07:40 – Barbara is leaving work at 1:00 p.m. today to drive to Thomasville to bring her mom home from the hospital. Everyone is keeping their fingers crossed, because this really is Sankie’s last chance. If she starts acting paranoid and delusional again, Barbara and Frances will have no choice but to move Sankie permanently to a facility that’s equipped to deal with such problems.
Barbara is adamant that it’s sink or swim time. She won’t stay over at her parents’ place tonight. Her mom has to settle in and behave normally. There’s no other option, unless her mother wants to be separated from Dutch and live in a different facility.
08:44 – It’s interesting how my attitude about inventory levels has changed. I just checked status on the items that I need to build more chemistry and biology kits. Among the items included in both kits are polypropylene beakers. The biology kits include one each of the 50, 100, and 250 mL PP beakers. The chemistry kits include two each of the 50 and 100 mL PP beakers. I currently have 79 of the 50’s, 59 of the 100’s, and 73 of the 250’s in stock. Not all that long ago, those would have been reasonably comfortable numbers. I’d have been thinking about reordering, but not urgently. Now, it’s panic reorder time. Less than 30 chemistry kits’ worth in stock. So I just did a purchase order for 600 each of the 50 and 100 mL beakers and 180 of the 250’s. Not to mention 400 Petri dishes.
10:40 – How could I have forgotten to mention this? In the past, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has had two separate award tracks, the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars for cinema and the Emmys for television. This year, for the first time, they consolidated the two and created the new Canada’s Screen Star award. And the first-ever winner of the Canada’s Screen Star award is, you guessed it, Amber Marshall, the star of Heartland.
By the time I’d watched the first five minutes of the first episode, I knew that Amber was something very special. She is a stunningly good actress, effortlessly assuming the complex personality of her character, Amy Fleming, a mixture of vulnerability, determination, courage, insecurity, and above all a love for animals. Or perhaps she’s not acting. She’s said that her role on Heartland is her dream job, combining her love of acting and her love of animals. Amber may just be playing herself. In either case, she’s well worth watching.
11:40 – Geez. Barbara called about 11:00 from her cell phone to say she’d left work earlier than expected because her dad was bleeding badly from his leg. She called back a few minutes ago to say she was over there and it was no big deal. Her dad had been attempting to change the bandage on his leg wound, and called her to say it was bleeding badly. As it turns out, he scratched his leg in a different place and it started bleeding. All it needed was a band-aid. As Barbara said, her parents may survive all this, but she doesn’t think she will. She’s going to have lunch with her dad, head over to pick up her mom from the hospital, bring them home and get them settled, and then come home. She can’t take much more of this. She’s already taken more than anyone should have to. I’m going to suggest to Barbara that from this point forward if her parents have any kind of medical emergency, they call 911, period. The hospital can contact Barbara and Frances, if necessary. Barbara and Frances simply can’t continue to be on-call 24 hours and go rushing over there every time something happens. It’d be one thing if Dutch and Sankie could be trusted to call them only for real emergencies, but obviously neither of them can be trusted to know what is and isn’t worth calling Barbara and Frances out for.
13:57 – I’m apparently sucking some of my wholesalers dry on some items. I tried to order 600 each of the 50 mL and 100 mL PP beakers this morning and found that they were backordered. The good news is that they have another shipment coming in on 29 March. The bad news is that that shipment is only for 3,600 each, so I’m claiming a sixth of what they’ll have available until late April. Same deal on the Petri dishes. I intended to order 400 of them, but the vendor had only 360 in stock and no outstanding order with their supplier for more. So for at least a couple of months, they’re going to be out of stock on those Petri dishes. Same deal on the prepared slides I ordered for the SK01 slide sets. I took all they had, leaving them with just a few leftover miscellaneous ones. And UPS showed up a few minutes ago with an order from one of our chemical suppliers. I got most of what I ordered from them, with the exception of 3.5 liters of glacial acetic acid and half a kilo of lead acetate.
We’ve had minor issues with backordered items in the past, but with only one or two exceptions we were able either to second-source the item or substitute for it. But as our volume ramps up, I can foresee that managing backorders is going to become more of an issue, particularly for items that I can’t second-source or substitute for. One good example is the stainless-steel micro-spatulas that are in all of our kits. Last month I ordered 400 of those and found that there were only 100 available. We can’t second-source them because no one else I can find carries that exact spatula, and we can’t substitute for them because the instructions for the science kits sometimes say to use x number of rounded spatula spoons or whatever. So, when the vendor told me that 300 spatulas were back-ordered until mid-April, I told them to boost that back-order from 300 to 700 units. That ties up some working capital, but that’s a better option than running dry in our busy season.
