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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Judge Orders Failed Copyright Troll to Forfeit "All" Copyrights
U.S. copyright law allows for massive damages -- $150,000 per infringement -- which leads many people to settle copyright cases, rather than risk a massive payout. But if someone does defend himself, the law allows the prevailing party in an infringement case to be awarded its legal fees and costs, even if it were the defendant.

Righthaven initially won and settled dozens of cases as defendants paid a few thousand dollars each to make the cases go away. But the firm, which has ceased filing new suits, has never prevailed in a case that was defended in court.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 03/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Dept of Just Us Effectively Orders Shut Down Of Most Public Pools In The US
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/14/2012 16:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  (sorry mods, yet another enter key posting)

-Down Of Most Public Pools In The US

All 300,000 public pools in the United States must install a permanent fixed elevator for the handicapped by next Tuesday, or face American Disability Act lawsuits from trial lawyers.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/14/2012 17:01 Comments || Top||

#2  This is going to be costly and open the door to frivolous lawsuits. An early payoff to the the trial lawyers for the money they are going to give to the 2012 Obama campaign.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2012 18:03 Comments || Top||

#3  That is exactly what the article said.

Also that a lot of people (kids who tend to play on permanent elevators) are going to get hurt because the pool is often not supervised (think hotels, apartment buildings, etc...).

But hey - that would be even more $$$ for the Trial lawyers and their contribution to the Democrats. What's a little injury or permanent brain damage compared to that? (/SARC!!!!!)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/14/2012 18:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Not sure about this one - the public or community pools I've seen stateside typically already have proper handicap ways + accesses more than wide enuff for wheelchairs.

Now they need to install elevators???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/14/2012 19:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't see this being an issue at all. All around my area all community pools have clear handicap ramps and I've seen lifeguards get up to go ask if they need anymore assistance. They have even taken out the normal steps or ladders to get into the pool. Just a gradual slide into the deep-end now like a concrete beach.

Posted by: Charles || 03/14/2012 21:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember it all started with 'reasonable accommodations'. Like the food police [from 'recommendations' to enforcement], it ends up being something that is dictated no matter what the cost.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/14/2012 22:04 Comments || Top||


Cult of Personality USA
h/t Belmont
A flag depicting an image of President Barack Obama was taken down from Lake County Democratic Party headquarters today after several veterans complained it was a "desecration."

A short confrontation at the Democratic office ended when party chairwoman Nancy Hurlbert took down the controversial flag, which had been flying under an American flag on the same flagpole.
Video at this link. It is, as reader rjschwarz notes, downright creepy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2012 04:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're right. The US flag is not to be defaced.
Posted by: gromky || 03/14/2012 5:53 Comments || Top||

#2  There are only two flags aurthorized to be flown under the US flag. First is the state flag and second is the POW/MIA.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/14/2012 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  How long before counter-revolutionaries arrested for not using the term "Dear Leader"?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/14/2012 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  It is creepy. Orwell had it nailed.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2012 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Good song.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/14/2012 10:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Yep, if you didn't think the dems were commies before, now you know.

Right from the old Trotsky, Lenin playbook. Create a cult of personality around a leader...The satraps around the empty suit are about one jump from the propoganda hacks that surrounded Kimmie...and I dare say Adolph?

The entire Obama campaign in 2008 was essentially a cult of personality model. No one looked at his qualifications, all the left and those in the middle dupped into voting for him looked at was the gestures and posing and messianic trappings of the campaign.

Remember the Greek temple for his acceptance speech? The Dems did Albert Speer proud with that one.

So you can take the swastika off of the red flag and put Obama's face on it. What the dems want is a totalitarian government.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 03/14/2012 10:56 Comments || Top||

#7  War's coming...
Posted by: Hellfish || 03/14/2012 12:13 Comments || Top||

#8  OMG the United States of Obama
Posted by: Jan || 03/14/2012 14:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Nothing at all is sacrosanct with these people.

I do not respect democrats - any of them at all as they have absolutely no respect for me.

See how this is going to work from here on out?
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff.

You do not respect my individual liberty all the while voting for scumbags to turn us into some soviet style dictatorship. All the while mocking our civil institutions.

No respect = no respect. You people are sick.
Posted by: newc || 03/14/2012 14:40 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/14/2012 15:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Flag made possible by secret cabal from Maryland and the hinter lands(potato heads)!
Posted by: Slats Angomp6229 || 03/14/2012 16:20 Comments || Top||

#12  That Obama flag is deplorable and an insult to all Americans--particularly to those who have served and defended it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2012 18:21 Comments || Top||

#13  Well, the O-beast is TOTALLY into himself. And it's NOT just a summer thing . . .
Posted by: ex-lib || 03/14/2012 21:34 Comments || Top||

#14  The other thing is this--Obama grew up under a dictatorship, and I'm positive he was impressed with the power. THAT is his understanding of the "presidency" -- 'PRESIDENT' Suharto.

And "emergency" of great magnitude followed by a "temporary" dismissal of the Constitution, or part of it, is important in his little plan.

