AShamefulDisplay posted:

hahah... PHILLY!!! yup. 

Man her other videos are a loving doozy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQnAMcrPf9Y

Man, what a smarmy rear end in a top hat

Cheekio posted:

The youth movement for rebranding sociopathy as Libertarianism is so innocent it makes me cringe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8oP5NR6mr8

edit:innocence>innocent.

Radish posted:

I think what annoys me the most about these types is that they are really smug for being so incredibly dumb. Everyone is pretty dumb on most topics, but libertarian types really think that have the magic cure for every problem and that solution is always less government, *magic happens*, free enterprise saves everyone!

quote:

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) has approved a measure that will allow Tennessee to bring criminal charges against pregnant women who use drugs for potentially harming their fetuses, even though there isn’t conclusive scientific evidence that being exposed to illicit drugs in the womb causes long-term harm to children.

The governor’s approval of the legislation comes despite a massive outcry from reproductive rights and criminal justice groups across the country, who say that criminalizing pregnant women is the wrong policy approach. Threatening to bring charges against women who are struggling with substance abuse dissuades them from coming forward to seek the medical treatment they need. It’s also a policy that disproportionately harms low-income and non-white women.

“Today, the Tennessee governor has made it a crime to carry a pregnancy to term if you struggle with addiction or substance abuse,” Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, a staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said. “This deeply misguided law will force those women who need health care the most into the shadows. Pregnant women with addictions need better access to health care, not jail time.”

AShamefulDisplay posted:

hahah... PHILLY!!! yup. 

Man her other videos are a loving doozy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQnAMcrPf9Y

Man, what a smarmy rear end in a top hat

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

I agree, we should have less government.

*dies of lead poisoning and smallpox working 16 hour days in a factory at age 10*

Fried Chicken posted:

Senate republicans filibustered the minimum wage hike. Not surprising, but gives Dems something to campaign on

VitalSigns posted:

"Mom, not now I was just about to explain who will build the roads to them--no but mom I can't set the table right now, the people need a real answer I can't leave them with just the Home Alone scream. Cook dinner later mom, I still need the kitchen...ugh fine! _Tyrant. No nothing, nothing I didn't say anything."

ufarn posted:

Can anyone (Joementum) tell me whether it's worth my while to read Frances Lee's book on Congress?

Fried Chicken posted:

Hey, remember that teacher in Montana who raped a student, got a 1 month sentence, and had the judge justify it on the grounds that "the student led him in"? Montana supreme court just overturned the sentence. Waiting to see what happens next here

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

I agree, we should have less government.

*dies of lead poisoning and smallpox working 16 hour days in a factory at age 10*

Roumba posted:

Is there any kind of period in recent history where there was a prison or jail and it wasn't always nearly full or over-capacity and whoever was in charge said something like: "Well poo poo, I guess we didn't need this big of a place after all, or at least for a good while, make it a lasertag arena for the next 10 years."

TLM3101 posted:

The gently caress?! This one completely slipped by me. Could I trouble you to refresh my memory, or do I not want to risk my bloodpressure?

Montana v. Rambold posted:

¶9
The District Court sentenced Rambold to 15 years’ incarceration with all but 31 days suspended. The court found that Rambold’s violations of the Sexual Offender Treatment Program were not substantial or serious violations justifying the sentence urged by the State. The court also took notice of information it gleaned from interviews with C.M.:
In some respects, the Defendant took advantage of a troubled youth. I’ve looked at those interviews. And it’s easy enough to say the Defendant should have been aware, should not, obviously, have engaged in the conduct that he did. And it was a troubled youth, but a youth that was probably as much in control of the situation as was the Defendant, one that was seemingly, although troubled, older than her chronological age.
After significant public outcry, the District Court apologized, scheduled resentencing, and published an order acknowledging the illegality of Rambold’s sentence under § 46-18-205, MCA. 2

Radish posted:

I think what annoys me the most about these types is that they are really smug for being so incredibly dumb. Everyone is pretty dumb on most topics, but libertarian types really think that have the magic cure for every problem and that solution is always less government, *magic happens*, free enterprise saves everyone!

JonathonSpectre posted:

No biggie, they can just sell the state's parking meters to some Saudi Arabian conglomerate for 75 years to plug this year's budget shortfall caused by all these pesky "economic realities" getting in the way of Taxcutopia.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Conservative writers say that Palin has finally gone too far with her waterboarding = baptism line, but is there a chance that her usual supporters will also be offended enough to desert her?

quote:

"If I thought that kind of hateful declaration and abuse of the Christian religion was what conservatism stood for, I wouldn't be able to call myself a conservative," he writes.

