In fairness, Cack Marney would have a point about being publically mocked by officials of a foreign government that he is theoretically negotiating with. That was what he was trying to express, that was misreported.
The fundamental problem with this opinion is that he used a confused old man to renounce Canada’s sovereignty.
Officially, this was over Kamloops and in favor of the first Nations. In practice, he meant it in favor of the CCP.
The problem for his tears right now, and those of academia, is that American cultural jurisprudence is very clear that we can take sovereignty from tribes that are savage (communist) enough, and that buddying with CCP is a step we cannot overlook from Portfolio Manager Meaty.
How did a generation raised on South Park become offended by everything? That’s the neat thing, they didn’t. The people who were pretending offense were psychopaths, and a small minority of commissars.
Lindsay Clancy’s attorney has obligations as a defender, but I gotta say that debilitating mental illnesses suck, and my experience with that is part of why I think that capital punishment for the ill is “nature’s way” or God’s providence. I’ve literally believed that the lawyers were going to wreck society so badly that we would have no choice but to stick the mentally ill into cattle cars. (It turns out I can be excitable and jump to conclusions.)
He’s going to get that holdout juror killed. Guaranteed.
The jurors have been photographed leaving the courthouse every day because the idjit of a judge didn’t sequester the jury. Just like the dress advert, how long before someone runs those photos against an image search and finds out who they are and any details available?
Not that sequestering is going to help much: there are dozens of sets of glasses with cameras installed in the frame. Disable the recording light, wear them into court any given day of the trial, and you got pictures, probably with sound.
BTW, he’s also doing a pretty thorough job of contaminating the jury pool for any retrial.
The Reader thinks that the pink brigade should thank the lone juror. He pretty much guaranteed, along with the sh** show that with the prosecutor and judge put on in their sorry excuse of a trial, that she cannot be retried successfully. So after the prosecution decides not to retry her, she will be a free woman. If he had given in, she would have at least spent a little time in a mental institution.
Maybe Harmeet Dhillon can retry her in Federal court for violation of the children’s civil rights?
We have no idea if the hold out juror was even a male.
Nor do we know what results they were hung up on, nor why there was disagreement, just what story the lawyer for the accused found useful to scream about.
And that “somehow” got picked up by an awful lot of the theoretically Right side of the web.
Even better? Depending on whose research you believe, the AI facial recognition isn’t that accurate, especially if you’re a moron putting in the specs through the contact high.
The cops haven’t eliminated that issue, and they are the ones who should be trying hardest. Good gravy.
The judge has shown himself to be rather serious about attempts to take photos of the jurors, so the photographs would only be of use for threats, rather than to sell to the news.
Not that sequestering is going to help much: there are dozens of sets of glasses with cameras installed in the frame. Disable the recording light, wear them into court any given day of the trial, and you got pictures, probably with sound.
Unless he’s having every pair of glasses X-Rayed daily, my workaround will work. And having all glasses removed? Yeah, that would have been kept quiet.
We are in a surveillance / counter-surveillance society.
When the judge was allowing the accused’s attorney to bitch at him in court about the holdout, asking for a stay so the, um, unusual appeal to the MA Supreme Court could happen, counsel said the holdout was a “he”.
Which would still not get that information to the defense attorney, and is now getting into entire strings of ‘well, maybe’ vs ‘the guy who has been doing all the social manipulation possible made up a sympathetic story.’
Like when he declared that the hair style options on the DA were to influence the jurors…when it’s been her signature ‘thing’ for years prior.
When the foreman and the judge speak, both lawyers should be present in order to ensure that no inappropriate instructions are given. When a jury reports that it can’t reach a consensus, the judge typically tries to convince them to continue deliberations until a consensus is reached (until enough time has passed that it’s clear the votes aren’t going to change). If the judge gave his talk but the foreman told the judge that one of the jurors was digging “his” feet in, or if the foreman sent a note to the judge stating that and the judge read (or paraphrased) the relevant portion aloud to the courtroom, then the defense attorney would hear it.
You would need to examine the transcripts or courtroom video to know for certain whether or not it had happened.
It was by note, so the theory would require that the judge, who has been doing this long enough to be retiring, both got accurate demographic information from the note and stated it, even though anyone outside of the jury room knowing how people were voting would be a mistrial.
Even the public instructions were on the legal nature of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt,’ which in a murder trial usually means one person can come up with creative ideas for how it could have possibly not been as told; but the lawyer’s stage-setting made dang sure the lynch mob is completely sure everyone was going to find not guilty.
For what it’s worth, the WNBA coaches and owners are not uniformly female. There was a news story a few years back about how they were almost half female coaches, going off my memory of seeing that meme the first time and going “Wait, aren’t a bunch of the big owners guys? Since most of their viewers are guys, too?”
… I don’t, though, and I am a woman, so end up standing here going “that’s a dude. Yes, I’m allowed to notice.”
(Much like the “all the anti-ICE protesters are women” when even in the close-crop promos from the progs, they were mostly guys with women in front. It’s like it’s their MO or something….)
Not to mention, “Dawn Light,” the 56-year-old woman who chased the jurors with a camera as they left the courthouse a few days ago. (I’m sorry, I have trouble believing “Dawn Light,” is the name her parents gave her). Notably, MA might actually charge her with jury intimidation, which would be interesting.
It’s entirely possible. I once had a Sparkles come through the system. Checked the school record—Sparkles was her given name. (I’ve also seen things like Precious Baby, so don’t discount parents being twee.)
Nothing new since she showed up in court– unless you count the “ran from the media” reports.
A woman was arraigned in Plymouth District Court on a charge of aggravated intimidation of a juror after court officers said she photographed Lindsay Clancy jurors as they left the courthouse Tuesday, Sept. 1.
Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, appeared before Judge Shelby M. Smith at Plymouth District Court Wednesday, Sept. 2. The arraignment took place in the same courthouse where the Clancy case is being tried in Superior Court.
