http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/07/the_morning_news Comments On: The Morning News by David Schmader en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:45:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Jodi]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:31:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by flamingbanjo]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:05:28 -0800 The Stranger
Mr. Banjo, if my tax dollars had been spent overcoming the oppression of West Virginian victims of oppression, then why aren't they grateful? The only logical explanation for their attitude is that nothing has ever been done for them.
Posted by elenchos]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:39:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:21:53 -0800 The Stranger
We're not talking about a hypothetical here. It wasn't a "sometimes", it was a particular instance, in which it turned out well. It was a statement to a particular.

But I take your point - you don't want to encourage people to resist and have the kidnapping-and-rape-at-knifepoint thing turn out badly. It's important that things proceed smoothly and no-one get hurt.

Victim-thinking at its finest.
Posted by John Galt]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:10:50 -0800 The Stranger Has anyone been more oppressed and victimized than the West Virginians?

In my home state, "Appalachian" was a check-box on applications for Financial Aid and various other forms of public assistance. Not to bust up your sarcasm party, but actually there is historical precedent for regarding the inhabitants of that region as a disadvantaged minority. Not that this excuses Lynndie England by any stretch, but just so you know.
Posted by flamingbanjo]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:57:39 -0800 The Stranger
@17: Right. It's stupid.
Posted by Aislinn]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:30:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Greg]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:18:37 -0800 The Stranger Rhetorical question, right?

Of course it's because we live in Jeebus-land, the country where the bible overrules freedom.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:05:09 -0800 The Stranger
Sometimes fighting back makes the situation worse. He was the one with the knife after all.

@13,

I'm pissed that the daughter was arrested, but mainly because of the likelihood that she's been abused by that motherfucker since she was a child.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:02:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by laterite]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:02:10 -0800 The Stranger
How would you have responded to the conditions in that prison, filled with frightened and frightening prisoners, many of them seriously and obviously mentally ill, with no education, no training, no guidelines, no life experience, no anything except Charles fucking Graner telling you what to do and a command line all the way up through to the President of the United States that makes it clear that as far as they're concerned you're on Mars and there are no rules?

No, Lynnie England is a "slut" and a "torturer", a convicted felon living in Toilet Bowl, WV, while Donald Rumsfeld walks free and dines off of fine china.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:54:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Aislinn]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:42:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:03:26 -0800 The Stranger If you tell me it's so
Traveling through the country is so thrilling
Standing out in front on opening nights
Smiling as you watch the benches filling
And see your billing up there in lights

There's no people like show people
They smile when they are low
Even with a turkey that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't trade it for a sack o' gold
Let's go on with the show
Let's go on with the show!
The show!
The show!
Posted by tomasyalba]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:33:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by elenchos]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:29:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by w7ngman]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:28:57 -0800 The Stranger The Departed?
Posted by Greg]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:25:36 -0800 The Stranger
You gotta love the police quote at the end:

“Very brave, probably the right move on her part. Who knows what would have happened if she complied and gone along with him,”

PROBABLY? Really? You mean, because she escaped largely unscathed and supplied the information required to arrest the perpetrator promptly?

That was PROBABLY the right move?

You have the roots of the second amendment here. Authorities want an exclusive franchise on violence. Effective self-defense worries them - regardless of the outcome.
Posted by John Galt]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:22:00 -0800 The Stranger GoodFellas, David Schmader watch GoodFellas, freak out, gangsta out, DAVID SCHMADER BECOME GANGSTA RAPPER SCHMAY-DAWG!

SCHMAY-DAWG WILL SMASH ALL OTHER PRIVILIGED WHITE BOY GANGSTAS IN SEATTLE, HOOK UP WITH EMINEM, MAKE MOVIE ABOUT "THA THUG LIFE," MOVIE WILL BE EVEN WORSE THAN SHOWGIRLS! SCHMAY-DAWG WILL THEN SHOW MOVIE AT CHOP SUEY WITH FULL NARRATION BY SCHMAY-DAWG!

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

Posted by The Incredible Sulk]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:55:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by NapoleonXIV]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:50:42 -0800 The Stranger Funny how the Prez elect, a former law professor, Reid and MSNBC and other media have had to walk backwards on this. MSNBC "noted" the "logic" of walkback to Reid is Burris would be a 59th D vote in the Senate.

Duh! The option of fighting Burris in court and going a year or so without the 59th D vote was always pretty dumb, I hope Obama and Reid aren't just now realizing part of their job is to count votes? TO work to *have* Democratic votes?

Meanwhile Blago now has a clean appointment also he ensured the US Senate isn't all white, so it's more likely 1 or 2 jurors will vote to acquit him. And as to impeachment, the incipient Burris-Rush alliance plus any favors coming down from the Governor will create a forgiveness faction in the Ill. Senate and he just may get off. (This is because the Ill. leg. doesn't move like a striking cobra to get rid of him -- instead of "change" in Springfield, it's the same old slow poke govt. in action. The guy's on tape and it's taking them months to impeach TMF!))

Let's hope this mishandling of Blago-Burris isn't characteristic of team Obama going forward. They need media to focus on things like his no earmarks pledge today and his aptmt. of a chief of govt. performance -- that whole change message gets a bit muddied when 80% of media time is spent on the Burris distraction.


Posted by PC]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:47:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Barky]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:38:56 -0800 The Stranger
"WITH THEM NINE-ELEVENS REVVIN,
GUNFIRE LEAVES BRETHREN'S REMAINS
LIKE IT'S 9/11 "
Posted by ScottM]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:26:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by kinaidos]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:25:38 -0800 The Stranger