Birdsong's Law Blog

“ A BIRD DOESN’T SING BECAUSE IT HAS AN ANSWER.  IT SINGS BECAUSE IT HAS A SONG.”

Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach

…Think about it.

–Birdsong

My girlfirend Dee Dee has more on the Joe the Plumber story.

Most small businesses won’t see a tax increase under Senator Obama’s plan.  Why?  Most don’t earn $250,000 per year.  And this amount has to be profit after operating expenses like employee income, supplies are deducted.  It’s been said that Joe’s employer must be an extremely successful plumber to be making that kind of money!

All this past summer Birdsong heard about the search for 3 year Caylee Anthony.  A missing child case here in Orlando.  Suspicion focused on her mother Casey Anthony, the 22 year old mother of the baby.  When the child was missing over two months people started suggesting that Casey had killed her child.  We do not know if that is the case.  No body has been found.  Casey has told 4 different stories of what might have happened to the child.  All have turned out to be false.

This week, specifically on October 14, 2008, an Orange Country grand jury indicted the mother, Casey Anthony, on seven criminal counts, including First Degree Murder.  Murder I, as it is called, would allow prosecutors to ask for the death penalty.  Birdsong has been drawn into the case by having been interviewed by local TV news and the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper for his views on the case.

Birdsong, as his students know, is against the death penalty.  Birdsong says this certainly isn’t a case for

Well, my girlfriend Dee Dee’s back.  Just in time to talk about Joe six-pack.  Or in this case, Joe, the plumber. 

Joe the Plumber. Joe’s real name is Sam and he doesn’t have a plumbing license. And he is one of two people in the business.   Isn’t it too much of a coincidence that Senator Obama speaks to Joe on Sunday and

This has not been a good week for Casey Anthony, the 22 year old mother of baby Caylee Anthony who has not been seen since June 15, 2008.  Prosecutors in Orlando sent the case to a grand jury to determine whether charges should be brought against the young mother.