http://ignoregon.com/rss/aloha Aggregated Blog Posts From Aloha Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:55:08 +0000 en http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/6/little-lawyers.html http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/6/little-lawyers.html Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:04:00 +0000 They said that we lawyers in private practice were like little attorney generals:  Correcting social wrongs, protecting the weak, the poor, the down trodden.  We aren't like little attorney generals.  We are just little. http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/5/table-of-contents.html http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/5/table-of-contents.html Sun, 5 Sep 2010 19:39:00 +0000 TABLE OF CONTENTS       BULLETINS FROM ALOHAA. Weekly Bulletins (Click on Link) 1. Welcome To A New Blog Site for Oregon Lawyers(2/4/07) 2. Opening Page -- Purpose of This Blog Site (2/4/07) 3. Update -- The Oregon State Bar's Confused Organization( 2/6/07) 4. Feedback and Leadership at the Oregon State Bar(3/28/07) 5. Packing the Court -- The Oregon State Bar is an Oligarchy(4/5/07) 6. A Monumental Failure of Leadership(4/28/07) 7. Our Judicial Emperors Have No Clothes(5/22/07) 8. Oregon's Court of Appeals Has No Clothes(5/29/07) 9. Lawyer Advertising -- Not!(6/4/07) 10. Attorneys With Kind Hearts(6/10/07) 11. To Tell You The Truth(6/19/07) 12. Judicial Emperors With Clothes of Gold(6/23/07) 13. The "F" Word(6/25/07) 14. The Strange Case of Judge Michael McElligott(6/29/07) 15. A Simple Proposal for Judicial Accountability(7/11/07) 16. Legal Malpractice Got Me To Mt. Hood(7/19/07) 17. How Much Would You Spend to Shut Me Up?(7/31/07) 18. Erased -- By the Oregon State Bar(8/13/07) 19. They Rule, But Do Judges Read What You Send Them?(8/22/07) 20. Finally, A Solution to Divorce in America(8/27/07) 21. Silence is an Accomplice to Injustice(9/4/07) 22. Oregon Lawyers and the Oregon Media(9/16/07) 23. The Oregon Federal Court -- Evaluated(9/24/07) 24. The Oregon State Bar House of Delegates Meeting(10/3/07) 25. Oregon State Bar's Member Services--The Black Hole(10/5/07) 26. Whoever Has the Biggest Megaphone Wins(10/5/07) 27. Reality Overcomes Hope at the Oregon State Bar(10/10/07) 28. Common Law Does Not Make Common Sense(1/1/08) 29. Everybody is Looking the Wrong Way for Legal Help(1/9/08) 30. Does the Oregon State Bar Make Common Sense?(1/10/08) 31. You Are Not Entitled to a Jury Trial(1/23/08) 32. Roadmap To Improve Our Legal System(1/28/08) 33. Minority ‘Rites' of Passage in Oregon(2/1/08) 34. Our Legal System Has It Exactly Backwards(2/13/08) 35. In Defense of Your Local Lawyer(2/19/08) 36. One Year Anniversary of This Blog(2/22/08) 37. A ‘Subprime' Odyssey(2/26/08) 38. Rogue's Gallery is Too Good For Some(3/6/08) 39. An Open Letter to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor(3/13/08) 40. So You Want To Be A Blogger(3/19/08) 41. The Death of Ivan Ilych(4/1/08) 42. The New Oregon State Bar Center(4/8/08) 43. Theories for Legal Improvement -- And For Revolution(4/16/08) 44. Judicial Elections -- and Judicial Evaluations(4/23/08) 45. The Real Estate Auction -- The New Kid on The Block(4/30/08) 46. The Good Lawyers Do!(5/7/08) 47. The Power at The Oregon State Bar -- Practical Magic(5/14/08) 48. Report Card on The Oregon Supreme Court(6/10/08) 49. An Open Letter to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.(7/30/08) 50. Structured Settlements(8/7/08) 51. America, The Rule of Law and Torture(8/12/08) 52. Confessions of a Court-Appointed Criminal Defense Attorney(8/29/08) 53. Yes, Virginia The Sky IS Falling(9/19/08) 54. The Master Litigator(9/23/08) 55. A Model Legal System(10/1/08) 56. The Iconoclast(10/4/08) 57. A Model Legal System -- Subpart #1(10/7/08) 58. Legal Reading Lite(10/10/08) 59. A Model Legal System -- (Subpart #2(10/15/08) 60. Legal Reading Lite(10/16/08) 61. Viewer Comments(10/18/08) 62. A Model Legal System -- Subpart #3(10/21/08) 63. Judicial Elections Anyone!(10/27/08) 64. Redistribution Anyone?(10/30/08) 65. A Model Legal System #4 -- The Judiciary 66. A Model Legal System #5 -- The Money 67. So, I Inquired Further 68. A Model Legal System #6 -- Bar Associations 69. Reuben Lenske -- On Attorney Fees 70. Civil Rights -- Before 71. Something's 'Askew' at the Bar 72. Civil Rights -- After 73. A Cry From The Wilderness 74. The Bar's Board of Director's Meeting (2008) 75. Lawyer Discipline in Oregon is Unconstitutional 76. Landlord/Tenant Litigation in Oregon 77. Oregon Courts Close Again (2009) 78. Oregon Secret Law Societies 79. Downtown Law Firms and Money 80. House of Delegates Unite! 81. Money, Minutes and the Oregon State Bar 82. Do Judges Tell the Truth? 83. Health Care Reform and You 84. Oligarchy or Democracy? 85. Impact Women! 86. Those Wonderful Supremes 87. Judicial Performance Evaluations 88. Judicial Accountability 89. Judicial Accountability - Federal 90. Civil Rights at the Street Level 91. May U.S. Presidents Legally Kill? 92. May It Please the U.S. Supreme Court 93. Race Relations Pure and Simple 94. Health Care Reform - Part Deux 95. A Broken Legal System 96. Impact Women and Quality of Life 97. Harry Truman Liked Medicare 98. Judges Pay and You 99.  