Three for one day!!

Couldn't decide which story had me roiling more this morning, so I'll try and keep it short while my fingers dance over the keypad like a ballerinas toes on a bed of coals:

They may hate us, but thank God they are stupid.

USA 2, Terrorists 0. No need to remind everyone of the failed Detroit bombing when the would be martyr only succeeded in burning himself. And I am sure the name Faisal Shahzad will be on the nations lips in the coming days. He was the terrorist that tried to set off a bomb in Manhattan this week. But I want to point out the obvious connection. These guys get pissed off at some point, decide to go to a training camp in the motherland, then come back to unleash holy terror on the infidels!! Er, except it didn't exactly work out that way did it? Both bombs failed to detonate, and in both cases, it looks like they were actually too stupid to pull it off. So while their hearts might have been in the right place, thank God that they left their heads in some pile of sand in the desert.

Why even bother with a trial at all?

The trial of Lori Hunt began this week. If you don't remember her, she is the nail-painting driver that killed a woman with her car as the woman was sitting on her motorcycle at a red light. He lawyer says his client is "not a criminal." I beg to differ. Vehicular homicide is a crime, and your client admitted her actions led to the womans death. Case friggin' closed right? Wrong. She may not have plead guilty to the actaul crime, but she did admit she was painting her nails and failed to hit the brakes. Whatever happened to common sense? Lawyers gotta make their money too I guess.

Who is judging the judges?

So does anyone remember Cook County Judge Thomas Gainer Jr.? He was one of my Scumbags of the Month recently for letting off another Chicago cop for an obvious crime, one that you or I would be in jail for right now. Now let's add in Lake County Associate Judge Helen Rozenberg. A woman was helping a friend with a ride to court the other day, and stayed to watch the proceedings. She was coming from the gym, and was wearing her gym clothes. Which included a T-shirt that said, "I have the pussy, so I make the rules." Guys, if you are married, then you know this is the plain truth. Seeing as she probably doesn't like to get hit on when she is working out, she may have worn this particular shirt to scare off any losers. But when the judge saw the guest in the courtroom seats, she got offended and through her in jail for contempt of court. Now in the former case, two guys were dead, and an obvious miscarriage of justice has occurred. But The Guitarman feels compelled to link the two cases and ask, who is judging the judges? It's obvious voters elect these egotistical buffoons, not knowing who they are even voting for. But when murderers walk free and ordinary citizens are thrown in jail for no reason all because a judge has lost sight of the reason he or she is there in the first place, maybe it's time that we held them accountable with a higher authority. Only question then will be, who will be judging the judges of the the judges?