Hard Earned Wisdom

Contributing from somewhere else other than here, this just in from "Glad2beGone" . . .

Lessons I Learned at the Divorce court

1st - Be mature- Control emotions.

2nd - I am ultimately responsible for my actions, no others are.

3rd - Evaluate mistakes but do not be afraid of taking timely pro se action even if you make mistakes.

4th - Always assume that lawyers have the moral/ethical standards of greedy whores. I may be wrong but not so far. If after considerable intelligent discussion, analysis, & research, you disagree with your attorney, then you are probably right.

5th - Some Judges still fear God, so do demons, but I remain hopeful.

6th- If you are uneasy about something, look for the moral/ethical element.

7th- My experience is that Deviants and Greed are responsible for most Judicial Injustice and Egregious Wrongs.

8th- A person does not have to sexually assault horses and male babies to be a Deviant.

9th- 99% of the time one should be strategically walking forward or backward. 1% of the time, choose a direction and run like hell. (No adrenaline rushes, plan, plan, plan)

10th- Defense is a moral act. Storming the bastion of your oppressor is a defensive act.

11th-NEVER, NEVER argue with the court clerk. ( dot "I's", cross "T's) All arguments should occur in "Brief" or "Orals". (see *)

12th. In a free society armed resistance to uphold the Constitution is a right and duty. (see *)

*There are two ways to get into the Millennium Bar and Rescue Princess Leiah. 1st Shoot the Bouncer -2nd Show the Bouncer your I.D. Arguing with the bouncer is not a 3rd option-that's for losers. Shooting the bouncer means an armed assault on the Millennium Bar, else you "go to Court".

Public records held hostage

It has been 2 months and 3 follow ups since my first request for administrative records from the Thurston County Superior Court.

While the Court Clerk did respond in a timely manner- the front person of the Judges is not.

So how does this play out?

1- Are they destroying the records? Risking some dangerous territory since we have other records of email chains.
2- Is their grasp of the law really that bad?
3- Do they believe they are above the law until forced by a higher court--well likely since they seem to operate that way in every other scenerio.


The nature of the original request is to determine WHY we are seeing so many Thurston County employees and Thurston County tax dollars used for lobbying against shared parenting legislation as well as other laws and policies affecting the rights of non custodial parents to see their kids and WHO is responsible for this agenda.

PS- I don't have kids. For me, this is about leaving the world a better place than I found it.

Hillary and Christine

Leadership is earned by inspiring those who choose you as a leader.

Throughout my career I have worked with some extraordinary leaders- many of whom have been women. Likewise I have also encountered countless empty suits (and pant suits)....aka managers from hell. The latter usually maintain their positions of power through leaving countless bodies on the side of the road while they achieve short term results for the benefit of themselves, but largely at the expense of long term benefits to the organization they serve. Ultimately the organizations they lead tank while they paddle away in a life raft to their next contingent of hapless subordinate victims. Both Hillary Clinton and Christine Gregoire fit exactly that mold.

Both Hillary and Christine are very unextraordinary women who have reached positions of power through the prowess of the machines they jockey- their only method of leadership is bullying. They lack all academic traits typical of great leaders in any circumstance. They don't inspire, they don't bring people together, they don't encourage people to be more than they could be otherwise, they blame others for their own short comings and are simply miserable human beings to all those around them when they don't get their way. Leaders like this resort to the lowest IQ approach to solving any problem (many accuse Bush of this with Iraq, but don't seem interested in holding dem suits accountable). In short- they possess no characteristic anyone would choose in a leader.

This explains why Obama and Dino pose such credible threats to the 2008 positions of power these women seek.

I'm not backing Obama- but I'll say it twice in 2 days: I like his moxy.

Not a prediction

Two months ago I was paying even odds for the front-runners in the GOP primary and paying 5:1 if Obama beat Clinton.

In the grown up race, the GOP still looks like a street fight, but it appears my man Rudy is not going to make it. Nonetheless I'm not raising or lowering the odds on any of the GOP contenders.

Over at the children’s table, it's looking like Obama has a real shot to beat Hillary in the hissy fit of who can out-platitude the other. If he wins the primary and the presidency for that matter, it will be for the same reason Bill won re-election in 96; he's damn likable.

Hillary on the other hand is as charismatic and personable as sulfuric acid across the face. She's as presidential as an angry soccer mom harassing the referee at a peewee match. If you heard her interview with Russert, you know exactly what I'm talking about. I’ve gone from indifferent to actually cheering for Obama on the dem side, because although I disagree with 95% of his politics (the same as Hillary)- he’s “not Hillary.”

Want more rights? Become an illegal alien!

