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Decision to File for Bankruptcy

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:38:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You have a lot to consider before coming to a decision to file for bankruptcy and it is of paramount importance that you weigh all the possible consequences of your decision.

Clip Source: bankruptcysecretsrevealed.com

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy law operates on the premise that although the company declaring bankruptcy has assets, these are significantly less than their liabilities. Hence, debts will not be paid completely.

Tags: bankruptcy-advice, bankruptcy-affect-credit, bankruptcy-facts, bankruptcy-forms, bankruptcy-fraud, bankruptcy-information, small-business-bankruptcy

Drugs and the Law

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:39:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Drug addict sues dealer for 'bad high'

A CANADIAN woman has won a civil suit against her drug dealer for selling her addictive street drugs that landed her in hospital after an overdose.

From correspondents in Ottawa

January 10, 2008 09:37am

More GOP family values

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:22:59 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898
clipper's remarks: Divorce my sister will you. Fire him now!!

Clip Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Palin Ethics Investigation

An independent investigator appointed by a panel of state legislators earlier this month is looking into whether Ms. Palin dismissed a top law enforcement official in her administration because he failed to fire a state trooper, Mike Wooten, who went through a messy divorce with Ms. Palin’s sister.

Tags: gop, ethics, vp

McCains guy on health care

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:47:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy [the McCain camp distances themselves], said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)

"So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime," Mr. Goodman said. "The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.

Why Your Business May Need To Shred Your Documents

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:53:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In order to prevent identity theft, it is important that any records with private information be destroyed and be destroyed properly. In fact, HIPAA law requires some businesses to do it these days.

Clip Source: shredexonline.com

Tags: shredding, dumpster diving

Should Biden Share Blame for Foreclosure Crisis?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:43:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) “is directly responsible for the rising foreclosure rate since the end of 2005,” concluded a 2007 study by Credit Suisse. The law “increased foreclosures and the number of homes for sale,” echoed a July 2008 study by U.S. Treasury researcher David Bernstein. That study estimated the law had pushed foreclosures or forced sales on 200,000 homeowners since it went into effect, but noted that was a rough, “back-of-the-envelope” calculation…

The bill was backed by banks and credit card companies including MBNA, which is headquartered in Delaware, Biden’s home state. MBNA executives had been Biden’s single largest source of campaign donations, and MBNA has employed Biden’s son Hunter as a company executive, lobbyist and consultant. The Obama campaign has said Hunter Biden did no work for MBNA on the bankruptcy bill.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5670703&page=1

Clip Source: sweetness-light.com

Should Biden Share Blame for Foreclosure Crisis?

August 28, 2008—Experts say hundreds of thousands of Americans may have lost their homes due to a bill championed by Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate.

At least two studies have concluded that the United States’ foreclosure crisis was exacerbated by a 2005 law that overhauled the nation’s bankruptcy law. That conclusion is echoed by other experts, although the banking and credit industry disputes it.

Biden who has enjoyed hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from credit industry executives endorsed the measure early on and worked to gather Democratic support for it.

Biden’s early and vocal support was “essential” to the bill’s passage, said Travis Plunkett of the Washington D.C.-based advocacy group Consumer Federation, which opposed the measure. Biden “went out of his way to undermine criticism of the legislation,” and his efforts helped convince other Democrats to support the bil

Tags: biden, bankruptcy abuse prevention & consumer protection , rising foreclosure rate, 2005

94.2% of the 2008 Fortune 500 Provide Sexual Orientation Nondiscrimination

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:48:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.marketwatch.com

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 27, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Senator Obama and Senator McCain Take Opposite Positions on Sexual Orientation Workplace Protection

Equality Forum, a national and international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) civil rights organization, reported that 471 (94.2%) of the 2008 FORTUNE 500 companies voluntarily include sexual orientation in their employment nondiscrimination policies. This year marks the fifth anniversary of Equality Forum's FORTUNE 500 project, which is a collaboration with Professor Louis Thomas, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Ian Ayres, William K. Townsend Professor, Yale Law School.

Native American Tribe Certifies Same-Sex Marriage

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:41:59 GMT

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Clip Source: www.gaycitynews.com

The Coquille Tribe in southern Oregon has voted to recognize the marriage of Kitzen Branting (nee Doyle) to her non-Coquille partner Jeni Branting when they marry next May with intentions to live on the reservation.

Tribal chief Ken Tanner told the Oregonian, "For our tribe, we want people to walk in the shoes of other people and learn to respect differences. Through that, we think we build a stronger community."

Oregon law recognizes civil unions, but prohibits recognition of same-sex marriages. The tribe is a "sovereign nation," however, and not bound by the state Constitution.

Biological Diversity-

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:17:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Any and all people dedicated to these causes are important to support. By action, example and with a small monetary contribution.

Clip Source: www.biologicaldiversity.org

The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law, and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

BREAKING NEWS

Bush Administration Proposes Regulations to Gut Endangered Species Act

Learn the details, read our press release, and take action now.

