Sexy lawyer.

May 28, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

May 28 is … National Hamburger Day. You can pay for it Tuesday.

You gotta love a lawyer always thinking. A lawyer must “zealously represent his client within the bounds of the law.” I think this guy is doing just that. Be careful what you pray for, however, you might just get it. A Chicago lawyer is being accused of sexism after requesting that a "large breasted woman" seated at the opposing council's table be moved as to not distract the jury.

Attorney Thomas Gooch, who is representing a Rolling Meadows car dealership in a small claims case, filed a motion last week asking Cook County Circuit Judge Anita Rivkin-Carothers to order his opposing council's paralegal to sit in the gallery with other spectators, according to the Associated Press. Gooch claims that the woman sitting next to the plaintiff's lawyer has no legal experience and was placed there to "draw the attention of the jury away from the relevant proceedings."

MOTION IN LIMINE (Presence of Plaintiff's Counsel's Companion at Counsel's Table at Trial).

Now Comes your Defendant, Exotic Motors, by and through their attorneys, Gauthier & Gooch, and as for their Motion as aforesaid states to the Court as follows:

1. That Defendant's counsel is anecdotally familiar with the tactics and theatrics of Plaintiff's counsel, [redacted]. Such behavior includes having a large breasted woman sit next to him at counsel's table during the course of the trial. There is no evidence whatsoever that this woman has any legal training whatsoever, and the sole purpose of her presence at Plaintiff’s Counsel's table is to draw the attention of the jury away from the relevant proceedings before this court, obviously prejudicing the Defendant's in this or any other cause. Until it is shown that this woman has any sort of legal background, she should be required to sit in the gallery with the rest of the spectators and be barred from sitting at counsel's table during the course of this trial.

Dmitry N. Feofanov is representing a couple that purchased an automobile from Exotic Motors, and was told it was under warranty. When the vehicle broke "almost immediately" after purchase, the dealership allegedly would not repair it.

Feofanov told Jezebel the motion involving his paralegal, Daniella Atencia, was without merit: Plantiffs' paralegal is clearly qualified for the work she performs before and during trials, and there is no reason to believe that her appearance at Plaintiffs' table will have any detrimental effect on Defendants' presentation of its case to a jury; and b) Defendant's motion does not cite any existing law or make any good-faith legal argument for the proposition that a woman may be barred from a counsel's table at a jury trial because she is "large breasted." Gooch, who told the Chicago Sun Times that he likes "large breasts," does not believe that Atencia is a paralegal and apparently has a problem with the way she dresses in the courtroom. Several law blogs--and Jezebel--have a problem with Gooch's motion.

The Above the Law blog said his motion was "dripping" with sexism.

"Why does she have to provide you with evidence of legal training? Isn't sitting there silently what most counsel do during a trial? Based on this motion, I'm thinking you are the one who should need to provide some kind of proof of legal knowledge," Above the Law’s Elie Mystal wrote.

Jezebel called the motion the "strangest -- and possibly most sexist -- legal endeavors" they ever heard of. They have apparently been living in a cave or none of them ever go to Court as a lawyer.

Everybody is entitled to an opinion. The one that counts is the attorney’s client’s opinion. This also managed to get the auto dealer some free publicity. In the publicity game, you don’t care what they say just spell the name correctly.

The case goes to trial on June 2.

Just a couple of thoughts I had.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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Go to web sites below to buy books by Bruce A. Brennan. It is still a good time to purchase any of my books. The books are interesting and inexpensive reads. My third book should be available later this year, in late 2011. More information will be forthcoming.

www.ebookmall.com (Do search by my name or book Title)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ (do a quick search, Title, my name)

www.smashwords.com Do a Title or author search.

www.kobo.com

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Book Titles:

Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

"The earthly paradise is where I am." - Voltaire

The Bulls; What a pathetic ending.

May 27, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

May 27 is … Body Painting Arts Festival

The Chicago Bulls choked on national TV; before the nation and the home town fans. Derrick Rose has lost most of his petals. A Rose by any other name, like Pansy, would not have stunk as bad as he did. The Bulls are in a thorny position now. What do you do with this team?

