New kind of government meddling crazy: "Is My Family Photograph An Ethical Violation in New York?"

http://www.newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com/2007/01/is-my-family-photograph-an-ethical-violation-in-new-york.html

Isis: Kayla Mueller had fingernails ripped out before being raped by Islamic State leader. (Annoying autoplay at link.)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-kayla-mueller-had-fingernails-ripped-out-before-being-raped-by-islamic-state-leader-1519143

This is this sweet girl who was over there because she just wanted to do go for people who needed it.

Not that new, Amy. Dated way back in 2007. And yet. Bureaucrats gotta bureaucrat.

But yesterday I posted a linkie to English lawyer involved in a LinkedIn dustup. She's loonier than I had believed possible.

She didn't just drink the feminist kool-aide. She chugged the entire pitcher.

Dickie Moore, veteran of silent films and a member of "Our Gang" (aka "The Little Rascals"), has died.

Oath Keepers, the same lunatic douchebags who protected Cliven Bundy, has vowed to protect Kim Davis.

Conan will probably get on my case for attacking a Republican while maintaining my "independent" credentials, but...good God! This man's an idiot.

Mike Huckabee insists that the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision "remains to this day, the law of the land."

I wonder if the numbers 13, 14 and 15 mean anything to him.

And it's not just the fact that he thinks Dred Scott is the law of the land...

Hopefully I get to this before Patrick beats me to it: No wonder you people get shot woman tells cop who pulled her over and wrote her a ticket for doing 51 mph in a active school zone which is posted at 20 mph.

...it's also that he just got through telling us that the courts can't make law!

From the article:

Nodding to the separation of powers and "the genius of our Constitution," Huckabee told Davis supporters on Tuesday that the Supreme Court's power is "limited" and that it "can only review a law." Reasonably true.

But then came his warning that "the founders never gave that one branch of government the power to make a law."

So, if the courts can't make law and Dred Scott is "the law of the land," who does he think decided Dred Scott? Congress?

It seems that Donald Trump is no longer the biggest clown in the Republican race.

Huckabee is just grandstanding. Fuck him with the fury of a thousand hot suns.

Right now, I have no use for the so-called leadership of the Republican Party. They have more in common with the Democrats in Washington than they do with me, and it shows in what they do.

You beat me to it, I R A. What's even better is that you broke up my continuity. I had two points to make about Mike Huckabee, with two links so I put them on two separate posts that I intended to be consecutive. But you got yours in, just before I got my second post in.

I bow to your superior blog-posting skills. You just owned me. Well done!

Actually, the Dred Scott decision basically said that slaves are not citizens and have no legal standing to bring a lawsuit in US Federal court, and so they dismissed Scott v. Sanford. They also decided that the Missouri Compromise of 1821 was unconstitutional, and that the Federal government could not simply free slaves that were brought into a free state or territory without violating the 5th amendment.

This is wikipedia's page on it. I would agree with Justices Curtis and McLean that once the suit was dismissed on standing grounds, the rest was moot. If anything, I would say majority opinion would be an example of an activist court.

Oh, Huck, please do prattle on...you're making me look things up, and gaining some knowledge.

You just owned me.

Oh, now, you're just saying that. Besides, 13th amendment anyone?

Dastardly petition to make it OK to not have the justice system involved in campus crime... https://www.change.org/p/congress-don-t-force-survivors-of-sexual-assault-to-go-to-the-police-vote-no-on-the-unsafecampusact?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=386616&alert_id=OqTdyibxFT_HdK3D8ASTi6VY7q3Hyk4Mhct6FG08TAahNSqlXT%2FKodztNHnw8V3Tm0FPjnZHlgT

I R A Darth Aggie: Actually, the Dred Scott decision basically said that slaves are not citizens and have no legal standing to bring a lawsuit in US Federal court...

Actually, I think their ruling was slightly different. I believe they said that blacks, slave or free, were not and could not be citizens.

