Men Are Just Happier People --

WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED:


Your last name stays put.

The garage is all yours.

Wedding plans take care of themselves.

Chocolate is just another snack.

You can never be pregnant.

Car mechanics tell you the truth.

The world is your urinal.

You never have to drive to another petrol station restroom because this one is just too icky.

You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.

Wrinkles add character.

People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.

New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.

One mood all the time.

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

You know stuff about tanks and engines.

A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.

You can open all your own jars.

You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.

Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.

You never have strap problems in public.

You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.

Everything on your face stays its original color.

The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.

You only have to shave your face and neck.

You can play with toys all your life.

One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons.

You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.

You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife.

You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.

You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

No wonder men are happier!

Editor's Note: Sounds like a woman compiled this list to me, how about you?

Fool's Overture by Supertramp

Free Speech Mistrial

A teenager's free-speech lawsuit against a school dress code that banned Confederate flag clothing ended in a mistrial Friday when a jury in federal court failed to reach a verdict.
The panel of five women and three men deliberated about 13 hours over three days before telling U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan they couldn't reach a unanimous decision in the case of Tommy DeFoe, 18.
Lawyers for DeFoe and for the Anderson County School Board both claimed victory.
DeFoe's attorneys felt they convinced at least some jurors of the rightness of their claims.
The school board's attorney said the result leaves the ban against the Confederate flag in place.

Varlan dismissed the jury without polling it and told lawyers he would hold a hearing in the next few weeks to "talk about where we go from here."
Both sides suggested a second trial was more likely than a settlement.
"I am up for a new trial. I am ready. This ain't over yet," DeFoe, who wore a belt buckle with a Confederate battle flag every day of the five-day trial, said outside the courthouse.

DeFoe's lawsuit, the latest in a string of similar claims from Texas to South Carolina since the 1990s, argued the teen's rights to free speech, due process and equal protection were violated by a dress code in Anderson County, near Knoxville, that bars the Confederate symbol from student clothing.
The flag is considered a symbol of racism and intolerance by some, while others, like DeFoe, consider it an emblem of their Southern heritage.

School officials said they worried that displaying the banner would lead to racial tensions and violence at Anderson County High, which has had problems before, and at nearby Clinton High School, which was bombed two years after becoming the first public school desegregated by court order in the Old South in 1956.

DeFoe's lawyers countered there was no evidence that racial problems resulted directly from the apparel.
They also criticized the dress code for being a blanket policy that left no discretion to school principals.
DeFoe attended the high school at a time when just one out of 1,160 students was black and then went to an all-white county vocational school.
By the time he finished vocational school last fall, he had been suspended more than 40 times for wearing Confederate flag apparel.
He sued the school system in 2006.

Anderson County High Principal Greg Deal said he backs the dress code even if there was only one black student who might be offended.
"My feeling is, it doesn't matter how many kids I have in the school. I have the right to make sure that none of them come to school under fear of intimidation," Deal said.

DeFoe's attorney Van Irion said other, similar cases in the past have typically not gone to juries but instead were dismissed by judges or settled out of court."The fact that we have gotten this far and the fact that we came so close to a victory ... should send a message to all school boards in the country that if you are banning things based on the fact that it is offensive, that violates the Constitution," he said.

The panel was all white, though that was not the result of a selection strategy by either side.
No blacks were in the small group of randomly selected people from which the panel was selected, a reflection of the significant white majority in East Tennessee.

Eleven Hundred Posts In The Ground

Texan denies teaching kids to perform at sex club

Texas again ...

A Texas man accused of starting a "kindergarten" where children as young as 5 learned to have sex with each other and were given Vicodin-like "silly pills" to help them perform denied the charges Friday, saying the children were lying.
Patrick "Booger Red" Kelly, 41, is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and aggravated sexual assault of a child.
He is accused of helping teach the kids to have sex with each other and dance provocatively.
He also allegedly helped run the Mineola Swinger's Club, where prosecutors say the children performed for paying audiences.
The children, ages 5 to 7, were given Vicodin-like drugs passed off as "silly pills" to help them perform, prosecutors said.

Kelly denied knowledge of such pills.
He said he didn't touch the children or make the kids do any kind of sexual dancing.
He said he has never even been to the club, the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported Friday on its Web site.
Four of the five child victims testifying for the state identified Kelly as one of the adults who sexually abused them.
If convicted, Kelly could face life in prison.
That was the sentence jurors handed down this year in the trials of two others linked to the club, Jamie Pittman and Shauntel Mayo.

Four other defendants in the case are awaiting trial.

To my way of thinking upon conviction ... life in prison is too lenient ... a dark alley -- five minutes and no questions asked about what happened to the convicted person in that dark alley is more fitting.

Finally....

As Skippy the Bush Kangaroo says:

"Finally ...

Testicular fortitude is shown by the congresscritters of the donkey varietal.

House judiciary chairman John Conyers has taken the highly unusual step of calling
his committee back from summer recess in order to investigate allegations by
Ron Suskind that the bush administration forged a letter to buttress the links
made between Saddam and 9/11, and Saddam and WMD."

Let's see if these newly grown Cajones are brass or glass and the guilty (and the world knows they are) are punished.

Should Mein Kampf Be Un-Banned in Germany?

Adolf Hitler’s notorious Mein Kampf (My Struggle), a manifesto pretending to be an autobiography, has long been banned from German bookshelves “out of a responsibility and respect for the victims of the Holocaust.”
They should let it be read so all will know what a crackpot ol'Adi really was
But 83 years after it was first published, some Germans argue it should be made available again in order to drain it of whatever power it might still have.
A debate over the book is slowly growing in Germany, in part because Mein Kampf’s copyright, held by the state of Bavaria, will expire in 2015.
Then the book will enter the public domain, and anyone will be able to reprint the text. Academics and officials who fear that a flood of new editions may be abused by far-right extremists are now demanding that a carefully researched and critical edition of the 800-page tome be prepared as a way to demystify it.

Full Story: Time

They should let it be read by all so all will know what a crackpot ol'Adi really was (as if most don't know all ready).

It should be pointed out though that the nutcase did contribute one small thing positive to society ... he helped design the 'People's Car' or as it is known the Volkswagon (referred to affectionately as 'the Beetle'), ok, so maybe that is a poor example of a positive thing to contribute to society.
He did set the bar for hatred so damned low that even today's neo-nazi types have a hard time going under the bar - but some manage, anyway.

RIAA has to pay $107,951 for court costs in failed suit against disabled single mom

The RIAA has lost its lawsuit against Tanya Andersen, a disabled single mother, and have been ordered to pay her court costs of $107,951. But the good news keeps on coming: Ms Andersen is now countersuing for damages arising from her having to defend the suit.

"Well, Phase I of the RIAA's misguided pursuit of an innocent, disabled Oregon woman, Atlantic v. Andersen, has finally drawn to a close, as the RIAA was forced to pay Ms. Andersen $107,951, representing the amount of her attorneys fee judgment plus interest. But as some have pointed out, reimbursement for legal fees doesn't compensate Ms. Andersen for the other damages she's sustained. And that's where Phase II comes in, Andersen v. Atlantic. There the shoe is on the other foot, and Tanya is one doing the hunting, as she pursues the record companies and their running dogs for malicious prosecution. Should be interesting."

RIAA Pays Tanya Andersen $107,951

Karma is a bitch at times you know!