Monthly Archives: November 2007

Can you imagine if they did this in the United States?

The Saudi Justice Ministry Tuesday issued a “clarification” of a court’s handling of a rape case and the increased punishment — including 200 lashes –meted out to the victim.

The case, which has sparked media scrutiny of the Saudi legal system, centers on a married woman. The 19-year-old and an unrelated man were abducted, and she was raped by a group of seven men more than a year ago, according to Abdulrahman al-Lahim, the attorney who represented her in court.

The woman was originally sentenced in October 2006 to 90 lashes. But that sentence was more than doubled to 200 lashes and six months in prison by the Qatif General Court, because she spoke to the media about the case, a court source told Middle Eastern daily newspaper Arab News.

Can you imagine if our country started persecuting the victims?

AWESOME!!!

I’m in.   Delaware v. Del State   ROCK ON!!!

A friend’s parent’s season tickets.

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While you are Shopping at Walmart this Christmas keep this in mind

h/t suburban guerrilla

JACKSON, Mo. — A collision with a semi-trailer truck seven years ago left 52-year-old Deborah Shank permanently brain-damaged and in a wheelchair. Her husband, Jim, and three sons found a small source of solace: a $700,000 accident settlement from the trucking company involved. After legal fees and other expenses, the remaining $417,000 was put in a special trust. It was to be used for Mrs. Shank’s care.

what a shame, but at least the money is in a trust and will be able to help her for the rest of her life.

Two years ago, the retail giant’s health plan sued the Shanks for the $470,000 it had spent on her medical care. A federal judge ruled last year in Wal-Mart’s favor, backed by an appeals-court decision in August. Now, her family has to rely on Medicaid and Mrs. Shank’s social-security payments to keep up her round-the-clock care.

AWESOME!

The reason is a clause in Wal-Mart’s health plan that Mrs. Shank didn’t notice when she started stocking shelves at a nearby store eight years ago. Like most company health plans, Wal-Mart’s reserves the right to recoup the medical expenses it paid for someone’s treatment if the person also collects damages in an injury suit.
They sure know how to treat their employees!

Let’s be honest though, it is her fault for working there.  Her fault she didn’t save enough money, her husbands fault for not having a better job and ultimately her fault for not getting a better education to be working some where else..

I blame the Shanks, not wal mart.  What’s a company to do that only has 4 of the richest people in the world on their pay rolls

Funny because it is true

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

“Look baby, I don’t know how to tell you this but if I can’t play around with a few of your orifices, well you are going to hell”

Awesome!

Castle Votes With Bush on Iraq Again….snore.

Orderly and Responsible Iraq Redeployment Appropriations Act, FY2008 Link
Vote Passed (218-203, 1 Present, 11 Not Voting) The House approved legislation to grant the Department of Defense four months worth of emergency funding for the War in Iraq, under the condition that troop redeployment begins 30 days following the bill’s enactment.

Rep. Michael Castle voted
NO

I can’t wait to hear how Castle’s (now 96%) pro-Bush voting record makes him some kind of “maverick.”

I’m sure Celia will have a cogent explaination.

Republican Deathwatch List

One word describes DEGOPs legislative outlook for next year.

Bleak

Celia misses the few surprise retirements (which I predicted last year) otherwise it is a decent summary of the misery in store for Delaware’s GOP.

Defending 12 in districts that have lost that “ticket splitting” feeling. Of the 12, only Cathcart in the 9th (sniff) looks to be in somewhat decent shape.

Breaking: World to End Friday at 1:30 p.m.

In spite of the University of Delaware’s valiant attempts to stave off the end of the world God’s judgement on mankind will be passed on Friday afternoon.

So brace yourselves for fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria.

Unless you are into that sort of thing. In that case, party on.

Plans for DelawareLiberal.Net

Hello kind readers, DelawareLiberal is planning on moving to the next level of blogging in the near term.  As you may know, we have used the delawareliberal.net domain name for the past 6 months or so.  Currently, that address redirects to delawareliberal.wordpress.com.

We have been considering some changes to that system that would free us from some of the restrictions of WordPress.

First, effective today, you can contact most of our contributors with emails to delawareliberal.net addresses.  Simply address your email to our “handle” (e.g. liberalgeek) at delawareliberal.net.  There will likely be other email addresses created for roles, rather than individuals, in the future.

Second, we will likely move off of wordpress.com by the first of the year.  We will continue with the WordPress platform, but running on a paid service located right here in Delaware.

Third, we will be able to add features to the DelawareLiberal site that are not possible at wordpress.  This will include more storage, a mobile version of the website and some more plugins not currently offered by WordPress.com.  The sites look and feel will undergo some small changes as a part of this while we hone the visual appeal of the site.  Don’t worry, our writing will remain sub-par.

We are also considering the use of advertising on the site.  Our intent is to keep the ads as unobtrusive as possible.  The proceeds will be used to buy Mrs. Scott a big Valentines Day gift.  🙂

Here’s where you come in.  How does this sound to you?  Would this be a fair trade-off?  Do you have any suggestions for how to do the ads unobtrusively?  Has anyone used Google Adsense or any of the other advertising networks?

Also, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, please let me extend my appreciation to all of you for your readership.  It really is your comments and participation that makes this site the community that it is.  Thank you all.