Reason Morning Links: U.S. Pulls Out of Iraqi Urban Areas, Giuliani Mulls Run for Governor, Sotomayor and the Sixth Amendment

Radley Balko | June 30, 2009

• Celebration in Iraq, as U.S. troops pull out of major cities.

• Energy Department mandates new lighting standards.

• Rudy Giuliani considering bid for New York governor.

• Parents challenging state laws that allow hospitals to take samples of newborns' blood for use in medical research without parents' permission.

• Sotomayor could help overturn or significantly narrow last week's Supreme Court decision giving criminal defendants the right to challenge forensic experts—and why her views on the Sixth Amendment aren't likely to generate much controversy during her confirmation hearings.

Comments

Rudy Giuliani|6.30.09 @ 7:56AM|#

I'm going to focus on the budget as Governor. For example, under the current Governor our budget has gone fron 9, to over 11 percent of....ah damnit! I did it again!

9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11

Rich|6.30.09 @ 8:27AM|#

Can't any of you whiz kids invent a candle that doesn't release CO2?

|6.30.09 @ 8:31AM|#

Parents challenging state laws that allow hospitals to take samples of newborns' blood for use in medical research without parents' permission.

But then how will Jews make their bread? This is just low-carb antisemitism.

BlueBook|6.30.09 @ 8:46AM|#

Parents challenging state laws that allow hospitals to take samples of newborns' blood for use in medical research without parents' permission.

But then how will Jews make their bread? This is just low-carb antisemitism.

That's an ignorant and offensive superstition. Jews make their wine with baby blood. The bread is made with ground up baby bones.

|6.30.09 @ 8:52AM|#

It's a good thing I swallowed my coffee before reading SugarFree @ 8:31 and BlueBook @ 8:46. My monitor would have suffered.

|6.30.09 @ 9:01AM|#

Here goes BlueBook, shilling for Manischewitz again.

And bones for bread? I'm discussing Jewish culinary facts, not spinning fantasies about them being ogres. Goy vey!

MaterialMonkee|6.30.09 @ 9:09AM|#

anyone hear about the pirate bay?

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164


they got 60 million for it

the company that bought is about to get butt fucked as they're gonna try and make it legal

users will either desert to illegal sites if they remove the illegal content

or the company will get butt fucked by the entertainment industry if they don't

either way that has to be the biggest swindle for the piratebay guys

I for one reckon they deserve the cash
as they have enhanced my collection of surreal psychedelic & counterculture films no end

so well done piratebay


:)

|6.30.09 @ 9:15AM|#

A question for the board: Are one of you guys writing the haikus on feministing? They don't quite know what to do with them and it's kind of funny.

Interior_League replied to jruka:

You say you love her
as if you knew her. But you
don't know her, do you?

I don't think they're real.
Jon and Kate plus billions
of ones and zeroes.

Computer contrived
simulacra, an endless
digital buffet.

Their non-existence
exists to feed appetites
for entertainment.

The same is true of
your facebook "friends" that you so
blithely deleted.

|6.30.09 @ 9:24AM|#

Unlike some people, I do not visit Feministing for amusement. Nor do I jab knitting needles in my ears for pleasure.

|6.30.09 @ 9:32AM|#

Thanks to feministing, I know am aware of the word "cisgender", although I don't know why it exists.

|6.30.09 @ 9:34AM|#

Pleasure and pain are just a continuum. A dreamy continuum.

|6.30.09 @ 9:36AM|#

John-David,

Because "normal" is a pejorative straight out of the ableist slurbook.

The paradox of intersectional feminism: Celebrating differences while denying there is a baseline to be different from.

|6.30.09 @ 9:40AM|#

I guess I should have realized that, SugarFree. I forgot that "normal" is such a hateful word.

Fascitis Necrotizante|6.30.09 @ 9:52AM|#

Check your privilege, J-D.

BlueBook|6.30.09 @ 9:54AM|#

Reason morning links:
they're fun to read but still don't
cure insomnia.

|6.30.09 @ 9:55AM|#

FN,

I already did.

