I’m not saying it wasn’t a gamble…but then they had no alternatives at that time…afterall, isn’t life itself a big ole toss of the dice?

There is already medical insurance for animals, and it is possible to get life insurance too (tho probably very expensive). Each of these would provide a model and would, at least, give a monetary value that you could take into court.

And had your parents’ car been rear ended by a truck going particularly fast or been in a serious accident, you would not remember it because you would be dead.

I get the general jist of your response, and I understand that loving parents make mistakes and not everybody agrees what conduct is abusive, but please recognize that in some sense though your parents loved you they rolled the dice with your life by doing some of that stuff.

I’d like to offer coverage for the shooting death of a family dog by a police officer, with coverage amounts up to any amount the family values their pet (with an increased premium for high-dollar values of course).

Is this a product that any dog owners would be willing to purchase?

I see this as a potential “free-market” solution to a problem that WILL NEVER GO AWAY. At least the risk of dog ownership will be borne privately instead of by the community at-large, as is the case when police misconduct lawsuits are settled, because the State agents NEVER have to pay for their mistakes.

Thoughts?

C’mon, all black people look the same… even the white ones.

Straight Outta’ Moscow.

I gotta send that link to the White House website.

The problem with shaken baby syndrome is that too many medical examiners and coroners diagnosed it without having the full criteria. In that case of the 18-year-old British nanny, the baby had external head trauma. The diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome may be wrong, unless they proved that she smacked the baby’s head against something while shaking him.

Between that jury-duty experience and 4 years training at a hole-in-the-wall gym where half the members were cops (it was across the street from the police dept), I made a pretty dramatic shift in my thinking early in adulthood. Familiarity breeds contempt, at least in my case.

Most states have laws against misuse/mishandling of human body parts. It would be ironic if Stephen Hayne went down on this sort of crime. Kinda like Al Capone and tax evasion.

Male.
Cause of death: all internal organs replaced with bed sheets
Toxicology:Traces of DOWNY fabric softener
Notes: I suspect viral infection that transforms internal organs into bed sheets. No sign of foul play.

/S Hayne/

“Shupe, a white male, was arrested and charged with resisting and evading arrest.

“While that person — or persons — was not apprehended, Shupe “looked in my direction then proceeded in a fast walk away from me,” according to Johnson’s report.”

So they got a white guy who lived there and he was arrested for not wanting to be arrested for looking at a cop?

I will never understand how anyone can be charged with resisting arrest when there is no arrestable offense.

Ok, so he based his information of the PERJURED accounts of sworn officers.

Why don’t these fuckers ever go to jail for this? This is a fucking felony! A felony, it seems… that is routine.

It isn’t even a stretch in this case, the stories are completely across the board, with gigantic holes in them. Look at the fence… a child could step over it, would that hold ‘vicious dogs’? No. ergo, the dogs probably aren’t vicious beasts trained for the dog fighting ring.

First it’s “chasing two suspects”, black men, no less… suspected of B&E, with the coppers hot on their tail! Wait… no… it’s one white guy. Who lives there. He must have given the stink eye to the coppers. Thank goodness for the old fallback, “Arrested for resisting arrest”.

But those same hands, gently rocked me to sleep through various illnesses, patted my back when they were proud or just because…

Those hands toiled away endlessly in a hot nasty cotton mill everyday just to make sure I was clothed, fed and had a roof over my head.

Those hands hugged me and even though it seemed they were made of steel sometime, they were filled with love.

By today’s standards…or political correctness, my parents would have been under the jail for so-called abuse. Even though I thought sometimes they were a bit too harsh, I will never see my parents as criminals, neglectful or abusers.

You’d be surprised at the number of folks who were raised like me. Shaking a baby was not uncommon. I’ve seen people turn babies upside down, hold them by one leg and strike them in the back when they swallowed a foreign object. Worst thing they could ever do.

My dad passed away unexpectantly in 1998. I would give anything to have him alive to hug me or shake me!

SBS is and has been controversial ever since they stuck a ‘label’ on it.

In the article, they even state that symptoms of SBS can be seen in babies even BEFORE they are taken home.

So unless a camera is filming every moment of a child’s life from the minute he/she is born, we have no way of drawing any viable conclusions…and certainly not enough to send a person to prison or death row.

Straight Outta’ Moscow.

:-0

New report casts fresh doubt on “shaken baby syndrome.”

I don’t see malice here, but oh shit. We can expect DAs to reflexively fight any attempt to re-open cases based on these scientific doubts about the reliability of expert testimony. We can also expect that some judges will agree with the DAs in good conscience. Trials do have to have an end.

Another bizarre autopsy case in Mississippi: “His body organs were missing and he was stuffed with bed sheets.” Yes, Dr. Hayne is involved, though it isn’t yet clear just where in the chain of custody his initial autopsy came.

This one is just too weird. Naturally I suspect Haynes to be involved in something unethical and probably illegal, but I doubt any proof of it will be forthcoming. My sympathies to the family.

Police officer once again treads onto private land, shoots and kills the owner’s dog. And once again, witness accounts of the incident differ sharply from officer accounts.

I ask again, if a cop’s and a crack whore’s testimonies differ, wht the hell should I give more credence to the cop’s? You can safely bet that the “investigation” concludes that the officer acted appropriately and in accordance with procedure.

The Nigaz oil corporation in Nigeria saves today’s links from being a complete bringdown.

I hope this comment appears as intended. If it doesn’t I will blame the site designer for not including a preview option. ;-)

Totally off topic, but I just finished reading a book called “The State of Jones”. It’s about a county in Mississippi that had a large Unionist guerilla movement that fought the rebels. When I read about tax collectors, soldiers, and corrupt sheriffs being ran off at the point of the gun, I immediately thought that libertarians would like this book -no snark intended.