited the baby to come, by allowing somebody to deposit 100 million live sperm into your genital tract. (News Flash: Now known to be the leading cause of pregnancy.) Even if you tried contracpetion, you knew, or should hve known, the risk, and so there's strict liability here.
Getting an abortion would be the equivalent of inviting a child onto your property-- in fact, bringing him onto your property (since he does not even have the power of independent locomotion) --- and then saying he was a trespasser and shooting him.
Unless you are in the military or in prison. ;-)
"There are some who would follow up with the question, "Well, granted that the baby is not part of my body, still my womb definitely is: so why can;t I ejecte an embryo or fetus from my womb, just as I would eject an invader from my property?"
You know, I've never heard it phrased like this before. Are there really people who think along these lines?
Correct. DNA evidence is now well established in criminal courts. DNA analysis of any fetus would qualify it in a court as a different person than the woman carrying it. So the determinants about what make it a separate person under the law are time and position. If the baby's head clears the vaginal walls, it becomes a person. Could we therefore pass a law that says that people are only people when they are on the first floor of their house but not the second? Could we also say that we can legally kill someone before noon, but not after?
Nicely put!
Rush nailing it with clarity.
That usually stops them in their tracks.
Abortion is not about the mother's body, it's about the baby's body.
See what I mean Vern!
You need to stop saying that.
May I encourage you to cite an Authority for the truth that "Every human being is a combination of Body and soul?" Rush mentioned the Author of the 1,100+ chapter document that has always served well as the Final Authority for all such issues.
What about the women who are raped, and the children victims of incest?
Which is why we need a 110 percent ProLife Supreme Court Justice.
You know; I'm really beginning to think of Rush as our modern day Benjamin Franklin--at least as far as his common sense outlook, and expressing it with humor, in the language we all understand. Maybe we should send him to France.
But then that begs the question, "if your body is 'you,' then what 'rights' does the government have over your body, or over 'you?'" For instance, does the government have the right to keep you from hurting yourself? To what extent? Should the government outlaw things like Ultimate Fighting or boxing? What about terribly physical sports like football (did you ever see Jim Otto after retiring from the Oakland Raiders try to walk?). What about outlawing motorcycles, or swimming pools?
How much authority should the government have over your body?
Please note, I'm in no way disagreeing with Rush's point here.
Let's work to eventually have 9 of them.
paulat asks: "What about the women who are raped, and the children victims of incest?"
That's like when someone by-passes your security, distracts the dog with a chunk of raw meat, kicks down the door, and deposits a child who will die if you evict him/her before nine months are up. Then it sucks to be you, but women just have to put up with it, according to Rush's interpretation of the Constitution.
I'm in agreement with Walter Williams on this one, the ability to sell one's own organs.
actually under prior law, children are chattle. In days of old, selling to the gypsies was an option.
Both are acceptable, but it's unalienable in the Declaration.
Awesome, thank you for posting :)
Amen to that, Rush!
Sorry for this long post but this is an article worth reading that reinforces and expands on what Rush said today:
"While the demand for abortion grows,1 so does the scientific case against the arguments often used to support it. Recent powerful evidence comes from immunology.
Half a century ago, when the amazing mechanism of the human immune system was first being uncovered, Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir Peter Medawar made a significant comment. He declared that the survival of the genetically different child within a mother's womb contradicted the immunological laws that were thwarting their attempts at tissue transplantation.2 The immune system normally detects the presence of any "foreign" tissue in the body and it immediately sets up a defence against it (primarily what is now called the "killer T cell" mechanism).
This caused early experiments in organ transplantation to fail--the recipient's immune system attacked and rejected the donor's "foreign" organ tissue. So why doesn't the mother's womb detect the presence of the "foreign" tissue of the developing embryo and try to attack and reject it?
