Sunday, December 9, 2007, 02:44 PM - Stupid Criminals
I had a totally hillarious defendant at Pretrial last week. This dude was about 25 but he already had over 30 arrests on his RAP sheet, and they were all for petty thefts and trespassing. When I got to the part of the interview where I asked about his employment history, he proudly exclaimed "I steal for a living!" Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Yeah, a thief who was actually honest about his vocation. Who would have guessed? He also said he enjoyed Christmas because there were "so many shops, but so little time". Heh heh.
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( 3 / 1792 )Friday, November 16, 2007, 07:03 PM
As you all know, I'm no big fan of Doug's sister. However, I did feel bad for her when she got diagnosed with breast cancer and lung cancer. Her doctors were able to surgically remove the breast cancer, but she's had to go through four months of chemotherapy for the lung cancer. Well, I found out last night that her treatment seems to be pretty successful so far. The lung tumors have pistol a lot. Her doctors think that only one more month of chemo might be necessary to finish destroying the cancer. So. . . She's not out of the woods yet, but there is certainly reason to be hopeful that she can make a full recovery.
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( 3 / 1192 )Sunday, November 11, 2007, 06:50 PM
The rector at my church has the longest, most boring sermons of any priest I've met. She drones on for half an hour and it's nearly impossible to stay awake.
We haven't had much luch with Priests. The previous rector actually wrote worse sermons, but they were shorter. Then we once had an associate rectore who didn't believe in the Trinity, so her sermons were both bogus and heretical.
I'd love to hear a good, concise, meaningful sermon
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( 3 / 1017 )Saturday, November 10, 2007, 06:14 PM
Our esteemed governor, Martin O'Malley, didn't waste much time putting through one of the biggest tax hikes in Maryland history. He's going to raise the sales tax, gas tax, and income tax while at he same time offering a special tax cut for the most wealthy citizens of Maryland. Gee, you'd think he was a Republican!
Call me crazy, but where are the citizens supposed to get all this money from for paying new taxes? Nationwide, wages have stagnated since we got saddled with the Stupid Fake Cowboy (aka George W. Bush). And on top of that, the price of food, fuel, energy, and health care have all increased by triple-digit percentages since 2000 (again, the result of this nation being mismanaged by he Stupid Fake Cowbow). I just don't get it!
How's this for an idea: tax the heck out of gas-guzzling SUVs. Anyone who can afford a $75,000 Hummer H2 and the $200 fillups can afford to pay $2,000-$5,000 per year as an "environmental impact tax". At least that would tax the people who can actually pay it! As it is now, there are probably plenty of people for whom an additional $100/month is new taxes will simply be unaffordable.
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( 3.1 / 1035 )Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 06:42 AM
Bush really is the most incompetent president that I've been alive to see. He's actually worse than Carter, and I didn't think that was possible. Bush's latest screw-up has been evidenced by him single-handedly causing Middle East oil instability by threatening to invade Iran.
:: Sigh ::
We've got the best and bravest military in the world, but with Ush in the driver's seat, they can only lose. It's like making a movie with really good actors but being saddled with an incompetent director.
So... I have to wonder: why DOES Bush hate the middle class in America so much? Under his "leadership", we've been saddled with triple-digit increases in energy costs, food prices, and health care premiums. Our real income has increased by less than one percent over 7 years while the cost of living has gone through the ceiling. A huge number of high-paying jobs have gone overseas. Student loans are much harder to recieve and pay back. There has not been one single bill that Bush has signed that helps out the middle class. But every bill he's signed has benefitted the mega-corporations and the wealthy.
