Archive for June, 2008

More Art Found at Goodwill

A beautiful French Impressionist painting was ditched at a Goodwill. Someone with a sharp eye recognized it and auctioned it for 40,000 bucks.

The AP said here:

This is a painting, supplied by Sotheby’s auction house, by Edouard Leon Cortes entitled ‘Marche aux fleurs’ or ‘Flower Market,’ sold for $40,600 at a Sotheby’s auction a few weeks ago. The old painting was dropped off at a rural Maryland Goodwill store and turned out to be a work by the French Impressionist. And now, thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the charitable organization is $40,600 richer.

This is not the first post about a Goodwill painting. Check out the Benson piece here.


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Jennifer Rice Gets New Lawyer

No surprise to me. Jennifer Rice, who loves to bang ten year old students, was given a new lawyer following the dustup over an attempt by her public defender to declare a state law designating Jennifer a “predatory” child rapist unconstitutional. Now the public defender’s lackeys are taking over the case.

From the NewsTribune here:

A former Tacoma schoolteacher accused of having sex with a student has a new team of lawyers and a new trial date.

Pierce County Superior Court Judge D. Gary Steiner allowed Jennifer Rice’s previous lawyer, public defender Melanie MacDonald, to quit the case Wednesday. MacDonald’s colleagues John Chin and Jane Melby are taking over.

The decision came after Steiner briefly met in his chambers with deputy prosecutor Grant Blinn, MacDonald, Chin and Richard Whitehead, a supervising attorney at the Department of Assigned Counsel.

After allowing the change of counsel, Steiner postponed a hearing on a motion MacDonald made recently, asking that a portion of the law under which Rice is charged be declared unconstitutional.

In the motion, MacDonald contended that the law wrongly curtails the powers of the prosecutors pursuing the case against Rice. She asked the judge to dismiss a special allegation that classifies one of the crimes Rice is charged with as “predatory.”

I think the meeting in Judge’s chambers went something like, “WTF do you think you are doing? Srsly? Unconstitutional? Tell me you have better advice for your client than that. No? You’re fired. NEXT!”

You know this woman is guilty as sin because no one in her family will step up and chip in for a decent lawyer.


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UK to Martha Stewart: And STAY OUT!

Its nice to see that entire countries feel the same way about Martha Stewart that I do.

The other day I was watching Next Food Network star, mostly because my wife wouldn’t let me change the channel, and she was the surprise guest star who critiqued the food and presentation of the wanna-be TV stars, and I couldn’t help but hiss when she walked on screen.

When she asked for a fork to eat a miniature sloppy joe, I vowed to wallop her between the eyes if I ever get to meet her. I mean, other than her awesome ability to market stuff and drive a company, is there anything likable about her?


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It’s Been a Great Year

Well, the Missus and I have made it through the first year with Cartney. He celebrates the big 1-Year today. His family made the journey down to the Outer Banks to share in the big day, and even as we inflate balloons and frost the cake, the little boy still has no idea what the big hubbub is all about.

And this party is going to be All Elmo, All the Time. So far Elmo is about the only thing that really captures Cartney’s attention. One of the highlights of the Elmo-fest is Cartney’s new Tickle Me Elmo XTREME. It shakes and rolls on the floor with laughter and has secret maneuvers depending on the buttons you press. Below is Elmo getting the hiccups.

Its almost party time so I have to sign off. I’m also slow smoking a Boston Butt on the grill today, and then its time for the beach.


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Jennifer Rice Says Child Predator Laws Unconstitutional

Jennifer Rice, the disgusting predatory teacher in jail for banging a ten year old boy, says that the sentencing laws that impose stiffer penalties against child predators should be declared unconstitutional. Her public defender is claiming that the law- get this- hampers the ability of the prosecutor to do his job.

From TheNewsTribune here:

Law on ‘predatory’ sex crimes argued in Tacoma teacher case

A former Tacoma elementary school teacher accused of having sex with a student wants a law under which she’s charged declared unconstitutional, claiming in part that it wrongly curtails the powers of the prosecutors pursuing the case against her. In a motion filed by her attorney last month, Jennifer L. Rice asked a judge to dismiss a special allegation that classifies one of the crimes she’s charged with as “predatory.”

That designation – required when a teacher is accused of certain sex crimes – invokes stiff sentencing requirements: a minimum term of 25 years or the high end of the standard sentencing range, whichever is longer. In Rice’s case, that’s the high end: 26 1/2 years.

Public defender Melanie MacDonald argued that the law should be struck down, saying it improperly usurps the discretion of local prosecutors by requiring them to file a certain charge in a certain situation.

Rice, 32, is charged with 13 crimes. Eleven of the charges allege that she sexually abused a 10-year-old boy whom she taught at McKinley Elementary School last year. The remaining charges stem from alleged sexual behavior with a teenager whose relationship to Rice hasn’t been disclosed.

Prosecutors contend in charging documents that Rice – a married mother – pursued a relationship with the 10-year-old that culminated with her taking him from his home last summer and driving him to a highway rest stop outside Ellensburg, Kittitas, County, where they had sex.

I smell a FAIL coming. If Rice’s public defender gets a law imposing extra penalties declared unconstitutional, she should be hired to get all of the hate crimes legislation overturned. And those stupid laws that impose higher fines for speeding through school zones or construction sites? Get those thrown out too.

Harsher penalties were put in place by society to specifically stop certain people from doing bad things- like banging your ten year old student. I hope her ovaries shrivel to white raisins while she is in jail. According to this previous post, even jail doesn’t stop this freckly sexfiend from trying to get some.


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