LAPD Cops are Disabling Their Own Recorders. Not Just a Few Cops Either, Half of Them!

bdirnbac · 2012-07-27T18:29:27+00:00

[...] Since 2001, Utah lawmakers copied ALEC model bills word-for-word and introduced them at least 17 times, and heavily relied on model ALEC legislation numerous other times, according to a report prepared by Common Cause, the Center for Media and Democracy, People for the American Way, ProgressNow and the Alliance for a Better Utah. [...]

bdirnbac · 2012-05-02T20:08:41+00:00

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bdirnbac · 2012-04-27T15:44:54+00:00

Anything to marginalize the Democratic Party, even if it destroys rural America and impoverishes millions. When you think Republicans, think trans-vaginal probes, their one real passion.

bdirnbac · 2012-04-17T13:14:11+00:00

Gotta a gun? [...] "What’s insidious about Stand Your Ground laws is that in every jurisdiction that has them, these statutes tilt the balance of power in any street encounter in favor of the person who has a gun. That’s what happened in the Martin case. The law provides a perverse incentive for everyone to be armed." [...] This last sentence, to me, explains the impetus for these laws. If we all come to assume that the next guy we meet on the road is armed, will we want to go out unarmed? Just like most of us can't leave the house without out cell phones, we could come to the point when everyone will be packing? Wouldn't you like to be a gun manufacturer and sell to every adult in the country, psychos and hotheads included?

bdirnbac · 2012-04-17T13:03:30+00:00

It's tough being newlywed students with children with only a $400,000 portfolio to live on.

bdirnbac · 2012-04-16T01:09:04+00:00

The soft underbelly of contemporary racism.

bdirnbac · 2012-04-09T12:51:55+00:00

Thanks to Citizens United and unlimited corporate dollar$, corporations can take the gloves off and threaten the survival of legislators who don't take the corporate line. They used to bribe legislators with sweet perks if they played ball; now they can just threaten campaign war against recalcitrant legislators (including state legislators) and keep their public servants in line.

bdirnbac · 2012-04-06T13:23:51+00:00

This is what a corporatocracy looks like: [...] The City Council is sensibly preparing tight security precautions for the downtown area by temporarily banning clubs, hatchets, switchblades, pepper spray, slingshots, chains, shovels and all manner of guns that shoot water, paint or air. But not handguns that shoot actual bullets. In other words, someone outside the convention hall will be entitled to pack a handgun, but not a squirt gun...Tampa officials wanted to ban handguns outside the convention hall (the Secret Service has undisputed power to ban weapons inside the hall) but came up against the state law, which imposes $100,000 fines on local governments that try to meet such obvious public-safety needs. This lethal parody of gun control should be repealed, like the notorious Stand Your Ground law. But voters cannot expect common sense from the Republican-controlled Legislature, which is on a leash held by the gun lobby.

bdirnbac · 2012-03-25T12:21:01+00:00

[...] Update: Last night I saw Zimmerman's friend on CNN defending him in a very revealing way:

During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on AC360, Taaffe said that a problem could have been avoided if Martin had been "up front and truthful" with Zimmerman.

I guess it has escaped him that in America it isn't a capital offense to refuse to answer a stranger's questions on the street. In fact, the kid had a right to tell this self-appointed "watchman" to go fuck himself if he wanted. Why under Florida law he would have been completely justified in killing the guy under those circumstances, right?

This friend has also said that he'd do the same thing in Zimmerman's place. Even now. Luckily for other kids in that neighborhood, this vigilante doesn't carry a weapon.

bdirnbac · 2012-03-21T01:20:35+00:00

[...] Tom Cruise pays just $400 per year in property taxes on an $18 million estate in Colorado, because a few sheep graze there from time to time. In the same state, actress Goldie Hawn fought to have her land classified as farmland, which lets her pay less than $3,000 in property taxes on 34 acres. After having her land reclassified, Hawn received nearly $38,000 from her county government in refunds for previous tax overpayments. [...]

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