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  1. 8 hours ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

    Exit poll has 65% of Rs agreeing that Joe Biden’s election was stolen, mas o menos. I just don’t see how the country survives that sort of cultish irrationality for so many. Please, prove me wrong!

     

    It's a fucking cult.

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  2. Had dinner last night at FYSH in the hotel, and I did breakfast this AM.  Both meals were solid.  EDITION does a good job getting amazing chefs to open spaces. This hotel and the restaurant are all still in previews, so pretty cool to experience it.

     

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  3. I'm in Singapore at the moment.  Headed to Siem Reap.  Some of the people meeting up for our trip got caught in all the grounding.  My two Singapore Air flights are on 737 Max planes, but not the 900, the 800.  So, I guess I've got that going for me.

  4. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    We flew Finnair business to Helsinki, and agree - it’s a nice ride. And while the airport is a bit of a hike from the city center, you had plenty of time to go into town and hit the Allas sea pool for sauna and then a cold plunge in the Baltic. Wuss. :)

    I don't even have a coat that can withstand those temps.  Will try and get out on the return.  But if not, will hit up Helsinki on one of my London trips this year.

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  5. I like Finnair.  Their business class seat is comfy.  Also, service was amazing.  Rather than leave the airport during my 11 hour layover, I hung in the lounge.  Why did I not go outside you ask?  Yeah, that's Fahrenheit.  I don't have clothes for that weather.

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  6. I'm on a Finnair Airbus 330 headed to Cambodia via Helsinki and Singapore.  Was going to try and get out of the airport during my long layover, but it's 5 in Helsinki.  I may live in NYC, but I don't have the coat to be able to be in that all day.  It's OK.  I'll get some work done.

    I'm overnighting in Singapore for a night then heading to Siem Reap.  Once there, will be hitting all the temples.  Starting out my birthday with sunrise at Angkor Wat (the 10th).  Home to have some great photos and videos to share.  Give me a follow.

    https://www.instagram.com/mlleshetravels

    https://www.tiktok.com/@mlle.she.travels

     

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  7. 37 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Poster virtually never posts in a football thread.

    Poster has known posting tactics in CR. She disagrees= neg.

    Poster shows up to defend NYT, again, LOFL, but yeah, with 16 negs across a football thread in which pretty much nobody GAF about said tactics.

    Absolutely political.  The pedantic bullshit asking how it could be politics is just hilarious.    You see what you want to see.

    Keep whining. I neg because I prefer to do that than actually engage idiots and trolls.  It's amazing how a big tough man like you is hurt by internet rep points. Jesus, get a life.

     

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  8. 21 minutes ago, slorch said:

    @pyrohornIII

    ahh. you must have missed Penelope's bombing run that was absolutely politically driven...

     

    It absolutely did happen.  You disproved your own point by not knowing WTF you are talking about or willfully ignoring the truth, which isn't unusual in these discussions either.

    Anyone that bitched about the article without reading it got a neg because the article was fair, and they were being idiots and bringing their own political BS into the football board. God, you are such a whiny bitch. Have another one.

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  9. 20 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    If conservatives and Republicans could just mind their own fucking business, far fewer things would be politicized. 

    Some of us can't afford to tune out. 

    This.  I’m lucky I live in NYC.  If I still lived in Texas, my right to bodily autonomy would be gone.

    On the football thread, a lot of folks were denigrating The NY Times article without reading it, and I called them out on it.  The article was fair.  It’s not my fault that they decided to express idiotic opinions and cannot handle getting called out for it.  There was nothing remotely political about what I posted,  just calling out stupid in general. 

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  10. I debated on whether to share this here, but yeah.

      This crazy sociopath needs to be locked up forever.

    https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/01/04/prosecutors-reject-bani-mezquititla-bid-avoid-trial-in-cat-rape/72085854007/

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    FREEHOLD - Prosecutors have rejected an Asbury Park man's bid to avoid criminal prosecution on charges he repeatedly raped, tortured and killed his pet cat, but the defendant's attorney says he will appeal the decision to a Superior Court judge.

    Bani J. Mezquititla, 19, appeared before Superior Court Judge Chad N. Cagan Wednesday to hear the decision on his application to enter the court's pretrial intervention (PTI) program, a diversionary program which affords first-time offenders the opportunity to avoid a trial and criminal record upon successfully completing a period of supervision.

    Mezquititla's attorney, William Wackowski, told the judge he plans to file an appeal of the rejection.

    An appeal, if it is filed, would be heard by Superior Court Judge Christie L. Bevacqua, Schaefer said. 

    Cagan scheduled a court appearance for Mequititla for Feb. 29 to track the status of the appeal and the case.

