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It's never too soon for the next conspiracy theory.
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Could not have happened to a nicer guy.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
What baffles me is that I've had to hire and fire a lot of lawyers over the years. Never because of skydiving, excepting document and waiver review (I wrote ours) but because of my other gigs. Getting an attorney to initiate an issue when your standing was in doubt just doesn't happen even with an offer to pay more. Moreover, every lawyer I have ever hired was vastly more concerned with their standing with the bar than my particular problem. I guess that in the white shoe law firm arena where $2000 an hour is cheap things are different. But each and every one of us really needs to focus on that dichotomy and how it melds with our own relationship with the justice system and what we are really doing when we vote for a candidate or party. -
Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Apparently it was the IT manager who was Trump employee #4. Bad ju-ju for anyone normal who would seek a plea asap. But Trump isn't normal. gov.uscourts.flsd.648654.129.0.pdf -
Back to Ukraine, the UA are fighting hard and using some of their best brigades to take the high ground Northeast of Tokmak. They are suffering large losses of western armor in what may be a go for broke attempt. The bad news is that Russia is now offering medals and cash for taking out western armor. The good news is that western armor is designed to protect the troops so as long as we can send more the attacks can continue. That said they are spending a lot of lives fighting uphill for the objective. Surely thats enough proof of their commitment that we can now send ATACMS or any other long range weapons needed.
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Are you asking me? Again I have failed to express myself adequately. Indeed sir, yes, I am daft.
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I can just imagine the pride Putin felt when the FSB informed him that they had infiltrated speakers corner.
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Bill, Your bump and run to our opposing posts, not out of form for you to be frank, can't be how you want to be seen. Yes, when I decided to point out the obvious which is that religion plays an outsized role in your opinions you didn't want to engage. That is also normal for the religious. Those conversations are only happy places when talking to other believers. We all get that much. But you are also a skydiver with serious credentials and this is a forum for serious skydivers. Surely we are not too much.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
I keep waiting for someone brave in the media sphere to get what Fani Wallis gets in spades: it was a criminal enterprise. If you go back to the Nuremberg trials there was Defendant 27, the SS. They were found guilty, the entire organization. That's where we need to be. DA Fani Willis is my current hero. When she finally gets all of the indictees, and I think she will, we'll be back on track to regaining the democracy the founders envisioned. -
The Chesapeake, maybe, but then you should already be there. In the age of Global Warming with rising oceans and receding shorelines betting on the water is working out.
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Poor bastard. I'm glad you're still with us but it must cause real pain to start off a recollection with 55 years ago......
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Russia is mimicking Wagner by forming penal battalions. They're called Storm-Z units whose highest and best use is to go forward until shelled by artillery. Rumor is that regular military is right behind with automatic weapons to keep them motivated and heading in the right direction. That's one way to deal with overpopulation in your prisons, I guess.
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The 82 Air Assault Brigade is one of their most powerful brigades, to my understanding. It has been held in reserve so, if that's accurate, they are now committing reserves. The 82nd seems designed to exploit a breach in a defensive line. The leaked documents gave it 14 Challenger Tanks, 90 Strykers, 40 Marders and 24 M113's. If they take Tokmak they will hold the high ground while they finish cutting the land bridge. They won't need to make it to the sea to have effectively cut off Russian supply routes to Crimea. Now if we'd just send enough ATACMS's for Ukraine to take down the Kerch Bridge the counter offensive will have been a resounding success.
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They might be losing a bit in their war, too. It seems the Ukrainians have made it through a mine field and are attempting to take the high ground outside of Tokmak. They are confident enough that they've apparently committed their 82nd Brigade equipped with Challenger Tanks and Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles. If they are successful they will have a hill within artillery range of Tokmak. That could be a very big deal.
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Thanks for reminding me that the word can be an accurate descriptor.
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I posit that it is long past time to not use the word alien as accepted in the current usage. Anyone from Central America, or anywhere else, is no more an alien to Americans than life from any other place on or off our insignificant planet. For too many it is the most awful starting point for the "otherisms" that plague us and hold us back.
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The usefulness of Slim is that he is a wide open window into what we are up against. That has some value. Same with Winsor. He's right, of course, that relaxed standards in the name of inclusiveness might create a war zone situation where a 230# male shot through the pelvis can't be carried to safety by a beneficiary of those relaxed standards. However, that doesn't address the likelihood that if the 230# males that caused the war zone situation were beneficially shot through their pelvis's beforehand the disparity in physical abilities might never have come to notice.
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Bud Light isn't beer any more than a Shirley Temple is a cocktail.
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Separate then was a poor word choice of mine. But there is, apparently, a separate Women's league that the International Chess Federation wants to keep segregated. Look, I am no expert on the subject and don't know jack.
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Make no sense to me, either, but I'm guessing that some misogynistic Russians and other Eastern Europeans that are heavy into the Chess world thought it was a fine idea to separate the girls.
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From KelownaNow:
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In Kelowna, BC, according to reports, there is an out of control fire turning into a real emergency. According to some reports folks are fleeing into Okanagan Lake to escape or be rescued by boat. Totally normal evidence that what goes around comes around, no doubt. These things have always happened especially back in the salubrious period known as the Fire Optimum. So, without averaging these events into the last several Millenia you won't get the true picture.
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You, to be frank. Keep it up with your ridiculous contrarian intellectual schtick until you, and the likes of you, have degraded to the degree necessary to make you happy for just a moment Biden's ability to soundly defeat Trump in the next election. If Trump wins again you will own a part of it.
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Well, that didn't age well: "The International Chess Federation, or FIDE, has updated its policy on transgender players, effectively banning trans competitors from participating in official women’s tournaments." So much for a safe space, I reckon. I understand that the highest ranked female player is at +/- 165th on the world scale. But surely that's more owing to playing against a smaller size pool of players than individual ability. For example, I think I can guarantee you that if Eliana Rodriguez made 10,000 training jumps with me and my yo's instead of Craig Girard and the rest of the world elite her world ranking would have suffered very seriously.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Maybe. But apparently, Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya told Trump at his arraignment in DC that the most important condition of his of release was not committing a state, federal or local crime while on release. DC isn't a state, which she knows, but Georgia is. So maybe his Truth Social post where he, again apparently, warned Rep. Jeff Duncan to not testify before the Fulton County, GA grand jury might be construed as an attempt at witness tampering in a State case and thus grounds to revoke his pre-trial release.
