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Here's a citation, though I see nothing about highways.

Yet. Highways are mass transit, especially certain times of day and locations. Wouldn't be hard to put some TSA guys at toll booths, cars are stopping anyway...

http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/01/dome.jpg The dome I grew up with.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/03/ohios_tort_reform_law_hasnt_lo.html

This means that four years after the state passed reform, health insurance for Ohio families in employer plans had gone up by 19 percent.
That compared with a national average rise of nearly 22 percent during that time.

The guy was actually a conspirator in the plan, not an innocent bystander.

Wiki Brian Douglas Wells

Cleveland Article

Which ones has he ended? Oh yea, Iraq is over -- I forgot. Obama officially declared the end of hostilities or something stupid like that some time ago -- a bit like Bush with the "Mission Accomplished" thingy. If you think Obama is anything other than an extension of Bush's policies, you're not paying attention.

Obama asserts the right to execute American citizens without any kind of trial, charges, or judicial oversight based on nothing but allegations, i.e., Obama says your are a terrorist -- you get murdered and don't get a chance to defend yourself. Look up Amendments 4-6 to the constitution to see just how breathtaking this is. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/02/assassinations/index.html

Then of course there is the refusal to prosecute the illegal wiretapping of the previous administration, but rather to immunize the evildoers: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/

Closing Gitmo? Not. But worse, since the procedures at Gitmo have been declared unconstitutional, Obama is merely shifting operations to Bagram, as if the place in which one denies Habeas Corpus is of such great import: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/05/no-habeas-at-bagram/

Obama uses the state secrets doctrine to prevent civil lawsuits against American companies complicit in the plaintiffs' torture under Bush's rendition program: http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/09/suit_alleging_cia_torture_dism.html

Moral: If you hated Bush, you need to be hating Obama because he and Bush are brothers.

What does the Solicitor General do? Well, for example, they can get governments like Saudi Arabia off the hook for things like, oh, funding the 911 attacks against the US. If they're good, they can even get a seat on the Supreme Court. You know, stuff like that.

The company you're thinking of is Jackson Metals of Jackson, Ohio. They wanted to process five billion pennies a year, melting down many of the ones made before 1982 (due to their higher copper content) and redistributing the newer ones nationwide to eliminate shortages. Here's an article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer about their plan.

Tyranny? Don't go pretending that Democrats aren't tyrants.

Obama asserts the right to execute American citizens without any kind of trial, charges, or judicial oversight based on nothing but allegations, i.e., Obama says your are a terrorist -- you get murdered and don't get a chance to defend yourself. Look up Amendments 4-6.

Read: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/02/assassinations/index.html
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojnYXRrBaI

Don't ask don't tell: Obama fulfilled his duty to defend the law in court and lost. He could have left it there, but chose to appeal. You can't blame that on obstructionist republicans because you just don't accidentally file an appeal and republicans can neither further nor hinder the decision to appeal. http://jonathanturley.org/2010/10/20/obama-administration-loses-effort-to-block-injunction-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-announces-appeal-to-reverse-victory-over-dadt/

Then of course there is the refusal to prosecute the illegal wiretapping of the previous administration, but rather to immunize the evildoers: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/

Closing Gitmo? Not. But worse, since the procedures at Gitmo have been declared unconstitutional, Obama is merely shifting operations to Bagram, as if the place in which one denies Habeas Corpus is of such great import: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/05/no-habeas-at-bagram/

Obama uses the state secrets doctrine to prevent civil lawsuits against American companies complicit in the plaintiffs' torture under Bush's rendition program: http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/09/suit_alleging_cia_torture_dism.html

That is why so many of them end up paying the ultimate price. Death as they cut a life wire.

I remember one day I was driving in to work listening to the radio and when they did the news stories I realized that I heard a familiar (and fairly unique) last name mentioned by the news lady. The next time the stories rolled around, it turned out that the story was that a would-be copper thief was electrocuted and died in the act, and he shared a last name with a very good friend of mine. Ironic, I thought.

A few days later, I'm visiting with my friend when he tells me that someone in his family died the week before trying to steal copper. One of the details that was left out of the news report though was that he wasn't working alone and was in fact left behind as dead by his surviving accomplices. Not that anyone in his family didn't think that he wasn't incredibly dumb for getting himself killed, but it was a shame nonetheless.