Light pleaded not guilty and was released on personal recognizance on condition she stay away from the court grounds, jurors and witnesses and preserve any possible evidence in the form of photographs or video.
Assistant District Attorney Nicole Piacentini requested $50,000 cash bail in addition to the stay-away conditions. “The sanctity of the judicial system is at risk because of [Light’s] actions,” she said.
He went outside the courthouse after the mistrial was declared and acted like a small child who had his toy taken away. Then he trashed the holdout juror as a potential bigot and praised the jury forewoman who ratted on him.
Which is why I’m not inclined to believe we don’t know THAT much about the juror. There’s been way too large a crowd of people who have seen the jury and the documents. Heck, even SCOTUS can’t keep secrets any more.
As I’ve said elsewhere, if they would actually lock up the crazy for everyone’s protection, this wouldn’t be a problem.
That seems to be what MA law was built around the assumption of.
I have no idea if they actually do that, now, though. They don’t have capital punishment, the state didn’t do a good job showing murder 1, so you’ve got “eligible for parole in 15 years, sentenced to 10-15 years, or crazy.”
I’ve been told this video does a good job explaining the relevant part of the law for proving that they’re sane:
Patching up the holes, sadly not as quickly as they’re chopped….
:shakes head:
Hopefully in the retrial, the prosecution will do a better job. At the very least to the point of not calling expert witnesses that contradict each other while the state is the one asking quiestions.
The thing is, the issue, and the laws addressing the “get out of jail card” aspect of the “insanity defense”, were brought to public consciousness by the assassination attempt on President Reagan and murder of James Brady by John Hinckley, Jr. in 1981. Hinckley was clearly not sane, but letting him escape conviction, then eventually get “cured” and walk free, bugged a lot of folks, thus the five states which allow “guilty but insane” verdicts, and others that have similar ideas in their state laws.
The fact that MA does not (when equally lefty states like California and New Jersey do) 25 years later says it’s on purpose.
A sad possibility is, “Because they want to,” or, “Because they need to.”
Or because they’re conditioned to, “Believe Authority.”
I still remember the nice, 60-odd male coworker a good 30-odd years ago who was shocked at the suggestion the network had faked the “exploding Pinto,” report. He said, “But…but that would mean they lied to us! They would never lie to us!”
There’s now more varieties of “Authority” that folks will respect– remember how Russia Today and Al Jazeera got a ton of credit for “truth telling” via telling different lies? Familiar to anyone who pokes around the UK news to see what the differences in the stories are and try to figure things out–but you’re right.
Because they’ll leave in different details that you can check– heck, sometimes you’ll find a lie exactly because they are telling different ones, and if you know a thing exists you can go look for it.
Welcome to Open Source Intelligence. This is basically the challenge of any intelligence operation – sifting through sources to find commonalities, and looking for indirect confirmations, to build assessments that get close to reality on the ground. Since some reports will include false info by accident, while others will on purpose, assessing the primary source tells one a lot about where to look for bias.
People could glean a lot from the official news of totalitarian states. Particularly if you can keep archives. If this official no longer appears in pictures, and that official is promoted. . .
WHY must that abomination take up the first half of every f’ing news program?!
An occasional 30-second update with any actual new information would be more than enough.
The facts are not in doubt. That despicable broad strangled 3 helpless innocent children. I don’t give a rat’s ass why. Such actions are unacceptable in a civilized society. Throw her in jail and lose the key. If she’s ‘mentally ill’ she can see a shrink in prison.
Apparently, in MA “state of mind,” does apply. Once a defendant pleads insanity (or her lawyer does), she is presumed insane unless the prosecution can prove “beyond a reasonable doubt,” that she isn’t.
Some suggestion the prosecution didn’t have its act together.
I admit in my least charitable mood, I think of a rope. With a solid hanging knot so she didn’t strangle.
And do not, do not listen to/read the transcript of the dad’s 911 call when he found her outside the house and went in to check in on the kids. Just don’t.
WHY must that abomination take up the first half of every f’ing news program?! An occasional 30-second update with any actual new information would be more than enough.
:points at TwiX, where there’s currently a large chunk of the right including Musk providing demands for removing the rights from women:
That’d be a pretty good reason for them to want it spun up.
Be nice if there was someone who could do such a crazy thing as investigate if the protesters in person are even from MA, and if they’re being paid.
But why do that, when the cool thing right now is to light your hair on fire and abandon the principles of guilt belonging to the individual doing something wrong? Why not go whole-hog into proving the most insane of feminists right?
Not really surprising, with how much of the Left has been shoved into the Right by redefining the center, but still depressing and obvious.
I suspect someone or some group is encouraging “repeal the 19th Amendment and put women back in their place” comments as a means of convincing liberal or even moderate women that the Handmaid’s Tale dystopia really is just around the corner and voting Democrat is the only way to save themselves from it
Most likely seems to be China, since I keep being told so many of these supporters are on TikTok– but that really doesn’t rule out the Usual Suspects doing stuff here, sadly, and of course the various Indian, middle-east, and “Asian” accounts have been doing it the whole time.
Might be trying to jedi mind trick principled conservative men into supporting it, too. We can tell from folks like Musk latching on that the liberals-who-they-now-call-right-wing do it.
I think I first saw “repeal the 19th” in the mid-2000s, early 2010s, but I don’t recall the context. I think it might have been related to a female politician doing something dumb, or a poll about how women tend to vote for security (i.e. politicians who promise that the government will house, feed, and protect everyone).
It was floating around in the mid-90s, because my crazy, obnoxious uncle would say it sometimes. So probably was floated in the ’60s, too, he didn’t really have many original thoughts.
Our son said he wanted to be the crazy uncle at beloved’s grand-daughter’s wedding. Thankfully, there were no outbreaks of crazy there, though there was at least one other candidate.
