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2013/6/18-8/13 [Reference/Law/Court, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54695 Activity:nil |
6/17 Don't mess with Texas: http://gawker.com/woman-tells-carjacker-he-picked-wrong-witch-runs-him-513728108 \_ Kudos. I just worry that some shameless ambulance-chasing lawyer might sue her on behalf of the criminal. \_ America has more lawsuits per capita than any other nation. Lawyers, rejoice!!! |
2013/6/11-7/31 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54691 Activity:nil |
6/11 Another murderer sparing his life and living a celebrated life: http://www.usfca.edu/Magazine/Summer_2013/features/Restorative_Justice How come this guy only got second-degree murder, not first-degree? |
2013/4/10-5/18 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54651 Activity:nil |
4/10 Is it just me, or it seems really ironic that a bunch of iconic monopolists in the Guilded Age funded a bunch of academic institutions through their philanthropies and those institutions later on produced famous academics that are highly critical of their benefactors and attack the ideals on which those monopolists based their philosophy on? \_ 'Former "sheriff of the year" arrested and sent to jail named after him' http://www.csua.org/u/ztf (news.yahoo.com) \_ Gorbachev toppled himself. \_ Eliot Spitzer the crime-fighter, was caught doing crime. \_ No, this is a good example of irony. \_ wait, you're telling me that monopoly is considered to be as cool as the trickle-down economy? Really? Wow, who would have guessed? |
2013/1/11-2/17 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/SIG] UID:54578 Activity:nil |
1/10 Yet another campus shooting incident: http://www.csua.org/u/yvw Thank you NRA. \_ I would thank them; it's a tough spot to be in: defending civil liberties in the wake of an event that has all the sheeple begging the government to take them away. (Not to mention the large number of morons vilifying you and those others who dissent). Unfortunately I'm still kind of annoyed at the armed gaurds comment, so I'll just engage sheep such as yourself instead.(See below) -phuqm \_ Yup, so much defending civil liberties as to tell the POTUS to depot someone because that person is exercising his First Amendment rights. |
2013/1/10-11 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54577 Activity:nil |
1/10 Yet another campus shooting incident: http://www.csua.org/u/yvw Thank you NRA. |
2012/11/28-12/18 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Academia/UCLA] UID:54539 Activity:nil |
11/28 http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-colleges-in-america-2012-11#3-university-of-california--berkeley-23 We are #3! We are #3! Go beah!!! |
2012/9/3-11/7 [Science/Space, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54471 Activity:nil |
9/3 While most of America is committing more and more resources to fight obesity by promoting healthy diets, NASA was spending tax dollars looking for sugar in space ...... http://www.csua.org/u/xjv :-) |
2012/6/23-7/20 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54421 Activity:nil |
6/23 Werher von Braun, Nazi, SS, overseer of Dora slave factory, is an American hero because of his contribution to Saturn V. What is wrong with America? \_ Is this worse or better than Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon for FuckYouAmericaGate? \_ "Hero" is a strong word. "Useful" would have been a better word. Had he not been so "useful," he'd have most certainly ended up at the end of a rope. Operation Paperclip demonstrated some insane "enemy-of-my-enemy" tendencies. \_ I'm still waiting for GERMAN JOHN to respond to this. \_ von Braun is DIRECTLY responsible for killing 3000 Londoners and destroying countless property with his V2 rocket development. America looked the other way for his crime. Fuck you America. \_ Was it technically a war crime bombing London? How was it compared to Drisen and Hiroshima? I think Drisden was a transportation hub for German troops while Hiroshima had some industrial complex manufacturing military machinary, or something like that. \_ The bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima were also war crimes, but the victors write the history books. \_ Hrm. If von Braun can be blamed for his rockets being used to kill all of these people, shouldn't Mikhail Kalashnikov be tried as a war criminal? By your logic, Smith & Wesson are liable for any crime involving their pistols. von Braun's oversight of the Dora slave factory is a much more direct crime. |
2012/4/25-6/4 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:54370 Activity:nil |
4/25 Colombian special forces conducting a military exercise, really. http://preview.tinyurl.com/7a6huq6 (http://www.sfgate.com :-) |
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2012/2/24-3/26 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Korea] UID:54314 Activity:nil |
2/24 "How the U.S. Could Pressure North Korea Tomorrow: Quit the $100 Bill" http://www.csua.org/u/vkl (news.yahoo.com) |
2012/1/25-3/3 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54298 Activity:nil |
1/25 Even a death row inmate agrees that life in prison is good: http://www.csua.org/u/vba (news.yahoo.com) \_ He forgot to mention all the free anal sex. |
2011/11/10-30 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54222 Activity:nil |
11/10 Assange vs Zuckerberg http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=6668 |
2011/10/3-18 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54185 Activity:nil |
9/30 "Amanda Knox Acquitted of Murder" http://gma.yahoo.com/amanda-knox-is-innocent.html WTF? \_ Why do you hate America? Your date must be wrong too... \_ I don't. I also thought WTF when the hikers were convicted in Iran. -- OP |
2011/8/1-12 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:54149 Activity:nil |
8/1 What the Tea Party looks like from overseas: http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/07/debt-ceiling-debate-seen-abroad \_ the best part is when the baby throws the poo in his diaper at boehner |
2011/5/27-7/30 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54121 Activity:nil |
5/27 Pharamcist convicted of first-degree murder for shooting at armed robberers: http://www.csua.org/u/tfk (news.yahoo.com) What the f**k!!?? \_ Shooting the robber and leaving him on the floor unconscious was obviously self-defense. Calmly returning to the store afterwards and shooting the unconscious robber on the floor five more times, killing him? That sounds like murder to me. \_ What's it like being a trustafarian/armchair lawyer? \_ One day your net will go down, and you'll have to leave your gated community. \_ First-degree murder is for killings that are premeditated, which shouldn't be applied to killing out of rage when one was ROBBED AT GUNPOINT. Do you think the robberer would be convicted of first-degree murder if it was him shooting the pharmacist dead after the pharmacist pointed a gun at him but was shot and fell first? I don't think so. --- OP \_ This is pretty sad because I'd expect this bullcrap from CA not OK. \_ The case below further illustrates that the pharmacist in the case above did the right thing: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110622/ap_on_re_us/us_pharmacy_shootings |
2010/7/5-20 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53875 Activity:nil |
