Comments on: Morning Links

By: Uncle Ed

Uncle Ed — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:09:40 +0000

#25 I’ve always been one to believe the smallest government is the best government, but perhaps the one area the feds should license is police officers. Then when they do crap like this they can’t just get a job in another police department, they will have a lifetime revocation of their law enforcement license.

By: TC

TC — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:03:44 +0000

“Another vague law named after a crime victim.”

Another stupid person that should have been schooled on mate selection instead of learning how to bitch her way into a full fledged beat down! (not that the guy is not an asshole), but he probably was one the day she first got naked with him too!

Folks love to beat down men for having two heads but the ability to only think with one of them at a time. Which is also true. But Eagar Beavers Catch all kinds of vermin!

By: croaker

croaker — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:24:24 +0000

Looking for work: Did Blogdad Bob get fired?

AI vs AI: Those two would do a better job than Hannity and Colm ever did.

#5 I see what you did, there.

#6 I appreciate the load of bovine dump in that statement

By: Fist of Etiquette

Fist of Etiquette — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:23:30 +0000

“Another vague law named after a crime victim.”

There needs to be a two year and one month waiting period between proposing legislation and the incident that spawns it.

By: Ted S.

Ted S. — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:12:46 +0000

@#31:

Perhaps if the rioters were destroying police stations and not innocent bystanders’ businesses, people might have a different view of the rioters.

By: Leon Wolfeson

Leon Wolfeson — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:58:56 +0000

The riots in London? The final trigger to the powder keg was the police beating up – severely – a mouthy 16-year old teenage girl. In the street, after dark, as after she had been waiting four hours with the family of a police shooting victim (on which the police demonstratively had lied, and had told the family basically nothing else), as they demanded a senior policeman speak to them.

The outrage? Oh, against the response. Nobody’s even suggesting that the police are at fault for setting the powder keg off. Same there, this is what the right wing normalise… (And by our standards, ALL the American parties are right wing, remember…)

By: A McGillican

A McGillican — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:30:35 +0000

Wow, this TSA salary range ($88,648.00 – $137,402.00 /year) around the upper range of a tenured or lower range for a full professor at a tier-1 research university – in other words someone with 7 – 10+ years more education that is at the opt of their field with multiple active research grants and probably supervising a whole lab of postdocs, graduate students, and technicians.

By: qwints

qwints — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:01:35 +0000

From the synthetic marijuana story:

“The charges do not pertain to the new law that went into effect Sunday banning the sale of certain types of bath salts and synthetic marijuana.”

While they may have waited to raid in order to be able to add new charges based on the law, it looks like the basis for the raid was pre-existing law.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:39:17 +0000

#27 | Aresen | August 30th, 2011 at 5:26 pm

“•From Germany, a story made for Pixar.

Dibs on the Yvonne-leather jacket.

There will be no Jacket. Yvonne is actually the Great Cow Guru foretold in the legend.

http://www.cowswithguns.com/cgi-bin/listen_claymation.cgi?cart=1314739612

Fear their Bovine Wrath.

By: Stick

Stick — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:30:45 +0000

@ 16 Mattocracy ‘…Preferreably blonde hair, blue eyes for maximum societal outrage.’ – But NO tattoos. Only white trash who deserve – no, BEG for – a beating, have tatts.

By: Aresen

Aresen — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:26:00 +0000

Dibs on the Yvonne-leather jacket.

By: jcalton

jcalton — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:34:01 +0000

“Dallas looks ripe for the next crime lab scandal.”

I think we can only have a scandal if people care.

By: marco73

marco73 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:01:12 +0000

#16, #24, No one needs to be beaten. Took 5 seconds to find this jailhouse video of a cop beating a 15 y/o white girl. For added enjoyment, the girl was handcuffed in a detention cell, while the cop pounded her into the wall, with his buddy guarding the door. Cop almost got away with it, but he forgot to erase the tape. The cop was enraged that the girl disrespected his authority by kicking off her shoe in his direction.
http://newsone.com/nation/associated-press/seattle-police-beat-15-year-old-girl/

By: OrangeYouGlad

OrangeYouGlad — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:00:23 +0000

This sounds like good news.

http://www.universalhub.com/2011/court-says-state-law-banning-recording-police-offi

decision:

http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/10-1764P-01A.pdf

By: PermaLurker

PermaLurker — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:33:01 +0000

@#16 but I don’t want to be beaten up by a bunch of cops

By: Michael Chaney

Michael Chaney — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:28:21 +0000

Re: #22 – I guess you’re not familiar with this shining example of Progressive politics from the 1930′s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

By: capn_amurka

capn_amurka — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:11:37 +0000

Leaving aside the larger issue of criminalizing harmless actions and substances, how is it that a citizen can buy something perfectly legal to possess and sell and, with no due process whatsoever, can have that something outlawed and find it subject seizure and destruction without compensation?

How in the world does this pass muster with respect to the Fourth Amendment?

If it does, could the federal government do something similar with another substance like wheat or oil or gold?

By: jppatter

jppatter — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:16:00 +0000

“… we serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life.”

Really? Does that “American way of life” include respect for the Constitution, especially the 4th Amendment? Does that get safeguarded?

By: C. S. P. Schofield

C. S. P. Schofield — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:15:49 +0000

Regarding this new “name of victim” law; how about instead of issuing restraining orders against creepy ex’s, we issue releasing orders for the women involved; Something along the lines of “This woman is judged to have a pre-existing reason to fear for her life from (name of abusive spouse/boyfriend) and is hereby released from all requirements of restraint in dealing with said person, and the Court wishes her good hunting.”

Maybe with expedited processing of a concealed cary permit, if she desires…..

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:15:07 +0000

Um, where’s the text of the law? As described by the article, it lengthens sentences for battery + torture which doesn’t by itself seem all that vague.