– Ugh. A state House committee passed a bill to weaken the rules on when police officers can get involved in chases. I would urge you to contact your legislator and let them know that you want fewer high speed chases in Washington neighborhoods.
– Can’t get enough urban forests.
– You, yes you. Wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Anti-immigrant pundit Ann Coulter tells GOP candidate Nikki Haley to ‘go back to your own country’ in racist rant
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-ann-coulter-derides-nikki-haley-racist-rant-20230216-qy2ns2w3f5bh7id2zbwo3sg6zy-story.html
The pundit was referring to Haley’s 2015 decision to pull down the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s capitol in the aftermath of the racist killing of nine Black churchgoers as they prayed in Charleston. Haley uses the incident to illustrate her ability to reach across partisan and racial lines for support. But it may cause her to lose support among far right-wing white nationalist voters who dominate in GOP primary contests.
>> Looks like she’s angling to be the next Kamala.
“A man attempting to steal a catalytic converter from a parked SUV in Southern California was run over and killed when the vehicle’s sleeping driver awakened and started to drive away.”
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/catalytic-converter-theft-suspect-run-over-and-killed-in-cat-cutting-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-office-palmdale-california#
It was an accident, but good riddance and just desserts.
Another victim of Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus. It’s out of control.
Dead. Dead as a door knob.
https://www.wlwt.com/article/couple-dead-murder-suicide-roselawn-mildred-clarence-howell/42925352
New Google search words. Husband Murder Suicide
And another, and another, and another.
Ban the Books! Ban the Articles! Ban reporting on this shit in the news!
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/murder-suicide-south-end-charlotte-crime-shooting/275-f6e36f1f-99c4-40af-8e71-c23731a00b88
Please daddy! Heterosexual Neanderthal Disease. Virus….Disease….what ever it is….it not good. But it’s normal…..so that is ok. Nothing to see here.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11738405/Louisiana-sheriff-man-told-youll-four-bodies-killing-family.html
Grooming the kids!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-cleaning-slaughterhouses-pssi-rcna71171
Another deregulated Norfolk Southern chemical super-train has just derailed.
This time it’s in Michigan.
Is there another George Santos out there?
“Tennessee’s GOP Rep. Andy Ogles, elected in the same cycle as Santos, may have pulled a similar con. … Ogles has repeatedly claimed to be an ‘economist,’ but he has placed a block on his school records from Middle Tennessee State University, making it impossible to verify whether he even studied economics. … Ogles also claimed in a debate to be ‘a former member of law enforcement, [who] worked in international sex crimes, specifically child trafficking.’ He in fact was a volunteer reserve deputy for the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, but ‘lost that position two years later for not meeting minimum standards, making no progress in field training and failure to attend required meetings’ — and never investigated international sex crimes in that role.”
https://www.rawstory.com/andy-ogles-2659430945/
Looks like we’re now living in an era of fake GOP resumes.
7)It’s a shame, NS inherited one of the best locomotive shop’s from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Now, maintenance is seen as something that loses money by stockholders.
@4 “Ban the Books!”
Looks like things are headed that way. Republicans are dropping their pretense of being for individual freedom, and are going all-in Taliban complete with morals police.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/republican-anti-sex-legislation-state-level
These guys truly want to bring back Victorian culture. While cheating on the side, of course.
Any worries about the Gisele Fetterman con?
“Of course my husband is healthy, and those who feel otherwise should be sanctioned.”
Looks like the Democrats will be defending two Senate seats in Pennsylvania next year.
If Fetterman comes back, it won’t be for long. It will be for show.
The public was informed by 1) Gisele and 2) the Fetterman office that he didn’t have another stroke.
It was 1) Gisele and 2) the Fetterman campaign who claimed last Fall that Fetterman was healthy.
A joke I came across is that Mayor Pete is doing such a a shitty job that people actually know who the Secretary of Transportation is.
With the late, delayed surrender of discovery from FOX, Dominion has filed today their motion for summary judgement.
For context, the binding precedent at issue, that establishes the standards for analysis to be used by federal judges and instructions to juries, was developed in a civil rights era suit against the NYT. The new, heightened standard was intended to be very difficult to meet. Mere negligence was rejected.
To prevail a plaintiff must demonstrate that the defendant’s statements were false. Of course. But in addition they must demonstrate that the defendants displayed reckless disregard for the falsity of their statements. That’s a very hard bar to get over. Any hint of plausibility, however absurd, can be enough to protect the defendant.
In their 180 page motion brief Dominion presents hundreds of statements of FOX News producers, personalities, and executives demonstrating their belief that the statements they were presenting in their programming about Dominion software were entirely false, could not be true, and were impossible. The communications presented in the brief would strongly suggest that FOX knew the statements they were presenting to their audience about Dominion software were false, and that it was their intention to do so for reasons that disregarded the harms to Dominion that the false statements would cause – malice.
