You have until June 24 to get in your application to fill the vacancy on the bench created by Melanie Andress-Tobiasson’s resignation. [RJ]
To thine own self be true: an opinion piece by Martha E. Menendez, Esq. from the UNLV Immigration Clinic. [TNI]
The Vegas housing market is expected to remain hot for the rest of the year. [Vegas Inc.]
Meanwhile, Vegas and the Siegel Group’s housing solutions feature prominently in this article on where you go when no landlord will rent to you. [NY Times Magazine]
Then we can tune back in a quarter century later to see what the status of the case is.
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 5:20 pm
There has to be a better solution for housing the poor than a return to the government housing projects of the 1950's, 60's, and 70's. Although well-intentioned, they became cesspools of crime and drug abuse and blighted cities across the country. Public hosing projects are not the answer to homelessness.
On the whole, the government does a piss-poor job of dealing with poverty. As tax dollars are increasingly thrown at band-aid solutions, poverty only increases. Perhaps we should try something different. Maybe let the productive keep more of their money so it can be given to charities which assist the unproductive. Charities are historically more effective and efficient than the government in dealing with poverty.
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 5:24 pm
Siegel Suites is heroic. The State is useless. And someone needs to tell the poor whiskey tango lady that at this very moment she is the result of a lifetime of choices. She can monetize that by going from school to school telling young girls the mistakes she made so that that they can avoid making them. Then turn it into a blog, a vlog, and, finally, a book.
Your point is valid. We treat those whose homelessness is the "result of a lifetime of choices" exactly the same as we treat those whose homelessness is the result of genuine misfortune. And they aren't the same.
There but for the grace of God. . . . yes let us have some compassion for those who were neglected abused, abandoned, or who suffer from serious mental or physical disabilities.
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 5:34 pm
Wow…10:20 and 10:24 have no idea what they're talking about. W the exception of saying the public housing projects of the past were cesspools, everything else is completely off the mark.
There are millions of dollars in charities in this city that do nothing to help our homeless issue except pay staff and attend meetings. For a while Utah appeared to have effectively resolved homelessness and then people like 10:24 got elected and back they slid. Charities are not more effective or efficient. Well funded and well thought out public policies are the most effective and efficient option.
If you want proof that letting the "productive" keep more of their money, just look at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. They've got more money that entire countries could spend. They aren't giving it away or helping people. They're hoarding it.
I forecast today's comments as being a whole lot of uninformed, mean spiritedness. I'm sure you call yourselves christians too.
10:34 is a believer in the almighty power of the state. My guess is that 10:34 works for the state in some capacity.
First, it it should not be the function of the state to bestow blessings.
Next, if "[w]ell funded and well thought out public policies are the most effective and efficient option", can you explain how poverty has only increased, worsened, and become more widespread as government has taken an increasing role in the issue over the past seven decades?
You really believe nonprofits only "pay staff and attend meetings"? Really? Do you understand that charities exist under a microscope that measures efficiency? Big donors demand accountability. Charities compete with one another for donors and donors demand openness and accountability. Or have you never been a donor?
It is beyond argument that government is bad at just about every single thing it tries to do. The taxpayer gets poor value for his tax dollar. Public employee unions and institutionally-corrupt politicians make certain of that. One cannot make a credible argument that government, at any level, is an efficient steward of money.
10:34 clearly went to Boyd. Capitalism doesn't work because people are selfish, but Socialism will work because people are, uh, wait, er, not selfish? To be over 21 and still clueless is a shame. The only way these losers like the one in the NYT story have anything is because the market provided it in some form or another. I have represented so-called "slum lords" who have done more for the "underprivileged" than Babs and every other corrupt poser put together. Siegel Suites should be given blanket immunity and tax free status for 100 years!
10:34 here…I am not a Boyd grad. Nor do I work for the government. The only time I worked for the govt was when I was on active duty. Good try though.
