Category: Law

Law: the rules of civilization

Firenze Sage: Sexual harassment gone wild (Michael Barrone)

Much lower standard adopted for proving sexaul harassment — instead of beyond a reasonable doubt it is preponderance of evidence. Big change.

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Sexual harassment gone wild...!
Sexual harassment gone wild...!

The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has sent a letter which includes a requirement that universities adopt a “preponderance of the evidence” standard of proof for deciding sexual harassment and sexual assault.

That’s far short of the requirement in criminal law that charges must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. And these disciplinary proceedings sometimes face charges that could also be criminal, as in cases of alleged rape.

Campus definitions of sexual harassment include “humor and jokes about sex in general that make someone feel uncomfortable” (University of California, Berkeley), “unwelcome sexual flirtations and inappropriate putdowns of individual persons or classes of people” (Iowa State University) or “elevator eyes” (Murray State University in Kentucky).
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Elevator eyes: Guilty or not Guilty? Your’e going down for this hombre!!

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Firenze Sage: To inane remarks by Rep. Sheila Jackson, Onward Christian soldiers …

Jackson rants about Christian militants during the King hearings on causes of increased Muslim radicalization in the prisons.

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At a congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try to “bring down the country.”
Rep. Jackson Lee mentioned the case of a man who blew up an abortion clinic.
Rep. Lee then said, “ we should include an analysis of how Christian militants or others might bring down the country. We have to look broadly, do we not?”
Dunleavy answered: “I don’t know that Christian militants have foreign country backing or foreign country financing.”
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This so called legislator thinks the Flying Nuns crashed into the twin towers.

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Firenze Sage: Peter Falk, “Ahhh, there’s one more thing…”


Peter Falk died Thursday at age 83 in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home. But Columbo lives on as the shining ideal of anyone with a smudge on his tie, whose car isn’t the sportiest, who often seems clueless, who gets dissed by fancy people.
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RIP

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Firenze Sage: Delta Airlines double talk why Jews cannot fly….

Delta discriminates against Jews and will not transport Jews to Saudia Arabia.

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Delta says no Jews can fly to Saudia Arabia

Delta will add Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance of partnering companies and would require Delta to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights to Saudi Arabia.

Kathy M. Johnston, Delta’s coordinator of Customer Care, explained that Delta does not discriminate nor condone discrimination against any protected class of passenger in regards to age, race, nationality, religion, or gender.

However, she stated , Delta must comply with all applicable laws in every country it serves. That means that if the Saudi government denies Jews from entering its country and Delta brings them there on its flight they can be fined.
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Delta is now Juden Frei. Are Kosher meals out too?

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Firenze Sage: Gaming Control Board fines casino for 25 K jackpot. And the winner is…

casino fined for paying out too much money

State regulators say a gambler won a $25,000 jackpot on a Pittsburgh casino slot machine that should have paid out only $12.

The Gaming Control Board tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the false jackpot happened on May 29, 2010. The generous payout happened in one of five instances involving Rivers Casino machines that weren’t properly tested or certified.

The board was to have levied an unspecified fine against the casino.

Casino officials say the player was allowed to keep the jackpot and that it paid all taxes on it.
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They fined the casino. Why? So they don’t lose money. Gee, the casino may have figured that out all by themselves.

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Firenze Sage: CA legislature bums complain… Whinge away …

CA lawmakers lose $48,000 a day (120 lawmakers times $400 a day). Whiners not paid complain that CA has become a banana republic. Taxpayers want a balanced budget.

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CA lawmakers whine about no pay

Just days after Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the state budget, lawmakers in California took another hit Tuesday when Controller John Chiang concluded that they will lose their pay.

The controller’s decision means that each of the state’s 120 legislators will permanently lose about $400 a day until they pass a balanced spending plan.

The controller’s decision today sets a dangerous precedent,” said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.

Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles said,
“California has officially degenerated into a banana republic, with one branch of government withholding the pay of another. I wonder if the controller plans on withholding the pay of judges if he disagrees with one of their decisions,”

And Sen. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, said the controller has “precipitated a constitutional crisis, one where the balance of powers in our constitutional form of government has shifted considerably, and the separation between the legislative and the executive branches of state government has been breached.”
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Of course the bums complain because the idiot people want them to do their job.

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Firenze Sage: TSA says whips & manacles are OK…. Ah, come on!

manacles & chains OK on airplanes

Even in these jittery times, can any air traveler be expected to part willingly with his precious electronic devices?

And not just devices that play music or games. But devices that play. Or, to put it another way, devices that jiggle. The Transportation Safety Admin. whose job it is to consider fully such matters, has decreed that vibrators are OK.

The TSA says whips, chains, leashes, restraints and manacles are OK, too. Any law-abiding citizen has the right to carry any such device onto an airplane.The TSA says screwdrivers, wrenches and other “hand tools” may be brought aboard in carry-on luggage if they are less than 7 inches in length.
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While these bozos and bozoettes are picking through your toothpaste tube, Gypsy Rose Janet is handcuffing the pilot.

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Firenze Sage: Flight attendant’s identity stolen. Up, up and away!

stolen identify of flight attendant

A million dollar bond was set Saturday for a man accused of stealing a New York man’s identity to fly around the world.

Jophan Porter, 38, was charged with six counts of identity fraud. He’s accused of assuming another man’s identity to become a flight attendant for American Eagle Airlines.

Porter had just returned to Miami from London when he was arrested. The FBI is trying to determine how Porter passed security screenings to be hired as a flight attendant.

Porter is a native of Guyana and was living in the U.S. illegally.
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Well, maybe if we spent less time frisking ancient women and infants….

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Firenze Sage: No tax exemption for low brow art says Appellate Justices. Lap this up …

Why TAX improv?

A New York court says getting a lap dance isn’t the same as taking in a ballet, so an alcohol-free strip club will have to pay the tax man.

Four Appellate Division justices agree with a decision by a state tax appeals commission that says dances onstage or in private rooms at a suburban Albany juice bar don’t qualify for a tax exemption as “dramatic or musical arts performances.”

The court says that among other reasons, the dancers aren’t even required to have any formal dance training.
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Well, does improv need formal training, amateur theatre, walk on comedians,or dance contests?

Get out of our laps you meddlers!

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Firenze Sage: the 11th strike law

Felon with 11 strikes rapes woman who takes his picture with her cll phone.

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A parolee found hiding in a doghouse in Oakland, CA was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman who took a video of her alleged attacker with her cell phone, police said Wednesday.

He has 11 felony convictions, police said. Records show he has numerous arrests for drugs, burglary and theft.

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