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CHRISTINA A. SNYDER, District Judge.
On September 30, 2011, plaintiff Kimberly Grant ("plaintiff") filed the instant
On January 2, 2012, defendants filed a motion for summary judgment. On January 13, 2012, plaintiff filed her opposition, and on January 23, 2012, defendants filed their reply. After carefully considering the arguments set forth by both parties, the Court finds and concludes as follows.
On September 20, 2008, plaintiff was sued by Unifund CCR in Los Angeles County Superior Court for collection of unpaid credit card debt (the "state court action"). Def. Request for Judicial Notice ("RJN") Exh. A. Because plaintiff never responded to the complaint, the Superior Court granted Unifund CCR's request for entry of default judgment, finding plaintiff liable to Unifund CCR in the amount of $2,513.13. Id. Exh. E. Unifund CCR executed a Writ of Execution issued on February 23, 2009, to secure the funds owed from plaintiff's bank account. Id. Exh. F. On October 5, 2011, more than three years after default had been entered, plaintiff filed a motion to vacate the judgment, claiming she had never been served with the complaint. Id. Exh. G. The Los Angeles County Superior Court denied the motion on November 9, 2011. Id. Exh. H.
Prior to filing the motion to vacate in the state court action, plaintiff filed the instant putative class action in this Court on September 30, 2011. Dkt. No. 1. The gravamen of plaintiff's complaint is that Unifund CCR "files hundreds of lawsuits across the country each month ... without effectuating proper service of the summons and complaint," constituting violations of the FDCPA, abuse of process, conversion, and violation of California's UCL. Compl. ¶¶ 17, 20.
As to the FDCPA, plaintiff avers that defendants "used unfair or unconscionable means ... to collect or attempt to collect alleged debts" because they "failed to communicate notice about the alleged debt before filing lawsuits, filed lawsuits ... without effectuating proper service in order to obtain default judgment, and used false and fraudulent `robo-signed' declarations and/or affidavits to support the collection of alleged debts...." Id. ¶ 60. Plaintiff alleges that defendants' use of the declarations of Kim Kenney and Bobby Carnes in connection with default judgments "constitutes a false communication to the Court because it represents that the declarants... personally signed the declaration and have personal knowledge about the facts contained therein." Id. ¶ 62. According to plaintiff, defendants' conduct violates sections 1692e(8), 1692e(10), and 1692f of the FDCPA. Id. ¶¶ 62, 63, 66. Defendants' alleged FDCPA violations form the basis for plaintiff's UCL claim. Id. ¶¶ 96, 98.
As to abuse of process and conversion, plaintiff alleges that she was never served with the summons and complaint in connection with the state court action and that defendants wrongfully converted her monetary funds when they executed the Writ of Execution to garnish her bank account. Id. ¶¶ 80, 88.
Summary judgment is appropriate where "there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a). The moving party bears the initial burden of identifying relevant portions of the record that demonstrate
If the moving party meets its initial burden, the opposing party must then set out specific facts showing a genuine issue for trial in order to defeat the motion. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 250, 106 S.Ct. 2505, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986); see also Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c), (e). The nonmoving party must not simply rely on the pleadings and must do more than make "conclusory allegations [in] an affidavit." Lujan v. Nat'l Wildlife Fed'n, 497 U.S. 871, 888, 110 S.Ct. 3177, 111 L.Ed.2d 695 (1990); see also Celotex, 477 U.S. at 324, 106 S.Ct. 2548. Summary judgment must be granted for the moving party if the nonmoving party "fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial." Id. at 322, 106 S.Ct. 2548; see also Abromson v. Am. Pac. Corp., 114 F.3d 898, 902 (9th Cir. 1997).
In light of the facts presented by the nonmoving party, along with any undisputed facts, the Court must decide whether the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. See T.W. Elec. Serv., Inc. v. Pac. Elec. Contractors Ass'n, 809 F.2d 626, 631 & n. 3 (9th Cir.1987). When deciding a motion for summary judgment, "the inferences to be drawn from the underlying facts ... must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion." Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 587, 106 S.Ct. 1348, 89 L.Ed.2d 538 (1986) (citation omitted); Valley Nat'l Bank of Ariz. v. A.E. Rouse & Co., 121 F.3d 1332, 1335 (9th Cir.1997). Summary judgment for the moving party is proper when a rational trier of fact would not be able to find for the nonmoving party on the claims at issue. See Matsushita, 475 U.S. at 587, 106 S.Ct. 1348.
Defendants argue that this action must be dismissed because the Court lacks jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in light of the Los Angeles County Superior Court's prior rulings. Mot. at 5-10 (citing Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413, 44 S.Ct. 149, 68 L.Ed. 362 (1923); Dist. of Columbia Ct. of App. v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462, 103 S.Ct. 1303, 75 L.Ed.2d 206 (1983)). Alternatively, defendants argue the claims are barred by collateral estoppel and California's litigation privilege. Id. at 10-14. Defendants also argue that plaintiff's FDCPA claim fails as a matter of law. Id. at 14. Finally, defendants contend that "to the extent [plaintiff] alleges any claims against Unifund [Corp.] they fail for the same reasons stated above." Id. at 15 (alterations omitted).
