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• 1 flubby // Dec 27, 2008 at 1:50 pm

  Thoughts?

  I think this is an old story. I think it was covered extensively in local and national media including (I think) Time. I think that dude will show up in this comment thread.

• 2 Steve Bittenbender // Dec 27, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  [i]“How did we not know about this mess?”[/i]

  This story is almost a year old. It’s been in Time freaking Magazine for crying out loud.

  Maybe you should Google “Ricketts paternity” next time.

• 3 jake // Dec 27, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  I know about the story– but I mean the website (which is why we linked to it), with the nasty photos.

  I don’t remember reading about that.

• 4 Steve Bittenbender // Dec 27, 2008 at 2:46 pm

  Gotcha now.

• 5 Ed Springston // Dec 27, 2008 at 2:50 pm

  The website has been around for awhile. I read it a few months ago and keep up to date with it.

• 6 David Adams // Dec 27, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  The bill he is referring to is HB 28 in the 2009 session.

• 7 Rose // Dec 27, 2008 at 4:27 pm

  The relevance of the post is this:

  Think about your circumstances this Christmas…look at this dude’s latest post about his plight…and realize you have it pretty friggin good. A big dose of crazy in the holidays always makes me feel better…bourbon anyone???

• 8 Drake // Dec 27, 2008 at 4:37 pm

  I know this is not on this subject, but I was wondering if anyone knew what lunsford was up to these days? Where can he be contacted?…I have not visited y’all since the elections, and I was just curious…anybody?

• 9 jake // Dec 27, 2008 at 4:37 pm

  Bourbon BALLS, you mean! It’s the holidays.

• 10 jake // Dec 27, 2008 at 5:07 pm

  Drake: Bruce can be contacted via his office.

• 11 Republican // Dec 27, 2008 at 11:35 pm

  I didn’t try to wade through all the stuff on that blog, but don’t most states have laws establishing that legally, the husband of a woman who has a child born from sperm donated by someone other than the husband is the father?

  If I’m understanding this correctly, Mr. Ricketts is legally presumed to be the father of the baby, DNA notwithstanding. Is that the law the guy who created the Web site (or website, to mollify Jake) is trying to abolish?

  And why was this in Time magazine? Why is this story of national interest?

• 12 bestmid // Dec 28, 2008 at 9:09 am

  Charlie Ricketts is responsible for keeping the late evil sex-killer Mel Ignatow on the streets, so it’s easy to see why he ignores justice whenever it suits him. Lawyers! He’s prolly got his own set o’ Bourbon Balls!

• 13 Jinx // Dec 28, 2008 at 8:55 pm

  Unfortunately the injustice mentioned in this article is not isolated. In Kentucky, family law judges now think they are gods and can ignore laws, rules, and just plain common sense when ever the “god” feels like it. Especially in cases that involve attorneys.

  And its a illusion that you can file a complaint with the judicial conduct commission. This so called “commission” is rejecting valid complaints against judges left and right without any good reason to do so. We the public haven’t heard about it because the commission is protected from scrutiny when the judicial branch of government ruled that it is not subject to the open records request.

• 14 Republican // Dec 28, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  Didn’t the family court judge rule in the biological father’s favor, the Court of Appeals affirmed and the Supreme Court reversed?

  Can’t blame the family court here.

• 15 Jinx // Dec 29, 2008 at 7:10 am

  You’re right. The Ky Appeals and Ky Supreme Court are above “gods” here in Kentucky.

  The Kentucky court systems are falling apart. There is no rhyme nor reason to the rulings and no where to redress grievances against judges.

  So why don’t we throw a couple more million dollars to build a few more courthouses that are not even handicap accessible, in poor areas that don’t need new judicial centers- and lets sure we do it blind without any oversight to the spending.

  No wonder everybody else in the US thinks Kentucky people are d(^^ba$$@$.

• 16 Shane // Dec 29, 2008 at 10:29 am

  Gee, what would make one think about people from Kentucky being d##@#$$e$. Would it be the horrid school system. Would it be the average person being willfully ignorant. Would it be the toleration of a corrupt system.

  Even the http://www.pioneerpress.com of Saint Paul Minnesota mentioned that Kentucky was the 3rd most corrupt state and that was even ahead of Gov. Blagojevich’s Illinois. I think that speaks volumes on the idiocy that permeates Kentucky

• 17 Anon // Dec 30, 2008 at 1:04 am

  Time covered the story because Michael Lindenberger, formerly of the C-J, was working there at the time and wrote the story.

  Not sure I can take sides in this one…a wife and mother who cheats on her husband while he’s stationed in the Air Force; a man who sleeps with and impregnates a woman whom he knows is married, then posts half-naked pictures of her on his website; or the son of Charlie Ricketts.

  The kid may have a right to know who his father is, but I think he may be too young to appreciate it just yet.

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