The United States Supreme Court recently affirmed the theory that “federal and state governments are separate constitutional actors with their own sovereign authority,” wrote Robert Barnes for the Washington Post. This involved a case where the court ruled that people can be tried for the same crime by both federal and state governments. A man […]
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The film is called ‘The Accused’ not ‘The Defendants’
The ‘accused’ is the man or woman charged with a crime. It’s not the defendant. Something I read recently made me realize this distinction. I don’t know etymology of the word ‘defendant’ or why it’s something to be avoided, but I do know the ‘accused’ seems like the more appropriate label. And the old movie […]
Banks on a river, not for money
Nautical or maritime words are everywhere. Even the word ‘bank’ literally means a river bank. Ships pull up to the bank. They assume I’m a master/mister of a vessel and banked at the river. I expect I need to find a ‘savings and loan’ or a ‘safe deposit’ company, though even the word deposit/depose is […]
Traffic means movement of goods, as in the movie Traffic, about drug trafficking
The movie Traffic tells me that ‘traffic’ means to trade or deal in a commodity or service (definition). Did the police man make a ‘traffic’ stop? Not if I’m not trading or dealing in goods. They call it a traffic stop to convert traveling into a commercial activity, called trafficking, they can then regulate. Trafficking […]
An odd part of the tax code and how Alaska and Texas were states before they were states
Before Alaska and Texas were States in the Union, they were considered states in the area under the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government. That the word ‘state’ can mean two different things shows how the federal tax code can be confusing. When people read the word ‘state’, they think of the 50 states in […]
Dockets, Master, Bar – Administrative courts are vessels in dry-dock
The article said, “The online court docket noted that Judge Leonard Hanser will be ‘out of session’ on that date.” Docket is a maritime term.A docket can be defined as “a piece of paper accompanying or referring to a package or other delivery, stating contents, delivery instructions, etc, sometimes serving as a receipt.” Why are […]
New content from past few days – March 23 to April 1
Unvaccinated ‘persons’ banned from ‘public’ places (not private) by ‘County of’ Rockland Executive
Analyzing a recent emergency declaration about Rockland County, I see at least two ways to read it. In summary, it may only apply to people from Puerto Rico and the territories, not state Citizens. It pertains to ‘public’ places (meaning government land), not ‘private’ places, such as malls, even though malls are listed as part […]
The Convenient Omission – An article about definition of passenger
See this article and this article about how the codes omit the definition of passenger as a means to pretend the car will be used for commercial purposes. The Convenient Omission There is absolutely no mistake that the definition of the word ‘passenger’ was purposely omitted from every State motor vehicle code. Why? Because when […]
Whiteboard videos from Kurtis Kallenbach
It’s worth watching these whiteboard videos from Kurtis Kallenbach. I learned about the videos from What is a Born Alive Certificated Person – Intro That page, and others, bring up a reference to the word ‘infant’ in the IRS manual. I am not sure if people are reading this wrong. 21.7.13.3.2.2 (10-01-2018) An infant is […]