In opposition, plaintiff argues that a recent Supreme Court case "disapproved of application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine outside the specific facts of those cases and overruled all of defendants' cited caselaw," rendering the doctrine inapplicable here. Opp'n at 3, 5-8 (alterations omitted) (citing Skinner v. Switzer, ___ U.S. ___, 131 S.Ct. 1289, 179 L.Ed.2d 233 (2011)). Further, plaintiff asserts that neither collateral estoppel nor the litigation privilege bars her claims under California law. Id. at 8-11. Finally, plaintiff contends that the Court "should deny defendants' motion with respect to plaintiff's [FDCPA] claim and claim against Unifund Corp. or, alternatively, afford plaintiff time for discovery on those claims." Id. at 13-14 (alterations omitted).
A. Application of the
Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to This Case
The Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies to "cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced and inviting district court review and rejection of those judgments." Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Indus. Corp., 544 U.S. 280, 283, 125 S.Ct. 1517, 161 L.Ed.2d 454 (2005). "The purpose of the doctrine is to protect state judgments from collateral federal attack. Because district courts lack power to hear direct appeals from state court decisions, they must decline jurisdiction whenever they are `in essence being called upon to review the state court decision.'" Doe & Assocs. Law Offices v. Napolitano, 252 F.3d 1026, 1030 (9th Cir. 2001) (quoting Feldman, 460 U.S. at 482 n. 16, 103 S.Ct. 1303). The doctrine applies "not only to claims that were actually raised before the state court, but also to claims that are inextricably intertwined with state court determinations." Kelley v. Med-1 Solutions, LLC, 548 F.3d 600, 603 (7th Cir.2008). Claims are "inextricably intertwined" with a state court decision if "the adjudication of the federal claims would undercut the state ruling or require the district court to interpret the application of state laws or procedural rules...." Reusser v. Wachovia Bank, N.A., 525 F.3d 855, 859 (9th Cir.2008). See also Napolitano, 252 F.3d at 1030 ("Where the district court must hold that the state court was wrong in order to find in favor of the plaintiff, the issues presented to both courts are inextricably intertwined.").
Although plaintiff argues that this Court must decide the merits of her claims because the Los Angeles County Superior Court set forth no reasoning in denying her motion to vacate the entry of default judgment, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prevents litigants from collaterally attacking a state court judgment "no matter how erroneous or unconstitutional the state court judgment may be." Med-1 Solutions, 548 F.3d at 603. Here, in entering default against plaintiff in 2008, the Los Angeles County Superior Court expressly found that plaintiff was served with a copy of the summons and complaint in that action. See Def. RJN Exh. E at 1.a ("Defendant was properly served with a copy of the summons and complaint."); and Exh. I (state court docket entry dated 10/20/2008 entitled "proof of service of summons & complaint"). Three years later, it denied plaintiff's motion to vacate the judgment, and plaintiff did not appeal.
The only question remaining is whether this jurisdictional bar extends to each of plaintiff's claims. The complaint contains four repeated allegations of Unifund CCR's wrongful conduct: (1) that plaintiff was never served with the summons and complaint in the state court action (Compl. ¶¶ 30, 43(d), 61-64, 66, 73-74, 76, 79-80, 98); (2) that plaintiff does not owe the debt at issue in the state court action (id. ¶¶ 71, 86); (3) that Unifund CCR improperly garnished her money (id. ¶¶ 72, 79, 85, 87-89); and (4) that the Kenney Affidavit submitted in support of the request for default judgment was "false and fraudulent" (id. ¶¶ 22-23, 60-66, 75, 79-80, 97-98). Were the Court to rule that Unifund CCR committed any of those alleged wrongs, it "would undercut the state ruling" that plaintiff was in fact served with a copy of the summons and complaint, owed the debt to Unifund CCR, and authorized Unifund CCR to execute a Writ of Execution. Reusser, 525 F.3d at 859; Bryant, 681 F.Supp.2d at 1208.
Accordingly, pursuant to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the Court cannot entertain any claims premised on those alleged wrongs.
The only allegation outside the scope of the state court action is that defendants "did not give [p]laintiff proper written notice
B. Plaintiff's Claim Under Section 1692g(a) of the FDCPA
Section 1692g(a) of the FDCPA requires debt collectors to notify consumers, in writing, of the following:
15 U.S.C. § 1692g(a).
Under Ninth Circuit law, a § 1692g(a) notice must be "sent" to the consumer by the collector, but the collector "need not establish actual receipt by the debtor." Mahon v. Credit Bureau of Placer Cnty., Inc., 171 F.3d 1197, 1201 (9th Cir.1999) (granting summary judgment for debt collector even though debtors testified that they had no memory of receiving the notice). To overcome the presumption of mailing and receipt, a debtor must prove "by clear and convincing evidence that the mailing was not, in fact, accomplished." In re Bucknum, 951 F.2d 204, 207 (9th Cir.1991).
