Comments on: Weekend Links

By: Vermin Kol

Vermin Kol — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:12:54 +0000

To get the Minnesota tasering story try:

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By: MikeT

MikeT — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:39:51 +0000

It’s important that girls suffer the same consequences as boys, even if it is absurd. A double standard here only perpetuates the problem by making less people have a stake in seeing it ended. When teenage girls are charged left and right, more people may being to think that maybe the solution is to be found outside the state. Until then, it’s only fair that girls get punished the same way. Think of it like the War on Drugs. If there were no sentencing double standards, you’d see far more militant white opposition.

By: Alien

Alien — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:32:52 +0000

I think it’s funny that Dickes can charge $5,200 per marijuana plant. The price that the DEA sets so various law enforcement can brag about busting millions of dollars of weed. The price that is so high because drugs are illegal to begin with, creating a black market.

Maybe if more of this happened throughout the US, more people being able to go back and charge hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars for wrongly confiscated property, the government would have to legalize marijuana if for no other reason than to get prices to drop so it would be cheaper for them to reimburse these people. Not to mention they wouldn’t have to continue to confiscate plants that end up being legal and then get sued even more.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:47:16 +0000

“Turn up the signal, wipe out the noise.”–Peter Gabriel

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:44:41 +0000

I think Bush and bin Laden are both terrorists in that they want to keep people in a low-level state of fear and apprehension: bin Laden with his lo-tech video warnings (is he even still alive? if so, can’t he afford hi-def equipment?) and Bush/Cheney/Chertoff with their Terror Alerts and gut feelings. You just have to tune these people out–like white noise–and get on with your life.

By: Persona non grata

Persona non grata — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:17:44 +0000

Colorado one small step in the right direction.

Lets give a warm round of applause for common sense.

End drug prohibition now.

By: Persona non grata

Persona non grata — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:09:51 +0000

Absolutely criminal, these people

“These people” need to be hung from the Capitol Building’s rotunda with care, so as to warn all other criminal sycophants that we are a nation of accountiblilty and thus we, the taxpayers, will not tolerate criminals in any office elected or appointed.

No accountiblity no justice, no justice no America.

What would Washington do? Jefferson? Adams? Hale? Hancock?
Madison? Gates? Greene? Burr? etal.

By: Kennedy

Kennedy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:38:31 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out what kind of 13 year old boy would be offended by being “touched above the clothes” by a girl. Unless she was an uggo.

By: von Laue

von Laue — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:13:36 +0000

Keillor is pretty well known as a total jackass in St. Paul.

By: Psion

Psion — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:56:19 +0000

But to *arrest* a girl for fondling a boy through his pants? C’mon, that should mean consultation between school administrators and the involved parents along with the school psychiatrist. And don’t even try to play the “reverse the gender” game here … the same should apply if it was a boy. The cops are hiding their responsibility here behind the old ruse that we don’t know the whole story. Bull. The identities are protected, not the particulars of the crime.

By: Ochressandro

Ochressandro — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:25:47 +0000

‘Police in Alaska arrest a 13-year-old girl for touching male classmates “outside their clothes” on a school bus.’

Not sure exactly how I feel about this one, yet. Depends on details that haven’t been released. If we’re talking about some of the more ridiculous cases we’ve seen, and the details are “the girl repeatedly poked the boys in the arm”, an arrest is absurd. If the details are “the girl repeatedly fondled the boys’ genitals through their pants”, then, well, less absurd.

I mean, honestly, what else are the boys going to do, if repeated requests to halt go unheeded? Punch her out? It would certainly be the “equal treatment” she might deserve, but I can guess the boys would rapidly go from being the victim to being the aggressor in the minds of the world.

A 13 year old boy who repeatedly groped several female classmates in spite of requests to stop would be hung out to dry. Why is it so absurd when the genders are reversed?

By: ZappaCrappa

ZappaCrappa — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:00:06 +0000

So much for Bush’s promise of a “transparent administration.” I guess Bush mistook the word “transparent” to mean, “I’m the prez and I can do whatever the hell I want and don’t complain or you’re an unpatriotic SOB.” Shouldn’t come as much of a shock from a man who still can’t pronounce “nuclear.”