“If only we limited enforcement to those who had hurt others . . ."
In addition to the points you made, there is wide misperception that there is a lot of low-lying fruit here. There is bipartisan support in Illinois to release non-violent offenders, but there is also bipartisan support for attacking a governor who releases an offender that he shouldn't have.
The main problem is that people are charged with a set of offenses, violent and non-violent, and they may plea to one of them. Since drug charges are easy to prove and have long sentences, there are violent offenders that appear to have non-violent record. But the evidence in the file shows they did hurt someone.
I looked at some background information on the 5th amendment for the Cosby situation and read in a couple of places that taking the 5th is proceeding-specific. I thought that was interesting and not necessarily obvious.
I do wonder about using Porter's previous testimony in a subsequent trial though. I think the complaint from other cop-defendants is that his testimony is being read or repeated without the opportunity to confront and cross-examine the witness.
Just looking at Illinois law, it looks like the state Republican party informs the Secretary of State who its Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates will be within 180 days of the state primary (i.e., after the national convention). Not sure what, if anything, binds the state party to the national decision, but I guess I'm not surprised that a state would not condition its electoral process on the national convention. The 1860 Democrats failed to nominate. Also, the 1836 Whigs nominated four candidates for different parts of the country.
My gut tells me there is no law here. Maybe faithless elector laws might have some teeth in the first round, and then only as a penalty for faithlessness, not to prevent faithlessness altogether.
In particular, Trump is quite vague on policy and as Scott Adams obsessively points-out, this is one of many proven persuasion techniques Trump uses. This one allows the listener to fill-in-the-blanks on what is being sold. (There is also a constant duality where Trump talks positively about a person or thing, while earlier/later talking negatively)
My main experience with non-partisan state elections was in Louisiana when David Duke made the runoff for Governor, but lost to the felon. So, I'm very pessimistic about the opportunities it provides.
OK, I was just curious if was also traced to the Illinois Journal.
There is a posthumous interview conducted by Herndon of Lincoln's neighbor James Gourley who said: "We played the old fashioned town ball — jumped — ran — fought & danced. Lincoln played town ball — he hopped well — in 3 hops he would go 40.2 on a dead level."
He's not making this comment in reference to any specific event; he was simply a next-door neighbor of 19 years reminiscing. It would be hard to imagine why he would simply make this up as opposed to sharing things he remembered.
I'll stop my obsessing now. I had never heard of "town ball," and was unaware that Lincoln would have played baseball, my favorite sport.
OK, I see your point. What newspaper reported this? The standard account has him waiting at the Illinois State Journal (the Springfield Republican paper), waiting and commenting to others as developments at the convention arrive by telegraph. This is the standard account from Michael Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Chapter 15):
When the news of Lincoln’s victory reached Springfield, the bearer of the dispatch rushed into the office of the Illinois State Journal, where the candidate and a large crowd has been following events, and proposed “three rousing cheers for Abraham Lincoln, the next President of the United States.” After the huzzahing, Lincoln took the dispatch, read it, accepted congratulations from all present, and said: “I must go home; there is a little short woman there that is more interested in this matter than I am.” En route, people stopped him on the street to offer congratulations. He thanked them and jestingly said: “you had better come and shake hands with me now that you have an opportunity – for you do not know what influence this nomination may have on me. I am human, you know.” He then returned home and remained there the rest of the day.
There is certainly a feigned disinterest by this account similar in attitude to the ball story. But looking at the supporting footnote, I found this comment:
Other versions of the events of this memorable day, which seem less plausible than these, can be found in the reminiscences of T. W. S. Kidd, Illinois State Register (Springfield), 13 February 1903; an undated statement of George M. Brinkerhoff, Sr., in Weik, Real Lincoln, ed. Burlingame, 410-11; and Clinton L. Conkling, “How Mr. Lincoln Received the News of His First Nomination,” Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society 14 (1909): 63-66. Kidd denied the story that Lincoln was playing ball when he received word of his nomination. So too did Christopher C. Brown and James Gourley. Chicago Times-Herald, 25 August 1895; Wilson and Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants, 437-38, 453.
