Pepper Spray The Best Self-defense Weapon? By: Doug Harper | - Pepper Spray or Mace is a common name for OC Spray made from Oleoresin Capsicum. Also known as OC Gas and capsicum spray, is a lachrymatory agent. These are chemical compounds used to irritate the eyes and cause tears, pain and maybe temporary blindness. This pain or temporary blindness gives the user time to get away in event of an attack from people, dogs or other animals.
Should Hezbollah And Al Qaeda Be Allowed To Use Social Media? By Ronn Torossian By: Ronn Torossian | -
Shouting fire in a crowded theatre is a well known paraphrase of a U.S. Supreme Court decision which served as an example of the limitations on free speech, when the speech is imminently dangerous and has no conceivable purpose. In a world where we have seen real revolutions in part because of digital media, its interesting that everyone today has digital media to amplify whatever noise theyd like to make good or bad and can utilize media without a filter.
Federal Judge Refuses To Stop Kansas Anti Abortion Insurance Law By: Heather MacGibbon | - Thursday Sept 29, 2011 a federal judge ruled against the ACLUs request to stop the implementation of a Kansas law limiting the use of insurance coverage for abortion procedures in the state.
Judge Wesley Brown of Federal District Court claimed the A.C.L.U. of Kansas and Western Missouri failed to prove the contention that the Legislature approved the law to make it more difficult to receive abortions in the state. The law bars the inclusion of abortion services in basic medical ... Tags:abortion, abortion procedures, abortions, OBGYN
Protecting Your Reputation By: Haz Duell | - However you look at the world today, the fact of the internet has changed the way in which business relates to the world. Twenty years ago, if a customer had a complaint, he or she was a lone voice in the wilderness. Unless a newspaper was prepared to publish details, there was very little the complainer could do to be heard. Now it's routine to email, sms and tweet, we have hundreds of cyberfriends on Facebook and other networking sites, we join forums, post messages on bulletin boards and, if ... Tags:insurance
Substance Abuse And Welfare Reform By: Rachel Davina-Clark | - With the state of Florida having just passed legislation this year that makes drug testing of welfare recipients mandatory, the connections between welfare reform and drug abuse have been hotly and publicly debated by politicians and homemakers alike. However, both sides of this issue are basing their opinions and potential policy-making decisions on data that may only be anecdotal. This is complicated further by the sensationalism with which this issue is often reported. But while other stat ... Tags:welfare reform and drug abuse, substance abuse and welfare reform
Media Industry Strikes Back At Online Infringers By: William Galkin | - It's no secret that piracy of music and movies over the Internet is rampant and costs industry billions of dollars annually. Most people involved in this activity are not hardened criminals, and if asked, will probably admit that it is a technical violation of the law, but that it's not really that illegal. You might even hear an argument that since industry is resigned to the fact that nothing can be done about it, it's basically permissible. Legal solutions alone clearly have not worked. Most ... Tags:Copyright Alert System, Copyright infringement, Internet law, Internet lawyers, Internet attorneys
Bright Eyes Tickets : The Video For The Song "shell Games" Was Released Via Saddle Creek Records By: Amanda Harrison | - Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band founded by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst. It consists of Oberst, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis, trumpet and piano player Nate Walcott, and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha's indie music scene.
Bright Eyes is signed to Saddle Creek Records, a Nebraska-based label founded by Conor and his brother Justin Oberst and distributed by Sony Corporation. In 2004, the singles "Lua" and "Take ... Tags:Young Jeezy, Concert, Tickets
Open A Medical Dispensary By: Matt Jacobsen | - If you want to get involved in the business of medical marijuana and open a medical dispensary, now is the time. Today you can take advantage of new laws and policies that are making medical marijuana legally acceptable nationwide.
While this field is just opening up for entrepreneurs, you can start making money from a product that sells itself. You will be promoting a product that helps those who suffer from chronic diseases and acute pain. First it is helpful to know the governme ... Tags:open a medical dispensary, medical marijuana dispensary
Miscarriage Of Justice For Some Pregnant Black Women By: The Grio website | - If you're wondering why Republicans have been unable to work with Democrats to arrive at a political deal to prevent the American government fromgoing into default, it might be because they're too busy criminalizing 15-year-old girls for having miscarriages.
