Recusal: Uniontown cops can only credibly arrest whites

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Friday August 14, 2009 · 2:56 PM PDT

2009/08/14 · 14:56

I am not a lawyer. But it strikes me that there is considerable malice aforethought at play when police departments allow a knee-jerk and callous mens rea to permeate their operations as detailed in the N166ER story diaried here.

The dispatcher, and very possibly the recipients of her email, thought this was "...I'm really sorry, I really, really tried not to laugh but...........!" But she did. And she thought it would find similar humorous resonance with the recipients of her forwarded email, shown here.

Presumption of Innocence accords a certain respect and dignity to an individual in our system of justice - the lady with scales is blindfolded for a reason. If you can't accord and encourage simple respect and dignity to an African American man who happens to hold the highest office in the land, why should we presume that you are capable of dealing fairly and respectfully with any African American you encounter on Canton Road or Edison Street in Uniontown?

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 3:17 PM PDT

2009/05/14 · 15:17

William Hogeland gets semi-medieval on historical revisionists in Inventing American History...

"Neo-Hamiltonians have been chopping up the past to make it conform to their political aims. Alexander Hamilton's national vision and founding economics are far more troubling--so more compelling--than his promoters acknowledge ... Hamilton is routinely credited for favoring a strong executive branch. What he really favored was an executive branch run by him, strong enough to do anything it deemed in the national interest. For Hamilton, personal and military force, unrestrained by the slightest consideration of law, were joined ineluctably to American wealth, American unity, and America modernity. "

Gonna have to get this. I've done a decent amount of historical destination marketing and strategy and it always amazes me how contorted some can get in their efforts to burnish a favorite mythology and push it as "Historical Fact." Imagine a late-1700s version of how critics portray Al Gore today. That was Hamilton. Except...

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My Favorite Founding Father is

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My Favorite Founding Father is

Alexander Hamilton

31 votes

George Hamilton

1 vote

Thomas Jefferson

55 votes

James Madison

15 votes

George Washington

22 votes

Benjamin Franklin

27 votes

John Hancock

2 votes

Samuel Adams

7 votes

Josiah Bartlett

3 votes

One of the other ones

14 votes

a Founding Mother

4 votes

a bit player who deserves more credit

4 votes

none of the above because patriarchy sux

9 votes

none of your beeswax

3 votes

whomever Antonin Scalia hates, just hates

13 votes

Barack, Stop! Now is CHANGE. Start the moonshot.

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 4:21 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 04:21

[updated title as kafkananda wisely put it below]

With all the talk of Moral Hazards and Assymetric Information, I too am pondering the "reality" of the situation with my partners. Several of us (some MBAs and forensic business types reengineering failed Cos -- with me the least numerate ;-) are asking what's the downside of actual market correction rather than the assisted fall down the stairs that this plan resembles.

My side of the business is reclaiming Brand Equity or just building it from scratch. We view Barack Obama as a half realized brand that has yet to pivot from the soaring "Why we are Americans" to the necessary complement of "...and this is how we roll" with resonant specificity. I work alot with stark polarities, since folks under pressure don't do meandering complexity well. But creating this simplicity requires a bunch of human understanding from our group. I'll cut to the chase. A term we use is Moonshots and Tsunamis. It takes what seems hopeless or threat and refashions it into optimism that even practical jaded and overeducated types can grasp and vest into. [Kinda like 700B Wall Street Shocks.]

Follow me if you want to ponder how Barack Obama ought apply his talent, now, to do the necessary cementing pivot - to supply the inspiring how to his soaring why.

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I remember moments we rose (or not) to the occasion?

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I remember moments we rose (or not) to the occasion?

Great Depression

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World War II

6 votes

Sputnik

3 votes

Mercury

1 vote

Gemini

0 votes

Apollo

8 votes

Iran Hostage Crisis

0 votes

Reagan Shot

0 votes

Challenger

2 votes

Baby Jessica

1 vote

Iran Contra

0 votes

Desert Storm

0 votes

It's the economy stupid

2 votes

Lewinsky

4 votes

9/11 - Iraq - Katrina - Finance Bailout

7 votes

McCain says vote for a fake democrat: Him

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 4:47 PM PDT

2008/09/16 · 16:47

When Sarah Palin crashed the scene she completed a circle not many initially noted.

