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I need these people to make me a pair of slacks

George Will Likes to Ignore Things

Handsome Rhodes Scholar George Will in WaPo:

But Arizona's statute is not presumptively unconstitutional merely because it says that police officers are required to try to make "a reasonable attempt" to determine the status of a person "where reasonable suspicion exists" that the person is here illegally. The fact that the meaning of "reasonable" will not be obvious in many contexts does not make the law obviously too vague to stand.

Hmm...

The Bill of Rights -- the Fourth Amendment -- proscribes "unreasonable searches and seizures." What "reasonable" means in practice is still being refined by case law -- as is that amendment's stipulation that no warrants shall be issued "but upon probable cause." There has also been careful case-by-case refinement of the familiar and indispensable concept of "reasonable suspicion."

What?

That's pretty obtuse, it's supremely obtuse for someone as sharp as George Will.

The fourth amendment proscribes unreasonable searches and seizures, and it does so by requiring cops to have probable cause, or get a judge to sign a warrant, but no such requirement exists under the Arizona law.

Will suggests that Arizona's use of "reasonable" is just like the 4th Amendment's use of "unreasonable," except the entire definition of "unreasonable" vis-à-vis the 4th Amendment (i.e. "unreasonable" presumes the existence of a search warrant) is totally absent in the Arizona law.

I play a sport just like baseball except it's on ice and there's a puck and you can fight.

He also doesn't mention this provision of the law, even though he links to it:

Allow lawsuits against local or state government agencies that have policies that hinder enforcement of immigration laws. Would impose daily civil fines of $1,000-$5,000. There is pending follow-up legislation to halve the minimum to $500. 

People, anyone in the state of Arizona, can sue government agencies if those agencies "have policies that hinder enforcement of immigration laws."

Whatever the hell that means.

So we have a law with a muddy definition of who can be reasonably searched, no definition of "reasonably" and no judicial oversight leading up to said searching.

Also, any moron can sue the cops if the former feels the latter didn't sufficiently shake-down all the busboys at Outback Steakhouse.

What...the...fuck...?

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Hetreosexual Florida Governor Becoming an Independent

Charlie Crist is leaving the GOP

Link

I never knew I was such a Jann Wenner fan

From Wikipedia

Wenner has endured a bit of controversy during his career, as it relates to his involvement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans and supporters of several artists, which include Deep Purple, Kiss, Electric Light Orchestra, Yes, Jethro Tull, Neil Diamond, The B-52s, ELP, Rush and The Moody Blues have placed a large amount of blame on Wenner for keeping them out of the Hall of Fame. They claim Wenner has lobbied to keep them from consideration and nomination to the Hall based on personal bias and a dislike for their music.

It seems we have identical musical hatred

New Arizona Immigration Law Not Even Good in Theory

I don't understand how this new law is considered workable on any level. Ignoring for a second the moral and constitutional hazards, it risks bringing actual law enforcement to a grinding halt.

It specifies that people and organizations who do not enforce it strictly are open to legal action; i.e. that a police department that chooses to, say, fight actual crime, can be sued.

Ideally, according to the law's drafters, everyone of Latin descent with or a dangerous tan will be stopped and questioned. This in a state with a 30% latin citizenry. Meanwhile white wife-beaters, rapists, meth-dealers and crackheads are free to wreak havoc, liberated by their natural born citizenship.

And this from Republicans who gripe about too much government intervention.

I suppose it's just an election year gimmick, designed to be struck down by activist judges tyrannically applying the Constitution.

Arizona. It's bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Cleaning

I can see no discernible difference between cleaning my entire apartment, and just cleaning my kitchen and bathroom. I don't know if this speaks to how much traffic my kitchen and bathroom get, how little traffic the remainder gets, or my falling standards for cleanliness.

Or all three.

Possibly related: I think I've ave the same container of Comet for over a year.

I once dated this decapitated triple-amputee...

...she moonlit as a cleaning lady, removing her rubber glove was tiresome, so she just left it on.

Her breasts were a vision, two denippled, cock-eyed, yarmulkes...I miss her...

At least now I have this:

Thanks Sears.

H/t to Cary and Gizmodo

I can haz quadruple bypass?

Neveda Republican, Sue Lowden, advocates a "barter system" for doctor-patient negotiations.

"Let's change the system and talk about what the possibilities are. I'm telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say I'll paint your house," she said. "[That's] what people would do to get health care with their doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people."

Nevada Appeal

This is the face of someone who has access to a lot of rohypnol

Gary Parrish looks like someone who cruises bars on Daytona Beach aiming to victimize girls gone wild.

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