Updating old news; Disney has withdrawn its Trademark Application for the term “Navy Seal Six” Last week the Navy filed a similar Trademark Application. Disney said in a press release they were withdrawing their application “out of respect for the Navy.” Disney did, however, request permission from the Navy to use the term for video games, movies and TV shows.

For some reason, this does not bother me. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature or screw with the United States of America. I hope they like Tequila in Iran. From a hillside, Kamal Saadat looked forlornly at hundreds of potential customers, knowing he could not take them for trips in his boat to enjoy a spring weekend on picturesque Oroumieh Lake, the third largest saltwater lake on earth.

"Look, the boat is stuck... It cannot move anymore," said Saadat, gesturing to where it lay encased by solidifying salt and lamenting that he could not understand why the lake was fading away. The long popular lake, home to migrating flamingos, pelicans and gulls, has shrunken by 60 percent and could disappear entirely in just a few years, experts say – drained by drought, misguided irrigation policies, development and the damming of rivers that feed it.

Until two years ago, Saadat supplemented his income from almond- and grape-growing by taking tourists on boat tours. But as the lake receded and its salinity rose, he found he had to stop the boat every 10 minutes to unfoul the propeller – and finally, he had to give up this second job that he'd used to support a five-member family. "The visitors were not enjoying such a boring trip," he said, noting they had to cross hundreds of meters of salty lakebed just to reach the boat from the wharf.

Other boatmen, too, have parked their vessels by their houses, where they stand as sad reminders of the deep-water days. And the lake's ebbing affects an ever-widening circle. In April, authorities stopped activities at the nearby jetty in Golmankhaneh harbor, due to lack of water in the lake, now only two meters deep at its deepest. Jetties in Sharafkhaneh and Eslami harbors faced the same fate.

The receding water has also weakened hotel business and tourism activities in the area, and planned hotel projects remain idle since investors are reluctant to continue. Beyond tourism, the salt-saturated lake threatens agriculture nearby in northwest Iran, as storms sometimes carry the salt far afield. Many farmers worry about the future of their lands, which for centuries have been famous for apples, grapes, walnuts, almonds, onions, potatoes, as well as aromatic herbal drinks, candies and tasty sweet pastes. I guess they will have to start making jerky or potato chips. There is a story in the Bible about people disobeying God turning to salt. Lot’s wife looked where she was told not to and turned into a pillar of salt.

For some reason, this does bother me. Hitler, after turning half a race into monsters moved on to the world of dogs. Hitler may be on the short list of despicable dictators most undeserving of a dog's unconditional love, but that didn't stop him from trying to talk them.

According to a new book titled "Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities," Nazi specialists attempted -- apparently with some success -- to train a fleet of "intelligent" dogs to read, write and speak.

The research comes from Cardiff University associate professor Dr. Jan Bonderson, who found that the Nazis collected pups from across Germany and put them through intense training during the 1930s at the Tier-Sprechschule ASRA (School for Dog-Human Communication) in the town of Leutenberg.

"The Nazis were sentimental enthusiasts who were really fond of animals and liked the idea that dogs were intelligent and could communicate with people," Bondeson told AOL Weird news. Under trainer Margarethe Schmitt's direction, the institute trained dogs such as Rolf the Airedale terrier, which was said to be able to discuss religion, contemplate complex mathematics and communicate with humans by tapping out an alphabet code using his paw. Another dog, Kurwenal, supposedly cracked jokes like a comedian and was a symbol of the educated canines of Germany.

But Hitler's presumable pick of the litter was a pooch named Don, who apparently barked  “Mein Fuhrer” when asked who Adolf Hitler was.

Just a couple of thoughts I had.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

COPYRIGHT 2011

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Go to web sites below to buy books by Bruce A. Brennan. It is still a good time to purchase any of my books. The books are interesting and inexpensive reads. My third book should be available later this year, in late 2011. More information will be forthcoming.

www.ebookmall.com (Do search by my name or book Title)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ (do a quick search, Title, my name)

www.smashwords.com Do a Title or author search.

www.kobo.com

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Book Titles:

Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before." - Johann Wolfgang von Goe

It is an Oprah free zone!

