You never really know someone till you meet them in court

I have changed my mind.

I fully am in favor of Senator Patrick Leahy placing members of the Bush administration on trail for the interrogation of terrorist suspects.

I think we should have a nationally televised trial where Senator Leahy and others can speak their minds to their hearts content on the subject.

Let them prosecute. convict, and sentence these people.

Than the next day let President Obama go on national TV and publicly pardon them and publicly thank them for their patriotism and their service to the United States. It wouldn't break my heart any if they got a medal while he was at it.

An open letter to the Christian right

I had a great deal of sympathy for Carrie Prejean after her deliberate and malicious censorship at the Miss USA pageant.

I made my feeling on this known in a piece called Lookout !!!! Here comes the GayKK
http://drewrutbergaverageguy.blogspot.com/2009/04/look-out-here-comes-gaykk.html

Well it appears she is no longer the PR prop of Perez Hilton. She is now the PR prop of the Christian right.

Perez Hilton may censored her but The Christian right is just plain using her.

If you have seen the commercial they are running it is clear they are willing to deny millions of Americans equal treatment under the law.

Gays and lesbians are American citizens first and homosexuals second. As American citizens they should receive every right, privilege, and protection any other citizen would. This not about sexuality it is about citizenship.

In their ad they use the scare tactic that gay marriage is bad for small business. I have racked my brain to figure out how this can be. I have tried to find some logic in this that could possibly explain that position and I just can't. I know of no business person who values the money of a gay married couple any less than the money of a heterosexual.

They say it is bad for religious groups. How? It's not like these people are members of your congratulation anyway. What's so sad is if you were less worried about what they do in bed as opposed to what they do in the world maybe they would be. Or are you only concerned with the souls that 100 percent agree with you. Using the same logic Jews, Muslims, or anyone else who is not a Christian is bad for religious groups too.

Perhaps the members of the Christian right are unfamiliar with George Washington's comment "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense founded on the Christian religion". I think he has a better idea than any of us what our country was founded on.

The funny thing is most people do not discriminate against you for your beliefs, I know I don't. I don't hate you, I don't want censor you or impinge upon your right to speak any way. I just wish when you did it with same spirit of loving thy brother( no gay pun intended) that the savior you worship did.

A bunch of little Bin Ladens

I am frighted by the news coming out of Pakistan.

How close are the Taliban to over throwing Pakistan?

Why should Americans care what the Taliban does? Because if they take over Pakistan they have access to and can use Pakistan's nuclear weapons as they choose.

These are people who do not take a lets agree to disagree attitude. These are people who want you dead if you don't subscribe to their brand of radical Islam. These are the people who have aided and abetted Osama Bin Laden.

Are you a woman with a college education and a good job? They want you dead.

Is Jesus Christ your personal lord and savior? They want you dead too.

Is Mohammad nothing more than than the guy who runs the corner store to you? Guess what they really want you dead.


When they took over the country of Afghanistan they made no secret about what they wanted or how far they are willing to go to get and keep it.

Having nuclear weapons in the hands of these people are a disaster in the making for every citizen of the world.

I hope President Obama will use every resource available to him available to aid Pakistan in preventing this from happening not just because they are a friend of the United States be because it is the right thing to do for them and us.

100 Days of Change

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you today marks the first 100 days of President Obama's first term.

I have made no secret on this blog and to people who know me I didn't want him to win the election.

I have also made no secret that he has pleasantly surprised me.

100 Days is enough time to either make the American public give you chance or begin to write you off.

I find it disturbing he has had such a tough time getting a cabinet together.

I do not agree with his stimulus package. I think there are much smarter idea's we should be trying.

I feel it was wrong to release the memo's on terrorist suspects interrogations for a variety of reasons.

I think he should have fired Janet Napolitano for her insulting comments about the people who protect our freedom. These are only my opinions he's President and I am not.

All that being said he has done quite a few things right in my opinion as well.

Preparing to end our presence in Iraq gets a big thumbs up from me.

Sitting down to the table and trying to find common ground with the rest of the world and changing our countries image gets the same thumbs up.

His handling of the pirate situation was the right thing at the right time.

The fact he wants credit card agreements written in plain language to protect you and I from hidden increases in interest that could break a lot of people gets a check mark in approve column from me.

It's only 100 days but he has done with it is sure impressive to me.

SVU Is No Threat To You

I’m sure Jose Baez will scream bloody murder about tonight’s episode of SVU claiming it is just one more example of the media trying to convict his client in the court of public opinion but this is a 15 minute discussion at best.

While this story is of course loosely based on Casey somehow they morphed it into a lecture on vaccinations. That’s TV at its best. Take two things people care about, throw them in a blender, water them down, and fit it in 45 minutes.

I thought Gail O’Grady did a great job as Cindy portraying her control freak personality to a tee.

Mandy Moore would have been more believable in this role than Hillary Duff but I’m sure that’s something I’m sure she been hearing for years.

They even reference George’s suicide attempt.

I say let’s give this show the one day of discussion it deserves and move on to more important topics.

Mr. Baez no one holds a bad TV show against your client. We hold the fact she drove around with her daughter decomposing in the trunk against her.

That's The Money You Could Save By Taking The Death Penality Off The Table

I almost find myself feeling bad for Jose Baez.

Say what you want he tries, boy does he try.

His ploy to get the death penalty off the table by trying to scare the citizens of Florida with a huge bill for the trial is the desperate attempt of a desperate man to outrage the public and taint the jury pool.

He knows as well as we do that if this is a death penalty case he is losing his media ticket. He is not qualified in the state of Florida to try a death penalty case and if he is booted off the case no one has a reason to put him on TV anymore.

As for the good people of Florida while I haven't seen any poles stating it I don't think they would mind footing the bill for a Casey Anthony death penalty trial. I think they like the rest of us want to finally get as close to the bottom of this case as we can get and if she's found guilty they would agree she should pay with her life.

My advice to Mr. Baez would be to stop talking about money and show us something that you or anyone else has not been able to produce thus far. Some evidence your client didn't kill her daughter.

One More For The End Of The Road

In an all too familiar story the April 20th edition of the Las Vegas Sun website reported:

An 18-year-old UNLV student has died from injuries suffered late Wednesday in a crash involving a suspected drunken driver.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified the student as Lindsay Mychael Bennett of Las Vegas, who died after she was struck by a driver going the wrong way shortly before 9:30 p.m.
The cause of her death was several blunt force trauma injuries from the collision, a spokeswoman for the coroner’s office said. She died of her injuries Friday night, authorities said today.

This happened a few days before her 19th birthday.

The driver in a suspected DUI crash that killed an 18-year-old UNLV student has been identified as 45-year-old Vladimir Lagerev.
Lagerev was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on charges of death from DUI alcohol, involuntary manslaughter and no proof of insurance, according to detention center records.

I do not agree with charging this man with involuntary manslaughter. I think he and any drunk driver who kills someone should be charged with first degree murder. I think if you get behind the wheel of a car drunk you have made a decision that it is worth someone dying for you to get home from the bar.

Driving drunk is just like walking into several crowed movie theaters with a loaded gun and firing random shots. You may not hit someone the first 30 times you do it but eventually you’re going to hurt or kill someone.

A death resulting from drunk driving should be a mandatory life without parole sentence. Will that keep people from driving drunk? About as much as the death penalty has stopped murder. What it will do is take one criminal who endangers the life of everybody who is unlucky enough to be on the same road and make sure he or she never has the chance to do it again.