No, referring to EFFORTS as "token" is apparently just as offensive as calling Nazis fine people, being unwilling to denounce David Duke, calling for cops to smack around suspects, pardoning a sherriff who tortures suspects, telling black people to be more grateful....
Welp, the ol' clock on the whatnot shelf is telling me my bud Morpheus is on his way here. Going to visit the Discworld for a while first as I work my way through "Snuff", the last of the Sam Vimes books. Then My bud and I will be off to dreamland, and I do mean dreamland, because that's all I seem to do instead of getting a night's rest. I hate waking up felling like I've just run a marathon. Double plus ungood. Ah, well, such is my life, if you want to call it that.
Stay healthy, stay smart and stay snarky as hell. That's a big oyasumi from Animeland.
Pop culture has made it look as though judges and legislators put a bunch of loopholes into our criminal laws to snag the cops and let bad guys skate, rather than having genuine constitutional protections that make it harder to railroad innocent people. Anyone genuinely curious could take a look at how law enforcement works in societies where no such legal "loopholes" exist and they'd quickly see why we have them.
but then, it is generally the most stupid elements that are the LOUDEST, especially because they get the most media coverage. they get the most media coverage because; 1. the owners of the media agree with them, or at least find them useful tools; 2. conflict is drama, and drama fills seats and invites clicks
A million years ago I heard a talk by (I'm 99% sure) attorney William Kunstler, who said "There is no such thing as 'a technicality'" and explained that if the state fucked up, it's a civil rights issue. Of course it is a broad statement but it reminds us that the burden of proof is on the state.
Biden with the support of the Klan which were all Democrats. He then went and put Clarence Thomas on the Court, rather than voted against his nomination in Committee and the Floor.
No, referring to EFFORTS as "token" is apparently just as offensive as calling Nazis fine people, being unwilling to denounce David Duke, calling for cops to smack around suspects, pardoning a sherriff who tortures suspects, telling black people to be more grateful....
♪♫You've Got To Be Carefully Taught♫♪
if only reality weren't so damn real, it would all be rainbows and lollipops and unicorns farting lollipop-scented rainbows
Welp, the ol' clock on the whatnot shelf is telling me my bud Morpheus is on his way here. Going to visit the Discworld for a while first as I work my way through "Snuff", the last of the Sam Vimes books. Then My bud and I will be off to dreamland, and I do mean dreamland, because that's all I seem to do instead of getting a night's rest. I hate waking up felling like I've just run a marathon. Double plus ungood. Ah, well, such is my life, if you want to call it that.
Stay healthy, stay smart and stay snarky as hell. That's a big oyasumi from Animeland.
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Falling asleep under the kotatsu. Been there. Done that.
wasn't that always the thing on sadly, no?
Pop culture has made it look as though judges and legislators put a bunch of loopholes into our criminal laws to snag the cops and let bad guys skate, rather than having genuine constitutional protections that make it harder to railroad innocent people. Anyone genuinely curious could take a look at how law enforcement works in societies where no such legal "loopholes" exist and they'd quickly see why we have them.
sure seems that way, most days
but then, it is generally the most stupid elements that are the LOUDEST, especially because they get the most media coverage. they get the most media coverage because; 1. the owners of the media agree with them, or at least find them useful tools; 2. conflict is drama, and drama fills seats and invites clicks
A million years ago I heard a talk by (I'm 99% sure) attorney William Kunstler, who said "There is no such thing as 'a technicality'" and explained that if the state fucked up, it's a civil rights issue. Of course it is a broad statement but it reminds us that the burden of proof is on the state.
Biden with the support of the Klan which were all Democrats. He then went and put Clarence Thomas on the Court, rather than voted against his nomination in Committee and the Floor.
She was demonized by the GOP...
... for thirty fucking years, and she still won the popular vote.
Yeah--I remember at the time the real controversy over that bill was coming from the Right--they hated the social spending and gun control in it.
Durbin should not have apologized. The senate bill is clearly a token attempt to address a serious issue.
So I wake up this morning to learn that the local constabulary in my town pepper sprayed a double amputee protester and then stole his legs.
Yeah, fuck the police.
Then again –
Long ago I attended a lecture by Dr. Thompson. Once he finally showed up he noted "The weakest link in any civil rights case is always the defendant."
Biden may have been in the senate at the time but it was Hillary's husband who was championing the bill.
Can you imagine what this country would look like today if the Republicans had run a real candidate?