Archive for 2015
March 8, 2015
STEALTH GUN CONTROL: LaPierre: ‘Next 700 days are the most dangerous’ for 2nd Amendment.
Maybe we should all just do like Obama — ignore laws we don’t like, and then viciously attack anyone who tries to enforce them.
UH OH: Did Attorney General Eric Holder Use Personal Email Address? Much more here.
WHY DOES SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND hate young men?
ED DRISCOLL: Peak Millennial Narcissism Reached. That said, it’s a pretty good diagnosis of current media culture. . . .
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Judge Denies Request to Remove DA From Rape Case Over Allegations of Bias.
Allegations of bias and misconduct on the part of Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller have not convinced a judge to remove her from a felony rape and trespassing case.
In court documents filed yesterday, defense attorney Sean McGraw accused Parks Miller of creating “a grave appearance of bias” by exchanging hundreds of text messages with Centre County Judge Bradley Lunsford over the past several months. He claimed the texts reflect an unprofessional relationship that prejudiced the court against his client Justin Blake, who faces felony charges of rape, assault, trespassing and burglary.
McGraw asked visiting Clinton County Judge J. Michael Williamson (who is now presiding over the case) to remove Parks Miller as the lead prosecuter, to force Lunsford and Parks Miller to have their phones inspected to determine the contents of the text messages, to dismiss the rape and sexual assault charges, to lower Blake’s bail and to allow Blake a new preliminary hearing. . . .
In an unrelated story, Parks Miller has been accused of forging a judge’s signature on a fake court order, which she denies. The forgery allegations were made through an affidavit signed by Michelle Shutt, a former paralegal to Parks Miller. McGraw, in addition to his role in the Blake case, also serves as one of Shutt’s attorneys.
Multiple sources say the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General is investigating the forgery allegations, but the OAG has repeatedly declined to comment on the status or existence of any investigation.
I’m beginning to feel skeptical of our justice system.
2016: Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson Enters the 2016 Presidential Race. “Mr. Everson will have to overcome a tawdry sex scandal that resulted in his firing from his position as President and CEO of the American Red Cross.”
I’m waiting for the Ross Perot-type who’s supposed to siphon off votes from gullible disenchanted Republicans and hand the election to Hillary, but I don’t think this is the guy.
WELL, THAT’S WEIRD. I WONDER WHAT COULD EXPLAIN IT? An incredibly shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status. “Just two weeks after Mozilla’s top Firefox executive said that rumors of its demise were “dead wrong,” the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Applications’ tracking, ending February with 11.6%. That was Firefox’s lowest share since July 2006, when the browser had been in the market for less than two years. . . . In the last 12 months, Firefox’s user share — an estimate of the portion of all those who reach the Internet via a desktop browser — has plummeted by 34%. Since Firefox crested at 25.1% in April 2010, Firefox has lost 13.5 percentage points, or 54% of its peak share.”
It’s a mystery, I guess.
SILICONE: A SAFER ALTERNATIVE TO WEDDING RINGS?
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WELL, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERY STARTUP WORKS OUT. First Groupon Founder, Now Tour Guide.
ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: A Better World, Run by Women: Male biology has brought the world war, corruption and scandal. Women are poised to lead us to a better place.
I know this is just more pro-Hillary battlespace prep — but Hillary herself is the best argument against this gauzy, dishonest thinking. And for that matter, it takes a peculiar sort of person to look at America today and conclude that its problem is too much testosterone.
READER BOOK PLUG: From John Reisinger, The Confessions of Gonzalo Guerrero, based on the true story of the first European to “invade” Mexico.
BUT CAN YOU FIGHT WITH IT? What are the benefits of practicing tai chi?
“NEW MODEL” MENTORING: I think the drinks and the cigars are key.
IN THE MAIL: Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life.
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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 668.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
And don’t forget the self-described “bacon-eating vegan” who was left shocked and tearful upon discovering that her degrees in “social justice studies” and “gender studies” have zero value in the job market. “My degrees mean NOTHING,” tweeted she. “I don’t even know how to process the reality that is my life now.”
Sorry, they took your money and left you with nothing. It happens.
Think stocks haven’t gone high enough? Then you perhaps you should consider becoming one of the dwindling number of regular CNBC viewers, the network that’s never met a bubble it thought it couldn’t pump just a little bit more (and there’s a political component- see below).
Flying in the face of NBC’s frenzied buying panic push is a new warning from billionaire Mark Cuban: he sees the current situation as “worse than the tech bubble of 2000.”
That’s why yesterday’s segment imploring consumers to take out seven-year auto loans instead of a more typical duration and use the down payment to instead buy stocks seems especially brazen. Are there enough suckers willing to take this “advice”?
Well, we’ll know that there aren’t when the market starts to plunge.
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TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Woman Sentenced to 30 Years For Forcing Children into Sex Acts.
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Huma Abedin: Clinton’s Unindicted Email Co-Conspirator.