I never met the guy myself, and considering how tight-knit that family (or at least my friend's branch of it) is, I found myself surprised. However, given some of his obvious life choices (and friends... the men on that page look creepy as all hell) I'm not really surprised either :-P

Actually, the tape was well known and was used in the original investigations. This is a copy that was made by plaintiffs lawyers and then placed in an archive.

There doesn't seem to be much information I could discern as to where on the campus the recording was made (a dorm window). Nor does a 20-year-old cassette copy of a 40-year-old reel-to-reel make me put much faith in the information that was "revealed" through unknown audio processing.

It's suspected that the Guard believed Norman's shots to be sniper fire.

Sniper fire from a .38 Special revolver? Not likely. Doesn't even sound similar. It's more likely they fired because they were ordered to.

Here is a direct link to the actual story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Kent State tape indicates altercation and pistol fire preceded National Guard shootings (audio)"
--it should have been in TFS.

I'm not sure what you are getting at. Being an Ohioan with a bit of knowledge about local history and current affairs in this state, I can tell you there is much more than one filmmaker here. Just because you might have had a bad experience driving through the state (or whatever it is you might have done here...) does not make one an expert. I usually don't get all uppity about where I live, but it appears to me that you're obviously trolling or aiming to "bash" Ohio for some foul reason.

http://www.discoverohiofilm.com/
http://midohiofilm.com/
http://filmdayton.com/
http://www.southernohiofilm.com/
http://www.filmcincinnati.com/

There is also a long history of Hollywood actors from Ohio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Actors_from_Ohio

As much as I dislike Strickland's record, he has been pushing tax cuts for the motion picture industry here in Ohio, so it's not something the government has taken lightly:
http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news/1228383239108270.xml&coll=2

Oh, I was definitely not saying to ignore the problem. I was stating that people do not get along. The only effective leadership is to have leaders who are respected for their decision making ability, and can be trusted. Throughout history, there have been some great leaders who have shaped the world we live in today. In the current environment, even the greatest leader can't thrive without the corruption undermining the ranks under them, therefore corrupting that leadership.

    The post I replied to was basically saying to disband our current political systems, and we could all play nicely together. The "Can't we all get along?" method just does not work. It leads to inconsistent decisions and distributed blame when there's a problem. No, people don't get along. If there's anything any of us should have learned from grade school history classes, we don't get along. We never have. These conflicts could be something like the color of your rain barrel, or nations may fight over race, religion, or land. Those are only a few examples. They go from pissing matches about nothing, to huge bloody wars

So if they are aiming for a 10:1 ration of trash--recycle, their current return is falling quite short and this idea could amount to a decent amount of funding.

Last year they had to pay $30/ton for 220,000 tons ($6.6M); And received $26/ton for tons 5,800 ($150.8K)

If they balanced the ratio out to 10:1, the numbers would have looked a lot better.

They would only have to pay $30/ton for 203,220 tons (6.01M); And would receive $26/ton for 22,580 tons ($587K) and would realize a net gain of $1.18M.

Obvious savings is indeed obvious.

Plus, assuming that the average trash can is -- I don't know 65lbs (high side). And lets assume it takes 4 consecutive weeks to trigger this citation which is based on them determining a >10% content of recyclables.

65lb/wk x 4 weeks = 260lbs (0.13 tons) Cost to dispose: $3.90/MONTH

100% is recyclable = Amount Lost on recyclables: $3.38 = TOTAL COST: $7.20/month

75% is recyclable = Amount lost on recyclables: $2.54 = TOTAL COST: $6.44/month

50% is recyclable = Amount lost on recyclables: $1.69 = TOTAL COST: $5.59/month

25% is recyclable = Amount lost on recyclables: $0.85 = TOTAL COST: $4.75/month

10% is recyclable = Amount lost on recyclables: $0.34 = TOTAL COST: $4.24/month

So, unless you're just color blind. We're talking a pittance for the $100 fine they might slap you with over this. Especially considering that the cost of waste collection services are being offset by the new "Waste Collection Fee" of $8.00/unit/month set to increase up to $8.75 by 2013.

