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The Invincible Gabrielle Gifford

by on ·Politics

Last night a Special News Breaking Report briefly interrupted a TV program that I was watching. But my annoyance over the interruption soon turned to joy when the camera showed colleagues of Rep. Gabrielle (Gabby) Gifford welcoming her back to the floor of the House of Representatives with a standing ovation. This occurred seven months after Gabby was shot in the head outside a grocery store during a meeting with her constituents in Arizona. Although I never met the congresswoman, I was very happy to see her back on her feet.

For over a decade I worked in government relations offices as an administrative staff member. That’s a crafty way of saying that I was basically a paper-shuffler and gofer sometimes with impressive sounding job titles. However, a highlight of my job was that it enabled me to meet and greet some of Washington’s political movers and shakers.

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Final Bid on Casey Anthony Halloween Mask $1M

by on ·Lifestyle and Culture

What is scarier than coming face-to-face with Freddie Krueger, the fictional character from the Nightmare on Elm Street horror film series? It is the thought that someone on EBay laid out nearly $1 million dollars for a Casey Anthony latex Halloween mask. Some believe that the 100 plus bidders may have been fake, but reportedly they all have legitimate EBay accounts. According to HLN and Tampa Bay Online the winning bid was actually $999,900. Not only is that really scary, it’s sad.

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Is Lady Justice Blind or Just Cockeyed?

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How much faith can one have in a court system that frees an Orlando, Florida woman, who by all evidence was partly or entirely responsible for the disappearance and subsequent murder of her own two year old child, then convicts a mother in the death of her 4 year old who was struck and killed as the mother jaywalked with her three children across a busy street while trying to get home? 

Raquel Nelson, the 30 year old, Marietta, Georgia pedestrian was convicted of reckless conduct, improperly crossing a roadway and second-degree homicide by vehicle, while the driver of the van who killed Nelson’s son and injured the mother and another child, admitted that he had been drinking and using painkillers before getting behind the wheel got six months on a hit-and-run charge. What they hey???

After more than 125,000 people joined in an online petition campaign asking for mercy, Judge Kathryn Tanksley handed Nelson a year’s probation, ordered 40 hours of community service and offered her a new trial.

The suburban mother who appeared on NBC’s Today’s show twice this week said, “There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to go through this again,” then added that she is weighing her options.

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