Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
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markinaustin
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quarterback
ScottC
yellojkt2003 – At 4:10pm, power across 8 US states and parts of Canada goes out, resulting in the second most widespread blackout in history. The blackout extends from Massachusetts all the way to Michigan and into Ontario, Canada, effecting more than 55 million people across the two countries. Although power is restored to some areas by 11pm, it takes 2 days for power to be fully restored to all areas. An investigation later reveals that it was triggered simply by lines in Ohio coming into contact with trees, and a faulty alarm system that failed to promptly alert technicians to transfer power from the overloaded lines, resulting in a cascading overload that eventually brought down the whole system. I was in London at the time, but my colleagues often reminisce about the night they slept in the office because it was the only place that had power (backup generator) and hence AC in the 90 degree heat.
1994 – Illich Ramirez Sanchez, a Venezuelan terrorist more commonly known as Carlos the Jackal, is finally captured after more than 20 years of terrorist activity across Europe and the Middle East. Implicated in a number of assassination attempts, hostage takings, and bombings, Sanchez is eventually tried and imprisoned in France for the 1975 murder of two Paris policemen and Michel Moukharbal, a Mossad agent who had identified Sanchez to the policemen. With the assistance of local authorities, Sanchez was captured in Sudan, where he had been given asylum after being expelled from Syria in 1991. After a minor operation, Sanchez was tranquilized by his bodyguards while he slept, and handed over to the French. He remains in a French prison, his most recent appeal having been denied on June 26, 2013.
1935 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law the Federal Ponzi Scheme Social Security Act. The act provides benefits to both retirees and the unemployed, to be funded by a special payroll tax imposed on both employees and employers. It is a bold assertion of heretofore unknown federal power, but legal challenges are eventually defeated in a SCOTUS 5-4 decision, one of several decisions to uphold New Deal legislative efforts that reversed an earlier trend of New Deal courtroom defeats, a reversal that coincidentally came after Roosevelt proposed legislation that would allow him to essentially pack the Supreme Court with his own justices, diluting the power of the sitting justices.
1945 – Word of Japan’s impending surrender to the Allies sparks a coup in Japan, with over 1,000 Japanese troops storming the Imperial Palace in an attempt to prevent the surrender proclamation from being announced. Troops loyal to the Emperor repulse the attacks, and the Emperor delivers the proclamation the following day. (More on which tomorrow!)
1765 – Colonists gather on the corner of Essex Street and Orange Street (later Washington Street) under an Elm tree in Boston to protest the passage of the Stamp Act, an act of the British Parliament that required colonists to purchase a British stamp for every official document obtained. The protestors hung an effigy of the local stamp-duty collector in the tree, the first public act of defiance for those who would later call themselves “Sons of Liberty” (sexists that they were), and the beginnings of the movement that would grow into the American independence movement and eventually the American Revolution. The tree, from then on to be named the Liberty Tree, became a symbol of American protest against the British, but would eventually be cut down by loyalists in 1775 when the Continental Army laid siege to the British occupied city.
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All Things in Moderation 
Giggle snort.
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The NSA details the cryptographic techniques used by the Sons of Liberty.
EDIT: Added link.
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Well most of America probably thanks God that the Federal Ponzi Scheme known as Social Security managed to survive all these years. I wonder sometimes what kind of lives seniors and disabled would have without it.
I don’t really remember the Jackal, wasn’t there a movie by that name? It sounds like it would be a great movie otherwise.
Thanks for the Liberty Tree stuff. I’ve been trying to read up on more early US history now that I’ve found out “my people” were involved in the Revolutionary War. Finding the time is difficult right now though. I have a long list of reading and other projects that never seem to get finished.
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The Day of the Jackal. Book and a movie. Make sure to see the original and not the remake.
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Juiceboxer Tweet if the day!
@mattyglesias: @asymmetricinfo @binarybits I find it utterly non-shocking that a political party composed of immoral people is behaving immorally.
Ahh, the old “political opponents are immoral and therefore act in bad faith” gambit.
Who here agrees with the sentiment?
