RSSJeb Bush Signs The Jessica Lunsford Act Into Law
Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, has just signed the Jessica Lunsford Act in to law. This will be the most comprehensive law against child sex offenders in the country.
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Governor Jeb Bush plans to sign legislation today to get much tougher on sex offenders, an effort spurred by the death of Jessica Lunsford.
The measure will require those who prey on the youngest children to be sentenced to at least 25 years and if they get out of prison to be tracked for life.
The Jessica Lunsford Act was quickly drafted after her death was discovered in March, and sped through the legislative process.
Lawmakers unanimously passed the Legislature last month. Nine-year-old Jessica was taken from her Homosassa home and murdered, allegedly by a convicted sex offender who was living nearby.
John Couey is charged with Lunsford’s kidnapping and murder. Police say he confessed.
The bill would require 25-year minimum prison terms for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children and lifetime tracking by global positioning satellite once they’re outside of
prison.
Congress is also considering adapting the Jessica Lunsford Act to protect children against child predators.
First there was Megan’s Law, and then came the Amber Alert law. Now Congress is considering the Jessica Lunsford Act.
All three bills have something in common: They were named after slain children, and their goal is to prevent future tragedies.
The bill was introduced in the House last week in response to the February abduction, sexual assault and murder of Jessica Lunsford, a 9-year-old Florida girl. The suspect in the case is a registered sex offender who had not told authorities he had moved.
It is about time that law makers are taking these crimes seriously. It is just unfortunate that it took a rash of extremely public abductions and murders of children in order to bring pressure to bare against legislators to pass these laws. I have always wondered why there were not more strict laws.
“I would like to see them stay in jail a lot longer than we do (but) anything that we can do to try to minimize the opportunity a sex offender has to harm children is a good thing,” Foxx said.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-10th, another co-sponsor, agreed.
“I don’t think we can do enough to protect children,” McHenry said.
“We need to have the harshest possible punishment for those who hurt those who cannot protect themselves,” he said.
UPDATE: Fox News first to confirm the Governor’s signing of The Jessica Lunsford Law.
Spurred by the kidnapping and murder of a Citrus County girl, Gov. Jeb Bush signed legislation Monday to get much tougher on sex offenders.
The Jessica Lunsford Act requires those who prey on the youngest to be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison and if they get out to be tracked for life.
UPDATE II: More from the AP
With the father of a slain 9-year-old looking on, Gov. Jeb Bush signed legislation Monday that strengthens punishment and monitoring of child sex abusers.
Update III: Michelle Malkin posts some interesting points and asks that same question we have, “How will the ACLU react.”
A Miracle At Sea
“We were praying for a miracle and we got one.”
Two teens were rescued Sunday 110 miles off Cape Fear, NC after spending 6 days at sea. This is just a great story of the will to survive and perseverance.
“I asked God to take me,” 15-year-old Troy Driscoll said as he lay in a hospital emergency room. “You’re out there fighting for your life. We didn’t want to fight anymore.”
“We were praying for a miracle and we got one,” Charleston Coast Guard Cmdr. June Ryan said. “Everybody on the East Coast has been looking for these boys.”
“What we have is an absolutely miraculous story of survival that’s going to be studied for years to come,” said Richard Goerling, Long’s uncle. “I think those two boys have a book to write.”
Luckily it had a great outcome as the two teens were finally rescued by fishermen. Thankfully and by the grace of God they will be able to write a book.
Sirius: Offers Podcast Show
According to (AP) Sirius Satellite Radio is going to take advantage of the iPod/podcasting craze and offer a a show that “will feature a daily selection of the increasingly popular do-it-yourself audio programs“.
NEW YORK (AP) – Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. is latching onto the “podcasting” phenomenon, launching a show later this month that will feature a daily selection of the increasingly popular do-it-yourself audio programs.
The move by Sirius comes just days after Viacom Inc.’s Infinity Broadcasting unit said it would convert a struggling talk radio station in San Francisco to an all-podcast format.The show, which Sirius was expected to formally announce on Monday, will begin broadcasting weekdays on May 13. It will be hosted by Adam Curry, the former MTV personality who helped create the technological tools that allow podcasting to work. The show will be broadcast on Sirius channel 148, a talk-radio station that does carry commercials, unlike Sirius’ all-music channels.
