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WELCOME to my world, Sharon.
Nothing exciting happens? Nothing exciting has happened to me since 1974.
I know, the pair of us sound like a couple of teenagers whining that there's nothing for us to do, but really there isn't.
Unless you grab the bull by the horns that is.
So, I had a look online at some of the stuff they suggest you can fill your spare time with when you are a certain age and I'm struck by the fact that most of the stuff they are promoting seems to be based on the average 20-year-old's idea of what my generation like to do.
Parks, museums, cruises and tea dances. I'm from the gener-ation that embraced the 70s' wild excesses and you want me to get excited about a tea dance?
There's also a patronising attitude about it all that drives me up the wall. Have you noticed that advertising aimed at the over 50s has a condescending tone?
Why do they feel the need to talk to us as if we are a bit daft?
It always seems to be Lynda Bellingham, Hannah Gordon or that bloke who used to be in Doctor in the House.
Mind you, I might not have much excitement in my life but I felt better when I read that Sharon gets a lift from Pancake Day.
Pancake Day? Sorry but if eating pancakes is one of the highlights of your year, you need help.
Valentine's Day has always been a non-starter for me. I never got a card when I was at school and it was years before I discovered that my two pals, who always got big ones, only got them because their Maws sent them. No wonder I grew up to be cynical.
As for Easter, unless you celebrate its religious significance, I don't see the point. Mind you, I'd pay money to see Sharon do what she claims she can do with a Cream Egg.
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British actor, author and comedian Stephen Fry came on a brief visit to Israel over the weekend to promote his new film Bright Young Things that is being screened as part of the British Film Festival.
British actor, author and comedian Stephen Fry came on a brief visit to Israel over the weekend to promote his new film Bright Young Things that is being screened as part of the British Film Festival.
Fry, 46, directed the film and wrote the script based on Evelyn Waugh's book Vile Bodies, set in the 1930's.
This is the story of a group of famous young people, living in a frantic jazz-fevered whirl of endless costume parties, treasure hunts, sports-car races and other hedonistic pursuits (alcohol, drugs etc.).
Fry introduced his film in the Jerusalem Cinematheque last night beginning with some pleasantries in Hebrew, with an impressive accent. He then switched to English, saying that these were the only words he knows in Hebrew, except the most important, and with this he took a long pause, "glida" - ice cream.
He said that working on and directing this film had given him more pleasure "than any other activity except those involving a water-based lubricant."
Fry, who in many ways is part of our contemporary "celebrity" culture, said in Tel Aviv on Friday: "We flatter ourselves - flatter is not the word, we condemn ourselves - that this is the age of celebrity culture. But it started so long ago, in the day when Lord Beaverbrook, himself a Canadian, was for 10 years the most powerful man in the world by the power he had over the political establishment of the British empire. These bright young things - this being a cliche of the popular press - were the first generation of party animals simply because they were celebrities. For the first few years it was simply fun. They didn't know the price to be paid."
Indeed, one of the film's protagonists, a socialite and gossip columnist, commits suicide while another character goes mad.
"You kind of hope that when you show people a slice of history or in that case a kind of contemporary life, they will see the parallels in the celebrity culture and be fascinated by it. And this is the knowledge that our culture is not something we have invented but has grown like a polyp on a coral and the coral is a living thing."
Fry has family in Israel. In England he is considered an institution and now hosts the comic show QI (Quite Interesting) in addition to his prolific career as writer and actor. Since the publication of his autobiography "Moab Is My Washpot" (from Psalms 60) in 1997, in which he describes growing up as a Jew and a homosexual in a boy's boarding school in England, he has been living as a declared gay with his partner. Fry, who enjoys considerable popularity in the mainstream of British establishment, commented in an interview that he holds an unusual record - the most times (17) anyone has said the word "fuck" in the shortest time (1.5 minutes) on the BBC.
Fry is leaving Israel today. Bright Young Things, which was screened in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem cinematheques last night, will be screened in Haifa's Cinematheque today, tomorrow in Rosh Pina and on Wednesday in the Sderot Cinematheque.
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In Going AWOL and heading North … see you on December 27th we said goodbye and were looking forward to our vacation. Well, we are now looking back at a phenomenal vacation we did in memory of our late son Alexander and here are a few pictures that show a fraction of the beauty of the region and our great excursions …
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We enjoyed the nature, long walks in unspoilt nature, snow, snow and more snow, –38 degrees Celsius … which for South-Africans can be a bit nippy, and had a phenomenal dog mushing day.
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orribile, orrendo(light)to be ghastly pale o to have a ghastly pallor
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Upon entering the restaurant, we were suprised to see they tout vegan cuisine on their sign as it seems out of place with a German-Austrian theme. The choices on the menu were interesting with many options for a vegan or vegetarian. I chose the Vegan Goulash Entree, even though I am more a vegetarian. We sat outside in the biergarten and savored the delightful evening under the stars. My partner, tried the Roesti pancakes with sour cream and apples and Vegan "wiener schnitzel". Yum! I never tried anything Germanish before and now I'm a fan. We didn't try the desserts, however they looked amazing at the table next to us. Valentin was our server and made us feel right at home.
