The BMJ has some good articles after all. I read the long story like a Robin Cook novel.
A good going controversy. Just what we needed to brighten up the diabetes scene. It was getting a bit dull these days with Rosiglitazone being out of the picture. Thank god for a new candidate to fret and fume on.
So are endocrinologists holding their breath country wide in anticipation of the hammer rapping andthe jury shaking their heads while the accused GLP-1 mimetics are led off the stand to their eternal resting place beyond the yonder? I suspect not. Not because they can't be bothered, but because they are too busy dishing out the mimetics, trying to meet the demanding clamour of the obese patients knocking on endocrine doors for a weapon to ward off their perennial enemy, the fat.
I wonder whether there might be another reason why endocrinologists are not too worried about the concerns that have been raised about the GLP-1 mimetics. They have seen this all before. Sibutramine, Rimonabant, Troglitazone, Rosgilitazone to mention a few. Been there, dished that. Stopped that. Next please.
And ofcourse, endocrinologists prescribe testosterone replacement. Fears of prostate cancer havent stopped anyone. But the similarities with GLP-1 treatment are interesting.
Lack of replacement facilitates weight gain. Treatment helps reduce fat gain. Check.
Long term monitoring required to detect side effects including cancer. Tick.
I am not sure what the fuss is about. Maybe just because it is still early days. Maybe there are differences?
Maybe because we don't measure serum exenatide levels to see therapeutic levels and avoid over-replacement?
Maybe because we don't know whether it produces cancer or merely stimulates growth of cancer already present?
Maybe because we don't know about a marker better than CA19-9 that could work like PSA in early detection?
Or, Maybe, Just maybe, because we can trust no one anymore. The financial implications for companies and the NHS coupled with the vested interests of drug companies and frustrated doctors to keep the diabetic therapeutic armamentarium alive have eroded the trust and increased scepticism for all data that is grey. We need to be seen as treating with something. We need something to dish out for sure. We need something robust. We need it to be totally safe. We need to know for sure. We cannot live with uncertainty anymore. Eating less and exercise are just not enough. We need to dish out something to reduce cardiovascular risk, 10 years down the line, 100 years ideally.
Anyway, I am more interested in waiting for the bad news on Dapagliflozin. Personally, i think that is worse!
But that is another blog all together. See you there.


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Rendezvous 24 is a 1946 American drama film directed by James Tinling and written by Aubrey Wisberg. The film stars William Gargan, Maria Palmer, Patrick O'Moore, Herman Bing, Kay Connors and Kurt Katch. The film was released on May 6, 1946, by 20th Century Fox.

Plot
Following World War II a group of unrepentant German scientists scheme to detonate a radio-controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in Paris.

Cast
William Gargan as Agent Larry Cameron
Maria Palmer as Greta Holvig
Patrick O'Moore as Agent George Timothy
Herman Bing as Herr Schmidt
Kay Connors as Kay
Kurt Katch as Dr. Heligmann
David Leonard as Prof. Gustav Kleinheldt
John Bleifer as Becker
Henry Rowland as Otto Manfred
George Sorel as Dr. Zarig
Eilene Janssen as Anchaka Schmidt

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20th Century Fox films
American drama films
1946 drama films
Films directed by James Tinling
Films about nuclear war and weapons
Films set in Germany
Films scored by Arthur Lange
American black-and-white films
Films with screenplays by Aubrey Wisberg
1940s English-language films
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Denumiri de locuri din Statele Unite ale Americii originare din Lancashire
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Universia is the leading university network for Ibero-America and it encompasses 1,341 universities.
With regard to employment and digital services, the network and its members ended 2016 with a monthly average of 14.1 million unique users on their sites, 1.7 million followers on their social media channels, and they posted over 2.6 million job vacancies for young people.
To be the largest university cooperation network focused on Ibero-America that promotes change and innovation through a platform of products and services for companies and the university community.
To become an international leader in Corporate Social Responsibility.
To act as an agent of change by helping universities develop joint projects and generate new opportunities for the university community. These opportunities should deal with the demands of the business and institutional world, while applying financial efficiency and foster profitability.
Employment: promote first jobs and professional internships among university students.
Training: identify the training needs of organisations that can be handled from the university.
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New Finland PM Sanna Marin becomes world's youngest leader age just 34
FINLAND'S transport chief is celebrating a major promotion - after becoming the country's youngest ever prime minister at the age of 34.
Sanna Marin will also be the world's youngest serving PM when she takes office in the coming days.
Finland's transportation minister Sanna Marin was selected to become the country's youngest PM everCredit: Getty - Contributor
Prime Minister Sanna Marin (2nd right) with her female cabinet ministersCredit: Lehtikuva
She's several years younger than New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was aged 37 when elected to lead the country in 2017 – to become its youngest PM.
Marin was selected by her Social Democratic party on Sunday to become the country's youngest prime minister ever, taking over after the resignation of Antti Rinne.
The SDP council voted 32-29 late Sunday to name Marin over rival Antti Lindtman to take over the government's top post.
Marin will be Finland's third female government leader.
Marin will head a coalition with four other parties, that are all led by women - three of whom are in their early 30sCredit: Instagram
The Associated Press says that she was raised by a single mum, and that the politician has described feeling discriminated against in Finland when her mother was in a relationship with another woman.
Her party is the largest in a five-member governing coalition.
Rinne resigned on Tuesday, after a party in the coalition, the Centre Party, said it had lost confidence in him following his handling of a postal strike.
The Centre Party also criticised Rinne's leadership skills prior to a two-week strike by the country's state-owned postal service Posti in November.
Posti's action has since spread to other industries, including the national flag carrier Finnair.
he new Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, 2nd right, with Minister of Education Li Andersson, left, Minister of Finance Katri Kulmuni, 2nd left, and Minister of Interior Maria Ohisalo, right, after the first meeting of the new government in Helsinki, FinlandCredit: AP:Associated Press
All five parties decided to stay in coalition and continue with the same programmes, but said they would change some ministers.
Marin told reporters after winning a narrow vote among the party leadership: "We have a lot of work ahead to rebuild trust."
She's enjoyed a swift rise in Finnish politics since becoming head of the city council of her industrial hometown of Tampere at the age of 27.
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The industrial action will stop production at some of the country's largest companies from today.
Also, the timing of the leadership change is awkward for Finland, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union until the end of the year, playing a central role in efforts to hammer out a new budget for the bloc.
Who are the oldest and youngest leaders in the world?
Finland's Social Democrats have named Sanna Marin to be the country's youngest ever prime minister - at the age of 34.
Marin will thus become the world's youngest serving prime minister.
Current youngest world leaders:
Sanna Marin PM of Finland (2019), 34
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Beji Caid Essebsi was President of Tunisia from December 2014 until his death in July 2019 – at the age of 92
Marin will become the youngest-serving leader of a government in the worldCredit: Instagram
Marin will be Finland's third female government leaderCredit: Instagram
Sanna Marin is seen with runner up Antti Lindtman after the SDP's prime minister candidate vote in Helsinki, Finland, December 8Credit: Lehtikuva
Sanna Marin smiles after she won the SDP's Prime Minister candidate vote against Antti LindtmanCredit: AP:Associated Press
The 34-year-old transport minister and lawmaker has become Finland's youngest prime minister ever and its third female government leaderCredit: Lehtikuva
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We carry SodaStream "Wood Edition" Source machines. Make your own sparkling water or your favorite soda at home for pennies on the dollar! With the Soda Stream, you don't have to worry about taking your empties back to the market, and you will also help to prevent our landfills being overrun by empty cans and bottles. We offer the carbonator exchange program in 60L & 130L.
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The theatrical trailer of young Mega hero Sai Dharam Tej's upcoming action entertainer, Supreme, was launched along with the film's audio album last night. The trailer looks promising with all the required mass elements and fans have given it a collective thumbs up.
Supreme's trailer showcases Sai in an out and out mass role and the young hero has pulled it off with aplomb. Sai's rough body language as a cab driver and the humour quotient he managed to bring out with comedians and Raashi are immensely liked by ardent Mega fans.
Supreme is directed by Anil Ravipudi, who gave the blockbuster Pataas as his debut film. The film has Raashi Khanna playing a cop. Sai Kartheek's songs have become a hit already, particularly the 'Andam Hindolam' remix.