You read that correctly. Rennie Gibbs currentlyfaces life in prison in Mississippi over a miscarriage she endured in 2006 when she was 15 years old, and she is not the first to face attempted criminalization of this kind (th ... Tags:Abortion, ACLU, Miscarriage, Mississippi, Pregnant, Rennie Gibbs, Republican Party, Women
Surveillance Camera By: Ramit Soni | - It the majority regularly refers to scrutiny of entity or groups by government organization but disease surveillance. This is French word for watching over. This word may be practical to inspection from a distance by means of electronic apparatus. It may also pass on to simple relatively methods such as human aptitude. This is very use full to law enforcement and government to retain social control monitor threats. With the arrival of programs such as high speed cameras advance technologies and ... Tags:Security Camera Installation, Surveillance Systems Installation
Gulag America And The Doctrine Of Inherent Goodness By: Stan Moody | - Why are Americans so easily caught off guard by evil? Is it because we have embraced the doctrine of the inherent goodness of mankind to the exclusion of the reality of our own individual and national evil?
You would think that the experience of repeated failings as the moral conscience of the world would awaken us to our hypocrisy. Our burgeoning prisons and multiple wars seem to dictate otherwise.
Has It Come To This? By: Knight Pierce Hirst | - In 2011, with the economy still trying to recover from a recession, Kohler introduced the Numi toilet. It has a built-in music system, ambient lighting, touchscreen remote, motion-activated lid and seat, retracting bidet, air dryer, air deodorizer, heated seat and floor vents that keep your feet warm. All this for just $6,400. Then there's the Segway i2 Ferrari Edition. It doesn't look any different from the stock model except it's red, has a Ferrari logo, a leather handlebar bag and a price of ... Tags:toilet, Segway, election, harassment, obscenity, ACLU, Madoff
Death Of Bin Laden: Doomsday Or Renewal? By: Stan Moody | - We are left to speculate as to the effect of the execution of Osama bin Laden on the American psyche. On a feeding frenzy since 9/11, the military industrial complex, the most self-conscious wing of corporate capitalism, will need the kind of resuscitation that only money can buy.
The Gulag Supremacy: Judgment In The Hands Of The Christian Right By: Stan Moody | - As an evangelical pastor and theologian, I find myself increasingly at odds with American Evangelicals on a wide range of topics. In my 2006 book, McChurched: 300 Million Served and Still Hungry, I predicted this about the Christian Right and its agent of political dominion, the Republican Party:
You will not be welcome in the Promised Land envisioned by the Christian Right. That is not a place that welcomes believers in the sovereignty of God.
Prison Requiem: Thomas Joseph Hart By: Stan Moody | - The Bangor Daily News article said he died on April 9, about 24 hours after he slipped in the shower at Penobscot County Jail. He was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center to be treated for a fractured hip but refused treatment.
$40 Short and Five Weeks of Bad Road:
A February 28 BDN article had told of how he came to be incarcerated at the jail:
Maine Wants A Piece Of Arizona's Immigration Law By: Stan Moody | - As Maine lurches from one legislative session to another, it becomes common for the media to sit back and decide which bill is valid and which a waste of time. Having been both a legislator and editorial writer, I have an appreciation of the urgings that drive both.
In a word, both are looking for that Hegelian moment that will shed light on the wisdom or foolishness of the status quo.
Reflect on the evil that has occurred in your own life or on the evil that you have inflicted on others. At the root is the scramble to become or to remain somebody by shoving aside others who stand in your way.
The evangelical wing of the Christian church apparently is not above wanting to be somebody.
Learn More Close To Child Adoption By: Damien Ferrigno | - Youngster adoption is definitely an selection a lot of people pick for a number of causes. Most of the people turn to kid adoption simply because they are unable to have biological young children although other individuals may possibly want to adopt a relative or welcome an additional child to their loved ones.
Child adoption offers the adoptive mothers and fathers the legal rights and duties of the little one. It offers the adoptive mother and father the priceless experience of ra ... Tags:child adoption, child, adoption
Maine Corrections Commissioner Hits The Ground Running! By: Stan Moody | - Newly-appointed Maine Department of Corrections Commissioner, Joseph Ponte, is living up to his reputation as "Joe the Boss." Quiet, self-effacing, he is assuming control by doing the right things early on.