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18 FLRA No. 52 GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D.C. Respondent and AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO Charging Party Case No. 9-CA-40239 DECISION AND ORDER This matter is before the Authority pursuant to the Regional Director's "Order Transferring Case to the Federal Labor Relations Authority" in accordance with section 2429.1(a) of the Authority's Rules and Regulations. Upon consideration of the entire record in this case, including the parties' stipulation of facts, accompanying exhibits, and the parties' contentions, the Authority finds: The complaint alleges that the Respondent, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C. violated section 7116(a)(1), (5) and (8) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (the Statute) by failing to comply with an arbitration award rendered on July 11, 1983, and a make-whole award issued on October 21, 1983 by Arbitrator Philip Kienast, pursuant to a grievance filed under the terms of the negotiated grievance procedure to a grievance filed under the terms of the negotiated grievance procedure between the Respondent and the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE). Arbitrator Kienast's award dealt with the Respondent's refusal to compensate Janet Hayden, a Union representative at Respondent's Auburn, Washington facility, for 37.5 hours of work she performed typing grievances on behalf of the AFGE. The arbitrator ruled that the Respondent violated Articles 3, 6 and 34 of the parties' National agreement by denying official time to Hayden for such activity. He ordered Respondent to cease from instructing its supervisors to deny official time to Hayden for the typing of grievances and ordered Respondent to make Hayden whole for any time she had spent typing such grievances. The award further provided that if the parties were unable to agree on an appropriate make-whole remedy within thirty days, the arbitrator would decide the remedy. On October 21, 1983, after being informed by the parties that they were unable to reach agreement, Arbitrator Kienast issued his make-whole award which required that Hayden be compensated at the appropriate hourly rate for 37.5 hours worked typing grievances. The Respondent filed its exception to Arbitrator Kienast's award with the Authority in General Services Administration and American Federation of Government Employees, Council 236, Case No. 0-AR-670, on November 18, 1983. On April 6, 1984, the Authority issued its Decision therein denying Respondent's exception. /1/ Since April 6, 1984, and continuing to date, Respondent has failed and refused to make any compensation to Janet Hayden for the hours she devoted to typing grievances in accordance with the award of Arbitrator Kienast. In United States Marshals Service, 13 FLRA 351 (1983), appeal docketed, No. 83-7963 (9th Cir. Dec. 30, 1983), the Authority concluded that where an agency has filed timely exceptions to the arbitrator's award pursuant to section 7122(a) of the Statute, /2/ and the Authority has denied the exceptions, the agency must implement such award and a subsequent failure or refusal to do so constitutes a violation of section 7116(a)(1) and (8) of the Statute. /3/ In so concluding, the Authority adopted the Judge's finding that: The provisions of section 7122 of the Statute assure that the arbitrator's award will culminate in a final and binding status. Thus, the Statute provides rather elaborate procedures to assure a peaceful final and binding resolution of disputes. To hold that one may abrogate with immunity the clear obligation which follow from the statutory design would be ludicrous indeed, especially where the Statute itself in section 7116(a)(8) specifically declares failure or refusal to comply with any provision of the Statute to be an unfair labor practice. In the present case, the Respondent filed timely exceptions to the arbitrator's award, which exception was denied by the Authority. Yet the Respondent has failed and refused to implement the arbitrator's award. Accordingly, based on the rationale in United States Marshals Service, the Authority finds that the Respondent violated section 7116(a)(1) and (8) of the Statute by its failure to comply with Arbitrator Kienast's October 21, 1983 award. /4/ ORDER Pursuant to section 2423.29 of the Federal Labor Relations Authority's Rules and Regulations and section 7118 of the Statute, it is hereby ordered that the General Services Administration, Washington, D.C. shall: 1. Cease and desist from: (a) Failing and refusing to implement Arbitrator Philip Kienast's October 21, 1983 arbitration award by failing to provide employee Janet Hayden with 37.5 hours of straight time pay found to be the appropriate hourly rate as provided for in the award. (b) In any like or related manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing its employees in the exercise of their rights assured by the Statute. 2. Take the following affirmative action in order to effectuate the purposes and policies of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute: (a) Comply with Arbitrator Philip Kienast's October 21, 1983 arbitration award by providing employee Janet Hayden with 37.5 hours of straight time pay as provided for in the award. (b) Post at its Auburn, Washington facility copies of the attached Notice on forms to be furnished by the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Upon receipt of such forms, they shall be signed by the Regional Director of General Services Administration Region 10, or his designee, and shall be posted and maintained for 60 consecutive days thereafter, in conspicuous places, including all bulletin boards and other places where notices to employees are customarily posted. Reasonable steps shall be taken to insure that such Notices are not altered, defaced, or covered by any other material. (c) Pursuant to section 2423.30 of the Federal Labor Relations Authority's Rules and Regulations, notify the Regional Director, Region IX, Federal Labor Relations Authority, in writing, within 30 days from the date of this Order, as to what steps have been taken to comply herewith. Issued, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1985 Henry B. Frazier III, Acting Chairman William J. McGinnis, Jr., Member FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES PURSUANT TO A DECISION AND ORDER OF THE FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY AND IN ORDER TO EFFECTUATE THE POLICIES OF CHAPTER 71 OF TITLE 5 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE FEDERAL SERVICE LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS WE HEREBY NOTIFY OUR EMPLOYEES THAT: WE WILL NOT fail and refuse to implement Arbitrator Philip Kienast's October 21, 1983 arbitration award by failing to provide employe


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The worst internet comment I've ever read is the one above saying "is the customer happy".
Ya know.....most customers are happy even when the work is terrible. They don't always know any better to not be happy.
In business, you do not do something and wait until you get a complaint. That's not how it works. A good business owner will take steps to make sure they don't give the customer an opportunity to complain.
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Hedwig L. Spanihel
June 4, 2004
HALLETTSVILLE - Hedwig L. Spanihel, 83, of Hallettsville, died Thursday,
June 3, 2004.
She was born Aug. 12, 1920, in Lavaca County, to the late John C. and Julie
Kutach Mican. She was a member of Catholic Daughters, KJZT, and Sacred Heart
Church, Hallettsville.
