Hot and humid, sunny. Forecast says three more days at least. Gah. I’m pretty much over the heat. I maybe looking for it during the cold season, but right now? I’d take a few 10s of degrees lower…
Spent yesterday asleep as much as possible. And I’m feeling a lot less snotty. Head still feels ‘overfull’ and I’m one deep breath from a cough or a sneeze. Kids needed chauffeuring around and I did have a pickup or two to make.
Today I’ve got jury duty. I show up at 8am, sit around for a while, then get sent home. Best case. Worst case would be selected for a case then sequestered. Every other time I’ve just been sent home at some point in the morning. Fingers crossed.
Participating in the judicial system is an important civic duty, but no one really likes it. That’s why I say that being any elected official should be like jury duty, with people looking for ways to avoid it.
I’m still going to go and let them decide they don’t need or want me…
Meanwhile, stack some stuff. Bacon for example. You probably don’t have enough. Turns out I don’t and that is a shocker…
n
A lot of states want to see the taxes, especially sales taxes, on vehicle purchases and give a limited amount of time to get the title transferred by a resident who purchased out of state.
I had trouble getting answers from the local tax office by phone/email and appointments were booked beyond the 30 day limit here in Texas so I just went in person one morning at 7:00 AM and waited in line.
Texas still offers a jury trial option for divorces so the county clerks have to bring in a very large pool of potential jurors every couple of days.
You will most likely be out by noon, but they generally know by 9 AM how many they need. Kabuki.
Dress nicely. Killing time one morning while on vacation, I went to the courthouse in Florida in March to do some long-overdue research on family issues, and after the bailiffs took one look at my shorts/t-shirt, they asked, “Are you looking for Legal Aid?”
Up, fed, working on the coffee. Kids are provisioned. Wife is on her own now that the shower is free…
The thing I hate most about the jury duty is completely disarming, down to my pocket knife, and then walking 2 city blocks thru down town. I forgot a mag in my bag last time and had to walk back to the truck and stow it.
Do not like being disarmed.
Have a couple books on the phone, a couple of protein bars, and some battery packs.
Time to shower and get out the door.
n
RE: Vitamin supplements:
Alan asked: “Have you been tested to see if you might already be at your desired levels for any of these (where tests are commonly available?) ”
Um, no. I did casual research on contraindications before adding any item but my assumption is that any supplement not needed or absorbed will simply be purged. For instance, excessive Magnesium supplementation will cause diarrhea. No diarrhea, no overdose.
Bloodwork for a general physical awhile back didn’t raise an eyebrow from the PC Doc. So, I just go my merry way.
An explanation for the reports of room -temperature superconductivity
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7
The short reaction time in getting labs around the world to hop right to it is a measure of the economic potential.
“Flat bands” but the wrong kind with “localized electrons”. Who knew?
Be very careful on those toll tickets. When I watched “Parking Wars” people would get their car impounded from tickets that were unpaid from the previous owner. Or from tickets on another car that was somehow linked to the car impounded. Such as in previously owned, sold, and new owner did not change the registration.
People that had their car impounded from tickets from the previous owner had to jump through hoops to get the tickets excused. But they still had to pay for the towing and impound fees. There was one individual who had their car towed and impounded because the officer that stopped them made an error. Did not matter, they still had to pay towing and impound fees as that agency is separate from police department. The person would have to sue to get their money back even though both entities are part of the city.
States, and cities, love to stick it to people to show they are in charge and are lords to rule over us mere serfs.
When I was living in San Antonio I had the police show up at my house, demanded I come out, and questioned me about a robbery of a 7-11. The police wanted to arrest me as my license plate was recorded by the 7-11 clerk. The police had the correct plate number. Turns out someone had stolen the front plate off my car and attached it to the back of cretin’s car. I had to show the police it was missing (which at that time was news to me) and jump through some other hoops. It took awhile to convince the police it was not me that did the robbery.
When I went to get new plates the old plate had several outstanding tickets so it had been missing for a few days. Who checks to see if the front plate is still attached? I had to sign some affidavits that I did not generate the tickets. It was almost a hundred dollars. Even then the clerk eyed me with some suspicion.