There it is, I’m afraid.
Good luck.
Thanks. Barbara is hopeful, but then she really doesn’t have much choice. I’m afraid this is going to end badly.
End badly for whom? Barbara’s mother is probably better off in a facility that is equipped to take care of such issues. Barbara will be better off without the stress. I have had to put a relative in a facility. Once you get over the emotions and a week or two passes you realize it was a good decision that should have been made earlier.
And the person that is placed in the facility will adjust to the new environment. It will become their new normal after the adjustment period and they actually enjoy the place. At least that was the case with my aunt. However her husband had long since passed away.
It’s a shame there isn’t a place available similar to the one where Chuck’s aunt and uncle just were. Where one spouse can be in a locked down unit and the other can come and go as he pleases.
It is an incredibly nice facility. The local hospital built the assisted living about the same time as Trilogy Health Services built the nursing home with dementia care. The people working there fall all over themselves to accommodate the patients. Trilogy has won ‘Best Place to Work in Indiana’ 3 years running and just won it again. The hospital nearly bankrupted itself building the assisted living, and Trilogy bought it and St. Vincent Hospital in Indy bought the hospital to rescue it.
Nevertheless, I hope to avoid such a place myself. It is, in a way, depressing to me at both the assisted living and the nursing campus, as they both are filled with people who clearly are on a downslide in their lives. It is not like the dorm at university, nor is it the carefree retirement life they try to portray in advertisements. It is for people who can no longer cope by themselves. Every time I visit, I realize that I have got to keep myself in decent shape, or I will end up being surrounded by the helpless.
“Every time I visit, I realize that I have got to keep myself in decent shape, or I will end up being surrounded by the helpless.”
We try, and that is all we can do; and we all know that circumstances beyond our immediate control may suddenly render us helpless anyway. Aging itself is beyond our control, unless of course we halt it voluntarily.
An aging mom, aunt and an uncle are all I have left of my parents’ generation now and my mom is in none too good shape right now at 81. My wife has her mom, two aunts and an uncle, in their eighties and not too bad, actually. The oldest, one of the aunts, is 85 or 86 and rides a bicycle and takes her kayak out onto the Lake regularly. And they’re all sharp as tacks.
I guess the key seems to be to try to stay both physically and mentally active and avoid self-destructive behavior and habits as much as possible. I will consider myself damned lucky to live another minute after the life I’ve led, but infinitely grateful for another ten or twenty years in reasonably good health and mind. Every day is a blessing considering the Alternative.
It has been really busy for the last week, and I am just today catching up, while waiting on 7 inches of snow to arrive. I missed this last week.
Robert Bruce Thompson says:
28 February 2013 at 10:46
Oh, I’m sure Chuck does exactly the same thing that he’s criticizing others for doing.
Chuck, let me ask you this. Have you ever taken a job and told them that you wanted them to pay you less than they were offering because other people would do that job for less money? Or have you ever bought something at a store and insisted they charge you more than the listed price because other places were selling the same item for more?
Here’s the reality of human nature: sellers try to sell their products for as much as they can get. Buyers try to buy products for as little as they can pay. You are no different from anyone else.
Well, that is not at all relevant to my point. Of course I accept the operation of pricing in open markets when there is plenty of competition. My beef is in the fast-growing instances where there is not sufficient competition—or when there is no competition at all, as in Micro$oft and my Internet ISP, the latter who has unilaterally raised the price I must pay for DSL Internet by 254% in less than 3 years. Also in areas where factors like incredibly excessive executive compensation drains the economy of both money and efficiency while being responsible for widening the economic gap between a shrinking and poorer middle-class relative to the rich. Only the very rich have incomes that have kept up with productivity gains since that god Ronald Reagan put his policies into effect over two decades ago. Economies are more productive for everyone when total wealth is spread, and not concentrated among a few, who—in the US today,—use that wealth to influence legislators to give them advantages the middle-class do not possess and cannot effectively defeat.
Big business today IS greedy. As I have claimed here for a long time, they are not satisfied with just making a living, they have GOT to make a killing—or they will shut down. Just exactly like Montgomery Ward did with the Lechmere chain in New England. Lechmere was making money and providing hundreds of jobs. But it was not making enough for Monkey Wards, and they shut it down completely and sold the assets. This kind of stuff is no good for anyone. It is one thing to go out of business for lack of a profit, but to actually close a profitable business providing jobs to hundreds is one practice of many that needs to be stopped.