Survivors: daughter, Delores "Jeannie" Sommer of Hallettsville; sisters,
Leona Ziegler and Alice Brown, both of Hallettsville, and Rosie Butler of
Columbus; brother, Leon Mican of Ashtabula, Ohio; two grandsons; and three
Preceded in death by: husband, Hubert O. Spanihel; sisters, Helen Cervenka
and Mary Pustejovsky; and brothers, Adolph Mican, Frank Mican, Victor Mican,
and Willie Mican.
Visitation will begin 2 p.m. Sunday at Kubena Funeral Home chapel.
A rosary will be recited 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home chapel and 9:30
a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Church.
Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at the church, the Rev. John Peters
Burial will be at Sacred Heart Cemetery. Kubena Funeral Home, Hallettsville,
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All through May, Times Square billboards to display Andy Warhol video footage from the 60s
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Kindra Cooper.
The artist whose name is linked inextricably to screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and the Campbell's soup can also had a fruitful career in feature films, producing Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Chelsea Girls. As part of the Midnight Moments series, Times Square will run screen tests by Andy Warhol on its billboards to replace its million-dollar neon advertising—for a fleeting three minutes a day, anyway.
SHoP Architects' twisting skyscraper in Miami includes two acres of glowing digital billboards
Monday, April 27, 2015
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Even in a city like Miami, this twisting, LED-emblazoned tower seems a bit over the top. The curious 633-foot structure, called the Miami Innovation Tower, is the work of SHoP Architects, a firm known for adventurous designs, from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to skinny supertall skyscrapers in Manhattan. But even with that reputation, this one takes us by surprise.
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects Bends Billboards On The Sunset Strip
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Sam Lubell.
Are you an architect seeking a growth sector? How about billboards? A trailblazing firm in this field is Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA), who recently designed a new 68-foot-tall sign at Sunset and La Cienega on the Sunset Strip for the City of West Hollywood and Ace Advertising. Instead of the usual featureless, boxy armature, LOHA has designed a blue, wishbone-shaped, steel structure that one could even call (gasp) sexy.
What is your favorite billboard?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sam Lubell.
With the LA City Council banning multi-story supergraphics, digital billboards and some freeway signs last week (thanks Curbed, as always for the juicy details), we've suddently gotten nostalgic for these building-sized ads. So we thought we'd put together (ok, it was just me) some of our favorite mega-billboards from recent times, including the most ridiculous, of course. We encourage you to post your own favorite billboards here. C'mon people, let's find some good ones! Here are some of our faves (oh, and check out our next issue to read about how the billboard ban will affect architects): Read More
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sam Lubell.
Today AIA/LA's Director of Government & Public Affairs, Will Wright, testified to LA's planning commission regarding a revised sign ordinance controlling the erection of billboards in the city. A moratorium on all new signs was passed by LA's city council in December, while the city's original sign ordinance—considered by many to be ineffective— was passed in 1986. Wright requested that the commission delay a vote and consider a revised ordinance "until comprehensive visual analysis of the proposed regulations is completed." A vote on the revised ordinance is expected in the next few weeks. Read More
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Time for a space scene!
USS Discovery 3?
wonderful! Wish it as a bit larger for my desktop wallpaper, but in any case, really like this 2001 homage
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Great work. Thank you so much for sharing!
Great work. Thank you so much for sharing!
It's space! Outer space! Looks like a Star Destroyer behind that moon...
whats the other structure behind him? is it more of the space station or something? why is it so dark?
Very nice composition.
Incredible job!
Reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Is that intentional?
Either way, it's damn good.
Either way, it's damn good.
This is amazing. Great atmosphere
I really does have a strong nostalgia factor. Reminds me of the 70's "What Will Life Be Like in the Future" science books I used to read. I like the color scheme, too.
Fantastic, love the atmosphere, almost a retro feel to it (like 2001 a space Oddesey).
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This is amazing. Great atmosphere. I would love to see a sci-fi graphic novel illustrated in this style.
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KAREN KIRSCH, LMHCA works extensively with children particularly in the areas of depression, anxiety, adoption trauma, sexual abuse, and relationship issues. She has worked in a variety of settings including overseas within an orphanage and has developed a deep passion for counseling children and adoptive families. Karen strives to build relational trust both with her young clients and the parents who refer them to therapy.
In working with children, I utilize a psychodynamic modality of treatment, including play therapy, as the primary way of purposefully engaging your child to discover and understand more about the cause of their current difficulties. I typically provide a treatment plan for the parent/s that details what it is I am doing and why. I also believe it is incredibly important in working with children to include the parent/s as often as possible and include that in the treatment plan. If your child is struggling in a way that is confusing to you and causing you distress, it may be helpful to discuss further and find out if your child could benefit from meeting with me.
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Our soups never did arrive. When our dinner came, they brought me the pasta but also included the veggies and potatoes. I promptly informed the lady that brought it out but she did nothing about it. The food was good and had no complaints on the food. The problem was when the bill came. They charged an extra $7 for a very small bowl of angel hair pasta in a garlic olive oil coating!! A) this was not how I ordered my dinner and B) there was no mention of an additional charge, much less a ridiculous charge of $7 for a small bowl of pasta! In addition, do not ask for extra bread as they charge an additional $2.95 for a couple of slices of bread and again, that was not disclosed. When something was said to Raymond, he did take off half the charge for the pasta but in my opinion, that was not enough since the extra fees were not disclosed up front! I travel a lot and eat out a lot and no restaurant like this has ever charged when bringing bread like that! It was a surprise for sure!
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Observed Trials7/19/2014 4:20:27 PM PermalinkThat would sort of defeat the purpose of the cooldown on the throwing knives. Besides, at later levels of the Gunslinger focus, you can have more than one throwing knife, and even get your knife back instantaneously if you manage a precision kill with one.
