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Examples of Corruption

Re-elected Champaign official plans to resign seat

So, oldish news, but this guy, two weeks into his term he resigns to take a job with someone else. Now, if you plan to resign your seat, maybe you shouldn’t have ran in the first place. In this country we vote for candidates, not parties. Using the incumbency advantage to hold the seat for your party to toss the seat over to another Republican who couldn’t manage to win her own race (a race I paid attention and was so disgusted by, I ended up voting for the Socialist) is pretty outrageous. Yeah, he says he got the offer 2 days before the election, but why would a law firm give him an offer that soon to an election, and did he solicit the offer in the first place?

If it weren’t for all the other standard corruption in this state (from both parties) he might get the benefit of the doubt. But politicians in this state have done nothing but reaffirm my low expectations of them.

April 20th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Local | no comments

Finally a Payapl Competitor

GreenZap is a new company looking to preregister and start in June of this year to compete with PayPal. I’ve been less than impressed lately with PayPal so a competitor is a good thing.

You can preregister here and receive $25 when they go live. (Remember when Paypal used to give a few bucks when you registered, same thing).

April 20th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Uncategorized | no comments

Blogroll

I’ve just put it back up, if I’ve missed you send me an email.

April 20th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Blogging | no comments

Airline Security

Michelle Malkin writes about the current state of airline insecurity. Federalizing the whole thing only insured to hire the same people at twice the pay and three times the waste with the fringe benefit of goosing grandmothers instead of looking for terrorists. There is one thing to note though. There will be new plane hijacking a la 9/11. The terrorists have moved on from that tactic because it was a one-time stunt and won’t work again. The passangers will never let someone hijack another plane again. Remember Robert Reid - the Shoe Bomber? It wasn’t airline security that prevented him (though it should have), it was the passengers who beat the man to a bloody stump with three doctors drugging him into a coma. Even if marshalls were on that flight, they’d have to climb over 50 people who all took turns beating this guy.

Terrorists are going to pick another vector. If they choose the same one all the time, it just causes people not to fly. A problem, but not a crisis. The next hit, if there is one, will be something entirely different an unexpected. That’s how terrorism works. You make people afraid because they don’t know where the next attack comes from.

April 20th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Terrorism | no comments

Planned Parenthood Says Prosecuting Child Rape Will Violate Privacy

Indiana Abortion-Sexual Abuse Investigation Goes to Court

The Indiana AG is finally getting around to investigating only 40 cases of dramatically underage girls getting abortion. (Though researchshows the number of cases in 2000 alone is almost 6000). Planned Parenthood says disclosing records of girls under 13 who had abortions (and were by the virtue of being pregnant raped and abused) would violate the right of privacy of the sexual predators that think raping kids is a-ok the young girls.

Apparently, the stories of desperate young women who have no where to turn except Planned Parenthood obscures one fact. That they just want to cover up the rape so the rapist can victimize more girls and increase the cash flow of this “not for profit” organization.

On Business Law Matters

Don’t get prosecuted without cause, make sure you have a corporate lawyer advising you on legal matters for any large business. It can save a lot of
headaches to have a commercial lawyer ready to defend you rather than waiting till legal matters come up. Find a business lawyer today!

April 20th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Pro-Life | no comments

COTV #136 Hosted Here - Guidelines

With the posting of COTV #135 here is the guidelines for #136 which I’m hosting.

Apparently #134 has caused quite the poop storm about what a host is or is not supposed to do. The only thing bloggers like more (myself included) than sniping public figures for saying dumb, wrong, or both, things, is carping at other bloggers. So in the spirit of misanthropy, a feeling which almost every blogger shares regardless of political affiliation, here are the posting guidelines for the next COTV.

- Send me the URL, Title, Permalink.
- Send me a post summary
- Deadline is Midnight on the 27th. I.e. 12:00 am on the 27th, a minute after 11:59 pm on the 26th. I may post after that, I may wait til the morning. If you are late, you are probably out of luck, but I may be generous.
- Send me email at : jcb.blog (at) gmail.com
- Your e-mail should have COTV #136 in the title

Format? I haven’t decided, but I’ll take suggestions.

April 20th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Carnivals | no comments

eBay Morals for Sale

Catholics were outraged at someone auctioning the Eucharist on eBay and apparently eBay let it slide. (Sorry no link). So in protest, this auction was put up.

I’m currently the high bidder.

April 20th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Religion | no comments