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10/04/2011 by commonsense

Did Amanda Knox Get Away with Murder

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PERUGIA,Italy–  Amanda Knox has leftRomeaboard a London-bound plane en route to theUnited States.

The Italy-US Foundation, which has championed her cause, said Knox departed shortly after noon fromRome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport. InLondon, she will catch a connecting flight to theUnited States.

Knox is making her way home to theUnited Statesa free woman Tuesday, after an Italian appeals court dramatically overturned the American student’s conviction of sexually

How global attention impacted case:

Prosecutors said Monday night after hearing the verdict that they would appeal to the nation’s highest criminal court, the Court of Cassation, after reading the court’s reasoning, which will be published in the next 90 days.

“Tonight’s sentence is wrong and confounding,” prosecutor Giuliano Mignini told the ANSA news agency. “The Court of Cassation will establish who is right” between the lower court and the appeals court,” said, citing what he called “unprecedented media pressure,” revisiting a theme he touched on during his closing arguments.

Back inPerugia, the family of slain British student Meredith Kercher remained stunned by the verdict and searching for answers.

“It was a bit of a shock,” said Stephanie Kercher, the victim’s sister. “It’s very upsetting … We still have no answers.”

Lyle Kercher, a brother, said the family is still trying to understand how a decision that “was so certain two years ago has been so dramatically overturned.”

Lyle Kercher said the family has been left to wonder who is guilty in the 21-year-old Kercher’s death after the release of Knox and her one time boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito on appeal. A third man has been convicted in the brutal slaying, however his trial concluded that he did not act alone.

“If they two released yesterday were not the guilty parties, we are obviously left to wonder who is the other guilty person or people. We are left back at square one,” Lyle Kercher said.

Knox left her prison outsidePerugiaMonday night, less than two hours after the verdict was read out in a packed court acquitting her and her Italian one-time boyfriend of the brutal murder. Knox was expected to leave Tuesday for theUnited States. 

Knox thanked those “who shared my suffering and helped me survive with hope,” in a letter to a foundation that seeks to promote ties betweenItalyand theUnited Statesand which has always championed her cause.

“Those who wrote, those who defended me, those who were close, those who prayed for me,” Knox wrote. “I love you, Amanda.”

Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British student who shared an apartment with Knox inPerugia. Knox was convicted to 26 years, Sollecito to 25.

In a stunning reversal, the appeals court inPerugiaoverturned those convictions and set the two free. They had been in prison since Nov. 6, 2007, four days after Kercher’s body had been found at the apartment.

The 24-year-old Knox dissolved into tears as the verdict was read in a packed courtroom after 11 hours of deliberations, and needed to be propped up by her lawyers on either side.

Two hours later Knox was in a dark limousine that took her out of the Capanne prison just outsidePerugia, where she had spent the past four years, and headed toRome.

“During the trip fromPerugiato Rome Amanda was serene,” said Corrado Maria Daclon, the secretary general of the Italy-US Foundation, who was with Knox in the car. “She confirmed to me that in the future she intends to come back to our country.”

The prosecution’s case was blown apart by a court-ordered DNA review that discredited crucial genetic evidence used to convict the two in 2009.

While waves of relief swept through the defendants’ benches in the courtroom, members of the Kercher family, who flew in for the verdict, appeared dazed and perplexed. Meredith’s older sister Stephanie shed a quiet tear, her mother Arline looked straight ahead.

“We respect the decision of the judges but we do not understand how the decision of the first trial could be so radically overturned,” the Kerchers said in a statement. “We still trust the Italian justice system and hope that the truth will eventually emerge.”

The Kerchers had pressed for the court to uphold the guilty verdicts passed two years ago, and resisted theories that a third man convicted in the case, Rudy Hermann Guede, had acted alone. Guede, convicted in a separate trial, is serving a 16-year sentence.

The verdict reverberated through the streets of this medieval hilltop town, where both Knox and Kercher had arrived with so much anticipation for overseas studies programs four years ago.

Hundreds of mostly university-age youths gathered in the piazza outside the courtroom jeered as news of the acquittals spread. “Shame, shame,” they yelled, adding that a black man had been made to shoulder all of the guilt for the murder.

The jury upheld Knox’s conviction on a charge of slander for accusing bar owner Diya “Patrick” Lumumba of carrying out the killing. But the judge set the sentence at three years, less than the time Knox had spent in prison.

Prosecutors said they would appeal to the nation’s highest criminal court, after reading the court’s reasoning due out within 90 days.

“Tonight’s sentence is wrong and confounding,” prosecutor Giuliano Mignini told the ANSA news agency. “There is a heavy conviction for slander. Why did she accuse him? We don’t know.”

Just before deliberations began Monday, Knox tearfully told the court she did not kill her roommate.