The first onset of IBS often coincides with an antibiotic treatment, and it's natural to think of a connection with disturbed gut flora. Even though disturbed gut flora is probably not the root cause of IBS, it's a major contributor to the discomfort it causes. It looks as if people with IBS are particularly likely to develop disturbed gut flora.
Probiozym is a probiotic product which consists of 4 species of lactic acid bacteria with two distinct functions. The first is that Probiozym in most instances very efficiently establishes a healthy gut flora. The other is that it breaks down opioid peptides (see protein intolerance). IBS patients very often (or nearly always) suffer from disturbed gut flora, and is probably the patient group which benefits the most from using Probiozym. The reason for this is probably that Probiozym has an outstanding ability to adhere to surfaces. This makes them able to displace the harmful bacterial species. Probiozym will also regulate the consistency of the gut contents so that diarrhea and constipation are mostly avoided. Probiozym also seems to outcompete some gas producing bacteria. As a consequence, a swelled abdomen is usually reduced to almost normal size within a 2 month period. Reduced gas production also means less abdominal pain.
We haven't observed any connection between IBS and protein intolerance. The peptide analysis is therefore of little interest for those with a firmly established IBS diagnosis. We have no indication that a gluten- and/or casein-free diet has any effect for this patient group. But if the patient in addition has mental problems, a peptide analysis could be relevant since the conditions could be unrelated.


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Q: Creating colored bars for poll results In my web app I'd like to display poll results with colored bars with length proportional to the percentage of votes. How can I achieve this with HTML/CSS?

A: This site contains some nice examples:
http://apples-to-oranges.com/blog/post/css-for-bar-graphs/?id=55
And here is a collection of 16 different types of bar graphs:
http://speckyboy.com/2009/02/04/16-usable-css-graph-and-bar-chart-tutorials-and-techniques/

A: Here is some example code:

You can then edit the width style of your graph bars to achieve the graph percentage.

A: This is actually pretty simple to pull off. You want each bar to be represented by a single . Set the div to the width that you want (proportional to the results). For example if you want 200px to be "100%" of the vote, then if an option has 23% of the vote you want .23 * 200 to be the pixel width of the div.
Then set the background color and border to style the bar as you desire. You can also get fancy and use images (background-image css property) to get nicer looking bars.
I hope that points you in the right direction.

A: I know this is an old question, but new technology has provided a new solution.  Also, none of the answers is accepted...
In HTML5, you can use a canvas element to actually draw your graph.  Using the canvas element can be very complex, so I won't go into full detail here about how to use this for your specific scenario.
However, here's a simple example (copied from diveintohtml5.info):
HTML
<canvas id="graph" width="300" height="225"></canvas>

JavaScript
var canvas = document.getElementById("graph");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
context.fillRect(50, 24, 150, 100);

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News / Local / Dundee
Video: learner driver caught running red light in Dundee
by Stefan Morkis
April 25 2017, 1.04pm Updated: April 25 2017, 3.17pm
Footage of a learner driver, or their instructor, blithely ignoring a red light in Dundee has been posted online.
The footage, posted online by Rockwell Media, shows a driving school car heading west along South Road on Monday.
Although the traffic lights by Tesco are on red, the vehicle ignores them and drives straight through the lights while a queue of cars wait patiently on the other side of the carriageway.
Drivers who run red lights can be fined £1,000 and given three penalty points.
Michael McDonnell, the director of Road Safety Scotland, said ignoring red lights is a "foolish choice to make".
But most drivers are given a Fixed Penalty notice, which is a fine of £100 and a three penalty points on their licence.
Anyone who already has nine points on their licence will be prosecuted in court and will lose their license if found guilty and given another three points.
The driver who caught the incident on his dashcam said: "The driver doesn't even try to slow down.
"It's a motoring school car so it is dual control too.The instructor should have stopped the car."
If the driver was on their test, then running a red light would be an automatic fail.
The growing popularity of dashcams has led to thousands of videos being posted online of bad driving.
In Dundee alone there have been clips showing people eating behind the wheel and overtaking dangerously.
A survey by insurance company esure carried out last year found that one in four drivers admitted running a red light over the previous 12 months – the equivalent of more than nine million drivers.
One in 10 drivers said they ignored the red light because they were in a hurry while six per cent said they drove through the light because they felt the driver behind them was getting impatient.
Road Safety Scotland director Michael McDonnell said: "Traffic lights are designed to protect people at junctions where there are conflicting traffic movements and to ignore them is a foolish choice to make.
"Many drivers treat an amber light before red as a signal to speed up, but going through on a red can be very dangerous.
"Not only does this put people at great risk of being involved in a collision, but junctions account for a substantial number of fatal and serious crashes on our road network and, even if nothing serious happens, drivers risk a minimum of three penalty points and a £100 fine."
He added: "A number of road authorities have installed red-light cameras at junctions in Scotland."


The mission of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is to reduce the burden of neurological disease—a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, and by people all over the world. As a part of this mission, the NINDS supports basic, translational and clinical research on Parkinson's disease (PD), a devastating and complex neurodegenerative disorder that progressively impairs the control of purposeful movement. The Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence Program continues to forge a strong and innovative path in PD research. These Centers carry out important research on PD, including the identification and characterization of candidate and disease-associated genes, examination of neurobiological mechanisms, establishment of improved PD models, development and testing of potential therapeutics, and novel avenues of clinical research. Visit the website.
The Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center has been part of the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurological Sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine since 2000. In the setting of a leading academic medical center the mission of the Center is to provide innovative, multidisciplinary care for patients and families affected by PD and other movement disorders; to educate and support patients, caregivers, family members, health care providers and community at large; and to conduct research to extend the knowledge and treatment of movement disorders. Visit the website.
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Over 50 researchers and clinicians in 14 departments contribute to the mission of the CNADC which is: 1) To provide the highest quality clinical care; i.e., diagnostic evaluation and treatment for patients and families; 2) To conduct research on how the brain coordinates mental functions, such as memory, language, and emotion; 3) To transfer the benefits of research to afflicted patients; and 4) To train researchers and clinicians to work in this field. Visit the website.


