By limiting the time span, they basically strip your ability to find a competent person(s) to say they are out of line. I’ve done quite a bit of contracting work around here and have seen some places that I wouldn’t want to live in. The owner/resident/whatever usually knew all the tricks to getting around the hazards.

When our family first migrated to Joklahoma, they took up residence in a cave. My great grandma didn’t get idoor plumbing until I was in high school. People make do with what they have. They paid for it, they should be left alone!

They spend a lot of money on these jokes they call “studies”! The more realistic solution is to shut down most of these bogus prisons and stop incarverating so many people for made up crimes!

They could shut down the ones near every capitol city and rent those rooms to the representatives of that area so they wouldn’t cry about the high rent and low pay!

As the PTB constantly demonstarate, they have no idea how to throw money in the appropriate manner. Did any of us need a study done, that likely cost us millions, to figure out that this was a problem?

Can you please follow-up on the eviler item?

That really seems pretty un-constitutional and pretty eviler.

There is not an attorney in Alabama available who can’t pool those property owners, get an engineer or architect (possibly pro bono or alternatively on the cheap), and fight city hall? Unless the homes truly are life safety issues warranting demolition (and such structures do exist), this seems to be the sort of thing that can be successfully resisted. Can’t it?

If it were my house being targeted, I’d rent the bulldozer and whoever did the targeting would be short one house when I finished. I really believe that stuff like this is so egregious that there’s no reason to even fight it within the legal system.

1 (formerly 5). It’s Obama himself. ding ding ding ding ding.

2 (formerly 6). Maybe they didn’t really run such a great campaign and were overrated from the start.

3 (formerly 1). Campaigns are easier than governing. Not to be discounted. Campaigns are hard, but governing is harder. You’re actually responsible for stuff, and that stuff sticks to you more. Takes a while to figure that out. (if they thought this, and I suspect it is true, it is a subset of issues 1 and 2)

4 (formerly 2). They were overwhelmed by events. They didn’t understand quite how bad things were going to be (this is an inane, they ran on how bad things were and how they were going to fix them). Actual conditions, I mean: the economy, Afghanistan, unexpected things like the oil spill.

5 (formerly 6). It’s about personnel. David Plouffe was on the campaign but isn’t in the White House. Rahm Emanuel is, but wasn’t on the campaign. And there are other personnel differences. Maybe these are key. (Duh)

6 (formerly 3). They didn’t expect the partisan onslaught. (Dumbass there is alwyas partisan onslaught [think what Dems and lefties did to Bush, what Pubs and conservatives did to Clinton, etc.], that is a lame excuse.)

Size means little. A single, more aggressive person can overpower a frightened person into an obsequious state easily. A gang of people can easily overpower any single person.

The problem with the theory, is that it assumes all persons in prison are on equal footing in either aggression or confidence in their ability to defend themselves. They are not.

The biggest problem in prisons is gangs. Gangs stratify and enforce the violence that has been programmed into violent people.

In theory, the best solution for the violence is to have hundreds of prisons in each state, each with a specific risk level of inmate. This allows every person in need of incarceration a place to be imprisoned but without the added risk factor of either turning them into a more hardened criminal or subjecting them to rape. Of course, some of those prisons would only have a half dozen inmates.

Obviously, that would be ridiculous. The only VIABLE solution is to just stop throwing people in prison. You stole some money or sold some dope? Even if it’s the fiftieth time you should get Probation, Community service, or something of that sort. Every effort should be made to keep people out of prison.

And I’m not even starting on the Jail system, where all grades of people (innocent, non violent, and mass murderer) are stored awaiting trial or a hearing (Or to be bonded out)

People are programmable, they respond to their environment just like animals do. There is a higher order brain function going on that allows humans to get past that, but sometimes that is not the case, the abuse is too much and starts a cycle of abuse itself.

The only way to stop this cycle is to separate violent abusers from potential victims.

Instead, the Police State System is actively figuring out new ways to make MORE people into criminals, passing out frivolous felonies like candy and taking the opportunity to arrest anyone they can, for any reason they can.

http://volokh.com/2010/05/09/a-clever-proposal-that-could-reduce-prison-rape/

Which if I’m not mistaken conflicts with a fairly recent DC Circuit decision. Which means that it is likely those will eventually end up in SCOTUS, who are…unpredictable when it comes to 4th Amendment and privacy law.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201315000

Even your articles love puns!

It was quite a showdown. If I recall the humidifier won. It discharged more moisture than the dehumidifier took in during the hour.

Sure it can be resisted, with money. The people being targeted don’t have the money to hire lawyers, structural engineers, architects, etc. The government could target rich parts of town, but what’s the point, the rich can fight back.

Remember the Duke Lacrosse rape case? The accusations were false on their face, all it took was a LOT of money to fight them. (I’ve heard millions, can’t verify.)

#1 | Rhayader | August 27th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Barring an actual crime, being an asshole shouldn’t get you arrested.

Being a bear, on the other hand….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uVoarvrrgI

+0

I was watching the Sopranos last night on DVD and Tony Baccula said:

“My dad and I were driving to go hunting and saw a sign that said ‘Bear Left.’ So we went back home.”

Because everyone is occasionally an asshole.