It's highly irregular for a prosecutor to mount multiple grand juries for something like this. Bonds has been subject to three grand juries. The first two ended w/o a conclusion the prosecutor accepted so, 3x's a charm I guess. Unusual though. I'd have to guess that this dipshit prosecutor will carry his eventual losses all the way to the Supreme Court if he has to. And we can all sleep at night safe in the belief that freedom's blanket will protect us all.

It's like where I live, the ADA's office will go to ANY lengths to prosecute even a traffic ticket or a 1 joint bust. Any lengths. You can call for a continuance for a year, and they'll be there lined up, keeping cops off the street for days at a time waiting to testify against you. No matter what. And if truth were told, that's the way everyone wants it. The cops get a paid day off at the courthouse, the prosecutor doesn't get an "L" charged to his W-L stats and the court gets to complain about overcrowding which leads to more court funding.

Which is an actual felony where I live. You can go down the county courthouse any work day and watch judges sentence people to 120-240 days in jail for exactly the same thing.

I mean as long as we're all so fucking outraged about a turn of phrase.

People said the same thing in the late 70's about pension funds and insurance companies investing in huge market making block trades in the stock markets, aka the modern archetype institutional investor. And this did not turn out poorly. Large investments are not inherently dangerous - but bad decisions are always dangerous. Hedge funds by themselves, by their size mimic the effects of companies like TIAA-CREF or the California state employee's credit union and other similar massive market makers. Now one could say that their investments are scrutinized more and that would be correct. But if one said they are regulated more that would be incorrect. The difference is in the audit exposure after the fact. And if partners in a hedge fund aren't really interested in auditing the fund or scrutinizing how it works then it doesn't matter the size of the fund. The only thing that matters is the nature of the good or bad decisions the fund makes. TIAA-CREF could just as easily plunk down 100 billion dollars in monkeysoutmyass.com and flush everyone's money down the crapper. There is nothing actually stopping them from doing that. They happen to make better decisions than that. Sorry to burst your bubble but the problem is not markets or capitalism or that last thing on some retarded blog you shook your puny fist at. The problem is people, the decisions they make, the level of trust investors place in them.

Or your peanut allergy or your refusal to vaccinate. Maybe it's your carbon footprint. Maybe the children who pulled the onions out of the ground with their bare fingertips imbibed them with the evil karma of the Great White Spirit. I don't know. In any case, man up, slice the veg and get over your damn hothouse violet selves. Please.

In the daytime in clear weather with no dense traffic, at or near the posted speed limit. I wouldn't trust 990 people out of a thousand to walk my Beagle. Untrained and landing a jet? Most people can't get out of the fucking lavatory w/o assistance. Instead of oxygen masks they should just drop down handguns so I can shoot myself in the face.

And remember. It's not a party until the cops come.

Chanuka - that most secular of minor Jewish holidays before the 20th Century needs to be watered down even more in order to be accepted? Why even bother? You can make Chanuka pretty much as non denominational as you like and take away little from it. It's not as if some Syrian-Roman pagans are going to protest you.

That's more or less what branding is. Not substance; packaging. It's not as if any of them are materially different in practice anyhow. One is as good as another in terms of what they will accomplish by the end of their term or terms. The same is true for the GOP. These are all branding issues. Proxies. It doesn't matter for instance whether you elect Margaret Sanger or Billy Graham to the Presidency - abortion will still be unresolved. Which is the point, really. It's called erecting your enemy in order to distract the dirty mob from all the things you should but won't do.

What's the big mystery? Whichever candidate says the world is coming to an end on July 12th, 2009, 2:13pm EST will get Gorified.

We get it. There's 6 shows on TV and that's it. In 2 months the column will be about Lost, Survivor, Heroes, FNL and 2 reality/game shows.

And therefore is driven by hitcounts and street cred. I'm fairly sure that politics doesn't really enter into it. He can't admit it anyway lest he fall under the same criticism he heaps over all others. Only I am pure and without sin. But you losers all suck.

At least a seventh of you believe that airplanes are secretly controlled by orbiting satellites and the main console is in Dick Cheney's office loo.

Political flackery saying cynical self serving things they believe MIGHT be in their strategic interest longer term. My GOD, man! That's bigger deal then discovering Jesus was gay and secretly retired to Tyre to rent boogie boards to the tourists.

I do believe I will keel over with the vapors. Someone get me a julip.