RC Files Complaint on Cindy Trigg with Attorney General

In a surprise revelation this morning, the Record-Courier newspaper has filed a formal complaint with the Nevada Attorney General over an (alleged) Open Meetings Act Violation by Congressional Candidate du jour Cindy Trigg. In a nutshell the basis for the case seems to be that Trigg collaborated with two other Trustees [sic] to (possibly) manipulate the review data for the renewal of a contract for her good buddy, Superintendent Lark.

Having all the formal legal training of (at least) graduating AA Stewardess College, Trigg defended the legality of her actions as "It's my prerogative.” Trigg and Lark you may recall in a post here are the vanguards who have rammed through a drug policy which is also inviting more litigation.

In other news which is sure to gather voters for Trigg's run for office, she is almost apologetic for her racist and culturally insensitive remarks.

At Lark's evaluation on June 17, Trigg warned board members that allowing insubordination against the superintendent could send the wrong message to employees and future superintendents.

“You can't let them think that the Indians are running the camp,” Trigg said at the meeting. (emphasis added)

Yes, here in Douglas County, having an opinion is "insubordination". Having 16 out of 21 opinions against the Superintendent is pure anarchy which must be quashed and Trigg, being Lark's "self-described supporter of Lark" will do whatever it takes to support her friend mentor who could easily be out the door come 2010.

There, folks of Nevada and CD2, you have have just two insights into the leadership "qualities" of this person who wants to be you next Congresscritter. However, this is just the tip of the martini glass.

Btw, it has been rumored that Trigg actually has a website for her Congressional folly so this blog is happy to advertise it for her. Too bad she has not posted on it for well over a month now. C'mon, Cindy, we're all on the edge of our seats to hear more about how you will change things when you kick Heller's butt.

Btw II, can some of you out there throw a few nickels and dimes her way? 46 supporters and $4 grand isn't near enough for a "Fully Disabled" person to go to DeeCee now that she has lost the Native American vote.

And somebody please report how the debate of the century goes. I have a feeling that Mr. Reeves is going to be able to expound at length without interruption by his "opponent".

"Too Big To Fail" Failed

After throwing a few trillion away on pure 43 economic policy Pres O is waking up and smelling the roses fertilizer. As noted in Street.com The Obama Administration wants the biggest of the big banks to start planning their own funerals. It seems there is some unforseen consequences in giving away all that money and the biggies are going to fail anyway.

And speaking of failing, 60 isn't near enough to herd cats. So Majority Lardasser is already saying he's going to fail when it comes to pushing any agenda except raising $25 million for his re-election.


Michael Jackson is going to be buried sans brain - that is if they ever get around to a burial instead of selling more videos or whatever it is that can be commercially exploited over his death. It seems the coroner wants the brain to harden so it can be sliced into sections and studied for toxicology purposes so it has to harden for a few weeks. Thankfully Harry Reid's brain is pre-prepared so his family will be spared this gruesome necessity.


"Mission Accomplished II" Anyone out there remember exactly what the mission was except to sink your own cruiser?

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to Texas tea-baggers:

On Saturday, right-wing astroturf organizers held a number of sparsely-attended anti-tax protests in several locations across the country. At one such event outside the Texas Capitol, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was labeled a “traitor” and was “booed at the start and close of his remarks.” Later at the same event, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) “drew scattered boos, notably from crowd members aware of his advocacy of toll roads to relieve traffic congestion.

Maybe there's still some hope back "home" but I seriously doubt it...

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY and 2012 loser Mike Huckabee says:

George Bush inherited an economy when he became president back in 2001 that was already beginning to show real signs of the stress from the breaking of the technology bubble. George Bush didn’t go out whining and complaining every day,

Yup - he really, really said that...

Unconstitutional Drug Testing In Douglas County Schools

One would think that being "President" of a small school district in a small town in a small state would be something hard to royally screw up, right? Wrong, bucko; very wrong. When you combine total ignorance, a low education level, and unbridled ambition - anything and everything can go wrong. It could even lead to a case that could go to SCOTUS....

Back in May of this year, "President" Trigg et al. rammed through a new drug testing policy for Douglas County schools. Now kids can be tested 24/7/365, whether in school or not. But the testing is not for all kids in Douglas County schools; it's only for those who choose to participate in "extracurricular activities" which includes everything from sports to the debate team. In general these are the brightest and best of the student lot who choose to take on extra work and responsibilities to improve themselves and bring prestige back to their schools who have been singled out for drug testing.

Excluded from the 24/7/365 are "all other students". I won't paint this group with a broad brush and say they are the druggies and troublemakers but I do believe a lot of the drug problems in our schools could be traced to some in this group.

