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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2003
- Views: 288976
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
The only non-union Volkswagen plant in the world was located in Tennessee. Until the day before yesterday when workers there voted -- over the warnings of several Republican governors -- to join the UAW. Apparently it's been decades since this happened in a U.S. auto plant. President Biden has issue...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
I forgot that in the 2016 recording that Michael Cohen made of himself and Donald Trump discussing payments to be made to "our friend David," i.e., David Pecker, the owner of the National Enquirer , that Trump said of Pecker, "Maybe he gets hit by a truck." (This was reported in ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Didn't that come out in 1978? Yes, but in 1966, John Hurt played Richard Rich in the film version of A Man for All Seasons . RIch, who would rise to become Lord Chancellor a dozen years later, in 1535 gave the false testimony against Sir Thomas More that led to More's execution for treason. In the ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Elon's Twitter
- Replies: 454
- Views: 61391
Re: Elon's Twitter
CBS reports : "Brazil Supreme Court investigating Elon Musk over obstruction, disinformation on X". More on this story here . Apparently Michael Shellenberger, the independent "Twitter files" reporter whose claims (which were then shared by Elon Musk) led to the investigation, h...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 349
- Views: 47944
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
The U.S. is going to announce sanctions (per Axios) against the "Netzah Yehuda" battalion of the Israeli Defense Force. This battalion is said to have violated Palestinian rights in the West Bank.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
But in the end, it does More no good, because he is executed after a colleague (played by Aragorn in the 1966 movie!) gives false testimony in exchange for whales. Wait - what?? :scratch: Viggo was 8 years old in 1966! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOJoCuDWQAEif8u.jpg:large He had to be replaced by M...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:22 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1050
- Views: 114571
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, explains how she can support President Biden in the 2024 election in spite of strong differences with Biden on policy, notably as regards the U.S. support for Israel during the war with Hamas. She says that Donald Trump "seeks to dismantle Am...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Apparently, a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse shortly after jury selection ended. It would be premature to say what his motivation was. Reportedly, he was still alive when he was taken away in an ambulance. CNN was airing live outside as it happened. The two-minute video at this link...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
This made me laugh out loud. ... Needless to say, writing that the defendant "actually is the devil" is in fact good cause to dismiss a juror. There's a pretty good play (and film) whose protagonist argues to the contrary: William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:31 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 349
- Views: 47944
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
ABC reports that Israel has struck a military supply depot in Iran near the city of Isfahan.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2003
- Views: 288976
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
If President Biden's Uncle Bosey was eaten, it was likelier to have been by sharks than by cannibals, although the latter possibility can't be completely ruled out.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1050
- Views: 114571
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Kerry Kennedy, a human rights activist who is the younger sister of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., today endorsed President Biden's reelection.
In this, she was joined by another 14 members of the Kennedy family.
In this, she was joined by another 14 members of the Kennedy family.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:58 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
- Replies: 1313
- Views: 397075
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 612
- Views: 81433
Re: Chaos in Congress
Republican Congressman Jake LaTurner of Kansas, aged 36 and currently in his second term, announced today that he will not run for reelection this year.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 612
- Views: 81433
Re: Chaos in Congress
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Reporters often seem to lack a sense of balance and common sense. Agreed. Just because they have the First Amendment right to report on what potential jurors say about themselves in open court doesn't mean they should do so. Although in some cases , it may be that the dissemination of information a...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
And reporters are not happy about that: "anything said in open court is fair game." In which case, maybe Judge Merchan should close the court during jury selection? If a deranged Trump supporter identifies and murders a juror using facts supplied by a reporter, can the victim's family sue ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
I see that Judge Merchan today asked the press to, essentially, stop doxing jurors.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 198
- Views: 31450
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
She also said that friends and family have asked if she's a juror in this case and she's afraid her identify will become public. Which goes to a point I made on Tuesday.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:47 pm Well, we are going backwards. One of the jurors decided that she can't be fair and impartial after all and has been dismissed.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1012
- Views: 116583
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Agreed. Delay of any sort just plays into Vladimir Putin's hands. Speaking of which, one of Greene's amendments calls for the U.S. to withdraw from NATO.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:49 pm Which I thought was just as much a waste of time as Greene's amendments.