Republican Senators Break The Eleventh Commandment And Blast Gov. Paul Lepage By: Stan Moody | - I respond to the opinion piece on Gov. Paul LePage, posted in the Kennebec Journal on April 4th by 8 of his Republican colleagues in the senate. It was run while LePage was on vacation and after he had apologized to the senators.
The prevailing rule of politics is indeed civil discourse. On the other hand, the path to change sometimes demands a heavy hand.
Death Row Organ Banks By: Stan Moody | - On January 27, 2011, I published an article on a logjam of executions. Due to shortages of Sodium Thiopental, a sedative critical to lethal injections, states have been left scrambling to return to their killing schedules under the threat of litigation.
Prison Reform: Moving Beyond The Scott Sisters By: Stan Moody | - Shortly before the Scott Sisters, Jamie and Gladys, were released from prison in Mississippi in early January, 2011, I was a bit player in the drama by efforts to have Jamie apply for a pass for me to visit as her pastor. Conversations with a number of happy, accommodating bureaucrats within the system, all of whom claimed not to have heard of the Scott Sisters, led to a dead end as the paperwork for my visit fell through the cracks.
Worried About Lethal Injection Supplies? Help Is On The Way! By: Stan Moody | - AOL News, on January 25, published an interesting article about capital punishment in the US being on hold because of inability of private industry to produce the necessary drugs. It seems that Hospira, of Lake Forest, IL, announced last week that because of shortages of raw material supplies, it will go out of the business of manufacturing Sodium Thiopental, a sedative critical to lethal injections. It had planned to switch to an Italian manufacturer, but Italian authorities insisted on a guara ... Tags:Prison Reform, Christian Right, httpsmoodyreportwordpresscom, capital punishment, Department of Corrections, Washington Post, ACLU
Denial Is A River In Gotham City, Maine By: Stan Moody | - Syndicated Columnist, Leonard Pitts, recently published a piece, "Telling the truth that no one wants to believe." It strikes at the heart of what ails America as we lurch from one political extreme to another.
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Protecting Our Privacy From Gps By: CellPlaza | - You most likely carry a tracking device everywhere you go. For those of us with GPS enabled cell phones, our locations (even when the phone is powered off) are being tracked by cell phone towers. Law enforcement wants to access this information without showing probable cause, however may have to obtain your private records by showing probable cause standard. At least this is what the 3rd US District Circuit Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania ruled in September 2010.
Prison Reform: Kicking The "can" On Down The Road By: Stan Moody | - When I began this journey over a year ago, advocating for reform of our prisons, I never dreamed that so arcane and bizarre a subject could become a source of amusement. Despite being a former legislator, I had forgotten the inherent lack of courage on the part of legislators, driving their propensity to tweaking rather than replacing or repairing broken systems.
Probation: Common Sense Prison Reform By: Stan Moody | - A disconnect is widening between state fiscal responsibility and the revolving door of Corrections. The lion's share of funds being gobbled up by housing and chronic medical care, it follows that services focused on rehabilitation of prisoners will find it increasingly difficult to be heard in this poor economy.
Prison Reform: A Fool's Errand By: Stan Moody | - The vivid memory of my interaction with prisoner Sheldon Weinstein an hour or so before he died of a ruptured spleen alone in segregation has driven me over the past year to advocate for prison reform in Maine. It has been a fool's errand - an impossible and illogical assumption that the same human rights enjoyed by those of us on the outside transfer to those on the inside.
Prison "a La Court": Kids-for-cash By: Stan Moody | - A la Carte is a French term for "from the menu." An entrée ordered from the menu usually entitles the customer to a choice of side dishes.
The menu in this case is a choice of corrections facilities in Pennsylvania, a favored entré being a private, for profit juvenile detention center prepared by Chef Mark Ciavarella, Jr., a Common Pleas judge in the hardscrabble town of Wilkes-Barre.
Prison Reform: Breaking The Grip Of The Shadow Government By: Stan Moody | - I received a poignant email from a colleague. She had read my article, Racketeering Charged at Maine State Prison. Her message got my attention: "The same rules that apply in prison have evolved in organized crime…Officers gain strength by creating a 'selfhood' out of so-called 'brotherhood' because they are incapable of full humanity."
