26 PAID women... If he was innocent, he would have let the courts decide, then we wouldn't be having this ridiculous debate on guilt. The evidence was overwhelming, which is why every one of them got paid. It was a civil court. It is the equivalent of taking a plea deal in criminal court.
He said, they said situation with the defendant being a black man. Juries don't always get it right. If there was overwhelming evidence, why did all the women settle? Why wasn't he found guilty of criminal charges?
I don't doubt there was circumstantial evidence, and I'm not claiming he didn't do what they said, but your claim doesn't seem to entirely add up.
Every president over the past 30+ years have been ignoring Netanyahu's fear tactics, false claims and war mongering rhetoric. Until now. That's a wide selection of men and administrations from both parties to choose from. Now Netanyahu has the U.S. fighting a war against his own nations biggest enemy and footing the bill for it. If you consider a war monger like Dick Cheney as a rational adult you may have a point but when you look at the way that turned out......
The IAEA found 83.7% enriched uranium in 2023. The situation changed over the last 30 years.
What I can say is that the scenario you laid out isn't an "everything is equal" situation. I'm not sure I would support throwing my hat into the ring to draft anyone with a huge gambling addiction that he has displayed and that is known. But if so it wouldn't be to a team like the Browns. Every team has their own situation and the moves they make in such a regard should certainly consider where they are at the time.
You certainly have a point about the Browns still being in need of a QB. I mean until you know you have a QB you need one. I don't believe anyone can dispute that. But the circumstances other than that which the Browns are currently in would be a worse case scenario to bring a QB with "issues" into.
First let's address what the best possible scenario would be. A team that is pretty much complete looking for a QB of the future a few years down the road. That team would have a well established coach with a well established system who at least already competes for their division on an annual basis. They wouldn't have a bunch of young QB's already on the roster. If a problem with a young QB arises it wouldn't be a total disruption.
The Browns are in the exact opposite position. As of today I see what I consider a list of obstacles that make this not a logical situation for the Browns. We have new HC in his first season as a HC. The offense has been pretty much a train wreck to this point. Monkin has a huge job ahead of him installing a new system.
Secondly the Browns have a bevy of young QB's already on the roster. They already added one in this past draft. I understand they could cut one of them, or maybe even two of them but that still leaves you with nothing but first and second year QB's on your roster other than watson.
So how can that be handled? As much as I hate the idea of watson even wearing a Browns jersey much less leading the Browns on the field, I understand it if you totally ignore the moral implications. He is the only QB on the roster that has started in more than one system. He is the only one on the roster to have 50 starts in his NFL career. How he will perform on the field is anyone's guess but it would make sense to conclude it would be easier to teach him a new system than kids who have virtually little to no experience in the league.
It would mean the Browns would have two rookie QB's on the roster with a first time HC installing a new system.
That just doesn't seem like a set of circumstances where drafting him would make any sense.
Reports are circulating that after trump's latest medical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, during his colonoscopy doctors discovered that just over half of congress was planted firmly up his ass. The earliest they said treatment may become available would be shortly after the mid term elections.
Why don't you tell me. Maybe if we all stop talking about Trump and what he's doing and deflect every conversation about something he's done that's obviously undemocratic and against the principals of the constitution and instead talk about hypotheticals and the democrats - maybe that's your answer.
DOJ quietly shelves Biden autopen investigation that Trump demanded
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed former President Joe Biden used an autopen without knowing the contents of what he signed.
The Justice Department shelved an investigation into former President Joe Biden's use of an autopen, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News on Wednesday.
Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin, the former “weaponization” czar, opened the probe while he was interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. It wound down recently under Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney, who is a longtime Trump ally and former Fox News host.
The autopen case was never presented to a grand jury, unlike the case that Pirro's office tried to bring forward last month against six members of Congress who participated in a social media video that urged members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow unlawful orders.
It is difficult to bring a criminal case when there is not even a readily identifiable and applicable criminal statute, the person briefed on the matter said.
The White House referred an inquiry about the matter to the Justice Department. A spokesman for Pirro’s office, citing Justice Department policy, said the office does not confirm or deny the existence of criminal probes.
President Donald Trump in June demanded a wide-ranging investigation into Biden and officials in his administration after he claimed that Biden's aides used "autopen" signatures to hide Biden's "cognitive decline."
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee investigated Biden's use of an autopen, writing in a report in October that some executive actions he signed with an autopen were "illegitimate," because he suffered from mental decline and could have been unaware of the contents.
