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panel found palin abused power

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:57:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: evidentally all thats glowing pink to red are not just lips

Panel finds Palin abused power; Judge orders email from her private accounts be preserved

In another setback for Ms. Palin, a judge on Friday ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mail messages that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts. The ruling, by Craig Stowers of Anchorage superior court, came as the result of a lawsuit brought by a resident, Andree McLeod, against Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. Ms. Palin has occasionally used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, and her Yahoo accounts were hacked last month. The judge ordered the attorney general to contact Yahoo and other private carriers to preserve any e-mail messages sent and received on those accounts. An assistant attorney general told the court that the governor was no longer using here private e-mail accounts to conduct state business.

Tags: politics

When The Messiah Speaks, The Youth Will Hear

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:51:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “Not sure the Obama team will be thrilled about yet another crazy association,” added another commenter on the NewsBusters forums page. Previous reports have documented Obama’s links to Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, onetime Weatherman bombing suspect Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who proclaimed a black liberation theology for 20 years while Obama was a member of his church, demanding that God “d***” America.

“How much more have to come out on Obama before the O-Bots put down the kool-aid and say ENOUGH!” added a third.

“Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus,” Cohen said during a one-minute speech on the floor of the U.S. House yesterday. “Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

Democrats, including party strategist Donna Brazile and Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., made nearly identical biblical comparisons of the characters in this presidential election

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

"You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

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Clip Source: blackchristiannews.wordpress.com

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, another powerful Chicago-based political figure associated with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other long-time associates of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, is leaving no doubt about what he thinks of the leader in the campaign for the White House.

On the YouTube website, several people participating in a dialogue dismissed any spiritual hype and pinpointed their concerns.

… I think he should at least clear up that lawsuit about where he was actually born before election day,” wrote one, citing persistent Internet suspicions that his reported Hawaii birthplace isn’t accurate.

I am not one of his sheep

Tags: farrakhan, "universal change", "captured the youth, "

Sheriff must obey eviction orders: suit

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:06:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.suntimes.com

A mortgage lender wants a Cook County judge to force Sheriff Tom Dart to get back to the business of evicting people from foreclosed homes.

On Wednesday, Dart announced his eviction moratorium, saying he's willing to face contempt-of-court charges for not following court eviction orders.

Accredited Home Lenders filed a lawsuit Thursday to get Dart to obey an order that calls for the eviction of Shirley McFarland of Dolton from her foreclosed bungalow.

"Sheriff Dart may have concerns about the orders that he is charged with enforcing, but he simply cannot refuse to carry them out. The orders of the court must be enforced," attorneys for Accredited Home said in a statement. "This lawsuit is necessary to ensure that."

Dart told Kinnaird that too often his deputies are evicting renters who have not been given notice the property is in foreclosure.

Tags: mortgage, eviction, sheriff, foreclosure

On Russia suing Bank of NY under US RICO law

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:08:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Then there was the role being played by Miami injury lawyer Steven Marks, who openly pitched the lawsuit to the Russian government; while he's hardly the first stateside lawyer to sell the idea of litigation against U.S. companies to foreign sovereigns, that trend in itself is one that deserves closer attention.

Clip Source: www.pointoflaw.com

the government of Russia is invoking the RICO law -- America's RICO law, that is, not some equivalent on its own books -- to demand that Bank of New York pay compensation over a ten-year-old episode in which rogue bank employees opened a channel that allowed Russian exporters and others to move money out of the country without official oversight.

To begin with, there's the sheer size of the sum demanded: $22.5 billion, an artifact of RICO's damage-trebling provisions as well as an optimistic view of underlying damages. Then there's the issue of the application of our distinctive RICO law in other countries' courts over actions and damages occurring overseas

In addition, there was the question of whether the Russian courts would prove a forum adequately protective of the rights of an entity being sued by the Russian government

Finally

the rogue employees,

had found it worth their while to assist the plaintiffs in the advancement of the suit.

