Now you to can have a party in your CAGE

Yepper, as announced on the Kim Commando show this am (and I am afraid with what appeared to be a little to much anticipation. ) YOU to can throw a party in you car. You got's it. Coming to a retail source near you a GPS device that will not only tell you where you are going and how to get there and where you are (so much more convenient than trying to fold and unfold them damn maps while driving), but will also allow you to watch "slide shows", T.V. and because it functions as a full function media player it will also allow you to do, are you ready for this, because it's what everybody has been waiting for, KARAROKE while driving. Thats right Dudes and Dudettes throw that damn IPOD away. Who wants to be interrupted by a damn phone when your right in the middle of Dr. Phil (Help Phil I need you now, oh hell never mind you can't prescribe meds) on your way to the grocery score hollerin at the kids in the back to shut up before you miss any of the good Dr's sage advice.

Or even better yet, why be bothered by incoming text messages when on your on your way to a party when you could be practicing up on a few songs on the Karaoke, TV, picture viewer, GPS thingy. Hell why even go to the party, just invite a few of your friends to hop in the ol SUV with ya, pop a few brews, throw a chunk of dry ice in a cooler full of water to make smoke and just have a regular damn touring party. Hell if ya get lost you can always look at the GPS thingy or get out your outdated IPOD (actually according to techcrunch Blackberrys are more efficient they just don't rate as high on the cool factor) call for directions if'n your to caught up in whatever your singin and don't want to take your eyes of the screen to switch to GPS (oh wait, did I mention the make bluetooth enabled GPS systems by which you can talk to your friends while driving too?).

Motorcyclist? What motorcyclists, aw don't worry about them. Yeah my Mom and Dad said they use to be bad (in the old days) but now they're just a bunch of woosies on Harley's. We can kill em. Besides my Uncle, you know the dentist that lives over on the beach, he rides one. Yeah, sometimes he wont shave for a week and go to some rally where they have fun getting drunk to some old guys singing some song called "Born to be wild". I mean like isn't that the funniest thing you ever heard. He even got a little tattoo of an eagle on his arm but his wife said he passed out while getting it. Besides he asked me where to get one of these things he wants to figure out how to mount it the handle bars of his motorcycle.

Remember the flick "Thunderdome"? I do cause you cause Tina Turner is/was a stone cold fox. OR any of them other fiction type sci-fi movies where the technology advances to the point where it causes the world to fall apart. It ain't sci-fi no more.

Damn the IPOD's........Karaoke ahead..........rc

P.S. I don't know if the GPS make linked above is the one Ms. Commando mentioned cause I was driving and couldn't write it down. So if you want the one she specifically mentions go the site linked and listen to her show. Then write the dear lady and tell her where to put it!

WILL JUSTICE BE DONE

We were alerted to this by Mike Greenwald at GoldIron: A Wisconsin woman accused of killing an Iowa City man in a head-on collision Sunday has been charged with homicide, court records show.

Daniel D. Christ, 40, died when his motorcycle was struck by a car driven by Darcy L. Schehr, 27, of Hartford, Wis., around 8 a.m. Sunday, authorities said. The accident happened on Highway 60 west of Hartford in Dodge County, Sheriff’s Department Capt. Rodney Kreitzman said. That is about 40 miles northwest of Milwaukee.

Schehr was driving east when she entered Christ’s lane, Kreitzman said. Christ tried to avoid the collision but Schehr’s car swerved beyond the white fog line and struck the motorcycle , he said. Schehr was charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, a Class D felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. She was released from jail after posting $2,500 cash bond. Her next court appearance, in Juneau, has been set for Aug. 2. Court documentation here.

Mike attended the first court hearing and reports the following: "Some of you already know this but the hearing this afternoon took a strange turn and we received information that is at best disturbing and at worst a disgrace.

First the strange turn. As I suspected might happen the defendant waived her preliminary hearing. This was done however without the defendant appearing in court which is most unusual. Apparently, earlier today the DA had a conversation with the defense attorney during which the attorney indicated that they would waive the hearing. This is normally done by having the defendant appear in Court and a record is made of the defendant's knowing and voluntary waiver of the hearing. Not this time... this time the defense attorney apparently did this via telephone and faxed a written waiver to the DA and the Court... nothing apparently on the record. DA Bauer told me when I spoke to him that to his knowledge (and mine btw) Dodge County is the only Wisconsin County where this proceedure is used.

That was disturbing enough, but what followed was both depressing and a disgrace. DA Bauer informed me that in the 15 years that he has been the DA one, that's right ONE, person convicted of these charges with no prior record has ever received a prison sentence and that person was from... wait for it... Chicago. Everyone else has received probation. He has indicated that he will ask for prison but believes that the defendant will ultimately get probation. I guess the first homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle is a freebie."

We do not yet know how this case is going to turn out but we may be able to have some impact or play some part in seeing that justice will be done by letting the the prosecutors office know that we are watching and support the prosecutor. Others are writing my hope is that if you are reading this you will take 15 mins. and send too. If justice is not done........then a whole lot of nasty needs to follow (my opinion only). Following is my letter that has also been posted on Bruce and Rays Forum along with Rays.

bauer.steve@mail.da.state.wi.us

Steven Bauer
Dodge County District Attorney
Administration Building
127 E. Oak Street
Juneau, Wisconsin 53039-1329

Mr. Bauer.
As a motorcyclist that comes from a state (Florida) that appears to place little value on persons life because they choose to ride a motorcycle, I want to thank you for having the courage to charge Ms. Schener with homicide while driving intoxicated in the death of Daniel Crist. Many of us who ride in Florida (and I suspect around the country) will be watching with the hope that you will prosecute this case vigorously demonstrating that people that do not drive responsibly can no longer get away with killing innocent individuals.

It is our (those of us will be following this case) hope that the integrity of the justice system will be enhanced by refusing to plea bargain and that the prosecutors office pursue the maximum punishment as provided by law so as to send a clear message to others who selfishly do not consider the consequences of their actions on the l lives of others.

It is our hope the Dodge County prosecutors office can send a message clear enough to be heard across the country and possibly save the lives of others who would die innocently at the hands of those who haven no fear of experiencing any significant consequences.
respectfully rc

ride free.........rc