Bull Moose Strikes Back

I finished up the final Legal Writing paper of the semester. I just need to check over the citations and punctuation then send it in. I just have to resist the urge to mess with the content any more, even though I don’t feel like I did enough of a half-assed job to get an A.

Even though that paper is the lesser of my three worries (the paper and the two exams) it feels the best to have done. Probably because it is the least passive, so it feels like I can just sit back and let the studying for the exams flow. All the information has been given to me. No more combing Westlaw for Washington cases involving sudden emergency doctrine jury instructions.

Wow, I just realized the first exam is a week from tonight. Well, this is what I’ve been playing for the last month – just getting to December where all I have left is studying for exams. I feel like I have all the time in the world to put things together now. I wonder if I’ll feel that way next Tuesday.

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Does anyone need an example of irony?
I wonder if the last thought in these lefty-pacifist’s minds will be: “This is typical injustice. Bush is forcing these freedom fighters to saw off my head just to draw attention to the unjustness of the Haliburton War for Oil. Cindy! Why have you forsaken me?”

Uh… seriously, though, Bullmoosestrikesback.com hopes for the safe return of all Jesus-hippies from the terrorists.
Or better yet, the rescue of them by the USMC. Then they can spend the rest of their lives being even bigger hypocrites.

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Why is Arlen Specter such a turd? (Sorry, turd is the only word that comes to mind.)
When not asking inane questions he apparently has nothing better to do than stick his nose where it doesn’t belong.

I can’t think of much that the Senate has less business in than a legal employee-employer contract. Specter is confusing the NFL with MLB that has an anti-trust exemption, and so can at times rightfully be examined by Congress.

If TO has been treates so poorly, he has means for relief through his contract and the NFL-NFLPA contract. He has used those channels. If he thinks the Eagles are breaching, I’m sure he’d be in court.
How the Eagles use TO after his disciplinary period is at their discretion. If they want to pay him not to play, that is their right, and loudmouth, attention-whore Senators should not be throwing their weight around to try and change their minds.

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As a transplanted Wisconsinite, I doubt I’ll ever cease to be amazed by the way people on the we(s)t side of Washington lose their minds when they are being faced with the threat of a couple inches of snow. Sure, they’ll drive up into the mountains and play in the snow, but if it creeps down into Seattle and Tacoma, they lose it for some reason.

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Monorail trains – on two different tracks – crash.

Uh-huh.

This monorail crash brought to you by decades of letting petulant children run the city and county.

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Packers stay just a game behind the Texans in the Reggie Bush race and the Squawks steal one from the Giants to maintain the advantage in the home field advantage race.
Not a bad day.
Now if the Colts can maintain the quest to shut the ‘72 Dolphins up, the weekend will be complete.

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Dear lord, to much turkey.
I may have to fast from now on. Not because I’m going to participate in the insane left’s National Day of Atonement for genocide but because I fear I may burst.
I’ll feel guilty for being white some other day.

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It’s the last work day before the Christmas/Hanukkah/Festivus/Kwanza/Winter Solstice Holiday shopping season. Before all you little Santas/Hanukkah Harrys/Festivus Greivancees/whatever get out there, maybe it’s time for some random thoughts.

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Oh boy. I can hardly wait.
At least California has the Multi-State multiple guess section (I think). Not Washington. We have 16 hand written (yikes) essays over two days.
Well, I guess I should worry about the Civ Pro and Contracts exams in December first.

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The world will soon feel my anger?
Twenty shots fired and no one killed. Either he’s a lousy shot or he wasn’t that angry.
I was at that mall last week. Or at least on the mall campus to go to Babies R Us. I was ready to show my anger when it took 20 minutes to get from the mall to I-5 two blocks away. Of course I have this thing called “self control” that many others have as well that prevents us from shooting up malls.
Thank goodness Santa wasn’t there yet.

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I’m watching the end of the Michigan – Ohio State game, and OSU just got nailed with an showboating penalty which might be key in this close game because it gave Michigan good field position. The call was questionable at best. But aside from the questionability of that particular call, I’ve never been a huge fan of that call. I’m not a fan of showboating, but if a player wants to be a jackass after scoring a touchdown I think it should be between the player and the player’s coach. It’s up to the coach to decide what kind of program he wants to run. If he wants it to have some class, his players will know what to do or not to do after scoring.
As for “showing up” the other team, well, maybe they should keep the showboater from scoring, then they won’t have to worry about hurt feelings.

