New blog by a group of criminal defense attorneys (and Agitator readers) in Phoenix.
Hate talk express.
Police raid and seize the assets of a 90-year-old couple, both of whom are medical marijuana patients. I guess it was to protect the both of them from ruining their lives and futures with pot smoking.
The Bulgarian tiger.
The KazooKeylele.
New Orleans admits post-Katrina gun confiscations were illegal, settles with the NRA.
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“hate speech express”. huh? here’s real hate speech -
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/12/crush-the-obamedia-narrative-look-whos-gripped-by-insane-rage/
and it ain’t from the McCain campaign or Republicans. but i guess that doesn’t qualify as hate speech then.
Enh. I disagree with that “hate talk” post. I don’t think it’s necessarily trying to conflate Obama with Radical Islamic Terrorists to point out that he’s pals with a guy who really and truly does “hate america”, wants to see it torn down to make way for a communist society, and planted bombs in the furtherance of that goal.
As for the medical marijuana thing, that looks to be a purely local LEO gig. Which is good, because it means that those pigfuckers can be tried in state courts, and not under federal jurisdiction.
I hope bastards like that die of extraordinarily prolonged cancer, without recourse to adequate pain management drugs. “Oh, you’ve got stomach cancer? Here, have some Advil.”
Asprin’s even better. Give them an ulcer to go with the stomach cancer.
That saddest part is that many anti-pot people would use it illegally if they had to. My grandmother, who is a dyed-in-the-wool republican and thinks all drugs are evil (except the ones you pay big money for from the pharmacy), said to me one day after finishing a round of chemo for lymphoma, “If I ever have to go through this again, I am coming to you for the pot. I know you know where to get it.”
I feigned ignorance. But at the same time I found it pretty amusing.
Not to worry about “Hate Speech”, it will be made declared illegal soon after the Dems. take over Washington.
Unrepentant? Try more like he really wishes he could have killed more people. Let’s call a spade a spade here. There is unrepentant, and then there are people who would have done a lot worse had God or fate not stopped them.
Let’s be clear here and stop with the bullshit equivalencies: a stencil saying “Abort Palin” or a distorted picture of McCain looking like a vampire won’t incite someone into physically attacking them unless that person was already pretty far gone from the get go and then they’d just be likely to try and jab Palin with a clothes hanger or McCain with a wooden stake.
Police break law and seize guns immediately.
Lawsuit takes 3 years to settle.
The opportunity costs of freedom from government intervention are virtually infinite.
There is no justice.
Ahh Bulgaria …. we humans always have to learn stuff the hard way. It takes an ex-communist country to finally ‘get it’ when it comes to a truly ‘fair’ tax system. Raise your hands if you think either party will adopt it here. No one? Yeah, me neither ….
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2959
Nice, Mike. There’s a part of the “Hate Talk Express” piece I vehemently disagree with:
“when the McCain campaign vaguely notes that Barack Obama has “ties to unrepentant terrorists,” it purposefully muddies the distinction between a leftist radical who bombed government buildings as a young man in the Vietnam era and a suicidal death cult that today threatens our very way of life.”
That last bit, there. Islamic terrorists do not threaten our way of life. That’s the same logic as blaming drugs for all the drug war violence and right-killing. Those sick bastards, dangerous as they may be, can only threaten our lives. It’s our own government that can and has threatened our way of life, the freedom we used to hold so dear. And thoughtless throwaway lines like that give tacit approval to the government’s actions that make involuntary cowards out of all of us. “Give me Liberty or give me Death.”
If Bill Ayers is the bad-ass terrorist that McSame and Palin claim he is, then why isn’t he in jail? Or Camp X-Ray? Geez, I don’t know. Maybe because he already served his time, reformed, and is now working on behalf of the community in which he lives?
It’s a good thing that elderly couple didn’t have a dog. Otherwise the cops would have had to shoot it as it was flee–er, attacking and then leave the corpse with the wife while they took her husband to the hoosegow.
Sheesh. What a country.
Andy,
Bill Ayers is not “reformed” or even “repentant”. In fact he wishes he had done more, and still supports the goals of the Weathermen - violent overthrow of the American system. But like most cowards he’s decided its better to be a tenured professor and preach violence than take the risk of actually doing it.
Andy: As far as I’m aware, Ayers never went to jail. So what “did his time” are you referencing?
Why is the Smith couple from the med. marijuana raids not already in a television spot?
Wait, don’t most libertarians want to overthrow the American system as it exists now? More than once in the comments of this blog, I have seen it suggested that the violent overthrow of the US government might not be a bad thing.
Face it, Ayers is a non-issue, and if you try to pretend it is, you are full of shit. Everyone already knows about it and the only reason to bring him up is to use “terrorism” and “Obama” in the same sentence. And the only reason to mention terrorism in such a context is to make people think of nasty a-rabs and 911.
I’m going to jump in on this hate+terrorism=presidential politics thread by simply stating that the KazooKeylele is lame. Weak I tell you!
“Violent overthrow of the US government?” Sounds good to me. I mean, I’d love it if it could be nonviolent, but does anyone here see these punk-ass fascists leaving office voluntarily?
So he didn’t go to jail. And maybe he shoud have. I agree with Zeb: either way, it’s a non-issue. As a Senator, McCain should either work to put Ayers behind bars–if he really thinks an old hippie is that dangerous–or STFU about it already and address some real issues. Like, I don’t know–the economy, maybe?
And here’s another gun story, the BATF shot itself in the foot.
http://www.srpressgazette.com/news/aclu_5047___article.html/atf_judge.html
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