Wait a minute....did Russo and Dimora take over Waste Collection?

I wouldn't think Cleveland would spend money on "smart trash carts" unless there were some truth to this claim.

You don't live in Cleveland. The mayor and city council were pushing a ten-year, no-bid contract for LED lighting with a single source--a Chinese company that nobody has ever heard of. There were objections, so now the mayor and council are opening the contract to bid, but I guarantee the Chinese company will win the contract. In light of the rapidity with which LED technology changes, locking in a ten-year exclusive contract with a minor player is nuts. More here.

Sure, the probability or transit decreases with greater orbital periods

...yes, and with the orbital angle of the planet in question -- out of an entirely rotated set of orbital possibilities, only a few intercept the path to the telescope; and the further out the planet is, the less chance. That's why the close in ones are easy, and the ones in earthlike orbits are not.

and you're kidding yourself about continents or clouds

No, sir, I am not.

Briefly, the resolution achievable using interferometry is proportional to the observing frequency and the distance between the antennas farthest apart in the array. In space, the distance between the antennas, the number of antennas, and the size of the antennas are all matters of raw materials, no more. Once we can manufacture *in* space using materials gleaned from asteroids, there's hardly any limit at all to the size of the synthesized aperture.

The only limitation is the usual one - the data is as old as it is distant.

Believe me, pal, we haven't even begun to construct telescopes of the capabilities our current technologies can enable. We're just putting the money in incredibly stupid places. As today, we just stuffed another fifty nine billion dollars down the Pentagon's automated money disposal. Not to mention the 8.7 billion they "lost."

You live near Detroit, and you're still alive????

(Not that I have much room to make fun of your town; I'm in Cleveland, fast becoming both the emptiest town in the allegedly developed world, as well as the stoooopidest. And yes, many people felt it here, although for some reason I didn't. Some of the morons here are insisting that since the Canada quake happened around 1:45 and they felt something around 2:05, it must have been a separate, unrelated incident, and some of the news media are even reporting it as such. Apparently no one here has ever heard of the speed of sound.)

My local ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio experienced technical difficulties during the entire broadcast.

http://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/index.ssf/2010/05/lost_goes_out_on_symbolic_note_but_finale_is_lost_for_many_channel_5_viewers.html

I am a DishNetwork customer, and I was quick to try and blame the weather shifting the position of my dish. I also have an over the air antenna connected to my DN DVR. After stepping outside and noticing the air was calm and not a cloud in the sky, I went back and compared the Standard Definition signal from DN, the High Definition signal from DN, and the HD signal over the air. All feeds were experiencing extreme pixilation, then picture loss and drops in the audio feed. This process of pixilation, video loss, and audio loss would happen between every 1 to 4 minutes. My DishNetwork DVR has a meter which gives me a measure of the over the air signal strength. Throughout the entire episode last night the signal read at 100%, and yet I was still experiencing the pixilation and audio drop outs. I've waited six years for this finale, and for four and half hours last night I was cursing like a sailor at my TV. I thought it was funny that the local ABC affiliate was encouraging viewers to join their online chat while the show aired. I checked out the chat log, and it was riddled with complains on the video/audio feed.

So I wish I could comment on how the series ended. But I can't comment until after work today when I'll have time to watch the episode at abc.com.

This experience proves to me that far too many concessions have been made for local HD channels to put up a poorly broadcast signal. Cleveland Ohio is rated 18th in market size in the United states. Why is it they are able to get away with substandard performance you'd expect from Green Bay with a market rank of 139.

[Citation Needed]

Fine. It's trivial to find citations for this, since it was all over the news for a few weeks, but here you go, lazy one:

Brazil, Canada, and Norway require acoustic triggers as backup for BOPs.

He is about the ONLY astronaut that is speaking up that does not have a vested interest via their job.

He who? Neil Armstrong? Neil Armstrong worked for Morton-Thiokol, the company that built the Space Shuttle boosters.

Falcon

With a little exposure to the real world (or a short trip to Google Images) one finds that there is a brand called "Duck Tape"
http://blog.cleveland.com/business_impact/2009/06/large_duck-tape.jpg

Actually, they're making new high risk pools, scheduled to be in effect in 90 days.