Macey Hensley – The Ellen DeGeneres Show's self-proclaimed "presidential expert" – was recently on board Carnival Breeze to check out all the fun features the ship has to offer.
Decked out in her signature cowboy boots, the effervescent five-year-old had the time of her life on board. Macey's adventure started with a visit to the ship's WaterWorks aqua park, home to the massive 311-foot-long Twister slide. Of course, Macey couldn't resist offering up a little presidential trivia, exclaiming that Franklin Roosevelt had a pool installed at the White House.
She even got a chance to meet The Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2, part of Carnival's fleetwide Seuss at Sea program. After playing a round of mini-golf and a game of bean bag toss with her newfound friends up on Lido Deck, it was the moment of truth – Macey was ready to brave the Twister!
After donning her water wings – which, naturally, featured pictures of her favorite TV talk show host – Macey zipped down the corkscrew slide in style and was greeted by the Dr. Seuss characters as her exhilarating ride came to an end.
Alas, it was time to say goodbye but we're sure Macey had a great time on board Carnival Breeze. Hope to see you again soon, Macey!
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Home YouTuber Lauren Curtis Net Worth, Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Career, and Wiki
Lauren Curtis Net Worth, Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Career, and Wiki
Lauren Curtis
Real Name/Full Name Lauren Curtis
Birth Place: Perth, Australia
Date Of Birth/Birthday: 7 January 1993
Mother – Terry Curtis
Siblings: Two Siblings
School/College: AKA Middle School,
Marital Status: Dating
Boyfriend: Reece Daniel
Profession: Makeup Artists, YouTuber And Social Media Influencer
Famous For: Her YouTube Channel And Her Instagram Account
Net Worth: $500,000 USD
Social Media: Instagram, Youtube, Twitter
Lauren Curtis is one of the famous American makeup artists, and not only that, but even Lauren Curtis is also a very popular YouTuber and a social media influencer.
Lauren Curtis has achieved great success in her life in a very short period of time. And her most obvious pathway to success is her YouTube channel and her Instagram account.
Early Life of Lauren Curtis
Lauren Curtis Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement
Lauren Curtis Education
Lauren Curtis Personal Life
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Lauren Curtis Awards
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Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Lauren Curtis in 2022
In Perth, Australia Lauren Curtis was born on 7 January 1993. We can say that Lauren Curtis is a kind of lowkey person, and that's why she does not share much about herself, loves to stay secretive.
But we came to know about her mother, and her name is Terry Curtis. However, regarding her father there is no information available on the internet. Laure Curti's ethnicity is White ethnicity, and Lauren Curtis's zodiac sign is Capricorn.
According to the reports, Lauren's parents got separated when she was five years old, and Lauren Curtis's nationality is American.
Lauren's current age is 29 years old, and she has an average height that is from this, 5 feet 5 inches.
And her body weight is also perfect; just like her figure, she weighs up to 56 Kg. There is no doubt that Laure Curtis is a very pretty lady, and the reason behind her beauty is her blond hair and blue eyes, which significantly enhance her inner beauty.
Lauren Curtis completed her schooling at AKA Middle School by talking about her education. Soon after completing her schooling, Lauren Curtis gets enrolled in college.
However, about her college name she has never shared any information yet. But it is being assumed that she has completed her college at a local college of America.
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Well, if we talk bout Lauren's personal life, then she is not single; she is dating her long-time boyfriend, Reece Daniel. However, the couple has been dating each other for a long period of time.
The couple started talking on Facebook, and later met with each other, and in the year 2014, they started dating. They are still dating each other, and they seem very happy in their lives.
While at first, during her college time, Lauren was very much interested in photography. But she was very shy to click pictures of others and therefore planned to go for landscape photography.
But after she started living with her friends, she gradually built an interest in makeup. However, she used to see her friend's regular activity of doing makeup, and that's how she got interested in makeup.
Lauren learns some skills and techniques of makeup with the help of Youtube. And later, Lauren decides to open a YouTube channel, and currently, Lauren has nearly 3.39 million subscribers on her YouTube channel. Moreover, Lauren Curtis also has her own vlogs channel as well.
Lauren Curtis is a very popular makeup artist, her YouTube videos get very popular, and many people admire her because of her creative way of doing makeup. Lauren Curtis has not received any awards.
Lauren Curtis has 1.2 million followers on her Instagram account.
Lauren Curtis has two siblings.
Lauren Curtis is also a landscape photographer.
Lauren Curtis has 3.39 million subscribers on her channel.
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Lauren Curtis is a very popular Youtuber, and she is famous for her unique makeup videos. She got all her fame and recognization from YouTube. And not only this, but she is very much active in social media too.
Lauren Curtis leads a very luxurious life, and as per the reports, her current net worth has been recorded as $500,000 USD.
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Q: ajax, mysql добавление вызова функции в другую функцию

Как добавить запуск второй функции в первую?)
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A:     function insertUsername() {
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Однако лучший вариант Вашего кода:
function insertUsername() {
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How Lily Stole Christmas är det elfte avsnittet av andra säsongen av TV-serien How I Met Your Mother. Det hade premiär på CBS den 11 december 2006.

Sammandrag
Lily blir arg på Ted för vad han sade om henne när hon åkte till San Francisco och vill inte fira jul med honom.

Handling
Ted har bestämt sig för att fira jul på Manhattan med sina vänner. Lily julpyntar lägenheten när Marshall säger att han ska gå till biblioteket för att göra klart en sista uppsats för terminen. Han vill inte titta på pyntet förrän han kommer hem eftersom han vill träda in i "vinterlandet" som belöning när han är klar.

När Marshall har gått hittar Lily en gammal telefonsvarare. Den visar sig innehålla ett meddelande som Ted lämnat till Marshall när Lily hade rest till San Francisco och gjort slut med honom. I meddelandet kallar Ted Lily för "ett väldigt fult ord".

Teds förklaring till att använda ett sådant ord är att han ville få Marshall att sluta sätta Lily på en piedestal under hans depression. Ted ska alltså bara ha försökt hjälpa Marshall. Han vägrar be Lily om ursäkt.

När Ted senare berättar för Robin och Barney vad som hänt kommer han fram till att han eftersom det är jul bör be Lily om ursäkt. När de kommer tillbaka till lägenheten har Lily dock tagit allt julpynt. Han beger sig till hennes lägenhet.

Lily tror inte på hans ursäkt och undrar varför Ted fortfarande är arg på henne. Då medger han att han är arg för att hon aldrig bad honom, hennes vän, om ursäkt för att hon åkte iväg utan att höra av sig. Ted säger att Lily kan komma tillbaka till lägenheten - själv tänker han åka och fira jul med sin kusins familj.

När Marshall kommer tillbaka till lägenheten har han en julklapp med sig till Lily. Han berättar att han har ägnat dagen åt att jaga paketet, som hade hamnat fel i posten. Han sprang ikapp paketbilen och hjälpte sedan till att dela ut julklappar. När Lily öppnar sin julklapp innehåller den en leksaksugn, något hon önskat sig sedan hon var liten. Hon inser att Ted har tipsat Marshall om presenten.

Teds julfirande hos sina religiösa släktingar går inte så bra. Lily dyker upp och ber om ursäkt. De flyr därifrån efter att de råkar säga det fula ordet framför barnen i familjen.

Under tiden har Barney blivit sjuk, trots sin egen filosofi om att sinnet kan få kroppen att hela tiden leva ett häftigt liv. Robin tar hand om honom. Inom kort blir han en mycket gnällig patient, så det slutar med att Robin spetsar hans te med kodein.

Kulturella referenser
 Titeln på avsnittet, och ordet grinch som används i stället för det "väldigt fula ordet", anspelar på Dr. Seuss bok How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
 Under Marshalls "julsaga" spelas musik från Pjotr Tjajkovskijs Nötknäpparen.
 Ted säger att Lily skrattar åt vad som helst, till och med filmen "Weekend at Bernie's II".
 Barney, Marshall och Robin sjunger "Stilla natt" utanför dörren hos Teds kusin. Scenen refererar till filmen Love Actually, där Mark berättar för Juliet att han älskar henne samtidigt som några sjunger julsånger.
 När Ted pratar om texter i Bibeln säger han att det som citeras i filmen Pulp Fiction är ganska coolt. I filmen citerar en karaktär Hesekiel 25:17.
 Repliken "Only I didn't say fudge" är hämtad från filmen A Christmas Story.

