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Friday, April 12. 2019

Friday morning links

Scientists put human gene into monkeys to make them smarter, human-like


How did planners mess up Memphis? 


Schneiderman:



  If she merely wants the thrills, she has them. If she cannot adjust to a long term relationship that might be more sedate and less exciting, she is doing just the right thing.



Why having multiple wives is impractical


 Billboard Welcomes Drivers To Illinois, ‘Where You Can Get A Safe, Legal Abortion’


 234 HOUSE DEMOCRATS, TWO REPUBLICANS CO-SPONSOR BILL FORCING SCHOOLS TO LET MALE ATHLETES COMPETE ON GIRLS’ SPORTS TEAMS


Does this undermine Title IX? 


 “Ugly Duckling” Denounced as Racist


Lori Loughlin Thought The Feds Were Bluffing, Now “Freaking Out” About Having To Do Time In Prison


 City Of Chicago Files Civil Suit Against Jussie Smollett For Refusing To Reimburse Police Costs


 ACOSTA DOL SEEKS TO IMPOSE RADICAL DIVERSITY AGENDA ON LAW FIRMS


 The GOP and Asians


Surprise: Obama's Head Of Homeland Security Agrees With Trump On Border Crisis


 Eighteen states offer in-state tuition for illegals...and legal resident students are NOT happy about that


MSNBC, CNN Spread False Impression that Trump Called Immigrants ‘Animals’


Democrats Can’t Win Based on Their Ideas, So They Want to Change the Rules of the Game


Trump wants to kill you 


Byron York: Barr is right, spying on Trump campaign did occur


Democrats' railings about Barr and spying will end badly for them


 Devin Nunes: “The Spying Began in 2015″….


 Andrew McCarthy: Barr is right to review why Trump-Russia investigation began


Focus on the Leaking, Not Just the Spying - Ask not only how the FBI got interested in the Trump campaign, but also how its investigation became public.


 Chuck Todd Tears Into Barr for Feeding ‘Conspiracy Theory’: He ‘Gaslit the Country!’


Talk about lack of self-awareness 


 Clinton Contractor Described ‘Cover-up Operation Work Ticket’ in Newly Uncovered Email


 Ex-Obama counsel indicted for false statements, concealing Ukraine work


 Europe’s New Beggars


 Israeli Election: A Vote of No Confidence in the Media


 What Americans Need to Understand About Israel’s Election Results


 IN NEW YORK TIMES ISRAEL COVERAGE, ANYTHING GOES

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"Lori Loughlin Thought The Feds Were Bluffing"

Arrogance or bad legal advice? I'm going with arrogance, the DYKWIA variety.
#1 steve walsh on 2019-04-12 09:51 (Reply)
I dislike the heavy handedness of prosecutors who take a simple crime and charge the defendant with 20 crimes each of which carry a 20 year sentence. If you pay off someone to get your child into college than you committed a crime. But it seems that if in the process you mail in the FAFSA then you committed mail fraud too. And if you gave them money then you committed money laundering as well. If you transferred that money in any form other than cash you committed wire fraud as well. If you didn't tell your bank what you were doing then you committed bank fraud, and on and on. Seriously there should be one charge these multiple charges for the same crime are petty and dishonest. If I do something wrong on Thursday should I face an extra charge because it was Thursday? If I'm standing on my left foot should there be another charge as well? I do not think that the prosecutors should have this kind of power. I suspect that it would indeed be possible to send anyone to jail for the rest of their life for things they do everyday. Just pile multiple charge upon multiple charge and you go to the big house forever. It stinks and it smells like a banana republic system

IMHO what they did was wrong but not violent or with bad intentions and six months in jail and two years probation may even be overkill.
#1.1 Anon on 2019-04-12 10:30 (Reply)
As you are no doubt aware they do it to force defendants to plea to lesser charges. The case goes into their CV as a win.
#1.1.1 FRP on 2019-04-12 11:35 (Reply)
...The case goes into their CV as a win, and compared to going to trial, uses up very little of the prosecutors' budget, which they can then use to bring other high profile indictments to embellish their CV. Career management in action; justice rides the rumble seat.
#1.1.1.1 BillH on 2019-04-12 12:47 (Reply)
Yes I do understand that but I th9ink that is a miscarriage of justice. Most people convicted wrongly (i.e. they are innocent) are convicted this way. It is extortion. The DA says if you don't plead to this lesser charge we will charge you with 8 crimes and when we win in court you will get 5 years in jail for each of them. But if you take the plea you will get 2 years in jail. Your lawyer tells you it is the best deal you can get and if you don't take it he will require a $100,000 retainer to defend you but does not think he can win. Who wouldn't take the plea?

