Posts posted by Foosters
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On 3/11/2021 at 6:40 PM, Bookman said:
What happened to the Gondor lawsuit? he dismissed and refiled, right? I can't seem to find it.
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25 minutes ago, staboner said:
yeah i would steer clear of them IMO. i have a kind of friend, well was a friend, who i had to cut all comms with as he sent out some message about how nobody listens to them, its time to 'do more of this' re: Jan 6th, etc. and frankly, even though i am on the other side of the fucking world right now, I cannot trust this motherfucker at all. these people are angry and irrational and every day just get more pissed at you.
reminds of interacting with teh police in the US. i could be nice, I could ask some questions or whatever, but on the other hand I could just steer the fuck clear of police best I can and avoid any irrational, anxiety driven outcomes from them losing their cool in like 2 fucking seconds around me or my family
@FBI
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12 hours ago, UpperWestside said:
I have read and listened to too many folks who have not shared enjoyable experiences being around their family so much for the last year. I feel sad when I hear that because what an opportunity to grow closer with those you love and care about the most. I am glad that you seem to have had a good experience being around your family more.
Being single for me made for a 2020 that wound up being a great year personally. I feel a bit guilty saying that still because of what we endured as a country over the last year.
I think for a lot of people, its not that being around the family hasn't been enjoyable, it just makes things much harder. I have remarked many times how grateful I have been for all of the extra hours I have been able to spend with my daughter. But she was home every day from March - September when both me and my wife were working. I was physically going into work 3-4 days a week so things were incredibly difficult for my wife. Additionally, depending on the age of the kid(s), difficulty can run the spectrum. Now imagine doing it for hours a day for months on end. Obviously it would have been much easier without a kid. That doesn't mean I haven't enjoyed the time with my family.
2 hours ago, Michael Knight said:Work is all about connections, humans are social animals not work drones. This past year you talk to members that are directly on your team or you work closely with but you miss out on the random conversations with people you pass in the hall or see in the break room. That opportunity lost is gonna negatively impact career mobility. Sure I might be as productive or even more so when not at the office but who the fuck goes to work to just be productive especially when that increased productivity hasn't been reflected in your pay.
The things I don't miss are the commute and putting on pants.
I will say despite how dangerous and ridiculous it has been to physically enter a crowded building almost every day of the week, I have often remarked to my wife that it broke up the monotony of the lockdown and may have positively contributed to my mental health as I was around colleagues and some sense of normalcy.
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1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:
I’m not joking when I say I literally hollered “SAY WHAT?????” when I watched this clip.
The Caucasity.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f9b093c3-1fc0-4ece-9f7c-5907dec11ce8
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2 minutes ago, Hate said:
The beginnings of this were truly a “both sides” issue. China travel bans were called racist. Fauci was telling people in mid-March that masks weren’t necessary and to go on a cruise if you are healthy. Cuomo was comparing this to the flu and Pelosi was in Chinatown saying there is nothing to worry about. I know the Cheeto man is bad, but there is more than enough blame to go around and more than enough MMQing to be done if you really want to.Pelosi's Chinatown comment? In February? Not sure I'm gonna concede that it's comparable to a months long gaslighting campaign during the heart of the pandemic.
But sure, fuck Cuomo. See how easy that was?
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10 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Didn't happen, but you know that.
Trump retweeted a post to his over 80 million followers by game show host Chuck Woolery claiming "everyone is lying" about the pandemic, including naming the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the media, Democrats, and even doctors, to damage his reelection chances.
So, a hoax?
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29 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Not even sure how you quantify this. I hear "we should have done better", but given the unknowns early on, what should we have done? I remember for the first month or so, we focused on surface cleaning. Turns out that was wrong. Monday Morning QB's are always successful.
I guess it's hard to quantify, but certainly the head of state regularly holding nationaly televised briefings wherein he told people that Covid was a hoax, no worse than the flu, that Democrats and the media were literal enemies of the State using Covid to destroy the economy to install communism, pushing snake-oil remedies, questioning the motives and bonafides of the entire medical and scientific community, and calling on his supporters to ignore state and local restrictions and guidelines.
Weird that tens of millions never took it seriously.
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When I was younger, "Take me Home Country Roads," was a song that, despite it being about WV, I always associated with Texas country and ranches. It would be played loudly and often when I was with friends hunting or just fucking about. For 20 years, every time I have heard that song, I'm instantly transported back to evening skies over hard-scrabbled Texas brush. I was driving yesterday and the song came on. For the first time in my life I felt a disconnect with Texas that I realized is likely irreversible. The nostalgia has been irrevocably tainted by the political stench and the institutionalized hatred for our fellow human beings.
". . . to the place, I belong."