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Just because you have faith in something other than a higher power(well, hopefully) doesnt mean you have to spread your slanderous blasphemy. I dont appreciate the way you have now attached a generalized title to the Christians, and other children of god (individuals that have CHoSeN where they would like their faith to be placed in).
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As for the "christian right" comments, I think it unfair to single out. I have seen the same droning coming from the "Atheist left".......
Originally posted by LoneGunMan
It is not only not the same but every thread that has a slight political bend (...) Most of these zombies seem to be the hard Christian right that have ruined almost everything in our country and let the corporations do what they want since the 80's. They are like a plague in our nation and now they are infecting ATS.
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Originally posted by gimme_some_truth
I am betting the new rules implemented today that are against exactly what you have issue with... ( I agree) will do a great good on cutting back on a lot of that.
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Yours is no exception lol. But I still agree with you. Politics should stay in the politics section.
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The alternative is we all become 'Stepford Wives'.
Most of these zombies seem to be the hard Christian right
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Most of these zombies seem to be the hard Christian right
Thanks for a perfect example of what I'm getting sick of.
Name calling and pigeon holing.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle...
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Update on Sarah JeanSarah Jean is studying for a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, at Stella Maris College. She has four siblings, and they help in their parents' business, especially on weekends, to earn more income for the family. She used her previous loan from GDMPC to buy school materials and books for the last semester.
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About GDMPCGata Daku Multi-Purpose Cooperative (GDMPC) was founded in 1992 by 32 farmer-members to empower people by providing livelihood opportunities and other support services. Today, it has over 15,000 members located in upland, lowland and coastal regions of the Philippines, and offers credit, savings, education, and various social services.
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We can't publish all (or even most) of the announcements like this that we receive. But since we give those Harvard Law School kids such a hard time, airing lots of their dirty laundry, we figure we might as well do something nice for them for a change. We pass along this announcement, on behalf […]
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Four women who worked for a private cosmetics contractor, Makeup Art Cosmetics, in a Belk department store in our hometown of Athens, Georgia have each won six-figure verdicts this week after being watched undressing by security guards using a hidden camera in the stockroom of the store. Store managers installed a hidden camera in a […]
Judicial Reports, State Judges
Judicial Reports thinks they might. From the article: As the State Legislature slouched toward adjournment late Thursday with no breakthrough on the issue of pay raises for judges, an infuriated judiciary began to contemplate an escalation in the salary wars. For many that might mean new or expanded litigation. Some are even whispering "strike." New […]
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Good news for clerks with offers from Debevoise & Plimpton: the bonus is no longer flat. Debevoise is joining the $70K Club for two-year clerks. The announcement email appears after the jump.
How to Avoid the Seven Pitfalls of Current Ediscovery Software
he litigation discovery process has never been as costly, complex and critical as it is today. With the experience of having reviewed nearly 100 million documents since 2014, Thomson Reuters and its Legal Managed Services team have identified the seven pitfalls most frequently experienced with current ediscovery solutions and what legal professionals should look out for when considering their ediscovery needs.
National Pay Raise Watch: Portland
To wrap up the week, we stay in the West and move up the coast to Portland, Oregon. Portland is the nation's 23rd largest city, and probably the greenest one. We hear the quality of life is pretty good, but what about the money? This comes from a February New York Times article: Holland & […]
* Tax evaders enclosed in hilltop compound…seriously. [CNN] * McNulty tweaks, defends prior testimony. [NYT] * Congress to scrutinize Cheney's treatment of classified docs? [MSNBC] * When Skadden gives you lemonade, drink Skadden's lemonade. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Extra slanty. [The Onion] * Have you seen this lake? [CNN] * Crazy murder trial in Nevada. [Reno Gazette-Journal] * Shuttle landing postponed; will be made up as part of doubleheader later in the year. [New York Times]
National Pay Raise Watch: Perkins Coie to $160k in California
Perkins Coie is raising to market in California, with a catch. To get the raise, associates must 1) be "on pace" of 1900 hours; and 2) have "no outstanding timesheet penalties." The memo's after the jump.
In his dissent today from a order denying rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Ziegler, Kozinski basically calls the rest of the panel morons, or at least hack magicians. The best part is this paragraph: By plucking consent out of its judicial top hat, when neither party has argued it and […]
Eyes of the Law, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Eyes of the Law: Ginsburg's Little Kicks
This one's a vicarious "Eyes of the Law" through a source in New York. According to the source: "Since we're getting close to the end of the Supreme Court's Term, people might be wondering: Are we going to see any retirements this year? Will Justice John Paul Stevens finally pack it in? Or what about […]
Lawyer of the Day: Former Senator Looking for Love
Dean Barkley, fomer U.S. Senator from Minnesota (Nov. 2002-Jan. 2003) as a member of the then Minnesota Reform Party (he was appointed by Gov. Jesse Ventura after the death of Paul Wellstone in a plane crash), is apparently looking for love online. Here is his profile from Match.com. Girls, don't worry about getting hurt, because […]
More Squabbling from the Tellabs Opinion
We missed this separate benchscuffle from the Tellabs opinion in our haste to look at all three earlier, but Scalia and Stevens, the lone dissenter, went at it as well. Stevens told Scalia that he was "clearly wrong", and Scalia responded with "it's you who is 'mistaken'". Steven then said "nun uh", and Scalia said, […]
Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, SCOTUS
Scalia Gets Snarky Over Scienter Standard
At issue in the SCOTUS's decision today in Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd.[SCOTUSblogvia How Appealing] was the definition of the term "strong inference", and therefore what the standard is for determining whether a plaintiff has met the pleading requirements as to scienter in a securities fraud case. Some mildly saucy benchslaps insued. […]


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Hometown: Missoula, MT
Home country: USA
Current location: Deep in Red State Hell!