Podcasts are essentially audio files made by amateurs and uploaded to the Internet where they can be shared with other listeners, either at their computers or on portable digital listening devices such as Apple Computer Inc.’s hot-selling iPod – thus the name “podcast,” a combination of “pod” and “broadcast.”
Podcasts are less than a year old but have become popular with the booming use of iPods. They include music and random musings on things like wine, pop culture, politics, hobbies and sports.
Some radio stations have offered podcasts of selected shows to listeners to download, but so far it’s very unusual for radio stations to play podcasts on their air. Infinity claimed its station in San Francisco, KYCY-AM 1550, will be the first to adopt an all-podcast format.
The radio industry, which has already been facing sluggish growth in advertising in recent years, has been watching the booming use of iPods with growing concern.
Hoping to bring more listeners back to radio, industry giant Clear Channel Communications Inc. has been reducing the amount of commercials on its air and Infinity has been investing more in marketing and programming. Infinity parent Viacom took a $10.9 billion charge in February to reflect the declining value of its radio stations.
Sirius is the smaller of the two players in the satellite radio field after XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. Sirius reported this week that it has 1.4 million subscribers, while XM has 3.8 million.
Both are hoping to lure in enough customers paying $12.95 per month to become profitable, though for now both are losing large amounts of money. Both deliver dozens of channels of commercial-free music and many other channels with sports, talk and other programs.
Should We Believe This Story
After the false “finger in the chili” story and the GA kidnapped bride hoax please excuse me if I am holding off on my decision as to whether this is a true story.
10-year-old boy in Sherman Oaks, Calif., suffered first-degree burns on his leg and groin area when a cell phone exploded in his pocket, according to a Local 6 News report.
Leobarda Villalobos recently purchased a Motorola phone for her son, Yovani. At some point, the phone exploded in Yovani’s pants.
He was treated at the Grossman Burn Center.
The family is trying to determine what could have gone wrong since the cell phone has not been recalled, according to the report.
Motorola officials are not commenting.
I am hoping it’s true but all I can think of is the many stories of my youth and my friends of what we made up to our parents to get us out of some pretty stupid things we did. Then the movie “A Christmas Story” comes to mind when Ralphie blames his broken eyeglasses on a fallen ice cycle rather than the BB gun.
Of course if it turns out to be true remind me to scream at the woman who always seems to be at the place where I get my gas that always is pumping her gas with her cell phone attached to her ear.
Kerry Running in 2008; Run Kerry, RUN.
The Kerry camp says John Kerry is running for President in 2008 according to The Washington Whisper of US News & World Report. I had to verify this link first to make sure I was not confusing it with The Onion or ScrappleFace.
“His family wants him to run again,” says one pal. Proof he’s in: Kerry has added names to his E-mail list of 3 million, kept johnkerry.com alive and kicking, raised boatloads of cash for friendly Democrats, and moved to seize control of hot-button issues like kids’ healthcare, the environment, and support for military families.
That’s funny, I thought that today’s hot button issues were Social Security, judicial nominees and an energy policy. Maybe thats the reason why Kerry lost the last time. No clue of what’s important to America. In what might be the quote of the year so far the Kerry camp is putting out the following:
The Kerry clan is also pushing the Clinton electability issue. “Donors and organized labor love Bill Clinton, ” says one Kerry friend. “But they’re telling everyone they’re terrified that she’d get stomped.”
Electability? Kerry making a comment on electability? Isn’t this the same failed Democratic candidate whose main reason why democrats voted for him was “anybody but bush“? Let us not forget the worst economy since Hoover and the quagmire in Iraq. How could Kerry have lost?
I just have one thing to say about a Kerry/Hillary Democratic primary debate: BRING IT ON. John Kerry thinks that the Republicans & Karl Rove played dirty during the elections, what on earth does he think that Hillary Clinton and her posse is going to do? What can only be billed as THE BOTOX vs the HildaBEAST, this should just be special. Who can’t wait for Teresa to make her insane comments toward Hillary? If she saw fit to make such terrible comments toward Laura Bush, one can only dream what will come from Teresa’s mouth. One can dare to dream that Teresa Heinz Kerry will tell Hillary to ‘Shove It’.
John Kerry coming back for more in an attempt to remain relevant until 2008. In the immortal line from Forest Gump, RUN KERRY, RUN.
Hat Tip: JJ at PoliPundit
Looks like the Political Teen thinks its a pretty ridiculous idea as well.
