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In the Chinese Woman Catches Baby After Ten-Story Fall post:
Wu Juping, 31, her dangling from the window and rushed over to catch her as she fell. SB:
Wu Juping, 31, saw her dangling from the window and rushed over to catch her as she fell.
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In the Judge Bars Critical Defense Argument in Casey Trial post:
… but when does a court do too far in preventing a person from stating her case to a jury of her peers? SB:
… but when does a court go too far in preventing a person from stating her case to a jury of her peers?
Judge Bars Critical Defense Argument in Casey Trial
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Perry ruled that there was no evidence to support the allegation and therefore defense counsel Jose Baez would be prevented for even mentioning it in his closing.
Correction: Perry ruled that there was no evidence to support the allegation and therefore defense counsel Jose Baez would be prevented FROM even mentioning it in his closing.
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The concern with these rulings is that judges are increasing tailoring cases to bar arguments that were once left to the jury to weigh.
Correction: The concern with these rulings is that judges are INCREASINGLY tailoring cases to bar arguments that were once left to the jury to weigh.
In the Harvard Study Finds Fourth of July Celebrations Help Turn People Into Republicans post:
… argue that Fourth of July celebration tend to turn people into Republicans … SB:
… argue that Fourth of July celebrations tend to turn people into Republicans …
As a father, I go crazy on the Fourth of July and, other Leslie’s annual protestations, buy enough fireworks to take over a small nation. SB:
As a father, I go crazy on the Fourth of July and, over Leslie’s annual protestations, buy enough fireworks to take over a small nation.
In the article about the Florida cop outrageously reprimanded for warning the teenage girl, I think the Chicago reference should be “Cabrini Green,” not “Caprini Green.” I got lost there myself there one night on the Near Northside and was directed out by a police officer with a similar warning about the crime.
In the Who Is This Woman? post:
…was caught on CCTV driving up to a fire, getting out of her car, rescuing little boy from a burning building, … SB:
…was caught on CCTV driving up to a fire, getting out of her car, rescuing a little boy from a burning building, …
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In the Woman Visits Husband in Prison For Conjugal Visit . . . Then Tries To Leave With Husband In Suitcase post:
Guards thought Maria del Mar Arjona, 19, looked notice … SB:
Guards thought Maria del Mar Arjona, 19, looked nervous …
In the Hour of Power [Grab]: Robert Schuller Thrown Out Of Crystal Ministries post:
… which he found over 50 years ago. SB:
… which he founded over 50 years ago.
… and Coleman’s insistence that choir members to sign a covenant … SB:
… and Coleman’s insistence that choir members sign a covenant …
Schuller’s daughter, Carol Schuller Milner, supported her sister and the forced removal of her father. SB:
Schuller’s daughter, Carol Schuller Milner, supported her sister and they forced removal of her father.
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In the India Health Minister Denounces Homosexuality as “Unnatural Disease” At AIDS Conference post:
That sounds like he is more interested in a law enforcement and health response to the “problem.” SB:
That sounds like he is more interested in a law enforcement than health response to the “problem.”
Thanks Nal!!
Lawyers: Protect IP Act would align U.S. Internet policy with ‘repressive regimes’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/05/lawyers-protect-ip-act-would-align-u-s-with-repressive-regimes/
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This issue has an impact on many of the Amendment’s: 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Alleged infractions of copyright are dealt with as both criminal and civil issues and the prosecution, when prosecutions are forthcoming, are facilitated by multiple Federal law enforcement and security departments including Homeland Security.
Individual sites as well as aggregators (and with this new law, possibly entire domains) can be shut down summarily by seizure by the government prior to any charge or trial, with any corollary damage going unmitigated and unremedied by the moving party. This new and expanding aspect of (criminal) law enforcement is flying under the radar with little public debate but has enormous potential impact on the future of the Internet.
At some point, examining this evolving body of relatively new law and the relevant constitutional issues in a column would be helpful for at least this reader to understand what is going on. On the surface it looks like like the government including the national security arm of the government, has, under the Homeland Security laws, become the method of law enforcement for what should be a purely civil matter in all but the most minimal of cases.
In the Fall From Grace: CNN’s Nancy Grace Denounces Dancing Devil After Anthony Verdict post:
I have been a long critic (here and here) of Grace’s who snarling, sensational approach to law and journalism is an embarrassment to both professions. SB:
I have been a long critic (here and here) of Grace’s snarling, sensational approach to law and journalism is an embarrassment to both professions.
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In the Just What The Doctor Ordered: Iceland Considers Prescription-Only Cigarettes post:
The parliament in Reykjavik may allow only pharmacies to dispense cigarettes — a valid medical certificate. SB:
The parliament in Reykjavik may allow only pharmacies to dispense cigarettes — with a valid medical certificate.
In the Lone Star State: Perry Refuses To Stop Execution Of Mexican Citizen Despite Treaty Violation post:
Perry seems not only want to be the John C. Calhoun of presidential aspirants, … SB:
Perry seems not only to want to be the John C. Calhoun of presidential aspirants, …
Leal, 38, was killed a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio. SB:
Leal, 38, was convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio.
… by refusing to address a clear violation of its own officials. SB:
… by refusing to address a clear violation by its own officials.
Lone Star State: Perry Refuses To Stop Execution Of Mexican Citizen Despite Treaty Violation
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This violation was either a knowingly disregard of the law or an act of gross negligence.
Correction: This violation was either a KNOWING disregard of the law or an act of gross negligence.
In the Tomahawks Over Turtles: Congress and Obama Administration Move To Slash NOAA Budget post:
A good comparison is that the cost to date of Libyan war are basically what Congress is about to cut from the budget … SB:
A good comparison is that the cost to date of the Libyan war is basically what Congress is about to cut from the budget …
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In the North Carolina Woman Arrested After Blowing 0.0 On Test . . . Police Then Pull Over Lawyer Husband After He Follows Them To Jail post:
Recently released exchanges between the officers shows profanity and hostility in dealing with the couple. SB:
Recently released exchanges between the officers show profanity and hostility in dealing with the couple.
At around 12:15 am, Wyrick tells Gina Tessener he is taking her into the magistrate’s office. SB:
At around 12:15 am, Wyrick tells Gina Tessener he is taking her in to the magistrate’s office.
Wyrick puts Gina Tessner into the New Hanover County Detention Center at approximately 12:44 a.m. SB:
Wyrick puts Gina Tessener into the New Hanover County Detention Center at approximately 12:44 a.m.
Thanks Nal
In the A Man Walks Into An Irish Bar Carrying A Rare Picasso . . . post:
He proceeded to hail a cab and disappear — but not before passing in front of Left O’Doul’s. SB:
He proceeded to hail a cab and disappear — but not before passing in front of Lefty O’Doul’s.
In the Forbidden Apple: TSA Worker Arrested After Allegedly Stealing iPad and Stuffing It Down His Pants post:
Police say that he was nailed after a Continental employee say him steal an iPod and stuff it down his shorts. SB:
Police say that he was nailed after a Continental employee saw him steal an iPod and stuff it down his shorts.
Santiago allegedly would post photos of his goods on online to sell them. SB:
Santiago allegedly would post photos of his goods online to sell them.
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In the Chicago Cuts Writing From Standardized Testing To Save Money post:
As the country struggles to pay billions for three wars, states continued to shutdown basic services and programs. SB:
As the country struggles to pay billions for three wars, states continue to shutdown basic services and programs.
The inevitable result is that our population will becoming less and less viable in the modern economy … SB:
The inevitable result is that our population will become less and less viable in the modern economy …
In the Video: Arkansas Man Arrested After Videotaping Police From His Own Front Yard post:
Now, a video has been released of a Jonesboro, Arkansas man who arrested after filming … SB:
Now, a video has been released of a Jonesboro, Arkansas man who was arrested after filming …
In the Pennsylvania Lawyer Gets 10-25 Years After Hunting Accident post:
Attorney David Manilla received a sentence of 10-25 years behind bar for a hunting accident … SB:
Attorney David Manilla received a sentence of 10-25 years behind bars for a hunting accident …
In the Panetta: Iraq Really Was A Response To 9-11 post:
The last time I heard “plain-speaking” as an accuse for chronic misstatements was a guy named Donald Rumsfeld, … SB:
The last time I heard “plain-speaking” as an excuse for chronic misstatements was a guy named Donald Rumsfeld, …
Office Abuses Authority:
“As we see the continuing trend of officers assisting people for filming them in public, this video is a chilling reminder of value of such evidence.”
SB
arresting people for filming
In the Israeli Court Refuses To Charge Police In Shooting Of 10-Year-Old Palestinian Girl in 2007 Because Too Much Time Has Passed post:
… when she was buying snacks with her sister and two friends din the West Bank town of Anata. SB:
… when she was buying snacks with her sister and two friends in the West Bank town of Anata.
Witnesses fave statements that the identified guards fired from a passing jeep. SB:
Witnesses gave statements that the identified guards fired from a passing jeep.
While police insisted that she probably died from a thrown rocks from other Palestinians, … SB:
While police insisted that she probably died from a thrown rock from other Palestinians, …
Woman Invokes 5th Amendment To Avoid Disclosing Laptop Password
Robert Siegel talks with Declan McCullagh, chief political correspondent for CNET, about a federal case in which Ramona Fricosu, a Colorado woman, is refusing to disclose a laptop password to authorities — arguing it would violate her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Fricosu is facing several charges related to a mortgage scam. The encrypted laptop was seized from her bedroom during a police raid. McCullagh tells us more about the case — and what legal implications it may have.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137773335/when-asked-to-disclose-laptop-password-woman-invokes-5th-amendment?sc=tw
California Citizens First Face Swarm of 14 Million Spilled Bees and Then Warned Bears Are Coming
“foreseeable outcome of the negligent” sb “foreseeable outcome of the negligence”
In the Study: Black Men Live Longer If Incarcerated post:
… black men are half as likely to die if they’re in prison than if they are free in society. SB:
… black men are half as likely to die older if they’re in prison than if they are free in society.
It is well known that prisoners tend to be physiologically order than their chronological age. SB:
It is well known that prisoners tend to be physiologically older than their chronological age.
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In the Iranian Christian Told By Supreme Court To Renounce Faith Or Face Punishment post:
Again, Iran offers the hold (and some in the United States) a constant lesson … SB:
Again, Iran offers the world (and some in the United States) a constant lesson …
In the Is There A Juris Doctor In The House? Maryland Heart Surgeon Stripped Of License After Allegedly Performing Hundreds of Unnecessary Surgeries post:
Midei and St. Joseph’s now faces 181 lawsuits. SB:
Midei and St. Joseph’s now face 181 lawsuits.
Gene H.:
“hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth,…
SB
“When….
Doh! Thanks! I’ll get that changed.
In the Man and Dog: Nature’s Perfect Duet post:
I particularly like the dog going back to close the frig. SB:
I particularly like the dog going back to close the fridge.
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In the Woman Gropes TSA Agent post:
That may be unlikely because she reportedly added to the act and it was likely on videotape. SB:
That may be unlikely because she reportedly admitted to the act and it was likely on videotape.
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In the New Jersey Man Killed By Lightning — 48 Years After His Father Was Killed By Lightning post:
Rooney’s father was killed by a lightning strike 48 years ago when he was five. SB:
Rooney’s father was killed by a lightning strike 48 years ago when Rooney was five.
In the Pennsylvania Judge Under Fire For Dismissing Her Own Parking Tickets post:
When Kelly Ballentine was given several parking tickets, she lucked out by getting a lenient judge: her self. SB:
When Kelly Ballentine was given several parking tickets, she lucked out by getting a lenient judge: herself.
In the Debbie Schlussel posting:
The question is whether people of good faith should simply walked away from such libelous and malicious statements or whether we have a duty to bring such people to the courts for judgment.
SB
The question is whether people of good faith should simply walk away…
(“People of good faith” should not walk away. The stakes are too high right now. But this is just the humble opinion of a nurse… Thank you for this blog.)
In the Debbie Schlussel posting:
Her blog blog describes her
SB
Her blog describes her
(Piecemeal… Sorry.)
In the Report: MSNBC Close To Naming Al Sharpton Host of Prime Time Show post:
The selection would follow the President’s baffling decision to make Sharpton a high visible component of his reelection effort. SB:
The selection would follow the President’s baffling decision to make Sharpton a highly visible component of his reelection effort.
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In the Give [To Wal-Mart] And You Shall Receipt: Couple Rejoices AfterJesus Appears On Store Receipt post:
Wal-Mart appears to be offering miracle aa a low price, undercutting local stores in Anderson County, South Carolina in their own Savior slips. SB:
Wal-Mart appears to be offering miracles at a low price, undercutting local stores in Anderson County, South Carolina in their own Savior slips.
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In the When Should Schools Give Miranda? Virginia Case Shows Continuing Uncertainties After J.D.B. Ruling post:
… where an eighth-grader was pulled from his case and interrogated by a police officer … SB:
… where an eighth-grader was pulled from his class and interrogated by a police officer …
The school officials called in a police office and interrogated the student without the presence or consent of his parents. SB:
The school officials called in a police officer and interrogated the student without the presence or consent of his parents.
The problem with the opinion is that it quickly breaking down in generalities and leaves a host of questions. SB:
The problem with the opinion is that it quickly breaks down in generalities and leaves a host of questions.
While officials continuing cite the well-being of students as the justification for their actions, … SB:
While officials continue to cite the well-being of students as the justification for their actions, …
It would be wonderful, however, if school officials would act more in a more protective fashion as a matter of ethics as opposed to constitutional law. SB:
It would be wonderful, however, if school officials would act in a more protective fashion as a matter of ethics as opposed to constitutional law.
July 20, 2011 7:52 AM
Whistleblowers “terrified” at TVA nuke plants?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/20/earlyshow/main20080965.shtml
Woman arrested for indecency for having “truck nuts.” She is getting a jury trial. Here is a burning constitutional issue.
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/07/is-a-ban-on-truck-nuts-unconstitutional/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/28/us-crime-testicles-idUSTRE76R57T20110728
More law enforcement with no common sense. The judge does not seem to be any better than the officers. This story is out of Canada.
http://autos.aol.com/article/man-gets-speeding-ticket-after-saving-his-baby/
OS,
“In what is described as an adrenaline-filled panic, Mr. Weber mashed the gas pedal of his Honda Civic, and began speeding towards the hospital on “lightly trafficked roads,” the newspaper reported, at more than 105 MPH.”
105 Mph? In a Honda Civic? And you think the judge should give him a pass. We don’t allow emergency responders to drive at that speed. This guy is lucky he didn’t kill everyone in the car and then some.
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20110801_A_surprising_war_on_leaks_under_Obama.html
….just in case someone wants to run with it…
Latest out of Michigan. Woman was in jail on an unpaid child support warrant. She was raped by a guard. Michigan Supreme Court just ruled the employer (e.g., Sheriff) was not liable, overturning precedent.
Source: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110731/NEWS01/107310475/Michigan-high-court-rules-jail-rape-victim-can-t-sue-sheriff-s-office-county?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
More opinion: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/02/1002290/-MI-Supremes-say-rape-victim-cannot-sue-sheriff-dept-where-she-was-raped-while-in-custody?detail=hide
FROM: Tea Party: “We Are Not Terrorists!”
freshman tea party congressmen were acting “like terrorists” in negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. There was equally no love lost when John McClain commented that the tea party freshman were acting as “deceivers” and their ideas were “bizarro.”
John McClain was a cop from New York in the Die Hard movies. John McCain is a Senator from Arizona.
The Turleys Land At Normandy: Omaha Beach
After hitting the landing sites from June 5th, 1994, we proceeded to another highlight of our trip through France: Omaha beach.
Is this the correct date?
In the Americans in Paris: The Turleys Descend Upon The City of Lights post:
The kids enjoys going to Les Invalides … SB:
The kids enjoyed going to Les Invalides …
He ducked into a passage that was hundreds of years old and leading into a cute courtyard. SB:
We ducked into a passage that was hundreds of years old and leading into a cute courtyard.
In the Illinois Attorney Charged With Attempted Murder-For-Hire of Girlfriend’s (and Client’s) Ex-Husband post:
… the crime appears contained with Illinois. SB:
… the crime appears contained within Illinois.
Smiekel was implicated by a friend who he had asked to help find a hitman. SB:
Smiekel was implicated by a friend whom he had asked to help find a hitman.
Professor Turley,
Please state your current moderation policy and please discuss the banning/moderation occurrences during your absence with Nal. I trust his independence.
FFLEO
Seconded.
Nal (or another poster)
Can someone read over this story and consider posting on it?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/06/mississippi.hate.crime/index.html
A man named James Craig Anderson was beaten and brutally killed by a large group of white teens. Its getting little coverage and the charges filed thus far seem to be extremely minor.
Professor Turley, I respectfully disagree with our friend FFLEO on letting trollish behavior go unchecked. If it takes moderation, fine. I think banning should be reserved for extreme cases, but if a user persists in doing nothing but disrupt, it is justified IMHO. If a person persists in posting little more than insults directed toward folks, they are not adding to the quality of the discourse, but subtracting from it. If it goes on, then I cannot stay. I came for the interesting discussions and exchange of ideas. I have better things to do with my limited time here than deal with stalking, attacks and personal insults.
FFLEO:
a very good idea. In my opinion kderosa was well within the bounds of decorum and in fact is an interesting poster.
People here do not like opposing ideas and kderosa is a manifestly capable advocate of his position. It is my opinion he has been censored because of this ability and not because he exhibits trollish behaviour which I dont think he does. He has been repeatedly attacked by a few people who disagree with his ideas. He has only responded in kind, he has given as good as he has gotten and certain people take umbrage at his intellectual abilities.
Personally I would like to see him as a guest blogger, then this would really be an open forum of ideas. There are more than a few libertarians and conservatives who post here and enjoy the back and forth.
I would also like to see Puzzling as a guest blogger as well, he/she also presents a cogent and civil rebuttal to many of the ideas presented by the “regulars”.
In the Army Approves Concert For Agnostics and Atheists At Fort Bragg post:
They have faced ope hostility in the military, so this is a major victory of sheer recognition. SB:
They have faced open hostility in the military, so this is a major victory of sheer recognition.
In the Iran Calls For Investigation of England’s Treatment of Protesters and Calls For Dialogue With Rioters post:
Honestly, what would be do on this blog without those hilarious guys in Iran. SB:
Honestly, what would we do on this blog without those hilarious guys in Iran.
In the United States Olympic Committee Threatens To Sue The Redneck Olympics post:
… despite the fact that it refers to an ancient sporting even from Greece … SB:
… despite the fact that it refers to an ancient sporting event from Greece …
… Congress needs to look into absurd grow of trademark limitations on common terms and symbols. SB:
… Congress needs to look into the absurd growth of trademark limitations on common terms and symbols.
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In the DOT Seeks An “Associate Administrator For Administration” post:
Now that is a bureaucrats dream — administering the administrators. SB:
Now that is a bureaucrat’s dream — administering the administrators.
In the Antarctica post, Rodina should be Rodinia.
In the Oregon Man Arrested For Urinating On Sleeping 11-Year-Old Girl on JetBlue Flight post:
The girl’s father caught Vietze in the course of his assault and stop him. SB:
The girl’s father caught Vietze in the course of his assault and stopped him.
In the Now Putin The Archeologist: Russian Strongman “Discovers” Ancient Jars At Ancient Site post:
… some fawning account of his aides on how he is superhuman. SB:
… some fawning account by his aides on how he is superhuman.
What is really amazing is that the urn were less than seven feet … SB:
What is really amazing is that the urns were less than seven feet …
It was almost like someone put them there and direct Putin … SB:
It was almost like someone put them there and directed Putin …
The same cult of personality has been carefully constructed by Putin around himself to get Russian to love the man … SB:
The same cult of personality has been carefully constructed by Putin around himself to get Russians to love the man …
What may appear a pathetic self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing display … SB:
What may appear as a pathetic self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing display …
In the The Xinjiang 13: China Blacklists Leading American Academics While Universities Remain Silent post:
China responded with sanctions imposed by it’s security services … SB:
China responded with sanctions imposed by its security services …
The Toroll Under The Bridge: Music Teacher Arrested After Reportedly Having Sex With Child-Like Dolls Under Bridge Leading To Elementary School SB:
The Torroll Under The Bridge: Music Teacher Arrested After Reportedly Having Sex With Child-Like Dolls Under Bridge Leading To Elementary School
Torroll has been charged him with public indecency, a misdemeanor. SB:
Torroll has been charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0812/To-defuse-flash-protest-BART-cuts-riders-cell-service.-Is-that-legal
Widener University Goes Soviet On Law School Professor
“Widener Law is a fourth-tier law school and this situation will do little to move it up. However, this incident could effect (sic) the reputation of Widener University. Where were the Board of Trustees while all this was going down?”
Should read:
“Widener Law is a fourth-tier law school and this situation will do little to move it up. However, this incident could affect the reputation of Widener University. Where were the Board of Trustees while all this was going down?”
In MICHELE BACHMANN, CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISM AND THE LAW
If he and other journalists can be criticized for anything, it is for nSchaeffot asking the hard questions,… SB
If he and other journalists can be criticized for anything, it is for not asking the hard questions,…
In the Air America: Federal Government Spending $200 Million in Subsidies For “Essential Air Service” post:
In some case, a coach ticket cost the taxpayers over $4000 in subsidies. SB:
In some cases, a coach ticket cost the taxpayers over $4000 in subsidies.
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In the With Friends Like This: Pakistan Reportedly Showed China Downed Stealth Helicopter post:
The Pakistani government was expressly asked by the United States no to give anyone access to the wreckage. SB:
The Pakistani government was expressly asked by the United States not to give anyone access to the wreckage.
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In the Blogger Detained in Egypt For Defamation Of Military post:
It is a part of an expanding trend of government’s cracking down on first speech … SB:
It is a part of an expanding trend of governments cracking down on first speech …
/or
It is a part of an expanding trend of the government’s cracking down on first speech …
Meet Marco Tempest: Ipod Magician SB:
Meet Marco Tempest: iPod Magician
And I cannot even figure out all of the standard options on my Iphone . . . SB:
And I cannot even figure out all of the standard options on my iPhone . . .
What Tempest does with these Ipods is amazing. It is a new frontier for magic. SB:
What Tempest does with these iPods is amazing. It is a new frontier for magic.
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In the Man Arrested After Driving While Using Two Cellphones post:
… guns her Lexus SUV and speeds up to when they are outside with their children. SB:
… guns her Lexus SUV and speeds up when they are outside with their children.
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In the Britain Calls On Asian Governments To Move Against Sale of Rhino Horn post:
I left the meetings earlier and got into a cab. SB:
I left the meetings early and got into a cab.
He paid a lad of money and drank the blood and was served a snake soup. SB:
He paid a wad of money and drank the blood and was served a snake soup.
In the Is The Media Actively Erasing Ron Paul From Election Coverage? post:
… (including many regulars who I respect) … SB:
… (including many regulars whom I respect) …
In the Reverse Ad Placement: Abercrombie & Fitch Offers To Pay Jersey Shore Cast To Stop Wearing Its Clothing post:
One of my lifelong commitments is to go to my grave without having seen a single episode of Jersey Shores, … SB:
One of my lifelong commitments is to go to my grave without having seen a single episode of Jersey Shore, …
In the “Casket Cartel” Takes Monks To Court post:
Louisiana legislators caved into demand for the protective measures, … SB:
Louisiana legislators caved into demands for the protective measures, …
Duval saw the law as little more than a monopoly secured from politicians yielding to a well-healed lobby. SB:
Duval saw the law as little more than a monopoly secured from politicians yielding to a well-heeled lobby.
Re story on AT&T’s buying and distributing Perry book: The word “myriad” is not supposed to be followed by “of,” i.e., “there are myriad widgets” (can’t remember actual word in the story now), not “myriad of widgets.”
I love your site, but you really could use a good proofreader!
myriad |ˈmirēəd| poetic/literary
noun
1 a countless or extremely great number : networks connecting a myriad of computers.
1myr·i·ad noun \ˈmir-ē-əd\
Definition of MYRIAD
1
: ten thousand
2
: a great number (a myriad of ideas)
In the Auditors Conclude That $6.6 Billion Simply Disappeared From Planes Filled With Cash To Iraq post:
While congressional leadership is rollback on essential programs … SB:
While congressional leadership is rolling back on essential programs …
‘West Memphis Three’ — Convicted Of Killing Boy Scouts — Free After Serving 17 Years In Prison
After serving 17 years behind bars for the brutal murder of three children in eastern Arkansas, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin — dubbed the “West Memphis Three” — have been released from prison.
“They will be free men … on suspended sentence,” prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington told reporters during a Friday press conference.
“Only time will tell as to whether this was the right decision.”
All three men had been imprisoned since 1994, when they were convicted of killing three 8-year-old boys: Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers.
Experts believe both sides have entered into a complex legal agreement, in which the three men have entered into so-called Alford pleas.
“The plea means that you maintain your innocence but you believe there is a substantial likelihood that a jury will find you guilty so you are pleading guilty per State v. Alford,” Anne Bremner, a Seattle attorney and legal analyst, told The Huffington Post. “The effect of the corresponding finding of guilt by the court is the same as with a straight guilty plea.”
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I for one am not a fan of the Alford plea….It is over used in CSC cases where the only reason that a plea is given the defendants are more afraid of the longer sentence they could get if taken to trial…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/west-memphis-three-free_n_931449.html#s333742&title=Craighead_County_Court
BTW….These young men have to offer some thanks to Johnny Depp….who made this case more public and kept it in the public’s eye…..
In the The Manliness Gap? Scottish Men Selected As World’s Most Manly post:
In the poll, Australian came in second and the English came in third. SB:
In the poll, Australians came in second and the English came in third.
It appears that Mr. Bean is simply too much for Americans to be secure third place. SB:
It appears that Mr. Bean is simply too much for Americans to secure third place.
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In the Was Queen Hatsheput Poisoned? Scientists Find Evidence of What Could Be One Of The World’s Oldest Product Liability Cases post:
The Queen (and her family) suffered from skin ailments (as well as being obesity, diabetes, and liver cancer. SB:
The Queen (and her family) suffered from skin ailments (as well as obesity, diabetes, and liver cancer.
In the Swimsuit Lawsuit: Bankruptcy Lawyer Sues New York Over Swimsuit Requirements in Lifeguard Tryouts post:
… and I fail to see who allowing trunks as well as speedos is a matter of age discrimination. SB:
… and I fail to see how allowing trunks as well as speedos is a matter of age discrimination.
In the Lawyers and Law Professors Erupt in Bitter Debate After Identification of “ScamProf” post:
Critics say that Campos only came forward after various blogger had deduced his identity. SB:
Critics say that Campos only came forward after various bloggers had deduced his identity.
However, Leiter has gone further an attacked Campos personally and professionally. SB:
However, Leiter has gone further and attacked Campos personally and professionally.
… collapsing legal market unable to sustain the current level graduates. SB:
… collapsing legal market unable to sustain the current level of graduates.
With during the lower higher rates of the last few years … SB:
During the lower hiring rates of the last few years …
However, the ABA and AALS was fast to crackdown on such violations … SB:
However, the ABA and AALS were fast to crackdown on such violations …
IF lawyers are not education on legal history and theory in law school, … SB:
If lawyers are not educated on legal history and theory in law school, …
We are a profession in a most development or transitional stage. SB:
We are a profession in a most developmental or transitional stage.
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake with epicenter at Mineral, Virginia, half way between Richmond and Charlottesville. Felt in DC. A good topic for a post, hint, hint, from someone who lives in the area.
In the EARTHQUAKE! post:
In perhaps the stupiest possible move, … SB:
In perhaps the stupidest possible move, …
In the Obama Administration Pressures Prosecutors To Drop Criminal Investigations Of Banks Over Mortgage Fraud post:
The last few years have been replete with stories of incredible fraudulent and possibly criminal acts … SB:
The last few years have been replete with stories of incredibly fraudulent and possibly criminal acts …
… have been pressuring the states to given the industry a pass on any crimes. SB:
… have been pressuring the states to give the industry a pass on any crimes.
Among other possible cases, Schneiderman objects to given a pass to New York Mellon and Bank of America … SB:
Among other possible cases, Schneiderman objects to giving a pass to New York Mellon and Bank of America …
Ninth Circuit Rules Family Can Sue California Officer Who Shoot Handcuffed Son In Back of Cruiser SB:
Ninth Circuit Rules Family Can Sue California Officer Who Shot Handcuffed Son In Back of Cruiser
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In the Appellate Lawyer Of The Week Interview post:
… Tony Mauro, who I have long admired. SB:
… Tony Mauro, whom I have long admired.
In the Kentucky Man Loses Lawsuit Over Amputation of His Penis Without Consent post:
It does not matter that such an unconsented to operation may have worked to the benefit of the patient. SB:
It does not matter that such an nonconsensual operation may have worked to the benefit of the patient.
Patterson’s lawyer insisted that his client stopped the cancer for spreading. SB:
Patterson’s lawyer insisted that his client stopped the cancer from spreading.
I’m a little late catching this or I’d have written it up this weekend, but you might be interested for the coming week, Professor.
From: http://www.universalhub.com/2011/court-says-state-law-banning-recording-police-offi
“Court says state law used to ban recording of police officers in public is unconstitutional
By adamg – 8/26/11 – 4:29 pm
A Boston lawyer suing the city and police officers who arrested him for using his cell phone to record a drug arrest on the Common won a victory today when a federal appeals court said the officers could not claim “qualified immunity” because they were performing their job when they arrested him under a state law that bars audio recordings without the consent of both parties.
In its ruling, which lets Simon Glik continue his lawsuit, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston said the way Glik was arrested and his phone seized under a state wiretapping law violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights:
The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative. It is firmly established that the First Amendment’s aegis extends further than the text’s proscription on laws ‘abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,’ and encompasses a range of conduct related to the gathering and dissemination of information. As the Supreme Court has observed, “the First Amendment goes beyond protection of the press and the self-expression of individuals to prohibit government from limiting the stock of information from which members of the public may draw.’…
Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting ‘the free discussion of governmental affairs.’” [. . .]
Flying While Black & Reading Antique Aviation Books
Nal – I saw that story and while the passenger is correct to note the level of paranoia and ineptitude that characterizes our government’s TSA security apparatus, framing his situation in terms of race betrays the mindset of a professional victim. I watched the TSA hold up a Jet Blue flight the other day and rummage overhead bins to seize a girls field hockey stick. Race has nothing to do with these situations. It’s wild incompetence.
In the Extreme Elements in Libya and Egypt Appear in Wake of Revolutions post:
In Libyan, Mohammed al-Alagi, the Transitional National Council’s justice minister, … SB:
In Libya, Mohammed al-Alagi, the Transitional National Council’s justice minister, …
What, of course, makes the situation even more precarious is the access of Libyan to weapons of mass destruction … SB:
What, of course, makes the situation even more precarious is the access of Libya to weapons of mass destruction …
… a move reminiscent of the Taliban’s destruction art and the two ancient statues of the Buddha called Bamiyan SB:
… a move reminiscent of the Taliban’s destruction of art and the two ancient statues of the Buddha called Bamiyan.
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In the Booked on Orbitz? Russians Announce Plans for Space Hotel post:
you are really trying to get away from it all, … SB:
If you are really trying to get away from it all, …
/The “If” is stuck at the top.
In the Study: Half of Adult Population in U.S. To Be Obese By 2030 post:
Currently, 32 per center of men and 35 per cent of women are obese. SB:
Currently, 32 percent of men and 35 percent of women are obese.
… with rates of obesity of 41-48 per cent for men and 35-43 per cent for women by 2030. SB:
… with rates of obesity of 41-48 percent for men and 35-43 percent for women by 2030.
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In the El Paso Jury Rules In Favor Of Family Of Burglar Killed By Business Owner post:
The El Paso jury awarded roughly $300,000 to the family Robert Johnson Fox, … SB:
The El Paso jury awarded roughly $300,000 to the family of Robert Johnson Fox, …
Gibson Guitar CEO: We’re Under Attack By Obama Administration
CEO says Obama Justice Dept. Wants Them to Close Their Doors.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45796
El Paso Jury Rules In Favor Of Family Of Burglar Killed By Business Owner SB:
El Paso County Jury Rules In Favor Of Family Of Burglar Killed By Business Owner
A Texas jury has rendered a rare award to the family of a burglar killed in the course of a crime. SB:
A Colorado jury has rendered a rare award to the family of a burglar killed in the course of a crime.
:The number 1 legal theory blog ought to have a way to receive automatic mailings =you would think, right ?
Giving Mercy A Bad Name? Catholic School Cancels Good Will Ramadan Dinner SB:
Giving Mercy A Bad Name? Catholic School Cancels Goodwill Ramadan Dinner
In the Negligence or Assumption of the Risk? Paintball Causes British Woman’s Breast Implant to Rupture post:
The woman initially thought she had a bad bruise but her doctor’s later informed her of the rupture. SB:
The woman initially thought she had a bad bruise but her doctor later informed her of the rupture.
She used in both nuisance and negligence over the lack of a sufficiently high wall to protect her and other citizens. SB:
She sued in both nuisance and negligence over the lack of a sufficiently high wall to protect her and other citizens.
… where an officer was shot a bulletproof vest in an area under the arm without protection. SB:
… where an officer was shot wearing a bulletproof vest in an area under the arm without protection.
In the Put’in on the Chaps: Latest Installment of the World’s Most Visible and Longest Running Midlife Crisis post:
Exactly when does this get embarrassing for Russian? SB:
Exactly when does this get embarrassing for Russians?
… which his Russian handlers insist is 100 time more powerful than that of a professional wrestler … SB:
… which his Russian handlers insist is 100 times more powerful than that of a professional wrestler …
President Obama’s uncle had Social Security ID
President Obama’s accused drunken-driving uncle — who was busted after a near collision with a Framingham cop — has had a valid Social Security number for at least 19 years, despite being an illegal immigrant ordered to be deported back to Kenya, the Herald has learned.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1362374&format=comments#CommentsArea
Lets see his aunt is an illegal, his uncle is an illegal, maybe Obama is an illegal after all. Especially since there are questions about his SS #
I suppose the Officers Motto should be changed to “Beyond the Call of Duty”……Hood will do, Cruisers part II….
Officer Caught In Surveillance Photo Having Sex On Car: Report (GRAPHIC PHOTO)
A photo of what appears to be a police officer having sex with a woman on the hood of a car has caused an uproar in New Mexico.
The Huffington Post could not confirm independently that the man in question is a law enforcement officer, but Albuquerque, N.M. TV station KOB 4 and the Albuquerque Journal both identify the man as a uniformed officer.
Other uniformed policeman have been caught having sex on the job. Earlier this month, a Louisiana state public safety officer was suspended for reportedly having sex in his patrol car.
In January, a veteran officer resigned after he allegedly did the deed in his cruiser.
WATCH video with the GRAPHIC PHOTO.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/officer-sex-car_n_942051.html?ncid=webmail11
I wonder if they will have to register as a sex offender…besides a loss of employment…
In the D.C. Police Officer Who Attacked Transgender Citizens Had Prior Alcohol Related Offenses post:
D.C. police officer Kenneth Furr was recently arrested having shooting transgender citizens in a drunken rage. SB:
D.C. police officer Kenneth Furr was recently arrested having shot transgender citizens in a drunken rage.
It now appears that the D.C. Metropolitan Police was aware to prior alcohol-related incidents by Furr. SB:
It now appears that the D.C. Metropolitan Police was aware of prior alcohol-related incidents by Furr.
In the Beer Burkas: Utah Legislators Require Restaurants To Install “Zion Curtains” To Prevent Customers From Seeing Beers Being Opened or Poured post:
For many, the Zion Curtains are a clearly the result of sectarian, … SB:
For many, the Zion Curtains are clearly the result of sectarian, …
http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/31-2010/1468-government-behaving-badly-renditions-revealed-and-gps-tracking
Government Behaving Badly: Renditions Revealed and GPS Tracking
by Jesselyn Radack on September 01, 2011 ( The Whistleblogger / 2010 )
WaPo’s editorial follows a USA Today op-ed from Marc Rotenberg, who heads the Electronic Privacy Information Center, warning of the privacy implications of insurance companies requiring GPS tracking devices in vehicles:
Now car insurance companies want you to install a new device in your car so they can track how you drive and when you drive. The companies say this could reduce your insurance rates, but there is more to the story.
The data that are collected by the insurers don’t stay with the insurers and won’t be used only to calculate rates. Police could get access to your driving habits, as could state agencies.