Regarding the charities…you have a cute perception of your fellow man. I personally know someone who was on the downtown stakeholders committee with those charities, the city, metro, etc. I know for a fact there is a tremendous amount of money going through those charities with no discernible impact on the homelessness issue. And since you're so anti-govt, who enforces the rules re charities? Who puts that microscope on them? How can it be verified they aren't lying? Could it be…no…not possibly…the government? Haha Put your tinfoil hat back on and get off our blog.
12:41 – That microscope is put on charities and nonprofits by their donors. It's called the free market. You don't produce results, you don't get our money. It is a self-correcting process. You should look into it some time.
In the public sector, if you don't produce you get great pay, great health insurance, lot's of paid vacation, lots of paid sick days, a pension. and every stupid holiday off. No performance, no problem. Everything is free.
In my opinion, donors don't often care what happens to their money – they just want to be able to say they donated to the cause du jour. Donors to BLM don't care what BLM does with the money; the donors just wanted to be able to say they did their duty and donated to BLM. The fact that the BLM founder paid a crap ton of that money to herself and bought mansions in California is of no concern, because the donors can say they donated to BLM so they can either (a) (for corporate donors) get BLM supporters off their back to stop harassing them about not having donated; or (b) (for private donors) post on FB/Twitter/IG that they donated to BLM and show their wokeness. Doesn't matter what happens to the money. They don't care.
Hey 2:09, your "opinion" is really really wrong. Legitimate donors and foundations do their homework. On the other hand, those who throw a few extorted dollars at an organization like BLM as part of a protection racket probably don't.
By "embarrassment of riches", did you mean "worked hard, found opportunities, lived within their means, and put a little bit away"? Is that what you meant?
I am not rich, but I hope to be. I studied hard, I worked hard, I put in long hours and I have to put up with BS. A prime example is @10:35.
I wish him/her/it or whatever, the energy to get off the couch and earn.
10:35 could work rings around you and buy and sell you, too you arrogant prick.
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 6:12 pm
NEED TRIAL HELP: Second-year attorney here. First trial in Family Court coming up. If the opposing party says "X situation doesn't exist" referring to an unexpected denial like say their address, can I use an exhibit that I did not provide in discovery to counter this unexpected denial. In other words, I expect some truthfulness and can't anticipate every exhibit needed to infinity. Any help is appreciated as I am quite nervous. My mentor lawyer will be there but that only makes me more nervous really. Thank you ahead of time for any help.
OP 11:12 back. I think so. Does a rebuttal exhibit have to be disclosed in Discovery. Not expecting you to do my work, but if that is what it is called, I'll start googling. Thanks again
I never understood why, if a bill dies due to failure to make it past a deadline or the contents of a bill are removed, why the rules allow the contents of that bill can be introduced after the deadlines pass to introduce new bills? Specifically AB286 -> SB452. Language removed from 286 was introduced separately as an 'emergency' to a new bill on May 18th. I handle civil litigation, not legislative matters so I don't quite know the legislative rules, but with a 120 day session, how is a bill allowed to be introduced so late in the game?
We learn in law school to make these pronouncements about "legislative intent" and then we have NVLeg where everything happens in back rooms and isn't on the record. Wait until you see what language is going to get amended into other bills on the floor before Monday. That's why the lobbyists are traveling to Carson for these final few days and were clamoring to be in the building. They will whisper to their contacts and finagle for the changes they want. Last session there were good bills held by leadership because they needed placeholders in the same NRS chapter to amend last minute language in. That's why I track bills that may not touch a topic overtly because by seeing what isn't rushed to the Governor's desk you can see what they may be holding for last minute action.
It's all a joke and even the rank and file legislators are at the mercy of a few people.
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 7:06 pm
As expected, the majority of comments today appear to have come from the same one or two people and they are almost universally mean spirited and cruel. Karma is a bitch folks. One of these days you or yours are going to need help and it's not going to be there because you elect stupid politicians who think like you. I wish you everything you deserve.
