Did they bring back the X-Files?
UPDATE:
J.J. Abrams on the comparisons of Fringe with the X-Files.

SAN FRANCISCO — — The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on simian marriage Thursday in a broadly worded decision that would invalidate virtually any law that discriminates on the basis of species. The 4-3 ruling declared that the state Constitution protects a fundamental “right to marry” that extends equally to simian couples. It tossed a highly emotional issue into the election year while opening the way for tens of thousands of simians to wed in California, starting as early as mid-September.
The majority opinion, by Chief Justice Ronald M. George, declared that any law that discriminates on the basis of species will from this point on be constitutionally suspect in California in the same way as laws that discriminate by race or gender, making the state’s high court the first in the nation to adopt such a stringent standard. The decision was a bold surprise from a moderately conservative, Republican-dominated court that legal scholars have long dubbed “cautious,” and experts said it was likely to influence other courts around the country.
But the scope of the court’s decision could be thrown into question by an initiative already heading toward the November ballot. The initiative would amend the state Constitution to prohibit simian unions.
Conservative and religious-affiliated groups denounced the decision and pledged to bring enough voters to the polls in November to overturn it. Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, called the decision “outrageous” and “nonsense.” “No matter how you stretch California’s Constitution, you cannot find anywhere in its text, its history or tradition that now, after so many years, it magically protects what most societies condemn,” Staver said.
“What the court recognized today is that it’s time for that historic prejudice to end and the state should no longer participate in it in any way,” said Therese Stewart, a deputy city attorney who argued on behalf of the plaintiffs.

I notice I’ve been getting a lot of comments on IMAO by conservatives who have reservations about John McCain’s running mate, Governor Sarah Palin. I thought I might post some here and respond to them.

I am a conservative who is voting for McCain, but I am now concerned that he will lose because of he nominated the inexperienced Palin. We need to write letters to him to urge him to pick someone else.
Once again, I am a conservative.

I hear your concerns, but all the polling shows McCain having a huge boost since picking Palin. Also, Palin does quite well experience wise when compared to Obama which only highlights his lack of accomplishments when compared to how much Palin had done in a relatively short time.

I am a conservative who enjoys tax cuts and the shooting of the gun, but I can no longer support McCain now that he has taken the scandal ridden Palin as his running mate. The National Enquirer is going to expose her affair and sink her. This is of great concern to me since I am a conservative like you.

While it’s nice to hear from a tax-cutting, NRA-supporting conservative like myself, I think you may be blowing things out of proportion. Palin has had some minor issues which don’t count as scandals, and the National Enquirer has no evidence of an affair and has based its findings on pure speculation (unlike when they exposed John Edwards). This is nothing any conservative should worry about.

I am a conservative who likes NASCAR and racism and being a stoopid hillbilly. I love Palin because she’s a religious extremist like me who wants to destroy science and teach creationism. She also hates condoms! She is greatest! Me conservative!

Palin only ever said she would support talking about creationism if a student brought it up in class, and I don’t even know where the hates condoms idea comes from. You must be getting your information from places like the Daily Kos, which is an odd place for a conservative to go. You should be careful about place that deal in false information, as you could end up with some crazy views if you believe it.

I am a liberal who likes to pee on himself and loves Obama. I’m too stupid to notice he’s never accomplished anything in his entire life and am going to vote for him because I’m an easily led cult follower. I like to eat my own poo. Once again, I am liberal and retarded.

We don’t get many comments from liberals, but I appreciate your honesty and candor.

Hahahaha stupi d republicans! that Palin [expletive deleted] is going to sink you all! you right wing nut job are finally getting what’s coming to you! [expletive deleted] you all, you [expletive deleted] religious nut jobs. your going to lose, you redneck [expletive deleted]. hahahahahahah!!
By the way, I am a real conservative.

I thought I told you to stay away from my blog, Sullivan.

I’m getting a bit confused who are the fake the trolls and who are the real trolls cut and pasting things from the Daily Kos that were debunked days ago. Please identify whether you are real or not in the comments.

