SOBer Thoughts (082007)
Last week, Matt at Right Angle called yet again for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to be privatized, as 47 states have done without falling into the ocean, and generally, if not completely, without neglecting injured workers’ interests.
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I’d be shamelessly plugging this too – In what I believe is the first international reference to an SOB blog post, Boring Made Dull went global at the BBC. Heartiest congrats!
Fellow Akronite (?) Pho notes a really weak case of non-linking by the Beeb, further weakened by the fact that the it DID link to the very next blog reference.
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Interested-Participant has posts on things illegal aliens are doing that US citizens mostly aren’t: Transporting multimillion-dollar stashes of illegal drugs, and killing off construction workers. Charming.
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Ben Keeler has a post on the nascent movement to lower the drinking age to 18. I support it, especially in light of the history, which one of his commenters cited:
I remember voting down the raising of the drinking age to 21 in Ohio. Unfortunately, the state ignored the will of the people and raised the drinking age to 21 when the feds threatened to withhold highway funds from states that didn’t raise the drinking age.
Reagan’s new federalism sort of fell flat on this issue.
This was a clear Reagan Admin failure, spearheaded by a misguided Liddy Dole.
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Thanks to King’s Right Site, I have finally seen a potential class-action suit I can support:
The fact that Cleveland raised almost $1.5 million in fines for illegal speeding tickets (illegal because the city never sent out a release for its use of mobile traffic cameras, as its own law required — Ed.) does not faze the administration one bit! Mayor Jackson’s office feel the above ruling is no big deal and any previously tired cases cannot be challenged.
Mr. Jackson’s placing of himself above the law is becoming a habit (fifth item at post).
Those previously ticketed illegally in Cleveland would appear to have an open-and-shut case for refunds or more (y’know, send the mayor “a message”) if they’d band together and go after the city.
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Liberally Conservative didn’t directly mean to, but he explains why people like Patrick Poole are performing an invaluable service by keeping up with what those who consort with known terrorists, or who openly express sympathies for terrorist groups like the Somali Taliban and extra-constitutional Sharia law, are doing.
Of course, when there is no defense or argument against facts (UPDATE — even when vindicated in claiming that Old Media’s Columbus Dispatch was whitewashing a terror sympathizer), Mr. Poole and those of us who believe his work needs to be more widely read are called racists and religious bigots. Complete, utter, horse, manure.
