Madlyn Primoff

Madlyn Primoff is a partner in a Manhattan law firm.

On Sunday this professional lawyer kicked her kids out of her car in downtown White Plains, N.Y., and drove away.

Her kids were 10 and 12 years old. She kicked them out to fend for themselves because they were arguing.

This LAWYER has pleaded NOT GUILTY to an understandable charge of endangering a child.

She's evidently a VERY POOR lawyer indeed if she can't understand the simple basics of the law and as a result deserves to be permanently disbarred from ever representing anyone again. Instead, she may want to try and be a MOTHER!

Whatever the outcome of this I hope her two children grow up to HATE and resent her for her selfish, ignorant actions. There is NO excuse for this kind of behaviour from a parent, no matter how much the two children may have gripped her shit.

If you can't deal with kids playing up, DON'T have them in the first place!

The GOP

With the Republicans satisfactorily in the minority right now, can they still grip our collective shit?

Of course they can!

Senate Republicans are threatening President Obama with a political 'thermo-nuclear' response should he go public with a new set of 'torture memos' uncovered from the Bush administration.

These memos provide proof that the White House authorized interrogation practises including "waterboarding, isolated confinement in coffin-like containers and repeated head smacking".

Practises that all violate Geneva Conventions. Practises which Bush said his services did not indulge in.

Importantly, practises which could be used by world courts to indict Bush administration officials - possibly even the ex-President or ex-Vice President - and potentially charge them with war crimes.

The Republican response is to (as usual) hide the truth from the public, with Texas Sen. John Cornyn and others indicating that they will throw their toys out of the pram and filibuster Obama's nominations to the Justice and State departments and use whatever other political weapons they have at their disposal should the President unleash these damaging (but only to the GOP) memos.

The Healthcare Industry

Weird isn't it that one of the few major industries NOT to try and claim any funds from the government bailout is healthcare or any of the healthcare insurance companies.

Why would this be? Maybe it has something to do with the industry's constant gouging of Joe Public.

Have a read of this shit-gripping set of 2007 statistics...

• 72 Million: Number of American adults who reported they were having problems in paying off medical bills or debt.

• 29% of whom were unable to pay for food, heat or rent because of their medical debt

• 30% were forced to use a credit card to pay off medical debt

• 39% of American adults used their ENTIRE savings to repay medical debt

• 54% of all US personal bankruptcies are due to medical debt

• The cost of annual medical insurance premiums has risen 119% in the 9 years from 1999 to 2008

• As a result of increased costs, the number of uninsured non-elderly Americans without health insurance has risen from 31 Million in 1987 to almost 48 Million in 2007.

Anyone who says they don't want or need a socialized healthcare system such as in place in Britain or Canada is an idiot and needs their head examined.

Ironic, given that right now they probably couldn't even afford to even see a neurosurgeon!

The American Life League

Simple-minded pro-life zealots at the American Life League (A.L.L. webshite here) were actually stupid enough to object to free (and harmless) Inauguration Day donuts last week.

Krispy Kreme offered customers a free donut on January 20th to celebrate the swearing in of (at last!) a credible USA President. (As opposed to a sneery-faced shit-gripping moron with the brain of a pencil-sharpener)

The promotion was billed by Krispy Kreme as a way of "honoring Americans' sense of pride and freedom of choice"

Judie Brown, the A.L.L. President, took offence at this phrase, complaining that the word "choice" is (suddenly?!) synonymous with "abortion access", adding that something celebrating a "freedom of choice" is (somehow) a tacit endorsement of abortion rights.

The A.L.L. claims that there have been 49.5 million abortion "deaths" - by surgical abortion - since the important Roe v Wade court case in 1973.

The way I look at it, that has potentially saved the world from 49.5 million more equally-ignorant and shit-gripping "Judie Browns" imposing their small-minded ideological views on society.