Col. Elmer Ellsworth, Justice Kennedy and one of the Kennedy family nuts.

May 25, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

May 25 is … National Tap Dance Day

The Bulls are not officially eliminated but their chances of advancement are minimal at best. It appears the big three were worth it after all.

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,

in five years there'd be a shortage of sand."    

Milton Friedman.

I am a day late on this item. The brief story was sent to me by my brother, a Lincoln Scholar. May 24, 2011 is the sesquicentennial of the death of Union Colonel Elmer Ellsworth.  Ellsworth was the first notable death and the first officer to die in the US Civil War.

Ellsworth was born in New York in 1837 and later lived in Rockford, Illinois and Chicago.  He moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1860 where he clerked in the Lincoln-Herndon law office and served as an aide to Lincoln during the fall campaign for the presidency.  Lincoln became very fond of Ellsworth who traveled with the Lincolns to Washington in February 1861 aboard the presidential train.  With Robert Lincoln away at Harvard, Ellsworth became like an older brother to the two younger Lincoln boys, even contracting measles from them.

Ellsworth studied military sciences during his spare time and had helped train militia units in Rockford (the Rockford Greys), Milwaukee and Madison.  Later in Chicago he helped drill National Guard cadets.  Ellsworth had admired the French Zouave soldiers and modeled his troops after them.

When the Civil War broke out, Lincoln called for 75,000 troops and Ellsworth helped recruit.  He traveled to his home state of New York and raised the 11^th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, made up of New York firemen.  Returning to Washington on April 29, 1861, Ellsworth paraded his disciplined troops up Pennsylvania Avenue.  The unit was outfitted in colorful Zouave-style uniforms and they became a nationally known drill team.

After Virginia seceded from the Union, a large Confederate flag mounted on top of the Marshall House hotel across the river in Alexandria was visible from the White House.  Ellsworth led the 11^th New York across the Potomac uncontested and secured the local telegraph office to prevent communication to the South. Ellsworth himself went to the top of the hotel and took down the Confederate flag.  As he was coming back down the stairs, he was met by the hotel proprietor who shot and killed him instantly with a shotgun blast to the chest.   Cpl. F.E. Brownell immediately killed the hotel keeper.  Brownell became known as “Ellsworth’s Avenger.”

Ellsworth’s death became national news and he was mourned across the North.  Lincoln ordered Ellsworth’s body lay in state in the East Room of the White House.  Just at the moment Lincoln was told the news of Ellsworth’s death, two visitors entered the room.  Lincoln, stunned and grieved, turned to the visitors, extended his hand, and said “Excuse me, but I cannot talk.”  On the day before Ellsworth’s funeral, Lincoln, consumed in grief, wrote to his parents, “In the untimely loss of your noble son, our affliction here is scarcely less than your own . . . In hope that it may be no intrusion upon the sacredness of your sorrow, I have ventured to address this tribute to your brave and early fallen child.  May God give you that consolation which is beyond all earthly power.”

Throughout the North, Ellsworth became known as a symbol of courageous young men willing to sacrifice their lives for the Union.  “Remember Ellsworth” became a patriotic slogan.  In death, Ellsworth became a hero and relics associated with his death became souvenirs.

Speaking of tap dancing, a Kennedy thinks we need to show sympathy for Gabby Gifford’s shooter as much as we show for Gifford. He apparently does not understand Gifford was innocent while the shooter made a decision to shoot and kill people. In an interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) argued that Jared Loughner deserves sympathy for his apparent mental problems. Loughner is the 22-year-old man charged in the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson, Ariz. that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) with a traumatic brain injury.

"It's an irony," Kennedy told Gupta, "but we think no stigma towards Gabby and her brain injury, but [Loughner] has a brain injury as well, because clearly his brain was not working properly when he picked up that gun and shot all those people."

"We failed as a society," he added, "because every time we see someone who's -- and we use the pejorative words -- 'crazy,' 'psycho,' 'nuts,' we look the other way."

