Category Archives: Judiciary

Obama orders same-sex hospital visits

President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.
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Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea

Fuck you, Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice.
Fuck you.
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea .
Really? “Reliable projections”? “Action in real time”? “Preventing criminal activities”? I don’t know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th [...]

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Real patriots believe in the principles of America

Real patriots believe in the principles of America – St. Petersburg Times.
Damn straight, Robyn.

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Scientology: The truth rundown

Scientology: The truth rundown
Worth a read, by the Scientologists’ home town paper.   Just go ahead and read Mission:Earth and tell me Hubbard was not at least a little clinical == daft as a hatter.

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“Arrested” and “convicted” are two very different things in a nation where we’re supposed to be big on innocent unless proved guilty.

Read.

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This is not going to go well…

Yeah… This.

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The real scandal at AIG

The real scandal at AIG is the not the bonuses. It’s the payments to counterparties.

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You have to understand that model rockets are a threat to the state.

No, really. Because there was nothing to report, and no action was taken. Get off my yard.

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Don’t mess with British schoolgirls.

They’ll blow your shit up.
MEKP, just slightly more stable than TATP.
What are kids these days coming to? I picture it going down like the video below, but with girls in hoodies instead.  And more explosions.  NSFW, and LOUD.

justice stress (official video)
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Yes, Virginia, the US is preparing martial law for its’ citizens…

Never fear, InfraGuard is here! Finally, you too can be granted immunity for killing someone to protect the infrastructure!

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Why I both like and hate the kindle.

e-ink and e-books are both good, and combined, are a net HUGE win. I love the kindle, Amazon’s new e-book device, for what it is, a major play into the market, and the instant updates, wikipedia, etc. There is a lot of awesome in the device to love. Ultimately though, this article [...]

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Lasers? On my battlefield?

Imma chargin meh lazer! On a more serious note, 8 weeks and they got it to fit on a HMMV. Nice!

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Bush. Pwnd.

I cannot quite believe it, but someone declined to help W in his effort to dismantle the Constitution!   Long live the Fourth Amendment!

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