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1. Finally, no more basketball! Now it's all soccer, all the time.
2. Great job Orioles! Say hi to Tampa Bay on the way down! Like they have a chance against Atlanta!
3. Hey, if the flag burning amendment is passed, how will you dispose of a flag, since burning it would be illegal? (Thanks to the Dailly Show for the blurb).
4. The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that cities can take over land just because they want to -- even if that means selling it cheap to developers who put up new homes. Hey, if it's for a mall or what not and promotes the economy in that way, I can see the benefit -- however, to tear down a home to put up new homes -- are you kidding me?
5. Tomorrow's high - 100. 2 weeks ago, it barely got to 50. You have got to love New England!
6. Yahoo shuts chat rooms on Child Sex Fears -- apparently the user created rooms were too graphic. As opposed to "American Idol (3)" where the same stuff happens.
7. Yay! It's Friday!
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Dan:
June 24th, 2005 - 09:56
Hey Dan, some more EA fodder for you. Check out the NHL page for EA Sports, yep it says exclusive license underneath Lecavalier’s name. Here’s the link
http://www.easports.com/games/nhl06/home.jsp
Is this true as well? I’ve seen nothing on this.
June 24th, 2005 - 10:06
Dan, I have no idea how you can even talk about other things happening… didn’t you know that a pretty white girl is missing in Aruba? In other news… 100′s of “non-pretty” people went missing yesterday.
June 24th, 2005 - 10:52
That’s not what the supreme court said. Did you read the court’s opinion or are you just trying to be sensationalist? The opinion is only 56 pages long and not tought to understand. I suggest you read it.
Ted
June 24th, 2005 - 19:01
I did not read the opinion. I got the Cliff’s Notes from ABC News.
June 25th, 2005 - 01:23
Network news media…hmmmph. Read for yourself and learn, Dan! Then you can form an opinion of the decision, instead of an opinion of an opinion. But instead of being a preachy fuck….
It really is an interesting case to the average Joe like me for several reasons.
First, I would have expected a 5-4 the other way, but it appears a moderate swung with the progressives on this one.
Second, all the court really said was that they were not yet willing to reign in municipalities or other government entities on these property seizures since they have ruled for these seizures in past cases, the last being about 20 years ago in Hawaii that was done solely for the purpose of breaking up land oligarchies and bringing about more realistic real estate markets. This decision goes a little further “down the slope” because it appears to “benefit the public” by first benefitting multinational corporations and then local businesses.
Finally, this is the first time that this kind of seizure took place in an area to gain economic improvement and that the area wasn’t first “blighted”, “insanitary”, or “unsafe”. Sure, the town of New London is suffering from economic problems which were mostly brought about by military closures, but the usual conditions for this kind of seizure aren’t present.
Among 132 homes there are 14 holdouts of 11 homeowners (I think that’s right). They propose to build 80 new homes along with all the commercial property. It appears as if they want to reinvent the town.
And I’m with you. I don’t like it one bit.