 firearms - even a hot tub - are being confiscated from citizens before they're ever charged with a crime.
And few people know where the money or property is going because most law enforcement agencies aren't reporting it. Police have used the cash to pay for everything from pizzas to Christmas parties and use the cars for undercover work.
Via Indianz.com, it looks like Mr. Roadless had better stick a little closer to the road.
Fightin' Whites T-shirts and sweats are now available. Where? CafePress of course. All proceeds go to the Fightin' Whites Scholarship Fund, Inc. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that they actually say 'Fightin' Whites' on them.
According to Indianz.com: "The Fighting Whities will be the subject of a Native America Calling broadcast today at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time."
Here's more of the story. The effort is raising consciousness across the country, but it seems folks aren't as offended as some might have hoped. Indianz says that if Rush LImbaugh likes it it's becoming passe and pointless.
Monday, March 18, 2002- - -
Jeez. I spent the better part of the morning rescuing a bunch of old WordStar text files from an ancient DOS machine. Boilerplate stuff I should have translated and backed up years ago but haven't needed until now. First I used the WordStar Convert utility to translate them to WordPerfect 5.1. Then I used MS Word to translate the WP5 files to MS Word format. Then I can use MS Publisher to translate them to Publisher files. What a pain. But the result is fairly clean and it beats retyping 150 pages of stuff.
I've spent the afternoon summarizing and updating all this old info and it gives me a good leg up on the next installment of The Big Project. I can see this will occupy a good deal of my time and concentration for the next couple of weeks, though this is much more straightforward than the last little job.
I'm dealing with the Bureau of Land Management on this job again and it appears that they're again, or still incommunicado. I received an email from the Wyoming State Office March 6th, and nothing in or out since.
Megan McArdle recently wrote about grade inflation and grade 'compression' at the university level. Here's a little scandal that underlines another side of the problem - out and out grade fraud.
But what would you expect? Major sport college athletes are a big investment. Couldn't have them become academically ineligible. I have friends who teach at various universities and I've been astonished at the stories they've told. Serious pressure can be brought to bear on any academic who's grading threatens the athletic department, frequently the university's biggest cash cow.
Well there's the problem, the economic "Recovery remains reclusive." No that's not a typo. At least not on my part.
The Denver Post has an article today on Dennis Gingold, plantiff's attorney in Cobell V. Norton. One government lawyer calls him 'The Terrorist.' Not surprising considering he's ".. forced the Justice Department to send in a replacement team of lawyers after he questioned the ethics of the first team." I bet they loved that.
His explanation for the government's decision to fight the case is backed in part by the testimony of a Treasury official, who said government officials long have viewed the trust funds as a "government slush fund" that could be used to lower the national debt.
More bad science at the EPA. What a surprise. This time it's a sample size of one and they diddled the test to boot.
We seem to have a lot of illness going around today and I see I'm not the only one who suspects it's not all due to bad tunafish.
423 DUI arrests in Colorado over the St. Pat's weekend last year and shaping up about the same this year. Looks like a lot of people believe in the luck of the Irish.
After my 'fix it' day yesterday it is gratifying in a 'misery loves company' sort of way to see that Evan Williams has problems with Outlook Express.
Evan Williams has a note about time stamps on blog posts that's true here as well. I often save up a few posts and then paste them up all at once. You might