7/5 I think this is the first time a CA cop has EVER been put on trial for murdering a black man. \_ Really? CA cop, or CA white cop? \_ The case marked the first murder prosecution of an on-duty Bay Area police officer. Prosecutors rarely file charges against police for shootings. A Chronicle review of police use-of-force cases around the country found just six cases in the past 15 years - not including the BART shooting - in which murder charges had been filed. The cases, involving a total of 13 officers, typically resulted in large civil payouts to victims' relatives. However, none of the officers was convicted of murder and most were acquitted or cleared altogether. One pleaded no contest to manslaughter and got three years in prison. |
2010/2/12-3/9 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53707 Activity:nil |
2/12 Tea Party rallies: "tea bag libs before they tea bag you": http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100211/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1129 \_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging |
2010/1/11-19 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53621 Activity:nil |
1/11 A-Bian the former Taiwanese president is so corrupt. Man, those southerners can never be trusted. \_ Come on. Even pro-KMT people would say "Ah-Bian => southerners" is a troll. \_ Ok. So what is AHHHH-Bian3 then? \_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shui_Bian |
2009/12/8-26 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:53580 Activity:low |
12/8 Old news, but new to me: Spam King kills himself and his family after escaping prison http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1553&tag=rbxccnbzd1 Hopefully more spammers will take the hint. \_ I wish the same fate can go to all marketing and advertising folks, selling people things they don't really need. I esp. hope it happens to people who advertise cigarettes, promote alcohol, and gambling. I hope it also happens to all diamond marketing folks. And luxury car marketing folks. Actually, I hope ALL marketing people die the same fate. \_ What about sales people? How do you feel about them? \_ So the marketing guys at my startup (who are trying to figure out which sector we should sell our storage software product to) should, in your opinion, kill themselves? Truly you are a prince among men. Keep up the good work there, twit. \_ He was sentenced to only 21 months in a "prison" with dormitory housing. Why bother escaping? |
2009/10/20-11/3 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53457 Activity:high |
10/20 "Ending death penalty could save US millions: study" http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091020/ts_alt_afp/usexecutionjustice "...... the cost to the state to reach that one execution is 30 million dollars" I used to be pro death penalty because I thought it's cheaper than life without possibility of parole (p.s. especially with the health care cost of $40k/yr per prisoner that was in the news a couple months ago). But now I'm not sure. \_ It is clearly not cheaper. -tom \_ It would be cheaper if we just got on with it already. \_ But we can't and shouldn't, so it's clearly not cheaper. -tom \_ We can and we should. See how easy that is? \_ Yes, it's quite easy to execute innocent people. -tom \_ if DNA proves guilt, kill. if not, life sentence. \_ You think jailing innocent people for life is better? Let's just not jail anyone in case we made a mistake. \_ Plenty of innocent people "jailed for life" end up being released after new evidence comes to light. Hard to bring someone back to life though. \_ http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row 138 death-row inmates have been released since 1971. The failure cost of the death penalty is much higher than the failure cost of prison. -tom \_ I think I'd rather be wrongly executed than rot in prison for 60 years after being wrongly imprisoned. Jail and the people in it are that unpleasant. What *really* sits wrong with me is when criminals *beg* to be executed and we don't do it. Let's execute those people ASAP and set a reasonable period where evidence can be brought to light for everyone else: lets say 10 years. I don't want to pay for some "death row" type guy to be in prison from age 22 to 82. Charles Manson should not be an expense to me right now. \_ If you had a 10-year limit, you would only have executed 65 of the 138 innocent people. Good job! -tom \_ I'm not going to worry about 65 people out of the 2.5 million in jail. As I said, it's not any better to wrongly rot in jail. It's not like you are going to find all wrongfully convicted people with or without the death penalty. I believe the justice system works and works better than ever in this age of DNA evidence. Your argument is that the justice system makes a mistake 5% of the time in capital cases. I _really_ doubt that figure given the extensive appeals process. BTW, the average length of time between sentencing and exoneration for those wrongfully convicted is 7 years. So if you think 10 cuts it too close let's make it 20. I just threw a number out there. \_ At this point you're just trolling; if you were really wrongfully accused and had the option of 12 years in jail and instant death, you would take death? The idea is absurd. Let's leave it at, the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison and will remain so despite the efforts of nutjobs like you, so you can't argue that the death penalty costs less than the alternative. -tom \_ The death penalty is only more expensive because of nutjobs like you who are concerned that 65 out of millions of convictions over the last 30 years might actually be innocent. You waste a lot of money on such statistical insignificance. Accept that the justice system works and stop wasting time defending *tried and convicted* death row inmates. If this were 1709 I'd be right with you, but the system is not as corrupt as it used to be and works very well as your own numbers attest to. \_ Millions were convicted of murder? Probably not. I wonder what the false positive rate in convictions is. Any idea? \_ The article doesn't say. Is it also so expensive in Texas, where there do a lot of it? \_ You know why California has a prison problem? Because of fucking idiots like you who think it's cheaper to keep a person alive than to execute them. I have a better solution, just offshore the job to China. They can do it far more efficiently. It really pisses me off seeing a headline like this. Hand control of Oakland to China and the crime situation will disappear and innocent people will stop dying. Fucking US criminal justice system. \_ California has 678 death row inmates; you could execute them all tomorrow and we'd still have a prison problem. -tom \_ My point is we should execute a lot more people. Like the 10 or 20 who gang raped the Richmond school girl. A bullet in their head is the best message we can send to those fuckers in Richmond and Oakland. Innocent people suffer and die when you have a criminal justice system that doesn't get rid of scumbags. \_ I think we should get out the guilloitine and start chopping off the heads of all of Goldman Sachs and the CEOs of AGI, Bank of America and all the other the CEOs of AIG, Bank of America and all the other fools who have caused much more suffering than the Richmond rapists. But I am not holding my breath for the world to come around to my point of view. \_ http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14699746 |
