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23 Nov 11:59 pm
I was going to write about Governor Ted's announcement yesterday that he was granting clemency requests to 78 men and women. Good for him. I've said enough negative things about the guy
lately that he deserves some praise for doing something right. On the other hand, with a single exception about which I'm both surprised and pleased, I honestly don't know if the people
who got relief were especially deserving or, more important perhaps, if they were more deserving than the people who didn't get ...
3 May, 2007 9:34 pm
... - death and taxes. Well, there is one other thing. If I schedule a baseball practice for my little league teams it will rain. But it's also raining law blogs in Iowa.
The law firm of Huber Book Cortese Happe and Lanz has four new law blogs in their infancy including: Richard Book's Workers' Compensation and Employment Law Blog; Lanz' Law by
Jeff Lanz; Bill's Legal Cite by Bill Grell; Law Notes by Joe Happe. Another blog includes the personal injury and workers' compensation ...
11 Sep, 2006 4:29 pm
... , not for people contemplating divorce in the immediate future, but will compensate those unfortunate enough to fall into the statistic of the 50% or so marriages that eventually
fail year after year. "You can't buy flood insurance when it's raining." Logan remarks, "It's the same with us. This is precautionary coverage, like disability or cancer
insurance. The facts are if you decide to build your house on a flood plain, you may never get flooded, but the odds against you are real. Today, the ...
2 Jun 2:56 am
... have mental retardation. The Constitution no longer allows the execution of people who have mental retardation. Michael Bies sits on death row in Ohio. He was found guilty by a jury
of the aggravated murder, attempted rape, and kidnapping of Aaron Raines in 1992. He was sentenced to death because the jury found, and the
judge agreed, that the various statutory death specifications of which he was also found guilty outweighed beyond a reasonable doubt mitigating factors he proved. One of those ...
11 Aug 6:17 pm
... and Harriet Miers and the White House generally were far more deeply involved in the decisions to fire U.S. Attorneys in 2006 than they'd previsouly admitted. And, the documents
show, at least some of the motivation was purely political. As Claude Raines might put it, I'm shocked, shocked. The Justice Department is
looking into whether we illegally tortured prisoners at Gitmo or elsewhere. But althogh waterboarding is torture, we're not concerned about that because now-Professor John Yoo said it
...
21 May, 2008 1:11 am
... holds my hands down, kisses as they burn their way along my spine - or rain, our bodies wet, clothes clinging arm to elbow, clothes clinging nipple to groin ... shoulder.
World-wise, world-weary, and not his mother's favorite, this Jeff will always win when it all comes down to fisticuffs. Unfortunately for him,
it doesn't always all ... one is farther up the road, beyond the hairpin turn, or just before it, depending on which Jeff you are. It could
have been so beautiful-you scout out the road ahead and ...
26 Apr, 2007 12:53 pm
... critical factor? The New York Times and its Editorial Page Editor Howell Raines, may he burn in hell. Raines HATED Clinton. I still have no idea why. Raines' hatred spilled into the news pages, Jeff Gerth anyone, and from there to the whole of the Establishment Media. The endless investigations ... for 30 years and the Wurlitzer. And yes, The New
York Times and that bastard Howell Raines. So no the Press is not better. It is markedly worse. That the Media was cowed after 9/11 is ...
18 Nov, 2007 3:46 pm
... nice cuts at the government's case in recent interviews. Reading between the lines, it seems Rains has already picked his defense and needs to get it out there in ... Bonds a
generous settlement anyway? In the mean time, here are some choice quotes from Rains, as provided in these two articles: "[The DOJ] doesn't know if waterboarding is ... "They
have spent millions of dollars and turned (chief Balco investigator) Jeff Novitzy loose in an unsupervised fashion for half a decade now."
"They need to say ...
5 Aug, 2007 7:46 pm
... I watched "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" tonight. While the filibuster scene is the most famous, I find this bit by Claude Rains, playing Senator Paine, Jefferson Smith's
mentor, the most interesting: Listen, Jeff--you--you don't understand these things--you mustn't ... and a man as angel or devil. That's the
young idealist in you. And that isn't how the world runs, Jeff--certainly not Government and politics. It's a question of give and take--you
have to play the ...
1 Jun 2:21 am
Hi kids, it's Monday and it will probably rain again! Poor Jeff Soffer. The Turnberry heir picked the wrong time to invest in the Las
Vegas condo market, picked the wrong time to give half of his hotel to the Saudis in order to drop a ... before the renovations were complete, they are arguing mistake and/or fraud and
seeking various forms of rescission. Jeff, through Orlando attorney Jameil McWhorter, is seeking $285k in cancellation fees. Case is before
Judge Ungaro, who ...