“I’ve lost a friend in the worst, most brutal, most inexplicable way possible,” she said of the 2007 murder of Kercher, who shared an apartment with Knox when they were both students inPerugia. “I’m paying with my life for things that I didn’t do.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/03/amanda-knoxs-appeals-verdict-expected-in-italy/#ixzz1Zom3oQW0 

 

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Did Amanda Knox Get Away with Murder

10/03/2011 by commonsense

15 Ways to Know That You Are a Liberal

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1)      You make rules that apply to other people but don’t apply to you.

2)      You always spend others people’s money not your own.

3)      You make an attempt to justify Abortion.

4)      You side with Death Row Inmates.

5)      You praise Communist Dictators. (What Ever Happen To Common Sense?)

6)     America is always wrong in your eye sight.

7)      You think that anyone who has had a hard life should get hand outs.

8)      You think the Government should dictate in its citizen’s private lives apart from Abortion.

9)      You believe that no citizen should own a gun. (Only the Bad Guys)

10)    You base most of your decisions on the way you feel.

11)    You think that we should take care of Mexico’s Illegal Aliens. This includes Healthcare, Education, Housing, and Food. (No Common Sense)

12)    You never want to stick with, or set a Budget.

13)    Giving the Taxpayers some of their money back is always a bad idea to you.

14)   You actually believe that Global Warming is a great threat to the world.

15)   You argue vehemently for things that you know any 12 year old would realize was wrong.

Filed Under: Idiots, No Common Sense Tagged With: 15 Ways to Know That You Are a Liberal

10/02/2011 by commonsense

Just Tell It Like It Is

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Don't Be a Jack-Ass

By: Elmer Williams

 
Have you ever talked to someone whom you just wanted them to be honest with you? But all that you received from them was a lot of superfluity rubbish. You wanted to tell them just give me a straight answers you moron. You wanted them to stop with the politicsand politiciananswers. But they just wanted to be politically correct and not hurt your feelings. Well if I’m driving on the freeway and 5 miles down the road the bridge is out. And the weather just happens to be very foggy with a 50% chance of rain. Do you suppose that I would like obtain an update on the bridges conditions from my good friend? Or would you like for this so called friend to rationalize and say this is Elmer’s favorite road to drive on.

You wanted to know if they were attempting to be re-elected, because the political nonsense was driving you crazy. Are you freaking kidding me Mr. or Mrs. politician. Just tell me the DAMM road is out and if you keep down the road you moron you will die.

Then they continue with I don’t want him to be interrupted in his leisure drive so I’m going to let him enjoy his commute. How long do you believe that we are going to remain freinds after the crash? Stevie Wonder or the late Ray Charles could see that this kind of logic makes no sense what so ever.
Can You See the Light
Open Your Eyes
 
That would be the same thing as me saying that “I don’t know why my head want stop hurting”. Then I go to the doctor’s office in order for him to figure out why my head will not stop hurting. Then after about an hour of examination and many tests later, He finds several knots on my brain, and he realizes that it is cancer.

But he says to himself “I don’t want to alarm Mr. Williams” because it will just cause him stress, and since he appears to be so happy. I will just let him believe that everything is alright. Is there any rational adult who’s IQ is above their shoe size that would think that the Doctors is acting responsible. The answer is hell-to-the-no the Doctor should have is licenses pulled and he should be arrested.  So the next time that you have a chance to stop someone that you know is about to do something stupid I beg of you ring the alarm. Shout from the mountain top, if that fails just slap some sense into their heads. If they choose to ignore your advice than you have done your part and you will have a clear conscience. If that woman that you know is dating a loser for God sake tell her that Jeff is a Loser with a capital L. If that guy you know is dating a shallow superficial,self-centered, gold digger tell him to run to the mountains. If you were truely a friend you would inform your friend of their stupidity. “Friends don’t let friends date losers”.

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10/02/2011 by commonsense

Governor Cuomo Advisors Want Taxpayers to Pay for Sex-Change

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Let taxpayers foot sex-op bill: panel

 

 

By CARL CAMPANILE

Last Updated: 11:10 AM, September 29, 2011

Posted: 12:18 AM, September 29, 2011

 

A state panel advising Gov. Cuomo wants taxpayers to foot the bill for transgender residents to get “sexual-reassignment surgery,” allowing them to change their physical characteristics from a man to a woman or woman to man, The Post has learned.

New York’s costliest-in-the-nation Medicaid program would cover the tab.

“Provide Medicaid coverage for transgender surgery/hormone replace-ment therapy and treatment,” read the proposal submitted by the state “health disparities work group.’’

The panel is submitting recommendations to Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team for possible inclusion in the governor’s budget plan.

A state Health Department spokesman confirmed that requiring Medicaid to cover gender reassignment surgery is being considered by the governor’s team.

“Medicaid doesn’t cover the surgery,” said the Health Department’s Jeff Gordon.

