SAN ANTONIO – A Bexar County court-at-law judge elected during the “red tide” of 2010 is switching parties.
Standing at the foot of the Bexar County Courthouse steps, County Court-at-Law No. 11 Judge Carlo Key said Monday that he is joining the Democratic Party and will seek re-election as a Democrat in November 2014.
“Make no mistake, I did not leave the Republican Party, it left me,” said Key, flanked by high-ranking Democrats. “My principles have led me to the Democratic Party, and my only hope is that more people of principle will follow me.”
While he’s been considering the decision for several weeks, it was the recent federal government shutdown that caused Key to seriously consider switching parties.
TMZ is reporting that Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine, is falling farther and farther behind …. he’s required to pay baby mama Alejandra Jackson $3K a month for 13-year-old Jermajesty and 17-year-old Jaafar … but the mailbox has been empty for months.
Court docs obtained by TMZ show … of the $12K that he owes in back payments … he’s only coughed up a measly 85 bucks.
The L.A. County Child Support Services Dept. has filed papers asking a judge to hold Jermaine in contempt … which could put him behind bars for 20 days.
The Republican government shut down ended just a few days ago but already Democrats are hitting back. Armed with multiple polls showing that the American people are on their side and blaming Republicans for the terrible state government, Democrats have happily taken the opportunity to kick the GOP while they’re down.
The ad below is the first in what is expected to be a major topic in the 2014 elections – the Republican government shutdown, and the main Republican players who almost destroyed America’s economy with their foolish antics.
The target of this first ad is Steve Southerland, a Teaparty Republican representing Florida’s 2nd district. According to recent polls, Southerland’s district could be up for grabs in 2014, thus, the ad.
The New York Jets fan who drew national notoriety for punching a female New England Patriots supporter in the face following the Jets’ 30-27 overtime victory Sunday has been in trouble for violent acts before.
The New York Post reported Monday that 38-year-old Kurt Paschke, a bartender from Long Island, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide for stabbing a teen during a fight outside a pizzeria in 1992.
Paschke’s mother, Colleen, defended her son to the Post on Monday, saying that her son was merely protecting her from a group of rowdy New England fans who started the dustup.
“There was a group of Patriots fans antagonizing our friends the whole game,” she said. “Our friends were in the same row and, for instance, they were even making fun of a girl because she just gotten braces.
“As my son and I were leaving [after the game], the group came charging from behind and said ‘Let’s get them,'” she said.
“They push through us to get to his friends and start throwing punches. My son wanted to break it up. Then the girl [on the video] was throwing three punches at my son … and with that, my son is just trying to protect himself and me.”
“Yes a guy should not hit a girl or a woman,” Colleen Paschke told MyFoxNY, “but if you are going to get a maniac girl how much abuse are you supposed to take before you defend yourself?”
The Post identified the woman who was punched as Jaclyn Nugent, a 26-year-old woman from the Boston area. A man who identified as himself as her brother told the paper he had only just heard of the incident, then told a Post reporter to “Go screw!”
Paschke and a friend were questioned by New Jersey State Police after the incident, but had not been arrested as of Monday night.
Paschke’s father, a retired Suffolk County, New York police officer told the Post that his son was “very upset” about the incident, adding, “They’re making him out to be an animal.”
The father of Henri Ferrer, the teen in the 1992 stabbing, told the Post he was not surprised.
“I wrote the judge a letter that this guy is going to kill again,” said Robert Ferrer. “He killed for no reason. He went out of his way to get a knife to stab my son. My son was involved in a fist fight, and he went out to get a knife and stabbed my son. They were the same age. They were the same size. He had no business killing my son.”
“Duck Dynasty” stars Phil and Si Robertson have bigger game in their sights.
“It ain’t gun control we need, it’s sin control,” Si Robertson, one of the stars of the hit A&E reality series, told Men’s Journal in a recent interview.
“Self-control,” corrected his elder brother, Phil, the leader of the duck-call selling clan from West Monroe, Louisiana.
Either way, the brothers and Phil’s sons, Willie, Jase and Jep, are hoping to use their new found fame to spread the gospel of religion and political conservatism — subjects that get played down on “Duck Dynasty.”
The elder Robertsons credit divine intervention for both the success fo the show and of their company, Duck Commander.
“We’re trying to infuse a little good into a culture in which gentleness, patience, kindness, self-control, love, joy and peace have become abnormal,” Phil Robertson told the magazine.
Though much of the appeal of the show — which drew a network record 11.8 million viewers for its fourth season premiere — surrounds their goofy antics, the family hit the Christian speaking circuit over the summer. Evangelist Rick Warren’s church even hosted a “Ducky Dynasty” day in July.
Willie Robertson revealed on Fox News a month later that GOP leaders had been courting him for a political run, based on the clan’s emphasis on family values.
“I go out into America and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal,” Phil Robertson told Men’s Journal
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday that he is considering running for another term in 2016, when he would be 80 years old.
“I’m seriously thinking about maybe giving another opportunity for you to vote for or against me in a few years from now,” McCain said on KFYI-AM in Phoenix. “I’m seriously giving that a lot of thought.”
Asked by host Barry Young to clarify if he was saying he might run again, McCain said: “That would not be wrong.”
The New York Times’s Mark Leibovich, who is in Arizona following McCain, first tweeted the news.
McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, is in his fifth term. He has never taken less than 56 percent of the vote and easily dispatched a primary challenge in 2010 from former congressman J.D. Hayworth.
On the broadcast today, Mat Staver warned that the “red line of liberty” has repeatedly been crossed by President Obama in ways that are much worse than what King George III did to cause the Revolutionary War.
After citing several biblical examples, ranging from Esther to Jesus, of biblical figures rising up against tyrants who sought to snuff out liberty, Staver asserted that the Obama administration has been supporting Muslim terrorists while stigmatizing Christians, saying “this is worst than what we saw with King George in terms of what he did to his people” and warning that the United States finds itself again standing at a crucial point in history.
Staver went on to compare Obamacare to the Boston Massacre, saying that while the massacre only resulted in a handful of deaths, Obamacare is “slaughtering its own” by the tens of thousands by “forcing employers to fund the killing of innocent unborn children.”
Michael Jackson did it in one flawless move, but it took 225 members of the Ohio marching band to do the moonwalk in this magnificently choreographed tribute to the king of pop.
At halftime during Saturday’s game against the University of Iowa, those in attendance were taken back as the band played some of Jackson’s greatest hits. But the choreographed moves on the field makes this video a must watch.
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