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Fair and Balanced Report

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Here is today’s fair and balanced report. First, South Knox Bubba has the headlines (do not drink your coffee while reading); second, Neal Pollack provides a fair and balanced report on bill’s blackout activities (and now you know why he is trying to divert attention to Hillary, and third, Tegan writes about and links us to the Fox court filing which is full of great quote material such as the Orwellian

15. FNC’s balanced approach to reporting the news has become extremely popular…

and o’reilly’s fair and balanced version of his own show

17…”The O’Reilly factor” bills itself as a “No-Spin Zone” and the goal of the program is to present the audience with the straight facts while allowing the audience to reach its own conclusions about the news.

And in full bushian mode of saying one thing and doing another:

20. To reflect its unique approach to the reporting of news, FNC adopted the slogan “fair and Balanced”, along with the phrase “we Report, You Decide” at the time of the network’s inception.

Folks: watch it, read it, you decide.

Court Web Sites

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Via beSpacific:

The 2003 winners of the JUSTICE SERVED� Top 10 Court Website Awards are here! The total number of court websites worldwide has grown substantially in the past year. We looked at more than 900 sites this year to choose these well-deserved winners.

Go check’m out. See what services your friends, relatives and lawyers might get if you do wrong.

I Hate Thieves

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Back from the road and I hate thieves.
Is that correct? Ah, yes, associate your emotion with of the act not the actor. Well, I hate theft and today I hate thieves.
Late last night, 30 minutes from home, returning from a perfectly wonderful few days away (my how the constant caress of near by surf soothes) we get a phone call telling us one of our cars had been burglarized.
I hate thieves.
Deal with the police, deal with insurance, everything takes time and eventually the damage will be fixed and the stolen items replaced. Low deductible helps for part of the loss. But we will be out of pocket several hundred dollars when all is said and done. This is probably triple what the jerk(s) will get when they fence their take. The out of pocket is nothing compared to the psychological loss. It is partially mended by time.
I still hate thieves.
In all their forms, catch them, try them and jail them: the murderers, the rapists, the beaters and abusers, the muggers, the robbers, the vandals. Take something that does not belong to you and pay the price.
And I still hate thieves.

Legal Double Bind

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Situation: You are a defense attorney whose client is charged with possessing pornography. As part of preparing your defense you have copies of the alleged pornographic material. Should you be charged with the same crime? One prosecuter thinks so. See Talkleft for the full story. It sure seems to me that you ought to be able to do your job without being subject to this kind of catch-22.