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People, we are days away from the egg nog shake at McDonalds. The only time I venture into McDonalds anymore is March for the Shamrock Shake and after Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day for the egg nog shake.
I don’t care if what ever it’s made of doesn’t come from out solar system. An egg nog shake and a small fries? What better proof that there is indeed a God. Perfect for the Christmas season.

If you’ve never had an egg nog shake, I highly suggest at least trying a small one. But hurry. As Homer says, we only get one noggy month a year and then the government takes it away again!

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I’m not sure what that hiccup was about, but I had to go in and fix my subdomains yesterday. I knew it wasn’t a good sign when I got an e-mail from my hosting service that my domain was “now ready to have content uploaded to it.”

The Randy is also semi-up-to-date. It’s hard to get the committee together these days.

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Exams are quickly coming up, I have a paper due before exams, and work is starting to be a death of 1,000 papercuts like it always does on the way to slack time at Christmas. And to top it all off that stress allowed a bug to sneak past my defenses and cripple me yesterday.
On one hand it was nice sleeping 16 hours, on the other hand it didn’t help me get anything done.

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An e-mail from the Office of the Dean of the Law School that was in my inbox the other day:

Are you interested in Criminal Law?
Would you like a better understanding of what it means to be stopped for DUI?

The Seattle Police Department is looking for five or six volunteers to assist the Department in their training of police officers in standardized field sobriety test.

The training will take place on Friday, November 18th from 9:00 to 4:00. Volunteers will be picked up from their homes by uniformed police officers. During the day, volunteers will be asked to drink as much as they are comfortable with. Officers will be trained to evaluate the volunteers and to determine when it would be appropriate to make an arrest decision. The volunteers will also be asked to provide feedback to police officers about the way they were treated. At the conclusion of the day, volunteers will be driven home by police officers.

You must be 21 years or older. If you are interested please contact…

I know volunteering is a pain, but I feel that we must all do our part. If I have to be chauffeured to a place where I can drink all I want for free, criticize cops with impunity while drunk, and then be chauffeured home, well, then, that’s the kind of sacrifice I’ll just have to grit my teeth and do.
If I get my nosy neighbors making up wild rumors because I’m being picked up and dropped off in a cop car, and the neighborhood becomes a little more wary of me, I’m willing to do that too.
I’m willing to get hammered for the betterment of the world. That’s just the kind of caring person I am.

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In the history of the world, there have been few people or groups of people to whom more is owed by the people of the world than the American soldier, sailor, Marine, and airman.
The people of not only America, but of the Philippines, France, Germany, Japan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Denmark, South Korea, even Cuba, and many others all have a debt that can never be repaid to everyone that’s ever put on a uniform of the U.S. Military.

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The strangest thing I’ve learned in law school so far: You have to disclose whether the house you are selling has a reputation for being haunted and/or containing poltergeists. If a house has been featured in media as having a reputation for being haunted, then as a matter of contract law, it is haunted. Or at least as far as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York is concerned. (169 A.D.2d 254, 572 N.Y.S.2d 672).
To me, this doesn’t really jive with there being no duty to disclose the obvious.

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I completely give up trying to estimate how I did in classes anymore. In both of my exams so far, I couldn’t figure how I did because of the curve. Then, in the only non-curved course – Legal Writing – we had a paper that was worth 10% of the 3 credit grade for the year. I kind of threw it on the backburner until the last minute, and then whipped it together at the last minute and shot it off, figuring it was only worth 10% of the grade, so I could make it up later. I figured a C, C+ maybe.
Nope. I got an A on it. Not only did I get an A, but the prof put mine in the office as the example. At first I thought maybe everyone got an A, but I asked around and found that wasn’t true. Plus, apparently mine was the best out of 30 papers because it was used as the example.
I don’t really know how I did that well, but I hope I can do it again on the higher value papers.

(I would post the paper, but we are not allowed to for academic integrity reasons.)

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Now maybe we can get some actual tort reform that’s fair to everyone. The performance audits passed, giving hope of increased efficiency.
I-912 failed, blocking the repeal of the gas tax. That’s what I wanted to have happen, but I know most people’s reasoning was wrong. Some people can’t give government enough money, others think we’re actually going to get everything we promised. I voted “no” under duress. Now we need to go about fixing the situation by putting the legislature’s feet to the fire on spending. Start throwing them out next year.

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It was rather laid back and pleasant commute this morning. That’s such a change, I decided to take a picture of the bike on the car deck.

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