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  1. This is the wildest damn story I’ve read in a long time.  In 1988 a guy working at a hot dog cart in Albuquerque stole his colleague’s identity and a car.  That man went on to become a pretty well paid hospital IT administrator with a family. 
     

    The real guy ended up with felony convictions, homeless, and was confined to a mental hospital for insisting he was himself. 
     

    https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/former-university-of-iowa-hospital-employee-used-fake-identity-for-35-years/

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    Keirans used Woods’ identity “in every aspect of his life,” including obtaining employment, insurance and official documents, and even paying taxes under the name, according to a plea agreement signed by Keirans.

    In 1990, Keirans obtained a fraudulent Colorado identification card with Woods’ name and birthday. He used the ID to get a job at a fast-food restaurant and to get a Colorado bank account. He bought a car for $600 in 1991, using Wood’s name, with two $300 checks that bounced.

    He drove the stolen car to Idaho, where it broke down and he abandoned it. He withdrew all his money from the Colorado bank using an ATM in Idaho and left the state. An arrest warrant was issued for Woods in Colorado because of the stolen car, though documents don’t indicate whether Woods was arrested at that time.

    It wasn’t the first time Keirans had stolen a car. When he was 16, he stole a car after running away from his adoptive parents’ home in San Francisco. He was arrested at the time in Oregon, under his own name, but never appeared in court, according to court documents.

    In 1994 — six years after he started using Woods’ name — Keirans got married. He had a child, whose last name is Woods.

    In 2012 — 24 years after he started using Woods’ name — Keirans fraudulently acquired a copy of Woods’ birth certificate from the state of Kentucky using information he found about Woods’ family on Ancestry.com.

    By 2013, Keirans had moved to eastern Wisconsin. He started his IT job with UI Hospitals and worked remotely. He earned more than $700,000 in his 10 years working for the hospital. In 2023, his salary was $140,501, according to the hospital.

    Keirans obtained multiple vehicle and personal loans from Iowa credit unions under Woods’ name between 2016 and 2022, totaling more than $200,000. He also had money stored in a national bank under Woods’ name, court documents state.

    Woods’ arrest

    In 2019, the real William Woods was homeless, living in Los Angeles. He went to a branch of the national bank and explained that he recently discovered someone was using his credit and had accumulated a lot of debt.

    Woods didn’t want to pay the debt and asked to know the account numbers for any accounts he had open at the bank so he could close them.

    Woods gave the bank employee his real Social Security card and an authentic California Identification card, which matched the information the bank had on file. Because there was a large amount of money in the accounts, the bank employee asked Woods a series of security questions that he was unable to answer.

    The bank employee called Keirans, whose the phone number was connected to the accounts. He answered the security questions correctly and said no one in California should have access to the accounts.

    The employee called the Los Angeles Police Department, and officers spoke with Woods and Keirans. Keirans faxed the Los Angeles officers a copy of Woods’ Social Security card and birth certificate, as well as a Wisconsin driver’s license Keirans had acquired under Woods’ name.

    The driver’s license had the name William David Woods — David is Keirans’ real middle name — rather than William Donald Woods. When questioned, Keiran told an LAPD officer he sometimes used David as a middle name, but his real name was William Donald Woods.

    The real Woods was arrested and charged with identity theft and false impersonation, under a misspelling of Keirans’ name: Matthew Kierans.

    Because Woods continued to insist, throughout the judicial process, that he was William Woods and not Matthew Kierans, a judge ruled in February 2020 that he was not mentally competent to stand trial and he was sent to a mental hospital in California, where he received psychotropic medication and other mental health treatment.

     

     

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  2. 15 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    try and imagine a world where women have to build bridges and roads and work construction, where women exclusively do the most dangerous jobs like work on oil rigs, logging, iron work, steel work, etc; a world where women are always the last to be saved during disasters, where women are incarcerated more than men, where women have more mental health issues than men, where women commit suicide more than men, where women have fewer government and social programs available to them than men etc, etc, etc.

    you listing one example of one thing that women have to deal with that men don’t does not prove your point at all. what’s hard about being a woman might be different than what’s hard about being a man, but that does not prove that kim mulkey or angel reese or any other female sports figure gets treated differently than men do for the same behavior. 

    Lol, no one is making Ohtani work on an oil rig either, I thought we are talking about sports.