And none of the usual folks are pointing out the matching pink shirts. Though I admit there seems to have been a little more variety in styles than usual.
OTOH, it’s MA. (I have in-laws there. Beloved is not a typical member of the family).
You watch the news? Haven’t done that (aside from the occasional seeing it in other people’s spaces) since I graduated from college. (Okay, I worked in news radio in the back of a television studio, and I did watch stuff on 9/11.)
Note that my degree is in broadcast studies. And yes, that is relevant information, though honestly I was drifting away from watching it by the time I started college.
Those of us who have actually read the Book of Acts know that Mr Szwzawinski’s knowledge of how long socialism has been tried and failed is off by an order of magnitude.
If the 12 Apostles backed up by God couldn’t make Communism work…….
Wait, that reminds me; were there twelve then or only eleven? If there were twelve, then you count the guy who got appointed and would Paul make thirteen, and if Paul was thirteen (but really fourteen because the betrayer fell), then Admiral Naismith was right that there should be fourteen piles for the fourteen apostles when the ration bars were divided in the camp. Right?
There were 12 apostles for that story, 11 of the original disciples, plus Matthias, who was selected to replace Judas Iscariot. I don’t think Mr. Iscariot would count as an apostle, because the apostles were those who went to spread Jesus’s message, as opposed to the disciples, who learned from Him. Paul, at that point, was still one of the Christians’ worst enemies.
Yep, when someone on Twit starts talking about the early Church and socialism I point out that by the time Paul wrote his epistle he was doing regular fundraising appeals “for the saints at Jerusalem.”
Raccoons may not fly helicopters, but perhaps squirrels do. Mom had fallen and was in a SNF for a few days. She had a private room, that looked out over an interior courtyard – grass, some trees, nothing special. We visited, and she said she was all right, but the squirrels in helicopters were annoying.
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Everyone already knows printers are self-aware. The ‘critical moment detector’ is the tell, as they go off into the ozone with mechanical glee.
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Phone/funeral: I don’t delete contacts from my phone. If I get something from the Great Beyond, I want a good ID.
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Ferrell cats performing Cats….
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‘Beer heist’? That assumes PBR is ‘beer’, a fact not in evidence.
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Shareh’? ‘que vous partagez, s’il vous plaît’!
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! Poke !
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You know that goose’s name. You do, you just won’t say it, even quietly.
Lancelot.
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Or, Garand Thumb’s meme:
Burglar: Aren’t you going to call the police?
GT: Why? Nobody knows you’re here …
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Well, I guess camps in Germany don’t count as ‘deportations’.
Couple things, the Leonidas cat made me LOL. As did the Imperial Volks-Walker. (I might be a little weird.)
For context, the goose won that fight. Do not mess with the geese.
In other, slightly more serious news, #TheDonald’s Department of Justice announced yesterday that they are suspending “cooperation” with #SnowMexico. Because reasons, I guess. Lots and lots of reasons I’m sure. Like #Chicom money laundering, ferinstance.
Speaking as a proud citizen of the nation formerly known as Canada, I applaud this decision and request that #TheDonald hoof the #SnowMexican government in the nethers a couple more times, as a personal favor. It isn’t like they don’t deserve every inch of the kicking he’s dealing out.
Oh and by the way, the Fearless Leader of #SnowMexico has issued a warning to America that there will be no more trade negotiations if y’all don’t knock it off with the memes. (I’m not kidding, he really said that. On TV. For realz.)
Speaking of #SnowMexicans, if Mark Carney were capable of humour, he would have retaliated to the ‘Lake America’ thing by renaming a certain other Great Lake to ‘Lake Canada Is Superior’. But no, he had to prove he was every bit the self-important, addle-minded twerp Trump took him for.
“What’s really happened is the breakdown in all of those things that used to operate in the background that were built into the social fabric,” he continues. “The idea that you had intact households that cared for each other, that cared for the neighborhood, that made places safe, that made places affordable, that allowed for child care and all these things that weren’t a paid job … that took a large amount of the burden off of young working families.”
But today, those built-in support systems are largely gone and therefore must be supplemented with paid child care, expensive housing in safe neighborhoods, private or classical Christian schooling, and other costly stand-ins for neighborly and family support.
What people are missing in the debates surrounding the affordability crisis, says Kurtz, is that “social capital is every bit as important as financial capital.”
There is that, but I’m not sure most folks realize how much taxes and other government meddling have increased the costs of everything while simultaneously taking the money you need to pay for it all.
We wouldn’t need a $20.00 ‘minimum wage’ if the government just let people keep their money.
Um, built in child care was not “dump’em on grandma”, at least not for a couple centuries. Forcing two salaries as the minimum requirement for things like home ownership directly led to most of the modern stuff mentioned as “used to be free”.
Oh, I’d say use flamethrowers to clear the “unhoused” except in libraries it would harm, the books.
I was commenting on this point:
“But today, those built-in support systems are largely gone and therefore must be supplemented with paid child care…”
The “pay someone else to raise your kids” only used to be a thing for the upper crust wet-nurse/nanny employment market. Pretty much everyone else had someone, overwhelmingly the mom, raising their own kids, full time, even if they also supplemented the family income somehow.
Building an economy where that is very, very difficult to do while buying a “nice safe neighborhood” house, as one example, is perhaps counterproductive to society overall.
Or Foxen has a perception disorder and has to write things upside-down. (I met someone like that. I was very impressed that he had figured out how to work around his problem).
There was one very famous Victorian scholar, if memory serves, who learned to read upside down by watching his father read evening prayers from the family Bible.
On the other hand, I don’t remember the name of the scholar offhand, so perhaps memory does not serve. C‘est la guerre.
The version of “By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion” I’m familiar with continues, “by the beans of Java my thought acquire speed, my hands acquire shakes, the shakes convey a warning.”