2009/10/2-22 [Reference/Law/Court, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53427 Activity:low |
10/1 It costs $500,000 USD to rape a child: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/roman-polanski-paid-samantha-geimer-601583-in-civil-settlement-of-sexual-assault.html \_ "Geimer, now a mother of four, has said repeatedly and publicly that she thinks Polanski was treated unfairly and expressed a desire for the case to be resolved without prison time." So she thinks he didn't commit a crime but she wants him to pay her? Or what? \_ "treared unfairly" and "he didn't commit a crime" aren't the same thing. \_ If that's the case, it means she's saying that someone drug-raping a 13-yr-old and being a fugitive doesn't deserve jail time. \_ or perhaps she means the claims against him were exaggerated? \_ or perhaps she means the claims against him were exaggerated? (I certainly don't know, but neither do you) \_ Yes, that is how I read it too. Maybe she means that he has already suffered enough and now just owes restitution to his victim. It is not an unreasonable position to take. |
2009/9/5-12 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Foreign] UID:53335 Activity:nil |
9/5 Proof that 19th century artillary is really accurate: "Pa. man fires cannon, hits neighbor's house - Yahoo! News:" http://www.csua.org/u/p03 |
2009/8/14-9/1 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53270 Activity:low |
8/14 How California's Lock-Em-Up Mentality actually makes crime worse: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111843426 \_ Sounds nice, but the stats say the crime rate is better since we started locking them up. \_ You should look up "correlation and causation." \_ Just because they are not necessarily correlated doesn't mean they aren't. \_ I know you are but what am I? \_ The Economist would beg to differ with you: http://tinyurl.com/m9wa5l \_ This article doesn't mention the crime rate at all. It mentions recidivism. Even with the same yahoos getting out of jail and immediately committing more crimes, the crime rate has fallen. Imagine how good it would be if we simply executed those troublemakers. Now, I don't think that is morally acceptable and don't condone it, but I say that to point out that the prison programs are broken but that has nothing to do with sentencing. We can restore funding to prison programs and cut the costs of housing prisoners (per prisoner) *both* with the current tough-on-crime stance still in effect. However, you shouldn't need a PhD in statistics to realize that releasing a lot of gang-affiliated criminals in jail for lesser sentences like assault and dope dealing is not going to be *GOOD* for the crime rate. \_ These guys have a good summary of the research on the topic, but the summary is that states with higher incarceration rates have actually seen less of a drop in crime than those states with lower incarceration rates: http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_iandc_complex.pdf \_ Interesting article, but one might argue that the states with less crime therefore needed fewer incarcerations. In Figure 2, the authors point to two time periods with increased incarcerations. In one of them, the crime rate increased and in the other it decreased. They call this "divergent". One might also say that even though the rate of incarceration increased perhaps it didn't increase *enough* and that the results of the second time period were partially a result of the higher incarcerations in the first time period. I don't think anyone is naive enough to suggest that other factors (like the economy) don't influence crime, but even the authors of this study don't go so far as to say that incarcerations do not affect positively the crime rate - claiming it accounts for only 25% of the reduction. They take this figure from another paper in the UK which did some econometric studies. I started to read this and it looks like good research, but I hate to restate the obvious: releasing criminals from jail is not going to lower the crime rate. Therefore, it could only increase or stay the same. Given that the CA prison system is inept at rehabbing prisoners, I am going to guess those people will return to crime. The solution is not to release people early or get soft on crime. The solution is to lower prison costs and put some of that savings into programs that might actually rehabilitate criminals. If that happens then maybe we can consider revising sentencing. Until then, you will be releasing people into the community that have no business being released. \_ One could argue that the real problem was locking them up in the first place, which has been shown to turn petty drug dealers into hardened criminals. So in the short term you might be right, but in the long term, locking up fewer people (and the right people of course) will likely lower the crime right. of course) will likely lower the crime rate. \_ I don't like to argue the past. However we got here, we are here. I would argue that if you lock up enough people (all of them) the crime rate can be reduced to zero. Dealing and doing drugs is not a victimless crime and we are right to be hard on those criminals, but we need better support programs for them because it's a hard habit to break. If you want to lock up fewer people then they need to commit less crime, but I refuse to ignore crimes that are committed. There are programs which may help make people less inclined to turn to a life of crime, but those are orthogonal to what to do with the people who have already chosen that path. \_ I am sure the crime rate in prison is higher than the crime rate outside of prison, so your lock em up mentality is unlikely to work. Smoking a doobie doesn't mean you have chosen a "life of crime" by your standards all of our last three presidents are career criminals. Come to think of it... \_ As long as pot is illegal then it's a crime and a lot of crimes were likely committed to bring that joint to you, some of them not so innocuous. \_ Speeding is illegal too, are you planning on locking up all the auto drivers, too? I am sure more people are killed over oil than pot, does that make driving immoral? \_ Speeding is illegal, but not a felony. However, there are plenty of situations where speeders can end up in jail, too. Smoking pot is not a victimless crime. If it's made legal then that would solve a lot of the related crime, but it's illegal and, yes, there is a lot more crime committed to grow, smuggle, and sell you drugs than there is to pump, refine, and sell you gasoline from Texas. \_ Smoking pot is not a felony either. 80% of our oil comes from overseas, so you should look at what is happening in Iraq, Venezuela or Nigeria, instead of Texas. Most CA pot is grown locally, in fact. \_ Selling it is and having more than an ounce of it could be. Cultivation is also a felony. The rest of your straw man bores me. How many people are killed in the name of dihydrogen monoxide? We compete for all resources. However, I guarantee you Chevron is not out there committing rampant crimes to obtain, manufacture, and distribute its product. \_ we should lock them up in labor camps \_ At least we shouldn't provide better healthcare to them than to citizens outside of jail. |
