People think of Vegas as some sort of free for all, but it’s been heavily infected with California Disease. Everything not mandatory is forbidden.

I presume it was a business lobby driven law. All those drive-thru wedding chapels didn’t want the competition, so they bought enough congressweasels to get a law passed so the competition was restricted.

We flew our minister friend up from Florida, had our religious wedding in DC, then the groom and I, a witness and our minister went to Maryland the next day and performed a simple ceremony in Great Falls park. We danced and prayed and ate cake in DC, and our legal wedding license is from Montgomery County, MD.

Worked great, but DC laws are still crazy.

No suprise at all. The south is the heart of the “tough on crime movement.” And, if things are still the way they were when I was a criminal justice undergrad, then I’m sure you’ll find that the southern states also continue to have the highest crime rates in the nation. Still believe that capital punishment is a deterrent to crime, ladies and gents of dixie? Surely you jest!

Amen!

Suggested symbols could be found on http://athterisk.org/ . Though I’m not crazy about the atherisk myself.

Maybe they can convince the cops that the Hmong find it deeply offensive if people break into their homes without reason, shoot their pets dead, and beat them up.

“Other elements of the settlement seek to improve police understanding for Hmong culture, and improve relations between police and the Hmong community. Those include the appointment of a police liaison to the Hmong community, more training for police and more efforts to recruit Hmong police officers. ”

Because, as we all know, it was a misunderstanding of the Hmong culture that led to this incident, not stupidity, idiocy, a drug war, criminal negligence, bad tactics, racism against blacks, a blue wall, and poor marksmanship.

3 Cuil – Tax payers bailout fastfood industry after raid on medical marijuana dispensary fails to give everyone the munchies

6 Cuil – Use of SWAT team and aggressive no-knock policing tactics are curtailed to only hostage crisis situations after careful, rational review of the cost and impact of the existing drug laws.

I dropped 10 pounds in just over a week when I quit drinking “diet” drinks.

Most of what the “experts” claim about nutrition is upside-down and backwards, given obvious counter-examples (Inuit and Maassi tribal people, as well as higher-fat French diets). Animal fat is good and, by itself, doesn’t metabolize to body fat, as is wrongly assumed. Processed food, particularly sugars and grains, trick the body into storing fat, due to the insulin response. (Which is similarly why vegetable oils are worse than animal fat.)

I can attest to the effectiveness of the Paleolithic Diet, coupled with Intermittent Fasting and strength training.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo_diet
http;//freetheanimal.com
http://marksdailyapple
http://theiflife.com
http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com

It’s scary thinking how misguided politicians, who should mind their own business when it comes to our dietary choices on principle, may actually be driving Americans to having greater problems with obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer (the “diseases of civilization”).

Moua said Friday her children are still afraid of the police. (Correct)

She said she is trying to turn that around, to make them to believe that most police officers are good and are there to help, rather than harm. (Wrong)

“I told them not all police are bad,” she said. (Wrong)

“I don’t want my kids to be afraid of the police.” (Wrong)

This woman’s attitude is part of the reason why cops are treated so lightly, both by the courts of law and those of public opinion.

At least there is hope for the next generation.

I think next year’s New York budget has a cancer tax on diet sodas because of all the artificial sweeteners. In 2011, the hair subsidies start, with an aggressive sin tax on Rogaine. 2012 will see the start of cold subsidies, with monies raised from the kleenex taxes being used to eliminate this scourge.

My parents were missionaries in the same place and actually knew the parents of the woman that was killed. We came back to the U.S. in 1980 so I missed the whole drug war thing in the area.

Wrong house raids, wrong plane shoot downs, all just a days work for the drug warriors. Covering up when their screw-ups get some attention seems to be popular as well.

Take a look at the border with Mexico. It is worse than Afghanistan and getting worse fast. No daily media body count from there but it is getting so it will be hard to ignore for much longer.

Just google “mexico border violence” for stories that are worse than we hear of out of the middle east.

You know, for all those people who wish to get married that don’t fit into one of those other churches.