Police, Power and the Public 100. Chumming the Judiciary 101. The Tort Reform Shibboleth 102. State Judicial Conference 103. Closed Judicial Meetings 104. State Lawyer Leaders Meet 105. An Ode to the Corporate Lawyer 106. Law and Justice at the Movies 107. Why are Lawyers Evil? 108. Impact Women with Courage 109. Merry Holidays from 'Bulletins' 110. An Idle Mind in the New Year 111. Bulletins v Supreme Court I 112. Bulletins v. Supreme Court II 113. Bulletins v. Supreme Court III 114. Bulletins v. Our Legal System IV 115. ADR and Supreme Court V 116. Do Judges Read...? 117. A Jury Trial...Not! 118. The Killing Fields 119. Your Appeal 120. A Bar Sinking 121. Starve the Beast 122. Shane and Police http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/4/shane.html http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/4/shane.html Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:47:00 +0000 COMPLETE REMOVAL ROOT AND BRANCH  --      SHANE Errant Portland Police Officer Ronald Frashour is in a way station before he is fired.  I believe it is called Administrative Leave.   But, I know about these things and I have a solution.   KNOW  --  This I know, because I have studied carefully the SHANE movie.  Alan Ladd does not shoot people in the back.  Jack Palance and his compadres shoot people in the back, or try to.  Ronald Frashour shot Aaron Campbell in the back.  Portland Police Officer Ronald Frashour shot Aaron in the back and had more than a moment’s reflection on whether or not to do that.  Carefully, aim at the back of a human being and squeeze the trigger of that assault rifle.  At an unarmed man.  Neither Ladd nor Palance was unarmed.    This I know.  When I played cowboys and Indians as a kid, I never, never shot anybody in the back…not even my older brother, but ohhhh so sorely tempted.  We were taught only complete cowards shot people in the back.  I went to school on the SHANE movie, but that was before Frashour’s time.  Times are different.   SOLUTION  --  Very simple.  First, take away ALL of their toys.  All of them except their protective vests.  Take away their NINJA Turtle outfits.  Quit painting their cars that sinister black.  Take away those sprays, hair curlers and electric devices.    It is time to start over with our police departments across the nation.  A clean slate from top to bottom.  There is no fixing those thugs we have hired and there is no fixing the mentality of those that did the hiring.  A clean slate.  A complete do over.  Top to Bottom.   http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/4/shane-and-the.html http://www.bulletinsfromaloha.org/weekly/2010/9/4/shane-and-the.html Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:47:00 +0000 POLICE  --  COMPLETE REMOVAL ROOT AND BRANCH  --                            SHANE, A '50's COWBOY MOVIE Errant Cowboy Portland Police Officer Ronald Frashour is in a way-station before he is fired.  I believe it is called Administrative Leave.   But, I know about cowboy police and I have a solution.   KNOW  --  This I know, because I have studied carefully the SHANE movie.  Alan Ladd does not shoot people in the back.  Jack Palance and his compadres shoot people in the back, or try to.  Ronald Frashour shot Aaron Campbell in the back.  Portland Police Officer Ronald Frashour shot Aaron in the back and had more than a moment’s reflection on whether or not to do that.  Carefully, aim at the back of a human being and squeeze the trigger of that assault rifle.  At an unarmed man.  Neither Ladd nor Palance was unarmed.    This I know.  When I played cowboys and Indians as a kid, I never, never shot anybody in the back…not even my older brother, but ohhhh so sorely tempted.  We were taught only complete cowards shot people in the back.  I went to school on the SHANE movie, but that was before Frashour’s time.  Times are different.   SOLUTION  --  Very simple.  First, take away ALL of their toys.  All of them except their protective vests.  Take away their NINJA Turtle outfits.  Quit painting their cars that sinister black.  Take away those sprays, hair curlers and electric devices.    It is time to start over with our police departments across the nation.  A clean slate from top to bottom.  There is no fixing those thugs we have hired and there is no fixing the mentality of those that did the hiring.  A clean slate.  A complete do over.  Top to Bottom.     We need to hire management and employees in our police departments that have empathy.  Empathy is what was missing in Nazi Germany.  Empathy is the imagination necessary to put yourself in other people's shoes.  Police expect us to have empathy for the challenges of their profession, yet they have no empathy for us and our challenges in everyday life.  We are going to continue to take and post pictures of their excess until we remove this entire poisoned tree, root and branch.