If the Justice Department believes law enforcement does not need a warrant to place a GPS on a car, it does not bode well for private citizens when law enforcement is tempted to request tracking information from their car insurance providers. The amount of information the government can obtain about persons using GPS tracking is staggering. As WaPo said in quoting D.C. Circuit judge Douglas Ginsberg:
“A person who knows all of another’s travels can deduce whether he is a weekly churchgoer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups — and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts,” D.C. Circuit Judge Douglas Ginsburg aptly noted in invalidating Mr. Jones’s conviction.
In the On Deadly Ground: Steven Seagal Bags Puppy and Busts Jesus post:
… according to his notice of a claim for $100,000 in damages and a a”formal written apology” to his children … SB:
… according to his notice of a claim for $100,000 in damages and a ”formal written apology” to his children …
Nal
Anxious to cooperate, Calderón allow a search of his house, car, and computer by the two Apple employees while the San Francisco police officers waited outside.
SB
Anxious to cooperate, Calderón allowed…
Does it really matter at this point:
Thomas Jefferson Slave Paternity Rumors: New Study Questions Evidence That Former President Fathered Sally Hemings’ Child
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/thomas-jefferson-slave-paternity-rumors_n_947016.html?ncid=webmail12
In the Nuremburg Revisited and Revised: The Legitimation of Torture in the United States post:
Rather, he lasting effect of the Bush program will be in the use of defenses against alleged war crimes … SB:
Rather, the lasting effect of the Bush program will be in the use of defenses against alleged war crimes …
In the Study Estimates Roughly 40 Percent of Europeans Suffer From Mental Illness post:
The U.S. study found percent of Americans suffered from mental illness. SB:
The U.S. study found 30 percent of Americans suffered from mental illness.
“Muslim Students Protest Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador: Free Speech Or Criminal Act?
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Prosecutors on Wednesday argued that 10 Muslim university students broke the law when they shouted down a speech by the Israeli ambassador on a Southern California campus in a case that has stoked an impassioned public debate about freedom of speech.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/muslim-students-protest-michael-oren_n_952207.html?ir=College
Apparently TASER International is not amused by the bad press the (mis)use of their product causes their brand name.
Taser Axon, An On-Officer Head Camera, Wants To Make Everyone A Little More Liable
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/axon-taser-video-camera-hd-officer-pov-cam_n_945597.html
In the Neighbors Call Police When Man Slaughters Cow In Drive-Way . . . Police Declare It Perfectly Legal post:
… it turns out to be perfectly legal to butcher a cow in your drive way. SB:
… it turns out to be perfectly legal to butcher a cow in your driveway.
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In the Galileo and the GOP: Huntsman Takes Stand For Science post:
Wow. SB:
/With following text, needs to be removed from blockquote.
In the Galliano Found Guilty Of Anti-Semitic Comments post:
It sounded a bit like a McCarthy hearing with a Fellinesque twist. SB:
It sounded a bit like a McCarthy hearing with a Felliniesque twist.
Civil libertarians need to focus on this international trend and educate people was to the threat to free speech in the free world. SB:
Civil libertarians need to focus on this international trend and educate people as to the threat to free speech in the free world.
In the Armed Man Assaults Clerk, Hops Over Counter With Gun, Fires At Man . . . Walgreen Denies Armed Robbery In Progress post:
… even when coming to the aide of customers. SB:
… even when coming to the aid of customers.
… and Walgreens answer to the complaint has an interesting reported twist. SB:
… and Walgreens’ answer to the complaint has an interesting reported twist.
… carrying weapons while they work.that there was an armed robbery in progress. SB:
… carrying weapons while they work and that there was not an armed robbery in progress.
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In the Scientifics Find 2 Million Old A. Sediba; Creationists Find a 6000 Year Old Dead Ape post:
Palaeoanthropologists unsure of how to fit A. sediba into the evolutionary chain … SB:
Palaeoanthropologists are unsure of how to fit A. sediba into the evolutionary chain …
… and may have discovered missing evolutionary link for home erectus.” SB:
… and may have discovered missing evolutionary link for homo erectus.”
To make matters worse, Obama Onyango, who also have a driver’s license, … SB:
To make matters worse, Obama Onyango, who also has a driver’s license, …
In the Reflections On 9/11 post:
… a feeling only magnified later when Obama was shown gloating over how he personally advised the terrorists on the best place to hit the buildings. SB:
… a feeling only magnified later when Osama was shown gloating over how he personally advised the terrorists on the best place to hit the buildings.
Vampire arrested in Florida for trying to eat old guy at Hooters
http://blastr.com/2011/09/vampire-arrested-in-flori.php
“Smith then announced, ‘I’m a vampire, I am going to eat you,’ and apparently got a good start, because she bit off chunks of Ellis’ face and part of his lip before he escaped to a nearby gas station and phoned the police.”
In the Controversy Erupts After Obama Gaffe Goes Missing From PBS Transcript post:
Putting aside the conspiracy theories, PBS (as a new organization) … SB:
Putting aside the conspiracy theories, PBS (as a news organization) …
In the North Carolina Sued For Issuing Pro-Life License Plates While Refusing To Issue Pro-Choice Plates post:
Sponsor Rep. Mitch Gillespie litigation over the bill is “fine” with him … SB:
Sponsor Rep. Mitch Gillespie says litigation over the bill is “fine” with him …
Airport detainee says she was a victim of racial profiling
By Daniel P. Finney, The Des Moines Register
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-14/detroit-airline-detainee-racial-profiling/50400268/1
Shoshana Hebshi was as scared as everybody else aboard Frontier Flight 623 Sunday afternoon.
The plane carried 116 passengers en route to Detroit from Denver. Two F-16 fighter jets escorted the plane to the ground. The plane taxied to a remote area of the airport. Hebshi, 35, an Iowa State University alumna, began to worry. She posted a message to her Twitter account: “Stuck on a plane at Detroit airport —1/8 cops everywhere.”
Thus began a nearly four-hour ordeal that would include being handcuffed, denied access to her cellphone, locked in a cell while still bound, and strip-searched in the Detroit airport police station.
Hebshi detailed her experiences in a Monday blog post titled “Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit.” The post thrust her into the national spotlight and highlighted the tensions between individual liberty and public security in post-9/11 America.
As Hebshi sat on the plane, she rethought her decision to fly on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She had taken a quick trip to San Francisco to celebrate her sister’s birthday. She was on her way home to suburban Toledo, Ohio, when the plane landed.
Police cars surrounded the plane. The flight crew ordered passengers to stay seated but did not say what the problem was. A half hour later, a bomb squad arrived. Two police vans and a police bus parked nearby. A van with stairs edged toward the plane.
Hebshi wondered whether a fugitive was aboard. It turned out they were there for her and the two men seated next to her.
Authorities stood her and the two men up, handcuffed them, took them off the plane and put them into a car. Hebshi turned to one of the men sitting next to her on the plane. She asked whether he knew what was going on and whether he knew the other man taken into custody. He said he didn’t on either count.
Hebshi, though, had a theory: “They’re doing this because of what we look like.”
Hebshi, a U.S. citizen and California native, is the daughter of a Saudi Arabian father and a Jewish mother. The two men were of Indian descent. She later learned someone aboard the plan reported suspicious activity when one of the men used the bathroom while apparently getting airsick.
Hebshi was never formally arrested nor charged with a crime. The FBI later said she and the two men had done nothing wrong.
“I’ve never had anything like this happen in my entire life, not in Iowa or any place that I’ve lived,” Hebshi said Tuesday.
FBI says removal was ‘precautionary’… and the article continues…
Until Death [or Dementia] Do Us Part? Robertson Says It Is OK To Divorce Spouses With Alzheimer’s
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When he was reminded of that vows concerning…
Correction: When he was reminded of THE vows concerning…
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I have always been fascinating by these programs with Muslim or Jewish or Christian figures dispensing advise to the faithful.
Correction: I have always been FASCINATED by these programs with Muslim or Jewish or Christian figures dispensing ADVICE to the faithful.
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The following sentence should have a question mark at the end:
I hate to lawyer the language, but what is the basis for this new interpretation that the term “death” extends beyond the obvious meaning of the end of life and can include constructive death?
In the Florida Woman Found Guilty of Criminal Neglect In Leaving Dog At Store For A Day Despite Absence of Necropsy post:
… Thomas’ health food store for dogs and cats Thomas in St. Petersburg. SB:
… Thomas’ health food store for dogs and cats in St. Petersburg.
She feed the dog on Friday and left her on Saturday to return on Sunday. SB:
She fed the dog on Friday and left her on Saturday to return on Sunday.
On Sunday, however, her landlord came into the shop only to find the dog dead and and a room that looked “ransacked.” SB:
On Sunday, however, her landlord came into the shop only to find the dog dead and a room that looked “ransacked.”
In the Mao’s Little Mandarins: Chinese Communists Lead List of The Super Wealthy post:
On my visits to China, I often ask citizens who they feel about the huge mansions and walled properties of party members. SB:
On my visits to China, I often ask citizens what they feel about the huge mansions and walled properties of party members.
… located where the air is considered better in the heavily polluted city. SB:
… located where the air is considered better than in the heavily polluted city.
The response is always a shrug and a comment that no one is really as communist anymore in China. SB:
The response is always a shrug and a comment that no one is really a communist anymore in China.
… as CCP members profit make on state-run enterprises. SB:
… as CCP members profit on state-run enterprises.
much thanks nal.
Claudia Rendon Fired After Taking Medical Leave To Give Kidney To Son
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/mom-kidney-transplant-firing_n_963176.html
Professor Turley,
I am leaving this comment here, via TOR, because I am not sure how better to contact you or any of the site admins.
Today I’ve had several (many) comments disappear — it looks like they’ve gone into a spam filter.
I might think I was banned, but I’ve also had many more comments go through just fine.
If I’ve been banned, say the word, and I’ll leave.
If it’s a filter problem, could someone change the filter? Or tell me how I’ve triggered it and what I can do to untrigger it?
I normally post as “anon”, but for this comment I’ll post under a different phony name so as not to annoy the filter further.
And if there is a better way to get a hold of site moderators, admins, or you, it might be a reasonable idea to post that.
Thank you,
Robert Paulson
Paul,
If you put more than 2 links….they get moderated…depending on the browser used it could link out and be labeled spam by word press….The professor is good about allowing any and all posts to stand regardless of other peoples thought…Now if they are totally inappropriate then….maybe they are in spam in need to be kept there….
AY, “The professor is good about allowing any and all posts to stand regardless of other peoples thought”, and that has certainly been my impression.
Regardless, several of my comments today had zero links in them, and I believe only one of them had as many as two links.
I wasn’t sure if it was a problem with Opera or not, but I saw one comment never make it, and had a copy of it, so I entered it again, and the blog told me that it was already in the database, just not being displayed.
So I am led to believe something has gone skew on triddle down at the spam filter. Perhaps one on’t cross beams…
They were trapped by the spam filter. Don’t know why. I’ve released them. Try again.
Elaine,
I saw that story and was planning on using it as a follow up for “Speak Not of the Dead” this weekend (unless, of course, our host wants the story).
Thank you Nal!
If there is a better way to communicate problems in the future, I’d be happy to use that instead.
In the White House Warned in 2009 That Solyndra Was Poor Investment post:
A DOE staff on August 20, 2009, obtained noted … SB:
A DOE staff e-mail on August 20, 2009, obtained noted …
In the Baldwin Accuses News Corp of Censoring Joke on Murdoch post:
Baldwin had already recorded to opening segment when he learned that the joke was cut. SB:
Baldwin had already recorded the opening segment when he learned that the joke was cut.
In the Fidler in the Subway: New York Council Member Calls For Censorship of Pro-Palestinian Ads in Subway post:
Fidler is demanding that MTA President Thomas Prendergast put an end to billboards calling for en end to funding for Israel … SB:
Fidler is demanding that MTA President Thomas Prendergast put an end to billboards calling for an end to funding for Israel …
In the Eating Out of House and Home: Republican Opposes New Taxes By Noting That He Needs $200,000 a Year for Food post:
Fleming is the father of four adult children and leaves alone with his wife. SB:
Fleming is the father of four adult children and lives alone with his wife.
/Math is wrong.
In the Supergrass: Courts Find Police Informer Not Only Had 51 Convictions But Is A “Pathological Liar” post:
Called a “pathological liar” by two courts, the Metropolitan Police still used Eaton to the trial of various people of murder. SB:
Called a “pathological liar” by two courts, the Metropolitan Police still used Eaton in the trial of various people of murder.
… and all to familiar to people working in the criminal justice system … SB:
… and all too familiar to people working in the criminal justice system …
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In the Seventh Circuit Slams Attorney For 345-Word Sentence and “Gibberish” — Demands Show Cause On Possible Disbarment post:
Maksym represented an outdoor concert promoter charged the county sheriff with coercing him into hiring his deputies for security. SB:
Maksym represented an outdoor concert promoter who charged the county sheriff with coercing him into hiring his deputies for security.
eating out of house and home:
“That is a lot of food. Breaking down $200,000, Fleming could spend $6666 a day. That would allow $2222 for breakfast, $2222 for lunch, and $2222 for dinner”
should read:
That is a lot of food. Breaking down $200,000, Fleming could spend $547.95 a day. That would allow $182.65 for breakfast, $182.65 for lunch, and $182.65 for dinner.
Thanks Rocco.
JT,
Have you ever had the pleasure of reading BRADSHAW v. UNITY MARINE CORPORATION, INC.? A district court case out of Texas circa 2001.
Here’s a sample of its delicious sarcasm:
“Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact–complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words–to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats ….”
Full opinion available here:
http://sls.sa.utoronto.ca/files/Bradshaw.pdf
Hysterical.
Bob,
Now that was funny….But did not Sam Kent get some other notoriety….
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Disgraced-judge-Kent-wants-to-keep-salary-to-very-1661972.php
AY,
Thanks; had no idea.
In the Not So Noble Savage: Columnist Creates “Google Problem” for Santorum With Campaign To Link Name To Graphic Sexual Term post:
One shows like The Daily Show, people have chuckled … SB:
On shows like The Daily Show, people have chuckled …
In the Space Torts: NASA Puts Risk of Being Hit By Falling Satellite At 1 in 3200 post:
NASA still is unsure where a giant six-ton six-ton satellite will hit this week, … SB:
NASA still is unsure where a giant six-ton satellite will hit this week, …
From a personal injury perspective, the satellite is a orbit-chasing lawyers dream. SB:
From a personal injury perspective, the satellite is a orbit-chasing lawyer’s dream.
With more space needed, U.S. planning major expansion at detainee facility in Afghanistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/with-more-space-needed-us-planning-major-expansion-at-detainee-facility-in-afghanistan/2011/09/21/gIQAGD6LlK_blog.html
In the Texas Judge Rules Gay Father Cannot Leave Children With His Husband post:
Harris County judge Charley Prine, a Republican judge in Texas, is under fire for a clearly homophobic order barring ta gay father from leaving his children alone with his husband. SB:
Harris County judge Charley Prine, a Republican judge in Texas, is under fire for a clearly homophobic order barring a gay father from leaving his children alone with his husband.
In the Student Disciplined For Telling Friend In Class That He Views Homosexuality As Wrong post:
I would prefer to guide a civil discourse than punished such expressions. SB:
I would prefer to guide a civil discourse than punish such expressions.
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In the Judges Behaving Badly (3): Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs Attacks Civil Libertarians and Lawyers Before Second Circuit post:
The circuit sitting en banc split 6-6 Wednesday on whether to grant en banc review on a challenge a federal wiretap law. SB:
The circuit sitting en banc split 6-6 Wednesday on whether to grant en banc review on a challenge to a federal wiretap law.
Hi, my name is Meredith. On September 18th, 2011, you posted a video from Youtube called Banned Books Week. That is my video, and I am very flattered you used it, but I would appreciate it if you gave credit to my blog- http://mintteaandagoodbook.blogspot.com/ . Thanks so much!
-Meredith
In the Saudi Women Given The Right To Vote post:
Accordingly, we should also not hesitate to praise the country when it move toward giving greater freedoms … SB:
Accordingly, we should also not hesitate to praise the country when it moves toward giving greater freedoms …
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In the Arkansas Judge Barred From Using Her Court For Show . . . Then Resigns And Rents Courtroom For New Reality Court Show post:
They know appear to regret that act and are denouncing her decision to start of the new show. SB:
They now appear to regret that act and are denouncing her decision to start the new show.
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In the Alabama Courts Give The Convicted The Choice Between Jail and Church post:
Justice Scalia in McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union, 545 U.S. 844 (2005), … SB:
/Needs close italics.
Professor,
Seems that you’re missing the close italics tag in the “Alabama Courts Give The Convicted The Choice Between Jail and Church” post.
Thanks Nal and bgk!
JT,
This isn’t a correction, but needed to be brought to your attention.
“http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/25/second-amendment-boogey-man/#comment-271156″
I should specify, I was drawing your attention to this part in particular,
“You’re a liar, Libtard Mikey. Your gravatar image was cropped from a picture taken at an affair that you attended with Maxine. She was wearing a nice black dress. Look around in your “My Pictures” folder. You should use the picture of you and your grandson down by the canal. That’s a good picture. It shows the real you.”
Even if we assume that it’s a bluff, I feel you it still deserves your attention.
UR BdBy
“This same court has tried a Kuwaiti Shiite blogger Nasser Abul, 26, for allegedly using his Twitter account to insult the rulers of Kuwait’s Gulf partners Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.”
Awkward construction.
“This same court has tried a Kuwaiti Shiite blogger Nasser Abul, 26, for allegedly using his Twitter account to insult the rulers of Kuwait and Kuwait’s Gulf partners Saudi Arabia.”
Yo Proff…
Did you see the bears on Sunday….
http://aol.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2011-09-25/bears-incredible-return-goes-for-naught?ncid=webmail8
Now if they could play like this all the way through the game day….
In the De Jesus Loves You: Hit Man Stages Killing After Falling In Love With Target post:
Simoes was shocked to when she later saw the hired assassin kissing the dead woman. SB:
Simoes was shocked when she later saw the hired assassin kissing the dead woman.
Slartibartfast said
“I should clear up an error in Mike Spindell’s comment above – he said that I gave him NL’s IP and email addresses this morning, that is incorrect. I was copied on an email in which one of the guest bloggers gave Mike that information”
http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/25/second-amendment-boogey-man/#comment-271784
What will be your corrective action, JT? You lost FFLEO over you cavalier attitude regarding commenter information.
Principals immune from damages in candy cane suit
DALLAS (AP) — A federal appeals court says two Dallas-area elementary school principals are immune from liability for stopping students from handing out Christian candy cane pens and other on-campus religious expressions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
By a 10-6 vote, the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans agreed that Plano school principals Lynn Swanson and Jackie Bomchill had qualified immunity from being assessed damages for their actions.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Principals-immune-from-damages-in-candy-cane-suit-2191909.php
Professor Turley,
For the past day or so there has been a spirited discussion about the data mining experiment I (Slartibartfast) and others performed last spring on your site that has hijacked the discussion on rafflaw’s 2nd amendment thread. While I firmly believe I did nothing unethical, I do think that there are some important privacy issues being raised (if only to make your readers aware of what is possible to do in regards online data mining) and that the topic is worthy of it’s own thread (as is the original topic of the raff’s now-hijacked thread). Maybe you or one of your guest bloggers could cover this issue in its own post.
Thank you,
Kevin Kesseler
Kevin,
I agree on the privacy thread, but I know that I won’t touch it!
I don’t believe any of the guest bloggers should touch it.
I think this is an issue that Professor Turley would have to address.
There is an underlying privacy leak here enabled by the Gravatar system in which various aspects of anonymity (including potentially complete loss) is forfeit to any third party scraper. There are various fixes for this, including I believe,
1. modifying the template and removing Gravatars
2. publicizing the problem and jawboning WordPress/Gravatar into fixing it
3. loudly warning on the blog that this problem exists and how it can be worked around (type unique email addresses into the email field each and every time.)
There is also a user here, Kevin Kesseler, who used this exploit to scrape and identify the “alts” of various commenters and who has a database of these alts and code to scrape it.
Professor Turley can decide how to handle Kevin.
My suggestion would be for Professor Turley to direct Kesseler to delete the database and request he delete the code as well. But to definitely inform Kesseler he had no permission, and no authority to do what he did and does not have any permission to do so in the future.
I suggest as full disclosure that Professor Turley should put up a post describing the scraping, what has been disclosed, and who has received the information.
My suggestions only, I know Professor Turley can figure out how to handle it.
Professor Turley, if you do not wish to wade through the thread, I do include in the thread a wordpress bug report and other reports and discussions of the specific privacy leak.
http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/25/second-amendment-boogey-man/#comment-272020
The post at 4:58 am is also informative.
Another good summary of the privacy risks of gravatar:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21117/is-using-gravatar-a-security-risk
Is using Gravatar a security risk?
Gravatar’s MD5 hash is an unsalted MD5 hash of an email address.
A 3rd party could harvest every MD5 hash for every user’s email on Stack Overflow.
The 3rd party could store all the hashes in a lookup table
Email addresses are usually of a very particular format
The attacker could start with a brute force of at gmail.com followed by at yahoo.com, etc.
The attacker has the advantage that he/she could attack a huge set of emails in one go. So instead of needing to brute force every email individually the attacker can brute force in bulk.
The algorithm is quite simple, calculate a “random” MD5, look it up in the lookup table.
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Yes, I’ve thought about this as well, but there’s another aspect you haven’t addressed: privacy. With any site that uses Gravatar you can identify a user on one site as being the same as the user on another.
I will, of course, comply with any and all of Professor Turley’s wishes regarding my conduct or behavior with regard to posting on this blog, but my code and my database are my work product done on my own time while unemployed (i.e. completely at my own expense). If you, Professor Turley, or anyone else wants me to destroy them or in any way cede my control over them or rights to usage, then they can pay me for my time. My price is $50,000 (a reasonable fee for something that took six months of my time to create). If you don’t want to pay this, then you have no right to ask me to destroy property and data that I collected in a completely legal manner.
Sigh.
Professor Turley, as you consider what happened at your blog, and what steps you feel you should take, note that Kevin above at 6:11, and here too http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/25/second-amendment-boogey-man/#comment-272439 states his belief that the database of scraped commenters and their alts is both somehow valuable AND that he intends to somehow profit off of that database.
you are supporting anon who wishes to violate my economic freedom by depriving me of my own work product…
If you talk to Kevin, and decide to write a post discussing what has happened, you may wish to ask him what his motives are, since he says he has some but will not discuss them, what he intends to do with the data and how he intends to profit from it.
Other issues to consider:
Has Kevin broken anyone’s terms of service?
Who owns the data Kevin has scraped?
Can Kevin’s data be used to effectuate identity theft?
Will Kevin honor requests from individuals listed in his database to be removed from his database?
public \ˈpə-blik\, adj.,
1a : exposed to general view : open
Hasn’t one thread already been totally destroyed with this debate? You have to thread-jack the “corrections” page too? This is redundant to what has been posted elsewhere.
There is a piece of garden variety spam on the Does Al Qaeda Have A Case For Defamation Against Ahmadinejad? thread you may want to look at:
http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/28/does-al-qaeda-have-a-case-for-defamation-against-ahmadinejad/#comment-272461
In the Georgia Woman Reportedly Detained For Taking Photo Of Ground Zero post:
Now in New York city we have another alleged case … SB:
Now in New York City we have another alleged case …
She says the DeSimone became increasing loud and aggressive, … SB:
She says then DeSimone became increasing loud and aggressive, …
Need a link to the Video on the Bear Assault…
In Bear Necessities:
I wonder if Bears even kill their ex-girlfriends by posing as humans. SB
I wonder if Bears ever kill their ex-girlfriends by posing as humans.
In the Texas Sheriff Sends Transgender Porn To Political Opponent By Mistake post:
Now here is the ticker . . . SB:
Now here is the kicker . . .
In the “For God So Love The World, He Gave You Bargains, Bargains, Bargains”: Texas Mechanic Offers Cheap Oil Changes For Christian Recitals post:
Well, it is is ONLY from people to call or email (rather than drive to his store) it must be just fringe elements. SB:
Well, if it is ONLY from people to call or email (rather than drive to his store) it must be just fringe elements.
In the Federal Judge Criticizes Lack of Response of California Police Department To Allegations of Sexual Abuse By Officer post:
Notably, he not only routinely failed call for a female officer for pat-down, … SB:
Notably, he not only routinely failed to call for a female officer for pat-down, …
In the Amanda Knox Conviction Overturned post:
An appeals jury in Italy this afternoon overturned the conviction convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito … SB:
An appeals jury in Italy this afternoon overturned the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito …
What was interesting, however, was the fact that sander convictions against Knox and Sollecito were upheld. SB:
What was interesting, however, was the fact that slander convictions against Knox and Sollecito were upheld.
What is clear after this case is that the police investigators are virtually libel proof in light of their numerous and mind boggling mistakes. SB:
What is clear after this case is that the police investigators are virtually libel in light of their numerous and mind boggling mistakes.
Gonzales Hires To Teach At Unaccredited Belmont Law School in Tennessee
Correction: Gonzales HIRED To Teach At Unaccredited Belmont Law School in Tennessee
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However, it is disgraceful start of any institution committed…
However, it is A disgraceful start of any institution committed…
In the MIT Researchers Invent Artificial Leaf post:
The artificial leaf is a a silicon solar cell with different catalytic materials … SB:
The artificial leaf is a silicon solar cell with different catalytic materials …
In the Topeka District Attorney refuses to prosecute item, second paragraph:
…drawing the line at first-degree member and send those second-degree cases to mediation. SB:
…drawing the line at first-degree murder and send those second-degree cases to mediation.
In the New Images of Asteroid Vesta,
…not only dwarfs Mr. Everest by almost ties the shield volcano Olympus Mons..SB
…not only dwarfs Mt. Everest but almost ties the shield volcano Olympus Mons…
Thanks Otteray Scribe!
In the Justice Department Appeals Alabama Immigration Ruling post:
The Obama Administration has now involving in extensive litigation against the states. SB:
The Obama Administration is now involved in extensive litigation against the states.
I am not sure of the soundness of that political judgment, but it is more motivated by political and legal necessity. SB:
I am not sure of the soundness of that political judgment, but it is more motivated by political than legal necessity.
… to apply for a license plate, driver’s license, business license or other business license. SB:
… to apply for a license plate, driver’s license, or other business license.
The Court applied an intermediate scrutiny standard that required the state to show that the law further a substantial state goal. SB:
The Court applied an intermediate scrutiny standard that required the state to show that the law furthered a substantial state goal.
In the Farewell and Well Done post:
I was very saddened to very of the loss of Steve Jobs, … SB:
I was very saddened to hear of the loss of Steve Jobs, …
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In the Putin’ On A Show: Russian Aide Admits Putin Discovery of Ancient Urns Was Staged post:
In a previous, I expressed profound doubt over the latest installment … SB:
In a previous post, I expressed profound doubt over the latest installment …
If you recall, after his being featured a race car driver, great white hunter, … SB:
If you recall, after his being featured as a race car driver, great white hunter, …
Now, after ridicule outside of Russian, an aide admitted it was staged. SB:
Now, after ridicule outside of Russia, an aide admitted it was staged.
The idea that these urns could be found just seven feet under the water near the shore laying on the surface was absurd. SB:
The idea that these urns could be found just seven feet under the water near the shore lying on the surface was absurd.
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In the Surprise! Nancy Grace Proclaims Knox Guilty and Denounces Acquittal as “Miscarriage of Justice” post:
… despite the few of many (including myself) that the case was riddled by mistakes, … SB:
… despite the few of many (including myself) that think the case was riddled by mistakes, …
Yet, justice appears synonymous with retribution in his lexicon. SB:
Yet, justice appears synonymous with retribution in her lexicon.
Secret panel can put Americans on “kill list’
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005
In the Death Panel: Obama Delegates Hit List To Panel of Unnamed Officials post:
… the Obama Administration h”portraying the killing of Awlaki as a demonstration of President Barack Obama’s toughness toward militants who threaten the United States.” SB:
… the Obama Administration is ”portraying the killing of Awlaki as a demonstration of President Barack Obama’s toughness toward militants who threaten the United States.”
In the Ten Years in Afghanistan: America’s Marks A Milestone With a Shrug and a Shutter post:
We have now been in Afghanistan longer than any prior war from the Revolutionary War to World II to Vietnam. SB:
We have now been in Afghanistan longer than any prior war from the Revolutionary War to World War II to Vietnam.
From the outset, our objectives were dangerous ill-defined. SB:
From the outset, our objectives were dangerously ill-defined.
… grotesque corruption (here and and hardens its religious-based laws against women and minorities. SB:
… grotesque corruption (here) and hardens its religious-based laws against women and minorities.
“Cruel and Unusal Punishment? Woman Sues Over Arrest and Being Forced To Listen To Rush Limbaugh”
should be “Cruel and Unusual Punishment? Woman Sues Over Arrest and Being Forced To Listen To Rush Limbaugh” and
“By an measure” should be
“By any measure”
In the Cruel and Unusual Punishment? Woman Sues Over Arrest and Being Forced To Listen To Rush Limbaugh post:
Beside Rush’s programs are designed to produce greater rigidity in its victims. SB:
Besides, Rush’s programs are designed to produce greater rigidity in its victims.
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In the U.S. Airlines Lose Effort To Avoid Paying European Pollution Tax post:
United Continental and American Airlines have led the fight to avoid paying their costs of pollution. SB:
United, Continental and American Airlines have led the fight to avoid paying their costs of pollution.
Bettandorf SB Bettendorf… in the Survivor story
Company that owns Zuccotti “Protester” Park Just got 168 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama DOE!!!!…Thick as Thieves!!!!
So Mayor Bloomberg says there’s nothing really he can do until BPO decides the protesters ought to be evicted and they were nice enough to issue this public statement saying they weren’t going to do that….awww…see how nice?…Well I would guess that if Mr Liberal Mike Bloomberg felt like asking them he probably could….
BECAUSE HIS LONG TIME LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND IS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!!!..
Yes that’s correct…NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s long time lady Diana L. Taylor is on the board of directors for Brookfeild Properties…
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1666560/pg1
In the Fordham and the 2011 Quaranta Award post:
I was particularly touched when Mary gave me a doll made the older prisoners as a gift in their shop. SB:
I was particularly touched when Mary gave me a doll made by the older prisoners as a gift in their shop.
Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta remains an inspiration to every in the field of social work. SB:
Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta remains an inspiration to everyone in the field of social work.
In the Obama Administration Awards $120 Million To Promote Marriage post:
Of course, this same Administration that continues to burn hundreds of millions in Iraq and Afghanistan as we shutdown core programs for lack of funding. SB:
Of course, this same Administration continues to burn hundreds of millions in Iraq and Afghanistan as we shutdown core programs for lack of funding.
What is clear is that (to paraphrase Animal Farm) will all programs may be equal, some are more equal than others when it comes to budget cuts. SB:
What is clear is that (to paraphrase Animal Farm) while all programs may be equal, some are more equal than others when it comes to budget cuts.
In “Obama Administration Awards $120 Million To Promote Marriage”
The link to the source is missing…
As the grandson of an Ohio coal miner, I share the view of this posting by the law firm.
Are you implying a community of thought with the law firm’s sentiments (which seems unlikley), or mean to say:
As the grandson of an Ohio coal miner, I share the view of Professor Huber about this posting by the law firm. Or maybe I’m being obtuse?
In the Iran Responds to Film on Repression of Artists By Ordering The Flogging and Jailing of Actress post:
The Iranian courts have responded to a film detailing the repression of artists in Iran by ordering the flogging and prison of an actress, Marzieh Vafamehr. SB:
The Iranian courts have responded to a film detailing the repression of artists in Iran by ordering the flogging and imprisonment of an actress, Marzieh Vafamehr.
In the Chicago Lawyer Faces Suspension Over Calling Other Attorney “Gay Scum” and “Child Molester” post:
In one cited incident, he told a client not to hire an attorney because the man had a “sexual torture chamber in his basement.” SB:
In one cited incident, he told a client not to hire him as an attorney because the man had a “sexual torture chamber in his basement.”
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In the City Lights Repossessed For Failure To Pay Utility Bills post:
Streets were left in almost complete darkness, which led some owners to say that there promptly burglarized. SB:
Streets were left in almost complete darkness, which led some owners to say that they were promptly burglarized.
In the PM Cameron Blocks Inquiry Into Killing of Irish Lawyer Pat Finucane post:
Finucane was gunned down in front of his wife and three children in a savage murder in in Belfast in 1989. SB:
Finucane was gunned down in front of his wife and three children in a savage murder in Belfast in 1989.
Instead, Cameron said he would ask a a lawyer to look into the matter. SB:
Instead, Cameron said he would ask a lawyer to look into the matter.
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In the School Horrors: Teacher in France Lights Herself On Fire on Playground While A Teacher in Illinois Hangs Herself in Her Classroom post:
Walker had been a teacher for 17 years, and hanged herself the same day funeral services for Lynn Byrnes. SB:
Walker had been a teacher for 17 years, and hanged herself the same day as funeral services for Lynn Byrnes.
For that reason, there is a collective shudder from educators to read about not one but two such stores in the same week. SB:
For that reason, there is a collective shudder from educators to read about not one but two such stories in the same week.
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In the The Politics of Pain: Florida Legislator Seeks To Bring Back Electric Chairs and Firing Squads For Executions post:
He said the idea came to him as a Waffle House in talking to a constituent. SB:
He said the idea came to him at a Waffle House in talking to a constituent.
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IN the The Politics of Pain: Florida Legislator Seeks To Bring Back Electric Chairs and Firing Squads For Executions post:
What is left is promise of gratuitous pain to satisfy some deep need. SB:
What is left is the promise of gratuitous pain to satisfy some deep need.
Obama Spoke About “Fast & Furious” Before Holder Claimed He Knew
CNN’s John King plays Holder’s testimony to Congress on MAY 3, 2011, where he said he had only just recently heard about the Fast & Furious gunrunning program.
Then CNN compares Holder’s testimony to what President Obama said in MARCH to CNN Espanol about the operation.
It begs the question, how did the president know about this in March, and how did the president know the attorney general knew nothing about this in march, when the attorney general says in May he just learned about it a couple weeks ago?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/13/obama_spoke_about_fast__furious_before_holder_claimed_he_knew.html
nal,
Is there something in the setting that will not let one subscribe to a thread….I could subscribe to the first but not the second of your posting….Thank you…
AY,
Can’t see any problem in the Settings. Might be a WordPress problem.
Thank you for looking….It is not all the time…just occasionally…
some strangeness happening in the recent posts column…(listed in column but not on topic site).
California Medical Association Calls For Legalization Marijuana SB:
California Medical Association Calls For Legalization Of Marijuana
… (representing ore than 35,000 physicians statewide) … SB:
… (representing more than 35,000 physicians statewide) …
The policy is the result of growing frustration in doctors being asked to proscribe a drug … SB:
The policy is the result of growing frustration in doctors being asked to prescribe a drug …
In the Lagy Gaga Crushes Lady Goo Goo post:
Source:
/ No source.
In the Was Van Gogh Murdered? post:
a new book is making a shocking claim that Vincent van Gogh might did not commit suicide in 1898 … SB:
A new book is making a shocking claim that Vincent van Gogh did not commit suicide in 1898 …
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In the Did The HMS Edinburgh Just Try To Murder The First Lady? post:
Well that would be true if our Secret Service was trained to thing as opposed to react. SB:
Well that would be true if our Secret Service was trained to think as opposed to react.
In the Van Gogh post:
His acting without a note seems perfectly inconsistent.
SB: …consistent
Nevertheless, I do find it strange is his walking a mile to the town.
Awkward sentence. Perhaps this: “I find his walking a mile to the town to be strange.”
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In the HMS Edinburgh story:
turning away the missiles from
Awkward sentence, suggest: “….turning the missiles away from…..”
Well that would be true if our Secret Service was trained to thing as opposed to react.
SB: …think…
feared it was full of bitter Jacobite
SB plural: Jacobites
In reference to this comment posted on Sunday at 10:37pm: “Judy Giglio has worked for Shallow Draft, owned by Paul Molinary. Now actively endorsing Dave Peralta for Parish President, also a realtor and has reasons for the connected to win.”
As the owner of Shallow Draft I am asking you to remove this post, since I have NEVER employed, or nor do I know who Judy Giglio or Paul Molinary is. Here at Shallow Draft we are not looking to take sides or use our company name in any advertising for any campaign.
Also, we don NOT have any relation to the person who gave you this information. I do not want to give my resourse.
Thank You & Please remove this post.
Angelina Geraci
Owner of Shallow Draft
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In the Gingrich: You Cannot Trust Politicians Who Do Not Pray post:
In the debate (look around the 72 minute marker), Gingrich said religious was a … SB:
In the debate (look around the 72 minute marker), Gingrich said religion was a …
Religious and political leaders around the world and also opened up attacks on secularists as a growing evil. SB:
Religious and political leaders around the world also opened up attacks on secularists as a growing evil.
