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Like a lot of people, I've ready Arizona's new anti-brown-people law, but not being an attorney, I couldn't understand it fully. Luckily, FactCheck.org has analyzed it. Unsurprisingly, they've found that the claim that it just "mirrors federal law" is not true, and that it's premised on racial profiling.
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Under the Clean Water Act, BP can be fined on a per-barrel basis, at a rate that's probably around three billion dollars so far. The post-Valdez no-limit fine is intended for such such scenarios as this one. There's no reason not to find them every bit of that.
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Duh.
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This is a map of the BP's oil spill overlaid on Virginia. It reaches from Charleston to Petersburg, and north to Pennsylvania.
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Despite BP's best efforts to prevent any photography of the effects of their ongoing oil spill, the AP's Charlie Riedel got these pictures of birds covered in oil. By way of warning, these are—for any human capable of empathy—upsetting. I thought I had seen pictures of oil-covered birds, but they were nothing like this.
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Re: Oil pics of birds – OMG, while the photos themselves are beautifully taken, the images are horrific. The thickness of the sludge (“weathered oil” is what they keep calling it) is sticking in a thick layer on the birds, reminding me of a maritime derivation of quicksand, i.e. the more they try to free themselves of it, the worse it coats them. This spill is far more terrible for the environment than any disaster I can think of, with the exception of human-contributed global warming gases. Speaking of which, I wonder if the effects of the oil soaking up more sunlight on the water’s surface (due to a greater albedo) have been modeled yet, and if the change in surface, and possibly sub-surface water temps in the Gulf will be meaningful in any measurable way to the environment, or too insignificant to measure.
One possible use for the washed up “tar balls…” Waldo, care to take juggling back up, set those puppies burning and put on a show? You can wear appropriate gloves, but I’d still pay to see that at night on a beach!
not that it matters terribly, but…
I think you mean “I’ve read Arizona’s new law” (rather than “ready”)
and perhaps also “no reason not to fine them” (rather than “find them”)
sorry to be pedantic. thanks for the informative links.
The Arizona law is not “premised” on racial profiling. Rather, profiling is but one aspect of it. In fact (as the blatantly left-leaning factcheck.org puts it) “[t]he amended law allows police to consider ‘race, color or national origin’ when deciding whether to ask somebody for proof of citizenship, but only to the extent already deemed constitutional by the courts.”
I have doubts about this study, simply because I don’t think a parent is either a helicopter parent or not a helicopter parent.
Yes, calling every other day is too much but occasionally interceding in a matter at the school seems pretty reasonable to me. Especially if it is a matter of student aid, money. Remember, my money is a terrible thing to waste.
Re: the arizona law.
If the federal government wanted to they could effectively crack down on illegal immigration by severely punishing employers of illegals.
Also By allowing the Social Security Department to Turn over the Social Security Numbers of people who are reporting more than one income from multiple states that are geographically impossible to commute to daily. That last part would at least crack down on the criminal illegals participating in identity theft.
TrvlnMn, you’re absolutely correct. And because the federal government ISN’T doing that, Arizona is stepping into the gap.