Member since: 2001
Number of posts: 5,165
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Godless democratic socialist, look towards northern Europe for inspiration on what role-models our economy should aspire towards. Love the ACLU and donate heavily to them each year, wish they'd get with the program and defend the Second Amendment with as much fervor as they do the rest of the Bill of Rights. Proud member of the 99%.
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United Airlines... Punks!
So I'm sitting here in my hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia, trying to print my boarding passes so I don't have to mess around with checking in at the ticket counter in a few hours -- I want to be able to just head straight to my gate without having to trek clear across the entire fucking airport.
Turns out the pieces of shit just completed their merger with Continental Airlines, so their whole user database just got converted, so my old MileagePlus frequent flier number no longer works. (This must have happened within the past 5 days, because everything worked fine on Wednesday.)
While I can still access my United account via e-mail, I need access to a printer to print off the boarding passes. Only place I can do that is at the hotel's business center, but they have a bunch of questionable software installed on it, I don't trust that no spyware or keyloggers aren't installed on there, so I don't feel comfortable logging into my e-mail from there.
So I called their toll-free customer service number to find out what my new user name is and I've been on hold for over 15 minutes due to "higher than expected call volume over the past few days." Due to the merger, no doubt. These dumb-asses obviously didn't think this thing through very well. It's the same story whenever one big corporation gets bought out by another -- customer service goes straight to hell.
CORPORATE BASTARDS!! Some day I will own my own plane so I don't have to put up with this bullshit every time I want to fly somewhere.
Posted by LAGC | Mon Mar 26, 2012, 09:42 AM (9 replies)
Even if Trayvon Martin Did Beat Down George Zimmerman, He Shouldn't Have Been Shot
Bottom line for me is, even if Zimmerman really did get beat down by the kid, he should have just taken his lumps and accepted the ass-whoopin' for stalking the kid in the first place. If I were a 17-year-old being followed by some strange older man, especially one of a different race, I'd be wary as fuck and tempted to confront him myself.
You can't blame the kid for getting physical with him, when this self-appointed vigilante decided to play hero and take the law into his own hands. I mean, if the dude had just stayed in his car and the kid had pulled him out and started wailing on him that would be one thing, but it sounds like this creep flat-out stalked the kid and moved in on him, escalating the situation unnecessarily and provoking the beat-down, then escalating it even further by drawing his gun and shooting the kid.
It's really hard to claim self-defense when you go out of your way to look for trouble. CCW permits don't automatically make you a deputy of the law. They are only for defending yourself if trouble finds YOU. Not the other way around.
He really should have been arrested at least for voluntary manslaughter and forced to post bail. Can't really blame the black community for feeling slighted when, if the roles were reversed, you know damn straight the black kid would have been arrested and tried as an adult.
A real sad situation, all the way around.
Posted by LAGC | Sun Mar 25, 2012, 10:40 PM (42 replies)
LEGALIZE MARINARA! (Some Pics from Today's Reason Rally on the National Mall)
Just got back from the rally today, and what a rally it was!
Never before have so many atheists gathered in one place to promote secular values. We were really tempting God's fate, as He sent some rain our way, but no one got struck by lightning, so I guess He decided not to smite us heathens after all.
They said during the peak of the rally around 1pm that the park service said that our numbers eclipsed Glenn Beck's rally a couple years ago, but I'd have to see the aerial shot to believe that. (As our rally took place on the EAST side of the Washington Monument, not the west side near the Lincoln memorial along the reflecting pools.)
It was mostly apolitical, trying to cast a wide umbrella over all non-believer/skeptic groups, but they did have a couple conservative speakers like Penn Gillette (of Penn and Teller fame) and of course a couple outspoken liberals like Bill Maher. But over-all, the message was mostly positive, uniting all non-believers regardless of political leanings, in support of separation of church and state and science over superstition.
Here are some pics:
This is the empty rally grounds an hour before the event officially started, you can see the Washington Monument in the background.
Here you can see people beginning to fill in near the staging area. We were able to stake out a pretty close spot.
Around a quarter till 10 o'clock, it started getting crowded.
Darth Vader says: "I Find Your Lack of Faith Refreshing"
2:30p was about the peak of the rally, we were all sandwiched in real good, endless crowds in every direction.
People, people everywhere.
There were lots of great signs, but my shitty cell-phone camera couldn't zoom in, so I missed some good shots.
After around 3pm the crowd started to thin out, but the merchandise tents were packed when we checked them out around 4:30p.
We ended up leaving by 5pm to beat the crowds jamming the Metro (subway), the only thing we missed was the band Bad Religion jamming it out, but I saw pretty much all I wanted to see, namely Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers.
It was great!
Posted by LAGC | Sat Mar 24, 2012, 09:02 PM (5 replies)
WTF?! Jury Duty!
I just got summoned for Federal jury duty next month (first time I've ever been called to serve), and after I got online and submitted my questionnaire electronically, I spent the next hour following links reading up on what is to be expected of me.
So I started reading the Jury Handbook and stumbled across this gem, under the sub-section "The Jurors' Solemn Oath":
After the voir dire is completed, the jurors selected to try the case will be sworn in. The judge or clerk will state to the jury: "Members of the Jury, you will rise, hold up your right hands, and be sworn to try this case."
The jurors then rise and hold up their right hands. The jurors face the judge or the clerk who is to administer the oath. That official slowly, solemnly, and clearly repeats the oath. The jurors indicate by their responses and upraised hands that they take this solemn oath.
