Good morning one and all to another spectacular day!
Trump lawyers request federal court intervene in hush money case
Kamala’s Train Wreck Interview
Trump’s $563 million in civil penalties could come due before year’s end
Inspector General Audit: FBI Mishandled 13 Percent of Child Sex Crime Cases from 2021-2023
Musk’s X Braces to Be Blocked in Brazil as Deadline Passes
X shutting down San Francisco headquarters on Friday the 13th
Shake Shack shuttering six California locations after $20 fast food minimum wage
Colorado City Council Member Says ‘Denver Is the Problem’ as Migrant Gangs Occupy Housing
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
If all Shake Shacks operate like the one near me, they can shut the lot of them down, minimum wage or not.
They add extras from the employees into the shakes?
There was one near me. It was torn down and replaced by self storage.
The one near me was Ok, but indistinguishable from McDonalds except for the prices.
“I can’t afford to shop at Dollar General” is right where the proggie froggies want us.
The last time I set foot in one, the place was so messy and the stock all a shambles – and it hadn’t even been looted, the staff just doesn’t give a damn and management couldn’t care less.
Yeah — but I have to confess when I read those articles yesterday I had to agree with the authors — if you can’t afford a Dollar General, where the heck are you shopping? Someone in one of the comments just said “Shoplifting” — which may either be their answer to that question or implying that the real impact to the DG bottom line is retail theft more than recession…. :shrug: All just rampant speculation with no real data.
Skipping non-essentials, “making do”, bodging and improvisational repairs.
What poor people have always done.
The same place all the NEETs are getting money to pay for housing, food, and essentials?
“if you can’t afford a Dollar General, where the heck are you shopping?”
Probably someone else’s property?
Dollar General and Family Dollar are both consistently higher on foodstuffs than Walmart and our local grocery chain. I don’t know why anybody shops there.
DG saves money for people by being real close to everyone where other stores aren’t available.
Here in Rural KY, I have a WalMart Market near by, but there are also five DG in about the same distance, and that’s because I’m relatively close to the WMM.
Here in small-town Iowa we have a grocery store (full service, but limited choices) and a Dollar General. The DG does provide some food choices, it is primarily there to provide some automotive items, household items, personal care, over-the-counter meds, and seasonal items. It’s 5 minutes from my house compared to 30 minutes to get to Walmart.
I’m glad its there. I use it on a semi-regular basis.
Kamala was not available for cackles.
Corporate Greed is making them close those stores!
Morning, Banjos — with the opening page image, I was expecting music more like this.
Hmmm… that reads like more of your typical “Throw every legal theory / motion at the wall and see what sticks” legal strategy. Seems like a stretch — and I would expect Fed courts are loath to snatch away state cases just because they’d have impacts beyond the state. It is a crap case and all, granted… just thinking that most Fed lower courts won’t be itching to jump in.
You mean the case with the uncharged, unspecified Federal crime that underpins the entire theory? I’m not so sure if for mo other reason than it makes them look bad on the Federal side, with their not prosecuting obvious criminals and all and having to be rescued by a lowly State.
Why is it not legal to do what this woman did?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/spanish-mother-burns-daughters-rapist-33379780?int_source=nba
Start one fire and it might catch on something you don’t want burning. Especially when he does the burny dance and runs around trying to put it out.
Do you really have to ask? I think a lot of the retaliation against people that see their legal systems exist to protect criminals – and that is by design, as the people designing them are criminals looking to protect their own asses for when they are caught – and take matters in their own hands when the law fails them, is to keep thse vile and failed systems viable.
Knee jerk response from emotion: Because the government can’t allow any infringement on its monopoly of force (or people might start wondering just what they’re keeping the current mob in charge for anyway).
A little more thoughtful response: Because as flawed as the process evidently was (9 year sentence for doing that to a 13 year old? Really?), it was followed and he’d been administered justice by the proper process. Moving outside of it seems justified in this case, but can easily lead to people being punished/killed for things they didn’t do. As with all good (as I perceive them) government processes — the wheels of justice turn slowly to try to prevent wrongful prosecution (OMB now flips me off…. yeah yeah, corruption in the system, I know). So you have to make a bit of an example out of these occasions so the Justice system is kept in play.
