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A bunch of Youtubes from Netroots Nation
h/t Adam Bonin, twitter
Judge scolds Aposhian’s attorney, denies return of guns
By Derek P. Jensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah’s premier firearms lobbyist Clark Aposhian can’t touch a gun for at least another month after a judge denied his attorney’s repossession request Wednesday, scolding the lawyer for “venting” and telling him to be “more respectful.”
“I’m not swayed. I’m not changing my mind on that issue,” Holladay Justice Court Judge Augustus Chin told attorney Mitch Vilos. The attorney’s motion – part of it all uppercase letters with an exclamation point – claimed the court does not have the authority to restrict his client’s constitutional right of gun possession.
“I take exception,” Chin said, noting the capitalization and punctuation – and the claim that the court thinks Aposhian is guilty – was inappropriate. “He thoroughly enjoys the presumption of innocence,” Chin said about Aposhian before adding the Second Amendment is “not absolute.”
“No disrespect,” Vilos responded. “Perhaps I spend too much time in my man cave.”
h/t BallerinaX, twitter
Murder conviction against US Marine overturned
AP; Julie Watson
The military’s highest court overturned a murder conviction Wednesday against a Camp Pendleton Marine in one of the most significant cases against American troops from the Iraq war.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces threw out the conviction of Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III of Plymouth, Mass., who has served about half of his 11-year sentence.
According to the ruling posted on the court’s website, the judges agreed with Hutchins, who claimed his constitutional rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer for seven days during his 2006 interrogation in Iraq.
h/t Doug Kempf, twitter
Iconic Civil War photograph sparks controversy
By Chuck Myers, McClatchy/Tribune News Service
Photographer Alexander Gardner and his two colleagues, Timothy O’Sullivan and James Gibson, came upon a frightful landscape late on July 5, 1863.
Soldiers of the Blue and Gray lay dead virtually everywhere, still littering a battlefield nearly two days after the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg.
The trio set about recording the aftermath of the battle, photographing the dead at locations that have long since become synonymous with the Gettysburg lore – the Slaughter Pen, the Wheatfield, the Valley of Death and Little Round Top.
One picture they captured, of a lone Confederate soldier lying dead in Devil’s Den within the Slaughter Pen area, has become an indelible symbol of intimate combat and death – and possibly even the war itself.
h/t Alex Horton, twitter
More Random Info on the Maddux
Jason Lovehart
It was just over a year ago that I first wrote about the Maddux, a baseball accomplishment I’ve been tracking since ~1998, when I’d just graduated from high school (the original post can be found here). A Maddux is a complete game shutout (of at least 9 innings, no ‘5 innings, then rain’ games) in which the pitcher uses fewer than 100 pitches. The statistic can be fully tracked going back to 1988, when MLB began keeping complete pitch count records for every game. In that first post, I listed the career leaders for Madduxes (with Greg himself atop the list, quite naturally and comfortably), the fewest pitches in a Maddux, and some other tidbits about the accomplishment. Tonight I thought I might list a few others.
1988 to 2012 gives us 25 complete seasons in the Maddux era (give or take a few games lost to the strike in 1994 and 1995). Over those 25 seasons, there were 265 Madduxes, an average of 10.6 per season. There have also been two so far in 2013 (by Clayton Kershaw and Jordan Zimmermann), bringing us to 267 total.
I love that this guy loves baseball so much he made up a new stat.
She stole another’s identity, and took her secret to the grave. Who was she?
Maureen O’Hagan, Seattle Times staff reporter
Joe Velling arranged the clues around the big table: a birth certificate for a girl in Fife. An Idaho ID card. Pages from an Arizona phone book. And scraps of paper with scribbled notes, including the name of an attorney and the words “402 months.”
These, he explained, came from the strongbox. And the strongbox is at the center of a mystery that has vexed him for nearly two years. As an investigator for the Social Security Administration (SSA), he’s nabbed more con men than he can count. But this case with the strongbox has him at wit’s end – not so much a whodunit but a who-is-it?
The woman in question was known as Lori Ruff. A 41-year-old wife and mother, she never quite fit in. She was a vegetarian in East Texas. A pretty brunette who dressed like a matron. A grown woman who wanted a child’s Easy-Bake oven for Christmas.
Crossposted from orange.
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