In the Church Under Fire After Three People Die After Being Allegedly Told To Stop AIDS Drugs In Favor Of Prayer post:
The results, critics say, has been not the promised “miracle” but three deaths. SB:
The result, critics say, has been not the promised “miracle” but three deaths.
… the rule is quite sweeping and reads like a constitutional privilege or immunity. SB:
… the rule is quite sweeping and reads like a constitutional privilege of immunity.
In the Happy Birthday LkCa 15 B post:
A Buss Light Year nightlight? SB:
A Buzz Light Year nightlight?
… a University of Hawaii astronomer used the twin 10-metre Keck telescopes … SB:
… a University of Hawaii astronomer who used the twin 10-metre Keck telescopes …
LkCa 15 b is still forming planet into what will become a Jupiter-like gas giant. SB:
LkCa 15 b is still forming into what will become a Jupiter-like gas giant.
Scientists, by cancelling out light from the star, were able to be dust and material felling into the planet as it is building itself into a planet. SB:
Scientists, by cancelling out light from the star, were able to see dust and material falling into the planet as it is building itself into a planet.
This used a technique called :Interferometry” … SB:
This used a technique called “Interferometry” …
In the Susptected French “Terrorists” Break Into Texas Court, Wear Sombreros, and Play With Gavel post:
That is apparently the concern of local police after arrested French teenagers … SB:
That is apparently the concern of local police after arresting French teenagers …
This Cassoulet of Crime is composed of French Moroccan who arrived in the ultimate Texas trojan horse … SB:
This Cassoulet of Crime is composed of French Moroccans who arrived in the ultimate Texas trojan horse …
Here is the cell members in case you see a suspicious RV in your neighbors driven by Sombrero wearing, baguette eating Frenchmen: SB:
Here are the cell members in case you see a suspicious RV in your neighborhood driven by Sombrero wearing, baguette eating Frenchmen:
In the Does D.C. United’s Charlie Davis Have A Valid Dram Shop Claim? post:
This could prove an important case in the developed of the case law in D.C. on dram shop liability … SB:
This could prove an important case in the development of the case law in D.C. on dram shop liability …
JUSTIA.COM SURGICALLY REMOVED “MINOR v HAPPERSETT” FROM 25 SUPREME COURT OPINIONS IN RUN UP TO ’08 ELECTION.
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/
Brifing again Bdaman? How sad.
Here’s a link to the Fogbow discussion on Leo Donofrio’s article (there is a direct link to the article at the link):
http://www.thefogbow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=5476&p=300047#p300047
It seems that a free (and not particularly well regarded) legal service made a mistake and then fixed it.
Dianna Cotter, who has published articles for Accuracy In Media and Examiner.com, has documented everything, and she has worked closely with me in the days leading up to this report. She will publish a follow-up later today at Examiner.com.
Furthermore, whoever was responsible for placing the robots on Boyd and Pope at Justia should know that Dianna Cotter and I have forwarded and discussed the information published below with writers at The Washington Times, Accuracy In Media, Free Republic and many other publications.
I have also forwarded evidence of the tampering (screenshots, Wayback Machine URLs and downloaded HTML for each Wayback snapshot) to Cindy Simpson (who published an article yesterday at American Thinker which discusses Minor v. Happersett). I have also shared the evidence with attorney Mario Apuzzo who is writing an analysis of Justia’s sabotage of Wong Kim Ark, a case which was subjected to multiple instances of tampering by Justia. (I will update my report with links to the reports of Dianna Cotter and Mario Apuzzo when they are published later today.)
JustiaGate
http://www.examiner.com/civil-rights-in-portland/justiagate
Slarti it appears that you are correct. It’s standard operating procedure for this administration.
Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found.
The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program — the same program that has been the center of controversy surrounding the failed solar company Solyndra.
Both were changed to remove the name of a company that has received negative press attention in recent days, SunPower, and replace it with the name of another company, NRG Energy
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44963294
and in case you missed this one Slarti
Ex-Indiana governor: That’s not my signature on Obama petition
Former Gov. Joe Kernan says a signature on a petition to place Barack Obama’s name on Indiana’s 2008 primary ballot isn’t his, putting him among dozens of dubious signatures found in a newspaper’s investigation.
Kernan, a Democrat who campaigned for Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary, told the South Bend Tribune that he didn’t sign the Obama document.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-exindiana-governor-thats-not-my-signature-on-obama-petition-20111012,0,1203433.story
In the Amity-ville Horror: Is Halloween A Cry For Help? post:
… and ask people to think about how Halloween is fills the vacuum left from the absence of faith. SB:
… and ask people to think about how Halloween fills the vacuum left from the absence of faith.
Skeletons hand from the trees, a cemetery graces the lawn, … SB:
Skeletons hang from the trees, a cemetery graces the lawn, …
In the Karzai: We Are Prepared To Fight America To Defend Pakistan post:
We have allowed our states and cities to shutdown basic services and programs while spending hundreds of billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan. SB:
We have allowed our states and cities to shutdown basic services and programs while spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Afghanistan.
Our “blue state/red state” fixation that become the bread and circus distraction of modern politics. SB:
Our “blue state/red state” fixation has become the bread and circus distraction of modern politics.
In the Love Is Never Saying I’m Empty: Perry Publicly Admits To Love Affair post:
You want action” Try the breech-locking and firing mechanism of a Beretta with an articulated front trigger. SB:
You want “action” try the breech-locking and firing mechanism of a Beretta with an articulated front trigger.
He is not alone, it appears, with even liberals like Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan revealing a love for hunting this week. SB:
/Repeated sentence.
That is when Perry and others are forced to admit, you had me a curio. SB:
That is when Perry and others are forced to admit, you had me at curio.
Not a correction but maybe an interesting article for the future:
Officials use ruse at high school to clear halls for drug search
By Mark Frauenfelder at 1:30 pm Monday, Oct 24
[Video Link] Police and school administrators Wolcott High School in Connecticut tricked students and teachers into believing a dangerous intruder had come into the school building and ordered a lockdown. It was a ruse for a drug sweep of the lockers.
Link via BoingBoing:
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/rick-green/hc-green-drugsearch–1022-20111022,0,4150328.column
In the CSI – Minneapolis: Who Did The Ferret? post:
The whodunit will turns on the whether the victim has water in the lungs … SB:
The whodunit will turn on the whether the victim has water in the lungs …
This would satisfy the standard if there ferret did not commit suicide. SB:
This would satisfy the standard if the ferret did not commit suicide.
In the Oregon Man Shoots At “Bear” and Kills Marine on a Hike post:
For a prior column, click .SB:
/No link.
In the 1980s, there Karen Ann Wood, 37, was outside in her backyard shot in her own backyard when she was shot by Donald Rogerson, a deer hunter. SB:
In the 1980s, Karen Ann Wood, 37, was outside in her own backyard when she was shot by Donald Rogerson, a deer hunter.
Thanks Nal!!!
In the California Man Spends Nine Hours Trapped in Swing post:
… where a man watched another man drowned without taking any efforts to assist him. SB:
… where a man watched another man drown without taking any efforts to assist him.
In the Rock Relics: John Lennon’s Tooth Up For Sale At $16,000 post:
It is also an interesting distinction where people are allowed to sale certain body parts like teeth, … SB:
It is also an interesting distinction where people are allowed to sell certain body parts like teeth, …
In the Pro-Life or Pro-Libel: Former Dem Congressman Sues Susan B. Anthony List For “Loss of Livelihood” After Defeat post:
The group maintained that a vote for the law was a pro-choose vote … SB:
The group maintained that a vote for the law was a pro-choice vote …
Driehaus insists that the campaign against amount to lies … SB:
Driehaus insists that the campaign against him amounted to lies …
In New York Times v. Sullivan,” the Court emphasized … SB:
/Needs close italics tag.
/Needs the “more” page separation.
To legitimize what they’re already doing…
Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal
by Jennifer LaFleur
ProPublica, Oct. 24, 2011
http://www.propublica.org/article/government-could-hide-existence-of-records-under-foia-rule-proposal
The “coding error” theory was first alleged as an innocent answer to JustiaGate by Alec Rawls at his “Error Theory” blog. He noted that the first snapshots of the Justia cases citing Minor v. Happersett contained non-clickable text. Alec then alleged that when Justia modernized their cite by adding hyperlinks to the cases, innocent coding errors caused the cases to contain mistakes.
UPDATE
Alec has updated his report with a full retraction, stating:
“Justia has been deleting politically inconvenient facts from its online Supreme Court record, which as Leo points out is actually a criminal offense: misrepresenting state documents.”
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/justiagate-ceo-tim-stanley-claims-innocense-after-blocking-access-to-wayback-machine-snapshots-of-all-supreme-court-cases-published-by-justia/
Bdaman,
Could you please refrain from appending “-gate” to every molehill you run across? Thank you.
Justia claims that the error was due to a faulty regex* in which the string “/s/” was mistakenly replaced by “*” which cased text to be excised instead of just spaces. Their explanation is perfectly consistent with what happened. If Leo was actually interested in proving his allegation, he would check out how all of the other cases allegedly subject to this bug appeared before claiming that there was a conspiracy to hide the reference to a case which is completely irrelevant to presidential eligibility (except in Leo’s mind).
* regex or “regular expressions” are lines of code used to parse and manipulate text strings. Having written thousands of lines of regex myself I find Justia’s explanation so completely prosaic and mundane that it must be a conspiracy…
If I where them thats how I would try to explain it away also. Why put the robots in. Did they explain that one?
Just posting the news….
Half-naked drunk leads police on high-speed pursuit
BAINBRIDGE, OH (WOIO) -
Police in Bainbridge say a half-naked drunk woman led them on high-speed chase.
The police pursuit happened on October 11th.
The chief tells 19 Action News they tried to stop Erin Holdsworth, 28, for speeding, as she was traveling over 100 miles an hour.
Geauga County deputies were called to assist. The police put down stop sticks, which punctured her tires.
Police say Holdsworth was only wearing a G-string, fishnet stockings and stiletto heels.
She was also apparently extremely combative and when she was in the back of the squad car, she kicked out the back window.
Charges are pending.
http://www.19actionnews.com/story/15880220/half-naked-woman-leads-police-on-high-speed-pursuit
In the McBan: McDonald’s Bans Arizona Professor From All Restaurants After She Claims To Find Pathogens in Play Areas post:
The mother of four and college professor a doctorate in developmental psychology, … SB:
The mother of four and college professor with a doctorate in developmental psychology, …
She insists that her ban followed her alleged finding antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, kin the restaurant’s PlayPlace. SB:
She insists that her ban followed her alleged finding antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in the restaurant’s PlayPlace.
She said that the finding of MRSA was so dangerous that felt she had to notify people. SB:
She said that the finding of MRSA was so dangerous that she felt she had to notify people.
What is most interesting is that she claims that health officials insist that play areas all outside of local food-handling and restaurant cleanliness rules … SB:
What is most interesting is that she claims that health officials insist that play areas are outside of local food-handling and restaurant cleanliness rules ,,,
Nal. Much thanks!!!
(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in the House Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that there was “no record” that the Justice Department had given the State Department a “head up” about Operation Fast and Furious, in which guns were allowed to flow from the United States to drug traffickers in Mexico, and that the State Department had found “no evidence” that DOJ had applied for a license or waiver to send guns to a foreign country, which a member of the committee told her would have been required under U.S. law.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/hillary-clinton-no-evidence-doj-sought-required-license-send-guns-mexico-fast-and
The number of members of Congress calling for Holder to end his career in government because of Fast and Furious is now eight, a number which has doubled in one day.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/28/holders-days-as-attorney-general-may-be-numbered-as-resignation-calls-double-overnight/#ixzz1c62Roqt1
Very Damning, what say you professor
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/look-who-cited-to-justia-for-supreme-court-holding/
In the Meet Laura Chavez: A Monopoly Player In Need Of A “Get Out Of Jail Free” Card post:
Chavez’s 48-year-old boyfriend was playing not only with her but their couple’s 10-year-old grandson. SB:
Chavez’s 48-year-old boyfriend was playing not only with her but with her 10-year-old grandson.
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In the Miami Police Officer Arrested After Speeding To Work At 120 MPH post:
According, running late this month for his security job, … SB:
Accordingly, running late this month for his security job, …
OFFICIAL US SUPREME COURT RESPONSES TO JUSTIAGATE.
I initially received a candid and pointed response concerning the alleged subversive activity by Justia from a staffer at the US Supreme Court’s Public Information Office. But, at this time, Patricia McCabe Estrada, Deputy Public Information Officer, has asked me not to print the original response, requesting that I print “no comment” instead. Out of respect for the Court, I have refrained from publishing the initial comment. I have faith the US Supreme Court will request that Justia bring the hidden information documenting the full extent of the mangled cases to the attention of the public so those who erroneously relied upon Justia’s corrupted versions of US Supreme Court rulings may know the truth of the law.
If the US Supreme Court does nothing more to address this scandal, I will publish the initial comment along with all of my correspondence between myself and the Deputy Public Information Officer since that correspondence acknowledges the prior comment, and bears witness to our email discussions concerning it.
Leo Donofrio, Esq.
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/justiagate-ceo-tim-stanley-admits-publishing-mangled-supreme-court-opinions-the-oyez-connection-scotus-response/
For almost 35 years, his find was ridiculed or ignored, the site dismissed as curious but not significant.
But earlier this month, a team that re-examined his discovery using new technology concluded in the prestigious journal Science that Gustafson had been right all along.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016652520_mastodon31m.html
In the More Wrong Than Wright: Sheriff Calls For Citizens To Arm Themselves And Mete Out Their Own Justice post:
Saying that “this animal deserves to be out in our society,” Wright said … SB:
“I don’t think this animal deserves to be out in our society,” Wright said …
… a license, if not an invitation, to dispatch criminals in they have the opportunity to do so. SB:
… a license, if not an invitation, to dispatch criminals if they have the opportunity to do so.
However, it is rare for a law enforcement official to to encourage citizens … SB:
However, it is rare for a law enforcement official to encourage citizens …
In the Police Union Under Fire For T-Shirts Reading “U Raise ‘Em, We Cage ‘Em.” post:
A Northern California school police officers union under fire after they sold … SB:
A Northern California school police officers union is under fire after they sold …
In the On the Hoof: Thieves Succeed In Stealing 20 Boxes of Pig Feet post:
I suppose that it why pig bellies rather than pig feet became the market stable for traders. SB:
I suppose that is why pig bellies rather than pig feet became the market staple for traders.
In the Who Are These People? Foreclosure Firm Staff Mock Homeless People At Halloween Party post:
However, to profiteer on such mills while mocking those put on the street is truly grotesque. SB:
However, to profit on such mills while mocking those put on the street is truly grotesque.
… Steven J. Baum later apologize for “poor taste.” SB:
… Steven J. Baum later apologized for “poor taste.”
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In the Did Cain Trip The Wire? Attorney Suggests Breach of Confidentiality Agreement post:
Such agreement often have not just a confidentiality agreement but a non-disparagement provision. SB:
Such agreements often have not just a confidentiality agreement but a non-disparagement provision.
Got ‘em. Thanks Nal.
Three Strikes and Your Out [of Lawyers]: Judge Rules That Violent Defendant Must Represent Himself
Correction: Three Strikes and YOU’RE Out [of Lawyers]: Judge Rules That Violent Defendant Must Represent Himself
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Now, Snohomish County Superior Court Judge David Kurtz (left) has ruled that he has forfeited his right counsel and must represent himself.
Correction: Now, Snohomish County Superior Court Judge David Kurtz (left) has ruled that he has forfeited his right TO counsel and must represent himself.
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I have seriously reservations about Kurtz’s orders.
Correction: I have SERIOUS reservations about Kurtz’s orders.
YOUR OUT?
Thanks Elaine M!
Thought you might find this interesting.
Larry Klayman, formerly of Judicial Watch, is in hot water with the Florida and Pennsylvania bar.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/judicial_watch_founder_larry_klayman_is_in_trouble.php?ref=fpb
In the Have Scientists Finally Found The Fountain of Youth? post:
The question is, if we never were able to reverse aging, would we allowed it or ban it given our growing over-population problems? SB:
The question is, if we ever were able to reverse aging, would we allow it or ban it given our growing over-population problems?
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In the Extremists Firebomb French Newspaper After Publication of Mohammad Cartoon post:
While no one has claimed responsibility in the attack. SB:
No one has claimed responsibility in the attack.
In God we trust —–
“Of course, the motto has only been embraced since 1956…”
I’m not sure where you get your information, but the motto has appeared on our gold and silver coinage since 1866.
When James Pollock was Director of the United States Mint he submitted the suggestion to the Secretary of the Treasury (Salmon Chase). Chase approved of his idea and a Bill was presented to Congress. That Bill passed the House and Senate unanimously in 1865. In 1866 the regular coinage of the gold and silver coin with the motto ‘In God we trust’ was commenced and has continued ever since, on all the coins large enough to contain the motto, except the nickel.
For some reason, William Millward (Pollard’s successor as Mint Director) stopped printing the motto on the nickel. It was later resumed.
What about E pluribus unum? It’s been used on coins since 1786.
The 1866 nickel was a 5 cent piece. On the front it has United States of America 5 Cents, and on the back it has In God we trust and the year 1868.
The 1867 nickel was only a three cent piece. On the front it says United States of America and the year 1867. On the back it has the Roman numeral III.
The 1868 nickel was a 5 cent piece. On the front it has United States of America 5 Cents, and on the back it has In God we trust and the year 1868.
Perhaps Millward didn’t feel right about putting the motto on a nickel that was only valued at 3 cents.
In the Obama Administration Fires General For Calling Karzai “Erratic” and “Divorced From Reality” post:
Remarkably, Fuller said if much more nicely, … SB:
Remarkably, Fuller said it much more nicely, …
Karzai has become like our crazy Uncle Hamid, who we are not allowed to mention is a nut case. SB:
Karzai has become like our crazy Uncle Hamid, whom we are not allowed to mention is a nut case.
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In the ABA Journal Under Fire For Coverage Of Survey Of Legal Secretaries post:
… and instead insist that it is gender indoctrination of the se secretaries. SB:
… and instead insist that it is gender indoctrination of the secretaries.
In the ABA Journal Under Fire For Coverage Of Survey Of Legal Secretaries post:
The study by Hastings law professor Joan Williams … SB:
The study by Chicago-Kent law professor Felice Batlan …
/As noted by victoriapynchon in the comments.
Negligence? Woman Get Stuck In Automatic Gate SB:
Negligence? Woman Gets Stuck In Automatic Gate
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In the University of Illinois Admits To Publishing Inaccurate Admissions Data For Six Out Of The Last Ten Years post:
Illinois is a terrific school that does not deserve these controversies. It has been poorly served by administrators and past deans. The irony is that it does not need to shade the figures. It has always been a great law school with top ranked faculty and students.
Here is the full statement: Nov7.Law
ABA Journal and Washington Post SB:
/Should not be included in blockquote.
In the Texas Will Not Revoke License of Bigot Gun Instructor Who Agrees To Train “The Enemy” post:
Note that did not include political associations so liberal Muslim might have to shop around. SB:
Note that did not include political associations so liberal Muslims might have to shop around.
… “If you are a socialist liberal and/or voted for the current campaigner-in-chef, … SB:
… “If you are a socialist liberal and/or voted for the current campaigner-in-chief, …
In the Study: Cavemen Did Indeed See Spots post:
Of course, for creationists who insist the Earth cannot be more than 5000 years old, you can stood reading. SB:
Of course, for creationists who insist the Earth cannot be more than 5000 years old, you can stop reading.
In the Obama Administration Argues For “Orwellian” New Powers To Track U.S. Citizens post:
… don’t worry about the Constitution just rely on Congress to pass a law if we go to far. SB:
… don’t worry about the Constitution just rely on Congress to pass a law if we go too far.
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In the Video: Oakland Police Officer Shoots Photographer With Rubber Bullet Without Any Apparent Provocation post:
As fellow law professor sent me this video … SB:
A fellow law professor sent me this video …
… an officer suddenly shoot a photographer who is a good distance from the police line. SB:
… an officer suddenly shoots a photographer who is a good distance from the police line.
Two links that may inspire you for a post.
One: 86 year old man’s rage comic: I don’t reddit, but I gather you do and it can be found here
Two:
Babatunde Omidina, Nigerian Actor, Freed After 25 Successful Bowel Movements
In the I’ll Have What She’s Subsidizing: Biden Staff Described as Orgasmic Over Solyndra post:
… emails show Biden staff . . . well . . . passionate over the prospects of funding the company. with more than a half billion dollars in government loans awarded to Solyndra. SB:
… emails show Biden staff . . . well . . . passionate over the prospects of funding the company, with more than a half billion dollars in government loans awarded to Solyndra.
The site is loading very slowly for me. Often incorrectly, too.
In the Ron Paul Get 90 Seconds in 90 Minute Debate post:
Likewise, supporters are still smarting over an exchanged between Politico’s Roger Simon … SB:
Likewise, supporters are still smarting over an exchange between Politico’s Roger Simon …
Simon dismissed Paul as relevant and said “we’re gonna ignore him.” SB:
Simon dismissed Paul as irrelevant and said “we’re gonna ignore him.”
In the Rhode Island Doctor Accused of Abandoning 33,000 Patients To Run For Office In Nigeria post:
One would think that abandoning patients and reneging on contracts would be viewed bad way to start a career in public service. SB:
One would think that abandoning patients and reneging on contracts would be viewed as a bad way to start a career in public service.
… without making any preparations for her continued care or files. SB:
… without making any preparations for their continued care or files.
Suggestion Box:
Roman Catholic church’s paedophile investigator jailed for possessing thousands of child porn images
In the Suffolk University Law Professor Triggers Firestorm With Criticism of Care Packages To U.S. Troops post:
Avery, a constitutional law professor, objected to send such packages to people … SB:
Avery, a constitutional law professor, objected to sending such packages to people …
I opposed our entry into Iraq and opposed anything by a brief operation in Afghanistan tied to capturing Bin Laden. SB:
I opposed our entry into Iraq and opposed anything but a brief operation in Afghanistan tied to capturing Bin Laden.
In the Chicago Journalism Professor: Chicago Police Department Detained Him and Deleted Video of Arrest post:
I have no reason to doubt the account of Professor Braseth, though the officer deserve a full opportunity to respond. SB:
I have no reason to doubt the account of Professor Braseth, though the officer deserves a full opportunity to respond.
Braseth has now filed the complaint below with the Chicago Police Department. SB:
/No link to complaint.
In the And China’s Pick For The 2011 Peace Prize Is . . . post:
So, here is a heart congratulations to Vladimir Putin — the world’s new humanitarian. SB:
So, here is a hearty congratulations to Vladimir Putin — the world’s new humanitarian.
How Not To Pass A National Health Care Program: New Poll Shows Almost Half of Americans Want The Repeal of the Health Care Law
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Now a poll suggests it might be the later.
Correction: Now a poll suggests it might be the LATTER.
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FDR was famous to refusing to ask for a declaration of war in World War II until he secured an overwhelming level of support from the public and Congress.
Correction: FDR was famous FOR refusing to ask for a declaration of war in World War II until he secured an overwhelming level of support from the public and Congress.
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Moreover, there is general agreement that the law was badly written and rush through with few members actually reading it.
Correction: Moreover, there is general agreement that the law was badly written and RUSHED through with few members actually reading it.
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It is a question of how not what we do.
Correction: It is a question of how IT WAS DONE.
In the How Not To Pass A National Health Care Program: New Poll Shows Almost Half of Americans Want The Repeal of the Health Care Law post:
Gallop found this week that 47 percent of Americans want to see the law repealed. SB:
Gallup found this week that 47 percent of Americans want to see the law repealed.
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In the Florida Black Man Arrested For Cross Burning on His Own Land post:
The law suggests that burning crosses are allowed with permission, which helps address the free speech issues. SB:
/Needs to be removed from blockquote.
In the Garden-Variety Crime: California City Criminalizes Artificial Turf post:
However, there is also the benefit in terms of reducing water consumption in states like California with periodic draught problems. SB:
However, there is also the benefit in terms of reducing water consumption in states like California with periodic drought problems.
In the Teaching Supply and Demand: Florida Teacher Accused of Selling Math Grades post:
A math teacher in Fort Myers, Florida is under fire for teaching this students about supply and demand within a market-based system. SB:
A math teacher in Fort Myers, Florida is under fire for teaching his students about supply and demand within a market-based system.
Now, I ask you, did he not learn an important lesson the supply and demand? SB:
Now, I ask you, did he not learn an important lesson of supply and demand?
What is also interesting in whether this system is efficient under a Pareto, or alternatively, a Kaldor-Hicks approach. SB:
What is also interesting is whether this system is efficient under a Pareto, or alternatively, a Kaldor-Hicks approach.
There were two incomplete posts at the top of the blog. I removed them. If I messed someone up, I’m sorry.
In the In Praise of Slim Mold . . . and The Academic Life post:
He insists that slime molds are “no more than a bag of amoebae encased in a thin slime sheat” hand points out … SB:
He insists that slime molds are “no more than a bag of amoebae encased in a thin slime sheat” and points out …
In the The Devil Came Down To Georgia: Christian Challenges Termination After Refusing To Wear Sticker With The Number 666 post:
A devout Christian insisted that the number would mark him with the number of the Beast as detailed in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. SB:
A devout Christian, he insisted that the number would mark him with the number of the Beast as detailed in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.
… he “grew nervous” when the number of accident-free days crept town the 660s. SB:
… he “grew nervous” when the number of accident-free days crept toward the 660s.
In the Tootsie Sues Footzy: Candy Company Claims Shoe Line Will Confuse Customers post:
The strongest part of the lawsuit appears to be the claim that Footzyrolls is has caused brand dilution … SB:
The strongest part of the lawsuit appears to be the claim that Footzyrolls has caused brand dilution …
… a clam that can be so maddeningly vague as to threaten a wide range of competitors over packaging and marketing. SB:
… a claim that can be so maddeningly vague as to threaten a wide range of competitors over packaging and marketing.
Yet, the $521 million insists that the small company will cause confusion for customers … SB:
Yet, the $521 million company insists that the small company will cause confusion for customers …
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Trashing Talking Triplets: Parents Object to Interactive Triplets Dolls That Allegedly Say “Hey, Crazy Bitch.” SB:
Trash Talking Triplets: Parents Object to Interactive Triplets Dolls That Allegedly Say “Hey, Crazy Bitch.”
In the Forbidden Love: Florida School Officials Reportedly Call In Police After Seeing Two Teens Kiss post:
They at least fun no crime, so there is hope. SB:
They at least found no crime, so there is hope.
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In the Special Prosecutor: DOJ Attorneys Cannot Be Charged With Criminal Contempt Because They Were Not Ordered To Comply With Legal and Ethical Rules post:
… legal and ethical rules in turning over exculpatory in the political corruption case. SB:
… legal and ethical rules in turning over exculpatory evidence in the political corruption case.
For the record, I am co-lead counsel in the World Bank case (Chang) which involves allegation of the concealment and destruction of evidence by the District of Columbia. SB:
/Remove italics.
In the Suffolk Professor Resigns Over Anti-Military Statements of Colleague post:
… Roughedge is not a full-time faculty member but an adjunct faculty member. SB:
… Roughsedge is not a full-time faculty member but an adjunct faculty member.
Second, Roughedge seems to have a rather conflicted logic in taking this action. SB:
Second, Roughsedge seems to have a rather conflicted logic in taking this action.
Roughedge further stated that … SB:
Roughsedge further stated that …
I am more shocked but the notion that Roughedge would not tolerate such views in this class. SB:
I am more shocked but the notion that Roughsedge would not tolerate such views in this class.
Moreover, I have not an inkling as to what Roughedge means by … SB:
Moreover, I have not an inkling as to what Roughsedge means by …
Roughedge appears to want a school that punishes faculty for stating views that he finds obnoxious. SB:
Roughsedge appears to want a school that punishes faculty for stating views that he finds obnoxious.
Roughedge would have been better served but responding with a reasoned retort … SB:
Roughsedge would have been better served but responding with a reasoned retort …
Roughedge teaches a course on Terrorism and the Law. SB:
Roughsedge teaches a course on Terrorism and the Law.
Professor,
In case you want to do a follow up article: Judge William Adams Suspended While State Commission Investigates Abuse Video
In the Meet Gulnaz: The Face of The Plight of Women in “Free” Afghanistan post:
Rather than prosecuted the man, she was convicted of sex outside of marriage … SB:
Rather than prosecute the man, she was convicted of sex outside of marriage …
Thanks a bunch Nal. Thanks everyone about the Chicago story. I also saw it and posted it.
In the Oregon Man Sued After Thief Steals His Car and Crashes Weeks Later post:
Hinnenkamp’s Thunderbird was stole in June 2009 by a man he had hired to do odd jobs. SB:
Hinnenkamp’s Thunderbird was stolen in June 2009 by a man he had hired to do odd jobs.
Joseph Dinwiddie, 35, was driving with wo other passengers … SB:
Joseph Dinwiddie, 35, was driving with two other passengers …
California Woman Pepper Sprays Other Customers To Get “Upper Hand” in Black Friday Deal
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That don’t call it Black Friday for nothing.
Correction: THEY don’t call it Black Friday for nothing.
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Twenty people were injured
Correction: Twenty people were injured. (Add period.)
In the Family Sues Wisconsin Prosecutor After She Charges 6-Year-Old Boy With First-Degree Sexual Assault After “Playing Doctor’ post:
… (and earlier in those states giving fetuses the status of person — and potential rapists). SB:
… (and earlier in those states giving fetuses the status of personhood — as potential rapists).
The boy will be forced to register as a sex offender wen he is 18 … SB:
The boy will be forced to register as a sex offender when he is 18 …
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/
this is very interesting, who would have thought? Bdaman did.
All hail Bdaman
in “The Incarceration of Black Men in America” the second paragraph is posted twice. Good psting tho.
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/27/wikileaks_wins_major_journalism_award_in_australia/singleton/#comments
In the Florida Judge Combines Criminal Sentencing With Weight Loss Offer post:
Miller is one of the judge who has merged justice with the entertainment industry … SB:
Miller is one of the judges who has merged justice with the entertainment industry …
Britain Medical Schools Facing Backlash Over Evolution From Muslim Students SB:
British Medical Schools Facing Backlash Over Evolution From Muslim Students
In the Corruption 101: How Not To Accept A Bribe post:
The incident allegedly occurred three years old in March, 2009. SB:
The incident allegedly occurred three years ago in March, 2009.
This now allow me to tell one of my favorite stories from the 1960s. SB:
This now allows me to tell one of my favorite stories from the 1960s.
The officer said, “OK kids, just give me the $5.” SB:
The officer said, “OK kid, just give me the $5.”
An interesting censorship story revolving around a Dutch researcher who created a super flu (as in it could potentially kill half the population).
http://www.doctortipster.com/6952-dutch-researcher-created-a-super-influenza-virus-with-the-potential-to-kill-millions.html
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/sci_tech/debate-rages-over-new-bird-flu-research-some-argue-its-not-safe-to-publish-134409543.html
In the Dino Gap: Canadians Add New Dinosaur post:
The latest herbivore is small size … SB:
The latest herbivore is small sized …
of course, it is still better than Suchosaurus. SB:
Of course, it is still better than Suchosaurus.
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In the Colorado Sheriff Sued After Holding Deaf Man For 25 Days Due To Lack of Interpreter After Unfounded Arrest post:
A lawsuit has been filed against Adams County Sheriff Doug Darr that alleges a shocking mistreatment of a dead prisoner, … SB:
A lawsuit has been filed against Adams County Sheriff Doug Darr that alleges a shocking mistreatment of a deaf prisoner, …
The ordeal began with someone calling police about hearing weird news … SB:
The ordeal began with someone calling police about hearing weird noise …
In the Colorado sheriff sued post:-
……. a shocking mistreatment of a dead prisoner, Timothy Siaki, …..
SB
……. a shocking mistreatment of a deaf prisoner, Timothy Siaki, ……
The ordeal began with someone calling police about hearing weird news at a local motel
I suspect that “news” should be replaced by “noise“
Septic tank employees:
“The three could not spend decades in jail.”
I think that’s a superfluous “not” in there.
The second “the” in the Christmas ornament stabbing title should be “then.”
In the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Accused For Discriminating Against Muslim Employee Barred From Serving Israeli Delegation post:
The man, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today termed “unprecedented” a claim by a Washington, D.C., hotel that it had the right to discriminate against a Muslim employee because of a “national security exemption.” SB:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today termed “unprecedented” a claim by a Washington, D.C., hotel that it had the right to discriminate against a Muslim employee because of a “national security exemption.”
He is is a citizen of the State of Maryland and resides in Kensington, Maryland. SB:
He is a citizen of the State of Maryland and resides in Kensington, Maryland.
“Medal of Honor Winner Sues Defense Contractor For Defamation”
I would suggest: Medal of Honor RECIPIENT or Marine awarded Medal of Honor.
“You Can’t Say Dimmick Without Dim: Felon Shows Family For Break of Contract In Failing To Hide Him From Police”
SB
“Felon Sues Family For Breach”
I had a serious chuckle when I read this story yesterday.
You Can’t Say Dimmick Without Dim: Felon Shows Family For Break of Contract In Failing To Hide Him From Police SB:
You Can’t Say Dimmick Without Dim: Felon Sues Family For Break of Contract In Failing To Hide Him From Police
In the Massachusetts Teacher Suspended Due To Prior Career As Porn Star post:
… he has appeared in pornographic movies like “Just Gone Gay 8″ u.nder the name Hytch Cawke SB:
… he has appeared in pornographic movies like “Just Gone Gay 8″ under the name Hytch Cawke.
The question is whether a teacher can be barred for lawful conduct or most in both his prior career and current private life follow the moral dictates of the majority. SB:
The question is whether a teacher can be barred for lawful conduct or must, in both his prior career and current private life, follow the moral dictates of the majority.
Suggestion for the weekend bloggers:
The Annual ABA Blawg 100 Competition is underway. Other than a modest request for a vote in the upper right-hand corner under the masthead, I haven’t seen any other mention of it here. I voted today- only #10. Perhaps one of you could feature the contest this weekend and get things started.
The Turley Blog is under the “Opinion” category.
Thanks,
HenMan
ABA Blawg 100-
http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100
In the Turley Blog Selected As A Top 100 Legal Blog — Now We Need Your Vote! post:
… I believe, our commit to civil ans substantive (if at times passionate) dialogue … SB:
… I believe, our commitment to civil and substantive (if at times passionate) dialogue …
We are up against two popular conservative sites: Ann Althouse and Volokh Conspiracy. SB:
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In the Duluth Jails Detroit: Man Sentences To 15-Months For Voting As Convicted Felon post:
Some 1.4 millions persons are ex-offenders as ex-offenders. SB:
Some 1.4 millions persons are ex-offenders are barred as ex-offenders.
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In the Senate Votes Overwhelmingly To Allow Indefinite Detention of Citizen post:
… Democrat and Republican Senators voted yesterday to approve a measure … SB:
… Democratic and Republican Senators voted yesterday to approve a measure …
I discussed this horrific policy in a prior column and (and here). SB:
I discussed this horrific policy in a prior column (and here).
In the Santa Slips: Teacher and Reporter Under Fire Over Santa Comments post:
The New York comments was made by a teacher in her geography class … SB:
The New York comment was made by a teacher in her geography class …
As for straight negligence, the injury is to speculative … SB:
As for straight negligence, the injury is too speculative …
Thank you, George Bush… and there’s a whole lot more of this kind of thing is going on than many realize… Jack Bauer Syndrome…
Dave Sanders: Fiber-Optics Exec by Day, Defender of Justice by Night
by Joshua Davis
November 22, 2011 | Wired December 2011
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/ff_dave_sanders/all/1
In the Chechnya Loves Putin: Russian Government Announces 99.5 Percent of Chechens Voted For Putin post:
They have contradict the view of some that Russians have an innate preference for strongmen leaders. SB:
They have contradicted the view of some that Russians have an innate preference for strongmen leaders.
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In the Nine-Year-Old Boy In North Carolina Suspend For Sexual Harassment . . . For Telling Another Student That A Teacher Is “Cute” post:
Now, a nine-year-old boy in North Carolina who was accused of sexual harassment because substitute teacher overheard … SB:
Now, a nine-year-old boy in North Carolina who was accused of sexual harassment because a substitute teacher overheard …
The principal Jerry Bostic of Brookside Elementary in Gastonia reported informed the mother that she has a sexual harasser in her midst. SB:
The principal Jerry Bostic of Brookside Elementary in Gastonia reportedly informed the mother that she has a sexual harasser in her midst.
