John Oliver Looks at America’s Horrific Death Penalty
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Why is Goodbye Twitter trending because OJ Simpson kicked the bucket?
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Since the death penalty was brought up.
A top Vietnamese property tycoon has been sentenced to death in one of the biggest corruption cases in history.
Truong My Lan, 67, will face death by lethal injection after a panel of three jurors and two judges rejected all defence arguments and found her guilty of swindling cash from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) over a decade.
The chair of major developer Van Thinh Phat was accused of fraud amounting to $12.5 billion (£10 billion) - nearly 3 per cent of the country’s 2022 GDP. But total damages have been estimated at $27 billion.
Photos of Lauren Sanchez, because why not.
dailymail.co.uk
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re: #8 Randall Gross
I might have a different opinion about the death sentence in our country if it was not just a weapon used against the lower classes and minorities.
re: #5 Shropshire Slasher
I’m staunchly anti-death penalty…but every once in a while I wonder what would happen if we took someone like Bernie Madoff and hung him from a light post on Wall Street…
An Indian chemical company, Avina Clean Hydrogen Inc., has purchased the last available #water supply from the Nueces River of South #Texas, raising concerns as reservoirs dwindle and drought persists.
Maybe we should be requiring these companies to make hydrogen from sea water.
rmit.edu.au.
“…Avina’s Nueces Green Ammonia plant plans to separate the hydrogen from water, convert it to ammonia and export it as a high-tech fuel alternative to oil and gas. It’s one of several such projects currently proposed in Texas, driven by federal subsidies. Governments and scientists say this technology plays an important role in the transition away from fossil fuels.
But officials in the nearby city of Corpus Christi have warned that the project could threaten the water supply for more than 600,000 regional customers.”
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“…Avina is one of at least 30 hydrogen and ammonia projects currently proposed in Texas, according to data from the Environmental Integrity Project, following federal legislation that laid out financial incentives for fossil fuel alternatives, aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses.”
texasobserver.org
OJ can rest now that Nicole’s killer is dead.
Fuck, can you imagine? This is why I’ve locked as much of our shit down as possible with YubiKeys.
“Accidentally”
😬 LA Times accidentally uses the name “Trump” in place of “Simpson” near the end of their obit: https://t.co/BVoH4fYKQz pic.twitter.com/Y5qLS6EN23
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re: #17 goddamnedfrank
I get the feeling nobody asked the CA EPA how cool they are with this “fix”
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Here’s an article listing which models are subject to “recall.”
re: #17 goddamnedfrank
That’s not a fix. That’s a Ford Pinto II, waiting to happen without a collision.
The fix, such as it is, is a Rube Goldberg attempt to distract from the inability to replace the core component that breaks so readily that it causes fires.
re: #19 lawhawk
That’s not a fix. That’s a Ford Pinto II, waiting to happen without a collision.
The fix, such as it is, is a Rube Goldberg attempt to distract from the inability to replace the core component that breaks so readily that it causes fires.
More like unwilling than unable.
re: #19 lawhawk
That’s not a fix. That’s a Ford Pinto II, waiting to happen without a collision.
The fix, such as it is, is a Rube Goldberg attempt to distract from the inability to replace the core component that breaks so readily that it causes fires.
I think it is more of a mitigation so it doesn’t catch fire before you can get the part replaced. Since it is cutting engine power I doubt it is meant to be operated in that manner, it is the equivalrnt of a donut spare tire. It is just meant to get you to the nearest service station.
re: #22 danarchy
I think it is more of a mitigation so it doesn’t catch fire before you can get the part replaced. Since it is cutting engine power I doubt it is meant to be operated in that manner, it is the equivalrnt of a donut spare tire. It is just meant to get you to the nearest service station.
It’s this. This is basically, “We need to do something before they sue the pants off of us, but we can’t physically yank the cars off the road.”
re: #23 Dave In Austin
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
re: #10 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I might have a different opinion about the death sentence in our country if it was not just a weapon used against the lower classes and minorities.
nah, it’s still wrong, it’s still barbaric, and it is never justice… just revenge.
re: #12 jaunte
Maybe we should be requiring these companies to make hydrogen from sea water.
rmit.edu.au.
I wonder how much this is related to Greg Abbott’s recent India visit, where he was drumming up support for Indian investments in Texas, at the same time there was a Republican-made “border crisis” on the southern border.
I wonder if there there is a better article for this? I looked at the article from my phone (because Texas observer is blocked by work for some weird reason), but it claimed liquid Hydrogen had to be stored at -500 Farhenheit. (spelling theirs), which is below absolute zero.)
re: #25 Nerdy Fish
It’s this. This is basically, “We need to do something before they sue the pants off of us, but we can’t physically yank the cars off the road.”
Civil law firms are presently seeking plaintiffs in preparation for litigation.
re: #15 goddamnedfrank
Fuck, can you imagine? This is why I’ve locked as much of our shit down as possible with YubiKeys.
