Larry Godwin and the City of Memphis have issued AOL with a subpoena to reveal the owners of the blog MPD Enforcer 2.0. This police whistle-blower blog is of course making plans to fight this subpoena.
In what could be a landmark case of privacy and the 1st Amendment, GODwin has illegally used his position and the City of Memphis as a ram to ruin the Constitution of the United States! Some members of the Enforcer 2.0 have contacted their attorneys and we are in the process of filing a lawsuit against Larry and the City of Memphis.
A quick look at comments on a local news story suggest, that Mr. Godwin isn’t getting much public sympathy. I somehow doubt the increase in the traffic at MPD Enforcer 2.0 due to this subpoena is going to put him in a better mood.
With a review like this, I might have to go to a theater to see this. While I’m a big fan of movies in general, and Batman in particular, I haven’t seen a movie in the last decade that I’ve felt worth going to a theater for. There’s been a few movies that I’ve regretted missing on the big screen sure, but there been so many I’m happy to have missed that it makes up for it.
Before the movie I thought Heath would be the sentimental favorite to win an Oscar. Now I don’t see how you can logically choose anyone else. The man owns this film in the same way De Niro owned Raging Bull. He devours the part and the part IS the film, full and complete. Ledger’s Joker is terrifying because he makes decent points upon occasion and you never know his true motivation for wanting to tear everything down. He’s smart, driven, and fully lethal.
I always thought Ledger was one of those actors who screamed potential. He was fun to watch in a movie, but you always wondered how much better he was going to get. Tragically, we’ll never know, but it looks like at least some of that potential came out in this movie.
I just want Christopher Nolan to keep making movies. I’m willing to start some sort of fund if necessary.
Now this is just weird, but very funny. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Put together by Joss Whedon and starring Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day, and Nathan Fillion among others. Harris’ maniacal laugh at the beginning of Act 1 is hilarious. It’s a strange comic book story filmed as a musical. If I understand it correctly, all three acts will go offline in a few days. A short term project.
Update: Episode III just came out. An unexpected ending. I shouldn’t have been surprised because it’s from Joss Whedon, and he’s known for going in unexpected directions. Is it actually possible to be unsurprised by a surpise ending you didn’t see coming?
I would recommend reading Baekdal.com on a regular basis, but there have been two posts lately that are especially interesting to me. He posted about had GINA last month, this month you need to go take a look at the BMW Museum’s Kinetic Sculpture. I’m not normally a big fan of BMW, but both of these concepts are fascinating. Great design mixed with clever uses of technology.
What exactly is the point of the game Guitar Hero? Spending tens or even hundreds of hours learning to play a fake guitar? Why don’t they actually learn to play the guitar? With the time commitment some of these people make for the game, learning the actual guitar isn’t really out of line. They won’t play like Bonnie Raitt or anything, but they’d be learning something real.
It’s not going to happen of course. They’ll continue to flock to stores to buy fake guitars so that they can spend hundreds of hours learning to pretend to play the guitar. I just don’t get it.
The District, rebuffed by the Supreme Court last month in a landmark decision on its 32-year-old gun ban, could soon be headed back to court over a new gun law that could take effect as early as Wednesday.
I’m actually a little surprised they waited this long. I expected them to immediately try something like this, but apparently the Supreme Court loss took them by surprise.
City officials said the legislation will “clarify that firearms in the home must be stored unloaded and either disassembled (or) secured with a trigger lock, gun safe or similar device,” with an exception made for a firearm used against a “reasonably-perceived threat” of immediate harm to a person within a registered gun owner’s home.
That has got to be about the stupidest things I’ve read lately. Am I understanding that to say that you should wait until the threat is reasonable, and within your home, then assemble your firearm? Mind boggling. Pretty much what I expected from DC.
Kait Duplaga used Apple’s Back to My Mac application to access her missing laptop from another Leopard-based machine. She was then able to run her Apple PhotoBooth software installed on the stolen laptop to photograph one of the thieves while he was using her machine.
The court ruled that a blanket ban on handguns is unconstitutional, but D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and other Washington officials want to keep in place a prohibition on semiautomatic handguns — those in which a bullet clip is inserted into the gun’s grip.
What part of handgun are they not understanding? They seem to be confused by the fact that they have redefined a semiautomatic as an “machine gun”.
Current city law defines a “machine gun” to mean “any firearm which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or restored to shoot: a) Automatically, more than one shot by a single function of the trigger; b) Semiautomatically, more than 12 shots without manual reloading.”
Makes me curious what I could redefine… How about money as “any pretty rock I find in my yard”? How many rocks would it take to buy myself a new “machine gun”?
h/t Instapundit.com - Make sure to follow his link to “Because, you know, revolvers don’t shoot quickly.”
The ruling is in! In a 5-4 ruling, the DC gun ban has been struck down. Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, had several interesting things to say.
“The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”
“…the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional.”
I was happy to see that the historically traditional definition of “militia” was reiterated quite early in syllabus of the document. Both Majority and Minority opinions seem to be using this same definition as far as I can tell.
“…comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.”
It’s nice to see that clarified. It seemed quite obvious to me that the writers of the Bill of Rights would have used that definition of militia, but you often see it confused with a more modern interpretation in modern political discourse.
Th legal language is, at times, difficult to follow, but impressive none the less. The legal history and documentation presented on both sides of the argument are fascinating to read. I’m looking forward to finishing it.
Melanie Morgan and Michelle Malkin are hosting a fund raising effort to send care packages to troops in Iraq. If they live up to their own hype, it should be quite spectacular.
We’ve got a star-studded line-up of troops, military charities, celebs, and talk radio stars — from Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin to Dr. Laura and Laura Ingraham to musician John Ondrasik and “Lone Survivor” author and Navy SEAL hero Marcus Luttrell — who’ll be joining us in our eight-hour marathon fund-raising drive to help send the largest number of care packages in history to our men and women in uniform serving overseas. - Michelle Malkin
BMW has created a new concept car, and it is unlike anything you have ever seen before. It is a shape-shifter, has a textile skin, and it challenges our perception of what a car should look like.
I’m going to classify this car under art, because it really is a work of art. An innovative way of thinking about car design.
This isn’t a show that I normally would watch, but this guy can really dance… or something. I’m not really sure what I’d call it. What ever it is, he’s really talented.
Because… it’s all about me. OK, it’s not actually about me at all, but they do link to me.The First Rule of Blogging is the first of what appears to be a series about blogging advice.
I’ve always been fascinated by the contradictions in life. You must do this, you must not do this. For every rule there is someone who made it big by breaking that rule. It’s a good post, I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
Caution, severe immaturity warning! If you’re more mature than the average teen age male, don’t bother following this link. Fortunately that doesn’t apply to most of my regulars.
Amazing video. Lucky pilot. I realize they’re not actually supposed to fly quite that low, but it’s an amazing piece of flying anyway. Listen to the music in the earlier parts of the flight.
This is posted on military.com as a real video, and it looks like it to me, but you might notice the word simulated blink occasionally. Does anyone know what that is? Is it one of the warning systems, or has the video been edited in some way?