Actually the fact they make crappy voting machines is fairly well known. Diebold is (trying to) sell off their voting division because it's been such a nightmare. From some random local news outlet's report:

The deal, announced before the markets opened Thursday, effectively closes the chapter on a sore spot in Diebold's storied 150-year history.

"The elections business has been a PR nightmare and a huge distraction for management," said analyst Gil Luria, vice president of research for Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. in Los Angeles.

Yeah there hasn't been a front-page article in USA Today or anything like that. However anyone that knows about Diebold (aka not most of the general public) certainly know how much they've screwed up.

It only takes $300,000 to bribe a Canadian prime minister? http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1254558952231190.xml&coll=2&thispage=2 Even county officials here bring in more than that.

Maybe we can build them safely, but maintenance is another issue. This is the same plant that almost went postal in 1985. See http://www.cleveland.com/powerplants/plaindealer/index.ssf?/powerplants/more/1095759100318143.html for just one reference.

Yes, the corruption is different in Cleveland. Cops stick to raiding evidence lockers http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/bratenahl_police_evidence_room.html or or posting photos of dead children online http://www.vindy.com/news/2007/oct/21/officer-admits-he-took-photo-of-dead-gunman/ Raiding a house is way too much work.

"Lawyers for the accused delivered a brief statement at the opening of the trial, explaining that their client had be under a large amount of stress after being homebound for a year due to a snowboarding accident with nothing to do but watch television and play video games."

So, presumably he hadn't been playing the game elsewhere.

He played it at friends' houses, according to this account of the trial (which also uses the word "homebound" -??):

Daniel's lawyer, James Kersey, gave a short opening statement. He said his client had been under great stress at the time of the shooting because of a snowboarding accident that resulted in a severe staph infection. It left Daniel with such severe spinal damage that the slightest injury could leave him paralyzed.

Daniel was homebound for a year with nothing to do but watch television and play video games, Kersey said. It was during that time that he became fascinated with the Halo series and would play them for hours at friends' houses. His father forbade the games, saying that were too violent and sexually explicit.

That has happened to a few of the bronze statues in Cleveland. here

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/10/child_support_record_check_on.html

"COLUMBUS -- The state department head who ordered the child-support check on "Joe the Plumber" defended her decision in a letter Wednesday to a Republican lawmaker who had questioned it."

"Jones-Kelley explained that the department decided to check whether Wurzelbacher owed child support, unemployment back taxes or was getting public assistance after he became an overnight media celebrity in mid-October. "

"Jones-Kelley has contributed $2,500 to Obama's campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. She has refused requests to be interviewed about her support of the Obama campaign."

Because EVERY time someone states on TV that they intend to purchase a business worth $250.000, they are ordered checked for whether they owe back taxes by the head of the State Department personally.

Because law enforcement need to keep themselves to very high standards if they want to be credible.

There's lots of ways an unscrupulous cop can catch criminals, if he believe that the ends justify the means.

Just off the top, when government agents pretend to be red cross workers so that they can sneak in and kill the captors and rescue the hostages, did they do anything wrong?

Well, they did save those hostages. But what about the next group of hostages? What about defiling the red cross, so that when actual red cross try to come in to do humanitarian work, they get gunned down as if they were agents?

What if you are a Washington employer looking for talent but word gets out that you are just another FBI front?

If we did not have entrenched monopolies acting like a telecom industry, there would have been some fall-out from them allowing agents to illegally and unethically capture all data through their pipes.

Just another example of lousy priorities by our esteemed law enforcement officials, all while they viciously protect their budgets no matter if they have to confiscate your property for whatever reason they can come up with to break even.

We do not have enough protection from these local para-military forces and their deeply ingrained conflicts of interest. What if crime actually goes down?!? Will they lay off police or will they figure out a new class of people to persecute to make up for the budget shortfall?

People shit on the school system, saying things like "throwing money at the problem doesn't help" but nobody ever holds the police to performance standards. Look, the worse cops perform, the more money we offer them.