2009/7/28 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53210 Activity:nil |
7/27 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Whig_Party "On 19 May 2009 during a national online meeting, the Modern Whig Party and Florida Whig Party jointly announced the first federal Whig candidate since the 1850s: Paul C. McKain of Florida. |
2009/7/27-8/6 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:53204 Activity:nil |
7/27 A very good reading from our own Piaw: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2009/07/politics.html |
2009/5/6-9 [Reference/Law/Court, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52959 Activity:nil |
5/6 "Wal-Mart pays $2M to avoid charges in death probe" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090506/ap_on_bi_ge/us_wal_mart_death "Nassau County District Attorney ... said that if she had brought criminal charges against the retailer for negligence in the worker's death, the company would have been subject to only a $10,000 fine if convicted." Choosing to pay $2M-for-sure over $10K-maybe? Does Wal-Mart have a conscience now? \_ Of course not. They're paying for avoiding an admission of guilt. They're also paying to avoid a wrongful death suit. -tom |
2009/4/21-28 [Recreation/Dating, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52883 Activity:kinda low |
4/20 Anybody know Daniel Andreas San Diego? http://csua.org/u/o28 \_ "Law enforcement officials describe San Diego as a strict vegan who possesses a 9mm handgun." \_ "On his abdomen, he has images of burning and collapsing buildings." Tattoos people, they are called tattoos. \_ The POWER of OpenGL: http://tinyurl.com/liberals1 \_ He's pretty ripped. \_ I used to work with him. \_ Oh yeah? He seem like the bombing type? \_ I wouldn't be surprised. He used to get on the company irc server and talk about how great the ALF was all the time. \_ To be fair, there were a lot of weird people on cp company irc \_ Did you work there too? \_ Was everyone at cp crazy? so we have insane ALF guy, and crazed criminal stock scam guy. any other awesome people from cp i am forgetting? \_ what is cp? \_ CriticalPath or maybe Communist Party, depending on who you ask. \_ Oh, that barely scratches the surface. There were at least three drug dealers that I knew of, and one guy who boasted of his Mafia connections. \_ Did you date the guy who runs http://Suicidegirls.com ? \_ Heh, no, I am not even sure who that is, but I do know that a bunch of the female CP employees ended up with jobs as porn stars at SG after CP blew up. \_ I'm kind of joking. only 4 people made/make real money off of SG, one of theme is s5, the rest are not CP related. getting paid $500 once a year to pose is not a real job \_ s5? I always disliked that arrogant little twit, maybe I will have to reassess my opinion of him. I don't know how much "models" on the site make, but you are probably right. Is le one of the 4? but you are probably right. \_ d00d have you seen s5's wife?: http://tinyurl.com/dasr32 http://tinyurl.com/c7foyo http://tinyurl.com/dgp8ps \_ Yeah, she is hot and tall, which makes them an amusing couple. Should this make me respect s5 more or less ;-) |
2009/4/15-20 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52851 Activity:low |
4/14 Zombietime once again *curiously silent* on the teabaggery. Fortunately someone has the balls: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/15/720477/-San-Francisco-Tea-Party-(photo-heavy! \_ This isn't funny. Zombie only covers stuff that is worth making fun of. \_ Come on, calling to repeal the 14th amendment is hilarious. \_ You have got to be kidding me. More: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2009/04/tax-day-tea-parties.php?img=1 I mean, "Chairman Maobama?" Come the fuck on. Yeah, like, mass murder and raising tax rates to where they were in the '90s are like totally equivalent dude! \_ 8 years of Bush=Hitler and all of a sudden you're appalled by comparisons between mass-murdering despots and U.S. Presidents? Way to root for the home team... \_ Nice strawman. \_ An argument is only as strong as its counterargument... \_ Personally I prefer Obamarx. \_ I want some of those Maobama shirts for a couple of Commie friends of mine, where can I buy one? |
2009/3/29-4/2 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:52765 Activity:low |
3/29 Good news, Yoo to be investigated for violating International law: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/world/europe/29spain.html \- I'm actually happier to see Alberto, Feith, and Addington on the list ahead of Yoo. |
2009/3/13-19 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52708 Activity:nil |
3/13 I present to you a bleeding-heart liberal's nightmare: China's Mobile Execution Bus http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm Can be yours for only $37-75K, depending on options. \_ Er, you're kidding, right? Non-bleeding-heart liberals would support a rolling death chamber? \_ Tough-on-crime conservatives would love it though. |
2009/2/26-3/3 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52644 Activity:nil |
2/26 If only Al Gore had had Norm Coleman's balls: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/norm-coleman-maybe-we-need-a-do-over-election.php?ref=fp1 \_ yeah, I'm sure the Republican Congress and the stacked Supreme Court would have gone right along with another election... -tom |
2009/2/24-3/3 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52631 Activity:nil |
2/24 Megan's Law doesn't work: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/study_finds_megans_law_fails_t_1.html |
2009/2/9-15 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52540 Activity:nil |
2/9 What hypocrites we are--everyone climbing on Phelps' back for possibly taking a hit of marijuana from a bong? How many of us HAVEN'T done that, and other similarly petty crimes? Fer chrissake, cut the guy a break. \_ Hello liberal, soft on crime? \_ your childlike fundamentalist idea of "law" is amusing to me. |
2009/2/3-8 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Japan, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52505 Activity:nil |
2/3 Japanese murder investigators fooled by life-sized sex doll http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/02/japan2 How did this article never show up on the motd? |
2009/2/2-3 [Recreation/Dating, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52499 Activity:low |
2/2 She came to her senses. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/02/drew.peterson.breakup/index.html This is the woman who was dating Scott Peterson, the guy who's \_ actually Drew Peterson suspected of killing a few of his wives. \_ What wife did he kill other than Lacy? \_ Did you read the article? It says right in there. \_ Drew Peterson, not Scott. Scott only killed the one wife. \_ Man, thos Peterson's are baaaad news. |
2009/1/26-31 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52465 Activity:moderate |
