Legal Shmegal: Today's Nonsense
Today has been a day filled with all sorts of fun legal tidbits. I've had my undies in a proverbial bunch trying to hold my tongue but alas, I can't hold it any longer. Here's my five cents--just in case you were wondering.
So--first things first--our former governor's trial begins today. Jury selection, or, as we who have tens of thousands of dollars in law loans like to say- voir dire. Judge Zagel told the press today to go pound sand because none of the selected juror's identities will be revealed. If they wanted to get the names (at least) then they should have filed their motions for same sooner. What's the expression -- the early bird gets the worm? Anyway, I'm more interested to see how many people could actually fool the judge and lawyers and convince them that they 1) haven't heard about Blago; 2) or his "issues"; or 3) that they could be completely impartial. Yeah, right! This is Chicago, isn't it?
On Facebook today, the RedEye ran this photo of Blago with the following tagline: "Blagojevich hugged courthouse spectators today at his trial. A hug from Blago is like ___________?
My answer: A kiss from Judas.
Moving right along -- A Cook County public defender was arrested today after he got into a physical fight with a prosecutor following a hearing at the criminal courts at 26th and California. Specifically, the defender pushed and CHOKED the prosecutor! Now, how many of us have wanted to do that?
I'm sure the defender had his own reasons for the attack. The answer given in the news articled was that the defender had complained about a hearing date and the prosecutor apparently answered: "Too bad."
Apparently it was a good fight including a headlock and lots of hands around necks. Two deputies had to break up the fight and one of the deputies was injured in the scuffle. Now, why don't I ever see such entertainment when I'm in court? The defender was arrested and is in custody. One: I wonder who will bail him out seeing as how he basically works for free. Two: I'm sure he'll meet lots of clients in the next few hours.
Another legal tidbit is that the apparent killer of Natalee Holloway, Joran van der Sloot, was finally arrested today after trying to escape. He's wanted in the murder of a girl from Peru. These charges come almost five years to the day that Natalee disappeared in Aruba. Maybe now someone will get a clue about this guy. The Peruvian girl, Stephany Flores Ramirez was found dead in a hotel room registered under Sloot's name. She was stabbed and found wrapped in a bloody blanket.
Finally, Newsweek did a fantastic job of highlighting the fact that some people are just plain idiots. It does not matter how much money someone has or what school or professional experience they may have gotten or the other fluff accolades attached to their names. Some people are just plain clueless.
Case in point: BP CEO Tony Hayward. In a time when the Gulf of Mexico is experiencing an attack of epic proportions, Tony seems to be either smoking something or just nauseatingly oblivious. Someone should just muzzle this man before he tanks his company even further.
Today, BP seems to have gotten the message and hired former VP Dick Cheney's spokeswoman to try to erase some of the damage that Tony's done.
So, what's he said that's so infuriating?
On April 29th, he asked his fellow executives: "What the hell did we do to deserve this?"
On May 14th he tried to convince us that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."
A few days later, he told news agencies that "the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest."
On May 30 he was wallowing in his own self pity: "There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back."
On June 1, while responding to claims that some of the cleanup workers were getting sick from oil fumes, he suggested that they were getting sick not from the oil they were exposed to but from something else, such as "food poisoning."
Maybe we should get Tony out of his neatly tailored Prada suit and Gucci loafers and out of that five star hotel that he's staying in and take him for a swim in the Gulf. While he tries to tread water with the dead fish and marine mammals and gets suffocated by the thick, gloppy, poisonous oil he might learn a few things. Or, at least, he would shut up.
So--first things first--our former governor's trial begins today. Jury selection, or, as we who have tens of thousands of dollars in law loans like to say- voir dire. Judge Zagel told the press today to go pound sand because none of the selected juror's identities will be revealed. If they wanted to get the names (at least) then they should have filed their motions for same sooner. What's the expression -- the early bird gets the worm? Anyway, I'm more interested to see how many people could actually fool the judge and lawyers and convince them that they 1) haven't heard about Blago; 2) or his "issues"; or 3) that they could be completely impartial. Yeah, right! This is Chicago, isn't it?
On Facebook today, the RedEye ran this photo of Blago with the following tagline: "Blagojevich hugged courthouse spectators today at his trial. A hug from Blago is like ___________?
My answer: A kiss from Judas.
Moving right along -- A Cook County public defender was arrested today after he got into a physical fight with a prosecutor following a hearing at the criminal courts at 26th and California. Specifically, the defender pushed and CHOKED the prosecutor! Now, how many of us have wanted to do that?
I'm sure the defender had his own reasons for the attack. The answer given in the news articled was that the defender had complained about a hearing date and the prosecutor apparently answered: "Too bad."
Apparently it was a good fight including a headlock and lots of hands around necks. Two deputies had to break up the fight and one of the deputies was injured in the scuffle. Now, why don't I ever see such entertainment when I'm in court? The defender was arrested and is in custody. One: I wonder who will bail him out seeing as how he basically works for free. Two: I'm sure he'll meet lots of clients in the next few hours.
Another legal tidbit is that the apparent killer of Natalee Holloway, Joran van der Sloot, was finally arrested today after trying to escape. He's wanted in the murder of a girl from Peru. These charges come almost five years to the day that Natalee disappeared in Aruba. Maybe now someone will get a clue about this guy. The Peruvian girl, Stephany Flores Ramirez was found dead in a hotel room registered under Sloot's name. She was stabbed and found wrapped in a bloody blanket.
Finally, Newsweek did a fantastic job of highlighting the fact that some people are just plain idiots. It does not matter how much money someone has or what school or professional experience they may have gotten or the other fluff accolades attached to their names. Some people are just plain clueless.
Case in point: BP CEO Tony Hayward. In a time when the Gulf of Mexico is experiencing an attack of epic proportions, Tony seems to be either smoking something or just nauseatingly oblivious. Someone should just muzzle this man before he tanks his company even further.
Today, BP seems to have gotten the message and hired former VP Dick Cheney's spokeswoman to try to erase some of the damage that Tony's done.
So, what's he said that's so infuriating?On April 29th, he asked his fellow executives: "What the hell did we do to deserve this?"
On May 14th he tried to convince us that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."
A few days later, he told news agencies that "the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest."
On May 30 he was wallowing in his own self pity: "There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back."
On June 1, while responding to claims that some of the cleanup workers were getting sick from oil fumes, he suggested that they were getting sick not from the oil they were exposed to but from something else, such as "food poisoning."
Maybe we should get Tony out of his neatly tailored Prada suit and Gucci loafers and out of that five star hotel that he's staying in and take him for a swim in the Gulf. While he tries to tread water with the dead fish and marine mammals and gets suffocated by the thick, gloppy, poisonous oil he might learn a few things. Or, at least, he would shut up.
Posted by Socialista at 6/3/2010 2:36 PM 
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Tags: Tony Hayward Joran Van Der Sloot Blagojevich Zagel
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Tags: Tony Hayward Joran Van Der Sloot Blagojevich Zagel
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