Referenser

Avsnitt av How I Met Your Mother
TV-avsnitt 2006


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Yaede, Campaign Manager Lawyer Up As Calls To Step Aside Intensify
September 6, 2019 Irving Lawrence Duckwald III
Left: Kelly Yaede speaks at a Donald Trump Rally. Right: Jeff Martin speaks at his announcement in January. Photos and graphic by Michael A. Sabo.
Hamilton Mayor Kelly Yaede who has been criminally charged with having a role in releasing the expunged records of her GOP rival David Henderson along with her primary campaign manager Dan Scharfenberger by the Mercer County Prosecutor have both lawyered up.
Yaede and Scharfenberger were each charged after an investigation by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, which filed the disorderly person offenses in Hamilton Municipal Court.
The pair attacked Yaede's Republican primary opponent David Henderson, who had been overly critical of Yaede's performance as mayor and retaliated by releasing Henderson's past criminal records which had been legally expunged on an anonymous blog that attempted to appear a news website.
Authorities say Yaede's campaign manager, Dan Scharfenberger, was the blog's administrator, and he and Yaede controlled the blog's content – even though her campaign has said publicly they had no idea who was behind the online site.
According to the records released, Henderson violated a restraining order and faced an assault charge in 2001. The charges against Henderson were eventually dismissed and expunged.
Martin, Fellow Councilmembers Call for Yaede to Step Aside and Take Leave Until Legal Drama Subsides.
Jeff Martin, Hamilton Council President and candidate for Mayor in the upcoming November election called for Yaede to take a leave of absence pending the result of the criminal charges filed against her.
"Enough is enough. Enough of the drama. Enough of the corruption. Enough of the abuses of power. It's time for Mayor Yaede to finally accept responsibility for her actions. It's time for Mayor Yaede to take her own advice that she gave to Mayor Bencivengo when he was criminally charged and, at the very least, take a leave of absence pending the result of the criminal charges filed against her."
The entire text of Jeff Martin's Statement from Facebook:
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MAYORAL CANDIDATE JEFF MARTIN STATEMENT ON CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST MAYOR YAEDE
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MAYORAL CANDIDATE JEFF MARTIN STATEMENT ON CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST MAYOR YAEDEHamilton, NJ – "Yesterday was another sad chapter for Hamilton's families — one in a long book of sad chapters under Mayor Kelly Yaede's stewardship. Mayor Yaede, the chief executive of Hamilton Township, was charged by the county prosecutor with actions that can only be described as unacceptable and shocking abuses of power." "Unfortunately, this is not the first time Kelly Yaede has embarrassed the township with her official actions. She and her associates consistently use bullying tactics against people who speak out against her administration. The Trentonian has previously reported that four people have accused Yaede and her administration of harassment. When the town's CFO questioned Yaede's travel expenses, she suspended him and asked her brother-in-law to approve the reimbursement instead. Earlier this year, the prosecutor charged two of her close associates with criminal offenses. And just yesterday, a member of the Hamilton police department told the press that she is a 'corrupt' mayor who needed to be criminally charged.""Enough is enough. Enough of the drama. Enough of the corruption. Enough of the abuses of power. It's time for Mayor Yaede to finally accept responsibility for her actions. It's time for Mayor Yaede to take her own advice that she gave to Mayor Bencivengo when he was criminally charged and, at the very least, take a leave of absence pending the result of the criminal charge filed against her." "If she cannot accept responsibility, Hamilton residents must come together this November and use their power to close the book on this mayor."VIDEO CLIP FROM ANNOUNCEMENT SPEECH, JANUARY 2019
Posted by Martin, Papero & Phillips for Hamilton on Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Martin's Colleagues on Council, both Republican and Democrat joined the chorus calling for Yaede to "step aside".
Council Vice President Rick Tighe (D), and Council members Anthony Carabelli (D) and Ileana Schirmer (R) join Council President Jeff Martin in calling for Mayor Kelly Yaede to take a leave of absence until her legal challenges are resolved.
"Despite the Mayor's denials, the cloud of corruption, intimidation, and paranoia that the Mayor has created are hindering the ability of government to function as it should," said Tighe.
Councilman Anthony Carabelli. Photo by Michael A. Sabo.
"This is an abuse of power by a Mayor who is demonstrating every day that she is unfit for office," said Schirmer.
"Hamiltonians want a government that is both ethical and transparent. The Mayor has failed to provide those two qualities" said Councilman Carabelli. "I support Council President Martin's request for her leave after this most recent charge. Our community expects more."
High Profile Attorneys Hired
Robin Lord, with the defendant , David Lamar who was indicted on aggravated manslaughter and death by auto.
Hamilton Mayor Kelly Yaede has retained high profile criminal attorney Robin Kay Lord as her attorney. Yaede has not issued a statement since the charges were filed and was more than happy to let Lord do all the talking who issued this statement on Wednesday:
Yaede is an honest public servant, Lord said. "She never violated the law, any law, takes her oath seriously, and takes her responsibility to public service seriously."
Yaede's criminal defense attorney Robin Lord has defended some of the highest-profile criminal cases in New Jersey. From the sexual assault on a minor to attempted murder of a police officer to First Degree Murder.
Lord was the defense attorney for Vasil "Billy" Heisler in the shooting of former Mercer County Sheriff's Officer Joshua Hahn at a Broad Street Pizzeria. Heisler was found guilty and sentenced to 50 years in prison
Lord also defended the highly controversial criminal case of Harry Thomas, the 75-year-old founder of Come Alive Church who was convicted and received an 18-year prison term for sexual offenses against five young girls.
Before the Yaede case, Lord was recently in the news as the defense attorney for David Lamar who was indicted on aggravated manslaughter, death by auto and six counts of assault by auto charges in connection with allegedly recklessly causing the death of Michael T. Sot a student at The College of New Jersey – and injured five of his friends.
"She is the Johnnie Cochran of our area, God rest his soul, explained a fellow attorney who didn't want to be identified for fear of retaliation as a Hamilton resident. If someone can find an angle to get you off, she can."
Cochran was the famous attorney who defended OJ Simpson which led to a not guilty verdict of the murder Simpson's wife, Nicole.
Henderson, the alleged victim in the charges filed against Yaede had this to say in a statement about Yaede's attorney Robin Lord when asked for comment:
You know the type of criminals Robin Lord defends….drug dealers, murderers…rapists…the guilty. So that should tell you everything you need to know. If it's just a $200 fine like Yaede's minions Vinnie "White Shoes, the born again Republican" Capodanno, Little Dennis Pone, and "I'll get back to you" Dave Kenny have all claimed, why do you hire her (referring to Lord), I'll tell you why, because Kelly "the fraud" and the "Cracker Jack" Scarfenburger are guilty of not only this but a whole lot more, that's why!
In criminal company and bragging. Screenshot of Dan Scharenberger's Facebook page who had to "crop out Sharp James, because seriously what's he got going on.
Dan Scharfenberger, Yaede's primary campaign manager who has also been charged has retained local criminal attorney Les Hartman of KMH&L.
Hartman is also the attorney for Jeff Plunkett, the township Health Officer who has been charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty and official miscount by the Mercer County Prosecutors Office.
Scharfenberger is the son of Monmouth County Freeholder Gerry Scharfenberger who is currently running for a seat in the NJ State Assembly in Monmouth, and has apparently moved on from the Yaede Campaign after the primary to bigger and better things and is the political director for the Tom Kean Jr. for Congress campaign according to his now hidden Linkedin profile.
Calls to Kean Jr. for Congress campaign as to Scharfenberger's employment status with his campaign went unreturned as well as a call to his elected Freeholder father, Gerry Scharfenberger, for comment.
Scharfenberger the self-professed, Raconteur or "a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way", according to his linked in page, denied knowing that Henderson's arrest records were expunged and let his attorney do the talking as well, proclaiming his client's innocence.
Hartman, while not nearly as high profile as Lord is a former Assistant Prosecutor at the Mercer County Prosecutor's office.
The irony is Hartman's pitch video on his firm's website is about the CDP Program in NJ and how to get your criminal record expunged. See below:
The hearing has been transferred to Ewing. A Superior Court judge on Thursday assigned it to Ewing's court, in front of Judge Roger Haley – Mercer County's chief, or presiding, municipal court justice.
The date of the hearing has not been made public at this time.
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Former Councilwoman Ileana Schirmer Appointed to Zoning Board
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Joseph Legaspi's Imago: poems
By Katrina Vandenberg
In Imago, a finely-realized first collection of poems, Manhattan-based Joseph Legaspi looks back through the gates of adulthood at an Eden-like childhood in the Philippines. But these free-verse narratives are not simple, sugar-coated, or — for all their use of the word "I" — self-centered; their delicate surfaces give way to reveal a world that is primal and visceral. Legaspi wrestles with severing and connecting, violence and love, and his place between homelands and among family members living and dead.
The title poem, which opens the book, is representative of many of the poems that follow. Like all the poems in the first three of the book's four sections, this one takes place in the Philippines — the final section is set in the United States — and begins, "As soon as we became men / my brother and I wore skirts." It's one of three poems about the ritual circumcision of the twelve-year-old speaker and his brother. It's also one of Legaspi's many poems about violent but necessary loss.
In the world of the barrio, neighbor children gather to witness a sow being bred to a boar, "her wail as much a part of us as the morning air" ("The Sow"). Legaspi describes blood trickling into a bowl as the speaker's uncle teaches him to kill chickens ("Killing a Chicken"); boys stomp on a bat until it is dead, for sport ("Bat Hunting"). Suffering and violence are part of life, but life is ultimately good; the brothers' circumcision, though painful, allows the boys, by week's end, to "possess the potential" of their father ("The Circumcision"), and "like monarchs . . . enter / the gardens of [their] lives" ("Imago").
And while suffering is expected, it happens within the comfort of an extended family and community. In the poem "Imago," as the speaker and his brother wear skirts, their mother boils guava leaves. Soon she will "bathe [his] penis with the warm broth" and wrap it in gauze. The speaker will consider the other boys who will sit on such stools, the other grandmothers and mothers who will soothe them. In another poem, the speaker remembers how his grandmother was once nearly killed by a soldier, as he calculates how much she still owes on her cemetery plot ("My Grandmother, in Increments"). And in what may be the book's most joyous moment, the young brothers buy the family's daily bread ("The Bringers of Bread"): "we bask in the clean scent / of newly baked pan de sal, providers that we are. / We press the brown bags to our hunter's / breasts and let the warmth seep between our ribs." But the poems in Imago, while memory-oriented, never end with the self. Even a poem like "Poem for My Navel" is not navel-gazing as much as it contemplates on the speaker's connection to and separation from family and homeland.
Legaspi is a former student of Sharon Olds, and his poems share her direct tone, her frankness about the body, and her interest in family relationships. Legaspi's diction and occasional bent towards surrealism, though, remind me of Pablo Neruda, another poet in exile. Neruda is present in Legaspi's affectionate ode to his father, "The Socks" ("Dear socks, don't lead me astray," he writes), and in the collection's final poem, "Sleep," which contains otherworldly phrases like "Skeletons rattle their bones beneath the earth" and "The roosters roar, laying their eggs."
The poem "Sleep" comes just after the book's final section, in which the family emigrates from the Philippines to America, "the land cut like a massive slab / of steak" ("Departure: July 30, 1984). Here, seven adults squeeze in a two-bedroom apartment, severed from the life they know. Memories (and poems) of the homeland take on a haunting, dreamlike quality, and the new country is surreal as well. The book ends as it begins, with Legaspi's speaker finding his place among his family, this time his dead ancestors, far away: "Others follow: grandmother, aunts, cousins, uncles, grandfather. / I wait for the secrets of the dead to drip out of their mouths, / I wait to ride the fiery, galloping horses."
Joseph O. Legaspi
CavanKerry Press, 2007
Filed under: Prose


