[NYDAILYNEWS] The former head of the International Monetary Fund, who was once charged with sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid, will restructure the Balkan nation's debt.
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Serbs confused between procurer and procurator?
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The protective covers arrive as Times managing editor departs for a job working for one of the architects of the Syrian debacle, Secretary of State John Kerry.
In early summer, editor Rick Stengel was asked by Kerry, and immediately accepted, the job of running the departments public diplomacy mission, according to Politico. Months later, the appointment was leaked to two media outlets.
Throughout the summer, Stengel remained editor of Time while it covered U.S. politics.
[THEHILL] The B.O. regime is nearing completion of a proposal to require that movie theaters offer technology so blind and deaf people can go to the cinema. The draft rule, which is part of a decades-long effort by advocates for people with disabilities, would likely require thousands of movie theaters across the country to offer devices that display closed captioning and provide audio narration of what's happening onscreen.
But theater owners worry that a federal mandate will force small, rural and struggling theaters to close given the costs associated with the rule.
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The big theater chains will back this, to eliminate smaller competitors and put up entry barriers for new competitors. Capitalism doesn't cause monopolies, governments do.
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Based upon the stats regarding the decline in moviegoing, I'd have to say that this will have very little effect on most people. Most of Hollywood's money comes from home video and export of their stuff now anyways.
Also, what Oldspook said.
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Did the blind guy who sued to be allowed to become a surgeon ever get his medical degree?
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Next stop: symphony halls. Then opera houses.
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Next stop: symphony halls. Then opera houses.
Based on sheer numbers, if the government is going to get involved in helping people overcome their handicaps, the obvious next step is to help aspy computer geeks to get laid.
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I'm torn between being angry that goverment is wating time on this sort of idoiocy and being grateful that government is wasting its time on this sort of idiocy.
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This is largely being driven by lawyers. If the BO regime did not promulgate these rules, lawyers would look for a test client, then sue because the client couldn't see/hear the movie. Once they won, and precedent was established, they would move on to the next theater.
Having the govt establish the regs just saves the lawyers the trouble of establishing the precedent.
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However, like any evolutionary process, the 'lawyers' need a niche to grow on. The 'too much government' is the niche. No such lousy laws (open to broad interpretation) and strict limitations on the judiciary (who are lawyers) would eliminate most of this.
[SUNTIMES] Battling gang violence has been one of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top priorities.
But one of Emanuel's top appointees, CTA Chairman Terry Peterson, appears to have taken a different tack in the mid-1990s: Lobbying for the early release of the imprisoned leader of the Gangster Disciples -- one of the largest and deadliest street gangs in Chicago, the Better Government Association has learned.
In 1993, Peterson was the chief of staff to then-Ald. Allan Streeter (17th), and Gangster Disciples boss Larry Hoover Sr. was in a Downstate Illinois prison, serving a 150- to 200-year sentence for murdering a man suspected of stealing drugs from the gang.
Hoover had already served 20 years of his term and was up for a crucial hearing in front of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, the government agency that has the power to grant or deny parole.
The BGA recently obtained a letter -- on City Council letterhead and bearing the names of Peterson and Streeter -- that asks the chairman of the prisoner review board for Hoover's release on parole and that portrays Hoover in glowing terms.
Peterson, who is in the process of being reappointed to the CTA board by Emanuel, declined an interview request. But in a statement, he denied writing or even signing the letter.
The letter, provided by the review board, states: "I am writing to you as a concerned citizen to support the release of Mr. Larry Hoover who has demonstrated a sincere desire and effort in working for the improvement of the African American Community."
"For example, Mr. Hoover was one of the first to sign the Peace Treaty to stop the killings in the African American Community, which has been very successful. Also Mr. Hoover has been very instrumental in working for the capture of the Chatham Community Rapist and working to assist in the apprehension of a serial killer in the Chatham area."
"I strongly urge you as Chairman of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board to use your legal and executive powers to work for the release of this servant of the community."
The review board turned down parole for Hoover.
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[SFGATE] Tuesday is inspection day for building owner John Vicars.
He's got a commercial property on College Avenue, right in the heart of Oakland's busiest shopping district. His quest is simple: to see an ice cream parlor opened on the ground floor of the building.
But his journey has been a regulatory nightmare.
It's taken him nine months to prepare 1,700 square feet of retail space to the city's satisfaction - at least to where they were satisfied enough to actually come out to inspect it.
It all started in December, when Vicars forked over $3,500 for the right to apply for a conditional use permit that would allow him to change uses in the space occupied by the Great Harvest Bread Co. since the early 1990s.
He plans to lease the space to Smitten, a locally owned ice cream shop with a single store in San Francisco's Hayes Valley.
Oakland officials told Vicars the permit application process would take about three months. But when he submitted his plans to the city, the questions just kept on coming.
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permit application process would take about three months
That's three month after you complete all the forms and answer all the questions, which can come three months apart. SOP.
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Yes, California home to central planning vibrant capitalism. NOT. John Vicars problem is that he's not an illegal and didn't go ahead and do the thing without asking. Then he'd be a member of a protected class in California and the bureaucrats would look the other way. Just like housing inspectors who are not inspecting tens of thousands of former garages now apartments occupied by you know who.
[BREITBART] After Democrats lost seats in the Colorado state legislature due to a recall vote of two State Senators over their active support of tighter gun control laws, further scrutiny fell upon the seven-year old organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). The group, co-founded and co-chaired by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, is responsible for pushing gun control legislation across the country, including in Colorado.
Prior to her defeat during the Colorado recall, Democratic State Senator Angela Giron told The New Republic on September 10 if she or fellow Democrat State Senator John Morse were recalled, MAIG "might as well fold it up. And they understand that." Mayor Bloomberg's group reportedly donated $350,000 to keep both Morse and Giron in office.
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He's got no choice. On the retreat, so unless he counter attacks and regains the initiative this issue is lost for the foreseeable future.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[SUNTIMES] Battling gang violence has been one of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top priorities.