Defendants argue that "Unifund CCR did send the notice required by section 1692g in its initial demand letter to [plaintiff], dated May 29, 2008, four months prior to filing" the state court action. Mot. at 14 (emphasis in original) (citing Declaration of Autumn Hopkins ("Hopkins Decl.") ¶ 3, Exh. B). According to defendants, the letter was mailed to plaintiff's address and "was
In opposition, plaintiff argues that the Hopkins Declaration is "insufficient to establish proper and legally sufficient mailing" because defendants have not explained "how the correspondence was sent or [] describe the business practices for handling of the correspondence." Opp'n at 13 (relying on Beuter v. Canyon State Prof'l Servs., Inc., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12281, *13 (D.Ariz. June 13, 2005)). Plaintiff requests that the Court grant her additional time to conduct discovery if it is inclined to grant summary judgment as to this claim. Id. at 14-15.
The Court finds that Unifund CCR complied with § 1692g. The Ninth Circuit requires only that a debt collector provide testimony that a letter was sent and not returned as undeliverable. Mahon, 171 F.3d at 1201. Here, defendants have offered
Accordingly, plaintiff's claim for violation of the FDCPA § 1692g(a) fails as a matter of law.
C. Plaintiff's Request for a Continuance to Conduct Further Discovery
In her opposition, plaintiff requests that if the Court grants summary judgment as to the FDCPA § 1692g(a) claim, it should also grant her additional time to conduct discovery pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(d). Opp'n at 14-15. Plaintiff notes that the case was filed relatively recently, on September 30, 2011, and that the parties conducted their Rule 26 conference less than two months ago on December 21, 2011. Id. at 15. Plaintiff thus contends that she "has not had the opportunity to conduct any discovery regarding" her § 1692g(a) claim. Id.
Defendants counter that plaintiff "has not met her burden under Rule 56(d) of proving `by affidavit or declaration that, for specified reasons, [she] cannot present facts essential to justify [her] opposition.'" Reply at 10 (emphasis omitted) (citing Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(d)).
Plaintiff's request for a continuance is therefore DENIED.
In accordance with the foregoing, defendants' motion for summary judgment is GRANTED.
Exxon is also inapposite. In Exxon, the Supreme Court held that "[w]hen there is parallel state and federal litigation, Rooker-Feldman is not triggered simply by the entry of judgment in state court." Exxon, 544 U.S. at 292, 125 S.Ct. 1517 (emphasis added). It did not abolish the doctrine in all instances that a state court enters default judgment. Here, there was no parallel state and federal litigation. To the contrary, plaintiff filed the complaint in this Court after judgment was entered against her years ago in the state court action.
Hopkins Decl. ¶ 3, Exh. B.
This disclosure is precisely what § 1692g(a) requires. Cf. 15 U.S.C. § 1692g(a).


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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 02:28 AM
Flying Squirrel (3,037 posts)
Why do we all of a sudden care about the drones?
There were a few lone voices crying in the wilderness over the last few years. All of a sudden, NOW we care that innocent (but, unfortunately, foreign-born and brown) children are being killed in our name by unmanned drones.
What changed?
Well, I think the main thing that changed was that, with the revelation of the 'white paper' and its intentionally vague definitions, it suddenly became real for many of us that someday WE could become the targets.
Sad.. but unfortunately true, and I won't plead innocence for myself either.
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Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 02:43 AM
MrSlayer (22,143 posts)
1. I still don't really care.
They're ruthless yes but efficient. Certainly better than sending in ground troops or carpetbombing.
I don't envision a scenario where I or anyone here becomes a target. None of us are terrorists or are overseas colluding and cahooting with terrorists. I really think that whole thing is overblown. If you get yourself into a situation where you are regarded as a threat to the nation as that asshole al-Awaki was, you're asking to be droned.
I predict that none of us ever get droned. Not a single one of us, ever.
Response to MrSlayer (Reply #1)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:01 AM
Flying Squirrel (3,037 posts)
4. Nice prediction, but unfortunately it's already been disproved.
If, by "one of us," you mean U.S. Citizens who were not terrorists, and were not overseas "colluding and cahooting with terrorists." Al-Awaki's son was not colluding or "cahooting" with his father, (show me some evidence to the contrary), and was killed in a separate drone strike for reasons to which we are still not privy. I would argue that as a fellow U.S. Citizen he is therefore "one of us."
However, in the likely event that you disagree with that, your prediction is still quite sophomoric. Once again, it's "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about." That doesn't fly for those of us with just a little more foresight and healthy skepticism regarding the good intentions of our government officials.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We would do well to remember this. It's why the founding fathers created a system of checks and balances in the first place.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #4)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 05:37 AM
Matariki (18,775 posts)
16. And jezus, have it dismissed with he should have had a far more responsible father
Had someone in the Bush administration said that, we'd be beside ourselves with rage for weeks.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #4)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 06:04 AM
MrSlayer (22,143 posts)
17. Right, he was apple pie and hot dogs.
The kid wasn't the target but he was in close enough proximity to the target to share in the misery. This wasn't some regular goofy high school kid trekking off to fucking Yemen of all places on spring break or something, he was there with purpose.
