If a protectee is convicted of felonies, then they might be wards of whatever state convicted them and therfore unable to be available to the secret service to protect?
While we in America have gotten rather imbued with “being at war” with (some nation or other) for a good chunk of our lives, we’re also so RICH that the perils of war on the “home front”, (rationing of goods and services to help with “the war effort”, don’t usually touch our daily lives, so if a...
I enjoyed the historical culinary tidbit in TNOTR: someone had to stir the ox-blood to keep it from coagulating and getting “the solids” out, before being used in cooking.
Ah, yes, Lee Atwater.
Say what you want about him, but he was a political-strategist-genius.
I heard that he got religion towards the end, and though I’m reticent to admit it, he got a good dose.
Legal protests have their place, but so too do “illegal protests”.
It’s like this:
“If people are so upset over [ISSUE GOETH HERE] that they become willing to break the law (a little bit) by ‘protesting illegally’, then maybe we, as a society, should taek a look at this [ISSUE] again/more...
I’m pretty sure that you have a misunderstanding of the decision.
ETA:
FWIW, it is a slog wading through the court cases that the Defendant-in-Chief’s lawyers attempted to use to get the case dismissed on the “they waited ‘too-long’ to prosecute me!” defense.
But the order (page 5) shows that...
The “context” is that President Trump is on trial for falsifying records to cover up the repayment of an illegal “campaign contribution“ with regards to one, Stormy Daniels.
BIAIM, from your helpful quote of Pecker’s testimony,
”Pecker said he recommended.
Pecker testified that he recommended...
Libraries and the food service industry should “talk”.
Just think of the “fines” libraries could rake in from “food tainted books”.
Yes, the Wendy’s* in the lobby, does serve messy food, but it’s $5.00 if you get ketchup on property of the library. Win-win!
*or whatever
This is where I best see the “Dunning-Kruger effect”.
There are plenty of people who are extraordinarily talented in a field (or several fields); some of these folk make movies, or write and perform music, (such as ”Ye” here); yet their brilliance in the field where they make oodles of money, in...