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Aside to jnc and NoVA: you two are never going to convince Dezzie that you aren’t heartless, soulless, evil right down to your toes Republicans in sheep’s clothing. You know that, right? 🙂
OTOH, I don’t think that she actually knows what Libertarianism is, and isn’t willing to be convinced that it is something different.
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I think …. actually, better not.
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More evidence that the constitution has become a meaningless document. Apparently taxes can now be imposed by unelected bureaucrats, without congressional approval, in order to fund specific pet projects dictated by the executive. Our alleged Constitutional law scholar of a president thinks this is a fine idea since it allows him to do “big things” without the hassle of getting the people’s representatives to approve.
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My grandmother always used to say that discretion is the better part of valor, NoVA.
😉
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Well yes, It’s PL. I have no expectation of doing so.
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For some reason (to me, anyway) she seems to have a vested interest in believing that Libertarians are “Republicans Lite”. . . but, whatever.
She writes well and is often funny.
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I read that over my morning coffee, Scott. it’s the “big things” that really galls me.
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Heh.
I’m going through some boxes and purging and repacking; just found my old Army greens. They still fit!!
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ScottC, I suspect that there’s a badly written statute that authorized the FCC to do exactly that, given the other fees that they already mandate.
Congress loves to cede it’s responsibilities.
Edit: Didn’t read far enough. Yep that’s what’s happening.
“The proposal makes use of the FCC’s ability to charge consumers fees to fund specific priorities, such as subsidizing phone service for the poor. The program, known as the universal service fund, has received bipartisan support in Congress but has drawn criticism from some telecom companies for raising fees and from some conservatives who oppose what they call handouts.”
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jnc:
Congress loves to cede it’s responsibilities….Yep that’s what’s happening.
I know, but I still think it is obviously unconstitutional. I do not see in the constitution where congress has the authority to pass its taxing and spending responsibilities to an unelected body. Whether or not congress wants to cede its authority, it cannot legitimately do so.
The regulatory state run by executive agencies is wholly unconstitutional as far as I can tell.
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I know, but I still think it is obviously unconstitutional.
But you also think Wickard v. Filburn was unconstitutionally decided.
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yello:
But you also think Wickard v. Filburn was unconstitutionally decided.
Why “but”?
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So, more than half in individual market will get no subsidy?
ut half (48%) of people now buying their own insurance would be eligible for a tax credit that would offset their premium
Wonder where healthy males fit in? Ain’t they the ones needed to keep The Abomination afloat?
http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/quantifying-tax-credits-for-people-now-buying-insurance-on-their-own/
Thanks ‘MuriKKKa!
#2MinuteHateForRodeoClowns/EmmanuelGoldstein!
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They still fit!!
Pics or it didn’t happen.
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“ScottC, on August 14, 2013 at 12:55 pm said:
The regulatory state run by executive agencies is wholly unconstitutional as far as I can tell.”
That may well be, but this is more of the same taken to the next level, not Obama just willy nilly passing a new tax by decree.
The obvious solution is for Congress to repeal the universal service fund. I suspect if Obama goes through with this, repealing it will pick up additional support.
Remember the telephone tax that went to fund the Spanish American war and was left on for 80 years?
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jnc:
That may well be, but this is more of the same taken to the next level, not Obama just willy nilly passing a new tax by decree.
I know. There is always another level. But it is the FCC just willy nilly passing a new tax by decree, at Obama’s behest. The fact that the FCC has done it before doesn’t make it any more palatable or justifiable.
The obvious solution is for Congress to repeal the universal service fund. I suspect if Obama goes through with this, it will pick up additional support.
That would be a useful outcome, although unlikely given a D senate and O in the White House.
Remember the telephone tax that went to fund the Spanish American war and was left on for 80 years?
At least that was actually passed by Congress, not imposed by unelected bureaucrats.
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anyone still have a land line? I dropped mine about 4 years ago.
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nova:
anyone still have a land line?
Yes. As jnc said, I need it for the alarm. I also think I have an irrational attachment to it. Makes no sense…pretty much the only calls we get on it are calls asking for money, which I avoid if I am paying attention. But I have a difficult time cutting the cord. Sort of like when I got lasik eye surgery and couldn’t bring myself to throw away my glasses. Totally irrational.
