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Nice bowl of Serrano chilis. The will make an excellent Sriracha sauce or put a hand full of them in your Harissa.
All my Christmas shopping is over, and all my Amazon purchases were made through your portal.
Where's my gold star?
Question for all you legal eagles gathered here: Is it my febrile imagination, or didn't all nine justices in Heller vs DC agree that the 2nd amendment is an individual right vs a right as part of a militia? I know that the majority opinion states as much, but I remember reading somewhere that all nine justices agreed that it was an individual right.
Does anyone have any proof (e.g. links, articles, etc) that all nine agreed? Or, is that assertion just incorrect? Thanks!
“…(W)e now issue a legal ruling and order that, because of the invalidity of his appointment, Attorney Schmitz must cease taking any actions as the John Doe II special prosecutor as of the date of this opinion and order, except for the actions this court directs below to conclude the John Doe II investigation,” Wednesday’s ruling states.
Don't they know Schmitz is a Republican?
Last night, Trump was being his New Yorker self among friends at The Republican Jewish Coalition Candidates Forum. He had a more relaxed Tone than we usually see on his stump speeches. It was a masterful performance. Watch it yourself before falling for a wide false meme of his being booed for being anti-semitic.
"Don't they know Schmitz is a Republican?"
Ask former President of the Wisconsin State Senate Mike Ellis what happens to members of the GOP that leave the reservation.
This is an expensive type of chili used in South Indian spice powders. Didn't think google would find it but it did.
"Now obviously this is a country that is based on free speech, but when it edges towards violence, when we see the potential for someone lifting that mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric—or, as we saw after 9/11, violence directed at individuals who may not even be Muslims but perceived to be Muslims, and they will suffer just as much—when we see that we will take action," said Lynch.
So, don't you be potentially lifting any mantles. Just sit still and let the Muzzie shoot you. Quit fidgeting, you're disturbing that mantle again.
Among the 14 shooting death victims was Bennett Bet-Badal, 46
Born in Iran in 1969.
She fled to America at the age of 18 to escape Islamic extremism, and the persecution of Christians that followed the Iranian revolution.
She is survived by her husband who was a policeman, and three children ages 10,12, and 15.
Talk about bitter irony...
Ah, Whole Foods.
Moderation is irritating and it takes away from some of the more enlightened conversations that I have seen on this blog. The inability to respond to, or augment, someone's comment in a timely manner reduces the interest in, and value of, Ann's work tremendously. I was not reading the blog during the time Ann instituted moderation again. Prior to that time I had seen comments I felt were a little strange but nothing that required censorship. Has Ann fallen victim to the new University craze of speech suppression, or is she rightly exercising censorship to save us all from offense? Please comment. You have two hours, pick up your notebooks and pencils.
"She was never involved in shooting. She was probably about 90 pounds. It’s unlikely she could even carry a weapon, or wear some type of a vest or do any of this."
David S. Chelsey, Farook family lawyer
There will be no exceptions,” Mr. Carter said at a news conference. He added, (Women will) be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat. They’ll be able to serve as Army Rangers and Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps infantry, Air Force parajumpers and everything else that was previously open only to men.”
Ashton Carter, US Secretary of Defense over Marine Corps objections
Are women Annie Walker, Beatrix Kiddo, Capt. Kristen Griest, 1st Lt. Shaye Haver or Chelsey's version of Tashfeen Malik, the mattress girl, and victims of trigger warnings?
Google knows everything.
Thanks, Big Mike!
Whole Foods? Whole Meade!
Here in Akron, we had an interesting convergence of the second amendment debate and the police-treat-minorities-differently debate. There is a gun-rights advocate who is walking around town with his rifle slung over his shoulder. He walks around in black neighborhoods and the police don't stop him because he isn't breaking the law. Naturally, people in these neighborhoods do not like it one bit. A barber confronted him one day in front of his shop. The barber feels that the police would not be so lenient if he were a black man walking around with a rifle. I suspect the barber is correct. At any rate, the two of them got together yesterday and had a chat. The meeting went better than the first encounter.
