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One has to wonder. My neighborhood is filled with smoke from fireworks. I think this year is worse than before and has even made it into our house. Will the smoke nazis stand up and protect us innocents from secondhand fireworks smoke, which unlike smoking is actually illegal?

Are Americans willing to give muslims a separte judicial system in America? If so, how long before our judicial system is completly ruled under Sharia law? See previous post of founding fathers regarding the United States, law and God.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031611/Sharia-law-SHOULD-used-B...

COLUMBUS - State Rep. Tyrone Yates (D., Cincinnati) and Rep. Shawn Webster (R., Hamilton) stand at polar opposite points in their ideas as to how to deal with pit bulls, those muscle-bound dogs with jaws of steel.

WASHINGTON: More than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March — including dozens over the last two days — in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud nationwide that have contributed to the country's housing crisis.

The FBI put the losses to homeowners and other borrowers who were victims in the schemes at over $1 billion.

This is what happens when you get too high and mighty. This administration ignored basic human rights issues and tried to slip around the system and the courts. Eventually, they were caught up in their own arrogance. Here's what really happened.

By denying Gitmo detainees basic legal protections, the Bush administration forced the high court to act.

3 men can be found guilty of thinking planning and training to do harm. No where close do actually to acting on their desires. And now face years in jail. Then we have a celebrity in the news today. Acquitted. That was not him or her on the video tape. 22 people including the girl in questions own family testified that it was. What am i missing ?

Relevant Toledo issues are discussed daily on the show and Troy gets the newsmakers. Here is a sample.

Blade Headline:
Toledo loses round in security dispute

The increasingly controversial proposed Toledo law to require owners of vacant buildings to register and pay a fee was vehemently denounced yesterday by a number of opponents and applauded by others during a lengthy City Council committee hearing.

If approved, the fee starts at $100 for residential buildings and increases the longer a property is vacant.

A federal judge yesterday sided with a group of
carry-out owners and ruled that the city of Toledo cannot begin
enforcing its new convenience store licensing law.

Taxes... Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics
enlightening and amazing.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500

Appeals court declares that there was no reason to remove the children from the FLDS ranch. This is a great day for children and families everywhere. At last someone did the right thing. The next step is to return the children to their mothers.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/22/flds.ruling/index.html

An interesting article in the Toledo Journal. Some interesting parts:

It’s perfectly fine for a white homosexual official at the University of Toledo to make disparaging remarks about religious peoplem, Crystal Dixon says.
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It’s another matter, though, when an African American UT official with strong religious beliefs expresses an opinion on homosexuality, she says

This week on the Toledo View...
Interviews with:

Anita Lopez, Lucas County Auditor

Vallie Bowman-English, Clerk of Toledo Courts

Ben Konop, Lucas County Commisioner

Read the hot editorial's on the Citizens View...

THEY SHOOT BLACK MEN, DON'T THEY?

DO YOU KNOW A HATER?

And on the Anonymous View...

POLICE AND RACIAL PROFILING

INDIANS AND RACISM

An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Willie Campbell, who the jury said used his saliva as a deadly weapon, will have to serve half his sentence before becoming eligible for parole.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0508/519922.html

Once again the voters voice has been ignored and trampled on. The Supreme Court has overturned the gay marriage ban, even though the citizens made clear they wanted it banned. Yet, another example of unconstitutional legislation from the bench. Its clear, when immorality has an agenda....the will of the majority means nothing.

COLUMBUS - The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday agreed to mull the issue of whether cities may require their employees to live within their borders.

The court agreed to hear appeals of rulings involving the cities of Lima and Akron that struck down a 2006 state law prohibiting residency mandates when it comes to most city employees.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- John McCain has long rankled social conservatives with his stance on issues such as campaign finance reform and support for some embryonic stem cell research. On Tuesday, he sought to reassure those voters of his conservative credentials as he outlined his philosophy for appointing judges to the federal bench.

OS ANGELES (Reuters) - All Michael Buday wanted to do was take the last name of his wife, Diana Bijon, when they married.
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But it took two years, a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination and a change in California law before he picked up his new drivers license in the name of Michael Bijon on Monday.

Toledo City Council offered mostly cheery-eyed praise yesterday for officials from the California-based company looking to transform Swan Creek downtown into a $300 million mixed-use riverwalk development.

At the same time, some councilmen said the proposed agreement to sell city-owned land to Tetra Tech Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., needed more review.

An appellate court sided a third time with cities in their battle to enforce laws requiring municipal employees to live in the cities for which they work.

Ohio's 6th District Court of Appeals in Toledo struck down a 2006 state law prohibiting cities from imposing a residency requirement as a condition of employment.

I know of these suits -

Karen Stranahan has filed b/c of the garbage tax.
http://www.trashtax.blogspot.com/

The Midwestern Retailers Association filed on April 4th:
http://ord-797-07.blogspot.com/2008/04/040408-press-release.html

"Last week's public hearings in the sensational case were longer on suspicions than hard evidence. Since then, the authorities have clamped down even on basic information that should not be sensitive — such as the ages and genders of those removed.

Coincidence?

The dog warden who's looking to make sure your dog is licensed, that's who. Starting tomorrow the Lucas County Dog Warden office will be going door to door to find dogs without licenses. Tom Skeldon will be on with me tomorrow at 7:45 to talk about it.

By the end of the year, Toledo police hope to increase parking tickets issued by 20 percent, complete a security assessment of all the city's public and parochial schools, and be able to scan license plates automatically with at least one of their patrol cars.