I also note there are two different events being described. The first is when Lincoln first learned of the nomination, which as noted above, we know Lincoln learned of the nomination personally by telegraph. He was getting telegraphed after each round of voting, surrounded by friends, after which he went home.
A few days later, formal notification came by an official delegation, which was an organized meeting, which was itself preceded by an advance party to make arrangements. There are a number of accounts of these events, including whether Mary should be permitted to be present, and the anxious neighbors stocking the Lincoln household with alcohol for the notable guests, which upset Mary.
If there is some truth to the story, it is more likely that it happened when any number of politicians, and newspaper reporters came to Springfield to check-out Lincoln.
I enjoyed reading this and having read a lot of Lincoln books have never come across any discussion of him playing ball, but your judgments seem sound.
"Out in the sticks in places like Springfield, Illinois, the traditional local versions still prevailed."
Springfield was largely settled from the Upper South, particularly from Northern Kentucky, so if the sport was called "town ball" in the Ohio River valley, that's most likely what it would be called in Springfield.
It was a rapidly urbanizing city when Lincoln arrived, but the gender ratios were heavily skewed to the male-side as one would expect in a frontier area. As a result, it was dominated by male youth culture where men remained single into their mid 30s. The young men hung-out together, arguing politics, telling stories and playing games, including sports and contests of strength and skill. Lincoln certainly enjoyed the comradery, and if ball was played at that time, its hard to imagine he didn't, unless there was alcohol involved.
One aspect of the Trump voter appears to be a very strong confidence that he would win the general election. Is that confidence shakeable by the prospect that some of the most effective Clinton ads will be clips from recognizable Republican leaders?
To me it raises the question of what is the purpose of a public university anyway?
But in the British context, the writer is complaining that if the UK leaves the EU, then its school will no longer be a part of the free-tuition pact. I can see why the citizen of Fenwick likes the idea of attending one of the top universities in the world for free, instead of Central Fenwick by the Sea. I can see why Oxford would like such an arrangement. But so long as there are limited seats available in higher education, its hard to see what the benefit is for the British taxpayer who now has to send their child to the almost bankrupt CFS, and everybody knows Fenwick is landlocked and "by the Sea" was just a marketing gimmick.
Immigration controls: I am not British, and cannot understand how this would be perceived as persuasive: "What is the point of spending British public money to educate hundreds of thousands of students, only to politely but firmly show them the door after graduation?"
Do taxpayers in other countries like to pay for the education denied their own children? I know how this would play out in Illinois: bipartisan outrage. Currently, the U of Illinois has agreed to stop increasing the number of foreign students admitted, but the previous increase was a product of decreasing taxpayer support being offset by outrageously high tuition rates that could be charged the wealthy abroad. At some point, the purpose of a state-funded school has to be to serve the interests of the taxpayers of the state.
Twain said they were both written for adults to be read by adults. But I think his publisher convinced him that Tom Sawyer would sell better as a children's book and he came around to that point of view. In his introduction to Tom Sawyer, Twain writes the book is for boys and girls, but sheepishly states that he thought adults might find it a good read as well.
Twain initially looked into serializing Huck Finn in Century Magazine, which was for adults. Century published a promotional excerpt and the book was sold by subscription as a sequel to Tom Sawyer. It was widely perceived as a children's book, which was the context in which libraries starting banning it.
You have to admit Jim is being selfish concentrating on things he once had and he no longer has. Someone else has his things now and he should feel happy for them.
Right, the comparison of the wealthiest individuals of another time period, with "ordinary" individuals today is largely advanced by substitution of goods for servants. And it was the servants who essentially experienced the inconveniences that later improvements ameliorated. The washing machine is a great advance, but Rockefeller never had to do his own laundry, make his own bed, drive his own car, cook his own meals, etc. Robots will move the situation towards a more perfect substitution, but I'm not sure that the freedom that servants, serfs or slaves provide is ever entirely replaceable. The technology can improve, but the wealthy can order someone else to deal with it.