Jurors not wishing to take an oath may request to affirm instead of swear. In some districts the jury is sworn upon the Bible and not by uplifted hand.
WTF?! Are there really still any jurisdictions that really require you to swear your oath on a BIBLE? I mean, its the 21st Century not the 19th anymore! How is this not a blatant violation of separation of church and state? I mean, MAYBE, in certain parts of the Deep South I could see it, but even then, why hasn't the Department of Justice put its foot down and brought this practice to an end already? There really should be just one uniform standard for all Federal courts, and it should NOT involve bringing anyone's religious paraphernalia into it. I mean, do they have Korans and Bhagavad Gītās in stock just in case a non-Christian dare affront the courtroom with their presence? Or do they just embarrass and publicly shame them when they politely refuse to place their hand on that particular Book of Atrocities and Genocides?
Kind of reminds me of the only time I attended a local city council meeting 10 years ago and they opened with a sectarian Christian prayer. Completely caught me off-guard. I believe they finally ended the practice with much complaining by the Christ-in-Your-Face crowd, but I can't believe its still happening in FEDERAL courts of all places!
Have any of you been in a situation where you were "asked" to place your hand on a Bible in order to somehow prove you are trustworthy and honest?
I just can't believe it.
Posted by LAGC | Fri Mar 9, 2012, 03:30 PM (10 replies)
Colorado Courts Continue to Protect Felons Rights to Keep and Bear Arms
As I noted last Fall, Colorado courts have treated the Colorado Constitutions right to keep and bear arms provision as substantially protecting felons rights to keep guns for self-defense an approach quite different from that used by the U.S. Supreme Court in interpreting the Second Amendment, or by other states courts interpreting those states constitutions. Todays State v. Carbajal (Colo. Ct. App. Mar. 1, 2012) reaffirms that. An excerpt:
In 1876, the new State of Colorado adopted a constitution that included a provision in its bill of rights establishing a right to keep and bear arms in defense of ones home, person, and property:
The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called into question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.
Colo. Const. art. II, § 13 (section 13) (emphasis added). This provision has never been amended.
Really, if a convict is deemed safe enough to be released from prison, he/she really ought to have all rights of citizenship back, including being able to vote, serve on jury duty, and yes, even RKBA.
It shouldn't be a long, hard process to get all your civil rights restored like it is now in many states. Nothing tells an ex-con that he/she is unwelcome back in civil society than continuing to deny him/her their basic civil rights. If we want people to change and be productive members of society, we should treat them as full citizens, not second-class citizens their whole lives.
Posted by LAGC | Thu Mar 8, 2012, 10:12 AM (45 replies)
HAHAHA! Ted Nugent Just Endorsed Mittens!
Mitt Romney may finally be shaking a memory regarding gun control legislation that has haunted him since he was governor of Massachusetts by picking up a critical endorsement from hard-rocking pro-gun outdoorsman, author and gun rights icon Ted Nugent.
The Motor City Madman threw his considerable weight behind Romneys campaign Friday, hours after this column was tipped that the endorsement was imminent, during Thursday evenings Romney fund raiser at Bellevues Meydenbauer Center. This column discussed that gathering and the importance of sportsman and gun owner attendance at Saturdays Republican caucus gatherings.
Nugent issued a one-sentence comment:
After a long heart and soul conversation with Mitt Romney today, I concluded this good man will properly represent we the people (and) I endorsed him.Ted Nugent
Is it that surprising? Nugent and Romney both hail from Michigan. Romney was also recently endorsed by Rob Keck, who spent some time hunting with the former governor and presidential hopeful last fall in Montana.
Heads are going to freakin' EXPLODE over on FreeRepublic.com! They already turned on Ann Coulter months ago for endorsing Romney.
NUGE: What a total sell-out!
Now all we need is for the NRA to get behind Mitt Romney, and we'll know the wool has been completely pulled over everyone's eyes.
Mitt Romney is really no better than Obama on gun rights. Anyone who thinks he'll nominate pro-gun justices if elected is drinking the Kool-Aid.
This Republican primary season has just gone from crazy to bat-shit insane!
Posted by LAGC | Sat Mar 3, 2012, 11:43 AM (17 replies)
REJOICE! The Canadian long gun registry is DEAD!
Wednesday was the day the long-gun registry died. It was too intrusive, unfair and onerous of a burden on law-abiding Canadian firearms owners to continue to be imposed upon them.
There is another burden, as intrusive, unfair and onerous as the registry, to which the federal Conservatives must now turn. That burden is the minimum sentencing law on gun crimes, which was enacted four years ago. It's not working because, like the gun registry, it is unfairly catching in its wide net people who do not deserve to be entangled in the mesh.
This week, Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Malloy bravely threw down the gauntlet when she refused to sentence 27-year-old Leroy Smickle to the minimum three years in prison for the "crime" of posing for his own Facebook photo, alone in his apartment late at night in his underwear, holding a gun. Malloy, who gave Smickle a one-year sentence of house arrest as a sop to the law, said given the circumstances, sending him to the slammer for three years would be "unfair, outrageous, abhorrent and intolerable."
She's absolutely right, but she could have gone farther. She could have thrown the case out of court, as there was no reason for the police to charge Smickle with any crime. They burst in on him looking for his cousin, frightening Smickle so much that his laptop and pistol fell to the floor. True, he had been holding a restricted, loaded weapon, but he was endangering no one and wasn't actively engaged in committing any crime.
Good to see our neighbors to the north becoming more free...
