(August 3, 2023 at 12:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 3, 2023 at 7:46 am)Angrboda Wrote: It goes to intent. If he didn't intend to break the law he may not be culpable.
True as far as it goes. But I can easily image the five people mentioned above contacting Jack Smith with a what-can-we-work-out message (they haven’t been indicted, so they have a bit of wiggle room). Trump floating an ‘advice of counsel’ defense is tantamount to throwing his lawyers under the bus. None of these people are going to prison for Trump.
Boru
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August 13, 2023 at 9:36 pm
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The really great thing about Judge Chutkan is that last week she modeled / showed, other judges how to handle the orange fool in the courtroom, including how to keep "sensitive matters" (Grand Jury names, etc) confidential, and other insulting statements and witness threats off public media. She said something like "Oh please, he's a criminal defendant".
I think she is a very important positive development.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist (August 13, 2023 at 9:36 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: The really great thing about Judge Chutkan is that last week she modeled / showed, other judges how to handle the orange fool in the courtroom, including how to keep "sensitive matters" (Grand Jury names, etc) confidential, and other insulting statements and witness threats off public media. She said something like "Oh please, he's a criminal defendant". Trump: "That judge needs to recuse herself. There's no way I can get a fair trial in her courtroom." Jack Smith: "What do you mean?" Trump: "Just look at her!" (August 13, 2023 at 9:36 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: The really great thing about Judge Chutkan is that last week she modeled / showed, other judges how to handle the orange fool in the courtroom, including how to keep "sensitive matters" (Grand Jury names, etc) confidential, and other insulting statements and witness threats off public media. She said something like "Oh please, he's a criminal defendant". It was encouraging to hear her demolish Trump's whinging about his 'free speech' being violated by pointing out (though not in so many words) that he's NOT free. He's a criminal defendant on conditional release. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
'Very rich Italian' is left outraged after being chased down and reprimanded by a Saint-Tropez waiter for 'only leaving a 500 euro tip' after his meal
The diner, who has not yet been identified, was pursued by the staff member to the carpark of the restaurant in the glamourous French Riviera resort and told it 'wasn't enough'. The waiter chastised the 'very rich' customer and told him to go back inside and pay another 500 euros to reach the 'minimum' tip amount of 1,000 euros (£859), reported local newspaper Nice Matin. A French friend of the dismayed Italian said: 'He thought he had been generous by leaving 500 euros, instead he was reprimanded. 'The waiter told him that it wasn't enough and that he could still make a small effort to reach 1,000 euros because it was more consistent in approaching 20 per cent of the total amount of his bill.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-meal.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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August 17, 2023 at 11:43 am
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‘No Concept of Political Parties in Sharia’: Taliban Bans Democracy in Afghanistan
The Taliban in Afghanistan banned all political parties in the nation citing the Sharia and saying that such activities are against Islamic law. This new jolt to the fight for restoration of democracy and polity comes a day after the Taliban marked the second anniversary of the takeover of Kabul. People have also pointed out that now foreign relief and aid will be hard to come by as this new development will not be accepted by the global community who will then restrict grants and aids. At least 70 major and small political parties were formally registered with the Afghanistan justice ministry till 2021 but after Taliban reclaimed control of war-ravaged Afghanistan and subsequent withdrawal of US forces, the political system in the nation fell apart. Taliban has curbed freedom of association, assembly and expression to suppress criticism against the government but it allows its supporters to enjoy these rights. They have banned girls from attending schools beyond the sixth grade. Afghan women have been banned from work and public life. Women now face restrictions even when it comes to self-care and beauty as salons have been closed. https://www.news18.com/world/no-concept-...39051.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Quote:ACCRA/NIAMEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The West African bloc ECOWAS stands ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana on Thursday to discuss the details of a standby force. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/wes...023-08-17/ That shit will be ugly, I'm thinking Somalia-level ugly. (August 17, 2023 at 11:57 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That shit will be ugly, I'm thinking Somalia-level ugly. But not Haiti-level ugly Quote:Haiti has fallen into chaos since president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in 2021 and gangs began grabbing control of the country in bloody turf wars.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
(August 17, 2023 at 11:57 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:Quote:ACCRA/NIAMEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The West African bloc ECOWAS stands ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana on Thursday to discuss the details of a standby force. Coups are nothing new in West Africa and ECOWAS has been remarkable ineffective in dealing with them. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(August 17, 2023 at 1:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Coups are nothing new in West Africa and ECOWAS has been remarkable ineffective in dealing with them. It's not the coup itself that makes me see this darkly, it's the neighbors' promise to invade, coupled with the citizens of Niger giving a bit of support to the junta. That is a recipe for atrocities large and small. |
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