John Dean takes on Judge Feldman

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Monday June 28, 2010 · 5:12 AM PDT

2010/06/28 · 05:12

In his latest column, John Dean, formerly of the Nixon administration, who has since mended his ways, took a long look at the recent decision to shut down the moratorium on offshore drilling. It ain't pretty.

In the end, it appears as if Judge Feldman has significant conflicts of interest, and should, but probably won't, face disciplinary action.

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Saturday April 24, 2010 · 8:22 AM PDT

2010/04/24 · 08:22

We're all well aware of the impending shortages of oil and water. There is even a problem with worldwide lithium, given our interest in producing hybrid and electric vehicles. Well, it also turns out there is a looming problem with phosphorus.

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Sunday April 18, 2010 · 1:12 PM PDT

2010/04/18 · 13:12

Everyone remember the great garbage pile in the Pacific Ocean? It turns out that they just discovered one in the Atlantic Ocean as well.

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Sunday January 24, 2010 · 1:06 PM PST

2010/01/24 · 13:06

About a year and a half ago, the Supreme Court decided an landmark case on gun rights, taking up for the first time in 70 years whether individuals have a Constitutional right to own firearms. The case was decided in favor of individual gun owners, overthrowing many state and local gun laws in the process. In general it was probably the right decision, although the full impact has yet to be felt. And in the grand scheme of things, as broad as that decision was, it was still in the realm of deciding a clearly Constitutional issue, no matter whether you agree or disagree with the outcome.

Now imagine if the court had instead of limiting the case, they had decided on much broader grounds, whether individuals had a right to own any type of weapon. Remember, the 2nd Amendment says arms, not firearms. If they had gone so far in such a case, they might have allowed individuals to own nuclear weapons. And that is the equivalent to what the Supreme Court has just done to the First Amendment.

corwin

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Saturday January 23, 2010 · 7:35 AM PST

2010/01/23 · 07:35

No, it will never make up for the absolutely horrible week we've just been through, but Fair Districts Florida just sent me an email letting me know that the two ballot initiatives limiting gerrymandering are officially on the Florida ballot.

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Monday November 23, 2009 · 4:20 PM PST

2009/11/23 · 16:20

A few months ago, I wrote this diary. In it, I explained that Fair Districts Florida is trying to put two amendments on the ballot for next November's election which would curtail the ability of legislators to gerrymander districts for political gain.

We are now in the home stretch for getting those amendments on the ballot.

corwin

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Tuesday September 01, 2009 · 5:07 PM PDT

2009/09/01 · 17:07

Well, I just LOVED this one here. It makes so much sense what he is saying.

Call him a terrorist or a suicide bomber or anything else you want, but understand that he is willing -- no, anxious -- to give his life for his cause. Call him also a captive, and know that he works with others as part of a team, like the Sept. 11 hijackers, all of whom died, willingly. Ishmael is someone I invented, but he is not a far-fetched creation. You and I know he exists, has existed and will exist again. He is the enemy.

Now he is in American custody. What will happen? How do we get him to reveal his group's plans and the names of his colleagues? It will be hard. It will, in fact, be harder than it used to be. He can no longer be waterboarded. He knows this. He cannot be deprived of more than a set amount of sleep. He cannot be beaten or thrown up against even a soft wall. He cannot be threatened with shooting or even frightened by the prospect of an electric drill. Nothing really can be threatened against his relatives -- that they will be killed or sexually abused.

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Thursday June 18, 2009 · 9:18 AM PDT

2009/06/18 · 09:18

Florida is one of the worst offenders when it comes to gerrymandering. Over the last two three presidential elections, we have been the largest swing state, splitting down the middle over that time (one tie, one for Bush, one for Obama). We have had strong democrats represent us in the Senate. Even so, we have so gerrymandered our state that our House representation skews strongly to the republican side. And our state legislature is 2/3 republican, also due in large part to gerrymandered districts.

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 2:32 PM PDT

2009/05/13 · 14:32

Nearly twenty years ago, Danny Rolling came to Gainesville, FL and committed the worst crime our city has seen, killing 5 college students in 3 days and terrorizing this city. I was living only a couple of miles from the nearest victims, and I was still feeling the effects of his actions for months afterward. Eventually, Rolling went to trial, and he was found guilty of their murders a few years later.

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Saturday February 21, 2009 · 6:02 AM PST

2009/02/21 · 06:02

For every action, there is an equal, but opposite reaction.

This I did not know:

The 19th-century creators of neoclassical economics—the theory that now serves as the basis for coordinating activities in the global market system—are credited with transforming their field into a scientific discipline. But what is not widely known is that these now legendary economists—William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, Maria Edgeworth and Vilfredo Pareto—developed their theories by adapting equations from 19th-century physics that eventually became obsolete. Unfortunately, it is clear that neoclassical economics has also become outdated. The theory is based on unscientific assumptions that are hindering the implementation of viable economic solutions for global warming and other menacing environmental problems.

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 6:33 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 18:33

I don't really care how much money you have. I don't care if you're worth a gazillion dollars.

People would make snide comments about Paris Hilton's tax breaks. But it really does not bother me when she spends 10 thousand on a new pair of shoes or a million on an all night long party. What she does with her money has no impact whatsoever on my life. And her video a couple weeks back was pure gold, but I digress.

But this is where we have given the wrong message.

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Tuesday August 12, 2008 · 5:21 PM PDT

2008/08/12 · 17:21

I did a search on this and hadn't seen anything show up. If it is a duplicate, please let me know.

Update: Sorry, my local rag of a paper said it was awarded. The linked story only shows Flora as being on the shortlist. Even so, the rest of the concerns are still valid.

A new national biological lab is being built in a Flora, Mississippi, a small town of only 1500 people. This has caused a great deal of concern, as the town was among the lowest ranked among the 17 applicants.

The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations by government experts and named Mississippi -- home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency -- as one of five finalists for a new $451 million laboratory to study biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

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