Cut off from full caffeine. I can have one cup non-caffeine, with fat free half & half.
Not seriously that addicted. I’ve mentioned before that if I cannot have my real half & half with coffee, skip the coffee. But, long term? Forever. Whinny voice.
Good thing I am retired from working force. No matter how bad things are in retail checkout, I cannot blame the obvious targets. Sigh.
The Reader asks if that is a permanent restriction? If so, odd. The Reader was allowed coffee once he left CCU for a stepdown recovery room in the hospital.
Definitely a restriction for now. Just had my first *PCP post-op. I was allowed decaf in the cardiac unit (post ICU). One cup, with one of those small 1/2 & 1/2, low fat.
He had me listen to my heart. I can “feel” something, sometimes, when it beats fast. But I do not hear it. Some complain that they can.
(*) The one who tracks everything across the board. Who I can message if we need “help”.
I am going to have to find a way to use the low bar – limbo in H-ll quote somehow, somewhere. The context is going to be a challenge, though, unless a character accidentally walks in on someone getting “remonstrated with” by a former NCO or the like.
I thought I had cleaned up all of the plastic from around the new HVAC air filter. I’d accounted for it, hustled it into the garbage can, and was getting on with life … And I saw Jase. With a clear “string” in his mouth as he was chewing on something. It was a strip of the wrap that had hidden. He’d found it and was devouring. Thanks be I managed to get it back before he finished swallowing it.
Recalls Sara the Lab-Aussie cross who chewed and ate some of a miniature afghan. It passed through, but the technicolor nature of her stool was an eye-opener. We kept telling her to use the Aussie brain. Sometimes that worked, but chewing and “food” behavior was strictly in the Lab half.
And “Mister Based Visits HR” is just unrealistic – IN my long cubicalland career I have never seen one such smoking hot HR lady, let alone two. Jus’ sayin’.
The turning all the lights backwards gets me. I’ve had days like that and probably weeks. Not only did I do it wrong, but I had to rip it all out and do it right.
If the mummies come alive, is it still a tomb? Therefore no longer an archeological site, just someone’s home that the archeologist is invading? I’d be pissed too.
Also, wrt cats bringing presents, we had a kitten escape out the back door. The older cat carried the kitten’s favorite little stuffed alligator up to the bedroom and sat meowing at us.
According To Hoyt 
Once on a slothful Saturday ‘neath sluggish skies of grimey gray
I woke my browser, fleeing dreams and gasped, agog, at mobbing memes.
… someone continue this!
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A very enjoyable start to the day!! Too many good ones to pick a favorite!
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In fairness, Cack Marney would have a point about being publically mocked by officials of a foreign government that he is theoretically negotiating with. That was what he was trying to express, that was misreported.
The fundamental problem with this opinion is that he used a confused old man to renounce Canada’s sovereignty.
Officially, this was over Kamloops and in favor of the first Nations. In practice, he meant it in favor of the CCP.
The problem for his tears right now, and those of academia, is that American cultural jurisprudence is very clear that we can take sovereignty from tribes that are savage (communist) enough, and that buddying with CCP is a step we cannot overlook from Portfolio Manager Meaty.
How did a generation raised on South Park become offended by everything? That’s the neat thing, they didn’t. The people who were pretending offense were psychopaths, and a small minority of commissars.
Lindsay Clancy’s attorney has obligations as a defender, but I gotta say that debilitating mental illnesses suck, and my experience with that is part of why I think that capital punishment for the ill is “nature’s way” or God’s providence. I’ve literally believed that the lawyers were going to wreck society so badly that we would have no choice but to stick the mentally ill into cattle cars. (It turns out I can be excitable and jump to conclusions.)
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I got modded for referring to Lindsay Clancy’s attorney as one of the terms for that legal specialty.
The joke would be if I had actually used profane or obscene language that I should, in fact, be moderated for.
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It’d be too mild to be accurate, too.
Not because he’s doing a needful job, but because of how he’s doing it… what I don’t get is why people believe everything he says.
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He’s going to get that holdout juror killed. Guaranteed.
The jurors have been photographed leaving the courthouse every day because the idjit of a judge didn’t sequester the jury. Just like the dress advert, how long before someone runs those photos against an image search and finds out who they are and any details available?
Not that sequestering is going to help much: there are dozens of sets of glasses with cameras installed in the frame. Disable the recording light, wear them into court any given day of the trial, and you got pictures, probably with sound.
BTW, he’s also doing a pretty thorough job of contaminating the jury pool for any retrial.
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And the Leftroids will stage violent ‘protests’ in support of the murderer. Because that’s what they do. What they always do. 😡
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Not always. They did it for Andrea Yates, but not for Casey Anthony. (I have heard speculations about social class being involved.)
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The Reader thinks that the pink brigade should thank the lone juror. He pretty much guaranteed, along with the sh** show that with the prosecutor and judge put on in their sorry excuse of a trial, that she cannot be retried successfully. So after the prosecution decides not to retry her, she will be a free woman. If he had given in, she would have at least spent a little time in a mental institution.
Maybe Harmeet Dhillon can retry her in Federal court for violation of the children’s civil rights?
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About the only way he can win, isn’t it?
The “best” part of it?
We have no idea if the hold out juror was even a male.
Nor do we know what results they were hung up on, nor why there was disagreement, just what story the lawyer for the accused found useful to scream about.
And that “somehow” got picked up by an awful lot of the theoretically Right side of the web.
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Even better? Depending on whose research you believe, the AI facial recognition isn’t that accurate, especially if you’re a moron putting in the specs through the contact high.
The cops haven’t eliminated that issue, and they are the ones who should be trying hardest. Good gravy.
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The judge has shown himself to be rather serious about attempts to take photos of the jurors, so the photographs would only be of use for threats, rather than to sell to the news.
