"And he advised others not to try the same thing."
Wheel of morality, turn, turn turn and tell us the lesson that we must learn.
Wesley: Perhaps the whole point of this experiment is hair. Gunn: I vote he's not in charge.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Oct 13, 2009 5:38:56 am PDT #13639 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sumi - Oct 13, 2009 5:45:18 am PDT #13640 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Happy birthday to Cashmere, Matt & megan!
Happy rediscovery of internet access Dr. Mrs. Nilly!
§ ita § - Oct 13, 2009 5:49:19 am PDT #13641 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Happy birthday Cashmere, Matt, megan, and not least of all, daddy dearest.
Lovely to see you in these parts dear married Dr. Nilly!
Off to work...yeah, not going to be used to that soon. I'm even wearing lipstick and earrings and a watch today. Perhaps too much too soon. We'll see.
Jesse - Oct 13, 2009 5:55:26 am PDT #13642 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Happy birthday, megan walker!!
Zenkitty - Oct 13, 2009 6:06:06 am PDT #13643 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Happy birthdays all 'round, and welcome back to the Intertubes, Dr. Mrs. Nilly!
Why is it that no matter how much I work, there's still just as much work to do, and no matter how many vacation days I take, I'm still just as exhausted as soon as I sit back down to work?
Ginger - Oct 13, 2009 6:06:35 am PDT #13644 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Nilly!
Happy birthday, Cash, Matt and megan!
I did not have to have such a life lesson to learn not to moon trains.
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2009 6:10:56 am PDT #13645 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I did not have to have such a life lesson to learn not to moon trains.
I think the important lesson is, if you're going to moon a train, don't let your body come in contact with the train. Especially do not press your butt cheeks against the train's door.
Also, if you lay down fake train tracks that go into the side of a mountain and you paint a "tunnel" on the rock face, a real train might come out of your painted tunnel and run you over. But you wont' be killed, just made flat as a pancake.
(I learned this last lesson as a small child watching cartoons.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 13, 2009 6:23:29 am PDT #13646 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Happy birthday, Cash, Matt, and megan!
Barb - Oct 13, 2009 6:28:50 am PDT #13647 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Oooh, adding birthday happies for megan & ita's dad!
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2009 6:44:35 am PDT #13648 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Court gets mad at birther lawyer: Orly Taitz Sanctioned for $20,000
The “Birther queen” has been slapped with a five-figure fine for “wasting the judicial resources” of the Middle District of Georgia, where she’d filed one of her numerous lawsuits demanding that President Obama prove his citizenship before deploying soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. The judgment, which calls Taitz’s case and tactics “delusional”:
From the Judge's ruling:
The Court finds that counsel’s conduct was willful and not merely negligent. It demonstrates bad faith on her part. As an attorney, she is deemed to have known better. She owed a duty to follow the rules and to respect the Court. Counsel’s pattern of conduct conclusively establishes that she did not mistakenly violate a provision of law. She knowingly violated Rule 11. Her response to the Court’s show cause order is breathtaking in its arrogance and borders on delusional. She expresses no contrition or regret regarding her misconduct. To the contrary, she continues her baseless attacks on the Court.
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Counsel’s frivolous and sanctionable conduct wasted the Defendants’ time and valuable judicial resources that could have been devoted to legitimate cases pending with the Court. When she filed the Rhodes case, counsel indicated that it was urgent that the matter be heard because her client was facing imminent deployment. The Court rearranged its schedule, took time to read the legal papers, and conducted preliminary research in preparation for the hearing. The Army had to activate its legal team on short notice, sending a Major from the Army Litigation Division in Washington, D.C. and a Captain from the CONUS Replacement Center at Ft. Benning. In addition, the Assistant U.S. Attorney had to accompany them. Like the Court, the government attorneys had to prepare in an expedited manner for the hearing. During the week preceding Captain Rhodes’s deployment, the Court was in the midst of a jury trial. Therefore, the Court had to alter the trial schedule to conduct the hearing during an extended lunch break, thus affecting other counsel and jurors. The Clerk’s Office was burdened by Ms. Taitz’s inability to follow the Court’s rules regarding pro hac vice admission and the Court’s rules for electronic filing. On five separate occasions in a short period, the Clerk’s Office personnel error-noticed counsel for her failure to follow simple rules. At the hearing, counsel failed to make coherent legal arguments but instead wasted the Court’s time with press conference sound bites and speeches.
Coherent legal arguments have a liberal bias!