Saturday, May 31, 2003

you've got to be kidding me.

"But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them."

this is what we can expect from you?

lies.

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

read this yet?

don't even get me started. where will you be when the boots kick YOUR door off the hinges at 4am?

"Mere compulsive questioning [does not] violate the Constitution," Thomas said. He dismissed the view adopted by federal judges in California that "coercive police interrogations, absent the use of the involuntary statements in a criminal case, violates the 5th Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause."

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor agreed with Thomas.

In a long dissent, Kennedy said the court was abandoning a historic understanding of the 5th Amendment.

"This is no small matter. To tell our whole legal system that, when conducting a criminal investigation, police officers can use severe compulsion, even torture, with no present violation of the right against compelled self-incrimination can only diminish a celebrated provision in the Bill of Rights," Kennedy wrote. "A Constitution survives over time because the people share a common, historic commitment to certain simple but fundamental principles which preserve their freedom. Today's decision undermines one of those respected precepts."


want the rest? here.

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

and for good measure:

leaf blower porn.

must have the title back!

i think politics is probably the only place i could meet a one eyed baptist minister, undertaker in a purple suit, latino grocery clerk named "izzy", 6 firefighters, and a chainsmoking female former pharmacist named "ollie" all in one place - a former casket showroom and current campaign office.

oddly enough, this is the kind of thing that keeps me in this business.

Monday, May 26, 2003

i want the google rating back, so:

leaf blower porn.

search away!

ultimately, i think blogging is kind of like a relationship.

after about a year and a half, you run out of amusing stories and begin repeating yourself.