Month: July 2013

This is a perfect illustration of a problem I have tried to point out for years: Pandemonium erupted inside Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday after panicked spectators said they spotted bedbugs crawling up the neck of a man who was there to answer to a desk-appearance ticket. The sickening sight sent court observers scrambling out of…

I need more self discipline. I don’t keep track of news as I should. Perhaps I am too busy with other things, and perhaps the news just plain sucks too much. Perhaps I should grit my teeth and get up to speed on this Huma Weiner business. After all, a friend was kind enough to…

This is what a modern lynching looks like.  In the age of “three felonies a day,” setting up a tipline to try to generate a federal case for prosecution of the crime of… whatever…  just because you don’t like the verdict of a jury, is a gross violation of Zimmerman’s constitutional rights, particularly the 14th.  The thousands of death threats…

The fact that the plaintiff is a lawyer only makes this more ridiculous: A lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee filed a lawsuit against Apple, Inc. that blames the company for the dissolution of his marriage and the collapse of his mental health. According to CNet.com, Chris Sevier filed suit in Federal District Court earlier this summer…

These are the current Drudge headlines: ‘MODERN DAY LYNCHING’… SHARPTON PLANS PROTESTS IN 100 CITIES… Rally Shuts Down Major Intersection In Newark… Baltimore Witness: Group of Blacks Beat Hispanic Man, Yelling ‘This Is For Trayvon’… Zimmerman’s Parents in Hiding from ‘Enormous Amount of Death Threats’… Lawyer: Prosecutors ‘Disgrace to My Profession’… Oakland: Police Stood Down…

Spengler at Asia Times says: The will of a people that cannot feed itself has little weight. Egypt is a banana republic without the bananas. Go read the whole thing.

This local item irritated the hell out of me: As the recovery set in, I eagerly began growing my business once again. Unfortunately, just at this time, I was surprised and disappointed to learn that the 2010 health care bill specifically targets pizzerias with costly and nonsensical regulations. Section 4205 of the Patient Protection and Affordable…

President Obama says we should honor Trayvon Martin. OK I’m down with that. Here is Martin’s Twitter screen name. Suitably enlarged for a memorial.   No Limit Nigga   That would be the son the President never had. I hope the President is suitably honored as well. I guess I should mention lest the PC…

His lawyers discuss the aftermath: Especially look at the part that begins at about 3:05 where O’Mara excoriates the press. H/T Legal Insurrection

In a famous scene from “It’s a Gift,” the great comedian W.C. Fields attempts what was clearly and laughably impossible in the mid ’30s — but which today would be considered mandatory accommodations under the ADA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y189-69cQPs&feature=player_detailpage Yesterday’s comedy is today’s reality. Clearly, W.C. Fields was a prophet.

I liked this comment about the Zimmerman trial from Legal Insurrection. There is an irony in this travesty. The very prosecutors that withheld evidence, lied to the court, coached witnesses and prosecuted without evidence, also prosecute a number of young black men, some not much older than Martin. And in cheering them on, the black…

I like salt, but as I try to be a realist about my health, a couple of years ago, I asked my doctor (a cardiologist) whether salt in my diet is dangerous. Noting that I don’t have high blood pressure, he said it would be a waste of time for me to worry about it.…

H/T Zero Hedge

It’s all going to be Republicans’ fault. This administration just never stops politicking.  Their universe is defined by politics.  Politics raises the sun, politics moves the stars, by golly politics creates the quantum-mechanical Gamow window that allows stellar fusion to happen in the first place.  That’s why the IRS went teabagger hunting, State didn’t want…

I found a really good summation of the prostitution’s closing argument in the comments at Legal Insurrection. BDLR is Bernie De La Rionda the lead persecutor who gives the closing argument. GZ is George Zimmerman – the defendant. TM is Trayvon Martin – the deceased. Good was a witness to TM beating GZ. VetHusbandFather July…

A lot of people keep talking about the young libertarian who had the unbridled temerity to stand up to police who had pulled him over without cause and who searched his car. Earlier I linked this, but it’s gone viral on YouTube now, so here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WMn_zHCVo Frankly, that officer and his attitude would…

Here is some Rodney King history at the Wiki and the New York Times. I have been asking this question lately: Will Trayvon Martin rack up more or fewer dead than Rodney King? Rodney had 50 homicides in sympathy. There are some preliminary indications. Reports have come in from eye witnesses in Sanford, Florida that…

For some time, I have been lamenting the fact that no matter what the police state apparatchiks do, or how publicly they do it, there never seems to be an available remedy for the victims. This story of a dog shot in its own yard — by officers who ignored a BEWARE OF DOG sign…

1. Endocannabinoid production in the body peaks in the 15 to 25 year age range. 2. Pot use peaks in the 15 to 25 year age range.

I recently learned from a friend about a man in Pennsylvania who is being charged with the crime of keeping pet ducks: A Pennsylvania man is facing a fine of $500 a day for having four pet ducks. Delmont resident Jim Kistler was notified that having his web-footed pals, Larry, Moe, Curly and Fred, is…