"More Bad Judges"
Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 12:41PM Jack Newfield of The Nation has a piece about the Bush administration's latest crop of federal judicial nominees. Needless to say, he does not approve, concluding:
Bush is trying to transform America through lifetime judicial appointments for this biased batch and their clones. The bottom line is that the reckless Bushies are willing to violate computer privacy and vandalize the Bill of Rights to expedite this transformation. George W. Bush was appointed President by the Supreme Court after losing the popular vote by more than 500,000. Now he is trying to use the courts to legislate a mandate the voters never gave him by abusing the power of appointment and ignoring the Constitution's "advise and consent" clause.
You can read the whole thing here. (via How Appealing)
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Here's a good one: Years ago, my brother got stuck with child support for a kid born well into his marriage even when it turned out the kid was not biologically his and the mom somehow had no idea who the kid could belong to. (Uh, duh, bitch, weren't you there?) She even told the kid, 7 at the time, that the father should have known because it was the father's fault!! (Huh?!?) He found out 2 years after the divorce through a nasty answering machine message his chronically nasty ex left him one night when she was probably drunk. He had the tape, but it didn't matter; the judge refused to listen to it. He did the blood tests, found out it was true, and there wasn't crap he could do. And, still nothing changed in how the divorce/custody proceedings went for him. At one point, he had sole custody for over a year because of problems in the ex's house after she remarried that caused the kid to become depressed and suicidal. My brother was not even given the satisfaction of a support order for more than 10 months. When he got it, it was a total of $240 from an ex who was making over $40,000 herself; her husband, even more. The judge would not consider making the support order retroactive for the previous 10 months. Her financial disclosure claimed she paid all their expenses and didn't disclose her husband's income. When it was pointed out to the court, she wasn't reprimanded for the lies and never had to disclose anything more. They lived in a house that was at least $500,000. Then things changed, the mom brainwashed the kid during an unsupervised visit and the kid felt sorry for the mom. "She said she can't be a good mom without me living in her house so I want to go live with her again." Custody changed and the mom got support immediately: $519 (which was $10 over the max at the time) when he was only making about $30,000. The mom constantly interfered with visiation, but the judge would not enforce their agreement. This, on top of being denied purchasing the kid's health insurance through his employer. He had to reimburse them so the stepfather (not even the mother) could buy less coverage at a higher price. The situation went to hell from there.
Hey, that's all fair isn't it? I'm proud of him for not pulling a Darren Mack. I don't know how he restrained himself. I was tempted to do it for him just watching it all happen!
You guys are in good company... and far from alone.
I hope someone turns that courthouse upside-down and finds out every little thing that has ever happened unfairly there. It's time to clean house at Family Court and throw out all the dirty judges and their vindictive rulings!
The clustering of their offices in downtown Reno creating nothing but a corridor of misery for the rest of us.
Greedy lawyers and self-righteous therapists are not about to allow the reform of their cash cow, the Washoe County Family Court.
Too many powerful people have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Your childrens pain is their gain.
Now, the reason I say these guys are getting a little of what they deserve is because they made the decision to get MARRIED. HELLO. Like I posted a few days ago (under "Darren's myspace account" I think), marriage is totally stupid...for men. I'm a man, and I see how bad you guys have it. The guys on here complaining...man I'm all on your side. I hope to God you don't get screwed over in court. If I were a woman, I would get fake tits, plastic surgery, fake tan, whatever it takes to get married to a rich guy, then I would cheat on him (with guys like me), and divorce him, claiming I was beaten, assaulted, and emotionally abused over the past 15 months (I wouldn't stay married much longer than that, just enough to make a strong case), but have grown accustomed to the lifestyle, and demand that I be given the Merceds Benz SL that he bought for me as a gift, that I get to keep the $100,000 of jewelry he's given me, that I get to keep the $1 million house, but need him to cover all the bills, and require at least $50,000 a month alimony (or more depending on how rich he is).
Goddamn marriage in America is the stupidest thing ever for men.I'm sorry, but NO pussy is worth that much. Easpecially in Nevada!! lol Damn, you guys can go down to the legal brothels there, get all the sex you're willing to pay for with ZERO of the emotional baggage and drama, ZERO chance of the bitch stealing your money or accusing you of abuse, and you can be with a new, HOT, different girl EVERY time!Really, I recommend just dating a lot of women, but if you're not good with women, or can't get hot ones, then yeah, use the brothels, and you'll be better off than getting married.
Marriage leads to demasculation for men. Basically they are paying for pussy too, but it's with the same old hag every time, and it costs MORE! How much would old Darren Mack have had to pay for pussy? Well, let's see, after marriage, you get sex, what once or twice a month? How many years were the married? I don't know but lets say 10. Let's round up and say they had sex 200 times while married. No, let's round up even more. Let's say 500 times, which ends up equally about once a week.Now let's just compute the alimony and costs over the next ten years. We won't even consider the payments past that, or all the tens or hundreds of thousands he spent on her during marriage.So $10,000/month for 10 years is 1 million two hundred thousand dollars! Plus she gets a million dollar house, plus all costs, which we'll say is another $1,000 a month. We won't add up the child support---that's the only thing the judge did that was close to right.So when all is said and done, over the next ten years, Darren would have paid out WELL OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS for having sex 500 times. And that doesn't even include the appreciation the house will probably have. That may be a $2 million dollar house in 10 years.
