Articles Posted by AnOldCowhand
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Alarmed that a professional golf association proposed to exclude competitors who don’t speak English, the state Senate acted today to prohibit businesses in California from discriminating against customers, including refusing them service, based on the language they use.(snip) State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) said the policy raised an issue that required changes to state civil rights laws that already protect employees from discrimination based on language.(snip) SB 242, which now goes to the Assembly, was approved on a 21-15 vote, with Republican lawmakers opposed based on concern it would open businesses up to a rash of civil rights lawsuits...
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The state Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow child-abuse victims to testify on a closed-circuit TV outside the presence of a defendant. State Sen. Abel Maldonado authored the bill -- dubbed Cole's Law -- after a local molestation charge was dropped because a 4-year-old San Luis Obispo County boy was too scared to testify in front of the female defendant. "I've always said early on I want to help the voiceless and vulnerable," said Maldonado, R-Santa Maria. "This young individual, who is now 8 years old, inspired me to move this bill forward." In...
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BATES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A man cooking in his kitchen was shot after one of his cats knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor, discharging the weapon, Michigan State Police said. Joseph Stanton, 29, of Bates Township in Iron County, was shot in his lower torso around 6 p.m. Tuesday, the state police post in Iron River reported. He was transported to Iron County Community Hospital. Michelle Sand, a spokeswoman at the Iron River hospital, said Stanton was treated there before being transferred to Marquette General Hospital for further treatment. But Marcie Miller, a representative of the Marquette facility,...
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The two boys arrested after the slaying of an elderly San Luis Obispo man this week have fathers who are convicted felons and mothers who struggled with little money to raise them. Both dads have been in and out of County Jail and state prison for the past 15 years, according to court records. They also repeatedly failed to pay child support after the divorces, records showed -- forcing one of the mothers to go on welfare. The 13-year-old boy accused of using a skateboard to bludgeon to death 87-year-old Gerald "Jerry" O'Malley has been charged with four felonies: murder,...
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From the time Tilly Merrell was a year old, doctors told her family she would never have a normal life -- or even a normal meal. British doctors found that the food she swallowed went into her lungs instead of her stomach, causing devastating lung infections. They said she had isolated bulbar palsy, and their solution was to feed her through a stomach tube. Forever. But having a backpack with a food pump wired to her stomach wasn't much of a life for a girl whose favorite smell is bacon frying -- a girl who once broke through a locked...
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.....Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Lakewood, called herself the "proud daughter of immigrants" and said she was "angered and outraged" by the bill. "Republicans are using national security as a facade to alienate law-abiding and taxpaying immigrants. What we should be doing is allowing these immigrants a path to citizenship," she said.......
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I have seen (received) complaints here because we talk at each other but don't do anything. Well, here's your chance everybody. Mr. Newdow states his case and INVITES COMMENTS. Be respectful, informed and literate....Let's keep the high ground, Just because he is a horse's rear doesn't mean we have to tell him so.
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Report Says Homosexual DOJ Lawyers Complicit in Arrest of Christians Posted by Nathan Tabor on 2005/1/6 13:24:17 A source from the U.S. Justice Department reported to WorldNetDaily that homosexual attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division attended a homosexual event called “OutFest” in Philadelphia last October and advised police who arrested 11 Christians at the event. After a judge saw video footage of four of the Christians quoting Bible verses, they were bound over for trial and now face up to 47 years in prison. They were charged with three felony (criminal conspiracy, ethnic intimidation, and riot) and...
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