TL;DR — go watch just about any of the early seasons of Law & Order — they’re constantly ranting / dealing with cases where they’re worried about sparking more vigilante justice and community backlash.
All that said, if I were on a jury I seriously doubt I would have convicted her. Combination of severe emotional distress, perceived threat (since he knows where she lives and was taunting her and her daughter and all) and the good ole “Some folks just need killin'”.
Or go watch the opening scene of the Godfather.
He provoked the attack. Totally justified.
Hell, if I knew ahead of time the penalty for excising my kid’s rapist was 5.5 years, I’d really like to think I’d take that bargain.
Oh go take a furry flying leap, server squirrels. Had a two paragraph rant on the CO gangs — didn’t copy it to clipboard (of course).. gone in the squirrel urine smelling ether. Sigh.
TL;DR — what I said yesterday and the morons sure seem to want to stir up a race war style incident so they can J6 the whole country and sell politics of envy.
I’ll take the hint and go play Stars in Shadow until work or something, you rodents with good PR and rack storage….
It’s Reconstruction 2.0: the whole country this time.
I hate carbon monoxide gangs.
YOU WILL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE COPPERS!!!!
Your proposal is acceptable.
Why you hate Charlie?
“X shutting down San Francisco headquarters on Friday the 13th”
I am wondering how many others are following suit considering how bad things are in Cali now.
The Ukrainian F-16 that crashed – shot down by a Ukrainian Patriot missile. Your tax dollars at work.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-us-made-f16-jet-downed-ukraine-during-combat-pilot-killed
The Broken Windows fallacy taken to its logical conclusion?
The self supporting military industrial complex.
That was on purpose. The Ghost of Kiev apparently retired and they needed a sub.
“Support.” There’s that word. Not that I believe her on this, but this is very telling that she thinks the middle class need the positive action of support, rather the negative action of government leaving them the fuck alone and getting the hell out of the way.
I shudder at the thought of a “new way forward,” particularly one led by her administration.
“Not that I believe her on this, but this is very telling that she thinks the middle class need the positive action of support,”
Tonio, I usually ignore what people say – and especially politicians – and look at what they do. It is impossible to dismiss that the team blue strategy over the last 3 decades has become clear and is to wreck the blue collar middle class as part of their globalist agenda. As long as the US has a solid workers middle class, America will fight giving up its rights and values to a Malthusian globalist cabal and its agenda of murdering half or more of humanity and returning us all to a feudal marxist system where they are a permanent aristocracy.
This claim was not just a blatant lie, but an in your face case of “Ignore your own eyes and believe our bullshit”.
Nothing says supporting the middle class like letting the current OMB tax cuts expire (tax jump for everyone next year), putting back the SALT exemptions and her mythical unrealized capital gains tax scheme…. No one in the middle class relies on jobs from the investment class or anything (or has 401ks or stocks given that the requirements to be taxed will inevitably creep down just like the income tax… and I expect soon).
Look at California, after all…. middle class is doing so wonderfully here with their policies.
Something rarely mentioned: Most, if not all, retirements for PubSec employees are funded by index funds. Let’s punish those evil, greedy corporations.
The support will be of the handing out crutches after a kneecapping.
I’m pretty sure that the assets funding pubsec pensions are held by non-taxed government entities, so their pensions will be untouched by this.
Unlike people who worked in the private sector and whose retirements are funded by securities held in their own name.
Yep, it’s the same old “radical comprehensive change” with lipstick.
You are right to be afraid.
I am more curious on how the Biden years were so magnificent that they need a “new way forward”
The same way the most robust economy in history needs price controls.
Whenever I hear that, I think of a support group.
This support group will help you accept that you are now poor.
“Inspector General Audit: FBI Mishandled 13 Percent of Child Sex Crime Cases from 2021-2023”
I call bullshit. I think their level of purposeful incompetence is over 50% unless it is trying to fuck over the political enemies of the deep state.
But the food must be amazing.
LOL
Oh, bravo.
One of my pet peeves is that whenever someone starts rhapsodizing and the benefits of “diversity”, about the only specific they can give is “But, muh ethnic restaurants!”
You can take my Indian food, Eastern European bakeries, and German breweries away from me over my dead body.
