Fogbow

regarding RENO v. CONDON, cited two messages above, this case did not decide that "driving" must be commercial or anything like it. The case dealt with State goverments trying to sell the personal information from the drivers' license registry to commercial data mininng companies and similar busines...

Stone's commutation may be constitutional but it has its curiosities. In Stone's case, Trump nullified Stone's prison sentence AND the very substantial fines that were part of the sentence. In previous commutations, such as Scooter Libby under George W. Bush, only the prison sentence or whatever rem...

Confinement is confinement. Probably Florida will credit the time spent in the Hawaii jail as if it were spent serving the Florida sentence.

As was pointed out, ATW is probably going to spend the rest of his life in one or another prison, so the totals are probably irrelevant.

A real possibility is that schools open - but parents refuse to send their kids.

All those Trumpers bleating for school reopening --- are they sending their kids to school ?? Is Baron Trump going to a reopened school?

"GOAL: OCCUPY ATLANTA"

WTF? Even Sherman's army couldn't occupy Atlanta. By my calculation every SUV east of the Mississippi would have to be involved, and loaded with would-be occupation troops to even come close to this goal. Not thousands but more than a million would be needed.

It turns out very few cities are hoping to host the RNC. Especially during a contagion, especially on short notice, especially because there is no competition for the nomination (that boosts the number of attendees and hangers-on, and the local advertising for candidates). I'll bet I'm not the only ...

Wherever the Republican Convention is held, I'd very much like to see the contagion stats on delegates and locals for the month following the convention.

By the way, does anyone have news on the Democratic Convention? Is it going to be one big Zoom?

I don't think this is a whackjob theory, but - today being Good Friday 2020 - I expect a surge in virus cases soon after this weekend from people who insisted on going to church services confident that the natural cautions of contagion were somehow exempted in a house of worship.

It may be significant that 'Blogo's' clemency was a commutation rather than a pardon. It means that the former Democratic governor gets out of prison but it does not restore his right to vote or his right to own a gun or some other rights and privileged.

I must reconsider my long-held atheistic opinions.

You're not likely to see legislation specifying how Grand Juries are organized because Grand Juries are creations of the Judicial Branch, not of the Legislative Branch. More likely the court system, under the supervision of the State Supreme Court, will work up rules of court that cover this topic.

On a less entertaining note: I have been edgy because the entire impeachment focuses on the phone call to the Ukrainian president in July 2019. Nothing about abandoning the Kurds, about violating the War Powers Act, about violating the Geneva Conventions, about failing to rehab Puerto Rico, about th...

Ed "Kookie" Byrns, of 77 Sunset Strip, dead at 87.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/edd- ... 203462364/

Should i hold my breath while I wait for Donald Jr., Eric and Jared to enlist in the military to fight Daddy's War?

Anything official that designates American Jews as a nationality other than American or a race other than caucasian raises the possibility of further aggravating antisemitism. Such would be an official recognition and endorsement of the bigots' contention that Jews are not real Americans or are a ra...

Apparently Jones's editor, Paul J. Watson, rejects Alex Jones's crusade about Sandy Hook.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-wat ... 1f411d88b5

Apparently Trump wants/expects recipients of his clemency (for war crimes) to assist his re-election campaign. As a "favor", of course. Could this mean that Trump would refuse clemency to any accused person who was a Democrat or otherwise unlikely to campaign for him? Is this a form of graft or brib...

Williams's attempt at pleadings show he has no legal knowledge at all, nor is he getting any help - not even typing - from his "Common Law Firm" or his purported admirers and past clients in Hawaii.

Ah ha, it turns out that Gallagher's lawyer has an 'in' with Trump:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/politics ... index.html

How long before some rightwing nutjob says that the Santa Clarita shooting was a hoax?!

I notice that Giuliani is not on the list of people to be voted off the island. Giuliani made the claim that he had "insurance" against being thrown under the bus -- what he meant wasn't spelled out but the mere assertion suggests that the President's consiglieri has and is describing evidence so so...

Not 63 more states (think about it) but 26. Back in 1814 it would have needed 14 ... 2 more than it had. But by that time, Betsy Patterson, "the Duchess of Baltimore", was no longer married to Jerome Bonaparte and had slipped into obscurity, so the enthusiasm for the TONA had evaporated.

The 18th Amendment (Prohibition) required the adoption of the 21st Amendment to repeal it. IF the ERA is considered adopted, then only another, anti-ERA, amendment could un-adopt it, and the chances of sufficient state legislatures voting to repeal the ERA are slim. There is, however, some serious q...

Donald Trump is the oldest man to be elected President (for a first term - he's now almost as old as Reagan was at the beginning of his second term). What are the chances that all of Trump's outrageous behavior are the result of early stages of dementia?

Those scissors are left-handed.