RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) ― A prosecutor's $5 fine for being late to court was overturned after his boss filed a 47-page appeal. The 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that Riverside County Superior Court Judge Helios Hernandez failed to give prosecutor Phillip Greenberg proper written notice before sanctioning him for being five minutes tardy to an April robbery case. District Attorney Rod Pacheco petitioned the appeals court to overturn the fine on grounds that it violated rules governing contempt of court by imposing a fine without a written explanation. The county has a huge backlog of criminal cases, and several have been dismissed because they exceeded the time limit for going to trial. In February, Hernandez began fining lawyers $1 per minute for being late to criminal cases nearing the deadline. Yesterday, Hernandez said he has stopped issuing the $1-a-minute fines. Now, he warns attorneys the first time they are late.
Great use of our tax dollars huh??? It must've cost around $1.31, if they used a laser printer, to pritn the appeal. Then, add to that the time it cost to TYPE that appeal(say a secretary did it at 2 pages/min=about 24 mins=about $6). So the total would be about $7.31. TO AVOID a $5 fine! Make sense? Nope, that's government for you! You wonder why people don't want to pay taxes anymore? It's because we don't want to support these idiotic bureaucrats!!
Just pay the $5 fine. The guy was late! What are we in high school and need a 'written' reprimand first? I thought attorneys have a JD and pass the bar. Can't they tell time? If they were late to the bar exam, I doubt they'd even let them take it. Yet his BOSS has to appeal a $5 fine? Does his boss have nothing better to do?
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Motherhood is 'so much fun'?
Jamie Lynn Spears says 'motherhood is so much fun' in an article.
Is this the kind of person you want as a role model? Pregnant at 16, mother at 17?
Also she is pretty much saying playing 'house' for real is a piece of cake.
Well of course, when you have lots of money motherhood will be 'so much fun.' I'm sure she can hire nannies to help. She also doesn't have to worry about working, she can just focus on the baby. She also has a supportive family. Finally, she has her OWN house!
How many teenagers can even afford a downpayment on a house?
How many teenagers get paid a million dollars for pictures of their baby?
Now she wants to set the date for the wedding? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Get married, then have the baby?
Lets look at real life:
Most teens don't have millions of dollars to help them ease through motherhood. Maybe Jamie Lyn would look at motherhood differently if she had to go through the hardships that a typical teen mother (usually without the father) have to go through.
Typical Scenario:
Teen girl gets pregnant, guy abandons her. Now she has to raise it alone. Sometimes the parents will help support. However, by doing so many teens take advantage of their parents and never really learn what it is to be a parent (her mother becomes the de facto mother of the baby).
If her parents aren't supportive and she has to raise the baby on her own, what can she do then? She has to take a minimum wage job to support it, or gets pulled into the dark side of this world.
Or maybe her parents are semi-supportive and she goes back to school, where she gets free(paid by tax payers) day care while going to school. This example then shows other teen girls that being a mother isn't that bad, you can go to school still, you just stick the kid into the school's daycare.
Final thought:
Nick should take Zoey off the air immediately if it already hasn't. There should be NO syndication of it. They should drop Jamie Lyn from any future projects. It's bad enough already for teens, we don't need someone promoting teen pregnancy!
Is this the kind of person you want as a role model? Pregnant at 16, mother at 17?
Also she is pretty much saying playing 'house' for real is a piece of cake.
Well of course, when you have lots of money motherhood will be 'so much fun.' I'm sure she can hire nannies to help. She also doesn't have to worry about working, she can just focus on the baby. She also has a supportive family. Finally, she has her OWN house!
How many teenagers can even afford a downpayment on a house?
How many teenagers get paid a million dollars for pictures of their baby?
Now she wants to set the date for the wedding? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Get married, then have the baby?
Lets look at real life:
Most teens don't have millions of dollars to help them ease through motherhood. Maybe Jamie Lyn would look at motherhood differently if she had to go through the hardships that a typical teen mother (usually without the father) have to go through.
Typical Scenario:
Teen girl gets pregnant, guy abandons her. Now she has to raise it alone. Sometimes the parents will help support. However, by doing so many teens take advantage of their parents and never really learn what it is to be a parent (her mother becomes the de facto mother of the baby).
If her parents aren't supportive and she has to raise the baby on her own, what can she do then? She has to take a minimum wage job to support it, or gets pulled into the dark side of this world.
Or maybe her parents are semi-supportive and she goes back to school, where she gets free(paid by tax payers) day care while going to school. This example then shows other teen girls that being a mother isn't that bad, you can go to school still, you just stick the kid into the school's daycare.
Final thought:
Nick should take Zoey off the air immediately if it already hasn't. There should be NO syndication of it. They should drop Jamie Lyn from any future projects. It's bad enough already for teens, we don't need someone promoting teen pregnancy!
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