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.