My problem is I can see both Robert’s and Chuck’s points very nicely; it is in real life practice that there are thorny issues, esp. in recent decades. Free market theory gets upended when corporate pirates and brigands in collusion with the State not only have to have a decent profit, but like Chuck says, make a brutal killing, too, and if they can’t have that, then they upend the table for everyone and walk away with their loot, laughing contemptuously at us poor fools and Mundanes.
Yeah, but the point is that government intervention is what causes distortions in the free market in the first place. Greed has nothing to do with anything. It’s not part of a free market. It can’t be.
As to Microsoft, it’s no monopoly. As of 4 July 2014, I’ll have been Microsoft-free for a decade, and believe me I get everything done I need to do. As it happens, we’re exclusively Linux, but we could just as easily be using OS X.
And Chuck can thank the government for his high DSL bill. The government *prevents* competition. If it weren’t for the government, we’d all have a lot more choices for Internet service. The free market would sort things out, leaving only the most efficient providers surviving.
I’ll certainly concede that last point.
And Chuck can thank the government for his high DSL bill. The government *prevents* competition.
Same with my ISP. The local franchising authority will not allow anyone else to come into my area and provide cable TV service who is also the provider of my internet service. A couple of competing services wanted to come into the area but were turned down by the city. Apparently the incumbent ISP has it in their contract that competitive services are not allowed.
My phone, TV and internet bill is $200.00 a month. In areas of Knoxville where there is competition friends of mine with the same service pay $125 a month. The provider is profitable at $125 a month, they are gouging at $200 a month.
However, I don’t understand the logic for the billing of the lab my doctor uses. The last set of blood tests I had done were billed to the insurance company at about $500. The insurance company said that $48 was reasonable and that is what I paid as the insurance paid nothing. That is a 1000% percent markup to those that do not have insurance. That is greed and gouging at the worst I have seen such practices. The lab competed with other labs to get the tests and a good rate was reached. For those where no competition was provided the result was gouging.
I did a bit of quick checking on Wikipedia, and Lechmere was closed in 1997, the same that Montgomery Ward entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In hindsight it appears that the 1994 acquisition of Lechmere was a mistake.
Given that they decided to close Lechmere I have to wonder if they were truly profitable. Or if sold off pieces of Lechmere were worth more than it was as a going concern.
While not suggesting that which you should do, here is what we did not do.
My wife’s mother, elderly and living alone, developed a medical condition. We went to her house, picked her up and took her to the local hospital’s emergency. We mistakenly waited for news in the waiting room for several hours when they brought her down in a wheel chair and released her to our care. As my wife is a R.N., we mistakenly felt it would be OK to bring her home with us for a few days as we knew she could not take care of herself. It was far worse than we expected, and her insurer, Secure Horizons, refused her admittance to a hospital in our neighborhood on each of our calls for three days. The fourth day was a Christmas holiday and the substitute M.D. made a mistake and allowed her to be admitted. It still took 4 – 5 additonal days in hospitalization to be in a sufficiently recovered state to be released.
Well, how could we ever at the time, drop her off at the emergency room and drive off leaving her there?
My TW Cable bill for all three has been almost $200 and now went up this month another $16. Verizon and TW Cable have been TV advertising $90 package for all three for new customers. I went down to TWC office last week with the bill and expressed displeasure over the $16 increase for no service upgrades. I was immediately offered a one year promo rate of $150 per month. I did not even half to use the V-word or pull out their flyer I got in the mail.
Remind me to go back Feb. 2014.
Ray wrote:
“My phone, TV and internet bill is $200.00 a month. In areas of Knoxville where there is competition friends of mine with the same service pay $125 a month. The provider is profitable at $125 a month, they are gouging at $200 a month.”
My landline phone, cell phone and cable internet are about $86/month. I don’t have cable TV but if I did it would ad at most $30/month, excluding specials like pay per view.
“Given that they decided to close Lechmere I have to wonder if they were truly profitable. Or if sold off pieces of Lechmere were worth more than it was as a going concern.”
