Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway now has another item for the employment portion of her resume:  “Convict.”

Hathaway was investigated by the FBI based on credible allegations and evidence of bank/financial institution  fraud.  She was subsequently charged but refused to resign from the Michigan Supreme Court.  Finally on January 21, 2013, she resigned.  Then on January 29, 2013, she pleaded guilty to the charges.  She should be sentenced in May.  In essence, she hid financial assets to qualify for a short sale on a very expensive home.

To paraphrase humorist Pigmeat Markham:  “You can carry a bucket, you can carry a grudge, but you can’t carry on or d’ere go da’ judge.”

A crooked judge?  Nah, couldn’t ever happen in Idaho…

Were you at the American Legion Post 143 in Post Falls on Saturday to hear nearly all of our area legislators report on the early sessions?

If you were, what are your comments? How accurately and completely did this morning’s skewspaper article report what was said?

This photo appears in today’s online Idaho Statesman skewspaper story headlined Armed man’s Capitol intrusion unnerves Idaho lawmakers.  Mouse-click on the photo to enlarge it.

The photo’s caption reads, “An unidentified man carrying a gun looked through legislators’ papers and also took photos of documents on the floor of the Idaho House of Representatives on Jan. 10.  SEE THE VIDEO AT IDAHOSTATESMAN.COM”  I am unable to locate the video at Idahostatesman.com, but the online photo seems very odd to me.

The photo appears to be a frame-grab from the state’s video recording of the incident.  It also appears to show the man’s left hand grasping something above the top of the desk.  If so, the man’s left hand is disproportionately large in comparison to his right hand.  It is also far more red that the other skin tones in the photo.  Finally, there appears to be a coat or jacket draped over the man’s left forearm.  If the “reddish left hand” is represented to be the man’s left hand holding a paper, the man’s lower forearm, wrist, and hand appear to be misaligned with and both longer and thicker than his upper left forearm.  The man is wearing a white or light colored shirt, but the left wrist area appears dark.

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Here is a link to a summary of California U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s proposed firearm control law introduced today in the Congress.

Feinstein is shown holding a rifle in the photo to the left.  Note she appears to have her finger on the trigger.

Today’s Washington Post is reporting that one of the Obama-Holder favor-doers, Lanny Breuer, will be resigning his position as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.

Breuer was purportedly responsible for public corruption and financial crimes prosecutions involving the nation’s largest (i.e., “too big to prosecute”) banks.  Breuer performed his assigned duties well.  He successfully avoided sending crooked bankers to jail, settling instead for heavy fines.

Breuer would do well here in Idaho.  Idaho has plenty of crooked public officials whom he could avoid sending to jail.  Unfortunately, our county prosecutors and Idaho’s US Attorney are already doing that.  Take a number, get in line, Lanny.