The problem which Trigg et al. have created (in my opinion only) is that she has discriminated against the class (i.e.: group, assemblage, section) of students who choose extracirricular activities by excluding all other students from random drug testing who do not participate in outside school activities. Discrimination case law precedent has clearly shown that discrimination against a class of people based on arbitrary and capricious standards (e.g., race, color, belief systems, extracirricular activities) in patently unConstitutional in its discriminatory bias. In a further point of discriminatory random drug testing policy, Trigg et al. rammed through was that only students in grades 9-12 will be tested foolishly assuming younger students are somehow immune to the dangers of drugs.

To absolve themselves of any question of illegal search under the Fourth Amendment, the Douglas County School District requires parents to allow for random drug testing if they want their children to be able to participate in outside activities. Quite clearly this "consent" is obtained under duress that if it is not signed, the child will be denied their provledges under the First and Second Amendments of free speech and assembly. Therefore, the "consent" is invalid as it denies U.S. citizens of other Constitutional rights.

As far as a search for drugs on a student goes, the same principles apply as for adults: A search must be reasonable at its inception, i.e., there must be ''reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school". In a random drug search, no such "reasonable grounds" exist. Moreover, school searches must also be reasonably related in scope to the circumstances justifying the interference, and ''not excessively intrusive in light of the age and sex of the student and the nature of the infraction.

The quite old (1995) court case which apparently Trigg et al. based their decision is VERNONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT 47J PETITIONER v. WAYNE ACTON et ux., which was primarily based on the fact within that for the particular school district in question, "athletes were leaders in the student drug culture and concern that drug use increases the risk of sports-related injury". In reaching their decision in May, 2009, Trigg et al. offered no evidence whatsoever that this was the case in Douglas County schools. Or that any group, club, organization, or enity invloved in extracirricular activities were the main source of the drug problem in Douglas County schools. It would seem reasonable that if Trigg et al. had evidence that group(s) of students involved in extracirricular activites were, indeed, at the heart of the drug problem in Douglas County schools, they should have presented that data in support of implementing random drug testing only on this class or group of students; but they did not.

This June 25th, SCOTUS made another landmark ruling concerning drug searches of students in stating a strip search of an 8th grader violated her Constitutional rights. It does not seem a large leap of reason to compare the illegal search of one's person with the illegal search of one's body fluids. What is very impotant about this case - initiated by the ACLU - is that SCOTUS has become aware that schools are not constitutional dead zones.

I have, as of yesterday, FOIAed the Trustees of the Douglas County School Board as to just what legal opinions they employed in their unanimous vote to take the taxpayers into a quite gray area of constitutionality which the Reno ACLU has already expressed an interest in following. I doubt that Trigg et al. have the common good sense to review and possibly undo that which has been done. All it's going to take is one parent with a little courage to balk this set of ass-clowns and the Douglas County School District under "President" Trigg could become quite infamous in their collective stupidity.

Trailer Trash Feud Spills Out into Parking Lot

I'm not going to waste a whole lot of perfectly good protons on Alaskavania's trailer trash except to excerpt two recurring questions out of the article:

1. Was Palin a fresh talent whose debut was mishandled by self-serving campaign insiders, or
2. an eccentric “diva” who had no business on the national stage?
3. Going forward, does she offer a conservative and charismatic face for a demoralized and star-less party?
4. Or is she a loose cannon who should be consigned to the tabloids where she can reside in perpetuity with other flash-in-the-pan sensations?

OK - that was four questions. I was just checking to see if you had already skipped to the next planet-altering news.

Which is - SURPRISE! SURPRISE! - NevaDUH has its own brand of trailer trash. I just love the part where Goober's shill points out he is "not a man of great means" - completely passing up the opportunity to tell folks how they can contribute to his legal defense fund set up years ago for multiple contingencies like this.

What's this? More trailer trash: Michael Jackson tried to seduce Jane Fonda? Jeez....my hurl meter is now pegged and lights are going dim.....

Oh boy....now we have coast to coast, north-to south trailer trash....

That's it! I'm outta here....

No Knuckledraggers today....I'm a bit overtaxed as it is....

Bye-bye Bernie....

'Ol Bernie just got 150 years at Elevenworth or Twelveworth (an old Groucho Marx joke). But as hard as I am straining here, I just can't seem to come up with a tear for the greedy, NYNY penthouse "victims" he fleeced.

Btw, did you know that Reid's TARP gave away $2.7 BILLION to the British rum industry? That's roughly 60% more than the whole state of NevaDUH received in the whole freakin' "stimulus". No, Reid didn't bother to read the stimulus; too busy raising money for himself.

I'm wondering if we should have a lottery to determine the date when the Jackson kid is going to get buried so the world can get back to business. Right now they are making too much money to even consider sticking him in the ground and returning the news outlets back to the business of news.

