jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
Lawyer and amateur musician from Sonoma County, California. Will share cute pictures of his cats on the slightest provocation.
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@D_J_Nathanson Also, about "if they ask to search anything": they very likely won't, or at any rate it might not sound like they are. A typical cop tactic is to say "we're going to search your car, ok." Note the period at the end there, rather than a question mark. They do the same thing with […]
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@Nonilex Are the eaglets going to get names too? For possibly obvious reasons, I'd suggest Don, Glenn, and Bernie. Glenn has the advantage of being gender-neutral, viz. Ms. Close.
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@GottaLaff A bit off-topic, but here's a song about how Eastern Canadians feel about Alberta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNMge2vE6G8
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@heidilifeldman Question for you, Prof. This isn't a constitutional decision; the question before the district court was whether the administration's actions violated the APA. The Supremes have now effectively decided that they did. Hurray. But the APA is a law passed by Congress, so can't […]
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@GottaLaff Any bets on which city will be the first to name a park Black Lives Don't Matter Plaza? I'll go with Coeur d'Alene.
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@msbellows Hmm. I'd credit that theory more if I saw any of them hunting sharks or having close friends' heads cut off for not supporting their divorce.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social The National Lawyer's Guild on the same subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEpW6KOZDs
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However. Because I enjoyed the movie so much, it occurred to me to revisit the book, which I hadn't read since right around when it first came out in the 90's. And wow, I'd forgotten how amazing it is. It's an enormous, richly detailed, beautifully written fantasy novel, a really stunning piece […]
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@Nonilex That's a characteristic Belgian Malinois thing, apparently. Trouble is, the not-letting-go behavior sometimes extends to when they're ordered to let go. My county recently paid out a $3 million or so settlement to a guy whose leg was pretty much destroyed after sheriff's deputies […]
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@radleybalko.bsky.social I did a volunteer stint at an immigration detention facility a few years back, and as part of that, I attended a couple of judicial proceedings. They both involved about 30 detainees, and a "judge" (in quotes because they're not actually judges) on a video link. The […]
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@mls14 @GottaLaff I don't think deportation is on the table, or at least I haven't seen anything suggesting that it is. Homan's position is that AOC obstructed immigration enforcement by publishing a "know your rights" video aimed at immigrants. The idea, I guess, is that if she tells […]
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@jendefer The classic approach is to steam them, stem side up, until the cut-off end of the stem is very soft when you poke it with a knife. Let them cool, somewhat or completely. Eat them by pulling off one or two leaves at a time, dipping the ends in aioli or ranch dressing or whatever dip […]
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@msbellows If the part he was being offered in Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the one played by Bob Hoskins, may I just express my thanks to Murray's personal phone. Murray has been good in a few things, but imagining Roger Rabbit with him in the Hoskins role is like imagining Casablanca with […]
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@msbellows Should anyone be inclined to make this point directly to, well, whoever reads this stuff, if you go to the Stonewall NPS website and click on "No" under "Was this page helpful," it gives you a 500-character opportunity to explain how the page could be improved.
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@pomCountyIrregs Not without standing. You have to have suffered an actual injury, what the Constitution calls a "case or controversy"; you can't just sue because there's a law you don't like, which I think may be what you're asking. This comes up a lot; this is why, for example, the lawsuit by […]
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@GottaLaff This is even bigger than an attempt to reverse Sullivan: they're also asking the Supremes to apply the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in civil cases to state courts. Without getting into a big Con Law thing, that's one of the very few Bill of Rights rights that has not been […]
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@GottaLaff "Cannot" in the sense of "if he does, about two years from now some judge will say that it was against the law, and about a year after that an appellate panel might or might not agree, and another year later three Supreme Court justices will also agree and the other six might too but […]
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@Nonilex I have to wonder if DOJ will be investigating the deputy.
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@bodhipaksa I think the first obstacle to people understanding that is that "the guinea's stamp" sounds a lot like "the guinea stamp" when it's sung, and it's easy to take this as having something to do with postage. There's a great bit from "Jeeves and Wooster" based on this misunderstanding […]
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@bodhipaksa The thing that confuses a lot of people about this verse is "the guinea's stamp." In Burns's time, a guinea coin was worth a guinea because it was made out of a guinea's worth of gold. It was stamped -- that is, it had some images on it, one of them probably a portrait of the king […]
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@aaronpriven To be fair, they're carnivores. I suppose one can't expect culinary mastery from cooks whose idea of a delicious meal is a whole raw mouse.
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@GottaLaff I think it should be a pair of knee pads. One is all you need for simply bending the knee, but for what Bezos and Zuckerberg are metaphorically doing, they'd be more comfortable with two.
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@GottaLaff Just for the record, I, a former WaPo reader, absolutely do not "question the integrity of [the] institution." I also do not question the adorableness of kittens, the deliciousness of apple pie, or the existence of gravity. These are all things about which I am 100% sure and have no […]
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@pomCountyIrregs What a fabulous arrangement! I had no idea this album existed. Here's the cut, if anyone's as curious as I was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXZ4Kc5zs8M&list=PLRiipkN4nZRPMErJg_4DnKcbW-nL49a6b&index=4
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@GottaLaff And cue conflation of "unconditional discharge" and "exoneration" in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .