I just saw in the paper a fourth firefighter has died fighting the Colorado wildfires, this time a helicopter pilot from Canada. I have advocated before for a fleet of a hundred or more 747/767 size water bombers to stomp fires in mountainous areas flat as fast as possible. I will continue to do so.
The rise of tort law in America is directly tied to the rise of the railroads. The railroads were killing, maiming, and burning with impunity until the legal resources were assembled to hold them accountable.
The nascent laws arose from the common-law doctrines of trespass. If the railroad had unsafe machinery and it had cut off your hand, it had trespassed against you; if the sparks from its locomotives set farmers' fields afire, it had trespassed against those farmers.
So today, that you can sue the driver who ran the stop sign and hit your car, or that you can sue the company that sold you the defective smoke alarm, and all such similar suits, great and small, are due to the rise of the railroads.
Fun fact: once the programmers got going on Bitcoin, they needed someone to invest to pay the salaries of a couple of them.
Enter Jeffery Epstein. Someone who really loved being sneaky and keeping tabs on other people. I wonder how much influence he had on the final product?
(I don't wonder)
"Documents published last week by the US Department of Justice reveal Epstein bankrolled the “principal home and funding source” for bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, during its nascent stages; he also invested $3m in Coinbase in 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, and cut a check that same year to Blockstream, a prominent bitcoin-focused technology firm."
After reading the book "Banana" that talks about the history of the fruit, including some of the political stuff like a slaughter of workers and their families. That incident was included in "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Funny to think that the same thing that happened there -- the slaughter of workers (and women and children) at the behest of a company and pressure from the freedom-loving US also happened in the US.
I wonder if union workers who fired back were allowed to claim they were just standing their ground?
The White Fleet of Banana Boats. All because Minor Keith built a 10 mile railroad that killed 20,000 Irish from malaria and yellowjack, and needed something for the railroad to carry. And that is how we got the United Fruit Company in Nicaraugua. “why do the Sandhinistas hate us?” now you know.
' US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been told to immediately halt most vehicle stops nationwide, following a pair of fatal shootings in Texas and Maine involving ICE agents. '
Susan was concerned that Maine voters will go for anyone the dems put up as her opponent. She called in some markers. I kid. Even the convicted felon can see this is a losing cause nation wide. Tossing Naziferatu under the bus must be looking more appealing every day. I wish.
Lest we forget: Thank You Mr. Loomis. I know you work hard on these articles and I do appreciate that the mommy blog brings them to us. I would welcome some background on the Molly Maguires also too since they did not seem to mind sabotage and violence when it came to dealing with greedy coal mine ownership.
America needs to establish an occasion that will be honored by history like Bastille Day. At this malfeasant moment in time it's past time for an uprising, comrades.
They grabbed a cannon and blew down the door of the Bastille (the 2A in France!), set all 12 prisoners free (weren’t that many), beheaded the poor governor of the prison, and stuck the head on a pike from thr highest tower, with rapturous cheers from the throng of sans culottes and Madame Defarges! Vie la Revolution! Liberte, Equalite, Fraternite! Meanwhile, back at Versailles, it was still 1789!
I just saw in the paper a fourth firefighter has died fighting the Colorado wildfires, this time a helicopter pilot from Canada. I have advocated before for a fleet of a hundred or more 747/767 size water bombers to stomp fires in mountainous areas flat as fast as possible. I will continue to do so.
This post sent me down a Paris Commune rabbit hole. I found this poem by Victoria Hugo.
On a Barricade
On a barricade, amidst the cobbles
Dirtied with guilty blood and cleaned with pure blood,
A boy of twelve was taken alongside the men,
“Do you belong to them?” The child said, “I do.”
“That’s good”, said the officer, “we are going to shoot you.
Wait your turn.” The child saw bright flashes,
And all his partners die against the wall.
He said to the officer, “May I go
Return this watch to my mother at home?”
“You want to escape.” “I am going to return.” “These ruffians
Are afraid! Where do you live?” “There, by the fountain
And I am going to come back, Mr Captain.”
“Beat it, scoundrel!” The child leaves. Clumsy trick!
And the soldiers laugh with their officer,
And to this laughter the dying add their moans;
But the laughter stops, because suddenly the pale child,
Without warning reappeared, proud like Viala,
Came to stand against the wall and said to them: here I am.
Stupid death was ashamed, and the officer pardoned the boy.
[…]
Excellent history lesson as always!
Richard White's book ("Railroaded") is very good. All of Professor White's stuff is very good, in fact.
If the true history of the labor movement was taught in the public schools we'd live in a vastly better world.
Ta, Erik. I knew some of this but not all. A TV show called Hell on Wheels illustrated a lot of it. Solidarity forever.
Solidarity!
The Hill, that rag, has a headline, "Can Mamdani's success last till the midterms?" Fckin rag.
Tiger Beat on the Potomac, says Charles Pierce.
For real.