Illegal immigrants should have more rights than non custodial parents says Dr Feel Good Rep Judy Clibborn

HB 2930 Verifying that applicants for drivers' licenses and identicards are lawfully within the United States is being held up by Representative Judy Clibborn (D-41), Chair of the House Transportation Committee who will not bring HB 2930 before the committee to vote on.

You can let her know your opinion here: clibborn.judy@leg.wa.gov

However if you fall behind in your child support (better known by many reemed in custody battles as alimony/extortion paid by NCPs to see their kids) you have no rights as shown by SB 6803 which establishes restricted licenses for persons who fail to comply with child support payments. McAuliffe, Hargrove, Rasmussen are the brain trust behind this steaming pile.

These are the same "for the children" frauds that have held hostage much needed shared parenting legislation targeted at giving NCPs more time with their kids. The reason; only wife beaters lose custody battles according to opponents--- I'm not kidding by even 1% on this one.

Recollection of a another broken Gregoire promise

Mr BS over at The Zero covered Rossi's lunch with the Realtors today. Lately Brad has been quite the t-ball dad lobbing underhand tennis serves to the Queen of King County, but he did pull a choice quote from Dino today on her highness's performance on promise keeping.

"...Gregoire had convened a task force on housing and land-use issues in 2006, but “not a single one” of its 150 ideas or recommendations was sent to the Legislature..."

This brings to mind a press conference where Gregoire was fighting i933 and was pleading with and promising rural land owners that she would work to address the issue of devaluation of land and property rights $ caused by harsh environmental legislation. Close to Dino's point, after Gregoire helped defeat 933 - it has been entirely an agenda of F You to rural landowners.

A friend of mine that owns a big chunk of rural (2nd generation family owned) land forgot to vote in 2004. I don't think he'll make that mistake again.

Who says DV and Divorce ain't funny?

Divorced Barbie

One day a never divorced father heads out of work and on his way home he had planned to go shopping for his daughter's birthday. Remembering his daughter likes to play with dolls, he stops at a toy shop and asks the salesperson, "How much for one of those Barbie's in the display window?"

The salesperson answers, "Which one do you mean, sir? We have Eight:

Work Out Barbie for $19.95,
Shopping Barbie for $19.95,
Beach Barbie for $19.95,
Disco Barbie for $19.95,
Ballerina Barbie for $19.95,
Astronaut Barbie for $19.95,
Skater Barbie for $19.95, and
Divorced Barbie for $865.95".

The amazed father asks: "It's what?! Why is the Divorced Barbie $865.95 and the others only $19.95?"

The annoyed salesperson rolls her eyes, sighs, and answers: "Sir...,Divorced Barbie comes with: Ken's Car, Ken's House, Ken's Harley, Ken's Boat, Ken's Furniture, Ken's Computer and . . . a judgment for Barbie’s outlandish attorney fees." :) LOL

On a more serious note;
Check out this Texas Judge's DV/Custody Ruling. (Hot off the AP)

Entire Family Beats Child

College Station, Texas (AP) - A seven-year-old boy was at the center of a Brazos County courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible.

The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him.

After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him. After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Seattle Sonics, whom the boy firmly believes are not currently capable of beating anyone.

Romney Presented with 300 Falsely Accused Fathers' Stories

Hmmm. 300 stories on short notice. The politicians can’t keep ignoring this ground swell of wronged voters. See update by following the link below. The divorce and DV Industry organizations' continual denial of the problem isn’t keeping it tucked away in the back torture rooms of the family court house any longer. At the Thurston County Guardian ad Litem training this summer journeyman DV propagandist Peter Jaffey told the group that false allegations only occur in less than 5% of the cases. Several GALs disagreed and said it is more like 30-40% of the cases they see. He didn’t think that property, money and sole custody of children were enough to motivate women to lie and misuse their sacred DV silver bullet laws to annihilate men. He also teaches that DV is 95% men as stated on the Thurston web site despite what the educated and credible researchers report. Mr. Jaffe was busy patting the backs of Thurston Judges Mcphee, Casey and Wickham, who were addressing the GALs that day, on doing just a fantastic job keeping the lies and myths of DV alive and well for all of their financial benefit. LOL Hazard Judges. 300 Stories on short notice.

http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=1686

Call to Action! Romney Asks for Cases of Falsely Accused Fathers

“In my state I do not recall a circumstance...where a law of this kind interfered with the rights of a parent in a way that seemed like it was out of keeping, but if you’re familiar with such, let us know.”--Mitt Romney, presidential candidate and governor of Massachusetts, 2003-2007

"The continual use of some men's groups to spout bogus facts and statistics is a problem we need to correct...[the idea] that men are falsely accused of domestic violence and lose contact with their children unjustly as a result...is not accurate...just the opposite is true."--Rita Smith, Executive Director, The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

See Mr. Romney’s response from a link in the article below. Send him your story and tell him what a bold faced liar Rita Smith and her scream queen brigade is.

http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=1667

Mainstreamers hosting a forum.