There is zero accountability, laughable oversight, coupled by constant examples of incompetence and corruption at all levels...it's a sacred cow that nobody dares to consider touching...until they are the ones with their door kicked in and their dog shot down in front of them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003299_pf.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/978249/posts
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/04/police_shoot_dog_during_backya.html

Holy crap. http://blog.cleveland.com/earlyedition/2007/05/artslife_clothes_shopping_with.html

Freddie Johnson isn't going to vote 73 times in that election, and perhaps not even at all.

If you were interested in the truth, you'd read what the editors of the Cleveland PD, in which that article you cited was published, explained about this latest hypocritical distraction by Republicans:

To be fair, ACORN did flag some cards as questionable, but by law even those had to be turned in -- only the board can reject them. ACORN also cooperated with the board in identifying problems, and has fired rule-breaking canvassers.

No matter what's implied on talk radio, keep this in mind: Bogus registrations do not equate to vote fraud. Freddie Johnson won't be voting 42 times on Nov. 4. With the elections board referring his case to the county prosecutor, he faces criminal charges instead.

You stupid Republican fucks owe every American an apology for stealing enough elections to put the greatest gangsters of all time at the controls of the greatest catastrophes ever wrought on America. Stop pretending that you have any standing to tell anyone anything. Just shut the fuck up and listen for a few years. Maybe then you'll have a chance at being right about something once.

I'm not holding my breath. Goodbye, and good riddance to your faithy Republican theocracy.

Yeah, ACORN's registration procedures are so rigorous and legal they paid a teenager to register 73 times

In another incident:
ROKITA LAUNCHES ACORN PROBE: Indianaâ(TM)s top elections official is calling for an investigation into more than 2,000 invalid voter registrations filed in Lake County by ACORN, a nonprofit group cited for similar problems in other states (Times of Northwest Indiana). Secretary of State Todd Rokita said he has âoesecured credible evidence of fraudâ and sent letters Friday asking the Indiana attorney general and Lake County prosecutor to join him in launching a review. Rokita said he also contacted federal prosecutors. âoeThere looks to be some felonious actions taken here,â Rokita told reporters. âoeI think the message to the voters and taxpayers of this state is that weâ(TM)re watching, and weâ(TM)re not going to tolerate the kind of behavior in the state.â ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, said it has registered more than 1.3 million voters nationwide, including more than 23,000 in Indiana. The group, which supports Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, claims it is being unfairly persecuted. âoeWe ourselves identified approximately 2,100 cards in Lake County that we believe were problematic,â ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring said Friday. âoeWe are the victim here because we have identified the problem, and now certain interests are turning that information against us.â Kettenring said most states require groups to turn in every voter registration solicited, which is why ACORN separated the suspect registration forms. One form bore the name of a Gary man who died last year while another attempted to register the Jimmy Johnâ(TM)s sandwich shop in Crown Point. Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker dismissed the call to action by Rokita, a Republican, as partisan âoefear mongering.â

Yeah, that's real legal and above board. Now I know what you mean by "your democracy". It's where you get to vote many times in the same election you fraudulent piece of shit.

You're forgetting the "sweetener" that Congress just added to the financial bail-out, a tax credit that Congress is giving consumers for at least $2500 for plug-in hybrid capability, with an additional $417 per kwh capacity past 4 kwh (with a limit of $7500 for small vehicles, and much more on larger vehicles). This evens the playing field much more: http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/10/bailout_bill_includes_tax_brea.html

That means up to $7500 for a good plug-in vehicle. This is a big deal. It could totally change the minds of the car manufacturers.

I see. Is this the official Chinese description of what happened? I'm willing to admit that I might be less than fully informed, but I'm reluctant to give credibility to what the Chinese government says.

So what? The USA govt, sponsored and largely run by corporate interests (of which media corporations are subsidiary) isn't any more credible.

The USA establishment is pushing the lie that Russia was the aggressor against Georgia (which Russia was policing S. Ossetia by international agreement when they were attacked), and Presidential candidates are using that story as a call to arms against Russia!

Even the Tiananmen Square "Massacre" is a myth.

The Chinese government speaks not just though its state-controlled press, but through its actions as well, and their actions speak louder to me than their words. Members of the press from abroad have been intimidated and had pictures of protests confiscated by the Chinese government.

- How many requests for permission to protest were made? My latest sources say about 77.

- Of those, how many were granted permission to protest during the Games?

- Of those, how many actually protested during the Games?

- Learning Chinese would be great, but is more than I can do right now. What reliable and trustworthy (ie, non-government related) sources of information are there for an English-speaker like myself?

It seems that Beijing has gone out of its way to squash free speech, intimidate critics, and to imprison dissidents. Are all these sources willfully libeling China?

Have you paid attention to what's been done with protesters at the DNC and RNC events? The cops even arrested Amy Goodman and her staff; journalists from Salon.com were also threatened. Police surrounded protesters homes (no warrants, you see) and later charged them with intent to throw feces at convention-goers because they owned composting toilets; or that they were planning to make bombs because protesters had "chemicals" which turned out to be common cleaning and gardening products in their homes.

To the original topic: If it were in my power to grant or withhold, I would never entrust China (or any government - even my own) with tools that would help it roll back the shield of anonymity that protects the natural right of people to speak freely.

I can certainly agree with that.

I see. Is this the official Chinese description of what happened? I'm willing to admit that I might be less than fully informed, but I'm reluctant to give credibility to what the Chinese government says. Two elderly women could face a year of "reeducation through labor" because they applied for permits to demonstrate during the Olympics, according to one of the would-be protesters.

The Chinese government speaks not just though its state-controlled press, but through its actions as well, and their actions speak louder to me than their words. Members of the press from abroad have been intimidated and had pictures of protests confiscated by the Chinese government.

- How many requests for permission to protest were made? My latest sources say about 77.
- Of those, how many were granted permission to protest during the Games?
- Of those, how many actually protested during the Games?
- Learning Chinese would be great, but is more than I can do right now. What reliable and trustworthy (ie, non-government related) sources of information are there for an English-speaker like myself?

It seems that Beijing has gone out of its way to squash free speech, intimidate critics, and to imprison dissidents. Are all these sources willfully libeling China?

To the original topic: If it were in my power to grant or withhold, I would never entrust China (or any government - even my own) with tools that would help it roll back the shield of anonymity that protects the natural right of people to speak freely.

This idea seems better to me:

http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/07/monomobile_inventors_promote_a.html

It uses a monorail system to power electric cars at 100 mph.

Let's not forget the possibility that a culture that built up around gangstas, bragging about prison time, and shooting people in the face for dissing you; might actually be committing more crimes. What is the product of this kind of culture? Black youth are six times more likely to die of homicide than white youth and seven times more likely to commit a homicide. Homicide is the leading cause of death among African-American males ages 15 to 29. I don't think about skin color, it's about cultural values. Bill Cosby has it right.

Only if he could have gotten an open house vote on it would it have been a "success", now it will die quietly as have his other attempts to impeach Cheney.

This thing didn't stand a chance in the House either. It was sent to committee to keep it from being debated on the House floor. Most Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the likes of Code Pink, ANSWER, MoveOn.org, Karl Marx and people who see UFO's and try to communicate with trees.

This would not only been counter productive in that regard, but it would have also been seen as a complete waste of time.

And Righi agreed that a police officer did nothing wrong in arresting him after he refused to show his driver's license outside the store Sept. 1.

When I read [the Cleveland Plain Dealer's] take on what happened I was outraged. Michael Sangiacomo of the Plain Dealer claimed that I "agreed that a police officer did nothing wrong in arresting [me] after [I] refused to show [my] driver's license." This is an outright lie. I never said such a thing and would never say such a thing.I consider the outcome of my legal battle to be a victory, yet today's paper portrays it as defeat.

# Ja Says:
September 21st, 2007 at 9:48 am

This is an interesting email I just got back from the reporter who wrote the article at the Plain Dealer. I wrote him stating that his article seemed incorrect. See his response below:

MICHAEL SANGIACOMO hide details 9:43 am (1 minute ago)
to
date Sep 21, 2007 9:43 AM
subject Re: Circuit City case
mailed-by plaind.com
Tell him to speak with his attorney. The story reflected exactly what his attorney said, and he said it at least four times. In fact, he said that it was very important that I say that the police did no wrong.
I attempted to reach Mr. Righi several times and he told me to speak with his attorney. THat's what I did.
Please note, Mr. Righi has NOT contacted me and said there was a problem. His attorney has not contacted me either. Perhaps he's trying to save face on his blog.
Mike Sangiacomo

Here is what appears to be a slightly more reliable source. Though considering the lack of search results (the first five consisted of nothing but results from that antipolygraph.com site, the wikipedia, and /.), I'm still far from convinced of the accuracy of this story. This still could be one of those rumors that started on out a message board (in this case on a site whose sole purpose is to disparage polygraphs) and grew into a news story. Please, editors, verify that the submissions you get are not complete crap before posting them.

