A 47-year-old man pleaded not guilty Friday to several charges including burglary and trespassing when he was found wandering Dodger stadium field with a glove and two baseballs. Ronald Higgens may have just had a "field of dreams" moment, but now it looks like he's going to pay for it. If convicted, the poor guy could do four years in prison!
Apparently the court is still trying to find him a lawyer. Talk about a bad day.
Legendary movie star Paul Newman has played his last roll, but will be remembered as a cultural icon with his rolls as cads and con men. He defined the American anti-hero in the 50s and 60s playing parts in such film classics as; Cool Hand Luke, Hud, The Hustler, The Sting, and Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid.
He defined cool. Personally, he was one of my favorite actors.
PROTESTORS RALLY IN FRONT OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IN THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT AGAINST THE PROPOSED BAIL OUT YESTERDAY.
MAINSTREET ISN'T HAPPY WITH WALL STREET.
I know. This really seems like a joke, but Jose Cruz isn't laughing after being charged for battery on a cop when he fanned his fart towards the officer after being pulled over for not having his headlights on. This happened on a road somewhere in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Talk about not being able to take a joke.
A 45-year-old Deltona, Florida man chased a nude teenager out of his daughter's bedroom with a lead pipe. During the chase he smacked the boy on the head. The boy got stitches and Dad has been arrested for aggravated assault! It wasn't a case of illegal entry because the daughter has been inviting the boy over nightly for a year! Imagine Dad's surprise and the fine he's going to pay now.
The race card is rearing it's ugly head again as we head into the final weeks before the presidential election. It's hard to believe that people are so rabidly racist in this day and age, but it's a fact.
TODAY'S 2nd THREAD:
How much do you think race will play a part in picking our next president?
Worried analysts await the bailout.
President Bush went prime time last night to try and convince a skeptical public and rebellious Republicans that the government must use $700 billion of taxpayers' money for the proposed rescue plan.
TODAY'S THREAD:
Do you think we should pay for this bailout, and if we do, will it save the economy as experts are claiming?
Surrounded by his big-money cronies, McCain told the press he wants to put Friday's debate off because he wants to concentrate on the bailout package before Congress. What? He can't do two thing's on the same day? Doesn't sound like a very versatile presidential type to me.
How big an effect this prejudicial attitude will have on the presidential race remains to be seen, but pollsters are facing up to the reality that prejudice is alive and well in this country, and that it plays a part in politics.
Okay...it's time to start worrying when bipartisan hawks start screeching for another war! The target is Iran.
Some recent Op-Eds supporting a war with Iran have been run in the Nation ("Everyone needs to worry about Iran") and
a group of hawks have their own web site, United Against Nuclear Iran.
This is all pretty scary stuff. In my opinion we have enough wars going on right now. The last thing we need is to listen to these old chicken hawks who are eager to send more young men and women to war to satisfy their blood-lust!
TODAY'S THREAD
Do you think we should be targeting Iran for war right now-or ever?
An encampment for the homeless in Highland Park, Washington, sprung up overnight, and the city has already responded with a 72-hour time frame to get out.
A sign in front of the encampment reads, "Nicklesville," a play on Mayor Greg Nickles, whose not exactly a friend of the homeless. Some have drawn the comparison of the Depression-era Hooversville with it's tin shanty towns, to this modern version of 150 fuchsia-colored tents.
It's no secret that the taxpayers are the one's paying for the massive bailouts on Wall Street. Many feel they are paying for the bad judgement of the CEOs who get 'Golden parachutes" while everyone else gets the shaft!
Now Congress is looking at pumping more taxpayer money into the slumping market, and people are wondering if that's such a good idea.
This is how bad it is...Chinese are feeling threatened by a "financial tsunami" as they watch our stock market teeter and the government bail out private business. Wasn't it McCain who said our economy is basically sound? I just can't help disagreeing with that stupid statement.
We are slowly in the process of replacing our teachers with foreign teachers. What happened to to the quality school system we once had that was the envy of the free world? The solution to our slowly diminishing teacher pool is not to import teachers, but to look at what we're offering teachers to teach our children.
Just the facts folks. Palin was for that infamous bridge to nowhere until the feds pulled out and called it pork spending. As my grandmother use to say, "The proof is in the pudding."
The LA Times today details that whole story and her lies on the campaign trail. How can she continue to tell this lie and get away with it? Well, she's not getting away with it. Facts trump rhetoric.
Meanwhile Fox news reporters Hannity and Van Susteren spent three days interviewing Todd and Sarah Palin in what turned out to be infotainment so frothy, slanted, and off-point they managed new lows for the cable network that's known for low standards!
TODAY's THREAD:
To me, it's scary that people want to vote for a known liar. What's even more disturbing is that despite the truth, people will vote for McCain/Palin because their not interested in substantial issues; just in jingoistic rhetoric that supports their narrow world views. Who truly believes that Sarah Palin would make a good president if McCain dies in office?
How bad are things today? Officials say this proposed bailout is bigger than the one during the Great Depression!
The statutory limit on the national debt will go from $10.6 trillion to $11.3 trillion to make room for this massive rescue effort. We know who got us here; The Bush administration.
TODAY'S THREAD
Has there ever been a worse administration than than Bush and his cronies?
Art created by paws and claws are being auctioned off Online to benefits some zoos. Google auctionnetwork.com
to find out how you can get a painting by a penguin or a snow leopard! Sounds like fun and it's for a good cause.
See this article in today's Los Angeles Times.
Lies...are the ammunition which the McCain campaign has decided to use. He's taking a pro-active stance and telling so many lies that Palin is having a hard time keeping up with him.
Lies are the new currency in presidential campaigns thanks to the old guy who runs around in that "Straight Talk" Express! Read more here in my latest Nolan Chart As It Stands column.
TODAY'S THREAD:
How long can lies play a part in this campaign without a negative backlash?
The Daily Crock, a political blog, is carrying As It Stands/Nolan Chart column on the Bilderberg Group today.
Yesterday's As It Stands in the Times-Standard about a 10th Amendment ruling in California, is still on top of the Most Viewed list in the Times Online Forum this morning.
If you Google As It Stands, my July 5th column (when I wrote for The Eureka Reporter) titled, Outsourcing Newspapers is Offensive, is on the first page. (Sorry no links available. You have to Google The Eureka Reporter and go to their Online edition Opinion Section, and write in As It Stands in the search engine provided.)
Google this As It Stands blog, and you can find it listed under number 414 out of 129,000,000! Most of my visitors come from within the United States, in particular California. Last week there were visitors from Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; Australia; Europe; and Brazil.
I'm still networking with other blogs by exchanging links. Almost all of the web sites that have reprinted my columns ask for permission. Interestingly enough, one web site 420Attorney, an enterprising lawyer, reprinted my Nolan Chart column on the 10th Amendment without asking for my permission! Go figure.
AS IT STANDS...thank you to all of my readers, and I want you to know that I'm having fun and I hope you are too!
The door to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is open and we've all walked through it. Some grudgingly, some eagerly. Most of us unknowin...
