LAW AND COURTS

Possibly the most important impact on our life is happen these three days in the Supreme Court which may not only decide the future of health care but also daily life activities.

Weirdly what is before the Court is not the legality of mandated health insurance , but the question of whether the penalty for failure to obtain insurance in the law is a tax or not.

There has been a previous decision and upheld by the court that if it is a tax there can be no suit to overturn it until after the tax has been paid. Since this provision would not go in to effect until 2015 the delay would mean that provisions of the law would have to be enacted.

If the penalty is held to be a tax on the uninsured all present suits against the act will be thrown out. If a penalty is not a tax then the case will go back into the system.

The question involved is too complex for my simple mind, so I advise you to read these links; including a summary of day 2 can be found in both these sites CLICK. , CLICK .

In the world of minutia; did you know that a child born outside this country of American citizens has the country in which he was born listed on his birth certificate?

That is with one exception; if since 2002 by Congressional Law if he is born in Jerusalem he cannot have Israel listed as the site of his birth. I am not sure where he was born; in limbo? A challenge to this law is in the courts.

Locally legal nonsense is the mayor’s suit against the Council. I am not sure of what the suit is if it is more than overturning the penalty resolution and recovering her legal expenses.

Anyhow the special Council meeting tonight is to engage legal representation to defend the Council and its members.

I cannot be there because of another engagement, but I would be interested to learn if some Councilor attempts to use the Tolliver PMUA reasoning that so much money has already been spent we should end it by giving what is wanted.

OLD DOC IS WRITELESS..

Could it be that the Mayans were right; the world and their calender ends on Dec. 21, 2012. That of course should be the winter solstices.

It must be true because the truth is that for once I am out of words for a blog. Perhaps I shall have a brain storm later this morning. Check back at noon.

MADNESS MARCH

Although four great basketball games,a, college lacrosse match between #1 and#2 which ended in sudden death overtime AND above all TIGER IS BACK marked this weekend; .

Were it only in the the non earthshaking world of NAAC college basketball that March Madness took place; the world would be fine. A great 4 days of March Madness; only next Saturday and Monday night is left

That is applicable only to College Basketball.unfortunately since it is obvious that March Madness has extended out into the real world; Especially into our world of OZ. When it extends to our daily life; business and everyday affairs of governance it becomes a serious matter. March only represents a specific time episode in the ongoing fantasy of Plainfield Life.
MADNESS
In Plainfield there will be a Special Council meeting M Wednesday night to pass a resolution hiring a special Counsel to represent the Council as defendant in the Mayor's suit against it.

(Thank You Rebecca)

Once agaian Queen Sharon (anointed by CN Editorial writer) has charged blindly in to the fray, irregardless of the consequences that may affect her "subjects". It does not matter that an impartial investigator found her guilty of improper manipulation of public funds. It dose not matter that her stone walling the investigation cost the city sufficient amounts of funds to be paid to the lawyer. It does not matter that when she did testify she fabricated a phantasmagorical state of emergency as a defense. It doesn't matter that she had services paid for before they were rendered. It does not matter that there were monies not in the budget expended without Council approval. It does not matter that she was not charged with any criminal action, although it was suggested that the matter could be turned over to the Prosecutor's office. What matters he that she hired a Lawyer without having been charged. And now that she is unwilling to accept a $200.00 slap on the wrist.

To those who have defended her fancy free use of Municipal funds as "it was only $6,000.00" and you are spending much more to find out"; condone this suite which will cost much more. Or will they contribute to the Queen's war fund? Will her defenders figure how much it has cost the taxpayers because she would not admit improprieties.

To those who have defended the Mayor; there is no difference between the act of missappropriatin $10.00 and $1,000,000.00 other than the size of the theft. The intent is the same and the mentality is the same.