I live in a pretty weird place. We have a trial underway here....which is about a murdered guy. The problem is that they can't charge murder because they don't know which of three gay guys did it.
The jest of the story...is this married guy...a lawyer...who lived in a nice upscale neighborhood here in local area of Virginia. A small brick condo type building and a couple of folks who owned apartments.
The married guy ends up dead. The cops come and its obvious that he didn't die there. The three other guys in the building start to be an issue. Apparently, all three guys are gay and having a relationship between themselves...which naturally involves bondage.
The dead guy was killed with a knife....but it really looks like he had a shot of some type in the period before death, and he was involved in some sexual act.
I read the story three or four times. The writer was careful not to say that this murdered guy was gay....always referring back to his wife. But it looks like the dead guy was into this bondage stuff and knew all three guys in some intimate detail. Something went wrong with a knife game...and he ended up dead.
There is no real proof to charge murder because you can't even find the murder weapon. So they figure the three moved the body and there is a conspiracy here. The best number of years if all three each are proclaimed guilty? I would guess maybe twenty year...and it's more likely to be like ten to twelve. But you can't be sure of nothing.
Yeah, this DC area is weird. Almost every week...you have something like this happening.
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Another Tax
There's an interesting story out of the Denver Post today.
The Douglas County school board voted 5-0 on the issue. They figure the 17k kids who ride...won't mind the $2 million cost involved....overall.
I sat and pondered over this. In Bama, as a kid....I rode Reeder's bus (our bus driver). If he'd ever charged anything...it would have been a dime and you'd gotten a Coke with a bag of peanuts included. It would have been worth the charge.
Will kids readily pay this? Five buckets a week per kid? It's another tax in a way. And if you have three kids...fifteen bucks a week. It would add up over an entire school year.
What happens if kid's parents say no and drive Johnny to school? The board guessed wrong and are thousands short on their revenue requirement. They'd have to tax toilet paper or desk usage next. Imagine sending Johnny off with a fresh roll of toilet paper each day.
Some folks in Colorado have decided that kids need to pay for their rides on school buses....50 cents per ride.
The Douglas County school board voted 5-0 on the issue. They figure the 17k kids who ride...won't mind the $2 million cost involved....overall.
I sat and pondered over this. In Bama, as a kid....I rode Reeder's bus (our bus driver). If he'd ever charged anything...it would have been a dime and you'd gotten a Coke with a bag of peanuts included. It would have been worth the charge.
Will kids readily pay this? Five buckets a week per kid? It's another tax in a way. And if you have three kids...fifteen bucks a week. It would add up over an entire school year.
What happens if kid's parents say no and drive Johnny to school? The board guessed wrong and are thousands short on their revenue requirement. They'd have to tax toilet paper or desk usage next. Imagine sending Johnny off with a fresh roll of toilet paper each day.
Your Citizenship, Please
You won't hear much about this in the news or in your paper...but its a curious thing. Up in Kalamazoo, Michigan....they got the President talked into doing the commencement speech for the local high school.
This naturally means Secret Service involvement in the mess.
They came up and talked to the principal of the school...and there's a form for all the kids to fill out. Name, age....and your citizenship.
Yeah...they actually are asking for your citizenship. Reasoning? No one is really explaining alot. There were questions about this one question...and the Secret Service indicates that this is the "norm".
What if you put down Chinese and your name is George Smith? I don't think anything would happen. Now if your name was Muhammad Smith....maybe.
So, in effect...your government is collecting data on your citizenship. Not the state of Arizona...but the US federal government.
Does this go into a database? It would be curious to know about this....but I would think that they just spend three seconds looking at the name and deciding if you deserve more attention or not...and then move on.
You can imagine this Secret Service guy....twenty years in the service of the nation...and his job is to attend to episodes like this and decide if some punk kid is a threat to the President or not. He's guessing...and it's not a good feeling.
This naturally means Secret Service involvement in the mess.
They came up and talked to the principal of the school...and there's a form for all the kids to fill out. Name, age....and your citizenship.
Yeah...they actually are asking for your citizenship. Reasoning? No one is really explaining alot. There were questions about this one question...and the Secret Service indicates that this is the "norm".
What if you put down Chinese and your name is George Smith? I don't think anything would happen. Now if your name was Muhammad Smith....maybe.
So, in effect...your government is collecting data on your citizenship. Not the state of Arizona...but the US federal government.
Does this go into a database? It would be curious to know about this....but I would think that they just spend three seconds looking at the name and deciding if you deserve more attention or not...and then move on.
You can imagine this Secret Service guy....twenty years in the service of the nation...and his job is to attend to episodes like this and decide if some punk kid is a threat to the President or not. He's guessing...and it's not a good feeling.
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