1 May 8:12 am
... of methylmercury in the North Pacific Ocean. It shows that methylmercury is produced in mid-depth ocean waters by processes linked to the "ocean rain." Algae, which are
produced in sunlit waters near the surface, die quickly and "rain" downward to greater water depths. At ... Information & Management Services, Inc. (WIMS) Publishers of
Michigan Waste Report, REGTrak, WIMS Daily & eNewsUSA Jeff Dauphin, President 767 Kornoelje Dr. NE, Comstock Park, MI 49321-9537 Phone:
616-647-2186 E-Mail: ...
5 Jan, 2007 6:20 pm
Ah, first Flybys of 2007. . . To Jeff Bezos and the upwardly mobile crew at Blue Origin, gradatim ferociter indeed! With the Goddard test
launch (and party) scenes now available ... of a Russian SL-4 rocket reentered the atmosphere early yesterday morning and rained space junk on Wyoming and Colorado. (But the
surprised and delighted on-air crew at ... to get excited about new space jobs (if not new spaceport taxes). Jeff Foust reports that a major
change in UK space policy may be coming. Ryan Zelnio ...
6 Nov, 2007 8:30 am
... long as the client keeps spending money, you keep making money, even if you do nothing. It just keeps raining money. Obviously, this is a great deal for the originating
partner. However, it's not so good for the law firm. Why this is ... s Mentor. I turned to this book to address the origination credit question, and found my answer on page 171, where
Jeff writes about knowing when it's time to divide a sales territory. This requires a little explanation. In any sales organization,
commissions, which ...
4 May 7:16 am
... and Independence, Missouri. One late afternoon after cleaning the hog houses Jeff looked at Charlie's Missouri license plate and then asked
me if I knew why it was the show-me-state. "Not really." was my reply. Jeff looked over at Charlie who was always from Missouri and said,
"Because you have ... real problems in America. What happened to those anti-establishment hippies standing out in the rain in 1969 at Woodstock? Are you dead or what? Who
replaced you with these conservative yuppies who could ...
15 Oct 8:14 am
... in early November [See WIMS 10/14/09], the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee (ENR), Chaired by Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
is also conducting a series of climate change hearings. On October 14, ENR held a hearing on ... for sulfur dioxide set up by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments was an unprecedented
environmental success in combating acid rain, and cost only about a quarter of the price that economic models were projecting. The greenhouse gas emissions trading program in
Europe has ...
2 Nov 6:33 am
... and electricity. According to the Barnard article, their electricity comes from solar panels when the sun is shining, and during the winter rains they run a micro-hydro
turbine in a creek. Further, they cut oak and fir from the farm to run a ... renewable energy projects in fiscal year 2008, and current projections are for 385 projects in fiscal 2009.
Another Oregon farmer, Jeff Falen, has turned to renewable energy because of the real financial costs as well as '"deferred costs of adapting
to future ...
26 Jan, 2007 7:43 pm
... night adopted a new local law that's aimed at keeping fertilizer, pesticides and other pollutants out of the town's creeks and streams. An inch or two of rain can wash those
grass clippings and other yard debris into the stormwater system, said Jeff Manning, program coordinator. The federal and state governments are
mandating the stormwater protections, which the board chose to adopt on a town-wide basis. Illicit ...
6 Mar, 2007 10:01 am
Check out clips from Jeff Goldblum's new crime drama series "Raines." As usual, Goldblum plays a
kooky guy. Except this time, he's a police detective haunted by the ghosts of imaginary victims whose murder he's trying to solve. "CSI: Miami" star Rex Linn, who plays Detective Frank
Tripp, had friends questioning his sanity when he opted to pursue acting: "A lot of people thought I was having a nervous breakdown. I was a bank's vice president." Guy Ritchie was
(finally) ...
15 Mar, 2007 8:44 pm
... the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." --Martha Stewart, as told to Jack Handy. "If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to
tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to ... But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might
actually think that." ---Jeff Goldblum, as told to Jack Handy "If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it
makes ...
13 Apr, 2007 2:24 pm
... for a release of the full report (I would agree) and adds this regarding the Integrity Committee's findings. Over on Space Politics Jeff
Foust reports on and stirs up a bit of discussion about Rep. Ken Calvert's (R-CA) soon-to-be-introduced bill "to ... ... This blog is not Space Food Probe, but yummm... And that's
right, this is still not a space law case. Finally, if it rains this weekend, I'll be over at robot guy playing javascript chess. (And losing.) * * * IMAGE: Pre-launch Charles
Simonyi in ...
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