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Yes.
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I recently moved and did not get a landline. It’s vaguely unsettling.
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I got a land line and eight extensions. We are never more than five feet from a cordless phone. I connect my cell phone to the charger as soon as I walk into the house and forget about it until I leave again.
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You also need them for alarm systems.
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too funny. cox just called trying to sell me a landline.
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my alarm is radio signal based. no landline needed.
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http://www.ackermansecurity.com/wireless-monitoring/
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when i said i’m over-the-air, he also tried to sell me on cspan. they must be desperate.
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he also tried to sell me on cspan
How would that work? Isn’t C-SPAN just a cable access show for wonks?
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are you happy with lasik? i’m terrified to do it.
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nova:
are you happy with lasik? i’m terrified to do it.
One of the few decisions I have made that I am totally content with. I avoided it, too, for a long time. Several of my colleagues had it done and raved about it, so I finally decided to do it. The doctor I chose had done several big time athletes, so I figured if they were good with it, I would be OK. No problems at all. HAd it done at 6pm on a Tuesday, and I went to the office on Wednesday sans glasses and had no irritation at all. It was fantastic.
It’s been almost exactly 12 years since I had it done, and I am just starting to think I am not seeing quite as well as I used to.
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I also think I have an irrational attachment to it.
Landlines have some advantages:
1) Sound quality is better. It amazes me how much loss in fidelity we have tolerated in adopting mobile technology.
2) Not all homes have good cell reception.
3) Land lines let you have multiple people on extensions.
4) The marginal cost of a landline in a triple-play/FiOS type package is pretty low. And it almost always comes with unlimited long distance (a moot point now that more phone plans have unlimited minutes)
5) It’s always good to have a back-up if your cell phone goes kaput.
6) You don’t have to carry your cell around with you or race to the docking station to answer a call.
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are you happy with lasik?
My wife had Lasik and it’s the best thing she’s ever done. She had Coke bottles before and now the only problem she has is reading menus in dimly lit restaurants.
I never want Lasik because I am nearsighted with an astigmatism and would still need reading glasses so there is no point in it.
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“You don’t have to carry your cell around with you”
I don’t understand 🙂
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I recently moved and did not get a landline.
When my son got his own place he got neither a landline or cable. He plowed the money into a faster internet connection. He does all his TV watching from our Netflix account (until they crack down on shared passwords) and various methods of dubious legality.
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^ sounds like me. your son is like me.
sorry.
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Direct TV and AT&T Uverse.
I’m astigmatic and nearsighted as well and went with monovision contacts. Love them rather than readers and adapted quite easily. Have you tried that?
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“ScottC, on August 14, 2013 at 1:40 pm said:
jnc:
That may well be, but this is more of the same taken to the next level, not Obama just willy nilly passing a new tax by decree.
I know. There is always another level. But it is the FCC just willy nilly passing a new tax by decree, at Obama’s behest. The fact that the FCC has done it before doesn’t make it any more palatable or justifiable.”
I’ll have to disagree with you here. Like or not, specific statutory authority to implement fees doesn’t rise to the level of “willy nilly”.
I’m a strict constructionist on this.
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jnc:
I’ll have to disagree with you here. Like or not, specific statutory authority to implement fees doesn’t rise to the level of “willy nilly”.
I just read the FCC’s description of the Universal Service Fund, under the guise of which this effort would fall. You are correct…”willy nilly” is not quite a fair characterization. I will, however, stick with unconstitutional.
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Michi, speaking of tilting at windmills on PL, my latest crusade to explain to people what the actual meaning of the word “default” is, and why it’s not going to happen because the US collects these things called taxes, in direct opposition to Greg’s propaganda to the contrary is meeting with minimal success.
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One of the few decisions I have made that I am totally content with
That’s a really interesting statement.
I don’t wear glasses………….yet and we have four lines coming in here plus a dedicated cable phone line because of the business. The dedicated line is for the fax and credit card machine. The business has had the same 800 number for 30 years I think.
Because of the phones here and working from home we only have a no contract cell phone we use for emergencies when we travel or are on the road. I’m actually getting my first Iphone this weekend…………..yikes. New car last weekend, phone this weekend.