Get the CA plate issue resolved ASAP. Plate images used in tolling have provable chain of custody which means that they can be used to establish “truth” in the physical confines of the courtroom should things go that far. Of course, you can establish your truth in the same setting, but you will have the hassle and expense involved of going to the location in person.
The only tickets which are safe to discard as far as I know are red light camera tickets issued here in Texas, which have been banned by the state but still sent by municipalities because of long term contract with the vendors written to cover decades. The vendors still take a shot at mailing out the bill since they get money back about 50% of the time from the clueless, especially newcomers to the state used to the yoke of authority in their old home states.
They found and impounded the handcuff key I carry on my keyring. With the xray. Crazy. Good reason to get a plastic one. I get it back when I leave. Fwiw, it wasn’t on any list of things you can’t bring.
N
That is true here in TN. Tickets issued by the red-light/speed camera company can be ignored. Reflex I think was the outfit in Oak Ridge. Those issued by cameras owned by the city of Knoxville cannot be ignored. The city council had the red light cameras installed which also became speed cameras without any notice to the public. The city council was swayed by a fancy PowerPoint presentation. Shiny baubles, beads, trinkets and blankets, same as used to purchase Manhattan Island.
This is the same city council that was issued high end iPads several years ago. Most of them had no clue how to use iPads and just sat in the council meetings with confused looks on their faces. Now they have laptops, with the same confused faces. Most still use paper documents.
What is interesting is that the cameras will take pictures in anticipation of the person running the red light. Depending on the speed of the vehicle, the software computes a probability of running the red light. One particular corner in downtown Knoxville I have been flashed several times. The light was never red.
I have also been flashed when turning right on a red light after stopping. The motion of the vehicle crossing the stop line triggers the camera, even when turning right, which is perfectly legal. When I worked on the UT campus at this one corner I got flashed about once a week for three years. I thought about flashing back but that is tough to do while driving.
As if that is important. They will impound, confiscate if they like the item, based on their whims. Rules are for appearance, not what actually exists. The local courthouse took my little Swiss “knife” even though there is no longer a blade in the knife, having broken off some time back. I keep the knife for the little scissors and the nail file. I guess those little scissors could really damage heavily armored police officers.
Cops have been revved up about handcuff keys since Hank Earl Carr killed two Tampa police officers and a Florida Highway Patrol troooper in the 90s. What started as a bust for shooting his girlfriend’s son in the head (!) escalated out of control when Carr used the handcuff key he wore around his neck to escape restraint and shoot the TPD with their own weapons before taking off in their car down the freeway, where he encountered the FHP.
Ironically, the girlfriend knew about the key but didn’t warn the cops as they escorted them out of the home. IIRC, she went to prison for a few years as an accessory.
Official policy may not say anything about a key, but having one looks suspicious.
Stealth handcuff key:
https://tihk.co/products/hk-slim-metal-handcuff-key
I believe they have plastic versions as well. $12
Lets see.
The judges get paid.
Bailiff gets paid.
Court clerk gets paid.
Attorney for the defense gets paid.
Attorney for the prosecution gets paid.
You don’t get paid and you lose out on your working time where you do get paid.
One of these is not like the others.
@Lynn
“Every time I eat a cookie, I gain a pound. And I love cookies.”
You need to drink beer with the cookies to keep your electrolytes in balance with your hydrocarbates.
The last time I was called for jury duty in SA, you were paid $8/day or something like that. That was 20 years ago. I plan on using every trick I can to avoid the next call. At 68, I don’t want to waste a second of my time. Let the youngun’s do it.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/videos-possibly-show-start-of-the-devastating-maui-wildfire/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter
Death toll tops 110 and counting.
2014 recommendations for preventing fires “partially implemented”.
Blaze 100% contained, and then it wasn’t.
Largest US Navy presence in the Pacific 100 miles away and not one RORO to be seen
Dick Peters and wife Jill heading to Maui after “no comment” and a six-day beach vacation.
Climate change caused the weather and it’s all the electric companies fault.
