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These politicians really have a great imagination. Just look at this: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/n...stockpile.html.
Menendez says that his father is guilty of his briberies because of traumatic experiences in his past associated with cash and finances. What?!
I know they try all kinds of things to escape jail, but not like this. Anyway, he'll be able to appeal the verdict. It says here, on this law firm's site, that the appeal can show that the law was not correctly applied by the trial judge or that the jurors were biased or showed misconduct. So, he may escape prison after all.Last edited by Don91; May 13, 2024, 06:00.
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Originally posted by Ming View PostHow many of Trumps Lies and alt right conspiracy theories have you fallen for.
TOO MANY TO LIST.
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Blah blah blah... Trump is OK, but all the Dems suck. Got it.
He has lied more than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT or POLITICIAN in recent history.
Maybe you should be attacking him as much as your perceived slights against the Dems.
But no... you come up with childish nick names for the Dems, but none for Trump... the biggest liar of them all.
Do you still believe he won the election?Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O
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Marjorie Taylor Greene fails to remove House Speaker
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House of Representatives has failed.
She had demanded Johnson be kicked out due to his support for a $61bn aid package for Ukraine.
However, Democrats joined Republicans in a 359-43 vote to kill her motion.
Ms Greene's speech on the House floor was met by loud boos from other members of the chamber.
The long-telegraphed motion proved to be a rare act of defiance against the party's presumptive nominee - Donald Trump. He had previously voiced support for the House Speaker and called the drive to oust him "unfortunate".
Only two other Republican members of Congress supported Ms Greene's motion: Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar.
Joined by Mr Massie, Ms Greene stood on the House floor and criticised Mr Johnson for a series of compromises he has struck with Democrats, who hold a majority in the Senate.
"This is the 'uniparty' for the American people watching," she said of politicians in the chamber as they booed her. "By passing the Democrats' agenda and handcuffing the Republicans' ability and influence legislation, our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has aided and abetted the Democrats and the Biden administration in destroying our country," she added.
Mr Johnson could be seen walking around the House floor after Ms Greene began her motion, with Republican supporters shaking his hand and patting him on the back.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68981084I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
Difference is irrelevant when dosage is higher than recommended!
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Originally posted by Berzerker View Post
Can you list 3? I was a devoted MSNBC fan until 2018 and I believed Trump was compromised by Russia. Then in 2018 I found out MSNBC was lying and Russiagate was Hillary's campaign strategy of smearing Trump as a traitor. And I found out Obama's FBI lied to a Fisa court to spy on him before the election based on Hillary's lies. My sin was believing those lies. Trump is a liar but he wasn't lying about that, the people I trusted were lying about him.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.
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Originally posted by Dauphin View Post
All this tells me is you have limited ability for critical rationale thought of your own, and have an innate need to be told what to believe by someone.
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A new study coming from researchers at CU Boulder, reveals that precipitation, not temperature, will keep the Colorado River fuller than previous research told us. - CBS
They're predicting a wetter 2-3 decades in the SW
but the temperature is related to rain, water evaporates faster when its warmer
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'Boneless' chicken wings can have bones, US court rules
Boneless chicken wings do not have to be bone-free, Ohio's top court ruled, ending a lawsuit filed by a man who fell ill after swallowing a piece of bone from his order.
Michael Berkheimer sued Wings on Brookwood in 2016, saying the restaurant failed to warn him that the boneless wings could in fact contain bones, a piece of which became lodged in his throat and caused an infection.
The court on Thursday ruled that "boneless wing" refers to "cooking style" and is not to be taken literally.
The 4-3 ruling was peppered with dissent, with one judge calling the majority opinion "utter jabberwocky".
But a majority of the judges considered being cautious of bones in a boneless wing to be common sense.
Writing for the majority, Justice Joseph T Deters said: "A diner reading ‘boneless wings’ on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating ‘chicken fingers’ would know that he had not been served fingers."
The chicken wing controversy began in 2016, when Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a restaurant in Hamilton, Ohio.
He ordered what has been described as his "usual" - boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce - when he noticed a piece go down uncomfortably.
Three days later, he began to feel feverish and went to the emergency room. Doctors discovered a long, thin bone that caused a tear in his oesophagus and a subsequent infection.
Mr Berkheimer later sued the restaurant, accusing them of failing to warn him that the “boneless wings” might contain bones.
In the lawsuit, he also accused the supplier and the farm that produced the chicken of negligence.
Lower courts had dismissed Mr Berkheimer's suit, which then landed in the state's supreme court.
A majority of the justices considered it common knowledge that chickens have bones, and sided with the lower courts against him.
"The food item's label on the menu described a cooking style; it was not a guarantee," Justice Deters wrote.
However, the dissenting justices felt like the decision should have sat with a jury and not with the court's justices.
Justice Michael P Donnelly wrote in dissent: “The question must be asked: Does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings or chicken tenders or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken? Of course they don’t.
“When they read the word ‘boneless,’ they think that it means ‘without bones,’ as do all sensible people.”
I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
Difference is irrelevant when dosage is higher than recommended!
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