I hate phones altogether though and unplug them sharply at 4:30, except for the home phone. Half the time I don’t even answer that. I communicate with the kids via the internet and everyone else can leave a message if they want to talk to me.
When I was on call for hospice I used to sleep with the phone right by my head and I don’t miss that one bit.
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lms:
That’s a really interesting statement.
I thought about it before I posted it, and I think it is true. There aren’t many big decisions I’ve made that I don’t look back on with at least a little regret, or at least wonder about “what if”. With lasik (and a couple others), there is no question. Definitely the right call.
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my vision has been stable for 3 years or so. and it’s just nearsightedness. so i think i’m a good candidate. it’s just the laser-in-the-eye thing.
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nova:
it’s just the laser-in-the-eye thing.
It’s not a problem. No pain, not even discomfort, during the actual procedure. It’s just…weird. That’s the best way I can describe it. Just a very weird experience. But it was over in minutes, and except for some minor irritation in the first few hours afterwards (sort of like a speck of dust in your eye), I couldn’t even tell anything had been done. The hardest thing about it was getting rid of years worth of habits. I remember that second night after I had it done, I was reading in bed and I kept nodding off to sleep. So finally I put the book down, shut off the light, and reached up to take my glasses off. Nothing there! For several mornings after I took a shower, the first thing I would do is go to grab my glasses off the counter. Where are they? Oh yeah….I don’t need them.
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it’s just the laser-in-the-eye thing.
Don’t even get me started on the laser being mounted on a shark.
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I’ve been interested in getting it for swimming purposes. What’s your opinion of it in water? Any issues?
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jnc:
What’s your opinion of it in water? Any issues?
I’ve had no problems. For quite a while I was very reluctant to open my eyes underwater, precisely because of the operation. But it isn’t an issue.
I don’t know if you guys know about it, but the original laser surgery literally shaved the outside of your eye to reshape it. This had a significant recovery period because the outside of the eye had to heal. But by the time I had it done, what they were doing was (this will make you cringe, but I’m not kidding, it doesn’t feel like anything except very weird) cutting a small flap on the outside of your eye, pulling it back, reshaping the eye underneath the flap, then putting the flap back down and sealing it. This significantly reduced healing time, and was also less irritating, as the “wound” is no longer open to the air. So really the only healing that needs to be done is to the flap. Once that has healed back together, you are as good as new. So water on your eye acts just as it did before the operation.
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jnc, you’re a swimmer?
scott, I’m so happy right now that I can’t really regret any of my decisions. I wish all the time I’d gotten to my niece sooner but there were things going on that I wasn’t aware of and so I had to let go of that guilt finally. And it wasn’t like it was a decision I made that actually resulted in her death.
We bought a house once that we shouldn’t have and we knew better too. We both beat ourselves up over that one because we lost a chunk of change on it. My first husband was a complete fraud but that’s on him I think and my decision to walk was the right one. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t take anything back.
You sparked my curiosity though.
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thanks scott. i go through this every few months/years and chicken out.
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“cutting a small flap on the outside of your eye, pulling it back, reshaping the eye underneath the flap, then putting the flap back down and sealing it.”
there’s video of that on youtube. it’s … disturbing. keeping mind I’ve seen partial amputations and didn’t balk.
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“cutting a small flap on the outside of your eye, pulling it back, reshaping the eye underneath the flap, then putting the flap back down and sealing it.”
Jesus, are you awake when they do it? I have enough trouble getting close enough to my eyes to put eye drops in. I can’t imagine doing that.
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Lms:
Yup…awake. But again, no pain at all, just very strange.
What I remember is that they put this contraption on my eye so I couldn’t blink, then swung a machine right above my eye and told me to stare at the blinking red light. They dropped some kind of dye into my eye, I guess to make it easier to see where they needed to cut the flap. The dye darkened everything momentarily, but I could still see. The they cut the flap. Once they pulled that back, everything got very weird. I could still see, but not anything identifiable. All fuzzy and weird. Then I could hear the laser, punctuated by some kind of tapping. “bzzzzz…taptaptp…bzzzzzz…taptaptap”. It’s all computerized, so the doctor isn’t really doing much. I imagine the tapping was just the laser resetting itself into the next position to make the next slice.
