There are a lot of stupid people in this world, but it’s really a shame when you see a police officer with no common sense.  Who in their right mind would manhandle a 70 year old woman because her lawn is dry?  That retard needs to be locked up for a few days himself.

This is yet another example of a Communist America, where the government regulates what you can and can not do with your own property. 

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Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn
July 6th, 2007 @ 10:00pm

Sam Penrod Reporting

A widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The woman hasn’t watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of her yard violates an Orem zoning ordinance.

Tonight, the woman says she is traumatized and shocked that she was hauled to jail, just because she says she can’t afford to water her lawn.

Betty Perry says, “I never thought they would ever do anything like that to a person that is 70 years old. I’ve never bothered anybody, I’ve never hurt anybody.”

She says the policeman who brought her home tonight was very courteous, even held open the door for her. But there were no gentlemen there when she was taken from her home this morning and booked into jail.

When Betty Perry heard a knock at her door and saw a police officer standing outside, she never imagined she would end up in jail. That’s what happened, though, when the officer tried enforcing Orem’s nuisance ordinance against neglected yards.

“I didn’t want to tell him anything until I talked to a lawyer or my son. I wanted to see what he’d tell me to do. I’ve never had any experience before with the law, ever in my life,” she said.

As the enforcement officer started writing her a ticket, she tried going back in her house. That’s when the officer tried to handcuff her for refusing to give her name and resisting the ticket. She tripped on the steps, scraping up her nose and elbows, leaving blood on her door, her porch and her clothes. Perry was handcuffed, fingerprinted and put in a jail cell, where she sat for more than an hour.

“I laid down in there. I never seen the inside of a jail before. I didn’t know how it looked, I was really scared,” she says.

When police brass learned what happened, she was immediately released.

Orem police spokesman Lt. Doug Edwards said, “Every officer in his career has situations they find themselves getting into, at the end of it they scratch their head and say, ‘gosh, how did this happen?’ Today, I think, was one of those days. Clearly there were some other options available.”

After being arrested, Perry is now scared of the police. She says, “Don’t ever say no when the police tell you do to something. You better do what they tell you no matter what, even if you don’t have anybody to help you. You’ve got to do what they tell you or they will hurt you.”

The officer was sent home for the day and placed on paid administrative leave. Police are not pressing any charges against Betty Perry for either neglecting her yard or resisting the ticket.

Source: ksl.com

I’ve always had a particular respect for truck drivers, but this guy gives them a bad name.  It’s certainly no easy task maneuvering a big rig in Manhattan, but to travel the entire 1.5 mile length of the Lincoln Tunnel while your trailer is peeled open like a sardine can is mind boggling.  I hope NYPD tested this guy for drugs, because he had to be smoking some good stuff!

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I just can’t figure it out. Big oil is making record profits, gas prices are at record highs, and the US economy is suffering. What does it take for our political leaders to step in and address the problem? Are they prepared to let US corporations ruin the US economy?

Our political leaders will hunt down US citizens who they believe to be involved in funding terrorism, yet they sit idle when big corporations threaten our entire country.  Corporate terrorism is running rampant, while our political leaders claim to be “battling terrorism”.

Any half-witted moron can understand that there is no logical reason to charge these outrageous energy prices.  These corporations are stealing from every hardworking American in the country.  If you have some time and you’d like to voice your opinion about the subject, contact your congressmen. 

If you’re a smoker, you’ve probably at least considered the benefits of quitting smoking.  Nicotine addiction is proven to be “a chronic, relapsing disorder” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

There are hundreds of programs designed to treat nicotine addiction.  The most popular and commercialized treatment is Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).  Treatments come in a wide variety of options, such as patches, gums, and inhalers.

A newcomer to the NRT market is a tobaccoless cigarette called Bravo® Smokes.  Made “from the leaves of pure healthy lettuce”, they are advertised as “the only clinically tested non-nicotine smoking product in the world today” according to the company, BRAVO SMOKES Corporation.

For smokers who have tried everything, Bravo® Smokes sound like a viable option.

In response to this story at MSNBC:  N.Y. shock jocks dropped over Asian slurs

What the Hell is this country coming to?  

Media conglomerates air shows like Mind of Mencia and Chappelle’s Show daily, with racial slurs and epithets throughout the entire program.  What makes these TV shows any different from radio shows? 

It’s a simple answer really.  The civil rights activists who claim to be working for the equality of people won’t target these shows because they’re hosted by “minorities”.  It’s ok to make a racial slur if you’re not white.

So why aren’t there any respectable “white activists”?  It’s not considered respectable to fight for white rights.  If you fight for white equality, you’re a white supremacist – no better than the Nazis.

This is the beginning of a Communist US.  A country where we don’t have freedom of speech or freedom of the press, and we don’t have the right to bear arms.  If we form a militia, we are labeled as terrorists.  We don’t get a speedy or public trial because we’re enemy combatants.  Oh, and who came up with the idea of multi-million dollar bail?  Does the 8th Amendment not state “Excessive bail shall not be required”?

You be the judge.  Read your Bill of Rights, and determine how many of your rights have been infringed upon.