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It’s not a secret that US court system is failing miserably nowadays, and how law departments trying to cover their problems by inflating the situation.
This week a lot of lawmakers in various US states are trying to pass a law which allow a judge carry a concealed weapon during his/her duty hours to protect themselves in the court house. Strange, isn’t it? The court houses have very tight security after 9/11, and only security guards are allowed to carry a gun.
Yet, there was a case in Atlanta, GA, in 2005, when a rape suspect, Brian Nichols shot and killed three people (one of them was judge) in a downtown courthouse and made a desperate escape, sparking a citywide manhunt.
Nichols was at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta to face charges of raping and holding his girlfriend prisoner. But before entering the courtroom, police say he grabbed a sheriff’s deputy’s gun and used it to kill three people, including Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes.
Yet, the total failure of the local law officers should not be the reason for a major law change. One case is not enough to spend our money by legislators to debate this ridiculous matter. Instead, the security guards shout be better trained and be more responsible for those they protect. They should admit their failure and correct it without spending out tax money to justify their weaknesses.
If such law will be passed, that will mean we are back one step into the Wild West times.
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Filed under: USA on July 25th, 2007 • 700 Views
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Doctors found and removed five small polyps from President Bush’s colon during a cancer screening yesterday that forced him to relinquish his presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for two hours and five minutes.
Scott M. Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said the polyps were not deemed worrisome on visual inspection by a team of doctors from the National Naval Medical Center, who performed the procedure in Camp David, Md. In a statement released late yesterday morning, Mr. Stanzel said the polyps would be sent to the Naval Medical Center for testing.
Mr. Stanzel said there would be a 48- to 72-hour wait for the results. He described the polyps as less than a centimeter in diameter each.
Before the screening, Mr. Bush sent a letter to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, and the president pro tem of the Senate, Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, in which he invoked Section 3 of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution in transferring power to Mr. Cheney. Afterward, he sent another letter declaring, “I am presently able to resume the discharge of the constitutional powers and duties of the office of the president of the United States.”
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Filed under: USA on July 22nd, 2007 • 607 Views
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Every European citizen knows that saving energy (electricity) is important, important for the environment and important for the family budget. Those tiny kilowatt hours can accumulate very fast and strike your family budget every month.
The situation is very different in the USA. The US citizens were encouraged to spend more gas and electricity by utilizing appliances that waste electricity with efficiency less then 30%. That created big profits for the energy companies. Then electricity was becoming more and more expensive, and US consumers were forced to buy less shiny but more efficient appliances made outside US. Finally, the Energy Star standards were adopted and widespread in North America. However, people were still wasting a lot of energy by using old incandescent bulbs and leaving computers running over night, even if they dont need them.
I found this article about how to save money, and use less electricity: “Save Money By Saving Environment, And Invest It“. Really good tips.
I also was invited to a local cinema to watch a movie made by a non-profit organization Kilowatt Ours. The most shocking moments in that movie were the scenes of the coal sludge all over the river, forest and a village. Terrible. Anyway, those guys also give free tips on how you can save money, and how and where to buy energy efficient equipment.
I’m glad the public is becoming more aware about the electricity waste. We really need to start giving this information in our schools, so our kids will not forget to turn the light in the bathroom, and be conscious that that wasted electricity means more coal sludge in our rivers and more pollution in our air. Hopefully, we can soon switch to the green energy produced by solar panels and wind generators; recent news show that the green energy becomes even cheaper then the traditional nuclear and coal energy, however, the transition will be painfull for the big energy corporations, if they dont change their mindset…
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Filed under: Green Environment on July 13th, 2007 • 813 Views