Speaking of "kids", will hanging out in Reno become a crime? "Believe It Or Not" participating in extracurricular activities in Douglas County could be a crime under the policy rammed through by President Trigg. The "policy" of drug testing 24/7/365 only applies to kids who try to do something for their school while the real druggies go untested. The ACLU is likely to step in and cost the Douglas County School District millions it doesn't have so Trigg has something to run for Congress on.

Speaking of another who won't be missed, I saw on CNN where he was hit in the head with a flying suitcase when the plane he was on blew a tire upon landing. Pitch that, dude! Now if we can just get rid of Patrick Thomas, Founder of Taxmasters and the punk that sings for a free credit report, we'll get some other obnoxious person to insult our intelligence and pitch something we don't need.

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY to (gasp!) John Boehner for mastering a four-letter word educated people have learned to exclude from their vocabulary. You'll go far like this, John. Also a four-letter word.

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY FOREVER hopes all hell breaks loose again so more die to prove him right.

There's a special place waiting for you, Chainey - and you're not going to need a warm parka to go there....

"Beels? We Don't Need to Reid No Steenking Beels!"

That $1 trillion "stimulus" bill that Reid rammed through in Feb.? He never read it. This health care reform which will most likely be the most far-reaching social change in this generation? Reid won't bother to read that either.... So much for the Founding Fathers idea of Advice and Consent; evidently Reid just doesn't believe in that part of our Constitution.

Now...for some quickies from around the outer solar system. Oh yeah; I forgot! That's us!

That Michael Jackson worldwide "Come Back" tour? Won't. Seems something snafued in a new death-defying dance routine. For one, I fail to miss what he contributed to humanity abd society and general that rates higher than Gov. Sanford....

Gov. Sanford's affair? Blame it on Obama.

The meaning of the next census? More Japanese internment.

What's wrong with the Infidelity Club? It's discriminatory.

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to Pres O who will veto the "When Pigs Fly F-22".

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY AWARD Some crackpot actually said:

"...passage of clean energy bill will be as tragic as the death of Michael Jackson."

Everybody out there now can make that sound like Lurch of the Addams family. Obviously Lurch was smarter than even this.

Enstench Awarded GOP's Yellow Garter

No, I'm not speaking of the kind of garters a lady takes off her leg and gives to a man when he gets past third base. I'm speaking of the yellow garter snake which befits Enstench and his "Atta-Boy" cronies.

Ensign -- who took circuitous routes to and from the luncheon to avoid facing the media -- gave what senators called a two-minute speech to his fellow Senate Republicans, drawing a round of applause afterward that, they said, closed the issue in their minds despite calls from some watchdogs for an ethics committee investigation of the affair. [emphasis added]

Enstench, now having received the applause in this most clubby of clubs is certainly guaranteed a long-lasting standing of respect from them. FYI, FUX News lied to protect Enstench.

That is...as long as he can be re-elected. "Rumors" around the state have been that the Repugs are itchin' to sacrifice run Heller against Reid. If Heller really wants to be a Senator - and there's nothing empirical at all except GOP wishing to indicate he does - all he has to do is wait until 2012 when he could win the primary against Enstench in a walk. (If he keeps his zipper shut anyways)

Btw, Sebelius has some musings on the race against Reid. Ahhhh....NevaDUH - where the men are men and the sheep are nervous....

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY to Nevada blogger extraordinaire Jack Wood for catching this:?

Barney Frank has filed a bill that would eliminate federal penalties for personal possession of less than 100 grams of marijuana. [WBZTV]
It would also make the penalty for using marijuana in public just $100. Frank said:

“I think John Stuart Mill had it right in the 1850s,” said Congressman Frank, “when he argued that individuals should have the right to do what they want in private, so long as they don’t hurt anyone else. It’s a matter of personal liberty. Moreover, our courts are already stressed and our prisons are over-crowded. We don’t need to spend our scarce resources prosecuting people who are doing no harm to others.”

Could this possibly be the beginning of the end for Prohibition II?

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), an avid lover of golf, has repeatedly used the golf course for fundraising purposes. Unlike the imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who famously used golf as “bait…to lure Republican politicians into his realm,” Boehner has repeatedly used golf as a means of giving lobbyists some face-time with him while raising money for House Republicans in the process. The Washington Post’s Mary Ann Akers reports today that Boehner’s PAC, Freedom Project, “spent a total of $31,474.11 on a golf fundraiser for friends, lobbyists and anyone else who wanted intimate tee time with the House’s top Republican” at the Ritz Carlton in Naples, FL last February, raising nearly a quarter million dollars for GOP candidates.

Hmmm...golf>good-looking>Repug leader>what else?