    Anyway all those things except government programs and getting saved last are things men choose or do to themselves. You want to pull statistics on who is most likely to be a victim vs. victimizer in random violent attacks, rapes, murders, domestic abuse, etc? Have you ever, in your life, been physically afraid of a woman you’ve never met before and just happened to run into? I guarantee almost every woman you meet has a story about a man. 
     

    Its the old saw— deep down men are afraid women will reject them and women are afraid men will kill them. 
     

    Anyways, this is getting into some bullshit MRA debate and I am out on this forum.  The important thing is that Kim Mulkey is terrible regardless. 

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  3. 8 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Dude, some cornerback from Colorado State got a bunch of racist death threats last fall when he took out Deion's kid. Nobody knew who he was before that Saturday, and by Sunday, Deion was defending the guy. Google "NBA death threats" and you'll see stories referencing Westbrook, Grant Williams, Paul Pierce, Demar Derozen, Draymond Green, Danny Green, etc ....  People are shitty, and it naive to assume it wont happen to women.

    As for creeps attracted to women, well thats a story as old as time. 

    Right, and thanks for confirming my point that it’s just one additional layer of bullshit and barriers for women athletes.

    Try to imagine a world where some local reporter snaps a shot of a 17 year old boy track star and within weeks it’s all over every sports message board with grown ups talking about his body and attractiveness. It doesn’t happen.

    And then when attractive women athletes accept it and try to turn it into a positive like Olivia Dunn, people shit on them for that.  Even though they’re going to be ogled and sexual used no matter what. 

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    I have yet to see anyone argue that she does deserve it. And male athletes don't deserve death threats and racial abuse either, but I would be willing to wager that a hell of a lot more of that behavior has been directed towards male athletes over the years than their female counterparts.  If anything, the behavior directed towards Reese is evidence that women's athletics is finally achieving national relevance. 20 years ago, nobody would have known about Angel Reese's antics because nobody was watching. The bad comes with the good, unfortunately. 

    Man, not sure I am there aside from the pure function of more attention on the men’s games. Those women athletes that do break through get more heat than the men, the Williams sisters got all kind of bullshit. Simone Biles.

    Not to mention the real weirdos and what happens if you’re pretty and good at sports, remember that high school pole vaulter and the creepiness around her? Wasn’t even a famous name, just a teenager. And Monica Seles got stabbed on the court by a crazy person. Can’t remember that stuff happening to a man since the MLB player who got shot by a fan in the thirties or something. 
     

    WBB is going to see more since it got bigger. 

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  5. Kim Mulkey’s wardrobe is from the Ric Flair collection and she gives PCs like Ted Dibiase.  Her whole schtick is heel, she’s from the South and knows what she is going, the difference is that she actually wants to be hated because she needs to be hated to justify her existence. I don’t know why you’d deny her what she wants. 
     

    I do have sympathy for Angel Reese as she is young and I don’t think she actually wants to be hated or has a coach and people around her capable of helping her work on some emotional maturity. She doesn’t need to feed on toxicity like Mulkey does. And no one deserves racist death threats for any reason. 

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  6. 14 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    heading to S. Padre this summer with the family. 

    Do the local seafood joints on the island buy fresh gulf shrimp? Do I actually need to check with head chef before ordering my fried shrimp and fish platter?

    Don’t assume.  The Dirty Al’s network of restaurants is good with their shrimp. They will also tell you what fish is from the Gulf and isn’t.  Ceviche Ceviche also serves gulf shrimp.

    Gulf and Texas shrimp is a point of pride and most places will tell you if that’s what they serve. If they aren’t telling you, then it’s probably the farmed stuff. 

  7. https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-company-sold-contaminated-shrimp-023949494.html
     

    I fucking love shrimp but it’s been a longtime prejudice of mine (a bias from growing up on the coast) that it is not worth it to eat non-U.S. origin shrimp. (Or local when traveling in Europe or other places). I won’t buy it in a store and I don’t order restaurant shrimp unless I know the place and what I am getting. Shrimp farms overseas are fucking disgusting and always have been.

    Anyway, check your labels at HEB. And for the love of God DO NOT BUY any food at all that was packaged on the subcontinent aside from maybe spice blends. And pro-tip, aside from a very few coastal retailers all wild-caught shrimp” is flash-frozen at sea and the “fresh stuff in the counter has been thawed out.  Frozen wild Gulf shrimp is nearly always your superior choice. 
     