<i.What is no one else would view it offensive. SB:
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Professor Turley, this is a beauty of an update. And it’s a “Ain’t Karma a Bitch” story.
Guess which dumbass principal has been forced to retire over this?
And guess what policy he complains about? Guess?
“”One mistake in 44 years, and I’m not given the benefit of the doubt. I really don’t believe I was treated fairly,” Bostic told the station.”
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/07/9277654-principal-forced-out-over-9-year-olds-sexual-harassment-suspension
If only all Zero Tolerance fascists could be retired. Retired with extreme prejudice, just like we would any replicant.
In the To Boldly Go Where No Machine Has Gone Before: Voyager Set To Become First Man-Made Object To Leave Our Solar System post:
… leave our Solar System and enter the ilky Way after more than three decades in space. SB:
… leave our Solar System and enter the Milky Way after more than three decades in space.
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In the Our Next Secretary of State? post:
“There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world and that is the United States when it suits our interest and we can get others to go along.” SB:
/Repeated from above.
Other came forward to complain about Bolton’s temper and questionable associations. SB:
Others came forward to complain about Bolton’s temper and questionable associations.
She said that she believe it would lead to product misuse and infant deaths, … SB:
She said that she believed it would lead to product misuse and infant deaths, …
In the NewsMax Flames Out: Trump Debate Down To Gingrich and Santorum post:
Now, Gingrich, Perry, and Romney have (rather belatedly) refused to participate. SB:
Now, Perry, and Romney have (rather belatedly) refused to participate.
Bachmann is still trying to decide whether to appear on a program … SB:
/Michele Bachmann Becomes Fifth GOP Candidate To Reject Donald Trump Debate
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In the Video: Oregon Police Officer Crashes First Into Another Vehicle and Then Into A Home post:
My son, Ben, found this videotape on YouTube of an extraordinary car chase and chase by a police officer in … SB:
My son, Ben, found this videotape on YouTube of an extraordinary car chase and crash by a police officer in …
… and the circumstances in which an officer to participate in such a chase. SB:
… and the circumstances in which an officer participates in such a chase.
In the Lese Majesty Means Less Speech: Thai Court Sentences U.S. Citizen To Over Two Years In Jail For Defaming Royal Family post:
Gordon was convicted for simply posted link to an unapproved biography of the King. SB:
Gordon was convicted for simply posting a to an unapproved biography of the King.
In the Yeshiva University Strips Newspaper Of Funding For Standing Up For Journalistic Principle and Refusing To Retract Study Article post:
The attack of free speech and free press occurred … SB:
The attack on free speech and free press occurred …
… after the student rightfully refused to censure their own newspaper and writer. SB:
… after the students rightfully refused to censure their own newspaper and writer.
What is fascinating is that the article is a soulful exploration of faith and guilty with the writer saying … SB:
What is fascinating is that the article is a soulful exploration of faith and guilt with the writer saying …
In the California Prison Psychologist Arrested For Allegedly Staging Rape and Burglary post:
The friend was also charged for her role false police report of a rape and burglary. SB:
The friend was also charged for her role in filing a false police report of a rape and burglary.
The police send hundreds of hours searching for the culprit … SB:
The police spend hundreds of hours searching for the culprit …
In the Criminalizing Intolerance: Obama Administration Moves Forward On United Nations Resolution Targeting Anti-Religious Speech post:
… the core purpose behind this and previous measures has been to justify those who speak against religion. SB:
… the core purpose behind this and previous measures has been to vilify those who speak against religion.
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In the From The Mouths of Babies: Study Finds That Babies Copy The Most “Reliable” Adults post:
A new study of behavior in babies found that they sized up parents and adults before choosing who to copy … SB:
A new study of behavior in babies found that they sized up parents and adults before choosing whom to copy …
The reliable experimenters were able to get the babies to tun on a push light … SB:
The reliable experimenters were able to get the babies to turn on a push light …
n the From The Mouths of Babies: Study Finds That Babies Copy The Most “Reliable” Adults post:
“Of course, not 30 people will go through life . . .”
SB “Of course, now 30 people will go through life . . .”
I’m surprised you missed that one, Nal.
In the Police Reportedly Take Two Hunters Into Custody In Texas School Shooting post:
One bullet lodged in an organ of a 14-year-old boy and another 13-year-old student have a serious but less threatening wound. SB:
One bullet lodged in an organ of a 14-year-old boy and another 13-year-old student has a serious but less threatening wound.
… but hunters are apparently shoot at deer around its perimeter. SB:
… but hunters are apparently allowed to shoot at deer around its perimeter.
/I’m convinced the Professor adds new typos after I’ve posted my corrections.
I am surprised no one gave a shit about this abomination….He should only be incarcerated if W’s daddy goes with him…..IMO….
Panama ex-dictator Manuel Noriega flies home
Manuel Noriega arrives in Panama from France to face jail for crimes committed during his 1983-1989 regime
Authorities in Panama said Noriega would be punished for crimes that included the brutal murders of several opponents during the 1980s.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/11/panama-manuel-noriega-home
PANAMA:
THE RESUMÉ OF MANUEL NORIEGA,
THE MOST FAMOUS GRADUATE OF THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS
(1) Noriega, considered “outstanding” at the SOA, is on the CIA payroll (to the tune of up to $100,000 a year) from the mid-�60s to the mid-�80s.
(2) His drug trafficking, though known, is no obstacle to his chumminess with George Bush (CIA director and “Vice” President) during the �70s and early �80s.
(3) His true crime is being an independent leader of Panama, just before the US is obliged to return the stolen Panama Canal Zone on January 1st, 1990.
(4) So after publicly demonizing his longtime friend and employee, Bush slaughters thousands of Panamanians and installs a puppet government, in the nick of time, on December 20th, 1989.
(5) Let�s not call any more presidents “wimps”, ok? It just pisses �em off.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/soa/panama.htm
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/1-800-reality-number-jerry-sandusky-lawyer-quips-turns-a-gay-phone-sex-line-article-1.990880?localLinksEnabled=false
In the A Dog Dancing . . . That Is All post:
Having trouble getting out of energy and motivated this morning? SB:
Having trouble being out of energy and motivated this morning?
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In the Saudi Kingdom Executes “Sorceress” post:
/No Source link.
In the Sandusky Attorney Inadvertently Sends Reporters To Gay-Sex Line post:
… (who he later married). SB:
… (whom he later married).
In defense with Amendola, it was a simple and obvious quip. SB:
In defense of Amendola, it was a simple and obvious quip.
The odds that such an innocuous number would turn out to be a gay-sex line seems pretty remote. SB:
The odds that such an innocuous number would turn out to be a gay-sex line seem pretty remote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/home-invasion-the-savior-unit_n_1144646.html
“T.S.U. is a tactical search team that is faith based. Our purpose is to promote Christ. Obtain offenders who are a danger to society, do community service work for churches and halfway houses, and do security for different functions. Our training is a recon and infiltration, apprehension and retrieval. All team members are taught hand to hand combat skills, para military training and scriptures”
There’s a very disturbing, inappropriate comment on the “Jessica, I Need You” post. It’s from a FL newspaper (allegedly).
In the Police In Indonesia Capture Dozens of “Punks” For “Spiritual Cleansing” In The Name Of Islam post:
The youths were shaves and stripped of necklaces and other items … SB:
The youths were shaved and stripped of necklaces and other items …
… before being through into their “spiritual” cleansing baths to promote strict moral values in Aceh. SB:
… before being thrown into their “spiritual” cleansing baths to promote strict moral values in Aceh.
This warped view of human rights was embraced in 1990, by the members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, members when they adopted the Cairo Declaration, … SB:
This warped view of human rights was embraced in 1990, by the members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, when they adopted the Cairo Declaration, …
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In the Obama Breaks Promise To Veto Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans post:
The changes was the inclusion of some meaningless rhetoric after key amendment protecting citizens were defeated. SB:
The changes were the inclusion of some meaningless rhetoric after the key amendment protecting citizens was defeated.
In the Shock Video: Police Arrest Tennessee Man Who Allegedly Tried To Kill Friend By Driving Truck Into Convenience Store post:
It may need some explaining for Patel when he fails for insurance in a car accident and puts the location as inside his store. SB:
It may need some explaining for Patel when he files for insurance in a car accident and puts the location as inside his store.
In the France Facing Crisis After Discovery That Tens of Thousands of Women May Have Been Given Industrial Silicone In Breast Implants post:
We have seen <a href="In Vassallo v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., 696 N.E.2d 909 (Mass.1998), … SB:
/Needs HTML tag fix.
The appellate court Defendant did have actual or constructive knowledge.”>such cases in the United States of faux doctors using industrial silicone purchased from auto and home repair stores SB:
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In the In God We Trust: Kentucky Defends Law Requiring State Homeland Security Officers To Proclaim God’s Greatness post:
In the decision in Kentucky Office of Homeland Security v. Christerson. SB:
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In the Tort or Torte? Restaurant Requires Waivers Before Customers Try Hot Food post:
There are plenty of super food dishes in restaurants, which generally warn the customers. SB:
There are plenty of super hot food dishes in restaurants, which generally warn the customers.
In the Gingrich: I Will Arrest Federal Judges post:
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich appears to be running against the Constitution as much as President these days. SB:
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich appears to be running against the Constitution as much as for President these days.
… and would send federal law enforcement to arrest judges failed to appear. SB:
… and would send federal law enforcement to arrest judges who failed to appear.
In the first sentence of “Celebrity Curve” the word “going” should be “doing.”
In the Celebrity Curve? NYU Professor Sues After Being Fired Allegedly For Giving Star James Franco A Bad Grade post:
Indeed, it is encourage in graduate schools. SB:
Indeed, it is encouraged in graduate schools.
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The Penal State: New Study Shoes One-Third of Americans Have Been Arrested For A Crime By Age 23 SB:
The Penal State: New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Have Been Arrested For A Crime By Age 23
In the Man Dies After Eating Cocaine From Brother’s Derrière post:
The brother were captured on video as Deangelo dropped the cocaine on the seat will cuffed in order to have Wayne eat it. SB:
The brothers were captured on video as Deangelo dropped the cocaine on the seat while cuffed in order to have Wayne eat it.
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In the The Turley Blog Needs Your Vote! The ABA Competition Is Down To The Wire For Top Opinion Blog post:
You can vote at You can vote at this site by clicking on the “opinion” category and we need your vote. SB:
You can vote at this site by clicking on the “opinion” category and we need your vote.
But nationally-recognized constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley (the second most cited law professor in the country, one of the top 10 lawyers handling military cases, who has served as a consultant on homeland security and constitutional issues and is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues, who ranked 38th in the top 100 most cited ‘public intellectuals’ in a recent study by a well-known judge) said yesterday on C-Span (starting at 15:50):
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/constitutional-expert-%E2%80%9Cpresident-obama-%E2%80%A6-says-he-can-kill-you-his-own-discretion-without
Justice Who Upheld Gov. Walker’s Anti-Union Law Received Over $10k Worth Of Free Services From Walker’s Law Firm
By Ian Millhiser on Dec 20,
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/12/20/392885/justice-who-upheld-gov-walkers-anti-union-law-received-over-10k-worth-of-free-services-from-walkers-law-firm/
Excerpt:
Last week, news broke that conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman received tens of thousands of dollars worth of free legal services from a law firm defending him against charges that he ran a deceptive campaign ad in violation of state ethics law. Wisconsin judicial ethics laws prohibits judges from receiving gifts of any kind from someone who is likely to appear before them.
Nevertheless, Gableman did not simply accept these services from a law firm that frequently appears before his court, he cast the key vote in two cases argued by that law firm — including the single most contentious case heard by the state supreme court this year:
State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in two cases cast the deciding vote in favor of parties represented by a law firm that gave him tens of thousands of dollars of free legal services, a review of state records shows.
One of those was a high-stakes case this June that allowed Gov. Scott Walker to implement a law that all but eliminates collective bargaining for most public workers. Gableman was in the 4-3 majority that allowed Walker to prevail. Michael Best & Friedrich – the firm that defended Gableman for free in an ethics case – worked for the state and Walker’s administration in the collective bargaining case. [...]
Since the firm started representing Gableman in the ethics case in July 2008, Gableman has participated in nine cases in which the court voted on substantive issues involving Michael Best clients. Gableman ruled in those clients’ favor in five of those cases – more than any other justice.
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Ethics inquiry sought for Wisconsin Justice Michael Gableman
By Patrick Marley
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Updated: 12/20/2011
http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_19589827
Excerpt:
A watchdog group filed a formal request Tuesday with the state Judicial Commission to investigate state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s receipt of free legal services.
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed the request with the commission, which oversees the state’s judicial ethics code. If the commission finds wrongdoing, it would file a formal complaint with the state Supreme Court – putting Gableman’s fellow justices in charge of deciding whether his conduct was appropriate.
Gableman faced an ethics complaint from the commission in 2008 over a campaign ad. The Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3 in that case last year, and the commission suspended its action on the case.
Gableman retained Michael Best & Friedrich attorney Eric McLeod and Indiana lawyer James Bopp to defend him in that case. Gableman never paid for the work by Michael Best, according to a disclosure by the firm last week. Bopp and Gableman have not said whether Gableman paid for Bopp’s work.
Michael Best has declined to release a copy of its agreement with Gableman or state its value. Other attorneys have said the two years of work by Michael Best was likely worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Since the work by Michael Best began, Gableman has ruled on cases involving Michael Best clients. Five other cases involving the firm are pending that Gableman has participated in.
http://jonathanturley.org/2011/12/23/the-most-relaxing-tune-ever-or-really-bad-elevator-music/#comment-305845
Nos 6 and 9 are missing the urls…Is there something symbiotic between the numbers…..and biased study group…..
JT,
AY means to say that the links for 6 and 9 just link back to your story. They don’t link to external content.
I just changed the links to see if that helps. Thanks everyone.
GE Muni Bid-Rigging Probe: Company To Pay $70.4 Million To Resolve Investigations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/ge-muni-bid-rigging-probe_n_1167722.html
Pony up some cash…. that’s the remedy? Criminal charges anyone?
“Facebook Felon: Chicago Man Charges After Posting Picture of Bound Child”
I think you mean “charged.”
Your Post re Florida police is incorrect.. the story refers to a different jacksonville. Someone, (you?) went to the trouble of finding the badge emblem of Jacksonville (Florida) Sheriff’s Office, and headlined the story “Florida Police” The website of the TV station which is the source appears to be in North Carolina…
In the Men Who Pray At Goats? Government Spends $1.4 Billion On Such Questions As Whether Remote Prayer Can Heal AIDS post:
I understand that many believe many citizens believe that prayer and laying of hands can heal the sick. SB:
I understand that many citizens believe that prayer and laying of hands can heal the sick.
I believe your posting about an arrest in Jacksonville referenced the WRONG JURISDICTION. According to your own link to a news story, the incident happened in Onslow County NORTH CAROLINA – or Jacksonville, NC. Seems wrong to identify the community as Jacksonville Florida, and then you use the badge for the misidentified agency as your graphic. (I have checked the public records for an arrest in Jacksonville, FL and no one by the name of the person in your posting was arrested in Jax FL recently.)Please correct this, if wrong. Thank you.
In the Trip Around the World . . . A Single Shot At A Time post:
Ok, I know can see that my travel blog last summer to France was pretty lame … SB:
Ok, I now can see that my travel blog last summer to France was pretty lame …
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In the Pakistani Police Arrest Christian For Blasphemy in Church on Christmas post:
Recently, one his daughters and son-in-law were kidnapped and forced to “convert” to Islam. SB:
Recently, one of his daughters and son-in-law were kidnapped and forced to “convert” to Islam.
… by a man who threw acid him his face in a crime believed to be religiously motivated. SB:
… by a man who threw acid in his face in a crime believed to be religiously motivated.
Pakistan is one of the nation’s pushing for an international blasphemy law. SB:
Pakistan is one of the nations pushing for an international blasphemy law.
The Administration has rightfully point to the latest draft of the U.N. resolution … SB:
The Administration has rightfully pointed to the latest draft of the U.N. resolution …
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In the Catholic Church In Illinois Closes Adoptions Centers To Avoid Anti-Discrimination Laws post:
There is always tension in serving seeking to do the work of God under the auspices of the state. SB:
There is always tension in seeking to do the work of God under the auspices of the state.
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In the Former and Current Members of Congress Contradict Gingrich Claims That He Did Not Lobby Congress After Leaving As Speaker post:
… (both supports of Mitt Romney) … SB:
… (both supporters of Mitt Romney) …
The described a meeting with 30 Republican House members … SB:
They described a meeting with 30 Republican House members …
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Has anyone here seen this piece? The Suffolk Superior Court judge is allowing the Boston Police Dept. “secret” subpoena of Twitter accounts to go forward. Twitter messaged one of the targets of the secret subpoena, which allowed the target to attempt to quash the secret subpoena. Apparently that ticked off the judge who is allowing the BPD to proceed with their legal fishing expedition. Another assault on the First Amendment by the authorities in Boston.
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/secret-subpoena-for-twitter-user-account-info-allowed-to-proceed.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
In the Paul’s Preacher Probem: Meet Phillip G. Kayser post:
Paul also voted against voted the Federal Marriage Amendment. SB:
Paul also voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Notably, he admits that it made be difficult to switch over to a Christian version of Sharia law. SB:
Notably, he admits that it may be difficult to switch over to a Christian version of Sharia law.
Published on Friday, December 30, 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle
Wiretap Suits OKd Against US, Not Telecoms
by Bob Egelko
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/30-1
“The nation’s telecommunications companies can’t be sued for cooperating with the Bush administration’s secret surveillance program, but their customers can sue the government for allegedly intercepting their phone calls and e-mails without a warrant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.”
In the Illinois Court Rules Pedestrian Can Sue Estate of Train Accident Victim Over Flying Body Part post:
The impact knocked Zokhrabov to the ground, broke her wrist, and injured her shoulder injured. SB:
The impact knocked Zokhrabov to the ground, broke her wrist, and injured her shoulder.
In the Obama Given Low Marks In Annual ACLU Report For Civil Liberties — Ranked Lower Than Paul post:
The only category on which Obama earned a torch was gay rights for his support in ending “don’t ask, don’t tell” … SB:
The only category on which Obama earned four torches was gay rights for his support in ending “don’t ask, don’t tell” …
Taliban leaders held at Guantánamo Bay to be released in peace talks deal
US agrees in principle to releasing top officials from Afghanistan insurgent group in exchange for starting process of negotiations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/03/taliban-leaders-guantanamo-bay-deal
The Taliban are not our enemy, says Biden as U.S. prepares to negotiate prisoner transfer deal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076564/Taliban-enemy-says-Joe-Biden-US-negotiate-deal-end-Afghanistan-war.html
Saudi Morality Police Set To Crackdown On Lingerie Stores and Betty Davis Eyes
Correction: Saudi Morality Police Set To Crackdown On Lingerie Stores and BETTE Davis Eyes
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So covering up in a burka is not enough if you have Betty Davis eyes.
Correction: So covering up in a burka is not enough if you have BETTE Davis eyes.
In the Chinese Official Arrested In Suspected Murder Of Tycoon By Poisoning His Cat Stew post:
… but the billionaires family pointed out that Huang was in a business dispute … SB:
… but the billionaire’s family pointed out that Huang was in a business dispute …
Chinese Official Arrested In Suspected Murder Of Tycoon By Poisoning His Cat Stew:
Perot mystery SB Poirot mystery, I believe.
http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100
425 votes and the winner it would seem…
In the Rick Santorum: Will Anti-Romney Voters Embrace Anti-Privacy Values? post:
… allowing the 10th Amendment to wipe out the first eight amendment that precede it. SB:
… allowing the 10th Amendment to wipe out the first eight amendments that precede it.
In the TURLEY BLOG PICKED AS TOP OPINION LEGAL BLOG IN 2011 post:
We have tried to create something special at this site for the discussion of legal and policy question in a civil and substantive manner. SB:
We have tried to create something special at this site for the discussion of legal and policy questions in a civil and substantive manner.
Over on the right, the title says “SELECTED AS TOP LEGAL OPINION BLOG (2012)”. Should it read “SELECTED AS TOP LEGAL OPINION BLOG (2011)”?
In Santorum Instructs Students on Same-Sex Marriage and Healthcare…
It says:
He should no better to cite an academic study to Santorum during an election with experts and intellectuals have been denounced as virtual threats to the nation. Santorum responded
SB:
“He should know better to cite an academic study…
Speaking of things that are just wrong…
Indiana Senator Pushes Bill to Fine Singers Who Alter ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ Performers face small fee for changing lyrics of national anthem
Indiana Senator Vaneta Becker is pushing a bill to impose a $25 fine on anyone who deviates from a set of standards in performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at events sponsored by public schools and universities. According to Becker, the bill is not intended to punish those who may flub a note or two while singing the national anthem. “It’s not like we’re going after anyone’s ability to sing,” Becker said in an interview yesterday. “It’s more that we just want them to respect the words and the tune as it was originally intended and we normally sing it.”
If Becker’s bill had been passed a decade ago, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler would have been busted for changing the “home of the brave” line to “home of the Indianapolis 500″ while singing the song before that race in 2001. It is unclear whether or not an instrumental take on the song, such as Jimi Hendrix’s version from the Woodstock festival, or an unintentional lyrical flub like Christina Aguilera’s gaffe at last year’s Super Bowl, would violate the proposed standard.
If this bill passes in Indiana, it would not be the first state law strictly governing the performance of the national anthem. Massachusetts has a law imposing up to $100 in fines for playing the song “as dance music, as an exit march or as part of a medley.” Michigan prohibits anyone from performing the song in a public space except in its entirety and “without embellishment.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/indiana-senator-pushes-bill-to-fine-singers-who-alter-star-spangled-banner-20120105
In the Oklahoma Mother Calls Dispatch For Approval Before Shooting Intruder — Accomplice Then Charged With Murder post:
Justin Shane Martin, 24, was shot did and his alleged accomplice will be charged in his death. SB:
Justin Shane Martin, 24, was shot dead and his alleged accomplice will be charged in his death.
What is interesting (and not unheard of) is the charge against Dustin Louis Stewart, 29, with first-degree murder. SB:
What is interesting (and not unheard of) is the charge against Dustin Louis Stewart, 29, first-degree murder.
In the Is the Cordray Recess Appointment Constitutional? post:
That made such appointments a practice necessity. SB:
That made such appointments a practical necessity.
Moreover, it was not entirely pro forma since three days after into the session, … SB:
Moreover, it was not entirely pro forma since three days into the session, …
Is that the precedent Democrats want to establish. SB:
Is that the precedent Democrats want to establish?
Shortly after Donofrio’s findings and further claims regarding the precedent set by Minor, Professor Jonathan Turley published a post by contributor David Drumm entitled “Holdings, Dicta, and Stare Decisis.” The last sentence of Drumm’s post refers to the Wikipedia article on Minor as further support for his assertion that the “natural born” comments are dicta; however, that particular Wikipedia entry was revised only a couple of months ago (soon after Donofrio’s assertions) to include the very paragraph that Drumm cites. Comments on Drumm’s post now number over 1,300, bearing witness to an ugly war that continues to rage among anonymous commenters. The revision history for the Wikipedia entry reveals similar battle scars.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/academia_shrugs_obamas_citizenship_and_the_presidency.html
In the Perry Outdoes Opponents and Appears To Suggest the Re-Invasion of Iraq post:
Top that Newt and Rick. SB:
Top that Newt.
Perry added that our premature departure is due to his “kowtow[ing] to his liberal, leftist base and move out those men and women.” SB:
Perry added that our premature departure is due to Obama’s “kowtow[ing] to his liberal, leftist base and move out those men and women.”
In the Greece Declares Pedophilia A Disability Deserving State Benefits post:
… so it might be useful for diabetics to claim an interest in child or fires or both. SB:
… so it might be useful for diabetics to claim an interest in children or fires or both.
In Greece, one out of five workers is a state employee, a whooping 25 percent of the working population. SB:
In Greece, one out of five workers is a state employee, a whooping 20 percent of the working population.
In the Bravo, Colonel Bruno, Bravo post:
One of the most famous was Hypatia who a remarkable woman … SB:
One of the most famous was Hypatia who was a remarkable woman …
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In the Actress Sues Amazon For Disclosing Her Real Asian Name and Age post:
Her privacy lawsuit alleges that she was unaware of the extent to which her private information would be farmed by Amazon by obtaining her credit care. SB:
Her privacy lawsuit alleges that she was unaware of the extent to which her private information would be farmed by Amazon by obtaining her credit card.
In the Drinking Tom Cruise: Ebay Offers Bottles Of Pool Water Used By Tom Cruise post:
It is short of like “Rain Man” meets “The Color of Money.” SB:
It is sort of like “Rain Man” meets “The Color of Money.”
… nothing more than other people who by items touched by celebrities. SB:
… nothing more than other people who buy items touched by celebrities.
BTW, considering the subject of Tom Cruise – “It is short of like “Rain Man” meets “The Color of Money.” is a really funny typo.
In the Tennessee City Manager Criticized For Ending Regular Prayer Meetings For City Employees During Work Hours post:
It appears that Shackelford someone learned separation of church and state as a public safety issue. SB:
It appears that Shackelford learned separation of church and state as a public safety issue.
The point is that the, regardless of the fire safety aspects, such entanglement with religion violates the first amendment of the Constitution. SB:
The point is that, regardless of the fire safety aspects, such entanglement with religion violates the first amendment of the Constitution.
In the Justice According To Thomas: Dissent in Case Overturning Murder Conviction Highlights The Twisted Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas post:
… “I did it, I did it and I glad I did it.” SB:
… “I did it, I did it and I’m glad I did it.”
In the Ben Stein post; sentence four is:
“While some conservatives might view as discrimination lawsuit and emotional distress claims as another sign of our litigious society, . . .”
Maybe change to:
While some conservatives might view discrimination lawsuits and emotional distress claims as another sign of our litigious society, . . .
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag
In the “Uncle Shem” story,
Foreign Power magazine should read Foreign Policy magazine
In the Indefinite Detention of Citizens: A Response To Senator Carl Levin post:
/There appears to be a repeat of some of the text. The first part needs to be removed.
… and the President himself acknowledged he ability to indefinitely detain citizens in his pledge not to use it. SB:
… and the President himself acknowledged the ability to indefinitely detain citizens in his pledge not to use it.
Martin Niemoeller is a lutheran guy from Wright City, Missouri but not the Rhienhold Niehbour guy (sp) who wrote the passage about: When they came for the …
And today, is: Martin Luther King Day. Any topics?
In the Indefinite Detention of Citizens: A Response To Senator Carl Levin post:
only that he doe does not intend to use it SB
only that he does not intend to use it
Florida Dash Cam;
“In the absence of action from the police department, a tort lawsuit might allowed for full discovery and accountability in the case.”
SB
“. . . might allow for full discovery . . . “
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Major Internet Sites to Black Out in Protest of Anti-piracy Bill
The strike is slated to be the largest online strike in digital history, according to the founder of Fight For the Future.
By NICK FOLEY
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON – Devoted users of Wikipedia, Reddit, WordPress and Minecraft could be in for a surprise Wednesday as they log on to their trusted favorites: These sites, and as many as 5,000 others, will shut down for 12 to 24 hours.
Fight For the Future, a nonprofit organization devoted to maintaining freedom of expression on the Internet, organized the strike of, by its count, nearly 5,000 websites in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, according to Fight For the Future founder Tiffiniy Cheng.
Rep. Lamar Smith, D-Texas, introduced the bill in October to keep third-party websites from stealing original content and then reaping the profits. This loss of money costs the economy $100 billion annually, according to a news release on Smith’s website.
The strike is slated to be the largest online strike in digital history, according to Cheng, who said the bill — which also exists in the Senate as “Protect-IP Act” — threatens the existence of the Internet as an open, deregulated network of websites dedicated solely to the people.
“The Internet is and will remain the platform for freedom of speech,” Cheng said. “This is about who controls the Internet, and it shouldn’t be corporate copyright holders.”
The movement began Nov. 16 with “American Censorship Day,” in which websites emblazoned anti-SOPA messages on their main pages, and quickly gained momentum as the bill moved its way through Congress.
Now, as senators ready themselves for the final vote Tuesday, some websites claim the bill’s effects could change the scope of the Internet by forcing sites to adhere to copyright laws they consider unreasonable. Yet according to a statement by Smith, such laws are necessary to punish criminals for their acts.
http://wheaton-md.patch.com/articles/major-internet-sites-to-black-out-in-protest-of-anti-piracy-bill-f1d40df6
WIKI’s tag line
Imagine a World
Without Free Knowledge
For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more.
Contact your representatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=145498713
Authority For NYPD-CIA Collaboration Questioned
by The Associated Press
January 20, 2012, 01:05 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA’s top lawyer never approved sending a veteran agency officer to New York, where he helped set up police spying programs, The Associated Press has learned. Such approval would have been required under the presidential order that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said authorized the unusual assignment.
What ever happened to days, not weeks?
US deploys 12,000 troops in Libya
Been reported else where but has gained alot of attention when it hit here.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/222317.html
Lots of info linked here
http://sfbayview.com/2012/cynthia-mckinney-u-s-war-machine-pervades-africa/
From: @RonPaul
My son @SenRandPaul being detained by TSA for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner in Nashville. More details coming.
Could be interesting. And I didn’t think I could feel pity for TSA.
Sen. Rand Paul ‘detained’ by TSA in Nashville, TSA denies
The TSA says Sen. Rand Paul “was not detained at any point” but “triggered an alarm during routine airport screening and refused to complete the screening process in order to resolve the issue.”
“Passengers, as in this case, who refuse to comply with security procedures are denied access to the secure gate area,” the TSA adds. “He was escorted out of the screening area by local law enforcement.”
“The passenger was screened by millimeter wave imaging technology using automated target recognition,” the TSA continues. “This technology uses the same generic image for all passengers to further protect passengers privacy. When an alarm occurs a yellow box indicates where an anomaly is. A targeted pat down is used to resolve the alarm.”
TSA spokesman Michael McCarthy told The Daily Caller that “when an irregularity is found during the TSA screening process, it must be resolved prior to allowing a passenger to proceed to the secure area of the airport. Passengers who refuse to complete the screening process cannot be granted access to the secure area in order to ensure the safety of others traveling.”
In the story about the Supreme Court’s decision on gps tracking, there is a flawed sentence – “I am happy to report that the rule has ruled unanimously against the government . . . . “
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-dead-cat-arkansas-idUSTRE80M26Z20120123
(Reuters) – “A cat belonging to an Arkansas Democratic campaign manager was found dead on Sunday night with the word “Liberal” spray-painted across its side, the campaign manager said.”
Suggestion Box:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/judge-orders-laptop-decryption/
puzzling,
I’m already working that story for next weekend.
Pelosi: Gingrich Unelectable Because “There Is Something I Know.”
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She has returning to that ignoble theme in an interview with CNN, saying that Gingrich will not be elected because “There is something I know.”
Correction: She IS returning to that ignoble theme in an interview with CNN, saying that Gingrich will not be elected because “There is something I know.”
*****
If you want to attack, Gingrich then do it.
Correction: If you want to attack Gingrich, then do it.
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Regardless of the political wisdom, it is wrong to constant claim to have dirt on a politicians . . . while promising to reveal it later.
Correction: Regardless of the political wisdom, it is wrong to CONSTANTLY claim to have dirt on a POLITICIAN . . . while promising to reveal it later.
“Watch Democracy Now! Intv. With Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón Who Probed War Crimes, Now On Trial Himself”
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/1/31/watch_democracy_now_intv_with_spanish_judge_baltasar_garzn_who_pro
FBI Uses Chainsaw To Bust Into Home, Forces Woman To Lay In Dog’s Pee, Prevents Her From Comforting Crying Toddler . . . And Then Announces They Have The Wrong Apartment
Correction: FBI Uses Chainsaw To Bust Into Home, Forces Woman To LIE In Dog’s Pee, Prevents Her From Comforting Crying Toddler . . . And Then Announces They Have The Wrong Apartment
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She laid in the dog’s urine for over thirty minutes before the agents realized that they were looking for apartment 2f. She lives in apartment 2R.
Correction: She LAY in the dog’s urine for over thirty minutes before the agents realized that they were looking for apartment 2f. She lives in apartment 2R.
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It is not clear if this was a “no knock” warrant — a practice that has been repeatedly criticized as judge allow police to burst into homes based on their statement that the subjects could be dangerous.
Correction: It is not clear if this was a “no knock” warrant — a practice that has been repeatedly criticized as JUDGES allow police to burst into homes based on their statement that the subjects could be dangerous.
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Even with “knock and announce” searches, police often knock just second before the door comes off the hinges.
Correction: Even with “knock and announce” searches, police often knock just A SECOND/SECONDS before the door comes off the hinges.
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The use of the chainsaw, of course, adds a
You didn’t complete the final sentence.
The Stomp Speech and the Flip Flopper: Gingrich’s Staff Accused Of Assaulting Paul Supporters
Correction: The Stomp Speech and the Flip Flopper: Gingrich’s Staff Accused Of Assaulting Paul SUPPORTER
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Next Gingrich has made it known that he will not tolerate flip floppers like Mitt Romney.
Correction: NEWT Gingrich has made it known that he will not tolerate flip floppers like Mitt Romney.
In the FBI Uses Chainsaw To Bust Into Home, Forces Woman To Lie In Dog’s Pee, Prevents Her From Comforting Crying Toddler . . . And Then Announces They Have The Wrong Apartment post:
The use of the chainsaw, of course, adds a SB:
/Incomplete sentence.
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Egyptians: Look to the Constitutions of South Africa or Canada, Not to the US Constitution
Video interview
” I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a Constitution in 2012″
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3295.htm
McDonald’s drops use of gooey ammonia-based ‘pink slime’ in hamburger meat.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282876-mcdonalds-drops-use-of-gooey-ammonia-based-pink-slime-in-hamburger-meat
Can You Spot The Pig? Inmates Prank Police By Adding Swine Image To State Seal
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Of course, the inmates would clearly face correctional charges and lose of privileges.
Correction: Of course, the inmates would clearly face correctional charges and LOSS of privileges.
Santorum: Vote For Me . . . Or Die
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“Go back and read what the sirens did once you arrived on that island. hey devour you.
Correction: “Go back and read what the sirens did once you arrived on that island. THEY devour you.
Komen Founder Nancy Brinker Reportedly Paid Over $5 Million A Year As Charity Head
From The Daily Beast article:
Correction: A previous version of this article inaccurately reported Nancy Brinker’s salary. As CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Brinker makes about $417,000 per year.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/05/komen-for-the-cure-how-the-group-s-founder-courted-controversy.html
Legislating Under The Influence: Bar and Restaurant Group Opposes Drunk Driving Measure in Congress
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However, this effort however has raised a few eyebrows because the American Beverage Institute is opposing a drunk driving measure…
Correction:
However, this effort has raised a few eyebrows because the American Beverage Institute is opposing a drunk driving measure in the House Transportation bill — a measure calling for states to REQUIRE in-car Breathalyzers for people convicted of drunk driving.
OR
This effort, however, has raised a few eyebrows because the American Beverage Institute is opposing a drunk driving measure in the House Transportation bill — a measure calling for states to REQUIRE in-car Breathalyzers for people convicted of drunk driving.
Profesor.
I received an email notofication of a post titled
“Komen Founder Nancy Brinker Reportedly Paid Over $5 Million A Year As Charity Head”. However when I follow the link whose url is below I get a 404 not found error.
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/02/06/komen-founder-nancy-brinker-reportedly-paid-over-5-million-a-year-as-charity-head/
Regards, Carl Moulton.
That $5 million per year story is wrong. The Daily Beast has corrected its article.
Prop 8: Same-Sex Marriage Ruled Unconstitutional
Did you mean to write the following?
Prop 8: Same-Sex Marriage BAN Ruled Unconstitutional
I think the word “affect” is more precise than “effect” here. The writer ‘s blog had to do with influencing proper behavior.
Judge Orders Florida Man To Take His Wife on a Date
The ruling stipulates flowers, bowling, and Red Lobster.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Judge-Orders-Florida-Man-To-Take-His-Wife-on-a-Date-138920574.html
The Suing Sioux: Tribe Sues Top Beer Makes For Contributing To Alcoholism Of Tribe Members
SB Sues Top Beer Maker
I have a question that hopefully the learned legal scholars can answer….
The Constitution of the US….States explicitly that they cannot have standing Armies in the …..I think, various states….
What good are the (state) Militias of the various states…which are to be under the control of a civilian army etc…..especially since Bush made most of the States ANG or whatever pretty much federalized….The blur in the line of distinction between what is Federal and what is State….are these terms so interchangeable that they are now anachronistic…
Did I hear it correctly that Justice Breyer was robbed in his Island home of Nevi or Nevis…..