Tags: us, russia, rico, bank of ny

Ah, nuts. Acorns that is.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:13:42 GMT

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Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

ACORN’s voter-registration affiliate, Project Vote, was founded by leftist activist Sandy Newman. When Newman was looking to hire somebody to run Project Vote in Illinois, he turned to a local lawyer who had conducted training for ACORN: Barack Obama. Small world. (“He did one hell of a job,” Newman says. Undoubtedly.) ACORN’s political-action committee is supporting Obama, to nobody’s great surprise, and ACORN has hired Michelle Obama’s old Chicago law firm to help them out in a million-dollar embezzlement case. (National Review’s Stanley Kurtz documents the Obama-ACORN nexus here.) More significant, Obama represented ACORN in a lawsuit against Illinois, seeking to force the implementation of “motor voter” registrations, an initiative that has provided rich opportunity for voter-registration fraud. Senator Obama today disavows his connection to the leftist group in much the same way he describes his longtime associate and benefactor, the impenitent terrorist Bill Ayers

Judgement Matters

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:30:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Character matters. Judgment matters. And yes, the people with whom you choose to associate matter.

Clip Source: www.unionleader.com

Imagine if John McCain's career had been launched at the home of a right-wing terrorist such as Timothy McVeigh. Do you think the media would be shrugging their shoulders?

Imagine if John McCain were closely associated with a right-wing group that state officials say was actively committing widespread voter fraud running up to this election. Would the media ignore it?

If John McCain spent two decades in a church with a right-wing pastor who preached a version of white supremacy and routinely condemned America, would the media suggest that the tie was no reflection on McCain's own thoughts or ideology?

Barack Obama's political career was launched in the home of William Ayers, a left-wing terrorist

In a 2001 New York Times interview, Ayers said, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."

Barack Obama taught classes for

ACORN, represented the group in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois

ACORN's Nevada offices were just raided. The state alleges extensive voter fraud

Tags: politics, barack obama, john mccain, acorn, william ayers, terrorism, fraud

Judge's Top Secret Decision Blocks Sale of DVD-Copying Software

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:27:36 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Judge's Top Secret Decision Blocks Sale of DVD-Copying Software

A federal judge has issued a secret, interim order blocking the sale of RealNetworks' DVD-copying software, RealDVD, two sources said Monday.

In an unusual move, the judge presiding over the MPAA's federal copyright lawsuit against RealNetworks also instructed both parties not to disclose the existence of the restraining order to the public.

U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, who previously presided over the original Napster litigation, issued the tentative decision late Friday, the sources said. As of this writing, the electronic court docket does not reflect a sealed decision in the case, although RealNetworks informed consumers on its website that, "Due to recent legal action taken by the Hollywood movie studios against us, RealDVD is temporarily unavailable."

Tags: dvd-copying, hollywood, software, legal

Enemies List Deja Vu!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:25:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The spirit of Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon must both be laughing up a storm

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Maryland State police placed the names of 53 left-leaning political activists into federal and state databases, labeling them as terrorists, the state's police chief admitted Tuesday.

Evidence that the state police had been infiltrating anti-war and anti-death penalty groups first came to light in July following a government sunshine lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of a prominent peace activist named Max Obuszewski.

Tags: us storm troopers, nazification in usa, human rights?

Widow sues US over Iraq veteran's suicide

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:59:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Excellent motives for her actions.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

The widow of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide while in outpatient care for depression at a Veterans Administration hospital has sued the federal government for negligence.

Tiera Woodward, 26, claims in her lawsuit that her late husband, Donald, sought treatment at a VA hospital in Lebanon after three failed suicide attempts but was not seen by a psychiatrist for more than two months.

She says doctors were slow to diagnose her husband with major depression, and that once the diagnosis was made, a psychiatrist failed to schedule a follow-up meeting with her husband after he informed the doctor he had gone off his medication.

Donald Woodward killed himself in March 2006 at age 23.

"I intend to make them make changes," said Donald Woodward's mother, Lori Woodward. "I have too many friends whose kids are in Iraq. I have a nephew now in Iraq, in the same unit, and I can't have my family go through this again."

Tags: govt failure

Foo Fighters tell McCain to stop using song

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:50:43 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Copyright? Sue them. Stuff them, why should they be able to break laws.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

Yet another band is complaining about John McCain's unauthorised use of their song to promote his campaign. This time, it's the Foo Fighters.

The rockers sent out a missive telling the Republican presidential candidate to stop using "My Hero." They said they learned it was being used through news reports.

"The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential," the band said in a statement. "To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song."