No worries, I am sure 12:06 got the TrumpShot, and she will soon no longer be a bother. I am amazed no one is questioning the experimental zero track record Trumpshot that only anti-Trumpers eagerly take. Could this be his final move on the 4D chessboard? We'll find out soon. Load up on CSV and STON. Business will be good.
Jawohl! I also believe in the most excellent track record of Germans in the field of experimental medicine. The rest of the world got so jealous, they passed the silly restrictive Nuremberg Code that the CDC was wise enough to completely sidestep for the Trumpshots. Human experiments are back, Kumpel!
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 8:32 pm
Bravo 12:06! This is what Anton Chekhov had to say about such smug, arrogant, entitled individuals: Every happy man should have some one with a little hammer at his
door to knock and remind him that there are unhappy people, and that, however
happy he may be, life will sooner or later show its claws, and some misfortune
will befall him ÂÂ illness, poverty, loss, and then no one will see or hear him, just
as he now neither sees nor hears others.
I'm not an Annie Black supporter. I don't think, though, that they should be able to block her from being able to vote on behalf of her constituents. They should be able to block her from coming into the legislative buildings if she is not complying with the rules for entry to the building, but she should still be allowed to vote (remotely/Zoom/whatever.)
If she knows the rules and refuses to comply and instead falls back on some nutty theory about vaccine passports, she deserves all the sanctions she has coming. Why should she be treated differently than Kim Blandino? He wouldn't put on a mask so he couldn't come to court so he had to go to jail. That's what happens when grown adults cannot follow simply public health measures. Hopefully her constituents will take exception with their elected official acting like a petulant child and they'll vote her out.
I love and unconditionally support Annie Black. She is the finest of the fine and the bravest of the brave. We need a legislature full of Anny Blacks. Keep fighting, Annie!
She reminds me of that other bombshell die-hard patriot, Michelle Fiore. Nevada should be proud to have over-the-top freethinking women like that stepping up to serve the state. If only one of my daughters amounts to a fraction of what either of these women are, I will beam with pride so bright you could spot it from an orbiting Musk satellite.
But is it really brave? Really? Refusing to wear a mask and/or to disclose whether you've been vaccinated isn't exactly storming the beaches of Normandy. We all have to pick and choose our battles. Both the Democrats and Black seem to have exercised terrible judgment here. Is it a lack of self awareness? Or maybe they are totally aware and simply pandering to their fellow nut jobs in the base. Perhaps the decision is full of self awareness, or at least awareness of self-preservation, politically speaking, that is. We are a nation governed by primaries after all. If we weren't, would people like Annie Black stand a chance at ever getting elected to anything?
Doesn't she owe a duty to represent her constituents? She talks about personal rights etc. But she is an elected representative, who voluntarily sought this position to act on behalf of the people of Mesquite. Perhaps she needs to put away her issues and/or political grandstanding and do the work she was elected to do.
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 11:20 pm
Nevada District Court is an absolute white hole, and now I know why, the ninth circuit.
This episode (series) of sheer incompetence is brought to you by Judge Sidney Thomas of the Ninth Circuit. Starring himself who has no problems discriminating against my minorities.
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Anonymous
May 24, 2021 11:24 pm
Shit
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Anonymous
May 25, 2021 12:08 am
As for Annie Black, another non-masker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is in even much hotter water.
She compared the mask-wearing requirement to Hitler's Holocaust.
Word to the wise to those in both major political parties(as well as assorted minor parties):if you wish to use hyperbole to protest something you perceive as governmental over-reach, you may possibly get away with using just about any other comparison EXCEPT for analogizing the matter to mass, planned, systematic genocide of millions of people.
