Gore Vidal Speaks... in 7 parts

Bask in the glow of political philosophy at its finest.

Federal Government Rules Against Phelps. (yay!)

While I advocate the right to free speech, I also believe people have the right to privacy. on occasion said privacy should be extended to public areas like churches, hospitals or funeral homes/graveyards. It is nice to see that this group who has a long record of pushing the limits and boundaries of free speech is facing the fire for their hate rhetoric. Now if only we could somehow find a way to bring the Phelps family up on charges for the incitement of Hate Crimes, through their endorsement of violent upheaval of the homosexual community.

I for one am glad to see this father was pissed off enough to do something about it.

He deserves every penny he gets; if he ever even sees a dime.

(CNN) -- A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday awarded $10.9 million to a father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of a fundamentalist church carrying signs blaming soldiers' deaths on America's tolerance of homosexuals.
The family of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder -- who was killed in a vehicle accident in Iraq's Anbar province in 2006 -- sued the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, and its leaders for defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Church members showed up at Snyder's funeral chanting derogatory slogans and holding picket signs with messages including "God Hates Fags."

They've picketed the funerals of dozens of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming that God is punishing the United States because of its tolerance for homosexuality.

Al Snyder, father of the slain Marine, said he considered filing the lawsuit for a long time before going forward and that he hoped the judgment would make it harder for the church to continue such protests.

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I am surprised by or government on a daily basis. Todays is a good surprise!

Smokey Bear weeps...

Only you and your young child can prevent forest fires! Please keeps matches lighters and other implements used to start fires away from children! Also remember that childproof in no way means a child cannot find a way to use the lighter!

One must feel for the parents, but in the same extent What response is in the best interest of the state? Maybe this action (unless proven to be a child with a criminal record)is best left as a learning experience for ALL families that their children MUST be taught and watched over properly. A 10 year old being watched by a parent is NOT playing with matches...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 — A 10-year-old boy admitted that he accidentally started one of the largest of last week’s Southern California wildfires while playing with matches, enforcement officials say.

The blaze, the Buckweed fire, started in the early afternoon of Oct. 21, in Agua Dulce, a rural community in the northern part of Los Angeles County. Fanned by high winds and hot, dry weather, it spread quickly, driving 15,000 people from their homes, destroying 21 houses and 22 other buildings, injuring three people and blackening more than 38,000 acres.

Investigators immediately began tracing the cause of the fire, and on Oct. 22 arson investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department talked with the suspect, whose name has not been released, a department spokesman, Steve Whitmore, said Wednesday. “It became known to them that they needed to speak with this young boy,” Mr. Whitmore said. “He acknowledged that he was playing with matches and accidentally, his words, set the fire.”

Mr. Whitmore would not discuss the case further before evidence was presented to the county district attorney’s office.

The youth was left in the custody of his parents, awaiting word on whether he would be prosecuted. If so, the case would be heard in the county’s juvenile justice system, said Sandi Gibbons, the public information officer for the district attorney’s office.

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Only YOU can prevent Forest Fires!