1/26 Merrill Lynch chief economist declares we are in depression. (sorry, no link - it's an internal note) Sedacca of http://minyanville.com also calls depression against current consensus of 2nd half recovery (go to http://minyanville.com, "depression") "The main point I would wish to deliver here: An economy built on so much leverage, deteriorating so quickly, is going to collapse, no matter what the stimulus (bailouts, buyouts, TARP, Stimulus packages, quantitative easing, mortgage market manipulation, etc). The economic avalanche is upon us. And if you've ever witnessed an avalanche, there is no way to stop it." My take: Sedacca ignores that "out of recession" == one quarter of positive GDP growth (by one def'n). Quarterly GDP is qoq, not yoy, so it's easy to go positive from 4Q08. You can have depression + "out of recession" at the same time. Yes: Tea and no tea simultaneously. \_ FUCK did you get past the babelfish puzzle? \_ what's with all these tools i need to collect? \_ I hope you kept the pocket fluff. \_ I guess the chief economist of Merrill Lynch would know something about basing your entire economy on imaginary leverage. \_ The IBs are screaming bloddy murder, so they can get more handouts \_ The IBs are screaming bloody murder, so they can get more handouts from the taxpayer. The Economist predicts that the recession will end mid-year and we should see modest growth by the end of the year. \_ don't forget, "end of recession" == positive GDP growth for one quarter (by one def'n). We can therefore not be in a recession while in a depression simultaneously -op \_ Yeah, well, a few random idiots are predicting depression. The Economist is not. We will see who is right. I know who has a better track record. |
2009/1/20-26 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:52422 Activity:nil |
1/20 George W. Bush, Greatest President Ever! \_ I want to try him for war crime and crime against humanity, then exile him to Iraq (outside the green zone) so he can enjoy the "progress" he made first hand... along with his neocon friends |
2009/1/16-23 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52403 Activity:nil |
1/16 I don't know if anyone here has been following the Selma Hill murder case in Dublin, but the main suspect, Rosa Hill (ex-granddaughter-in- law) finally made a statement. http://csua.org/u/nat I'm appalled at her poor alibi here. I mean, caught tresspassing, armed at a house with a dead old lady in the trash can, and the best she can come up with in a week of thinking is "I just wanted to talk about child custody," and "[Ex-husband] attacked me?" Come on! \_ How could you be a suspect in a murder case for a week and not even have a lawyer? Rosa shouldn't be saying anything to anyone about this, least of all the media, until she talks to her attorney. \_ Yeah, that threw me at well. Actually, the two accomplice suspects (her parents) also said they didn't have lawyers in their interviews. Maybe they're all crazy? |
2008/11/28-12/4 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Recreation/Shopping] UID:52125 Activity:nil |
11/28 When I first heard about this I figured it must have happened in some place in the South like Arkansas or Mississippi. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death \_ quite the shopping season: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/shots-were-fire.html \_ must be the desperation of the consumer \_ clearly liberal greed |
2008/11/21-28 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Korea, Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:52070 Activity:nil |
11/21 "The year 2025: Oil, dollar out; Russia, Islam in" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_ot/intel_trends (National Intelligence Council report) |
2008/11/17 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Industry/Jobs] UID:52022 Activity:low 77%like:51992 |
11/14 Angry Lead Test Engineer shoots boss, CEO, gets away in a rented car: link:www.mercurynews.com/ci_10987100 \_ you mean angry Lead Test Engineer, whatever that is \_ Unfortunately, it looks like they caught him: link:www.mercurynews.com/ci_10993931 Why didn't he run? \_ Odds are it was a crime of passion/temp. insanity. He didn't run because he was probably in shock. \_ he got fired in the morning, left to get a 9mm, came back in the afternoon for a meeting with his superiors, and shot all three dead. \_ yeah it wasnt a crime of shock. he got fired. he asked to have a meeting with the three people he thought were involved in his firing. he killed them all, left the building. \_ Not interested in defending the dude. Just saying that he probably didn't run because he hadn't planned it out that far. |
2008/11/13 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:51965 Activity:nil |
11/13 lolz. liberals. [SFGate article on Boxer aide being convicted of distributing child porn.] http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/13/BA5J143VAU.DTL \_ GO LOL YOURSELF |
2008/11/13 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:51962 Activity:nil |
11/13 lolz. liberals. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/13/BA5J143VAU.DTL \_ GO LOL YOURSELF |
2008/11/11 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:51917 Activity:nil |
11/11 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/12/2417037.htm lolz \_ Are you having a conversation with yourself? |
2008/11/10-13 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:51899 Activity:nil |
11/10 every norcal liberal should hang their head in shame http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=6142661 \_ Why not every norcal catholic? \_ shut up paolo \_ lulz \_ Why? Other NorCal lefties didn't do the crime. -emarkp \_ Why is Dan Noyes talking to himself at the end of the interview? |
2008/11/7-13 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51877 Activity:low |
11/7 Obama's plans to require students to serve. http://change.gov/americaserves \_ Yes, so? Isn't that better than kids staying home and playing Nintendo all day? Or doing drugs and hanging out with gangsters? How is this different than mandatory physical education in in school, is that also bad for kids? \_ IT'S COMMUNISM! STALIN LOVED COMMUNITY SERVICE! THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE AWAY ALL MY GUNS AND MONEY! \_ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081108/pl_nm/us_usa_guns_1 And you thought you were just being funny... \_ Did you see the post below about slavery? Same thing. \_ Sorry the assmastery threw me off. \_ Added by an asshat after the post \_ Old truths have been relearned; untruths have been unlearned. We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays. We are beginning to wipe out the line that divides the practical from the ideal; and in so doing we are fashioning an instrument of unimagined power for the establishment of a morally better world. -FDR, 1936 \_ That was while FDR was prolonging the depression http://tinyurl.com/56dqd4 [ucla.edu] \_ FDR's policies probably would prolonged the depression even longer if not for the FOUR HORSEMEN \_ Krugman thinks you are wrong: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/new-deal-economics \_ Krugman isn't an Economist anymore, he's just another lefty commentator. Furthermore, the one link doesn't address the UCLA study, and the other is 13 years old. \_ Yeah, anyone who disagrees with you is a "lefty commentator" we got that the first 1000 times you said it. it. Even the one's with Nobel Prizes aren't as worthy as the anonymous contributors to LGF. \_ http://tinyurl.com/6naawz Stop Lying About Roosevelt's Record |
2008/10/12-15 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:51481 Activity:nil |