“This issue is under review by the Medicaid Redesign Team.”

The proposal, coming just months after Cuomo won national attention for steering a gay-marriage law through the state Legislature, came under fire from the political right.

“This is an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars,” said state Conservative Party chairman Mike Long

“This is an expensive mandate. We already live in the highest-taxed state in the nation.”

Long insisted sex-change procedures are cosmetic and encourage permissiveness, adding, “I hope the governor doesn’t push the envelope on this.’’

The idea will face resistance in the Republican-controlled state Senate.

“It doesn’t seem to be appropriate,” said Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau).

But supporters of transgender surgery said New York will be hard pressed to continue to bar what health experts — including the American Medical Medical Association — now call “medically necessary’’ procedures to help patients with “gender-identity disorder.’’

Barring Medicaid coverage to transgender people amounts to discrimination, advocates have maintained.

‘‘We believe Medicaid should cover health care that is medically necessary,’’ said Ross Levi, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, a gay and transgender rights advocacy group.

Levi said at least two other states –CaliforniaandMinnesota– provide Medicaid coverage for transgender surgery and hormone replacement therapy.

He said he was hopeful that Cuomo, who supports passage of a transgender civil-rights bill, will back the Medicaid proposal.

Advocates say there are tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are transgender.

New York’s Medicaid exclusion of medical services for gender surgery was adopted in 1997, based on the assumption that such procedures were ‘‘experimental’’ and not a medical necessity, according to an analysis by the New York City Bar Association.

The report said a large number of transgender residents are poor people who qualify for Medicaid, the public health insurance for the needy.

“New York’s Medicaid exclusion for gender reassignment services denies health insurance on the basis of gender identity, and is based on outdated interpretations of medical need,” said the Bar Association’s committee on transgender rights.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/let_taxpayers_foot_sex_op_bill_panel_syVzH88veFSKLnSXA76w9O#ixzz1ZaZf7PTP

 

Filed Under: No Common Sense, Politics Tagged With: Governor Cuomo Advisors Want Taxpayers to Pay for Sex-Change

10/01/2011 by commonsense

Nancy Pelosi’s & Obama Uses Nepotism For Green Loan

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The Hypocrisy of Nacy Pelosi
The Hypocrisy of Nacy Pelosi

 

$737 Million Green Loan to Pelosi Kin Fuels Outrage

Friday, 30 Sep 2011 06:10 PM

By Martin Gould

Newsmax.com: $737 Million Green Loan to Pelosi Kin Fuels Outrage

GOP claims that the Obama administration’s green energy loan guarantee program is mired in cronyism grew on Friday after a company tied to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law got the lion’s share of the final government hand-outs made before Friday’s end of the fiscal year.

The decision to guarantee $737 million comes hard on the heels of the loss of more than $500 million of government money due to the bankruptcy of solar panel company Solyndra.

The new grant went to Tonopah Solar Energy, a subsidiary of SolarReserve, which started building Crescent Dunes, a massive solar-thermal plant in the Nevada desert in early September.

One of SolarReserve’s major financial backers is the PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East), whose second-in-command is Ronald Pelosi, the brother of the House Minority leader’s husband, Paul. Another investor is Argonaut Private Equity, a company that lost heavily in the Solyndra debacle.

Already one Republican member of the House Energy and Commerce promised Newsmax that he will be keeping a close eye on the loan to SolarReserve. “You had better believe it is going to be looked at,” said Texas Rep. Michael Burgess.

“With Solyndra, they got into trouble because they were rushing because they wanted a photo-op,” said Burgess referring to accusations that that agreement was rushed through so Vice President Joe Biden could announce it when he visited the company’s headquarters.

“Now they have pushed around one-third of the loan guarantee program out of the door in the last four or five days of the fiscal year and that sounds to me like they were going to be rushing.”

Burgess said there has so far been no suggestion that the guarantee was given due to cronyism, but he told Newsmax, “How can they be so tone deaf to do this right now when there is scrutiny on this program? They are putting other solar and wind projects at risk if they continue to behave in this dismissive way.”

Others too questioned the grants. Texas GOP Rep. Joe Barton, former chairman of the Energy Committee called for closer investigation before more money is paid out. “Are these good investments or political favors?” he asked. “The American people just lost a half billion dollars and they deserve answers to these questions before more money is wasted.”

And the conservative Weekly Standard wrote, “It’s increasingly hard to tell the government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program.”

Ronald Pelosi, 76, is a member of one of California’s most powerful Democratic families. He is a former president of both the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco Planning Commission as well as sitting on many other boards in the Bay City. His nephew Gavin Newsom is currently the Lieutenant Governor of California.

Pelosi joined PCG this past spring and his biography on the company website describes him as having “an extensive background in the securities industry, mutual funds, and private equity.”

