Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 22:42 - Category: Credit crisis ;
Video tour of a beater of a house in Vista CA that sold for $465,000 in 2005. Yours for the bargain price of just $180,000. Jim’s commentary is a hoot.
Tip: Calculated Risk
Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 21:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Readers comment on our post, Class and the Left.
DJ Mitchell wonders why left-leaning religious groups don’t get more cred.
Here’s an interesting question, noting that two of these examples are rooted in some form of religion: why is it that in much of the world, politicized religion leans left, but in this country it most often leans right? There are plenty of left-leaning religious people out there. The Unitarian victims of the TN church shooting are just one of many examples, and so are the Christian Peacemakers (Mennonites) who got kidnapped in Iraq last year. But they gain little political traction. Is it because the traditional Marxist Left considers religion anathema? Or is it that Americans as a whole, as the richest people in the world, have little use for leftist politics? Or is it something else?
Part of it, I think, is because religion got jacked by the extreme Right. Because, when you think about it, historically there have been plenty of progressive churches helping out with social causes. The civil rights movement of the 50’s-60’s was spearheaded by churches and MArtin Luther King. Unitarian Universalists played a major role in starting the No Nukes movement. Heck, the AFSC (Quakers) have been around longer most anyone.
Yes, Marxists sometimes do ridicule and attack people of faith, even when they are obvious potential friends and allies. And of course, religious folks have been known to attack Marxism, this is hardly a one-way street. All of which seems singularly self-defeating. People of faith and socialists are often at the forefront of social movements, doing the all the endless grunt work organizing. This is, in my opinion, because both have strong belief systems to sustain them.
Imagine what could be accomplished if hard Left and religious groups joined together in their common causes.
Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 13:19 - Category: Unfiled Tags: network neutrality;
Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 12:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
“So dirty even the Bush administration had to indict him,” says C&L.
All the felonies are for making false statements. I guess he didn’t see those two videos we just blogged about, a lawyer and a cop who say never talk to law enforcement. With politicians especially, the indictments often are for making false statements.
Like the cop in the video said, the suspect who thinks he’s smart, savvy, and important often will say things he wished he hadn’t.
Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 10:19 - Category: Credit crisis ;
Filings for subprime class-action suits are up 400%.
Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 10:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
Doing so will save money - and lives. One reason: A decreased need to transport fuel to front lines in war zones means less chance of being attacked.
Yes, hybrid Humvees may be coming.
Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 06:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
Boing Boing features two videos, one by a lawyer, the other by a cop, that echo what a lawyer from the National Lawyers Guild once told me. If the FBI knocks on your door and says, can we ask you a few questions, your best and smartest response is to say No and close the door.
At the very beginning of the video, Prof. Duane addresses the — literally — unknowable extent to which federal laws and regulations have grown, so that even the government itself has no idea how many punishable offenses there are. It’s very easy for people with clean consciences to admit to violating laws and regulations they never knew existed.
What about the other side of the debate?
Responding in the same classroom to Prof. Duane, Office George Bruch of the Virginia Beach Police Department says … the professor is absolutely right.
Did you know that what you tell a cop that might help you if arrested can not be used in court because it’s hearsay? And that truthful statements can still come back and bite you? So, “any competent lawyer will always tell clients to keep their mouth shut” and save it for the trial. There’s lots more information like this on these videos.
Bob Morris @ Jul 29th 2008 01:26 - Category: Election 2008 ;
Intoxination says
Keep it up John. The more he sees that these attacks aren’t working, the worse they will get. Before long America will see the real McCain - Mr. Hot Headed, temper tantrum McCain. Then it will really be fun.
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