10/12 How the GOP used "Star Wars" to rip off the taxpayer: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/washington/12missile.htm |
2008/10/7-9 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:51417 Activity:low |
10/7 To the idiots who think the Ayers story is interesting: What Ayers did was a generation ago. He went to jail for a long ass time. He payed his debt and understands that when he was a kid he was wrong. Now he is a respected Chicago professor who worked with a legitimate group whose mission was to get money to try to improve Chicago schools. Maybe you don't think Ayers should have been able to rehabilitate himself, but isn't that the point of justice. People do wrong, we punish them and make them understand why it was wrong. Then if those people come back to society and do the right thing we are supposed to accept them back as valuable members of our community. That's what makes the justice system work. \_ He's never recanted. AFAICT he's never spent a day in jail for the bombings. He has no regrets, thinks he should have done more. "So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? 'I don't want to discount the possibility,' he said." http://tinyurl.com/4tb7wd [nytimes] Note that this nytimes article appeared on 9/11/2001. \_ He did turn himself in. I was wrong, charges were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct. And you need to read his rebuttal to that article. http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/clarifying-the-facts-a-letter-to-the-new-york-times-9-15-2001 \- look even if guilt by association isnt 1/r^2 but 1/r, CKEATING is so much closer to JMCCAIN, not to mention his crimes so much more contemporary to their involvement and the nature of the relationship directly involves what he was on the hook for, the strength of the guilt by assn charge is a whole lot stronger in this case ... not to mention its relevance to the current financial mess [regulation, moral hazard, regulatory arbitrage, lobbying-for- loopholes, money influence in politics etc]. "thanks hillary". \_ ob why do you love the terrerists? \- CKEATING is a financial terrorist ... that's what he was doing w.r.t. to the FSLIC. might be good to execute a few finance people to "find new ways to motivate them" against MORAL HAZARD. since it is highly likely you were "young" during this episode, spend the <5min to read http://tinyurl.com/yypk4l [wikipedia on CKEATING]. \_ ob sarcasm++ |
2008/9/25-29 [Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold, Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Foreign] UID:51290 Activity:nil |
9/25 Father abandons 9 children to be cared for by the State of Nebraska: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hlZbpXbUt5CbF3Ra6tEc-6uzzToAD93DPJO84 |
2008/9/16-19 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:51197 Activity:nil |
9/16 Make sure you watch the video before reading the story http://wonkette.com/402785/gop-delegate-robbed-blind-by-sexy-hero-gal \_ Am I a bad person for thinking this is insurance fraud? \_ Where's it say his shit was insured? |
2008/9/13-19 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:51157 Activity:nil |
9/13 Great essay on a talk radio host by David Foster Wallace, from 2005. Wallace hung himself this week. :( http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace |
2008/8/19-21 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Computer/SW/OS] UID:50907 Activity:high |
8/19 Exploit code downloads backdoor from two sources one .cc one local box on <DEAD>icq-mail.net<DEAD> (an link:secureserver.net) (upstream isp is sbcglobal (now ATT)). both sources are still serving up the malicious .EXEs Who should I report this to? \_ are you getting DKAMINSKY DNS EXPLOITED??????????? \_ no, i'm getting "my users are dumb asses" exploited. \_ Report it to the "dumb ass police" then. If you really think that the admins will do anything about it, track them down using geektools and send them email. They are probbly part of some kind of international crime syndicate and will just that the admins will do anything about it, track them down using geektools and send them email. They are probbly just part of some kind of international crime syndicate and will just ignore you. You can always report them to their upstream provider and the FBI, but that doesn't seem to do much, in my experience. |
2008/8/13-17 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50859 Activity:nil |
8/13 The most interesting thing I found in this article is that in Arkansas, when two towns, Helena, and West Helena, merge, the new town isn't named Helena, but Helena-West Helena: http://tinyurl.com/5ao3m6 (cnn.com) \_ "The citizens deserve peace, that some infringement on constitutional rights is OK, and we have not violated anything as far as the Constitution." Huh? |
2008/8/7-13 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50815 Activity:nil |
8/7 A victory for Texans!!! http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/texas.execution.ap/index.html |
2008/8/6-10 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50797 Activity:nil |
8/5 here's an article on how the FBI's case against the dead bioweapons scientist is a bunch of crap http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/05/anthrax/index.html I did think the weird 'he mailed the stuff from a mailbox near a sorority' stuff was weird sounding. \_ The government pulls this kind of crap all the time, but usually they just lie abaout some evidence they planted on some poor ass drug dealer, so no one cares. \_ We know this much: It was one of 12 scientists in that lab. Why not this one? He seems as wacky as any. On top of it, he killed himself. I refuse to believe that it was just because of the pressure he was under. He did it when the government was finally ready to move on him. Or maybe he was really murdered by the Mossad. Also, the article seems to give Ivins a lot of leeway, insinuating that because he had a legitimate use for a lyophilizer he clearly didn't have a nefarious use for it. Isn't that what a smart guy would do? Claim to need it for his work (which he did) to throw off suspicion? work (which he did) to throw off suspicion? Means, motive, opportunity. More info released today, btw. \_ I remember when suggestions were made back in 2001 that the the quality of the Anthrax powder was so good that only the US government or perhaps the Russian government could be the source, the people saying this were widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, it was a US government scientist all along. \_ Conspiracy theorists are like a broken clock. If you claim everything is a conspiracy eventually you'll be right. |
2008/7/31-8/5 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:50745 Activity:nil |
7/31 US judge: White House aides can be subpoenaed <DEAD>preview.tinyurl.com/6r3epf<DEAD> (Yahoo News, AP story) Welcome to contempt, Miers. \_ Welcome to PRESIDENTIAL PARDON \_ Another loss for Bush and another win for America. |
2008/7/29-8/3 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:50718 Activity:low |
7/29 Place your bets: Sen. Stevens of Alaska faces criminal charges http://preview.tinyurl.com/6yrtp2 (Yahoo News) \_ I knew we should have gotten rid of that dick weed when he offered. -R \_ People like that is why I left the party. -I \_ huh, people like BUSH-II CHENEY ADDINGTON ROVE is why i left the party. a little 100k graft never hurt anyone. \_ Disloyalty is evil -Reagan \_ Is our children learning? |