Fbi Using Cell Phones To Track Criminals By: CellPlaza | - The FBI used cell phone tracking to gather evidence which lead to a conviction for a rogue New York City cop. According to an article by Peter J. Sampson, The Record (Hackensack N.J.), the FBI used a computer mapping program and call detail logs obtained from Sprint Nextel to track the activities of Kelvin L. Jones, suspected of a $1 Million perfume heist. The FBI was able to track Jones movement on the day of the Carlstadt robbery using cell phone records, which proved to be highly inc ... Tags:ACLU, CAST, cell phone tracking
Bill To Fix Maine's Sex Registry Law By: Stan Moody | - Seemingly on cue, former Senate Chair of the Maine Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Sen. Bill Diamond, has introduced a bill to grade the severity of those on the Sex Offender Registry.
Prison Reform: Denial Is A Church In Maine By: Stan Moody | - In my talks to groups about the burgeoning corrections industry in Maine, the least receptive to change is often the one community that claims a divine calling to right the wrongs of human injustice - the church. Invariably white and dominated by the trappings of worldly success, churches seem almost to have become havens of denial of the sin from which they offer deliverance.
Private Prisons Are Us? Maybe Not! By: Stan Moody | - On November 14, 2010, in a letter congratulating Gov. Paul LePage on his election to office, I urged him to go outside the prison system in Maine for a Commissioner of Corrections. My words specifically were:
Among the changes needed in Maine's correctional system is to appoint a commissioner from outside the organization with a mandate for openness, for cutting costs and for reducing recidivism through a cohesive re-entry strategy. It has been proven effective in other jurisdiction ... Tags:Prison Reform, Department of Corrections, Stan Moody, Paul LePage, Ponte, Reducing recidivism, re-entry
Mike Huckabee's Pro-slavery Agenda By: Stan Moody | - On January 30, Mike Huckabee will make his 13th pilgrimage to Israel - in the genre of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Promised Land. Thirteen trips, and he still has no clue.
Mike Huckabee is and likely will always be a Christian Zionist because "it says so right here," here being God's promise to the Patriarch Abraham, as though there has been nothing said since.
Cnn & Slanted Journalism: Bye Bye Blackbird By: Marc D. Baldwin | - In todays news reporting clever journalists work their own slant into a story. First, let me note that as I write this sentence I have yet to pick out the examples of slanting that I will use in this blog. Thatll only take me a few minutes, so Im writing the lead and meat of the piece first. I can fill in the examples later. Second, Ive put quotation marks around news reporting and journalist to draw attention to their being highly dubious and debatable terms. ... Tags:News, society
State Of Maine: Paying Lip Service To Prison Reform By: Stan Moody | - It has been 19 months since I received a call from the Senate Chair of the Maine Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety - one day after I submitted my resignation as a chaplain at Maine State Prison. "I'd like to meet with you and Department of Corrections Commissioner Magnusson at 2:00 pm in my office," he said.
Bayside Justice: The Tragic Case Of Brandon Boone Drewry By: Stan Moody | - The Bayside region of Portland is generally known as the area bordered by Washington Ave., Congress St., Portland St. and Forest Ave. It's my home town of Portland's nearest thing to the Bowery. There, people share smack, crack, small loans and each other from sundown to sunup. There, police work requires little investigative skill, piecing together cases comprising a web of convenience. There, public defenders paid by the State to lose their cases against the defenseless, make a living wage ... Tags:Prison Reform, Michael Chitwood, Maine State Prison, Portland, ME, Department of Corrections, moodyreport
Each of these people have different backgrounds and personalities. But they all share one thing in common: They attended summer camp.
Many lives have been forever changed by positive experiences at a children's summer camp. By providing a warm and welcoming atmosphere, summer camps allow children to pursue talents and passions that in ... Tags:kids summer camp, summer camps, over night summer camp
Florida Organization Wants "€˜robo-signers"€™ Video On The Internet By: rudsontren | - The Florida office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed an appeal to a temporary injunction order that a Sarasota County court issued over online postings of videotaped depositions of so-called robo-signer. On November 19, Judge Rick DeFuria granted Nationwide Title Clearings request to stop uploading and posting of a video that feature four of the companys employees.