Banana Republic monkey sham prosecution is a sham. We all know it. They know it. They know we know it and dont give a shit.
The same lickspittles that declared Joe Biden hit it out of the park in his debate with Trump are now declaring the Harris interview a stroke of genius. Yep.
Speaking of amoral lickspittles….the NYT?
They really have bet the farm on one throw of the dice. If Trump wins this….I am not sure what will happen. An actual, real Jan. 6 insurrection? The ‘all projection all of the time’ crowd refusing to relinquish power (not sure how that would work)? You can bet they have already thought that through.
Back to my blackpilled view – the FBI? Ya’ dont say. It’s almost like they are really a militarized political arm of the ruling party rather than a law enforcement agency.
What’s with this global ‘everyone is subject to my local jurisdiction’ attitude that seems to be getting more prominent?
Moving out of the frying pan into the fire? SF to Austin, really? *facepalm*
True, Dollar stores customer base are the people hit hardest by the ‘Bidenomics’ assault on the economy.
And another victim of Bidenomics bites the dust. I wonder how much the bigger fast food co’s had to do with this. It seems to be biting them just as much as their smaller competitors.
*If you think the quality of restaurant foods is the worst, just wait a bit*
Did I overhear something about Polis characterizing the gang takeover as ‘just their imagination’ and the videos of said gangs ‘AI generated’? Or was that just newscaster snark?
“A New Low: Press Attack Gold Star Families Over Arlington National Cemetery Ceremony to Go After Trump”
These people are evil. Team blue not wanting to show up to this function, all because they are desperately trying to memory hole that their direct choices & actions again cost US servicemen their lives for no good reason (like Benghazi and numerous others), requires them to send their propagandists attack Trump because the contrast and impact are telling.
Dispicable.
Yesterday wife tells me she saw a ‘man on the street’ interview. One of the interviewee’s, a middle aged black woman, was asked who she is voting for. She gave a sly smile, put her finger to her lips hush hush style and said “You know who I am voting for”.
I think a lot of that is going to happen in Nov.
I’m certain of it.
Is it enough to overcome MASSIVE fraud? “RANDOM” machine malfunctions? And other assorted shenanigans?
Sean the answer to that question is that we have to overwhelm them with votes so the cheating is blatant. Demoralization and having people give up an not vote is one of the big pillars of the fortification agenda.
In 2016 we beat the cheating. In 2020 it was obvious they cheated, but they caught people by surprise and were able to force the country to live with the cheating. In 2024 I am expecting that the level of cheating for them to rig it will be so high that it will be impossible to hide it. So, if they do what it takes to steal that election, this time their will be no surprise element and the reaction will be different.
Taking this with a grain of salt, but I am also seeing a lot of videos of very enthusiastic black Trump supporters. That might swing the election.
Unfortunately, not nearly enough in Philly, Detroit, Madison, or Phoenix to make a difference.
Jared Polis – Born in Co, raised in Ca, graduated from Princeton.
That dude has as much business being governor as I do flying an Airbus 800 fully loaded.
The political class really has sunk to pre-French revolution levels of stupid.
Walz couldn’t make it in Nebraska, moved to MN, now vying to move on up to the east side.
But TOS spoked a joint with him one time and did interviews with him. He’s so dreamy and basically a libertarian!
If you thought the criminality and abuse was accidental, think that no more.
My engineering background makes me look at systems. I am gonna tell you that one of the obvious and unavoidable conclusions from programs (systems) government runs is that their level of failure and fraudulent activity are by design.
This spigot is open again, because it is part of the election “fortification” of 2024, and they do not care you see them doing something this stupid. After all, they have spent the last 2 decades using “incompetence” as an excuse for criminality, and had no repercussions or consequences for saying they are inept, instead of admitting they are evil.
Biden could go on national television live and slur and mumble about cheerfully welcoming the violent gangs that Maduro is sending us and the media would not bat an eye.
There is no need for “optics” anymore.
It’s Orwellian.
I have worked for some other companies where I kind of felt shit like this was the norm….
Speaking of, I finished Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War. I liked it. I especially liked looking at the actress playing Josephine. Rawr.
It’s appropriate because Wells Fargo funded Earp’s killing spree. Over $1000 just for general purposes plus bonuses for Cowboys killed.
