OMG…no more nude sunbathing on the deck?

Just get with the program, like we do here in Hawaii. The police, DLNR, Nat’l Guard, and DEA have been jointly helicoptering our neighborhoods for decades looking for backyard pot — we just make a point of showing our best sides when they fly over.
And regarding photo resolution — how many fingers?

The story of the stolen election in Chicago is eminently disputable. Certainly not an established fact.

I wonder, though, why nobody else noticed this dessicated scrap of Republican talking points for three hours.

I guess even committed democrats can sometimes fall for oppo propaganda.

Lew Koch at 175

We’ll see. I haven’t seen anything close to the law being applied by her thus far. …

No, my bet is she’s praying for an outright acquittal. Otherwise, any reputation she may have as a judge is shot. A good appellate panel would rip her to shreds. And she deserves it. So many reversible errors it is shocking.

Faith-based judging? Faith other goopers will ‘take care of’ the guy and thus protect her performance? Yep, it’s a mafia.

(snip) I kinda like the idea of Michael Jackson playing b-ball with the big boys.

If you search back issues of 16 Magazine from the early 1970s, you’ll find pictures of Michael Jackson playing basketball with his older brothers.

THAT said, as a Chicago resident, I really appreciate this article. Thanks!

Regardless of the verdict, which should come the middle of next week, the name Padilla will now go down around the world, next to those of Sacco and Vansetti and Koramatsu and Gideon and Miranda as people who put our United States Constitution to the test.

. . . and “putting our Constitution to the test” means putting us to the test. One of the most frigthening aspects of the nascent presidential campaign is a lack of willingness or demand among voters to correct the criminality to gross abuses of the last six years — as well as to take steps to prevent this from happening again. The candidates are generally speaking not to quick to stir this sentiment either.

A lot of talk about ending the war, which is critical and overdue. However, without a desire to start undoing so much of what has happened since 2001, Padilla trials and U.S. wars on countries like Iraq are not going to be just footnotes to this one socially promoted presidency.

On another note, I have really appreciated the Padilla coverage the past several weeks. Well done to you Lew and team. Thank you!

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CTuttle @ 219

And categorically reject the repug’s ballot initiative to alter the Electoral College’s long-standing traditions!!!

yep.. quick, everybody register to vote in the OC and Central Valley.. vote against giving them their own electoral votes :).. just kidding, sort of.. I, um, respect our .. um. rethug counties.

..also might be good to remind Herr Governator that if he pushes for this electoral college thing, it happens and our state ends up electing the next rethug president, we will dedicate ourselves to making use of our state’s overly flexible recall mechanism to send him to gray davis-land.