I don't belong there. Perhaps I never did.
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I always find it a bit humorous when the palatable jurors for each side get reversed. Typically, prosecutors are trying to stack the box with white folks and kick folks of color. Depending on the case, they may want more women or men, but its always white folks. Defense attorneys are usually trying to kick white folks and keep young people of color. Of course, both sides do it in a way that it appears, at least in the record, as race neutral. Typically, that above 30 year old white chemist is the perfect juror for the prosecution. Now, not so much.
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Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849-1934) was California's first female attorney and the mind behind the role of the public defender.
QuoteFoltz wanted to take the bar examination but California law at the time allowed only white males to become members of the bar. Foltz authored a state bill, known as the "Woman Lawyer Bill," which replaced "white male" with "person," and in September 1878 she passed the examination and was the first woman admitted to the California bar, and the first female lawyer on the entire west coast of the United States. Having little formal education, she wished to study at the first law school in California to improve her skills. Alongside her ally Laura de Force Gordon, Foltz applied to Hastings College of the Law but was denied admission because of her sex. Foltz and Gordon sued, but recognized that they faced strong opposition.
To advance their cause, Gordon and Foltz wrote an amendment to the California state constitution that read "No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified from entering upon or pursuing any lawful business, vocation, or profession." Drawing upon both the Woman Lawyer Bill and the soon-to-be-ratified equal opportunity in employment statement in the constitution, Foltz and Gorden were able to argue that if women could serve as lawyers they must certainly be allowed to attend law school at the coeducational University of California. Judge Morrison agreed, and in Foltz v. Hoge ruled that Foltz and Gordon should be admitted to Hastings. The ruling was appealed, and Foltz studied for and passed the California State Supreme Court bar exam in order to argue her case, which she ultimately won. Although Foltz successfully obtained admission for all qualified women to Hastings, the work to win the case left Foltz impoverished and she returned to her legal career instead of pursuing her dream of attending law school.
QuoteAt the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, during a "congress" of the Board of Lady Managers, Foltz made her first highly public presentation of her idea of the public defender. Foltz's then-radical concept of providing assistance to indigent criminal defendants is used today throughout the United States.
Today, the Central Criminal Courthouse in Los Angeles (of the OJ Simpson trial fame) is called "The Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center."
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Yesenia Magali Melendrez Cardona told her father she wanted to follow in his footsteps.
He had made the trek from Guatemala to the U.S. 15 years earlier in search of a new life. In February, she left a job and her studies behind and headed north.
Chiquimulilla, the town where she had spent her 23 years, had been ravaged by the pandemic. Unemployment was rising. The population was desperate. The streets were too dangerous to walk at night.
On Tuesday, Yesenia found herself in a situation just as perilous as the one she had fled.
A maroon Ford Expedition bore a suspected smuggler and 24 people racing toward what they hoped would be safety. Yesenia and her mother, Verlyn Cardona, were wedged in the back when it drove through a breach in the fence separating Mexico from California.
It was broadsided by a semi hauling two empty trailers. It came to a stop, windshield shattered, at the intersection of Highway 115 and Norrish Road.
Seventeen passengers were ejected from the SUV. When Verlyn regained consciousness in the back of the crumpled vehicle, her daughter was sprawled across her legs.
Dead.
“El sueño Americano no se le cumplió,” said Yesenia’s father, Maynor Melendrez. She couldn’t reach the American dream.
Although the car’s occupants hailed from different cities and countries — from Guatemala to Mexico — they were united by the hope of a better life and the false promise, fed by rumors, that now, under a new U.S. administration, was the moment to reach for it.
Instead, 13 of the car’s 25 occupants were killed. Families were shattered. At least 10 of the dead were Mexican nationals. At least four women inside the car when it crashed were Guatemalan; two of them died.
Falsehoods have increasingly spread in Guatemala, claiming that with a new president and new policies the doors were open for anyone to cross into the U.S., said Tekandi Paniagua, Guatemala’s consul general in Los Angeles. In reality, he said, “the politics haven’t changed a lot.”
“Migrants come on a trip that is sold to them as an American dream,” Paniagua said. “But in reality, it’s an uncertain journey.”
Yesenia’s uncle, Rudy Dominguez, fled Guatemala first — 16 years ago.
Ahead of the trip, he said, he thought about the risks: the chance that he could be kidnapped, the possibility that he could be left to die in the desert. “These are decisions you make, where you ask yourself, ‘Do I die over there? Or do I die fighting for a dream?’”
When the pandemic hit, Dominguez said, the economy came crashing down. There were no jobs. Some people turned to theft and drug trafficking.
Yesenia had been in her fourth year at the University of San Carlos — where she was studying to be a lawyer — when she and her mother decided to leave. The young woman was being harassed and threatened, according to her uncle.