Hero AG will keep dirty real estate companies from buying ash heaps and putting cash into the hands of survivors who have nothing, including help from the State of Hawaii.
The Really Bad News: The original copy of Obama’s birth certificate was stored in a safe in Lahaina and has been tragically lost.
Robert L. Peters aka Robin Ware aka JRB Ware aka “The Big Guy” aka …
Hunter’s laptop isn’t admissible as evidence directly, but it is still valuable for bits of information such as Corn Pop’s aliases.
I doubt anything will come of it given the current House margin, however.
“The last time I was called for jury duty in SA, you were paid $8/day or something like that. That was 20 years ago. I plan on using every trick I can to avoid the next call. At 68, I don’t want to waste a second of my time. Let the youngun’s do it.”
I’ve never had to sit a real jury, but about twenty years ago I got on a list and did a couple of mock trials.
In the second one the dispute turned out to revolve around an obscure chemical process that I had made the subject of my high school chemistry honors project. I had done research at the university library and found sources that dated to the 1890’s, so I was well-aware of the open literature and what could be found independent of a company claiming a “proprietary” process.
There were other problems that resolved the case in favor of the defendant, and I suspect that the results were used to get the case settled out of court. I wondered at the time if I would have used one of several means to get around the confidentiality agreement and get a copy of that paper with it’s bibliography into the right hands.
>> The last time I was called for jury duty in SA, you were paid $8/day or something like that. That was 20 years ago. I plan on using every trick I can to avoid the next call. At 68, I don’t want to waste a second of my time. Let the youngun’s do it.
At the risk of the judge exercising his powers of contempt, when questioned as to your ability to be impartial, just mention your fervent belief of jury nullification.
Of course, YMMV.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/08/17/former-obama-foundation-leader-climate-activist-ignored-request-for-water-during-maui-inferno-for-5-hrs-n2162739
Note that he lives on Oahu, not Maui.
Note also he holds “a Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation”. Maybe he can explain how he would rate his job performance in that area?
and this:
Not an expert on Hawaiian culture, but I suspect that in the same time frame another “manifestation” was fire, most likely in the context of a god being unhappy with something.
So maybe it’s a message.
And more about that evil electric company:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/16/wsj-hawaiian-electric-focused-on-climate-change-neglected-wildfire-risk/
Because, yanno, the little chilluns of Hawaii might go to court because they is rightly afeard of climate change, which is powerful and can do everything.
And the stalwart public servants trying to scuttle back under thier rocks:
Maui Emergency Management Agency chief defends not activating warning sirens
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/08/17/maui-emergency-management-agency-chief-defends-not-activating-warning-sirens-n571773
If I had an oar in that water I would be looking up the public records to see what these Boz-de-zos are paid, and compare it to the average income of the people of
LahainaAshfield.Today I’ve got jury duty. I show up at 8am, sit around for a while, then get sent home. Best case. Worst case would be selected for a case then sequestered. Every other time I’ve just been sent home at some point in the morning. Fingers crossed.
They rarely sequester jurors nowadays. Too expensive. And too many whiny jurors.
Here in UK, eligibility for Jury Service is tied to registration to vote, insofar as the two functions are linked to a ccommon resource, the Register of Electors.
Once a year, typically in October, each household in the UK is required, by law, to report, accurately, who is resident at that location, on a particular day. The voter’s register is compiled from these returns – if you aren’t listed on the return for your address, you don’t get a vote.
So far, so good. But the Register of Electors is also used to determine eligibility for Jury Service – all adults, between 18 and 70 years of age, are automatically liable to summons for Jury Service – once. ISTR that there was a “homeowner” requirement, as well. Whether that is still the case is unknown to me.
Despite the “once in a life” above, I’ve been called twice.In both cases, I wa seated on a criminal jury. Such deliberations are subject to the Official Secrets Act, so even if I could remember anything significant, I couldn’t talk about it.
But I can say that my then-employer was required to continue to pay my salary for the duration (no unpaid leave, here) and I was in receipt of per diem expenses. So, barring the disruption involved, it was fairly painless.
