Well this ought to help our reputation in the Muslim world.
Aww. It’s getting rough out there for a gold digger.
Federal government mandates that broadcasters switch to digital signal. Gives itself three-plus years to get ready for the switchover. Still manages to miss its own deadline. Yes, let’s put bureaucrats and politicians in charge of the banks, too!
People get a kick out of all the “you too can become a police officer” banner ads that appear on this site via Google ads. But I’d say this example of an ad conflicting with content is even better. Speaking of which, we need a name for this phenomenon.
Looks like I’m destined for a life of crime.
Colorado man who shot and killed an intoxicated man who broke into his house won’t be prosecuted, thanks to the state’s “make my day” law.
Bruce Schneier writes on the importance of the exclusionary rule and the folly of the Supreme Court’sHerring decision in the Wall Street Journal. Schneier’s take on the case is the most interesting I’ve seen thus far. He attacks the ruling as an expert in database security and information technology, and suggests that the exclusionary rule is necessary to ensure that police bureaucracies keep their databases up to date and in order.
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If someone had just driven the poor SOB home he’d be alive now, with nothing but a wicked hangover to show for it. : (
Yeah. Unfortunate incident, but it looks like a good law. I wish we had one of those in the UK (some hope).
From the gold digger article:
Personally, I blame homosexual marriage. If they hadn’t started letting homosexuals get married, I’m sure her marriage would have worked out better.
A good term for the advertisment phenom is
“Freudiad”
The headline (and the rest of the article) on the Colorado shooting may as well have read “Horrible, murdering monster not being charged!”. For that matter, referring to the law as the “make my day” law conjours up the image of a guy waiting at home desperately hoping for someone to give him an excuse to start shooting, as opposed to someone scared out of their wits.
There was another one of these in the NY post or some such tabloid a while back. It focused of course on the more tawdry side of the mistress and gold diggers.
Still it’s amazing listening to some of them complain in the article.
Adymoron? Juxtamoron?
Regarding the gold digging women; They selected what they thought were good bets in the money department, and then found out that these are not actually alpha males, just math nerds turned hustlers. When the going gets tough, a true alpha male gets down to business and makes things happen, he doesn’t fall apart. What really happened was these Biotches mistook flash cash for sexual dominance. Their choices, their consequences.
“Make my day” sounds like a good law, with a really bad name.
The “Make My Day Law” should also apply to the police who conduct middle of the night, no-knock, no-announce raids.
“Negoogation”
I have never left a link in the comments before so if I break this link please feel free to delete this one. BTW this might be offensive to some. NSFW
http://thebloggess.com/?p=1282
I posted the above because the “Yes we did” next to the definition of the word in the Urban dictionary was great.
Also and unrelatedly: “Seakittens”? Really? Do these clowns know how funny they are?
I don’t give a big Rats A** about our reputation in the Arab/Muslim world.
90% of women in Egypt have been sexually mutilated. You don’t see any human rights groups in the West bemoaning that fact.
“Honor killings” are a common occurence in Jordan, Pakistan, and throught the Muslim world. They’re happening in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and even in the US. Guess what? It ain’t “cultural” – it is ISLAM. Thats what they do.
But oh, a Westerner (that is an infidel) or a Western country commits a crime or makes a mistake and its front page news! What hypocrisy.
Rape of underage girls happens every day in the Muslim world. Thats what they DO.
Almost NOTHING we do can equal their perversion.
Re: reputation in the Muslim world.
At least the guy is being suspended and is expected to be indicted. Under the previous administration, he would have got a medal.
Regarding the “Your first name determines your tendency to crime” article:
I’m going to ignore the ethnic/racial aspect of this study, and I’m going to assume that the authors did their homework and found that beyond the general fact that those named “Kareem” committed more crimes than those named “David,” that Kareems were more likely than Davids when controlled for racial/regional/social/economic group. It’s tough, but I’ll give them that one, because I’m nice.
But I won’t give them the conjecture that the name itself was a cause rather than an indicator. They themselves note that it was often due to upbringing, location, and socioeconomic circumstances, then add later that the name itself must have something to do with it.
Court psychologist: “Well here we have Omar, he was raised by his junkie mother in a derilect apartment, and was taken in by a street gang at the age of 10 until he was arrested at 15 for some low-level dealing. And he was probably teased about his name. Yeah, that last one was definitely it.”
I propose an entirely unsubstantiated hypothesis: that parents who name their children conventional names are themselves slightly more likely to be conformists who intend to raise their children that way. Parents of a “James” probably expect a notary public out of him one day. Parents of “GoldenPalace.com”? Probably not.
So kids take notes: If you happen to have the name “Michael,” you should probably straighten out and fly right, at least until you’re 16. If your name happens to be Flavour Flav, you pretty much have carte blanche.
From the gold digger pic: yes, no, yes, no, no
Wait…this isn’t Deadspin?
@ Zappa #9
I believe that is why Radley included the CO shooter story. A guy busts into your house in the night and THE COPS understand you are justified in protecting yourself (via the MMD law). However; if it were SWAT, you’re supposed to know not to blast their freakin’ heads off. And if you do, no court will let you off like the MMD law.
