as ronnie reagan used to say, (caps on poipose, aka, purpose.)

“IF YOU BRING THE HEAT, THEY’LL SEE THE LIGHT.”

as they say in church, “here endeth the lesson.”

off to do my happy dance. :-)

OK OT but no one’s here and I just need to share this:

A First for me: There was a bee walking around on my keyboard just a moment ago. He was cleaning his legs and his wings and his little antennae and I though he was one of those dying bees.

But he just got up and flew back out the window. Huh. Must have been all the honey in between the keys from the tea spew. Thanks a lot, lhp. It did crack me up, your comment about the misspellings in rush transcripts, in which, in your inimitable way, every other word is misspelled. :) S’OK, William O. Douglas couldn’t spell, either.

My typing cannot keepup witht eh rush of my words

looseheadprop @ 115

If you click on the link in the post and read the press release from the Judicial Conference, you will see that there is a 90 lag period.

You’ll also see that te price is still eight cents a page, so this is still only going to make the records “public” to those willing and able to pay. Not quite good enough, in my book.

It’s 25 cents a page if you copy it at the courthouse, so us Toobz user are getting a bargain.

A First for me: There was a bee walking around on my keyboard just a moment ago. He was cleaning his legs and his wings and his little antennae and I though he was one of those dying bees.

But he just got up and flew back out the window. Huh. Must have been all the honey in between the keys from the tea spew. Thanks a lot, lhp. It did crack me up, your comment about the misspellings in rush transcripts, in which, in your inimitable way, every other word is misspelled. :) S’OK, William O. Douglas couldn’t spell, either.

LindaR @ 113

As a court reporter myself (I passed the California CSR exam in July after a 14-year hiatus because of disability) I have conflicting feelings about this.

I highly resent other people thinking it’s a great idea for me to give away my work product for free.

Along those lines, why don’t we make the authors who come here to talk about their books post the manuscript online so we can all have access to it? Wouldn’t that enhance the conversation? Great idea, huh?

On the other hand — and I don’t know if I am being hypocritical here or not — I would probably support uploading the transcript file to the internet for public access after the case has run its course and the usual suspects (the parties involved) have made their appropriate purchases during the progression of the case.

If you click on the link in the post and read the press release from the Judicial Conference, you will see that there is a 90 lag period.

You’ll also see that te price is still eight cents a page, so this is still only going to make the records “public” to those willing and able to pay. Not quite good enough, in my book.

Kathleen @ 184

Recently at a fund raiser event for Ohio Congressman Zack Space (D 18th district, took Ney’s seat). I was talking with Congressman Space about the inflammatory language that the “cakewalk in Iraq” folks had been using for the last four years pushing our nation into a conflict with Iran. I was quoting some of the things that middle east expert Flynt Leverett
http://www.newamerica.net/pres…..ew_america had and continues to say about situation with Iran. I was shocked when Congressman Space shared that he had never heard about him.

What I have realized for a very long time about our Reps is that they can not keep up with all of the issues (although one would have thought his aides would be all over what Mr. leverett has to say about Iran). I realize that our reps deal with pressures and overload that we can only imagine. Congressman Space is working hard and while I do not agree with his stand on many issues (he is trying to represent a lot of people with diverse views and opinions) I do realize that there are a lot of sincere people who step up to the plate and genuinely want to serve.

It is our job to be “vigilant” and let them know what we think hopefully based on solid information or experience.

I can keep up with most of the issues in general, and it is neither my job, nor am I being paid to do it, nor do I have any staff to help. Why can’t he? Why can’t they all? Why can’t most committee members even seem to understand what the hell they are talking about on the subject matter of their own freaking committees?

Especially as serious as Iran. I would be reading everything I could get my hands and eyes on

looseheadprop @ 54

Thye couts don’t get the money for the transcripts. The court reporters get paid by the page. Youpay the reporter directly.

Exactly. So is this another great idea in the heads of some people (journalists and cyberjournalists) to make somebody else (court reporters) work for free?

I’m guessing that you might be a court reporter.

I have a dim recollection, from my days in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS, of having heard that the contract to provide transcripts of Tax Court trials to the court was a license to print money, and what the court reporting service made on selling copies to the parties was pure profit on top of that (marginal cost of providing additional copies once the tapes are transcribed is approximately zero). If court reporters are quasi-utilities, then where is the harm in building a public-access component into their contracts, where the marginal cost is effectively zero and the public benefit is huge?