In the first sentence replace “and” with “has.” Ninth word, first sentence. Nice post, btw.
In “Clinton: No Troops Can Be Sent To Syria Without Assad’s Consent”
For those who have argued that American Exceptionalism and become American Incoherence
SB
For those who have argued that American Exceptionalism has become American Incoherence
Sorry, left out the post title: “Clinton: No Troops Can Be Sent To Syria Without Assad’s Consent”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-justice-breyer-robbed-20120214,0,3881572.story
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer was robbed last week by a machete-wielding
Four-Year-Old Boy Diagnosed With Gender Identity Disorder And Raised A Girl
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“Now, a three-year old boy named Zach was determined to have GID and he is being raised as a girl. He was officially diagnosed when he was four.”
Note: I think the post title and the excerpt I posted above will confuse readers.
Zach is now five years old. He has been living as a girl for more than a year. He was three when he began refusing to live as a boy.
Here’s an interesting story:
Woman Sued Over T-Shirt That Says ‘My Ex-Husband Is An A-Hole’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/madrid-woman-sued-tshirt_n_1296769.html?ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News
Excerpt:
Be careful what you post on Facebook. It may just cost you 1,000 euros and eight days of house arrest. At least it did for a Spanish woman in Madrid, Spain.
After the 40-year-old woman posted photos of herself wearing a T-shirt that said “My ex-husband is an asshole,” on Facebook in 2010 she was taken to court by her ex, who filed suit for dignitary tort and won, The Register reported.
The Provincial Court ruled in favor of the ex-husband and found the phrase, “Mi exmarido es gilipollas” was an insult to his dignity. “Gilipollas”, which roughly translates to “asshole”, effectively damaged her ex-husband’s reputation the court ruled.
“I started crying because I couldn’t believe it. I don’t understand how the complaint could have ended in court. It’s only a T-shirt,” she said of the judgment in The Register story.
Santorum Feels Like Throwing Up . . . Again
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Last year at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen in Warner, N.H., Santorum told the Greater Houston Ministerial Association…
NOTE: It was JFK who spoke to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association–not Santorum.
“a” only…..
In African Americans for Obama…
This history gives them a special bound SB
…bond (not bound)
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Arrest-made-in-The-Senator-tree-fire/-/1637132/9146402/-/v3we2h/-/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/28/indefinite-military-deten_n_1308129.html “Barack Obama Waives Rule Allowing Indefinite Military Detention Of Americans”
You need to delete the article about The Senator immediately.
According to the article you posted, the name is Sara Barnes, not Burnes, and there’s no mention of a Jodi Hill 41 being arrested for methamphetamine. It does say that the cops found Methamphetamine at the home of Barnes.
Ad at DC Metro station tells Obama to ‘go to hell’
WMATA issued a statement saying its advertising has been ruled by the courts as protected under the First Amendment, and the Authority does not decline ads based on their political content.
“WMATA does not endorse the advertising on our system, and ads to not reflect the position of the Authority,” says the statement.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2767491
In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)
One has to wonder what kind of security systems NASA has in place:
NASA Space Station Codes Were On Stolen Laptop, Inspector General Paul K. Martin Says
3/1/12
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/nasa-space-station-codes-stolen-laptop_n_1315018.html
Excerpt:
A laptop stolen from NASA last year was unencrypted and contained command and control codes for the International Space Station on it, the agency’s inspector general told a United States House subcommittee yesterday (Feb. 29).
In his testimony before a Science, Space and Technology House subcommittee, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin said the notebook computer stolen in March 2011 “resulted in the loss of the algorithms” used to control the space station. This particular laptop, Martin said, was one of 48 NASA notebooks and mobile devices stolen between April 2009 and April 2011.
Some of these thefts resulted in the leak of sensitive data “including export-controlled, Personally Identifiable Information, and third-party intellectual property,” as well as Social Security numbers and data on NASA’s Constellation and Orion programs, Martin said. [NASA Computer Hacked, Satellite Data Accessed]
The actual number of stolen and compromised devices could be much higher because NASA relies on employees to self-report incidents.
Professor.
“On the New york Lawyer Loses Defamation” thread, responses 20 and 21 by JGlenLeb and JIveyJur respectively seem suspicious to me.Their text content is completely irrelevant to the thread topic and indeed makes no sense and each post contains a link to a website. My suspicion is that these websites may be set up to install malicious software on the computers of those that visit them.
In the Saint’s story:
It’s Super Bowl win for the 2009 season after decades of frustration as the league’s laughing-stock, was seen as a vindication of the power of sport to unite a community and help it over come adversity. It’s…
It’s SB Its
In Piling On: The Saints of Football
Farve should be Favre
Carlyle Moulton,
Thanks for pointing those comments out. They’re gone. Probably just someone trying get people to click on their links, but it could be worse.
I never click on a link in a comment unless it’s from one of our regulars.
Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/scitech/science/030212-japan-invents-speech-jamming-gun-that-silences-people-mid-sentence
Just requesting a clarification. In [this](http://jonathanturley.org/2012/02/24/pennsylvania-judge-throws-out-charge-for-harassing-atheist-while-calling-the-victim-a-doofus/) article, you say “Here is part of the hearing transcript:” did you quote from the official court transcript, or the transcript provided by the plaintiff?
Holder: U.S. can lawfully target American citizens
The U.S. government has the right to order the killing of American citizens overseas if they are senior al-Qaeda leaders who pose an imminent terrorist threat and cannot reasonably be captured, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Monday.
“Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen — even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaeda in a foreign land – is among the gravest that government leaders can face,” Holder said in a speech at Northwestern University’s law school in Chicago. “The American people can be — and deserve to be — assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/holder-us-can-lawfully-target-american-citizens/2012/03/05/gIQANknFtR_story.html
Secret U.S. memo sanctioned killing of Aulaqi
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/aulaqi-killing-reignites-debate-on-limits-of-executive-power/2011/09/30/gIQAx1bUAL_story.html
Pink Slime For School Lunch: Government Buying 7 Million Pounds Of Ammonia-Treated Meat For Meals
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/pink-slime-for-school-lun_n_1322325.html
Excerpt;
Pink slime — that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade — may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King, but is being brought in by the tons for the nation’s school lunch program.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is purchasing 7 million pounds of the “slime” for school lunches, The Daily reports. Officially termed “Lean Beef Trimmings,” the product is a ground-up combination of beef scraps, cow connective tissues and other beef trimmings that are treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill pathogens like salmonella and E. coli. It’s then blended into traditional meat products like ground beef and hamburger patties.
“We originally called it soylent pink,” microbiologist Carl Custer, who worked at the Food Safety Inspection Service for 35 years, told The Daily. “We looked at the product and we objected to it because it used connective tissues instead of muscle. It was simply not nutritionally equivalent [to ground beef]. My main objection was that it was not meat.”
Bad Advise: Hoyer Encourages Fluke To Sue Limbaugh For Defamation
Correction: Bad ADVICE: Hoyer Encourages Fluke To Sue Limbaugh For Defamation
Holder Promises To Kill Citizens With Care
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The Obama Administration continues to stonewall efforts to get it to acknowledge the existence of a memo authorizing the killed of Awlaki.
Correction: The Obama Administration continues to stonewall efforts to get it to acknowledge the existence of a memo authorizing the KILLING of Awlaki.
Bin Laden WAS NOT buried at sea, but flown to the U.S. for cremation at secret location, claims intelligence boss in leaked email
Emails purported to be obtained by hacker group Anonymous dispute White House version of terror leader’s final resting place
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111001/Bin-Laden-WAS-NOT-buried-sea-sent-U-S-cremation-leaked-emails-reveal.html#ixzz1oM4hwHfW
In the The Bear Essentials: American Hunter Denies Story On Chinese Polar Bear Hunts post:
The , Lupien is a professional hunter who is “teaching the Chinese about conservation” by leading trips to shoot down male polar bears. SB:
???
“Angry Birds, Meet Jailbirds: New App Helps You Snitch on Your Friends”
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/app-homeland-security/#disqus_thread
Excerpt:
On its face, there’s nothing about the app that protects either the civil liberties of citizens or the busy schedules of West Virginia homeland security operatives. You don’t have to affirm that you have evidence of a crime, or even a suspected crime, to send information to the Fusion Center. Nor is it clear how long the Fusion Center can keep information on U.S. citizens or persons sent to it through the app. (More broadly, the guidelines for the nationwide network of homeland security Fusion Centers don’t spell out so-called “minimization” procedures for any of the information they collect.)
In other words, there’s nothing in the app to stop you from snapping a picture of your annoying neighbor and sending it to the attention of federal and state counterterrorism agents in West Virginia, who can keep information on your neighbor’s face, body and perhaps his vehicle for an unspecified period of time.
It’s also unclear why West Virginia thinks its citizens need app-based suspicious activity reporting. A February study from the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University found that not a single plot or alleged plot involving Muslim-American terrorism occurred in the state in 2011. (.PDF) A Washington Post investigative project in 2010 found that West Virginia was one of only 15 states that has no terrorism convictions in state or federal courts since 9/11 and ranked 36th in states receiving federal homeland-security cash in 2009.
“We’re currently looking at our other services to see what else makes sense to move to the mobile platform,” the state’s homeland security director, Jimmy Gianato, said in the statement. It might not be long before the Department of Homeland Security — which has been exploring new spy tools derived from the military — follows suit on a national level.
In the Lack of Harmony: Three-Year-Old Girl Left At Chuck E. Cheese . . . Parents Find Out Watching The 11 O’Clock News post:
Kelly was doing sole duty year ago when his youngest, a 19-month-old girl, … SB:
Kelly was doing sole duty ten years ago when his youngest, a 19-month-old girl, …
/What is “sole duty?”
Gloria Allred seeks Rush Limbaugh prosecution
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73829.html
Bdaman,
Wouldn’t this be better posted on the thread…. Just saying….good link…..
how does this work in terms of leaving suggestions for topics?
how will we know that the suggestion has been found meritous?
etc.
PS I suppose it’s a blind feed, ie tha professor can’t have time to discuss, communicate with commenters, etc.
http://xkcd.com/1028/
12-year-old US girl suing school over Facebook comments row
A 12-year-old girl is suing her school in Minnesota after being forced to hand over her Facebook password and punished for posts she made on the social networking site.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9137359/12-year-old-US-girl-suing-school-over-Facebook-comments-row.html
The Justice Department’s actions are not final. Both South Carolina and Texas have filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Washington to be allowed to enforce their new voting laws Washington Post
Is this worth visiting?
I thought I posted this but your post this morning reminded me of it.
ATTALLA, ALABAMA – A nine-year-old girl died after being forced to run non-stop for three hours as punishment for eating a candy bar and lying about it, according to police in Alabama. Her grandmother and stepmother now face murder charges.
http://www.wric.com/story/16999292/police-ala-girl-dies-after-being-
http://www.www9.salon.com/2012/03/14/obamas_personal_role_in_a_journalists_imprisonment/singleton/
Cybersecurity: Cyber Crime Protection Security Act (S.2111) — A Legal
Analysis, March 12, 2012:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42403.pdf
EXCERPT of blog
This conflict between the FOIA and an expansive view of executive
authority normally remains latent, because judges almost never order an
agency to release a classified document. Instead, courts typically defer
to the executive on questions of national security. In close cases, and
when an agency senses that its own position is weak, it will often
declassify and release a document without being ordered by the court to do
so. It thereby preserves at least the appearance of autonomy and
exclusivity in classification policy.
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/03/not_logical.html
Is the expected sentence for Nozette who sold his countries space secrets for money relative that expected to be demanded for Manning, an instable immature idealist working for, perhaps, world peace?
Different laws? Different intentions on the side of the prosecution.
IE, it is relatively OK to sell your countries most prized scientific secrets for money, but damnable to life imprisonment for idealism resulting in ridicule for the DOS, et al.
Has the potential damage to our nation been properly evaluated?
And is the DOJ completely free to do as they wish?
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/nozette-plea.pdf
Unknown Tech Company Defies FBI In Mystery Surveillance Case
This sort of letter is not uncommon post-9/11 and with the passage of the U.S. Patriot Act, which gave the FBI increased authority to issue so-called National Security Letters (NSLs). In 2010, the FBI sent more than 24,000 NSLs to ISPs and other companies, seeking information on more than 14,000 individuals in the U.S.
“Video: Chicago Police Officer Chokes Young Man Mouthing Off At St. Patrick’s Day”
Mr. Turley,
To provide you with more accurate information so that the magnitude of this situation can be accurately perceived, I will provide you with the below:
The individual in this video is a FEMALE. Yes, FEMALE.
Also, she was never booked; after the police used excessive techniques to detain her, they must have realized that they were at fault because she was never arrested but instead was released about 3 blocks away.
The reason this situation occurred is because about 2 minutes before her friends were involved in an altercation at Sluggers Bar in Wrigleyville and that is why the police were called. Also, none of the people involved in the altercation were arrested either.
The female featured is contemplating pursuing a lawsuit. In your opinion, is this feasible?
No more BFF’s
Schools ban children making best friends
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4203460/Schools-ban-children-making-best-friends.html
Tryvon should be Trayvon.
Pinch Me: First Truck Spills Millions of Coins All Over Highway, Second Truck Covers Loonies In Candy . . . Men Wait Anxiously For Moosehead Beer Truck
The coins are called loonies for the bird (loon) on the coin.
Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’
The Huffington Post | By Bianca Bosker Posted: 03/30/2012 6:24 pm Updated: 03/30/2012 6:40 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/al-franken-privacy-facebook-google_n_1392442.html?ref=technology
The eternal issue of integrity, how much may corporations crank it, and how much may government also.
Are there any federal laws of pertinence, and what value is there in contracts no one reads before clicking OK? Do industry “standards” have a role to play? Are there any limits saying how much difference the value of the contract may have to each part before it exceeds this for one part—-and thus there is no reasonableness in it?
Say it ain’t so Joe
“I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected Sheriff and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government,” he said in a letter the Justice Department today. “And so to the Obama administration, who is attempting to strong arm me into submission only for its political gain, I say, ‘This will not happen, not on my watch!’”
DOJ Breaks Off Negotiations With Defiant Sheriff Joe Arpaio
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/doj-breaks-off-negotiations-with-defiant-sheriff-joe-arpaio/
Professor Turley, there have been some updates in the Crystal Cox “Judge rules bloggers are not journalists” case. It sounds as though you’ll be a bit happier with the outcome as it is now apparently narrowed to “Crystal Cox’s behavior is that she is a loon, and maybe a blogger, but is no journalist”
http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/apr/06/combating-bad-speech-more-speech/
Amy Alkon has a good collection of the interesting links More Speech Is The Best Cure For Bad Speech
Two links… Not sure if this’ll post.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/world/europe/russia-drops-charges-against-doctor-in-jail-death.html?hp
In Russia, Charges Are Dropped in Jail Death
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Published: April 8, 2012
MOSCOW — Russian investigators have dropped the charges against a former prison doctor who was one of only two people to face punishment in the death of a 37-year-old lawyer whose arrest and maltreatment underscored the selective and sometimes brutal nature of Russia’s justice system.
The doctor, Larisa A. Litvinova, had been charged with professional negligence for failing to administer appropriate medical care to the lawyer, Sergei L. Magnitsky, in the weeks before his death in November 2009.
But Russia’s top investigative agency quietly ruled last week that the statute of limitations had run out in the case, according to a copy of the ruling made available on Sunday to The New York Times by Mr. Magnitsky’s former employer, Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund based in London.
JT,
I think you may want to take a look cleaning out the thread about the tourist getting beaten. Several of the comments in there have crossed a line that I remember you having deleted comments for in the past.
As always, I respect whatever choice you make, but I thought you might not be aware of just how bad things have gotten.
Agree with Gyges……… Someone wanted to shock with misogynism and now racism. Don’t know if it is one and the same.
Yeah. It’s pure racist filth for sure.
I’ve never written anything on corrections and never once complained about a post or poster but this material to which Gyges points is bad. Thus I agree with him, SwM, and Gene.
Blouise, the blog will attract more of these types if it is not taken down.
Agree with Gyges and the others. Time to do some sewer cleaning and maybe bring out the banhammer. It is beyond ugly. This story must have been linked to on some of the skinhead type sites.
SwM,
When I say I never once complained about a post or poster, I meant “officially’ to the blog owner.
Blouise, Neither have I although I certainly could have.
The Links in “Divine Comedy” go to the wrong pages.
Thor’s hammer:
“However, she switched from Thor’s hammer to his hubby in 2006.”
I think you may have meant wife unless you know something about this disgrace of an attorney that we don’t.
Andrew Thomas, Phoenix Prosecutor, Disbarred For ‘Defiled’ Public Trust
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/andrew-thomas-disbarred-phoenix-prosecutor_n_1415815.html
Former Missouri Gov. Roger Wilson and a St. Louis lawyer were indicted on a federal misdemeanor charge late Wednesday for allegedly laundering campaign contributions to the Missouri Democratic Party through a St. Louis law firm, the U.S. Attorney’s office said Thursday morning.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-missouri-governor-st-louis-attorney-indicted-in-campaign-contributions/article_b9cbffb6-84a7-11e1-afd6-0019bb30f31a.html#ixzz1rqyl2GmB
in “Roma Advocates Seek Ban Of German Magazine Over Incitement”:
“This morning we have another such story out of Germany over a cover on the magazine Die Weltwoche, on the increasing numbers of Roma in the country.”
This and the title seem to indicate that “Die Weltwoche” is a German magazine describing Roma in Germany, when it is in fact Swiss describing alleged behavior in Switzerland.
To quote from the BBC site the blog entry itself uses as a source:
“The council for Germany’s Roma (Gypsies) has gone to court to get a Swiss magazine banned in the country after it used an image of a Roma boy pointing a gun on its cover. [...] He accepted that it had sparked outrage but said it highlighted growing “crime tourism” in Switzerland.”
Quote below from your blog of Oct 15 2011:
Madison wrote:
We are free today substantially but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when that day comes, when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nation to the changed conditions.
The quote is included in the 1972 book entitled The Great Quotations: The Wit and Wisdom of the Ages. The book was written by George Seldes who spent thirty years researching the book for accuracy.</i
The authenticity of the Madison quote is doubtful. This quote does not seem to exist other than through the extemporaneous speech of Daniel De Leon in 1900 to the Socialist Labor Party, then quoted by George Seldes who (supposedly) researched it. Why can’t it be traced to Madison himself?
See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:James_Madison
the quote is apochryphal, that is why
Second Suspect Arrested In Brutal Attack On Tourist In Baltimore
Baltimore police have arrested a second suspect in the beaten, stripping, and robbing of a tourist in Baltimore.
Correction: Baltimore police have arrested a second suspect in the BEATING, stripping, and robbing of a tourist in Baltimore.
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South Carolina Man Arrested For Assaulting Reporter On Live Television
Ashley Taylor, 23, was doing a live report on raising crime for WMBF in the area.
Correction: Ashley Taylor, 23, was doing a live report on RISING crime for WMBF in the area.
In “Sweat Equity…”
…a new bee that leaves off the sweat of humans.
leaves should be lives
http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/videos/nsa-whistleblowers-warn-of-secret-spying-programs-that-can-target-anyone/
In the posting about test scores:
Lowing SB Lowering
Two-Thirds of Florida Students Fail Writing Tests This Year . . . Board of Education Solves Problem By Lowing Passing Scores
*****
The Florida Board of Education has a curious way to combating poor passage rates…
Correction: The Florida Board of Education has a curious way OF combating poor passage rates…
OR
The Florida Board of Education has a curious way to COMBAT poor passage rates…
New Evidence in Zimmerman Case Undermines Prosecution’s Case on Second Degree Murder Charge
You wrote:
“Another benefit to the prosecution is that Zimmerman’s father is shown denying that the voice calling out for help was his son — though he later changed that view when he says he was given a better recording.”
*****
It was Martin’s father–not Zimmerman’s father–who changed his view after hearing a better recording:
Cops, Witnesses Back Up George Zimmerman’s Version of Trayvon Martin Shooting
http://abcnews.go.com/US/cops-witnesses-back-george-zimmermans-version/story?id=16371852#.T7ZDRhzFH1E
Excerpt:
It has been such a contentious case that even the evidence is being disputed.
The police report states that Trayvon Martin’s father told an investigator after listening to 911 tapes that captured a man’s voice frantically callling for help that it was not his son calling for help.
But Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father, claims that is not true. The Martin family lawyer Ben Crump told ABC News that Tracy Martin initially listened to a distorted version of the 911 calls and said he could not identify the voice. But when he listened to a second tape that had been “cleaned,” “He immediately broke down in tears because he knew it was his son calling for help,” Crump said.
Thanks EM, I thought I have changed that in the original draft.
Dear Professor Turley,
I’m sorry for posting here, but I could not locate another more suitable way to communicate with you.
My one simple question is:
Who is more powerful, the Supreme Court, or the people of the US (via the legislature)?
A short answer, or links to an answer, are both fine.
I appreciate your considering my request. I need to know this, to effectively respond to my Democratic friends, who think that we must absolutely vote for Obama, so that we can influence the future composition of the SC.
Sincerely,
Usha A.
Two Attorneys Disqualified After Scheduling Depositions at Dunkin’ Donuts and One Played “Angry Birds” and Draw Pictures of Male Genitalia To Mock Opposing Counsel
Correction: Two Attorneys Disqualified After Scheduling Depositions at Dunkin’ Donuts and One Played “Angry Birds” and DREW Pictures of Male Genitalia To Mock Opposing Counsel
*****
This case in Miami shows another recent case of a lawyer in Texas was charged with sanctionable conduct for a bizarre series of emails to opposing counsel concerning the scheduling of depositions.
Correction: This case in Miami shows another recent case of a lawyer in Texas WHO was charged with sanctionable conduct for a bizarre series of emails to opposing counsel concerning the scheduling of depositions.
*****
I thought I had been in some heated depositions in my careers, but I now feel like a mere piker practicioner.
Correction: I thought I had been in some heated depositions in my CAREER, but I now feel like a mere piker practicioner.
*****
Ironically, I was just discussing the practice of abuse lawyers with an associate with whom I practice.
Correction: Ironically, I was just discussing the practice of abuse BY lawyers with an associate with whom I practice.
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Will Hear ACLU Case Challenging Warrantless Wiretapping Law
By Josh Bell, ACLU at 10:16am
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/breaking-news-supreme-court-will-hear-aclu-case-challenging-warrantless
Interesting post about propaganda keeps coming up error, not found. Ironic it is on propaganda,
Jonathan,
Here’s an interesting story from Wired:
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech
By David Kravets
May 22, 2012
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/anonymous-online-speech-ban/
Excerpt;
Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”?
Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as blogs and newspapers, to “remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post.”
No votes on the measures have been taken. But unless the First Amendment is repealed, they stand no chance of surviving any constitutional scrutiny even if they were approved.
Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte said the legislation would cut down on “mean-spirited and baseless political attacks” and “turns the spotlight on cyberbullies by forcing them to reveal their identity.”
Had the internet been around in the late 1700s, perhaps the anonymously written Federalist Papers would have to be taken down unless Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay revealed themselves.
Diane Tran, Honor Student At Texas High School, Jailed For Missing School
The Huffington Post | By Timothy Stenovec
Posted: 05/27/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/diane-tran-honors-student-jailed-texas-high-school-truancy_n_1549160.html
Excerpt:
Diane Tran, a 17-year-old honor student in Texas, was forced to spend the night in jail last week after missing too many classes, KHOU-11′s Sherry Williams reports.
The Willis High School junior, who helps support two siblings, has both a full time and part-time job. She said that she’s often too tired to go to school.
“She goes from job to job from school,” Devin Hill, one of Tran’s classmates, told KHOU-11. “She stays up until 7:00 in the morning doing her homework.”
In an interview with KHOU-11, Tran said she takes AP Spanish, college level algebra and dual credit English and history courses. Her parents divorced and no longer live near her, so she lives with the family that owns the wedding venue where she works on weekends.
According to Texas law, if a student has ten or more unexcused absences within a six-month period, the school district may refer the student to a juvenile court. “In such cases, resolution of the issue is entirely in the hands of the court,” reads a statement on the website of the Willis Independent School District.
After being warned by a judge in April about missing too much school, Tran was arrested in court on Wednesday and required to spend the night in jail, according to the above video from KHOU-11. She has also been fined $100.
NYTimes editorial 28th May 2012
Vigilance…..
“In the trial of Alex Blueford, an Arkansas jury voted him not guilty on charges of capital and first-degree murder, but deadlocked on lesser charges. By a 6-to-3 vote last week, the Supreme Court misguidedly ruled that the state can retry him on all charges, including those for murder.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/opinion/a-failure-of-vigilance.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120528
RE: DOJ findings re it’s own attorneys conduct.
“Even the finding of misconduct and brief suspension was contested within the department by Terrence Berg, a lawyer with the department’s Professional Misconduct Review Unit.”
Did he/she want higher or lower punishment levels or for example not guilty versus criminal charges.
What was wnated is not clear to me.
This assumes that a contesting suppoting greater punishment is possible in the DOJ machinery. Here it would be. Even public appeal is possible for Ombudsman review. Why is investigation not separate form the dept.?
A serparate investigation was menttioned. What?
Another weekend has passed and the work by the guest blawgers was outstanding as always. I didn’t do much commenting but the reading was greatly entertaining. Thanks!
Bar ethics takes on a former DA forced to resign.
Small potatoes or of principle interest.
The N&O paper did a 3-part series on the DA. A women, if it mattered.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/30/2097703/clines-trial.html
‘First Amendment rights can be terminated’: When cops, cameras don’t mix
Jonathan,
Are you going to hold the guest bloggers to any standard of conduct whatsoever? The recurring maliciousness of some of the commentary by these bloggers is clearly incompatible with your professional and public stature, and your stated mission on this website.
How many times are you going to tolerate it? Do you really expect genuine engagement and meaningful contributions from an audience that has to put up with haranguing and insults from a phalanx of moderators at every turn?
jkersey,
I’ve hung around here for a bit over a year, and Professor Turley seems to take a hands off, free speech, we’re all adults here attitude, and I actually appreciate that.
In the thread you point out, I clearly trolled Gene, and while the guy is definitely a certifiable liar and a total jackass, well, I can’t blame him for going off his nut. That’s what makes him Gene. That and being mostly wrong about everything.
The guest bloggers say really stupid things, I mean amazingly dumb things, so I mostly avoid what they post on the weekends. But kudos to Professor Turley for giving morans such a prominent blog to preen on, and at possible personal risk to himself.
jkersey,
Did my rough handling of a confessed troll offend you? I treat people as they treat me. It’s called the ethic of reciprocity. If that bothers you, I guess that’s what I get for taking my lessons from Isocrates, Jesus, Rabbi Hillel, Buddha and Confucius. In the end, they are only words, not sticks and stones, but I am under no obligation to suffer fools let alone gladly. Some anonymous Internet troll is allowed to say all manner of things about me personally while I post under my real name and yet I’m not allowed to respond because of your delicate sensibilities?
I don’t think so.
Free speech is a two edged blade.
If you engage genuinely and make meaningful contributions, you will be responded to in kind. If you choose, like anon, to engage otherwise, you’ll be treated otherwise. Try it.
I’m exactly as nice as you let me be or as vicious as you invite and I’m egalitarian in application.
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anon,
It’s spelled “morons”, troll.
You’re such a fool Gene:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moran
But there is a difference between a confessed troll, which I am not, and the occasional trolling of an asshole like you.
“I’m exactly as nice as you let me be or as vicious as you invite and I’m egalitarian in application.”
As ????????? reminded me in that bloomberg thread, you have a long history here, and many people have complained about your abuse before. Abuse in terms of language, as well as abuse of privacy.
Gene Howington, you are a liar, a fool, a creep, and a privacy invading asshole.
Here you are beating up Sandi Saunders for no reason other than you can:
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/01/15/the-dhs-wants-to-know-whose-spreading-the-news-or-expressing-an-opinion-your-rights-optional/#comment-315279
Google tells me Sandi wrote FIVE blog comments here, and then left the blog completely AFTER this abuse from you.
It is behavior like yours that embarrasses lawyers and bloggers and a testament to Professor Turley that he puts up with your bullshit and the embarrassment it causes him on a regular basis.
I’m no troll buddy, as mespo’s coke post today proves, and I will not stand by as others do and put up with the egregious dumbassery and abuse you spew on a daily basis.
But I do understand you dislike it when I prove you wrong, or point out your abuse, or point out your homophobic remarks.
You can take your legal pad and jam it.
Gene, considering how on this blog you have defended the outing of others and defended privacy invasion, you are the last person here that should be complaining about people that come here and comment anonymously.
You are a total embarrassment to the legal profession.
1) Call me when “moran” is in Webster’s or the OED. Until then, it’s a hipster made up term for people to lazy to learn what the word “ideologue” means.
2) One cogent post doesn’t remove your history of repeatedly attacking guest bloggers including mespo. Even a causal perusal of your posts shows a history of almost nothing but an anti-guest blogger agenda and a series of disruptions that would have long ago ended with your banishment at a moderated blog. If you don’t like it that when you give people shit that they can give it back better than you give it? Perhaps it is you who should work on their delivery.
3) Apparently you didn’t learn the lesson I taught using Sandi Saunders “free speech as along as Sandi approves” nonsense.
4) Good luck convincing anyone, let alone the Professor, that I’m homophobic.
5) If the Professor has a problem with me, he knows how to contact me.
anon,
I fully support this blog’s anonymous posting policy. No one has been “outed” here. Point to the instance of an anonymous poster having their identity revealed in public here by either a guest blogger or our host? By anyone? At any time?
You can’t, but I’m willing to giggle watching you try.
Point to the instance of an anonymous poster having their identity revealed in public here by either a guest blogger or our host?
No one is accusing Professor Turley of this, but you guys confessed to exploiting a well recognized privacy leak of WordPress and you did it to out sockpuppets, which were then outed.
There was no need for any of that behavior, and you went on to excoriate the Government for trying to do the same thing.
It is shocking, and I hope your clients learn that you have no respect or understanding of privacy or confidentiality.
Though the wordpress leak has been known for ages, I have never heard anyone at any other blog but this one go out and exploit it.
And worse, the reasons for doing so were so shallow and plain wrong:
1. Sockpuppets — which were never really an issue, and were certainly never your issue, and maybe of Professor Turley’s concern
2. Dr. Kevin Kessler’s claim he was doing privacy and security research that could’ve been done on his own blog and not using the real data of commenters here.
You assholes all should’ve been tossed out on your ear.
anon,
I don’t call looking at ways to detect the manufacture of false consensus, a well known tactic of propagandists and their trolls as either shallow or wrong in fostering the free and open discussion of ideas based on their merit, however, that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. The matter has been addressed internally and Dr. Kessler is no longer using this site for data in his proof of concept and has indeed moved on to other projects altogether. The bottom line is no one’s anonymity has ever been compromised here making your accusations moot and simply kvetching about people you personally don’t like.
I suggest you get over it.
“I don’t call looking at ways to detect the manufacture of false consensus, a well known tactic of propagandists and their trolls as either shallow or wrong in fostering the free and open discussion of ideas based on their merit,”
This is appropriate research to be studied in society at large, to be studied in regards to well conducted anonymous studies at large players in society (google, FOX, MSNBC, etc.)
This is inappropriate research to be conducted without disclosure at the blog of a civil libertarian.
The bottom line is no one’s anonymity has ever been compromised here
Since no third party investigation was ever held or reported, no one can know this but the fuckfaces that invaded the privacy in the first place. We only have your authority on that, and you were a participant.
Anon said:
So it is appropriate for, say, Gravatar, to mine information (with the capability of determining both IP address and email of anyone posting on a Gravatar-enabled blog like this one, if they so choose [do you believe that they voluntarily abstain from doing this?]) and use it how they see fit (presumably to make money, not to publish the results), but it is inappropriate for a private individual to collect the freely available information that every patron of this blog receives via their web browser and make use of it. Do you believe that the people who make IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, et al. don’t bother to use their software to collect data on web use? I guess you believe that it is better to do research under the aegis of our upstanding corporate citizens so they can use it for their own benefit (presumably without publicizing it) than for a private individual to make use of freely available information–a tiny fraction of what is available to fine, upstanding companies like you mention–using only their own time, effort, and ingenuity and do with it as they please?
Umm… how do you know about it if it was never disclosed? In fact, after one of the guest bloggers was falsely accused of privacy violations, I personally disclosed the project on the blog and explained what was done as well as informing Professor Turley and the guest bloggers in detail what went on, when, and who was involved privately. After another guest blogger was the victim of cyber-stalking, I explained what had been done–in detail, with examples, including outing every single gravatar and handle I have used here (I used a new one a little earlier–guess what it was????????
) In addition, there was another email discussion with Professor Turley and the guest bloggers (more about this below). It seems an awful lot like your statement is completely false. Also, why is this research the sole province of corporations and inappropriate for anyone else?
Yes, I know this is a quote you’re responding to (and some kind of formatting and attribution would be nice–just sayin’…), but it is a factually correct statement. In addition, one would think that concepts like “innocent until proven guilty” might be appropriate behavior at the blog of a civil libertarian… (or is it only your straw man liberties that must be preserved at all cost?)
Since there is no “there” there, I don’t really see the need of a third party investigation, but I would welcome any inquiry–especially given that I’ve already truthfully disclosed what I did and no one can demonstrate that their privacy has been invaded (the right to sockpuppets not being in the Constitution last time I checked and the admonition that your words may be used against you having been in Miranda warnings for years). Not to mention the fact that baseless accusations have been made against myself (and other non-anonymous people) by various anonymous individuals (or maybe just you). I’ll gladly take any opportunity to defend myself against lies made by nameless trolls like yourself.
I would point out that Gene made two factual errors: first, my name is Kevin Kesseler and, secondly, that I haven’t been working on the software. In fact, the software is operational and I’m in the process of rebuilding and updating my database for this site. I maintain that what I do with the software and the intelligence it develops is my business, but I’m willing to submit that judgement to public scrutiny here. In an email exchange during the events last fall (which included all of the guest bloggers), Professor Turley expressed his disappointment in my actions.
So, Professor Turley, I would like to ask you what, exactly, have I done that is injurious to privacy or otherwise merits your disappointment? If you don’t respond to this, I will take it as tacit approval that what I do with my software and the information that you make available on your blog is my business, but if you can explain to me why I have fewer rights than a corporate citizen (or how you plan on stopping those corporations from doing the same [or worse]) or how what I did violated anyone’s privacy (unlike the response to it by an anonymous individual), then I will reconsider. Also, it would be nice to know if making baseless accusations against other posters (whether they be anonymous, guest bloggers, or just people willingly using their real name) is appropriate behavior here.
“In an email exchange during the events last fall (which included all of the guest bloggers), Professor Turley expressed his disappointment in my actions.”
Thank you Dr. Kevin Kesseler, that was an interesting piece of information.
“So it is appropriate for, say, Gravatar, to mine information (with the capability of determining both IP address and email of anyone posting on a Gravatar-enabled blog like this one, if they so choose [do you believe that they voluntarily abstain from doing this?]) and use it how they see fit”
No, I don’t think it’s appropriate for WordPress to do this. In this entire time where I was posting this as a WordPress bug they refused to fix and condemning them for that and pointing to others also condemning wordpress, where did you get the impression I thought this was appropriate for them?
” Do you believe that the people who make IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, et al. don’t bother to use their software to collect data on web use? ”
THEY DISCLOSE IT AND ASK YOU IF YOU WISH TO BE PART OF IT.
THEY DISCUSS HOW THEY ANONYMIZE THE DATA AND HOW THEY WILL USE IT.
“I used a new one a little earlier–guess what it was????????”
Well, thanks for wasting my time digging up the links to your egregiously terrible behavior Dr. Kevin Kesseler, Ph.D.
“but it is a factually correct statement.”
How would anyone know that? Only the participants in this invasion are saying no one was injured!
“In addition, one would think that concepts like “innocent until proven guilty” might be appropriate behavior at the blog of a civil libertarian…”
You admitted all your terrible, unethical, immoral behaviors! You are not innocent! You are a miscreant, Dr. Kevin Kesseler!
You are a horrible, evil, little person, collecting the names and email addresses of commenters in an attempt to out them.
You ARE Oliver Crangle!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_O'Clock
“In fact, the software is operational and I’m in the process of rebuilding and updating my database for this site.”
I absolutely still encourage you to open source and publish your software.
But provide WordPress 30 days notice before you do so.
As I have explained before, this is the protocol for exposing security and privacy leaks.
You could be a white hat Slartibartfast.
Publish this, do some work to show what a privacy leak it is, and get WordPress to stop it.
and updating my database for this site.