IMHO all discretion should be removed from criminal prosecution. The DA must take it to court and the defendant has only two choices; to plead guilty or not guilty. I think (as the Jussie Smollett case proves) that the prosecutors are not being honest/moral in their actions AND I think that they often commit prosecutorial misconduct. I think that whenever prosecutorial conduct is suspected that the state MUST investigate and prosecute it as a civil rights crime.
#1.1.1.2 Anon on 2019-04-12 13:58 (Reply)
That sounds right to me, I don't like that behavior from prosecutors either.

I stand by my comment about Loughlin though: she was arrogant and dumb not to take the plea deal.
#1.1.2 steve walsh on 2019-04-12 12:52 (Reply)
Which is funny - the characters she portrays are usually the ones who 'do the right thing' when an ethical dilemma presents itself.

Of course, it's the writers who give her the lines, but you'd think she might have absorbed something by osmosis, if nothing else.
#1.1.2.1 JLawson on 2019-04-12 13:24 (Reply)
First, kill all the lawyers.
#1.1.3 jma on 2019-04-12 19:23 (Reply)
Re: Israel's election results

Israel and hype surrounding their elections sounds an awful lot like the US and our presidential elections.
#2 mudbug on 2019-04-12 10:06 (Reply)
I see a parallel between Jussie Smollett's fake denial of wrongdoing and Pelosi and Schumer's denial of spying. The Dems would be wiser to say nothing rather than put themselves into the spotlight on this.
#3 Anon on 2019-04-12 10:21 (Reply)
Re: Scientists put human gene into monkeys...

“Not to hang from the trees. Are we not men?”

The Island of Dr Moreau was not an instruction manual.
#4 ErisGuy on 2019-04-12 10:46 (Reply)
And it ends with Charlton Heston on a beach thousands of years in the future in front of the Statue of Liberty...dear God...have we learned nothing from movies?
#5 Robert Sendler on 2019-04-12 10:52 (Reply)
Not sure why ANYONE thought it was a good idea to make monkeys smarter. I don't put much faith in a Planet of the Apes scenario. But still, was there a hue and cry for smarter monkeys? I guess some people just want to see if it can be done, regardless of the outcome.

My oldest son is about to go off to college and become a programmer. I have been arguing with him for years that machines will eventually become self-aware. He disagrees, wondering why anyone would try to give a machine a consciousness. I argue that someone will do it to see if they can.
#6 Dangerous Dean on 2019-04-12 11:03 (Reply)
Lived in Memphis for 33 years. Regarding the article on Memphis planning, I thought of a joke. Why did the pedestrian cross the road in Memphis? To get killed on the other side.
#7 Boone on 2019-04-12 11:07 (Reply)
Having more than one wife is insane. Two wives is not twice the work, but 4 times the work. With three, double that. And with four, just kill yourself and save yourself the pain and trouble.

While the idea of more than one wife may be titillating, the reality is going to be entirely different.

The only time something like multiple wives might make sense is if the female to male ratio in a population is 4-to-1, and even then it might be a losing proposition because you'll have four wives pissed off at you for not taking out the garbage, not just one.
#8 DCE (Link) on 2019-04-12 11:38 (Reply)
Exclusive: Democrats Can’t Win Based on
Their Ideas, So They Want to Change
the Rules of the Game: You don't say. You DON'T say. You don't SAY. Haven't we always known that?

Israeli Election: A Vote of No Confidence in the Media: Happened here, too!

In New York Times Israel Coverage, Anything Goes: It's the NYT WAY, man; they do it here, too. And have for years and Years and YEARS.
#9 Sam L. on 2019-04-12 12:05 (Reply)

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