James Andrew Carroll, who was convicted of illegally posessing marijuana on Monday May 18th, 2009, is expected to turn himself into the Cheshire County Jail this afternoon. This all stems from a January 10th, 2009 protest of the war on drugs in which he stood in Railroad Square in Keene, New Hampshire and openly held a bud of marijuana.
I would like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Lee Doren, and I will be the new CIC of BureauCrash starting on May 29, 2009. My goal is to take this grassroots movement to the next level with your help. However, in order to make this a success, I would like to hear your input on how BureauCrash can be improved, both in substance and in terms of the website design, etc.
Please leave your feedback at the bottom so that I may consider your input.
My bio is as follows:
1) I grew up in Buffalo, NY;
2) Graduated from the University of Michigan;
3) I then finished my Law Degree at Chicago-Kent College of Law;
4) During Law School, I was on Chicago-Kent’s Moot Court Honor Society team (currently ranked #1 in the Country);
6) After I passed the Illinois Bar and began looking for work, I started the YouTube Channel, HowTheWorldWorks, in mid-December 2008, which currently has over 8,000 subscribers;
7) As a result of my YouTube videos, I was asked to blog exclusively for Right Wing News with John Hawkins;
8) In Mid-May of this year, I made a video critique of “The Story of Stuff” that was picked up by Fox News and emailed around to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is how BureauCrash found me;
9) Eventually, I was asked to interview for the CIC position, and was offered the job this week.
Here is my 4-Part critique on “The Story of Stuff.”
Here is a video I made regarding the merging of the Left-Wing Blogs and mainstream Media:
Here is a typical video that I make on HowTheWorldWorks:
Looking forward to meeting everyone.
Best,
Lee
There are a few videos he posts that seem to confirm he’s little more then a stereotypical Republican.
(05/30/2009 11:58:25 PM)blogofbile: @JDTalley Umm… how exactly does this guy fit in to Bureaucrash’s culture? Am I missing something?
(05/31/2009 12:33:51 AM)JDTalley: @blogofbile CEI is trying to change the culture of Bureaucrash. That’s fine but they should change the name.
(05/31/2009 05:51:12 AM)danrick77: @jdtalley I thought I’d give this guy a chance. Turns out he’s a grade A toolbag. Crasher since 2000 and I’m likely leaving over this.
Rather unfortunate that the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) would do this. Seems libertarianism has become a threat to the average big government Republican due to their slaughtering in recent elections along with the growing popularity of Ron Paul Revolution and libertarian ideas.
If you can’t beat’em, corrupt’em?
Who knows… perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself and the Bureaucrash culture will change Doren and CEI rather then the opposite. Here’s to hope and change.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Fed up with soaring oil prices and a chorus of people blaming Wall Street speculators, Congress is considering a host of rules aimed at limiting the inflow of investor money into oil contracts.
But oil traders urge caution. While more disclosure is a good thing, they say making it harder for speculators to invest in oil futures could have the opposite effect intended, and send prices higher.
In light of oil’s phenomenal climb from under $50 a barrel to nearly $140 in less than 18 months – and the public belief that Wall Street traders were behind the rise – Congress is awash in bills that attempt to limit the role of speculators. Several have bipartisan support and could soon become law.
“In two days, the price of oil rose $16,” said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., at a joint hearing of two Senate panels on oil speculation Tuesday. “Did I miss something, was there some war in the Middle East?”
This is pretty good: Fox 5’s Tom Fitzgerald decided to do a report on the ongoing harassment of photographers inside D.C.’s busy Union Station, a topic we’ve written about and heard about from our own Flickr contributors many times before. While he was there interviewing Amtrak’s spokesperson on the subject, who in fact told the reporter that photography is absolutely allowed inside the Amtrak portion of the station, a security guard came up to the Fox 5 crew and told them turn their cameras off. You can watch the report here. Interestingly enough, the company that owns the mall area of Union Station never got back to Fox 5 to clarify their policy.
If we can get the photography protesters to be consistent and persistent we could reverse this. It’s more likely to get this than the bikers.
The state of Texas should not have removed more than 400 children it took from a polygamist sect’s ranch, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
Earlier this year, authorities raided the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Texas, after they received reports of child abuse.
About 460 children were taken from the ranch, which is run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a polygamist sect linked to the jailed “prophet” Warren Steed Jeffs.
Parents have denied the claims of abuse and have been fighting to get their children back.
This is a great turn of events. Just in the past days I’ve heard that another court in Texas hearing some part of this case told the mothers that if they wanted their children back they’d have to repudiate their religion. As I understand it that’s an unforgivable sin, blasphemy. If true that’s absolutely disgusting. Effectively asking them to choose between eternal damnation or their child. In any case this ruling is the first positive thing to come out of this travesty. Hopefully it continues on this new path. Unfortunately even if nothing is ever found likely no one from the State will be held responsible for this. No charges will be brought or if they are nothing will come from it. No restitution. The Nuremberg defense will be used and at worst maybe a reprimand or a bureaucrat or two will loose their job. Nothing however to change the likely pre-existing belief the FLDS had that the modern world was controlled by Satan. They have no doubt now.
It bugs me that as much as the MSM talks about this case they still don’t really mention that the original call was a fake. That the whole operation was completely unfounded. That several if not dozens of the women are over the age of 18 yet kept in custody as children. Likely they prefer to stay with the younger ones but it’s still disgusting.
A state appellate court has ruled that child welfare officials had no right to seize more than 400 children living at a polygamist sect’s ranch.The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that the grounds for removing the children were “legally and factually insufficient” under Texas law. They did not immediately order the return of the children.
Child welfare officials removed the children on the grounds that the sect pushed underage girls into marriage and sex and trained boys to become future perpetrators.
The appellate court ruled the chaotic hearing held last month did not demonstrate the children were in any immediate danger, the only measure of taking children from their homes without court proceedings.
A half-dozen police officers kicked and beat three men pulled from a car during a traffic stop as a TV helicopter taped the confrontation.The video, shot by WTXF-TV, shows three police cars stopping a car Monday, two days after a city officer was shot to death responding to a bank robbery.
The tape shows about a dozen officers gathering around the vehicle. About a half-dozen officers hold two of the men on the ground. Both are kicked repeatedly, while one is seen being punched; one also appears to be struck with a baton.
The third man is also kicked and ends up on the ground.
“On the surface it certainly does not look good in terms of the amount of force that was used,” Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. “But we don’t want to rush to judgment.”
