Bounty hunter’s tip leads police to raid innocent family.
Violinist creates sounds that puzzle physicists.
Don’t blame deregulation for market meltdown.
Ed Brayton debunks the “Obama goon squad” story in Missouri.
Baylen Linnekin writes on his quest to try a mooseburger. He’s right that you can’t buy moose meat. I had elk, venison, caribou, and bison in Alaska. But no moose. The only way to get it is to kill it yourself–or find someone who has who will share.
Utah bans fruity alcohol drinks.
Glenn Sacks on the trial of a man charged with soliciting a prostitute.
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“Utah: Come live like its the good ol days in the bad new days”
“Utah: Come to a place where our only problem is what 7-eleven sells”
“Bartles and Jaymes: Wanted dead or alive in Utah”"
I guess I shouldn’t be suprised that bounty hunters are just as bad as cops.
Doesn’t look like the drinks were banned, they just have to have new labels printed.
I’m sure this will be the only comment on the violinist.
I have a theory. Since the violin and the strings are constants, then some other variable must be introduced. There are only two other components of violin music — the bow and the violinist.
Kimura has figured out a way to elongate the violin strings by her bow technique or by her finger technique. In either case, the bow or her body serves as an extension of the strings.
Peer review of the logic is welcome.
Re: the goon squad
I would think that people around here would be a little more apprehensive about a prosecutor (regardless of party affiliation) making comments about responding to ads on tv, particularly after Obama’s campaign has been caught making veiled legal threats against tv stations running the truthful nra ad:
http://www.nrapvf.org/news/Read.aspx?ID=11588&T=1
Of course, I find it funny that people on the right who typically think that a prosecutor (who isn’t Nifong) can do no wrong are suddenly worried about just that.
But I would expect just a little more concern and scrutiny from these quarters…
“Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman said banning products like Zima, Smirnoff Ice and Seagram’s Fuzzy Navel from grocery stores would harm Utah’s image, but agreed to it in exchange for increasing the amount of liquor allowed in shots and standard cocktails to 1.5 ounces, up from 1 ounce.”
Coming from OK originally, I knew Utah was even worse in terms of 3.2 beer laws, etc…I did NOT know that when you got a drink at a bar in Utah you were getting ripped off like what appears to be the case above. Skiing is widely reputed to be legendary in Utah, but I’ll never bother to find out…jerks.
That newspaper should be commended for covering the raid on the innocent family. Here in San Diego our press seems to bend over backwards to keep the warrantless raid and secret task force stuff secret. It said the lawsuit was filed in 05. Wonder how many years and appeals it will be before the victims are compensated or if they ever will be? One thing for sure, none of the officers in the raid will get into trouble. The biggest part of the problem is the immunities police are given for their actions while on duty. If they had to be responsible or accountable to the public this kind of stuff (and the kind of stuff in the link below) wouldn’t be happening every day.
http://www.tonycreed.com/taskforceraid.html
While I fully acknowledge the fact that the guy you linked to is correct in stating that WND blew the Obama truth squad story way out of proportion, I’m with Michael Chaney in thinking that there would be a little more apprehension of prosecutors making such statements. I understand that they never said they were going to charge anyone, but there’s a key difference between a prosecutor and any other elected official: a prosecutor has the direct power to charge someone. Like it or not, that chilling effect is behind everything that prosecutor says. Either these MO prosecutors are very naive and didn’t take that into account, or they are very Machiavellian and they did, knowing that never saying they were going to prosecute would give them deniability while still accomplishing their goals.
The bloomberg link doesn’t work, try http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28701/pub_detail.asp
First they came for the fruity alcohol drinks, and I said nothing because I was over 15 years old….
There is a implied threat using prosecutors and sheriffs, and they knew it when they were chosen.
There are only two other components of violin music — the bow and the violinist
Incorrect, the violin body is also extremely important in producing the sound. She could be somehow causing the body to alter the sound as it reverberates through it.
Maybe the violin is possessed? I don’t know, it could be, I’m not ruling it out.
‘Utah has some of the strictest liquor laws in the country, a byproduct of its large Mormon population. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints counsels members not to drink alcohol, and the church is highly influential among state lawmakers on alcohol policy.’
people laugh and make fun of them because they seem backward and aren’t very educated, but I respect Amish people more and more… they have strict standards for their people, but they leave me alone. They don’t have any lobbyists, they don’t march to take away my freedoms, and they don’t knock on my door asking me to join their cult. If they’d just clean up after their horses…
Fuck the Mormom Church. And the rest of the busy-bodies, too. Leave me alone while I drink my fruity wine cooler.
Hey, the fruity drink ban is to keep fruit flavored alcohol away from minors. How can you argue with that?
And luckily there is no way that kids will figure out that while they can’t buy fruit flavored alcohol, they can buy fruit AND alcohol. And mix it themselves. Like people have done for centuries.
Like I am going to do right now. Oh, screwdriver…how I love thy devilish goodness!
Could the violinist thing be a beat frequency? That is, when you apply two frequencies (A and B) to a non-linear medium, what comes out is four frequencies, A, B, A-B, and A+B. A-B can be very low. I know it’s possible to get a low beat frequency from a violin, because it’s what violinists listen for when they tune their instruments. (Although my ear isn’t good enough to pick it out…) What I don’t see is how she would get enough volume in the beat frequency without some kind of amplification and filtering.
Check out the END of the story about the family wrongly raided on the word of the bounty hunter:
“The officers allegedly signed false receipts to make it look like [the bounty hunter] had brought in fugitives who were actually already in custody. Kickbacks then went to [law enforcement] for feeding the work to Mikhaeil, officials said.”
Lovely! I really wonder what Scalia thinks of this “new professionalism”
Radley, you should be ashamed of yourself for not getting the whole story on this one. This is practically the definition of a chilling effect.
Ed Brayton fucked up the Obama/Missouri story; here’s the post I left in his site’s comment section:
= = =
What the hell is the matter with you hypocritical partisan hacks? Do you even bother looking at a story’s sources?
“WorldNutDaily”, as Ed Brayton called it, actually provides the KMOV video-link for you in his on condemning piece:
http://www.kmov.com/video/topvideo-index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1
Now, it may possibly be that the TV station reporter was full of beans (I doubt it, and lean toward the more credible “they’ve now backed off when the sunlight shone down upon them” explanation), but would that be WND’s fault for picking up the story? Certainly the mainstream press wouldn’t have the least objection running an equivalent piece if painted McCain as the devil.
So, now what? Will the bloggers remove or reword their hysterical charges of “False Allegations” entries — or will they leave them intact in a grotesque display of hypocrisy in which they perpetrate the very same thing they accuse the WND of committing? Or do they have no honor, no integrity, no real desire for or commitment to truth above all?
(Personal disclosure: I’m not voting for either of these idiots.)
“Don’t blame deregulation for market meltdown.”
I don’t get it. What market meltdown?
Ohhh, you mean the crashes and bailouts that resulted from the central bank’s inflationary monetary policy, the federal government’s encouragement of subprime mortgages, the explicit government safety net granted to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the heavily regulated, State-propped-up, unfree banking and lending industries.
I can see, yes, the market is definitely what melted down. It couldn’t be acting to correct itself and punish such irresponsible and immoral governmental distortions of itself.
/DRTFA.