BUT DO NOT DO THIS ON A SITE THAT IS NOT YOUR OWN!
anon,
As I understand the law, part of achieving standing to bring a complaint is showing how one was injured in particular. Can you show how you, or anyone else, was harmed by my actions? Can you point out any information which I disclosed that I could not have obtained by the methods I described? Or do you just want to call me names, make baseless allegations, and smear me with lies?
Whoops, forgot to change IDs… I’m ???????? I don’t know how people manage to keep their sock puppets straight.
‘Crippled’ Censorship: Comedian With Muscular Dystrophy, Promoter Detained For Using Offensive Term
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/crippled-comedian-muscular-dystrophy-detained_n_1608895.html
Professor Turley,
Nice post on the Supreme Court. Just wanted to point out a small error in paragraph six;
“Many citizens and scholars alike started looking critically at the Court’s structure after the Bush v. Gore decision – and the power that just five individuals.”
After the hyphen the sentence isn’t complete, could read, ‘ – and the power of just five individuals,’ or ‘ – and the power that just five individuals have.’
@JonathanT – I would strongly encourage you to restrict the ability of Gene Howington to delete comments outright. Please see deleted post between 7:17 PM and 7:57 PM on the thread, “Ancient Rome, Japan…”
Why was this post speculating on credit for sources deleted without comment instead of being addressed publicly? Did it hit too close to home?
Are you going to exercise any controls over your guest bloggers, or are you simply going to allow Howington to risk your name and reputation indefinitely?
At what point do you consider that your public relationship with this guest blogger is failing and no longer worth the risk? When there is scandal to your name and public standing that you cannot undo?
Delete what? You’re obviously posting to attempt to try to cause trouble in your persistent anti-guest blogger agenda . . . anon. And no, I didn’t have to look up anything to know it’s you. Your writing style gives you away every time. I listed the sources for my article which started at Yahoo News where I first saw the story. If they weren’t good enough for you, you’ve at least addressed your complaint to the right place for a change.
Hey Gene, I am not “Do NOT delete (this means you Howington)”.
I have signed my name “anon” on all my postings.
Believe it or not, there is more than one person on the net that thinks you’re an idiot that brings shame to himself and this blog.
You know what they say about opinions.
Your statements Re: We demand a lot from our teachers is out of bounds when you demand it when they are “off duty”. Off duty is private time even when posting on blogs or Facebook. Please excuse my alarm at the overreaching of PC ideologues, but when you start getting in to my private time and life you have breached the unreachable line. Former school bus driver.
Re: Right particle, wrong god. Pls. fix egregious typos that make story say the exact opposite of the TRUTH. Twice, statements that should be in the negative are in the positive. Last sentence of first paragraph and last sentence of the piece. Both could be remedied by the appropriately placed addition of the word “not”.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/10/1611237/executive-order-grants-us-govt-new-powers-over-communication-systems
FYI
In the article about the pyramids today you write, “Last year, the Salafi party suggested dumping tons of wax on the pyramids to turn them into misshapen blogs — burying their offense to Islam.”
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I think it should be “blobs” rather than “blogs.” That’s the word used in the source article. On the other hand, since the mullahs do revere their ancient ways so much they may they want to write a blog entry on the wax covered structures with their styluses. So maybe either way works.
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Another FYI: Eliot Spitzer interviews Drake, Wiebe and Binney — three American heroes.
http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/videos/nsa-whistle-blowers-warn-that-the-us-government-can-use-surveillance-to-see-into-your-life/
“National Security Agency whistle blowers Thomas Drake, former senior official; Kirk Wiebe, former senior analyst; and William Binney, former technical director, return to “Viewpoint” to talk about their allegations that the NSA has conducted illegal domestic surveillance. All three men are providing evidence in a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the NSA.
Drake says the spying affects “the entire country,” citing a “key decision made shortly after 9/11 which began to rapidly turn the United States of America into the equivalent of a foreign nation for dragnet blanket electronic surveillance.”
“It’s hard to believe that your government’s gonna actually do it,” Wiebe says. “That was the shocker.”
Binney mentions a new NSA facility under construction in Bluffdale, Utah: “That facility alone can probably hold somewhere close to a hundred years worth of the communications of the world.” Binney continues, “Once you accumulate that kind of data – they’re accumulating against everybody – [it's] resident in programs that can pull it together in timelines and things like that and let them see into your life.””
“In the mid-1990s, Hotung the home of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy for $5.88 and lived with his eight children (not far from my house in McLean).”
I assume this means he *bought* Ted’s home for a little less than six bucks? Why can’t I get in on deals like this?
You say your own home isn’t far from there. Not to pry, but did you pay more? More than a ten-spot, even?
Famous Spanish lawyer to represent WikiLeaks and Assange (video)
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/329314#ixzz21eNPM7Ur
Terry Davis Accused Of Stealing Ethics Book, Attempting To Sell It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/terry-davis-accused-of-stealing-ethics-book_n_1725350.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
Gene I assume his face will soon replace words in the dictionary for definition of irony.
leejcaroll,
Yeah. That story was one of those, “Oh, you’ve got to be kidding” moments.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Baby-killer-mom-found-working-in-area-Walmart-165199856.html
Gene, a while back we expressed our affection for “Person of Interest”; well, the real life roll-out is ‘now’, in Manhattan and to be expanded to other areas of NYC. The “Domain Awareness System”, real time tracking of any target apparently:
“For example, officers watching crime suspects via a live video feed will also immediately see arrest records, related crimes in the area and other data that could build a portrait of the individual under scrutiny.”
I wrote this on June 19: “Does anyone but me think that the intro sequence from “Person Of Interest” is what law enforcement is going to look like shortly?
I will reiterate my contention that all of the tools for an absolute security state (read totalitarian state) are available but just need a bit more refinement and integration for implementation. …” and you responded:
” I love “Person of Interest”. It’s my favorite documentary on television.”
It was funny then but now, not so much.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/new-york-police-launch-high-tech-camera-surveillance-system/
I signed up to receive these posts because I enjoyed seeing Mr. Turley on MSNBC. However, I am flummoxed by the number of grammatical errors I find on almost a daily basis. For example, here is a (or is it two?) paragraph(s) from today’s email:
“This apparently include a lack of conferral with the dean and the faculty on the decision to move the law school to a downtown building.
Clark noted “You acquired the building downtown and deemed it to be the new law school building without adequate investigation of its suitability and without any notice or consultation with the law school leadership.” She also cited financial decision made without conferral.”
Somehow, I didn’t expect this frequency from someone so erudite.
I dont comment a lot but when I do I write what I am thinking and don;t always edit it for grammar, syntex, punctuation, even typos, etc. I come for the interesting, lively, and often educational value of the debate.
leejcaroll,
You are right that the discussion is what matters.
Kaitlin Nootbaar, Oklahoma High School Valedictorian, Denied Diploma For Using ‘Hell’ In Speech
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/kaitlin-nootbaar-oklahoma_n_1808618.html
Excerpt;
Kaitlin Nootbaar, a straight-A Oklahoma high school student, is being denied her diploma because she used the word “hell” in her graduation speech as valedictorian, and she and her parents are furious.
In delivering her address during the Prague High School graduation ceremony in May, the teen alluded to instances where people would ask her what she wanted to do with her life as graduation approached, to which she said, “How the hell do I know? I’ve changed my mind so many times,” her father David Nootbaar told KFOR.
The statement received laughter and applause from her fellow graduates, her father said. But when Kaitlin went to collect her diploma this week, school officials said they won’t release the certificate until she writes an apology for using the word.
The script for the speech, inspired by Eclipse: The Twilight Saga, includes the word “heck,” but Kaitlin used “hell” in the moment. She says she doesn’t intend to write the apology requested, as she earned the diploma through coursework, state exams and extracurriculars. The teen has also earned a full scholarship to college.
In a statement to KFOR, Superintendent Rick Martin said officials cannot publicly comment on the confidential matter.
“She has worked so hard to stay at the top of her class and this is not right,” David Nootbar said.
A similar incident occurred in June when high school senior Anthony Cornist was denied his diploma because, school officials said, his friends and family cheered so loudly for him that it disrupted the ceremony.
Facebook Terrorism? Ex-Marine arrested, 9-11 conspiracy posts ruled ‘terrorist in nature’
Same story from ABC
…and from RT
http://rt.com/usa/news/chesterfield-veteran-facebook-arrest-106/
Manhattan businessman’s will ordered gay son to marry woman who gave birth to his child
Judge orders Chesterfield Marine’s release from psychiatric facility
http://www.nbc12.com/story/19352550/judge-orders-chesterfield-marines-release-from-psychiatric-facility
“In court Thursday, the judge said that the petition filed by Chesterfield Police was blank and didn’t list a single allegation against him. The judge said Raub suffered a “deprivation of his liberty” by being held without a clear claim.”
Here’s an interesting story:
Grant Storms, Anti-Gay Louisiana Pastor, Convicted Of Obscenity For Masturbating In Public
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/grant-storms-anti-gay-louisiana-pastor-obscenity_n_1825132.html
Excerpt:
A prominent Louisiana-based Christian pastor known for his anti-gay stance was convicted of obscenity yesterday after being caught masturbating at a public park near a children’s playground last year.
As NOLA.com reports, Rev. Grant Storm was sentenced to three years’ probation after the incident in Lafreniere Park. Storm is quoted as calling public masturbation “a thrill” in his confession. However, despite an eyewitness account cited by the New Orleans Times-Picayune which stated that 55-year-old pastor had been “looking at the playground area that contained children playing, with his zipper down” at the time of his arrest, authorities denied any suspicions that he was a pedophile.
“Lafreniere Park is a public place,” Judge Ross LaDart is quoted as saying when he announced the verdict, according to the publication. “Lafreniere Park is a place that was chosen by this defendant to engage in a history of masturbation.”
At the time of his arrest, Storms told officers on the scene he was attempting to urinate in a bottle inside van. He later admitted to concocting the story. “I’m confessing to having my hand in my pants,” Storms is quoted by Best Of New Orleans as saying at the time. “That’s all I’m going to say.”
From “Love 0 to Life”
“They believe that Alan, a former auto-parts salesman, who the killer. ”
Incomplete.
Two Choices
What would you do?…you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line, there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its
dedicated staff, he offered a question:
‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.
Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do.
He cannot understand things as other children do.
Where is the natural order of things in my son?’
The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. ‘I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat
that child.’
Then he told the following story:
Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me play?’ I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.
I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.’
Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The
boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.
In the bottom! of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.
In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands.
In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again.
Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat..
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?
Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the
plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was
putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact.
The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.
As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.
Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of reach of all team mates..
Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first!
Run to first!’
Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.
He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’
Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.
By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball .. the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.
He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head.
Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.
All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay’
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to third!
Shay, run to third!’
As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’
Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team
‘That day’, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, ‘the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world’.
Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
AND NOW A LITTLE FOOT NOTE TO THIS STORY:
We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate.
The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.
If you’re thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you’re probably sorting out the people i! n your address book who aren’t the ‘appropriate’ ones to receive this type of message Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference.
We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the ‘natural order of things.’
So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:
Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?
A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them.
You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward
May your day, be a Shay Day.
What a nice surprise this Sunday morning! Thank you.
John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration’s War On the Constitution
Saturday, 01 September 2012 08:28 By John Cusack, Truthout | Interview
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11264-john-cusack-and-jonathan-turley-on-obamas-constitution
Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief with Proper Font Size
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/faced_with_a_five-page_limit_lawyer_files_cartoon_amicus_brief_with_proper_/
Bob, Esq.,
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/09/06/amicus-party-filed-cartoon-brief-in-protest-of-five-page-limit-imposed-by-court/
Wow; been away a while.
Welcome Back Bob, Esq.!
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/10/infiltrating_occupy_austin_activists_face_charges
Interesting article highlighting the changing roles of FBI/CIA in interrogations/investigations. Looks as if the FBI has resumed the role they played before they were kicked out of the interrogation rooms for refusing to employ torture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/world/africa/attack-in-libya-was-major-blow-to-cia-efforts.html?_r=1&ref=africa
I was expecting a JT post on this: (Tuesday, September 25, 2012)
Challenge To Utah’s Anti-Bigamy Law Is Not Moot
In Brown v. Herbert, (D UT, Aug. 17, 2012), a Utah federal district court denied a motion made by the county attorney of Utah County, Utah, to dismiss as moot a challenge to the state’s Anti-Bigamy statute brought by members of an openly polygamous family (subjects of the television show Sister Wives).
Remembering Chris Stevens:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120926/us-libya-ambassador-sister/
“The family has created an online memorial to promote understanding between the Western and Arab worlds…”
rememberingchrisstevens.com
Mike S
you attributed a source to dean martin when it should be ROGER L. MARTIN.
allcaps cut and paste
oops, my bad. the moon hit my eye like a bigga pizza pie
OT Non-Correction:
The guest blawgers did a sterling job of posting this past weekend. Thanks for a great week-end read.
In “Hagee The Historian”: “Lee’s decision ultimately surrender” sb “Lee’s decision TO ultimately surrender”
http://www.aclu.org/blog/hiv-aids/you-put-tag-cattle-alabama-armband-policy-prisoners-hiv
From: “Metropolitan Transit Authority Adopts New Rule Barring Some Ads In Wake Of Controversial Pro-Israel Campaign”
“It also leave ample opportunity for selection denials” sb “It also LEAVES ample opportunity for SELCTIVE denials”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/02/1138775/-Pennsylvania-judge-halts-voter-ID-nbsp-requirement
http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/42-2012/2281-senate-report–fusion-centers-dont-drink-that-kool-aid (Senate Report = Fusion Centers, Don’t Drink That Kool-Aid by Jesselyn Radack on October 03, 2012 ( The Whistleblogger / 2012)
From Democracy Now!:
Report: Intelligence “Fusion” Centers Yield “Useless” Info
“A new government report has found an intelligence program that formed a major part of domestic counterterrorism efforts in the United States has been almost entirely useless. A bipartisan report released by a Senate subcommittee examines the network of so-called “fusion centers” created after the 9/11 attacks to promote intelligence sharing among local, state and federal authorities. Investigators have accused the centers of becoming bastions of waste that collected practically no useful information and potentially violated people’s civil liberties. According to the report, the centers, “often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence … and many produced no intelligence reporting whatsoever.”
As much as $1.4 billion in taxpayer funds designated for the centers has gone unaccounted for by federal officials, the report found.”
$1.4 billion.
anonymously posted,
Unless JT decides to do a story on that, I already have it flagged for this weekend. I can’t do the next propaganda series yet because over the last two weeks new relevant information has come up that I haven’t finished reading or integrating into that piece, so the fusion centers was my top alternate.
The Stench of Falafels
The wide circulation of the story comes after the “stench” barely clearly from a Politico story last week targeting another Republican, Mitt Romney.
Correction: The wide circulation of the story comes after the “stench” barely CLEARED from a Politico story last week targeting another Republican, Mitt Romney.
*****
The state-controlled media outlet however did not in admitting the mistake…
Correction: The state-controlled media outlet however did not ADMIT the mistake…
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This of course showed that there is little difference between the content of the Onion and the Iranian New Agency…
Correction: This of course showed that there is little difference between the content of the Onion and the Iranian NEWS Agency…
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We have also seen the same phenomenon in the United States recently as when a variety of site…
Correction: We have also seen the same phenomenon in the United States recently as when a variety of SITES…
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Various site did not see or get the veiled joke…
Correction: Various SITES did not see or get the veiled joke…
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You had to knew that the Daily Currant is a satirical newspaper.
Correction: You had to KNOW that the Daily Currant is a satirical newspaper.
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We have all been doped at one point or another…
Correction: We have all been DUPED at one point or another…
Thanks Elaine. Hit the button too fast on that one.
suggestion, not a correction
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13844-scalia-on-sodomy-abortion-and-immigrants
Hundreds of pastors back political candidates, defy tax rules
By Nanette Byrnes
Sun Oct 7, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/us-usa-tax-pulpit-idUSBRE89700E20121008
Excerpt:
(Reuters) – Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.
By publicly backing candidates for political office from the pulpit, Harris and nearly 1,500 other preachers at services across the United States were flouting a law they see as an incursion on freedom of religion and speech.
Under the U.S. tax code, non-profit organizations such as churches may express views on any issue, but they jeopardize their favorable tax-exempt status if they speak for or against any political candidate.
“Pulpit Freedom Sunday” has been staged annually since 2008 by a group called the Alliance Defending Freedom. Its aim is to provoke a challenge from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in order to file a lawsuit and have its argument out in court.
The event has grown steadily in size, but the IRS has yet to respond – even though the pastors tape their sermons and mail them to the agency.
Now in an election year, where a few swing states – including North Carolina – will be crucial, political analysts say pastors campaigning from the pulpit could have an impact.
Critics say the movement threatens the U.S. constitutional principle of separation of church and state and makes pastors look like political operatives rather than neutral spiritual leaders.
“When the church further divides the country, where’s the win in that?” asked Reverend C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, and an opponent of “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.”
eTyranny: One Out Of Five Women Want To Marry Putin
Nevertheless, even if Putin have not succeeded in winning over the world…
Correction: Nevertheless, even if Putin HAS not succeeded in winning over the world…
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A survey by independent pollster Levada reported that 20 percent of Russian women saying they would like to marry him.
Correction: A survey by independent pollster Levada reported that 20 percent of Russian women SAY they would like to marry him.
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Loves faking archeological digs, naturalist feats, and other impressions displays of machismo.”
Correction: Loves faking archeological digs, naturalist feats, and other IMPRESSIVE displays of machismo.”
Charlie Fuqua, Arkansas Legislative Candidate, Endorses Death Penalty For Rebellious Children In Book
The Huffington Post
By John Celock
10/8/12
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/charlie-fuqua-arkansas-candidate-death-penalty-rebellious-children_n_1948490.html
Excerpt:
Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who called for expelling Muslims from the United States in his book, also wrote in support for instituting the death penalty for “rebellious children.”
In “God’s Law,” Fuqua’s 2012 book, the candidate wrote that while parents love their children, a process could be set up to allow for the institution of the death penalty for “rebellious children,” according to the Arkansas Times. Fuqua, who is anti-abortion, points out that the course of action involved in sentencing a child to death is described in the Bible and would involve judicial approval. While it is unlikely that many parents would seek to have their children killed by the government, Fuqua wrote, such power would serve as a way to stop rebellious children.
According to the Arkansas Times, Fuqua wrote:
“The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21:
“This passage does not give parents blanket authority to kill their children. They must follow the proper procedure in order to have the death penalty executed against their children. I cannot think of one instance in the Scripture where parents had their child put to death. Why is this so? Other than the love Christ has for us, there is no greater love then [sic] that of a parent for their child. The last people who would want to see a child put to death would be the parents of the child. Even so, the Scrpture provides a safe guard to protect children from parents who would wrongly exercise the death penalty against them. Parents are required to bring their children to the gate of the city. The gate of the city was the place where the elders of the city met and made judicial pronouncements. In other words, the parents were required to take their children to a court of law and lay out their case before the proper judicial authority, and let the judicial authority determine if the child should be put to death. I know of many cases of rebellious children, however, I cannot think of one case where I believe that a parent had given up on their child to the point that they would have taken their child to a court of law and asked the court to rule that the child be put to death. Even though this procedure would rarely be used, if it were the law of land, it would give parents authority. Children would know that their parents had authority and it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.”
Another suggestion:
“Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F***king Mutt’ [VIDEO]”
http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video?rel=emailNation “Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F***king Mutt’ [VIDEO]”
One officer reports being told by a police captain to “…harass the public. Go out there and violate some rights…”
(Thank you for the the previous link, Elaine M. Thank you for your blog, Jonathan Turley.)
Well, that was quick. I can no longer access or even find the
Stopped-and-Frisk video. Perhaps others will have better luck or maybe it’s been taken down.
When I was in Saudi (that is pronounced SA-UUUU-DI) it was well known that our telecom system gave the police access to anybody anywhere using the system of course.
It has gone rapidly downhill worldwide since then.
Of course when I entered WordPress and Prof. Turley’s salon, using a cover nsme I did expect to be anonymous
here, although open for having everything mined by all the net snoops, including Google, Gmail, NSA, etc.
But I was not prepared for having myself exposed to the invading eyes of a fellow blogger. Now only my a55hole remains cherry, although it is without a hymen, as they usually are.
Hi, Phd Kevin Kessler, AKA as slartibartfaRt, nice to meet you. Let us hope that your research here is as innocuous as that done by Jonas Salk in Africa.
As for correcting the Professor’s speech, that seems silly, IMHO. He is writing these things using his left foot, with occasional pauses for braking his car, and dictating into his cell, in between legal conferences in parallel with all else.
I think we should be glad that he has time for us at all.
I came to post this, but could not resist reading on the long way down. Haven’t discovered how to come direct to a comment entry:
“PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday on her way home from school, authorities said.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on ninth-grader Malala Yousafzai, who officials said was shot in the head by at least one gunman who approached a school bus in Mingora, a city in the scenic Swat valley in the country’s northwest.”
SOURCE WASH POST TODAY
Maybe the Professor could combine it with Messpo’s assistannce into a “hate the medieval muslim society and love of drone attacks”-piece.
I trust that my sarcasm and love for all here is clear.
Let me be clear, I don’t love medieval societies, of whatever kind, although I am partial to bushmen groups.
They are extreme practitioners of “violence avoidance” as all very small groups of interdependent people are.
Civilization is a destroyer of mankind, some say. Better happy in the bush, than sad in the ghetto, even internet equipped ones.
Suggestion Box:
Four Milwaukee police officers charged in strip search case
Idealist707,
If you are going to libel me, then please spell my freaking name right. I have never invaded the privacy of ANY commenter on this blog, and, if you had actually read and understood the posts on the controversy, you would know that what I was doing was no possible threat to you (well, except that I can hold your words against you, since I can easily locate all of your posts on this site…). You are using a gravatar—therefore, while I can identify any posts made from the same email address via your gavatar hash, SO CAN EVERYONE ELSE JUST BY LOOKING AT THE DAMN PICTURE AT THE TOP OF THE COMMENT.
Remember, it is better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
I would appreciate it if you would follow that advice instead of ignorantly repeating baseless lies aimed at smearing my good name.
SlartibartfaRt,
While I mispell your “freaking name” incorrectly as a way of irritating you, Kevin, I assert that you should have patience on such matters. My moniker Idealist707 is abbreviated, etc in many ways. What makes yours so holy?
Or did I mispell Kessler? Perhaps, unintentionally, but surely that is not a crime.
As for libel, tell me what that was, and I will gladly discuss it and/or possibly retract it,
Don’t confuse my comments on losing my cherry in unknowingly becoming a study subject from another member of the blog, with comments by Anon. I stated a subjective fact, ie my feelings on finding that I am a subject of a study, and god knows what else here at JT’s, as it is not warned for or explained anywhere.
IMHO, there should be a notice at the top of all Turley blog pages advising that “participation in the blog is subject to studies giving access to IP numbers, email addresses, etc. The subject and purpose of the study is not available for the commenters here.” End of proposed notice.
I have with my limited knowledge tried to find understanding of what you CAN do which you assert anyone can do by “looking” at my gravatar, ie based on what you wrote in your comment—as the rest is beyond my kin. (Is a PhD in computer science needed as qualification for entering the net today?)
Does that entail that you, in contrast to others here, have knowledge of my IP address? What other facts do you know as a result of your study about me personally, ie identifiable to me by my real name?
I feel that I, as well as all here, are due an full explanation.
As to your good name, what “lies” did I ignorantly repeat which smeared your good name—-as you put it with your own words?
None as far as I know. Advise and we can discuss the factuality of them.
Summarizing my previous comment with respect to you: I expressed a disappointment at finding myself a subject of investigation by another blogger. and expressed a hope that the purposes of this study were as benign to the unknowing participants as the work done by Dr Jonas Salk in Africa. I assume all are familiar with that study, just as familiar as they are of your study –SARCASM NB.
Having now called me unintelligent, a liar, a smearer of your good name—-all without any offered proof, then I wonder how you feel that you are not incriminating yourself with your own unsupported vilifications of me.
Oh, yes, you said that I had by uttering my words that I had proved myself a fool. Again without proof of wherein the foolishness lay.
Are you a simple utterer of unsupported vilifications or do you ever offer proof?
But I don’t mind being called down using pejoratives by egotistical minds. There are several persons to model after and they often set the tone here. No names, they are well known and have been subject to debate on other threads and here.
Apparently with their sole motivation being to defend their place in the pecking order, and gratification of their egos—-whenever the urge arrises. Some egos are only satisfied by debasement of others.
A tolerable condition by the debasee, since they experience much of it daily at work and otherwise.
My last words: Studying your fellow man around the campfire is OK, as long as you do it with your eyes and in an open fashion. But using other unknown methods, you then are violating our ancient contract of conduct by the fireside. Don’t stalk. Don’r regard me, for whatever purpose, in your microscope (ie system).
Go study people some other place than here.
We were not offered the possibility of abstaining from participating in your study. How fair is that.
Other studiers do, what makes you different?
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION: ARE YOU CONTINUING OR HAVE PLANS TO CONTINUE DOING YOUR STUDY AT TURLEY’S?
Note that this was an extension to my original comment.
id707,
“participation in the blog is subject to studies giving access to IP numbers, email addresses, etc.”
Except . . . they are not.
If you had read and understood the previous discussions on this subject, you’d know the data Kevin used has no personally identifying information in it and he gets it from the Gravatar icons which are publicly available data, i.e. anyone with the skills to extract it can see it. Because that data is publicly viewable by anyone seeing this blog, what Kevin should choose to do with it now or in the future is his business.
Kevin does not now nor has he ever had administrative access to this blog (which is what would be required to get IP’s and e-mail addresses absent hacking WordPress servers).
In short, your accusations of blog participants being part of a study that reveals their personally identifying information are false. This matter has been extensively discussed and while our host expressed his displeasure with Kevin’s actions, ultimately the decision was made that he did not do anything that violates the rules of this blog. Kevin took publicly available information and developed a way to link users to Gravatars using embedded data in the Gravatars. That is the extent of it. He does not know your IP or e-mail address. He never has. The matter is considered closed.
Those of us with access to that actual information quite simply don’t care who you are unless you break one of the rules or do something really stupid like physically threaten one of us, other users or other figures public or private (which is actually a crime by the way).
To recap, the rules here are (to the best of my knowledge and as they were explained to me):
Rule #1 – JT makes the rules.
Rule #2 – Should you have a question about the rules, see Rule #1.
Rule #3 – Posters may post anonymously and their identities (should they be or become known to the host, guest bloggers or third party posters) will not be revealed here by the host or the guest bloggers under any circumstances. Should a poster’s real identity be discovered and publicly revealed here (without permission of the party identified) by a third party poster or guest blogger, such revelations will result in said third party or guest blogger being banned (possibly permanently).
Rule #4 – Hijacking another user’s identity – real or pseudonymous – will result in the hijacker being banned (possibly permanently).
Rule #5 – Civility is highly encouraged.
Those are the only hard and fast rules here that I know of other than the four words that trigger automatic moderation (*sshole, f*ck, b*tch and b*stard).
If you have any problems with any of the other posters, GB’s, the host or the policies of this blog as set by the host, you are free to raise your objections to the host. You are also free post elsewhere. This is not only a free speech zone, it is a free association zone. Anyone’s participation in this forum, while generally appreciated, is strictly voluntary. You are not compelled to post here (unless you are a paid troll which would make any chaffing you experience under the minimal rules presented entirely your problem).
Thank you for bringing this issue to the proper forum, the Corrections thread.
However, if you think others are not watching what you do on the Web? I suggest you Google the terms “Total Information Awareness”, “Project Echelon” and “Project Carnivore”. If you want to be worried about your privacy for a legitimate reason? That would be a good place to start.
Idealist707 said:
Please take some time to educate yourself before you start making unfounded accusations. To do otherwise is dishonest and foolish.
GeneH,
Let me keep to the issue at hand, which essentially has 3 parts:
1) I have been accused by Slartibartfast for lies, libel. etc. That is between he and I. I seek no meddling there, nor official intervention. His accusations are baseless and I have asked him for proof. I await his reply. I assume that you are not representing him in his and my matter, but only wiching to inform me in the interests of all. I will await his reply notwithstanding your position.
2) I was concerned as to the extent of my “exposure” here due to his activities here. You, if I understand you, assert that the only link to “me” is the Gravitar and the info there (unidentified what that is); not real names, IP-addresses. or personal info for ex geographic addresses, telephone numbers, etc.
3) I posted a notification of the type I suggested as being obligatory when studies can be expected or are known to exist.
You, GeneH, have taken my suggestion of a notice to participants here, based on my fears as to the possible info obtainable, and turned it into a statement of fact, which you knowing the facts can label as false.
I did not state that as fact, but as a statement of position on the eventual obligation which the blog has vv its visitors, IN THE CASE THAT such data is acquired in such studies. A pure hyptothetical position and suggested notice therewith.
You take this hypothetical and turn it into a statement of a falsehood by re-characterizing it and re-labeling it. My perception is of the effect, not of the intent, of which I can know nothing.
Further, there are NO NONE ZILCH NINGUNO accussations by me against Kevin. I have insteed only ASKED him if he has access to my name and IP-address.
Just as I challenge him, so shall I challenge you: Show me the words with which I ACCUSE Kevin.
I still stand behind my original comment, where perhaps two sentences were devoted to him and his study. and the rest to my subjective reaction to this suspected problem. I asked questions, civilly put, and hoped for an answer. I think his reply speaks for itself and recommend reading of it by all here. I feel and said I felt they were not accurate.
I also stand by my second comment, responding to Kevin reply which expressed his affront.
If I understand you properly, you assert that it is free for anyone to “research” persons commenting here, without the blog being concerned, so long as personal data are not disclosed.
You also assert that this privileged info is not available to Kevin, to the best of your knowledge.
And, while not expressed by you, it is by the nature of your not having knowledge of who is gathering dats here, nor the possibility to ascertain the degree of privacy the data they obtain will contain. Thus, it is quite correct for the blog to have no responsibility nor obligation vv its readers.
And by bringing up the freedom of association point, you emphasize the participant’s responsibility for being here is his and voluntary. Thus, be warned, Anything can happen here.
Ie, you never know what can happen. True! And that is why we have integrity questions constantly up on the agenda at the national level.
As to echelon etc. I mentioned myself that I am aware of these threats from known and unknown agencies of various public and corporate types.
So what point are you making?
Thank you for your courteous but somewhat mischaracterizing comment.
I did not state a falsehood. I did not accuse Kevin of anything.
I asked him if he had access to IPs and names through his study. Legitimate I feel.
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I hope that this is not another case of where you intervene in matters of dispute between myself and others. There the other person disappears from the arena leaving you to take on me in your usual fashion, hardly as courteous as here where JT reads.
If so, that would be a deplorable trend here at the blog. Enhancing as it were the immunity of the GBs and discouraging real controversy and discussion.
Sad also for the ones who flee the field.
Thank you Kevin for the thoroughness of your reply.
It was highly informative in answering the questions which I had previously posed.
That essentially was all my first post, where you were mentioned and the phenommenon of the study was touched upon. What info do you have access to, such as IP address,etc sensittive data.
I did also mention my subjective reaction to the perception that a cursory reading of one stream gave.
I stated nothing as being conclusive, nor even related it to your or the study.
It is obviously a highly inflamed subject for you. I read your demand addressed to JTurley for why or how he had done as he had done. You, I felt, were also expressing that there had been an email discussion of the errand without your foreknowledge or participation. I share that feeling and can empathize with it.
However you, I feel, have turned my feeling of unease, and my inquiry as to what is what into a major slur, libel, etc. Which it is not.
I assumed that only you would understand the Salk pic (which may be a Swedish word). Besidee even that was in the form of a question and not a statement that you did as he did. Now was it. No, so calm down.
You refer me repeatedly to explanations that you have offered before. Does that mean that you expect me to read the whole thread to find all relevant comments?
Or what way does one have to find it more quickly?
I did the alternative by expressing my concern over the matters as I understood it as a motivation for bringing the matter up. And I put a question for more facts directly to you. Is that slurring,smearing, lieing, etc. I feel not.
I think you own words bite your butt, when you say to me that I must stand for what I have written here.
Quite correct! And so must you tolerate the inquiries which your previous words and the controversy that they have generated coming from again and again.
I for my part am satisfied as to the honesty of your answers, but not content with your interpretations of my words. But the latter is such that one must tolerate. Part of coming here.
If you have lied, that is your problem, not mine.
And my words were not lies, although not informed to the degree that you desire. But that is why I turned directly to you for answers, rather than trying to divine the truth out of weighty and lengthy verbal contretemps.
You really should do something about that inflamed trauma. My words however humbly offered will not cure it. A long version of “get over it!”
BTW, nice you gave me the spelling of ken. I don’t worry about such things. You are proof that those who read me can understand anyway.
Texas School District Reportedly Threatening Students Who Refuse Tracking ID, Can’t Vote For Homecoming
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/texas-school-district-rep_n_1949415.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
id707,
Any time you make an accusation, it is an assertion of fact(s). You made a statement – “participation in the blog is subject to studies giving access to IP numbers, email addresses, etc.” – which not only involved another user but the policies and practices of this blog. It is a false statement. As such, a clarification of the facts where made and the policies reiterated.
Nothing in my statement was a mischaracterization.
As far as what you hope for? What this is another case of you talking about something about which you know nothing, being corrected, and acting pissy about it. Nothing more, nothing less.
The matter concerning Kevin Kesseler is considered closed.
If you have any problems with the policies or other participants here, you are free to leave at any time you wish.
Those aren’t accusations.
Those are statements of fact.
GeneH,
No, you know only what you wish to know. If I showed you Mount Olympus with MikeS on top, you would still maintain that it was you up there.
It was a hypothetical situation on which I asked for
confirmation. Hypothesis, not statement. You must pose a hypothesis in order for it to be examined, in this case as w question.
You also ignnore, in true GeneH fashion, my pointing out that there were no accusations, only questions.
And I asked you to show me any examples of the former, which you did not, only playing the logic game as usual.
And I decide when I am satisfied, not you, little GB.
BTW, just to have a laugh at your expense—they are so few. (nb opening for retort, I am generous).
I read your debut blog. A kind person gave it to me.
Am sure he meant well.
Meant well—-which brings us to good laws vs bad laws. OS said it was a bit heavy. Utilitarianism, you chose, plus Kant and some other stuff. Do we judge after ethical rules or do we judge after effect, where the labors of many slaves count for naught, while the benefit of their work is enormous.
Funny, I thought it skit light. Simple, but then I am so eminently qualified. One summer course for engineers in review of philosophy 001. Of course my years at Bertrand Russell’s feet must count too.
Laugh and get over it GeneH. You will continue to be human, however much it hurts you. And I will too.
Nobody has taught me to disrespect logic like you have. And that waa a utilitarian deed indeed.
“Of course when I entered WordPress and Prof. Turley’s salon, using a cover nsme I did expect to be anonymous
here, although open for having everything mined by all the net snoops, including Google, Gmail, NSA, etc.
But I was not prepared for having myself exposed to the invading eyes of a fellow blogger. Now only my a55hole remains cherry, although it is without a hymen, as they usually are.
Hi, Phd Kevin Kessler, AKA as slartibartfaRt, nice to meet you. Let us hope that your research here is as innocuous as that done by Jonas Salk in Africa.”
Not one of those sentences ends in a question mark, but rather periods, ergo they are statements (assertions of fact(s)) and not “questioning a hypothetical”.
You being wrong in your assertions about the anonymity of posters has everything to do with. I don’t care if you meant well or not. Humanity has nothing to do with it, id707.
Now you can continue to futilely attack me (all the while playing victim yourself, ‘natch) or realize your “questions” have been answered and move on. Or you can continue to act like a pissy child when corrected or you don’t get the answers you want. Which seems to be the standard operation procedure for you.
Montana Campaign Donation Limits Reinstated By 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/ap/health/officer-issues-ticket-over-passengers-hiv-status/nSRgC/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/texas-school-district-rep_n_1949415.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular#slide=850853
GeneH,
I have already explained those passages previously to Slarti. He understood, but not you.
It is a presentation not of facts, nor accusatioss.
They were a presentation of subjective experience of what I felt and what might be the cause of that feeling.
Surely you must understand the difference. You do of course, but as usual only lay down smoke screens.
The matter is closed for my part. Not that I am satisfied that Slartí may play his games, but as long as it is limited to comments only, then that is what counts. But as long as your mouth is open, it is difficult to avoid the wind from it.
“US supreme court finalizes gift of immunity to the telecom giants”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/supreme-court-telecoms-win-immunity
If you don’t like being corrected? Stop being wrong, id707.
GeneH,
I have stopped long ago being concerned about being corrected. “Nobody is perfect. No mistakes, no progress.” etc.
But I can tell the difference from a statement of fact and a statement of my perception of my feeling.