Posted by: ex-lib || 03/14/2012 21:39 Comments || Top||

#15  It's a pity the Liberal Media has caused a backfire. They sensationalized one celebrity after the other. They gave Obama treatment, interviews, moved football games. He's now in that "Celebrity but I don't know why" list more than actual being a Politician or Symbol.
Posted by: Charles || 03/14/2012 21:43 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
NYTimes Blogger says double Standard in Politics is Justified
stanley fish writing for a NYTimes campaign blog
Rather than relaxing or soft-pedaling your convictions about what is right and wrong, stay with them, and treat people you see as morally different differently. Condemn Limbaugh and say that Schultz and Maher may have gone a bit too far but that they're basically O.K. If you do that you will not be displaying a double standard; you will be affirming a single standard, and moreover it will be a moral one because you will be going with what you think is good rather than what you think is fair. "Fair" is a weak virtue; it is not even a virtue at all because it insists on a withdrawal from moral judgment.

I know the objections to what I have said here. It amounts to an apology for identity politics. It elevates tribal obligations over the universal obligations we owe to each other as citizens. It licenses differential and discriminatory treatment on the basis of contested points of view. It substitutes for the rule "don't do it to them if you don't want it done to you" the rule "be sure to do it to them first and more effectively." It implies finally that might makes right. I can live with that.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/14/2012 00:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd be happy to meet with the author and carry this to it's logical conclusion for him.
Posted by: Hellfish || 03/14/2012 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  STFU NYT. There is nothing at all moral about the owner, the paper, or the staff. Just a bunch of yentas preaching for their dear leader.

Ant-Semites and people who just plan cannot do math.
Your paper is unable to ascertain basic FACTS or even consider common sense. The editors are either blind or stupid.

Only scumbags would convert their whole paper to back the group of leftists that brought the most pain and suffering to the world in the 20'th century.

What would be fair? an expose of how you backed Mussolini, Pol Pot, North Vietnam, Hitler, and sat quiet while they shoved 12 million people into ovens.

NYT, you may cram your staff's "Morals" up your ass you pitiable dung assed creatures. You have no Virtue.

Keep masturbating to this dumb ass you backed for POTUS. You are still not going to make it through my firewall.

YOU LIE!
Posted by: newc || 03/14/2012 12:22 Comments || Top||

#3  We've come a long way if the NYT is at least admitting there is a double standard.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/14/2012 13:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Stanley Fish is only incidentally a blogger at the NYT and occasional contributor to the WSJ.

He is primarily an academic in legal theory and literature who managed, among other things, to utterly gut the English department at Duke when he was chair there. He has been an influential voice in favor of campus (and other) speech codes, embraces identity politics in all extreme forms and was described by Camille Paglia as a "totalitarian Tinkerbell".

Fish currently teaches law at Florida International University,
Posted by: lotp || 03/14/2012 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5  ...you will be affirming a single standard, and moreover it will be a moral one because you will be going with what you think is good rather than what you think is fair.

So, according to this guy, if somebody thinks it'd be a good idea to open up Stanley Fish's pompous assed head with a baseball bat, he'd have to be OK with that? Right?
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/14/2012 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  The truth is they don't care about the double-standard. They want to attack their ideological foes and any weapon will do. We all know it, its been the facts on the ground for decades. Hopefully Joe Sixpack knows it as well now.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2012 14:43 Comments || Top||

#7  I wonder if Stanley is related to Albert Fish?
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 03/14/2012 14:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Only in spirit, Scooter.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/14/2012 15:46 Comments || Top||

#9 
It substitutes for the rule "don't do it to them if you don't want it done to you" the rule "be sure to do it to them first and more effectively." It implies finally that might makes right. I can live with that.


Wow. The left really is going all-in for tyranny, aren't they?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/14/2012 15:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Yep, till they find themselves lined up before the ditch. Then they'll be screaming about 'rights' they've denied others. Then the 'might makes right' argument takes a real bad turn. Having the 'It's ok as long as we do it' rammed through everyone's head, it'll be a little too late.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/14/2012 17:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Stanley must have been a disappointment to his mother when she realized that he is an idiot and also has tendencies towards fascism.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2012 18:09 Comments || Top||

#12  It has been said, and I think it is correct, that the news media in America is dying for one primary reason: the public wants to read news written by objective reporters; they do not want to read about journalist's opinions pieces that so corrupt the news that it is no longer news.

If you want a newspaper to succeed, fire the journalists and hire reporters. If the reporters don't report what happens, fire them and get new ones. If it is too boring for college educated people to do this, then fire them and hire high school educated people to do this.

The editor needs to be college educated to edit, and to make sure the reporters don't make very ignorant mistakes. But even he doesn't need to be a journalist.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/14/2012 18:31 Comments || Top||

#13  Yep, till they find themselves lined up before the ditch.

I live for that day.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 03/14/2012 19:31 Comments || Top||

#14  Fish currently teaches law at Florida International University.

lotp, I thought you made that up. Turns out FIU has an actual law school, which moved up 19 spots in U.S. News and World ReportÂ’s rankings, from 132 to 113. So they went from a half-assed third-tier school to a ho-hum third-tier school.

Admits 20% of everyone who applies. Out-of-state tuition: $30k/year. I.e., they're happy to fleece unwitting students whose chances of getting a job doing something other than debt collection, ambulance chasing, or running an OccuPooper protest are zip. Excuse my snobbery, but it's not a real law school and they'll never be real lawyers.

But worth it, for access to Stanley Fish!
Posted by: RandomJD || 03/14/2012 21:04 Comments || Top||



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  Leon Panetta unhurt after suspected attack
Tue 2012-03-13
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  Army airstrikes kill 20 al-Qaeda militants in south Yemen
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  British and Italian hostages murdered by captors in special forces rescue bid in Nigeria
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  Gunmen massacre 21 policemen in Iraq attacks
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  Sherpao escapes suicide attack in Charsadda
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