The interview focused on Kennedy's own battles with depression and substance abuse, his campaign to destigmatize chemical dependency and mental illness; and on his ambitious mission, inspired by his struggles, to ramp up funding for brain research. Kennedy made his first trip to rehab in 1985, for cocaine abuse, when he was a 17-year-old high school senior in Andover, Mass. Around that time he also received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, although he now says he suffers from a different, unspecified mental disorder.

In 1995 Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and held the seat until 2011. During that time, several incidents signaled his continuing struggle: he was caught shoving a security guard at Los Angeles International Airport and got in a fight on a yacht that attracted the attention of the Coast Guard. In May 2006 he crashed a green Mustang convertible into a concrete barrier just blocks from the U.S. Capitol shortly after 2:30 a.m. Blaming the crash on sleeping pills, he announced that he would seek rehabilitation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota

Two months before his father's death from brain cancer, Patrick Kennedy checked into rehab again; the stress of his father's illness had renewed his depression and substance dependency. The elder Kennedy died in August 2009. Six months later, Patrick Kennedy announced that he would not seek reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives. He left office in January 2011, having spent more than half his life in public office.

This guy is a nut and not in touch with reality or the average American. Because of liberals like the Kennedys, criminals are not put to death but are coddled and told it is not their fault because dad drank too much and mom did not hug you enough. Give me a break.

Pat Kennedy needs a drink and a reality check.

Speaking of liberals, the Supreme Court entered another decision that amounts to an unfunded mandate on States. The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California's cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.

The court said in a 5-4 decision that the reduction is "required by the Constitution" to correct longstanding violations of inmates' rights. The order mandates a prison population of no more than 110,000 inmates, still far above the system's designed capacity. There were more than 143,000 inmates in the state's 33 adult prisons as of May 11, meaning roughly 33,000 inmates will need to be transferred to other jurisdictions or released.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, a California native, wrote the majority opinion, in which he included photos of severe overcrowding. The court's four Democratic appointees joined with Kennedy. "The violations have persisted for years. They remain uncorrected," Kennedy said. The lawsuit challenging the provision of mental health care was filed in 1990.

Justice Antonin Scalia said in dissent that the court order is "perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation's history." Scalia, reading his dissent aloud Monday, said it would require the release of "the staggering number of 46,000 convicted felons." Scalia's number, cited in legal filings, comes from a period in which the prison population was even higher.

Justice Clarence Thomas joined Scalia's opinion, while Justice Samuel Alito wrote a separate dissent for himself and Chief Justice John Roberts.

The Supreme Court is once again making law from the bench without any concern for reality and the money needed to implement its decision. He Supreme Court does not a member that was elected nationally or even locally. All of the Supremes making this decision are Democrats.

Just a couple of thoughts I had.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

COPYRIGHT 2011

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Go to web sites below to buy books by Bruce A. Brennan. It is still a good time to purchase any of my books. The books are interesting and inexpensive reads. My third book should be available later this year, in late 2011. More information will be forthcoming.

www.ebookmall.com (Do search by my name or book Title)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ (do a quick search, Title, my name)

www.smashwords.com Do a Title or author search.

www.kobo.com

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Book Titles:

Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

"It is the weakness and danger of republics that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in their legislation." - Helen Hunt Jackson

Oscar, Oprah and Obama!

May 24, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

May 24 is … National Escargot Day, it could be a slow day.

It appears Oprah is moving at a snail’s pace. Her last show was to be recorded Monday but at 7:00 a. m. it was switched to Tuesday. Doesn’t it seem like Oprah has been doing her last show for over a year? Do the show, broadcast it and go to California. I, for one, will not miss you. This celebration of Oprah retiring has consumed half of her career. Get over yourself, already.

President Obama is in Ireland, a bastion for African-Irish citizens. He is visiting a small town where his great-great grandfather allegedly lived. I assume this was on his mother’s side. Why are we paying for this vacation? He has a few bucks, he could afford to pay for this trip himself. Hopefully he will be free in late January of 2013 to vacation all he and the Mrs. Want to. Shouldn’t our President be in this country showing concern and respect for the Joplin, Missouri tornado victims?