I almost think these people use the name "Hitler" and the word "Holocaust" without really knowing what they are talking about. We may in fact have a lot of ignorant lawmakers who just think Hitler is that guy with a funny little mustache who wore quasi-military uniforms, while the Holocaust was just something they vaguely know of as "something really, really bad…like, yuh know, really bad."
May I be so bold to suggest both fine women are onto something? We already know that the Trumpenshots are a direct violation of the Nuremberg Code. As you no doubt know, the goal of NC was to end human experimentation (Mengele anyone?), the very reason real vaccines take a long time – up to decades — to take to market. Trumpenshots got to skip that. There are no control groups. There are no long term studies. No one can tell you what the outcome will be. A new frontier. Every man, woman, and child who took the shots is now part of a unprecedented human experiment.
One reason these brave women are alarmed is that we have only seen such censorship of all contrary information re: Trumpenshots a few times before, such as in the Third Reich. The ladies are being martyrs. Just as Sophie Scholl and Dietrich Bonhoeffer knew their fate for speaking out, they spoke out, because that is what courageous people do.
So, yes, I admire them. It takes zero courage to follow what the mainstream narrative tells you to follow. It takes tremendous courage to stand up against that narrative. Ask Solzhenitsyn.
5:37, whether I agree or not, as to your view we should "admire the courage" of these two, is not really the point.
It is still a warped, and grossly disproportionate a analogy to even vaguely compare this to the execution of over six million Jews in the camps, as well as millions of additional Jews on the Russian Frontier and other locations during the first two years of the War, not to even mention the World War that that this all occurred in the backdrop of, which, of course, costs yet millions more lives–both military and non-combatant.
I'm very sorry, but your post really troubles me. Even if, as you say, a vaccine, due to public emergency was rushed through without sufficient safeguards and control groups, how do you compare that to Dr. Mengerle–whose "experiments", to a large degree, consisted of nothing more than shockingly sadistic, unbelievably horrific mutilation of individuals who endured absolute agony during their final hours(including many children).
Please keep in mind that you can support the position of these two lawmakers, and support the Trump administration's approach to the pandemic, without losing any and all sense of rational proportionality and humanity.
5:08, yeah I'd like to think they are just ignorant, because the other option is much scarier–they know exactly what the final solution was, and they still think that they are making a fair, reasonable, and proportionate comparison.
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Anonymous
May 25, 2021 12:56 am
Melanie Andress-Tobiasson, fill vacancy
I would apply for the appointment, but unfortunately I am a white male. Maybe if I used my Ancestry .005% Indian heritage for a Pocahontas advantage, I could file as a minority applicant. But experience has shown through past appointments that it will go to a black female. Skill and judgment are no longer a determinate.
They were extended by a miscellaneous order in March '20 and I don't think the order was rescinded, but you should check the court's website.
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Anonymous
May 25, 2021 4:30 pm
Asking for a friend. If you have a 9 am hearing and the Judge has not taken the bench by 9:30 am without any explanation, that is bad right?
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Anonymous
May 25, 2021 4:51 pm
Can the moderators start deleting these comments? There is clearly a person or persons who are leaving asinine comments that are clearly just trolling nonsense. That's not what this blog is supposed to be about and it's ruining the blog. Keep it up and this will be just another forum for Sanson and his band of creeps to bandy about their latest conspiracy theories.
Deleting which comments that you believe are trolling nonsense? The latest ones related to (1) Court not taking the bench on time; (2) the historical trend that appointments to the bench have tended towards women and racial minorities; (3) whether US Supreme Court filing deadlines were tolled. Each of these comments appear germane to this blog and not trolling. Perhaps you are referring to some other comment which you find to be trolling but it is not clear from your comment.
Sure, why not, as to the death penalty.
Then we can tune back in a quarter century later to see what the status of the case is.
There has to be a better solution for housing the poor than a return to the government housing projects of the 1950's, 60's, and 70's. Although well-intentioned, they became cesspools of crime and drug abuse and blighted cities across the country. Public hosing projects are not the answer to homelessness.
