This is pretty incredible.
Head of the WWE resigns to pursue the one profession more theatrical, fake, and absurd than professional wrestling.
Cadre of realist foreign policy experts urge Obama to reconsider war in Afghanistan.
Richard Epstein offers well-argued, sensible reasons to oppose Cass Sunstein. Most of those opposing him to this point have offered neither.
Two Georgia cops arrested for filing false police report, sentenced to jail time on weekends, allowed to continue working as cops during the week.
Supreme Court may hear challenge to state laws banning sex toys. UCLA law prof and blogosphere legal guru Eugene Volokh believes the laws will likely be upheld.
Dan and Jennie read Atlas Shrugged.
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Second link leads to the same article as the first.
As to the cops? Really? They break the law, put the whole criminal justice system in disrepute (I know tough to do), and yet they are allowed to go out after it’s been proven they’ve lied on an official document?
For anyone with half a brain, shouldn’t any trial that involves these two result in an automatic dismissal since we have proof that they will do anything to falsify their official word?
Radley, the second link (WWE) is the same as the first link.
It sounds to me like at least there are 2 cops who think the drug war has gone to far. They actually lied so someone wouldn’t goto jail which is a refreshing change.
Wouldn’t upholding those laws require overturning Griswold? Shouldn’t we be a little bothered by this?
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
I think I used to steal Dan and Jennie’s lunch money…often.
Ha. I was about to make a comment to the effect that serving time on weekends is better than the usual nothing, but then I RTFA, and found out the false police report was actually an attempt to let a victim of the drug war off with a lighter arbitrary penalty.
Their PD has probably identified them as still having these troublesome consciences, and so is trying to get rid of them.
Funny that people are commenting that the cops did it to give the person a lighter sentence. I read the article and assumed they were selling coke on the side and were simply restocking their inventory. One of ‘em probably had some weed stashed away from a previous shakedown so they’d have something to throw the guy in jail for (after all, coke dealers are bad people!).
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
This quote originated from Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey. And yes I couldn’t resist posting it again.
That’s possible too. It just seems that the only time officers get punished is either when there’s overwhelming evidence of a massively evil crime, or when the officer was trying to do the right thing, and they’re trying to get rid of him to prevent potential headaches down the road. Since this wasn’t the former, I assumed it was the latter, though noting the police chief defending the guys makes me like your theory better, since it seems they aren’t trying to run those officers out of the department.
The article about what representatives can and can’t say is somewhat misleading. It is not a list that someone is making up now, but rather appears to be a list of past decisions from statements made in the past…..Statement A uttered by congressman X was found to be within the rules, whereas Statement B by congressman Y was found to be outside the rules.
I don’t think anyone is interested in our congress resembling one of those foreign legislatures we see on the news where the people start brawling in the chamber (even though that has happened here in the past). To maintain order, some kind of rules of decorum are needed. I am a teacher and my syllabus has guidelines as to how students are to treat me and each other during class. Without that, the environment needed for teaching can easily break down. However, I could care less about what they want to do to each other outside the classroom.
Why was the libertarian haunted by Ayn Rand’s ghost?
Because he checked out Atlas Shrugged at the public library!
One more for your files Radley.
U-M team: Wrong man jailed for 23 years
Is it OK to refer to the President as “factually challenged”?
@#11
I would love if every debate in Congress broke out into a brawl. I’d much rather have them kicking the shit out of each other than trying to pass new laws to tax me and chip away at my rights.
“Chief Cooper admits he’s never heard of serving time on the weekend before, but Halvorson says it’s not uncommon. He says a judge will sometimes sentence a student or working class person to weekends in jail so they can continue going to school or working.”
Either they do things really differently in GA, or the Chief is a blooming idiot. Its done all the time on misdemeanors. Heck when I went to traffic court in WV the judge was allowing people to pick the days they’d show up for jail. That way the state can look tough on crime and still get there tax revenue. Gotta get that money from somewhere, epically in WV – it’s a pretty well know welfare state.
As to the Officers, I’ve never heard of a cop lessoning a charge from cocaine down to marijuana. I’m curious if there’s more to the story than in the article.
