Happy birthday to Cashmere, Matt & megan!

Happy rediscovery of internet access Dr. Mrs. Nilly!

Happy birthday Cashmere, Matt, megan, and not least of all, daddy dearest.

Lovely to see you in these parts dear married Dr. Nilly!

Off to work...yeah, not going to be used to that soon. I'm even wearing lipstick and earrings and a watch today. Perhaps too much too soon. We'll see.

Happy birthday, megan walker!!

Happy birthdays all 'round, and welcome back to the Intertubes, Dr. Mrs. Nilly!

Why is it that no matter how much I work, there's still just as much work to do, and no matter how many vacation days I take, I'm still just as exhausted as soon as I sit back down to work?

Nilly!

Happy birthday, Cash, Matt and megan!

I did not have to have such a life lesson to learn not to moon trains.

I did not have to have such a life lesson to learn not to moon trains.

I think the important lesson is, if you're going to moon a train, don't let your body come in contact with the train. Especially do not press your butt cheeks against the train's door.

Also, if you lay down fake train tracks that go into the side of a mountain and you paint a "tunnel" on the rock face, a real train might come out of your painted tunnel and run you over. But you wont' be killed, just made flat as a pancake.

(I learned this last lesson as a small child watching cartoons.)

Happy birthday, Cash, Matt, and megan!

Oooh, adding birthday happies for megan & ita's dad!

Court gets mad at birther lawyer: Orly Taitz Sanctioned for $20,000

The “Birther queen” has been slapped with a five-figure fine for “wasting the judicial resources” of the Middle District of Georgia, where she’d filed one of her numerous lawsuits demanding that President Obama prove his citizenship before deploying soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. The judgment, which calls Taitz’s case and tactics “delusional”:

From the Judge's ruling:

The Court finds that counsel’s conduct was willful and not merely negligent. It demonstrates bad faith on her part. As an attorney, she is deemed to have known better. She owed a duty to follow the rules and to respect the Court. Counsel’s pattern of conduct conclusively establishes that she did not mistakenly violate a provision of law. She knowingly violated Rule 11. Her response to the Court’s show cause order is breathtaking in its arrogance and borders on delusional. She expresses no contrition or regret regarding her misconduct. To the contrary, she continues her baseless attacks on the Court.

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Counsel’s frivolous and sanctionable conduct wasted the Defendants’ time and valuable judicial resources that could have been devoted to legitimate cases pending with the Court. When she filed the Rhodes case, counsel indicated that it was urgent that the matter be heard because her client was facing imminent deployment. The Court rearranged its schedule, took time to read the legal papers, and conducted preliminary research in preparation for the hearing. The Army had to activate its legal team on short notice, sending a Major from the Army Litigation Division in Washington, D.C. and a Captain from the CONUS Replacement Center at Ft. Benning. In addition, the Assistant U.S. Attorney had to accompany them. Like the Court, the government attorneys had to prepare in an expedited manner for the hearing. During the week preceding Captain Rhodes’s deployment, the Court was in the midst of a jury trial. Therefore, the Court had to alter the trial schedule to conduct the hearing during an extended lunch break, thus affecting other counsel and jurors. The Clerk’s Office was burdened by Ms. Taitz’s inability to follow the Court’s rules regarding pro hac vice admission and the Court’s rules for electronic filing. On five separate occasions in a short period, the Clerk’s Office personnel error-noticed counsel for her failure to follow simple rules. At the hearing, counsel failed to make coherent legal arguments but instead wasted the Court’s time with press conference sound bites and speeches.

Coherent legal arguments have a liberal bias!

Happy birthday, megan, Cashmere, Matt, and ita's dad!!!!

Ha. I just went to smack talk my niece, but didn't because her favorite hockey team was beating my favorite hockey team 5-0. In the first period. But mine just beat hers 6-5 in overtime.

This morning, WGN played a compilation clip of the 5th goal by the other team, and then each of the six goals by the Black Hawks. So much fun to listen to the announcers and the crowd going completely bonkers when they won!