Keep an eye on this one. Flashbangs with two toddlers inside. Lovely.
Federal charges for Miguel Tejada. For lying to Congress about a harmless substance (HGH) for which Congress has no constitutionally-legitimate authority to regulate.
It looks like Sheriff Leon “50-Cal” Lott is also continuing with his plans to capitalize on the good fortune of having an Olympic champion smoke up in his county.
An interview with the father of The Toxic Avenger. I have the trilogy on VHS. Alas. It’s on VHS.
One hundred years of the federal drug war.
Geithner plans to put taxpayers on the hook for another $1.5 trillion in bank bailout money. Remember when a government official proposing to give $1.5 trillion in guaranteed loans to a select group of companies would have been shocking?
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No, I’m not old enough. :(
I had the Toxic Avenger on vhs as well – until the tape wore out on the bicycle scene.
Ahh, the glories of DVD – you can watch it forever with no loss in quality!
Tejada – Interesting how he gets charged with lying to Congress but Gonzalez, Rice etc., not so much.
Phelps – Don’t they have to prove that it was actually marijuana that he was smoking? His apology doesn’t admit it was weed. So how is he going to be charged with possession?
Maybe Phelps should just say scr*w it and move to Australia, where it is not a crime to smoke or grow pot. That would get some attention.
“Princy’s 4-year-old daughter and a friend’s 2-year-old daughter were inside the house with the suspects when police threw a flash bang and raided the house. They said they believed guns and ammunition stolen from two Kansas City pawn shops were being stored inside, but they had to wait for a search warrant before they could look in the house.”
Um, did I read this right? They moved in BEFORE they had a warrant?
I’m just glad the dog got away unharmed in the Kansas City raid.
Mike Leatherwood That was my same thought.
What type of warrant they had to begin with even they even had one.
I wonder what the excuses would be right now if the grenade had landed in a child’s lap?
Also they arrested the men on what charges? They had not found any weapons as of that story.
Kansas City, Kan., police said a tips call led them to a major gun bust, but one of the suspect’s wives told KCTV5 News that she doubted the information was credible and that she believed officers targeted the wrong house.
Wow. I wonder how many wives he had.
Exactly what I was thinking. Makes me think maybe they were trying to backtrack and dot their Is and cross their Ts after they already screwed up.
How the hell can they write a story about a police raid of a private residence where cops claim to be making a “major gun bust” without including the little detail about whether any guns were found?
They don’t need a warrant to apprehend the suspects, just to search. What they did is fairly standard – apprehend the suspects while waiting for the search warrant, then perform the search after they get the warrant.
It’s hard to tell, as most of us here know that police will shamelessly lie, but the story is that these guys are suspected of having a cache of guns stolen from a pawn shop. If true, this is a case where moving quickly and all that actually makes some amount of sense, as by definition there would be significant weaponry in the house, not just the standard hand gun that’s found at every second drug dealer’s house (basing that on statistics from one of the state’s swat raids).
It’ll be a story to follow up, if they find the weapons then nobody will give it more thought. If they don’t find them, there will be the standard outcry for a few days, some settlement perhaps, and we’ll continue with business as usual.
It seems somewhat hypocritical for congressmen to get their panties in bunch over someone lying to them.
The baseball story reminds me of Clinton’s impeachment: while a blow job may not be illegal by itself, lying about it while under oath sure is. I’ve some sympathy for Tejada on this but the moral of the story is Don’t Lie When Under Oath! -ESPECIALLY- when you’re a public figure in the spotlight!! (duh)
Seem to me it would have been quite appropriate for both guys to have responded with a ‘none of your damn business’ to those questions rather than lie about it. Sure would have saved them a boat load of hassle. May have even opened up the topic on how far Congress is allowed to go with silly stunts.
What if it was determined that HGH improved the quality of life for everyone who took it, especially the eldery and allowed them (us) to live better lives as we got older. And I actually think this is the case.
Troma rocks. Just get the first Toxic Avenger and Toxic Avenger IV on DVD.
Also, if you haven’t yet seen it, Troma’s latest, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is great.
He should have took the Fifth. He is a dumbass and is getting exactly what he deserves.
ParatrooperJJ, you silly goose, you can’t plead the fifth regarding something *someone else* has done. Tejada’s been charged with lying to Congress about someone else’s drug use (likely Adam Piatt). Not his own.
HGH is not harmless. It is a very useful drug, but if taken in too large a quantity it can lead to heart disease, joint problems, diabetes, kidney failure, and other issues. One can argue that adults should be allowed to self-medicate if they like so long as they are informed of and accept the risks, but don’t say that HGH is harmless. It’s just less harmful than anabolic steroids.
#11: If they think they know the guns are there, why not hide out of site, watch the place, and wait for the warrant before throwing flashbangs in? There are many levels of wrong with this, from the huge (the police actions) to the mild (the author’s poor wording allows confusion over when this happened in relation to obtaining the warrant) to the inexcusable (multiple grievous uses of the apostrophe.)
About Timmy:
So the taxpayer is getting raped again (and again, and again …). Ho hum.
A whole week to hype the solution to the economic mess along with a one day delay (just to make sure) and we get a vague concept of a plan of a plan. I must say the market reacted with restraint.
Sigh.
Re: HGH
I’m 50 years old and (barely) 5’4″ tall. Just around the time I was hitting puberty they were doing the first studies of HGH. My mom, operating under some weird mom guilt thing, took me to the University of Oregon Hospital because they were involved with these studies and she thought it would “help” me.
As it happens, I wasn’t a severe enough case to warrant being included in the study, though it turns out that I apparently missed dwarfism (which is a bitch, BTW) by a tiny twist in my DNA.
Since then I’ve seen lots of people of around my age who did qualify for the treatment. Yeah, they’re taller. But they have to carry around a veritable pharmacy to counter all the side effects. I used to think I was lucky to have avoided all that.
Now I see that I’m even luckier. I could be tall, unhealthy, and subpoenaed by Congress.
(BTW… I’m very happy to be living in the world of belt buckles and bosoms. It’s quite pleasant down here.)
My bad!!
Just for glee
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Re: Tejada.
I thought it wasn’t time to look backwards, but to move forward? We are facing so many problems as a nation that we can’t have investigations and prosecutions right?
Oh no sorry that’s only when it comes to high-ranking government officials who are clearly guilty of felonies and war-crimes.
Didn’t he know that only Congressmen are allowed to lie in Congress?