You saying it was a honest living?
I thought they hired a detective to look into that — a real huckleberry hound.
I hesitate to watch anything produced by Netflix that purports to depict history. Any sense of Netflix’s corporate bias in the representation of events?
It’s purportedly a documentary. There are talking-head shots of profs from various western universities, some of them wearing cowboy hats or bolo ties. The only woke-adjacency is framing (part of) the conflict as a US v. CSA thing.
I am reminded of the movie ‘Joe Versus the Volcano’.
Dollar General: Instead of pablum like “financially constrained customers”, they could maybe notice that they’ve aggressively overbuilt a gajillion stores and are trying to operate with probably 50% more overhead than they really need.
“Hey look, they’re building a Dollar General across the street from the Dollar General.”
I remember that their plan was to lure away half of Walz-mart customers. I am not sure why but they were doing a pretty decent job, it just didn’t work.
During the scamdemic war mart was having customers stand in line in blistering heat so only a dozen or so could enter the store at a time. That pissed me off. I took my list, quite varied, over to Dollar General. No line, no mask. They had everything I wanted at lower prices. I remarked to the clerk about it. She said “I know. I keep trying to tell people!”
They should stick to the original formula of placing stores in urban shithole neighborhoods that other retailers don’t want to touch with a ten foot pole, lower income small towns, and rural areas where there are few other choices.
Yeah, this too. There’s two locations in my town where there’s a Family Dollar that’s literally a stone’s throw from a DG and the DGs were more recently built. Whoever hammered out their decision tree for store placement must’ve been drunk.
Competing businesses that are not the market leader often use the market leader as location scouts. That’s why there was usually a BK near a McDonald’s, a Rite-Aid (or other regional drug store) near the Walgreens, and gas stations across the street from each other. If it’s a good location, and you’re in the same market, and are looking to compete. Why do your own research when you can try to take the other guy’s customers.
Feeling out the chances of allowing them to rig the election yet again…
I am going to bring back a classic for that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z11pQzzEYUU
Piss on them.
The Mrs. and I have been sick all week. Might just be a bad head cold, might be covid. We haven’t tested in years and don’t plan on it now. We have a virus, doesn’t really matter what name it has.
Don’t worry:
Free COVID-19 tests available by mail again
Why do I feel like I’m a worse version of every time loop story?
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
Or something.
*shrug*
After finally being forced to admit that none of the measures had any effect whatsoever (many of us knew they would not from day one) how can anyone open their mouth and say that? I could not bring myself to read the entire thing but Jesus what a huge pack of lies and propaganda. As a country are we really going to fall for this horseshit again?
I thought the bar of how stupid too many people were already set, they are just gauging if they can get that ball rolling again.
Migrant Gangs Occupy Housing
How has this not also happening in New York or Chicago? Or, maybe gangs tied to various ethnicities established their territorial control a long time ago, so it’s nothing new in those cities.
Just because we have not heard about it – and in today’s media environment, that is likely the case – doesn’t mean it isn’t happening..
Haven’t you seen this documentary about the urban areas?
Dead Rabbits assemble!
New York and Chicago both went through this in the late 60’s to the early 80’s. Denver is just a little bit behind the times.
This isn’t that big a deal. If the gangs are a real threat, we can just have F-16’s light up Aurora and teach them a lesson.
“Columbus Blue Jackets forward Johnny Gaudreau dead in New Jersey accident”
https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/nhl/columbus-blue-jackets/2024/08/30/columbus-blue-jackets-johnny-gaudreau-dead-bike-accident-crashnew-jersey-calgary-flamesnhl/75009208007/
Really sad story. He was out biking with his brother yesterday and got hit by a drunk driver. He and his brother died. Their sister was supposed to get married today. He also had 2 little kids.
All because of a drunk asshole in a hurry.
He was a hell of a player.
I know those roads. I wouldn’t want to bike on them particularly in the dark.
Not that I’m trying to absolve the drunk in any way.
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“By recommending and promoting videos including the “Blackout Challenge” to 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, who “unintentionally hanged herself” carrying it out, “TikTok’s algorithm … was TikTok’s own ‘expressive activity'” rather than the little girl’s, meaning Section 230 doesn’t bar her mother Tawainna Anderson’s claims, the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit ruled….
