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Morning Docket 12.31.08

fruitcake.jpg* The chairwoman of a Chinese dairy company pleaded guilty to selling tainted milk. [Reuters]

* A federal judge declined Tuesday to release two detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, finding that the U.S. government had proved that they were enemy combatants. [The Washington Post]

* Senate Democrats will not accept the appointment of Roland Burris because he is tainted by the corruption of Gov. Blagojevich. Obama publicly agreed with their decision, despite Rep. Bobby Rush’s (D-IL) contention that the U.S. Senate shouldn’t turn away a black man. [The Associated Press]

* The 9th Circuit rejected the outrageosly long 28-years-to-life-sentence for a California sex offender who registered his address late to local police. The court says it was “cruel and unusual punishment” for a technical violation. [Los Angeles Times]

* Instead of sending their client’s fruit baskets for the holidays, Boston firm Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford donated $10,000 to a local charity. [The Boston Globe]

* An 85-year-old man from New Jersey admits he passed U.S. nuclear secrets to Israel after gaining access to a military library in Dover, New Jersey. [Bloomberg]

Comments

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:15 AM

first, suckers

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:17 AM

Elie change your headline for the Blago story. Rush wanted to accept the appointment of Burris, but he was in no way involved with the corruption. Come on man - you're really blowing it. Total misinformation. Read the AP story and re-post it.

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:17 AM

Elie is on the cutting edge of the news! "Senate Democrats will not accept the appointment of Rep. Bobby Rush because he is tainted by the corruption of Gov. Blagojevich." Thanks a lot - the most trusted news source in America.

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:18 AM

I was stunned that got through too, but to be fair, it wasn't Elie.

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:19 AM

I was stunned that got through too, but to be fair, it wasn't Elie.

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:20 AM

I don't think ANYONE would accept the nomination of Bobby Rush. Good thing Blago didn't nominate him!

Jeez, Elie.

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:21 AM

Don't post something unless you read the news article first. Lat, Elie and Eliza should be embarrassed for posting this crap on a site that receives so much traffic.

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:21 AM

It is kind of ironic that all the people attacking Elie for putting the wrong person in the article are, in fact, attacking the wrong person.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:23 AM

Roland Burris is the appointee, not Bobby Rush. Rush is just the guy making the pathetic and mind-bogglingly ridiculous racism allegation.

(Rush is also the guy who said, while running -- successfully -- against Obama in a House primary: "Barack went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Barack is a person who read about the civil-rights protests and thinks he knows all about it.")

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:24 AM

Sorry Elie! Jeez, Eliza Gray.

11 Posted by Elie Mystal | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:30 AM

For those playing along at home, that would be the same "Bobby Rush" who trounced big eared UofC Law professor Barack Obama in a Democratic primary for Rush's Congressional seat. In that same campaign Rush repeatedly used the "is Obama black enough" card, and so did Jesse Jackson on Rush's behalf.

Black leaders who think it's cool to question other black people's blackness are in for a dark four to eight years.

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:34 AM

Every article in this morning docket reads: "another example of what's wrong with liberals."

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:38 AM

Hey, Elie: two typos.

One: "outrageosly" is not a word.

Two: "client's" should not have an apostrophe.

Seriously? You went to HLS? You should be ashamed of yourself.

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:39 AM

screw charity. i'm the charity this year.

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:50 AM

I'd imagine the client would be mad if Conn sent its fruit baskets somewhere!

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:51 AM

Two days in a row with an apostrophe-s used in morning docket to designate a plural. What a joke.

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:58 AM

First SHEEP of the day!

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18 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:59 AM

This was a pretty astounding blunder ATL. Come on, some quality control has to happen here.

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:02 AM

16 = racist Hofstra grad

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:08 AM

Yeah, 16 is right. The apostrophe-s makes me wince when I read it. Though you could redeem yourself, Eliza, if you post a pic of yourself, and we conclude that you're hawt.

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:11 AM

That fruit cake does not stand a chance against the Mystal. poor fruit cake.

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:12 AM

Is the local charity the Human Fund?

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23 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:15 AM

# 10 NAILED IT 8>=====o

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24 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:18 AM

Elie, I like you comment. I am also impressed that, your comment, unlike your post, did not contain any obvious grammatical errors.

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25 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:23 AM

so, is there a constitutional problem if Illinois has only 1 senator? Could the drag on for some time with Jesse White refusing to sign Burris' certification and sign Blago retaining his position as Governon (at least for a while)?

Is an unstoppable force about to collide with an immovable object?

Do pigs fly?

Is ATL a blog?

Where is Mystal?

Eliza who?

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26 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:31 AM

This is 24. My mistake that Eliza made the post, not Elie. I also take back the superfluous comma in my original comment.

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27 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:33 AM

Grins sheepishly.

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28 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:38 AM

I love how Senate Democrats waited to see who the appointment was before they decided they wouldn't accept "anybody" that Rod-O appointed.

I wonder what would have happened if Rod-O had accidentally picked the candidate Senate Democrats and Obama want.

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29 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:39 AM

ELIZA: YOU NEED SOME REMEDIAL GRAMMAR-SCHOOL LESSONS ABOUT THE PROPER USE OF APOSTROPHES. TWO DAYS IN A ROW + MULTIPLE COMMENTS ON YOUR ERROR THE FIRST DAY = YOU DON'T KNOW THE RULE. LEARN IT. LOVE IT. LIVE IT. IT'S EMBARRASSING. OR AS YOU MIGHT SAY, ITS EMBARRASSING.

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30 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:44 AM

28, you are ignorant. Democrats uniformly stated that Blagojevich should not appoint anyone -- before he announced the appointment. Typical conservative mangling of reality. The Secretary of State of Illinois, a Democrat, is Roland Burris's best friend and thinks that he would be a great senator. Yesterday he announced that he refused to certify the appointment even though he conceded that he has a legal duty to do so. This is not about Burris; it is about Blagojevich.

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31 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:45 AM

why would a law firm send the fruit baskets that they received from their clients to a charity? seems a little stupid. Unless mysTTTal is illiterate

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32 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:46 AM

why would a law firm send the fruit baskets that they received from their clients to a charity? seems a little stupid. Unless someone else needs grammar lessons too

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33 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:56 AM

So is Lat the only literate ATL contributor in existence? What's up with no proofreading?

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34 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:12 PM

eliza is a graduate of harvard COLLEGE

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35 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:42 PM

I don't understand why the fruitcake is up there. Is that related to the fruit baskets? Does Eliza not know the difference? Is it a subtle point that a charitable donation is like a fruitcake: a non-gift? Or is it just an error?

--Confused

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36 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:19 PM

I'm not a grammar psycho like some people on here, but seriously, the apostrophe-s makes you look really bad.

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37 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, January 1, 2009 1:18 PM

Apostrophe is a perfectly acceptable way to make a plural (e.g., pizza's, photo's). Unfortunately for ATL, that's only true in Dutch.

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38 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, January 1, 2009 7:00 PM

Only a five year sentence for being a traitor?

39 Posted by 80s Guy | Permalink Saturday, January 10, 2009 6:29 PM

TEST

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