On the whole, the government does a piss-poor job of dealing with poverty. As tax dollars are increasingly thrown at band-aid solutions, poverty only increases. Perhaps we should try something different. Maybe let the productive keep more of their money so it can be given to charities which assist the unproductive. Charities are historically more effective and efficient than the government in dealing with poverty.
Siegel Suites is heroic. The State is useless. And someone needs to tell the poor whiskey tango lady that at this very moment she is the result of a lifetime of choices. She can monetize that by going from school to school telling young girls the mistakes she made so that that they can avoid making them. Then turn it into a blog, a vlog, and, finally, a book.
Take control of your life!
Your point is valid. We treat those whose homelessness is the "result of a lifetime of choices" exactly the same as we treat those whose homelessness is the result of genuine misfortune. And they aren't the same.
There but for the grace of God. . . . yes let us have some compassion for those who were neglected abused, abandoned, or who suffer from serious mental or physical disabilities.
Wow…10:20 and 10:24 have no idea what they're talking about. W the exception of saying the public housing projects of the past were cesspools, everything else is completely off the mark.
There are millions of dollars in charities in this city that do nothing to help our homeless issue except pay staff and attend meetings. For a while Utah appeared to have effectively resolved homelessness and then people like 10:24 got elected and back they slid. Charities are not more effective or efficient. Well funded and well thought out public policies are the most effective and efficient option.
If you want proof that letting the "productive" keep more of their money, just look at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. They've got more money that entire countries could spend. They aren't giving it away or helping people. They're hoarding it.
I forecast today's comments as being a whole lot of uninformed, mean spiritedness. I'm sure you call yourselves christians too.
10:34 here…grammar correction…I meant proof letting them keep their money wouldn't resolve the issue.
10:34 is a believer in the almighty power of the state. My guess is that 10:34 works for the state in some capacity.
First, it it should not be the function of the state to bestow blessings.
Next, if "[w]ell funded and well thought out public policies are the most effective and efficient option", can you explain how poverty has only increased, worsened, and become more widespread as government has taken an increasing role in the issue over the past seven decades?
You really believe nonprofits only "pay staff and attend meetings"? Really? Do you understand that charities exist under a microscope that measures efficiency? Big donors demand accountability. Charities compete with one another for donors and donors demand openness and accountability. Or have you never been a donor?
It is beyond argument that government is bad at just about every single thing it tries to do. The taxpayer gets poor value for his tax dollar. Public employee unions and institutionally-corrupt politicians make certain of that. One cannot make a credible argument that government, at any level, is an efficient steward of money.
10:34 clearly went to Boyd. Capitalism doesn't work because people are selfish, but Socialism will work because people are, uh, wait, er, not selfish? To be over 21 and still clueless is a shame. The only way these losers like the one in the NYT story have anything is because the market provided it in some form or another. I have represented so-called "slum lords" who have done more for the "underprivileged" than Babs and every other corrupt poser put together. Siegel Suites should be given blanket immunity and tax free status for 100 years!
10:34 here…I am not a Boyd grad. Nor do I work for the government. The only time I worked for the govt was when I was on active duty. Good try though.
Regarding the charities…you have a cute perception of your fellow man. I personally know someone who was on the downtown stakeholders committee with those charities, the city, metro, etc. I know for a fact there is a tremendous amount of money going through those charities with no discernible impact on the homelessness issue. And since you're so anti-govt, who enforces the rules re charities? Who puts that microscope on them? How can it be verified they aren't lying? Could it be…no…not possibly…the government? Haha Put your tinfoil hat back on and get off our blog.
12:41 – That microscope is put on charities and nonprofits by their donors. It's called the free market. You don't produce results, you don't get our money. It is a self-correcting process. You should look into it some time.
In the public sector, if you don't produce you get great pay, great health insurance, lot's of paid vacation, lots of paid sick days, a pension. and every stupid holiday off. No performance, no problem. Everything is free.
