Polygamist hearing turns into a circus

Hearings began to (hopefully) settle the case regarding the removal of 416 children from a polygamist ranch. Unfortunately, it also turned into a circus. The site was definitely out of a movie. Big city lawyers in suits and women in 19th century dresses packed the courtroom. The judge was not really able to get much done considering all of the chaos. I hope that thi gets figured out and that the children are put into good homes and that their mothers receive treatment.

Elections Controversy at CU

A week after it was released, an e-memo from the winners of the UCSU elections, the Drive ticket, is still being criticized and could lead to a change in university policy regarding the content of e-memos sent to students.

Last Wednesday the Drive ticket, one of three tickets running in the UCSU election, sent out a student e-memo titled "Urgent: Vote DRIVE for UCSU," urging students to support them in their run for office. The e-memo drew criticism from members of both of the opposition tickets, One and Solidarity. Their criticism centered on a university policy banning e-memos from promoting political viewpoints.


Members of the Drive ticket are maintaining they did nothing wrong and they followed university guidelines when they sent the message.

Drive funded the message through a student group they created called Go. Farivar paid the fee to start the group as well as its fee to send out the e-memo. He also paid to register the drivecu.com Web site, which Go used to send the message.

When asked why he set up the group, Farivar said it was created to pay for expenses for the Drive campaign on campus.

The office of the registrar is responsible for screening e-memos before they are sent to students. The CU registrar, Barbara Todd, said the policy on political content only applies to state or federal politics, not campus elections.

I don't think they did anything wrong...

Pope beings the healing process...

Pope Benedict XVI has been in the United States for a few days now. His first stop was the White house where he visited with the President, attended a formal ceremony in his honor and was even sung happy birthday!

One of the most important stops was a private visit with some of the victims of the sexual scandal that rocked the Catholic Church. The victims all said that they left the meeting with a new found hope and are very optimistic that the catholic church could be turned around.

Fruity Cocaine

I know you are probably saying "What the?!!" Yeah, that's right, candy-flavored cocaine has recently emerged in California. Federal drug agents are hoping to keep it from spreading across the country.

Drug rings have occasionally sold cocaine mixed with candy powder, but investigators said the new product was significantly more sophisticated and lucrative. Cocaine cut with an added flavoring is less potent, but the 1½ pounds seized last month were a full-strength powder into which strawberry, coconut, lemon and cinnamon flavoring had been chemically synthesized.

I mean, what are they going to come up with next?? From what I read, flavored cocaine can have a street value that ranges from $1,100 to $1,400 an ounce where as the regular stuff runs between $600 and $800. Since when does it matter how it tastes?!! This is so scary. My main fear is the how this may lure younger clients...

Families Torn Apart

The story of the polygamist ranch hit the airwaves like a ton of bricks. CNN was one of the first to break this story coming out of El Dorado, Texas. The ranch is the compound that was once led by Warren Jeffs. The main reason for the case is that a girl inside the compound called the authorities to file a rape. This gave the authorities all that they needed to go into the compound. Authorities removed approximately 416 children and their mothers from the camp and into legal custody. I am amazed that it took this long for this to take place. However, I am happy that it has been put into the spotlight.

I am done!

Barack Obama made a statement that he does not feel that it necessary for him to partake in any more debates versus his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Obama stated that he has already done twenty some odd debates and enough is enough. I agree.