ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge sentenced Casey Anthony on Thursday to four years for lying to investigators but says she can go free in late July or early August because she has already served nearly three years in jail and has had good behavior. While acquitted of killing and abusing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, Anthony was convicted of four counts of lying to detectives trying to find her daughter in July 2008. She lied to them about working at the Universal Studios theme park, about leaving her daughter with a non-existent nanny named Zanny, about leaving the girl with friends and about receiving a phone call from her. At the time of the girl’s disappearance in June 2008, Anthony, a single mother, and Caylee were living with Anthony’s parents, George and Cindy Anthony, in suburban Orlando. No one has come forward as the child’s father. Prosecutors contended Anthony, then 22, suffocated Caylee with duct tape because she was interfering with her desire to be with her boyfriend and party with her friends. Defense attorneys countered that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool. They said that when Anthony panicked, her father, a former police officer, decided to make the death look like a murder. They said he put duct tape on the girl’s mouth and then dumped the body in woods about a quarter-mile away. The defense said Anthony’s apparent carefree life hid emotional distress caused by sexual abuse from her father. Her father firmly denied both the cover-up and abuse claims. The prosecution called those claims absurd, and said no one makes an accident look like a murder.
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-By Warner Todd Huston The Boston Globe is reporting that wait times are growing for citizens of Massachusetts to get in to see their doctors under the universal healthcare plan that Mitt Romney saddled Bay Staters with. Wait times have grown to as much as 48 days it has been found. The average wait ranged from 24
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Romneycare: Wait Times to see Docs Growing in Massachusetts
As we’ve reported, the former White House green jobs czar sits on the board of Pachamama , a group dedicated to “building a global alliance of experts from around the world to bring forth the universal adoption and implementation of Rights of Nature.” This idea echoes those of Bolivia who recently passed a sort of Bill of Rights for Mother Nature . In essence, leftist lawyers are lining up to defend the earth from crimes against nature inflicted by humans. But with all the recent natural disasters, I can’t help but wonder: If Van Jones supports Mother Nature’s right to sue man, doesn’t he then also support man’s right to sue Mother Nature? Environmentalists rail against human kind for inflicting all sorts of pain on Mother Nature — from greenhouse gases to acid rain. If they feel Mother Nature deserves reparations for these so-called crimes, what recourse do the Japanese have following the recent devastating earthquakes and tsunami which wiped whole villages off the map. Honestly, Mother Nature can be so cruel and thoughtless. And what about the people of our southern states who are being bombarded with horrible storms spawning ferocious tornadoes. In the case of Mother Nature vs. human kind, I find Mother Nature guilty. Don’t worry about Mother Nature, though. I’m sure the government would not hesitate to bail her out — she’s way too big to fail. And, as many of learned growing up, “it’s not nice” to fool with Mother Nature…
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**Written by Doug Powers Keep reminding yourself as you read the story that we pump a good deal of money into supporting this cuckoos nest. Sometimes though I think it’s worth it in order to keep them isolated in pockets of New York, Vienna and Geneva instead of being entirely free-range socialist nut cases, and this might be one of those days : United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will set aside pressing issues of international peace and security to devote an entire day debating the rights of “Mother Earth.” A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General Assembly agenda to discuss the creation of a U.N. treaty that would grant the same rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Mother Nature. Treaty supporters want the establishment of legal systems to maintain balance between human rights and what they perceive as the inalienable rights of other members of the Earth community — plants, animals, and terrain. Communities and environmental activists would be given more legal power to monitor and control industries and development to ensure harmony between humans and nature. Though the United States and other Western governments are supportive of sustainable development, some see the upcoming event, “Harmony with Nature,” as political grandstanding — an attempt to blame environmental degradation and climate change on capitalism. The General Assembly two years ago passed a Bolivia-led resolution proclaiming April 22 as “International Mother Earth Day.” The measure was endorsed by all 192 member states. But Bolivian President Evo Morales envisioned much more, vowing in a speech to U.N. delegates that a global movement had begun to lay “out a Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.” Morales has been on an anti-capitalist tear ever since Erik Estrada beat him out for the role of Frank Poncherello on CHiPs. Unfortunately I think these kooks are having some success, because this morning my backyard filed a class action lawsuit against my lawnmower. In a related story, Charles Manson would appear to agree with the UN’s push for human rights for Mother Earth: The infamous killer, who started championing environmental causes from behind bars, bemoaned the ‘bad things’ being done to environment in a rambling phone interview from his Californian jail cell. ‘Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere. ‘If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…’ he added, trailing off. No more conjugal visits from Al Gore for you, Charlie. Manson is serious about becoming a modern-day environmentalist leader, because lately he’s been flipping through magazines picking out the private jets, limos and mansions he’s going to buy when he gets paroled and can actively start saving the planet. Let’s join that UN meeting on human rights for trees, bugs and hillsides live and in progress: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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United Nations to Debate Human Rights for ‘Mother Earth’ (they’ll do anything to get out of paying those parking tickets)
AP – With a second corruption trial against him looming, impeached Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich launched a second pretrial media blitz on Friday — appearing to direct his comments, at least in part, to anyone who might end up on a second jury.
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