Groups Ask California Energy Commission to Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New Power Plant

Motion Filed to Extend Review of Endangered Desert Nesting Bald Eagle

Bush Administration Ignores Science, Removes West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel From Endangered Species List

Critical Habitat Designation Falls Short, Fails to Protect Unique, Threatened Bay Checkerspot Butterfly

More Press Releases

Bush is trying to gut our nation's flagship environmental law. Get the details and take action today to save it.

See how we uncovered evidence of government malfeasance and are working to save the species harmed.

school yard law

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:05:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: take no risks,don't get sued

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Legal cases mount up over schoolyard injuries

CHILDREN are suing schools for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for injuries caused while playing games such as tiggy.

Nearly 100 lawsuits were filed against the State of Queensland for injuries suffered by schoolchildren in the last financial year.

One child is asking the court to award her $280,000 plus interest after she hurt herself playing tiggy (chase) in the schoolyard when she was six.

Another launched a lawsuit last month claiming more than $136,000 for an injury she says she suffered while high jumping during a Sunshine Coast school carnival.

The revelation that schoolyards are becoming fertile ground for litigation follows public outcry over the banning of cartwheels, handstands and somersaults at a north Queensland school and admissions by Education Minister Rod Welford that fear of legal action was partly behind the decision.

Tags: schools, injuries, law

Deadwood

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:29:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.netflix.com

Deadwood: Season 2 (6-Disc Series) (2004)

The illegal camp of Deadwood, found in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is under the reign of new sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) in this second season of David Milch's intriguing HBO series. But that doesn't mean law and order has finally come to an essentially lawless town; everyone's still out for himself during the massive gold strike, and money and power are still valued above all else. Co-stars Keith Carradine and Ian McShane.

Barack Obama: Leap of Faith

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:51:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: but because they're confused about the roots of his politics.

Sen. Obama accumulated his victorious lead early with a liberal coalition willing to vote for him mainly for reasons of faith – upper-middle-class whites, black voters and young idealists -- all attempting to complete the civil-rights promise, answer the post-partisan appeal, or vote against the war and George Bush.

His coalition's limitations hit the wall in Ohio. Here Sen. Clinton discovered her Rosie-the-Riveter persona, and it worked. I watched her sell bread-and-butter policy before blue-collar crowds in Youngstown, Akron and Cleveland. She was tremendously good at it. He just wasn't. The Sunday before the Ohio vote, Sen. Obama abandoned Ohio. The way Hillary won in these crucial November swing states may have fatally damaged his candidacy.

His problem is that there is nothing in it (biography) to suggest he has spent any significant time thinking about these people other than as a political abstraction.

Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

The U.S. presidency is a political office, and nearly all nominees for it had a record in politics to offer a basis for shaping a view of how they might conduct the nation's highest office.

By this most traditional of measures, the Obama candidacy is a leap of faith.

A New York Times article on his years at Harvard Law, where he was editor of the law review, said, "In dozens of interviews, his friends said they could not remember his specific views from that era, beyond a general emphasis on diversity and social and economic justice." A similar piece on his years teaching at the University of Chicago Law School said he notably did not participate in its intellectual debates.

Yet amid a universally described lack of clarity about Sen. Obama's experience and core political beliefs, it is now being said that if the people in blue-collar counties don't vote for him, they, and their nation, remain racist.

This is false. If they don't vote for Barack Obama, it won't be over his personal roots,

Tags: obama, political beliefs, experience, diversity, social/economic justice,

Cheney-Connected Contractor Sued for Slavery

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:31:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: KBR is one of the no-bid contractors in Iraq and is a former subsidiary of Cheney's old company Halliburton.

Can we just go ahead and say that neocons are literally evil now?

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers.

Agnieszka Fryszman, a partner at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, said 13 Nepali men, between the ages of 18 and 27, were recruited in Nepal to work as kitchen staff in hotels and restaurants in Amman, Jordan. But once the men arrived in Jordan, their passports were seized and they were told they were being sent to a military facility in Iraq, Fryszman said.

As the men were driven in cars to Iraq, they were stopped by insurgents. Twelve were kidnapped and later executed, Fryszman said. The thirteenth man survived and worked in a warehouse in Iraq for 15 months before returning to Nepal.

Tags: news

ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΕΩΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟΥ ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2008 - ΝΟΜΙΚΗ ΚΟΜΟΤΗΝΗΣ

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:41:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.law.duth.gr

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Tags: law, school, exams

Legacy of an illegal war

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:05:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.tomdispatch.com

The Past Destroyed: Five Years Later

On April 11, 12, 13, and 14, 2003, the United States Army and United States Marine Corps disgraced themselves and the country they represent in Baghdad, Iraq's capital city. Having invaded Iraq and accepted the status of a military occupying power, they sat in their tanks and Humvees, watching as unarmed civilians looted the Iraqi National Museum and burned down the Iraqi National Library and Archives as well as the Library of Korans of the Ministry of Religious Endowments. Their behavior was in violation of their orders, international law, and the civilized values of the United States. Far from apologizing for these atrocities or attempting to make amends, the United States government has in the past five years added insult to injury.

Tags: usa, military, war, iraq, history