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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Hairy Lime

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38385 on: June 15, 2020, 12:04:58 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.




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Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38386 on: June 15, 2020, 12:09:23 PM »

The decision in Bostock v Clayton County, GA LGBT workplace case:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf

This is big. And the 6-3 decision makes it look a lot stronger than the all too common 5-4 results.

It included two other cases, one of which had not previously been consolidated into the case, but heard separately:
Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The latter two had been decided one way, while the 11th Circuit had decided the other way, for the defendant.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38387 on: June 15, 2020, 12:12:39 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.


What could be further from my mind?
Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.

Did you have any remaining?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38388 on: June 15, 2020, 12:16:57 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.


What could be further from my mind?
Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.

Did you have any remaining?
Not really.
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Hamilton Samuels

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38389 on: June 15, 2020, 12:17:36 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.


What could be further from my mind?
Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.

Did you have any remaining?

"Unoian doubt"?

Meaning exactly, what?

 
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Hamilton Samuels

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38390 on: June 15, 2020, 12:19:10 PM »

https://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/editorials/tulsa-world-editorial-this-is-the-wrong-time-and-tulsa-is-the-wrong-place-for/article_26388374-1747-5120-bc01-24b81c1b0c78.html

President Donald Trump is coming to town this week for a campaign rally.

It will be his first since such events were suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 shutdown.

We don’t know why he chose Tulsa, but we can’t see any way that his visit will be good for the city.


Editorial from The Tulsa World.

Hospitality/restaurant owners may disagree

Undertakers, also, right?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38391 on: June 15, 2020, 12:21:23 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.


What could be further from my mind?
Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.

Did you have any remaining?

"Unoian doubt"?

Meaning exactly, what?
Last vestigial doubts, Ham.
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Hamilton Samuels

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« Reply #38392 on: June 15, 2020, 12:21:49 PM »

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/14/california-largest-police-unions-unveil-reform-plan-in-joint-statement/

SAN JOSE — In what could signal a major shift in law-enforcement attitudes toward longstanding complaints about its use of violence, California’s largest police unions called Sunday for a reform agenda aimed at lessening the use of force, increasing accountability and rooting out racist police officers.

In full-page ads in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Mercury News and the East Bay Times, the San Jose Police Officers Association, the San Francisco Police Officers Association and the Los Angeles Police Protective League announced the national reform proposal after weeks of protests and marches against police violence, even as new deaths have happened at the hands of police.

In Atlanta, police department officials announced Sunday that an officer had been fired over the fatal shooting Friday of Rayshard Brooks, 27, outside a Wendy’s restaurant, the latest flashpoint in a nationwide upheaval over police violence. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Saturday that she had accepted the resignation of Police Chief Erika Shields; the officer who shot Brooks was fired hours later.

“No words can convey our collective disgust and sorrow for the murder of George Floyd,” the unions said in the advertisement. “We have an obligation as a profession and as human beings to express our sorrow by taking action.”
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Hamilton Samuels

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38393 on: June 15, 2020, 12:25:01 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.


What could be further from my mind?
Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.

Did you have any remaining?

"Unoian doubt"?

Meaning exactly, what?
Last vestigial doubts, Ham.



Vestigial.

Great vocabulary. Get that one while contemplating your navel? Or sitting too long on your tailbone?

Be well.



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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38394 on: June 15, 2020, 12:26:48 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.


What could be further from my mind?
Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.

Did you have any remaining?

"Unoian doubt"?

Meaning exactly, what?
Last vestigial doubts, Ham.



Vestigial.

Great vocabulary. Get that one while contemplating your navel? Or sitting too long on your tailbone?

Be well.
I take it you have gotten tired of joylessly masturbating to pictures of dead deer. Welcome back.
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Hamilton Samuels

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38395 on: June 15, 2020, 12:30:38 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.


What could be further from my mind?
Well, that post did remove any Unoian doubt from my mind.

Did you have any remaining?

"Unoian doubt"?

Meaning exactly, what?
Last vestigial doubts, Ham.



Vestigial.

Great vocabulary. Get that one while contemplating your navel? Or sitting too long on your tailbone?

Be well.
I take it you have gotten tired of joylessly masturbating to pictures of dead deer. Welcome back.

If you say so.

Meanwhile, if you're still a lawyer, or even if you've hung up your briefcase, any thoughts on this?

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/876853817/supreme-court-will-not-re-examine-doctrine-that-shields-police-in-misconduct-sui
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barton

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38396 on: June 15, 2020, 12:32:24 PM »

That was a pleasant surprise.

I could have foreseen Roberts. But never Gorsuch.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38397 on: June 15, 2020, 12:41:50 PM »

Somebody please explain Spike Lee's flip-flop on Woody Allen.




What could be further from my mind?

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38398 on: June 15, 2020, 12:46:51 PM »

Whatever happened to the idea that police could shoot in a situation "Not to kill"?  These people are Trained to shoot, presumably, to hit what they are aiming at and should have some level of
marksmanship.  If someone is fleeing, and in this case with really nowhere to go or hide, isn't it perhaps possible to wing 'em in the thigh or shoulder?

The question is why should law enforcement be shooting a deadly weapon at any part of a human being who is not guilty of lethal violence. Any bullet wound can maim or kill - people can bleed out from legs, as well as torsos.  Discharging a firearm in any urban setting in extremely dangerous.  We need to stop thinking armed paramilitaries are the answer to most social problems, period.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #38399 on: June 15, 2020, 12:54:37 PM »

I take it you have gotten tired of joylessly masturbating to pictures of dead deer. Welcome back.

"Knives Out" has provided a handy new meme for RW trolls. 
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