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Saturday, January 04, 2003

Focus on the Family's website says, "Since 1973's Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, 41,173,857 precious lives have been lost to abortion — one every 26 seconds." That's just what we need, 41 million more people on this earth. Idjits.
posted at 3:16 PM

From Blender:
"I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car.” --Bob Marley
posted at 2:47 PM

Friday, January 03, 2003

Gandalf had the pipe and I had the ring which, so far, I had been able to resist trading to the local drug lords for another package of white. Gandalf was shouting random Macrohydration spells while simultaneously trying to not trip over his robes and fall face first into the local pools of goo. Legolas took another drink from his flask and, once again, began explaining how elves were different than humans and much, much mellower.

posted at 3:27 PM

Wednesday, January 01, 2003

Writing fiction in Cleveland ruled constitutional
The law used to charge a Moore teenager with planning a school shooting is unconstitutionally vague, a Cleveland County judge ruled Tuesday.
McFall argued that Robinson did nothing to put the plan into action and did not show his writings to anyone.
"He found a paragraph (on the Internet) which already was written," McFall said. "He took it and added to it. He never distributed it."
After the writing was discovered, Robertson, a senior, was suspended. McFall said her client has finished his high school coursework by correspondence and enrolled in a community college. McFall said Robertson would like to study journalism.
posted at 4:38 PM

RUBBISH!
Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs.
Back in March, the police swiped the trash of fellow officer Gina Hoesly. They didn't ask permission. They didn't ask for a search warrant. They just grabbed it. Their sordid haul, which included a bloody tampon, became the basis for drug charges against her (see "Gross Violation," below).
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Hoesly, a 13-year police officer who occasionally was an undercover decoy in police prostitution stings, became the subject of an investigation early this year, when she told police she'd been assaulted by her ex-boyfriend, Joshua David Rodriguez. Rodriguez has a history of drug arrests and convictions, and when officers booked him on assault charges, they found meth in his pocket.
Subsequently police began investigating Hoesly, hearing rumors from police informants that she had used drugs. On March 13 at 2:07 am, narcotics officers Jay Bates and Michael Krantz took her garbage. The order to do so came from Assistant Chief Andrew Kirkland, who dated Hoesly in the early '90s.
Searching through her trash back at Central Precinct, they found traces of cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as drug paraphernalia. They also found a bloody tampon. They sent a piece of the tampon to the state crime lab, where forensics experts tested it for drugs, DNA and, for reasons that remain unclear, semen. The results of those tests have not been released.
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After much debate, we resolved to turn the tables on three of our esteemed public officials. We embarked on an unauthorized sightseeing tour of their garbage, to make a point about how invasive a "garbage pull" really is--and to highlight the government's ongoing erosion of people's privacy.
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If the chief got overheated, the mayor went nuclear. When we confessed that we had swiped her recycling, she summoned us to her chambers.
posted at 4:08 PM

Mayor Considers Lawsuit Against Snooping Reporters
PORTLAND -- Trash talk from City Hall: Mayor Vera Katz says she is considering a lawsuit against two local newspaper reporters.
She says they broke the law when they took her trash.
The Willamette Week reporters also took recycling materials from Portland Police Chief Mark Kroeker and Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schrunk. The reporters say they were trying to prove a point.
It's not often that you see the media doing stories about the media. But this time Portland's mayor says reporters crossed the line.
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The reporters say they took the trash to prove a point about privacy -- in response to Portland police using the trash of fellow officer Gina Hoesly as evidence against her in a drug case.
A judge threw out that evidence. Schrunk still stands behind the police practice and still plans to appeal the Hoesly ruling. He says that if the trash is at the curb, there isn't a legal issue.
"There's not much I can say. It's abandoned. Garbage is garbage. Sometimes you put things in there you wish you hadn't, but usually you don't run out to the curb or the dump to reclaim it," Schrunk said.
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The reporters say they still plan to write about what they found in the recycling bins. Willamette Week says it will run the article.
posted at 4:06 PM

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