I remember reading during the slave-era how you could smell a slave ship a long ways downwind.
I was reading somewhere about the large number of port-a-potties being hauled in. Heat, humidity, and portable toilets. Lovely combination.
I think this plan may have some pitfalls.
I’m fully expecting this facility to just sink into the swamp. But they’ll just build another one. Which will also sink into the swamp. The third one will burn down, fall over, and then sink into the swamp. But the FOURTH one…
And why criminalize all these detainees when all they want to do is, just…sing…
“Stop that! Stop that! You’re not doing a song while I’m here!”
- Kristi Noem, probably
Oddly, gMaps identifies a location about 2000’ north of the runway as “Threemile Island”. Not sure what to make of that.
Will travel back in time?
I will cross ref this post from the fireworks 2025 thread.
My synopsis:
- Idiot with a houseful of guns, ammo, and bomb-making supplies sets off some bombs, not fireworks, as 4th of July noisemakers. Cops get called repeatedly, and after a couple visits figure out what’s really going on. Cop attempts arrest, idiot shoots cop, cop shoots idiot, killing him promptly. Cops dies a bit later at the hospital.
Yeah some real fine upstanding American citizen there. Freedumb for sure.
Wouldn’t a divorce have been a better way?
The last line in the article:
Justice Christopher Beale gave the jurors in the trial special dispensation to avoid jury duty for the next 15 years, due to the length and complexity of the case.
Anything like that in the US? Or would it be up to the individual to mention it during jury selection and cross their fingers?
Not that I’m aware of.
I served on a jury one time; two years later, when I was called again, I told the judge that I had recently served and was reluctant to serve again, but he wasn’t impressed. Fortunately, the DA excused me.
I live in Cook County (suburban Chicago), and I, like clockwork, received a summons for jury duty about once a year. Sometimes it was for “standby duty,” and on those occasions, I learned the night before (by calling a phone number) that I wouldn’t be needed. But, I went in on three or four occasions to actually report for duty, during which I then spent the day in the jury pool room, never being called.
And, then, in 2009, when I went in for jury duty, my juror number was called, and I got pulled into a courtroom for interviewing. It wound up being a two-day trial, so I served for three days (counting the day when we were interviewed and empaneled), though it wasn’t a major or infamous crime (several charges around DUI and resisting arrest).
I haven’t moved since 2009, I’m still a registered voter in the county, but I have not once gotten a jury summons since then. I suspect that, having served, I got some manner of deferment on being called again, which has yet to lapse.
Mentioned upthread a few times and dedicated thread here:
Right, thanks. And now she’s been convicted.
When I was living in Santa Clara county I was called in for jury duty every two years like clockwork. I was seated as a juror twice. Once we went through the trial and reached a verdict in a civil case. The other we were chosen in the morning, broke for lunch, and the accused took a plea bargain. We cooled our heels an extra hour then were called in to a courtroom empty but for the judge who informed us.
Trial is finally set to begin on Monday.
Man accused of beheading father and posting video of his severed head to stand trial - ABC News.
The admitted father-beheader* hoped to get support from Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan in carrying out his “revolution”.
“I am the smartest American”
At least as smart as the average Trumpite.
*getting Alice’s Restaurant vibes here.
I shouldn’t be old enough to even get that reference, but I actually thought of the same thing.
That or “Helter Skelter”.
I am really, really, really hoping that guy spends the rest of his life locked away so the rest of us can be just that little bit safer…
Well, I don’t know. Is that the only head he’s ever cut off?