Anyways, according to that source, this case (if it ever existed) was a sexual assault case in which the defendant (who was essentially facing a "he said, she said" case over whether or not the sex was consensual) convinced the judge to admit a polygraph result which showed his innocence. So it was clearly not a case of someone being jailed because of a polygraph result, it was a case of a most likely innocent man being acquitted because of it (again, assuming this case ever existed in the first place). Generally speaking, our justice system is designed to be more likely to let an innocent man go than to convict a guilty man, so this shouldn't be too surprising. And as far as polygraphs being inaccurate, well so is eyewitness testimony, yet many cases are built solely because of that.

http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2007/08/vandals _try_to_download_copper.html

The replacement coil was hit with gunfire

So the Kucinich impeachment measure gets a fourth cosponsor yet Democratic leaders have dismissed impeachment, opting to pursue to aggressive congressional investigations of the Republican administration less than a year before presidential primary elections begin across the country.

I'm puzzled. Would not the impeachment hearings expose and investigate the peddling of faulty intelligence that the administration presented to justify their case for war better than a congressional investigation? It would also have the bonus effect of preventing Cheney from starting another war in Iran.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ss f?/base/news/117232538430570.xml&coll=2
The court called this a fundamental violation of their human rights.
"The overarching principle of fundamental justice that applies here is this: Before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in a ruling for all nine justices.
"The secrecy required by the scheme denies the person named in a certificate the opportunity to know the case put against him or her, and hence to challenge the government's case," she said.

Copper is valuable enough that thieves are routinely stealing it wherever they can get it, even if that means taking live phone wires.

In the entire history of electromechanical switching in the Bell System, no central office was ever out of service for more than 30 minutes for any reason other than a natural disaster. That record has definitely not been maintained in the computer era.

Electric power system reliability in the United States is down, mostly as a result of deregulation. Rate-of-return regulation tended to encourage utilities to overbuild their systems, which was good for reliability. When there's a free market in electric power, no one bears responsibility for downtime.

I don't expect things to get better. Not after Cleveland had a five-day outage and nobody went to jail.

Bush must have shares in Diebold or something.

Anyway, it appears that the three big "electronic voting" companies are Republican shills, just going by the 2004 election data (exit poll discrepancies were bigger in districts using electronic voting, and all discrepencies were in the favor of the Republicans, they weren't random).

I am so tired of hearing about stolen elections. The media have been all over this and any reporter would win a Pulitzer if any evidence could be found.

Here is the best research to date on the Ohio "theft".

http://www.cleveland.com/readers/index.ssf?/base/o pinion/1150619659219900.xml&coll=2&thispage=3/

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kenne dy/index_np.html/

Boardman countered that presidents since James Monroe have issued statements of interpretation to accompany laws, and that every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has issued statements reserving the right not to execute sections of laws that may contradict the Constitution. By her accounting, Bush has issued such statements on 110 laws, compared with 80 from Bill Clinton, as many as 105 from Ronald Reagan and 147 from George H.W. Bush in a single term. But President Bush issued multiple statements on many of those laws for a total of 750, and it is unclear how many statements the other presidents issued.

But the session also concerns countering any influence Bush's signing statements may have on court decisions regarding the new laws. Courts can be expected to look to the legislature for intent, not the executive, said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas., a former state judge.

"There's less here than meets the eye," Cornyn said. "The president is entitled to express his opinion. It's the courts that determine what the law is."

But Specter and his allies maintain that Bush is doing an end-run around the veto process. In his presidency's sixth year, Bush has yet to issue a single veto that could be overridden with a two-thirds majority in each house.

"The president is not required to (veto)," Boardman said.

"Of course he's not if he signs the bill," Specter snapped back.