Lechmere was definitely profitable, but as Icahn, Romney, and others have repeatedly shown, there is always money to be made tearing apart and selling off the assets of perfectly good, going businesses—often more money in the short-term than continuing to operate for the long-term. This all happened during the 1995-2001 period, when we had terrific deflation going on. So at the time, as commodities were becoming more valuable and prices of everything were thus going down (gas bottomed in Boston at 99¢/gal in 1999), so were the prices that Lechmere and every other store could charge. Every retailer, including Walmart, was bringing in less revenue month over month, but the value of what they were bringing in was appreciating. Few understood that. Remember it was during this period that Walmart—who had anticipated endless inflation of a few percent every year, and who—owned and filled warehouses with products they bought, that—up to that deflationary period—were always more valuable as time went on than when they bought them. Walmart ended up having to sell off that vast warehouse inventory for less than they paid for it, and by the early 2000’s, had become the model of ‘just-in-time’ delivery to their stores, which nearly everyone has since adopted. Thus over the weekend, my local Ace Hardware had only one fluorescent tube when I need two, and Walmart had none.
That period stressed every company’s cash assets, and many who had not saved cash for the rainy day or had lots of debt, perished. Caldor, a kind of bathroom/kitchen/bedroom store in New England was one, as was Kitchen, Etc., both companies having stores throughout New England in that period.
Ward’s management was clearly in over its head, and felt that their Electric Street stores were more profitable than Lechmere. IIRC, they also bought Circuit City around that time. Both chains later failed, and its clear Ward’s should have kept Lechmere and forgot about Electric Street and Circuit City, which were flash in the pans, compared to once family-owned Lechmere, which had been nurtured over decades. Lechmere could have been a national competitor to fledgling Best Buy, but Ward’s was not smart enough to put that together. Even as a kid, I always thought Ward’s was a cheap-assed store compared to Sears, but my parents felt differently—quite possibly because Ward’s was a big buyer of Perfect Circle piston rings, of which my dad was the Midwest sales manager at the time, while Sears bought none.
Bobby Rogers, one of the original Miracles of Berry Gordy’s Motown records fame, died over the weekend.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/03/showbiz/bobby-rogers-dead/index.html
Meanwhile, back in 1964, there was a concert put on in Santa Monica, called The TAMI Show, which showcased a lot of the hot groups of the day, hosted by Jan and Dean. While there have been excerpts of that show surfacing on the Internet, sometime during the last few months, somebody put the whole 2 hours up on YouTube. The show was taped with black and white TV cameras using special modifications that gave them effective resolutions of 800 lines and a frame rate of 25 fps, which was perfect for making a kinescope for theatrical release—and the show was played in movie houses all across the country. Rogers appears with Smokey Bill on the show. Note that Smokey blows out his voice during the performance, but can still sing falsetto (and does).
Not sure whether this is a copy of the videotape, or the kinescope, but it is one of the best recorded shows of the black and white TV era. Very high quality stuff. If you were alive and aware in 1964, don’t start this unless you have 2 hours to waste, because I doubt you will be able to stop watching. The show was produced by Steve Allen’s crew. Very well done, and none of that MTV change-cameras-every-2-seconds crap. You actually get to see people perform. Tickets were given away free at high schools in Santa Monica. Those California girls did not use anywhere near the hairspray girls around me in the Midwest did. Much more natural look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLmZRyUbgFI
I may have a couple of hours later this week; thanks for the link, Chuck in Tiny Town!
I was eleven and in fifth grade in 1964, having moved from the Shoe Capital of the World, Brockton, MA, to bucolic little state college town Bridgewater. We were mostly aware of the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five and one Donald Oulette asked me one afternoon on the way home which band I liked better; I said “the Beatles,” and he sucker-punched me hard in the gut and said I better like the DCF more.
Not long after that little incident we were all playing touch football out in the gravel playground and young Donald was running with the ball; I decided touch football was for pussies and tackled him hard from behind and drove him face-first into that nice gravel. The teachers got mad at me and I was punished. So later I got young Donald again out in the parking lot and held him by the throat while smashing his head against the hood of a car until teachers pulled me off him. Donald decided he liked the Beatles better after all.
I have calmed down considerably since my extremely violent youth, not to worry, folks. Just a big ol’ book reader and radio listener now….
Only the very rich have incomes that have kept up with productivity gains since that god Ronald Reagan put his policies into effect over two decades ago.
I’m not sure what policies you are referring to. That said, productivity from 2005 to 2012 went up 9.3%. In the same time, total compensation went up 17.5%. I’m having trouble finding all the BLS data from before 2005. In 1989-1999, productivity went up 21.3%, total compensation went up 41.9%. If you look at inflation adjusted wages, you see stagnation, because more and more compensation is in the form of benefits, especially health insurance, pensions, and vacation.
