Category: legal

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Man lost his house

You have to watch the city government sometimes and this seems even more true in Detroit, Michigan.  There are lots of houses that are on the list to be demolished because they are in such bad shape.  Well it seems a man bought one of them for $7,000 and got it taken off of the demolition list.  He had put about $30,000 into repairs in the house, went by one day and couldn’t find his house.  It seems the city put it back on the demolition list and didn’t tell him.

“I drove up and down the street three times – where is my house?” Roslonski said. His lawyer, Jeffrey Dworin, said the house was taken off a demolition list, then apparently reinstated without Roslonski’s knowledge. “It happens,” Dworin said.

A message seeking comment was left with the city’s law department, which was closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday.

Roslonski is suing Detroit for his losses under a federal civil rights law. He fixed another house on the same street and sold it for $85,000. “I see all these boarded-up and burned-out houses. I’m trying to make the city a better place,” he said.

Can you imagine that happening to you?  It happened a lot down here but most of the houses were not being repaired so they should have been torn down.  This man was fixing the house.  I hope he wins his case.

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Plans in hand and materials on the property

Well I have the plans for my new project in my hands and all the rough in materials are on the property.  I have all the proper permits, the electrician has been contracted, the plumber and carpenters too.  I’m on a roll.  I found the best web site that helped me to find everyone that I needed to get this project started.  It still amazes me at just what you can find on the Internet.  Seek and ye shall find I guess, huh?

Now comes the fun part, picking out all of the lighting, the bathroom and kitchen fixtures, the kitchen appliances and cabinets, counter tops and boy do I have a lot to do.  I bet I can find everything I need right here online too.  First of all I’ll go by our local building supply store and get the prices on what I want.  That way I can shop around online and see if I can get it or something comparable to what I want any cheaper.

This is the bath tubs I want installed.  I have one similar myself in my bathroom.  What do you think?  I just love those claw and foot bath tubs with the old English telephone faucets.  I found this one at vintagetub.com.  They have some beautiful bath tubs on there.

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I am so ashamed that he’s from New Orleans

I got on my computer this morning and my heart just sank.  I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.  This so called ‘Man’ was ordered to pay child support and instead of paying it………….well here is what happened.

Danny Platt confessed, told police where to find the child’s body and will be booked on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Ja’ Shawn Powell, Riley said at a news conference. “He had said he would kill either his wife or his child before he paid child support,” which he recently had been ordered to do, Riley said.

Riley said he did not know the amount of child support and would not describe how the boy was killed, saying the coroner would do that after the autopsy was complete. The coroner’s spokesman did not immediately return a call. “The mother is in a safe place,” Riley said.

Although he had visiting rights, Platt, 22, of New Orleans, had never visited the boy until he picked him up Friday, Riley said. Police put out a notice Saturday asking people to look for the boy and saying his father had told them three men with dreadlocks and AK-47 rifles had piled out of an SUV and kidnapped Ja’ Shawn shortly before midnight Friday.

“His story never really added up,” Riley said. “He was a suspect from the very beginning.” Riley said Platt eventually confessed and told officers where to find the body.  “How does an individual – because he’s ordered to pay child support to take care of a kid … believe that this is so much pressure that he would face – he would do this hideous act to his own child, or to any child, and think that is a remedy to paying child support?” Riley said. “I mean there are some sick individuals in this society, and this gentleman is clearly one.”

After having so much pride in the good people of New Orleans over the Christmas holiday to reading this just doesn’t seem possible.  How could he?  This is not anything even remotely close to a ‘Man’.  This is a monster and deserves to be punished to the fullest extent of the law.  It’s bad enough when someone else hurts a child but their own father?  I want to make sure you and everyone else gets to see this monster.

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Senator Chambers of Omaha

I don’t know if you have heard about this Senator from Omaha Nebraska ‘suing’ God or not but it is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard of and I’ve heard of some pretty bizarre things in my lifetime living in New Orleans.  The case was thrown out siting not being able to ‘properly serve’ the defendant in the case since there was no address to be able to serve Him, meaning God.

Well that’s not good enough for Senator Chambers.  He said that God is supposed to know everything and therefore is very aware of the suit against Him so with that in mind, he has been properly served.  He wants a ‘cease and desist order’ more or less against God for ‘terrorist type attacks against the Senator’.  That sounds to me like he has had some pretty bad nightmares and is blaming God for them or something about that substantial.

What this sounds to me like is a case of trying to get your name in the papers, online and out there to be seen.  He must really be a lonely person to want so desperately to receive that much attention.  Maybe God will comfort him and forgive him for his……….breakdown for lack of a better word to explain his actions.

It’s crazy lawsuits like this that take up money in the courts for nothing.  He should be made to pay for every bit of the court costs for filing a law suit that has no merritt and maybe then it might stop some of this abuse of the court system and allow them to handle matters that are far more important like murder trials or am I looking at this wrong?  I don’t think so.

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Last state to ban Cock Fighting

I can not believe that my state of Louisiana is the last state in the country to ban Cock Fighting.  I hate fighting of any animals for human pleasure.  I believe that anyone caught even letting their dog fight another dog at all should be punished.  I do know that it is extremely hard sometimes to separate two dogs that are fighting but a good spray from a water hose goes a long way to breaking their concentration on getting at each other and turns it towards getting away from the water.  You may even have to spray them in the face to get their attention but do what ever it takes short of injuring either animal to break up the fight.  Blow your car horn, go get your vacuum cleaner and turn it on, most dogs hate those things anyway.  Use your head and you can figure out a way to stop it. 

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We all make mistakes, just some bigger than others

I believe that people that have done stupid things in the past and then got their lives straightened out should be able to earn back the rights taken from them.  No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, just some make bigger ones than others but depending on the mistake, should it be something they are punished for the rest of their lives?   Some felonies are worse than others I totally agree but some thing that are a felony, are minor offenses and should that person turn their lives around, I think their felony conviction should be lessened to just that, a minor offense. 

It seems that there are some lawyers out there that are fighting to get some felons the right to vote again.  Reggie Mitchell is a civil rights lawyer who is doing just that.  Mitchell is the leader of a grass-roots Democrats and civil-rights activists that are trying to get these felons registered to vote.  This is not a party based civil-rights fight.  It’s a human rights civil-rights fight and I think it’s a great thing.  I’m sure everyone has an opinion on this issue but you should read http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26130901 so you can make an informed decision if this is something good or not.

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Congress names names

How in the world did I miss this back in July?  I must have been really busy not to catch this but on July 9th the Congressional Democrats finally named names in the investigation of all those formaldehyde contaminated FEMA trailers they gave to Katrina and Rita survivors.  It’s about time Congress named names in something that has affected so many who were victims anyway and then victimized again by what appeared to be our own government.

These individuals should be sentenced to live in the same conditions they placed our good people in by having to move them into these trailors and forcing them to live there as long as the longest person had to stay in one of them.  An eye for an eye if you ask me.  Shame on them!!!!!

Gulf Stream Coach, Pilgrim International, Keystone RV and Forest River Inc. officials should all have to pay for any and all medical expenses for everyone that lived in one of their trailers.  These companies made a lot of money from the government and I hold them responsible for the whole situation as should the government but that my friends, is totally my opinion and mine alone.  Well that is unless some of you agree with me on this one.