Jeff
“To maintain order, some kind of rules of decorum are needed. I am a teacher and my syllabus has guidelines as to how students are to treat me and each other during class. Without that, the environment needed for teaching can easily break down.”
Environment for teaching? What environment, our public schools are little better than day care centers, where one kid can disrupt the entire class. Teachers cant do anything about it, they’ve gone to p.c. and parents wont because their sue happy brains will never believe their precious snowflake has done any wrong. When colleges are having to re-teach high school graduates before they can take any meaningful collage classes you tell me where the “environment for teaching” is. If your going to pick a government run program for how our congressmen should act don’t use one that isn’t working to begin with.
Apologies to you if your in a private school with different rules than the current public run system.
“Realist” foreign policy added decades to the cold war, had us holding the hands of tin-horn dictators world wide (including saddam hussein), led us to abandon afghanistan after the soviets left, kept the palestinians labeled as refugees, helped starve millions of N. Koreans, and basically turned our foreign policy into one horrible PR nightmare after another.
To top it all off, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer are, realistically, ignorant douchebags.
“There’s no reason not to use them. Their certification is intact,” Cooper said.
This… this explains rather a lot, actually.
Hannah, seriously, shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
The problem the police chief is going to have is that any case those two are involved with their credibility will be challanged and this issue would be brought up. You create reasonable doubt fairly easily. Hopefully their certifications will get pulled and they get removed.
5- and I have stolen it now for my blog
“It sounds to me like at least there are 2 cops who think the drug war has gone to far. They actually lied so someone wouldn’t goto jail which is a refreshing change.”
Agreed. Don’t know the facts of the case but it sounds like a shame to me.
Yeah as the gears click in my mind on that cop story, the real story is that the only way a cop can get any prison time for breaking the law is when they break the law in such a way as to apply it fairly, and justly.
The rules about what Congress can and can’t say about the President reminds me of an anecdote. Duke was playing a basketball game at home, and the referee made a call that the Cameron Crazies didn’t like. So they started chanting “BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!” Coach K called a timeout, got on the PA, and said “you know, these referees are trying really hard, so could you please stop shouting all the profanities?” The next time the ref made a questionable call, the Crazies started chanting “We beg to differ! We beg to differ!”
I guess the First Amendment isn’t protected, even in Congress. Maybe some congressmen will start bringing posterboards and paint?
What about Peter Schiff? I hope he runs in Connecticut, we need more goldbugs in congress. Ron Paul can’t end the reptilian reserve system by himself
Don’t worry about the GA cops, soon their appeal will be heard and they will be dismissed. At least now we know what it takes to get fired as a cop, they just have to lie to make a crime seem less serious.
So a bunch of career liars condemns another liar for calling another liar a liar? Well, better they keep doing busy work then screw with my life.
Tsk, tsk, Matt D. Unless you’re being ironic, but then it still doesn’t make sense.
DaveG, goldbugs will not win unless there is a massive American revolution that throws out the current dollar and replaces the existing government (so, a whole new country). Instead, you will be taxed thru inflation and (duh) higher taxes so poof-haired politicians can promise to build utopia.
A fox guarding the hen house won’t install anti-fox security.
“Halvorson says the two were charged with making a false statement in writing, a felony, and false report of a crime”
Wait a minute.
False report of a crime? How mickey mouse is that? That’s what civilians get when they claim their car was stolen when they know it wasn’t. As everything a cop reports is ‘Under Oath’, that charge shouldn’t even be available, should it?
So… basically… the DA slipped in the chump charge so they could be found ‘guilty’ of that instead.
And Oh, I don’t believe for a second that they did it to lessen the man’s offense to misdemeanor marijuana charges, I think they did it so the coke could go up their noses.
I need to know more about the cops before I get too worked up over it. I do wonder if the person who got the lighter treatment is also in law enforcement. It’s a shame that these guys are getting jail time for something petty while Jonathan Ayers’ killers are still free…
led us to abandon afghanistan after the soviets left
This never happened. It’s a myth. The US, UK, and even France were meddling there all through the early 90s, to build a central government. When that failed Pakistan came in a propped up the Taliban types.
Matt D |
Hannah, seriously, shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
On what point? And could you respond in a manner with out cursing.
FYI, here’s the original source of the quote.
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html
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