She speaks admiringly of union membership right off the bat? Idolized John Glenn (D)? Thanks two democratic women for making her chance possible? This should be interesting.

Alaska? America's welfare state? $1.87 in fed funds for every $1.00 in taxes paid? Isn't the other 80% of their existence based on redistribution of taxes on Oil extraction? Every, man, woman and child gets $3,269 annually from the "Permanent Fund." Sounds great, let's do that in LA and WV, too if "the people" own the resources.

A VP pick designed to be an automatic celebrity. So much for the inexperienced lightweight celebrity named Hussein.

Yes. These are not the earmarks (sorry) of the GOP standard. As noted on 9/1 when I wrote this, pre-RNC, this thing will "unspool faster than a golf-ball in a blender."

Now, thanks to Fiorina and Wall Street, McCain is unspooling himself...

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 6:52 PM PDT

2008/09/05 · 18:52

It's all so confusing, this modern age.

Dr. Dobson tells us men can't stay home and tend to the little ones: it's unmanly, un-Christian, un-Republican, un-American. Yet "Hell is your future home," Todd?

Old GOP: Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.
New GOP: Community Organizers aren't fit to wash our feet, a Governor is the second coming.

Help us, please, Sarah. You seem so confident, so bright, so knowing -- we identify, and you complete us. Tell us, what values and ideas must we hold today?

Can you vet my list below, please?

[updated title]

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 12:38 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 12:38

Some disjointed but related thoughts on the man-made storm of the moment.

On manufactured personas...

We went from W the Cowboy to W the Rodeo Clown. Now, we go from McCain the Maverick™ to McCain the Loner. Look it up, another word, a synonym, for Maverick is loner. It's all about him, from disposable wives, to expletive-laden confrontations with colleagues, to expedient flips on taxes and religious intolerance etc, all the way down the disdain for spadework--5th from bottom of Class at Annapolis. Sunni, Shii'a? Whatever.

On Celebrity...

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Saturday March 22, 2008 · 5:00 PM PDT

2008/03/22 · 17:00

Andy, Andy. You've been dreaming and droning about Obama Republicans, and they are there. But you've taken the Reagan Democrat mythology and spackled it onto the man from Illinois without understanding, I think, how mythology works.

Peggy Noonan, semi-admiring Obama's Wright Speech here, channels Ronnie as is her custom, teeing it up for Sullivan. Andy then attempts a heroic bank shot off the gnome, the fiberglass rhino, and into the door of the windmill:

[Some Kant, some Campbell, some Christopher Robin, some totally unfair shrinkifying of Hillary and Andy, a lion's front, a goat's middle, a snake's tail, and a magical pony, after the jump...]

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Most Dubious Enduring Myths

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Most Dubious Enduring Myths

Cubs Win The Series!

4 votes

Cakewalk

1 vote

Last Throes

3 votes

I have a wide stance

3 votes

Bill Kristol, Journalist

25 votes

I'm about Solutionsâ,,¢

3 votes

Apollo Landing

1 vote

Tastes Great, Less Filling

0 votes

Dingo took my baby!

3 votes

Paperless office/Flying Cars

1 vote

John McCain, Maverick

24 votes

Geraldine Ferraro, Democrat

4 votes

Adam Smith trusted Business

5 votes

Beer thru a straw buzzes you quicker

3 votes

Cubs Win The Series!

1 vote

"Hussein"? I am exceeding suspicious.

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Thursday February 28, 2008 · 3:21 PM PST

2008/02/28 · 15:21

I am deeply, deeply disappointed with Barack Obama. First I find out he's black. Black! Next, a person familiar with blackness tells me he's not Black enough! Then, he tries to denounce and/or reject his TRUE heritage: he's not black, or, what-do-you call-it, African-American. Nooo.

He's really ARAB-African-American! What are you ashamed of, Barack H.? And what does a name like Barack mean, anyway!?