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    His company, Choice Canning, supplies shrimp to major U.S. grocery chains including Walmart, Aldi, ShopRite and H.E.B. It touts its “state-of-the-art processing plant” and “commitment to international standards of quality.”But Farinella said he soon discovered that Choice Canning operated unsanitary offsite “peeling sheds” and routinely approved the export of shrimp tainted with antibiotics in violation of U.S. food safety law.

    The company’s treatment of workers was equally jarring to Farinella, he said. Migrant workers rarely had a day off, slept in overcrowded, bedbug-infested dorms and were restricted from leaving the walled-off company compound in Amalapuram, according to Farinella. They were mostly women who were often recruited from the poorest sections of the country.

     

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  8. 5 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Fuck off man. You want hot takes? So talk about the other things.

    One trick pony. So when did you post about other things?

    Most of us agree with you. But we focus on news or discussing it.

    And yes, I don't want this thread to be about politics. I like the UA thread that was monitored well. Can we have two?

     

     

    Anastasis is in here calling everyone racist and then announcing that he doesn’t give a shit about dead people unless he can blame the United States for killing them, which is super awesome. 
     

    Its. Not. About. Palestine. 

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  9. I should add that there are other options as well, like the majority partner cobbling together another coalition after a vote of no confidence, or a new coalition coming together.  But for a minority party to force general elections they have to begin with a vote of no confidence. 

  10. 1 minute ago, statsman said:

    I don’t believe this is CR, because I’m asking a procedural question, not a political one -

    In a parliamentary system, I know they have elections on a schedule, and that the coalition government can call early elections (only done when polls show opportune times). If a coalition breaks because a minority party makes a break from it, does that require a fresh general election?

    If a minority party leaves a coalition then it can force early elections by calling for a vote of no confidence, but they don’t always want to do that. If they don’t call for a vote of no confidence then the government can continue as a minority government. If they win a vote of no confidence then usually you’ll get a caretaker government appointed until there is a fresh election. 

  11. Kim Mulkey is a POS who went full apologetics for Baylor and Briles. Do not let the culture wars Jedi mind trick you into carrying her waters Mulkey is a POS and anyone save Baylor and LSU fans need to be haters. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    Reuters reporting on that interview too

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/chef-jose-andres-says-israel-targeted-his-aid-workers-systematically-car-by-car-2024-04-03/

    "This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place," Andres said.


    "This was over a 1.5, 1.8 kilometers, with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the roof, a very colorful logo that we are obviously very proud of," he said. It's “very clear who we are and what we do.”

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    "They were targeting us in a deconflicting zone, in an area controlled by IDF. They knowing that it was our teams moving on that road ... with three cars," he said.

    Andres came out strong in on the side of Israel’s right to defend itself. He’s not a contrarian or loon. I remain pro-Israel as a concept but Netanyahu has lost the plot. 

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  13. 4 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    In this post, you state the following:

    You are, to be kind, experiencing hallucinations. Israel said no such thing.

    If Israel is targeting civilians, I will advocate for the US to withdraw its support and for a war crimes tribunal to be established, similar to Nuremburg. As we did with Milosevic and his ilk, and we should do to Putin and his cronies and his whole fucking country, they should be tried and executed for war crimes.

    The issue is, Israel doesn't target civilians. You stated they "plainly" confessed to the crime. No they didn't. The end. It's not worth discussing.

     It's no different than you stating that Israel has made a strategic decision to starve them out. But they are working with Egypt, the US, and many NGO to bring tens of thousands of tons of food into Gaza. Your argument make no sense. If they do that, I will condemn them. But they are not doing that.

    There are literally teenagers fighting for their lives, I absolutely get that they shoot first and pick up the pieces later. No soldier is a philosopher king, possessed of perfect knowledge and able to execute the morally perfect tactical maneuver. It's not a movie or a video game.

    I am going to donate $500 to WCK, they deserve it.

    LOL you just repeated you hallucinatory claim. Do you have a link to their confession?

    I gotta be real man, and I’ve supported Israel’s right to defend itself aggressively- they haven’t been working very fucking hard to let aid in.  It’s been pulling teeth to get them to do anything. 
     

    The take from the administration is correct, if you break a place you own it and if they aren’t going to do relief work as you invaded then at a bare minimum you need to dedicate IDF forces to protect aid workers.  When we’ve gone in heavy it’s always been with a plan to secure civilian essentials.

