https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/pinal-breaking/2018/03/28/sheriffs-office-children-found-dead-superior-were-left-car-several-hours/468021002/

The latest case of a parent leaving kids in the back seat to die wasn't well thought out.

This gal was caught red-handed.

I guess the Washington Post won't be doing any sympathetic stories on "Forgotten Baby Syndrome."

If a babysitter had done it, she'd probably spend the rest of her life in the slammer. When a parent does it, the sentence (if there is one) is usually much lighter.

CNN has been hacked by The Onion -

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/979524690451533824

Instapundit:

I don’t know whether the shooting was justified, though it looks very much like it wasn’t. But I do know that if an armed citizen, rather than a police officer, had shot someone under similar circumstances, there wouldn’t be any doubt about filing charges. I understand that sometimes the decision to shoot is easy to second-guess, but the standard should be the same — in theory, the law is the same — whether it’s a police officer or a civilian doing the shooting. In fact, of course, police get special treatment, because they’re an arm of the state, just like the judges and prosecutors involved are.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/292662/

APNewsBreak: Judge rules Starbucks, other coffee sellers must include cancer warnings on coffee sold in California.

https://twitter.com/APWestRegion/status/979471343086440448

Maybe true, doesn't matter.

Luck?

Their conclusion: “Luck occurs at the intersection of random chance, talent and hard work.”

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/not-so-dumb-luck/

You think you've seen everything; but then...

http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi04/chi04_01029/chi04_01029.html

...samurai having fart battles.

Roman philosopher Seneca: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

"I understand that sometimes the decision to shoot is easy to second-guess, but the standard should be the same — in theory, the law is the same — whether it’s a police officer or a civilian doing the shooting."

It is not.

P.S.: Cops are civilians. I know you knew that.

APNewsBreak: Judge rules Starbucks, other coffee sellers must include cancer warnings on coffee sold in California. ~ Snoopy at March 30, 2018 8:05 AM

Do you know how many things in California are required to have a cancer warning? Enough so that no one pays any attention to them any more.

There’s an even bigger flaw with California’s chemical policy: Prop 65 is enforceable by private citizens and their attorneys. That’s why California now has a full-blown “bounty hunter” racket, shaking down businesses that “might” expose customers to frowned-upon chemicals, used in or on swimming pools, roofs, gardens, and businesses that had furniture or painted walls.

Between 2000 and 2010, businesses paid $142 million in Prop 65 settlements, according to the Federalist Society. That sum includes $89 million in attorney fees. It’s easy to see the upside for opportunistic lawyers.

This is why laws should not be imposed by citizen plebiscites. If the legislature passes a bad law, it can be debated and amended. If a plebiscite passes a bad law, it can only be overturned or amended by another plebiscite (next election) or by a lawsuit.

California legislators have avoided voting on controversial issues by referring them to voter initiatives (Prop 8, anyone?) and, by doing that, avoiding being tarred with a label that could be used against them in the next election. The problem is that every plebiscite invites a lawsuit by the losing side. This means that California is, for all practical purposes, being governed by judges, and not by its own legislature.

Not to mention that, thank to the various Props and initiatives over the years, the California legislature only has actual control over about 15% of the state's annual budget. The rest is mandated spending from voter initiatives.

Cops are civilians.

That's true.

They're also the Right Hand of the Government and will smack you down hard if that's what they choose. Other cops may investigate if they did something wrong or not.

Do you know how many things in California are required to have a cancer warning? Enough so that no one pays any attention to them any more.

I'm surprised no one has put on a warning label on the dangers of breathing oxygen and how much damage it can do to DNA that lead to aging and cancer.

Sex Traffickers Shutting Down Websites After Congress Passes Law

https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/sex-traffickers-shutting-websites-congress-passes-law/

God that article is bad mpetrie98

“Illegal commercial sex advertising platforms and forums have been blowing up, and johns have been calling our office and messaging us left and right, indicating that Congress has taken a powerful first step,” Congressman Ann Wagner’s staff told an anti-trafficking coalition on Thursday.

Why are johns calling a congresswomans office looking to hire hookers?

Rachel Wagley, Wagner’s legislative director, told the coalition that many websites traffickers use to buy and sell victims for sex have shut down or curtailed business in just the last week

Human trafficking was already illegal, so why no prosecutions of they were breaking the law?

Also, whenever you have to label the person selling their own sex as a human trafficker, odds are you arent doing anything to help the real victims of human trafficking

Why are johns calling a [congresswoman's] office looking to hire hookers? ~ lujlp at March 30, 2018 11:00 PM

It sounds like the Congresswoman's office is saying the johns are calling her office not to hire a hooker, but to complain that they cannot get hookers anymore due to the Congresswoman's new law. The office is using that claim to brag about how effective her new anti-trafficking law has been.

It seems unlikely that a john would call his Congressional representative to complain that his access to hookers has been curtailed. It's not exactly the kind of business that operates in the light of day.

"Also, whenever you have to label the person selling their own sex as a human trafficker, odds are you arent doing anything to help the real victims of human trafficking."

They're doing that because they can't find real victims of human trafficking - that is, slaves - especially if they're looking at sex workers or anyone else that meets the public. If you want to find slaves in a society where slave-owning is highly illegal, look for workers that can be kept hidden, like domestic servants in a big mansion or agricultural workers for a corporate farm many miles in extent.