What a world we live in. A Salt Lake City woman has been charged with offering her 11-year-old daughter's virginity to a man in exchange for $10,000. The woman was charged Monday in Utah's 3rd District Court with two counts of aggravated sex abuse and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. KTVX Channel 4, of Salt Lake City, reports that court documents claim she made the offer after the man asked about oral sex with the girl.

Oscar De La Hoya is looking for the biggest knockout of his life. Addiction may be the toughest fight Oscar De La Hoya has seen -- the boxing legend is currently seeking help for substance abuse at a California rehab facility. "Stop finding excuses not to live," he tweeted. "Life is controlled by what you make of it and not of what it makes of you." De La Hoya reportedly entered the facility several weeks ago to battle his demons.

This story is reprinted from Aol Small Business, written by Tamara Schweitzer Raben. This is good news for authors like me.  Sales of electronic books for Amazon’s Kindle have now officially surpassed the sale of print books -- hardcover and paperback combined – the e-commerce site announced Thursday. To date in 2011, Amazon has sold more than three times as many Kindle books as it did during this same period last year, the company reported in a statement. Overall, Amazon is seeing the fastest year-over-year growth rate for book sales in all formats -- print and digital -- than it has in the past 10 years.

Amazon's first indication that e-book sales were taking off was in July 2010, when Kindle book sales surpassed hardcover book sales on the site, just shy of the 3-year mark of the Kindle's release.

According to a report released in late 2010 by Forrester Research, the e-book market is now a $1 billion industry, with sales expected to reach $2.81 billion by 2015. Small-business owners have had an opportunity to capture a slice of that market through Kindle's Direct Publishing program, which allows anyone to self-publish a book through the Amazon Kindle Store without requiring the backing of a publishing house.

The U.S. Kindle Store currently has more than 950,000 books for sale, and a search turns up more than 5,000 small-business titles. A good portion of the titles listed in the Kindle Store include the work of indie writers like 26-year-old Amanda Hocking, who began self-publishing her work on Amazon and is now one of the top-selling independent authors on Amazon. Hocking, who sells about 100,000 copies of her books a month, charges between 99 cents and $3, and through Amazon's royalty program, she brings in 70 percent of those sales.

If Arnold Schwarzenegger is divorced by Maria Shriver, it could cost the former governor and action-movie star millions. It is estimated that he could have to pay up to $200 million dollars for the privilege of not living with Maria anymore. Kennedy women have a history of coming out on top in these types of situations. It might be worth it for some women but not Shriver. Arnold has the hope any prenup is valid but the length of the marriage, number and age of the children and the way the marriage collapsed might invalidate any prenup and that hope. He better pin his hopes on her Catholic background preventing a divorce but many Kennedys have divorced over the years. Money trumps religious doctrine every time.

Buy an ebook today, start with one of mine. Let’s see if I can dethrone Amanda Hocking.

Just a couple of thoughts I had.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

COPYRIGHT 2011

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http://lawofficeofbruceabrennan.webs.com

http://www.lawyerbruceabrennan.webstarts.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/attorneybruceabrennan

Go to web sites below to buy books by Bruce A. Brennan. It is still a good time to purchase any of my books. The books are interesting and inexpensive reads. My third book should be available later this year, in late 2011. More information will be forthcoming.

www.ebookmall.com (Do search by my name or book Title)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ (do a quick search, Title, my name)

www.smashwords.com Do a Title or author search.

www.kobo.com

https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/dashboard

Book Titles:

Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

"The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity" - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Volcanos and David Gregory

May 23, 2011

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

May 23 is … Penny Day. What a thought.

Tornados ravaged Missouri, killed in Minnesota and damaging storms were reported in Oklahoma, Illinois and Wisconsin and points in between. Cleanup is coming with the breaking dawn.

These volcano eruptions in Iceland are becoming annoying. This is going to be used by the airline industry as an excuse to raise fares that will not go down when the volcano’s impact is passed. I can see a “Volcano Impact Fee” in our future.