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it’s not that surprising, honestly. Ohtani has been a professional athlete since the age of 18 - which is around the time that he met Mizuhara. A lot of professional athletes surround themselves with people they trust and give them access to their personal affairs that most normal people wouldn’t. It allows the athlete to focus on their training and sport while others handle the basic business things in their lives. Mizuhara, it seems, abused that trust.
re: #12 jaunte
Maybe we should be requiring these companies to make hydrogen from sea water.
rmit.edu.au.
it’s merely the opening salvo of corporations and billionaires buying precious resources, like water, and offering them for resale to those with the means to pay. think marstown in total recall
re: #31 KGxvi
A lot of entertainers and athletes put trust/faith in people close to them to do right by them on financial matters. Yet we see people abuse that trust/faith all the time.
Is that the case here? Possibly.
But the amounts of money, the illegal sports book, and how/when the money left Ohtani accounts raise serious questions about who knew what and when, and whether it was theft or Ohtani knew what was going on because he was using his friend to place bets.
re: #32 sizzzzlerz
And Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife: en.wikipedia.org
Huh, storm sirens just went off. Nothing in the sky, nothing on radar, nothing on the weather site, wrong day of the month & time for a test. Already shutting down. Weird.
re: #29 aatharuv
I wonder how much this is related to Greg Abbott’s recent India visit, where he was drumming up support for Indian investments in Texas, at the same time there was a Republican-made “border crisis” on the southern border.
I wonder if there there is a better article for this? I looked at the article from my phone (because Texas observer is blocked by work for some weird reason), but it claimed liquid Hydrogen had to be stored at -500 Farhenheit. (spelling theirs), which is below absolute zero.)
It is minus 423 so the word “about” in that article is doing some very heavy lifting. Of course that is at atmospheric pressure. Liquid hydrogen is generally stored under pressure so it doen’t need to be cooled so much. The problem with storing large amounts of volatile fuel at high pressure is fairly apparent though.
re: #15 goddamnedfrank
Fuck, can you imagine? This is why I’ve locked as much of our shit down as possible with YubiKeys.
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i’ve been hoping ohtani wasn’t involved in some gambling scandal. he seems to be a good guy but is apparently naive and too trusting. this is gonna be a hard lesson.
Teaser trailer for the upcoming Yorgos Lanthimos film Kinds of Kindness just dropped. The synopsis is:
Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable with segments following a man without choice who tries to take control of his life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing at sea has returned and seems to be a different person; and a woman who is determined to find a specific someone destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. Directed and co-written by Yorgos Lanthimos.
re: #35 William Lewis
Huh, storm sirens just went off. Nothing in the sky, nothing on radar, nothing on the weather site, wrong day of the month & time for a test. Already shutting down. Weird.
I don’t know about you guys on that side of the St. Croix, but over here, we have a Severe Weather Awareness Week where the state schedules a tornado drill, in addition to the regular tornado siren test on the first Wednesday of the month.
re: #38 Dr Lizardo
Teaser trailer for the upcoming Yorgos Lanthimos film Kinds of Kindness just dropped. The synopsis is:
Stars Emma Stone, Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. Directed and co-written by Yorgos Lanthimos.
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Is she playing twins ;)
re: #32 sizzzzlerz
it’s merely the opening salvo of corporations and billionaires buying precious resources, like water, and offering them for resale to those with the means to pay. thinks marstown in total recall
Water, the golden molecule.
We grow food with it, drink it, bathe in it, and shit in it.
re: #9 gocart mozart
I love Charo. But Kato Kaelin?
re: #39 Nerdy Fish
I don’t know about you guys on that side of the St. Croix, but over here, we have a Severe Weather Awareness Week where the state schedules a tornado drill, in addition to the regular tornado siren test on the first Wednesday of the month.
Possible - a grade school couple of blocks away could have timed their drill to the sirens.
re: #37 sizzzzlerz
i’ve been hoping ohtani wasn’t involved in some gambling scandal. he seems to be a good guy but is apparently naive and too trusting. this is gonna be a hard lesson.
The other MLB team owners are less sad at missing out on the Ohtani lottery.
re: #44 William Lewis
re: #46 Nerdy Fish
According to the front page of my local NWS branch it is Severe Weather Week in MD.
weather.gov
re: #28 KGxvi
nah, it’s still wrong, it’s still barbaric, and it is never justice… just revenge.
which I’d kind of be okay with, if only they didn’t so often convict the wrong guy (the Innocence Project has been able to fully exonerate, with absolute proof, almost 3% of the people on death row in various states.)
re: #35 William Lewis
Huh, storm sirens just went off. Nothing in the sky, nothing on radar, nothing on the weather site, wrong day of the month & time for a test. Already shutting down. Weird.
Sirens went off here too in the great 1st ring Twin Cities suburbia at the seemingly random time of 1:43pm on not a Wednesday.
Most likely explanation is a controlled test of the synchronization of vaccine nanoparticles with the 5G network.
Recent bond auction wasn’t good.
The Treasury sold $39 billion in re-opened 10-year notes at the highest yields since early November yet saw slumping demand from foreign and domestic investors following today’s hot March inflation report.
The sale drew bids worth just over $91.2 billion, generating a demand ratio of around 2.34, down from the 2.51 level recorded last month.
Dealers were forced to take around 24% of the sale, a huge increase from the 20% level last month and the ten-auction of 15%, as foreign investors backed-away from the auction even with the richer overall yields.
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Mortgage rates climbed past the 7% mark last week, according to data published Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers’ Association, and are likely to accelerate further into the spring following today’s spike in 10-year bond yields that has the benchmark paper trading north of 4.5%.