Charities suck. Siegel Suites gets the job done!
@12:57 you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about…at all.
In my opinion, donors don't often care what happens to their money – they just want to be able to say they donated to the cause du jour. Donors to BLM don't care what BLM does with the money; the donors just wanted to be able to say they did their duty and donated to BLM. The fact that the BLM founder paid a crap ton of that money to herself and bought mansions in California is of no concern, because the donors can say they donated to BLM so they can either (a) (for corporate donors) get BLM supporters off their back to stop harassing them about not having donated; or (b) (for private donors) post on FB/Twitter/IG that they donated to BLM and show their wokeness. Doesn't matter what happens to the money. They don't care.
Is there anything lower than a fake cancer charity?
Pray tell which one is NOT fake? Don't give money to them. Donate directly to individuals or specific medical centers.
Hey 2:09, your "opinion" is really really wrong. Legitimate donors and foundations do their homework. On the other hand, those who throw a few extorted dollars at an organization like BLM as part of a protection racket probably don't.
Really 3:07? Care to cite a source?
One of the most unpleasant aspects of this blog is the smugness of self-entitled attorneys who have an embarrassment of riches.
The truth hurts, snowflake.
By "embarrassment of riches", did you mean "worked hard, found opportunities, lived within their means, and put a little bit away"? Is that what you meant?
I'm not embarrassed; are you? Maybe if I were you I'd be embarrassed.
I am not rich, but I hope to be. I studied hard, I worked hard, I put in long hours and I have to put up with BS. A prime example is @10:35.
I wish him/her/it or whatever, the energy to get off the couch and earn.
10:35 could work rings around you and buy and sell you, too you arrogant prick.
NEED TRIAL HELP: Second-year attorney here. First trial in Family Court coming up. If the opposing party says "X situation doesn't exist" referring to an unexpected denial like say their address, can I use an exhibit that I did not provide in discovery to counter this unexpected denial. In other words, I expect some truthfulness and can't anticipate every exhibit needed to infinity. Any help is appreciated as I am quite nervous. My mentor lawyer will be there but that only makes me more nervous really. Thank you ahead of time for any help.
a rebuttal exhibit?
OP 11:12 back. I think so. Does a rebuttal exhibit have to be disclosed in Discovery. Not expecting you to do my work, but if that is what it is called, I'll start googling. Thanks again
OP 11:12 back again. Ohhhhhhh it is a rebuttal exhibit and I found a lot of info on it. Thank you so much, really appreciate it!!
Use the document to impeach.
This.
I never understood why, if a bill dies due to failure to make it past a deadline or the contents of a bill are removed, why the rules allow the contents of that bill can be introduced after the deadlines pass to introduce new bills? Specifically AB286 -> SB452. Language removed from 286 was introduced separately as an 'emergency' to a new bill on May 18th. I handle civil litigation, not legislative matters so I don't quite know the legislative rules, but with a 120 day session, how is a bill allowed to be introduced so late in the game?
We learn in law school to make these pronouncements about "legislative intent" and then we have NVLeg where everything happens in back rooms and isn't on the record. Wait until you see what language is going to get amended into other bills on the floor before Monday. That's why the lobbyists are traveling to Carson for these final few days and were clamoring to be in the building. They will whisper to their contacts and finagle for the changes they want. Last session there were good bills held by leadership because they needed placeholders in the same NRS chapter to amend last minute language in. That's why I track bills that may not touch a topic overtly because by seeing what isn't rushed to the Governor's desk you can see what they may be holding for last minute action.
It's all a joke and even the rank and file legislators are at the mercy of a few people.
As expected, the majority of comments today appear to have come from the same one or two people and they are almost universally mean spirited and cruel. Karma is a bitch folks. One of these days you or yours are going to need help and it's not going to be there because you elect stupid politicians who think like you. I wish you everything you deserve.