Antti posted:

Unfortunately, I think that ship has sailed, in that American law enforcement is behaving like a military force.

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

Hate to break it to you, buddy...

Alter Ego posted:

Yeah, I love how conservatives who want to seem "reasonable" are all up in arms about Palin's comment. They're not pissed at her for blaspheming Baptism, they're pissed because Palin chose an even more indelicate way to express what the entire right already feels about the entire Muslim world. They REALLY hate it when their masks are pulled off, and it's happening more and more. Makes me feel all toasty inside.

Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:

Install Windows posted:

How would the court find it coercive to raise money and give it to the states? You'll really have to show your work there.

Again, you'd need a massive level of popular support to implement this in the first place, which would mean a lack of people with standing to challenge it in court, and the court can't just make decisions without valid cases.

Paul MaudDib posted:

This pretty much describes the PPACA - how could it be coercive to give money to the states to implement a program? The Roberts court still found a way to shoot that down. "What if the Federal government threatens to cut it in the future?" etc.

Paul MaudDib posted:

This pretty much describes the PPACA - how could it be coercive to give money to the states to implement a program? The Roberts court still found a way to shoot that down. "What if the Federal government threatens to cut it in the future?" etc.

computer parts posted:

Wasn't the reason for that because they were going to cut the existing Medicaid funding?

Saki posted:

What on earth is going on in Louisiana to skew those incarceration rates so highly?

quote:

With little oversight from the Department of Corrections, sheriffs wheel and deal among themselves for inmates. Cupp and other rural north Louisiana wardens drum up business with daily rounds of phone calls to their suppliers -- urban areas such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport that produce more criminals than their own jails can hold. The mad scramble to build prisons has become a mad scramble for inmates.

Like hotels, prisons operating on per-diem payments must stay near 100 percent occupancy to survive. The political pressure to keep beds full is a contributing factor to the state's world-leading incarceration rate. No other state comes close to Louisiana's 53 percent rate of state inmates in local prisons, and few lobbies in Louisiana are as powerful as the sheriffs association.

What is good for the sheriff can be bad, even tragic, for the inmate. Local prisons, which generally keep those with sentences of fewer than 10 years, are bare-bones operations without the array of educational and vocational programs that are standard at state prisons. Inmates caught up in the wardens' daily bartering can be transferred arbitrarily, sometimes losing chances at a GED certificate or a work-release job when they land at another facility. Plumbers and auto mechanics are valuable commodities, given up by one warden as a favor to another.

TLM3101 posted:

... Jesus. loving. Christ. An actual US Judge wrote an opinion that basically says "The loving slut wanted it, defendant is off the hook". I really did not expect that. What the gently caress is wrong with this man? I hope to whatever higher power there might be that the person handing down this verdict does not have children.

gently caress.

quote:

Missoula shooting suspect gets death threats

A western Montana man charged in the shooting death of a 17-year-old exchange student in his garage is receiving death threats and is afraid to leave his home, the man’s attorney said Tuesday.

Markus Kaarma, 29, was released from jail Monday after posting a $30,000 bond on a charge of deliberate homicide in the death of Diren Dede of Hamburg, Germany. Since then, Kaarma, his partner, Janelle Pflager, and their 10-month-old baby won’t leave their Missoula home after receiving the threats, attorney Paul Ryan said.

Just days before the shooting, Kaarma told a woman that his house had been burglarized a couple of times and he had been waiting up for three nights with his shotgun to shoot “some f------ kid,” court records said.

Prosecutors allege Kaarma set up sensors outside their garage and a video-monitoring system in the garage. They left the garage door open late Saturday, and Pflager said she put personal items that she had cataloged in a purse in the garage “so that they would take it.”

Kaarma told investigators he heard the sensors go off early Sunday, spotted someone in the garage on the video and went outside with his shotgun.

He said he feared the intruder would hurt him. He did not shout out to the person inside before sweeping the garage with four shotgun blasts, charging documents allege.

Luigi Thirty posted:

I hate this loving country so much. I hope I make enough money to leave this shithole before we start World War 3. Nothing will ever get better and it will always get worse. The rest of the world is heading down the shitter fast too but at least they're not already 10 feet down the loving pipe like we are.

Oh hey the latest news out of the country of Cliven Bundy? The militias set up armed checkpoints near his property.

mcmagic posted:

Huh? Are there like, local police and governements there?

Paul MaudDib posted:

Not since the government knuckled under, no, since we wouldn't want to give them what they want by, say, keeping armed gangs from terrorizing the locals.