Obama should unite all foreign and domestic believers to refuse to pray for terrorists and their families. That would settle the score, for sure!
Obama should unite all foreign and domestic believers to refuse to pray for terrorists and their families. That would settle the score, for sure!
"Moderation is irritating and it takes away from some of the more enlightened conversations that I have seen on this blog. The inability to respond to, or augment, someone's comment in a timely manner reduces the interest in, and value of, Ann's work tremendously. I was not reading the blog during the time Ann instituted moderation again. Prior to that time I had seen comments I felt were a little strange but nothing that required censorship."
Well, I was deleting things. The main problem is a small handful of people who are not good faith commenters but who are, trust me, trying to wreck the blog. They were taking opportunities to put up large numbers of posts, including things that attacked individuals in ways that were intended to be hurtful.
"Has Ann fallen victim to the new University craze of speech suppression, or is she rightly exercising censorship to save us all from offense? Please comment."
It's not at all about the viewpoint or the form of expression of the good faith commenters. Just read the comments and see what I don't delete. I have allowed strong commenting here for over 10 years, including times when my own colleagues have publicly criticized me and called the comments here a "sewer" and such things. I have taken heat for the freedom of speech I support here.
I wish there could be the old instantaneous flow, but unfortunately that was the very thing that fired up the "small handful." I was putting a lot of time into finding the stuff I had to delete and it became a game for some people who don't deserve that kind of special attention.
The lag time today was Meade and I drove to a place about a half hour away and went on a 6 mile hike.
President Obama has apparently opined that it is "insane" that someone on the no-fly list can buy a gun. But our benevolent overlords can put anyone on the no-fly list for any arbitrary reason and is not required to provide any justification for doing so. Keeping and bearing arms is a constitutional right. The state does not get to deprive people of constitutional rights for arbitrary reasons, does it? If it doesn't the result is hardly "insane"
If only our President had some training in constitutional law.
"I have allowed strong commenting here for over 10 years, including times when my own colleagues have publicly criticized me and called the comments here a "sewer" and such things. I have taken heat for the freedom of speech I support here."
Some colleagues you've got there. This would be the same bunch of colleagues who thought the 9/11 attacks were due to the failure of the US to send a representative to the UN conference on racism in Durban, right?
Do you ever wonder whether those idiots are really fit to educate the lawyers of tomorrow?
In re an item for actual legal commentary - there have been recent articles in the WSJ and Fortune regarding the funding of "charitable" but partisan lobbying organizations through "Sue and Settle" agreements by the DOJ and EPA.
This seems like blatant corruption, using the government to direct funds for partisan political purposes and outside of legislative oversight.
It also sounds like a matter of constitutional law.
"... including times when my own colleagues have publicly criticized me and called the comments here a "sewer" and such things..."
Then tell them to skip reading Laslo.
I honestly have wondered if Althouse has had to deal with co-workers who disagree with her STRONG Positive stance on Free Speech.
Sorry if I am too much too defend. Sincerely.
I am Laslo.
Ann: As with everything it is the rotten few who spoil it for the others. I do appreciate your efforts and I guess we have to live with the world as it is.
The Nazis were not "a German problem?"
The Bolsheviks were not "a Russian problem?"
I do not understand how the Progressives can claim the jihadists are not "a Moslem problem."
We have our own Baghdad Bob in the WH but the real Baghdad Bob was not running his country. Scary.
If only our President had some training in constitutional law.
I am thankful to have met Glenn Reynolds and Ann Althouse through their respective blogs. Otherwise, based on Barack Obama and a certain Con Law lecturer at Widener who famously and mistakenly said on national TV that Article I of the Constitution defines the Executive Branch, I would have assumed that Con Law was where they send the dunces.
I'm curious how much of the current hullabaloo by the Dems about gun control is about taking advantage of a tragedy and how much is about changing the subject.
I suppose they're not mutually exclusive.
Well, I was deleting things. The main problem is a small handful of people who are not good faith commenters but who are, trust me, trying to wreck the blog. They were taking opportunities to put up large numbers of posts, including things that attacked individuals in ways that were intended to be hurtful.
