Except it's not business, it's academia, which is universally it controlled by MaGA.

Zed,
What does this have to do do with MAGA? Serious question.

ERADICATED when we don't want something anymore, EXTINCT when we do. How do we reallly know? Though I can't think of a reason why we would WANT murder hornets to survive, clearly they were put on earth for a reason. Time will tell. The chickens always come home to roost.

The Neon look is still very popular with the Gen Zers who love all things mid century. I think there will be lots of replicas to keep that vibe going.

#3 it really surprises me to learn that you were a frat boy.

Horrific

I can't quite wrap my head around the concept of mining for bitcoin. I'm afraid to even try to go down that rabbit hole, and the idea of the government legitimizing it is scary.

Our track record with regime changes has been so successful in the past ... ..

KBJ is a class act. Really cool she got to live the dream for one night, and for the cast members to live their dream performing with her.

Lauren Windsor tweet appears to be the primary source :

"A senator told me that the rumor on the Hill is that Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn't fall in line with Trump's agenda.

"As a society that has the death penalty it's easy to write off these people has having no value. Yes some of them come from an ok home life growing up but many of ---- easy for us just to go they deserve what is coming for them because our compassion levels in this country are not as great as they should be. Yes these people are extremely flawed individuals. We don't often ask why they do the killings that sent them to death row. It's hard to put a human face to such monsters. Something made them this way."

I agree with your points. The first thing I do is look for the rest of the story The Rolling Stone article did not. The author put a human face on him but completely ignored the monster part. Charles Michael Hall, the patalegal with the guitar and the crochet hobby committed a vicious, unprovoked murder. Why? He said killing relaxes him. The details are horrific.

His efforts to rehabilitate himself are duly noted, but he needs to remain separated from society permanently. Life in Prison without Possibility of Parole can achieve that. The death penalty is barbaric and unnecessary..

I'm not a big fan of the death penalty, but the Rolling Stone article was just bizarre. It suggests the men on death row are "frightened" victims of circumstance.. The author glosses over the fact that every person on death row has been accused of a heinous murder, unanimously convicted and upheld through multiple appeals.

The ACA was supposed to make health care more affordable by limiting insurance companyprofits and rebating excess proceeds to patients.

On the day that ACA was passed the CEOs got together
and decided to make all their dreams come true,
so they hired more accountants to hide the gold
And cook the books until they were in the red.

That is why, that boy from Hawaii
Followed you, all over town.
Just like me, he longed to be
Cancer free.

Definitely not, but if they are anonymized, I suppose it would not be illegal in a *voluntary* survey. Beyond outrageous to do something like that pre employment.

My daughter recently had to complete a "personality survey" for work which generated a profile that was uncanny. Pretty sure she had the opportunity to decline participation, but still a bit too personal for me to want to do.

Years ago those kinds of questions were included on Psychological Tests required for law enforcement hiring. Every agency had the same test, administered by a private company. It was about 400 questions, with many similar but asked in different ways. Lots of poop questions, lol., Supposedly they were looking for patterns that flagged various concerns.

I thought they did away with that kind of testing. I guess not.

I messed that one up ... .i guess I shouldn't post from an iPhone mini. .the part above the """"""" is me quoting you from the top of #125.

Any legislation that restricts storage of firearms in vehicles would be hugely impactful. A large percentage of firearms used in crimes were stolen from parked vehicles. I stopped some kids once that had over 40 guns in the trunk of their car. They got them all from one apartment complex, many of them from unlocked cars.

I think the above statute applies, you should reasonably know that a minor is likely to gain access to an unlocked car. Delete last line and start arresting the owners for that and the supply will dry up real fast.

#20 Reactive not Preventatve? To the primary source we go

... The officers injured and killed in the BLM protests
Yeah, that's where I may have issues.
Black Lives Matter "injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage.
"""""-

I said THE officers. I didn't give a count, so if your issue is with the numbers ... that I didn't post ... from random articles ... .that YOU just now posted, to argue against a claim ... .. that I didn't make. Hmmmmmm.

So back to what I did post, a paragraph from the ACCLED article you posted where I asked you to call out the obvious falsehoods. Twice, in 119 and 123. I even gave you a hint. Not up for that today?