The outing of Sanders piece seems pretty disjointed and unpersuasive: Republicans will Willy-Horton the secret Jew? To avoid this, the Sanders campaign is supposed to discuss "the history of Jewish activism that has aided civil rights, led the fight for a 40-hour workweek and unionization, and reopened the doors to immigration." This sounds like it might be directed towards non-white Democrats, not towards facing a Republican in the general election.
Meanwhile, the leading proponent of religious identity in the Republican primaries, consistently refers to this country as being founded on Judeo-Christian values. (There is an article at Forward complaining about Cruz' partial misappropriation of Jewish identity). I doubt anybody that matters will care about his ethnicity or religious upbringing, but they will care that he is not observant and seemingly valueless. Atheists poll worse than just about anybody for political office, other than socialists.
The issue, otherwise known as the mailbox rule, is that it is convenient to have deadlines run from a clear date of performance. You put something in the mailbox by the deadline, and you've done all you can do. Any intervening act is a felony which you cannot be responsible for. It's simple for the government to check the postmark to see that it was mailed on time.
BTW/ Last I looked FedEx doesn't fully guarantee that its packages will be delivered on time, they just offer a refund if it doesn't.
Part of it has to do with lay-people complying with the law, or lawyers trying to communicate with lay people. Increasingly in litigation, lawyers file on-line, but there remains a need to keep non-lawyers in mind)
Another part of it is that the postal service possesses greater reliability from a legal perspective. What that means is that there are court decisions which conclude that giving a package to FedEx can be inexcusably late when it would have been timely if it had been put in a US post office-box on the same day. The justification is that the delivery business is unregulated and no different than giving a document to your cousin Vinnie to deliver. It's not a completed transaction and lacks the protection of the criminal justice system.
I watched the first of Lucifer, and wondered why they were remaking the Constantine TV series that had just been cancelled? (In particular both insert an african-american angel to serve the same function)
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On “Morning Ed: Crime {2016.03.09.W}”
I think violent crime sentences are too long as well, except for child-abuse (not referring to the Romeo-Juliette issue)
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“If only we limited enforcement to those who had hurt others . . ."
In addition to the points you made, there is wide misperception that there is a lot of low-lying fruit here. There is bipartisan support in Illinois to release non-violent offenders, but there is also bipartisan support for attacking a governor who releases an offender that he shouldn't have.
The main problem is that people are charged with a set of offenses, violent and non-violent, and they may plea to one of them. Since drug charges are easy to prove and have long sentences, there are violent offenders that appear to have non-violent record. But the evidence in the file shows they did hurt someone.
On “Morning Ed: Politics {2016.03.08.T}”
If he's granted immunity, he can be compelled to testify.
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I looked at some background information on the 5th amendment for the Cosby situation and read in a couple of places that taking the 5th is proceeding-specific. I thought that was interesting and not necessarily obvious.
I do wonder about using Porter's previous testimony in a subsequent trial though. I think the complaint from other cop-defendants is that his testimony is being read or repeated without the opportunity to confront and cross-examine the witness.
"
Just looking at Illinois law, it looks like the state Republican party informs the Secretary of State who its Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates will be within 180 days of the state primary (i.e., after the national convention). Not sure what, if anything, binds the state party to the national decision, but I guess I'm not surprised that a state would not condition its electoral process on the national convention. The 1860 Democrats failed to nominate. Also, the 1836 Whigs nominated four candidates for different parts of the country.
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Sorry, I lost the chain of discussion. I assume each state would have its own candidate then.
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My gut tells me there is no law here. Maybe faithless elector laws might have some teeth in the first round, and then only as a penalty for faithlessness, not to prevent faithlessness altogether.
