The delivery is a little stiff, but I think it still lands:
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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1062
- Views: 116829
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 215
- Views: 32568
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Some 15-20 years ago, I was a regular reader of blogs by a number of medievalist professors, whose writing came to my attention through Tolkien connections. Some like Michael Drout and Scott Nokes blogged under their own names. A number of others used pseudonyms. On one occasion, one of these folks,...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 612
- Views: 82991
Re: Chaos in Congress
Last week, Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that he would be transmitting the articles this week, but CNN now reports it will be next week. So that means at least 61 days after the House voted toi impeach, and more than twice as long as then-Speaker Pelosi held the articles for President Donald ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
- Replies: 4045
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Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
CNN: " Judge schedules Newsmax case over 2020 election lies for September trial . ... Newsmax and the voting technology company Smartmatic could still reach an out-of-court settlement, and further delays are possible. But if the September 24 trial date holds, the fallout from former President ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:34 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2006
- Views: 290948
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating MGM Hotels for failing to secure customers' data. So MGM has sued the FTC's head, Lina Khan, for conflict of interest, because Khan herself stayed at an MGM hotel (and they failed to secure her data). If you steal from the police commissioner, the cops i...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:18 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2042
- Views: 576771
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
The Daily Beast reports that the "legal document from Knight Specialty Insurance Company doesn't actually promise it will pay the money if the former president loses his $464 million bank fraud case on appeal. Instead, it says Trump will pay, negating the whole point of an insurance company gu...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:14 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
- Replies: 921
- Views: 137621
Re: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
Madison Cawthorn, the freshman Republican Congressman from North Carolina who lost a primary race in his bid for reelection, seems to have largely abandoned his job with more than three months left to serve in his term in office: "It is difficult to discern what Cawthorn has been doing for his...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 349
- Views: 49491
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Information about how the U.S. and Israel knew of the attack in advance. (Iran told Saudi Arabia and others, who told the U.S.)
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 215
- Views: 32568
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1062
- Views: 116829
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
A picture taken at almost the same time that Donald Trump was reported to have fallen asleep in court:
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 326
- Views: 77644
Re: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
From Donald Trump's latest reply brief to the Supreme Court: President Ford pardoned President Nixon, but President Nixon faced charges for private conduct, not just official acts. The Legal Aftermath: Citizen Nixon and the Law , TIME (Aug. 19, 1974), [ link ] (investigation of Nixon included “subor...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 215
- Views: 32568
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Of the 96 jurors initially sworn, 50 have already been dismissed because they said they could not be fair and impartial.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 215
- Views: 32568
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
One cannot help but wonder if he's on some sort of sedative (or something) to prevent outbursts?? Donald Trump is reported to have been more animated in the courtroom when the trial resumed after lunch. And I gather that one can officialy says that he is "on trial" now because jurors have...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 783
- Views: 200341
Re: World News Thread
Learned a new word today: zud . Sometimes spelled dzud . It's a Mongolian word referring to a "disaster in steppe, semi-desert and desert regions ... in which large numbers of livestock die, primarily due to starvation, being unable to graze due to particular severe climatic conditions. Various...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 215
- Views: 32568
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Jury selection in this trial begins today. This morning, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman posted this from the courtroom: "Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack." One cannot help but wonder if he's on some sort of sedative (or something...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 215
- Views: 32568
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Jury selection in this trial begins today. This morning, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman posted this from the courtroom:
"Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack."
"Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack."
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 349
- Views: 49491
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Well that's interesting:
President Biden would not be as old as the movies' version of Captain America, though.
President Biden would not be as old as the movies' version of Captain America, though.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
- Replies: 4045
- Views: 551596
Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
I appreciate Paul Farhi's point concerning the media's reluctance to publish the Hunter Biden laptop story a few weeks before the 2020 election: ask Dan Rather how it worked out in 2004 to rush to publish a story (about George W. Bush's National Guard service) that wasn't thoroughly sourced. (No one...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:19 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 349
- Views: 49491
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
And apparently an Iranian envoy at the United Nations has said that they will consider the matter closed unless Israel retaliates. Here's an Iranian government tweet from yesterday about the attack: "The matter can be deemed concluded." https://twitter.com/Iran_UN/status/17792699930430220...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2006
- Views: 290948
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Here's an interesting Washington Post story I missed when it was published last year: " How Red-state Politics Are Shaving Years Off American Lives ." The subject is three adjacent counties in different states: Ashtabula Co. in Ohio, Erie Co. in Pennsylvania, and Chautauqua Co. in New York...