Intentionally causing the death of a person is a crime “less serious” that the one Neal pleaded guilty to today.
Just for informational purposes:
§ 18.2-35. How voluntary manslaughter punished.
Voluntary manslaughter is punishable as a Class 5 felony.
Sucks. Big time. For a long time.
This coming election will end up being more of a reflection on the GWB Era than many Republicans would wish. I am truly fearful for the electoral hopes of the GOP for a long time coming. What a shame. This man was no heir to the Reagan Legacy.
In today's Washington Post, Chris Cillizza gives us his "Friday Line: Veepstakes". Coming in at #4 for the Democrats is...
4. Tim Kaine: Kaine's great strengths in this process are who he is and where's he from. A former missionary and a man who openly talks about his faith, Kaine could help Obama bridge the "God gap" that has emerged in recent presidential elections. He is also the highest ranking elected official in an emerging battleground state and his popularity coupled with Obama's appeal to African American voters statewide and white voters in northern Virginia could make the contest for the Commonwealth a barnburner. Kaine's problem is that he has spent just three years as governor (and four years as lieutenant governor before that) and has almost no foreign policy experience.
Also on the list: Sam Nunn (#5), Hillary Clinton (#3), Ted Strickland (#2), and Kathleen Sebelius (#1). Not on the list at all? Jim Webb, Bill Richardson, or Wes Clark -- the top 3 right now tin the RK poll. So, who's right, Chris Cillizza or the readers of Raising Kaine? Should I start a poll on that too? Ha. :)
P.S. A few interesting reader comments about Kaine:
Not Tim Kaine. While he was a very early Obama supporter, he doesn't leave office until 2010. Maybe he'll attract Republican votes in VA to get him out of the governorship so that the Republican Lt. Gov. will take over the office. But I think that the Democratic voters may feel betrayed.
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...I still think that Jim Webb from Virginia would be more highly considered than Tim Kaine. Webb has the military experience, did very well in rural towns, is Reagan Democrat and can put VA in the Dem column, probably better than Kaine. He will also be more attractive nationally than Kaine (although Kaine will likely get a Cabinet post of some kind, but after the 2009 VA election, since the Lt. Gov is a Republican.
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Kaine would be interesting, but doesn't do anything to add heft to Obama's relative lack of experience and should isn't about to have to give up his Virginia position. Carrying Virginia would be nice, but carrying Pa. and Ohio are essential.
So, what do you think? Please use this as an open thread to discuss who Barack Obama and John McCain will pick as their running mates. Thanks.
Watch how Bill Clinton responds to someone in the audience who questions his claims about the things Hillary Clinton did for health care reform:
Is old Bill losing it ? Or is the inevitability of defeat finally getting to him ?
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The effects of Insomnia are starting to rear their ugly heads. Nap time!Democrat and Chronicle
May 7, 2008GREECE — The Greece school board could soon initiate a detailed forensic audit of a building project the state Comptroller's Office said was rife with financial mismanagement and wasteful spending.
During a meeting Tuesday, the board formed a committee to investigate how much such an audit of the 2001 Capital Improvement Project would cost and what it would cover.
"We need to see what we will gain from a forensic audit," said Roger Boily, board president. "We don't want to pay for it if we get less information than we already have."
Forensic audits are often used to trace fraudulent accounting practices and pinpoint economic crimes.
A recently released Comptroller's Office audit of the Greece Central School District identified more than $2.5 million in excess spending on the building project and determined former district officials deliberately split orders for changes to the project into multiple parts in order to shield some spending from Board of Education review. The audit faulted former boards of education for lax financial oversight.
Also during the meeting, board member Joseph Moscato asked the board to rescind lifetime health care benefits given to former Superintendent Steven L. Walts, who left in 2005 to lead the Prince William County schools in Virginia.
With no concrete evidence of wrongdoing on Walts' part, doing so would be premature and defamatory, said board member Patrick Tydings.
"This calls for action before an investigation is done," he said, voting to defeat the proposal.
Moscato's motion to hire an outside agency to investigate whether the comptroller's findings warranted criminal charges also failed. In other audits, when significant criminal activity was found, the Comptroller's Office has referred the matters to local law enforcement. It made no such referral in Greece.
However, Superintendent Steven Achramovitch has asked the Monroe County District Attorney's Office to review the audit. That review is ongoing.
Pending cost estimates, the board held off authorizing school lawyers to investigate the findings.
The matter could come up again May 13.
Hezbollah has taken control of the media in Lebanon, and their propaganda campaign has already begun. They are currently presenting themselves as liberators of Lebanon, and allies of the Lebanese Army against a corrupt government supported by pro-government snipers and brigrands.
Hezbollah's militant takeover of Beirut and its systematic destruction of the authority of the state and freedom of the press suggests a sophisticated and planned campaign to take power. There is no hiding the violence Hezbollah used to seize Beirut and cut it off from the rest of the country. But as their media campaign is already showing, Hezbollah is employing subtle and sophisticated mechanisms to take over the rest of Lebanon. All news which could be construed as negative behaviors, such as the blatant destruction and corruption of Lebanese institutions, is hidden beneath a Hezbollah-dominated media blackout.
No one knows if Hezbollah is currently occupying government building, re-routing the telecommunications networks, placing weapons in areas they could not gain access to before, and more. If Hezbollah wins this battle, this information will never be made public.
Al Jazeera is claiming that Hezbollah has made a "concession" by opening the airport road. As was told to me by a veteran Lebanese reporter, all of the journalists and news agencies reporting right now have been vetted by Hezbollah. Even if the news is true, it is written to present Hezbollah's actions as gracious.
A Hezbollah gunman poses as he flashes a victory sign after putting up posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and taking over of an office of the Future group loyal to Saad al-Hariri Majority leader, in the Rass al-Naba'a area in Beirut May 9, 2008. Hezbollah gunmen took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday in a third day of fighting between the pro-Iranian group and fighters loyal to the U.S.- backed governing coalition. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON)
World Food Program (WFP) internal documents show that the major oil producing nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gives almost nothing to the food organization, even as skyrocketing oil prices and swollen oil revenues contribute to the very crisis that the U.N. claims could soon add 100 million more people to the world’s starving masses.
The overwhelming bulk of the burden in feeding the world’s starving poor remains with the United States and a small group of other predominately Western nations, a situation that the WFP has done little so far to change, even as it has asked for another $775 million in donations to ease the crisis.
Donor listings on WFP’s website show that this year, as in every year since 1999, the U.S. is far and away the biggest aid provider to WFP. Since 2001, U.S. donations to the food agency have averaged more than $1.16 billion annually — or more than five times as much as the next biggest donor, the European Commission.
The U.S. gives more than five times that of the European Commission? How can that be when everyone knows the United States is the "Great Satan" and the biggest terrorist nation on earth?