2008/7/29 [Reference/BayArea, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50714 Activity:nil |
7/29 I guess this is a good argument for CCW in church: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6nl6nr (SF Gate) |
2008/7/25-29 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50692 Activity:nil |
7/25 Geez, Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/1223246 \_ Too bad he took innocents with him. |
2008/7/25-30 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50686 Activity:nil |
7/25 doing business in russia kind of sucks: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/world/europe/24kremlin.html \_ Yeah, I sold my BP stock because of this crap. |
2008/7/16-23 [Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50603 Activity:nil |
7/16 Another stupid argument for an armed citizenry http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/07/021014.php \_ Hey lefites, if you disagree, feel free to comment, but don't change my text. -op \_ Hey lefty censors, stop editing my post. -op \_ Ok so if the father arms, great. What if 8 men are armed as well? Then you end up with a dead father and a raped daughter. Fucking trigger happy Conservatives. \_i guess liberals like bending over.. \_ I guess yermom is a liberal then \_ Who needs weapons when you have KUNG FU! http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9913246 |
2008/7/16-23 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50600 Activity:nil |
7/16 Wow, quite a few errors in the dissent re: the DC gun law http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/guest/2008/dth_0715p.shtml \_ Wow, quite a few gun nuts need to get a life. \_ <img src="read_ayn_rand.jpg"> |
2008/7/14-17 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50560 Activity:nil |
7/14 Knife crime: 60/day in UK http://tinyurl.com/6ytub5 [telegraph] Prime minister says theyr'e going to do something about it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7502569.stm [bbc] \_ Gun deaths: 80/day in the US. Gun crime: 1300/day. \_ It would be worse if assault knives were legal |
2008/7/9-11 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/California] UID:50527 Activity:nil 80%like:50517 |
7/9 Dallas County meeting gets racial. http://csua.org/u/lvy \_ Do we really need every damn freeper article reposted here? |
2008/7/9 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50517 Activity:nil 80%like:50527 |
7/9 Dallas County meeting gets racial. http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra.html |
2008/7/8-11 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50497 Activity:kinda low |
7/8 FREE HANS \_ It seems like he has a decent chance of getting out in 15 years. Would they let him use computers in jail? \_ CA pretty much doesn't give parole to murderers anymore. And I suspect his computer use will be pretty much non- existant. \_ Only 15 years for strangling his wife? \_ 15 to life. Parole no sooner than 15 years, though the state doesn't tend to grant parole to murderers. \_ I know what the minimum sentence is, but I disagree with the "decent chance of getting out in 15 years" comment. \_ Ok, I made that up. Nevermind. \_ Can't he get 1/3 off for good behaviour? He might be out in 10 years! \_ he won't behave well. -tom \_ he's being sentenced to 15-to-life, instead of 25-to-life. I don't think it matters at all. it just means in 15 or 25 he is eligible to apply for parole. So he applies for parole. The Parole Board makes a decision. That decision is 'sorry'. Even if they agree to let him out, the governor has to sign off on it. no CA governor since Pete Wilson has parolled a murderer. ok i think maybe Arnold just released a woman who killed her rapist abusive husband 30 years ago. I dunno why we even have a goddamn parole board if they don't let anyone out. is 'sorry'. Even if they agree to let him out, the governor has to sign off on it. no CA governor since Pete Wilson has parolled a murderer. ok i think maybe Arnold just released a woman who killed her rapist abusive husband 30 years ago. I dunno why we even have a goddamn parole board if they don't let anyone out. \_ We let people out. Just not murderers. Do you think you can rehabilitate a murderer? Some, probably. Most, I wouldn't take a chance on. What's sad is that a lot of sex offenders do get paroled and then go out and repeat offend. |
2008/7/8-10 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:50496 Activity:nil |
7/7 The Failures of Neoliberalism: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6xwgsg \_ That link goes to the Reiser-body article. \_ http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=14905 Someone must have "edited" it. |
2008/7/7-10 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Reference/Military] UID:50489 Activity:kinda low |
7/7 Reiser leads police to body of Nina http://preview.tinyurl.com/6xwgsg [sfgate] \_ i can't believe this is the same reiser of ReiserFS \_ then you never met him. \_ does he have Asperger's Syndrome and carry a gun like emarkp? \_ At least he doesn't think God talks to him. \_ emarkp is a nice enough guy in person, he just has a ridiculous world view. Reiser is insane. -tom \_ Almost all Aspies appear to be nice but have really really warped perception of the world view. Also, almost all Aspies deny that they are Aspies despite rigorous clinical checks. Yeah, typical Aspies. \_ carrying your gun into church isnt aspie, it's just stupid. \_ Unless it saves your life and the lives of others. http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3980889&page=1 or, another http://preview.tinyurl.com/5rwuem -emarkp \_ ok i'll give you that. if you live South Africa, you probably need to carry a gun in some places. I live in AMERICA. \_ carrying a gun makes the carrier feel safe and everyone else unsafe. Arms race, anyone? \_ Cool. I wonder if taser would help in this case. Also, how carrying a handgun helps in cases like the North Hollywood shootout? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuhP2Y18CkI \_ emarkp's awesome CCW handgun sure would have helped \_ typical religious nutcase takes 1-2 examples and say "yes it works!" and also cry out "statistics lie!" Typical Aspies also don't change their view point once they've made up their mind. Hello Aspie emarkp! \_ Hi anonymous troll! You said "it's just stupid". I post counter-example. You go ad hominem. Thanks for making my point. -emarkp \_ http://www.wjactv.com/news/16728776/detail.html Two dead after Clearfield church shooting http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16639564/detail.html Shooting outside Cobb church leaves 1 dead http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080625/NEWS03/80625083/1005 Pontiac teen sought for allegedly killing boy at church \_ Oh, this is a good one. What is a 16-yr old doing with a handgun? <http://http://www.nbc5i.com/news/16659670/detail.html One dead after police-involved shooting at Rockwell Church And that's just a trivial Google News search from the past month. I'll also point out that the Colorado Springs incident was an *armed security guard*, which is a lot different than some random dweeb with a gun. -tom \_ Incorrectly reported. She's a *volunteer*. \_ She's a volunteer security guard. \_ These events are pretty random. The first one is about a guy who went and killed the janitor at a church because the guy was having an affair with his wife. The second is a guy driving up to a church parking lot and shooting someone there. The third was a guy who drove into a church parking lot and pointed a gun at the officer, who shot the guy dead. What do these have to do with anything? \_ I thought the topic was gun deaths. \_ The claim above was that "carrying your gun into church" was stupid. |