“contradictad”
There is a slight difference in the gunshot cases. In the case of Ryan Frederick, the entry was essentially unannounced. The couple was scared out of their wits by a guy banging on the door for ten minutes! I still think both resulted from negligent behavior on the part of the would be intruders.
There are a lot of ifs in the make my day shooting. What would have happened if the man had gone to the door and tried to communicate with the guy. He might have left, if he, embarrassingly, found out he was at the wrong house.
Should be another lesson for people who wish to get plastered and drive home. If they make it to the wrong house, they can be shot! He won’t be driving drunk and endangering any other people,at least.
Re: the Colorado shooting case
So what they’re saying is that when someone breaks into someone’s house in the middle of the night unannounced, the occupant had a reasonable belief that the person breaking in was a dangerous criminal? Good to know.
“Adver-teasing”?
One problem with Schneier’s take on Herring is that he gets the facts of the case at bar wrong and ends up misinterpreting the holding of the case (reading it extremely broadly), which undermines his entire argument, especially since you can square Herring with a proposed rule that Schneier cites approvingly. It seems like he read press accounts of the case rather than the case itself.
From the golddiggers article:
“Next time you are stressing over some finance guy, remember that he is just a math-club nerd,” one woman wrote after recounting a breakup.
The bitterness is strong in this one.
I thought the dating a banker blog was some really well-crafted satire when I first saw it a few days ago.
Wow.
“One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35,” Ms. Davis said. “It’s not what I signed up for.”
Unless they changed their vows to “I promise to loving and faithful and supportive as long as everything is hunky-dory” I’m willing to bet that this is exactly what she signed up for. No one’s ever accused me of being a social conservative or a “family values” type, but that kind of trivialization of marriage frankly disgusts me.
Of course, it takes two people to have a shallow relationship, so he probably would have dumped her as soon as her looks started to fade, anyway.
The CIA chief was “in Rome”, so he was just trying to “do as the Romans do”.
There probably are a disproportionate number of incarcerated people with names like “Bang-bang”, “brutha hit-man”, “shoota”, and “blade”.
MMD – yeah, I’d like to know how many no-knock/SWAT raids are done in CO, and how their MMD law would come into play if a cop got shot….
Personally, I can’t believe anyplace would even need a MMD law; if someone enters your property against your will, that’s it as far as I’m concerned…if you’ve done something to warrant the police doing so (i.e, NOT victimless crime that shouldn’t be a crime), proper procedures, not wholesale home invasion, should be followed.
@ Tim C (#25): At common law, you had a duty to retreat rather than use deadly force in self defense. Because the base law in most U.S. states is the common law, the MMD laws are necessary to get rid of the duty to retreat (though some courts have read out the duty to retreat in one’s home even in the absence of a statute to that effect).
#22 MadTom – Right, next time you’re stressing over some gold digger gal, remember she is just a dating-a-banker-club c—!
For the nomenclature, i’m going to suggest ‘Ad Dissonance.”
Or, if you want to go for the portmanteau – ‘Adonance.’
re: the Bruce Schneier article. I don’t think he reaches the logical conclusion, who needs a real warrant if all you need is the database saying there is a warrant.
If government has proved anything in the last 20 years it is that they can not implement a complex IT system to save their lives. I’d be really worried trusting the 4th amendment to gov-IT.
Spending ad dollars in pursuit of carnivores at PETA or governator-types here might be called “weed-harvesting” – or, more vividly, what do fishermen term catching unwanted sea-life?
It’s too bad that Saddlebacking is already taken!
@#30 – anarch
The term for that is “bycatch.”
From the NYT “gold-digger” article: “In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog, billed as “free from the scrutiny of feminists,””
Heh. Not anymore, since the newspaper linked to it. I can’t imagine the habituees of that blog are going to appreciate the onslaught of feminist visitors who read the article, what was said about and that are heading over there as we speak.
@primus: “When the going gets tough, a true alpha male gets down to business and makes things happen, he doesn’t fall apart. What really happened was these Biotches mistook flash cash for sexual dominance. Their choices, their consequences.”
I completely agree. I have met a couple genuine alpha males in my time (not through dating) and there are a lot of poseurs out there. A lot.
But oh, a Westerner (that is an infidel) or a Western country commits a crime or makes a mistake and its front page news! What hypocrisy.
Actually, the CIA accused-rapist is a Muslim convert.
Adnonsense?
I see, Gonzo, as in “Buh-by, Catch!”
And if it were more widely known, we could call the misplaced ads “Buy-catch.”
RE: the Gold digger story.
Perhaps a federal bail out is in order? They can call it the “Leave no ho behind” program.
You know what? I take back what I said earlier.
Not the part about shallow relationships and trivializing marriage…I still mean that…but I do still think this is hoax.
Since it’s been in the NYT (and everywhere else), it’s a much better story as a hoax.
Blognitive Dissonance ??
You people are buying into this whole “gold-digger dating support site” crap? Me thinks the NYtimes, and a whole bunch of other bloggers/reporters got punk’d…idk, decide for yourself.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/01/is_dating_a_banker_anonymous_f.html