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  1. 23 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Everyone assumes Putin had the guy whacked, but what if air defense just mistook his plane for a Malaysian airliner? 

     

    I mean, with what we've seen so far, can we really rule out incompetence?

     

    15 minutes ago, Johnny Chimpo said:

    How are y’all not finding the news that Russian air defenses shot down the plane? I was on financial times and they reported that a couple of missiles were launched from Russian air defense towards the jet. I also saw the Twitter videos of it falling from the sky, it looked broken like it had been impacted by something.

    in this video (the second tweet) you can see that it was shot down

     

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  2. Nice TD throw to Gibson then OL late hit on Ravens DB, fight breaks out, and Cosmi is griddying all alone in the end zone and Josh Harris is drunk in the booth wearing a maroon Costco wrinkled polo with Troy and Joe, trying to shake Joe’s hand while he is gesturing with it while talking…..

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  3. 3 hours ago, wood said:

    I'm all for strong but reasonable DUI laws. Not gonna get into the debate over what the legal limit should be, because frankly I don't know enough about the particulars to do so. But even with zero alcohol in his system, this POS's actions behind the wheel should put him away for a long, long time.

    I guess I'm just a caveman. My primitive mind can’t grasp these concepts. I don't understand how we ended up with laws that can hammer the guy for drinking and driving, but can't hammer him just as hard for driving like a maniac and killing someone because of it. The whole point of having harsh penalties for DUI is supposed to come from wanting to deter crazy, dangerous driving such as this, so it's just bizarre that he can't he be severely punished just based on the criminality of his driving, even when the blood test documentation went wrong.

    The situation is not as you perceive it. 

    I posted about this upthread.

    The state doesn’t need proof of intoxication. 

    For example, in Texas intoxication manslaughter is a second-degree felony. What is also a second-degree felony is aggravated assault. Same punishment range.

    Aggravated assault requires intentionally knowingly or RECKLESSLY causing serious bodily injury, or causing bodily injury via the use or exhibition of a deadly weapon. The Ruggs case would be very easy to prove agg assault, either SBI or a DW. 
     

    So, in Texas, with a situation like this, a prosecutor with half a brain, would allege for each victim one count of intoxication manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault to hedge their bets. The only real difference is that in intoxication manslaughter cases is the judge can stack the sentences per victim per Ch 3 TPC. 

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