No More Incumbents Blog

Bloomberg and CNN are both reporting that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has been sent to the hospital following a fall on a fishing dock.  He apparently fell after suffering from some type of seizure. 

Roberts suffered a seizure in 2003 while golfing with friends (CNN is reporting 1993 and Wolf Blitzer just said that he suffered the seizure after being hit in the head.  I suspect that CNN has their facts wrong on both counts.) and the cause of that seizure was never identified.  He also received injuries resulting from the fall.

Chief Justice Roberts is 52 years old. Roberts was sworn in to his post in September of 2005.  He was confirmed by the senate with a vote of 78-22 in favor.

The Supreme Court has issued a statement saying that its a benign idiomatic seizure, which means they do not know the reason for the seizure.

The chief justice was on vacation in Maine, which is kind of like the Outer Banks of the North East.

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Has anyone heard from Donald Rumsfeld lately? He seems to have disappeared into retirement possibly. There was a great deal of talk about pending lawsuits in litigation over suspected wrongdoing by Donald Rumsfeld from international quarters. It would appear that the man probably can ever go to Germany again for fear of being prosecuted.

He had been a somewhat successful businessman and I wonder if maybe he’s gone back into the private world of work again. He put that type of thing on your resume, start a war with Iraq. Can you imagine sitting down for an interview to talk about that one. “So tell us if you’ve ever been in a situation where you how to start a war with a foreign country”

I remember the early days when Donald Rumsfeld to come into the system he was applauded as being a very experienced person, one that should be more than prepared to get the job done right. People talked about how we had his desk removed and put in something akin to hightop table. He didn’t say that bar stools or have his guests at a barstools he stood up and work to hold a lock. That was maybe wonder if he ever been a waiter. It actually seemed to make some sense to me because he was able to keep the circulation going and it made him feel like he was doing work probably to stand up. I somewhat suspect that he may have been a waiter or had done some other type of job that required him to remain a speed all the time and he just got used to it over the years. I don’t know maybe just had a big prostate.

I am extremely disgusted by the Michael Vick thing.  I am also disappointed to see the Falcons, the NFL and the corporate sponsors take so long to suspend Vick (although the sponsors are making some initial moves finally).

One of Vick’s co defendants will be entering a plea on Monday an will likely turn against Michael Vick.

I do believe very firmly that Vick is innocent until proven guilty.

I also believe very firmly that regardless of his legal culpability, he had a moral responsibility to manage his affairs and property better.  If he had been spending just a fraction of his money to insure that no one was abusing dogs on his property or using his property for deviant behavior 60-70 dogs would not have been put to sleep and countless others would not have died on his property or soon after.

So I organized a site to protest Vicks suspension without pay.

What I am doing about it

1. The site is SackVick.net.  I’ve collected almost a dozen petitions from around the web where you can take action and make your own thoughts known on the subject.
2. I’ve established a blog carnival to collect other bloggers perspective on Vick.
3. I have collected close to 40 different groups that have hundreds of members each that are working to sack vick.
4. I’ve also collected dozens of video clips from news, to protest videos and a couple parody videos.  Plus, sponsor commercials of Vick including one with Vick and his Pitbulls in what looks like a dog fighting ring, the commercial is for Nike.

There is lots that you can do

• Please stop by and sign one of the petitions or
• blog about the situation and submit your article to the blog carnival. 
• You can also link to the site and we will include you in the blogroll of bloggers supporting the sacking of Michael Vick.