You can’t obviously. But as I said above, nobody’s perfect, so why shold you be. I forgave you as a human some comments ago.
I am going back to respect the purpose of this thread, ie corrections and forwarding suggested subjects for blogs. Ta ta. Last dig is GeneH’s. He never abstains from the chance.
I read quite well. There were no qualifiers in your comments about them being your “perception of your feelings”. Simply false statements presented as if they were fact. I also don’t care if you forgive me or not, id707. Your forgiveness for my actions, just like your approval, is not required. I just care about false statements.
Stop making them and I’ll stop correcting them.
I’ve got a suggestion where you could go back to, id707, but that’s strictly my feelings and as such are not material to the facts.
Lonesome Dove
Last sentence: “I find the interpretation of the law to”
Incomplete.
Dear Mr. Turley:
Several months ago, you commented or blogged about a thief, Judge James F. Taylor, with extremely insightful and succinct analysis of the good Christian Judge swindling money under the auspice of establishing a Ten Commandments Display (fund). He pled guilty and I would like you to comment on the you-tube sentencing plea hearing. You suggestions and analysis or commentary would be extremely helpful for the victims. No one else seems to understand the gravity, irony and complacency of the local yocals in hicktown-USA. The name of the you-tube video is listed as follows: “Former Judge Taylor pleads in theft case. Incidentally, I am the sister of one of the mentally and physically handicapped victims from whom he stole $500,000 from, but who the TBI chose not to charge with theft!
“So a teacher physically abuses to young girls in front of a class…”
The teacher physically and psychologically abused “two young girls” — but it was too hastily typed to notice. All is forgiven.
Professor Turley, suggestion: A Utah federal judge, Dale Kimball, has ruled in an EEOC case — National Law Journal reported. I couldn’t see the whole opinion so I’m not sure what the ruling means. It’s about racist speech, I think. Just giving you the heads up.
find the kittah
http://terriblycute.com/cat-pot/
bettykath lolol
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/maryland-student-beating-police-officers-trial_n_1980672.html?ir=DC&ref=topbar ” Video Of University Of Maryland Student Beating By Police Officers Shown At Trial”
Here’s an interesting story:
Colman Chadam, California Boy, Ordered To Transfer Schools For Carrying Cystic Fibrosis Gene
10/18/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/colman-chadam-california-_n_1981741.html
Excerpt:
Colman Chadam, an 11-year-old California boy, has been ordered to transfer from his current school to another one miles away because of his genetic makeup. Now, his parents are taking the issue to court.
Colman carries the genetic mutations for cystic fibrosis, a noncontagious but incurable and life-threatening disease. Despite the gene’s presence, the Jordan Middle School student in Palo Alto doesn’t actually have the disease and doesn’t exhibit the typical symptoms of thick mucus that can clog and infect the lungs.
Cystic fibrosis is inherited from both parents and while not contagious, can pose a threat if two people with the disease are in close contact. In an effort to protect other students at the school who do have the disease, officials declared that Colman would have to transfer out to prevent cross contamination.
“I was sad but at the same time I was mad because I understood that I hadn’t done anything wrong,” Colman told TODAY. “It feels like I’m being bullied in a way that is not right.”
Colman’s parents argue that their son’s doctor has confirmed that the boy doesn’t have the disease, and therefore isn’t a risk to other students. They disclosed his condition on a medical form for the school at the beginning of the year as a precautionary measure, but never expected their son to be barred from the school, as his genetic makeup had not been an issue in the past at other schools with students who have cystic fibrosis.
“They made this decision without seeing one medical record on my son,” mother Jennifer Chadam told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Honestly if I felt Colman was a risk to others, I would move him. I don’t want anyone to get sick.”
Palo Alto Associate Superintendent Charles Young told NBC News that officials made the request to move Colman based on consultations with medical experts who said a transfer would be the “zero risk option.”
While the district’s attorney Lenore Silverman told the Chronicle that school officials are “not willing to risk a potentially life-threatening illness among kids,” Dr. Dennis Nielson says a child is “at absolutely no risk to the children that have classic cystic fibrosis” if he or she has a normal sweat test — which is the case for Colman. Nielson is the University of California, San Francisco’s chief of pediatric pulmonary medicine and head of its Cystic Fibrosis Clinic.
How about an article about this case:
http://www.openforum.com/articles/how-a-supply-clerk-lost-her-job-over-a-bad-haircut
I once read a deposition of a divorcing father (he was a pediatrician and his wife was a stay-home soccer mom) saying he should get sole custody of his son. He said the ex-wife was NOT the “psychological parent” for three reasons:
1. She let the kid climb a tree and he fell and broke his arm and had to wear a sling for weeks;
2. She dressed the kid (12 years old) in a sweatshirt that had a stain on the elbow; and
3. The kid had a bad haircut.
Guess the ending? He got sole custody. Mom quit going through custody battle after custody battle after custody battle; she remarried and moved on.
THEN the kid lived with dad and step-mom until the good doctor’s second wife divorced him. He left his son from the first marriage with the second wife and moved out to Arizona to “get away from it all,” leaving behind a boo-hoo poor me note to the kid from the second marriage, saying he couldn’t tolerate visitation because the mom was destroying their relationship. See how far a bad haircut can go?
A is for Apple, B is for . . . : Teacher Mistakenly Places Topless Photo On School iPod . . . Students Suspended For Seeing It
Correction: It should be “iPad”–not an “iPod.”
Elaine, I must be missing something from that story. The child does not have CF, only the gene. If he had active CF he would not be putting other kids at risk, other kids could put him at risk becaue of the diseases they could give to him.
Maybe this is an example of what a poor job our schools are doing that the powers that be cannot understand what it means to have a gene or a genetic make-up.?
Professor Turley, and/or Mespo, a certain story may be unfolding that has many twists and turns. Christopher J. Dumler, Esq., a councilmember in Scottsdale Virginia (near Charlottesville) apparently was an Eagle Scout, a JAG, a UVA Law School graduate, and a “rising star” in Democratic Politics in VA. He recently gave up his Eagle Badge in protest against Chick-Fil-A’s discriminatory policies. Don’t ask me what connection there is between the Eagle and the Chick — it’s political and I don’t understand it. However, it happened. This week he got arrested for forcible sodomy of an unnamed woman. She came forward something like 10 days after the alleged crime was committed upon her.
Chris Dumler appears to be an outspoken but law-abiding citizen. I am not opining on his guilt or innocence. He is being represented by a Charlottesville attorney named Sneathern or Sneathem (spelled different ways in different articles) who recently represented another Democrat who was charged with a bizarre crime and the charges against this other guy were dismissed.
I wonder if there is something there you would like to cover.
‘Fantasy Slut League’ Uncovered At Piedmont High School In California, Parents Give Mixed Reviews On School Response
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/fantasy-slut-league-uncov_n_1998882.html
Excerpt:
A pervasive “Fantasy Slut League” has been uncovered at Piedmont High School in California following an investigation by school officials.
In a letter to parents, Principal Rich Kitchens writes that the league was created by varsity student athletes. Female students are “drafted” and male students earn points for “documented engagement in sexual activities” with female students, Piedmont Patch reports
The investigation found that the league had been active for the last five or six years at the school and served as a bonding activity for some student athletic teams. Many students — both male and female — participated at times because they felt pressured to, according to the report.
“Participation often involved pressure/manipulation by older students that included alcohol to impair judgment/control and social demands to be popular, feel included and attractive to upperclassmen,” Kitchens wrote. Students also recognized misconduct, admitting fear of disciplinary action against them if discovered, affecting college applications.
Girl Mistaken For Skunk Gets Shot By Relative: Cops
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/girl-mistaken-for-skunk-shot_n_2000340.html
FREEDOM, Pa. — Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk.
New Sewickley Township police say the girl was over a hillside and wearing a black costume and a black hat with a white tassel. Chief Ronald Leindecker told the Beaver County Times that a male relative mistook her for a skunk and fired a shotgun, hitting her in the shoulder, arm, back and neck Saturday night.
Leindecker told the newspaper that the girl was alert and talking when she was flown to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, about 30 miles away. Her condition was unavailable.
Leindecker says the man hadn’t been drinking and he doesn’t know whether charges will be filed. New Sewickley police said Sunday that decision will be made in a few days.
Elaine Law and Order years ago did an episode with this exact scenario. I had hoped it wasn;t taken from the headlines but if it wasn;t looks like the writers were clairvoyant.
http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/1649623?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s
“Italian court convicts scientists for no quake warning”
No source but the person’s words who passed it on.
JT will pick his own source anyway. Maybe not much law, but topical to the max.
Does this illustrate a problem with society and politics?
“Donald trump says he wants Obama to show his college application & passport info and he will donate
5 million to Obama’s favorite charity.
If this comes out on JT , here’s my take on it and if you agree, use it : No problem in showing this info, but I place the conditions.
It’s a swap for 20 years of romney’s & ryan’s tax returns. And not to bother mr trump to part with his millions, I will make a modest donation
to my alma mater.” (A Democrat in Tucson)
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Where do we sign up our pledge if Romney and Ryan show their tax returns?
Below you refer to Heather as ‘Ms. Harper’ or ‘Harper’, correct last name is Fredenberg.
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Heather Fredenberg, 22, has since sought a restraining order against Harper, who she admits to have in an affair. She told her husband about the affair and the men had had prior angry words. Harper, a former barista that married Fredenberg after becoming pregnant, had a rocky marriage with Fredenberg. Her mother is now leading a campaign to get rid of the Castle Doctrine called “Justice for Dan Fredenberg.”
Shortly before the shooting, Ms. Harper took her two boys over the Harper’s house. Fredenberg questioned her on whether she had again gone to his house but she refused to answer.
“SCOTUS must be last bulwark against NSA snooping”
“The NSA has been willing to throw the Constitution and courts overboard, the authors write.”
By BILL BINNEY and J. KIRK WIEBE | 10/23/12
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82766.html
NYPD cop charged in kidnapping/cooking plot
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8859913
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/feature?section=news&id=8859931
If the owner of fox news thinks scientology is “very weird” why is there a link to the scientology website from the fox news weather?
Carol,
In all humbleness may I suggest that it is perhaps due to that Google or whoever sells the slot does so to whoever has the means to buy it. No politics etc involved, I believe.
I connect to sites in the USA and get Swedish language ads for Swedish products in various banners, etc.
Business, only business, even for Google and Fox.
Gilberto Valle, NYPD Officer, Arrested In Plot To Kidnap Women And Cook Them
AP | By TOM HAYS
Posted: 10/25/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/nypd-officer-gilbert-valle-attempted-kidnapping-cannibalism-cooking_n_2017108.html
Excerpt:
NEW YORK — A city police officer was charged Thursday with plotting to kidnap, rape, torture and kill women he had identified and catalogued on his computer, and then cook and eat their body parts.
Gilberto Valle sent numerous emails and other Internet communications about the ghoulish torture and cannibalism scheme, according to a criminal complaint. There was no information that any women harmed.
“I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus … cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible,” Valle allegedly wrote in one online exchange in July, the complaint says.
The officer was to appear later Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to face kidnapping charges. The name of his attorney was not immediately available.
A search of Valle’s computer found he created records of at least 100 women with their names, addresses and photos, the complaint says. Some of the information came from his unauthorized use of a law enforcement database, authorities said.
Here is a story you may want to follow up on. Big fossil fuel interests lean on the University of Wyoming to destroy an expensive sculpture because it offended their interests. The University caved, destroying the thirty-six foot piece of art, for which they paid $45,000.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/25/1150181/-Big-Coal-Bullying-Prompts-University-to-Destroy-Artwork
OS,
Hope my kiss…is not one of death for your suggestion.
Do universities and/or privately sponsored projects under their aegis, have the right of free speech? Emphatically no!
And if I violate the no discussion rule, then mea culpa—a light sentence please.
I may be wrong, but was it not said (confirmed) in our Siegel discussions, that there was a law preventing anyone from coercing anyone with regard to voting? If so, why this NYTimes headline?
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In Memos From Employers, Suggestions on How to Vote
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Freed to do so by the Supreme Court, major companies are suggesting and sometimes explicitly recommending how their workers should vote.
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Is this the results of Citizens United or other decision?
Is not a “recommendation” from an employer or other
person upon which you are dependent, the same as coercion, and in violation of such a law—–if there is one.
If you need a cheap bathing suit then certainly
getting one online is the ideal way to compare prices and style
and all from the comfort of your own home. Stomach; your figure much depends upon stomach.
kerala honeymoon packages.
“US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates”
“The vindictive humiliation of Pakistan’s most popular politician shows the US government’s intolerance for dissent”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/28/detention-imran-khan-drones
http://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-free/aclu-tells-supreme-court-fisa-surveillance-law-unconstitutional
ACLU Tells Supreme Court FISA Surveillance Law is Unconstitutional
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October 29, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments today in Clapper v. Amnesty International, to decide whether clients of the American Civil Liberties Union can challenge the constitutionality of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), enacted by Congress after the abuses of the 1960s and 70s, regulates the government’s conduct of intelligence surveillance inside the United States. It generally requires the government to seek warrants before monitoring Americans’ communications. In 2001, however, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to launch a warrantless wiretapping program, and in 2008 Congress ratified and expanded that program, giving the NSA almost unchecked power to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and emails.
Those potentially affected by the law include attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations whose work requires them to engage in sensitive and sometimes privileged telephone and e-mail communications with individuals located outside the United States.
Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director, argued the case before the court this morning.
“We were pleased with today’s argument. The court seemed appropriately skeptical of the government’s attempts to shield this sweeping surveillance law from meaningful judicial review,” Jaffer said. “The justices seemed appropriately sympathetic to lawyers, journalists and human rights researchers who are forced to take burdensome precautionary measures because of the law.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109359/the-supreme-court-exposes-the-obama-administrations-circular-logic-wiretapping#
Chinese Child Severely Brain Damaged After Being Beaten By Teacher (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post
By Andres Jauregui Posted: 10/29/20
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/chinese-child-brain-damage-beaten-video_n_2039642.html
Close circuit television captured disturbing footage from a Chinese preschool in Guangzhou in which a female teacher appears to beat a 4-year-old girl, according to a translation by The Huffington Post.
The surveillance footage shows the teacher tossing the child to the ground. She then appears to kick her, pick her up and drop her to the floor again. The child, who was knocked unconscious, was taken to a hospital with severe injuries.
“The doctor/surgeon who pushed her into the surgery room said, ‘I’m bringing her in, but I can’t promise I can bring her out,’” the child’s father told Chinese media, according to a Huffington Post translation.
According to Reuters, the girl, who was mentally disabled, now has severe brain damage. Despite undergoing two operations, she can neither walk nor talk. The teacher initially denied wrongdoing but is now being prosecuted for her role in the July 2 incident.
CNN initially reported that the girl had autism and that her attacker was an assistant at a rehabilitation center, but a Huffington Post translation found no mention of autism and confirmed that the woman was a teacher at a preschool.
This is not the only incident of alleged child abuse to be documented in China recently.
Last week, a teacher at a Shanxi school was placed under “administrative detention” after she was filmed repeatedly slapping a child who was slow to solve math problems.
I wrote a rather lengthy comment which the system (or my funbling caused it to be) casted away.
As I understand the purposes ´which ElaineM proposes, I will offer another alternative. I have no article to offer to be used to dissect the problem.
My point is that we know that we have many problems:
Resources, competence, milieu, childrens’ and home attitudes, the system for student testing at early age, the concentration on finding sport talent instead of a system for promotion of the value of individual exercise, the general goals achieved in the Montesorri school system (Maliisha is a source) of harmony, respect, creativity, etc., as compared to our own general schools accomplished.
Should we not concentrate on our own problems?
How does an discussion on Chinese corporal punishment and outright brutality help us with our problems?
Which deserves the time now?
I hope it is permissible to raise such questions. Abuse of school and pre-school children is a problem even in America, but is it not of a amaller magnitude than the other problems sketched above.
Much more could be memtioned; charter schooling, in-home schooling, our results scaled internationally, etc.
Finding problems to discuss should be no problem.
To the Professor: have you heard of, or are you interested in the case of two 13 year old Wisconsin boys charged as adults in the murder of one boys great-grandmother? The names are Antonio Barbeau and Nathan Paape. The case fascinates me and I am very much against the decision to treat them as adults. Thanks.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/10/30/51809.htm
SANTA FE, N.M. (CN) – A New Mexico policeman Tasered a 10-year-old child on a playground because the boy refused to clean his patrol car, the boy claims in court.
Guardian ad litem Rachel Higgins sued the New Mexico Department of Public Safety and Motor Transportation Police Officer Chris Webb on behalf of the child, in Santa Fe County Court.
Higgins claims Webb used his Taser on the boy, R.D., during a May 4 “career day” visit to Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School.
“Defendant Webb asked the boy, R.D., in a group of boys, who would like to clean his patrol unit,” the complaint states. “A number of boys said that they would. R.D., joking, said that he did not want to clean the patrol unit.
“Defendant Webb responded by pointing his Taser at R.D. and saying, ‘Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.’”
Webb then shot “two barbs into R.D.’s chest,” the complaint states.
“Both barbs penetrated the boy’s shirt, causing the device to deliver 50,000 volts into the boy’s body.
“Defendant Webb pulled the barbs out [of] the boy’s chest, causing scarring where the barbs had entered the boy’s skin that look like cigarette burns on the boy’s chest.
“The boy, who weighed less than 100 lbs., blacked out.
“Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal’s office,” the complaint states.
Higgins says the Tasing gave the boy post-traumatic stress syndrome, and that “The boy, R.D., has woken up in the middle of the night holding his chest, afraid he is never going to wake up again.”
She adds: “No reasonable officer confronting a situation where the need for force is at its lowest, on a playground with elementary age children, would have deployed the Taser in so reckless a manner as to cause physical and psychological injury.”
She seeks punitive damages for the boy for battery, failure to render emergency medical care, excessive force, unreasonable seizure, and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention.
Higgins and R.D. are represented by the Kennedy Law Firm, of Albuquerque.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/31/canada-lawmakers-ban-masks-at-protests/ “Canada lawmakers ban masks at protests”
“Major Retailer Urges Workers To Take ‘Civics Course’ With Anti-Obama Content”
“AlterNet uncovers an anti-Obama program linked to the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, spoon-fed to employees of a major home-improvement chain.”
htttp://www.alternet.org/election-2012/major-retailer-urges-workers-take-civics-course-anti-obama-content
Saw this story. Ryanair has managed to top themselves. Woman booted off flight for having a book and a scroll that would not fit in her purse.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/news/wrong-type-of-luggage-ryanair-call-police-to-throw-woman-carrying-a-book-and-scroll-off-their-plane/story-fn32891l-1226509198488
http://rt.com/news/us-archives-wikileaks-ban-939/ “No ‘Leak’ links: US National Archives blocks searches containing ‘WikiLeaks’”
Published: 04 November, 2012, 12:19
“The public search engine for the US National Archives appears to be blocked for the term “WikiLeaks”. The whistleblower website has already lashed out at the move, saying the Archives has turned into “Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.”
An error message pops up every time a search is performed with the word “WikiLeaks”.
It’s not entirely clear when the US National Archives decided to block these searches.”
Civics by Menards:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/111811926/Menards-Civics-101-Course-3
“Menards is a chain of home improvement stores in the Midwestern United States.
“The privately held company headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has approximately 270 stores in 14 states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, and K” -from Wikipedia
anonymously posted,
Very interesting link. Made for an interesting lunchtime read. Although heavily bent toward economics, I liked that the materials focused on accountability and responsibility (key metrics to functional analysis) and only briefly touched upon size – and then only as related to efficiency. I’ll have to say my opinion of Menard’s went up a tic. Although I may disagree with some of their specifics, their focus on functionality and efficiency is most admirable. Thanks for the link.
Re AP’s post on Wikileaks and Archives censorship.
I was goíng to post a general question as a comment someplace, but perhaps it is pertinent and can be considered for inclusion in an eventual blog on Wikileaks info access.
How is public access to public info generally handled?
More specific, if one gives “Wikileaks, bla bla” to Google, does Google do any search of gov sites, or equivalents. Or is the whole of gov or equivalent behind closed doors as though it was security classed?
There are sites which the gov provides to service our queries of general nature, one mentioned recently by WH.gov. But use of search engines has succeeded the use of portal sites, if for no other reason than convenience.
Where are we going info wise. It it Ministry of Truth next.
Texas seems bound on re-writing history textbooks for grammar school, if a comment posted today is to be believed, which the historians’ comments speak for.
7 Technologies That Will Make It Easier for the Next President to Hunt and Kill You
http://news.yahoo.com/evolutionist-charles-darwin-gets-4-000-write-votes-160159056.html
Robert E. Murphy should be Robert E. Murray in “Getting the Shaft…”
Bloomberg Strikes Again: NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless
New York City has banned food donations to homeless shelters since the city is unable to assess the fat, salt, and fiber content of the food.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/
Further proof that mankind has not evolved an inch from the slime that spawned him.
Have tried to post comment but refises to take it dont know why.
Bob this was in March not sandy related. there is correction I believe at click you gave
Bob,
Isn’t Bloomberg republican? Since when have thy cared about anyone’s health….. Unless there was a profit to be made….
Data Brokers Release Information About Their Operations In Response to Congressional Inquiry
By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/data-brokers-release-information-about-their-operations-response 1/09/2012
Bob,
Outrageous thumbing of the nose. A full belly is better than an empty one.
How many did Romney’s dog get. Or BoBo?
13/11
Obama campaign, which for most liberals was an excersise of “hope over experience.”
Exercise appears to be mispelled.
There seems to be a verb and some other parts of speech missing in this sentence.
“The case is interesting in that the accused when the Sesame Workshop to report that alleged crime.”
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12629-vagrancy-laws-poll-taxes-financialization-and-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-in-mississippi
“On October 25, 2012, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging the City of Meridian, Mississippi has been running a “school-to-prison pipeline,” having students arrested and sent to a detention facility for minor infractions like: wearing the wrong color socks, flatulence, untucked shirts and going to the bathroom without permission.
After detention, students are then required to appear before a youth court, where they are denied legal counsel and rights of due process. According to an article in the Huffington Post:
Students are handcuffed and arrested in school and sent to a youth court and denied constitutional rights for minor infractions like talking back to teachers or violating dress codes. The lawsuit states they are then transported more than 80 miles to the Rankin County youth detention center, reports the Associated Press.
Most students are placed on probation where future school violations may be considered “probation violations” that must be served in jail at the Juvenile Detention Center.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/opinion/getting-away-with-torture.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121114&_r=0
full appelate overturns previous panel ruling and goes
against 41-year old Scct decision “Bivens” re civilians can sue government if military damags then even in a war zone. These citizens were tortured.
should stand 1971 decision….
http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/13/investigative-report-reveals-some-religious-reform-schools-are-havens-for-child-abuse/?xid=newsletter-healthland
Some states grant exemptions from regulating religious connected schools. Others do not causeing some schools to leave. Texas is an example where the edemption was taken away.
In this increasingly troubled nation, this child abuse is also increasing. It is simply a moneymaker.
A little justice in Chi-Town:
http://www.5min.com/Video/Nearly-A-Million-Dollar-Verdict-In-Cop-Vs-Bartender-Beating-Case-517538974
Glasses equipped with camera create transparency for SLCPD
“SALT LAKE CITY — Mounted on the side of a pair of sunglasses is what Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank says is the future of police work.
The body cameras work like dash cameras already in police cars — they they’ll provide an eye-level view of an officers one on one interaction with the public. Burbank says the body cameras are the “wave of the future” when it comes to police work and transparency.
“What better way to document the entire event then an officer wear a camera that sees what the officer sees?” Burbank said.
If Chief Burbank gets his way, these tiny, weightless cameras will soon be on every police officer in the state.
“If Salt Lake City goes this direction, if any agency goes this direction, the expectation is going to be in my mind, that everyone move in this direction,” Burbank said.
Burbank says body cameras will document officers’ actions as they perform patrols, investigate crime scenes and serve search warrants.
With the camera mounted at eye level, the recording will provide an accurate real-time record of what happened.
He says not every officer likes the idea, but these days officers are already being recorded by cell phones and laptops, and it’s better to have their own proof of what happens on the street.
“This is going to demonstrate the things we’re doing good,” Burbank said. “Sometimes it’s going to catch us doing things improperly, but for the most part it is going to show we do an outstanding job.”
The cameras run about $1,000 each, plus the cost of storing the footage, so it’s going to take time to get them to all officers. Some motorcycle officers with the department are already wearing them.”
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An interesting move in police accountability. I hope SLC is merely the start of this trend.
GeneH,
Have you noted the cell phone mounted in one eyepiece of a pair of sunglasses? Does not impair vision in that eye. Combine that with the SLCPD and he’s fully equipped.
The question is does the recording system run at the officer’s decision or always.
They were pushing it for style leaders. If the police get it too then it will go viral on the market. Iphone-X.
Proof read, Jonathan, proof read.
If Arnhem was the “bridge too far” for General Montgomery, Nutella may be a tax to (sic) far for President François Hollande.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12801-likening-palestinians-to-blades-of-grass
Israeli hardliners joke about the periodic need to decimate each new generation of Palestinian militants as “mowing the grass,” a process underway again in new bombardments of Gaza. This ugly metaphor has also penetrated the think-tank world of Official Washington, as ex-CIA analyst Elizabeth Murray learned.
In early 2010, one of Washington DC’s most prestigious think tanks was holding a seminar on the Middle East which included a discussion of Israel’s December 2008-January 2009 assault on Gaza which killed about 1,300 Palestinians. When the death toll was mentioned, one expert on the panel smiled enigmatically and intoned: “It’s unfortunate, but every once in a while you have to mow the lawn.”
The remark, which likened killing hundreds of men, women and children – many of them noncombatants – with trimming the grass, was greeted with a light tittering around the room, which was filled with some of Washington’s most elite, highly educated and well-paid Middle East experts. Not a single one objected to the panelist’s black humor.
On the contrary, several analysts and experts were grinning at the reference to Israel’s strategy of mounting periodic attacks on the Palestinians to cull each new generation of militants. Such is the nonchalance of Washington’s policy-advising cognoscenti toward the ongoing and systematic genocide of Gaza’s oppressed population.
The cavalier language is symptomatic of the policymaking community’s increasingly pervasive tendency to disregard and disparage the humanity of Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks, which are often waged by Israel’s high-tech drones and U.S.-supplied F-16’s. There is also a tendency to ignore or downplay Israeli war crimes.
This dangerously sociopathic attitude is prevalent whether cloaked in a cheap joke or reflected in the failure by the State Department spokesman to condemn or even acknowledge the criminality of Israel’s latest aerial and sea-based bombardment of Palestinian civilians, at least 18 of whom have been killed in the past 48 hours. Three Israelis also have died in retaliatory rocket fire.
After the latest attacks, the State Department’s statement justified Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as Israel’s “right to defend itself” against the launching of relatively primitive rockets, mostly by radical groups, from inside Gaza. Yet, while the State Department urged both sides to avoid civilian casualties, nowhere was there mention of the Palestinians’ right to defend themselves from various attacks by Israel. Apparently only one side is granted that privilege, according to the U.S. statement.
The relegation of Palestinians to a less-than-human status by Israel and the United States – especially the inhabitants of Gaza who are perpetually locked into an open-air prison and subject to an Israeli blockade – was noted by MIT professor Noam Chomsky after a visit to Gaza to attend an academic conference. In comments broadcast by “Democracy Now” on Nov. 14, Chomsky remarked:
“It’s kind of amazing … and inspiring to see people managing somehow to survive … as essentially caged animals subject to constant, random, sadistic punishment – only to humiliate them – no pretext. They [the Palestinians] would like to have dignified lives, but the standard Israeli position is that they shouldn’t raise their heads.”
Instead of a serious effort to reach a peace acceptable to both sides, Israel seems to prefer a state of endless conflict with the Palestinians. After all, the prospect of peace might require the Israeli government to treat their neighbors as equals and withdraw from territory occupied since 1967.
So, rather than making meaningful concessions, some Israeli hardliners simply promote the idea of periodically “mowing the grass,” i.e. killing the latest generation of Palestinian militants who sprout up from the injustice all around them. Perhaps that is why Israel broke an informal ceasefire on Wednesday by assassinating Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari in an air strike.
Jabari was killed hours after he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the ceasefire, according to Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin, who helped mediate talks between Israel and Hamas for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Jabari was a key Palestinian interlocutor in the release of Shalit, and an important intermediary for truce negotiations with groups such as the PFLP and Islamic Jihad. Such a relatively moderate figure may have been perceived as a threat to Israeli leaders who prefer to portray Hamas as rejectionist toward any peace.
These developments and the U.S. response to them are a chilling omen for those who had hoped for a change in U.S. Middle East policy after the U.S. presidential election – namely, increased pressure on Israel to halt its cruel oppression of Palestinians and obey international law.
There is still a window of opportunity for the U.S. to shift its approach before the violence spirals out of control. One also can hope that President Barack Obama is working the phones to rein in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But Obama’s eerie and reprehensible silence during the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 must not be repeated.
Thanks, my heart is with them, and that’s from a jew-lover.
I can’t imagine JT picking this up. Who else would do this profile stuff among the GB?
I would like to clipp some grass too, and it would begin with AIPAC members. But then there is the freedom of speech to consider. Ach-ach.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/lapd-officer-tasered-woman-in-handcuffs-records-show.html
This is the source article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd-taser-20121118,0,7644605.story (“LAPD officer used Taser on handcuffed woman: Elements of the officer’s version of events are contradicted by video footage. The department denies that this and other force cases add up to a behavioral pattern of abuse.”)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-police-officers-lose-whistleblower-lawsuit/2012/11/16/41c9db84-301c-11e2-ac4a-33b8b41fb531_story.html
D.C. police officers lose whistleblower lawsuit
By Peter Hermann, Published: November 16
Several current and former D.C. police officers who say they were punished for exposing wrongdoing have lost their court case against the District, a ruling simultaneously hailed by the city as a check on frivolous lawsuits and condemned by watchdog groups as a new burden for whistleblowers.
The head of the police labor union, which backed the litigation, said Thursday’s decision by the D.C. Court of Appeals imposes nearly impossible-to-meet standards on municipal workers who want to report waste, fraud and abuse.
“This is a huge victory for government corruption,” said Kristopher Baumann, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 1. “This is why no one speaks up. If you come forward, you will be crushed. It puts a muzzle on everyone.”
“He vehemently denied the allegations . . . until he was reelection.”
You really do need to run your posts by a proof reader.
I wonder whats really going on…….
Detriot Public Library raided by the FBI……
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/fbi-raid-detroit-public-library
Tweet from Leahy: “CNET has it wrong.”
@CNET has it wrong. Sen.Leahy does NOT support an #ECPA exception to search warrant requirement 4 civil enforcement or agncies like FTC, SEC (see below)
https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy
According to the CBS article:
“Garcia-Mata will be eligible for parole in 30 years – when he is 75 years old.”
His age would be 45, not 75.
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/11/21/maine-tv-news-anchors-cindy-michaels-and-tony-consiglio-quit-on/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D237095
“The longest running news team in Bangor, Maine, resigned at the end of their Tuesday evening broadcast, to the shock of staff and viewers, later telling the Bangor Daily News that management prevented them from running a balanced newsroom.”
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“Mike Palmer, WVII/WFVX vice president and general manager, denied their charges. “Upper management is not involved in the daily production of the news. Period,” he said.
Palmer sparked sparked a political tiff in 2006, when he was the stations’ general manager, for telling his staff that they would no longer report stories on global warming. When “Bar Harbor is underwater, then we can do global warming stories,” he wrote in an email obtained by The New York Times. “Until then, no more.”
He explained that he placed global warming stores in the same category as “the killer African bee scare” from the 1970s and “the Y2K scare when everyone’s computer is going to self-destruct.”"
I watched this documentary, tearing up frequently at the human misery I saw and clenching my jaw in anger at the sheer CUPIDITY that caused it.
should be STUPIDITY
I’m sorry. I should have looked up the definition of cupidity.
Don’t be too hard on yourself, AP.
Avarice and stupidity do have a lot in common.
AP,
you did right.
MikeS was fishing for attention with “cupidity”.
Gene H., idealist707, Mike S.
I posted the news clip.
I didn’t post the following two comments:
1) anonymously posted 1, November 24, 2012 at 7:53 pm
I watched this documentary, tearing up frequently at the human misery I saw and clenching my jaw in anger at the sheer CUPIDITY that caused it.
should be STUPIDITY
2) anonymously posted 1, November 24, 2012 at 7:55 pm
I’m sorry. I should have looked up the definition of cupidity
-The real AP
The police are examining the victim’s call records.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
For the latest updates, go to nytimes.com/bits »
Daily Report
Police Are Amassing Trove of Cellphone Logs| When a cellphone is reported stolen in New York, the Police Department routinely subpoenas the phone’s call records, from the day of the theft onward. The logic is simple: if a thief uses the phone, a list of incoming and outgoing calls could lead to the suspect.
But in the process, the Police Department has quietly amassed a trove of telephone logs, all obtained without a court order, that could conceivably be used for any investigative purpose, reports Joseph Goldstein in The New York Times.
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Comment: In the 80′s the Saudi Police could tap a phone anytime desired and listen in/record, etc. Can’t understand why the NYC police are satisfied with call records.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/story/2012-01-26/no-delay-in-tobacco-order/52806584/1
In fact 12 years have gone from the original decision by Gladys Keller to this recent decision. Why, asks the public, at least I do. This decision has nothing to do with the disputes over the packaging regulations, but are only related to verbal ads, to be paid by the companies, exposing the content in public terms of the decision to their “50 years of lying” (original 2006 decision by Gladys Keller)
The packaging decisions made by FDA, pictoral and verbal, are constantly subject to new challenges.
The article quotes the judge:
“In her decision Thursday, Kessler wrote: “It is perfectly clear” that the challenges to the FDA regulations “will not end (if ever) for an extremely long period of time.”"
Again, how can it be possible by challenges to delay the effects of regulation with Congress support behind it?
(Personally don’t understand when precedent is established which would have the effect of terminating suits or other summary decisions, by the tobacco companies.)
NB NB NB This article is not up to date.
But there should be one, as I am following a headline in today’s dn.se leading Swedish newspaper (liberal).
Had hoped to find a corresponding article by Googling.
Maybe there is, but assume that the Professor or other blogger can search more skillfully than I can.
Note date:
“Publicerad 2012-11-27 23:30
Ledande tobaksbolag i USA tvingas nu att publicera annonser i vilka det sägs rakt ut att man avsiktligt lurat den amerikanska allmänheten om faran med tobaksrökning och beroendeframkallandet förknippat med bruket.
Det slog en federal domstol fast på tisdagen, skriver nyhetsbyrån Reuters. Med domen slår rättssystemet även slutligen fast ordalydelsen i annonserna, vilka beordrades av domstol redan 2006 efter det att tobaksbolagen enligt federal lag befunnits skyldiga till utpressning.
Tobaksbolagen godtog inte kravet på ett offentligt erkännande – det betecknades av dem som en ”kränkning” av bolagens ”rätt till yttrandefrihet”.
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Freedom of speech was used by the companies in their defense. (rätt till yttrandefrihet)
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Ledande tobaksbolag i USA tvingas nu att publicera annonser i vilka det sägs rakt ut att man avsiktligt lurat den amerikanska allmänheten om faran med tobaksrökning och beroendeframkallandet förknippat med bruket.
Det slog en federal domstol fast på tisdagen, skriver nyhetsbyrån Reuters. Med domen slår rättssystemet även slutligen fast ordalydelsen i annonserna, vilka beordrades av domstol redan 2006 efter det att tobaksbolagen enligt federal lag befunnits skyldiga till utpressning.
Tobaksbolagen godtog inte kravet på ett offentligt erkännande – det betecknades av dem som en ”kränkning” av bolagens ”rätt till yttrandefrihet”.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12993-corrections-corporation-of-america-used-in-drug-sweeps-of-public-school-students
excerpt:
Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
Tuesday, 27 November 2012 13:35 By Beau Hodai, PRWatch | Report
Police with drug sniffing dogs(Image: Police with dogs via Shutterstock)In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.
The state has graced national headlines in recent years as the result of its cozy relationship with the for-profit prison industry. Such controversies have included the role of private prison corporations in SB 1070 and similar anti-immigrant legislation disseminated in other states; a 2010 private prison escape that resulted in two murders and a nationwide manhunt; and a failed bid to privatize nearly the entire Arizona prison system.
And now, recent events in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande show the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom, assisting local law enforcement agencies in drug raids at public schools.
Trick or Treat
At 9 a.m. on the morning of October 31, 2012, students at Vista Grande High School in Casa Grande were settling in to their daily routine when something unusual occurred.
