Cook County Sheriff sues Craig's List

The Sheriff of Cook County Illinois (the county that the bulk of Chicago is in) has decided to sue Craig's List because some entrepreneurial pimps discovered that the List is a great way to publicize their pimpin'.

I'll pose my question this way: If they found an ad about some pot for sale tacked up to the bulletin board in a local grocery store, would they sue Kroger?
Or, might they pull down the posting, all the while chuckling about the easy bust they are about to receive?

With 510 homicides in 2008 and 21 Public School shooting deaths in the first 2 months of 2009, you would think that Sheriff Dart would have more pressing matters for his department's time and resources. Suing an online bulletin board style service for allowing the residents of his county buy and sell things to each other just because some of those things sold are of a carnal nature just doesn't seem like a reasonable focus to me.

Am I the only one that would think Sheriff Dart should have looked at the whole thing as a great opportunity to bust as many pimps as possible before they realized that a Craig's List posting meant their certain demise? I mean, if anyone can get on Craig's List and find themselves a whore or two, then why aren't the cops able to do the same?

Maybe, as their next idea, they could start suing the business owners that own shops on popular corners where hookers congregate.
AND, I might add, since when is it the sheriff's responsibility to initiate civil law suits? Don't they pursue criminal offenses? The way I understand it: It is the responsibility of the police to go out and find criminals and evidence of their crimes. Its the District Attorney's job to bring them to justice in the courts. If the DA won't take the case, the Sheriff should take the hint.

Cops suing businesses 'cause its easier than doing their jobs...

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Preacher embezzlement

US priests 'in $800,000 theft'(bbc)

When their not screwing your children, they're stealing your entry fee into heaven...

I wonder if those parishioners whose money they stole are going to go to hell because they never got there tithing to the right people...

What does all this have to do with wasted taxes? Nothing. I just don't like organized religions so large that the preachers can steal almost a million dollars to pay off their hookers. So, I bitch a little... (Did I mention they used some of the stolen money on mistresses? Or that they used the money to gamble? Or that they used the money to buy vacation properties? (at least the last one isn't really a sin. Sort of...))

But, I'll try a tie in anyway: If we didn't allow the business of religion operate tax free, there probably would have been stricter accounting regulations that might have caught these bastards a bit sooner. Strict accounting regulations aside, if this particular church was used as a for-profit business, why the hell is it still tax free?

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And We're Off

You knew it was true. You didn't want to beleive it was true, but deep down inside you knew it.

Holy Shit, you gotta read this one...

US oil agency rapped over conduct BBC

We all imagined it, and its true! Our government snorting coke off of strippers' asses paid for by big oil.

They're like hamsters in a box crawling all over each other...

Seriously, take a minute to read through the article. They are actually claiming that they had to snort the oil companies coke to gain valuable 'market intelligence.' They openly admit that they didn't think the laws pertained to them!

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