In 2017, a 70-year-old guy named Lawrence Ripple
robbed a Kansas City bank near his house...
After he got the money, he then sat down in the lobby saying he would rather go to jail than to live with his wife any longer. The judge was not as sympathetic as he might have hoped. Instead of sending him to prison, the judge sentenced him to house arrest.
I wanna buy that judge a beer someday. The article I stumbled on is six years old, but the story is timeless:
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on November 24th 1963. This photograph by Robert H. Jackson won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography the following year. What kind of world do we live in that someone,
somewhere, has this on display:
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Well that explains that then...
At least now we know it's not a 'forever' thing. New York State’s year-long “look-back” window on sexual assault closed Thursday (Thanksgiving) night after a flurry of last-minute claims against high-profile figures including the singer Axl Rose, the actor Jamie Foxx and the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams. Some of the alleged incidents date back decades, in claims that would otherwise have fallen outside the statute of limitations.
The New York state law, which allowed adult sexual abuse survivors to sue their abusers beyond the statute of limitations for the course of one year, saw approximately 2,500 claims. It closed at midnight on Thursday. It grabbed headlines immediately when the writer E Jean Carroll restated a rape and defamation claim against Donald Trump mere minutes after the look-back window opened.
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An October report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation found that adding up the costs of government subsidies, charging equipment and the added strain on the electric grid, claiming that the "true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying $17.33 per gallon of gasoline."
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Sometimes, a little Christmas gift
is the best gift of all to give.
Surprise her with your good taste...
Click on the picture for more information on this bracelet.
It's only $ 45.00 and that includes free shipping.
There are a number of new items in her shop. Click here to see them all:
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There a lot of shit going on there...
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A car-sized tumbleweed was spotted racing down a California highway Tuesday. The massive roaming weed followed the flow of traffic as it rolled through Simi Valley. The National Weather Service confirmed that the colossal tumbleweed was created and powered by Santa Ana Winds, which occurs when air from a region of high pressure over the dry desert flows westward toward low pressure on the California coast.
The state’s coast is experiencing moderate Santa Ana Winds this week, with 45 mph gusts expected to hit some areas over the weekend. “We saw a giant tumbleweed like this in Simi Valley yesterday! Anyone else in #SoCal have a recent tumbleweed experience due to the #SantaAnaWinds?” the NWS’s Los Angeles division wrote on Twitter.
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Click on the picture for more information on this bracelet.
It's only $ 28.00 and that includes free shipping.
There are a number of new items in her shop. Click here to see them all:
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Just to get the Wizard of Oz tie in, it's too bad Jack Ruby didn't wear slippers.
ReplyDeleteDark Days?!? Not in the least. This is schadenfreude on steroids as the woke eat the incompetent.
ReplyDeleteTumbleweed reports on Twatter? Tumbleweeds heading one direction or another is an everyday occurrence in Oklahoma.
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