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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Autistic blogger sued by RightHaven
Apparently he posted a pic originally published in the Denver Post. The young man lives on his own on disability in a rented house. When sued he immediately took down the pic.

RightHaven (apparently) still wants $6,000.

By the way, this means that the Denver Post is now (apparently) a RightHaven client, though the Post didn't see it as 'news' and so hadn't reported it. Consider that fact if you have any dealings with the Post.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/20/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully his disability alone is enough to get the suit waived.

Fred, it sounds like you managed to beat the ethically challenged folks there at WrongHaven. Is there a one-size-fits-all way to do it? Did you end up forfeiting any $$ to them or did you get it back?
Posted by: gorb || 02/20/2011 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Filthy barbaric beasts.
Posted by: Vespasian Joluger8720 || 02/20/2011 1:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Found on the net, maybe you already know this but : RightHaven Is Now Coming After Comment Posters Not Just Websites

Posted by: Goodluck || 02/20/2011 4:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Blood-sucking, scum-swilling, SOBs. Karma is a bit
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/20/2011 9:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Truncated comment. Don't know what happened.

These bottom-feeding leeches on society. Hope they get sued for conspiracy to deprive citizens of their First Amendment rights--and lose big. They are one of the most despicable greedy bunch of ba$tards I have ever seen.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/20/2011 9:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Goggle should be a target as they enable allot of this but provide no warning. Lets try warning labels like on cigarettes before site is accessed.
Those who advertise on those sites should be shunned. I just don't go there if I am aware.
Posted by: Dale || 02/20/2011 9:35 Comments || Top||

#7  It would appear to me that these bottom feeders are being encouraged by some thing. I get the nasty feeling that this is another attempt by the leftists to muzzle free speech. Perchance we pass the hat and get a real barracuda of the barrister occupation to perform an auto de fey on them and get some public humiliation.

In california they had a similar company going around suing small businesses for minor health and sanitation violations under some lawyer welfare law. A couple of the shock jocks in LA got ahold of the scam and the next thing we knew the law was overturned and the lawyers involved were in jail or hiding under some rock in Bimini.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 02/20/2011 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  I get the nasty feeling that this is another attempt by the leftists to muzzle free speech.

Problem with that theory is that they went after Democratic Underground, hardly a right-wing (or even mild left-center) site.

The bright spot is that now all kinds of legal-types are working pro bono on behalf of DU.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/20/2011 12:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Notes from Madison WI rallies
Two of our adult kids went to the rally. Their signs asked for discussion of the various medical cuts, as they have both been without medical insurance at times. Our family stands to lose a lot in this budget cutting process. We recognize the need for the cuts and are willing to deal with them, provided the cuts are thought through. We do feel that this bill is being rammed through in the same manner that the Pelosi-care bill was rammed through: a lot of activists and legislators don't seem to know what's in it.

Nobody in this family holds much respect for the unions. And I sent a love letter to my state senator telling him that holing up in Illinois is disgraceful.

There were flakes from both ends of the political spectrum, but the flakes found themselves shouted down by their own allies. While assorted pro-union types were chanting, somebody hollered, "Walker is a Nazi!" The union members stopped chanting, said "He's not a Nazi; shut up!" and went back to chanting. Various security staff (including sheriff's deputies from other counties) politely but firmly told people who were making pests of themselves to leave--and they did, with some grumbling. No arrests were made.

People had mixed reactions to our daughters' signs reading "Think it through" and "Hyperbole doesn't help." A set of imported Tea Partiers from Minnesota didn't seem to understand the word "hyperbole". Neither did a few of the flakier liberal specimens.

The link connects you to a variety of items from the Wisconsin State Journal's coverage of the rallies
Posted by: mom || 02/20/2011 13:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "hyperbole"

That's a South American critter similar to the endangered Giant Hamster of the Alsace, right? ;-)

Thank you for the report and the link, mom. Interesting stuff.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2011 15:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "Walker is a Nazi!"

Brought to you by a unionized teachers establishment that somehow fails to understand itself or educates the public that Nazi is short for the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party. Unlike their redder brethren the [International] Communist Socialists who by pattern looted their own countries first, the National Socialist took a different approach of looting their neighbors to 'spread the wealth' along with specific ethnic communities. They're credentialed, not educated.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/20/2011 16:58 Comments || Top||

#3  That's a South American critter similar to the endangered Giant Hamster of the Alsace, right? ;-)

Wasn't Conan the Barbarian a Hyperbolean?
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 02/20/2011 18:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Hypervole - an extremely anxious rodent
Posted by: Frank G || 02/20/2011 19:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Wasn't Conan the Barbarian a Hyperbolean?

