Things are looking good for Tom Diehl and his wife Barbara as his SLAP case against Weber has been paused for settlement. Diehl's attorney has succesfully gotten this thing to court and I'm guessing Weber doesn't want to risk a big payout by a sympathetic St. Louis City jury.
22052-07589-01 - DIEHL VS FRED WEBER INC
10/18/2010 Docket Entry: Memorandum Filed
Text: CAUSE PASSED FOR SETTLEMENT. SO ORDERED JUDGE MICHAEL MULLEN #39719
Docket Entry: Settlement Conf Scheduled
Associated Events: 12/10/2010 , 09:00:00 - Settlement Conference
Monday, October 18, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Call Newspaper Owner Bill Milligan Finally Pleads Guilty
090164079 - ST V WILLIAM T MILLIGAN
The reckless jerk finally plead guilty yesterday. I hope his lawyer got cash up front.
10/12/2010 Docket Entry: Guilty Plea
Associated Docket Entries: 08/30/2010 - Hearing Continued/Rescheduled
Associated Docket Entries: 08/30/2010 - Traffic Appearance Scheduled
Associated Events: 10/12/2010 , 09:00:00 - Traffic Appearance
Docket Entry: TR Viol Costs Taxed(no sher)CC
The reckless jerk finally plead guilty yesterday. I hope his lawyer got cash up front.
10/12/2010 Docket Entry: Guilty Plea
Associated Docket Entries: 08/30/2010 - Hearing Continued/Rescheduled
Associated Docket Entries: 08/30/2010 - Traffic Appearance Scheduled
Associated Events: 10/12/2010 , 09:00:00 - Traffic Appearance
Docket Entry: TR Viol Costs Taxed(no sher)CC
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Social Security: Clip 'n Save
Social Security Facts: Clip 'n Save
by: Yellow Dog
Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM CDT
Social Security bamboozlement is moving into high gear for the last month of election season. Don't expose yourself to repug lies without protection.
From Digby:
Do yourself a favor and print this out. Or memorize it. Read it at least. It is written by Paul N. Van de Water, a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he specializes in Medicare, Social Security, and health coverage issues:
In a new paper, I've tried to correct some of the misinformation that critics of Social Security have been spreading about the program.
Here are the facts. Social Security is a well-run, fiscally responsible program. People earn retirement, survivors, and disability benefits by making payroll tax contributions during their working years. Those taxes and other revenues are deposited in the Social Security trust funds, and all benefits and administrative expenses are paid out of the trust funds. The amount that Social Security can spend is limited by its payroll tax income plus the balance in the trust funds.
The Social Security trustees - the official body charged with evaluating the program's long-term finances - project that Social Security can pay 100 percent of promised benefits through 2037 and about three-quarters of scheduled benefits after that, even if Congress makes no changes in the program. Relatively modest changes would put the program on a sound financial footing for 75 years and beyond.
Nonetheless, some critics are attempting to undermine confidence in Social Security with wild and blatantly false accusations. They allege that the trust funds have been "raided" or disparage the trust funds as "funny money" or mere "IOUs." Some even label Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" after the notorious 1920s swindler Charles Ponzi. All of these claims are nonsense.
Every year since 1984, Social Security has collected more in payroll taxes and other income than it pays in benefits and other expenses. (The authors of the 1983 Social Security reform law did this on purpose in order to help pre-fund some of the costs of the baby boomers' retirement.) These surpluses are invested in U.S. Treasury securities that are every bit as sound as the U.S. government securities held by investors around the globe; investors regard these securities as among the world's very safest investments.
Investing the trust funds in Treasury securities is perfectly appropriate. The federal government borrows funds from Social Security to help finance its ongoing operations in the same way that consumers and businesses borrow money deposited in a bank to finance their spending. In neither case does this represent a "raid" on the funds. The bank depositor will get his or her money back when needed, and so will the Social Security trust funds.
As far back as 1938, independent advisors to Social Security firmly endorsed the investment of Social Security surpluses in Treasury securities, saying that it does "not involve any misuse of these moneys or endanger the safety of these funds."
Moreover, Social Security is the "polar opposite of a Ponzi scheme," says the man who quite literally wrote the book about Ponzi's famous scam, Boston University professor Mitchell Zuckoff. The Social Security Administration's historian has a piece on this topic as well.
Unlike the frauds of Ponzi - and, more recently, Bernard Madoff - Social Security does not promise unrealistically large financial returns and does not require unsustainable increases in the number of participants to remain solvent. Instead, for the past 75 years it has provided a foundation that workers can build on for retirement as well as social insurance protection to families whose breadwinner dies and workers who become disabled.
See how simple that is?
by: Yellow Dog
Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM CDT
Social Security bamboozlement is moving into high gear for the last month of election season. Don't expose yourself to repug lies without protection.
From Digby:
Do yourself a favor and print this out. Or memorize it. Read it at least. It is written by Paul N. Van de Water, a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he specializes in Medicare, Social Security, and health coverage issues:
In a new paper, I've tried to correct some of the misinformation that critics of Social Security have been spreading about the program.
