Jury Awards Bryan Stowe Eighteen Million

 Bryan Stowe won at least a partial victory in his lawsuit against Frank Mc Cord and the LA Dodgers today.  The jury awarded Stowe 18 million dollars in damages, which according to Bill Carol and friend is a low-ball amount from what they were anticipating between thirty and forty million.  They said that if there were any damage award at all it would have to cover all past medical care costs and loss of gainful employment.  Brian Stowe is 45, or older than I thought.  Carol thought that perhaps the Dodgers were forty percent responsible- - but the award, due to the way the law works would be markedly higher than forty percent of the damages suffered.  It was pointed out that it’s silly for the defense to use alcohol consumption as a defense, because it was Dodger Stadium that sold all parties the excessive alcohol consumed.  They can go after Sanchez and that other guy in a separate suit.  They announced the verdict just after twelve noon but didn’t air it to the public till one thirty.  Every day the Stowe family sits in the courtyard and the jury has to walk past them every time they enter the court, but when exiting they are allowed to use s side door through the Judge’s chambers, but they are not allowed to enter that way.  All of the notes between the judge “The Court” and the jury were sealed, and the contents were not divulged to the media, which is ususual- but apparently all notes are withheld in the event of an appeal or something.  It takes only nine out of twelve jurors to vote for a conviction in a California civil case.  I had this dark suspicion myself the Dodgers would win outright- - for reasons almost psychic in nature.  Well you know the expression; “everybody walks in Los Angeles”.

Yesterday was the first day that marijuana went on sale in Washington state.  There is only one outlet in the entire city of Seattle, and very few outlets in the whole state.  This law is kind of a stinker.  You can’t share your pot with a friend at a party or anything because that would be guilty of the felony of “distributing”.  And you have to own the building in which the pot is smoked, and so there will be no pot smoking in hotel rooms by tourists.  Obviously this rule discriminates against minorities, something the Law can never seem to get away from.  And according to Thom Hartman there are four distinct medical chemicals in pot.  There is the THC that gets you high.  There is another compound that prevents seizures, there is another compound that alleviates pain, and still another compound for sleep.  Thom Hartman says he’s having increasing problems with insomnia as he gets older.   Last night may be one of the few nights that if you’d offered me booze, I would have imbibed it.   Hartman says they did a longitudinal study on aging hippies ( not that they even know what that word means) and it was revealed that marijuana actually protects you from various forms of dementia and alzheimers, which on its face is counter intuitive.   Hartman claims that the big commercial pharmisuticals have actually bribed officials to keep canibus illegal, because they’d be put out of business because canibus is so much more less harmful to the body than conventional pain killers.  Hartman himself claims after he and his wife began having kids they gave up marijuana consumption but he’d like to try it again- - but it seems that marijuana laws in Washington DC carry a really high penalty.

President Obama wanted Texas governor Rick Perry to wait for him in the reception line as he got off the plane, and be photographed shaking his hand and everything.  Governor Perry declined, probably because it was too much of a Chris Christie moment.  What Perry wanted the President to do was to go to the border and inspect the conditions down there and to see how bad it really was.  And presumably he and the Texas governor would have a long talk and perhaps work out the relation between them.  To my way of thinking Perry is right and Obama is wrong, because it’s always politically wise to be viewed as cooperating with various state Governors.  This is actually one of those instances where it makes sense to pray about it, because I wouldn’t know just how to handle a crisis like this- - refugee children flooding in.  If it were someone like Johnson, he could be compassionate and masterful at the same time, making for good media coverage.  But the President never learned Johnson’s knack at making just the right speech.  At times it seems the President is completely powerless to control events.  I know I sure am, especially this week.  But I guess that’s what distinguishes a great leader from just anybody.

The action has been swift the past week on Days of our Lives.  Samantha Brady is now the CEO of Di Mira enterprises, which makes absolutely no sense at all.  It would be very simple how I’d respond to all that feminist rhetoric she used.  In the first place Samantha is the ultimate “man” addict, and pretty slutty, and far too impulsive to run a giant corporation.  The very idea is laughable.  But in response to her accusing me of being an “ante-bellum disrespecter of women” I would just say “You can call me any name you want and if you think I care- - you’re crazy, but you’re not getting this Company.  Now at last she's revealed her true colors to E J, as he waits powerlessly in a jail call, while she lowers the boom on him, and he finally realizes the Magnitude of the problems he's facing.

If you've read Washington's Blog you know he was reviewing a lot of the same points about the government and the banking industry that Thom Hartman discusses on his show.  "The profits are privatized and the losses are socialized", meaning that the tax payers pick up the tab.  It's a risk free envirment for these big banks and Wall Street interests.   Stupidity carries no penalties at all.  Needless to say this is a dangerous and self destructive situation for all of us.  The "too big to fail" doctrine seems to be a literal truth.  Does the government control the financial institutions, or do the financial institutions control the government?   

Some have offered the fig leaf of hope that this Hobby Lobby case may be just the thing to galvanize women and those who love them to give Democrats the victory this November, and into political action such as "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more".   These people do seem to be getting stupider with each passing day.  John Boehner wants to bring a suit against the President.  Sarah Palin wants to impeach him outright.  It would seem to me a reasonable assumption that Impeachment of this President will be very much on the table should the Senate turn Republican this November.  Stephanie of course was not here last ween when the whole case broke.   It would seem that between their attitudes tword women and their attitude tword minorities, the Republicans wouldn't stand a chance this November.  But somehow Evil has a way of getting the last word- - at least as far as the last six years are concerned.  I fail to see how the Tea Party has brought the "good life" to anybody, except themselves.