David Gregory did it again on Sunday on Meet The Press. This time he ambushed Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. He was asking Ryan about the ignorant and party splitting comments by Newton Leroy Gingrich from last week when Gingrich threw Ryan under the bus and sounded more Democrat than Republican. Ryan answered the questions but Gregory would not accept the answers and kept pushing him. Ryan did not back down. I know politicians rarely answer questions directly but rather give the answer to a question they wanted asked or start their answer by saying, “The real question that needs to be answered is…” When Gregory has a Democrat on the show, he accepts the answers and shills for the Democrats but not Republicans. NBC needs to get this biased liberal off the air for the upcoming campaign or change their call letters to DNBC, Democratic National Broadcasting Company. At least FOX News is honest and upfront about their allegiance.

President Obama sat in our White House and was lectured by the Israeli leader, the leader of a country that would not exist if we did not support them. Obama should have stood up, said “This meeting is over.” and left the room. Why do we owe the Jews so much? We surely do not need them coming to our White House, hat in hand and lecturing our President.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels said he will not seek the Republican Presidential nomination. He never would have won. Trading someone from Illinois for someone from Indiana would not play in most of the other 48 states.

This leaves the door wide open for Rick Perry from Texas to change his mind, Chris Christie from New Jersey to change his mind or Paul Ryan to change his mind. It is also a big boost for Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota but I think Minnesota has too liberal of a reputation to overcome.

Christie is young enough to wait until 2016 as is Paul Ryan. Perry should jump in now. Mitt Romney is not electable nationally as a Mormon. None of the other candidates or potential candidates has a legitimate chance at victory nationally and the Republican Party has a history of not nominating unelectable candidates. Obviously they do not all win but they all have a chance at winning.

With Obama all but running unopposed, I believe he will run a Rose Garden Campaign. I do not see why he would agree to any debates. He has a bully pulpit and will use it. Money does not seem to be an issue for Obama with his history of rewarding large contributors with lucrative positions or appointments. People flock to the great black hope if for no other reason than to look enlightened and anti-racist.

Jane Seymour, apparently an actress that was once a bond girl, says she is aware of two more bastards Arnold Schwarzenegger he fathered during his marriage to Maria Shriver. How or why she would know this information is unclear.

Sarah Palin has chimed in with her opinion, saying she feels sorry for the children and that the whole affair “It speaks to his character. It is sad.”  That is from the mother of a girl who gave birth to a bastard in her early teens. Her daughter broke the law to get pregnant, had a tabloid relationship with the alleged father, appeared on TV scantily dressed on a dancing show, prostituting her fifteen minutes, has had reconstructive surgery before she turned twenty and never seems to be involved in the raising of her child. This speaks to the daughter’s character and the character of the daughter’s parents.

Just a couple of thoughts I had.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

COPYRIGHT 2011

VISIT ANY OF THE SITES LISTED FOR REVIEW, RESEARCH, ORDERING MY WRITING PRODUCTS OR TO CONTACT ME.

Email: brucebrennanlaw@aol.com

www.brucebrennanlaw.com

www.lawyerbruce.wordpress.com

www.brucebrennanattorney.com

www.bruceabrennananddekalbilandtheworld.blogspot.com

www.lawyerbruce.blogspot.com

www.lawofficeofbruceabrennan.yolasite.com

www.lawyerbruceabrennan.com

http://lawofficeofbruceabrennan.law.officelive.com

http://lawofficeofbruceabrennan.webs.com

http://www.lawyerbruceabrennan.webstarts.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/attorneybruceabrennan

Go to web sites below to buy books by Bruce A. Brennan. It is still a good time to purchase any of my books. The books are interesting and inexpensive reads. My third book should be available later this year, in late 2011. More information will be forthcoming.

www.ebookmall.com (Do search by my name or book Title)

www.barnesandnoble.com (do a quick search, Title, my name)

www.smashwords.com Do a Title or author search.

www.kobo.com

https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/dashboard

Book Titles:

Holmes the Ripper

A Revengeful Mix of Short Fiction

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill