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Has any officer anywhere been disciplined in any way (other than paid vacation) for violating the legal rights of a photographer?

There is plenty of information about this incident: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/wahpeton-cop-who-arrested-kid-for-recording-him-gets-suspended/ I don't know if this is the best article about it or not (at work, can't do extensive research) but he was suspended without pay. Some good youtube clips about it out there too. Kudos to the youngun' for standing up for his rights.

Is that why the more economic classes you take the more likely you are to be a libertarian?

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/studying-economics-makes-you-more-likely-to-be-a-conservativelibertarian/

>Dumb question - What was wrong with the old Rupee symbol?

It's just one of those promotional things governments do, like Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech, and Obama's stimulus signs.

The coffee spillers, the penis manglers and other similar litigants sigh relief now: a bigger fish stepped up.

But seriously, the problem is that these lawsuits sometimes work:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/the_stella_awards_for_the_most_absurd_lawsuits/

John Kerry and Charlie Rangel.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/31/kerry.mccain/index.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/26/video-rangel-says-men-join-the-army-only-if-they-cant-have-a-decent-career/

http://sayanythingblog.com/images/recruits_by_quintile.gif

C'mon man, 2 minutes on google.

So in your eyes, "certain high output firearms (which inevitably means ALL firearms)" are equivalent to weapons of mass destruction. Have you every considered therapy?

Listen, if you want a firearm like the kind the Founding Fathers used, hey, knock yourself out. But multiply that sustained firing rate by a couple orders of magnitude, and you have a whole different category of weapon. If you can't see that, then there's no helping you.

So is that why they come to the U.S. to get their surgeries done

Where "they" means "an insignificant handful of cases"? http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/study_debunks_myth_of_desperate_canadians_seeking_us_health_care/

Listen, our unbridled profits lead to the lion's share of world's medical advances

[Citation needed]. Also, you're not allowed to count as "medical advances" things like irrelevant tweaks to a drug so its patent window can be started again -- there's those wonderful, productive profit motives again.

have you ever asked your mom: "But Bobby's mom let him do X, why can't I?" and gotten "I am not Bobby's mom" in response? Well, it's kind of like that

So what you're saying is, the vast majority of Americans, who want government-provided health care, can't have it because you said so?

shouldn't you be telling the Swiss that the fact that they keep their M-16s (read: high-output firearms) at home after their military service is negatively affecting their domestic tranquility, low crime-rate and all?

Tell you what, you get the US to institute an official national policy of neutrality in all conflicts, as well as universal mandatory conscription, and then we'll talk.

Because, when I was in basic training (Air Force) we were told that we would have to do details(a.k.a. cleaning bitch duties)if we didn't go to church. As a result of this, you see the noobs who attend Catholic church putting their rosaries around their necks like necklaces :) note: that's not what you're supposed to do with them.

So I went to church and became deathly ill from other basic-training sicklings coughing and sneezing, and then insisting on holding hands with me as part of the sing-a-long. Eventually I stopped going to church and discovered that we weren't actually made to do details. Just got to sit quietly in the bay writing letters and relaxing. One of the best-kept secrets in basic training. Hell, if I knew that then I wouldn't have went to church even if I were religious!

Still, the AF is not all that bad when it comes to religion. The worst cases of Christian zealotry seem to occur in the Army.

They're scrapped, but they're not in junkyards. The government is specifically destroying them all rather than risk selling them off in any form, because the only buyer besides hobbyist collectors or museums is Iran.

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/pentagon_spending_900000_to_destroy_f_14_tomcats/

I agree; that's a bad idea.

countering fundamentalist Islam with fundamentalist Christianity

...Holy shit! No wonder the Pentagra^H^Hon is worried, after all, rock music is the tool of the devil, and we can't...

Getting angry that Bush lied us into war, is squandering our treasury, is undermining our security, is leaving our enemies on the loose, is spying on us illegally doesn't change whether they're "high crimes and misdemeanors". All it does, apparently, is make you so defensive that you will ignore them, preferring to kill the messenger.

No it isn't ignoring them and killing the messenger. It is looking at it in reasonable terms. Any non bush basher can see that there might be reasonable explainations that fit into the it isn't "high crimes and misdemeanors".