I'm not affiliated with the mainstream organization in any way shape or form- but this came to my inbox.

The Thurston County Mainstream Republicans are hosting a forum on January 23, Wednesday,
noon, at Nickelby's Restaurant in Tumwater to which the Republican Presidential
campaigns have been invited to make presentations.

The campaigns listed on the attached list have been contacted. Three, the Huckabee group,
the Romney group and the McCain group have confirmed they will participate. Others may yet
participate.

Please RSVP by responding to this message or calling Dorothy Millhollin @ 456.2992.
A two dollar fee is collected to cover expenses. The lunch is ordered from the menu.

Tolling for revenue

Why did the Zero choose not to carry the story about tolls on 520 & I90?

No doubt the "matter of life and death" gas tax increases in 2005 coupled with not even a plan for a plan for a transportation solution to get DRIVERS from point A to point B until 2012, frosted with a tolling for random revenue STILL without a plan, is not going to rest well with the hard working voters driving 10 MPH in carpool lanes and gridlocked commuters in gp lanes.

So the question remains. Why did the Zero bury the story?

I've heard there are smart people working on Gregoire's campaign. You wouldn't know it by this story. Perhaps Judge Wickham should require the PI and Times to file the story as a Rossi campaign contribution.

Public Records Request- update

The Thurston County Court Clerk has responded with a date to inspect the documents requested.

The Court administrator –responsible for judges and other court personnel- who first denied the request- selling a cock and bull story that administrative records were "court cases" and exempt from Public Records Law- and then claimed not to know which court personnel the request referred to has NOT responded to a follow up request.

Tick tock- should this go in front of a real judge- I would point them to the King County precedent on the subject of denying public records.

Also- what is the irony that the person responsible for servicing public records for the court has absolutely no electronic contact info on their website (or ANY contact information for that matter) and has not made electronic contact info available- forcing all communication to flow by US mail, WHILE all other personnel have their contact info on the website.

FURTHER- when making the initial request- no one would say who the contact responsible for servicing this request was!!!!!

Absolutely amazing to a commoner like myself.

When does the court consider women’s violence as Domestic Violence?

http://drphil.com/shows/show/1005

This is classic. This little 98 lb darlin’ on the Dr. Phil show today was screamin’ and yellin’ and beatin’ her husband right in front of the kids. She was even arrested one time for assaulting him with keys in her hand using them like brass knuckles while he held the one year old in his arms. In Hazard court, they would say she is just reacting to his mean ogorness. Do you think they would EVER order HER to take a mental evaluation? Many men I have talked to and cases I have researched show time and time again where they ignore this type of behavior and suppress evidence and charge the man (I mean “find”, there is no due process) with domestic violence and shuffle them on into state certified multi-year programs. Classic.

So, I ask again. When does the court consider women’s violence as Domestic Violence?

Answer . . . Never.

Your Hazard "family" court system at work.

Intro and update

Intro and update

Regular readers (and stalkers) will notice the “Angler” blogging here.

Angler is also from Thurston County and I’ve invited her/him to blog here. As always with multi contributor blogs- don’t consider Angler’s views to be mine or vice versa. Angler has a wealth of background information on a lot of the dirt in Thurston’s courts and local government and I look forward to seeing the enthusiasm take form on this blog. It is of course up to Angler to determine how much or how little she/he would like to share on the personal 411.

I’ve given Angler free admin reign on the links etc here- and therefore gets the credit/blame for most of the the updates you’ll see here in the coming weeks.

While most regular visitors / stalkers know who I am- or arrived here via a search on me- I’ve been keeping my profile lower for the obvious concern of ID theft etc and also because it’s just a generally good idea to keep one foot off the grid when you don’t really own or control the grid. In this case the grid is the internet and “blogger.” Ultimately I’d like to see this blog merged with some other blogs of like minded locals, but until I get a surplus of time and enthusiasm, that’ll have to wait.

Also while I don’t mind business colleagues viewing what I’m ranting about on my own time- it’s not something I promote or try to mix in with my professional life. So enjoy the rants, but understand that what makes a professional a “professional” is the ability to not pound friends and colleagues over the head with political viewpoints they may or may not agree with. Geeze- Come to think of it, I wish some of my former colleagues could practice this as well!!!

Lastly I’ll likely be more active in jotting some of my own ideas and rants over on my finance blog (see from my profile).

Ryan has since moved on to bigger and better things but I’ll leave him active on this blog in case he gets the urge to pontificate here again someday.