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Whatta relief that Cletus, Dingus, and Cletus Jr. got convicted. One more rigged sham trial, and Jeebus was gonna vomit with rage.

It’s just surprising and disappointing that they’re only facing life in prison. You’d think those deranged wingnutz in Georgia could hang ’em or at least give ’em the chair.

On the other hand, there’s nothing that they love more than nasty racist Republinazi trash in Georgian prisons, so that could actually be worse.

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I don’t think fly by night means what you think it does.

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It really warmed my cold dead hurt to watch the facial expressions of those slack-jawed assholes when their verdicts were read. Great start to the holidays.

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@2:

That's because these "historical 'atmospheric rivers'" have only been observed since the 1860's, and subsequently have become more frequent in the last 20 years. The term itself only dates back to the late 1960's, so despite your completely insouciant insinuation, it's not at all a frequently occurring thing in a climatic sense, and falls squarely within the period when people became aware of the concept of global climate change.

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"The thinking is as old as the hills: the flood of government cash is pushing up prices because it made too many dollars seek fewer and fewer products. "

Oddly, most of the articles I have read on this blame things like suddenly higher demand for things that are not being produced in the usual quantities for the inflation we are seeing, hence the view that it it likely temporary.

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Interesting …. 11 whites and 1 poc came to the correct decision in both trials???? Would have rather see the panel reflect local demographics better, but the system works most of the time.

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@10, here's an explanation that's a bit simpler. Claiming self defence might work if you kill someone pursuing you with violent intent and not so much when you are pursuing someone with violent intent. I know, this doesn't bolster either the left or right, so we'll never hear such an opinion in today's media, but it's a good theory and does match up with the law.

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any word if the cattle farmers are lobbying for the slaughter of rain clouds? I mean, when a wolf eats a cattle it's the end of the fucking world and all wolves must die.

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@ 10,

Prosecutors that don't give a shit about about anything other than convictions, combined with systemic racism in the sham legal system, are the reasons that we have countless innocent people locked up or executed.

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@14: Well, you can make an exception for the prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery case and an exception for the Missouri prosecutor in the Kevin Strickland case getting an innocent man out of prison after four decades.

Happy Thanksgiving

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@14 'I want aggressive prosecutors and vigorous defense attorneys.'

That ain't the system we've got. We have laws that are meant to intimidate the accused rather than convict the guilty. You take the deal the DA offers or, if you dare to invoke your right to a trial, you will be charged with enough to send you away for many times longer. For the vast majority, it makes sense to take a deal regardless of your innocence. It's also better to be rich than innocent, which is kind of the definition of corruption.

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@ 15,

The district attorney in the Ahmaud Arbery case has been indicted and arrested for misconduct in trying to help the murderers evade charges, so that's exactly my point. It was only public outrage after the video went viral that led to the arrest of those monsters.

In tandem, we wouldn't have so many innocent people in prison in the first place if racist prosecutors actually gave a damn about finding the guilty parties.

Former district attorney arrested after indictment in connection with Ahmaud Arbery investigation

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/us/ahmaud-arbery-jackie-johnson-indicted/index.html

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And just in case anyone forgot, the United States, land of the free, has far more people in prison than any other country in the world. It's not even close.

Even China's brutal, despicable Communist dictatorship has fewer people locked up despite having a population of >>>over four times as many people!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262961/countries-with-the-most-prisoners/

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@25: Obviously one country has to have the most, otherwise there wouldn't be a statistic. But do tell me, which country has more personal freedom and rights? That's the criterion, not this statistic. But yes, way too many people are languishing in prisons throughout the world.

USA - love it or leave it.

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Or try to make it better?

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Absolutely, which I would classify under loving it.

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@29: Well, okay, so?

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"Luke Ray" ?

Or, could it be "Link Wray" ?

How about something from "Dickhead Dail" ?
Or "The Adventures" ?
Or "The Beechnut Boys" ?
Maybe those classic musicians "the Everlasting Brothers" ?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=miserlou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owq7hgzna3E

Whoever wasn't a teen-ager in the 60's doesn't know what they missed.
Yes, Moo-Deadbeat I'm lookin' at YOU.

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@29 I thought most people in prison were there for drug charges. They did those crimes to glorify war and bloodshed? That's a heck of a theory.

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@37: The context is the disparaging insult itself to elicit racist inclinations in the jury.

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They have had all-electric and zero emission heavy duty trucks available for purchase in Canada and BC since forever. In point of fact, they can't sell any other type starting in 2030.

So complaining about gasoline or diesel costs doesn't make a whole lot of sense, unless you've been ignoring the car and truck news and all the many many many many advertisements on all the Canadian TV channels for the last few years.


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