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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 01:25:00 AM EST
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I'm off to Key West for the annual NORML legal seminar where I'll be speaking Saturday on "Building Your Online Presence: Tech Tools for Lawyers." The full agenda is here.

It's just about my favorite seminar of the year, between getting together with other drug defense lawyers, the Pier House Resort and Spa (check out my favorite room) and the free-spirit, laid back style of Key West itself.

So wherever you might be today and this weekend, I hope you have as much fun as I will in Margaritaville. Here's an open thread to get you talking.

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    Murtha said WHAT????? (1.00 / 0) (#20)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 04:06:15 PM EST
    "I think the 'surge' is working," Mr. Murtha, a Democrat, said in a video conference from his Johnstown office

    Since the good news out of Iraq has hit it is really hard to find any articles about the war. Take this one as a gift.

    He said what he said. (1.00 / 0) (#24)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Dec 02, 2007 at 06:27:46 PM EST


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    Have the decency to quote in full and in context (5.00 / 0) (#25)
    by Molly Bloom on Sun Dec 02, 2007 at 07:10:03 PM EST


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    i shall make a huge batch of frozen (none / 0) (#1)
    by cpinva on Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 11:50:08 PM EST
    margaritas in your honor!

    Terrific key lime pie at the Pier House. (none / 0) (#2)
    by oculus on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 12:22:49 AM EST


    Another Key West recommendation: (none / 0) (#5)
    by oculus on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 11:31:59 AM EST
    the restaurant My Blue Heaven.

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    Love M y Blue Heaven (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by Jeralyn on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 09:25:45 PM EST
    We go at least once every year. We'll be there tomorrow night.  

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    Have fun. What an amazing place. (none / 0) (#13)
    by oculus on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 11:40:55 PM EST


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    Emerald green with envy (none / 0) (#3)
    by SeeEmDee on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 06:26:17 AM EST
    (Sigh, resting chin on palm) I'd settle for Panama City Beach right about now; never got as far as the Keys, though a friend of mine says it's as close to Heaven as she'll ever get.

    And thanks for the video; I guess I'm a Parrothead in spirit if not geographically...

    Well (none / 0) (#9)
    by squeaky on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 01:40:25 PM EST
    The cruise ships seem to be quite a drag. Good for the local economy if not horrific for the locals though.

    More than 1 million cruise passengers and 525 port calls by cruise ships were projected for the year ending in September, Key West budget analyst Dennis Grote said.

    Five cruise ships stopped in Key West on Thursday -- Celebrity Cruises' 1,354-passenger ship Horizon and its 1,374-passenger Zenith, Radisson Seven Seas Cruises' 490-passenger Seven Seas Navigator, Royal Caribbean International's 2,350-passenger Majesty, and Norwegian Cruise Lines' 1,056-passenger Norwegian Majesty.

    link

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    there is also (none / 0) (#14)
    by roger on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:50:11 AM EST
    a pirate festival in town, and we're the ones that are high?

    We manage to take over places through force of numbers. The cruise ships dont affect us much

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    Do me a favor please (none / 0) (#18)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:41:17 PM EST
    Go down to Coast Guard base and pour a beer out in memory of the worst hangover a sailor ever had..

    ;-)

    Or better yet, drink one for me.

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    a little rain this morning (none / 0) (#4)
    by roger on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 09:03:32 AM EST
    But it is supposed to be sunny and low 80's for the reat of the weekend.

    Looking forward to your talk!

    Enjoy it while you can (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dadler on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 12:23:20 PM EST
    It'll most likely be under water in the not too distant future.

    heh (none / 0) (#19)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:42:14 PM EST
    What, two inches??

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    This clown..... (none / 0) (#7)
    by kdog on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 01:22:48 PM EST
    ain't winning "father of the year" anytime soon.  Link

    I'm all for beating drug tests...until you involve little kids.  Next time get an adult to provide some clean urine dude, your kid don't need to be involved.  

    That being said, I don't see how he endangered his son's welfare...all he did was have him pee in a cup in an alley.  Uncool, yes.  Endangering?  Not in my book.  When I was a kid, the world was my urinal.  In fact, sometimes it still is:)

    Henry Hyde has (none / 0) (#8)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 01:34:34 PM EST
    passed away.

    Hyde was (none / 0) (#12)
    by Jeralyn on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 09:28:32 PM EST
    a huge proponent of civil forfeiture reform and his efforts resulted in legislation that made it tougher for the Government to seize your property.

    RIP Henry Hyde.

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    he also (none / 0) (#15)
    by cpinva on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:51:54 AM EST
    worked diligently to make it tougher for women to have some say in their reproductive choices, as well as pushing hard and long for the impeachment of bill clinton.

    not sure if the one cancels out the others.

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    RIP Mr. Hyde (none / 0) (#17)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:58:25 AM EST
    From Wiki
    From 1985 until 1991, Hyde was the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Intelligence.

    He was also one of the most vocal and persistent opponents of abortion law liberalization in American politics, and was involved in some of the highest level debates concerning the response to the events of September 11, 2001.

    Hyde and the Committee's senior Democrat, U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), authored America's worldwide response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in 2003 and landmark foreign assistance legislation creating the Millennium Challenge Corporation and expanding U.S. funding for successful microenterprise initiatives.

    During his long career, he was also involved in debates over U.S.-Soviet relations, Central America policy, the War Powers Act, NATO expansion and the investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, and sponsored the United Nations Reform Act of 2005,[2] a bill that ties payment of U.S. dues for United Nations operations to efforts mandating reform of the institution's management.

    An original sponsor of the Brady Bill requiring background checks for gun buyers, Hyde broke with his party in 1994 when he supported a ban on the sale of semi-automatic firearms.

    An original sponsor of family leave legislation, Hyde said the law promoted "capitalism with a human face."

    He was in disagreement with his party on the Iraq War:



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    Henry Hyde the Salami... (none / 0) (#21)
    by desertswine on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 04:20:54 PM EST
    There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall. - Henry Hyde


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    Almost, but not quite... (none / 0) (#22)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:36:24 PM EST
    According to he NYTimes:
    When Ms. Woods directs Mr. Hyde's attention to the small number of women in Congress, he wins boos from the audience for wisecracking that "there are some who say there are so many women now on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall."


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    NYPD Not Busy Enough? (none / 0) (#10)
    by squeaky on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 06:39:57 PM EST
    At first, an epidemic of absent-mindedness seemed to have broken out.

    One purse was found just sitting on a display shelf in the shoe department at Macy's. Another one turned up downstairs, in Macy's Cellar. Yet another rested on a chair in a Midtown McDonald's, left by a woman who had stepped into the restroom.

    In fact, all three items had been planted by police officers in plainclothes during the previous six weeks. And the three people who picked them up were arrested, and now face indictment on charges that could land them in state prison.

    NYT

    Wow.... (none / 0) (#16)
    by kdog on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:31:10 AM EST
    who knew "finders keepers" was a felony now.

    Case in point that NYC has way too many cops.  We pay them to just sit and watch handbags?

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