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This is not me, yet my comments are not posted. Strange.
Has Ann fallen victim to the new University craze of speech suppression, or is she rightly exercising censorship to save us all from offense? It's not at all about the viewpoint or the form of expression of the good faith commenters.
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Just read the comments and see what I don't delete. I have allowed strong commenting here for over 10 years, including times when my own colleagues have publicly criticized me and called the comments here a "sewer" and such things. I have taken heat for the freedom of speech I support here.
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some of us who have been deleted have looked and wondered about the criteria..given what's wasn't.
But there ya go..you have "taken heat" for freedom of speech.
David Chesley, the attorney representing the Farook family is the same guy we hired to represent our daughter in a legal matter last year. We never actually met him personally but his associates did a great job for her. I would have never guessed he was that bat-shit crazy.
Please believe me, I say this in good faith...
"I guess we have to live with the world as it is."
Yes. That nails it! In fact, I believe it's a direct quote from Jesus as written in John, chapter 105, verse 24.
...I think... Or somewhere... I think... Or maybe not... I don't really know... But it sounds right.
Wait. Was that too many spaces? Too many ellipsis? Too something or other?
Do you have a rule book somewhere I can study up on? This is really confusing.
Lucien said...
President Obama has apparently opined that it is "insane" that someone on the no-fly list can buy a gun. But our benevolent overlords can put anyone on the no-fly list for any arbitrary reason and is not required to provide any justification for doing so. Keeping and bearing arms is a constitutional right. The state does not get to deprive people of constitutional rights for arbitrary reasons, does it? If it doesn't the result is hardly "insane"
If only our President had some training in constitutional law.
12/5/15, 5:09 PM"
Is this true? Is it purely arbitrary to put people on the no-fly list? I was under the impression that there had to be a reasonable reason to put someone on the no-fly list.
Reasonable in whose opinion?
"Reasonable" would have to be defined as "able to be reasoned," i.e., in writing and publically accessible, especially to the people listed, and challengeable in open court.
I don't thnk the agencies would go for that.
Word from a pal who visited such gun stores as still exist in the SF Peninsula yesterday, - business volume is "insane".
So what's the recipe? I'm asking you, Meade.
If Obama issues executive action "memos" on gun control/removal, it is likely to create confusion and resistance/avoidance among the agencies supposed to enforce these policies that may well cause the net effect of his "memos" to be negative to their intent.
There is an article up on Hot Air that says Tashfeen Malik is not a girls' name, but the name of a victorious 11th century Moslem general in the Spanish religious wars.
One rifle and one handgun each is not a "large arsenal of weapons," Chris Wallace to the contrary, but I do think the Farooqs had planned something larger, but for some reason thought they had been, or were near to being, discovered and decided to go with with what they had at the moment.
The level of vitriol expressed by the left reached it's peak in the mockery expressed by the Daily News of support for victims of the Islamic terrorists through prayer.
Two possibilities. Conservatives are breaking out from the containment of conservative ideas by the MSM-- led by Trump, who has demonstrated that instead of walking in fear of MSM criticism the way forward is attack.
Or the leftist MSM senses a vulnerability and is trying to capitalize on it. (Never let a crisis go to waste).
I think the country (or at least the left portion of it) has descended into hysteria. The left has succumbed to the vapors.
It's an opportunity for conservatives to demonstrate it's reasoned principles in stark contrast to the emotional hyperventilation of the left. The left is confused. It only knows how to attack conservative ideas and it's confronted with a new lethal enemy. If it acknowledges the existence of the danger, it will of necessity be forced to admit the validity of much conservatives have been warning against.
Expect the left to double down on the attacks against conservatives and pretend the threat of radical Islam is empty.
And an "assault rifle" is by definition a "light" weapon - light weapon and light ammunition.
A basic AR-15 weighs around 6 lbs. and fires a 62 grain bullet with a muzzle energy of around 1,300 ft-lbs.
The M-1 Garand rifle of WWII and after by comparison weighed 9.5 lbs. and fired a 180 grain bullet with about 3,300 ft-lbs. muzzle energy.
I am irritated!
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