It was all over in a matter of minutes, then on to the next eye. I do remember on one of my eyes the doctor had a bit of a time fixing the flap afterwards. He kept trying to seal it, and then moving it as I gues it wasn’t’t quite right. I could see OK immediately afterwards, but they put me in a recovery room (basically a lounge chair with music going) for about 30 mins and told me to keep my eyes closed. After 30 mins, they sent me on my way and told me to try to go to sleep right away, I guess to keep my eyes closed as long as possible. I went to sleep around 9pm, and woke up at 2am, which I know because for the first time in 20 years I could actually see the clock when I woke up. It was a wonder.
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lmsinca, scuba diving.
Also:
“I wish all the time I’d gotten to my niece sooner but there were things going on that I wasn’t aware of and so I had to let go of that guilt finally. And it wasn’t like it was a decision I made that actually resulted in her death.”
Is there a post on the backstory about this already? I must have missed it, other than the scattering the ashes part in Africa with the big cats.
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“novahockey, on August 14, 2013 at 3:03 pm said:
thanks scott. i go through this every few months/years and chicken out.”
Ditto. Usually about the same time I buy a years worth of contact lenses.
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JNC [Edit; You’re only the 2nd person who’s ever asked in the little over four years I’ve been online between here and the PL]
No back story anywhere except one late night at the PL years ago now. She became ill at the end of 2007 and in the midst of tests, doctor’s appointments and trips to the emergency room they cancelled her insurance. They suspected she needed brain surgery for a benign operable lesion but we couldn’t find someone to confirm it or do the surgery when she became uninsured. I didn’t know about much of it for awhile, or how serious it was, because I was taking care of my Dad at the same time and she tried to handle it all on her own. When I found out I sold my stock, put the rental house on the market and went in search of a doctor who would perform the right tests and do the surgery. I found someone here but by the time I had everything arranged and was on my way to NM to bring her home, she had a seizure and died. I was just outside of Flagstaff when I found out.
We sued the insurance company and won a settlement for my sister and nephew. They didn’t admit wrongdoing of course but my lawyer found a former employee to testify against the insurance company and so they settled out of court. My sister is disabled already and so the money has helped her a little and she was able to stay in NM with a caretaker. My niece had been living there for a couple of years taking care of her and working at the zoo. They used a bogus excuse to terminate her insurance after dragging approval out for months on some tests she needed.
She died on March 8, 2008 at 30 years old.
I guess you could say she’s the reason I’m so invested in the health care debate.
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Interesting Scott, but I hope I never need the surgery. Every now and then I’ll get out a pair of reading glasses if I’m reading a small print in a book or something, but generally I see fine. No one’s ever recommended glasses. I’m afraid of needing cataract surgery some day though……….it seems like everyone needs that if they live long enough. I had a great aunt who died at 105 and never needed glasses so maybe I got my genes from her.
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Work’s done and I’m off for a swim.
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“The Day the Clown Cried,” from 1972. The story concerns a bumbling German clown, Helmut Doork (played by Lewis), whose mockery of Hitler lands him in a concentration camp.
http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/08/a-glimpse-of-the-day-the-clown-cried.html
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Confirmation that the current Republicans, in addition to being immoral, are the most extrem in the history of histories!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/14/are_republicans_really_out_of_step_119590.html
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Latest rejoinder in the border security debate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/14/whore-you-going-to-believe-on-immigration-mark-krikorian-or-your-lying-eyes/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm
Funniest part is the spelling of “who’re”.
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mark:
Latest rejoinder in the border security debate.
I’m not sure I understand the relevance of Massey’s data. I’m not sure he does, either. For example, he says:
Rather than reducing the inflow, however, this intensification of enforcement caused the probability of return migration to fall even faster, ultimately reducing it to an all-time low of 0.08 in 2010.
