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Behead sorcerers? Sure. But not pot smugglers!

By jollyroger on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 8:25am |

 

 

With all the spillover umbrage at beheading available, I thought I'd capitalize on it and mobilize some hostility towards Saudi Arabia.

 

Granted, when they do their beheadings, they give the head and body a decent interval hanging side by side in which to say goodbye.

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Congress: Urgently needing a vacation...legislating is such hard work

By jollyroger on Sat, 09/20/2014 - 3:21am |

In the ongoing concatenation of news causing one's face to make an almost permanent acquaintance with one's palm, surely the brutal work schedule of our 538 Washington DC employees (aka Congress) ranks high on the list.

 

After wisely exiting DC throughout the dog days of August (the invention of air conditioning notwithstanding...) these schtarkers have exhausted themselves with two back to back 4 day work weeks.

 

ENOUGH!  We're outta here.

 

It's true, congress has gone back on vacation until mid November.

 

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Death to hostages, mercy for oil wells!

By jollyroger on Tue, 09/16/2014 - 5:48pm |

After 160+ air sorties against ISIS positions, we are able to deduce at least one guiding principal of American policy.

 

While we "sit shiva" for hostages, and refuse to negotiate for their release, ostensibly to prevent the ongoing funding of the terrorist enterprise, when it comes to bombing oil wells (let alone the trucks that carry the fruits thereof across the Turkish border) we stay our hand.

 

WTF??

 

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No jury would convict.

By jollyroger on Sat, 09/13/2014 - 1:11am |

If ever there were a profound argument in favor of the principal that jurors ought properly to exercise their independent discretion to nullify a criminal charge, this would be it.

In a truly stomach turning codicil to the James Foley saga, we learn that his family members were the recipients of explicit threats that payment of the ransom to save his life would make them criminally liable.

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Losing our heads (Here, in Iraq, and in Saudi Arabia)

By jollyroger on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 7:34am |

It took only the deaths of two American reporters to send our government (particularly in the person of the President) scrambling to cobble together a manifestation of bellicosity.

Oddly, the prior deaths by way of bullet, bomb, or building collapse of far more American reporters more or less at the hands of the same cast of characters produced only weasel words, a dance around the subject, and gauzy  platitudes.

The difference, of course, lay in high production values.

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Chokehold Cop-Felony Murderer? Cops standing by as well?

By jollyroger on Sun, 08/03/2014 - 4:21pm |

Among the quaint vestiges of medieval criminal law that persist in modern jurisprudence, is the doctrine of "Felony Murder"

 

It creates liability for murder whenever a death occurs in the course of the commission of an unlawful act (curiously, even when the deceased is an accomplice of the charged individual)

 

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Persisting in obtusely addressing as Indians witnesses from US government agencies, Priceless

By jollyroger on Sat, 07/26/2014 - 8:24pm |

It's hard out here for a voter in Florida's 19th Congressional District (Tampa/Ft. Meyers)

 

First they awoke one morning last year to learn that their landslide elected (62%) first term representative, Trey Radel (late of talk radio--are you listening, Rush?) had been caught buying coke from a snitch in a Washington D.C. sting operation.

 

Then they had to put up with months of bullshit, including a month of residential rehab for alcoholism (wtf?) while he squirmed to avoid resigning.

 

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Mexican kids, world's luckiest!

By jollyroger on Sun, 07/20/2014 - 3:55am |

Mexican children, unlike their unfortunate neighbors from slightly to the south, are apparently to be envied for the secure and loving bosom  in which their enlightened country envelops them.

Notwithstanding the depravity of Mexican narco traffickers, who will not hesitate to decorate the public square with the heads of those who discomfort them, no Mexican children are forcibly recruited as drug couriers, sellers, or lookouts, unlike those unfortunates in Honduras, El Salvador, or Guatemala.

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Hobby Lobby-A huge gift to the left. Who's your Daddy?

By jollyroger on Sun, 07/13/2014 - 3:56am |

It has become a commonplace observation amongst historians of the interface between politics and jurisprudence that the enunciation of Roe v Wade, as much as it brought immediate relief from unwanted pregnancy to hundreds of thousands of women, had the perverse effect of truncating the slow but inexorable progress of democratic reform of patriarchal anti-choice law.

 

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Prez: "Impeachment? Bring it, suckahs!"

By jollyroger on Sat, 06/28/2014 - 2:44am |
It is widely held that John Boehner's latest bit of clowning (the impending lawsuit over executive action over reach) is a desperate attempt to placate the impeachment hawks in his caucus.

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