S.C. Lt. Gov. Calls for Constitutional Convention

(If player fails to load, click post title)

Background: Lesson Plan: A New Constitutional Convention?

What if the Bartender has the Ruffies?

Since the Naples Daily News first reported that three customers of the popular Blue Martini bar had filed police reports about possible drugged drinks over the previous few months, more than two dozen additional people have now come forward.

The alleged victims range in age from 21 to 80 and all were women except three, which appear to be the two persons at both extremes, plus one in the middle.

At least one female victim was checked-out at an area hospital for possible sexual assault, though she didn't feel that one had occurred and went at the insistence of her boyfriend, who was understandably worried because she had been missing for more than two hours.

A glance through the stories available from the Naples Daily News and WBBH leads one to conclude that the motivation may have been a very misguided prank and/or acts of revenge against "problem" customers, but it still sounds like a case for Law & Order: SVU.

And for the more cynical... thus far, the only one that I have found who is using it as a drunk driving defense is the young lady embedded below, who was a waitress at the bar and whom alleges that she was drugged on her last night after asking management about the reports.

(If player fails to load, click post title)

Consumers Prepare to Grab Your Ankles

Last night, I linked to a profile of Terry Smiljanich of the Consumer Warning Network and embedded one of his videos.

In both the Dow Jones piece and the YouTube, Mr. Smiljanich came down very hard on South Dakota because they eliminated usury laws in 1980, which explains why so many people get credit card statements with a Sioux Falls return address.

This morning, we hear word that Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota has the backing of many prominent Senators to become chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, once Sen. Chris Dodd is out of office.

BOLO Alert: Racist Tricksters

Using a front companies, a white supremacist group called "Victory Forever" has bought ads in high school and college newspapers in at least three states offering free music downloads as part of what the group calls, a nationwide recruiting drive.

The latest victim was a high school in Indiana and previously the group had hit a school in California, where according to the San Francisco Chronicle, they had maintained a dummy site until publication, then switched it for one offering "white resistance music", t-shirts, stickers and racist links after the ad had ran.