Posted on 08/22/2006 9:32:50 PM PDT by doug from upland
Edited on 08/22/2006 9:37:14 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Writing the history of our time in song
How arrogant does this woman look?
Sit back my friends and I'll tell a tale...about a crooked judge
She helped funding the ACLU...with a wink and nudge
Carter appointee, no big surprise...as leftist as can be
Creating law that had not been there that no one could see...that no one could see
The plaintiff she'd given money to appeared there in her court
It really had been a brilliant scheme that nobody could thwart...a scheme no one could thwart
She stuck it big to the NSA, there's cheering far and wide
From Democrats and Hezbollah...al Qaeda, too, and Hamas
The MSM had headlines that were the same: JUDGE HAD SHOWN GRAVITAS
"Carter appointee," perhaps?
I try so hard to catch those things but lately have been missing a lot.
Appreciate the time and effort on the songs and the entertainment they provide. Thanks.
Has lots of experience with an ex-husband (Charles Diggs D-MI) convicted of something like 37 counts of corruption.
Thanks for the remarks. I hope people learn from them as I learn from the research to write them.
I have and I am sure others are too. You are providing a worthwhile service with each song. Keep em coming, so we can learn something and get a chuckle or two.
(I haven't seen a reference yet about the marriage. I'll keep looking.)
Charles Diggs, Former Michigan Congressman, Dies At Age 75
DETROIT (AP) -- Former Rep. Charles Diggs Jr., who served 26 years in Congress before he was censured by the House in 1980 and resigned after being convicted of operating a kickback scheme, died Monday night. He was 75.
Diggs, a Democrat who represented Detroit, died of a stroke at a Washington, D.C., hospital, said his son, Douglass Diggs of Detroit.
He was elected to Congress in 1954 and became a leading black spokesman in the House. He was convicted in 1978 of operating a payroll kickback scheme in his congressional office but was subsequently re-elected. He resigned in 1980.
Diggs served seven months of a three-year prison term.
He claimed he was a victim of selective prosecution and double standards. It was a position he maintained throughout a trial that produced guilty verdicts on all 29 counts, a lengthy congressional inquiry and ensuing years of financial and legal trouble.
Diggs, who went on to run a funeral home in Maryland, was born into a politically active Detroit family. His father, Charles Diggs Sr., was a wealthy funeral home director and real estate investor and the first man in town to sell blacks coffins made of material other than wood.
The younger Diggs entered the family business and was elected a Michigan legislator in 1950.
Four years later, he won the first of 13 terms in Congress, where his influence grew as he gained seniority.
He was involved in Michigan reapportionment negotiations that followed the 1960 census. After the state's House boundaries were realigned, Michigan became the first state since Reconstruction with two black congressmen.
He founded the Congressional Black Caucus and chaired the House subcommittee on Africa and the committee that oversees the District of Columbia.
Yep, I had missed it ---
Administration supporters almost immediately began raising questions about the political views of the federal judge who made the ruling. Taylor, a Carter appointee, was once married to the late ex-Congressman Charles Diggs, a Michigan Democrat, who after their divorce was convicted in 1978 and served time in prison in a kickback scheme involving the payroll of his congressional office.
Great, now we can blame this activist judge for marrying the idiot that formed the CBC. Isn't that just nice.
I swear, Jimmy Cawtaw is either the most ignorant president we've ever had or a sworn enemy of the U.S.
THANKS, Doug. Good job!
I think I would change crooked to biased or conflicted judge. Crooked judge generally means too money from a party before the court to insure a particular decision. Bias or conflicted would be a judge acting in their own interest and not being fair or unbiased.
5.56mm
Too many hits on the midi site. They pulled it. LOL
Here is one of my secret weapons --- http://www.manythings.org/midi/search.html Use that to find any MIDI you wish.
I take your point.
(That, or I'm going to bite you in the neck)
they are both big ACLU supporters, Ginsberg was some grand pubah in the ACLU
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