We now know that it does! And this is the cause of many miscarriages. Recent research has shown that the developing child puts up a very specific defence against the killer T cell attack. And as long as the defence mechanism works properly, the pregnancy will proceed to full term. However, when the defence mechanism fails, miscarriage results
In a landmark 1998 paper, researchers at the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, USA, found that the mammalian embryo (they worked with mice) produces a special enzyme, called indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, or "IDO," which suppresses the mother's T cell reaction and allows pregnancy to proceed.2 Follow-up work in humans revealed the same effect, and it was also demonstrated that the IDO was produced on the embryo side of the placental membrane (which separates mother from child) and not on the mother's side.3 Further work in mice showed that IDO production peaked during the formation of the placenta--the most crucial time for establishing that vital link between mother and child.4 And the most recent work in humans has established beyond doubt that IDO is a specific mechanism at the mother-child interface for preventing the mother's immune system from rejecting the child.5
But what does this have to do with abortion? Well, a common argument in favour of abortion is that a mother has the right to control what happens to her own body.6 However, this research shows very clearly that the baby is not part of the mother's body. The baby has a unique genetic makeup (only half its chromosomes come from the mother, the other half come from the father, and each combination of chromosomes is unique) and that condition is sufficient to cause the mother's immune system to identify the baby as "foreign" and it mounts an attack via the killer T cell system. In the mouse experiments, when IDO production was artificially suppressed, the mother's womb rapidly rejected the embryos.2 It is only because the baby is normally well prepared for life in the womb by producing IDO and suppressing the mother's T cell reaction, that pregnancy can be healthy and go full term.
This research also highlights the fact that the child's individuality--its unique genetic makeup--exists from the moment of conception. At conception, the new person's genetic instructions come together for the first time--in a single cell called the zygote. But it is not until day 6 that IDO production kicks in.5 Why day 6? Well day 6 is a preparation for day 7, when the new embryo first attaches itself to its mother's womb so that it can draw nutrients from its mother's bloodstream.7 This is exactly the time when the mother's killer T cells would normally begin to attack and reject it--if not for the amazing protection already provided by IDO production on the previous day.
Psalm 139:13 tells us that God "knit me together in my mother's womb" and in Isaiah 46:3 God says "you whom I have upheld since you were conceived" (NIV). IDO is a marvellous part of God's system for individually "upholding" us in the womb and we should not violate it, or indeed the commandment not to take innocent human life, through the proliferation of abortion."
References and notes
1. For example, legally restricted late-term (>20 weeks) abortion was introduced into Western Australia in 1998. Under this legislation, 95% of requests have been granted and terminations as late as 8 months have been approved. See Dickinson, J.E., Late pregnancy termination within a legislated medical environment, Aust. N.Z.J. Obstet. Gynaecol. 44(4):337-341, 2004.
2. Munn, D.H., et al., Prevention of allogeneic fetal rejection by tryptophan catabolism, Science 281(5380):1122-1124, 1998.
3. Kudo, Y. and Boyd, C.A., Human placental indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase: cellular localization and characterization of an enzyme preventing fetal rejection, Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1500(1):119-124, 2000.
4. Suzuki, S., et al., Expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase and tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase in early concepti, Biochem. J. 355(2):425-429, 2001.
5. Kudo, Y., et al., Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase: distribution and function in the developing human placenta, J. Reprod. Immunol. 61(2):87-98, 2004.
yeah it does suck, but you wouldn't say the hell with it, I want my living room back now, and shoot the child. Would you?
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To eliminate das untermunchen, of course. Just like it says right there in the Constitution. You know, the same constitution that doesn't prohibit the government from infringing on the free exercise of religion, confiscating firearms, taking property for social whim, you know.
Great post! Thanks!
Actually Children are a Gift from God to Parents.. so actually they are yours to raise in accordance with God's law.. (killing them is not an option)..... when your child is grown there comes a time in which the child will "leave their mother and father, and form a family of their own" and the cycle continues
I like the way you think. You should be a lawyer, if you're not already.
The constitutional protection of citizens is probably even deeper than the constitutional protection of property.
This is traditional Christian doctrine going back to the Church Fathers.
When God created the universe, everything He made was "good," and the last day's work was "very good." Adam's fall subjected the body to sin and death and nature to decay and death, but when Christ was incarnated in a human body it gave the human body renewed dignity.
Certainly there's nothing in the Bible about the body being "property."
The liberal side of the argument is taken of early on as they refer to a baby (unborn) as a "fetus" and not a baby. Unless of course it ironically suits their argument in rare cases when a pregnant woman is killed.
Either way, "fetus" indicates that a baby is something other than a life. That's why when engaging in discussions, I always counter the notion that pre-birth a baby is a "fetus" with the reality that it is in fact a baby.
The easy argument for that is that those admitting that a baby is merely a fetus until birth must confront the question that I pose. That question is how do they justify a prematurely born baby, say at six or seven months, with a baby of the same age, yet still in the womb, and perhaps even more developed as a result of going through a normal prenatal process?
