A February report on mine safety regulation by USA Today found that complicated federal statutes and unvigorous Mine Safety and Health Administration enforcement have resulted in a structure of civil fines almost guaranteed not to deter dangerous conditions.
The largest-ever MSHA fine (for a 2001 incident with 13 deaths) was $605,400 (as compared to, for example, the FCC's 2004 fine of CBS for the brief image of Janet Jackson's breast at the Super Bowl, which was $3.5 million).
One attorney who represents coal companies claimed that fines are largely irrelevant to safety: "I really don't think any responsible mine operator makes any decision about safety based on civil penalties." [USA Today, 2-10-06]
Tim, your article "Everything anyone has ever said about staying safe while interacting with the police is wrong." if said about Quinton would be racist.
Quinton being black is almost certainly irrelevant to the story. Officer Yanez being an officer IS relevant.
Quinton does not get the benefit of the doubt - and much, much more - by being black. Officer Yanez does, by being an officer.
Quinton doesn't get to cast a driftnet for incriminating information about witnesses to his crime to discredit them, by being black. Officer Yanez does, by being an officer.
In any remotely credible investigation where Special Agent Bill O'Donnell issues a warrant for the victim's girlfriend's Facebook data, he'll have already issued a warrant for the killer's data.
Any word on whether Facebook received an order regarding Officer Jeronimo Yanez?
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Nonsense. The Christian Bible has much the same rules dictating death and violence for infidels as the Koran. (And for other transgressions. The Bible dictates your death for wearing a cotton/polyester blend, for example.)
Christian Europe - from France in the east to the Ukraine in the west - killed six million Jews a few decades back. It wasn't just the Germans taking part. There were pogroms AFTER the war. And plenty of other examples of Christian violence against "infidels" before and since.
And yet we still find Christianity "compatible with the west." Just not the extremist interpretations. You can say, "Those extremists don't represent Christianity!" But they do, to the same extent that the extremists in Pakistan represent Islam.
Here in Canada a decade ago a small group of Muslims called for court-recognized Islamic arbitration panels based on sharia law, that their own people could use. They were shouted down - marches even held to protest them - by a much, MUCH larger group of Muslims who had had enough of that crap in the old world and wanted no part of it here. The extremists do not represent them.
(The upshot: Someone pointed out that there were similar Jewish arbitration panels recognized by the Ontario government. Canadians went "Wait.... what?" and those were shut down.)
For the countries listed in the article as having only fines and restrictions, it can be more complicated than that. Here in Canada the criminal code states:
"Every one who publishes a blasphemous libel is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years".
...but with the qualifier:
"No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section for expressing in good faith and in decent language, or attempting to establish by argument used in good faith and conveyed in decent language, an opinion on a religious subject".
Happily, legislation to repeal the blasphemous libel law was introduced in Parliament two weeks ago.
Christianity is just a couple centuries ahead of them when it comes to death penalties for blasphemy. And that can be attributed to the religion's loss of political power.
Prison for blasphemy is still a thing in some Christian countries. And was in the United States less than a century ago.
In Canada we had then-Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' Bill C-30, the "Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act", which was really about adopting a wide range of measures that increased police powers, stripped away privacy rights, and increased Internet surveillance.
A candidate having a meltdown - by saying or doing something insane and campaign ending - will always get lots of press, let alone parodies on SNL and the rest. The end of Gary Hart's 1988 presidential campaign for example.
One can hardly blame the press for not knowing that Trump's endless traditionally-campaign-ending actions, statements and revelations wouldn't end his campaign.
Oh, grow up. Trump spent the entire election campaign attacking the press and fact checkers. That made Trump's relationship with the media a valid and important story.
Fox only got off lightly through it's traditional opposition to fact checking.
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TSA: And we image their smartphones, tablets and laptops when they fly, so we know what they read offline!
Reporter: But what if they read old-fashioned books and magazines?
NSA/TSA: ...
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Well, about that regulation:
News of the Weird, March 5, 2006:
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Quinton being black is almost certainly irrelevant to the story. Officer Yanez being an officer IS relevant.
Quinton does not get the benefit of the doubt - and much, much more - by being black. Officer Yanez does, by being an officer.
Quinton doesn't get to cast a driftnet for incriminating information about witnesses to his crime to discredit them, by being black. Officer Yanez does, by being an officer.
Etc. etc.
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Any word on whether Facebook received an order regarding Officer Jeronimo Yanez?
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"This" being documenting his opposition to black lung regulations.
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Christian Europe - from France in the east to the Ukraine in the west - killed six million Jews a few decades back. It wasn't just the Germans taking part. There were pogroms AFTER the war. And plenty of other examples of Christian violence against "infidels" before and since.
And yet we still find Christianity "compatible with the west." Just not the extremist interpretations. You can say, "Those extremists don't represent Christianity!" But they do, to the same extent that the extremists in Pakistan represent Islam.
Here in Canada a decade ago a small group of Muslims called for court-recognized Islamic arbitration panels based on sharia law, that their own people could use. They were shouted down - marches even held to protest them - by a much, MUCH larger group of Muslims who had had enough of that crap in the old world and wanted no part of it here. The extremists do not represent them.
(The upshot: Someone pointed out that there were similar Jewish arbitration panels recognized by the Ontario government. Canadians went "Wait.... what?" and those were shut down.)
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Germany, Greece, Poland, Russia, New Zealand, a couple South American countries...
For the countries listed in the article as having only fines and restrictions, it can be more complicated than that. Here in Canada the criminal code states:
...but with the qualifier:
Happily, legislation to repeal the blasphemous libel law was introduced in Parliament two weeks ago.
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Prison for blasphemy is still a thing in some Christian countries. And was in the United States less than a century ago.
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You have a fine sense of tradition.
In Canada we had then-Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' Bill C-30, the "Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act", which was really about adopting a wide range of measures that increased police powers, stripped away privacy rights, and increased Internet surveillance.
Wikipedia: Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act:
Toews later got a career-ending taste of his own anti-privacy medicine and didn't seem to like it much.
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A candidate having a meltdown - by saying or doing something insane and campaign ending - will always get lots of press, let alone parodies on SNL and the rest. The end of Gary Hart's 1988 presidential campaign for example.
One can hardly blame the press for not knowing that Trump's endless traditionally-campaign-ending actions, statements and revelations wouldn't end his campaign.
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Not if Dr. Farnum in Colorado has any say. A phone would take away their wonder, laughter and freedom.
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"Is it midnight ALREADY?"
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Fox only got off lightly through it's traditional opposition to fact checking.
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