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by Goldy — Monday, 4/13/09 , 12:28 pm
Guns make you safer:
A Fort Lewis soldier is dead after being accidentally shot in the head and killed by his wife in Olympia, the Thurston County Sheriff's Office says.
Lt. Chris Mealy of the sheriff's office told KOMO-TV the soldier was teaching his wife how to handle a handgun when he was shot early Sunday. Mealy told The Olympian that the semi-automatic handgun was the soldier's personal property.
I'm just sayin'.
Monday, 4/13/09 at 12:51 pm
Accidental, eh? I wonder …
Chris Stefan spews:
Sigh, two basic rules of gun safety:
1. Always assume any gun is loaded.
2. Never point a gun at anything you don't want to shoot.
This is a terrible tragedy, but just shows why you don't point even an "unloaded" gun at another person.
How much life insurance do active duty guys get? $400K? One little slip and she's a young single woman with 400 grand of tax-free smackeroos in her bank account … yeah, I wonder how accidental it was …
3. Another rule of gun safety: Never hand a loaded gun to a beneficiary of your life insurance policy. Just sayin' …
My Left Foot spews:
Monday, 4/13/09 at 1:00 pm
This is one issue where I part company with Goldy.
It is ALWAYS better to have a weapon and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
There are no exceptions. Period.
rick pierson is a bitch spews:
We obviously need a democrat to pass legislation taking away all gun rights immediately! What other solution is there?
Yeah, a terrible tragedy; I'll bet the widow is bawling crocodile tears all over the insurance check …
GBS spews:
It's a sad, tragic event that destroyed the lives of two young people, but God Damn it the irony is hillarious.
Let this be a lesson to all gun owners: never teach gun safety to someone who's unfamiliar with weapons at 1am after you both had a few drinks, with a loaded gun!
What a dope and no doubt a Republican.
For those of you who don't believe in evolution . . . here's a prime example of it in practice.
Darryl spews:
My Left Foot @ 4
"It is ALWAYS better to have a weapon and not need it, than to need it and not have it. There are no exceptions. Period."
Really? ALWAYS? I'm guessing that Mrs. Mealy now disagrees with your stance. Lt. Mealy probably would, if he could.
Michael spews:
Let's review!
And let's add that 1.30AM in your livingroom is neither the time or place to teach gun safety.
http://www.gunsafetynow.com/
Always treat the gun as loaded.
Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
Always keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Always keep the gun unloaded until you are ready to use it.
Never point the gun at anything you don't intend to destroy.
Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
Learn the mechanical and handling characteristics of the gun you are using.
Always use proper Ammunition.
Be sure the barrel is clear of obstructions before loading and shooting.
If your gun fails to fire when the trigger is pulled, hold your shooting position for several seconds; then with the muzzle pointed in a safe direction, carefully unload the gun.
Don't rely on the gun's safety to keep it from firing.
Be aware of your surroundings when handling guns so you don't trip or lose your balance and accidentally point and/or fire the gun at anyone or anything.
Oops, double posted somehow.
Zotz spews:
He could have come to Mason County and gotten a lead enema from Senator-Kommissar Sheldon or one of our many wingnuts instead:
Daddy Love spews:
gun + stupid = dead
demo_kid spews:
@4: It is ALWAYS better to have a weapon and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
However, I could say the same about a car or morphine. Guns are tools, and should be regulated as such.
ByeByeGOP spews:
I for one am in favor of right wingers owning lots of guns. The inbred morons can just kill each other off and make America a better place. Here's hoping that it was a Publican death!
4 mlf
I disagree that these are the only choices. Is it always better to create a fasle dichotomy than to examine the real issues?
My opinion is: go ahead and keep a gun. Keep it unloaded and keep it locked in a gun safe.
Right Stuff spews:
Just put a sign on or near your front door that reads, "If you can read this, you are in range" that should be deterent enough, no?
Like dogs, there are no bad guns, just bad gun owners….
czechsaaz@hotmail.com spews:
The "Takeaway" in motivational speak from this story, IMHO…
Military personnel are in theory highly trained professionals as far as weapons safety. Yet military personnel are sometimes dumb enough to hand a loaded weapon to an inexperienced shooter. And a trained military officer, not a buck private, is dumb enough to be in the line of fire of a loaded weapon in the hands of an untrained shooter. Given these facts, how can we expect the average civilian to safely handle guns when highly trained individuals make simple mistakes?
Yet the wingnuttery and especially Ron LaPierre will scream up and down that mandatory safety training is "an infringement of the second ammendment," ignoring the potential implications of, "a well regulated militia."
No, this case should not be a rallying cry for gun restrictions. But it should continue the rallying cry that all purchasers must pass a basic safety test before being allowed to purchase a weapon.
Hell, they made me drive for a half hour when I was 16 to make sure I knew what I was doing before giving me access to a car. Most states require a periodic written exam to continue to operate a car.
But common sense gun safety never occurs to LaPierre or any 2nd Ammendment nut jobs.
Keep a gun. Fire it on a range at least once a year. Learn how to use it properly. If you are so paranoid you must store it loaded, then be willing to accept responsibility (both criminally and fanancially) for any accidental shooting that occurs. This is the gun gospel according to me.
Gray Coyote spews:
You know, I had a recent experience at a party where someone had a "sound replica" 1911-style pistol, pointing it at people (the gun wasn't real itself but it looked real from ten feet away). When I told them that it was unacceptable behavior, I got basically yelled down and told that I'm an asshole and that I should "shut the fuck up". I was one of a very few Americans at a party in Surrey, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, with strict weapons controls and doesn't allow you to even possess a handgun for personal protection, only for shooting at a shooting range or collecting purposes (which would be unconstitutional restrictions in the US). People keep pointing to Canada as the way the United States should be in terms of gun control laws and safe handling laws, but the fact is that my observations at this particular party shows that Canadians and the supporters of Canadian-style gun control have no moral authority to say that Canadians are safer because of their gun laws.
Um, wait a minute here. If you're making the case that guns should be treated the same way as cars. I can buy a car not even being a licensed driver. I have to register it for the general purpose of proving ownership, but unless I had an intention to drive it outside of my private property, I wouldn't even have to take a driving test, or get a drivers license. I can hire someone else with a drivers license to drive it to my private property where I can use it on my private property.
Driving a car also isn't a specific civil right under the 2nd amendment or Article 1, Section 24 of our state constitution.
If we treated guns like cars, if I had a license to carry a firearm issued by a state which has training required, my license would be honored nationwide via interstate compacts and/or full faith and credit clause of our constitution. It would not be dishonored in states like California, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, and Massachusetts where it wouldn't be considered valid under the current laws there.
drool spews:
Ther eare roughly as many auto fatalities as gun fatalities and about the same number of guns as vehicles.
I don't see the anti gun crowd taking their cars in to be crushed and switching to riding the bus which is much safer.
@18..
I knew it would only be a few minutes before someone like you would crawl out from under a rock. Is your private property vast? Is your scenario in any way plausible. (Sure, it is. In the words of Douglas Adams, "Not impossible, but very VERY improbable.")