In November of last year, when 10-year yields were last trading at that level, the average rate on a 30-year fixed rate was pegged at around 7.4% to 7.5%
re: #31 KGxvi
it’s not that surprising, honestly. Ohtani has been a professional athlete since the age of 18 - which is around the time that he met Mizuhara. A lot of professional athletes surround themselves with people they trust and give them access to their personal affairs that most normal people wouldn’t. It allows the athlete to focus on their training and sport while others handle the basic business things in their lives. Mizuhara, it seems, abused that trust.
I won’t even talk about household finances with anybody except State licensed professionals and these people are all “Hey bro I trust you here’s my computer and password list just go ahead and raw dog my brokerage account.”
re: #52 goddamnedfrank
Like, I’m sure the leagues make reasonable attempts to financially educate new talent but clearly more needs to be done because motherfuckers ain’t listening.
She still needs considerable treatment. I don’t think she shaved her head, but plucked out the hairs.
The Slender Man stabber who nearly killed a classmate when she was 12-years-old is too dangerous to be released from a mental hospital, a court has heard.
Morgan Geyser, now 21, has requested to leave Winnebago Mental Health Institute on conditional release, 10 years after she was ordered to spend 40 years there over the 2014 stabbing of Payton Leutner, who was also 12 at the time.
But on Wednesday, two psychologists said doing so would be a bad idea, with one branding the would-be killer’s behavior as ‘callous’.
Popehat
OJ Simpson, Passionate Husband and Sports Memorabilia Enthusiast, Dies
re: #48 sagehen
which I’d kind of be okay with, if only they didn’t so often convict the wrong guy (the Innocence Project has been able to fully exonerate, with absolute proof, almost 3% of the people on death row in various states.)
This is the main reason I’m against it. The evidence used to convict most on death row is frequently circumstantial…that leaves a LOT of room for doubt. Don’t get me started on eyewitness testimony and blood splatter analysis.
Edited to add…I remember one of the 60-minutes type programs featured a story where the perpetrator was wearing sunglasses while committing the crime. At trial, the defense attorney showed pictures of Hollywood stars with sunglasses on…several of them could not be identified by the jury. Got the defendant acquitted if I remember correctly.
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re: #59 Vicious Babushka
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re: #59 Vicious Babushka
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Followup on that colossal UCSD fuckup situation and unsurprisingly the fault lies 100% with the University’s Administration:
OJ Simpson, who I did not support, killed far fewer people than US drones did in wars against al-Qaeda, which I do not support, and ISIS, which I also do not support.
by Glenn Greenwald— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 11, 2024
re: #33 lawhawk
Per the Ippei Mizuhara complaint:
- He made approximately 19,000 wagers between Dec. 2021 and Jan. 2024, around 25 per day
- Bets ranged from $10 to $160,000, averaging $12,800
- He lost $182,935,206.68
- He won $142,256,769.74
- Net loss: $40,678,436.95
- No bets on baseball— Noah Camras (@noahcamras) April 11, 2024
The money involved here is staggering in amount. Averaged 25 bets per day, and average bet was $12,800.
Hooray!
I can now stop wearing the special sling required after my shoulder replacement. And now have permission to drive for short distances.
Free at last.
re: #13 GlutenFreeJesus
OJ can rest now that Nicole’s killer is dead.
He can finally stop trying to find his wife’s real killer.
Slight dip today…DJT only dropped by 5.4%.
There’s still tomorrow.
I predicted this. The context, though, was conservative clergy and other privileged men secretly fathering large number of children in small towns or long-lived church groups, then having those children marry each without realizing the relationship. The small town where a third of a generation resembles a popular local preacher is a standing joke in Texas.
DNA TESTS ARE UNCOVERING THE TRUE PREVALENCE OF INCEST
People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.
It’s so common because people are not aware they’re doing it.
re: #59 Vicious Babushka
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re: #51 Teukka
He was also known for constantly exaggerating or outright lying about his personal background, so he was something of a proto-George Santos as well.
re: #45 BeenHereAwhile
The other MLB team owners are less sad at missing out on the Ohtani lottery.
I think the Dodgers are second guessing as well
all you had to do was not kill your ex-wife and her boyfriend and today would be completely different—you’d be eulogized as the guy with a brief nfl career consisting of one really good season and a bunch of ho-hum ones, and an actor with a bunch of little ho-hum parts in movies. it still would have been a better result.
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
He was also known for constantly exaggerating or outright lying about his personal background, so he was something of a proto-George Santos as well.
My surprised face, etc. etc. etc.
re: #66 lawhawk
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The money involved here is staggering in amount. Averaged 25 bets per day, and average bet was $12,800.
In addition to being a thief and a betrayer of a friend, it appears he has a slight gambling problem.
Just as an aside, season 4 of Lucifer really is much better than season 3 was.
And I just wonder what kind of hell loop ol’ OJ would be finding himself in were that version of hell reality … 🔥😈🔥
Tennessee Republican’s fight against cousin marriage ban ends in massive defeat
The dream of legalized cousin marriage ended for one Tennessee state lawmaker on Thursday when his last-ditch bid to block the bill banning the practice went down in defeat.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Tennessee-town.”
re: #66 lawhawk
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The money involved here is staggering in amount. Averaged 25 bets per day, and average bet was $12,800.