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Unless he’s having every pair of glasses X-Rayed daily, my workaround will work. And having all glasses removed? Yeah, that would have been kept quiet.
We are in a surveillance / counter-surveillance society.
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The pictures would be evidence of a crime.
Thus, the usual motive– selling them– is blocked.
Which greatly lowers their value to everyone except for actual terrorists and criminals.
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When the judge was allowing the accused’s attorney to bitch at him in court about the holdout, asking for a stay so the, um, unusual appeal to the MA Supreme Court could happen, counsel said the holdout was a “he”.
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I asked a lawyer when the defense attorney started with his claims, since I’ve run into the way they can legally lie without any consequences.
There was no legal way for even the judge to know anything about the holdout, or it was already a mistrial.
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In theory, yes. But when the foreman was reporting to the judge, he or she might have said something that revealed the holdout’s gender.
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Which would still not get that information to the defense attorney, and is now getting into entire strings of ‘well, maybe’ vs ‘the guy who has been doing all the social manipulation possible made up a sympathetic story.’
Like when he declared that the hair style options on the DA were to influence the jurors…when it’s been her signature ‘thing’ for years prior.
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When the foreman and the judge speak, both lawyers should be present in order to ensure that no inappropriate instructions are given. When a jury reports that it can’t reach a consensus, the judge typically tries to convince them to continue deliberations until a consensus is reached (until enough time has passed that it’s clear the votes aren’t going to change). If the judge gave his talk but the foreman told the judge that one of the jurors was digging “his” feet in, or if the foreman sent a note to the judge stating that and the judge read (or paraphrased) the relevant portion aloud to the courtroom, then the defense attorney would hear it.
You would need to examine the transcripts or courtroom video to know for certain whether or not it had happened.
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It was by note, so the theory would require that the judge, who has been doing this long enough to be retiring, both got accurate demographic information from the note and stated it, even though anyone outside of the jury room knowing how people were voting would be a mistrial.
Even the public instructions were on the legal nature of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt,’ which in a murder trial usually means one person can come up with creative ideas for how it could have possibly not been as told; but the lawyer’s stage-setting made dang sure the lynch mob is completely sure everyone was going to find not guilty.
It’d be impressive if it wasn’t so terrifying.
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How can they tell? 😁
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Well, it’s the Massachusetts state court system, not the WNBA, so they have a built in advantage.
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For what it’s worth, the WNBA coaches and owners are not uniformly female. There was a news story a few years back about how they were almost half female coaches, going off my memory of seeing that meme the first time and going “Wait, aren’t a bunch of the big owners guys? Since most of their viewers are guys, too?”
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They are all basically trapped in the “Can’t Say” joke.
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And they totally deserve it!
… I don’t, though, and I am a woman, so end up standing here going “that’s a dude. Yes, I’m allowed to notice.”
(Much like the “all the anti-ICE protesters are women” when even in the close-crop promos from the progs, they were mostly guys with women in front. It’s like it’s their MO or something….)
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change of venue. Maybe to Texas with Karmelo Anthony’s judge & jury.
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Not to mention, “Dawn Light,” the 56-year-old woman who chased the jurors with a camera as they left the courthouse a few days ago. (I’m sorry, I have trouble believing “Dawn Light,” is the name her parents gave her). Notably, MA might actually charge her with jury intimidation, which would be interesting.
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It’s entirely possible. I once had a Sparkles come through the system. Checked the school record—Sparkles was her given name. (I’ve also seen things like Precious Baby, so don’t discount parents being twee.)
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Nothing new since she showed up in court– unless you count the “ran from the media” reports.
https://okcthunderwire.usatoday.com/story/news/courts/2026/09/02/dawn-light-arrested-lindsay-clancy-jury-photographing-jurors/91576200007/
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I think I am missing a lot of details about what the fellow was doing.
My main issue is that that I am precisely crazy enough to be sure that the crazy ought not to be given infinite license.
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He went outside the courthouse after the mistrial was declared and acted like a small child who had his toy taken away. Then he trashed the holdout juror as a potential bigot and praised the jury forewoman who ratted on him.
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Which is why I’m not inclined to believe we don’t know THAT much about the juror. There’s been way too large a crowd of people who have seen the jury and the documents. Heck, even SCOTUS can’t keep secrets any more.
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Ah, yes, there is no petulance like that of a Leftroid thwarted. 😁
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Methinks the jury forewoman exceeded her authority and committed an infraction when she did that.
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As I’ve said elsewhere, if they would actually lock up the crazy for everyone’s protection, this wouldn’t be a problem.
That seems to be what MA law was built around the assumption of.
I have no idea if they actually do that, now, though. They don’t have capital punishment, the state didn’t do a good job showing murder 1, so you’ve got “eligible for parole in 15 years, sentenced to 10-15 years, or crazy.”
I’ve been told this video does a good job explaining the relevant part of the law for proving that they’re sane:
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Other states have “guilty but insane” so if those convicted get sane, they get transferred to prison for the remainder of their sentence.
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Patching up the holes, sadly not as quickly as they’re chopped….
:shakes head:
Hopefully in the retrial, the prosecution will do a better job. At the very least to the point of not calling expert witnesses that contradict each other while the state is the one asking quiestions.
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The thing is, the issue, and the laws addressing the “get out of jail card” aspect of the “insanity defense”, were brought to public consciousness by the assassination attempt on President Reagan and murder of James Brady by John Hinckley, Jr. in 1981. Hinckley was clearly not sane, but letting him escape conviction, then eventually get “cured” and walk free, bugged a lot of folks, thus the five states which allow “guilty but insane” verdicts, and others that have similar ideas in their state laws.
The fact that MA does not (when equally lefty states like California and New Jersey do) 25 years later says it’s on purpose.
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Issue, it’s difficult to find if MA does a WA style “you’re in psych so we’ll just let you wander” thing or not.