If the little girl had found the Blackout Challenge by searching TikTok, rather than through the platform’s “For You Page” uniquely curated to each user, “then TikTok may be viewed more like a repository of third-party content than an affirmative promoter,” the opinion said. (X, formerly Twitter, also has a “For You” curated feed for each user, distinct from their “Following” lists.)”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/holy-s-tiktok-may-be-held-liable-girls-death-upending-three-decades-tech
TikTok is cancer, but I don’t see how they are liable for this girls’ death.
These companies have been playing publisher while enjoying the immunity of platforms for a long time. They have been pushed into that position by the govt’s desperate desire to censor their content. True, TikTok is the least sympathetic platform out there and I dont know enough about this to have a recommendation.
The sad fact is that the parents are ultimately responsible. No one wants to hear that, but that is the case. Ten year old’s have no business looking at any of these platforms unsupervised and no, some blocking algorithm is not a substitute for a parent’s eyes.
Without knowing the exact specifics, I’d say the suit is unlikely to succeed. But 230 is bullshit; the courts could have handled these issues by establishing case law precedents for the past 30 years without a grant of blanket immunity.
S. 230 was FedGov deciding to give internet commerce an advantage. Like Solyndra, except people liked the entities being benefitted.
The problem with 230 is that it has been interpreted to immunize platforms against claims for anything except content they generate themselves. It should be interpreted to immunize them only against claims for content generated by others, with the other functions of a publisher (editing, including promoting, demoting, demonetizing, etc.) not being protected. And, the allowance to block content that is offensive has been abused (a single complaint from a single nutter is used to block content if the platform wants to anyway, or even the possibility of a complaint), and should be reigned in as well.
Hard to follow the nitty gritty details but I suspect none of the steps the government is going to want to take are for anyone’s good but their own.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women….
I’m not really impressed by Zuckerberg’s “change of heart”. Just now Mrs. TOK had something on Facebook covered up with a warning about “violent content”. It was a short prayer about “God save our country from those who want to destroy it”.
They also censored that Trump assassination attempt photo.
I’m sure Zuck will express his regret in a letter 6 years from now.
Yeah. Too little, too late, too phoney. Fuck that guy.
Five Guys Down To Just Two Guys After California Minimum Wage Increase
https://babylonbee.com/news/five-guys-down-to-just-two-guys-after-california-minimum-wage-increase
The better one was ‘Elon Musk declares bankruptcy after buying a full meal deal at Burger King’ or something like that.
So did Animal make a passive aggressive comment on UCS visiting Kinnath?
I don’t know about that, but it was full of Swiss bait:
He does that a lot and I love it.
That is what I was thinking!
Priceless.
TOK:
If he is going to rip us off, he should at least give me some sort of shoutout for being so good looking
“Failed Republican presidential candidate and former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, has landed a new job at Yale.
Christie will teach a new course at Yale titled “How to Run a Political Campaign.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/failed-presidential-candidate-chris-christie-lands-new-job/
Still better than personal trainer.
It is good to know that the Red part of uniparty is capable of failing upward (or laterally, depending on how you value such things) as well.
He was a 2-term Governor in New Jersey.
It’s a shame he and Trump had a falling out. Probably Pence or Kushner that pushed him out of the inner circle. He would have made a far better AG than Sessions or the fat fink.
Compared to Christie?
Somewhat slimmer deep-state fink with weird connections to Epstein who ignored riots and election rigging.
Christie was a nakedly corrupt fat fuck who used the power of the state for his own petty ends. He might have been more willing to use the DoJ to perform hatchet jobs on (D)’s but that in no way makes him a “better” AG.
I agree with your first sentence. Sadly, he was by far the best Governor we had during the 26 years I lived in NJ. And my opinion is he still would have been far better than Barr or Sessions because he will brawl when needed.
Now I remember – he was cut out because he had sent Kushner’s mobster dad to jail.
Bullshit. That is a Bee article. You aren’t fooling me.
True Dat…
He’s got a good view of things. He predicted a year ago Biden would not be running.
Yeah, on Twitter he’s quite consistently on the mark in a way that Glibs would tend to cheer.
i.e. sock puppets. One is like another. We are gonna need a demolition crew to clean up this mess.
