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Hey, that's when I started boycotting baseball too!

I relapsed and managed to go to a Cardinal's game with my wife's family, and some minor league games, but all in all I am still pissed about the strike and MLB has yet to win me back as a loyal fan of the sport.

Yeah, well imagine if the strike had been followed up by public financing of new stadiums supported by insanely regressive taxation imposed contrary to voting results, a team that annually sets new records for futility in professional sports, due to ownership that in unwilling to either spend or innovate, and now they're shitting on the first amendment, because how dare some kid you pay with free tickets and like $100 a month state the obvious on the internet.

Go Pirates.

And do not come back.

I just found out that Science has managed to obtain sperm cells from female stem cells, making it possible (if expensive) for two women to have a child that is biologically related to both of them, and presumably, have no need for a man to add his genetics. There is some hope of getting egg cells from male stem cells, but apparently we can't do that yet.

More over, I learned that, apparently, the Australian government has preemptively legislated that it's illegal to create a viable embryo with anything other than an egg and a sperm (implicitly, female egg and male sperm, making this kind of stem cell manipulation illegal).

Fucking Aussie Government....

Meikle641 wrote: Forest Hills Gardens: A walkable, transit-oriented, architecturally rich planned community, built 100 years ago. <-- I hope to visit this during my trip to Hartford in July.

Neat; it seems close to some of the ideas that Christopher Alexander later covered in A Pattern Language.

Prak_Anima wrote:I just found out that Science has managed to obtain sperm cells from female stem cells, making it possible (if expensive) for two women to have a child that is biologically related to both of them, and presumably, have no need for a man to add his genetics. There is some hope of getting egg cells from male stem cells, but apparently we can't do that yet.

The sperm that Science obtained aren't actually viable (meaning that it's not yet possible for two women to have a child that is biologically related by half to both of them), but it is a very cool line of research.

ah, so, being that I was a complete slacker in high school, I have to ask this question... how are they sperm but not viable?

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12673455 -- another copy fucks up story. I'm sure there were protocols to follow and that technically he was correct but still...

Cynic wrote:http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12673455 -- another copy fucks up story. I'm sure there were protocols to follow and that technically he was correct but still...

Being a medical professional does not give you the power to ignore red lights. However, medical emergencies do give you the power to ignore being arrested. The cop has the obligation to write the citation for running the red lights, and the man can go to court and explain his case to the judge.

But you know what? The judge is very likely to feel lenient to the guy under the circumstances, meaning that he is probably going to get off with a warning. A lot of police officers would just let the guy go. In any case, it's not evading arrest when you have a life or death emergency on your hands and you tell the police to wait until it's over. The police are always supposed to wait until life or death medical emergencies are over before they arrest people.

-Username17

FrankTrollman wrote:

Cynic wrote:http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12673455 -- another copy fucks up story. I'm sure there were protocols to follow and that technically he was correct but still...

Being a medical professional does not give you the power to ignore red lights. However, medical emergencies do give you the power to ignore being arrested. The cop has the obligation to write the citation for running the red lights, and the man can go to court and explain his case to the judge.

But you know what? The judge is very likely to feel lenient to the guy under the circumstances, meaning that he is probably going to get off with a warning. A lot of police officers would just let the guy go. In any case, it's not evading arrest when you have a life or death emergency on your hands and you tell the police to wait until it's over. The police are always supposed to wait until life or death medical emergencies are over before they arrest people.

-Username17

To be more precise, it's not a matter of a judge being lenient, there is a very clear legal doctrine (usually known as "the lesser of two evils" doctrine) that provides an absolute excuse for actions taken to save someone's life (more generally, committing crimes to prevent a worse harm from occurring). As in, this guy wins and the judge will probably be pissed at the prosecutor for even trying him at all.

The cop should be fired for attempting to obstruct someone attempting to enter a hospital emergency room, period. If a cop hits a hospital, and is afraid of a suspect escaping, the proper procedure is to escort the suspect into the hospital and maintain contact with them, while calling for back-up. This act is arguably a violation of their 4th Amendment rights, and they can absolutely sue the police over it and they win will if they do so.

No link, but the Westboro Baptist Church intends on protesting at a funeral about 20 miles down the road from where I live.

I wonder what the fallout will be. If you've never been to Virginia, let me tell you the deal: 90% of us are armed or addicted to meth. A plurality of us are both armed AND on meth.

Needless to say, I'm not going near that one. But I will keep an eye out for headlines, the funeral is tomorrow.

Ugh, I hate the laws that up red lights from being stop signs to being absolutes. Nothing worse than sitting at one for several minutes at one in the morning...

-Crissa

US Supreme Court extends 'material support of terrorism' to include nonviolence training or international law.

So now, it's against the law to pursue world peace if that peace includes anyone connected politically to a group designated as a terrorist.

-Crissa

The court decided to effectively remove public domain

Terrible!

BP enabling the killing of endangered turtles.

virgileso wrote:The court decided to effectively remove public domain

/facepalm

You know, I had a lot more respect for U.S. legal institutions before I learned how many boneheaded decisions are coming out of them.

It took twenty-eight years, but the court is now stacked in authoritarian favor.

Alas.

-Crissa

On a more positive note, all charges are dropped against the man who was arrested for getting his wife to the emergency room with all possible haste.

Not only that...The policeman who hassled him is on administrative leave and is under investigation for his conduct on that episode. I imagine some stern questions will be asked.

The guy was suspended from his job at the hospital because he'd been charged with a felony--the hospital's policy until the issue is resolved one way or another.

This lasted for all of one day. And the hospital decided to pay him for the day he was out.

Maxus wrote:On a more positive note, all charges are dropped against the man who was arrested for getting his wife to the emergency room with all possible haste.

Not only that...The policeman who hassled him is on administrative leave and is under investigation for his conduct on that episode. I imagine some stern questions will be asked.

The guy was suspended from his job at the hospital because he'd been charged with a felony--the hospital's policy until the issue is resolved one way or another.

This lasted for all of one day. And the hospital decided to pay him for the day he was out.

I expect those hard questions to be, "How short can we make this and still get away with it?" and "How can we get away with it next time?" and perhaps "Why would you do something you knew you where going to get caught for like that?"

Maxus wrote:On a more positive note, all charges are dropped against the man who was arrested for getting his wife to the emergency room with all possible haste.

Not only that...The policeman who hassled him is on administrative leave and is under investigation for his conduct on that episode. I imagine some stern questions will be asked.

The guy was suspended from his job at the hospital because he'd been charged with a felony--the hospital's policy until the issue is resolved one way or another.

This lasted for all of one day. And the hospital decided to pay him for the day he was out.

That's good. Any news on how the wife turned out?

Doctors were unable to conclusively say she'd had a stroke from an examination, so she's following up with a neurologist. The article I saw (which, damned if I can find it again) said she was doing better, though.

In another welcome turn around, after an offer from a nearby minor-league team, the Pirates reinstated their Pierogi.

Yay! Shouldn't get fired for dissing a manager of another branch of your company.

Especially when the complaint was true.

-Crissa

Not like this wasn't expected.

I mean Rudd's been getting a lot of shit from his party for a while now. I will miss a head of state who can converse in English and mandarin fluently

People in China and Sweden knew about this before I did. Somehow I stop checking the BBC for one night and this happens.

Hurray! It's been a great day lol.