So legalize it. Problem solved. Wonder why the people who insist they’re only against illegal immigration are unanimously opposed to that solution.

http://www.ohioccw.org/201107214955/cantonpd.html

Now lets hope the cop gets fired. Probably never happen, but I can hope. My ability to hope is almost dead but still barely there.

Thought experiment: let’s say the US and canada were in conflict over some issue. Both countries have completely open immigration policies. Rather than fight it out, the US just sends 20 million immigrants over the border and they vote for unification in the next election….

Or how about this… Canada is really worried about a second Obama term. So they send a half million immigrants to florida and Ohio to swing the election.

Not too worried? Ok, replace Canada with China or India. Either could muster 100 million conscripts if absolutely necessary without even causing too big of a disruption to their country. Or replace the US with Israel. I think you get the point. Controlling the border is one of the fundamental reasons for existance of the federal government.

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2011/11/09/new-orleans-materiality.aspx

Interesting Slate discussion…

I was skeptical, but it wasn’t bad.

StrangeOne. Didn’t mean to upset you.

Play a texas hold’em scratch-off ticket, where the state gets 50% of the money and some lotto company gets 15%, and your fine. But if you play an actual game of texas hold’em in your own house, where the house takes no rake and its zero sum game, then you can expect a SWAT raid, seizure of your property, and arrests. All of which is supposedly for your own benefit because all of that other stuff is apparently nothing compared to the evils of gambling, according to the state.

Re: Unfortunate headline of the day.
It was used purposely, because all men who watch football beat their wives.

Re: Lotto
The lottery is the stupid people tax, the dumber a person is the more they play. If you don’t believe me, look at the people in line to buy lottery tickets.

So while I’m all for clobbering the heck out of real molesters and pornographers, the extreme reach of the law as it is enforced is a problem.

That’s a nice sentiment, but how exactly do clobber people without the extreme reach of the law?

I’ve also sat through testimony from a medical doctor who was purportedly an expert in adolescent breast development, the purpose of which was proving that the girls in pornographic images were underage based on a close examination of their nipples. Now, it’s certainly possible the doctor was 100% correct in his assessment, but I doubt very much he passed a controlled trial with hundreds of dummy images of girls of known age. What’s more, it strikes me as unreasonable to ask a guy looking at porn to have a consulting physician available to verify that everything is legal.

So while I’m all for clobbering the heck out of real molesters and pornographers, the extreme reach of the law as it is enforced is a problem.

Of course, maybe oral arguments were just for show, and the decision could still come down upholding NO Parish’s exclusive power to decide what evidence is exculpatory and what isn’t.

But at least the oral arguments offer some hope.

Tasking government with maintaining the culture, however defined, involves providing it with large amounts of money and power needed to effect this goal. It can’t be assumed that giving it such power won’t, itself, end up having any deleterious effects on the culture. Which I think is exactly what will happen.

The Supreme Court absolutely ripped the New Orleans prosecutor yesterday in the oral arguments for the latest case involving a breach of Brady rules.

Followed a few weeks later by Occupy Quickie Mart protests for debt forgiveness.

You see, they bought the lottery tickets with the expectation that they would be winners. If they had known those tickets weren’t going to be winners, they wouldn’t have bought them. Therefore, they are entitled to have their debt forgiven.

The government has no right to tell peaceful people where they can go, who to employ, and how many people can be some place.