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Why Care About Mickey Mantle?
Posted on July 06, 2010One of the deepest statements of morality and community to ever appear. The message is lost on the massages. I hear people defending Obama, and before Obama, Bush. These men don't care about you. You could die; get third degree burns all over your body; raped; have your children stolen from you and sold into slavery...
Ninth Circuit Holds that Imprisoning Innocent Man is Constitutional
Posted on July 06, 2010Sickening stuff from a "judicial conservative": We must decide whether to recognize a judge-made exception to the statute of limitations for federal habeas relief in the case of a state prisoner who makes a showing of actual innocence in his original petition...
Fun With Generational Hate
Posted on July 06, 2010It's nothing new that the older generation looks down on the younger generation. The kids, these days meme has remained constant through time. The fun thing about reading old books rather than watching TV, is that you realize that every generation has attacked the younger generation...
High Frequency Trading and Market Manipulation Caught on Video
Posted on July 05, 2010This guy's voice is a bit dry, but it's worth watching the first couple of minutes. This is being done on large scales, market wide. This is felonious. The SEC and United States Department of Justice have not prosecuted anyone for these felonies.
War is a Racket
Posted on July 03, 2010On this July 4th weekend, consider the words of one of American's greatest generals - Marine General Smedley Butler. Most of us don't know about General Butler, because the corporate-owned media has a vested interest in keeping Americans ignorant of great figures...
How Jurors Think
Posted on July 03, 2010Ponder this before your next trial: I was a juror on a murder case 3 years ago...a mother charged with suffocating her 23 month old son. Similar to this case, there was no physical evidence...no blanket fibers in the child's nose or mouth and the coroner/forensic team could not say how this child died but *speculated* suffocation...
Culture of Narcissism Meets BP Oil Spill
Posted on July 02, 2010Image is everything - which means that substance is nothing.
Smart Things From the Web
Posted on July 01, 2010* "Blogging is a pie eating contest in which the prize is: more pie." (Via Scott Greenfield.) Years ago Norm Pattis and I were in the zone, and had incredible readership at Crime & Federalism. Modesty aside, the blog was hot. Got too hot, and that's actually what burned us both out...
Richard W. Beckler of Howrey to be Sued for Threatening Frivolous Litigation?
Posted on July 01, 2010If he sent a letter like this to me, I'd have filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment against him and his client. I would argue that my statements were true, and that the threatened lawsuit is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Whether the recipients of Ricard W...
Banks Launder Drug Money; Prosecutors Shrug
Posted on June 30, 2010Months ago, a criminal defense attorney was criminally prosecuted for laundering money because he accepted legal fees from an accused drug dealer. He was acquitted of all charges, but he lost years of his life and $500,000 in legal fees. What would have happened to this lawyer if he had been a big bank? In a punchline that is getting...
Do Women Believes in the Illuminati?
Posted on June 29, 2010A fantastic post at The Last Psychiatrist. By analyzing a claim ("Women are more prone to paranormal thinking than men"), he reveals why almost all social science is a sham. He also reveals the insidigous practice of arguing false inferences - which based on recent comments at this site, seems to be something many people don't understand...
Freedom is Just Another Word For...
Posted on June 28, 2010Washington's Blog (where the below post originally appeared) wonders whether the people are "waking up." Yes, and no. For years, people have realized that a power elite controlled society. People were always awake. However, most Americans were able to live a middle class lifestyle, and thus had no incentive to storm Wall Street...
Is the United States a Police State?
Posted on June 26, 2010As we slaves all learned during our compulsory education (skipping school is an arrestable offense), there are three branches of government - the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. You all voted for Obama. How did that work out? Wall Street bought Congress...
Dave Weigel: Another Fraud Out of a Job
Posted on June 25, 2010The greatest advantage to unplugging from the media's Cult of Personality is vantage: You see what others do not see. If your television, computer, or other entertainment device does not tell you someone is noble, you may conclude conduct that the person is ignoble...
