Saturday, February 9th, 2008
- 100-year-old tortoise adopts baby hippo.
- You gotta’ read this article to really believe it. The city of L.A. is going to bizarre lengths to prevent vendors from selling . . . grilled bacon-wrapped hot dogs.
- Mitt Romney’s classless exist: Too much porn gives us bastard black babies!
- Ah, federalism and property rights–two fundamental principles of conservative philosophy, right? Looks like the Bush administration DEA’s new tact on medical marijuana is to threaten landlords who rent out space to marijuana dispensaries with forfeiture unless they boot their tenants. I’d say the guiding principle of this administration is moral rectitude.
- Judge in Pennsylvania throws out “outrageous” case in which police paid an informant to have sex with a suspected prostitute . . . four times. Good work if you can get it, I guess.
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TheAgitator.com
Outraged at being offered sex for money, a man then goes to the police to obtain the money to have the outrageous sex. The total cost for the sex was under $200, the total cost to the taxpayer was a wee bit more. Well at least he didn’t get to eat a bacon wrapped grill hot dog, that would have been beyond the pale.
http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=193897
Shootout
Episode: Swat Team Shootouts.
Monday, February 11 10:00 AM
Monday, February 11 04:00 PM
SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) teams leap into the middle of some of the most dangerous situations around. Follow them as they plan to rescue dozens of hostages held at gunpoint in a bar. Track their strategy as they get ready to lay siege to an electronics store held captive by four armed men. Learn how they confront a disgruntled employee who threatens to kill a former co-worker. Interviews with former hostages and the SWAT officers who saved them guide viewers minute-by-minute through real crises. The tactics and technology used by the experts are detailed and dramatized, taking those watching along for the ride whether the ending is happy–or not.
I know a kid who at 18 yrs. old ran with the wrong crowd and was shown how much easy money you could make dealing meth. The guy they were getting the meth from was a fed. informant. The kid got busted and sentenced to 8 years in a max federal facility. In the first month he was there he got his teeth knocked out and an ear partially ripped off.
Long story short, he manages to get himself involved with a prison gang that stabbed a child molester 27 times an hour after he got off the bus. Even though the authorities know the kid didn’t touch anyone, the fact he was there and refuses to talk got him another 10 years. (The molester lived and won’t talk either.) In effect, by the time he gets out he’ll have spent 1/2 his life in prison for a non-violent drug offense because the feds put him in both situations to begin with.
Seems like the Governator could step in and tell the DEA to stay the hell out of his state if they persist in harassing law abiding businesses.
Heck, the Mayor might be able to do the same.
Third alternative: open a dispensary in a City owned building, and dare the feds to seize it.
Regarding the paid informant: is the police department liable if the infomant gets VD?
He probably could have said it clearer, but doesn’t Mitt Romney have a point? Government handouts certainly encourage out-of-wedlock babies, and some of those music videos might as well be porn. (Or maybe I’m just an old fuddy-duddy. I don’t know.)
What would Romney have done about it, if he were President? I don’t know, but some cures are worse than the diseases they treat.
Bush showed his ‘respect’ for property rights a long time ago, when he had his cronies boot people out of their homes so his Texas Rangers could build a baseball stadium.
Bacon-wrapped hot dogs are illegal in LA? Are you freakin’ kidding me?
Hell, back when I was growing up, we had a restaurant in the Chicago suburbs who used to sell a “Francheezie”. Jumbo hot dog, with a slit cut in it for some cheeze, wrapped in bacon and grilled. You simply don’t get better than that. And yet it’s illegal in LA.
The “funny” thing about it, though, if you read the linked article it has tremendous similarities to the drug war… Black market, gang “protection” money, police worried about confronting the unlicensed vendors because “they get aggressive”, all the while hassling the licensed, legal vendors because they can get away with it. All over bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Ludicrous.
Read the article. It’s not the bacon wrapped hot dog that is illegal. It’s the method of making it for mobile street vendors. To make them, you need to grill the hot dog and bacon. For whatever health code reasons, mobile vendors aren’t allowed to prepare hot dogs unless they are boiled or steamed.
And there is just something about boiled or steamed bacon I just don’t find all that appealing.