Trump, who has repeatedly claimed that Biden used an autopen on many of his executive orders, said in November that he was canceling executive orders signed using Biden’s autopen.
It's unclear how often Biden used an autopen, as there is no official government record of when it is used. In a statement in June, Biden responded to Trump’s claims, saying, "Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.”
"I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations," he said in the statement. "Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false."
Biden's use of the autopen was investigated as Trump has directed the Justice Department to investigate a number of his political foes since he returned to office.
The Justice Department tried to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. A federal judge tossed out the criminal charges against both in November.
It also sent out criminal subpoenas in January to various state and local government offices in Minnesota, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, claiming they conspired to impede law enforcement during its immigration operations there. Neither have been charged, and legal experts have widely condemned an investigation that they say is based on a flimsy legal premise and has a chilling effect on free speech.
I friend of mine had a spinal stroke. He was parallelized for a while now can walk with difficulty. A bunch of famous musicians recorded his songs to raise money. You can purchase the album "silver patron saints" a bunch of good music by current musicians. good contemporary rock stuff. Here are two. One with Springsteen. One with Ian Hunter [video:youtube][/video]
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And while I agree with you to a very great extent, for any sane person it's obvious that a lot of this division and chaos begins with what is being said and posted from within The White House and at Mar-a-Lago. Once a contagious disease starts, an epidemic will soon follow if no controls or constraints are put in place to contain it.
And the question could become, if Monkin doesn't develop some of that "1st round" talent will it be the fault of Monkin for not developing that talent or will it be the talking heads were wrong about their evaluations on some of those picks?
If you eliminate major costs you foresee while working, then things are simpler, so I agree. We have set up savings and investments every pay. We "practiced" budgeting before retirement while we only received one payday a month. We are comfortably set. More than that, we are happy with what we have; my wife is a blessing because we share priorities. The Shaker motto was good advice that smacks of Transcendentalism: "Simplify, simplify." Control what you can.
As I said earlier, simple is the name of the game, especially if you plan on doing most of it yourself. Leave the complicated to the people who can afford personal secretaries, a team of accountants, and lawyers. Complicated takes a mental toll if you plan to do it yourself.
888 keeps insisting tax payers don't pay anything for National Parks. Lies are lies even when one doesn't realize one is doing it.
I made an error which I am happy to accept and acknowledge - something most won't do on here. And if anyone was to keep a score of the lies and the misinformation that is spammed on these boards, then one group of posters win by a land slide and it isn't the guys who don't like Trump.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office filed charges against an ICE agent in connection with the January shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national, in Minneapolis.
Christian J. Castro, 52, is facing four counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis
The backstory:
The ICE-involved shooting took place near the 600 block of 24th Avenue North just before 7 p.m. on Jan. 14.
Initial reporting detailed federal agents were pursuing a man in a vehicle who had crashed into a snowbank. The man then ran to a nearby home, where a pursuing agent caught up with him and attempted to make an arrest.
An "altercation" between the agent and suspect then ensued, which led to two other people arriving from a nearby apartment, and all three attacking the officer – one armed with a broomstick, according to DHS.
"Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life," DHS initially claimed.
Julio Sosa-Celis, 24, a Venezuelan national, was taken to the hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, while Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, 26, was also arrested in its aftermath.
Both men were charged with assaulting a federal agent in the aftermath of the altercation, but the DOJ later requested the charges be dismissed with prejudice, writing in a motion that, "newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the complaint affidavit."
Big picture view:
The shooting occurred one week after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE officers and ten days before the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal officers. ICE agents under federal investigation
Dig deeper:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office later opened a criminal investigation into two ICE officers after video evidence allegedly showed the agents’ sworn testimony included "untruthful statements."
Court filings filed after the shooting showed the ICE officers’ accounts of the moments leading up to the shooting differed significantly from testimony provided by the two defendants and multiple eyewitnesses.
SoS is based on the previous year's results (which itself takes into account it's own SoS), but each team has turned over as much as 25-35% of its roster and 30% of all teams have new head coaches, staffs, and systems.
So, it sounds good, but there really isn't much you can reliably take away from it. It's predicting this year's corn crop based on last year's tomatoes.
According to most on draft day, this guy was massively overdrafted, and supposedly not on any team's radar.
I think this just reinforces that most draftniks & sites just really don't know and that reality is disguised by the ability to pick a lot of low-hanging "no-brainer" fruit in drafts. That said, the same applies to all front offices as well, given how many misses there are each year.
They're making a guess on future performance in one system against higher quality talent based on past performances in other systems against decidedly lower talent.... sometimes you'll hit, sometimes you won't.