G.
xkcd: Types of Solar Eclipse
https://xkcd.com/2816/
Uh, I’ve never seen a Hug Eclipse.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2816:_Types_of_Solar_Eclipse
I had to go to jury duty last Summer. I think it doesn’t matter if you are registered to vote, they go by driver’s license now.
So. Sit there and watch the pompous strut around doing “important stuff” like carry a piece of paper across the room. I’m thinking “all of these folks need to be fired”. After four hours of this nonsense they decided we could leave.
You had to sign to get your $10 cash and they sure tried to push “donate it to whatever”. Gas was pushing $4. The old truck got 11 mpg around town and I’m five miles from home. Yeah, I’m taking the gas money.
I was called once in Austin. I was 15 minutes late. They said they could write me a ticket for being late. I said do it and I’ll take vacation time to see you in court just to ask why there is no parking.
I found one parking spot a good 15 blocks away.
I was called once in Edinburg. I arrived soaking wet. “Why are you wet?” I just pointed at my bicycle and shrugged. It was raining like heck. They marked me as having shown up and sent me on my way.
Home free…
Jury duty in the US does come with a payday, about $6/day iirc. AND they ask you to fill out a form donating it back. They do pay for parking and your employer can not fire you for jury duty, but doesn’t have to pay you either. And yep, the summons is linked to registered voters. So how am I 100% sure that there is voter fraud? You must be a citzen to vote, and you must be a US citizen to serve on the jury, but there is always at least one person who has a summons that isn’t a citizen and gets excused.
There are people who declined to register to vote because they didn’t want to receive a jury summons.
Different courts can call you at different intervals.
This was both the longest day I’ve had, and the closest I’ve come to serving. Usually you sit in a big room with hundreds of others and they fill jury pools out of that room until they have enough jury panels to provide a jury for every case in that court that day. Once all the panels are filled, they dismiss everyone. So for most people, you sit and drink coffee and read or do some work on your lappy, then go home.
This time, they were filling the panels (65 people from whom 12 are chosen and empaneled) for “emergency courts” to hear cases delayed by Harvey! and covid. They were grabbing everyone. In a normal day a fair percentage of the defendants opt for a plea rather than a jury trial, and the potential jurors are not needed. My guess is that this day the cases (being so old, mine was from 2017) if they were gonna plea bargain, they would have already. SO we advanced to ‘voir dire’ which is when a judge and the defense and prosecutor get to ask the pool of 65 people questions. Prosecution and defense can reject 10 each for no reason. The court can reject a bunch for reasons – like someone says they can’t be impartial for some reason.
It’s hard to ‘game’ the process. If you are pro-cop the defense might not want you but the DA will. If you have been abused, the same might happen in an abuse case. This was a weird sexual assault case, with a strange set of charges involving a third party. The defendant caused the complainant’s sex organs to have contact with someone ELSE’S sexual organs, without consent, possibly while unconscious. It was also clear that the defendant wouldn’t be taking the stand, and that the defense had no exculpatory evidence or testimony to present. The defense kept hammering away about the 5A and taking the Fifth, and that it was the State’s job to prove the case not hers to defend it… (due to the presumption of innocence.)
Likely to be weird, involve intoxication, risky behavior, questions of consent and implied consent, and “asking for it” along with memory loss. Also slated to take all of next week.
So I was very relieved that after 3 hours of questioning, I was NOT chosen to sit on the jury.
I do expect to get a summons from one of the other courts in the next couple of months, since I showed up for the summons. Puts you on a “suckers” list.
Normally all I have to do is be pro-cop or mention volunteering with them and it’s “thanks for your service today, so long…”
I was sure I’d stepped in it when I asked for clarification about a question involving memory and consciousness and ability to give consent… I’m pretty sure that’s what the case is going to revolve around.
It is always interesting to hear other people talk about their beliefs, and wonder if they are trying to get booted, or if they really don’t believe in some of the bedrock concepts of our legal system.
n
I’m surprised that you were allowed to bring in any kind of electronics. The last three times I was summoned, in two different states (not this one), they had a very strict policy against any kind of electronics. Even something like a DiscMan or iPod was not allowed.