Only stat I could find was that 15% of those who are not guilty by reason of insanity are NEVER released. No data on what kind of charges those were.
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Man, talking about court cases makes it difficult to avoid forbidden syllables and dodge mod…
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Crazy gets license until they commit a crime. Then they get treated like any other criminal.
Any treatment for ‘mental illness’ can be applied after the (possibly loony) criminal is safely in jail.
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A sad possibility is, “Because they want to,” or, “Because they need to.”
Or because they’re conditioned to, “Believe Authority.”
I still remember the nice, 60-odd male coworker a good 30-odd years ago who was shocked at the suggestion the network had faked the “exploding Pinto,” report. He said, “But…but that would mean they lied to us! They would never lie to us!”
A lot of people still believe that.
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There’s now more varieties of “Authority” that folks will respect– remember how Russia Today and Al Jazeera got a ton of credit for “truth telling” via telling different lies? Familiar to anyone who pokes around the UK news to see what the differences in the stories are and try to figure things out–but you’re right.
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How can you figure out the truth by listening to a lot of liars telling different lies? ☹️
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Because they’ll leave in different details that you can check– heck, sometimes you’ll find a lie exactly because they are telling different ones, and if you know a thing exists you can go look for it.
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Welcome to Open Source Intelligence. This is basically the challenge of any intelligence operation – sifting through sources to find commonalities, and looking for indirect confirmations, to build assessments that get close to reality on the ground. Since some reports will include false info by accident, while others will on purpose, assessing the primary source tells one a lot about where to look for bias.
We’re all intelligence analysts now.
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Speaking of, this is painfully true:
https://www.bunkerbranding.com/products/intel-life-sticker
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We are Intelligence analysts, sifting through vast piles of Stupid.
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The problem with lies, and even more, half lies, is the amount of work it takes digging through the pig poop to find that one pearl.
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People could glean a lot from the official news of totalitarian states. Particularly if you can keep archives. If this official no longer appears in pictures, and that official is promoted. . .
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that’s how mystery books work. The good ones.
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WHY must that abomination take up the first half of every f’ing news program?!
An occasional 30-second update with any actual new information would be more than enough.
The facts are not in doubt. That despicable broad strangled 3 helpless innocent children. I don’t give a rat’s ass why. Such actions are unacceptable in a civilized society. Throw her in jail and lose the key. If she’s ‘mentally ill’ she can see a shrink in prison.
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I think many people know the answer.
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Could not have expressed my feelings better.
The B* (sorry dogs) belongs in a prison hospital. No more no less. State of mind does not apply.
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Apparently, in MA “state of mind,” does apply. Once a defendant pleads insanity (or her lawyer does), she is presumed insane unless the prosecution can prove “beyond a reasonable doubt,” that she isn’t.
Some suggestion the prosecution didn’t have its act together.
I admit in my least charitable mood, I think of a rope. With a solid hanging knot so she didn’t strangle.
And do not, do not listen to/read the transcript of the dad’s 911 call when he found her outside the house and went in to check in on the kids. Just don’t.
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And?
I did not type “legal standard”. Just that b* (again sorry pups) is guilty and belongs in a deep hole.
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[whiny LibTard voice] “But if she goes to prison she might commit suicide!”
Sounds like my definition of a problem solving itself. ☹️
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:points at TwiX, where there’s currently a large chunk of the right including Musk providing demands for removing the rights from women:
That’d be a pretty good reason for them to want it spun up.
Be nice if there was someone who could do such a crazy thing as investigate if the protesters in person are even from MA, and if they’re being paid.
But why do that, when the cool thing right now is to light your hair on fire and abandon the principles of guilt belonging to the individual doing something wrong? Why not go whole-hog into proving the most insane of feminists right?
Not really surprising, with how much of the Left has been shoved into the Right by redefining the center, but still depressing and obvious.
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I suspect someone or some group is encouraging “repeal the 19th Amendment and put women back in their place” comments as a means of convincing liberal or even moderate women that the Handmaid’s Tale dystopia really is just around the corner and voting Democrat is the only way to save themselves from it
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It does not have to have a clever end point. Sowing division is a valid enemy objective on it’s own.
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Most likely seems to be China, since I keep being told so many of these supporters are on TikTok– but that really doesn’t rule out the Usual Suspects doing stuff here, sadly, and of course the various Indian, middle-east, and “Asian” accounts have been doing it the whole time.
Might be trying to jedi mind trick principled conservative men into supporting it, too. We can tell from folks like Musk latching on that the liberals-who-they-now-call-right-wing do it.
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I think I first saw “repeal the 19th” in the mid-2000s, early 2010s, but I don’t recall the context. I think it might have been related to a female politician doing something dumb, or a poll about how women tend to vote for security (i.e. politicians who promise that the government will house, feed, and protect everyone).
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It was floating around in the mid-90s, because my crazy, obnoxious uncle would say it sometimes. So probably was floated in the ’60s, too, he didn’t really have many original thoughts.
Obnoxious tough-guy libertarian, drug subtype.
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Crazy uncle is a valid life goal. Obnoxious, not so much.
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Our son said he wanted to be the crazy uncle at beloved’s grand-daughter’s wedding. Thankfully, there were no outbreaks of crazy there, though there was at least one other candidate.
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I’ve got some great stories about him.
… of course, if we go by the good type “Crazy Uncle,” I only have three who aren’t!
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Heck, in moments when the women in my field upset me, I’d growl “Stop women suffrage. Women have suffered enough… :-P
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While also supporting Muslim candidates who look less than friendly to women. *Sigh*.
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That. Also, Muslims…
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“Repeal 19” is obviously enemy propaganda intended to “Sow chaos in the enemy camp”.
The original joke is decades old. The current AI slop is intended to heat up hotheads.
Do not add to the slop.
