Two Updates

Follow-up to "Welcome RNC!"

As you know, the RNC chose Tampa to host its convention.  Tampa, not unaware of the fringe elements of the Gimme Party that follow Republicans around the country with their hands out, has actually held a lottery to determine which group of malcontents may express its discontent in which park.

Using a borrowed Bingo numbers machine, city attorneys chose ping pong balls, each numbered to identify a specific group, to assign groups to parks.  The winners then have until June 29 to accept or reject their assignment.  My guess is that most will be rejected just because the malcontents making the requests will, by nature, not be contented with the results.

The choice site has gone to the proletarian icon Service Employees International Union.  The group which has no other apparent purpose than to frustrate the attempt of Republicans to participate in the democratic process, the Coalition to March on the RNC, one of two runners-up for this particular park, has promised to bring 5,000 people to downtown Tampa.

Planned Parenthood, pro-abortionists who believe Republicans have declared war on women, and the March Against Voter Suppression, made up of those who realize the only way the Gimme Party is going to win in Novemenber is to allow illegal immigrants and dead folks to vote, are among others in the lottery mix.

I know, and so do you, that there is no way these groups are going to remain in their assigned parks.  Their whole purpose is to disrupt the RNC as much as possible, and they will take to the streets to do it.  Much of their strategy will no doubt involve provoking the police into deploying riot control tactics so that their confrontations will be broadcast and reported as proof that Republicans are fascists.

While the media are drooling in anticipation of the RNC, they will have to be awakened from their ennui to cover the DNC.  The DNC is not likely to have any similar fodder for them, since all the malcontents are their own constituents.

Follow-up to "Stop This Madness NOW!"

David Belniak, who in a drug-induced stupor killed three people when he drove his pickup truck into a vehicle stopped at a red light, testified to the pain he suffered as a result.  As proof of his pain, he pointed to a small, faded scar on his left elbow.

"That scar is permanent," said his lawyer, who is also his sister.  "I would request Mr Belniak be allowed to publish that scar to the jury."

The judge allowed it.  Belniak had to shuffle over to the jury in his shackles because the scar could not be seen from his court bench.

Belniak's sister has also filed a suit against the FHP, whose investigation she claims was a "government-sanctioned assassination against one individual."  She discounts eyewitness accounts because they "were not taken at the scene, but were taken after the witnesses were contaminated and after being exposed to the massive negative media coverage against Belniak."

The jury found that Belniak was the only one at fault in the crash and awarded $14 million to family members, including $4.5 million to each of the three sisters whose parents were killed.

Ever wonder why lawyers are ranked somewhere near the bottom of the food chain with used car salespersons and telemarketers?  Belniak suffered minor injuries and was released from the hospital the day after the crash, yet his sister wants his victims' estates to pay for his pain, suffering, mental anguish and hospital bills.  She also wants the FHP to pay for doing its job, because its findings did not support her case.

This is why I could never be a judge.  Not only would I have tossed Belniak's lawsuit immediately upon its filing, I would also have tossed his layer out of my courtroom and told her if she ever set foot in it again I would jail her for contempt.

And that's my ruling.