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jimjr commented on the diary post Breaking: Obama Justice Department serves Oregon officials with warrant seeking the identities of the state’s medical cannabis patients by acmerecords.
The judge should have denied the warrant if this is the supposed probable cause:
“I am familiar with narcotics trafficker’s tactics in using the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program to shield their activities…(and I have) cause to believe that the records from the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program will contain evidence of…conspiracy to commit marijuana and trafficking offenses.”
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jimjr commented on the blog post Homeland Security’s Failed Attempt to Pervert the Freedom of Information Act Process
My state’s FOIA law used to require that the public body keep a file of all previous FOIA requests and responses, and a person could do a FOIA request to view and copy the previous FOIAs.
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jimjr commented on the blog post Michigan’s Two Largest Cities to Vote on Marijuana Decriminalization This November
Grand Rapids seems kind of R-leaning. Even though O has been no friend of MJ decriminalization, it seems like the Rs would perceive O support for the measure and therefore vote against him and against decriminalization. A reverse Obama effect election.
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jimjr commented on the blog post Chicago Teachers Union Heads Out on Strike
Rahm loves those charter schools. With them, he could come in and close whole schools, thereby putting numerous teachers on lay-off, and bring in a charter school rent-free. Charter schools can hire newly certified university grads with education degrees at $35,000/yr ($17 per hour), and avoid paying the higher union negotiated salaries. With the current job market for recent grads, it is a buyer’s market for young teachers. Plus, these new teachers can be stretched thin by having them assigned to more than 1 charter school. Disaster capitalism to break the (public) unions. Rahm can then brag about the savings, like Scott Walker did to the north.
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jimjr commented on the blog post Lieberman Renews Push for Anti-Leaks Law
And JoeLie is apparently using as his official picture one taken about 25 years ago
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jimjr commented on the blog post Walsh responds to receiving ‘pro-family’ award, doesn’t talk about owed child support
OK, that makes both Walsh and Hultgren who won their respective general election contests because their Democratic opponents were wimpy, Blue Dog corporatists who thought that acting like Republicans would get them re-elected in their Republican leaning districts.
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jimjr commented on the blog post Walsh responds to receiving ‘pro-family’ award, doesn’t talk about owed child support
Walsh is another gift from the Obama/Emanuel/DNC with their Blue dog center-right candidates like Melissa Bean. At least Walsh has a primary fight in 2012 with being redistricted into Rep. Hultgren’s IL 14.
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jimjr commented on the blog post President Obama Announces Full Withdrawal of US Troops from Iraq
So that’s an admission that troops would be staying if the Iraqis gave them immunity
Also an admission that this is not O making good on a campaign promise.
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jimjr commented on the diary post Dwight Holton, US Attorney: Oregon Pot Dispensaries “Will Not Be Tolerated” by Teddy Partridge.
…”happened” being still executory
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jimjr commented on the diary post This Is What A Police State Looks Like by Rania Khalek.
Where are the great liberal Obama appointments to the court?
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jimjr commented on the blog post Wal-Mart Hikes Toy Prices Just as Congress Gives the Waltons Huge Tax Breaks
I hear that, there’s some southern IL towns where everything else closed up. In Chicago, there’s NIMBy’s marching against Walmart on the elite north side, while they let the first Walmart(s) in on the more minority population south side, after many years of refusing to let them in anywhere. Daley sold out the parking meters, and now the Walmart. Appropriate that Rahm is now primed to take over.
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jimjr commented on the blog post Wal-Mart Hikes Toy Prices Just as Congress Gives the Waltons Huge Tax Breaks
interesting that the sam’s club pop up is right under this front page post
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jimjr commented on the blog post Sunday Talking Heads: December 12, 2010
two against the president’s compromise. Followed by Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL) who will vote for it.
I hope somebody asks him how he could vote against the Schumer bill ostensibly because he wouldn’t support extending cuts above $250000, and now he supports the “compromise”.
This should be Durbin’s last term also.