There is no answer but to give up one side of the argument. If the side that "it's a fetus" is retained, then surely it's nothing more than a fetus after birth as well and "entitled" to the same treatment as it was in womb, namely abortion, which would be tantamount to murder under current laws.
If the side that "it's a baby" is retained, then the question becomes "at what point did it go from "fetus" to "baby"? A question for which those arguing the matter cannot possibly have an answer for, in spite of their lame efforts to have one.
The real leftists don't even want to use the word fetus, they prefer the term "clump of cells." They were livid when GE developed 3D ultrasound technology; my brother and his wife had one of these done last year, it actually looked like a photograph of a baby. The left is worried that such images will convince more women that it really is a baby.
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Christian divorce rates disputed
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The Barna Research Group created quite a stir with a report in 2000 that "Born Again Christians" have about the same divorce rate as the general population and that atheists and agnostics have a lower divorce rate.
But statistics can only measure what they can measure and many questions are hard to quantify.
For example, what percentage of Christians choose marriage versus living together and how does that compare to atheists? If atheists do not get married as often, how would that affect divorce rates?
And then there is the question that asks if religious people put too many expectations on marriage. "I think in many ways Christian marriage is harder," said Gary Thomas in an article quoted on adherents.com. Thomas is the author of "Sacred Marriage" and was the director of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality in Bellingham, Wash: "We're expected to forgive. We're expected to give of ourselves. Paul tells husbands that they ought to have the mind of a martyr."
Now Glenn T. Stanton, the director for family formation studies at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colo., calls the claim that Christians have the same divorce rate as the general public inaccurate.
"Based on the best data available, the divorce rate among Christians is significantly lower than the general population," Stanton wrote in the Baptist Press.
"The factor making the most difference is religious commitment and practice," Stanton wrote. "Couples who regularly practice any combination of serious religious behaviors and attitudes — attend church nearly every week, read their Bibles and spiritual materials regularly; pray privately and together; generally take their faith seriously, living not as perfect disciples, but serious disciples — enjoy significantly lower divorce rates than mere church members, the general public and unbelievers."
Here are the statistics Stanton quotes:
— 60 percent of people who identify as Christians but rarely attend have been divorced.
— 38 percent of those who attend church regularly have been divorced.
— Active conservative Protestants who regularly attend church are 35 percent less likely to divorce compared to those who have no affiliation.
— Nominally attending conservative Protestants are 20 percent more likely to divorce than secular Americans.
Stanton concludes: "The divorce rates of Christian believers are not identical to the general population — not even close. Being a committed, faithful believer makes a measurable difference in marriage. … Faith does matter and the leading sociologists of family and religion tell us so."
So all is nice and well?
Not really.
As Gene Veith expresses on his blog "Cranach: The Blog of Veith," just because people who practice Christianity have a lower divorce rate doesn't mean there isn't a problem: "Thirty-eight percent? That's lots better than 60 percent, but still shockingly high, especially among the more devout believers. 35 percent less likely to get a divorce? One would think it should be greater than that.At any rate, the bottom line seems to be that the more seriously couples take their faith, the less likely they are to get a divorce. That seems like a self-evident truth, but it appears there is also evidence for it."
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St. Louis V.A. Hospital Steps Up Fight Against Breast CancerJohn Cochran facility now offers 3D digital mammograms.
Congressman Brings Valentines To VeteransJohn Shimkus visits VA facilities in St. Louis region, with cards from schoolchildren
Some Areas in VA Medical Center EvacuatedThe John Cochran VA Medical Center was evacuated Friday afternoon.
St. Louis VA Names a New Associate Director, But Still No Permanent DirectorNo New Director for St. Louis V-A
Blunt, McCaskill Want Answers from St. Louis VAThe senators' letter also raises questions about 45 areas of concern, including reports of unsanitary conditions.
VA Works to Improve Response Time for St. Louis PatientsThe VA is hiring more staff to improve its patient capacity, and adding a fleet of 11 vans to shuttle in patients from outlying towns.
Acting VA Secretary: VA Needs a Behavior CorrectionActing VA secretary Sloan Gibson addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars conference downtown.
Veterans: Shinseki's Resignation 'Just Politics'This morning, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned amid growing controversy surrounding veterans' health care.
Sen. Blunt: No Answers from St. Louis VAMissouri Senator Roy Blunt says he asked officials at the John Cochran VA Medical Center point-blank about a whistleblower's allegations of delays in mental health treatment and doctors slacking off.
