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10/04/2011 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Courtney Stodden Loves 51 Year Old Hubby for Self not Money

(Right! What Ever Happen to Common Sense?)

Last updated at 6:50 PM on 3rd October 2011

If she wasn’t already the envy of all his friends and peers, then these pictures of actor Doug Hutchison’s wife are bound to make their eyes even greener.

The Green Mile actor, 51, took to the beach with his teenage bride in a sexy photo shoot on the beach that showed off her enviable figure in a white bikini.

She pulled her most seductive pose for his camera as she strutted around the sand in the two-piece that showed off her assets to perfection.

All woman: Courtney Stodden poses on the beach for her actor husband Doug Hutchison in a sexy white bikini

Assets which she has been forced to defend are real and not boosted by cosmetic surgery, which she hoped to prove through this photo shoot.

The 17-year-old has been at the centre of lots of rumours about her body, especially her breasts, which she is quick to point out are all real, especially considering her young age.

And according to TMZ, Courtney is fed up with the speculation surrounding her body that she took part in the photo shoot to try and prove her doubters wrong.

The snapper and his muse: Doug, who took the pictures of Courtney, gets amorous with his young bride on the sand

Inseparable: Doug and Courtney seem oblivious to the rest of the world as they kiss and canoodle with each other

In the pictures, she is snapped running along the beach and getting amorous with her actor husband.

In another set, she is in a swimming pool, still in the white bikini, as her other half looks proudly on.

Courtney also hope to dispel the cosmetic surgery rumours through a reality TV show that she and Doug and developing and are planning to pitch to television networks later in the year.

I get a kick out of you: Courtney flings her leg in the air as she snuggles up to her husband

They will be working with producer Roy Bank and Merv Griffin Entertainment on the project, and according to Courtney’s mother Krista, who also manages the couple, the series will mainly be about the effects of their marriage on their families, and the issues the come up against.

She told E!: ‘It’s going to show people what they can teach each other from different generations.

‘They’re going to touch on family issues. There was a lot of judgment about their marriage from Doug’s side of the family, so it will touch on bringing families back together and why it’s important to support family members even if you don’t agree.’

Sun worshipper: Courtney moves from the beach to the pool and flaunts her enviable figure for the camera

The show will also explore claims made by Courtney that she is the victim of cyber bullying, while clearing up the plastic surgery rumours.

She said: ‘Courtney having to prove to people she was real, that she’s never been under a plastic surgeon’s knife.’

Courtney and Doug were married inLas Vegasin June, when Courtney was still 16, raising many an eyebrow and sparking a lot of controversy over the union and the huge age gap.

10/04/2011 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Terrorist Sympathizer Could Get Money from UK on Technicality

(What Ever Happen To Common Sense?)

By Chris Greenwood And James Slack

Last updated at 1:42 AM on 1st October 2011

Extremist: Sheikh Raed Salah at the High Court yesterday

A banned extremist who made a mockery ofBritain’s border controls is now likely to pocket £5,000 in compensation because immigration officials could not speak his language.

The High Court ruled yesterday that Sheikh Raed Salah, described as a ‘virulent anti-Semite’ in the Commons, could claim compensation for unlawful detention by immigration officers.

They had seized the pro-Palestine hardliner – who should never have been allowed into Britainin the first place – to have him deported.

But immigration staff failed to explain to him ‘in a language he could understand’ precisely why he was being detained – a technical breach of the rules. The preacher cannot speak English and officials failed properly to translate what was happening, the court ruled.

As a result – even though the Home Secretary had legal powers to hold him – he was unlawfully detained for 34.5 hours, until proper explanations were given to him about what was happening in Arabic.

At one stage, an immigration officer had tried to use an ‘app’ on his iPhone to give instructions to the extremist.

But he did not give Salah, 52, all the information required to make his detention lawful, Mr Justice Nicol decided.

Salah can now formally apply for taxpayer-funded compensation. The likely pay-out is between £4,000 and £5,000 – or about £150 for every hour he was held.

Michael Weiss, of the Henry Jackson Society think-tank, said the case was an ‘embarrassment’ for UK Border Agency officials.

‘I find it scandalous that someone like this is getting damages and is being paid with British taxpayers’ money,’ he said.

Tory MP Patrick Mercer said he was shocked by news of the ruling.

‘We speak English in this country and anybody that wants to come here and preach hate is going to do so in English as well,’ he added.

‘I fail to see the logic of what has happened. Yet again some form of craziness is makingBritainlook ridiculous.’

Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement inIsrael, managed to walk through immigration checks at Heathrow Airporton June 25 despite being barred from theUKby the Home Secretary.

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Immigration officials had failed to inform him of the ban – and he was unaware that he should not travel here.

He was finally detained three days later on the direct orders of Theresa May, but only after addressing meetings inLondonandLeicester. The

Home Secretary ordered that Salah be removed on the grounds that his presence was not ‘conducive to the public good’.

Court papers say Mrs May has alleged that Salah has ‘publicly expressed views that fostered hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in theUK’.

He denies being an anti-Semite and is challenging his removal.

Lawyers claim his treatment was a breach of Article 10 of the Human

Rights Act – the right to ‘freedom of expression’. A separate court appeal on this row is due to take place next week.

In the meantime, Salah has been released on bail and is staying at a five-bedroom detached house in a leafy suburb inNorth Londonwhile his case is processed.

He is credited with a string of outrageous statements, although he denies being an extremist. He is said to have claimed that the 9/11 plot was carried out by Israelis and that Jews were warned not to go to the World Trade Centre before the murderous attack in New York on September 11, 2001.

He was released from prison in 2005 after serving two years for fundraising for the Palestinian terror group Hamas and for having contact with an Iranian spy.

It is understood that Government solicitors will fight the claim for compensation on the grounds that it is a minor point and his overall detention was lawful.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘The decision the Home Secretary took was the right one. The court decided there

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10/04/2011 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Did Amanda Knox Get Away with Murder

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.”

10/03/2011 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

15 Ways to Know That You Are a Liberal

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.

10/02/2011 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Just Tell It Like It Is

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.

: 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”.

10/02/2011 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Governor Cuomo Advisors Want Taxpayers to Pay for Sex-Change

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.

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