I always took a book and was happy to have a morning to read. The younger folks were visibly anxious without their phones. The court provided land lines to allow us to call home for a ride if needed. Of course, a lot of the younger people didn’t remember to write down the phone number they would need to call.
My son had to serve in a two-week trial last year, and the rules were still the same.
I was reading all the snark from the M3PLT’s (mostly marginally male) about the “scientifically correct” term “egg producers”.
Wonder how they feel about other scientific correctness?
–“Black” people are not really black.
–A “Colored Person” is, as is a “Person of Color”, and both terms include everyone, inasmuch as no non-colored people have ever been found.
–The “Social Sciences” are not
–“Democrats” are not, as they have shown no interest in democratic principles for years, and most certainly not in the core principle of democracy, the integrity of the ballot box.
Megan Kelley had some comments on “egg producer” Admiral (LOL) Richard Levine…
Basically “He’s a man, baby.” LOL “Not convincingly.”
I served on a jury back in San Antonio for a juvenile murder trial. The trial took two days but we got to go home for the night. As a group we (the jury) decided to delay deliberations until after lunch on the second day so the court would have to pay for lunch.
The kid had torched a house with a person living inside and the person died. We had to view pictures of the burned body. Looked like a big roast pig, with arms and legs.
We had a real difficult time understanding the kids lawyer. After the jury was excused we demanded that the defense be done again, with someone else doing the speaking, or rather interpretation. The judge allowed that to happen.
When the jury was excused to start deliberations all the men were “fry his ass”. All the women, five of them, were “oh he is such a sweet boy and doesn’t deserve this”. We had to convince the women that the little cretin was guilty.
Well, sort of. Turns out the jury was just deciding the states case was true as presented. There was no guilty or innocence involved because the kid was a minor. After the jury finally gave their verdict, of true, the judge cleared the courtroom of everyone but the jury.
The judge explained that the kid had many other run-ins with the law, including arson. This was not allowed to be presented in court. The judge also said the kid came from an abusive home, loser parents, violent siblings, etc. A horrible place to grow up. Now that the state’s case was true, the state could take the child and put the child in a better place. When I say child, I think he was about 12-14 years old. The women all felt better.
After the trail several of us were approached by leaches from the local news media and we all basically told them to pound sand. Find your tabloid sensationalism somewhere else.
I was a juror in a murder charge case around the turn of the century. I’m the one who “hung” the jury when eventually 11 wanted to acquit.
The facts were that the new younger boyfriend was loosely supervising several (4?,5?) children while the mother went to a Saturday morning pregnancy checkup. When the mom returned, the boyfriend went elsewhere. In a couple hours, the 2 year old became punkish. 911, EMT, ambulance, hospital, died. The ME testified to internal injuries consistent with shaken baby. The recanted confession from the boyfriend came after a l-o-n-g term cop shop interview. A big deal was made of the hours when the boyfriend was not present.
I don’t know what the DA did for a second bite at the apple.
One of the almost unique things about trials in TX is that the same jury reconvenes after a guilty verdict to determine sentence. Only one other state does this according tothe judge today. At that point, any extenuating circumstances, victim statements, prior history, etc can be introduced. Sexual assault is broad and so is the potential punishment from 2 months probation to 20 years in prison. Determined by the same group that came to the guilty decision.
n
As I was moving the audio books I didn’t get to listen to onto my phone yesterday I discovered that windows had an “import all the photos and video” function built in. Today I decided to let it run.
F-me. That was probably not a good idea. NO IDEA why it’s so slow but it would be SO MUCH faster to pop out the card and do a straight copy… So far 880 of 18K, and it’s been about 15-20 minutes. Each pic is almost 3 seconds to copy. 15 hours to copy 32GB? That’s outrageous.
n
Ok, part of the problem is that the import function reads the filename and then creates a new file name based on it, not just copying. It also creates a thumbnail and SHOWS IT to me in the tool as it copies.
Resource monitor says that both windows update AND mozilla safebrowsing are updating at the same time too.