    Mezquititla is charged in an indictment with two counts of animal cruelty related to the alleged mistreatment of his pet cat, Ellie. One count alleges he tormented, tortured or abused the animal. The other accuses him of using the feline in a sexual manner.

    Mezquititla was arrested March 2 after he told his roommate the cat had run away, but changed his story and told her he threw the pet out of their apartment window, prosecutors said. The roommate went outside and retrieved the cat's corpse and brought it to the Asbury Park Police Department, spurring an investigation. 

    Mezquititla confessed to the abuse, telling police it began with him masturbating in front of the cat in December 2022, Sevan Biramian, an assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, said at the defendant's detention hearing in March. Mezquititla went on to tell investigators that his conduct escalated to repeated incidents of sexual intercourse with the cat over the course of months, as well as sexually torturing her with a pencil, Biramian said. 

    Mezquititla took photographs and video of some of the torture, including video of the cat's paws handcuffed behind her back and visual evidence showing the defendant smirking as Ellie fought for her life during the torture.

    Mezquititla has been held without bail at the Monmouth County Jail since his arrest. 

    Kathleen Hopkins, a reporter in New Jersey since 1985, covers crime, court cases, legal issues and just about every major murder trial to hit Monmouth and Ocean counties. Contact her at khopkins@app.com.

     

     

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  11. 4 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    The Kimmel stuff, as best as I can follow, comes from Rogers acting like the douchebag cause he was butthurt over a few different Kimmel bits where AR was the target of the joke. That's all it was.

    Aaron Rodgers is a thin skinned douchebag.

    https://www.si.com/college/texas/football/aaron-rodgers-horns-down-texas-longhorns-college-football-playoff-florida-state-seminoles

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    Texas Coach Mack Brown urged coaches and the news media to vote the Longhorns above Cal, a move that Bears quarterback Aaron Rodgers called classless on Sunday.

     

    But the lobbying seemed to work, as No. 6 Texas closed 23 points on No. 4 Cal in the Associated Press new media poll and the fifth-ranked Longhorns closed 43 points on the fourth-ranked Bears in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll. That was enough to push Texas .0129 points ahead of Cal in the B.C.S. standing after being .0013 points behind.

     

    Nine of the 65 voters in the A.P. poll moved Texas ahead of Cal in the past week, and three of them were from Texas. Keith Whitmire of The Dallas Morning News was one of them, and he said Cal's 10-point victory over Southern Mississippi was not impressive enough.

    And we all remember Texas Tech beating Aaron Rodgers and Cal in the Holiday Bowl while Texas beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl.

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  12. This is infuriating.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/us/brittany-watts-ohio-miscarriage-abortion.html

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    A grand jury in Ohio is considering whether to indict a woman who miscarried a nonviable fetus at home and has been charged with abuse of a corpse in what experts say is an extremely rare interpretation of a state law.

    The woman, Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, Ohio, was arrested in October after passing a fetus in her bathroom and trying to flush the remains down the toilet. The case has been before a Trumbull County grand jury since November. If convicted, Ms. Watts, who could face up to a year in prison. She has pleaded not guilty.

    The grand jury was expected to give its report on Wednesday, but Guy M. Vogrin, a spokesman for the Trumbull County prosecutor, said the case had been continued until the next session in a couple weeks. The reason for the postponement was unclear as grand jury proceedings are secret.

    Although records show that Ms. Watts spontaneously miscarried, a finding that the state has not challenged, the case has come under scrutiny by lawyers and reproductive health advocates who say that prosecuting her is baseless and may deter other women who miscarry from obtaining medical attention they need.

    The charge came a month before Ohio voters enshrined the right to abortion in the State Constitution until the point of fetal viability, 22 weeks in the state, as well as the right to contraception, fertility treatment and miscarriage care.

    The measure, which went into effect in early December, was part of a winning streak for abortion-rights groups after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Ms. Watts is being “demonized for something that goes on everyday,” her lawyer, Traci Timko, said before Judge Terry Ivanchak of the Warren Municipal Court last month.

    But Judge Ivanchak, who has since retired, found probable cause to send the charge to a grand jury for consideration.

    According to a report by the Trumbull County Coroner’s Office, Ms. Watts was 21 weeks and five days pregnant when she was admitted to St. Joseph Warren Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, with vaginal bleeding on Sept. 19. Doctors determined that her water broke prematurely and her cervix became dilated; Ms. Watts also had a significantly elevated white blood cell count.

    Doctors were able to detect cardiac activity but “recommended she be induced and deliver the fetus despite its nonviable status,” the report said, because she was at significant risk of maternal death, sepsis or “complete placental abruption with catastrophic bleeding.”

