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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Same kind of thoughts. And actually these days, you have to give her a little bit of credit for realizing it was bad and wanting it edited. Whole lot of people, including the President, don't give a fuck.
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Markets still falling like whoa
I saw a tweet or blue sky from Erika McEntarfer, the deposed non-partisan head of BLS. She said civil servants are still collecting and analyzing that data and ready to make a bunch of noise if interfered with.
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tell me about heroin
Can't be sure, but I don't think they deliberately shoot it "hot." It's a small volume of liquid and would cool pretty fast, at least to a level nearer body temp. Injecting any drug is a pretty serious bridge to cross.
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Rewatching The Shield
Weird thing. I watched enough of the show back when it ran that I recognize most of the characters if not their names, Vic and Shane, for sure. But don't remember too much about it, or which seasons I saw. It's not like me to watch a couple of mid-season episodes of anything, but it was 20 some odd years ago. Decided to do a rewatch. It's pretty decent. Chiklis is pretty good, even if his character is a buffoon. He kind of dropped off the face of the earth.
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Truck Nuts
Not sure that's really anything to celebrate.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Additionally, there are multiple judicial determinations and admissions (dismissals of indictments they can't prove or that someone lied in support of) that Greg Bovino and DHS generally are lying their collective asses off about damn near everything. And, "mainstream media" may shade things a bit, but generally speaking they don't lie to your face like Fox and then fail to correct.
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Tariff wars, they have began
And, let's face it, a lot of guys in management of a firm like CF are just good backslappers and maybe not that smart, and that's why they're in management in the first place.
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NCAA Eligibility Thread - "You get another year, and you get another year, and you..."
Most of those guys got one or more medshirts, a redshirt and a Covid year. I don't think Chambliss played in the Covid season.
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NCAA Eligibility Thread - "You get another year, and you get another year, and you..."
Like I said on the other thread, I think it helps a lot when the NCAA is trying to enforce some "procedural" rule, like Chambliss didn't seek a medshirt for that season. Or better still, that Seymore lost a season because he transferred out of window and that's a rule that doesn't even exist anymore in the same form. The other question for Chambliss is was there really a basis for a medshirt, even had he claimed it timely. He seems to have docs willing to testify that he did, so that turns into a battle of experts. The fact that there's now big money involved doesn't probably change the legal outcome, but it does raise the stakes and tilt the equities a bit toward the player.
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ICE activity/raids
Shot U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityDHS Releases More Details About the Three Violent Crimina...ICE released details on the three criminal illegal aliens who violently assaulted law enforcement with a shovel and broom handle in an attempt to evade arrest and obstruct law enforcement yesterday inChaser: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-drops-charges-assaulting-ice-officers-inconsistent-evidence/ Plenty on Fox about the first. Zero on the chaser.
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Epstein and Maxwell
Remember, too, that from the original Epstein cover-up, we had eight years of an Obama DOJ and four years of Biden DOJ. I grant those administrations a presumption of regularity and thus that solid evidence of crimes was pursued.
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Epstein and Maxwell
What I am saying is there's a ton of smoke, maybe not so much fire. A lot of implications, not so much direct evidence of a crime. I have seen stuff and I can't say I have seen it all (a lot of it I don't want to see), that sure seems to be evidence of crimes against children or minors at least. But that alone is not enough to indict and convict. For example, from the NYT above: The people in the photos appeared to be young, although it was unclear whether they were minors. Some of the images seemed to show Mr. Epstein’s private island, including a beach. Others were taken in bedrooms and other private spaces. Those words spell acquittal. To an ethical prosecutor, they also spell "I can't indict this case." Do the prosecutors have tools to place those photos in context, establish the identity of victims and what happened to them, and that they were actually minors? Yes, they do. Did they employ them? I don't know. Would they have succeeded against a wall of silence from the perps? There is an assumption that they did not. I'm not so sure that assumption is warranted. What looks to lay people like irrefutable evidence of a really nasty crime doesn't make the grade in criminal court with a reasonable doubt standard of proof. It doesn't rise to the level even of indictment. Need more. They certainly put together indictable cases against Epstein and Maxwell, and got a conviction on Maxwell. We really have no idea who else might have been targeted. I do not support letting these sickos off in any way, shape, or form.
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Epstein and Maxwell
Not trying to argue, just explaining the process some, because there are clearly misconceptions about how they go. I said earlier that it seems like you might be able to detect some organization in this stuff indicating that it had been systematically reviewed. As Jack Smith stated to Congress, an ethical prosecutor that indicts a case has a firm belief that s/he has the evidence to convict. Anything less than that is unethical. So I am saying that this current DOJ is unethical in their bullshit cases, or delusional as to the state of their evidence, or both. Past administrations' DOJs were pretty ethical in this regard, I think. One thing about a criminal case that is very unlike a civil case. You can file a civil case "on a hunch," do discovery and see what develops. There is very limited discovery for the government in a criminal case, almost none. You have to have it all before that indictment drops. So, some things one might expect to see are witness statements and interview records on the FBI's form FD-302. Some kind of memoranda evaluating evidence against defendants. Grand jury transcripts of subpoena'ed witnesses to get testimony compelled and under oath. Again, that stuff would seem to be ordered to be disclosed by Congress. But I'm not sure that overrides grand jury secrecy under Rule 6. Or is something this bad-faith DOJ would release regardless if it is embarrassing to the Epstein-Trump-Musk billiionaire class. It's normally not the kind of stuff that ever sees the light of day, except to an indicted criminal defendant. Congress would be within its rights to ask Bondi or someone else if there have ever been investigations of other than Epstein and Maxwell, by this DOJ or any other. A normal DOJ would decline to answer and so probably would this one but for different reasons. Im not sure the Transparency Act compels an answer.
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Tariff wars, they have began
Lutnick has a BA in Economics from Haverford, which is, afaik a decent little school. But he was on a tennis scholarship. And, I don't think you have to be a great economics wizard to take the lesson of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Shit, I'm getting by on a high school class.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
I don't disagree with that. It needs a dose of severe near-fatal radiation and chemo.
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