See Article 2, not ammended, the orignal WA State Constitution. The Supreme Court has repeatedly decided that where the U.S. Constitution and a State Constitution are in conflict, Federal applies. (See full-faith and credit cases, interstate commerce cases, etc.) So what does "A well regulated militia" mean?
No, cars and guns are not the same thing at all. But requiring a potential gun owner be proficient in the operation of the firearm is not an "impairment." With practice, anyone can find a firearm that they can operate safely. Without practice, any firearm can be deadly in a number of ways.
You strike me as a 2nd ammendment nut-job. You only want absolute adherence to "Shall not be infringed," and not the, "Well regulated militia" part of the sentence.
Drool.
"I'll take extremely stretched analogies for $400, Alex."
Auto fatalities are ALMOST never intentionally inflicted. The overwhelming majority of firearms fatalities are intentionally inflicted whether justified by defense or not.
Apples to Oranges, my friend. Time to put that really tired old line of bullshit to bed.
Mark1 spews:
You're an ignorant little worm Goldy. Sure, be naive and rely on the police to save you. That'll happen. I think you're just mad because you're about as tough as a wet newspaper. In reference to the "clip" above, if this man had been practicing proper gun handling safety to begin with, none of this would have happened. The fucking thing didn't load and then fire itself….And if you hate guns so much, don't own one, but I'll be damned if you tell me I can't.
czech,
Your logic would make the automobile more dangerous than a firearm. They are killing people when not intended to.
The anti gun crowd loves to compare cars to guns so I did a little internet research a week or so ago and stumbled into that tidbit.
I presume you will not bring up licensing of drivers vs licensing of gun owners then or you'll be back into apples/oranges land.
Actually Drool,
If you factor in number of operators + operating hours automobiles vs. firearms and firearm deaths vs. automobile deaths are about equal, Firearms are FAR more dangerous than automobiles. Just me personally, I operate my automobile about 8 hours per week. I operate my firearm at the range about 5 hours per year, just enough to stay proficient.
So yes, apples to oranges, licensing (safety testing) of firearms owners makes WAY more sense from a public safety standpoint than drivers licensing.
Thank you for not thinking through your argument before making it. Makes my job of calling bullshit on you much easier.
manoftruth spews:
every jew i've ever know, personally or a celebrity, believes people should not own guns. so, either jews are smarter than eveyone else, or they just want to disram the citizens in case someone gets the idea of another holocaust
delbert spews:
Might you be thinking of WAYNE LaPierre, of the NRA?
There are more dangerous things than guns in our society…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
But I'm not about to give up either one.
Roger, the implication that the Mrs. killed her husband for the insurance money is inappropriate and slanderous.
Have you no shame?
mark spews:
Actually doctors kill more people than guns.
Cars kill way more than guns.
Liberalism kills way more brain cells than guns..
Darryl,
They were drinking according to the reports. You don't handle weapons when you have been drinking. You can't take my gun because some moron got liquored up and handled a weapon. By your logic, they should be removing our cars since they are used by these Darwin award deserving morons who drink and drive and kill. We could ask the Angels Mr. Adenhart, but he can't answer.
My guess is this guy, who was going to be deployed, decided to teach his wife how to clean and use the weapon in his absence. Noble thought. Should have had it before he started drinking.
I feel bad for him and his wife. She will live with this forever.
Richard Pope spews:
Darryl @ 8
Actually, it looks like Chris Mealy works for the Thurston County Sheriff's Office and is still very much alive. From the article, it is not totally clear that Mealy is a man (remember Chris can be a woman, as in our current governor), and no clue whether Mealy has a wife or not.
I am Jewish. I grew up knowing many Jews. Served with Jews in the military. We owned weapons.
I still own weapons.
Talking out your ass again, moe-ron.
@16 The average burglar would laugh at your stupid sign. And ransake your house looking for the gun(s). Of all the items in your home, guns are among the most salable on the street.
ransack, not ransake
'28. delbert spews:
Amen to that. But in Rodent's defense, he is disabled, takes many pills, is in the advanced stages of O.C.D. and senility, and is not well; including in the head. He says he was a GI, next it was a lawyer, then it was a Judge, but I am sure the last two are false. As with any blog, everything posted is subjective. He'll be gone soon, so no worries. I hear even janitors at courthouses get proper "state" funerals.
@28 "Have you no shame?"
No, of course not. I'm a rabbit and operate entirely on instinct. I interpret the world around me according to what it looks like, unimpeded by any stupid human cultural inhibitions.
I'm quite sure the Rabbit doesn't lie about his curriculum vitae. You, on the other hand, have no CV. You are simply full of vitriolic, vituperative vindictiveness. I'm sure, you fucking idiot, that you appreciate that sort of alliteration.
Tuesday, 4/14/09 at 1:48 am
I was pointing out how a flaw in the logic of "treat guns like cars". "Someone like you"…oooh, I spy someone who thinks I'm a knuckle dragging McCain/Palin theocratic conservative. *BUZZZZ* Wrong again Czech. Read the last paragraph.
See Article 2, not amended, the original WA State Constitution. The Supreme Court has repeatedly decided that where the U.S. Constitution and a State Constitution are in conflict, Federal applies. (See full-faith and credit cases, interstate commerce cases, etc.) So what does "A well regulated militia" mean?
The 1889 State Constitution has no wording on "well regulated militia". The 2nd amendment and it's statement of well regulated militia has little to nothing to do with the A1S24 of our state constitution. You can argue that "well regulated" allows you to suggest that sort of regulation on the federal level, but the state constitution applies to actions by our state legislature and local councils, as well as the executive actions of the Governor, as well as the Mayors and County Executives in this state.
You are also mistaken in your belief that weaker constitutional protection of the US Constitution overturn the stronger civil liberties protections of certain provisions of state constitutions. Since the ratification of the 14th amendment in 1868, The rights in the US Bill of Rights acts as a floor for the constitutional liberties of the residents of the individual states, not a ceiling as you suggest. For example, the US Supreme Court ruled that DUI Checkpoints were constitutional a few years ago under the 4th amendment. Our State Supreme Court ruled DUI checkpoints unconstitutional under Article 1, Section 7 of State Constitution.
So which magic person would you appoint to the position of "overseer" of who passes and fails people?
You want a political official to do this? After 8 years of G-Dub trying his damndest to bankrupt this country, destroy his political enemies (look up Don Seigelman), and so on, you want this power to be trusted to a potential future neo-conservative government (whether it be 10, 20, or 30 years from now, hopefully never) who are known for saying things about the constitution such as "It's just a goddamned piece of paper" and generally wiping their ass with it?
You're openly gay? Sorry, you're not of "good moral character" and therefor can't possess firearms. Or if they decide to not flat out say that they discriminated against you, they'll just say that you failed the test. You also can't get the test results (you just have to trust what we say), and when you sue in court, the Government will use the "State Secrets" privilege rather than turn over the test results. This is after 3 or 4 years of litigation, and you still have no gun to possess even in your own home.