"
In particular, Trump is quite vague on policy and as Scott Adams obsessively points-out, this is one of many proven persuasion techniques Trump uses. This one allows the listener to fill-in-the-blanks on what is being sold. (There is also a constant duality where Trump talks positively about a person or thing, while earlier/later talking negatively)
"
My main experience with non-partisan state elections was in Louisiana when David Duke made the runoff for Governor, but lost to the felon. So, I'm very pessimistic about the opportunities it provides.
On “How Lincoln Received the Nomination”
OK, I was just curious if was also traced to the Illinois Journal.
There is a posthumous interview conducted by Herndon of Lincoln's neighbor James Gourley who said: "We played the old fashioned town ball — jumped — ran — fought & danced. Lincoln played town ball — he hopped well — in 3 hops he would go 40.2 on a dead level."
He's not making this comment in reference to any specific event; he was simply a next-door neighbor of 19 years reminiscing. It would be hard to imagine why he would simply make this up as opposed to sharing things he remembered.
I'll stop my obsessing now. I had never heard of "town ball," and was unaware that Lincoln would have played baseball, my favorite sport.
"
OK, I see your point. What newspaper reported this? The standard account has him waiting at the Illinois State Journal (the Springfield Republican paper), waiting and commenting to others as developments at the convention arrive by telegraph. This is the standard account from Michael Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Chapter 15):
There is certainly a feigned disinterest by this account similar in attitude to the ball story. But looking at the supporting footnote, I found this comment:
"
I also note there are two different events being described. The first is when Lincoln first learned of the nomination, which as noted above, we know Lincoln learned of the nomination personally by telegraph. He was getting telegraphed after each round of voting, surrounded by friends, after which he went home.
A few days later, formal notification came by an official delegation, which was an organized meeting, which was itself preceded by an advance party to make arrangements. There are a number of accounts of these events, including whether Mary should be permitted to be present, and the anxious neighbors stocking the Lincoln household with alcohol for the notable guests, which upset Mary.
If there is some truth to the story, it is more likely that it happened when any number of politicians, and newspaper reporters came to Springfield to check-out Lincoln.
"
I enjoyed reading this and having read a lot of Lincoln books have never come across any discussion of him playing ball, but your judgments seem sound.
"Out in the sticks in places like Springfield, Illinois, the traditional local versions still prevailed."
Springfield was largely settled from the Upper South, particularly from Northern Kentucky, so if the sport was called "town ball" in the Ohio River valley, that's most likely what it would be called in Springfield.
It was a rapidly urbanizing city when Lincoln arrived, but the gender ratios were heavily skewed to the male-side as one would expect in a frontier area. As a result, it was dominated by male youth culture where men remained single into their mid 30s. The young men hung-out together, arguing politics, telling stories and playing games, including sports and contests of strength and skill. Lincoln certainly enjoyed the comradery, and if ball was played at that time, its hard to imagine he didn't, unless there was alcohol involved.
On “Romney Condemns Trump”
Thanks, I shouldn't drink and watch debates. That seemed like a big and inexplicable position change.
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Did Trump just reverse himself on immigration?
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One aspect of the Trump voter appears to be a very strong confidence that he would win the general election. Is that confidence shakeable by the prospect that some of the most effective Clinton ads will be clips from recognizable Republican leaders?
On “Morning Ed: World {2016.03.03.Th}”
To me it raises the question of what is the purpose of a public university anyway?
But in the British context, the writer is complaining that if the UK leaves the EU, then its school will no longer be a part of the free-tuition pact. I can see why the citizen of Fenwick likes the idea of attending one of the top universities in the world for free, instead of Central Fenwick by the Sea. I can see why Oxford would like such an arrangement. But so long as there are limited seats available in higher education, its hard to see what the benefit is for the British taxpayer who now has to send their child to the almost bankrupt CFS, and everybody knows Fenwick is landlocked and "by the Sea" was just a marketing gimmick.