This was the son of an al-Qaeda leader spending time in terrorist central with very bad people. He's 16, it's October and Captain America is supposed to be in a Denver high school and yet he's being droned in Yemen while standing next to an Egyptian al-Qaeda top dog. Why do you suppose that is? I'm going to guess they weren't discussing the NFL or their latest D&D characters but suppose they were. Why is he there at all?
The truly regrettable thing is that he found himself in that situation. And I would commit the ultimate liberal sacrilege and ask where his mother was in all this but we know the answer. Neutralized in every way by the ludicrous fundamentalist nonsense practiced by her husband is most likely, if the asshole was ever there at all.
Just how does a red blooded, all-American patriotic boy next door like this end up blown up halfway around the world?
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Response to MrSlayer (Reply #17)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:58 AM
JaneyVee (19,877 posts)
38. His son wasn't the target. Therefore that makes him an innocent bystander; collateral damage.
Which kind of proves the point on both sides of the debate. One, he wasn't the target, so therefore the US in reality wasn't targeting an innocent American to kill, OTOH he was killed so it proves that drones do in fact kill innocent civilians as well.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #4)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:51 AM
Recursion (50,978 posts)
31. I think he meant "people who are not in Yemen at an Al Qaeda camp"
rather than "US Citizens"
Response to MrSlayer (Reply #1)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:33 AM
Angry Dragon (30,147 posts)
10. .............
Response to Angry Dragon (Reply #10)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 06:18 AM
MrSlayer (22,143 posts)
19. I like your DU monicker.
Blumpkin or Cleveland Steamer would have been amusing as well.
Response to MrSlayer (Reply #1)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:55 AM
DeSwiss (27,137 posts)
12. Video game wars are ''certainly better,'' huh?
Except the players don't get any extra lives in this game.
Dead is dead. It's REAL. It's kids and babies.
Dead terrorists and their wives, their children, their fathers with their gnarled hands from years of back-breaking labor and their mothers shod in hot burqas and filled with terror for their children's lives.
Killed for the audacious act of attending the funerals of the relatives we've already droned.
And yet without the filthy, stinking horror of war and death possible on all sides, there's absolutely no reason to ever stop this.
Push-button war is war without sacrifice on both sides.
It's not war in any true sense of the meaning of that word.
It's not war when the dead didn't know they were in a war and didn't even have a gun.
Their crime was being too close.
Killing with drones is like shooting fish in a barrel.
I predict that if we don't stop this insanity NOW, you probably will be droned.
- Fortunately, you'll probably never realize what's happened......
They thought they were free.
Response to DeSwiss (Reply #12)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 06:13 AM
MrSlayer (22,143 posts)
18. I never said it was noble or honorable.
Just that it was efficient and better than randomly bombing or putting our elite troops in suicide situations.
Response to MrSlayer (Reply #1)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:43 AM
Romulox (25,960 posts)
28. Any chance we could stop waging our Foreverwar, instead? Your choice seems to be in *how* we kill.
Is it "naive" of me to think that a cessation of hostilities in places like Yemen (where we are not now, nor have we ever been at "war" might be possible?
Response to Romulox (Reply #28)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 06:01 PM
MrSlayer (22,143 posts)
42. I doubt it.
As long as al-Qaeda people continue to congregate and plot there, we're going to keep killing them there. I guess it's more or less up to them.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 02:47 AM
Fire Walk With Me (38,893 posts)
2. Yep. The government has taken steps outside of the Constitution and the social contract
as well.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 02:51 AM
graham4anything (11,464 posts)
3. Drones are the most humane form of human warfare-Richard Clarke
liberals loved Richard Clarke after 9-11
hypocritical to not love him after his remark last month.
If only there were drones in older times,(like 2 weeks before Hitler gave his first order to arrest or kill), then truly it could be sung
"What a wonderful, wonderful world it could be"
Quentin Tarentino instead of making fake history so he can make tens of millions of dollars, could have made a quick short instead of that rewriting of history he did in Inglorious Bastards.
QT could have had in the first minute of a short movie, had a drone drop on Hitler as he was alone in his garden, 2 weeks before assembling his council and barking orders.
Would anyone in the world not been better off?
20 million lives would have been saved.
That is the drone argument in a nutshell.
Those that would not have wanted that event, let us know.
As I am Jewish, and was directly affected in my family by the holocaust, I for one would have cheered that.
How bout everyone else?
Pleae note-this is a general answer, not to any specific poster and just my opinion.
and NO, I don't see how "we" could become the targets if "we" are not doing terroristic stuff.
Sheesh, it took ten years to painstakingly track down OBL, and that was no spur of the moment decision. And they didn't even use drones on him did they?
All that worry, for nothing. IMHO
Response to graham4anything (Reply #3)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:05 AM
Scootaloo (25,699 posts)
5. "hypocritical to not love him after his remark last month. "
Well, that's just a stupid argument. I was unaware that if I agree with someone on one thing, then I must have to agree with them on everything.
Response to Scootaloo (Reply #5)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:08 AM
graham4anything (11,464 posts)
6. If Richard Clarke says one thing and Repub. Rep. Peter King the other
I would pick Richard Clarke's opinion.