MRK|6.30.09 @ 9:58AM|#

Energy Department mandates new lighting standards

First they take my water pressure then my warm, friendly lighting. What's next?

|6.30.09 @ 10:04AM|#

Rudy Giuliani might be thinking about something, but nobody really knows what it is. Not even he.

STFU and GTFO, Roooooooooooody!

Telly|6.30.09 @ 10:12AM|#

If Obama wants to save electricity perhaps he should turn the teleprompter off.

SpongePaul|6.30.09 @ 10:38AM|#

Telly | June 30, 2009, 10:12am | #
If Obama wants to save electricity perhaps he should turn the teleprompter off.
__________________________________________
then uh i mean but it is....

if he turns of the telepromter he turns off his mouth! But Maybe thats a GREAT THING!

Rhywun|6.30.09 @ 10:45AM|#

First they take my water pressure then my warm, friendly lighting. What's next?

Your smokes, your alcohol, and anything else that makes life bearable.

|6.30.09 @ 11:03AM|#

Is this different that then law banning incandescent light bulbs after 2012 that Bush signed in 2007?

|6.30.09 @ 11:04AM|#

"""Your smokes, your alcohol, and anything else that makes life bearable."""

Government won't ban it's cash cows.

|6.30.09 @ 11:37AM|#

STOP FEEDING THE CYCLE OF SEXISM!!!

|6.30.09 @ 11:40AM|#

cattrack2 said:
Interesting, I'm kind of like Miriam. I chucked my TV a couple years back. I don't read the tabloids, but then I can't escape the headlines at the grocery store either. I despise reality TV. And I have from time to time written the editors if I really had a problem w/ something in their magazine or program.

She doesn't watch tv or read tabloids yet she still manages to write the editors to complain about objectionable material that she has not seen/read?

|6.30.09 @ 11:55AM|#

Fascitis Necrotizante | June 30, 2009, 9:52am | #

Check your privilege, J-D.

Somehow, whenever I see this in print, my blood boils.

|6.30.09 @ 12:25PM|#

Maryann Overath, an Austin, Texas, attorney said, "I don't want to sound paranoid, but I'm uncomfortable with a governmental agency having this information."

Counsellor, limited government advocates, libertarians and anarchists are not paranoid. Rent seekers, public sector lifers and welfare recipients are the paranoid-after all, look at how they yell and scream that the sky is falling if there is even a discussion about slicing their little piece of socialism.

|6.30.09 @ 1:06PM|#

Apparently, I misunderstood the phrase "check your privilege". What a stupid phrase though, although I get a small kick out of the victim mentality.

|6.30.09 @ 1:19PM|#

Damn you J-D, you made me look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

Synonym: Normal

|6.30.09 @ 1:20PM|#

The victim mentality is cute until they all get together and vote in a president willing to sooth their troubles with your money.

|6.30.09 @ 1:20PM|#

sorry, previous should read, "WE all get together..."

|6.30.09 @ 1:22PM|#

Who is this "WE" you are writing about?

Peter|6.30.09 @ 1:25PM|#

Who is this "WE" you are writing about?

Transgenders? Sisterben?

Peter|6.30.09 @ 1:28PM|#

This whole thread is confusing, all I know is that a cisgender, jewish, feminist that eats baby bones and drinks baby blood in unfriendly lighting is anything but normal.

P.S. "Cisgender" isn't accepted by Office or Google Toolbar = not a word.

|6.30.09 @ 2:22PM|#

I am a transgender Transformer. My twat turns into a brain and vocalisations drop by 86.39%.


(permission given for repost @feministing)

|6.30.09 @ 2:42PM|#

Feministing on "cisgender".

|6.30.09 @ 3:52PM|#

"""Counsellor, limited government advocates, libertarians and anarchists are not paranoid."""

Limited government advocates are not concerned with the ever growing data that government is keeping or want access to?

If you accept mass data collection by government, I would question if you're really the limited government type.

|6.30.09 @ 10:02PM|#

This thread has been here for over 14 hours and nobody said anything about Iraq?

|7.1.09 @ 12:38AM|#

One wonders why a member of the party that endlessly proclaims its fealty for the "common man" would want to gut a Supreme Court decision that's clearly (in my opinion) right and just.

wayne|7.1.09 @ 12:38PM|#

I thought we lost in Iraq.