Yet another quality impact piece from the BBC, a look into the police shootings of the disabled.
"A large number of those killed in interactions with police have a disability, with some research suggesting the figure is as much as half of the total number."
Charles Mudede writes in the Seattle Stranger from an Educated African perspective on the Seattle SuperBowl victory and other recent local 'freakish' occurrences. The Stranger is best known as the paper of Dan 'Santorum' Savage, but News Editor Dominic Holden's successful response to police harassment may well prove to be the biggest impact event of all.
The United States, and the entire world, now face a critical question, whether to use force against the Syrian government for their alleged use of chemicals weapons, specifically, the nerve agent Sarin.
The answer is actually quite simple, NO. The argument is also simple, the U.S. does not have sovereign global jurisdiction to determine violations of international law unilaterally, as President Obama now asserts. That assertion is itself justification for war, against the United States, not just by Syria, but also by any state which perceives this action as a credible threat to their sovereignty. Whether other bodies, most notably Al Qaeda also have that right, is a valid point of debate, one that I will not address in this essay.
Pleadings:
Motion for OrdersDownload file">
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Appendix 'C'Download file"> (Documents malicious effort to portray retaliatory anti-harassment orders against lawful complaints against government officials as 'domestic violence, two counts'.)
Appendix 'A'Download file (10th Circuit Court of Appeals)
Appendix 'B'Download file (US District Court, Denver)
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Axis Mental Health is a corporate body in SW Colorado that may well be competent at providing services to drug addicts - even if they only replace their own authority as the 'drug' of choice for their clients. But when it comes to functioning, independent, individuals Axis stands as proof of the dystopian future painted for us by right wing opponents of universal health care. For more details read this article, and my published comments.
Unfortunately, what America needs most in education at this moment is not what it should be, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) training, but, rather, re-education, in the Chinese sense of the term - our own, hopefully much better, cultural revolution putting our failed elites in their place in such a way as to hopefully 'rehabilitate' at least few of these evil individuals.
Thankfully, much of their 'law', fraudulent and two faced as it is, provides much of the response we need - when applied with a due process that is not Constitutional rape and is in fact 'equal'.
A good place to start would be with the individuals associated with this 'educational' effort in South Lake Union, as per my comments in that reference.
High Country News recently dedicated an entire issue to the subject of Natural Resource Education, an opportunity to link to some recent work Motley Blog has done on this subject, an Aldo Leopold essay entitled 'The Role of Wildlife in Liberal Education', one of the few post 'Sand County Almanac' pieces written before the author's untimely death.
This article, about a dispute between the Seattle City Attorney and Mayor, reveals a common, criminal, flaw in legal practice in the US as it applies to the public interest. Any Attorney elected by the public is, ipso facto, working for them. Executives do need counsel, and they should be hiring their own, to report directly to them - as should legislative body committees.
M. John Fayhee, editor of the Mountain West's 'Mountain Gazette' invokes Hunter S. Thompson and Edward Abbey in his two new books, subject of a reading at Maria's bookstore in Durango.
Mr. Fayhee may, or may not, have a shot at the fame of his muses, regardless the mountain west lives on - in reality, as well as this author's slightly altered version.
I haven't read this yet (and I'm not sure I'll have the time), but it should be a good one.