It is not an either/or prospect. It is possible that the inflow was both reduced and the probability of return for those who did inflow reduced. The data also does not show that it was the enforcement that caused the probability to fall. All it shows is the the probability continued to fall, as it already had been doing prior to the heightened enforcement. Correlation is not causation.
BTW, I am ideologically in favor of more open immigration, so I’m not instinctively an ally of Krikorian or opposed to Massey. I just don’t think his data suggests what he seems to think.
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My theory, that illegal inflow slowed sharply as the USA sank into joblessness while MX was experiencing employment gains, makes the most sense on the inflow side, I think. As to returnees it makes as much sense to speculate that all the remaining undocs are employed and don’t need to leave.
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Alternate theory, ’86 Amnesty incentivized staying in US to establish “residency” for the next amnesty.
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Bah … 35 in a 25 and caught on film. $92. that’s excessive.
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that’s excessive.
Don’t some of the VA traffic tickets now approach $1000 under wrong circumstances? It was some sort of budget balancing trick to avoid raising ‘taxes’. Think of it as a user fee which is very libertarian. I view traffic tickets, particularly speeding ones in areas where compliance is low, as a reverse lottery. Every now and then a random person is selected and forced to pay the government.
I found the speed cameras on New York Avenue and Connecticut the hard way. Now I avoid NY Ave especially since they’ve opened the 295-395 connector and I drive verrrry slowly on Connecticut.
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this was in DC. IIRC correctly those fines were not for moving violations, but for something else.
and it’s excessive b/c I wasn’t speeding. 25 is too slow.
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this was in DC
Where in DC so I know to avoid it? Was it a cop with a book or a traffic camera? The speed cameras on the DC section of 295 are a major source of revenue. Millions of dollars annually.
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they also can’t prove I was driving. which I was. but that’s irrelevant. but either prove it or cram it.
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they also can’t prove I was driving. which I was.
They’ve worded the statute so that the owner of the vehicle is responsible. Both our cars are in my wife’s name so she gets any speeding tickets that are my fault. This is also why they can’t assess points from a camera.
either prove it or cram it.
Fight it and let us know how that works out for you.
The last time we were pulled over by a real cop was in west Texas where my son on a learner’s permit was doing 80 in a 70. To make the ticket go away was $150 in court costs and another $200 for a BS online driver safety course.
One mile from where we were stopped, the speed limit went up to 80.
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YJ, the speed limit on IH 10 rises to 80 westbound around Junction. Usually the DPS catches eastbound traffic there.
I have taken the online driver safety course a few times. You can get one with a lame comedy routine.
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There is a stretch southbound on IH 95 in VA where the speed limit is not marked – or at least there was. I know it changes from my GPS, not from the signage. Near Fredericksburg I think.
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Usually the DPS catches eastbound traffic there.
That had to have been it. We were less than an hour out of El Paso heading to San Antonio. The only two vehicles on the road were us and the cop.
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The last two tickets my husband got, $500 + change, left turn on yellow turned red camera which they’ve now done away with, and before that, $360 driving into Nevada via State Line on the way to Vegas……………huge speed trap coming off the mountains.
I, on the other hand, haven’t gotten a ticket since I was 18 and got caught speeding twice in my Dad’s brand new Camaro.
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traffic camera, which may be mobile. it’s unclear from the ticket. K street tunnel over by 23rd. I saw the light when it happened in figured I got one. but I also legit did not think 35 was speeding.
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In Houston, through initiative, we did away w/Red light cameras. City fought it tooth and nail. Had to go to Federal court.
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check is already in the mail. if it’s like the parking ticket I paid about 4 years ago, they’ll never cash it — i just gave up and stopped marking it down when i balance the checkbook.
that’s DC for you. they’ll either never cash it, or someone will pocket it.
but it seems very wrong that the registered owner is responsible.
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I saw the light when it happened
I’ve become Pavlovian trained to mumble “Aw, shit!” anytime I see a light flash in my rear view mirror.
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also — there’s a red light camera at 15th and constitution. i stop on a yellow if there’s even a remote chance that you’ll get stuck in the box, i’ve seen that thing fire constantly on someone who was stuck just before the crosswalk on the opposite side of the intersection. that poor bastard must have gotten 100 tickets before the light changed.
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