“X shutting down San Francisco headquarters on Friday the 13th”
SF is looking better than it has in a decade right now. Most of the encampments have been cleared out and the only place that still has significant numbers of street denizens is the Loin and part of Soma adjacent Market Street, but those places have had that going on for as long as I’ve been around. I hope this keeps up. Part of it is an election coming up and the main challenger to our bullshit mayor has been taking a hardline on homeless druggies. The other is the Supreme Court decision. The Martin v Boise decision created an absolute shitshow that made an existing issue far, far worse. Literally within days of the SC ruling there were major improvements. To see more improvements, commital laws would and should change.
These homeless people that were there, where are they now?
Jail.
Shelters and many of them have moved or been shipped back to where they are from as most are not from here anyway but came because of the weather, lenient drug laws and tacit permission to camp.
Fuck the Martin v Boise decision. I live in a pretty nice neighborhood – no homeless people. Go to what passes for the town in my bedroom community – no zombies. Drive to my old office, right down the street from Bill Gates’ house – no zombies.
Somehow Martin doesn’t seem to apply where the rich folk live.
Is Market Street still a long string of empty storefronts?
Yup, pretty much. Random businesses interspersed with vacant fronts. SF’s long shutdowns combined with years of drug free for all have really fucked over commercial real estate, especially downtown. Market has been down at its heels for decades tho now, as it is a really inconvenient place to drive to and park. I don’t know when that will see a revitalization, if ever. During the government pandemic it got to ludicrous levels all over the City. I was as busy as I ever have been driving around a city that looked post apocalyptic doing jobs amid the riff raff that quickly moved in. The difference now is night and day.
You don’t score until you score!
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Huh. Google nooz headline from NYT calls Harris interview “vague” and “vacuous”
It’s Bret Stephens, but still…
Not vapid?
Not one word of it was not part of a platitude.
Bret “we must support Israel” Stephens.
He was barely tolerable when he wrote for the WSJ and now that he is with the NYT he is useless.
Atlantic headline- “good-enough”
I guess she managed to stay awake and not forget the interviewer’s name.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
If you leave out the prices which go up, it don’t look so bad
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, core PCE also increased 0.2% for the month but was up 2.6% from a year ago. The 12-month figure was slightly softer than the 2.7% estimate.
Fed officials tend to focus more on the core reading as a better gauge of long-run trends. Both core and headline inflation on a 12-month basis were the same as in June.
Core prices less housing increased just 0.1% on the month. As other inflation components ease, shelter has proven to be stubborn, again rising 0.4% in July, according to Friday’s report.
They should make an index of stuff nobody buys.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices
Throw in housing, and you have 90% of the monthly budget of the working poor.
That’s most of most people’s budgets.
STOP! I can’t get any harder
Nice to see that they have memory-holed Trump keeping Fauci on the payroll. How long before Kamala starts running ads criticizing Trump (and Biden) for keeping T-chi on the payroll?
The data “points to the re-establishment of price stability across the American economy,” wrote Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM.
“The American economy is poised to grow at or above the long-term 1.8% rate as the Fed begins its rate-cutting campaign, which should put a floor under growth and hiring,” he added. “This data supports risk taking by the commercial sector as rates come down and by investors, who are now looking at a sustained increase in the economic expansion.”
Things are looking up for the all-important chocolate ration indicator.
This is the so called deep state looks after itself. At some point the ‘believe us and not your lying eyes’ argument is going to fail.
I was trying to think of some crack on TOK. Then I realized these guys rock!
Even if they don’t do their thing on ice, more power to them. I should have made this the Daily Ray.
I have tried a few of the summer sports and damn is it exhausting. Biking and wheelchair racing in particular. I see a lot of those players are in their 30’s and 40’s, which is also cool. Thanks for the link!
lol.
A company I used to work for contributed heavily to the Courage Center in Mpls. A benefit was that we could go play hoops in their court once a week.
We’d show up and there would be wheelchair hoops going on. When their time slot was done about a third of the players would stand up and push their chairs over to the storage space. They were just there to play with their buddies.
Very cool.
