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5 Friends Uncensored

Posted on October 02, 2008
PLEASE WATCH THIS AND DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES VOTE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!!!!Hollywood, CA Friends Of Rumpole. Site Feed

TOUGH TIMES AND TRANSMOGRIFIED TIPS

Posted on October 01, 2008
OUR NEWEST SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: JUDGE RICKY POLSTON OF THE FIRST DCALawyers delivering pizzas, tending bar, working as doormen or construction workers. Tough times are here for the legal profession. Coming out of law school tens of thousands of dollars in debt with the myth of 150K jobs disappearing and being replaced with $38,500...

DEATH AND FUNERALS

Posted on September 29, 2008
Judge Shelly Schwartz writes below about the late Judge Michael Salmon. Herald Reporter Oh Susannah Nesmith writes looking for information about the late Judge Joe Eaton. And the Republicans killed the economy and the stock market today.By Shelly Schwartz Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:36:00 PM "Judge Michael Salmon was one if not the best judge to serve Miami Dade County in at least the past 40 years...

NFL WEEK FOUR

Posted on September 28, 2008
After a nice Caymus Cabernet 2005 Special Reserve (being up 570 after three weeks helps with the price) , we tender these NFL picks for week four. Gotta love the battle of Ohio. McCain vs. Obama. Bungles vs. Brownies. Someone, anyone, is coming out of this game with a win...

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NOBODY WAS COOLER

Posted on September 27, 2008
Cool hand Luke. Fast Eddie Felson. Nobody was cooler. A true superstar with a conscience. Paul Newman passed away today at age 83. Nominated for 10 academy awards, he won the Oscar for his reprisal of Fast Eddie Felson in the Color Of Money.Suicide Pool...

JUDGE MICHAEL SALMON HAS PASSED AWAY

Posted on September 26, 2008
I cannot tell you how sad I am to learn of the news that JudgeMichael Salmon has passed away. He was a lawyer's judge. Extremely smart. Very well read in the law and in other areas. In all of the time I appeared before him, and the several trials I had with him, I don't think I ever saw him lose his temper...

JACK THOMPSON DISBARRED FOR LIFE

Posted on September 25, 2008
BREAKING BLOG NEWS: FDIC SEIZES WASHINGTON MUTUAL AND SELLS ASSETS TO JP MORGAN. LARGEST BANK FAILURE IN US HISTORY. Very strange. FDIC usually seizes banks Friday afternoons so they have all weekend to work on the books. Our sources tell us the WAMU top brass were not even told when the FDIC seizure went into effect...

4th ORDERS LEVEY BACK ON BALLOT

Posted on September 24, 2008
DOWN GOES DIJOLS. DOWN GOES DIJOLS. (thanks to Howard Cosell for his "down goes Frazier ...down goes Frazier" call in the historic Frazier/Foreman fight.). The title links to the 4th DCA opinion ruling that Mardi Anne Levey Cohen (add favorable name here) shall be restored to the ballot for the upcoming judicial election...

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME

Posted on September 23, 2008
It seems that Broward Judicial Candidate Mardi Anne Levey a/k/a Mardi Levet Cohen has found much to her chagrin "tis but thy name that is my enemy."The title links to Judge Dijols's response to Levey/Cohen's request for an injunction. The response was filed with the 4th DCA and it is a powerful blast against Levey/Cohen's name games...

TRIALS

Posted on September 23, 2008
Former FBI Agent John Connolly's trial has heated up with the testimony of Southie Hood Stevie "The rifleman" Flemmi, who is serving life in prison for various crimes. The Herald's David Ovallee reported on the trial here. Meanwhile in Orlando, defense experts continued to testify about the delusional world teenage killer Michael Hernandez lived in...

MNF

Posted on September 22, 2008
We're -37.50 for the week. We won our Giants over for +100 and lost Steelers (boy did their offense get hammered) and Green Bay for a -125 +10% for a -137.50. Our week is riding on the over 43 for the JETS/Chargers game. Lets press the 50 to +100 over 43...

AT SEA

Posted on September 22, 2008
We've used the Dolphins road trip this week to spend some time on our boat and hop over the Bahamas. The Florida September sky is so deep blue, and the warm sun has just a glint of the coolness that our small fall will bring. What we like to do is just turn off the engine and float...

FOOTBALL WEEK THREE

Posted on September 20, 2008
We're up $507.50 for the year, and now things are tough. Some nice games this weekend, including Cowpokes at Green Bay and Steelers at Eagles. The Monday night game is the J..E...T...S at San Diego. Lots of things to worry about in this game, including the health of LT...

SCARY

Posted on September 20, 2008
Just how close was the world wide financial system to a total collapse? Closer than anyone knew. The title to the post links to the article. From the Article:?When you listened to him (Treasury Secretary Paulson) describe it you gulped," said Senator Charles E...

BLAKE BOFFO IN BEANTOWN

Posted on September 18, 2008
The title of the post links to a Boston Globe article praising Judge Stan Blake for his courtroom humor and how he is running the trial of former FBI agent John Connolly. Why doesn't Judge Blake have his own TV show?We hope he stays right here.Anyone have updates on the trial?Meanwhile, here is Bob Norman's Broward New Times Article on newly elected Judge Ian Richards...

AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON

Posted on September 17, 2008
More on the Richard Feder ruling on the Broward fiasco. The title links to the Herald Article. To summarize, Judge Feder came out of retirement and granted Judge Dijols's motion to throw Candidate Mardi Levey (legal term: "chuck-off") off the Broward Ballot for the upcoming run-off election...

THREE TRIALS

Posted on September 17, 2008
UPDATE!!!! JUDGE FEDER Of MIAMI ORDERS CANDIDATE LEVY STRICKEN FROM BROWARD BALLOT IN ELECTION RUN-OFF. JUDGE DIJOLS BACK ON BALLOT. BREAKING NEWS. CHECK THE BROWARD BLOG FOR THE LATEST. The Herald article is here. We note the irony of a Broward judge having to come to Dade for Justice...

JAZZING UP THE BENCH

Posted on September 16, 2008
Didn't our late great Judge Alfred Nesbitt start it all with his blue robes?The title to the post links to the NY Times articles on the sartorial splendor of Judges. The greatest Judge we ever met, and he really is the dean of all trial Judges in the US- a Judge's Judge if there ever was one, was Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of NY...

SUICIDE POOL- IT WASN'T PRETTY

Posted on September 16, 2008
Wow did week two clean house. So many lawyers went down it looked like a Wall Street firm last Friday. Clay Kaiser, last years runner up went down with the J..E..T..S.Shumie Time met a similar fate with the same team. The Q was sunk when the Titans creamed the Bengals, and Iffy and his "iffy" KC Chiefs lost to the Raiders...

SHE'S NOT READY

Posted on September 15, 2008
To lead. Or even intelligently talk about the problems we face. That is the Op Ed piece of Bob Herbert in the NY Times this past weekend. The title links to the piece. Asked about her insight into Russia- Palin responded that she could see Russia from an island in Alaska...

NFL SUNDAY WEEK TWO

Posted on September 14, 2008
7-1 last week. Up more than the entire payroll of ROC, (422.50) is it time cash in or let it ride? As Sy used to say, we'll rest when we're dead. Rest in peace old friend. Buffalo Bills roll into Jag land and play the Jaguars in Jacksonville. Are these surprising Bills for real? The line is Jax -6, so we put +50 on the Bills to at least keep it close, and possibly downright win the game...

Suicide pool for tomorrow

Posted on September 13, 2008
NFL Cancels Texans-Ravens game, as the roof of Reliant Stadium was damaged by Ike. Right now we cannot confirm the rumor Judge Blake has volunteered the ROC Lawyers to play against the combined Ravens/Texans- in a practice scrimmage at the Orange Bowl grounds...

BEACH COP MACIAS GUILTY

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Herald reports that Miami Beach officer Eduardo Macias has pled no contest to battery for groping a female he had arrested for DUI. IA got involved in the case when the female came forward and said Macias gave her his phone number. She called Macias and set up a meeting that was recorded by IA...

ROSENBERGS GUILTY?

Posted on September 12, 2008
BREAKING BLOG NEWS??? WHOA NELLY. A reader reports the 3rd DCA just stayed Judge Blake's order giving all the third degree felony cases in the United States to the three attorneys and two high school students who Rock-n-Roll for ROC. Say it ain't so Joe!!!Decades and Decades ago we stumbled across a book on the trial of accused Russian spies Ethel And Julius Rosenberg...

WE NEVER FORGET

Posted on September 11, 2008
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:ELECTION UPDATE

Posted on September 10, 2008
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:ELECTION UPDATE ..........On the national front, eight weeks from today we will know who will be the 44th President of the United States.On the local front, we have one open Circuit Court seat that will be decided by the voters in November: a runoff election between Steve Millan and Yvonne Colodny...

ONLY NORTH OF THE BORDER

Posted on September 09, 2008
UPDATE: DBR INSIDER BLOG TAKES CHEAP SHOT AT OUR FACDL PRESIDENT HERE. Embattled Broward Circuit Court Judge Pedro Dijols- he of the third place finish in the most recent Judicial Election- is suing the second place finisher-Mardi Levy- to have her name removed from the ballot this fall in the runoff election...

THE CHIEF JUSTICE MADE ME DO IT!!!!!

Posted on September 08, 2008
A JUSTICE BUILDING BLOG EXCLUSIVEWe have exclusively learned that none other than US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, in Gainsville for the Gator/Canes game this weekend had Rick Freedman change his suicide pool pick from the Chargers to the Patriots, as the CJ was convinced that the Carolina Panthers had a legitimate shot to win the game and beat the Chargers (which in fact they did on the last play of the game...

SUNDAY WEEK ONE RECAP

Posted on September 07, 2008
Someone once said "it ain't braggin if you can do it." or something like that. We started the first Sunday up 125 by virtue of the Giants and under this past Thursday.J..E...T..S..-3 over Fins. (+150)Bills over Seahawks. (+100)Upset special of the week, month, and maybe the year: Titans and the money line to beat the Jags outright...

NFL WEEK ONE 2008

Posted on September 06, 2008
Welcome back to the JBB's fabulous football prognostications. People pay good money for these picks, but for you, our dear readers it's free (which should comfort our robed readers who gravitate to free like Raven (and former Cane) Middle Linebacker Ray Lewis to Quarterbacks)...

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