PT's Randomness

    For some odd reason, the father of Josh Hancock has decided to sue based on the events that led to his son's fatal accident. Dean Hancock is suing the following people:

Mike Shannon's Restaurant for providing the alcohol

Mike Shannon's daughter because she is the restaurant manager

The guy whose car was stalled on the highway

The tow truck driver who stopped behind the stalled car and put on his flashers to warn vehicles

I don't understand this. Why would you put your son's memory on trial here? You are forcing someone to take a stance that it basically was your son's fault he got killed that night. I understand that I can not really understand what it is like to lose your son, but I am confident I would not act in this way. While you are at it Dean Hancock, why don't you sue the following people:

The woman who called Josh's phone that night as he was driving

The company that made the phone and the company that provided the cell phone service

Josh's Cardinal teammates he was going to meet

The city of St. Louis for giving Mike Shannon's a business license.

MODOT for not putting a shoulder there on 40

A-B for making the beer Josh probably drank

The Cardinals for paying Josh the money he may have used to buy the drinks

This was a tragic accident. Who can really say what caused it? Don't do this, Dean Hancock.


Supporting articles

KSDK
Stltoday

Labels: insanity, law, rant

    Why is it that towards the close of the legislative session in Jeff City, lawmakers were scrambling to vote on items nullifying items they voted for earlier in the session? I find it wonderful that my tax dollars went towards not only paying them to goof off the first time, but then to fix what they screwed up. Some people seem to think that term limits are the problem. I just think they care too much about playing politics and not enough about the issues.

Here's my take on some issues that passed:

SB22: Allows firefighters in St. Louis and other cities with failing schools to live outside their home cities, subject to the approval of the city's board of aldermen. Grants cities the authority to allow diners to bring their pets to outdoor restaurants
--Interesting how those two issues relate to each other. The firefighter part I am definitely ok with, the pet part is just odd.

SB389: Authorizes the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, or MOHELA, to spend $350 million on college construction projects. Also consolidates the state's two largest scholarship programs and seeks to cap tuition increases.
--One of the biggest issues of the session. I am glad we can skim profits from an organization set up to provide money for tuition so, that we can build some buildings



2007 Session Highlights

Labels: law, political

    Apparently a part of the MOHELA bill would allow former Sate Legislators with at least 8 years of experience in the Missouri General Assembly and a Bachelor''s Degree to be college professors. The bill would say that you couldn't hold their lack of a graduate degree against them. Of course, certain college professors now are against the plan because it would blow the lid on their cushy jobs now.

KC Star Link

Labels: law, political

    Check out my original post below and read the comment. Would the person who posted these please email me. I am interested in finding out more about your experiences with this.

Labels: economics, law, political

    Mexico continued its winning streak in U.S. courts with the conviction of Gilmer Hernandez back in December. Monday, Hernandez, a Sheriff's Deputy, was sentenced to a year and a day in jail andwas also ordered to pay $5,347 to the "victim" and a $5,000 fine. His crime? Shooting at the tires of a Suburban carrying illegals immigrants after the vehicle had tried to hit him during a traffic stop. An initial investigation cleared the deputy, but the Federal Government opened another investigation after talking to the illegals in the van, according to the Washington Times. The Federal Government had recommended a seven-year sentence for Hernandez, who leaves a wife and seven-month old daughter at home.

Hernandez stopped the vehicle after it ran a red light on the night of April 14, 2005. When he went to question the driver, he noticed that the passengers in the vehicle were crouched down. He then asked for identification and the vehicle took off, swerving towards him as it fled. He drew his firearm and shot 2 times at each rear tire. Further down the road, when the Suburban crashed, 8 or 9 illegals fled. The "victim" was found crouched in the back cargo area of the vehicle. A fragment from either the bullet or the vehicle had clipped her lip and broke two teeth. Gilmer Hernandez was convicted of violating her civil rights by "recklessly" shooting at the vehicle. The woman reported that she paid about $2,000 to be smuggled in in that Suburban.

Jeez, just think when all the illegals figure out they can turn jumping the border into a profitable venture.

Free Gilmer website

Labels: border patrol, injustice, insanity, law, tyranny of tolerance

    Seriously, who let the middle school student government put up bills at the state level? Anti-bullying bills in the House AND Senate?

Next up: A bill to outlaw cliques in high school.

Labels: insanity, law, tyranny of tolerance

    So I log in today to Blogger to post an update on the T-roy B-log and find out that it has been locked because Blogger thinks it may be a spam blog. Funny, because you would think with a spam blog, I would be making money. Anyways, I was going to post this story about how Amie Twellman, the little girl who was hit in the head by a steel beam, is suing the Troy R-3 school district and some construction people for unspecified damages.

Labels: law, rant

    Here's a story about what happened in Arizona when the state minimum wage law was raised. The Missouri minimum wage experienced a similar hike Jan 1 and the Democrats in D.C. are pushing for an even bigger hike across the country (unless of course you are a tuna company represented by Nancy Pelosi).

Labels: law

    18 Fire and Police Agencies are taking Missouri to court over part of the new minimum wage law that went into effect on Jan 1. The law, which raised the minimum wage to $6.50, also required people to be paid overtime when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Public service agencies, like fire and police departments,typically were exempt from that requirement in the past. Policemen and firemen typically aren't paid enough money as it is for what they do. At least give them some overtime pay.


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Labels: law

CFP Article

---Article from the Canadian Free Press about the Border Patrol 2

Ramos-Compean Act introduced in House

---U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced a bill Thursday that would pardon Ramos and Compean. He also made a request to the Federal Bureau of Prisons to keep the two out of the general population at the prison. Congress has never pardoned someone, but no one is really sure they can't.

Bush May Consider Pardon?

---This story will probably be making the rounds Friday. Read it for yourself and tell me what you think President Bush meant. I don't really take it to mean he is considering a pardon any more than he was before.

In all due fairness, here is this

---This is a post from ePluribus Media that includes what is supposed to be what the Justice Department presented at the trial as an account of the case. It definitely paints a different story about what happened. Although, consider that for the most part this is the account of the incident by a man who was smuggling $1 million worth of pot into the U.S., had been runnin' drugs since he was 14 (according to family), and is suing the USA for $5 million. Do you trust him?

Debra J. Saunders' Piece

---Debra Saunders wrote this great piece for townhall.com. She also wrote this one back in Aug.

Labels: border patrol, law

    Did Michael Devlin kidnap Arlin Henderson 16 years ago? Does he know what happened to Bianca Piper?

Labels: law

    The rape charge against the three Duke Lacrosse players was dropped today. 2 B.S. charges are still on the table. Do you ever wonder what Mike Nifong, the DA in the case, does on a daily basis? Apparently not his job considering he just recently talked to the accuser for the first time. If this guy were in the private sector, I don't think there is any way he would hack it.

Breitbart article
MSNBC article
Here's what the Smoking Gun site dug up

Labels: duke lacrosse, law, rant