OFD, have I mentioned what a fan of Susan Tedeschi I am? And the Beatles? Just in case we met in a parking lot, someday.
Not to worry, dude, not to worry. I am old and decrepit and harmless.
Unless I’m behind the wheel of my truck…
“Donald decided he liked the Beatles better after all.”
It’s always good too see someone come to their senses… 🙂
Bill wrote:
“Just in case we met in a parking lot, someday.”
Geez Bill, take it to e-mail will you?
(I like the Beatles too, but I don’t want to meet either of you in a parking lot, especially late at night, especially the NC parking lot that featured in There’s Something About Mary.)
Shot 200 rounds today in either 2 at a time (chest) or a single head shot. All from the holster. These guys are serious about technique and placement. Tomorrow, doors. I have no idea (doors are fatal funnels apparently.
I am very encouraged that i have not blown my leg or foot off so far. My xdm had two double feeds today which sucked. Btw, my two 16 round mags are not enough. I need 4 mags. My 1911 partner has four 8 round mags and we do lots of tactical reloads.
“My xdm had two double feeds today which sucked.”
Another reason I prefer revolvers; along with stovepipes, failure to feed, jams, etc., etc. And the prevailing spray-and-pray philosophy with our “law enforcement” types, with lots of magazines; fine for tactical battlefield conditions and extended cop firefights. But I believe the whole object of your handgun is to enable you to get to your shotgun and/or rifle.
But sounds like fun anyway!
So this would be your ideal main battle rifle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colt_carbine.jpg
Ho, ho, ho; there is actually a gunsmith up this way who re-purposes Ruger SA revolvers to that type of revolving chamber rifle; they’re pretty slick, too.
No, this is one of my two or three ideal main battle rifles:
http://www.coltsmfg.com/Catalog/ColtRifles/ColtLE90116S.aspx
And there is this:
http://www.rockriverarms.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=400&CFID=225576259&CFTOKEN=33734875
Nice rifles, but a bit expensive.
My ideal would be a G-3. I used to have one. Well, actually it was a Golden State Arms HK-41, which could go rock-and-roll just by dropping the trigger group and rotating the selector switch back around to avoid the block. Took about two seconds, literally. I ended up selling that rifle 30 years ago, both because I needed the money at the time and because the selective fire aspect made me nervous. I sold it for $900, including the Zeiss scope.
The first time I took that rifle out to the range, I was stunned by its accuracy, especially given that it looked like a typical assault rifle, with a lot of slop. It reliably fired 3/4″ or better 5-shot groups at 100 yards, which is twice as good as that RRA at 1.5 MOA. The only downside was that it was tough on brass. The chamber was fluted for reliable ejection, so every fired case had lines lengthwise from the base to the neck. I thought that might weaken the case, but I did reload quite a few cases two or three times with no problems.
Yeah, woulda been nice to have hung onto that mofo; I see the prices have gone up slightly:
http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=55382
Shazzammm!
Well now my two choices don’t look to be quite so expensive after all! I will have to save up, skimming cash into a secret slush fund up here over the next few months, I reckon. Meanwhile I have enough to keep me busy with the house and doing the mods on a Remington 870 and a Ruger 10-22 TakeDown.
In other busy work in the last few days, not able apparently to quit tinkering with IT stuff after a full day of it on the Plantation, I had to disable the secure boot crap on a new HP Pavilion so I could dump Windows 8 and put RHEL on it; a total PITA that took a while. Well, RHEL would not see the Atheros ethernet controller so no net access, which I need for the RHN and updates, etc. OK, I pondered that awhile and remembered that RHEL had run before OK on the box I’ve had Ubuntu on; so I simply switched machines and put the Ubuntu on the newer machine with the Atheros controller and RHEL on the slightly older one. Bingo; RHEL saw the net and I was good to go.
However, Ubuntu would now ALSO not see the Atheros controller but *would* see the wireless hw and our local net, so right now that’s on the wireless.
A series of Google searches finds similar issues with the Atheros and supposedly downloading certain drivers fixes things, but not with my setups. It appears to me thus fah that the Atheros ethernet controller included with the HP Pavilions sporting Windows 8 nowadays is designed to exclusively operate with Windows, period. Though maybe it’s possible to fiddle around with various drivers and get it to work in whatever Linux distros; I’ll play around with it some more as time allows.
Anyone else using these buggers?