First lets look into the "Bush lied us into war". Sure he might have but didn't the leading democrates say some of the exact same things in the years leading upto bush's term? (the answer is _yes_.) Ok but the information presented had since then been discounted, and Bush did admit that after the state of the union speach he recieved information that made some of the statments incorect. Then the press picked up on it. But, the inteligence in question was from foreign countries who had used the oil for food programs to profit form Iraq in wasy against the sanctions. but we didn't find any WMD's? Well, it apears syria and lebanon might be a place to look. Also the russians who gave the information about Iraw looking for yellowcake and later said it might not be creditible was supposedly selling the WMDs to iraq in the first place. but, That could just be government spin, And this Supposed Iraqi general is just trying to sell books.

Now, all this other evidence could be totaly false but as long as we don't address any of it and jump to the "bush lied-people died" we cannot discredit any other supporting stuff. This supporting stuff is just enough to make the vast majority of people second guess if Bush really lied.

Is squandering our treasury, again, this is somethign marginaly seen before and some if not most people find it a neccesary evil as long as we don't shortchange the troops in harms way. I think it goes back to Vietnam and how we basicaly under funded our way into increased dead soldiers.

is leaving our enemies on the loose, Well we know it took over five years to find Eric Rudolph who was in territoy we control. We also have some competing theories out that say we are laying off stromtrooper searches becuase surveilance is working better and prommising more leads. But who to know for sure what a highly secretive program is doing all the time.

is spying on us illegally, This one realy gets to me. First it has never been proven to be ilegal. It is against one law apearentyl but another law passed later seemed to give the authority to go around the previous law. It definatly doesn't seem to be what congress intended but if the authority is there then how would it be ilegal to use. I guess before we purposely forget the inocent untill proven guilty parts of the law we might want to get confirmation in the legality. It is also dificult to get this confirmation when we are yelling impeachment. But that doesn't touch the general public perception of this program. They think that the ilegal spying is only on people talking to terrorist from inside the united states. They don't know that Bush is really spying on _us_ too. It kind of goes aling with the "why should you worry if your not guilty but associating with guilty people" mentality. Because we all know "if you don't have anythign to hide". It just isn't seen as a problem by most because they aren't talking to terrorist and plotting kill inocent babies. But now that they know Buch is listening in on Aunt Sarah tell you her chocolate chip cookie recipe, things might be different!

As a matter of fact, this same spying stoped seceral terrorist plots that included target in both Europe and America. But the press didn't seem to pick up on this too much in America. Spai

"I never understood comments like this about how things man does are not natural or "endorsed" by God. Why would God give us the intellect and capabilities to harvest eggs and many other things?"

It's because it becomes a moral question. God gave us the intellect to build nuclear weapons as well. God gave man the capacity to viciousness that can lead to the murder of millions. The point is that mankind is supposed to act morally.
The question is simply: is harvesting embryos morally correct by God's law.
Somehow I don't think there is a passage in the bible that states the correct answer bluntly (although I'm sure there are whackos out there who would consider the murder of innoncents to be descriptive). However because an embryo is a "potential child", killing the embryo is killing the potentiality with human hands - rather than by an unavoidable "natural" act. So the same argument applied against abortion is applied here.
Now you imply that no one complains about the excess eggs in a fertility clinic. A quick search on google shows things like a bill in Kentucky that makes it illegal to fertilize more than one egg for IVF. Or the findings that there are 400,00 0 frozen embryos in storage, partially because the parents have moral qualms about getting rid of fertilized eggs they don't need. It seems like no one thought about it too much before the stem cell issue came up, but I would expect to see legislation passed in some states which will make IVF more difficult.
I'm playing devil's advocate here - as these aren't my personal opinions.

Well said, and I am in complete agreement. Sometimes buildings and roads are aranged in ways that are efficient for ther use on the ground, but when viewed from the air form images that people believe to be symbolic. These runways are a good example of that. Here's another one: http://sayanythingblog.com/2005/07/21/weird-google -map-results/

Not exactly a traffic stop, and I think I agree with the courts on that one, but you can definitely see the parallels.

if this guy's story is any evidence, they should be able to get themselves unbanned by cleaning up the offending pages...

Appears that an outfit calling itself "Business Barn LLC" has been trying this with high-ranking weblogs, too.

"The company offered to pay me $300/month for the use of a subdomain off of my "sayanythingblog.com" domain. I would point the subdomain to a page of advertising hosted on their servers and they'd send me the money via Pay Pal. I checked out the advertising and there was no porn or anything involved so I agreed. Seemed like a good deal to me and with hosting costs rising as this page gets more and more popular I'm not much inclined to turn down opportunities to make money from this page." --here [if you must]

So then you take out your sword and run up to a guy and go, "Chiiing!" And after you saw through his head, you fly inside your X-wing.
Did this remind anyone else of this, by any chance, or is it just me?

I'm kind of spooked now.