JUNE 8, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
June 8 is … Name Your Poison Day
Katie Couric's contract with CBS expired on Monday, and she's widely expected to announce that she's signing a deal with ABC to host a syndicated daytime talk show. 'The New York Times' reports that both NBC and CBS held unsuccessful talks with Couric, who remains a hot property despite disappointing ratings during her tenure at 'The CBS Evening News.'
She did, in fact, sign a contract with ABC on Monday to host a day-time talk show. She is taking a time slot currently filled by a soap opera. Couric is another Oprah wannabee that will crash and burn.
The United States Supreme Court is showing its conservative and American side. Thank you. It is about time. The Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court on Monday to take a new look at a Pennsylvania city's crackdown on illegal immigrants in light of the high court's recent decision upholding an Arizona employer-sanctions law.
The high court threw out a ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented the city of Hazleton from enforcing regulations that would deny permits to business that hire illegal immigrants and fine landlords who rent to them. The measures inspired similar laws around the country, including the one in Arizona that deals only with penalties for employers.
The justices typically order lower courts to re-examine cases in light of a high court decision on a similar topic. The Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit ruled in September that Hazleton's Illegal Immigration Relief Act usurped the federal government's exclusive power to regulate immigration.
"It is ... not our job to sit in judgment of whether state and local frustration about federal immigration policy is warranted," wrote Chief Judge Theodore McKee. "We are, however, required to intervene when states and localities directly undermine the federal objectives embodied in statutes enacted by Congress."
The Supremes are having a comeback tour.
In more proof governments cannot be trusted, no matter what government or what level of government, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's injuries from a rocket attack on his palace at the weekend were more serious than previously reported, a Yemeni official said, raising further questions about his ability to continue to rule. I doubt he will ever retake power if for no other reason than the vice president who took over has been waiting eleven years and he isn’t giving the power back now. He doesn’t have eleven more years to wait.
Saleh was initially said to have received a single shrapnel wound, and his vice president was quoted on Monday as saying the president would return to Yemen within days from Saudi Arabia where he is being treated. The Yemeni official reiterated comments by a U.S. official, saying Saleh was in a more serious condition with burns over roughly 40 percent of his body. Britain called on Tuesday for an orderly transition of power from Saleh. In the capital Sanaa, thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Yemeni vice president's residence on Tuesday, demanding the acting leader for wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh form a transitional council to create a new government. This is similar to the disinformation our government sponsors continually and like the Japanese government’s initial lies about the earthquake caused nuclear generator problems.
Even the women in the Middle East got balls. Lawyers for Moammar Gadhafi's daughter have filed lawsuits in Paris and Brussels over the alleged assassination in late April of four of the Libyan leader's relatives in NATO bombing raids over Tripoli. Attorneys for Aisha al-Gadhafi say the complaints do not name a specific defendant, though an official at the state prosecutor's office in Brussels told The Associated Press that the text appears to target the Atlantic military alliance – which is based in the Belgian capital. State prosecutors said Tuesday that officials are assessing whether the case can be admitted. NATO aircraft have been leading bombing raids over Libya under a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at protecting civilians from Gadhafi's forces. If we were good enough to have killed them all, no one would be around to file a lawsuit.
A Latino gang conspired to rid a Southern California city of its black residents through intimidation, threats and violence dating back to the early 1990s to exert its influence and show its loyalty to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. More than 50 people were charged as authorities made early morning raids targeting the Azusa 13 gang. Federal prosecutors said the gang engaged in a host of crimes ranging from drug trafficking to hate crimes that have hobbled Azusa, a city of about 45,000 residents near Los Angeles.
"We hope that this federal case will signal the end of this racist behavior and will help vindicate all of the victims who have suffered over the years," U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said. Sixteen of the people named in the indictment were arrested Tuesday, while another 23 were already in custody, U.S. attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek said. Authorities were seeking another 12 suspects.
At least they are doing something about the gangs. Let it go for two years. Watch the gang on gang violence and arrest the winners. End of problem. I’ll give them the first $50.00 for bullets.
As expected, the women Weiner was cyber-stalking are coming out of the woodwork looking for their fifteen minutes and payday. The first woman, the 20 year-old from Washington State at first said she knew where the photos and messages were coming from and they were not from Weiner. I wonder how much she got to join in the initial cover-up? They were from Weiner. He said he had been doing this for around three years which means he has been doing it much longer. That means the 20 year-old was, at most, 17 when Weiner began his relationship with her. Isn’t there a law about this sort of stuff, meeting minors on the internet or social sites for the purpose of sexual gratification?
Rumors will surface soon that Weiner is gay, and I don’t mean happy.
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
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