Couldn’t Help But Notice (031507)
Viacom v. YouTube — what he said (may require free registration).
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Periodic Quagmire Reminder — We still have troops in Kosovo, with no realistic chance of getting them out soon.
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In the Peoples Republic of Toledo, the City is skimming the cream (HT Right Wing Toledo) off of what is currently a totally privatized situation with ambulance runs, and wonders why the private companies are balking at the idea of only getting the marginal leftovers. I would think that a city takeover (”city-ization,” I suppose) has to be all or none, AND that the city should be compensating the businesses for what they are forfeiting. In the situation that’s occurring in the Glass City, even ignoring the cherry-picking, you have an entity that doesn’t have to pay many kinds of taxes (the city) in essence competing against those that do (the private companies). That’s clearly unfair.
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751 French Quagmires Alert — That’s how many police “no-go” zones there are in France. Really (HT NixGuy). As Gates of Vienna says, “France has lost sovereign control over large swathes of its urban territory.” This, of course, is a complete non-story to the Formerly Mainstream Media in the US. Y’know, wouldn’t want to make Old Europe look like anything less than a utopia we should imitate. Update: No-gos in Holland too (HT Fausta via e-mailer Larwyn).