He was a big barbarian, so he spelt it hyperboolian.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2011 21:17 Comments || Top||

#6  GUAM PDN FORUMS > [Michael C. Ruppert]WISCONSIN: THE BIGGEST WAKE-UP CALL [US Collapse] SINCE THE ASTEROID.

ARTIC > RUPPERT > POTUS BAMMER + ADMIN in Anti-Debt-induced? nationwide war to[finally?] "BREAK
THE UNIONS" IN THE USA, Massive US Debt means NO $$$ ANYWHERE IN THE US TO SUPPORT UNIONS + PRO-UNION COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, + THE US GOVT = FEDERAL RESERVE SIMPLY PRINTING OUT MORE, INCREASINGLY WORTHLESS = LOW-N-GETTING-LOWER VALUE US DOLLARS ISN'T GOING TO REMEDY ANYTHING???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/20/2011 21:17 Comments || Top||


Right on cue: Government shutdown is likely, Pelosi aide says
"Republicans are not about a shut down -- if that is the Democrats' intention, that is unfortunate," Cantor told the freshman lawmakers, according to the source. "When you go home and talk to your constituents, let's show them how united we are, and let's them that we are changing Washington and finally getting this government's fiscal house in order."
Looks like vote-whoring Dems are counting on the idiot masses to run back to mama as soon as the $hit hits the fan.

I sent my reps to Washington with the idea that they had better fix the debt, which includes future obligations, under control. Even if it hurts me. And that they had better get the job done in a reasonable time.

If they have to shut down the government to beat that idea into thick liberal skulls in order to get the job done, so be it. Even if it damages the country's credit rating. I'm tired of a budget that isn't balanced. I'm tired of politicians buying votes instead of doing what's right for the country. I'm tired of the federal government way overstepping its bounds. I want to see competition between sovereign states, not a homogenous union whose only boundaries are lines on a map. I want good ideas to be adopted and bad ones shrivel up and die instead of getting subsidized until the good ones die.

Liberals would do well to consider what would have happened had the entire congress and their clueless president been up for reelection last November.

All parties would do well to act as if people will remember in 2012. And probably well beyond.

If my reps do that job, and do it honestly, I will vote for them again.

If my reps do not do that job, I will vote for different reps until I find some that will.
Posted by: gorb || 02/20/2011 04:04 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Democrats are still fantasizing that a shutdown would be like the last one, under Clinton, in which, with the help of the MSM, the public were fooled into thinking it was the Republicans fault.

However, Bill was the consummate con artist in selling his scheme. Bambi is not. Many people now cringe at the very sound of his voice. And even though the MSM would get all leg-twingy about it, most people would place the blame squarely where it belongs--on the guy waving the veto pen.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/20/2011 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  But 'moose, a lot more people are dependent on the government now. A shutdown is an attack on THEM. Bambi doesn't have to be as slick as Willie.
Polls show that most people want spending reductions - but never a majority in any one (significant) place. So the pols do what works - keep on spending.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/20/2011 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Somebody remind the Pelosi Aide that she is no longer speaker of the house BECAUSE THEY LOST!

Lost means "THE PEOPLE SPOKE".

She is OUT!
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/20/2011 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4  It also means Pelosi still SUCKS!
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/20/2011 14:01 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm sure O is glad to hear that.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/20/2011 14:32 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2011-02-20
  Bahrain protesters swarm square, police flee
Sat 2011-02-19
  Protesters in Djibouti rally to replace president
Fri 2011-02-18
  Yemen protesters flee armed government loyalists
Thu 2011-02-17
  Violent protests break out in Libya
Wed 2011-02-16
  Bahrain mourner killed in funeral march clash
Tue 2011-02-15
  Mufti warns of revolution in Saudi Arabia
Mon 2011-02-14
  Iranian protesters rally as Arab unrest spreads
Sun 2011-02-13
  Saeed Al-Shihri, Deputy Leader of AQAP Dead in Yemen
Sat 2011-02-12
  Police in Aden disperse ‘day of rage’ protests
Fri 2011-02-11
  Mubarak resigns
Thu 2011-02-10
  Mubarak still there
Wed 2011-02-09
  Suleiman: Mubarak Forms Panel to Pilot Constitutional Changes
Tue 2011-02-08
  Egypt sees largest demonstrations since start of revolt
Mon 2011-02-07
  Egypt: beginning of discussions between government and Muslim Brotherhood
Sun 2011-02-06
  Mubarak resigns as ruling party head

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