“My phone, TV and internet bill is $200.00 a month. In areas of Knoxville where there is competition friends of mine with the same service pay $125 a month. The provider is profitable at $125 a month, they are gouging at $200 a month.”
That’s crazy talk! Switzerland is expensive compared to most other countries, and we pay somewhere around $125 for a business connection that includes a block of 10 telephone numbers. There are lots of plans more expensive than what we have – but they seem to mostly be marketing hype – I just don’t see the additional benefits.
@lynn: Doors as funnels, yes, certainly. On Radley Balko’s “raid of the day” from March 4th, he tells of yet another raid where someone’s door was being busted down at 2:00am. No identification, so he called 911 and then shot at the bastards, killing one of them.
Of course, it was the police with a “no knock” warrant. What I really don’t get: how could any jury convict the guy? Of course he shot the intruders, what the heck did they expect him to do? But, of course, they did convict him; meanwhile, the surviving police officers received awards. As far as I can see, “no knock” warrants should not exist except in hostage situations or other circumstances of immediate life-threatening danger.
The same way anyone in a similar situation ends up being convicted. The judge intentionally instructs the jury incorrectly and the jury is not aware of its right (and duty) to jury nullification.
I’d bet that 999 of 1,000 people think the judge is in charge during a trial. That’s false. The jury is in charge. And more juries need to start taking charge against such travesties of justice.
What Bob just said; 200%.
And a decent lawyer would make that clear to the jury in these cases. Or failing that, go directly to the media and internet, bigtime! The jury may get bullshit from the judge and DA but they also have smartypants phones now, etc., at least once they’re outta there for the day or the lunch hour or whatever.
Anybody caving in our door at O-Dark-Thirty with no ID is gonna find out if it is in fact Oblivion or Something Else real fast.
And then the defense lawyer would find himself in jail for contempt and facing sanctions from the state bar. The judge would probably declare a mistrial and have it done over with an untampered jury.
All of the above happened many times before 2000. That’s around when I did some research prior to handing out pamphlets on the sidewalk near the local courthouses.
We dint have squat for media/internet prior to Y2k compared to what we have now and how we can make it “viral” in minutes.
Handing out pamphlets and subversive literature outside local courthouses, eh? I did that with certain broadsides and “newspapers” back in the late Glorious Sixties on street corners in Maffachufetts towns and Boston. I was a dumb skinny kid and hung out with the Progressive Labor Party (Maoists), Young Socialist Alliance, and went to demonstrations with the Panthers at shitty Boston public housing developments, the latter infiltrated constantly by BPD dicks and the TAC Squad. I was shocked to find that the PLP chicks didn’t shave their legs and had more hair than me; then I was dismayed when they tried to do me.
All this probably helped to send me, O thank God, into the arms of Uncle’s combat vets in TX for some training and then shipping out with some of them to a couple of Uncle’s plantations around the world. I would not trade that education for any Ivy League or European university whatsoever, under any circumstances.
By then I’d given up on the leafleting and acid trips and become a street cop myself, late 70s and most of the 80s.
Reality is fah stranger than hallucinations, fiction and fantasy.
OFD wrote:
“I was shocked to find that the PLP chicks didn’t shave their legs and had more hair than me; then I was dismayed when they tried to do me. ”
Well? What did you expect?
So “they tried to do” you? Shave your legs? Or have their wicked way with you?
They tried to have their thicket way with him.
The jury is in charge. And more juries need to start taking charge against such travesties of justice.
Try telling a judge that during a trial. The judge would throw you out of the courtroom and into jail on a contempt of court charge. You may be right but pissing off the person that hands downs the sentences is not a good idea.
I have read about several cases in my area where a verdict was nullified by a judge because the jury failed to follow the judges instructions. I have read of jury rewards being reduced because a judge was not happy with the award. I have read of mistrials because the jury did not return a verdict the judge wanted (1st degree or innocent).
It appears to me that the judge is in charge or at least believe they are in charge. It may be wrong but that is what is happening. The judges are setting themselves up as the entire legal judgement system.
We need to, after the revolution, set about the tarring, feathering and riding out of town on rails a whole lotta judges. We could make a few examples straightaway, I reckon, too.
The PLP chicks, for your delectation, miles-teg in Oz, were trying to have their wicked thicket way with me and got pissy when I declined. If I’d been smaller and weaker they might have well done so; I was outnumbered and they were solid athletic types.
Heat wave here in the Bay tonight; 39 and no snow, while we hear that Megalopolis is getting slammed.