FFS, it’s not my computer and it’s not even win10.
n
oh, and it’s 103F in the shade
n
oh, and it’s 103F in the shade
My truck said it was 107 F on Crab River Road.
Eric Berger says that all the heat / globul warming is created by man, the underwater volcano last year has very little to do with it.
https://spacecityweather.com/what-was-the-hunga-tonga-eruption-and-is-it-causing-our-extreme-summer-heat/
“Typically, big volcanic eruptions send large amounts of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, which reflects sunlight and cools the climate. By contrast, the Hunga Tonga eruption also produced large amounts of water vapor, a potent greenhouse gas. So is this the culprit for extremely warm temperatures this year?”
“As always with climate, the answer is complex, and nuanced. However, the Berkeley Earth non-governmental organization recently published an analysis that I think captures several of the factors that led to this summer’s heating. Principally, there is human-caused global warming; but there are a number of other factors that have contributed this year, including a switch to El Niño, the Solar cycle, the Hunga Tonga eruption, and a reduction in marine fuel pollution that has led to clearer air. All of these factors, layered on top of global warming, have really goosed temperatures this year.”
We are all going to die.
111 when I left campus today at ~ 4 PM.
I sat on a jury in a civil case, and since voir dire routinely asks about that, and details, I’m unlikely to ever be seated again.
tl;dr version: I was the lone holdout for the defendant (a railroad) and kept us in deliberation 3 days, which was 2 days longer than the judge expected. I finally caved so I could get back to work. The pro-union, anti-business jury pool couldn’t conceive that justice would mean ever finding in favor of a business. Ever. In spite of silly things like facts.
Found out after the trial that I was right. The worker who claimed he was damaged by a hazmat spill wasn’t anywhere near the site until a certified third-party company had completed remediation, inspections by state and feddies were done, and he just ran a front loader to level the ground.
The good news is my fellow jurors also decided damages, and I convinced them that he probably had a gold-plated union healthcare plan (he did), so we gave him no damages except 20% of medical, which was about a total of 2% of what he was suing for. Not even legal fees.
When asked about my prior experience, I can say with a straight face that I should have held out longer, and that now that I’m retired, going back to work isn’t goingto be an issue.
The PC has a crazy slow storage controller or the worst USB hardware available.
Is that another one from the warehouse club?
Without going into details, I wish to toss up the complaint that it never seems to be my turn to cause a problem or have a problem which my immediate family members need to drop everything and help me with.
@SteveF – poking the bear …
@greg, it’s a Dell Small Business pc that was loaded when I bought it. Specs are still good other than improvements to the i7 over the years.
I think the windows import phone photo tool is just a massive steaming pile.
n
They say that what goes around, comes around, but in this case, not so much.
Competent people who can do things and use tools and save money and make contigency plans don’t get into messes like that (mostly), and can be seen by all and sundry to be the one to call on when they’re in trouble. BTDTGTTS.
Maybe you could fake something? Problem is, you might find out there’s no one who would/could come to your aid. Then where would you be?
I cancelled the import with the tool. I grabbed the next 2000 files, pix and occasional video, and just did a drag and drop copy. 3 hour estimate from windows. Still, faster than the import tool.
Next test will be to pop out the card and physically put it in the pc to copy.
n
I am enjoying all the jury duty reports. As I am ineligible for jury duty for professional reasons, I have no story to add. I was summonsed once to attend, made a phone call explaining my ineligibility, and was promptly deleted from the register of potential jurors. Boring!
I actually found actual being a jury interesting.
We were not allowed to take any notes during the trial which really sucked. Another item that was strange, but makes sense, is that any time the jury left the courtroom, and then returned, we were told to not sit in the same seat. That apparently is to keep the prosecution, or defense, from targeting specific jurors. During the full day of the trial the jury was excused probably 8 or 9 times. For reasons we never knew.
I did realize that attorneys are sometimes idiots.
Many times I, and several other jurors, really wanted to raise our hand and ask a specific question as we did not understand the question and/or the response. That is why the judge reconvened the court as almost everyone in jury said we did not understand what was said. Multiple times we asked for clarification to the bailiff and the judge’s response “you have all that you will have”. We were not even allowed transcripts of the proceedings. We basically said unless we get clarification on what was asked/said we would never reach a verdict.
