IANAL

But I think property is usually measured in crow fly distance (see also territorial waters).

Also, crow distance is known and constant, and travel distance may change (unpredictably) by construction and rerouting of roads and routes, not to mention the way to choose the path (where can you travel? what points do you measure, how tight are your corners, etc.)

i agree — any change in travel conditions could affect the plaintiff’s circumstances with respect to the policy, so it should not be decided based on physical travel. unless there are further complicating issues, this case really seems like a no-brainer to me.

What? This wasn’t differentiated in the law being considered?

Well, then, it seems like the Supreme Court ruling should be a no-brainer, or at least a no-brainer for Roberts, Scalia, Alito and Thomas, since they are bound to side with the corporatists (and corporate profits) over the woman.

On the other hand, anyone with brains on the Supreme Court would rule that the 75-mile-rule is as the crow flies…or as an all-terrain vehicle drives…or as a compass measures out 75 miles on a map.

in re: my !86-

Let it be known to all garden sheds of the world, you needn’t worry. Ours is just fine. I meant “levelled” as in – ahem – all its lil’ corners now point suitable directions so that we can actually close & latch its door.

Gotta blame boosh-43! for that durn thang too. Can’t be careless wit da language no more.

Some legacy, whew.

nit’s a twit to thee & me!

The source of the incompetence of this administration is the man himself.

Bush has no patience for details or analysis.

Bush asks that his people keep information from him that would disrupt his “gut” view of the issues.

Cheney believes that Bush should not be told much so that he can have plausible deniability about matters of law- Bush thinks this is a great idea.

Bush has no ability to have a dialogue with analysts or even with his own team in which he demands evidence and guides the group to a decision. On the contrary- he wants to only talk about “doing” he hates anything to do with “thinking” including the people who do it. This causes lower level people to modify their approach and ignore risk analysis, hypothotical analysis, etc. In fact it leads them to ignore doing their job and produce “rah rah- ready, fire, aim” shit that the prez loves.

Bush is certainly anti-intellectual and personally incompetent (though Molly Ivins acknowledged his political skills, in Shrub), but Rove is highly competent at (crooked) politics; if not, they wouldn’t be where they are now. And Cheney is not so much incompetent as deluded and dangerous.

spurious @ 82

BushCo are very, very good at politics, but really piss poor at policy, governing, etc., which they don’t do at all. And incompetence is an obvious result of the blatant cronyism that characterizes this administration.

I think you’ve got it in a nutshell. Also I would make a not-too-wild guess that they’re so “poor at policy, governing, etc.” to the point of “incompetence” because, deep down, they don’t give a #&$$ about such things, and thus deliberately focus on whatever superficial political maneuvers most directly serve their own personal gain.

Whenever I hear some media guru drone on about what this administration seeks to build as a “legacy”, it literally makes me gag.
Governance, quite simply, does not seem to be part of their formula for personal success.

My sentiments exactly. I really can’t stand to listen to that garbage. The ‘legacy’ of this administration will be the huge constitutional mess that will be left to sort out when they’re gone–assuming that they do go. Disgusting.

got some thistles yanked, & now we’re levelling the garden shed.

watch out wurld. gard yer wimmen ‘n chillen ‘er we’re gonna take over the asparagus patch fersure!

STOP THE VIOLINS!

VISUALIZE WHIRLED PEAS!

Bush has no patience for details or analysis.

Bush asks that his people keep information from him that would disrupt his “gut” view of the issues.

Cheney believes that Bush should not be told much so that he can have plausible deniability about matters of law- Bush thinks this is a great idea.

Bush has no ability to have a dialogue with analysts or even with his own team in which he demands evidence and guides the group to a decision. On the contrary- he wants to only talk about “doing” he hates anything to do with “thinking” including the people who do it. This causes lower level people to modify their approach and ignore risk analysis, hypothotical analysis, etc. In fact it leads them to ignore doing their job and produce “rah rah- ready, fire, aim” shit that the prez loves.