2008/7/2-6 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50446 Activity:kinda low |
7/2 Why do people CCW or open carry? I mean, in a place such as Cupertino or Sausalito, wouldn't you get more disturbances out and hastle from open carry than the minute, less than lottery chance that you'll heorically save someone from danger? \_ Let's see. If you are a Mormon with Asperger's syndrome, you'll feel that you're a lot smarter and better and more righteous than everyone else and that no one can be trusted. In addition, if you live in Chico, you gotta protect yourself because everyone else is a nutcase -- they have very different "values" and beliefs that you have. So in that respect, it totally makes sense to carry a weapon. \_ It's worth it so you can finally feel like a man again. \_ Is it worth even responding to this crap? \_ Wait, there really is some other reason? Let me guess, you are just waiting for the armed revolution to start so you can go shoot some cops, and it would really suck if you had to go home first casue someone else might have gotten them all? \_ My right to protect myself and my property is constitutionally protected. Your interpretation is bizarre. \_ But the right to protect your right to protect yourself and your property is not constitutionally protected. I.e. the constitution can be changed by votes. \_ do you really go to UC Berkeley? \_ Yes I did. Do you? \_ It has been many years since I took crim law, but iirc, the US Constitution does not require the states to provide any defenses to the accused, i.e. self- defense, defense of of others, and defense of property are all defense provided by state law and are constitutionally protected, if at all, by state constitutions. So, in one sense, your statement is probably correct. In the context of this discussion, I assume that you are referring to 2d amendment personal right(s) to keep and bear arms. And I assume that you mean that the constitution can be changed via the amendment process. If so, I think that your statement is only true in a very technical sense because the amendment process operates as designed and prevents any drastic changes from being made to the constitution. We have only used the process 27 times and the 27th amendment was pending was over 200 years. This suggests that the 2d amendment personal rights can considered immutable because amending the constitution to remove the 2d is about as likely as an armed revolution to to overthrow the republic. \_ It's really easy. The EARLIER number amendment the less likely you can challenge it as time goes on. \_ If you are so afraid of the world you can't wander the mean streets of Cupertino without packing lethal force you are laughbly pathetic, constituationally protected or not. \_ I keep a flashlight on my keychain as well. Does that make me afraid of my own shadow? \_ Do you keep the flashlight around so that if some scary dark looking person comes near you you can shove it in their eyeball while shouting "semper fi motherfucker!" \_ Do you do that with your car instead of riding on the bus? \_ So you don't drive? \_ I sure don't keep a car in my pants in order to keep my dream of getting to run over some dangerous looking feller in the name of justice alive. \_ If you have to rely on someone else to protect you, you're pathetic. \_ See, unlike you I'm not afraid of my shadow, so I don't need to have a gun around as a security blanket. \_ Dude, you don't know what it is like on the mean streets of Cupertino. Jackbooted, BMW-riding Cupertino motorcycle cops routinely use their gestapo tactics to ticket jay-walking pedestrians who are just trying to save a few minutes on their walk to TapX or I Heart Yogurt. Open carry is all that keeps the man at bay. \_ OpenCarry Yogurt! |
2008/7/1-14 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50436 Activity:nil |
7/01 Stevens' dissent in Heller (DC gun ban) has a few factual errors. http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/06/stevens_dissent.php \_ Don't you have a job or something? |
2008/6/21-23 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50324 Activity:nil |
6/21 The real truth about Libby's perjury: http://preview.tinyurl.com/avn6j "At the end of the day, what appears is that Mr. Libby's story that he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another, was not true. It was false. He was at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And then he lied about it afterwards, under oath and repeatedly." \_ Oh for crying out loud, Armitage was the source of the leak, he's even admitted it. \_ it does seem like a lot of fuss over a grand plan to discredit someone gone horribly wrong. maybe people should refrain from lying to federal prosecutors |
2008/6/20-23 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50321 Activity:moderate |
6/20 "About six months ago, they decided to put a hunch to the test. Janikowski merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts's map of Section8 rentals. Where Janikowski saw a bunny rabbit, Betts saw a sideways horseshoe ... Otherwise, the match was near-perfect. On the merged map, dense violent-crime areas are shaded dark blue, and Section8 addresses are represented by little red dots. All of the dark-blue areas are covered in little red dots, like bursts of gunfire. The rest of the city has almost no dots." http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime \_ The conclusion here is depressingly obvious. If you take people who want to get out of the project out, they do well. If you push out people who don't want to leave, they do poorly. Suprise! out people who don't want to leave, they do poorly. Surprise! \_ There's another inteteresting issue: what do you do when your research points to results that are ugly, un-pc or unpopular? \_ You publish them. Why is that interesting or an issue? \_ Tell that to the global warming drones. \_ That's right: global warming's a myth, and The Man is preventing the truth from coming out. Also see: Flat Earthers and the Lone Gunmen. \_ One interesting verified implication of this article is that the inner cities are becoming safer while some suburbs are starting to have more crime. I wonder if this is already accellerating the return of middle-class/affluent non-minorities to the inner cities. I think this is already happening in some cities (maybe Oakland and Chicago?) \_ What is a "non-minority"? \_ And therefore... what? The implication seems to be that Section 8 leads directly to crime, and the not-so-subtle inference drawn therefrom seems to be that poor people are criminals. Cf. theories of moral turpitude in the Bowery circa the 19th century for more unsupported suppositions. \_ If we had less poverty, we would probably have less crime. This theory works in Northern Europe. |
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