We were also told by the judge after the trial that there would be media outside asking questions. He stated it was our choice to speak or not to the media. His recommendation was to ignore the media and say nothing. I opted to tell one reporter to “pound sand you idiot” which never made the news.
Official high in Austin was 110 today so I wasn’t imagining things seeing 111 in Round Rock.
“American Medical Association Suggests Taxpayers Fund $300K Uterus Transplants For Trans Women”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/american-medical-association-suggests-taxpayers-fund-300k-uterus-transplants-for-trans-women/
“The American Medical Association (AMA) recently suggested that taxpayers fund uterus transplants for transgender women as an attempt to force pregnancy and as a way to help them feel like real, biological women who can give birth.”
This is all about money.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
AMA
cut their own throats and bled out in the dustbin of history
In future any policy recommendation they make will get the question: Is that more or less sound than your advocacy of uterus transplants for trans women?
I wonder how long it will take before one of the mutilated patients show up on “Botched”.
The amount of Dr Moreax / Dr Mengele involved in implanting a womb into a man is so large as to be horrifying. That is the kind of sick that makes vivisectionists look normal.
Seriously messed up.
n
>> It is always interesting to hear other people talk about their beliefs, and wonder if they are trying to get booted, or if they really don’t believe in some of the bedrock concepts of our legal system.
@nick, are all 65 people questioned? Seems anyone that wanted off your case can mention the “terrible abuse their (insert close relative) suffered” and how it would be really difficult to be impartial.
Want real jury duty fun? Get picked for a grand jury. I’ve heard of ones that meet weekly for months on end.
Interesting read
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/16/the-real-cause-of-the-maui-wildfire-disaster/
“…..key reason for the Maui disaster, one not discussed by the media and others: a high amplitude atmospheric wave forced by strong winds interacting with the mountains of northwest Maui. “
I strongly suspect that “affirmation” surgeries for minors were planned at the two big childrens’ hospital complexes under construction not far from my house. Construction proceeded at a break-neck pace for most of the last two years, even with the pandemic, until the new Texas law went into effect banning the practice a few months ago.
Suddenly, progress on the buildings slowed down and related staff, including doctors, were shown the door at the institutions, loudly and publicly in the case of one hospital, quietly with the other. Politics.
Adding to the “Things that make you say ‘hmmm’…” – on our last trip to the Rio Grande Valley, a new childrens’ hospital complex was under construction there, near the airport in Brownsville.
How many childrens’ hospitals does Texas need?
@alan, yes, all are asked to positively or negatively respond to some statements, and their answers recorded. Everyone has a number card to hold up.
Two of the questions were specifically about your experience of abuse, and/or someone accused of abuse. As mentioned, they were not automatically disqualified… you have to affirm that you could not be impartial. There is social pressure involved.
Anyone who directly affirms that they can’t be impartial gets dismissed, either by the judge in the first round, or later with one side or the other. That’s why they start with 65 and end with 12.
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My first experience with jury duty was about two decades ago. The process was that one was “on call” for a full quarter. Every Friday, for thirteen weeks, I had to call in and listen to the recording to find out whether I had to report to the courthouse on Monday for jury selection.
I reported five times, was selected to sit on a jury three times.
Two of the cases were civil cases, and the jury’s consensus on both was, “This should never have gotten to trial.” There was no hesitation regarding the verdict, but for one case there was a lot of wrangling over the damages amount.
In the criminal case, both prosecution and defence made bad impressions, and in the end a lot of what they spent time on in court was irrelevant to what the jury was eventually asked to decide. I came away wishing that the jury instructions had been given up front. In the jury room, there was a lot of “Why did we spend hours listening to testimony about X, Y, and Z, when all we have to decide is Q?”
My other takeaway was reinforcement of the adage “the defence should never put the defendant on the stand.” The prosecution did such a poor job making his case that there was clear room for reasonable doubt. Then the defendent went on the stand, made a terrible impression, and quickly removed any doubt that he was guilty.