So let’s spin a yarn. The cops have a warrant for some major crimes they don;t want to reveal, so they either engineer the stop, or take advantage of one that develops. Since the investigation of that crime is ongoing they don’t have to tip off the defendant or his lawyer about it. Since this is pretty much the only…

She’s so naive and sweet.

Actually, there’s a former Philly cop whose ben in the federal pen for literally years because he refuses to give them the passcode to his stuff. Google Francis Rowls if you’re interested.

And Jaguars kill for sport? I doubt killing 7 animals is considered natural.

Just want to offer a gentle reminder that the idea that “Bernie Bros” voted for Trump at a rate higher than the usual primary-to-general turnover (compared to Hillary/McCain or Obama/McCain in 2008, in particular) is completely inaccurate. It just didn’t happen.

As a guy who hangs out around engineers and grew up around the black community in Detroit, there’s a cross-cultural communications problem here. He has agreed to “do something to help” Flint.

IIRC this theory is actually quite core to Mormonism. Moroni was supposedly the last leader of the white Jews who originally people the continent until they exterminated by the Indians. Thus the Mormon followers of Joseph Smith are the actual chosen people of God.

In Chedder Man’s day everyone was black. Lighter skin apparently only evolved when people settled down to farm, and had trouble getting things like Vitamin D from the plants they grew themselves.

Agreed. I’m just a little bit younger than Bourdain and have done nothing but teach high school for the last 35 years. But between the value of my very modest house and my retirement savings even I’d be worth about 1/3 of Bourdain if I died tomorrow. I don’t understand how $1.2 million makes any sense at all. I…

It really is. At least some of it can be explained by the fact that he appears to have kept almost all of his liquid investments in cash. Still, that’s incredibly low for someone with that kind of annual income, over that many years. In addition to what you mentioned, maybe there are undisclosed assets offshore?

There were two fights. The first one was him getting beaten up by three guys. The second one happened after he chased them down, caught one, and stabbed the kid with a knife. You don’t get away with that second fight even in Stand your Ground states.

Did he get his Social Security Card back?

And yet you not only read the story you commented on it...

Anybody know what the red tag on his ear is?

I haven’t heard anything from the anti-Mo side on this dispute in a couple years. I have heard her file a lawsuit, film/record interactions with the various power-brokers to back up her case, etc.

Especially a Catholic Church. They transfer priests all the time because they want all their priests to belong to all their Churches.

Don’t know what Senate you live under, but the Senate I live under only does that stuff for Judicial nominations. The Committee Chair could block this by refusing to schedule a vote, but that would require he go on record, McConnell could block it the same way (not scheduling a vote), but a) that’s not anonymous, b) th…

If the artist did the smart thing and registered the copyright there’s $150k in statutory damages. If they didn’t they can sue for actual damages, which would probably include whatever fee Tesla would have been charged for repeatedly using the image for their own purposes.

No one’s expecting the girl to instantly integrate into her birth mother’s family. However continued contact with her kidnapper isn’t helping her, and is probably hindering her.

Their beef is very much in the working-class-guys-who-like-eachother-giving-eachother-shit tradition. The Steph/Bron beef has a litte more edge to it.