Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule. In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg. On October 29, 2009, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania did a wonderful thing when it expunged the records of as many as 6,500 juveniles in Luzerne County. That’s not a misprint. Two judges in that county were ...
Germany will have its first officially gay Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister : he is also quite keen on sticking to the Taliban—this could be coincidental. Belarus manages to (quietly) have a large LGBT conference . The UK Tories have their first official gay event . About the Kevin Jennings case : I think the post is too hard on Jennings but very wise on the effects of “the closet”. A ...
Dig this: there is a little town called Hardin, Montana. Hardin has a prison that has never been used, despite costing $27 million of your money, because Hardin, Montana. (The town doesn't even have a police force; they get the county sheriffs to do their law enforcing, and it sounds like the kind of place that's small enough that the cops and offenders are all on a first-name basis, so the Man ...
Calif. jail entrepreneur has checkered past Following up on this post, AP has gotten to the bottom of the shady man behind the American Police Force takeover of the jail in Montana. The short story: the owner of the company is a guy named Michael Hilton (well, one of his names), who is a naturalized U.S. citizen and native of Montenegro with at least 4 aliases, $1.1 million in ...
... until the end of the contract in 2012," he said, "would go a long way toward satisfying our objectives." 3) Wolves devastate ranchers’ sheep... Wolves/Farmers http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_61f0f9de-938e-11de-95d7-001cc4c002e0.html August 27, 2009 Dillon-area family loses 120 animals in attacks Wolves devastate ranchers’ sheep . BUTTE - ...
Still waiting for all the wolf people to queue up to pay for the destruction of your pet reaping machines. The ones you imposed on us without our consent but somehow forgot to "reintroduce" into your own states. Single family loses over 120 animals just this summer to wolves.
I was surprised when Barack Obama talked about bridging the divide and reaching out to the Republican party when he won the elections - after all, the Republican party had shown zero interest in playing nice, either when in power or or after being defeated. His efforts are still wasted. I mean, it's been obvious from the start that the party hasn't cared about what works. Enzi is one of ...
Largest grizzley ever recorded Largest grizzley ever recorded Pictures of a hunter and a giant bear in Alaska-Truth! & Fiction! Pictures of a hunter and a giant bear in Alaska-Truth! & Fiction! A large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. He unloaded his 7mm Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was...
It's not been going well for Dear Leader or his congressional concubines in Montana. He was originally scheduled last week to tape his infomercial in Bozeman in front of an audience of 2400. Problem was when he was on his way here it became clear to his advance team that far too many citizens and not enough party members had gathered in Bozeman to guarantee a good propaganda event his safety. ...
There are various ways to tell it's summer in the west. The mercury hits triple digits. The landscape begins to turn from green to brown. And of course the "educated" and "enlightened" crowd come here and try their best to Darwin themselves. A 55 year old California man was gored in Yellowstone park after getting within 10 feet of a bison to take a picture. I don't know how but somehow ...