Do not dance the Enemy Reel.
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And none of the usual folks are pointing out the matching pink shirts. Though I admit there seems to have been a little more variety in styles than usual.
OTOH, it’s MA. (I have in-laws there. Beloved is not a typical member of the family).
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Spread rumors that she has incriminating evidence on Hillary Clinton. 🤣
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You watch the news? Haven’t done that (aside from the occasional seeing it in other people’s spaces) since I graduated from college. (Okay, I worked in news radio in the back of a television studio, and I did watch stuff on 9/11.)
Note that my degree is in broadcast studies. And yes, that is relevant information, though honestly I was drifting away from watching it by the time I started college.
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Honestly, the Lindsey Clancy case just makes me so sad. Those poor children, they must have suffered so much. It’s heartbreaking.
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Yes. And the fear of its being your mom doing it!
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The Reader believes ‘America’s Toast’ is toasted bread with butter and cinnamon sugar.
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The never checks on the VA hits hard.
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Oh, they sometimes visit a VA center, usually a week before election day.
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After giving advance notice, no doubt.
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And making sure all the relevant MSM channels are there waiting.
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Those of us who have actually read the Book of Acts know that Mr Szwzawinski’s knowledge of how long socialism has been tried and failed is off by an order of magnitude.
If the 12 Apostles backed up by God couldn’t make Communism work…….
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Wait, that reminds me; were there twelve then or only eleven? If there were twelve, then you count the guy who got appointed and would Paul make thirteen, and if Paul was thirteen (but really fourteen because the betrayer fell), then Admiral Naismith was right that there should be fourteen piles for the fourteen apostles when the ration bars were divided in the camp. Right?
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The Devil is in the details.
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There were 12 apostles for that story, 11 of the original disciples, plus Matthias, who was selected to replace Judas Iscariot. I don’t think Mr. Iscariot would count as an apostle, because the apostles were those who went to spread Jesus’s message, as opposed to the disciples, who learned from Him. Paul, at that point, was still one of the Christians’ worst enemies.
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Which is precisely why I used Apostles.
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Yep, when someone on Twit starts talking about the early Church and socialism I point out that by the time Paul wrote his epistle he was doing regular fundraising appeals “for the saints at Jerusalem.”
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Of course I had to search “raccoons piloting helicopters”
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The one raccoon pilot I’ve seen was flying a space ship. 😁
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Our back yard raccoons:
“Do you have a helicopter, or can you tell us how to obtain one?”
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Real raccoons would not have to ask.
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I can’t decide which of those 4 pictures of Tim Curry is the creepiest. 😜
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The red balloons thing is brilliant.
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I say no good or worthy cause can be served by massacring 100 million people.
They say I have no compassion.
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c4c
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Raccoons may not fly helicopters, but perhaps squirrels do. Mom had fallen and was in a SNF for a few days. She had a private room, that looked out over an interior courtyard – grass, some trees, nothing special. We visited, and she said she was all right, but the squirrels in helicopters were annoying.
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Everyone already knows printers are self-aware. The ‘critical moment detector’ is the tell, as they go off into the ozone with mechanical glee.
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Phone/funeral: I don’t delete contacts from my phone. If I get something from the Great Beyond, I want a good ID.
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Ferrell cats performing Cats….
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‘Beer heist’? That assumes PBR is ‘beer’, a fact not in evidence.
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Shareh’? ‘que vous partagez, s’il vous plaît’!
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! Poke !
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You know that goose’s name. You do, you just won’t say it, even quietly.
Lancelot.
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Or, Garand Thumb’s meme:
Burglar: Aren’t you going to call the police?
GT: Why? Nobody knows you’re here …
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Well, I guess camps in Germany don’t count as ‘deportations’.
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I ask the cat where the other cat is because sometimes they show me.
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Cats are like siblings. One will always rat the other out, whether hoping for a reward, or just out of pure spite!
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Unless it’s Circe, who makes big eyes and assures me they just DISAPPEARED.
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Also, there are reports that masked men are (or were) blocking the roads in Dover, England. Reports: https://x.com/daveatherton/status/2096192453262839990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2096192453262839990%7Ctwgr%5E450fcaaba5971b043e6b0fb8dfa27b2903583f41%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F821071%2F.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0905/1590433-protest-dover-uk/
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🦁🙏
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“Beer heist”: Not while there’s a warehouse of MacAllan Single Malt left in the world.
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OTOH:
“Our Engineer would yield to none
at putting down the brew.
He out-drank seven Space Marines
and a demolition crew!”
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The navigator didn’t win,
But he out drank almost all
And now they’ve got a shuttle craft
On the roof of city hall.
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“The Eeevul Colonizers stole this land from the stromatolites! You must give it back!”
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Couple things, the Leonidas cat made me LOL. As did the Imperial Volks-Walker. (I might be a little weird.)
For context, the goose won that fight. Do not mess with the geese.
In other, slightly more serious news, #TheDonald’s Department of Justice announced yesterday that they are suspending “cooperation” with #SnowMexico. Because reasons, I guess. Lots and lots of reasons I’m sure. Like #Chicom money laundering, ferinstance.
Speaking as a proud citizen of the nation formerly known as Canada, I applaud this decision and request that #TheDonald hoof the #SnowMexican government in the nethers a couple more times, as a personal favor. It isn’t like they don’t deserve every inch of the kicking he’s dealing out.
Oh and by the way, the Fearless Leader of #SnowMexico has issued a warning to America that there will be no more trade negotiations if y’all don’t knock it off with the memes. (I’m not kidding, he really said that. On TV. For realz.)
You know what to do.
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the dude was specifically complaining about officials like Trump
I mean, I would put a fair amount of effort into annoying the man if I was sure it was my speech he had a problem with.
I’m merely an ordinary joe who has put in the small enough amount of thought required to understand that he has the betting habits of an idiot.