Just absolute degenerate shit.
Many years ago I had a co-worker whose wife was an elementary school Principal in Oxnard and he once told me they got an annual breakdown from their favorite casino in the mail and she was putting about $100K on the line every year. It was a dependent relationship and she was the main bread winner so he just had to sit there and accept it but the whole situation was fucked.
re: #59 Vicious Babushka
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Very cute interview. Ali Plumb is one of the best interviewers and well worth following. Stars love his interviews and he gets some incredible responses.
Here we find out that Walton Goggins’ prosthetics only allowed him to sweat out of his eye-holes, making him look like he was crying. ANd that “Okey-dokey” may become a meme any day now.
re: #66 lawhawk
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The money involved here is staggering in amount. Averaged 25 bets per day, and average bet was $12,800.
And here I thought my lottery expenditures were big….
re: #52 goddamnedfrank
I won’t even talk about household finances with anybody except State licensed professionals and these people are all “Hey bro I trust you here’s my computer and password list just go ahead and raw dog my brokerage account.”
And, spit-ballin’ here, my guess is you aren’t pulling down the tens of millions per year than Ohtani does. To take in that kind of scratch, you want licensed and bonded accountants to manage the money and other licensed and bonded accountants to supervise and audit the first set.
re: #84 sizzzzlerz
And, spit-ballin’ here, my guess is you aren’t pulling down the tens of millions per year than Ohtani does. To take in that kind of scratch, you want licensed and bonded accountants to manage the money and other licensed and bonded accountants to supervise and audit the first set.
That would be called a “Family Office”.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #84 sizzzzlerz
And, spit-ballin’ here, my guess is you aren’t pulling down the tens of millions per year than Ohtani does. To take in that kind of scratch, you want licensed and bonded accountants to manage the money and other licensed and bonded accountants to supervise and audit the first set.
There’s also a significant amount of rank criminality on one side of my family so as an adult I’ve always been aware of the conflict between trust and the kind of contempt that comes with familiarity.
re: #6 Dangerman
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Abortion is trending; somebody give me a “both sides same thing” take, stat!
Shall we peep in to see how a certain Jesusbot Arizona Senator who talks in tongues is really pissed off at people complaining about his little stunt of the floor of the State Senate?
Arizona GOP lawmaker lashes out at “god-haters” who criticized abortion ban prayer
State Sen. Anthony Kern (oh BTW—One of those FAKE ELECTORS) prayed in tongues for an abortion ban. Now his GOP colleagues are pretending they oppose it.
They wanted it so badly that, the day before the decision was announced, State Sen. Anthony Kern led a prayer circle on the floor of the Senate chamber, right on the state seal, where he and his deranged buddies spoke in tongues hoping for the result they would inevitably get. (It’s not clear who took and shared the video. Articles about it cite an anonymous source.)
While most of that is undecipherable Christian gibberish, Kern can be heard saying, “Let it be so, Father God… Lord, right now, we ask thee to release the presence of the Lord in the Senate chamber.” (It’s not like he was quoting Matthew 6:5-6.)
Is that a violation of church/state separation? Legally, no, probably not, but you can imagine the uproar if a representative of any other religion tried that shit.
After Jeanne Casteen, the executive director of Secular AZ, reposted that video (where it received much wider exposure), Kern responded by calling her and her allies “god-haters.”
re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
As someone who is living on the edge of financial ruin, and as someone whose life would be changed for the good forever with just these fools’ wiping your ass money, I really wish the American people overall would vote to just tax these ridiculous humans so they can’t do that much damage AND make the world a little better at the same time. There is no way in Hell or anywhere else that these people are somehow better than the rest of us AND GOT THERE ALONE. All that wealth is not possibly generated by one human alone, a lot has to happen in a lot of often awful layers to get there. And, more than a little amount of shenanigans happen to accumulate that much wiping your ass money. TAX THE RICH and at least let us poor burdens have some decent healthcare that won’t financially ruin us, affordable food and the ability to have a decent roof over our heads. Maybe then we won’t daydream about the rich asshat’s club demise. I am so tired of this fucked up bullshit that people with a lot of money are some sort of super genius who knows everything. NO. I have seen and heard enough lately from people looking down their nose at people who simply had some shitty things happen that they were not in control of. Resources and opportunities are NOT evenly distributed and that needs to be remedied, by taxing rich fools and taking their wiping your ass money.
re: #73 sizzzzlerz
I think the Dodgers are second guessing as well
As long as Ohtani is actually the victim and didn’t bet himself, it should pass, and they will still have the best all-around baseball player since Ruth.
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re: #89 A Mom Anon
Life is full of randomness.
Contrary to the beliefs of many people.
I don’t know what someone deserves, or not, but the reality of our society today is that we are entering a new era of the gilded.
I still believe, and now more than ever, that we need a wealth tax.
Other nations do it because they realize that society needs to be run responsibly and having so much wealth in the hands of a very few is actually a bad thing.
Biden cannot run on the policy of a wealth tax. A few Democrats could, but there are Democrats who cannot.