If Richard Clarke and Rep. King agreed on something, then it must be doubly true, because it must be something King isn't going to waste his own capital one saying elsewise.
Whereas Clarke has nothing to gain or lose so he would tell the truth to start off with.
Response to graham4anything (Reply #3)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:22 AM
Flying Squirrel (3,037 posts)
9. You haven't been paying close enough attention
to the things our Government now considers to be acts of terror, or sympathizing with terrorists. They're redefining the word "terrorism" ever more vaguely, to justify their actions. If you don't agree that our government is being taken over by corporate interests, you REALLY aren't paying attention. If you do agree, then you shouldn't have much trouble connecting the dots: If Government = Corporations, that's a little thing called FASCISM. Capital letters. And if I want to do something which those corporations find threatening to their consolidation of power within the Government, (such as, perhaps, organize a protest group), then they might just call me a domestic terrorist - and if I get too strong, (and perhaps hole up somewhere after repeated police brutality and other civil rights violations), yes, I just might be looking at a drone strike. My God, man, open your eyes. This is happening, and people much less sane than I are stockpiling weapons in preparation for the final showdown they believe is coming. I don't agree with them - yet - and I'm not stockpiling weapons - yet - but I can see things headed that way. Saner heads need to prevail here, and soon, before this really does spin out of control.
Oh.. also, this is not a legitimate war like WWII. Congress has to declare war, remember? Can we really declare war on a concept? If so, when will that war be over? Have you read 1984? Do you realize the effects of perpetual war upon the citizens of a country? It makes good people such as you and me numb to the atrocities being committed on our behalf.
Response to graham4anything (Reply #3)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:55 PM
daleo (21,317 posts)
44. What if Hitler had the drones?
And took out the British cabinet in 1939.
Response to daleo (Reply #44)
Sat Feb 9, 2013, 05:52 AM
graham4anything (11,464 posts)
47. Hitler had the drones of his day and used them to kill 20 million people
whereas had one well placed drone gotten hitler two weeks before he came up with his
master plan (and Hitler was the man with the plan, no one else with him was diddley in importance, he was the whole shebang, one mad man leader, without him there was no 20 million dead, none of the others would have been elected leader in the first place, and as seen, once Hitler died it ended. And has never in large numbers come back
Though Jorg Haider actually was elected (and stunningly charismatic, hunklike and handsome, whereas could Hitler have ever been said to be handsome and hunk like?) and who knows what horrors would have happened had he not been a drinker and drunk driver on the autobahn.
Good for his car. The world was saved from having to know what the hell might have happened to Austria and the world in the years since.Thankfully no one else was hurt in that reckless accident.
I for one would rather have Una than Jorg any day of the year.
Response to graham4anything (Reply #47)
Sat Feb 9, 2013, 05:44 PM
daleo (21,317 posts)
48. The point is, assassination as a matter of public policy can work for and against you
It's easy to agree with drone strikes when you monopolize the technology. But in time, others will acquire it too. Then, cheering drone warfare isn't so easy.
Look at nuclear weapons fear a precedent.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:10 AM
fadedrose (10,044 posts)
7. When drones come to SNL, it's time to stop laughing...
I posted this in a "drones" poll last week, will copy part of it:
"On SNL last week, a replay, they showed a cartoon of drones blowing up a building, farm, whatever, and they demolished it. Then a little sheep managed to come out, the drones returned and fired at the poor sheep till it was pulvarized - and this was SNL. Frightening but educational.."
I was shocked that it had gone that far.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:17 AM
blkmusclmachine (16,149 posts)
8. I think they always intended to expand it to the United States.
Probably under a "Democrat," too. Go check out Operation Northwoods.
Response to blkmusclmachine (Reply #8)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:36 AM
Angry Dragon (30,147 posts)
11. Read on DU
30,000 drones authorized to be used in US
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:37 AM
Journeyman (12,328 posts)
13. I've expressed dismay at drones from the very first attack, when the tall Arab recycler was killed
Do you remember the madness of the Tall Arab recycler?
He was killed by a Predator drone in Afghanistan back during the day when the US government was marginally interested in events in that sad country. They were sure he was Usama bin Laden, but he turned out to be just some poor schlub collecting scrap metal who had the genetic misfortune to be tall. So based on satellite/spy plane imagery that showed a "tall Arab" in the vicinity, the military killed a slew of guys whose crime was recycling.
So no, I've been incensed by remote slaughter for a very long time, and fears for my personal safety play no part in my anger. If we are determined to wage war, then let us wage it face to face, see the horror we engender, and recognize ourselves for the part in which we play.
The Nation: A Brief History of Drones (February 27, 2012)
Response to Journeyman (Reply #13)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:42 AM
Flying Squirrel (3,037 posts)
14. I salute you, Sir...
I, unfortunately, have been so numbed by all the killing going on in my name that I had just stopped really caring. I am quite ashamed of myself.