Hedge Fund Managers to Keep 15% Income Tax Rate
Posted on June 25, 2010As most Americans do not know - because if Americans did not know, there would be lynch mobs - hedge fund managers pay only 15% in income taxes. For once, Democrats wanted to buck Wall Street by requiring hedge fund managers to pay the same income tax rate that other Americans pay...
Can a Matriarchy Be a World Superpower?
Posted on June 18, 2010It is now beyond debate that the culture has shifted. It is - or will soon be - a woman's world. Women earn 3 college degrees for every 2 that men earn. Women are overrepresented in managerial capacities. Women have taken over. It's also the case that maleness has totally declined...
Prison
Posted on June 18, 2010Would I survive? How does anyone? Would I give up and stop bathing, shaving, eating? Would I maintain my sanity or would I quickly decompensate? How long would it be before I?d want to kill myself?
Remove BP From Oil Spill Efforts
Posted on June 17, 2010[The post below originally appeared at - and was written by the authors of - Washington's Blog.] BP was criminally negligent in drilling the well which blew out. See this, this, this,this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this...
Hedge Fund Managers Pay Only A 15% Income Tax
Posted on June 17, 2010If you're a lawyer, doctor, or small businessperson who had a really good year, you'll pay a 35% income tax on your income. If you manage a hedge fun, you'll pay 15% on your income. That's not a typo. How can this be? Hedge fund managers are paid on the 2-and-20 principle: They get 2% of the value of the...
Summary of Legal Issues in BP Oil Spill
Posted on June 15, 2010BP takes shit in the ocean; public left without drinking water.
Say Hello to "Hand of the Devil"
Posted on June 15, 2010A friend of mine has a blog that I don't read - because I only now know he had a blog. And thus one soon realizes the challenges of blogging: What if you have a site that no one knows about? Do you crap-flood your friends' e-mail boxes with blogging announcements? Not if you want to remain friends...
Summary of Cap-and-Trade Legislation
Posted on June 15, 2010Goldman Sachs has actively lobbied for cap-and-trade: Banks like JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs already have active carbon trading desks that deal in instruments connected to Europe's cap-and-trade system and voluntary markets here...
Lions and Gazelles
Posted on June 15, 2010The Discovery Channel is fertile soil for metaphors about existence. What is nature but competition for existence? We plant gardens, demanding that the soil produce fruit for us. Otherwise harmless rodents compete for our food, and thus become sworn enemies...
Too Small Too Succeed Illustrated in Two Cases
Posted on June 15, 2010Was it Norm Pattis who coined "too small to succeed"? Whomever it was, two articles I read today painfully illustrated that principle: In Astrue v. Ratliff, the Supreme Court upheld the Executive Branch's screwing a lawyer for the disabled out of $2,200...
Joran van der Sloot's Peruvian Vacation
Posted on June 11, 2010It would not be an exaggeration to say he will likely be raped to death: Joran Van der Sloot's - Possible New Home In Prison - 1 @ Yahoo! Video Joran Van der Sloot's: Possible New Home In Prison - 2 @ Yahoo! Video Joran Van der Sloot's: Possible New Home In Prison - 3 @ Yahoo! Video
Narcissist at First Sight
Posted on June 11, 2010According to the Greek myth, Narcissus looked for someone to love. He found no one worthy until he glanced upon his own shadow. There he remained until he died. New social psychological research shows that young Narcissus would not have died alone. See "Why Are Narcissists so Charming at First Sight? Decoding the Narcissism?Popularity Link at Zero Acquaintance" (here): Three...
Dealing With Parasitic Lawyers: New Policy
Posted on June 09, 2010I don't accept advertisement for this site, even though I could. I don't use it for self-promotion. My blogging is about as altruistic as a human being can be. I don't even try to build my brand. This blog is pro bono publico. One thing I'm tired of is people parasitizing off of my efforts...
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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