So $2,000,000 for 500 sex sessions equals $4000 for each time he had sex!! Dudes, do the math!! It ain't worth it. I guarantee you can find it cheaper than that, and with new different girls. He was paying that out for the same woman.
Now people are going to argue with me, saying "well, what about 'love'?" It's all love, and you can't buy love and happiness, and children. Okay, fine, live in your little dream world believing that.But I'm here to tell you that you CAN be in love with a woman AND even have kids without EVER getting married to her, and handing over your balls and manhood. Married men have become the EMOTIONAL TAMPONS for their American wives. Welcome to the American dream boys. No wonder so many foreigners are able to come to the states and thrive...they have good women and they stay together, and both have vested interests in seeing their business work. For American-born men, most of their wives are total lazy dependants sucking the dudes dry.
That said, the rest of you guys have been warned. Get married and be willing to face the repercussions. Or just keep her as your girlfriend, verbally commit to her, and live happily ever after, without having to shell out MILLIONS of DOLLARS when she decides she's not happy, or when you decide you are ready for a new woman.
The order said¨.
44,000 income15,000 income taxes that no-one remembered that had to be taken out. Remember income taxes?-------------29,000 left after taxes10,000 spousal support as per Weller´s order-------------19,000 left after spousal support14,000 all those items that were listed on the order by Weller but not put into dollars. Just the 2 morgages were 9,000 a month. I have seen the bank records.-------------5000 left after paying all the bills ordered to be paid by Weller.849 child support for one child1000 child support to the previous wife for another child.-------------3151 left after child support6000 in interest paymts and other expences that Weller did not address in his order but had to be paid. Can´t tell the bank Weller said I don´t have to pay.--------------2849 left after bills that must be paid that Weller did not address.15000 a month for attys fees to fund a war that he tried to settle many times rather than go BK.--------------17,849 left after attys fees. Remember Darren has yet to spend $1 on rent, food, gas, car, support one child full time that lived with him and one child that lived with him half time.6000 a month for all the above. Darren had a minus cashflow of
$-23,849 per month
based on Judge Weller´s order. Live with that for 2 years!! and see if you need to file BK. Get a grip people.
So here it is in simple form. Weller a man making $44,000 a month to pay $61,849 before he got $1 to live on himself and to take care of his children when they lived with him. You make your own conclusion of fairness.
Remember criminals like Charla´s atty Shawn Meador and bought and paid for Judges can make anything look reasonable in court docs. The real test is how does it play out when you have to write the check and balance the checkbook. Don´t be fooled by the surface level BS. I have seen the bank records.
Of course the murder is not warranted, nor in any way justified!
mark in no way implied that...
99%+ of us will agree with you on that.
The point is: many of the orders that get handed down in Family Court are not warranted either. This may likely be the root of the problem in the Mack case.
And, unless you have a printing press in your basement, given orders to pay out any amount of money that you do not have and each month WILL MAKE YOU CRAZY- and, as Reno witnessed last Monday, crazy to the point of becoming homicidal if the person making the orders is ignoring all the evidence you are presenting over and over, month after month. And going to court month after month is costing you even more of the money that you do not have in legal fees to defend yourself against the impossible orders.
We all know the murder and attempted murder are crimes. While that is a valid point, it is only one of the issues in this situation.
To keep another murder from taking place, the injustices taking place in Family Court need to be addressed. That is a bigger point now. No one can change the events of last Monday.
Good people don't normally just snap for no reason. Not that Darren Mack's reasons were all that good... but what may seem weak reasons to us may have been very real reasons to him.
Sometimes when a good person is made to feel irrelevent and like there is no other way out of a situation, they will snap and do the unthinkable, things they would normally see as being wrong.
I know our society only wants to see criminals for the horrible monsters they are made out to be; that makes them easier to understand and cast aside. Many times they are monsters; sometimes they are not. Sometimes they are almost as much of a victim as their own victims are.
It would do us good to stand back and realize they are someone's kid or someone's brother or sister; they may even be someone's parent. Many times someone has once loved or still does love them.
But we don't like to; it makes us uncomfortable to see these terrible monsters as actually being human.
We need to ask what went wrong. We need to understand the 'what went wrong' to keep it from going wrong again.
Think about your own income. Add $25,000 to it. Imagine you have to pay that to someone you perceive as being unworthy or just someone who will not let you get out of it. Then realize there is a court order that says you have to pay that money; if you don't, you are headed to jail. Up to this point, you have done nothing criminally wrong, yet you are being treated like a criminal and worse yet the only person who can change it for you is not listening. Then come to the realization that everything you have and have worked for everyday of your life is slowly being taken away from you. Each day you work hard, but somehow each day you have less. Eventually, you will have nothing. Worse still, less than nothing. Soon you will owe more than you had to start with. You won't live enough lifetimes to get out from under it...
That would not make you crazy?
It would do it for me.