Response to Journeyman (Reply #13)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:58 AM
Solly Mack (68,175 posts)
37. I remember that.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:57 AM
JDPriestly (57,936 posts)
15. Actually when I read the Patriot Act, must have been around 2001 shortly after 9/11, I was
sitting with a group of people discussing it, and I said that I thought that the definition of terrorist and terrorism was too vague, too broad, and would encompass a lot of acts. It's arbitrary. A terrorist could be anyone we don't agree with or it could really be someone who is placing a bomb in some public place or it could be some kid verging on schizophrenia who gets talked into doing something stupid by a government agent. It's way to unclear what kinds of actual acts define terrorism and what kinds of conspiracies are terrorist. I don't see how that law can be enforced fairly, maybe even at all.
And this whole drone thing, the way it is applied, the idea that a small group of people, albeit well educated, albeit "experts," decide the life or death of a person far away in some remote are of the world or even here in the US is inconsistent with our national commitment to human rights.
And yet I know that terrorism whatever it really is threatens the peace in the world.
I don't have ready answers for this problem, but the drones used in the way they apparently are now being used is not it. Too arbitrary. Too much opportunity for the abuse of a power that should only belong to God, not to terrorists or a small group in our government who have no oversight from any independent judicial body or any international body.
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 07:05 AM
sendero (28,552 posts)
20. Drone or just about anything and everything......
... that has been done in the "war on terror" since 2001 has created more terrorists than it has eliminated.
It's the collateral damage. When you kill a lot of innocent people it pisses their survivors off. It's not a difficult concept, and what we have done and continue to do guarantees the terror issue will never go away.
Response to sendero (Reply #20)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:25 AM
2on2u (1,843 posts)
22. Mob security. n/t
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:24 AM
2on2u (1,843 posts)
21. Cuz they took the white filter off the lens. n/t
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:38 AM
LWolf (46,019 posts)
23. I care about the violence
regardless of the tool, and I always have.
Response to LWolf (Reply #23)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:45 AM
randome (34,845 posts)
29. Strange. That's something we can ALL agree on but so few mention it.
Response to randome (Reply #29)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:06 PM
LWolf (46,019 posts)
43. People get caught up in
what someone else tells them is the topic of the day.
I care more about causes than symptoms.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:41 AM
FSogol (34,165 posts)
24. Because the 2014 mid terms are approaching and the Repubs want to keep as many Democrats from voting
as possible? See 2010 the mid term election.
Response to FSogol (Reply #24)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 11:09 AM
Autumn (30,029 posts)
39. If anything I would think this issue would get more Dem's out to vote
and pay attention to what they are voting for. To stay at home and let people who are the ones who have pushed for this to gain a bigger foothold would be stupid.
Response to Autumn (Reply #39)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 11:18 AM
FSogol (34,165 posts)
40. Democrats stayed home in 2010. Some want the same thing to happen in 2014. n/t
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:57 AM
reformist2 (9,841 posts)
25. OP is sooo right! When I read that Senator Corker (R) was questioning drones...
... it made me suspicious. Why? Turns out, yep, he's worried about the US getting a taste of its own "medicine"!
Corker stressed that the U.S. needs to be mindful that a day will come very soon when other countries have the technology to carry out their own unmanned aerial vehicle strikes. Washington should adopt a system of rules now that could set an example, he said.
But I shouldn't be surprised, really. Repugs never defend those whose human rights are being violated, unless there's a danger that THEIR rights might be violated. They think like selfish children.
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:02 AM
Democracyinkind (4,015 posts)
26. Actually, I was a fan of drones when we started in October 2002.
it seemed like the one thing that Bush got right.
Then came - "signature strikes" and "double dip" attacks; and I've turned to a vehement critic of this idioitic program.
I oppose this policy. Whatever party proposes it, I oppose it. There must be a better way.
Response to Democracyinkind (Reply #26)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:45 AM
Romulox (25,960 posts)
30. It's like bellbottoms; war is fashionable, again! nt
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 11:40 AM
sylvi (813 posts)
41. Yep
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:52 AM
Recursion (50,978 posts)
32. Drones are a distraction. Replace the word with "infantry assault".
The exact same issues apply. If you're a US Citizen in an Al Qaeda training camp, your position may be assaulted by US Infantry. Exact same legal issue, but DUers freak out less.
Response to Recursion (Reply #32)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:54 AM
Romulox (25,960 posts)
33. Nonsense. An "infantry assault" wouldn't be possible in Yemen, e.g., or on American soil. nt
Response to Romulox (Reply #33)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:55 AM
Recursion (50,978 posts)
34. Drone strikes aren't authorized on American soil either
That, at least, was specifically laid out (you did read the memo, right?)
Response to Recursion (Reply #34)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:58 AM
Romulox (25,960 posts)
36. So what? The President could change his mind, since he claims "unitary" power to enact this policy.
edit: Change his mind WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, too.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 10:56 AM
slackmaster (60,567 posts)
35. I'm also wondering how people could find something called a "drone" to be interesting at all
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 11:34 PM
Zax2me (2,515 posts)
45. All of a sudden? There were times bush use of drones ate up the forum.
No different now.
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 11:38 PM
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(CBS) DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. - A Georgia teen accused of killing his great-grandmother with a sword was sentenced to life with parole on Wednesday after pleading guilty but mentally ill, CBS Atlanta reports.