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Middle class tax credits sound good, but the amount of money an individual saves is not as impressive as that of a billionaire getting a 2% cut.
re: #89 A Mom Anon
As someone who is living on the edge of financial ruin, and as someone whose life would be changed for the good forever with just these fools’ wiping your ass money, I really wish the American people overall would vote to just tax these ridiculous humans so they can’t do that much damage AND make the world a little better at the same time. There is no way in Hell or anywhere else that these people are somehow better than the rest of us AND GOT THERE ALONE. All that wealth is not possibly generated by one human alone, a lot has to happen in a lot of often awful layers to get there. And, more than a little amount of shenanigans happen to accumulate that much wiping your ass money. TAX THE RICH and at least let us poor burdens have some decent healthcare that won’t financially ruin us, affordable food and the ability to have a decent roof over our heads. Maybe then we won’t daydream about the rich asshat’s club demise. I am so tired of this fucked up bullshit that people with a lot of money are some sort of super genius who knows everything. NO. I have seen and heard enough lately from people looking down their nose at people who simply had some shitty things happen that they were not in control of. Resources and opportunities are NOT evenly distributed and that needs to be remedied, by taxing rich fools and taking their wiping your ass money.
Unlike a lot of billionaires who make their money from investments, most pro athletes are taxed as income and pay the top rate. I am sure there are plenty of accounting tricks and tax write offs and deferrals and carried losses and what not to minimize it, but it isn’t like they are paying a lower rate than their personal assistants at least.
re: #90 No Malarkey!
As long as Ohtani is actually the victim and didn’t bet himself, it should pass, and they will still have the best all-around baseball player since Ruth.
No doubt but teams don’t like to be in news for anything but baseball-related activities. And as far as him actually placing bets, are there contractual rules in place barring players from betting on non-baseball sports? Given that teams have gone all-in with internet betting companies, putting ads up in the stadiums and on TV, it would hypocritical of them to not allow players to bet. But nothing new there.
re: #90 No Malarkey!
As long as Ohtani is actually the victim and didn’t bet himself, it should pass, and they will still have the best all-around baseball player since Ruth.
I hope he has a good sense of humor because dude’s gonna have to put up with a lot of jokes, both in and out of the locker room.
re: #96 goddamnedfrank
I hope he has a good sense of humor because dude’s gonna have to put up with a lot of jokes, both in and out of the locker room.
Wanna bet?
/
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Very few countries have a wealth tax. 3 with a net wealth tax and 2 with wealth tax on certain asset classes out of the 36 OECD countries. Almost a dozen European countries have tried a wealth tax and subsequently repealed it. Not the most stellar record.
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Life is full of randomness.
Contrary to the beliefs of many people.
I don’t know what someone deserves, or not, but the reality of our society today is that we are entering a new era of the gilded.
I still believe, and now more than ever, that we need a wealth tax.
Other nations do it because they realize that society needs to be run responsibly and having so much wealth in the hands of a very few is actually a bad thing.
Biden cannot run on the policy of a wealth tax. A few Democrats could, but there are Democrats who cannot.
The good thing is that there are 2 of them who WON’T allow it now leaving the Senate in 2025—Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I do realize there are some wealthy families who try to be responsible, empathetic and kind in how they move their money around in the world. I just wish they would maybe try to partner with communities more. I do see it happening more now, which give me hope. I have seen how hard it is to find help when life just falls apart, because crap happens to everyone, it is ridiculous and you have to have some resources before you can even find resources. I am not exaggerating. I spent months, I mean actual months, researching, calling, going to places to prove I am me, to get a front porch that was rotting off replaced, and a little less time finding another program that replaced my very old water heater and furnace at no cost. It shouldn’t be that hard. For anyone, to just have some basics available if needed OR maybe as a reward for a life time of hard work, in my husband’s case, and mine, physical labor and serving people in various ways you don’t have to starve to freaking death in an alley.
The amount of crap attitude and shaming that comes to you while looking for help sometimes is just a shitty reflection of what we call “community” in many, far too many places. No one is perfect and everyone has a story of how they got to today, it’s what you choose, your day to day actions and how you treat those less blessed than you that impresses me. A wealth tax and more of that money going to social security, education, child care options, healthcare and affordable housing would go far if properly used and administrated. Let parents who have to clip coupons for groceries and water down pasta sauce to make it go farther have a say in the budget.
re: #70 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I predicted this. The context, though, was conservative clergy and other privileged men secretly fathering large number of children in small towns or long-lived church groups, then having those children marry each without realizing the relationship. The small town where a third of a generation resembles a popular local preacher is a standing joke in Texas.
DNA TESTS ARE UNCOVERING THE TRUE PREVALENCE OF INCESTIt’s so common because people are not aware they’re doing it.
there’s a joke that to date in Utah you need a complete family tree and a DNA test
re: #101 A Mom Anon
I do realize there are some wealthy families who try to be responsible, empathetic and kind in how they move their money around in the world.
Then you have the Trumps and the Sacklers
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They seem to cancel each other out. Because evil scares people and they react to fear and then the stupid is released.
Pro-Trump RFK Jr campaign staffer fired for ‘misrepresentation’
In other words Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs fired her for spilling the beans.
Rita Palma, a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign New York State staffer and pro-Trump election denier who attended the pre-insurrection January 6, 2021 rally, has been terminated for “misrepresentation,” according to multiple news outlets and the campaign.