"
Immigration controls: I am not British, and cannot understand how this would be perceived as persuasive: "What is the point of spending British public money to educate hundreds of thousands of students, only to politely but firmly show them the door after graduation?"
Do taxpayers in other countries like to pay for the education denied their own children? I know how this would play out in Illinois: bipartisan outrage. Currently, the U of Illinois has agreed to stop increasing the number of foreign students admitted, but the previous increase was a product of decreasing taxpayer support being offset by outrageously high tuition rates that could be charged the wealthy abroad. At some point, the purpose of a state-funded school has to be to serve the interests of the taxpayers of the state.
On “Morning Ed: Society {2016.03.02.W}”
Twain said they were both written for adults to be read by adults. But I think his publisher convinced him that Tom Sawyer would sell better as a children's book and he came around to that point of view. In his introduction to Tom Sawyer, Twain writes the book is for boys and girls, but sheepishly states that he thought adults might find it a good read as well.
Twain initially looked into serializing Huck Finn in Century Magazine, which was for adults. Century published a promotional excerpt and the book was sold by subscription as a sequel to Tom Sawyer. It was widely perceived as a children's book, which was the context in which libraries starting banning it.
On “Morning Ed: Economics {2016.03.01.T}”
You have to admit Jim is being selfish concentrating on things he once had and he no longer has. Someone else has his things now and he should feel happy for them.
"
Right, the comparison of the wealthiest individuals of another time period, with "ordinary" individuals today is largely advanced by substitution of goods for servants. And it was the servants who essentially experienced the inconveniences that later improvements ameliorated. The washing machine is a great advance, but Rockefeller never had to do his own laundry, make his own bed, drive his own car, cook his own meals, etc. Robots will move the situation towards a more perfect substitution, but I'm not sure that the freedom that servants, serfs or slaves provide is ever entirely replaceable. The technology can improve, but the wealthy can order someone else to deal with it.
On “Morning Ed: Politics {2016.02.29.M}”
The outing of Sanders piece seems pretty disjointed and unpersuasive: Republicans will Willy-Horton the secret Jew? To avoid this, the Sanders campaign is supposed to discuss "the history of Jewish activism that has aided civil rights, led the fight for a 40-hour workweek and unionization, and reopened the doors to immigration." This sounds like it might be directed towards non-white Democrats, not towards facing a Republican in the general election.
Meanwhile, the leading proponent of religious identity in the Republican primaries, consistently refers to this country as being founded on Judeo-Christian values. (There is an article at Forward complaining about Cruz' partial misappropriation of Jewish identity). I doubt anybody that matters will care about his ethnicity or religious upbringing, but they will care that he is not observant and seemingly valueless. Atheists poll worse than just about anybody for political office, other than socialists.
On “Future Horrible Practices”
The issue, otherwise known as the mailbox rule, is that it is convenient to have deadlines run from a clear date of performance. You put something in the mailbox by the deadline, and you've done all you can do. Any intervening act is a felony which you cannot be responsible for. It's simple for the government to check the postmark to see that it was mailed on time.
BTW/ Last I looked FedEx doesn't fully guarantee that its packages will be delivered on time, they just offer a refund if it doesn't.
"
Part of it has to do with lay-people complying with the law, or lawyers trying to communicate with lay people. Increasingly in litigation, lawyers file on-line, but there remains a need to keep non-lawyers in mind)
Another part of it is that the postal service possesses greater reliability from a legal perspective. What that means is that there are court decisions which conclude that giving a package to FedEx can be inexcusably late when it would have been timely if it had been put in a US post office-box on the same day. The justification is that the delivery business is unregulated and no different than giving a document to your cousin Vinnie to deliver. It's not a completed transaction and lacks the protection of the criminal justice system.
"
I watched the first of Lucifer, and wondered why they were remaking the Constantine TV series that had just been cancelled? (In particular both insert an african-american angel to serve the same function)
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