Illinois town bans air conditioners in street-facing windows. Sorta’ sucks if you live in an apartment where the only window faces the street.
“Splash and Dash,” whereby American taxpayers subsidize fuel manufactured and sold in other countries. Thank your subsidy-happy Corn Belt congressmen.
Bruce Bartlett on the “Obamacon” phenomenon.
Speaking of Obama, in an otherwise recommendable post on a troubling new family law case before the Supreme Court, Protein Wisdom’s JHoward weirdly and hack-tastically invokes Barack Obama. Because the case came out of Illinois. And Obama is from Illinois. See how that works? So the next time Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s thugs harass reporters? Totally John McCain’s fault!
I think Lawrence Lessig gets the Alex Kozinski brouhaha just about right. What’s more, if I had to find a judge to decide if Miller v. California ought to be updated to reflect the digital age (and it should), I’d want a judge who has some grasp of the freewheeling, open nature of the Internet to be among those doing the deciding. Of course, Kozinski won’t be addressing Miller while presiding over a federal obscenity case in the trial phase. I’m just saying. This is such a petty scandal, and groups like Concerned Women for American show just how silly and out of touch they are in calling for Kozinski’s resignation over a bunch of viral stuff posted on a site Kozinki thought was private that you can find with a quick search of eBaum’s World.
Pig wearing mud boots.
If you’re a federal judge or work for Concerned Women for America, don’t click this link!
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What happens when the first elderly person dies of heat stroke?I would think the town would be liable.It can happen.Remember all the deaths in France a few years back?This is why I’ve always lived just outside town.I remodeled my entire home with out a single permit.
Just wanted to add a link:
Chicago Woman Wins $7.9 Million for Rescuing a Police Officer; Rachelle Jackson Rescued Officer From Burning Squad Car And Spent Over Ten Months In Jail
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/chicago-woman-wins-79-million,432558.shtml
R.I.P Tim Russert
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Be careful talking about subsidies! You sound like McCain talking about Habeas Corpus. Subsidies are a very complicated issue, and if one goes talking about it without knowledge of the subject he can look very stupid. For example many people that are not so smart think that subsidies contribute to shortages and higher prices. As demonstrated that’s not true. Subsidies will maintain supply when demand is weak insuring liquidity when demand swings the other direction. Without subsidies, we would be looking at corn and soybean shortages to the extent that you could see not just high prices, but shortages all together. High prices are not really a bad thing.
Free markets for free men!
So, subsidies are good, but “free markets for free men!” I take it your point is that it’s bad to have free men? Fascinating.
More disgusting police behavior Claude. Thanks for the link.
I did not see anythimg in there about what action is being taken against the worthless, lying bastards that did it to her. Presumably none, as usual.
Hope everyone learns a lesson about the police. You always just avoid them. Any encounter with them carries the potential for screwing you. Your involvement in anything illegal is not necessary. So just avoid them. Always.
“It’s worth remembering that Kozinski has always been an unashamed advocate for freedom of speech — and he has a sense of humor. (When Mattel sued over the song Barbie Girl, Judge Kozinski wrote in his legal opinion that “The parties are advised to chill.”)”
I must say, he sounds pretty cool.
CWA is completely nuts. If he doesn’t resign, Congress must impeach him? Really? For having uploaded some sexual, seemingly humorous, and entirely legal pictures on websites designed for that sort of stuff? The only people I can tell that are obviously incapable of “objective judgment” when it comes to obscenity laws are the members of CWA.
From the window A/C story:
“…The village inspects apartment buildings annually and charges an inspection fee of $50 per building plus $50 per apartment…”
What a racket. If I treated people like that I would worry about being murdered in my sleep.
Radley,
I know this isn’t an area you usually cover, but I think you – and some of the readers here – might find it of interest.
In Cold Blog, an otherwise fine True Crime blog published this bit of “Victim’s Rights” rhetoric. The author, Andy Kahan, is the director of Houston’s Crime Victims Assistance dep’t – he is essentially advocating open-ended paroles that can only be completed upon full payment of restitution.
Not only does he want to give parolees indefinite parole terms, he wants to make it more difficult for them to pay restitution by preventing offenders from obtaining any sort of professional license (including a driver’s license) until they have paid restitution in full.
In my rather long-winded response, I pointed out that in one of the case histories he uses, it’s possible that the offender would be on parole for 165 years, or – in a better scenario – only 40+ years of parole for a three-year conviction.
Unfortunately, this is the sort of Tough On Crime rhetoric that most of my fellow Texans love to hear. Damn the financial costs, if it gives the mere appearance of being tough on crime, it must be a good idea.
What Mr. DNA fails to address and include in his rhetoric is this story right here, the one about Barry Crawford. He’s probably on the side of Mr. Crawford and feels he is entitled to his stimulus check. http://tinyurl.com/4893n5
If the guy who commits a DUI can walk away without fulfilling his sentence, which includes restitution, those incarcerated and released for violent crimes – including murder – can, too. When it’s good for one it’s good for all.
Andy is on the side of the victim and ONLY the side of the victim. Since he actually spends his days working with victims AND the criminal justice system I’m thinking Andy Kahan may have a little bit of hands on experience from which he is forming his opinion, unlike Mr. DNA. (unless, perhaps, Mr. DNA has a mouthful of sour grapes due to his own personal issues involving in the criminal justice system?)
Now, here’s a question: what type of person straps on some ridiculous Internet moniker and then start posting comments on other blogs that encouraged trolling a site simply because a person wrote an opinion that they didn’t agree with?
Michelle Gray
Editor, In Cold Blog
I just came across that story about Rachelle Jackson on neatoroma.com. Un-fricken-believable. What the heck is wrong with American police? I don’t think police anywhere else in the developed world behave like this. I think it might be due to having a tangled mess of local, state and federal police forces with no clear line of authority. Lesson is, if you see police in any sort of trouble, just discreetly cross to the other side of the street and continue on your way.
Michelle Gray,
You should have quit while you were behind. Not one person from this blog came to In Cold Blog, and Andy Kahan responded to my comment in a civil manner, which is a lot more than can be said for you.
You baited me, and I didn’t fall for it. Show some class and don’t bait readers of this blog.
“Officer Brogan’s attempt to jail a woman who rescued her and the
detectives that encouraged Brogan to do so reflects the integrity of pretty much every police department in the United States”
I think Rachelle Jackson’s sin was that she dared to touch sacred police-flesh without explicit permission. For this sacrilege she had to be punished. The normal method would be “assaulting a police officer” or “resisting arrest”, but in Ms Jackson’s case the Chicago PD took a more imaginative route.