Palma made headlines earlier this week when unearthed video of her promoting a plan to “get rid” of President Joe Biden to help elect Donald Trump went viral.
Palma was identified as the campaign’s New York State director, but RFK Jr.’s national campaign manager, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, on social media claimed Palma is “a ballot access consultant” and distanced the campaign from Palma’s remarks, saying she was “speaking as a private citizen and her statements in no way reflect campaign strategy.”
Fox Kennedy, CNN reports, “said on Wednesday that New York campaign staff member Rita Palma was fired after she told GOP voters in a meeting last week that preventing President Joe Biden’s victory was her ‘number one priority’ and encouraged them to volunteer for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.”
Fox Kennedy Wednesday night, in response to an RFK Jr. supporter angered by Palma’s remarks, wrote on X: “We terminated her contract for misrepresentation immediately upon seeing the longer video in which she gave an inaccurate job title and described a conversation that did not happen.”
Palma had told Kennedy supporters the goal is to use RFK. Jr. to block President Joe Biden from obtaining 270 Electoral College votes, throw the election to the Republican-majority House of Representatives, which she said would put Trump back in the White House. She also declared President Joe Biden the “enemy” of both the Trump voter and the “Bobby” Kennedy voter.
“We’re all on the same team right now, and we’ll be on the same team later, as long as Trump or Kennedy wins,” Palma said, CNN had reported. “If it’s Trump vs. Biden, Biden wins. Biden wins six days, seven days a week. With Bobby in the mix, anything can happen.”
Responding to the video, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison wrote: “As we have been saying… RFK Jr. = Trump,” and added, “They share the same donors… the same extremist agenda.”
Earlier this week CNN’s KFile reported Palma “previously promoted false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and attended ‘Stop the Steal’ rallies after the election, includingthe rally on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC, that preceded the deadly riot at the US Capitol.”
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Then zou have the Trumps and the Sacklers
And the Kochs.
re: #102 KGxvi
The small town where a third of a generation resembles a popular local preacher is a standing joke in Texas.
There are villages near Bad Nauheim in Germany where most of the men resemble Elvis
re: #98 danarchy
Very few countries have a wealth tax. 3 with a net wealth tax and 2 with wealth tax on certain asset classes out of the 36 OECD countries. Almost a dozen European countries have tried a wealth tax and subsequently repealed it. Not the most stellar record.
we have wealth taxes in the US, just at the state level, and we call them “property taxes”. We don’t have them at the federal level because they’re considered direct taxes* and as such are required to be apportioned among the states by population. That makes it incredibly complicated to do.
*yes, I know that the most recent advocates for direct taxes have argued that wealth/property taxes are not direct taxes but they’re full of shit. Property taxes have always been understood to be direct taxes. And the question the advocates have never been able to answer is “if wealth/property taxes are not direct taxes, then what is a direct tax?”
re: #98 danarchy
Not the most stellar record.
Wealth taxes are awkward when the very rich are able to move their money around the world with impunity.
As NPR noted in 2019:
In 1990, twelve countries in Europe had a wealth tax. Today, there are only three: Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. According to reports by the OECD and others, there were some clear themes with the policy: it was expensive to administer, it was hard on people with lots of assets but little cash, it distorted saving and investment decisions, it pushed the rich and their money out of the taxing countries—and, perhaps worst of all, it didn’t raise much revenue.
That theme/story was then glommed onto by the usual suspects (e.g. CATO institute) as proof that wealth taxes are bad.
But I counter with this: why do the countries with wealth taxes still keep them? What does Norway and Switzerland know that the 10 European nations don’t?
That some nations have repealed wealth taxes strikes me as something that has been too quoted and not scrutinized enough.
A US wealth tax does not have to be too complicated.
Also, a wealth tax not only has to be passed but be PROPERLY ENFORCED to be effective.
re: #102 KGxvi
there’s a joke that to date in Utah you need a complete family tree and a DNA test
Starts to sound like Íslandingabók (Book of Icelanders). A small isolated island with a human population that has been there for over a millennia. And there is a lot of interest in being careful with whom you marry.
‘Rubbish, you do not vote early!’ Mike Lindell goes ballistic at RNC election strategy
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell lashed out at the Republican National Committee for encouraging early voting and ballot harvesting.
During his Wednesday night show on FrankSpeech, Lindell said RNC attorney Charlie Spies might discourage Arizona Republicans from filing a brief supporting his Supreme Court case against voting machines.
“Well, I’m gonna tell you, if old Charlie blocks that, I will spend the rest of the year talking about the RNC like they’re just as bad as they were before,” he said, referring to former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel. “Because what they’ve done is that would be the worst thing you could do [to] not get behind that, this Supreme Court case.”
“That’s all we’re asking: you better get behind this, RNC. Every single GOP in the country, every single state should be filing an amicus brief,” he continued. “This isn’t about the stolen election. This is about future elections. We can’t have computers in our election.”
“I’m gonna say this now: they can sit there and say, oh, let’s go ballot harvest, like, and vote early like the Democrats. Rubbish, you do not vote early! You vote same day, everybody! I will be preaching that right up until the election day! You vote same day!” the pillow executive exclaimed. “Well, Mike, what if something happens like it did in Arizona, where 242 machines went down?”