Actually, there were free blacks born in non-slave states who were citizens of those states and thus citizens of the United States. They had the right vote and all.

The sad thing for Mr. Scott was that had he gone to the Louisiana courts when he was called back from Minnesota by his master, they would have likely emancipated him and his family, as they had precedent to do just that.

the other Patrick, stop your mansplain' and contemplate your lily white male privilege and...whaddya mean you're a "dog"?

Oh, right...it's the internet and nobody knows if you're just a really intelligent animal posting away, making fun of the humans.

And now for something completely different: University of Hawaii will be donning these very cool retro uniforms for their impending destruction at the hands of Ohio State.

They may go down in defeat, but they'll be very stylish.

They may go down in defeat, but they'll be very stylish.

Make a good-looking corpse. Hey, maybe the Redskins can put on some cool unis before they play the Dolphins this Sunday?

As seen earlier, some elected representatives of the people are as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

"I mean, if there's 10 people that have been accused and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, seems better to get rid of all 10 people," Polis said. "We're not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we're talking about their transfer to another university."

Question for Congressman Polis: isn't it better to find the one or two who are actual rapists and actually do something to stop them? how many more people will suffer because of your lack of vision?

Sigh...I was trying to be nice. I guess I will have to be more forceful.

The Dred Scott decision ruled that no one of African descent was a citizen of the United States, that included free blacks. Even the Wikipedia article you're referencing states as much.

And from the ruling itself:

In discussing this question, we must not confound the rights of citizenship which a State may confer within its own limits and the rights of citizenship as a member of the Union. It does not by any means follow, because he has all the rights and privileges of a citizen of a State, that he must be a citizen of the United States. He may have all of the rights and privileges of the citizen of a State and yet not be entitled to the rights and privileges of a citizen in any other State.

Further:

In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument [referring to the Declaration of Independence].

Blacks, whether slave or free and regardless of what rights the individual states conferred on them, could not be citizens of the United States under Dred Scott.

Sigh...I was trying to be nice. I guess I will have to be more forceful.

The Dred Scott decision ruled that no one of African descent was a citizen of the United States, that included free blacks. Even the Wikipedia article you're referencing states as much.

And from the ruling itself:

In discussing this question, we must not confound the rights of citizenship which a State may confer within its own limits and the rights of citizenship as a member of the Union. It does not by any means follow, because he has all the rights and privileges of a citizen of a State, that he must be a citizen of the United States. He may have all of the rights and privileges of the citizen of a State and yet not be entitled to the rights and privileges of a citizen in any other State.

Further:

In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument [referring to the Declaration of Independence].

Blacks, whether slave or free and regardless of what rights the individual states conferred on them, could not be citizens of the United States under Dred Scott.

Speaking of Hillbilly cousins . . .

For whatever it is worth, both Huckabee and Cruz got under my skin by standing by that ignorant bigot.

I think it is because they are both somewhat behind in the polls and were trying to grab more attention and more votes. They don't seem to realize that such "religious" talk turns off the rest of us and they lose more votes than they gain; or maybe they just don't care.

If they don't care, then I don't care for them. If they don't realize what a turn off such talk is I don't think they belong in the White House.

I only got one vote; but, I do use it.

Speaking of behind in the polls: Governor Jindal says what he thinks of The Donald. Rather charmingly, too.

I had to trim my orange tree and wound up with a dozen or so unripe oranges, any one know any good recipes I might use them for?

Here we go: college girl kills herself because she can't handle the fact that an alleged "rapist" was not railroaded off the campus. Mother sues school. Mother also sues Amazon for enabling the daughter to buy cyanide from a third party.

The cat's been at the yarn with this one!

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150908/15162532196/mother-daughter-who-committed-suicide-sues-amazon-facilitating-purchase-cyanide-third-party-seller.shtml

10 Public Officials Who Defied the Law Over Gay Marriage Mostly Silent on Kim Davis Case