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This thread is being started in response to a conversation we had going in the thread about Southwest kicking a person out because of her shirt. My degree is in Law Enforcement. Many of the instructors were retired or active-duty law enforcement personnel. Including some high-ranking officers...

From KCCI-TV (CBS affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa): Drat! Double drat! This could have been the kind of case that law school professors love to talk about. Basically, here are the facts: The plaintiff, Adam Fisher, played in a charity golf tournament sponsored by the Iowa Future Farmers of...

I recommend an opinion piece from USA Today by Profs. Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk:

Quote: Britain formally requested on Wednesday that Italy extradite a suspect in the attempted July 21 transport bombings in London and expressed hope the process could be completed by the end of the year. I can't quite figure out whether this comment is a sarcastic attempt at humor, or if...

Perhaps I am wrong, but my understanding is that lottery winnings are taxable in the US. Now, suppose that there is a "Lunch with a Celebrity" lottery. There are some particular celebrities who have contracts with the lottery organization. The winner of the lottery gets to choose any one of...

Weird. Very Weird. PC gone crazy. snip Link

Today I was walking my dog in the park when, up ahead, I noticed a small wooden table with nobody standing near it and with various pieces of literature on it. Curiosity got the better of me and so I went over to check it out. AAAACK! Chick tracts. AAACK! Plus a lot of other Christian...

Seriously, at this point, I think this is just the movie form of an ARG (alternate reality game) written by Dick "Chung Chung" Wolf. Papa Judge Arrested. So first you arrest the guards. Then you arrest the three kids. Then you let the guards go. Then you arrest the Papa Judge of one of the...

At last... Same-sex couples can now register their partenrship in Switzerland. Not exactly marriage, here, but close. They will have the same rights as married couples regarding taxes, inheritance, pensions or simply visiting ill partners in hospital. However, they are not allowed to adopt...

Let's see: Iamme at McDonald's. I am being served one hamburger. That is 0 before, +1. I then inhale it. I am now at 0 hamburgers. I now get another hamburger. I had one hamburger in my posession and now i have taken on another. I inhale that one also. Now I still have 0 hamburgers. I did not...

www.geocentricity.com/bibastron/research : "Dr. Gerardus Bouw shows that a world government micromanaging the affairs of men cannot help but collapse upon itself with a maximum probability of 37% destruction. This follows from the second law of thermodynamics. A technical article."

The coverage I have seen in the media about the new bankruptcy law in the US doesn't make any sense. I wish I had kept yesterday's Detroit Free Press which had an article about it, because it was a great illustration of the problem. Since I didn't keep it, I'll have to quote from memory: "The...

Received this email today. Reading this garbage in biblical NT context, brings to light the hatred christians harbor for people who oppose their "correct" points of view and the methods of attack 'justified' by scripture:

I could have sworn that someone was asruring me that such things no longer happen in the new Brazil... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violence is a part of life in this slum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Shootings are common and death...

The topic is NOT: doing nothing but what is required by law. The topic is NOT: creating your own very strict interpretation of what the law requires. The topic is: making a conscientious effort to learn about and totally obey all laws (as interpreted by the courts) that are on the books in...

This is one of those wierd threads that could cross the line between belonging either in R&P or here. I decided to go with here since they are proposing a federal law. This weekend, I recieved in the mail (addressed to "RESIDENT", so you know they had me in mind) a 94 page booklet entitled...

We all know Godwin's law (from Wikipedia): This is fine and good but does not cover other, more annoying, eventualities. To help add structure and understanding to internet communications, I hereby propound a new law, to be called: In essence, this law states that a thread is effectively...

Methink the great one has slipped up a little in this paragraph: I don't buy the prayer claim for a minute. But assuming there were to be a god involved, I don't think we can say that there would be any attenuation. Since the usual concept of the christian god is that it is omnipresent, it...

I thought this was interesting. The schools get pulled from both sides. The govt threatens to withhold funds, but on the other hand the schools arent supposed to deal with any discrimination towards gays ect.. Pentagon ordered to halt law school recruiting tactics The federal law that forces...

"It's like opening Pandora's box, if Pandora's box were full of stupid." --- Ashles. The Spiritist Society Of Florida From the book of Thoth the Atlantean The World Centre For Kabbalah Studies "Archbishop" Leadbetter, Theosophist Tara Yoga Centre The Nostradamus code From a site on how to...

Good thing these ladies weren't armed. The goverment did good keeping them helpless. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/07/nburg107.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/07/ixnewstop.html

Does the legality of something have any bearing on whether or not you choose engage in whatever that something may be? For example, would the legality of marijuana keep you from smoking or selling it? I can honestly say that I've never thought, "hey this is illegal, I shouldn't be doing this". I...

This is great news!!! Our prayers have been answered!

Inpired by Upchurch’s post to this thread I wish to point out the difference between Laws in a Society and Rules of private clubs or forums and how those differences apply to the management of the later. It’s safe to suggest that the laws are nothing but a manual on how groups of people can...

I am not sure where to post this message so I would understand if the moderators move it somewhere more appropriate but here seems about right. As many of you may remember this forum was visited recently by a man named Roger Cogshill (sp?) who was promoting devices to protect people against...

The other day, I joined in on MoveOn.org's petition against the Gay Marriage amendment. I've subsequentially recieved an e-mail urging voters to "fire" the supporters of the amendment in question, with four canidates who are running campaigns against four incumbants. Listed as the incumbant...

Help! I am discussing Constitutional law with a nutter. She says that states can pass laws contrary to the Bill of Rights. I say that is ridiculous. Specifically, she says only the federal government is halted from declaring a federal religion but states could declare a state religion...

Reading the Beleiver thread just now it occured to me that the anti discrimination laws (especially Religous ones) could work against skepticism. As background i'm a UK citizen. These laws are European though so lots of us are affected. Do religous people get protection that athiests do not ...

This article may copied and distibuted without permission. Source What the Bible Really Says Or Why Disobedient Children Should be Killed By Michael Shermer Last night (August 9) I was on Boston's WTKK, 96.9 FM talk radio with the host Jenine Graf discussing, naturally, politics and...

Isn't the time ripe, that we pass some legislation forcing people to turn off lights in their house, or their radios and tv's when they run up to the store, and...well, you get the point. With the energy crunch that we are facing once too often, again...isn't it about time we wake up and do...