You know, voting can also be deadly too, voting in certain areas of this country caused psychotic nut-jobs to have been elected to Congress like Michelle "Re-Education Camps" Bachmann, and elected George W. Bush, who started an unnecessary war and occupation which has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's, putting us further into a economic depression (He was a two recession president), held back this country from stem cell research which could have saved lives. Yet no one would ever dare suggest a literacy or a "good citizen" test for the right to vote because the people of this country repeatedly made a mistake.
That's the nature of fundamental rights. As part of these fundamental rights, the government cannot force those who go into a movie theater to wear a ball gag because the government thinks that one person at some point will yell fire when there's no fire and cause a panic. You also cannot require a photographer to go through a training course, testing, and licensing because you want to prevent possible illegal acts using that camera.
8 years of G-Dub and 12 years of theocratic Republican Congressional rule has made me quite sensitive to ANY idea of a fundamental right being subject to the whim of an "government official", regardless of what it is.
You strike me as a 2nd amendment nut-job. You only want absolute adherence to "Shall not be infringed," and not the, "Well regulated militia" part of the sentence.
Calling people names for posting an opposite point of view to yours isn't really conducive to a debate, especially since you aren't talking to a knuckle dragging religious nut-job conservative, but a progressive liberal who's also a religious minority AND a gay man. My political views are quite aligned more with Goldy than the corporatist Dino Rossi or with the semi-corporatist Chris "I'm the Governor of the State of Boeing" Gregoire.
One more thing: I-676 in 1997 brought out heavy concentration of voters from the rural and suburban areas of the state, and voted down the kind of "handgun licensing proficiency" law that you wanted by a 71%-29%. It also contributed to the defeat of I-677, which would have put the GLBT antidiscrimination provisions into law nearly a decade before the Legislature got the balls to pass it.
Your argument stems from an ammendment to the state constitution. And you rightly point out that the Ammendment to the state constitution does not include, "well regulated militia."
However, as I pointed out, the unammended article One Section 2 of the State Constitution is explicit. "The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land."
Sorry, you have to deal with "well regulated militia" because it is part of the U.S. Constitution, or "the supreme law of the land." Strictly speaking, any law or State Constitutional Ammendment passed by the legislature or by ballot initiative that is in coflict with the U.S. Constitution is invalid.
DUI Checkpoints? Gregoire has banned them as a matter of policy, but if a municipality has the desire to set up a checkpoint, under federal court precedent, it is within their right. You could be stopped by a checkpoint and arrested. You can argue the constitutionality of the checkpoint. At the State Supreme Court level you will win. But then the prosecutor will go to the U.S. Supreme Court where, as demonstrated by legal precedent, you will LOSE! (I totally disagree with the SCOTUS decision there, but as a matter of law, it is the "Supreme law of the land.") As policy of the current state government that's not going to happen. If Washington elects a "law and order" Governor next time around, it probably will.
Your fundimental rights is ludicrous. Still apples to oranges, but the state regulates a TON of things that are dangerous. Medical Licensing, Contractors, Electricians, and on and on. It is my fundimental right to build my own house, on my own property with my own two hands. But just try it.
You seem to be worried about personal lives being a criteria for owning a gun. That would be an impairment but it speaks more to the paranoia of how a licensing system could work rather than how it might work in reality. Insuring that the potential owner of a firearm can accurately fire it, safely unload/clean/store it, etc. would be protected under anti-discrimination statutes and the portected classes of federal statutes. I hear you that sexual orientation is not yet a protected class under federal law but it's coming.
Hey, wonderful, the NRA poured money into the campaign and got I-676 defeated. But that in itself does not speak to the constitutionality of the issue. Lots of unpopular things are constitutional.
Tuesday, 4/14/09 at 11:46 am
Implying the guy's wife shot him to get the insurance money is pretty low-rent, but cheap dialog comes easy here.
Tuesday, 4/14/09 at 9:08 pm
From City of Seattle v. Mesiani, 755 P.2d 775 (Wa. 1988):
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 7
[1] When parties allege violation of rights under both the United States and Washington Constitutions, this court will first independently interpret and apply the Washington Constitution in order, among other concerns, to develop a body of independent jurisprudence, and because consideration of the United States Constitution first would be premature. STATE v. COE, 101 Wn.2d 364, 373-74, 679 P.2d 353 (1984). We find the sobriety checkpoint program illegal based on adequate and independent state grounds. Any federal cases cited are used only for the purpose of guidance and do not by themselves compel the result reached.
Const. art. 1, 7 provides: "No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law." The textual language of article 1, section 7 provides greater protection to individual privacy interests than the Fourth Amendment. STATE v. GUNWALL, 106 Wn.2d 54, 65, 720 P.2d 808 (1986); STATE v. STROUD, 106 Wn.2d 144, 148-52, 720 P.2d 436 (1986); STATE v. MYRICK, 102 Wn.2d 506, 510, 688 P.2d 151 (1984). Article 1, section 7 protects against warrantless searches and seizures, with no express limitations. STATE v. SIMPSON, 95 Wn.2d 170, 178, 622 P.2d 1199 (1980).
[2] The City asserts that the State's interest in the legal operation of automobiles defeats any privacy interest under article 1, section 7. While we acknowledge the State's strong interest in assuring all drivers comply with applicable laws, the City's position is without support in either our cases or the language or logic of our constitution. From the earliest days of the automobile in this state, this court has acknowledged the privacy interest of individuals and objects in automobiles. STATE v. GIBBONS, 118 Wash. 171, 187, 203 P. 390 (1922); SEE STATE v. SIMPSON, 95 Wn.2d 170, 622 P.2d 1199 (1980); SEE ALSO STATE v. MARCHAND, 104 Wn.2d 434, 706 P.2d 225 (1985) (applying the Fourth Amendment). We agree with the observations of the United States Supreme Court in DELAWARE v. PROUSE, 440 U.S. 648, 59 L. Ed. 2d 660, 99 S. Ct. 1391 (1979):
" An individual operating or traveling in an automobile does not lose all reasonable expectation of privacy simply because the automobile and its use are subject to government regulation. Automobile travel is a basic, pervasive, and often necessary mode of transportation to and from one's home, workplace, and leisure activities. Many people spend more hours each day traveling in cars than walking on the streets. Undoubtedly, many find a greater sense of security and privacy in traveling in an automobile than they do in exposing themselves by pedestrian or other modes of travel. Were the individual subject to unfettered governmental intrusion every time he entered an automobile, the security guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment would be seriously circumscribed. . . . (Footnote omitted.) PROUSE, at 662-63. Sobriety checkpoint stops are searches and seizures under article 1, section 7.
[3] Because sobriety checkpoints involve seizures, they are valid only if there is "authority of law." Article 1, section 7 "unlike any provision in the federal constitution, explicitly protects the privacy rights of Washington citizens, STATE v. WHITE, 97 Wn.2d 92, 110, 640 P.2d 1061 (1982), and these privacy rights include the freedom from warrantless searches absent special circumstances." STROUD, at 148. This court recognizes only narrow exceptions to the warrant requirement. JACOBSEN v. SEATTLE, 98 Wn.2d 668, 672, 658 P.2d 653 (1983). Warrantless searches incident to arrests have been allowed, for instance, to prevent destruction of evidence or danger to officers. STROUD, at 152. The burden is on the City to show that the stop falls within an exception to the warrant requirement. STATE v. WILLIAMS, 102 Wn.2d 733, 736, 689 P.2d 1065 (1984). It has failed to do so. «1»
