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For those looking to crucify the jury (not pointing fingers, if you're not one of them then I'm not talking to you)... http://www.wesh.com/casey-anthony-extended-coverage/28465689/detail.html

I'm not sure that I agree. Since the trial began, the predominant sentiment I've been able to detect (most of it, admittedly, coming from TV analysts and not the general public) is almost universal disbelief that they even considered going for 1st degree murder. And seeing the nature of the...

Maybe the lack of capitalization threw him. Of course, he misspelled his own handle, which (at the moment) should read "RSoxNo2"... :animwink:

I'm sure that was at least partially in play here. The only thing I could find about neglect or endangerment was that they dropped neglect charges against her in 2008. My guess is that is what they were charging her with when they thought Caylee was missing and Casey hadn't reported it. Once...

I could be wrong, but I don't think she was charged with child endangerment. She was charged with murder one, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter. I'm hesitant to criticize the prosecution for this because as Ashton said, they had a very high burden, and not finding the body...

Not from what I've seen. All the outrage I've seen has been against the jurors. At whom else could you be outraged if you watched the case on TV and are shocked at the outcome? (And if you didn't watch it, how could you have formed an opinion at all???) If you didn't think the evidence...

With all due respect, not everyone gets it. This thread has been about the verdict, and at least three people here have argued that she should have been convicted - not that she did it, but that she should have been convicted based on the evidence. One person went so far as to say that he...

This is perhaps the most salient point here. Our justice system is supposed to set a very, very high bar for conviction for exactly the reason that our collective values are that we would much rather see a hundred guilty people go free than see one person convicted unjustly - all the more so...

Bottom line is that they didn't prove it, so she walks. Nothing against the prosecution specifically, I don't see how they could have proven it given the evidence they had. From my perspective as a Florida taxpayer, this was probably the best of several bad outcomes. There were problems...

No problem - gave me an opportunity to use my incredibly clever/geeky GNU reference. :wave:

Any corporation's primary responsibility is to it's shareholders. A capitalist economy is one that is structured in such a way that the actions that maximize shareholder value are the very same actions that best balance the interests of all stakeholders, including employees and customers. Most...

I was afraid that including "parks for sale" on my list of "things more likely than parks for sale" would have set up an infinite recursion with indeterminate but possibly unspeakable consequences like the destruction of the universe. Either that, or the immediate dissolution and...

Assuming everything in the first post is true (about Iger, Staggs, and the Prince all at WDW), here is a partial list of things that this might mean, each far more likely than an impending divestiture of the parks and resorts: The Prince is seeking to bring a Disney park to his country or...

We are paying for it. The federal contribution is only half the projected total, which doesn't bring us anywhere near parity with respect to what we pay in gasoline taxes. We're supposed to find out about that tomorrow.

Understood, and maybe someday we'll have one. I would personally love to have a rail line from the corner at the end of my street to the TTC ;). But there's an old saying about the perfect being the enemy of the good, and I think that applies here. It was an interesting discussion though.

Would you be basing this conclusion entirely, or even mostly, on the content of an article in the NYT? Probably so. But again, at what cost? Right now, depending on whether you believe SunRail or NYT, the cost is either $600M+, or $1.2B, and that's without having to acquire any...

I see what you're saying, but you're obviously being more than a little facetious for effect. The analogy fails because Pennsylvania doesn't have major hurricanes, while Florida does have commuters. And to introduce a little facetiousness of my own - how sure are you that PA doesn't receive...

I should point out that I'm anything but a cheerleader for Mica. He was one of the idiots who tried to sue Scott for killing HSR. But I'm also a firm believer that invalid criticism of a public official, however bad he might be, is to be avoided if for no other reason than that it reduces...

First - he has a point. We DO pay taxes in FL that end up being spent on mass transit projects elsewhere. Second, this is not the comparison you attributed to him. He made no assertion that SunRail was more or less cost-effective than other cities' mass transit system, nor did he make any...

That's not a bad point. I think here the practical considerations are the most important. Consider: No right-of-way acquisition means if the tracks don't already go there, the train can't go there. (Presumably the same is true for Universal and MCO as well). While there are people who...