Posted by LAGC | Thu Feb 16, 2012, 10:04 AM (13 replies)
I Shook Glenn Greenwald's Hand Tonight
The ACLU of Idaho threw its annual Bill of Rights Celebration dinner and auction tonight in downtown Boise. Glenn was the featured speaker. As an ACLU volunteer, I got to attend the event for free, but I bought a copy of his latest book (which he signed) proceeds of which he's donating to the ACLU of Idaho Foundation. The event was only advertised about a month in advance, but we sold about 130 tickets at $75/pop before tonight, and the remaining 20 seats sold out quickly at the door. We also raised approximately another $10K in silent auction items, plus several thousand more in donation pledges.
As for the speech, what can I say? He was great. He said right from the get-go that he wasn't going to re-hash all the ways the Obama Administration has followed in the foot-steps of the Bush Administration, because after 3 years it was so glaringly obvious, it wasn't even necessary to explain it anymore. Especially not to this crowd. Instead, he focused on the "war on terror" in general, and what it means for dissent in this country, and abroad. He pointed out that the dictionary definition of terrorism ("the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes") was used by our government against even those who simply disagreed with our foreign policies, yet REAL acts of terrorism (drone strikes against women, children, and U.S. citizens) for political purposes committed by this government are given a free pass. While its easy for Americans to excuse such terrorism committed by our own government, since after all its "One of THEM, not one of US" -- he pointed out that even though many of us may trust the current administration to not wantonly abuse such authority, what about future administrations down the road? What would a Michele Bachmann or a Sarah Palin administration do with such broad powers? To reach out and detain, even kill U.S. citizens, without so much as a trial or proving to the world the case against them, only because the government says they need to go?
He touched on Wikileaks, pointed out how when he put the call out for people to give Wikileaks financial support, so that they could have more resources to hire more people to vet all the leaked info they were receiving, he got dozens and dozens of concerned responses, all saying: "I really want to help, but I'm AFRAID of being put on a list! What if Wikileaks is eventually labeled a 'terrorist organization' by the U.S. government and everyone who gave money rounded up and charged with providing material support?" Indeed, many of us have been scared and intimidated into inaction, because of how broad these new government powers really are.
It was a powerful speech.
During the book signing afterward, I told him: "DemocraticUnderground.com says hi," then after telling him my name, added: "You have many fans and many haters," at which point he chuckled and said he's come across several links to this site and realizes how polarizing of a figure he is, but he appreciates the support. Later on, after almost everyone had left, I got him alone and asked him if he is still in regular contact with Julian Assange. He said he was. He added that he thought it was pretty likely that he would be extradited to Sweden to face those charges, but his spirit is holding up pretty well for the most part still. I thanked him for keeping everyone abreast of the situation with Assange, and reporting news that no one else seems to dare want to report. I ran into him again a third time as we both entered the elevators. He was going up (to his room, presumably -- the event took place in a hotel) and I was going down to my car. He said a final "Good night" and I responded "Yeah, take care."
Say what you will about him, but he's a really polite and likable guy. I can see why he gives Establishment Democrats such headaches, but he's really only doing what President Obama told us to do in the first place when we elected him: "If I ever stray, hold my feet to the fire." While I suspect most everyone in that room will probably end up voting for Obama in the end anyway, it won't be without much disappointment and regret. Disappointment that the Obama Administration is still prosecuting so many policies of the Bush Administration, and regret that our protests have fallen upon deaf ears. We really need more people like Glenn to open up more people's eyes and see how dangerous following in the foot-steps of Bush/Cheney really is, so that hopefully, during President Obama's second term, he is more receptive to civil libertarian concerns. Hopefully, once getting re-elected is no longer a concern, he'll finally listen to his base and act to change some of the worst holdover policies of the Bush Era. Because as Glenn pointed out: "The longer these pernicious policies stay in place, the harder its going to be to get rid of them later."
Glenn Greenwald is a true patriot and a scholar. I hope one day the Democratic Party finally listens to him and takes a firm stand in defense of the Bill of Rights, not because its necessarily popular, but because its necessarily right.
What an awesome night.
Posted by LAGC | Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:02 AM (19 replies)
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Several 2nd Amendment Cases
The Supreme Court late last month declined petition to take up more Second Amendment cases. A news release I received today from the Michel and Associates law firm (that does not seem available yet on its web site dedicated to gun law) explains what was at stake. It also discusses other Second Amendment cases that people have tried, and failed, to take all the way to the Supreme Court since 2008's Heller case created a brand-new landscape for weapons possesion law:
Williams v. State (Maryland)....asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the Second Amendment protects a right to carry or transport a registered handgun outside the home. Mr. Williams was appealing his conviction for possessing a handgun in public without the required state permit allowing him to do so.
United States v. Masciandaro...involved a man convicted of violating the federal prohibition on carrying or possessing a loaded weapon in vehicles in National Parks after he was found asleep in his vehicle with a loaded handgun in a national park. He sought review from the Supreme Court of whether that prohibition violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms; asking the high court, like the petitioner in Williams, whether the right extends beyond the home.
While you might think these decisions on the Court's part to not hear these Second Amendment cases means it's reluctant to reconsider the Amendment at all, that's not quite right:
Despite the of certiorari denials in all the aforementioned Second Amendment cases, the fact that the Supreme Court has been requesting responses in these cases shows the Justices are paying unusually close attention to the Second Amendment issue. Of the roughly 8,000 petitions for review filed with the Supreme Court every year, only in a few hundred cases does the Court request a response from the opposing party. When the Court requests a response brief, it is a strong sign that the Court is interested in hearing argument in that case. And, such a request increases the probability that the Court will grant oral argument by roughly 9 times, from 0.9% to 8.6%....
