Comments on: Sunday Links

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:59:35 +0000

I have an allergy to milk (pasteurized, grocery store variety) but can eat yogurt, sour cream and ice cream without going into anaphylaxis, could I safely enjoy raw milk?

By: Prisons full, coffers empty « Working for Liberty

Prisons full, coffers empty « Working for Liberty — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:28:30 +0000

[...] think it’s time to slow down the growth of locking up.” ‘Bout friggin time. (ht: The Agitator) [...]

By: Bob Weber

Bob Weber — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:23:28 +0000

Re the Mizzou police assault on the motorist in #3 & #6: Couldn’t help but notice in the video that the driver was black and his passenger was a white woman. You’d better fortify yourself before reading the comments to the story. The cop fanboys came out in force with their kneepads and Listerine.

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:04:40 +0000

I want to know… if I have an allergy to milk (pasteurized, grocery store variety) but can eat yogurt, sour cream and ice cream without going into anaphylaxis, could I safely enjoy raw milk?

Inquiring (and milk-yearnin’) minds want to know!

By: Boyd Durkin

Boyd Durkin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:39:11 +0000

I can buy raw milk in NH. There’s a substantial taste difference from heat treated.

Make some raw milk homemade ice cream and you’ll be hooked.

Now, some poor SOB can get shot by POS cop for selling raw milk? Life is cheap to the state.

By: divadab

divadab — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:18:29 +0000

Protecting people from themselves by threatening them with guns. The Retard Empire strikes again!

By: Rodney Caston

Rodney Caston — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:03:04 +0000

Radley,

Everyone knows that unpasteurized milk is a gateway drug.

By: Yizmo Gizmo

Yizmo Gizmo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:11:53 +0000

I dished out $8 for that Economist just to read
that article on US incarceration. The most imprisoned people ever.
Check out the curve from 1980 to now, you don’t see the plateau
until around the 2008 crash. Took a meltdown to wake people up;
we don’t have enough money to imprison 2.3 million. But I’m sure it was fun for all the sanctimonious angry white folks.

By: Aresen

Aresen — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:55:05 +0000

My favorite Campy story is of a company picnic where they cooked a whole bunch of poultry and then “kept it warm” for 2 days.

Oh, Shits!

By: SJE

SJE — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:38:02 +0000

Campy can kill but, more likely, will make you wish you were dead.

My favorite Campy story is of a company picnic where they cooked a whole bunch of poultry and then “kept it warm” for 2 days.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:28:31 +0000

@Maria – What bothers me a lot about the article is that, in the list of agencies participating in the raid, I don’t see anybody that I would think would or should have the training required to have weapons brandished on a raid. It looks like some health inspectors from a couple of different agencies and a lawyer or two. I don’t know how police agencies are organized in California, but it sounds like a particularly scary bunch to come in over raw milk.

The cynical side of me wonders how happy these agencies were to be in on something so they can try to maintain relevancy and headlines as California cuts budgets to the bone. “You can’t cut us! We’ve got some leads on the source of all this raw milk, Codename: Bessie!”

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:13:15 +0000

Raw goat milk and biological weaponry aside, I’m still stuck on the “guns drawn” bit.
Who in their right mind thought that was the appropriate way to enter?
Are all of us, us non-deputized civilians, seen as being on the same threat level as a take down of a La Linea run meth lab or the cornering of baby rapists and serial killers? If one of the workers had thrown some cashews at the officers would that have been considered assault?
… Rhetorical questions, don’t answer … Way too fraking early to start drinking …

By: Elemenope

Elemenope — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:51:12 +0000

re: Injustice Map

The question is, what is Maine doing so right, and Oklahoma doing so wrong?

By: Elemenope

Elemenope — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:48:11 +0000

There are only two ways humans can interact: reason or force.

What, precisely, is “structure”?

Force regulated by reason.

But I’m sure you already knew that and were just being cute.

By: Xenocles

Xenocles — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:45:36 +0000

“…f the processing system is contaminated with fecal matter.”

Well, there’s your problem!

By: jeffbbz

jeffbbz — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:52:51 +0000

@absurd food story

“Ziploc bags are filled with chicken, beef and pork. Many don’t have an expiration date.” OH MY GOD! WHAT A NIGHTMARE! What a daring expose!

My other favorite part of the many favorite parts was that this happened in California but they interview the dept. of ag person from Minnesota?

This article would have seemed to me to be a good chance to highlight our government doing something absurd but it seems that the writers of the story pretty much agreed with them that it ought to be illegal to eat anything but items found in brightly colored boxes of industry approved fishlike substance in vaguely animal shapes and/or go-gurt.

By: Packratt

Packratt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:46:41 +0000

@25 Aresen,

Actually, if you scroll down to near the end of the statistical report you can see the local agency rankings for the 20 worst agencies categorized by size.

In those lists, Atlanta Georgia is the worst of the top 20 for departments of it’s size of 1000+ officers.

In the list of 20 worst for departments sized 500-999, Maricopa County AZ ranks as the eighth worst in that list.

The thing to keep in mind is that this is only a 6-month snapshot, so a lot can change by the end of year. I’m hoping to keep the project going at least that long as it’ll be the first full year’s worth of data I’ve collected if I can do it.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:11:37 +0000

Elemenope: “There should be a structure in place…”

There are only two ways humans can interact: reason or force.

What, precisely, is “structure”?

By: JThompson

JThompson — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:00:37 +0000

@#11: Sorry, was out for a bit.
The worst one I can think of happened in England with a salmonella variant that killed an entire family (And the cows). It was a mutant strain that was ridiculously aggressive and resistant to most antibiotics. They also spread it to a few other families through skin contact. Things like that are rare to the point of not mattering much.

Campylobacter (Which I mentioned) is common in milk, as is ecoli if the processing system is contaminated with fecal matter. Campy isn’t going to kill you, but it’ll give you diarrhea for a week or so. And you can still spread it to other people.

By: Aresen

Aresen — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:03:40 +0000

Mattocracy | July 25th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Anyone surprised that Maricopa County is leading the way in misconduct? No wait, Atlanta, Ga…with Arpio coming in second.

That’s like predicting you will find a lot of dead fish near the BP wellsite, isn’t it? :)

To be fair to Arpaio*, however, I have to point out that the Injustice Everywhere information shows a slightly below average rate of reports of police misconduct for AZ as a whole. Other states come in much higher, with OK at the top.

*It hurts to say that.