I have in the past, in colloquy with the lamented, gone-but-not-forgotten Articleman, urged the utility of deconstructing the arguments advanced by the Department of Justice as offering guidance to their inherent devotion (or the contrary) to civil liberties.
Ok, ok, who among us has not driven past a front-loader waiting empty overnight and thought, "I wonder if they left the keys in that?" The same impulse to collect heavy equipment perhaps motivated the thieves who got an extra bonus when they van-jacked what looked like a nicely tricked out vehicle with a heavy lift platform....Pendajos!
Not content to have wrested from their lackeys on the Supreme Court the right to exclude from Medicaid millions of low income citizens of Repugnant governed states, the punks infesting the lower house of congress writhe in continued agony over their impotence.
Louis Scarcella, Brooklyn homicide detective (retired), was not a guy you would want to meet, especially if you were a person of color who was innocent of a crime that needed to be cleared. (Cops dislike inventory just like Walmart dislikes unsold crap).
There is an interesting congruence between the waiver claimed by Hobby Lobby vis-a-vis contributing fungible resources to a purpose they loath, and the waiver granted a conscientious objector who ref.uses to take an active role in combat.
Both are asking to be excused from participating in that which they find odious.
Charlie Pierce, (not for the first time) is consumed with iration. The cause of his irritation: the threat by Inifinito Gold (love that name...) to sue the Country of Costa Rica for $1 Billion (U.S.).
We are grown painfully accustomed to the stories of the homeless mentally ill street person whose violent outburst visits catastrophe upon some random passerby.
In Virginia, mental-health authorities can hold people for four to six hours after a magistrate judge issues an emergency custody order. After that, a magistrate must issue a temporary detention order, or TDO, to allow an individual to be held for 48 to 72 hours for further evaluation and treatment. But the order cannot be issued without an available bed.
Jollyroger was last seen entering the Chilean consulate with his visa application in his hand....why can't we have politicians like this? (permit me to say, "wow!")
Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning.
A poignant letter to the New England Journal of Medicine should serve to focus our attention on the less sensational but more important component of Obamacare.
Since Myspace (the prior repository of my poetry, kept separate from my political stuff thereby) has gone all ferkacht, before I forget them I am porting my posts from there to here.
THIS I BELIEVE
I believe in suppressing inflammation, any time and any place it might arise in the body.
Every so often an especially cool co-ed chooses to enroll at my alma mater, which always gives me a frisson of satisfaction coupled with chagrin that I graduated too early.
Such flashes of pride serve to assuage the residual trauma attendant upon finding myself in the stands at a football game vs. Yale, when those rude Yalies uncorked a chant:"What's the color of shit? Brown"
Post conviction relief based upon inadequate assistance of counsel is notoriously hard to achieve.
Appellate atrocities abound: Lawyers who were observed to sleep during large stretches of the trial have been found adequate, at least at the initial level of review.
Likewise lawyers confirmed to have been drunk.
What I am saying is that a successful appeal based on lousy lawyering is an uphill fight.