Since this is a serious matter, I did some research on The Google. Yeah, what is in a name? More than you know, my friends, more than you know...

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#1 Threat to our freedom?

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#1 Threat to our freedom?

Salma Hayek

4 votes

Loofahs/Falafel-thingies

14 votes

Casey Kasem's Top 40

6 votes

Monk

6 votes

Corporal Klinger

8 votes

Darell Issa

3 votes

John Sununu

2 votes

John Walker Lindh

1 vote

George Walker Bush

77 votes

Sesame Seeds

3 votes

G-Love and Special Sauce

12 votes

Separation of Church and State & Faith and Science

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Wednesday December 12, 2007 · 4:27 PM PST

2007/12/12 · 16:27

[Earlier today, Jeffrey Feldman held a quiz on countering Mike Huckabee's aww shucks huckleberry. My comment/submission as usual morphed into diary length and when that happens I usually leave it in the 'draft' folder and get back to pretending to paying the bills. Here's throwing caution to the wind...]

An ancient and anonymous saying goes that "Faith moves mountains. But bring a shovel." But in Mike Huckabee's view, faith seems to be the mountain you drop on scientists who say factual things that discomfort certain spiritual beliefs. Or, it's a mountain he insists scientists must shovel around in their search for the straight and best path to fact and national strength and security. In a short vid here via Jeffrey, he says he would "turn this country loose with technology." I take that to mean technology is necessary to aid in solving our biggest problems. If you're not paying attention, it's easy to miss what he doesn't say. He doesn't say what technology is, what it derives from. He avoids one simple word. Science.

Gee. How come?

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Thursday July 19, 2007 · 8:18 PM PDT

2007/07/19 · 20:18

We must stop volunteering and giving.

Who's "we"? Probably you. And me. And anybody who has 10 bucks, ten thousand, or one million left over at the end of each month when the bills are paid.

Why? Because you cannot authentically care and commit to poor people if you aren't one step ahead of the repo man and a regular at the Goodwill give-out window. A house with more bedrooms than family members? Stop volunteering, stop caring--you haven't earned it. Already set for retirement, college tuition for the kids? Stop it. Been on vacation lately and been a Big Brother™ or Big Sister™? You cynical damn hypocrite...

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Tuesday March 06, 2007 · 7:37 AM PST

2007/03/06 · 07:37

Like a few others here, I subcribe to GOPUSA for laffs and intel and was glad to see yesterdays diary go up on Kincaid's "shock" at Ann Coulter's, uh, presentation and persona.

Today, the tide is flowing back in and bringing all kinds of down-home, values-voter authenticity with it. GOPUSA Founder Bobby Eberle is aghast at his readership and fills us in--a few snips--after the jump.

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 5:47 AM PDT

2006/10/26 · 05:47

Haven't seen this diaried yet, so...

U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover:

"SALON Oct. 25, 2006 | WASHINGTON -- Two retired senior Army generals, who served in Iraq and previously voted Republican, are now openly endorsing a Democratic takeover of Congress. The generals, and an active-duty senior military official, told Salon in separate interviews that they believe a Democratic victory will help reverse course from what they consider to be a disastrous Bush administration policy in Iraq. The two retired generals, Maj. Gen. John Batiste and Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, first openly criticized the handling of the war last spring, when they called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Another few sad/amazing paragraphs and one dumbfounding statement about Gore and Kerry from Eaton that makes me wanna grab a bat, after the fold. Read More

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Recusal: Uniontown cops can only credibly arrest whites

Why I like Jefferson and Madison: They weren't that Asshole, Hamilton

Barack, Stop! Now is CHANGE. Start the moonshot.

McCain says vote for a fake democrat: Him

Old GOP, New GOP. Oh please, wise Sarah. Tell us what must we do?

Simple: Another word for maverick is Loner

Sullivan's Mythology: Obama needs more Cowboy

"Hussein"? I am exceeding suspicious.

Separation of Church and State & Faith and Science

We must stop volunteering and giving.

GOPUSA "very dissapointed" w/Coulter feedback

Salon: Generals hope for Democratic salvation