Sunday, March 27, 2011

need a good lawyer?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/26/hinckley.today/index.html# i found this article to be very interesting because i was unaware of the actual circumstances of the Reagan assassination attempt about 30 years ago. It is an article on CNN website under the title "justice" section. It was bought to my attention that the man who tried to kill president Reagan is about to be released from a mental hospital and will soon be free. I was also unaware that he never did any hard time and got a 30 year sentence to a mental hospital because his lawyers pleaded the "insanity" card. I believe anyone who tries to kill anyone intentionally is insane away, whether or not he clinically was i suppose we will never know. With that said he certainly convinced a judge and jury that he was insane and the court favored in his plead. To try and kill the president and play the insane card and win is very hard to do. That is why i was not surprised to see a connection in an Advertisement on the bottom right hand corner of this article called http://www.lawyers.com/ which promotes lawyers, attorneys, and law firms. I soon realized that they very well may have paid for this AD space as well as paid CNN good money to even run this story at all. It makes people want to question if there is always a motive behind decent journalism and does there always have to be ome kind of special interest and kickbacks to lobbyist, lawyers, big companies and so on.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

eeehhh ann coulter....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/20/ed-schultz-ann-coulter-toxic-radiation_n_838157.html

ok im usually very tolerant with anyone who has any political point of view but there are certain people who are so out spoken and will make any outlandish point or opinion just to get publicity and that is certainly Ann Coulter. I feel that she will say anything that will get public attention and stir up talk. Bottom line is radiation at the levels that are given off at these reactor plants are not safe and even bill o'reilly who is the most reasonable person at fox to call coulter out on her being ridiculous.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Corbett budget plan.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/117872469.html

Much debate lately has been stirred about concerning our Governors latest Budget plan for PA. i personally have a few friends as well as my girlfriend who are teachers and very well may be out of a job next school year due to his budget plan that will dramatically cut back on state aid as well as education and certain union jobs. I understand that there is a time to become fiscally responsible and it is never easy to cut certain program but i believe that we can do a between job in picking and choosing what we need to cut so stop spending. The fact is that fur longing education and cutting certain after school programs and cutting away many of the fine arts may save money now but will only create future problems down the road with the lack of eduction that this youth of this generation needs. Seeing the effects of eduction may not be tangible on paper to many of the fiscal conservatives but i believe just because you can not see in writing and numbers on paper of how something will save money does not mean that it will not create more deficit problems in the future because without a proper education more people in the future will have lowered education and will not be as competitive in the job market. Bottom line is i believe education is the most important thing in a society and i do not agree with cutting back education.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

"Gov't workers Unite!"

http://www.economist.com/node/17849199

This is a very insightful article from the economist and gives a look into public and private unions over the past 30 or so years and the ups and downs they have had. I personally do not oppose unions, i think many of them are decent ones and are reasonable for what they want in fair pay and collective bargaining rights. I believe its important for big corporation CEO's and the working people to always come to some sort of agreement. Ridding workers from the right to collectively bargain could easily lead to lower wages and lost rights in the work field. However with that said there are some unions that feel they as the workers have earned a given right and some dont necessarily work based on merit or had work rather the time they put in. Being exposed to private sector unions isnt right either. Workers in the private sector should be allowed to collectively bargain and organize all they want. I don't think its correct that a company can go into debt because thier union has skilled negotiators. I don't think there is anything uncapitalistic about people organizing and bargaining.