The employees stood as witnesses to a foreclosure case heard at a Sarasota County court. They ... Tags:ACLU Florida, foreclosure, mortgage, YouTube, robo, the company, Sarasota, Sarasota County
Patent Research In America By: timjhonson | - Typically, the number one reason people conduct patent searches and read patent documents is to see if an invention idea has already been patented by someone else. They totally ignore possible hidden treasures that may also be found in previously issued patent documents. If you have an idea for an invention then you are probability someone that thinks outside of the box. Why stop there? Don't limit yourself to thinking outside of the box only when inventing.
An ACLU lawsuit is challenging ... Tags:patent attorney, patent lawyer, Patent Law Firms, Patent Application Drafting, Patent Drafting India/America, provisional patent, patent agent, patent ag
The Regression Of Secular Progression By: Moshe Sharon | - As a Jew, I find it both fascinating and alarming to watch the political/philosophical/moral debate raging in this country between the leftist secular progressives and right wing Christian fundamentalists. As most of us know, the secularists, who claim to be atheists, want all references to the Divine stricken from all public documents and monuments. As well, they want all public utterances in all forums to be devoid of any mention of spiritual matters. While they are rallying under the constitu ... Tags:atheism, Judaism, Torah, health secrets, secular progressive, in God we trust, Declaration of Independence, separation from church and state
Jail & Bail Procedures By: Jill Cohen | - When a person is arrested and placed in the custody of a jail, the jail location, the bail procedures, and the time periods for booking and release are highly dependent upon the city or community where the arrest occurred. The bail amount is set by either a judge or by the jail personnel using a countywide bail schedule established by the Superior Court judges. Once a bail amount is set, either cash, a cashier's check or a bail bond may be posted at the jail or court. However, the jail facility ... Tags:bail bonds, warrant, bail, bond, insurance, bailman, 888BAIL
Presidential Hypocrisy On Arizona Immigration By: Nui Kahuna | - What we have all learned in the last two weeks is that the post racial President is a race baiter. First he had his stand ins whip up sentiment, and then he weighed in himself while speaking in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Wednesday last. Listen to El Jefe, speaking in his usual broken cadenceThis law that just passed in Arizonayou can try to make it really tough on people who look like they might be illegal immigrants" the Obamessiah opined. One of the things that the law says i ... Tags:Chuck Schumer, politics, government, liberal, conservative
Jail & Bail Procedures By: sandz1214 | - "When a person is arrested and placed in the custody of a jail, the jail location, the bail procedures, and the time periods for booking and release are highly dependent upon the city or community where the arrest occurred. The bail amount is set by either a judge or by the jail personnel using a countywide bail schedule established by the Superior Court judges. Once a bail amount is set, either cash, a cashier's check or a bail bond may be posted at the jail or court. However, the jail facility ... Tags:bail bonds, newport beach bail bonds, costa mesa bail bonds,
Sonicflood: A Decade Of Praise By: Sibyl | - Nashville, TN SONICFLOOd, the band that paved the way for the modern praise and worship movement is celebrating 10 years of ministry. In their 10 years they have ministered to millions of people around the world. One of their greatest honors was to perform the first Christian concert in a secular venue in modern Turkeys history. This was nothing short of a miracle in a country that is 99.9% Muslim. They have also had the privilege of performing at the President of Thailand's birthday ... Tags:
Why America Must Return To The Faith Of Our Fathers By: Rev Michael Bresciani | - Any writer, preacher, prophet or ordinary live a day Christian worth their salt is calling for America to come to her senses and return to the faith of our fathers. They are not moved by the rhetoric of socialisms priest and preachers whether found in academia, media, Hollywood or political office. They are driven by the proof shown to them in the fruit of Americas past, but they are not merely driven by common nostalgia.
Jay Sekulow Of The Aclj Warns Believers To Act Now By: Rev Michael Bresciani | - It is comforting to know the ACLJ is with us in today's climate of Christianity bashing, but according to Jay Sekulow the head of ACLJ we shouldn't get too comfortable. In the organizations recent radio and TV broadcasts Sekulow has urged Christians to act now on issues such as freedom for U.S. military chaplains and attacks against religious symbols and literature in schools and public places.
Sekulow has pointed out that to witness or share the gospel in the military is easier i ... Tags:ACLJ, ACLU, Christianity, religion, united nations, Sekulow, Regents, Hagee, ECLJ, hate crimes, Hindu, Muslim, church, gospel, Jesus Christ, Law and Justice, talk rad