The band noted it is not the first time McCain has been told to stop using a song. John Mellencamp, Heart and Jackson Browne have also complained - Browne even filed a lawsuit.

Soul legend Sam Moore also has asked the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to stop using "Soul Man."

McCain's campaign did not immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment.

Tags: arrogance

McCain's musical interludes

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:34:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is what, the fourth time now?

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Yet another band is complaining about John McCain's use of their song to promote his campaign. This time, it's the Foo Fighters.

The rockers sent out a missive telling the Republican presidential candidate to stop using "My Hero." They said they learned it was being use through news reports.

"The saddest thing about this is that `My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential," the band said in a statement. "To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song."

The band noted it's not the first time McCain has been told to stop using a song. John Mellencamp, Heart and Jackson Browne have also complained — Browne even filed a lawsuit.

Soul legend Sam Moore also has asked the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to stop using "Soul Man."

Tags: music, mccain, campaign

Judge Dismisses Blonde's Lawsuit over Brown Dye

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:55:28 GMT

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Clip Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman's lawsuit claiming L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products.

Charlotte Feeney of Stratford says she can never return to her natural blonde hue, a shock that left her so traumatized she needed anti-depressants.

She says she suffered headaches and anxiety, missed the attention that blondes receive and had to stay home and wear hats most of the time.

A Superior Court judge dismissed Feeney's 2005 lawsuit Monday, saying she never proved her allegation that L'Oreal put brown hair dye in a box labeled as blonde. The company also had disputed the claim.

Feeney referred questions on Wednesday to her attorney, David Laudano, who has declined to comment.

Tags: blonde, brunette, l'oreal, dye, lawsuit, sue, depression

Chinese lawyers face pressure to drop milk lawsuits

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:42:57 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Chinese lawyers face pressure to drop milk cases

BEIJING - Lawyers advising the families of children sickened in China's tainted milk scandal said Tuesday they are facing growing official pressure to withdraw from the cases.

loose grouping of more than 100 lawyers across China have been offering free legal advice to the families of children who became ill after drinking milk laced with the industrial chemical melamine

already has helped the parents of a 1-year-old boy who developed kidney stones after drinking tainted milk to file a lawsuit against the dairy at the center of the crisis, Sanlu Group Co

At least four babies have died and more than 54,000 children have been sickened

At least 14 lawyers from Henan province who have been advising victims' families were told by officials from the provincial government's justice department to stop their activities

government has also imposed controls on media coverage of the crisis, suggesting it does not want it to become a focal point

Palin sued over private e-mails

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:05:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This behavior shows she thinks it is okay to ignore state law.

This is an indication of how she will behave as Vice President. Dick Cheney must be proud.

Clip Source: juneauempire.com

"The issue here is Sarah Palin obeying the law," said McLeod in a phone interview. "It seems as if the governor seems to think that she doesn't have to follow the rules of law."

Palin, who is Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, regularly used a private Yahoo account to conduct state business.

McLeod's lawsuit says state laws are clear: Palin and her staff are obligated to use a state-sponsored e-mail address to conduct state business that would properly preserve and protect public records.

The governor's failure to do so, according to the lawsuit, has jeopardized the public's right to monitor its government.

In the lawsuit, Mitchell compared Palin's administration to President George W. Bush's administration, saying they both used "subterfuge" in attempts to "evade" similar laws.

Mitchell added that the recent decision by a federal court to force Vice President Dick Cheney to preserve some of his official records bolstered McLeod's legal argument.

Tags: politics, palin, cheney, political misconduct

RealDVD processado

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:53:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cdfreaks.com

Judge temporarily suspends RealDVD sales

RealNetworks has been forced to temporarily suspend sales of RealDVD due to a legal battle with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The ban officially started yesterday morning.

While the actual demand of RealDVD is unknown, free software such as DVDShrink and DVDFab HD Decrypter remain widely available on the Internet. Depending on how the case turns out, companies creating data backup software may have to walk a fine line with possible serious copyright implications.

This message has been published on the RealDVD web site: "Due to recent legal action taken by the Hollywood Movie studios against us, RealDVD is temporarily unavailable. Rest assured, we will continue to work diligently to provide you with software that allows you to make a legal copy of DVDs for your own use."

The following movie studios are involved in the lawsuit: Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney and Warner Bros.