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Speaking of #SnowMexicans, if Mark Carney were capable of humour, he would have retaliated to the ‘Lake America’ thing by renaming a certain other Great Lake to ‘Lake Canada Is Superior’. But no, he had to prove he was every bit the self-important, addle-minded twerp Trump took him for.
Wake me when he’s over.
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I liked his throwing a fit and saying he won’t come to the table while Americans post mean memes…. Seriously?
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Summon the Screaming Meme-ies!
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This is an interesting supplement to the cost of living debate:
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-auron-macintyre-show/young-people-arent-just-broke-theyre-forced-to-buy-what-used-to-be-free
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There is that, but I’m not sure most folks realize how much taxes and other government meddling have increased the costs of everything while simultaneously taking the money you need to pay for it all.
We wouldn’t need a $20.00 ‘minimum wage’ if the government just let people keep their money.
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Um, built in child care was not “dump’em on grandma”, at least not for a couple centuries. Forcing two salaries as the minimum requirement for things like home ownership directly led to most of the modern stuff mentioned as “used to be free”.
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What does that have to do with allowing libraries to become dormitories for bums (as an example) instead of clearing them out with cops?
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Oh, I’d say use flamethrowers to clear the “unhoused” except in libraries it would harm, the books.
I was commenting on this point:
“But today, those built-in support systems are largely gone and therefore must be supplemented with paid child care…”
The “pay someone else to raise your kids” only used to be a thing for the upper crust wet-nurse/nanny employment market. Pretty much everyone else had someone, overwhelmingly the mom, raising their own kids, full time, even if they also supplemented the family income somehow.
Building an economy where that is very, very difficult to do while buying a “nice safe neighborhood” house, as one example, is perhaps counterproductive to society overall.
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but that’s because they allowed most neighborhoods to become hell holes.
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Very nice to see the creator of Tarzan and John Carter (and others) remembered.
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SFBS!
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Does it bug anybody else that the second panel has, apparently, Foxen holding the page upside down? Admittedly, also writing upside down.
Anthropomorphized animals are one thing, but pointlessly upside-down text? That breaks my suspension of disbelief.
Mostly because it was nagging me until I consciously put it together.
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Obviously it’s for the reader’s convenience, but it does violate internal consistency.
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Or Foxen has a perception disorder and has to write things upside-down. (I met someone like that. I was very impressed that he had figured out how to work around his problem).
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There was one very famous Victorian scholar, if memory serves, who learned to read upside down by watching his father read evening prayers from the family Bible.
On the other hand, I don’t remember the name of the scholar offhand, so perhaps memory does not serve. C‘est la guerre.
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In that same panel, there are two (hard to identify) letters in the word “EMERGENCY” between “EMERG” and “ENCY”.
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The version of “By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion” I’m familiar with continues, “by the beans of Java my thought acquire speed, my hands acquire shakes, the shakes convey a warning.”
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Whinny voice.
Cut off from full caffeine. I can have one cup non-caffeine, with fat free half & half.
Not seriously that addicted. I’ve mentioned before that if I cannot have my real half & half with coffee, skip the coffee. But, long term? Forever. Whinny voice.
Good thing I am retired from working force. No matter how bad things are in retail checkout, I cannot blame the obvious targets. Sigh.
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The Reader asks if that is a permanent restriction? If so, odd. The Reader was allowed coffee once he left CCU for a stepdown recovery room in the hospital.
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IDK
Definitely a restriction for now. Just had my first *PCP post-op. I was allowed decaf in the cardiac unit (post ICU). One cup, with one of those small 1/2 & 1/2, low fat.
He had me listen to my heart. I can “feel” something, sometimes, when it beats fast. But I do not hear it. Some complain that they can.
(*) The one who tracks everything across the board. Who I can message if we need “help”.
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I am going to have to find a way to use the low bar – limbo in H-ll quote somehow, somewhere. The context is going to be a challenge, though, unless a character accidentally walks in on someone getting “remonstrated with” by a former NCO or the like.
I thought I had cleaned up all of the plastic from around the new HVAC air filter. I’d accounted for it, hustled it into the garbage can, and was getting on with life … And I saw Jase. With a clear “string” in his mouth as he was chewing on something. It was a strip of the wrap that had hidden. He’d found it and was devouring. Thanks be I managed to get it back before he finished swallowing it.
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Recalls Sara the Lab-Aussie cross who chewed and ate some of a miniature afghan. It passed through, but the technicolor nature of her stool was an eye-opener. We kept telling her to use the Aussie brain. Sometimes that worked, but chewing and “food” behavior was strictly in the Lab half.
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I would watch “Scooby Doo Noir.”
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Someone also did AI art of the gang as D&D characters. I’d watch that. Even though the idea of Shaggy as a fighter/paladin is disconcerting.
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Wisdom = 7
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And “Mister Based Visits HR” is just unrealistic – IN my long cubicalland career I have never seen one such smoking hot HR lady, let alone two. Jus’ sayin’.
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The turning all the lights backwards gets me. I’ve had days like that and probably weeks. Not only did I do it wrong, but I had to rip it all out and do it right.
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Tinsley and Bertil – which is the guy, which the girl?
I cannot tell, either. Never heard of them. Names are, at the least, unhelpful.
Looked up one of them; Tinsley is the chick.
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If the mummies come alive, is it still a tomb? Therefore no longer an archeological site, just someone’s home that the archeologist is invading? I’d be pissed too.
Also, wrt cats bringing presents, we had a kitten escape out the back door. The older cat carried the kitten’s favorite little stuffed alligator up to the bedroom and sat meowing at us.
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Calling THAT PLACE Gay North Dakota seems entirely apposite until you realize it’s actually closer to Gay Minnesota.
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Thanks! Moving on Labor Day was once a tradition for me. I hope your move goes well.
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