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  1. On 5/9/2018 at 6:59 PM, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I think of all the European cars of that era the Jag was pure sex on wheels.  The voluptuous shapely curves were like nothing else out there.  If I had the means one would be in my garage..... with a completely new electrical system of course.


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    Lucas #530433. You won't need to rewire 'cause it'll be as fucked up as when it rolled off the UK assembly line.  

  2. 3 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

    Back in the 70's a person could go to Vegas for almost nothing. You could book a junket that included airfare, hotel, meals and they'd throw in some money to gamble with. It cost maybe $100 for a weekend? You take their chips and sit like you and your friend and play black and red until the house odds ate away the free money. Drink their drinks, eat their buffets. Simpler times, man.

    Yep. Found a dollar slot machine in a ratty casino next door to Circus Circus that would pay off at about thirty bucks an hour. Eventually paid for the entire trip. 

  3. On 5/9/2018 at 10:01 AM, Longhorn94 said:

    East of Eden is probably my favorite book right now. Steinbeck is such an amazing writer. 

    Reading Winter of Our Discontent for the thirtieth time. One of the few writers I've sought out for everything they'd written. When I began reading Steinbeck in high school I thought how strange it was to appreciate books by someone I probably wouldn't enjoy meeting, mainly because what my teenage self took away from autobiographical Travels with Charley. I'm getting close to the age Steinbeck was when he passed away and not only do I have better insight to his stories but now the idea of talking over a few drinks with Steinbeck sounds like a perfect afternoon.

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  4. On 5/2/2018 at 4:26 AM, Stoogey said:

    Good thinking. Maybe you could go dumpster diving through the appliance store's recycling and pick yourself out a nice casket.

     

    On 5/2/2018 at 6:28 AM, 52-80 said:

    early death = less money spent on healthcare.  win-win.

    Throwing the red flag on "win-win". Early death = Game Over. Can we get a decision from the refs?

  5. 16 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

    I'm sensing a recurring theme...

    If I'd only found a few more of Lucinda's priors earlier, I could have written her a love sonnet. Now I'll be lucky with a haiku. 

    Naaaaaaaah. I remembered her from the Shaggy beauty contest. Lucy didn't do too well in the voting. Considering her current competition's mugshots, she'd have a shot at Miss Inmate 2018. 

  6. Lucinda Ortegon (AKA Lucinda Maria Ortegon, Lucinda Cedillo, Lucinda Marie Cedillo): A Retrospective, Part Dos.
     

    On 4/27/2018 at 3:47 PM, PvilleStang said:

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    I'll punch you in the pants.

  7. On 5/3/2018 at 9:48 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    Jackson is anything but ignorant. 

    Didn't say that he was - maybe too outspoken at inopportune moments would be a better way to describe him - Jackson had the black vote but needed the liberal vote in the 1984 presidential elections. Had Jackson not made the Hymie and Hymietown remarks and then disremember making those remarks to a reporter (a black reporter whom Jackson thought would keep the bro code) before apologizing and admitting the truth, his Rainbow Coalition would have come to fruition.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1984/04/08/a-reporters-story/807486fd-b978-484d-8110-e5a544d072aa/?utm_term=.a3e64ca3d0da

    Would it have made a difference? Probably not as Reagan won easily over Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. And there was Jackson's speech at Yeshiva University and Jackson's "cut his nuts off" reaction picked up by a live microphone to the Father's Day speech in which Obama was critical of black men not supporting their children. 

    What I am saying is the comments towards Jews are coming from someone. How was White - a person who displays abject ignorance at every turn, doesn't comprehend Kristallnacht, misunderstands stormtroopers humiliating the German woman being  marched through - able to name the Rothschilds? There is no parthenogenesis in hatred, it's a learned behavior. And it is people like Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan shaping these attitudes. ""I sincerely think he [White] was just repeating conspiracy theories he had heard somewhere," said Rabbi Batya Glazer, who had met with White on the issue." 

    White donated $500 to the Nation of Islam's Saviours' Day where Farrakhan said, "Powerful Jews are my enemy," from funds to directly benefit D.C. Ward 8 residents. “I am not resigning, I’m not backing down, I’m not discouraged, I’m not depressed, so run all the media stories you want because my people are going to support me. I know some of my colleagues call for me to be censured. We going to have problems, we going to have major problems, because people are going to start coming down to the Wilson Building standing up. No longer are we going to be kowtowed into being silent about the things that matter.”

    That sounds like Jesse Jackson rhetoric. Is White being groomed since Jesse Jackson Jr is out of the political picture?
      

  8. 12 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yeah, I don't actually believe any of these people are actually anti-Semitic.  I doubt they even know what it means.  It's just a fairly astounding display of ignorance:  biting hard on conspiracy theories without understanding that these particular ones are modern versions of blood libel; not having the first foggy clue about the Holocaust or events of WWII; and I think a lot of black folks are attracted to the good orderly discipline of Farrakhan and the Nation without understanding what they stand for.