We really need someone else for president
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( 3 / 967 )Sunday, November 4, 2007, 03:24 PM
My brother got the hospital bill for the near-fatal car wreck he was in. It came to $11,000. He works for a "big box" super store that doesn't offer insurance for the first year of employment. I doubt he will ever be able to repay what he owes. [ 1 comment ] ( 6 views ) | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 2.9 / 999 )Saturday, October 6, 2007, 03:59 PM
What really sucks is that I get a thing called a cluster headache every 2-3 years. It's like a migraine, but lasts every day for 30-45 days. After that, the headache goes away for another 2-3 years. The other thing that sucks is that the only medicine that makes the pain top is REALLY expensive ($21/tablet). The insurance covers a whopping nine tablets in a 30-day period. Tha just plain sucks.[ 8 comments ] ( 13 views ) | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 3 / 1187 )Saturday, September 29, 2007, 08:33 AM
It always cracks me up how junkies have the most distorted sense of economic priorities. For a normal person, financial obligations usually include rent, car payments, utilities, health insurance, and food. For the junkies, their top priorities include shooting heroin, smoking crack, buying Newport cigarettes, drinking cut-rate liquor, buying lottery tickets, and buying prepaid minutes for their piece-of-crap Boost Mobile phones. Junkies don't seem to have to pay rent, thanks to Section 8 housing. Their health care is covered by welfare. The Independence Card pays for their groceries, and the State still gives them about $600-$800 in free money from the taxpayers. Of course, half the time they sell their free groceries for more heroin money, which is why most of the junkies look like dried-up toothless scarecrows.
It's too bad that heroin isn't fatal after the 20th dose. That way the junkies wouldn't be around long enough to be a real drain on society.
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( 3 / 1163 )Thursday, September 6, 2007, 03:18 PM - Stupid Criminals
The deadbeat defendants can always be counted on to have a wallet full of crap when asked for an ID and paystub. The junkie bums never have a dollar to their name while the drug dealers usually have thousands of dollars in cash. Either way, you'll always see the following junk:
- Lottery tickets: despite being on welfare, the defendants usually have at least $10 worth of losing lotto scratch-offs.
- Welfare card: The "Independence" card makes sure our taxes buy groceries for junkie thugs.
- Wadded up paper full of phone numbers: For contacting their drug dealers.
- Used prepaid card: the junkies always need to be well connected with their thug-drug-homies and their collection of "bitches an' hoes".
- Expired/Revoked Driving License: It never shows the correct address, is usually expired, and is almost always suspended or revoked.
- Bus pass: for some reason, Baltimore City gives out discount mass transit passes to unemployed junkies on welfare.
But you'll never find a pay stub, library card, or college ID.
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( 3 / 1871 )Saturday, September 1, 2007, 09:12 AM
If I could design a prison, I'd make one that was a heck of a lot less sociable than the ones we have today. First, I would have the jails be built into the ground so that only the intake and processing stages were at ground level. Second, I'd have every prisoner be in solitary confinement for the duration of his or her term.
To economize on space, I'd have three sized of cells: 9x9x9, 8x8x8, znd 7x7x7. Prisoners with good behavior records would get promoted to the larger cells while those with bad behavior would get demoted to a smaller cell. All prisoners at Intake would be initially assigned a medium-sized cell.
because all of the cells would be solitary confinement, there would be less chance of homosexual rape, drug dealing, or gang recruitment. Indeed, prisoners would have the opportunity to interact with each other just one hour per day for exercise. Since the prison would be built underground, the normal day/night cycles could be ignored, so the excercise hour could occur any time. There would be no clocks or calenders permitted in inmate cells.
the lighting systems in inmate cells would remain on at alll times. There would be no television or other entertainment, however. During the other 23 hours of the day, the prisoner could contemplate the reasons why he/she is incarcerated.
Meals would be delivered to the prisoners via a slot at the bottom of the door. The food would consist of choices that would not require eating utensils such as knives and forks. The food would have to satisfy nutritional requirements, but be chosen to have as low a sensory experience as possible.
Only standard-issue prison clothing would be permitted. These would consist of grey jumpsuits that would have no pockets, snaps, or any other additions that could hide weapons or be dismantled in order to use a weapon.
Finally, suicide should be an option for prisoners with long terms. they could simply be given a cyande capsule under a doctor's supervision. The body could then be cremated on premisis.
Finally, the parents of inmates (if living and locatable) would share a financial responsibility for raising their children to be criminals. They would be legally mandated to pay 10% of the cost of incarceratioon. If the parents are on welfare, then the monies would be dedducted from their welfare check. If the parents are aut
I believe the combination of small cells, limited social interaction, and sensory deprivation would make prison such an unpleasant experience that young criminals would strive hard to avoid re-arrest following their release.
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