Here are the facts. Social Security is a well-run, fiscally responsible program. People earn retirement, survivors, and disability benefits by making payroll tax contributions during their working years. Those taxes and other revenues are deposited in the Social Security trust funds, and all benefits and administrative expenses are paid out of the trust funds. The amount that Social Security can spend is limited by its payroll tax income plus the balance in the trust funds.
The Social Security trustees - the official body charged with evaluating the program's long-term finances - project that Social Security can pay 100 percent of promised benefits through 2037 and about three-quarters of scheduled benefits after that, even if Congress makes no changes in the program. Relatively modest changes would put the program on a sound financial footing for 75 years and beyond.
Nonetheless, some critics are attempting to undermine confidence in Social Security with wild and blatantly false accusations. They allege that the trust funds have been "raided" or disparage the trust funds as "funny money" or mere "IOUs." Some even label Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" after the notorious 1920s swindler Charles Ponzi. All of these claims are nonsense.
Every year since 1984, Social Security has collected more in payroll taxes and other income than it pays in benefits and other expenses. (The authors of the 1983 Social Security reform law did this on purpose in order to help pre-fund some of the costs of the baby boomers' retirement.) These surpluses are invested in U.S. Treasury securities that are every bit as sound as the U.S. government securities held by investors around the globe; investors regard these securities as among the world's very safest investments.
Investing the trust funds in Treasury securities is perfectly appropriate. The federal government borrows funds from Social Security to help finance its ongoing operations in the same way that consumers and businesses borrow money deposited in a bank to finance their spending. In neither case does this represent a "raid" on the funds. The bank depositor will get his or her money back when needed, and so will the Social Security trust funds.
As far back as 1938, independent advisors to Social Security firmly endorsed the investment of Social Security surpluses in Treasury securities, saying that it does "not involve any misuse of these moneys or endanger the safety of these funds."
Moreover, Social Security is the "polar opposite of a Ponzi scheme," says the man who quite literally wrote the book about Ponzi's famous scam, Boston University professor Mitchell Zuckoff. The Social Security Administration's historian has a piece on this topic as well.
Unlike the frauds of Ponzi - and, more recently, Bernard Madoff - Social Security does not promise unrealistically large financial returns and does not require unsustainable increases in the number of participants to remain solvent. Instead, for the past 75 years it has provided a foundation that workers can build on for retirement as well as social insurance protection to families whose breadwinner dies and workers who become disabled.
See how simple that is?
Friday, October 1, 2010
Oktober Court Fest
22052-07589-01 - DIEHL VS FRED WEBER INC
Associated Events: 10/18/2010 , 08:00:00 - Jury Trial
Docket Entry: Jury Trial Scheduled
Associated Events: 10/18/2010 , 08:59:00 - Jury Trial
Docket Entry: Ord Transfer P/Judge for Assn
Text: Cause assigned to Division # 02 for trial. So Ordered: David L. Dowd, Judge
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9/28/2010
This email is to inform you of an upcoming court event involving the defendant WILLIAM MILLIGAN and court case number 090164079, speeding in excess of 20 mph over posted limit. A(n) Traffic Appearance has been scheduled for 10/12/2010 at 9:00 AM. This will take place in Saint Louis, Circuit Division 38 Courtroom located at: Saint Louis County Court Building at 7900 Carondelet Avenuein Clayton, MO 63105.
If you plan to attend the hearing, be sure to check with the prosecutor's office to make sure the hearing is still set. You should telephone the day before the hearing, as last minute continuances are often granted. For more information, contact the office responsible for this case. The telephone number is (314)615-8029.
This notification is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Public Safety. It
is our hope that this information has been helpful to you.
Thank you,
MOVANS
Associated Events: 10/18/2010 , 08:00:00 - Jury Trial
Docket Entry: Jury Trial Scheduled
Associated Events: 10/18/2010 , 08:59:00 - Jury Trial
Docket Entry: Ord Transfer P/Judge for Assn
Text: Cause assigned to Division # 02 for trial. So Ordered: David L. Dowd, Judge
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9/28/2010
This email is to inform you of an upcoming court event involving the defendant WILLIAM MILLIGAN and court case number 090164079, speeding in excess of 20 mph over posted limit. A(n) Traffic Appearance has been scheduled for 10/12/2010 at 9:00 AM. This will take place in Saint Louis, Circuit Division 38 Courtroom located at: Saint Louis County Court Building at 7900 Carondelet Avenuein Clayton, MO 63105.
If you plan to attend the hearing, be sure to check with the prosecutor's office to make sure the hearing is still set. You should telephone the day before the hearing, as last minute continuances are often granted. For more information, contact the office responsible for this case. The telephone number is (314)615-8029.
This notification is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Public Safety. It
is our hope that this information has been helpful to you.
Thank you,
MOVANS
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