Joe Cocker
“You Can Leave Your Hat On”

It’s Saturday night…….. POLE DANCE!

Sounds like Congressman Liston has an upclose and personal view of how things used to be. Ugh…..

A Republican state representative in Colorado has apologized for calling unmarried teenage parents “sluts.”

Larry Liston of Colorado Springs was talking at a GOP caucus meeting about teenagers who have babies and expect the government to support them.

“In my parents’ day and age, they were sent away, they were shunned, they were called what they are,” Liston told the caucus. “There was at least a sense of shame.” He then used the word “slut,” adding, “I don’t mean just the women. I mean the men, too.”

Full story at Raw Story

(Post title from: Johnny Cash - “Ring Of Fire”)

Remember Goober (George Lindsey) of “The Andy Griffith Show” fame? Remember his Cary Grant impression, “Judy, Judy, Judy”? Is where I came up with this post’s title.

I don’t know why Rudy Giuliani came to mind. I don’t know exactly why I’ve tied those two things together. Funny how the mind works sometimes.

In a totally unrelated story:

Mob Tied to Big NYC Construction Jobs

NEW YORK (AP) — The trucks that rolled into Staten Island left more than dirt at the site of a new NASCAR racetrack. They also brought cash for the Gambino crime family, prosecutors say.

It was all part of the cost of doing business at construction sites around the area that prosecutors say were rampant with mob corruption.

The shakedowns were outlined in a sweeping indictment this week that led to the arrests of dozens of mobsters on charges including murder, gambling, drug dealing and credit-card fraud. It was one of the largest mob crackdowns in recent memory.

There’s no question these men deserve a trial. As long as the U.S. is doing the detaining and the prosecuting, then we are bound by our rules. And in that vein, these men deserve a timely trial also.

Even in a military environment, there should be the presumption of innocence. If not, why even hold a trial? If the prosecution wants to withhold evidence, then the prosecution doesn’t have a case. To continue holding these men in this fashion makes us no better than that which we condemn them of.

Secret Evidence Bogs Down Gitmo Hearings

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The secrecy shrouding government files on terror suspects is bogging down the Pentagon’s effort to hold trials at Guantanamo Bay, with defense attorneys accusing the government of withholding potential evidence.

At pretrial hearings this week, attorneys for two al-Qaida suspects captured in Afghanistan said they need more access to interrogators, witnesses and records. Prosecutors objected, citing a need to protect the identities of U.S. service members and other security concerns.
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“We’re going to have to see how willing the judges are to interpret the rules so as to give defense counsel some kind of chance to actually defend their clients,” said Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, a defense attorney for detainee Omar Khadr. “That means litigating these discovery issues and that takes time.”