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Posted on 02/28/2010 10:16:11 PM PST by JustAmy
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They do rule. Beautiful white cat. His eyes remind me of that afternoon nap feeling I get in the afternoons..
Thats precious!
lonestar, you need a little doxie like that one. Isn’t he/she sweet?
The Boss
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Yes, I wish I had a puppy weinie...maybe after my mother turns into an angel.
There is a chocolate Lab down the street who comes to visit several times a day. When it heard Lab, it thought they said lap dog. It's really sweet...I love Labs, too. but I prefer to have small dogs.
I’m becoming more convinced every day that the left has been engaging in political drama for the past year in an attempt to provoke the Right to insurrection. However, it appears that the Left’s core is more susceptible to the political drama neutrinos than the Right’s core is. It appears that the Left’s core has heated up and has now become molten. They appear to be experiencing progressive crust displacement as illustrated by the number of liberal kooks who have gone off their rockers in recent months and the gaping fissures that are appearing in the Washington plate.
My guess is that that many of them haven’t gotten enough ‘under the table’ pay-offs, or kick-backs or promises of gold and opulance...... The longer they hold out, the more bennies will be slipped to them.
You are so right about the ‘number who have gone off their rockers’. Inner conscience, perhaps?
The Boss
Well Ms yorkie, we haven’t even discussed the intrusive 2010 census and the forms are due to arrive in our mail boxes any day now. I’ve decided that I’ll answer any question on the 2010 census as long as that question also appeared on the 1850 census except the number of slaves that I own.
Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.
Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.
Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say. His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his 'allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,' defiantly stating, 'I think I will not apologize for my actions,' and told the court 'I am at war with your country.'
Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:
January 30, 2003, United States vs. Reid.
Judge Young: 'Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.
On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutively. (That's 80 years.)
On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years again, to be served consecutively to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 that's an aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $29817 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.
The Court imposes upon you an $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further.
This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.
Now, let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.
You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not----- you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.
So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You're no warrior. I've known warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and the TV crews were, and he said: 'You're no big deal.'
You are no big deal.
What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?
I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing? And, I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.
It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom, so that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, will go on in their representation of you before other judges.
We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. The day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.
Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America , the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.
See that flag, Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America . That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will.
Mr. Custody Officer Stand him down.
So, how much of this Judge's comments did we hear on our TV sets? We need more judges like Judge Young. Pass this around. Everyone should and needs to hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home.
Please pass this on----so that everyone has a chance to read it.
Afternoon...feeling under the weather...seems I’ve caught a old fashion cold. Overcast and damp in Memphis for the entire weekend.....have any photos of cute puppies????????????
We shall see the King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uL67GXXyoQ&feature=related
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
That was so good! Thanks for posting it!
I guess they’ll put me in jail - because the only thing they have any right to know is #9 = “How many people live in your household?”
Anything else, from what I have read, is unconstitutional. Now, I could be wrong - and in that case - I’ll have to pay the penalty.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Very, very, cute!
Well, before 1850 they just asked for numbers and age brackets and free or slave. But, it’s hard to track your ancestors before 1850 so I don’t mind giving my name, age and state where I was born as that will help genealogy researchers a hundred years from now.
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