... The officers injured and killed in the BLM protests
Yeah, that's where I may have issues.
Black Lives Matter "injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage.
"""""-

I said THE officers. I didn't give a count, so if your issue is with the numbers ... that I didn't post ... from random articles ... .that YOU just now posted, to argue against a claim ... .. that I didn't make. Hmmmmmm.

So back to what I did post, a paragraph from the ACCLED article you posted where I asked you to call out the obvious falsehoods. Twice, in 119 and 123. I even gave you a hint. Not up for that today?

The only "equivalence" I made was limited to the perspective of a police officer who is being physically assaulted during a riot. His/her experience is the same regardless of whether it was June 6th or January 6th. The officers injured and killed in the BLM riots deserve the same level of acknowledgement. That is not "false equivalence.

As to the ACCLED story, I have not disputed your statistics. The factual errors that jumped out at me were from the paragraph I quoted (which is why I quoted it), and they were deliberately misleading enough for me to dismiss the entire article as untrustworthy. That paragraph contains several false or misleading statements about specific incidents of police involved deaths. The news media irresponsibly spread many falsehoods, which helped fuel the most violent protests. I think it is important for the reporting to be accurate, not to defend the officers or minimize their actions, but to keep things in perspective and react based on facts rather than deliberately misleading clickbait.

If I point out the errors, I will just be shouted down as a bootlicker,, so I am asking you to try. The errors aren't obvious to you? Maybe you aren't as discerning as you think. Start with Breonna Taylor.

My first thought was that it was very cruel and exploitive of the Orlando Sentinel to unearth what should have been a confidential juvenile report and put her on blast for a tragic childhood incident that wasn't her fault. But I went down the rabbit hole anyway, and some things jumped out at me:

She was trying to get scissors from a tackle box on a shelf over the bed in "Father's room". The gun fell out and landed on the floor, shooting her father in the head.

1) Identifying as "Father" signals an impersonal, authoritarian relationship. Then again he is Jordanian, it could be cultural.
2) Where was "Mother"? Dis she sleep in "Father's Room"? Apparently she was a night shift nurse.
3) So what was a 13 year old doing in "Fathers Room"? At 7:15 on a Saturday? Crafting? Most teenagers don't rise at dawn on weekends. Even Dad was still in bed.
4) Tackle boxes contain smelly bits of rotten bait stuck to lures and whatnot, Kept on a shelf over the bed? Ew. But maybe they don't use it for tackle, just scissors and guns?
5) The gun fell to the floor, yet the bullet followed a trajectory into his head on the bed. I'd need to see the evidence, but the responding officer had trouble making sense of the "mechanics of the shooting". "

So I'm sure there are plausible explanations for all of these things, but I can't help but wonder if there was more to it. Like child molestation. In which case it still wasn't her fault. Self defense.

#119 I took a look at your link. I have never heard of ACCLED, but there were so many factual errors I stopped reading the article. You may want to reconsider them as a reliable source of information. Can you spot the misrepresentations in the paragraph below? There are enough to make it seem deliberate.

While Floyd's killing ignited the demonstrations, the protest movement has also organized around other victims of police violence and racism across the country. In August 2019, police officers confronted Elijah McClain while he was walking home from a convenience store in Aurora, Colorado. McClain died after authorities reportedly tackled him, put him in a carotid hold, and had first responders inject him with ketamine (The Cut, 11 August 2020). At the start of 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed by a former police officer and his son while out jogging in south Georgia (New York Times, 24 June 2020). The assailants claim they suspected him of breaking into nearby homes. In Louisville, Kentucky, police raided the wrong home3 while attempting to serve a warrant and exchanged gunfire with one of the occupants; his partner, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old paramedic who was sleeping at the time,4 was shot and killed by the officers (New York Times, 1 September 2020). Demonstrations over Floyd's killing have also called for justice in these cases and other past incidents that remain unresolved. In many local communities, protests marking Floyd's death have doubled as acts of remembrance for people like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Trayvon Martin " whose killing in 2012 originally sparked the BLM movement (CNN, 26 February 2017). Even amid the current round of demonstrations, new cases have been added to the list, from Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed Black man killed by police in Atlanta, Georgia (CNN, 15 June 2020; New York Times, 22 June 2020), to Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man shot seven times by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin (CBS News, 26 August 2020).5