The brief describes in detail, and provides supporting documentation from the discovery provided by FOX, that the motivation for FOX’s malice toward Dominion was the loss of audience (and revenues) triggered when FOX’s election night Decision Desk called the election in Arizona for Joe Biden. Executives and producers at FOX described how the presenting the falsehoods about Dominion to their viewers would help them retain the loyalty of those viewers and stem the loss of viewership to competing news services. To do this FOX persisted in presenting the false statements about Dominion software for months, even as government agencies, reliable third parties, reputable software scientists, some of their own guests, and their own staff presented FOX with mounting proof that the statements they persisted in making about Dominion software were false.
Throughout this time, as FOX was knowingly presenting false and damaging statements about Dominion software to its audiences, Dominion was in constant communication with FOX, explaining the falsity of the statements and the damage the false statements was doing to the company. Over 3600 communications were directed to FOX from Dominion about that.
In addition to asking the judge to award summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the motion alternatively asks the judge to find partial summary judgment consisting of a finding that the specific defamatory statements that are alleged in the complaint are proven false and that there is no presentation available to the defense to refute that finding.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a defamation complaint so stacked against the defendant. Most of FOX’s replies to the complaint so far have consisted of arguments that the damages sought in the complaint are excessive. Their reply to this motion would likely be the first exposition of how they would really seek to defend against the actual complaint of defamation at trial. My guess is they will focus on these internal communications they have withheld from discovery until only recently. And that this focus will be to portray the statements admitting malice and reckless disregard as “vigorous debate” among “diverse colleagues” etc. That might take advantage of some of the course language employed. But at the end of the day, reluctance to maliciously and intentionally defame someone is not a defense. Clearly many of the producers, personalities, and executives at FOX harbored concerns, even grave concerns, about how the lies they were intentionally spreading might harm themselves. That is a recurrent theme in the internal communications. It’s very notable that literally none of those communications express any concerns, grave or otherwise, for the harm the lies might do to the plaintiffs.
Complete pieces of shit. All of FOX.
13,
The gibbering Shit-lord is now claiming that if a Secretary of Transportation working for a Democratic President were to intervene, even citing an emergency, and impose massive improvements to system safety on a Class 1 carrier requiring more maintenance, more inspections, more crew, and upgrades to equipment, all of which would reduce profits and limit stock buybacks, he’d be totes cool wid it.
A.) He’s lying piece of shit
B.) He’s shorting rail stocks
C.) He’s mindlessly posting copy-pasta from Townhall or 8chan
D.) All of the above
Look what was important to QoS McHillbilly last night:
Dropped below 200 once again after hours.
He’s referring to Tesla, of course.
This Tesla:
And this Tesla:
Cheering one-day declines might fill McHillbilly’s day more than the time he spends hoping First Vegetable Joe Biden will wake up in the morning, but over the long term it’s a loser.
McHillbilly’s problem is that Elon Musk over the long term is a winner.
@11 “Any worries about the Gisele Fetterman con?”
No, not really. Edith Wilson was acting president for 1½ years and did an OK job. I’m sure Gisele can be an OK acting senator if need be. Democrats don’t marry bimbos.
@13 Everybody here knows who you are. I’ll let you fill in the rest.
@14 Knowingly and intentionally defaming someone for commercial profit not only satisfies the malice standard, it’s also grounds for punitive damages.
So let’s say the compensatory damages ae $1.6 billion. The punitive damages are — ? The keys to the studios, the equipment, the licenses and contracts, the intellectual property, the trade names and trademarks and copyrights?
An angry litigant could have some fun with that. Richard Butler’s former compound in Idaho is now a peace park.
@14 “Clearly many of the producers, personalities, and executives at FOX harbored concerns, even grave concerns, about how the lies they were intentionally spreading might harm themselves.”
The Murdochs now have them all by the balls, because none of them are ever going to get work anywhere else.
The story I really like is this one.
One of Maria Bartiromo’s sources of election fraud information was a time traveler.
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-lawsuit-2659431124/
Piece of shit Republican operative is headed for jail. This one even steals from his secret Russian donors.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/jesse-benton-sentenced-campaign-finance/index.html
He’s BFF with the Paul family. This is the kind of people Ron and Rand hang with. They’re a subset of sovereign citizens. They don’t think campaign laws apply to them.
@ 17
Democrats don’t marry bimbos.
Not as long as they can get blown by them in the Oval Office.
He certainly does seem to out-perform the market average.
Jeff Bezos, 2022 -$80 billion
Mark Zuckerberg, 2022 -$78 billion
Larry Page, 2022 -$40 billion
Phil Knight, 2022 -$18.3 billiion
Elmo, 2022 -$200 billion
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Go @Eagles!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@10
“These laws are really not about controlling minors’ access to violent pornography … In the conservative world view, [any] pornography is information about LGBTQ identity, abortion, gay marriage,” said Bronstein.
>> Missouri “abolish social security” republicans wants ID before a user can see what ever the conservatives define as Obscene. I got talking to a troll that wanted Pornhub shut down. “She” declared that every porn image victimized women. I ask “her” who was the victim in gay porn? “She” stopped responding to me.
But it will cause her to lose support among far right-wing white nationalist voters who dominate in GOP primary contests. First off, she’s a Hindu who was not born here and can I see the long form. Second, bitches belong in the kitchen. Third, she ain’t white.
