Tuesday, March 21st, 2006,
by Fred (,
9/11, conspiracy, elections, Ian Stensing, Idaho, Kent Bailey, metafilter, Mike Jorgenson, politics
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MetaCrazyBatShitInsane. 208 comments and counting, with at least half from people who actually believe the government caused 9/11. The best part, however, is this:
I’m on the ballot for the upcoming primary as a candidate for precinct committee person for my county Democratic Party, and I’m running for a seat in the Idaho State Senate come Nov. 2nd.
That’s right. If you are in Idaho Legislative District #3, you can vote for a candidate who said this:
Extensive eyewitness testimony from police, firefighters, and other witnesses and emergency personnel describing myriad explosions and flashes consistent with demolition have been ignored.
Video evidence - such as the footage in “9/11 eyewitness” clearly capturing multiple explosions within the towers, as well as dust clouds, preceding the collapses of the buildings by several minutes, again, have been ignored.
And this:
And what the fuck was with the military grade anthrax attacks on democratic congressmen and major media figures, simultaneous to the period in which any meaningful investigation of 9/11 could take place?
Wow. So the Bush administration did a trillion dollars worth of damage to the domestic economy all to justify the war in Iraq, and then dropped some anthrax on the capitol, disrupting mail service in DC for months, to cover up the coverup? If I were Kent Bailey or Mike Jorgenson, I’d save this link. Or this one. Or this one or this one.
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006,
by Fred (,
elections, Henry Rizzo, Missouri, politics, Victor Callahan
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Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan has struck down on equal protection grounds a Missouri statute that bars those with federal felony or misdemeanor convictions from running for office. The law allows those with state convictions to hold such offices.
The judge said federal crimes are not always more serious than state crimes, noting federal misdemeanors include “introducing into interstate commerce a residential refrigerator which cannot be opened from the inside” and trespassing on federal land.
The plaintiff in the case, Henry Rizzo, a member of the Jackson County legislature and former state House member from Kansas City, claims the legislation was payback for political disagreements he had with state Sen. Victor Callahan, an Independence Democrat. If this is not the case, one wonders why Callahan’s bill dealt only with federal and not state convictions.
Sen. Callahan says he will amend the law to include state convictions. This is bad news for Chief Wana Dubie.
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006,
by Fred (,
Chief Wana Dubie, elections, libertarians, Missouri
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Your Libertarian candidate for Missouri State Representative - District 150:
Chief Wana Dubie.
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Friday, February 24th, 2006,
by Fred (,
elections, Jefferson County, judiciary, St. Louis
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Good news for fellow BlackBerry users — still no need to interact personally with actual humans. For now.
During the hearing, lawyers for NTP asked Spencer to issue an updated $126 million judgment as soon as possible against the BlackBerry manufacturer, covering all of the devices NTP says infringed its patents through November of last year. They also called for an injunction to shut down RIM’s U.S. service.
Spencer did not rule from the bench, saying he would take the matter under advisement. He said he expected to release an order related to the damages before releasing one related to the injunction.
He also scolded the companies for not coming to a settlement on their own.
“In plain words, the case should have been settled, but it hasn’t, so I have to deal with that reality,” Spencer said.
The USPTO has now issued final orders rejecting two of the five patents at issue, with final orders rejecting the remaining patents likely to be issued shortly. RIM would still have to pay damages for the period the patents were valid. Still unresolved, of course, is why the PTO issued the patents in the first place and why patent hoarders like NTP, which produces no actual products, should be rewarded at the expense of companies that actually contribute to the economy.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006,
by Fred (,
Crista Johnson, elections, Jefferson County, judiciary, St. Louis
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The Cat Piano
In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.
Think how much easier the Meow Mix jingle would have been with a Cat Piano.
[via WMMNA]
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