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PenelopeWitherspoon

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  1. Might look at the Nomo Soho. I used to stay there all the time when it was the Mondrian. Great location. It is on Crosby between Howard and Grand.
  2. Marsha Blackburn and Joni Ernst need to fuck off, fucking traitors.
  3. Just watched this. Fucking hilarious.
  4. Yeah, we had this argument back in 2021 when I was headed to Naples, having previously been in 2018. I told you then you were way off. I mean, sorry but the food is awesome, the city is steeped in history, and some of the views are absolutely amazing.
  5. I had no idea there were Jews in New York City.
  6. The end of that episode was laugh put loud. Just fantastic.
  7. Yeah, disagree with you on that. Wasn’t the last time you went more than 20 years ago?
  8. I already commented that I hoped Trump would Jim Jones his cult. Unfortunately, it is probably the only way.
  9. Just hear to say that Jason Aldean and Bro Country suck massively. I saw him once at Houston Rodeo and it was horribad. We left about 4 songs in.
  10. Now, if only the Trumpies will actually follow through on their threat to leave the US if he is convicted. That would mean an even bigger swing but it would also mean: 1. Collective IQ of the US goes up. 2. Collective BMI of the US goes down. Because of 2, healthcare costs go down. Come on Trumpies, fucking follow through for once.
  11. Fuck all these guys. What complete pieces of shit. This is what misogyny looks like.
  12. I just want to come in here and say I find it HILARIOUS that Derka, of all fucking people, started this fucking thread. He is the definition of butthurt over small fucking things, and will rant and rave about it in book length threads. You be you, Derka.
  13. Whose fucking sock is this? Nevermind. Just saw this is another GRUHorn incarnate. How fucking pathetic are you that you keep getting crowd sourced and then come back again, and again, and again. Get a fucking life.
  14. Where in Houston are you buying a house for sub 400k that doesn’t have a risk of flooding and isn’t in BFE?
  15. I'm starting to see people on my social media feeds going to see this shit. Guess I know who to unfollow.
  16. Trump Seeks Court Order to Quash Investigation in Georgia https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/trump-georgia-election-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-android-share In his latest legal maneuver, Donald J. Trump sought a court order on Friday that would throw out the work of an Atlanta special grand jury and disqualify Fani T. Willis, the prosecutor leading an investigation into election interference in Georgia. A decision on indictments looms in the investigation, which has been in progress for more than two years. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, has signaled that the decision will come in the first half of August; she recently asked judges in a downtown Atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time as she prepares to bring charges. Mr. Trump’s lawyers made their request in a filing to Georgia’s Supreme Court. They want the court to throw out the evidence gathered by the special grand jury. Though the Georgia Supreme Court is predominantly Republican, the Trump legal team acknowledged in its filing that its latest stratagem was a long shot, conceding that it had identified “no case in 40 years” where the court had intervened in the way it seeks. “Then again, never has there been a case like this one,” it added. The investigation has examined whether the former president and his allies illegally interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, where Mr. Trump lost narrowly to President Biden. The special grand jury heard evidence for roughly seven months and recommended indictments of more than a dozen people; its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. Trump was among them. To bring any charges, Ms. Willis must now seek indictments from a regular grand jury. The Trump team’s filing raises a number of legal concerns, both about Georgia law relating to special grand juries and about how a special grand jury was used in this inquiry. Mr. Trump’s local legal team includes the lawyers Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little. Their filing takes for granted that their client will be charged, saying that Ms. Willis “now seeks an indictment, the basis for which would be evidence unlawfully obtained during the special purpose grand jury’s proceedings.” The district attorney’s office had no immediate comment on the latest filing. Intervening in a potential criminal case before an indictment is even filed is complicated. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have already sought to scuttle the investigation with a motion, filed in March, to quash much of the collected evidence and take Ms. Willis off the investigation. To their frustration, the Superior Court judge handling the case, Robert C.I. McBurney, has yet to rule on the motion. “Stranded between the Supervising Judge’s protected passivity and the District Attorney’s looming indictment, Petitioner has no meaningful option other than to seek this Court’s intervention,” the lawyers wrote in their filing on Friday to the State Supreme Court. “Nothing about these processes have been normal or reasonable,” they wrote, adding that “the all-but-unavoidable conclusion is that the anomalies” are “because Petitioner is President Donald J. Trump.” Please tell me this is futile. Also, they always file on a Friday.
  17. See, that is why I am SO glad I do not have kids. Opens things up.
  18. There are a lot of places along the Amalfi coast that are definitely overrun in June and September. Hell, when we went to Capri in September, it was lively, but definitely not crazy, crazy. We were in Amalfi about 3 or 4 days before (just for a few hours one day after coming off a boat), and there were tons of people. Probably just day trippers though. Positano and Amalfi get overrun as those are major ferry stops. There are tons of little villages in between that are much sleepier. I definitely want to go back, but I definitely will avoid driving. Ferries are your friend.
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