In response to a request from the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, the judge issued a clarification of his decision last week regarding his assessment of the constitutionality of food rights. The judge expanded on his original statement that such constitutional issues are "wholly without merit."
"This court is unwilling to declare that there is a fundamental right to consume the food of one's choice... No, Plaintiffs to not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd."
"No, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow."
"No, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice..."
According to the judge's interpretation of Wisconsin law under the original decision, only "a license holder" or an individual "who has a bona fide ownership interest in the milk producer" can make milk available.
The judge added in this new interpretation: "Finally, it is clear from their motion to clarify that the Plaintiffs still fail to recognize that they are not merely attempting to enforce their 'right' to own a cow and board it at a farm. Instead, Plaintiffs operate a dairy farm. As this court already said in its decision and order, if Plaintiffs want to continue to operate their dairy farm then they must do so in a way that complies with the laws of Wisconsin."
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What are the odds this judges ruling will be overthrown on appeal? What odds it will go up to the ?supreme Court and get a hearing, if it comes to that?
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As usual, they get to the wrong decision by framing the question backwards. I don't need a fundamental right to own a cow because the government has no legitimate power to tell me whether I can or not.
A second government official has come forward saying the White House tried to influence his testimony concerning a wireless broadband project backed by a Democratic donor that military officials fear might impair sensitive satellite navigation systems.
Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman, said the OMB review of the witness testimony was routine and not designed to curry political favor, and that all the witnesses who testified to Congress were allowed to state their concerns about the LightSquared project and its potential ramifications for conflicting with GPS signals.
House Republicans now want to know whether the White House's suggested edits to the testimony amounted to an effort to help the company.
[Washington Times] Calling for a weekend to "cool off," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... set up a Monday vote on replenishing the almost-empty federal disaster relief accounts as all sides race to beat a deadline to keep money money flowing to disaster-stricken states and to keep the federal government on the lam running.
"Cool off a little bit. Work this through. There's a compromise here," Mr. Reid said Friday, minutes after the Senate blocked back a bill drafted by House Republicans that would have replenished the disaster fund accounts through Nov. 18.
Without an agreement, the government could shut down in a week, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency could run out of money even before then.
The House, on the strength of Republican votes, passed a bill early Friday morning that directs an additional $3.65 billion to FEMA, with some of the spending offset by cuts to a clean-energy program popular with Democrats and the B.O. regime.
They pleaded with Mr. Reid to pass their bill, arguing it is the only version that can be signed into law before Monday, when FEMA money could run dry.
"Harry Reid is holding a bill up with full funding for what is needed right now for no reason -- for no reason but for politics," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican. "This is why the people just don't have the respect for this institution and this town anymore."
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Everything in politics anymore is a reaction to some kind of disaster, be it real or concocted.
Who cares. FEMA needs to get the fuc& out of the way half of the time anyway. Good riddance.
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Thirty-some states are designated as needing emergency disaster money. Makes it seem like maybe disasters are 'normal' and ought to be planned for? Like with life insurance - we know we're going to die, so if we want resources available for our heirs we buy it.
[Politico.com] President Barack Obama will raise money in early October with a Missouri businessman whose company benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state.
Tom Carnahan, a scion of Missouri's most prominent Democratic political family, is listed on Obama's campaign website as a host of a $25,000-per-person fundraiser to be held in St. Louis on October 4.
His energy development firm, Wind Capital Group, was helped by a sizable credit authorized in the stimulus, for an energy project in northwest Missouri.
Republicans argue that it's inappropriate for the Obama campaign to raise money from a donor who has benefited directly from the Recovery Act.
Missouri Republican Party executive director Lloyd Smith compared the situation to the Solyndra affair, in which the Obama administration reportedly rushed federal support to a green-energy firm that subsequently collapsed.
"At a time when Barack Obama is under fire for steering hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds to a failed company linked to a major campaign donor, it is stunning that he would come to Missouri and raise money with another recipient of stimulus cash," Smith said in a statement to POLITICO. "Sadly, Missourians have come to expect this kind of pay-to-play from the Obama administration. November 2012 can't come soon enough."
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Obviosly this is a smear attack. Why would anybody, for even a moment, doubt the integrity of this Learned El Prezidente? Why just today, in his latest stump speech cleverly disguised as churning up support for Stimulux -Next, he informed the panting and adoring crowd that the US was great, because, among other things, We built the Intercontinental Railroad. Probably runs over that Bridge to Nowhere......
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A second government official has come forward saying the White House tried to influence his testimony concerning a wireless broadband project backed by a Democratic donor that military officials fear might impair sensitive satellite navigation systems.
Harry Reid
[Politico.com] President Barack Obama will raise money in early October with a Missouri businessman whose company benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state.