    I disagree. I think they're anti-Semetic and do not realize it because they were raised that way. Remember black civil rights leader Jesse Jackson's prejudice towards Jews?

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    Jackson was criticized in the early 1980s for referring to Jews as "Hymies" and New York City as "Hymietown" in remarks to a black Washington Post reporter. (Hymie is a perjorative term for Jews.) Jackson mistakenly assumed the references would not be printed. Louis Farrakhan made the situation worse by issuing, in Jackson's presence, a public warning to Jews that "If you harm this brother [Jackson], it will be the last one you harm." Jackson made a public apology to Jews for the pejorative remarks, but Jackson refused to denounce Farrakhan's warning to Jews. Jackson apologized during a speech before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester , New Hampshire synagogue, but an enduring split between Jackson and many in the Jewish community continued at least through the 1990s.

    Jackson also made other remarks evidencing a negative attitude toward Jews including saying that Richard Nixon was less attentive to poverty in the U.S. because "four out of five [of Nixon's top advisers] are German Jews and their priorities are on Europe and Asia"; that he was "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust"; and that there are "very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective about Arab affairs".

    Shortly after President Jimmy Carter fired U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young for meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization representatives, Jackson and other black leaders began publicly endorsing a Palestinian state, with Jackson calling Israel's prime minister a "terrorist", and then soliciting Arab-American financial support. Jackson has since apologized for some of these remarks, but they badly damaged his presidential campaign, as "Jackson was seen by many conservatives in the United States as hostile to Israel and far too close to Arab governments." - Wikipedia.

     

  9. Name the pooch after your wife.

    "STOP PEEING ON THE FLOOR, STANKOETTE!" "STOP DRINKING OUT OF THE TOILET, STANKOETTE!" "DAMN IT, STANKOETTE! STOP CHEWING ON THE FURNITURE!"

    Probably more effective if you and the next door neighbors live in tents.

  10. On 4/19/2018 at 2:23 PM, Hank Scorpio said:

    Look, they all did something wrong. Maybe it wasn't the crime they were convicted of, but they're all criminals in some fashion, so it doesn't mater. 

    That was the general consensus with Steven Avery. 
     

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    Steven Avery

    Time Served: 18 years

    Steven Avery, at the age of 22, was wrongfully convicted of rape. He spent almost twenty years in prison before being exonerated through DNA testing.

    On July 29, 1985, at approximately 3:50 p.m., Penny Ann Beernsten was out running along the Lake Michigan shoreline and was apprehended by an unknown man who forced her into a wooded area and sexually assaulted her.

    Investigation and Trial

    Based on a physical description of Beernsten’s attacker, police provided a photo array of nine men. Beernsten selected the photograph of Steven Avery, who was arrested the following day.

    At trial, Beernsten identified Avery as her attacker. A state forensic examiner testified that a hair recovered from a shirt of Avery’s was consistent with Beernsten’s hair, but did not present qualifying information about the limitations of hair microscopy.

    Avery presented 16 alibi witnesses, including the clerk of a store in Green Bay, Wisconsin, who recalled Avery, accompanied by his wife and five children, buying paint from the store. A checkout tape put the purchase at 5:13 p.m. Beernsten put the attack at 3:50 p.m. and estimated it lasted 15 minutes, which meant that Avery would have had to leave the scene of the attack, walk a mile to the nearest parking area, drive home, load his family into the car, and drive 45 miles in just over an hour.

    The jury deliberated for only four hours and convicted Avery almost exclusively on the eyewitness account, on December 14, 1985. He was sentenced to 32 years in prison.

     Post-Conviction Investigation

    After losing several appeals, a petition for DNA testing was granted in 1995 and showed that scrapings taken of Beernsten’s fingernails contained the DNA of an unknown person. The tests were unable to eliminate Avery, however, and a motion for a new trial was denied.

    In April of 2002, attorneys for the Wisconsin Innocence Project obtained a court order for DNA testing of 13 hairs recovered from Beernsten at the time of the crime. The state crime laboratory reported that, using the FBI DNA database, it had linked a hair to Gregory Allen, a convicted felon who bore a striking resemblance to Avery.  Allen was then serving a 60-year prison term for a sexual assault in Green Bay that occurred after the attack on Beernsten.

    On September 11, 2003, a request brought by the Manitowoc District Attorney’s Office and the Wisconsin Innocence Project to dismiss the charges was granted and Avery was released.

    In 2005, with support from Beernsten and Avery, the Wisconsin Department of Justice adopted a model eyewitness identification protocol.

    On October 31, 2005, 25-year-old Teresa Halbach was murdered. Avery and his nephew were convicted in separate trials and were both sentenced to life in prison.

     


    The Innocence Project glosses things over a bit. Teresa Halbach was tortured, raped and murdered. Avery incinerated her body; bone fragments were found.

    Avery had prior convictions and was a suspect in several sexual assaults before Penny Ann Beernsten incorrectly identified him as her attacker. But even fucking assholes have rights. 

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