Argonaut’s links to both SolarReserve and Solyndra are being closely examined by Republicans. The fund is headed by George Kaiser, a major Democratic donor. Argonaut’s managing director Steve Mitchell sat on the Solyndra board and is a “board participant” at SolarReserve.

Under the Crescent Dunes plan, more than 17,000 specially designed mirrors will collect the sun’s energy and focus it to heat molten salt, which will flow from a 640-ft. tower to produce steam to run a turbine that will generate electricity.

Once the project is online in 2013, excess energy will be stored in the salt for up to 10 hours so power can still be generated at night. Backers say the project will prevent 290,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere annually and produce enough electricity for 43,000 homes.

In announcing the grant, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Crescent Dunes will be the “first of its kind in the United States and the tallest molten salt tower in the world.” He said the project will provide employment for 600 construction workers – although the company’s own website puts that number at “400-500” – and create 45 permanent jobs.

“If we want to be a player in the global clean energy race, we must continue to invest in innovative technologies that enable commercial-scale deployment of clean, renewable power like solar,” added Chu.

“Solar generation facilities, like the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, help supply energy to local utilities and create hundreds of good, American clean energy jobs.”

Just hours before the announcement of the Crescent Dunes loan Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee expressed concern that the government was rushing payments to meet a Sept. 30 deadline.

“The deadline has been on the calendar since the stimulus was signed into law in February 2009, which means DOE has known exactly how much time it had to perform due diligence and approve guarantees for fully vetted and worthy entities,” said the Florida congressman.

“The administration’s flagship project Solyndra is bankrupt and being investigated by the FBI, the promised jobs never materialized and now DOE is preparing to rush out nearly $5 billion in loans in the final 48 hours before stimulus funds expire,” added Stearns. “That’s nearly $105 million every hour that must be finalized until the deadline.

“Solyndra was the product of a bad bet rushed out the door and taxpayers are now on the hook. We cannot afford DOE rushing out more Solyndras in these final hours.”

The Solyndra scandal has cost taxpayers $535 million following the company’s bankruptcy in early September. The company, whose principals have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic causes is now being investigated by the FBI for fraud.

Last week CEO Brian Harrison and chief financial officer Bill Stover repeatedly invoked their Fifth Amendment rights not to testify when they appeared before the full House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Panel chairman, Rep. Fred Upton attacked the decision to give Solyndra the loan guarantee calling it “reckless use of taxpayer dollars on a company that was known to pose serious risks before a single dime went out the door.”

“It appears we have a great heist of over half a billion dollars and … maybe even co-conspirators called the U.S. government,” added Upton.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/New-Green-Loan-Obama/2011/09/30/id/412909 /

Filed Under: Hypocrisy, Politics Tagged With: Green Loan, Nancy Pelosi, Nepotism

10/01/2011 by commonsense

Negotiating With a Wild Lion

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By: Elmer Williams           

(Common Sense is Gone)

In an article from the Washington Times that was writing by Rahim Faiez who writes for the Associated Press. The Headline from the article says “Afghan president says talks with Taliban useless”. The suicide bomber who killed the former Afghan President Burhauddin Rabbani was supposedly offering an audio recording of a peace message.

The Article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/1/afghan-president-says-talks-taliban-useless/   

Once the suicide bomber gained access he did what these animals always do. He blew himself up killing the former president of Afghan. The Taliban has a governing council know as the Quetta Shura which is named after a city in Pakistan. “Wait I thought that the Pakistani’s were our allies”.

Why would the Taliban name its council after Quetta, which is the capital of Balochistan a Province in Pakistan? I will tell you why because Pakestan is not our friends. Why do you think Osama Bin Laden was found hiding in Pakestan.

The current President of Afghan Hamid Karzai said that he should cut off negotiations with the Taliban and began talks with Pakistan. While he was right in his assessment of talks with the Taliban being “useless”, he is in strong delusions if he believes that it will go better with Pakistan.    

 

Just ask Israel if these people are rational and they will tell you without a doubt they are not. If you are an infidel, which means that you are not Muslim, or if you are attempting to help the infidel, just forget it. You will be declared the enemy. They have an agenda and that agenda is to take over the world.

 

If I went out to the Jungle and decided that I was going to have a one on one negotiation with a Lion the King of the Jungle. I could use rational and say “Hi Mr. Lion I want you to stop going around eating the other animals when you get hungry”. Also if you happen to see any humans walking around please don’t bite them just be loving please.

 Do you suspect that the lion will be reasonable and say okay we can all just get along? Common Sense should tell anyone who is attempting this feat, that they will not succeed. Maybe that is the problem we have gotten away from using common sense. So at some point you should ask yourself “What Ever Happen To Common Sense”.

 

http://whateverhappentocommonsense.com/

 

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Useless Talks

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