Want your stuff back after RNC? Most who were arrested get theirs, others go away empty-handed.
More than 800 people arrested during Republican National Convention protests had their first opportunity on Monday to get their belongings — keys, wallets and cell phones — back from police, but some were stymied.
“This is the epitome of insult to injury,” said Kris Hermes, a National Lawyers Guild legal observer at the St. Paul police impound lot, where people were sent to get their property. “There were a large number of people today who returned to homes across the country empty-handed.” Hermes said most people were getting their property back, including those arrested on the first day of the Sept. 1-4 convention after having to wait a week.
But there were snafus.
Some were told police couldn’t find their property, and some were missing things, including a man who said his prescription sunglasses were no longer in his bag, Hermes said. Others didn’t have the identification needed to show police to get their property, because their IDs were with their impounded property, Hermes said. Some were told police would call them about their property, though their cell phones also were in police custody.
St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh said the “vast majority” of people were getting their property back Monday. He said he thought there were “very few” cases of property not being found. Normally, after a St. Paul officer arrests a person, he or she goes to the property room at police headquarters to retrieve belongings. But because of the number of RNC-related arrests, police designated the impound lot as an overflow site. Three men jailed last week filed a petition Thursday in Ramsey County District Court, saying their personal effects weren’t returned when they were released. A judge dismissed the petition Friday, saying the attorney should have used a different legal action to recover the property. Walsh said Monday was the first day people could get property back, because a security perimeter had been set up around police headquarters and some of the property was there.
On Monday, many who went to the Grove Street headquarters were directed to the impound lot, off Concord Street on St. Paul’s West Side. Nathan Barten, who said he was cited Thursday for presence at an unlawful assembly, couldn’t drive because police had his car keys. When he found his property wasn’t at headquarters, he biked over to the impound lot. It’s about three miles by car, but Barten said he couldn’t take a direct route because bikes aren’t allowed on U.S. 52 At the impound lot, Barten said he was told he had to go back to headquarters to get his tracking number, needed to find his property. The number was supposed to be on a wristband given when he was arrested. He brought the band with him Monday, but the number wasn’t there. “I’m pretty frustrated,” said Barten, of Delano. “I didn’t resist at all when I was arrested, I gave my full name, and now I don’t have a (tracking) number they never gave me.”
Nicole Armbruster, of Washington, D.C., got her property Monday but was trying to pick up belongings of two friends who had returned to work in Boston. Armbruster, who said she was cited for presence at an unlawful assembly, said they were told she could present photocopies of her friends’ driver’s licenses, along with signed notes saying she had permission to get their property. But on Monday, Armbruster said, police told her the notes needed to be notarized. She was trying to get her friends to fax the notarized copies to police. Because some people didn’t give their names to police, sorting out their property was a problem. One woman who used the alias Jessie Sparkles, as did others, was trying to get her belongings. The woman, who didn’t give her name to a reporter but said she was from Indiana, said she was told police had “thrown the stuff together” with that of others who hadn’t given their names and that it could be two weeks before she got her property back. The woman said some people booked as John or Jane Doe had gotten their property back.
Walsh said if John or Jane Does identify themselves and their property, they’ll get it back. He said he was unsure of the timeline. “People did what they could to obfuscate and confuse the issue,” he said.”They’re trying to be held unaccountable for their actions and get their property back.”
Michelle Gross, Communities United Against Police Brutality president, said she gave police her real name when cited for presence at an unlawful assembly Thursday night. But Gross, who lives in Minneapolis, said police had her property logged as belonging to Sara Faith Gross (she doesn’t know where Sara came from; Faith is her middle name) and it took about 90 minutes to get her purse back Monday.
Matt Connell, of Minneapolis, said he had to go without his medication for a few days after his arrest Sept. 1. Connell said he was held for about six hours and released with a citation for presence at an unlawful assembly. He didn’t have keys to get into his apartment or for a lockbox that holds prescription medication he takes daily. Connell said he had to break into the lockbox, at his girlfriend’s home, to get the medicine. At the impound lot Monday, Connell said, police told him they couldn’t find his property, but that it might be in the property room at headquarters. He checked; it wasn’t there, and he went back to the impound lot, where Connell said he was eventually told his property was at the Bloomington police department, though he was arrested in St. Paul. He was heading to Bloomington late Monday afternoon. “I was so angry all week,” Connell said earlier. “Now, I’m just tired.”

And more later this week if no trolls disturb me.

Though there’s a lot to laugh at about Obama’s fortunes lately, I can’t laugh too much. Obama was a completely frivolous choice by the Democrats in a time of war, and when they should be able to run away with this election they seemed set to lose it.
But now that’s changed. Obama is no longer losing as much as McCain is winning. McCain isn’t doing so well because Obama sucks (though he does suck) as much as people are looking forward to voting for him (well, vote for Palin — but she was his idea!). It’s starting to seem like if the Democrats had nominated a competent politician, McCain might still be winning.
So I can’t laugh as much at the Democrats’ silly choice, because it might not matter in the end.