The 16-year-old Gevin Prince was charged with malice murder and four counts of aggravated assault in the fatal stabbing of Mary Joan Gibbs, 77, with a samurai sword. Investigators said Prince killed her after she told him to stop playing video games on Aug. 15, 2011.
Police said Prince also stabbed his grandmother, Laura Prince, 55, during the violent attack, the station reports.
Laura Prince spoke in court before the judge accepted her grandson's plea.
"I lost my mother in this horrible thing. My arm was broken, I was stabbed in the shoulder and I'm losing my only grandchild to the courts," Laura Prince said.
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Spectagraphs, are used by a Weyland Personnel and features in the film Prometheus. They are used on the Alien Gods planet and in the Derelict.
A Spectagraph is a analyser and scanner, this next-generation device, used by Weyland geologists and engineers, surveys unknown planetary terrain in the pre-terraforming process. An omni-directional laser live-maps 3D topography and sends the detailed scanned images to the viewing platform.
A new hyper-conducting spherical shell allows smooth, self-propelled flight in any atmosphere. Polymer film bio-sensors can detect airborne toxins and life forms down to 500 nanometers.
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A Spectagraphs are in use in the film Prometheus.
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Appearances in the following;
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Prometheus (film)
The Spectagraphs are used by Fifield on the crew's first journey into the Alien Temple. He sets off 4 of them, and once released they automate and scan the environment, in minutes data from the spectagraphs' showed that in the Temple the air was breathable and that there were no airbourne pathogens. With this data the crew took off their spacesuit helmets and continued without them. As they waited the spectagraphs mapped the Temple's interior allowing this information to be displayed on a Holotab Display Unit, displaying the complexes tunnels and rooms and if there was any forms of life. With the information the crew travelled further and found the dead Terraformers and the Terraformer's Biomask which they took back for analysis.
The Spectagraphs themselves continued scanning through the night and into the next day. Later that night they discovered a life reading, this signal David followed the next day.
Aliens: Fire and Stone
From the film Prometheus and appearing in the comics Aliens: Fire and Stone are the spectagraphs used by the crew. Derrick from Hadley's Hope colony on LV426 snares one with a makeshift net and unlocks the data held inside about Prometheus' mission in 2093.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Spectagraphs appear on the Derelict in the level Derelict Reclaimed and in the tunnel system under the Derelict in the level Stasis Interrupted. They continue scanning the Derelict but are not used or controlled by marines. These also suggest that they were from the crew of Prometheus but the crew landed on LV223 in the film and these are used by Weyland-Yutani personnel.
Prometheus (film)
The spectagraphs are equipped with laser emitters as their detector analysation array which appear from the units that scan the interior of the Temple.
Spectagraphs were referred to as 'pups' in concept art which was later carried through to the film, Fifield also referred to them this way as he released them. These were originally designed to roll along the floor but Ridley Scott liked the idea of having them hover as they scanned the structure of the Temple.
Four spectagraphs were used in the film and produced on set by the props crew, in filming as Fifield releases them they are replace by CGI and appear several times as the group are in the Temple. The spectagraphs themselves are monitored via Prometheus' bridge holo display which tracks their location through the night also displaying their location of the team.
Trevor Woods team constructed a rig that rotated as it got pulled along made from lasers but as this conflicted with shutter speed and exposure was dropped and five or six flashlights with red filters were used instead.
Fuel VFX generated the spectagraphs and the laser effects, as on screen props didn't produce any lights. Lidar scans refined in zbrush were used by effects lead Romain Buignet and layout supervisor Bern Stock who projected animated laser beams around the flying probes both with two scanners, one spun all the way around and two shone ahead in random directions. Smoke and water effects were added in post production so the laser light could be seen.
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Cultural Internship
Many students describe the cultural internship as one of the highlights of Japan Study. Students spend a month during the February/March winter break living with a host family (or in a comparable setting) and experiencing the local community through an unpaid internship or volunteer experience with local institutions in a rural or urban location outside of the Tokyo area. Recent internships have included assisting educators in a rural community in Shimane Prefecture, working in local government in Osaka, experiencing life in a Buddhist temple, apprenticing at a pottery studio, assisting in a residence-care facility for the elderly, and working as a member of a student crew at a ski lodge in the Nagano area, site of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
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One of Japan's premier universities, Waseda University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in Tokyo, Japan. The founding of Waseda University dates back to the year 1882, when Shigenobu Okuma, one of Japan's foremost statesmen, founded Tokyo Semmon Gakko, the predecessor of the present University. As a result of increasing academic prestige and expanding student enrollment, the institution acquired the status of university in 1902, and its name was changed to Waseda University. There are fourteen undergraduate schools offering courses leading to Bachelor's degrees; twenty-four graduate schools for Master's and Doctor's degrees; numerous research institutes and other affiliated institutions.
Students take classes in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University including intensive language instruction and content courses across the curriculum taught in English. Japan Study students take classes with students from Japan and around the world.
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During the academic year, students live with a family in Tokyo and commute to Waseda every day. Through this experience, students learn about Japanese society by immersion in the most basic social grouping in any culture, the family. Students improve their language skills, discuss current events, participate in holiday gatherings, and enjoy everyday activities with their host families. The home stay participation in Japanese family life is an integral part of the experience abroad. Families furnish breakfast and dinner, and students typically have private rooms.
