Earlier this week actor and former police officer, Dennis Farina, passed away. In celebration of him and his career we offer two clips from a short-lived TV series in the 1980’s called Crime Story.
Your crime and non-crime related tips are appreciated, as always, in the comments.
“Tastes Like Seal Meat”
Hey there, @SierraClubCan – what's your mailing address? Got a case of Coke with your name on it. http://t.co/WP1QKQRqXy
— katewerk (@katewerk) July 27, 2013
With a side of popcorn: “… prominent legal aid lawyer from Maine […] group did not hire a bear guard.”
Photoblogging
I was very fortunate to capture this image a few days ago, about 15 minutes before the sun set below the horizon:
Not too far from there, one can find this wonderful group of seals.
Forward!
Obama Scrubs Web Of 2008 Campaign Promises Including Whistleblower Protection…
If Bees Are Going Extinct
How come honey isn’t $100 a quart?
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
#MathIsHard “She’s a one-two-three girl," he said. "Shower, comb, lipstick, clothes and out the door.” http://t.co/qwciGQ5Ect
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 27, 2013
A Single Child Groomed Is A “Crime”
A million children groomed is a “curriculum”: Deputy Ed. Minister accused of child porn opposed criminal checks for adults working with children
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Reader Tips
Try as we may to avoid controversial and touchy topics, there are times when they simply must be addressed in song. Tonight, Boulder, Colorado-based nonet The Serendipity Singers broach one of the most serious and difficult real-world issues, that of the inevitable connection between personal choice and consequences: From 1964, here’s Beans In My Ears. (link updated)
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages.
(link updated)
“When the Democrats do it, that means that it is not illegal”
IRS watchdog reviewing claims of improper audit of Tea Party farmer
He Who Rewrites History
Intends to repeat it.
“…we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
— President Obama talking to reporters alongside Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.
Ah, it’s probably nothing.
Carbon Credits: “An Unprecedented Freeze”
Sounds like they’re working! Oh, wait…
Not a single UN Certified Emission Reduction, or CER, changed hands on July 22 and July 23, according to data from ICE Futures Europe, keeping the market on course for the lowest monthly aggregate volume since March 2008. The 14.3 million tons of offsets bought and sold this month compares with the record 211 million tons traded in October and an average 52 million over the past 12 months.
The collapse shows factories, power stations and airlines in the European Union have already bought most of the 1.7 billion tons of UN credits they can use to offset domestic emissions through 2020. That threatens to undo a market formed under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as a way for richer nations to help developing countries limit greenhouse-gas output.
h/t Ed S.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
From a chicken in every pot to a pot plant in every window:
“Tax it, regulate. It’s one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model is not working.”
What could go wrong?
By the way, if you believe in normalizing cannabis to reduce crime, while denormalizing tobacco to reduce use —- you might be a liberal.
Liberal Senator Mac Harb
OOPS. The senate scandal just got #NOTFUNNY.
Related…
I kid you not. There is not a single mention of Mac Harb on this page at this moment. http://t.co/nhzm9omZDB
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) July 26, 2013
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
Idle some more: Iqaluit to borrow $40M to build waterslide-equipped Aquatic Centre despite pressing infrastructure needs.
h/t Kevin B
The Children Are Our Future
Reader Tips
The Scots take Scottish pride very, very seriously – their national flower is the thistle – especially when they’re all worked up and getting ready for battle against the English. Tonight, thousands of Scotsmen, who may or may not be half-cut, roar out a hearty, vehement rendition of verses 1 and 3 of Flower of Scotland.
Watch out for that Glasgow kiss in the scrums.
h/t dizzy
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
If the government is able to determine a person’s password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.
Related: The NSA’s New Spy Facilities are 7 Times Bigger Than the Pentagon
Via Drudge
“When the Democrats do it, that means that it is not illegal”
It’s as though Bill never left:
The probe is based on allegations that [Obama nominee] Mayorkas personally intervened to win an approval for Gulf Coast Funds Management, a financing company headed by Clinton’s brother Anthony Rodham, after USCIS officials rejected its application, according to an aide to GOP Sen. Charles Grassley, who had received internal USCIS emails about the matter from a department whistleblower.
Gulf Coast has received media attention in recent months over its partnership with Greentech, an electric car company run by Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia.
More: McAuliffe is tied to executive of Chinese firm accused of spying