The JAA Broward Blog broke the story that a Miami Bar Committee found probable cause to proceed against former Judge Ana Gardiner for violation of Bar Rules 3.43, 4.84(c) & (d)!!! (that (d) will get you every time). The same Miami Bar Committee also determined that the sun will rise in the east for the foreseeable future.
Manuel Valle's days appear to be dwindling down to a few. The Herald reports that the 11th Circuit lifted its stay, clearing the way for the Governor to reschedule Valle's execution. Valle was twice convicted for the 1978 murder of Coral Gables Police Officer Louis Pena.
Query: If a condition of Valle's sentence was to live out his natural life in a death row-close confinement setting, would that have been sufficient punishment? In our opinion, a numbing life without hope, where every day is the same, is much worse than facing execution.
Sunday is the start of the Football season. Get your suicide pool picks in to fbpool12 at gmail.
Sunday is also 9/11/2011. It hardly seems like ten years have passed since the day that changed our world forever.
We will never forget.
We're Americans.
You can knock us down.
We just get back up stronger.
There are many heroic stories that emerged from the tragedy of the 9/11 attack. Here is one we have always found memorable:
Victor Wald and Harry Ramos began the morning of September 11, 2001 as total strangers.
Wald, a 49-year-old stockbroker at Avalon Partners on the 84th floor of the North Tower, managed to get down as far as the 55th floor – where he encountered Ramos, head trader at the May Davis Group, a small investment bank.
Ramos, 46, stopped in the stairwell to aid Wald, who had suffered from rheumatic fever and was long bedridden as a child. Witnesses said Ramos told Wald, "I'm not going to leave you."
They were last seen sitting together before the building collapsed; now they are united once more at the request of both families at the 9/11 memorial where their names are etched together.
The entire group of 9/11 hijackers and terrorists together don't have one thousandth of the courage and humanity of Harry Ramos.
Take a moment this weekend and tell someone you love the story of Harry Ramos and Victor Wald. It's a story that should never be forgotten.
See You In Court.