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Weekend retreats and other opportunities to meet Waseda students who spend a year on GLCA/ACM campuses through Japan Study. Japan Study and Waseda organize inexpensive and free trips to cultural, recreational, and industrial sites in and around Tokyo, as well as retreats with Waseda students.
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Recipe by Jedley
Who says sophisticated hors d'oeuvres have to be complicated? This pate takes about 15 minutes to prepare, yet has the flavor of centuries of Old World tradition. Can be made several days ahead of time.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 lb chicken liver
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons brandy (or bourbon)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- thyme
- marjoram
- sage
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- Cook onion and garlic in 1 tbsp of the butter until soft.
- Add chicken livers, herbs, salt and pepper and cook until livers are pink inside.
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They won't even be happy then! I think the people who complain will complain regardless of what goes down, simply because they don't know how to exist in any other fashion.
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Stops the audio processing thread.
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The 50's fashion was greatly influenced by World War 2. New more advanced technologies required more moveable, and work clothing. At first Christian Dior tried to recreate the sense of luxury that existed before the war. Dresses and skirts with many layers and bedazzled tops. However the new fashion did not last long. After Dior's attempt at bringing back 40's and 30's fashion didn't go so well designers including Lanvin-Castillo decided to throw the fashion even father back. The "sack" or "chemise" dress was a loose top with a belt fitted around the waist, and a hem going to the calf was from the 20's. Portraying a slightly more laid back idea of expense and luxury. The problem with the sack dress as with many clothes is that it looked wonderful on tall skinny models, but not so on the average house wife of the time. In the 50's a strong need for elegance was introduced producing in mens' fashion narrower pants, tighter fitting waistcoats with color introduced in accents. But then the young men decided to explore the color of clothes a little more, blue, purple, maroon could be seen in the dancing halls. Hair for men which was grown fairly long was greased and brushed back. For women and teen girls in America pony-tail hairdo's with bright colorful ribbon was popular.And the classic pin curls. As well as calf length skirts that covered layers of stiff petticoats to give it a full look. Colors were big in the 50's.
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YOGI BERRA was also a famous baseball player from the 50's. He played almost his entire nineteen year baseball career with the New York Yankees.
Every one has probably seen a photo of a girl on roller skates in a poddle skirt, holding a tray with a favorite past-time meal on it. Well it's true. Diners in the 50's would hire girls to roller skate costumers meals to them. Often sporting dangerously short skirts or shorts and colorful patterns. Although it wasn't really regarded as a sport then I like to think roller skating is a sport.
Classic Pop, R&B, Rock and Roll, Blues, Country Music, and JazzProbably one of the biggest names in music not only in the 50's but also since then is Elvis Presley. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer/songwriter and actor. He is sometimes referred to as the "king of rock" or more simply put "the king".
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May 2015/ How to Find a Sense of Place, No Matter Where You Are
Friday, May 22, 2015
Over the past few years I've learned a lot about how the great rivers shaped the places we see today. I am reminded of this powerful passage from a great book I came across this while doing research for programs with the Upper Mississippi National Fish and Wildlife Refuge:
"The land was so wild it was essentially impassable; anyone who didn't go by the river didn't go at all. In effect, the river served as its own map. A voyageur who needed to consult it had only to climb the nearest hill. There the route was unfolded, in all its blue-misted splendor: the great dragon tail of the river uncoiling through forested valleys and across the tallgrass prairies and into the vast shrouded swamps, glittering with ten thousand sunflecks, blurred by drifts of drizzle, blazing with reflected herds of brilliant cumulus, on and on toward the horizon. As far as the eye could see, the river was the only road." Lee Sandlin, "Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild."
How to Find a Sense of Place, No Matter Where You Are
This was a recent talk title. I included these three tips:
1. See the Layers: Why does this town look like this? What are the layers of time and history here? Learn about the natural, native, immigrant, industry, transportation developments that shaped a place. (This is a lifelong learning, you'll never stop once you start!)
2. Be Curious about Road Names: Why is it called that? This will give you alot of clues to where you are and what was there before you.
3.Find Your Own Stories: What do you feel, see, think and wonder in this place? What is an experience you have had here? Your own feelings and stories shape your sense of a place. You don't need to know anything to have a meaningful connection with a place, but whatever you learn can only enrich that connection.
Together, all of this will help you make "sense" of a place, and perhaps start a whole train of thought that can lead to a story, essay or song. Who knows?! Try these tips where you live, or wherever you go.
"Living in one of the most magnificent landscapes in the world and I pride myself on the many ways that I appreciate and value this gift of place. Often my attempts to capture the wonder of what I see on film barely begin to do it justice. But when Erica Wheeler comes to town, her passion to give voice to this land and to stretch our hearts wide open is beyond inspiring. I believe we all come away craving an even deeper relationship with, and a renewed passion for our wilderness home." Laurie Shepherd Brown, Certified Life Coach and Integrative Health Consultant, Jackson, WY
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