“Well, you know what? The public won’t stand for this,” he added. “Why would you use the machines if you’re worried about that?”
re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, a wealth tax not only has to be passed but be PROPERLY ENFORCED to be effective.
Every tax has the same problem: enforcement.
In the US the income tax relies on people submitting tax documents.
People on the whole are not sociopaths, otherwise we would not be here.
Anyone who owns expensive items, in the US anyway, probably have said items insured.
So the person knows the insured value of the item.
Assets are already numerated.
And while the usual scaremongers will attack such a tax, claiming the IRS wants to take your grandmother’s diamond engagement ring, in reality a workable wealth tax can target well defined assets and valuables.
re: #101 A Mom Anon
I do realize there are some wealthy families who try to be responsible, empathetic and kind in how they move their money around in the world. I just wish they would maybe try to partner with communities more.
The saying used to be Old Money doesn’t talk about money while New Money is physically incapable of shutting the fuck up about it. So the Old Money aesthetic was always about quiet confidence and generous stealthy giving without much fanfare. It was always more myth than reality but enough wealthy families at least aspired to that level of magnanimity that the myth had legs.
Feels like a lot of that is just went extinct after Reagan and the 1980’s, the rise of Trump and the entire extreme spectacle of flaunting wealth and consumption that followed.
re: #59 Vicious Babushka
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re: #113 Joe Bacon ✅
‘Rubbish, you do not vote early!’ Mike Lindell goes ballistic at RNC election strategy
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell lashed out at the Republican National Committee for encouraging early voting and ballot harvesting.
What ever happened with that big information release Mike was promising that would conclusively show the election was stolen. Were there subsequent arrests and trials?
That new HBO comedy special by Alex Edelman is fantastic. Can highly recommend.
re: #109 KGxvi
we have wealth taxes in the US, just at the state level, and we call them “property taxes”. We don’t have them at the federal level because they’re considered direct taxes* and as such are required to be apportioned among the states by population. That makes it incredibly complicated to do.
*yes, I know that the most recent advocates for direct taxes have argued that wealth/property taxes are not direct taxes but they’re full of shit. Property taxes have always been understood to be direct taxes. And the question the advocates have never been able to answer is “if wealth/property taxes are not direct taxes, then what is a direct tax?”
We used to have federal estate taxes, but we barely do anymore. The estate has to be over 13 million before it kicks in. And I suspect people over 13 million avoid it with trusts and such.
re: #88 Joe Bacon ✅
Shall we peep in to see how a certain Jesusbot Arizona Senator who talks in tongues is really pissed off at people complaining about his little stunt of the floor of the State Senate?
Arizona GOP lawmaker lashes out at “god-haters” who criticized abortion ban prayer
State Sen. Anthony Kern (oh BTW—One of those FAKE ELECTORS) prayed in tongues for an abortion ban. Now his GOP colleagues are pretending they oppose it.
They wanted it so badly that, the day before the decision was announced, State Sen. Anthony Kern led a prayer circle on the floor of the Senate chamber, right on the state seal, where he and his deranged buddies spoke in tongues hoping for the result they would inevitably get. (It’s not clear who took and shared the video. Articles about it cite an anonymous source.)
While most of that is undecipherable Christian gibberish, Kern can be heard saying, “Let it be so, Father God… Lord, right now, we ask thee to release the presence of the Lord in the Senate chamber.” (It’s not like he was quoting Matthew 6:5-6.)
Is that a violation of church/state separation? Legally, no, probably not, but you can imagine the uproar if a representative of any other religion tried that shit.
After Jeanne Casteen, the executive director of Secular AZ, reposted that video (where it received much wider exposure), Kern responded by calling her and her allies “god-haters.”
Well, if your god hates LBGTQ+, wants women to be chattel/cattle, is cool with migrants dying at the border, and is generally xenophobic, yeah, fuck that dude. I hate it.
re: #119 Charmingly Persistent
We used to have federal estate taxes, but we barely do anymore. The estate has to be over 13 million before it kicks in. And I suspect people over 13 million avoid it with trusts and such.
Yep. Also the $13 million estate exemption is scheduled to get cut in half at the end of 2025 so if Trump loses we’re probably going to see an absolute shit ton of Nevada Irrevocable Spendthrift Trusts getting created next year.
re: #94 danarchy
Unlike a lot of billionaires who make their money from investments, most pro athletes are taxed as income and pay the top rate. I am sure there are plenty of accounting tricks and tax write offs and deferrals and carried losses and what not to minimize it, but it isn’t like they are paying a lower rate than their personal assistants at least.
They also have to pay taxes in every state they play games in. Ohtani also likely has additional tax obligations in Japan.
He’s still ungodly rich, but this isn’t like hedge fund managers worth billions who pay stupidly low marginal rates for zero reason.
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re: #122 Mike Lamb
They also have to pay taxes in every state they play games in. Ohtani also likely has additional tax obligations in Japan.
He’s still ungodly rich, but this isn’t like hedge fund managers worth billions who pay stupidly low marginal rates for zero reason.
Taylor Swift just exceeded 1 billion dollar net worth. But similarly she works for it and pays taxes on it. It doesn’t stick in my craw like hedge fund managers. Not that I don’t support higher marginal tax rates, but I’d trade that for taxing capital gains a reasonable amount
What would a Friday THURSDAY Afternoon News Dump be without yet another Rudy fuckup?