«1» The City argues that the sobriety checkpoints resemble the warrantless searches permitted by the Court of Appeals in STATE v. SILVERNAIL, 25 Wn. App. 185, 605 P.2d 1279, CERT. DENIED, 449 U.S. 843 (1980). However, SILVERNAIL was expressly limited to situations in which there was reliable information that a serious felony had recently been committed. SILVERNAIL, at 190, citing 3 W. LaFave, SEARCH AND SEIZURE 9.5(a), at 141-44 (1978). This is far different from an inference from statistics that there are inebriated drivers in the area.
No argument has been presented to this court that would bring the checkpoint program within any possible interpretation of the constitutionally required "authority of law." The Seattle sobriety checkpoint program therefore violated petitioners' rights under article 1, section 7.
czechsaaz spews:
Uhhhh…
Pre Supreme court ruling (1988 WA state, 1990 SCOTUS.)
Thanks for excerpting the Washington Court opinion so extensively and so uselessly.
If a local prosecutor wants to make a name for himself, this is a perfect test case. Washington state court/current policy is in direct conflict with SCOTUS. In fact, the federal appeals court would rule in favor of checkpoints and the Supremes would likely not hear the case as it is established law.
Tuesday, 4/14/09 at 11:45 pm
O RLY?
Despite the risk of further sidetrack off the main subject, this idea of the federal constitutional rights being a ceiling that the state courts cannot go above needs to be squashed.
From the US Courts Website, which is overseen and approved by the US Supreme Court and the Chief Judges of the Courts of Appeal.
The entirety of it is rather dry, so I'll try to post the pertinent parts:
Sitz v. Michigan Department of Police
After losing in the federal courts, the licensed drivers of Michigan continued to pursue their suit in the Michigan state court system. This time, they alleged that the sobriety checkpoints violated Article 1, Section 11, of the Michigan Constitution, which also prohibited "unreasonable searches and seizures." On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals recognized that while the checkpoints did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, it agreed with the drivers and held that the checkpoints did violate the Michigan Constitution. When the case came before it, the Michigan Supreme Court affirmed the Michigan Court of Appeals' decision saying that:
… [the] Constitutional liberties include the right to travel, and automobiles generally may not be searched absent probable cause. In this case, the state police erected sobriety checkpoints along state highways, at which all vehicles were required to stop. While stopped, the drivers were briefly inspected by officers for signs of intoxication, and permitted to resume their travels if no signs were detected. This warrantless, suspicionless stop of vehicles for the purposes of criminal investigation violated the Michigan Constitution."
Furthermore, the court tried to reconcile its decision with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in this matter by stating that federal constitutional law provides a "floor" for state court litigation, and while "…state judges must not adopt state constitutional rules which fall below this floor; courts may, however, appeal to the relevant state constitution to establish a higher 'ceiling' of rights for individuals." In other words, the Michigan Supreme Court found that the Michigan Constitution provided a higher "ceiling" for individual rights than did the U.S. Constitution in this particular case.
Although the facts of the case had not changed, the legal arguments did. When the case came before the U.S. Supreme Court, the drivers argued that the sobriety checkpoints violated the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. When the Court said there was no constitutional violation, the drivers challenged the action in state court. This time, they alleged a violation of the Michigan Constitution, which also prohibited "unreasonable searches and seizures."
The Michigan Supreme Court ultimately concluded that the sobriety checkpoints did violate the Michigan Constitution. Since the Michigan Supreme Court was interpreting solely the state's constitution, it did not overrule the U.S. Supreme Court.
Even more….
This case is an example of how the federal and state court systems interact with each other. Both the federal Constitution and the Michigan Constitution came into play. The case showed how the federal courts are the final arbiters of federal law; the U.S. Supreme Court being the ultimate arbiter. However, it also showed how the state courts have vast powers when dealing with matters reserved to their sphere, such as state constitutional law. It demonstrated that the federal courts often provide a "floor" for citizens' rights that state courts may not go below. Moreover, it also showed how state courts can, and do, raise the "ceiling" for some of these rights.
Btw, this is stuff that the US judiciary system gives out to law students. Given your logic, the marriage equality cases in the states of Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and California would have to be dismissed because a few federal courts of appeal have (wrongly IHMO) stated that under the 14th amendment, sexual orientation is not a suspect class for equal protection purposes.
With your logic, the religious fundies could sue in federal court to overturn state court cases that solely use their own state constitutions to determine the civil liberties of their citizens.
I also have a feeling that our state Supreme Court may want to revisit the state DOMA law again due to the Varnum decision in Iowa, which decided a constitutional provision there which is almost exactly the same as Washington.
I can also make arguments that the "well-regulated militia" that you define it is completely wrong in terms of what you think "well regulated" means, however insofar as the State of Washington goes, "well regulated militia" does not even exist in our RKBA provision.
Wednesday, 4/15/09 at 12:22 am
Fine, I don't really want to get further off topic.
I don't really have the inclination to research if Sitz v Michigan ended in a State Prosecutor declining to seek appeal (as seems to be the case in City of Seattle v. Mesiani.) Unfortunately, part of the court system involves which party exhausts resources or desire first.
And yes, religious fundies have every right (if they have the money to pay a lawyer, or a pro bono lawyer who thinks he can make the case) to petition the federal court system on appeal of a state court ruling relying solely on state constitution. I wouldn't say they would win, but they can certainly try.
I'm a little T&E right now so I think I'll quit. Actually, it was nice getting into it with a rational person here on H.A. (Beats the hell out of arguing with MarvPuddiStam, and the various manifestations of "Truth.") Sorry I implied you were a knuckle dragger. I owe you a beer. I still think there's an untried 2nd amendment argument to be made should the make-up of the court change significantly.
Wednesday, 4/15/09 at 1:01 am
A State's Supreme Court is the final arbiter of the state constitution's version of the Bill of Rights. I'll have to try to dig up some SCOTUS cites for that particular determination to finally solve the question.
And they'll very clearly lose at every level that any first year law student can easily defeat.
I'm a little T&E right now so I think I'll quit. Actually, it was nice getting into it with a rational person here on H.A. (Beats the hell out of arguing with MarvPuddiStam, and the various manifestations of "Truth.") Sorry I implied you were a knuckle dragger. I owe you a beer.
You know, I'm willing to bet with the exception of the "gun issue", you and I agree on a lot of things politically. It'll make for some interesting conversation. I won't be at tommorow's "Drinking Liberally" or another one until one occurs on a Saturday night (I work for a living). I'll take you up on your offer of beer or another alcoholic beverage. :)