    On her initial visit to the hospital, Ms Watts left after waiting eight hours for a hospital ethics panel to determine whether to induce her pregnancy without legal ramifications because she was on the cusp of Ohio’s viability timeline, 22 weeks, Ms. Timko told The Associated Press. The hospital declined to comment.

     

    Ms. Watts went home to “process the information she was told,” the coroner’s report said. She returned the next day with the same symptoms and left a second time without treatment.

    On Sept. 22, Ms. Watts passed the fetus at home alone in her bathroom and returned to the hospital, where she received a dilation and curettage, also called a D and C, to remove the placenta, according to the report. The hospital notified the Warren City Police Department about the miscarriage and “the need to locate the fetus.”

    The police found the fetus clogged in her bathroom toilet, the report said, noting that Ms. Watts had told the police that she disposed of what she believed to be the remains in a bucket in her backyard. The police then took the entire toilet out of the home and took it to a morgue, “where it was broken open” to retrieve the fetus, the report said.

    The autopsy report found that the fetus had died in utero — before delivery — because of complications of premature rupturing of the membranes.

    The police charged Ms. Watts on Oct. 5 with abuse of corpse as a felony under a law adopted by the Ohio Legislature in 1996. The case is being prosecuted by the Warren City Prosecutor’s Office.

     

    The law in question bars the treatment of “a human corpse in a way that the person knows would outrage” either “reasonable family sensibilities,” resulting in a misdemeanor, or “community sensibilities,” resulting in a felony charge.

    “From a legal perspective, there’s no definition of ‘corpse,’” Ms. Timko, Ms. Watts’s lawyer, said in the interview with The Associated Press. “Can you be a corpse if you never took a breath?”

    Ohio law determines fetal viability starts at 22 weeks. Ms. Watts arrived at the hospital at 21 weeks and 5 days.

    Joshua Dressler, a former criminal law professor at Ohio State University, said the statute being used by prosecutors was “rarely enforced” and typically involves the abuse or mutilation of a human being. But in common law, a fetus does not become a human being until birth, he said, and since the fetus died in utero, “this would, to me, not constitute being a human corpse.”

    “This is an entirely different way of understanding the meaning of the term corpse,” he said. “I think this is a serious, serious problem with the prosecution on those grounds.”

    Jessie Hill, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University who has worked on abortion rights cases, said Ms. Watt’s case wades into the debate over fetal personhood.

    “By using something like abuse of corpse as a hook to prosecute this case, it kind of assumes the conclusion that this fetus was a person or the equivalent to a born person,” she said. “That’s definitely a troubling aspect of the case.”

    Ms. Hill also noted “pregnancy outcomes for people of color are so much more likely to be questioned and to result in criminalization.”

    Had Ms. Watts miscarried at the hospital, Ms. Hill said, the fetus would not have been treated as a corpse.

    Last month, Dennis Watkins, the Trumbull County prosecutor, a Democrat, said his office was “duty bound” to follow Ohio law and move forward with a grand jury proceeding.

    But Michael Benza, a criminal law professor at Case Western, said it was up to the prosecutor to decide. He said “there are a lot of problems” with the prosecutor’s case, including the definition of a human corpse. But the prosecution’s biggest challenge might be in the vagueness of the language.

    “If my students wrote this statute,” he said, “they would fail.”

    First, prosecutors must make a case for why the remains constitute a human corpse. They’ll also have to persuade the jury that Ms. Watts’s actions brought “outrage” to the public.

    The prosecution’s interpretation of the statute exceeds its intentions, Mr. Benza said, but public pressure may have prompted the prosecutor to place charges.

    Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights sent a letter to the prosecutor, Mr. Watkins, “protesting the unjust prosecution” of Ms. Watts, and urged him to dismiss “the unwarranted” charge. More than 4,000 health care workers and community leaders signed the letter.

    Ms. Hill, the reproductive health lawyer, said Ms. Watts’s case may be a sign of things to come in Ohio in the wake of the constitutional amendment to protect reproductive health care, and said there could be more efforts to criminalize miscarriages and other pregnancy outcomes.

    Fuck the GQP.

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  13. On 1/2/2024 at 2:46 AM, BP44 said:

    Awesome.  I’m a former poster on ancestral boards, created an account to post in a thread @immamacstarted in $9.95, seemingly to solicit honest feedback about what plagues him, he segregates my comments in a new thread I didn’t title, and I get negged into oblivion by @PenelopeWitherspoonand other cunts like her. 

    I’m at the Ritz in the Quarter, beyond pissed about what I witnessed tonight down the street. I don’t know most of you in real life, and so for the people monitoring this thread, you can go fuck yourselves. 

    Definitely Porterhouse.  This is exactly how we nuked his account a few months ago.  What a pussy.

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