HOLY CRAP READING THAT PUT MY MIND IN A TIME WARP!
Rudy Giuliani’s defense fund could lose massive donation over new lawsuit
A lawsuit filed in Georgia seeks to recover a $100,000 donation to Rudy Giuliani’s legal defense fund. The donation came from Matthew Martorano, a Donald Trump supporter accused of participating in an online skincare product scam.
The lawsuit alleges that the donation should be returned to victims of the alleged fraud, according to CNBC. Martorano’s software was accused of helping the scammers hide the number of chargebacks they received, which is a sign of potential fraud.
Giuliani’s spokesperson said the lawsuit was unrelated to their client. Lawyers for Martorano and the other defendants did not respond to requests for comment, CNBC said.
The Georgia suit follows a federal lawsuit that certified a nationwide class against the alleged skin care sales scammers at Konnektive LLC. The judge in that case wrote that the plaintiff “has shown by a preponderance of the evidence that Konnektive Defendants deceived banks and credit card companies.”
re: #125 Joe Bacon ✅
What would a Friday Afternoon News Dump be without yet another Rudy fuckup?
Got some bad news for you …
re: #126 goddamnedfrank
Got some bad news for you …
Frank I think Irwin Allen’s Time Tunnel jerked me around 24 hours…
Yeah…that’s why I said FRIDAY afternoon…Reading that caused a time warp in my mind…
On the death penalty:
If it ever comes back here to Canada I’m going to lobby for two things.
1) The method of execution will be a 9mm pistol bullet in the back of the skull.
2) The method of choosing an executioner will be conscription. Anyone who can vote might get a letter that reads, “At this date and time you will be at this prison where you will kill this person.”
I’ve suggested such a thing in other debates about the death penalty and the number of supporters who are suddenly, “I’m not a killer!” is astounding.
Also, the death penalty isn’t revenge, it’s politics. It’s telling people that they have threatened those in power and it is not an action those in power will allow to stand. It’s a warning, “Sit down and shut up. Or else.”
re: #119 Charmingly Persistent
We used to have federal estate taxes, but we barely do anymore. The estate has to be over 13 million before it kicks in. And I suspect people over 13 million avoid it with trusts and such.
Another problem our society is facing, and will have to correct eventually, is that of the fictitious person.
While rooted deeply in our laws and society, the simple reality is that our creation of fictitious persons has created a labyrinth of social ills.
re: #109 KGxvi
I suspect that a federal wealth tax will be found unconstitutional (especially by the current Court.)
And thus an Amendment will be needed, as it was for income taxes.
Speaker Johnson outside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s house later today https://t.co/TNWUhyKwrq pic.twitter.com/aYWXRBTjHR
— Congressman Jared Moskowitz (@RepMoskowitz) April 10, 2024
This is a Historic accomplishment. https://t.co/0HvsgxRI3B
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) April 10, 2024
re: #132 Belafon
Flowers…but where’s the Candygram?
re: #127 A Cranky One
I’m kind of bummed because it’s under-performing. Reports are that it only went down 5.4% today amid my expectations that it would drop 10%.
re: #135 Decatur Deb
Ahem. 1973 is not History, it’s Current Events.
Let me add “Those young whippersnappers!”
re: #134 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Caitlyn Jenner offers blunt, two-word response after OJ Simpson’s death
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I’m sure the family of the person Jenner killed in that car wreck will say exactly the same about her when she shuffles off that mortal coil herself…
re: #139 A Cranky One
I kinda want one of those.
re: #138 TedStriker
I’m sure the family of the person Jenner killed in that car wreck will say exactly the same about her when she shuffles off that mortal coil herself…
Kardashian clan stay making it all about themselves.
Jenner described Simpson as “the most narcissistic, egocentric, neediest a— in the world of sports I had ever seen,” in the 2017 memoir, “The Secrets of My Life,” per the Washington Post.
Uh huh … cool … I mean it feels like there’s a fair bit of projection at play but … cool.
re: #139 A Cranky One
Cool and cute at the same time.
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
He’s right no one would believe it.
re: #132 Belafon
Is it a funeral?
Gee.
Can’t get my hopes up..
re: #73 sizzzzlerz
I think the Dodgers are second guessing as well
The other MLB owners are [privately] enjoying the Dodgers owner’s discomfort.
The MLB commissioner’s office is scrambling now more than ever due to the DOJ press release to find out WTF is going on.
re: #138 TedStriker
I’m sure the family of the person Jenner killed in that car wreck will say exactly the same about her when she shuffles off that mortal coil herself…
Her name was Kim Howe. 5 other people were injured.
Jenner should have been charged but wasn’t. She blamed a pack of feral paparazzi for the accident.
Er, no, Caitlyn, paparazzi are a low form of life but they are not terrorists or assassins so you have no right to endanger yourself or others in your attempts to avoid them.
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Views: 475 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1- Pictures From Today’s Exhibition of Paintings Done by Jane LilienthalPROPS TO MICHELE AND SAGEHEN FOR CATCHING THE SPELLING ERROR IN THE TITLE THAT MY DIABETIC EYES COULDN'T CATCH I wanted to share pictures of the art show I visited today. The portraits were created by the mother of my ...
Joe Bacon ✅
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
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- Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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