Vista Grande High School Principal Tim Hamilton ordered the school — with a student population of 1,776 — on “lock down,” kicking off the first “drug sweep” in the school’s four-year history. According to Hamilton, “lock down” is a state in which, “everybody is locked in the room they are in, and nobody leaves — nobody leaves the school, nobody comes into the school.”
”Everybody is locked in, and then they bring the dogs in, and they are teamed with an administrator and go in and out of classrooms. They go to a classroom and they have the kids come out and line up against a wall. The dog goes in and they close the door behind, and then the dog does its thing, and if it gets a hit, it sits on a bag and won’t move.”
While such “drug sweeps” have become a routine matter in many of the nation’s schools, along with the use of metal detectors and zero-tolerance policies, one feature of this raid was unusual. According to Casa Grande Police Department (CGPD) Public Information Officer Thomas Anderson, four “law enforcement agencies” took part in the operation: CGPD (which served as the lead agency and operation coordinator), the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Gila River Indian Community Police Department, and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).
It is the involvement of CCA — the nation’s largest private, for-profit prison corporation — that causes this high school “drug sweep” to stand out as unusual; CCA is not, despite CGPD’s evident opinion to the contrary, a law enforcement agency.
Here’s another school to juvie pipeline
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/340-187/14760-in-mississippi-kids-go-to-jail-for-being-late
excerpt:
In Mississippi Kids Go To Jail For Being Late?
By Julianne Hing, Color Lines
28 November 12
Green can’t exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, “Maybe 30.” He was put on probation by a youth court judge for getting into a fight when he was in eighth grade. Thereafter, any of Green’s school-based infractions, from being a few minutes late for class to breaking the school dress code by wearing the wrong color socks, counted as violations of his probation and led to his immediate suspension and incarceration in the local juvenile detention center.
But Green wasn’t alone. A bracing Department of Justice lawsuit filed last month against Meridian, Miss., where Green lives and is set to graduate from high school this coming year, argues that the city’s juvenile justice system has operated a school to prison pipeline that shoves students out of school and into the criminal justice system, and violates young people’s due process rights along the way.
In Meridian, when schools want to discipline children, they do much more than just send them to the principal’s office. They call the police, who show up to arrest children who are as young as 10 years old. Arrests, the Department of Justice says, happen automatically, regardless of whether the police officer knows exactly what kind of offense the child has committed or whether that offense is even worthy of an arrest. The police department’s policy is to arrest all children referred to the agency.
Once those children are in the juvenile justice system, they are denied basic constitutional rights. They are handcuffed and incarcerated for days without any hearing and subsequently warehoused without understanding their alleged probation violations.
“[D]efendants engage in a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct through which they routinely and systematically arrest and incarcerate children, including for minor school rule infractions, without even the most basic procedural safeguards, and in violation of these children’s constitutional rights,” the DOJ’s 37-page complaint reads. Meridian’s years of systemic abuse punish youth “so arbitrarily and severely as to shock the conscience,” the complaint reads.
The federal lawsuit casts a wide net in indicting the systems that worked to deny Meridian children their constitutional rights. It names as defendants the state of Mississippi; the city of Meridian; Lauderdale County, which runs the Lauderdale County Youth Court; and the local Defendant Youth Court Judges Frank Coleman and Veldore Young for violating Meridian students’ rights up and down the chain.
The DOJ’s complaint also charges that in the course of its eight-month investigation the city blocked the inquiry by refusing to hand over youth court records. Attorneys for city officials deny that claim, and say they are bound by law to protect the confidentiality of youth who’ve been through the system and so cannot share their records with the federal government.
‘Judge, Jury and Executioner’
The DOJ’s lawsuit, despite its bombshell revelations for the rest of the country, has been a long time coming. Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the NAACP have been concerned about Meridian for years.
The SPLC’s inquiry into Meridian began in 2008, when attorneys started hearing reports of “horrific abuse” of youth housed in juvenile detention centers, said Jody Owens, managing attorney of the SPLC’s juvenile justice initiative in Mississippi. Advocates learned that 67 percent of youth in detention centers arrived there from the Meridian school system, Owens said. In between school and detention, students were denied access to counsel and due process, and many were never made aware of what they were even being arrested for. “The administrators were the judge, jury and executioner,” Owens said.
This practice has also appeared to target black students. Meridian, a city of 40,000 people, is 61 percent African-American. But over a five-year period, Owens said, “There was never once a white kid that was expelled or suspended for the same offense that kids of color were suspended for.”
Among the infractions that landed Green, who is black, in juvenile detention were talking back to a teacher, wearing long socks and coming to school without wearing a belt. He was behind bars for stretches of time as long as two weeks, and the real rub, his mother Gloria said, is that weekends didn’t count as days served. A 10-day suspension stretched to 14 actual days; time for Meridian juvenile justice officials apparently stopped on weekends. All that back and forth out of school and in juvenile took a real toll on Green’s education, and he was held back from the eighth grade.
http://itsoureconomy.us/2012/11/canada-sued-under-nafta-for-banning-fracking/
US Company sues Canada
excerpt:
November 28, 2012
This practice of corporations suing countries when their labor, consumer or environmental laws affect ‘expected’ profits will increase if the TransPacific Partnership is signed. Smaller countries will not be able to afford these high penalties and so will likely change their laws to protect corporate profits at a cost to people and the planet.
Corporation Uses NAFTA to Sue Canada for $250 Million Over Fracking Ban
- Common Dreams staff
A US company is taking advantage of a corporate-friendly NAFTA provision in suing the Canadian government for over $250 million due to lost profits from Quebec’s moratorium on fracking.
The company, Lone Pine Resources Inc., which is incorporated in the state of Delaware and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, held mining permits in the Saint Lawrence Valley and has already spent “millions of dollars” to get the permits and approvals, according to the company, but the moratorium passed in 2011 by the province to study environmental risk revoked those permits.
As Jeff Gray reports in the Globe and Mail, NAFTA allows “U.S. and Mexican companies to sue Ottawa if they feel they have been wronged by a government policy or action.”
The company filed on Nov. 8 its arbitration intent (pdf) ”under Article 1117 of the NAFTA for the arbitrary, capricious, and illegal revocation of the Enterprise’s valuable right to mine for oil and gas under the St. Lawrence River by the Government of Quebec without due process, without compensation, and with no cognizable public purpose.”
I mentined in an extended comment months ago the threat that PTT meant to national sovereignity. and how the perimeter restricting sovereignity would be complete then. Why don’t people listen to warnings.
Now we are after the curve. The old saying that companies obey the laws of the land where they operate is disappearing. Some CEO’s say we are not an American company. Soon they will say we are a Caymen, and then nationless, company.
Thanks BettyKath
I mean how does corporate profits overrule our constitution? Anything within our nations jurisdiction must be subject to it. How can trade pacts replace that rule?
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/the-chief-justice-loses-his-cool/?ref=opinion
November 30, 2012, 11:17 am
The Chief Justice Loses His Cool
By LINCOLN CAPLAN
During oral argument at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. upbraided Joseph Palmore, an assistant to the solicitor general. The words of the chief justice read like bullying.”
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Important, I have no idea.
But it provided for a lowly non-legal insight in how Supreme Court rulings can force the Justice Department to make new interpretations of existing laws. And that language as always is subject of agreement, custom, misunderstanding or even abuse.
And even asst Solicitor Generals get kicked roughly at times in an unmerited fashion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/30/us-war-against-al-qaida
“The US is heading for a “tipping point” beyond which it should no longer pursue al-Qaida terrorists by military means, one of the Obama administration’s most senior lawyers has said.
Jeh Johnson suggested the group would become so degraded that a time would come when the legal authority given to the White House by Congress should no longer be used to justify waging the war that has been fought since 2001.——
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Rice has echoed this view. I wonder if it is a test balloon from the WH? It must be.
Can this mean that our war efforts will be drawn down?
Does this mean that our police agencies are strong enough to watch over us all?
He explicitly said that citizens and journalists can NO LONGER be considered dangers to the security of the nation!!!!!!
Of course this was all said in the UK and although official, does not distract from this weeks domestic message—-save the middle class tax rebate.
Why do we have to turn to foreign newspapers to find important American news?
On the theme of:
“with idiots like this, how can we win?”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/opinion/john-brennan-is-the-wrong-man-for-the-cia.html
Brennan, maker of the Yemen little war and drone JSOC strategy is being considered as new head of the CIA.
This came as a result of searching to see if the NYTimes hsd picked up anytbing yet on Jeh Johnsons speech, related in the UK Guardian, see above.
Now how this can relate to laws and etc as a theme in JT’s blog is left to others to judge.
By the State Dept’s own figures the number of AQAP has many doubled since we started drone flights.
So we are doing the wrong thing, by out own admission.
Is this also a reason to back out of using the military to chase Al Quaeda as mention previously by Jeh Johnson.
Maybe we should consider him for new CIA chief.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/rule-of-law-index-2012_n_2200765.html ” Rule of Law index: U.S. Ranks Low In Access To Justice Compared To Other Wealthy Nations”
Dear Professor Turley,
I would respectfully request your attention to this matter.
The current conflict, launched by Gene Howington against me on the Lindsey Stone thread, requires access by myself to a copy of the rules so as to permit me to defend myself.
The rules have been mentioned at times, but they are not available in a public form or posted here, and my memory does not recall them all, perhaps.
GeneH has accused me of violating the rules, and said to me that he is gathering “evidence” so as to have me banned. He refuses to specify what rules or exemplify my violations, although I have requested him to do so.
The only rule mentioned was the one on incivility, which I again ask for the wording on, to no avail.
I reminded him in my reply to him on that rule, and remind you now on how your blog on the subject was commented with great incivilityin comments between regulars and newbies. that, you sent at least two comments to the blog in middle of the commenting, asking for better observance, the last time from the swimming pool, where you were with your children.
I want take your time for the current conflict, but if interested my replies to him and the possible (??) cause for complaint can be found at that thread.
Obviously, if rules are to be policed by GeneH or others as reason for complaint to you for your decision on banning, then it would seem just that the rules be permanently posted and not subject to citation only at arbitrary intervals by someone in the know, as is the case now. We have many visitors and they wonder what are the rules here.
My request for help in this matter to GeneH has elicited no answer yet.
No answer at all, which I presume means none will be forthcoming.
Excuse my lengthy plea. And thanks for your consideration.
I hope this plea reaches you and hope for some acknowledgement, so as to assure me that my plea to you does not disappear on the way.
http://jonathanturley.org/corrections/#comment-430746
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/12/02/lindsey-stone-fired-over-facebook-photo/#comment-459292
Chemical Dispersant Made BP Oilspill 52 Times More Toxic
—By Julia Whitty
| Tue Dec. 4, 2012
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/12/chemical-dispersant-made-bps-gulf-oilspill-52-times-more-toxic
Excerpt:
A new study finds that adding Corexit 9500A to Macondo oil—as BP did in the course of trying to disperse its 2010 oilspill disaster—made the mixture 52 times more toxic than oil alone. The results are from toxicology tests in the lab and appear in the scientific journal Environmental Pollution.
Using oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout and Corexit the researchers tested the toxicity of oil, dispersant, and a mixture of oil and dispersant on five strains of rotifers—the lab rats of marine toxicology testing. Among the results:
– The oil-dispersant mixture killed adult rotifers
– As little as 2.6 percent of the mixture inhibited egg hatching by 50 percent
The inhibition of egg hatching in bottom sediments is particularly ominous because rotifer eggs hatch each spring to live as adults in the water column where they are important food sources for larval and juvenile fish, for shrimp, crabs and other marine life in estuarine and shoreline ecosystems—including fisheries humans depend on.
“Dispersants are preapproved to help clean up oil spills and are widely used during disasters,” said lead author Roberto-Rico Martinez currently at the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico. “But we have a poor understanding of their toxicity. Our study indicates the increase in toxicity may have been greatly underestimated following the Macondo well explosion.”
Zero Dark Thirty: new torture-glorifying film wins raves
Can a movie that relies on fabrications to generate support for war crimes still be considered great?
by Glenn Greenwald
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/10/zero-dark-thirty-torture-awards
Excerpt:
Over the last decade, nothing has produced more positive feelings among Americans about themselves than the killing of bin Laden. That’s why it was a centerpiece of Obama’s re-election campaign and multiple chanting sessions at the Democrats’ convention.
When it comes to “the hunt for bin Laden”, few people want their nationalistic pride to be diluted by criticisms of the agencies responsible or reminders of the war crimes their country committed (or the fake child vaccine programs on which it relied). Any film that powerfully and adeptly leads Americans to view their government and its intelligence and military actors as noble heroes is one that is going to produce gratitude and glee no matter what else it does.
Those who ordered and implemented torture were never prosecuted. They were actively shielded from all forms of legal accountability by the current president. They thus went on to write books, get even richer, and live the lives of honored American statesmen. Torture was thus transformed from what it had been – a universally recognized war crime – into just another pedestrian, partisan political debate that Americans have.
That’s the critical context in which a film can simultaneously be said to glorify torture using outright fabrications and be praised as the year’s greatest film. The normalization of torture – and of all crimes committed by the US government in the name of war – is both a cause and effect of this film’s success. That normalization is what enables a film like this to be so widely admired, and it will be bolstered even further as the film gathers more accolades and box office riches.
(http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/04/30/former-cia-spy-jose-rodriguezs-truly-sociopathic-60-minutes-interview/ (Former CIA Spy Jose Rodriguez’s Truly Sociopathic ’60 Minutes’ Interview
By: Kevin Gosztola Monday April 30, 2012 12:14 am)
Not a correction, but I couldn’t find any other way to submit a story. Here’s a University of Kentucky student who very ably embarrasses campus police officers who illegally search his room. VERY NSFW. http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4538
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/vast-new-spying-program-was-started-secret-bogus
Vast New Spying Program Was Started in Secret on a Bogus Pretext
By Chris Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:25am
The Wall Street Journal today published (alternate link) an in-depth review of a new, relatively unknown program run by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Although we have been warning about the dangers of the program for months, and I testified before Congress about the issue in July, the Journal’s story conveys how controversial the program was even inside the government. It also describes the broad scope of new authority the government is granting itself.
As the Journal reports, under new guidelines issued by the Attorney General back in March,
The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them. That is a departure from past practice, which barred the agency from storing information about ordinary Americans unless a person was a terror suspect or related to an investigation.
Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. Previously, both were prohibited.
The changes also allow databases of U.S. civilian information to be given to foreign governments for analysis of their own. In effect, U.S. and foreign governments would be using the information to look for clues that people might commit future crimes.
The program is striking in so many ways. Innocent people can be investigated and their data kept for years. It can be shared with foreign governments. All of this in service of not just terrorism investigations but also investigations of future crimes. In effect, the U.S. government is using information it gathers for its ordinary business to turn its own citizens into the subjects of terrorism investigations.
Meanwhile, all of this is supposed to be against the law. The Privacy Act of 1974 says that information collected by the federal government for one purpose is not supposed to be used for another. However, agencies are attempting to circumvent these rules by publishing boilerplate notices in the Federal Register. Sadly, that practice has become far too common.
Government officials who have a firsthand look at how the program works are stunned by it:
“It’s breathtaking” in its scope, said a former senior administration official familiar with the White House debate.
And from Mary Ellen Callahan, then the Chief Privacy Officer at the Department of Homeland Security:
the rules would constitute a “sea change” because, whenever citizens interact with the government, the first question asked will be, are they a terrorist?
Worse, all of this happened in secret, approved by National Security Advisor John Brennan and signed off on by Attorney General Eric Holder. No public debate or comment and suddenly, every citizen can be put under the terrorism microscope.
Ironically, all of these changes to the rules came in response to an attempted attack that had nothing to do with information collection or a U.S. citizen. The government cites the attempted 2009 Christmas bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as the impetus for the changes. However, as the Journal story makes clear, Abdulmutallab wasn’t a U.S. citizen, and collecting information on him wasn’t a problem. Instead, his own father had identified him to the U.S. government as a potential terrorist. In short, an attack by a known foreign terror suspect was used to justify changes to rules about collecting information on U.S. citizens.
Finally, credit must be given to those who fought the program. It’s clear that DHS, especially the Privacy Officer, Mary Ellen Callahan, and the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties pushed back hard against this. Nancy Libin, the chief privacy officer at the Department of Justice, also expressed serious reservations and fought an internal battle against the changes. It’s probably not a surprise that none of them are still in government.
If you want to learn more here is a simple guide to the main changes created by the 2012 NCTC guidelines. And here are the Freedom of Information Act documents that we have gathered on NCTC – we will post more as we receive additional records.
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-factsheet-information-collection-national-counterterrorism-center-nctc
Calif. judge says victims’ body can prevent rape
Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/calif-judge-says-victims-body-prevent-rape-023033459.html
Excerpt:
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim “didn’t put up a fight” during her assault and that if someone doesn’t want sexual intercourse, the body “will not permit that to happen.”
The California Commission on Judicial Performance voted 10-0 to impose a public admonishment Thursday, saying Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson’s comments were inappropriate and a breach of judicial ethics.
“In the commission’s view, the judge’s remarks reflected outdated, biased and insensitive views about sexual assault victims who do not ‘put up a fight.’ Such comments cannot help but diminish public confidence and trust in the impartiality of the judiciary,” wrote Lawrence J. Simi, the commission’s chairman.
Johnson made the comments in the case of a man who threatened to mutilate the face and genitals of his ex-girlfriend with a heated screwdriver, beat her with a metal baton and made other violent threats before committing rape, forced oral copulation, and other crimes.
Though the woman reported the criminal threats the next day, the woman did not report the rape until 17 days later.
Johnson, a former prosecutor in the Orange County district attorney’s sex crimes unit, said during the man’s 2008 sentencing that he had seen violent cases on that unit in which women’s vaginas were “shredded” by rape.
“I’m not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something: If someone doesn’t want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage is inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case,” Johnson said.
Now if they release in a timely fashion and don;t totally redact and maybe even use it to bring Cheney et al to the bar of justice……..
CIA Torture Report Approved By Senate Intelligence Committee
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/cia-torture-report_n_2295083.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D245661
My candidate for mother of the year:
Mom Helps Teen Daughter Text Nude Photos To 30-Year-Old Boyfriend Daniel Dean Divine
Posted: 12/14/2012 1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/mom-helps-teen-daughter-text-nude-naked-photos-pictures-boyfriend_n_2300808.html?ref=topbar
A Utah mother has pleaded guilty to child abuse after taking nude photos of her 13-year-old daughter so that the girl could text them to a 30-year-old “family friend.”
In April, the teen told Duchesne County detectives that Daniel Dean Divine, who lives in Oregon, was her boyfriend and had asked her to take nude pictures for him on an iPhone he had given her, the Deseret News reported.
The girl said she could not figure out how to use the phone’s camera, so her mother, 35, agreed to take three photos of her to be sent to the man, according to the Deseret News.
The names of the mother and the teenager haven’t been released in order to protect the girl’s identity.
The woman told investigators that Divine was a “very good friend of the family,” according to KSL. She also claimed that he and her daughter were planning to wait until the girl was 18 to begin a sexual relationship.
The mother was originally charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. As part of a plea bargain, she pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of third-degree felony child abuse and agreed to testify against Divine.
She faces up to five years in prison.
Divine has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and enticing a minor over the Internet.
No correction. may be quicklink to your site on OpEdNews? Please advise.
zrants@gmail.com
Have you seen this, JT?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/public-bus-audio-surveillance/
Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations
“We don’t need no steenkin’ wiretap warrants – besides, it’s for your safety.”
In San Francisco we have buses dishing out tickets:
http://metermadness.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/buses-dishing-out-parking-tickets-now-in-san-francisco/
We also have cameras in Muni stations that detect “pre-cime”. What is pre-crime? http://metermadness.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/munis-new-cameras-detect-pre-crime/
Z-Rants, how come you don’t know what “pre-crime” is; where have you been living all your life?
Pre-crime is thinking wrong. Criminals do it before committing crimes. A lot of crime can be prevented by punishing criminals BEFORE they commit crimes; then you have a crime-free society. Sheesh! Get a pre-life! (As so many others have…)
@ Z-Rant,
So if you get an order to report for installation of a plug on the back of your neck, you will know why, Detection of pre-crime. We passed “1984″ years ago. Clockwork Orange next year. But then we can scrap the rest of the surveillance system, and the jobs too!!!!
Actually the plug is only needed to avoid having a battery to be replaced surgically. My pacemaker is already wireless, which records all “incidents”.
Like my going into “flutter” (slower that flimmer) from sinus last Tuesday.
Along with the prior reports of wacko clergy coming out with outrageous statements they believe are expressive of the word of god, we now have this:
The controversial Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to protest outside of the Anne Arundel Circuit Court on Jan 2.—the first day same-sex couples will be able to wed there. “On that day the court starts committing that abomination that brings the shooter like it did in Connecticut,” said Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the church’s founder.
She also made headlines this weekend when she claimed via Twitter that Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter, was sent by God. She told Annapolis Patch, “God keeps sending the shooter.”
WOW. Some folks are gonna get married and she thinks god had a bunch of kids gunned down to deal with that?
Oops I forgot to take off my socks.
Federal Judge Allows Corporation To File Secret Lawsuit
By Nicole Flatow
Dec 18, 2012
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/18/1340121/federal-judge-allows-corporation-to-file-secret-lawsuit/
Excerpt:
In a remarkable blow to freedom of information, a federal trial judge ruled this summer that a company could sue a product safety agency anonymously for posting an improper report about the company, sealed the opinion entirely for several months and then released it in heavily redacted form. According to consumer groups now challenging the decision, this is the first known example of a court both allowing a corporation to sue anonymously, and agreeing to seal a case, all so the company could protect its reputation.
The lawsuit was also the first-ever legal challenge to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database, launched in 2011 to provide access to consumer safety complaints before potentially hazardous products are recalled. The redacted opinion removes any facts about the case, leaving visible only the court’s conclusion that the commission improperly posted a report about the company that it held was inaccurate and would damage the company’s reputation.
Weighing the fundamental First Amendment interest in transparency of government decisions against the economic interest of the corporation, U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. found that the corporation’s interest prevailed, writing that “although the law favors access to judicial records, the facts of this case overcome this presumption.” The “facts” include that the court deemed the information “materially inaccurate” (a determination which no one but the court can assess, since all relevant information has been redacted), “injurious to Plaintiff’s reputation, and risks harm to Plaintiff’s economic interests.”
Elaine M, federal and state courts routinely do that without even allowing a chance for litigants to respond to a MOTION TO SEAL, by issuing sua sponte orders, whenever there is an allegation of child sexual abuse made against anyone OR when there is a lawsuit filed because of false allegations of child sexual abuse made against someone. Happens without due process and there is nothing to be done about it. Most recent one that I remember was Rosen versus Harford County Department of Human Services, in the US District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland. Rosen sued Harford County DHS, and I also think the Circuit Court and maybe the prosecutor because there was a pending criminal action against an alleged child abuser (charges have since been dropped because there was zero evidence and the child, when interviewed, denied abuse) and Rosen, as a witness for the defendant, suddenly received written notice in the mail that she was not permitted to speak on-line or publicly about the case. She was not a party to the case and the judge had no jurisdiction over her. She filed a federal suit requesting a TRO against the violation of her First Amendment rights and then two things happened instantly: (1) the federal judge sealed everything and ordered the file held in chambers so nobody could read it; and (2) the state court judge got a PHONE CALL while in open court, left the bench, came back to the bench, and announced that the motion to gag Dr. Rosen was denied as being outside his jurisdiction. Then the federal suit was dismissed as MOOT.
Interesting, ain’t it? Then the charges were dropped. And Harford County, Maryland is a model for corruption resulting in cases like this. 28 bogus felony charges against a parent whose child denied abuse; held on $10 MILLION bail in the county jail for 13 months and subjected to coercion to make her plead “NCR” as in “not guilty by reason of insanity.” Incarcerated in the state mental hospital at MEDICAID EXPENSE so they could try to get her declared insane while not a single psychiatrist would get on board with the program to say so. Probably a quarter million dollars of taxpayer money spent on the thing and a secret federal case involving a back-room scuffle over a citizen’s right to speak about what she chose to speak about.
There is an entire “underground court system” in this country of decisions that are unreported, court actions that are taken without notice and without paperwork, and even state agencies making secret deals with each other and with attorneys to do things that are not in their charters. It cannot even be attacked because the federal courts are more complicit in hiding these actions than anyone else.
It stinks and it should be torn down brick by filthy brick but we can’t do any of that because, of course, it has gone too far. Anyone who has the information on how this happens is marginalized, impoverished and declared “non-credible” and labeled a conspiracy theorist.
It is not a single president with his drones who has brought us to the disaster we will now suffer; it is the courts, and they began this process even before the Dred Scott decision (which was never formally rescinded by that conscience-free court) and they will continue it until the fall of the empire and beyond.
in the post, “Pope Again Denounces Gay Marriage As Threat To Mankind”
my first response accidentally linked to an email address.
Is it possible to delete that link?
Please help if you can.
Professor, how about an article about this investigation. It appears to me that the “cause of death” of the child Prince McLeod Rams has not even been established. If it has, I certainly can’t find it. “Obvious injuries,” yes. And I wonder what his older half-brother had to cause him to be on disability. And how that older child became disabled.
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-11-26/opinions/35512122_1_custody-battle-court-battles-death
4 Firefighters Shot, 2 Killed At Webster, New York Fire Scene
AP | Posted: 12/24/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/firefighters-shot-webster-fire_n_2358822.html
Excerpt:
WEBSTER, N.Y. — Authorities say four firefighters were shot, two of them killed while responding to a house fire in western New York.
Officials in the town of Webster tell local media outlets that someone shot at firefighters around 6 a.m. Monday when they arrived at the scene of the blaze just east of Rochester.
CNN reports that two responding firefighters are being treated for gunshot wounds. Two other firefighters were killed, but officials wouldn’t elaborate on how they died.
A Webster fire official told ABC that the firefighters were shot at when they pulled up to a house in the 100 block of Lake Road. The crime scene is still active, but officials said there is no active shooter at this time.
Police secured the area by 10 a.m. and firefighters started combating the blaze, which spread to at least two houses. It’s unclear whether any arrests have been made, or whether anyone was injured in the fire.
The Other Bradley Manning: Jeremy Hammond Faces Life Term for WikiLeaks and Hacked Stratfor Emails
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/27/the_other_bradley_manning_jeremy_hammond
Summary:
A federal judge has refused to recuse herself from the closely watched trial of jailed computer hacker Jeremy Hammond, an alleged member of the group “Anonymous” charged with hacking into the computers of the private intelligence firm Stratfor and turning over some five million emails to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Hammond’s lawyers had asked Federal Judge Loretta Preska to recuse herself because her husband worked for a client of Stratfor, and himself had his email hacked. Hammond’s supporters say the Stratfor documents shed light on how the private intelligence firm monitors activists and spies for corporate clients. He has been held without bail or trial for more than nine months. We speak with Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, about Hammond’s case
Elaine,
Hope this one gets a blog. The abiity to hold, etc people without charge is scary. See Verding’s list.
Maybe all lawyers can the answer to if refusal for recuse although reasonable grounds exist, does this give reason for appeal leading to new trial?
H.R. 5949: FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012 (On Passage of the Bill)
Number:
Senate Vote #236 [primary source: senate.gov]
Date:
Dec 28, 2012 (112th Congress)
Result:
Bill Passed
This was a vote to approve or reject a bill or resolution.
Yea 73
Nay 23
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/s236?utm_campaign=govtrack_feed&utm_source=govtrack/feed&utm_medium=rss
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“GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama’s demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping”
“The California Democrat’s disgusting rhetoric recalls the worst of Dick Cheney while advancing Obama’s agenda”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/fisa-feinstein-obama-democrats-eavesdropping
I was told this was a place to make suggestions for blog coverage, so here’s mine. I did not find any prior coverage in your archives.
The FFRF has filed suit in federal district court challenging the constitutionality of IRC 107, the law that allows ONLY “ministers” all the income tax free income they can get as long as they spend it on housing.
Trail is set for January 2014.
It is an issue that has not received the coverage it warrants, and the case has already made history in that the judge has allowed “standing” to the plaintiffs to proceed with the case.
If you think I can help develop coverage here, feel free to ask.
Connecticut Student Suspended For Writing In Poem That She “Understands” What Adam Lanza “Pulled The Trigger”
should be
California Student…?
Mike S, In the title, “Le” should be “Les”
Howdy! This is kind of off topic but I need some guidance
from an established blog. Is it hard to set
up your own blog? I’m not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty quick. I’m thinking about
creating my own but I’m not sure where to begin. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Appreciate it
Mr Turley,
Your post about the Saudi fatwa allowing the raping of syrians doesnt need correction, it needs removal, retraction, or an apology for being so stupid that you regurgitate any nonsense you read on the web (excuse me for being annoyed).
What you posted is a blatant lie: http://www.alternet.org/world/exhibit-how-islamophobic-meme-can-spread-wildfire-across-internet
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/student-rfid-suspension/
Another dog-killing by cops: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/01/birmingham_police_shot_and_kil.html
Armed Janitors Approved By Montpelier, Ohio, School Board To Stop School Shootings
Posted: 01/11/2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/armed-janitors-approved-school-shootings_n_2458167.html
Guess when this will kill the first student.
And is this Obama’s executive action, empowering immediate deputization of anyone so selected by school boards, principals. etc.?
Bring it up on SH and the professor thread if not taken up quickly. We can hold the fire going a while till.
There may be more than meets the eye, than simply a school board grab for headlines.
“ABILENE, Texas — Three drill sergeants at a West Texas boot camp for children are being investigated for their use of force, including reportedly using a stun gun on a 4-year-old who disobeyed his parent, a police chief said Friday. …five victims have been identified, including a 12-year-old boy who was reportedly stunned after crawling too slowly during an exercise. ”
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/Three-Boot-Camp-Workers-Investigated-for-Stun-Gun-Use-186655391.html
Suggestion Box:
Deaf Twins Going Blind Euthanized
Justice Department Refuses to Release GPS Tracking Memos
By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project , 01/16/2013
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/justice-department-refuses-release-gps-tracking-memos
Not exactly a correction but this comment is spam:
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/09/02/marathon-man-does-paul-ryan-play-fast-and-loose-with-the-facts/#comment-481983
Its very cleverly made to not look like spam. For all that clever the source is smart as a board – they posted it in a long dead thread from months ago!
Isn’t this thread also for suggestions of stories that Professor Turley can write about or a guest blogger can write about?
How about this little tidbit:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/12/03/toddler-death-prompts-review-other-deaths/atSyJKKyw0nhvF10MaOHTK/story.html
Allegations, cross-allegations, dead mothers, dead toddlers, insurance policies, judges claiming that there was “blown smoke,” moms who have been on TV?
Old news, apparently:
EPA: Staff-wide Che Guevara email an ‘inadvertent error’
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/14/epa-staff-wide-che-guevara-email-an-inadvertent-error/
New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As ‘Tampering With Evidence’
Posted: 01/24/2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html
Excerpt:
A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial.
House Bill 206, introduced by state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for “tampering with evidence.”
“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime,” the bill says.
Third-degree felonies in New Mexico carry a sentence of up to three years in prison.
It’s not just Chicago-area police who are out of hand: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130124/NEWS01/301240038/Lieutenant-colonel-sues-Louisville-police-alleging-assault
Published on Friday, January 25, 2013 by Common Dreams
Foul Play in the Senate
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/25-8
Excerpts:
The inauguration of a president is one of those spectacles of democracy that can make us remember we’re part of something big and enduring. So for a few hours this past Monday the pomp and circumstance inspired us to think that government of, by, and for the people really is just that, despite the predatory threats that stalk it.
But the mood didn’t last. Every now and then, as the cameras panned upward, the Capitol dome towering over the ceremony was a reminder of something the good feeling of the moment couldn’t erase. It’s the journalist’s curse to have a good time spoiled by the reality beyond the pageantry. Just a couple of days before the inaugural festivities, The New York Times published some superb investigative reporting by the team of Eric Lipton and Kevin Sack, and their revelations were hard to forget, even at a time of celebration.
The story told us of a pharmaceutical giant called Amgen and three senators so close to it they might be entries on its balance sheet: Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Senator Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and that powerful committee’s ranking Republican, Orrin Hatch. A trio of perpetrators who treat the United States Treasury as if it were a cash-and-carry annex of corporate America.
The Times story described how Amgen got a huge hidden gift from unnamed members of Congress and their staffers. They slipped an eleventh hour loophole into the New Year’s Eve deal that kept the government from going over the fiscal cliff. When the sun rose in the morning, there it was, a richly embroidered loophole for Amgen that will cost taxpayers a cool half a billion dollars.
….
The Amgen deal “confirms the American public’s worst suspicions of how Congress operates,” Representative Welch told us this week. “As the nation’s economy teetered on the edge of a Congressional-created fiscal cliff, lobbyists for a private, for-profit company seized an opportunity to feed at the public trough. It’s no wonder cockroaches and root canals are more popular than Congress.”
In his inaugural address, Barack Obama said the commitments we make to each other through Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security don’t make us a nation of takers. But the actions of Amgen and its cronies under the dome on Capitol Hill show who the real takers are — not those who look to government for support in old age and hard times but the ones at the top whose avarice and lust for profit compel them to take as much as they can from that government at the expense of everyone else
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/guantanamo-censor_n_2589938.html (“Guantanamo Judge Eliminates Secret Censor At 9/11 Trial”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/border-patrol-rewards-arrests-new-york_n_2591416.html (“Border Patrol Officers Rewarded For Arrests With Gift Cards: Report”)
Not sure if you want to follow up on this story but I know you seem to like to post horror stories from the ME & this covers about all the bases:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/63885.aspx
Saudi preacher gets off light for raping, killing daughter
Randa al-Kaleeb, a social worker from the hospital where Lama was admitted, said the girl’s back was broken and that she had been raped “everywhere”, according to the group.
According to the victim’s mother, hospital staff told her that her “child’s rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed.”
The activists said that the judge had ruled the prosecution could only seek “blood money (compensation for the next of kin under Islamic law) and the time the defendant had served in prison since Lama’s death suffices as punishment.”
Three Saudi activists, including Manal al-Sharif, have raised objections to the ruling.
The ruling is based on Islamic laws that a father cannot be executed for murdering his children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives, activists said.
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Ayotte, Graham and McCain Will Participate In Hedges Oral Arguments
Posted: 02/01/2013
by Matt Sledge
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-sledge/ndaa-lawsuit-oral-arguments_b_2601953.html
Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain will have five minutes on Wednesday to explain why a lawsuit targeting the indefinite detention should be swatted down. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals granted their motion to participate in oral arguments in the Hedges v. Obama NDAA lawsuit on Thursday, setting up a court appearance for their lawyer on February 6.
The “three amigos” — or in this case three amici — should have something interesting to say. They oppose Hedges and the other activists trying to knock out indefinite detention. But government lawyers nevertheless asked the court to deny them time in oral, arguing that their views “should properly be aired in the political branches, not the judiciary,” and that Lindsey Graham’s Senate floor musings about a “rogue executive branch” misusing its detention powers didn’t exactly help their case.
If you’d like a preview of what their lawyer, David Rivkin, will argue in court, check out their amicus brief.
http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Hedges-Amicus-Brief-FINAL-2.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/28/presidential-memorandum-presidential-determination-respect-child-soldier
“Secret Surveillance Court Gets New Presiding Judge”
By David Kravets
02.07.13
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/secret-spy-court-judge/
Excerpt:
Perhaps the only thing we know about the goings on of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — other than it granting the government unfettered spy powers — is that it’s getting a new presiding judge.
The 11-judge court was set up in the wake of the Watergate scandal in the President Richard M. Nixon era, and is best described as a rubber-stamp for giving the federal government carte blanche powers to spy on Americans at home or abroad.
The court is not in Iran or Venezuela, as one might expect, but meets in secret in the District of Columbia with federal authorities and doles out spy warrants without even knowing a target’s name. No probable cause is necessary, as long as the feds attest that the electronic eavesdropping is material to an investigation.
Chief Justice John Roberts — whose position as head of the Supreme Court is responsible for naming judges to seven-year terms, has appointed District of Columbia U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton as the presiding judge. Walton replaces U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, another District of Columbia judge whose secret-court term expires Feb. 21. Walton was on vacation Thursday and unavailable for comment.
Walton, a President George W. Bush appointee to the district court, has presided over a number of high-profile cases in the District of Columbia, including the prosecutions of Scooter Libby, Roger Clemens and various habeas corpus cases from Guantanamo Bay detainees. Secrecy News first disclosed Walton’s elevation Wednesday. continues…
Professor, have you read Chris Dorner’s “Manifesto”? Anyone?
Professor Turley, on your recent thread about the Fairfax, Virginia woman who opposed having kids read “BELOVED,” the structure of the wordpress page has come ou