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  14. 25 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

    because that's exactly what the original post I wrote said.  right?  so many of you on this board ironically exemplify everything you (rightfully) decry about maga.  Including, apparently, a real inability to read. good day.

    You got people irritated by expressing your disapproval with the “bloodlust” of people who might want to fund some arms for Ukraine and listed a litany of things that better deserves our attention. 
     

    But here’s what’s happening— a bunch of thugs are carrying shit out of your neighbors’ home.  They’re raping the women in the house and beating the shit out of the men.  They are shoving the kids in a truck to hold them hostage.

      And you agree it’s awful but just abhor violence. So you’ll be ready to maybe help buy a new refrigerator or to donate to a rape crisis center.

    Which is fine! Good on you. The world needs those things. 

    But don’t shout from your fainting couch that you are disgusted with those of us ready to hand our neighbor a gun. Don’t ask us why we are doing that instead of running to donate to the homeless shelter or UNICEF.  If you want to do that, go ahead but don’t shit-talk people who are ready to help solve the immediate problem.
     

    Because the ethical short-circuit is on your end and not ours. You have a weak stomach and not a higher developed sense of ethics. Disgust is the right word, it’s an irrational emotional reaction that is not tied to right and wrong.  

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  15. 47 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Question about the cops in uniform on stage with Trump at a campaign speech: Why is it acceptable for them to appear in uniform at a political event, obviously in support of a candidate, when the military can't?

    I'm not saying they or any other public servant can't support or endorse a candidate. I am saying it's entirely inappropriate to be wearing official garb representing the people of a particular place when a bunch of those people from that place don't want your stupid NIL associated with them.

    The Hatch Act covers federal, state and local employees (if their employers receive federal funds) but not elected officials. A partisan elected sheriff or elected law enforcement official has a specific a carve-out to appear in uniform at political events. Presumably local governments could pass regulations against it but that’s the federal law.

    There are of course no elected uniform service members. 

     

  16. 5 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    The problem with giving Israel the benefit of the doubt here, is that Israel keeps doing shit that requires giving them the benefit of the doubt. At a certain point it looks like a nefarious pattern.

    Netanyahu is doing tremendous long-term damage to his country that will take decades to even begin to chip away at. His response was terrible, basically “shit happens and we will try to do better. We said sorry.” 
     

    If you’re Israeli or a friend of Israel it’s time to toss him overboard for self-preservation if not because he’s awful. 

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  17. We talking about Grenada man. Grenada. Was this copy that Jacobin rejected for too-blatant Whataboutism? 

    Never mind that it’s a really shitty entry in the classic genre, “someone did a Bad Thing once, which means he loses the right to do a Good Thing.” 
     

     

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  18. Why are we talking about Hamas being in this group when even the IDF hasn’t alleged that. 
     

    All of the WCK volunteers were third country nationals from the West and Oceania. We know the name and identity of the Palestinian driver. WCK is a gold star group and I don’t believe for a moment that they allowed Hamas operatives to embed with them. This isn’t some co-opted UN shitshow, Jose Andres’ group is absolutely impeccable.

     If there was someone there, it means that theu were basically hostages and the IDF killed them all. 
     

    The most charitable possibility is negligence spilling into criminality. There’s no goal-tending this one. 

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  19. 4 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    So does that mean Mary's parents were also free of original sin and so on and so on?

    No, that’s why they needed this special doctrine. God just stepped in and made it happen.  Beyond the theological rationale, the doctrine was formulated because at the time the church wanted to promote Marian devotions to stave off Protestant rationalist incursions and also wanted to just end pointless debates over whether Joachim and Anna had sex or not.  So they just put it to bed with “God did it” and left it up to pious grannies to choose to add any other stuff. This kind of stuff was really important to the medieval mind and had long been a source of debate. 

  20. 49 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Russia and Occupied Palestine are pretty close in the rankings in 2023.

    And? Did you read the country report and why Palestine ended up there in 2023? It’s nearly entirely due to Hamas and WB authorities’ restrictions and media manipulation even as Israel’s actions are mentioned as a contributing factor. There is a methodology to how they put these together. 
     

    You said something that is not at all correct and the evidence you are citing doesn’t back you up, just move on. It’s bad for Israel to clamp down in its own right and it doesn’t have to be WoRsE tHaN RuSsIA. 

  21. 14 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    We'll see how the 2024 rankings shake out

    They will both fall and Russia will remain far below Israel.  100 percent, that’s how these ranking work and I do have first hand knowledge. 

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