“It was an emergency decision,” Dominguez said. “There they threaten you and they kill you.”
Their journey began Feb. 2 and led them to Baja California, Mexico, where they stayed for about a week before getting into the Ford Expedition.
Yesenia was in one of two vehicles that would be caught on surveillance footage coming through a breach in the border fence near the Gordon’s Well exit off Interstate 8 in the predawn hours Tuesday. Normally, the 1997 Expedition would hold seven or eight people. But this one had just two seats, one for the driver, one for a front passenger. When it collided with the empty tractor-trailer at 6:15 a.m., 23 other men and women were jammed into the back.
“To have 25 people in that SUV, it’s unimaginable,” Dominguez said. “It’s inhumane.” David Kyle, a sociology professor at UC Davis and an expert on human smuggling, said, “It must have been hell in that SUV even before the crash.”
Eight people were still in the SUV when first responders arrived. Six were dead, the other two taken to a hospital.
Verlyn suffered a severe blow to her head that caused a cerebral hemorrhage. She’s since been released from the hospital. She doesn’t remember the accident. Only waking up and seeing her daughter dead.
“She always tried to give her daughter a better life,” Dominguez said. “Never imagining that the price she would pay would be this.”
The second vehicle seen crossing the border, a Chevy Suburban, was found engulfed in flames, its 19 occupants discovered hiding in the nearby brush and detained by Border Patrol agents.
Paniagua, the Guatemalan consul general, said he was concerned about the increased risks migrants are taking to come to the U.S., encouraged by smugglers who he said are misrepresenting the situation at the border.
The objective of Guatemalan officials, he said, “is to inform people of the reality that’s happening on the border so they can make the best decisions for their health and their life.”
“They don’t know if they’re going to go into a tractor-trailer, if they’re going to hide in the false bottom of a bus, if they’re going to hide in a truck with 25 people like what happened here,” Paniagua said. “We’re seeing the lives lost.”
At the start of the pandemic — with closed borders in Central America, fear about the virus and Trump’s harsh immigration policies — there seemed to be a drop in those migrating north, said Tiziano Breda, a Guatemala-based analyst for the International Crisis Group.
But as the pandemic has dragged on — and people have suffered the economic fallout — it has started pushing people to the U.S. once more.
“Unfortunately, accidents like these possibly won’t be the only ones,” Breda said.
Family members described Yesenia as friendly and loving. She was like a big sister to Dominguez’s daughter, who was six years younger. She loved to play soccer and had such an impact on her townspeople that they are organizing tributes ahead of her body being sent back, Dominguez said.
The last time Melendrez saw and hugged his daughter, she was 6. Although he was in another country, he said, the two remained in close contact.
Last year, Yesenia told him that she wanted to come to the U.S. He told her how difficult it’d be to get in and asked her to wait until he found a way. He didn’t know she and her mom were coming.
Melendrez, who lives in New York, learned the news of the accident from Dominguez.
“There are no words,” said Melendrez, who arrived in California on Wednesday night. “I couldn’t see her again, I couldn’t hug her.”
Also failing to see the "lulz" here.
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7 minutes ago, Js1 said:
I'd ask if you're both doing this unintentionally, but you're both being disingenuous as fuck. Also it was Dave Sirota's org, so I don't expect it to be accurately portrayed - gotta get the Twitter hearts.
They did not vote NO on a $15 minimum wage.
They voted no on overriding the Byrd Rule for the wage increase after the Parliamentarian said it doesn't fit in reconciliation.
Totally different votes. But keep out #outraging.
By the way, Sinema said she wants an actual debate and amendment process for the $15 wage and not attaching minimum wage increase to the COVID reconciliation bill. Aka, legislating.
Do you think the Dems will successfully pass a $15 minimum wage sometime in the next 2 years? I don't. Hope I'm wrong.
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It certainly is an intriguing idea. One major question is what will be the catalyst that will set it off. No one wants to be the first for fear that people will not follow.
Where I live, the public schools are absolute shit, so like half the city sends kids to private schools. The decrease in kids means decrease in funding, leading to a cycle of poorer and poorer schools. The white and wealthy decry this and all understand that the issue could be fixed if they all just sent their kids to the public schools. But no one wants to be that guinea pig.
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Cuomo
in Cloak Room
I think criticism of the media over the Cuomo fawning is more than warranted. It didn't make sense at the time, and it makes less sense now.
On a related note, every time I see the title of this thread I think of this.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/3671117a-4495-45bf-bef6-025eafa28ec5
Jimbo 2022: Balls To The Face
in 🤫$9.95🤫
Fuck arresting and jailing people for weed, but here's to us using this to negatively recruit against aggy.