Same to you, sweetheart.
No worries, I am sure 12:06 got the TrumpShot, and she will soon no longer be a bother. I am amazed no one is questioning the experimental zero track record Trumpshot that only anti-Trumpers eagerly take. Could this be his final move on the 4D chessboard? We'll find out soon. Load up on CSV and STON. Business will be good.
I got pfizer…which is a german creation developed by immigrants. Pfizer didn't take money from the US Govt.
Jawohl! I also believe in the most excellent track record of Germans in the field of experimental medicine. The rest of the world got so jealous, they passed the silly restrictive Nuremberg Code that the CDC was wise enough to completely sidestep for the Trumpshots. Human experiments are back, Kumpel!
Bravo 12:06! This is what Anton Chekhov had to say about such smug, arrogant, entitled individuals: Every happy man should have some one with a little hammer at his
door to knock and remind him that there are unhappy people, and that, however
happy he may be, life will sooner or later show its claws, and some misfortune
will befall him ÂÂ illness, poverty, loss, and then no one will see or hear him, just
as he now neither sees nor hears others.
What in the world is this nonsense.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/2021-legislature/blackballed-assemblywoman-cant-vote-because-of-mask-rule-2360486/
Haha that's awesome. Little nut job thinks she can do whatever she wants. Fck around and find out honey.
I'm not an Annie Black supporter. I don't think, though, that they should be able to block her from being able to vote on behalf of her constituents. They should be able to block her from coming into the legislative buildings if she is not complying with the rules for entry to the building, but she should still be allowed to vote (remotely/Zoom/whatever.)
If she knows the rules and refuses to comply and instead falls back on some nutty theory about vaccine passports, she deserves all the sanctions she has coming. Why should she be treated differently than Kim Blandino? He wouldn't put on a mask so he couldn't come to court so he had to go to jail. That's what happens when grown adults cannot follow simply public health measures. Hopefully her constituents will take exception with their elected official acting like a petulant child and they'll vote her out.
I love and unconditionally support Annie Black. She is the finest of the fine and the bravest of the brave. We need a legislature full of Anny Blacks. Keep fighting, Annie!
She reminds me of that other bombshell die-hard patriot, Michelle Fiore. Nevada should be proud to have over-the-top freethinking women like that stepping up to serve the state. If only one of my daughters amounts to a fraction of what either of these women are, I will beam with pride so bright you could spot it from an orbiting Musk satellite.
2:47 PM,
But is it really brave? Really? Refusing to wear a mask and/or to disclose whether you've been vaccinated isn't exactly storming the beaches of Normandy. We all have to pick and choose our battles. Both the Democrats and Black seem to have exercised terrible judgment here. Is it a lack of self awareness? Or maybe they are totally aware and simply pandering to their fellow nut jobs in the base. Perhaps the decision is full of self awareness, or at least awareness of self-preservation, politically speaking, that is. We are a nation governed by primaries after all. If we weren't, would people like Annie Black stand a chance at ever getting elected to anything?
Doesn't she owe a duty to represent her constituents? She talks about personal rights etc. But she is an elected representative, who voluntarily sought this position to act on behalf of the people of Mesquite. Perhaps she needs to put away her issues and/or political grandstanding and do the work she was elected to do.
Nevada District Court is an absolute white hole, and now I know why, the ninth circuit.
Both courts suck, appeal if you can.
This episode (series) of sheer incompetence is brought to you by Judge Sidney Thomas of the Ninth Circuit. Starring himself who has no problems discriminating against my minorities.
Shit
As for Annie Black, another non-masker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is in even much hotter water.
She compared the mask-wearing requirement to Hitler's Holocaust.
Word to the wise to those in both major political parties(as well as assorted minor parties):if you wish to use hyperbole to protest something you perceive as governmental over-reach, you may possibly get away with using just about any other comparison EXCEPT for analogizing the matter to mass, planned, systematic genocide of millions of people.