@14 Dominion voting vs Fox gets to the Supreme Court, an annex of the Federalist Society, and they rule 6 to 3 that Fox did nothing wrong.
“Abolish Social Security” Republicans changed the rules so the disasters could happen but blame the disasters on the Democrats for not switching the rules back?
Did you hear about how one of Hunter Biden’s business associates might have been able to meet him at a dinner where they were in the same room?
The laptop is real.
Only one thing to do – go out of your way to expose their escapades, and they should pass legislation that on adulterers to be jailed or pay hefty fines!
While Doctor Dumbfuck worries and talks about Hunter Biden.
@25 “[any] pornography is information about LGBTQ identity, abortion, gay marriage,”
To interpret this properly, you have to read it backwards, as follows: “Any information about LGBTQ identity, abortion, gay marriage is pornography.”
That’s clearly the intent of this legislation. Of course, under the old Supreme Court, pornography was protected by the First Amendment. The sponsors of these bills apparently are assuming old rules no longer apply under the New Supreme Court.
@27 Yeah, probably.
@30 They’ll pass the laws, then exercise prosecutorial discretion when the laws are broken by their own. The kind of prosecutorial discretion that DeSantis fired an elected prosecutor for.
27,
That would only be an appeal.
They can rule on the law, and the legal analysis applied by the lower courts. But they cannot rule on factual findings. If a jury finds that FOX made false statements about Dominion, that FOX did so while recklessly disregarding their own knowledge of the falsity of those statements, and demonstrated a malicious intent in that disregard, those findings stand.
To reverse The Court would have to sweep aside Sullivan completely and declare a new, even more impossibly strict standard for defamation plaintiffs. But any such new standard would necessarily run contrary to the interests of most conservative, wealthy fascist assholes, and most corporate villains, who rely on vexatious threat lawsuits to control what the media dares to report about them (don’t you dare report that Peter Thiel is gay).
The overwhelming momentum of conservative legal effort with respect to Sullivan, media liability, and defamation has been precisely the opposite. They don’t want an even stricter standard that makes it harder for individual plaintiffs to sue newspapers, television, and internet media. They want a defamation standard that makes it easy for individuals with money and lawyers to intimidate journalists.
@34 I wouldn’t take anything for granted with this Supreme Court. They’ve already made up facts, and resorted to medieval precedents. A rogue court, by definition, doesn’t follow any rules.
With such a court, conservatives can have their cake and eat it, too. They can sue any reporter or publisher who tells the truth about them, and avoid liability for their most flagrant and damaging lies. All it takes is a partisan court that protects its friends and punishes their enemies. We may already have such a court. At the district court level, we do with Judge Cannon in Florida and Judge Kacsmaryk in Texas.
Speaking of Judge Cannon, has she been reassigned to night court yet?
@16
Acts like Tesla giving up exclusivity in charging is going to be a good thing. So….you can buy a well built EV AND have access to Tesla’s power system or you can buy a Tesla and have blue mold growing in your car, misfit trim, and massive recalls.
Elon ‘Elizabeth Holmes’ Musk…super genius.
@36 Did Biden buy off Musk by promising to dump Harris from the 2024 ticket? Doctor Dumbfuck would like that. He might even go out and buy an all-electric F-150 with his TSLA options winnings.
If AP keeps at this we’ll just ban all AP classes. Who gives a fuck if elites use it to pad their GPA and get into Ivies like MY alma mater Yale, it’s ONLY for the rich and white, and poor smart kids use it to skip classes and get a degree in three.
I WILL NOT BE CHALLENGED!!
And we have these other programs that only a handful of barely accredited colleges accept as just as good as AP. That’s enough to bring AP to their knees.
Join AMAC. It gets you a discount on 1/8 the amount of stuff and locations as those Commies at AARP.
Go on, Gisele. Threaten to have the people who shill for you and your turnip husband sanction her again.
He’s probably experiencing several TIAs per week.
@39
And I’m still the fourth best person for the job.
@ 40
Conor Lamb must be pissed.
“I’m sorry, Justin. I meant to give it to YLB, who didn’t have money for a new box.”
Tiger Woods apologizes after handing Justin Thomas a tampon at the Genesis Invitational
37)Just got back from Aberdeen, and saw a bank of Tesla chargers down Wishkah St from Aberdeen Station. Don’t think Greys Harbor Transit will go electric anytime soon. Until an electric bus has a battery that can make multiple trips on Rt40, Aberdeen-Montesano-Elma-McCleary with half the 15 daily trips continuing to Olympia,. Forever thankful to Montesano when O’Dea was playing Lake Stevens in the KingBowl. They had a spare sideline pass, which O’Dea needed for me.
Everett to home after dropping off a vehicle was Uber>>ferry>>bus>>walk.
Island life.
Congratulations to Rush Limbaugh today for celebrating his second year of sobriety.
🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉
Great Job buddy!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Way to go!!!!!!! Such incredible courage and determination.
@45 I’ll never touch another drop, I promise.