Wow. It almost sounds as if the SCOTUS is telling the government: you can't restrict guns inside the home, but you can restrict the hell out of guns in public. And so what if the government restricts guns to people based off of misdemeanor convictions? And tough luck on getting Heller and McDonald retroactively applied...
And some people think this is a "pro-gun" court.
Posted by LAGC | Fri Feb 10, 2012, 10:39 AM (25 replies)
Did Democrats Give Up in Gun Control Debate?
As The Timess Dalia Sussman noted on Tuesday, Americans have generally become more protective of gun ownership rights in recent years.
There are some exceptions to the rule for instance, according to the General Social Survey, conducted intermittently since 1972, the percentage of Americans who think permits should be required before a gun can be obtained has gradually risen (to 79 percent in 2008 from 72 percent in 1972). Background checks for gun owners are overwhelmingly popular, attracting the support of as many as 90 percent of Americans. And while most Americans say they do not want gun control regulations to become stricter, even fewer about 10 percent think they should be made more lax.
Still, the overall pattern is reasonably clear. According to Gallup surveys, for instance, the number of Americans favoring a ban on handguns has been on a long-term decline and is now about 30 percent, down almost 10 percentage points from a decade earlier:
It is perhaps not surprising, then, that support for gun control measures has declined in recent years, with one of the parties essentially having surrendered on the issue. Somewhere along the line perhaps between 2000 and 2004, when the rhetoric in their platform changed significantly Democrats concluded that the issue was a political loser for them and they stopped fighting back.
It may also be that gun control has became less a priority for the Democratic Partys key stakeholders. On one hand, major cities where Democratic voters and donors have long been concentrated became much safer during the decade of the 2000s, and so gun violence would have seemed a less immediate threat to an Upper East Side liberal in 2008 than it would have in 1988.
Pretty interesting analysis by Nate Silver there at the New York Times.
Lower crime rates have lead to less households owning guns, yet people are becoming more tolerant of guns in general.
Long before the McDonald or Heller decisions, the Democratic Party acknowledged individual right to keep and bear arms, which makes it harder to push for gun control now.
Posted by LAGC | Sun Feb 5, 2012, 03:22 PM (76 replies)


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Volume 51, Number 3, Summer 2009
pp. 505-512 | 10.1353/crt.0.0110
It is not surprising that the contemporary vogue for transnational and hemispheric American Studies in the last decade has coincided both with the militarization of national borders and a popular ideology of open frontiers for capital and ideas, if not for labor. The field of hemispheric studies reflects this functional dialectic. At its worst, the U.S.-based subfield recapitulates cosmopolitan ideals of Pan-American unity and cultural hybridization in an era of U.S.-dominated economic restructuring. At its best, however, the transnational optic can unsettle nationalist myths of cultural origins, progress, and development, and even point a way to alternative futures. As Susan Gilman has observed about "empire books"—the series of recent works on empire in U.S. culture—the posture of most works of transnational American Studies continues to be that of a revelation, of the unpaid debt of American culture to Latin American migrants, for example, or the latent hemispheric consciousness repressed by American exceptionalism, the battered but persistent antagonist of transnational Americanists. Nevertheless, many such authors recognize that there is nothing new, or even especially contemporary, about the "transnational," nor is there anything intrinsically radical or even liberatory about it. It has gone by other names, like internationalism, comparative literature, Pan-Africanism, and Pan-Americanism, and a hemispheric consciousness guided the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in 1898 as surely as it took New Leftists to a later revolutionary Cuba. Therefore, writing about transnational or hemispheric American Studies is inevitably a historiographical enterprise, since in revising American cultural history in terms of the transnational one inevitably ends up writing a history of the transnational idea. American transnationalism is as old and persistent as the exceptional notion of American culture.
Hemispheric American Studies, a volume edited by Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine with an impressive roster of historians and literary scholars, pursues many of the expansive possibilities of the hemispheric frame while engaging some of its theoretical problems and its complex historiography. The book is an excellent contribution to the field of American Studies and the debates over its internationalization. The editors' introduction advances a dialectical approach to nationalism and the hemispheric frame that focuses, they write, on "the complex ruptures that remain within but nonetheless constitute the national frame, while at the same time moving beyond the national frame to consider regions, areas, and diasporan affiliations that exist apart from or in conflicted relationships to the nation" (2). This approach does not disavow nationalism in favor of some ideal hemispherism, but emphasizes how these concepts and political postures are in fact mutually constituting. Matthew Guterl, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, and Jennifer Rae Greeson consider the hemispheric imaginaries of southern proslavery internationalists, Spanish magazine writers of early-twentieth-century New Orleans, and Reconstruction-era local-color writers, respectively.
Meanwhile, Ifeoma C. K. Nkwanko's essay, "The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism: Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito," engages the complex position of hemispherism in the case of a population that has historically been denied, and has fought hard to claim, the universality that nationality and nationalism can bring. Her essay on Delany's and Jones's novels
eschews the assumed oppositions between "real" (read national) African American literary studies and the "new" transnational approach, while illuminating the limits of hemispherist approaches modeled on now canonical concepts such as José Martí's "Our Euro-Indigenous America" (nuestra mestiza América).(189)
By putting pressure on the seeming novelty of transnationalism and on the cultural politics of hemispherism, this volume's essays combine both a careful historical approach with a critical skepticism that is refreshing and enlivening.
Where texts like Hemispheric American Studies seek to reframe U.S. cultural studies within a hemispheric history and historiography—and therefore dislodge the nation as a stable unit of analysis—Laura Lomas seeks to recover a practice of Latino anti-imperial critique that could inspire contemporary thinking. Lomas's book, Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities, is an often provocative text that manages to pull off a difficult feat: saying something new about Martí, the canonical Cuban poet-statesman whose long exile in the...
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