Subscribe (RSS)Blog Heap of Links for the day 17 March 2012
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Obamanation
Earlier this week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to justify presidential killing in a speech at Northwestern University law school. In it, he recognized the requirement of the Fifth Amendment for due process. He argued that the president may substitute the traditionally understood due process -- a public jury trial—with the president's own novel version of it; that would be a secret deliberation about killing.
4:59pm CDT Sat 2012 Mar 17 :MW
Humans can be Dangerous
Officials at a German zoo said the life of a baby rabbit born without ears was cut short when a cameraman stepped on him while filming a news segment.
5:15pm CDT Sat 2012 Mar 17 :MW
Constitutional Threat
In her dissenting opinion, however, Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod said she disagrees with the majority’s conclusion that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect an individual’s right to a specific firearm unless the government has prevented that person from acquiring others.
Elrod argued the majority impermissibly treated the Second Amendment as a "second-class right" by carving out an exception.
"It is particularly unfortunate for our circuit to endorse the atextual, ahistorical rule that the Second Amendment does not protect particular firearms," she wrote.
...this is government deciding it can violate the property rights of a gun owner whenever it wishes too with no penalty for doing so....
5:13pm CDT Sat 2012 Mar 17 :MW
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Earth Shakes
The Washington Monument, which is slated for repairs after it was damaged in an earthquake last year, appears to be sinking, according to preliminary data collected by the National Geodetic Survey.
4:49pm CDT Sat 2012 Mar 17 :MW
Animal Companions
According to Tate, 7-year-old Gia Conner had been for some time looking on the internet for a dog and had typed “Washington County” in a search engine and up came the Washington County SPCA site — and its little dog, Toto, too.
When her aunt, Jacque Dwyer, saw Toto was not in Washington County, Penn., but Washington County, Okla., she was unfazed.
5:49pm CDT Sat 2012 Mar 17 :MW
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Being Human
For over 90 years, Captain James Arruda Henry of Mystic,Connecticut, remained illiterate, ashamed to order from menus and other things many of us take for granted. Captain Henry proved that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks when, with the help of volunteer English tutors and pure perseverance, he finally learned how to read and write at the ripe age of 92-years young.
The Captain didn’t stop there. After breaking the literacy barrier, his stories from the many years at sea started pouring onto the page. The only logical next step was to turn his incredible life stories into a book. At age 98, James Henry published his autobiography, ”In a Fisherman’s Language,” a collection of short stories from his time as a fisherman.
[h/t BC at I'm41.com linked at Moonbattery]
5:26pm CDT Sat 2012 Mar 17 :MW