Reason Morning Links: Cheney Memoir Looms, Foreclosures Up, Feds Help With Marijuana Raids in California

Radley Balko | August 13, 2009

• Cheney hints that upcoming memoir will be less than flattering toward former President Bush.

• Record number of foreclosures in July.

• DEA participates in two medical marijuana raids in California.

• The Washington Post looks at the origin of the CIA's secret prisons program.

• Classic car lobby won provision exempting cars made before 1984 from Clunkers program.

Comments

Gomer Pyle|8.13.09 @ 9:01AM|#

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Kyle Jordan|8.13.09 @ 9:02AM|#

"Classic car lobby won provision exempting cars made before 1984 from Clunkers program."

Damnit! I like Blazers and Broncos from '86!

Oh well, at least I may still be able to get some for my crazy builds this way.

Tim|8.13.09 @ 9:10AM|#

Feds Help With Marijuana Raids in California...

Another broken promise...

Art-P.O.G.|8.13.09 @ 9:24AM|#

Shortly after Bush fired Donald H. Rumsfeld, Cheney called his old mentor history's "finest secretary of defense"

LOL FTW

|8.13.09 @ 9:24AM|#

The final wording of the [cars for cash] bill, including the provision requested by the interest group, was ironed out in a legislative conference committee and attached to a military spending bill.

I love the smell of sausage in the morning.

|8.13.09 @ 9:37AM|#

During one of the raids, officers shot a dog believed to be a pit bull, but the circumstances of the shooting remain unclear, a law enforcement spokesman said.

Making America safer, one barking dog at a time.

Aditya|8.13.09 @ 9:42AM|#

What happened to Radley lefty-blogger challenge? Were there any responses?

|8.13.09 @ 9:56AM|#

Feminism takes on the grave threat of: Penny Arcade.

|8.13.09 @ 10:06AM|#

From the Brickbats:

Baldwinsville, New York, Mayor Joe Saraceni has banned gambling in the city's senior center. Seniors had been playing low-stakes card games for years, something Saraceni admits is legal. But he says the games violate the center's rules.

When will elected officials learn you don't fuck with old people. I'll be shocked if this nanny-stater is re-elected.

Art-P.O.G.|8.13.09 @ 10:19AM|#

The thing I truly don't understand about nanny-staters like Saraceni is why? Why do they care? Why must they make these issues their personal business?

Gunboat Diplomacy|8.13.09 @ 10:31AM|#

Re the PacHills.com ad:

Marijuana rehab? WTF???

|8.13.09 @ 10:38AM|#

@Gunboat: Hah yeah, look at that devastated family. You know, this isn't your grandfather's pot. More teenagers are in treatment for marijuana than any other substance.

(sarcasm off)

Any word yet on how they're gonna rationalize these raids? The IRS was in on the fun, maybe they're going after a tax violation. Turns out that it's pretty easy to say a dispensary is not "consistent with state law" when you're talking about zoning, taxation, etc in an industry that is on shaky legal ground to begin with.

So Holder didn't mean they won't shut down dispensaries in states where medical MJ is legal; he just meant they would find some non-marijuana violation to tag them with as an excuse to shut down the operation?

Gunboat Diplomacy|8.13.09 @ 11:03AM|#

Open-carry picnic set at St. Croix County Fairgrounds
By Chuck Rupnow
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
Updated: 08/13/2009 09:23:00 AM CDT


Glenwood City Police Chief Robert Darwin said he's not overly concerned about hundreds of people coming to the St. Croix County Fairgrounds on Aug. 23 armed with loaded sidearms.

"I don't have a problem with what they want to do," he said. "They have the lawful right to do that.

"My concern is how the general public will respond," Darwin said Wednesday. "I hope they will respect it, since it is lawful. The people coming to this are not the kind of people we need to worry about."

Dave "Ole" Olson said he and his wife, Annette, organized the "Open Carry Picnic" from noon to 4:30 p.m. at the fairground primarily to inform people of their Second Amendment right to openly carry sidearms.

He plans to hold another event in a few months in Hudson related to First- and Second-Amendment rights, with a nationally-recognized guest speaker.


"http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_13052132"

|8.13.09 @ 11:11AM|#

Update here on the arrest of the deaf man in the dollar store.

|8.13.09 @ 11:12AM|#

My concern is how the general public will respond," Darwin said Wednesday. "I hope they will respect it, since it is lawful.

Er, Chief, that is the general public at the picnic.

And any fringe types who might oppose it are either going to stay far away, or be very, very polite.

|8.13.09 @ 11:28AM|#

SugarFree | August 13, 2009, 9:56am | #

Feminism takes on the grave threat of: Penny Arcade.

Good morning Nutrasweet. You do the feminist links, I'll do the Detroit government links.

Another gaffe for DPS: Kids' secrets left to rot

Jeanette, 11, had an IQ of 57, was mentally unstable and lived in poverty.

The emotional troubles of Bobbie, 7, stemmed from being caught in an emotional tug of war between two bickering and divorced parents.

Johnnie, 8, liked to fight because, his psychologist surmised, his parents placed unrealistic pressure on him to perform.

These intimacies and more are revealed in a thousand spools of microfilm containing the psychological cases of former Detroit schoolchildren. They are not under lock and key, as one might assume, but lying around in the old Roosevelt Book Repository off Michigan Avenue.

I've more Detroit Public School fuck stories from today's paper. I'll save the fraud prosecutions of school employees for tomorrow.

Spartacus|8.13.09 @ 11:39AM|#

So Holder didn't mean they won't shut down dispensaries in states where medical MJ is legal; he just meant they would find some non-marijuana violation to tag them with as an excuse to shut down the operation?

Well, yeah. You sound surprised.

|8.13.09 @ 11:39AM|#

Jeanette, 11, had an IQ of 57, was mentally unstable and lived in poverty.

What the films leave out is that she went on to be elected to Congress.

Rimfax|8.13.09 @ 11:59AM|#

Yeah, that dork didn't have the cajones to invade Buffalo when Cheney told him that it was necessary. What a maroon!

|8.13.09 @ 12:22PM|#

Jeanette, 11, had an IQ of 57, was mentally unstable and lived in poverty.

What the films leave out is that she went on to be elected to Congress.

After changing her name to Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.

|8.13.09 @ 2:25PM|#

Well, yeah. You sound surprised.

Hah yeah, I guess I shouldn't be.

magic|8.16.09 @ 6:19AM|#

thanks very sesli chat