We have 3 abled bodied guys on our team. One used to be our coach. We needed extra players for games, and after a season he was hooked. One used to play with his brother, but the brother moved away and he stayed on. It’s just fun. I think we are allowed 2 able bodied players on the ice at a time, and goalies can’t be able bodied.
A Harris economic advisor (didn’t know she had any) goes on CNBC and gets ripped on the unrealized capital gains tax proposal.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/08/30/watch-cnbc-hosts-ravage-harris-economic-adviser-over-vps-appalling-tax-plan-n2644058
Real taxes on imaginary money. Brilliant!
Thieves never change.
Quick, Imagine you have a million dollars. Wouldn’t that be great? Oh, by the way, you now owe the government $250,000 for that unrealized income.
Love,
Kammy
You would have to be suffering from chapped lips to not find this story funny
WHAT? Who says we can’t get whatever we want?!
“payouts and hiring priority at other Vestalia restaurants”
I don’t see what that has to do with their pay and working conditions at the restaurant they unionized and actually work in. It’s a transparent attempt by the union to place their operatives in other locations to unionize them. Cancer’s gonna metastasize, it’s what it does.
I remember the union members from my years in state employment. They were, to a man, poison. Not just on the job, they were all thoroughly unpleasant individuals on a personal level.
The best things about current unions is that they are discouraging youngsters from ever joining a union.
Altar Boy #2 despises the local grocery chain because they forced him to pay dues on a summer job as a cashier. Everyone should have to acknowledge that they are paying into a system where they get no benefits.
Are you sure? Look at all the young idiots who want to unionize Starbucks and the like.
The already ridiculously expensive hippy chain here is going to unionize. I can’t wait to laugh at their supporters when the prices get even more expensive.
Potentially tainted jury pool
Lawyers for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, argued Thursday to move his trial out of Latah County, which they said would be unable to provide an unbiased jury for the long-awaited trial.
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The defense states anonymous residents of Latah County, where the killings took place, told defense experts in telephone surveys if Kohberger is not convicted:
• “They’d burn the courthouse down. Outrage would be a mild description.”
• “They would probably find and kill him.”
• “There would likely be a riot and he wouldn’t last long outside because someone would do the good ole’ boy justice.”
This ties in with something Pope Jimbo linked a few days ago. We need professional salaried jurors, selected and paid by the government to render impartial and proper verdicts. Then our court system would be more nearly perfect.
This ties in with something Pope Jimbo linked a few days ago.
*blushes*
*tries to think about what he was
drunkshit-posting a few days ago**issues legal disclaimer*
No one should ever listen to me or my ideas. Ask my wife. 30+ years ago she reviewed my arguments about why we should get married and has regretted her decision ever since.
Dont the English have professional jurors? How is that working out?
Oh yeah now I remember, people go to prison for telling jokes or mumbling hate speech to themselves.
And not for raping children due to prison overcrowding.
And not for raping children due to prison overcrowding.
I have a solution for child rapists that won’t increase prison population.
The filing noted while respondents in Latah County said there would be outrage from the community if Kohberger was not convicted, respondents in Ada County said community members would “go on with life as always” and “take it well.”
During his testimony, Edelman said Ada County was selected for the survey because it’s the largest county in the state, with a population size of 406,068 people over the age of 18 while Latah County has 32,515 of the same demographic.
“We know in large counties, it’s less of a big deal when a case moves there. It doesn’t become the biggest story in that community,” he said.
The defense argued Moscow does not have the proper facilities to accommodate an intensely publicized three-month trial and cited the changing of venue to Ada County in high-profile cases like the murder trials of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell. Vallow was sentenced to life in prison and her husband, Daybell, to death for murdering Vallow’s two children and Daybell’s first wife.
“Bottom line, we don’t have a tent big enough for this media circus.”
*tries to think about what he was drunkshit-posting a few days ago*
Some story about a lack of equity and social justice in Minnasoda jury pools. And lousy pay.
Yeah. I got personally screwjobbed by that. I was a contractor at the time making very good money.
Got called into jury duty and got paid $15 (or something) a day. Nice.;
Mrs. Holiness was all about pretending we never got the summons. I felt like I’d like to get some sad sack out of jail.
Got rejected for two juries. Then got on a murder trial, but was an alternate and never actually got to vote. (Good New: the guy was acquitted).