Sen. Blunt to Meet With St. Louis VA OfficialsOfficials at St. Louis' John Cochran VA Hospital can expect some tough questions this morning, as Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt meets with them about allegations of inadequate mental health care.
Report: St. Louis VA Makes 'Vast Improvements'The report comes more than two years after sterilization concerns were first raised at the John Cochran VA Medical Center.


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The discovery of extensive termite damage under the subfloor at the Fort Hamilton library is delaying the reconstruction of the structure.
According to City Council-member Vincent Gentile, work at the branch, at 9424 Fourth Avenue, had been proceeding well until the discovery of the damage by the contractor. "I want to give you some good news and some bad news," Gentile told members of Community Board 10, gathered in the community room at Shore Hill, 9000 Shore Road, for their January meeting.
Among the work that has been completed is the foundation for the addition, Gentile said. Also, said Gentile, the contractor had completed shoring up the site and underpinning adjacent properties, as well as "90 percent of the footings and the foundation walls for the extension." But, he said, when the contractor had removed the subfloor, the damage to the floors had been discovered. To remedy the problem, Gentile went on, the contractor has "proposed installing concrete slabs in the building's crawl space so it will prevent future termite damage."
At the moment, said Gentile, the contractor and the city's Department of Design and Construction (DDC), the agency overseeing the job, are in negotiation, because of the added cost of the repair work. The delay in renovations caused by this, he noted, will "extend the time of completion." In the meantime, however, Gentile said, the contractor is engaged in "doing exterior work.
"They can't do any interior work till they complete the negotiations," he stressed.
The library closed March 29, 2008, for what was expected to be an 18-month-long project. The $3.36 million library renovation, for which Gentile had secured the funds, will result in a 50 percent larger library.
Overall, the rehabilitation of the century-old library, which is one of the borough's 18 original Carnegie libraries, strives to increase usable space in the branch while restoring the elegant beauty of the classical revival style structure.
An extension to the original structure at the rear and side will include a new meeting room, and will add 1,700 square feet in usable space to the structure, which will go from 3,300 square feet to 5,000 square feet.
Also included in the plans is the creation of a First Five Years area for young children and their caregivers, the installation of 18 computers with Internet access for public use, and new restrooms that are ADA compliant. New lighting, a new ceiling, new flooring, new bookshelves, new windows, upgraded electrical and plumbing systems, and new heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems are also part of the project.
While the library is closed, residents who use the branch must rely on Bookmobile service on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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Not to mix metaphors, but as I read it, that National Labor Relations Board ruling that footballers at Northwestern are actually employees of the university and thus can form a union looks like a slamdunk.
When you're paid $7 million to run a football program -- and when college football generates the billions of dollars in revenue it does -- you're no longer a coach. You're a CEO.
Sitting in the middle of March Madness it is easy to forget that this annual orgy of basketball and money is a relatively new phenomenon.
Gluten is the clear top seed, but Warm Champagne and Spotty Wi-Fi are ready to make deeps runs in the tournament.
What do you call a TV ad about Burger King, the NCAA, and a former college basketball player? I call it a glimpse into the messy world of college sports and big business. And that's exactly what's on display this month during March Madness.
This is a terrific time of year for fans of college sports as March Madness takes center stage. But big money, national fame and institutional pride too often overwhelm the best intentions of educators.
Her 2013 cross country season was obviously over. Luckily, her career was saved just in the nick of time. Now with the right diagnosis she could get healthy.
There are 351 Division I schools with men's and women's basketball teams, yet there are only 30 NBA teams and 12 WNBA teams. There are 120 Division I ...
The popular dialogue surrounding college sports too often gets around to this single, gross generalization: Athletes are not capable of the same academic achievement as their non-athlete counterparts.
She heard the words "no," "impossible," and "never" more times than most, but she believed that with the help of others, she could make a difference, and she was right.
I for one would be excited to welcome Michael Sam to my team if I were coaching in the NFL, not because he would be the first openly gay football player in the NFL, but because he is the epitome of mental toughness.
For decades, college football players absorbed some pretty cheap shots from their schools and the NCAA.
In a player-centered attempt to organize, Northwestern football players have done what the college sport system and American higher education have failed to do over the span of more than a hundred years.
When the media discusses college sports, it seems to focus much of the attention on NCAA Division I athletics. Quite often, too little attention is paid to the important role of Division III athletics at campuses all over the country.
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