The rise of tort law in America is directly tied to the rise of the railroads. The railroads were killing, maiming, and burning with impunity until the legal resources were assembled to hold them accountable.
The nascent laws arose from the common-law doctrines of trespass. If the railroad had unsafe machinery and it had cut off your hand, it had trespassed against you; if the sparks from its locomotives set farmers' fields afire, it had trespassed against those farmers.
So today, that you can sue the driver who ran the stop sign and hit your car, or that you can sue the company that sold you the defective smoke alarm, and all such similar suits, great and small, are due to the rise of the railroads.
Is tort law flexible enough to punish the owners of AI products that cause harm, whether it be directly or indirectly? I sure hope so!
Personal Injury Lawyers say Yes! Call the Texas Hammer now for your free consultation. If we lose, you pay nothing!
IANAL, but product liability laws would likely apply here.
Funny money.
𝘊𝘐𝘈 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭: “𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴… 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘛𝘖𝘖𝘓 𝘸𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨.”
https://xcancel.com/SternDrewCrypto/status/2076720034110689712#m
Fun fact: once the programmers got going on Bitcoin, they needed someone to invest to pay the salaries of a couple of them.
Enter Jeffery Epstein. Someone who really loved being sneaky and keeping tabs on other people. I wonder how much influence he had on the final product?
(I don't wonder)
"Documents published last week by the US Department of Justice reveal Epstein bankrolled the “principal home and funding source” for bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, during its nascent stages; he also invested $3m in Coinbase in 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, and cut a check that same year to Blockstream, a prominent bitcoin-focused technology firm."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/09/jeffrey-epstein-crypto
CIA attorney, keeping it on the down-low. "Secrets? We don't need any stinkin' secrets."
After reading the book "Banana" that talks about the history of the fruit, including some of the political stuff like a slaughter of workers and their families. That incident was included in "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Funny to think that the same thing that happened there -- the slaughter of workers (and women and children) at the behest of a company and pressure from the freedom-loving US also happened in the US.
I wonder if union workers who fired back were allowed to claim they were just standing their ground?
The White Fleet of Banana Boats. All because Minor Keith built a 10 mile railroad that killed 20,000 Irish from malaria and yellowjack, and needed something for the railroad to carry. And that is how we got the United Fruit Company in Nicaraugua. “why do the Sandhinistas hate us?” now you know.
O/T Nice Time!
' US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been told to immediately halt most vehicle stops nationwide, following a pair of fatal shootings in Texas and Maine involving ICE agents. '
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8yrw597eo
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Like that is going to stop them.
I want somebody other than Trump and Miller telling them to do this, just cuz they're getting bad press. The courts? Congress?
Tonto? Matt Dillon? Davy Crockett? Superman? Captain Merrill? Michael Knight and the KIT car? I know ….The A Team!!!
I'll believe it when there's no more blood puddling on the streets.
Sure. Tell us another lie
They will slow down for a month or so, then go right back to killing people.
Susan was concerned that Maine voters will go for anyone the dems put up as her opponent. She called in some markers. I kid. Even the convicted felon can see this is a losing cause nation wide. Tossing Naziferatu under the bus must be looking more appealing every day. I wish.
Exactly. Let the dust settle on these, then BAU.
Lest we forget: Thank You Mr. Loomis. I know you work hard on these articles and I do appreciate that the mommy blog brings them to us. I would welcome some background on the Molly Maguires also too since they did not seem to mind sabotage and violence when it came to dealing with greedy coal mine ownership.
OT: The Girl With The Dogs grooms Little Baby Linuses!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNdQcH-9_Ko
Happy Bastille Day! maybe some day we'll have one of our own. fingers crossed
America needs to establish an occasion that will be honored by history like Bastille Day. At this malfeasant moment in time it's past time for an uprising, comrades.
To hope that we'll have a democracy one day seems like almost too much to hope for.
Is this the one where all the beheadings occurred?
They grabbed a cannon and blew down the door of the Bastille (the 2A in France!), set all 12 prisoners free (weren’t that many), beheaded the poor governor of the prison, and stuck the head on a pike from thr highest tower, with rapturous cheers from the throng of sans culottes and Madame Defarges! Vie la Revolution! Liberte, Equalite, Fraternite! Meanwhile, back at Versailles, it was still 1789!
Ya think?
"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤," 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘕𝘉𝘊
There's a word for what happens when they sync back up: correction.
The stock market ≠ the economy
And they have normalized it.
Stagflation!
OT: Boo hoo fucking hootie hoo hoo.
SCOTUS whining about needing more protection money.
Gee. I wonder who it is they are getting the threats from.
Wow, you take away folks' rights and give us a king and suddenly nobody likes you. Go figure.
I would take a bullet for Sotomayor, Brown Jackson, or Kagan. I'm old anyway. The rest of those guys? Fuck 'em.
Yep. They can fuck off to Hell.
The Devil doesn’t want Martha Ann. She is too evil for him.