I almost think these people use the name "Hitler" and the word "Holocaust" without really knowing what they are talking about. We may in fact have a lot of ignorant lawmakers who just think Hitler is that guy with a funny little mustache who wore quasi-military uniforms, while the Holocaust was just something they vaguely know of as "something really, really bad…like, yuh know, really bad."
May I be so bold to suggest both fine women are onto something? We already know that the Trumpenshots are a direct violation of the Nuremberg Code. As you no doubt know, the goal of NC was to end human experimentation (Mengele anyone?), the very reason real vaccines take a long time – up to decades — to take to market. Trumpenshots got to skip that. There are no control groups. There are no long term studies. No one can tell you what the outcome will be. A new frontier. Every man, woman, and child who took the shots is now part of a unprecedented human experiment.
One reason these brave women are alarmed is that we have only seen such censorship of all contrary information re: Trumpenshots a few times before, such as in the Third Reich. The ladies are being martyrs. Just as Sophie Scholl and Dietrich Bonhoeffer knew their fate for speaking out, they spoke out, because that is what courageous people do.
So, yes, I admire them. It takes zero courage to follow what the mainstream narrative tells you to follow. It takes tremendous courage to stand up against that narrative. Ask Solzhenitsyn.
5:37, whether I agree or not, as to your view we should "admire the courage" of these two, is not really the point.
It is still a warped, and grossly disproportionate a analogy to even vaguely compare this to the execution of over six million Jews in the camps, as well as millions of additional Jews on the Russian Frontier and other locations during the first two years of the War, not to even mention the World War that that this all occurred in the backdrop of, which, of course, costs yet millions more lives–both military and non-combatant.
I'm very sorry, but your post really troubles me. Even if, as you say, a vaccine, due to public emergency was rushed through without sufficient safeguards and control groups, how do you compare that to Dr. Mengerle–whose "experiments", to a large degree, consisted of nothing more than shockingly sadistic, unbelievably horrific mutilation of individuals who endured absolute agony during their final hours(including many children).
Please keep in mind that you can support the position of these two lawmakers, and support the Trump administration's approach to the pandemic, without losing any and all sense of rational proportionality and humanity.
Fair point.
5:08, yeah I'd like to think they are just ignorant, because the other option is much scarier–they know exactly what the final solution was, and they still think that they are making a fair, reasonable, and proportionate comparison.
Melanie Andress-Tobiasson, fill vacancy
I would apply for the appointment, but unfortunately I am a white male. Maybe if I used my Ancestry .005% Indian heritage for a Pocahontas advantage, I could file as a minority applicant. But experience has shown through past appointments that it will go to a black female. Skill and judgment are no longer a determinate.
I think a Hispanic female has a good chance on this one.
Are the deadlines extended for filing US Supreme Court writs due to covid? Thanks!
They were extended by a miscellaneous order in March '20 and I don't think the order was rescinded, but you should check the court's website.
Asking for a friend. If you have a 9 am hearing and the Judge has not taken the bench by 9:30 am without any explanation, that is bad right?
Can the moderators start deleting these comments? There is clearly a person or persons who are leaving asinine comments that are clearly just trolling nonsense. That's not what this blog is supposed to be about and it's ruining the blog. Keep it up and this will be just another forum for Sanson and his band of creeps to bandy about their latest conspiracy theories.
Deleting which comments that you believe are trolling nonsense? The latest ones related to (1) Court not taking the bench on time; (2) the historical trend that appointments to the bench have tended towards women and racial minorities; (3) whether US Supreme Court filing deadlines were tolled. Each of these comments appear germane to this blog and not trolling. Perhaps you are referring to some other comment which you find to be trolling but it is not clear from your comment.
I'll wager that 9:51 doesn't like Siegel Suites. Hater.
My spoiled rotten country club kids need to spend a week at an eastside Siegel Suites. That will "wake" them good.