June 9, 2008, 3:55 pm
This should enrage anyone, regardless of politics:
A Nebraska district court judge prohibited the victim from describing what happened to her as rape, saying that it would be too prejudicial to the defendant. Also prohibited: “sexual assault”, calling herself “a victim,” or calling the defendant “the assailant.”
He left out one crucial piece of information, and you need to read that again, so this time, I’ll supply it:
A Nebraska district court judge [presiding over a rape case] prohibited the victim from describing what happened to her as rape, saying that it would be too prejudicial to the defendant. Also prohibited: “sexual assault”, calling herself “a victim,” or calling the defendant “the assailant.”
And this is why appointed, accountable bureaucrats should not exist. This crap about “an independent judiciary” is just that. Crap. Elected judges can be recalled when they pull crap like this. Appointed judges cannot be.
June 9, 2008, 1:23 pm
Something seems to be bad wrong with Gmail and Google both.
June 9, 2008, 1:03 pm
I inherited my grandfather’s eyes. I had 20-10 vision until I turned 40 (that’s when everything starts going to hell, by the way), and it was only when I couldn’t read a newspaper held as far away from my eyes as I could reach that I broke down and got glasses. So I wear reading glasses. Distance vision is still excellent.
Very infrequently, I have this rather disturbing thing happen, and it’s hard to describe, because you can’t do it deliberately. My eyes go out of focus. Actually, my left eye goes out of focus, so it’s kind of like crossing your eyes, but not quite. See two of everything, and everything in the left eye is fuzzy. That happened today when I was driving home, not the best time for your eyes to go out of focus. I closed my left eye and made it with no depth perception, but it was a little unnerving.
This is sometimes accompanied by partial or total numbness on the left side of my body. It usually only lasts thirty minutes or so, if that long. Today, no numbness. Just no focus.
Anyway, made it through the class.
June 9, 2008, 8:16 am
I’ve got a class starting today — was supposed to start last Monday, but that was a no way. I’m hoping I can find a chair that doesn’t start the pain.