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Both Iran and North Korea conducted nuclear tests.

Neither have ever developed nuclear weapons.

DawgDuty has always obviously just typed out things he heard on the radio or TV.

Back in like 2002, DawgDuty used to scream about how Saddam Hussein had nukes, and we needed to take him out.

He's literally a confused parrot who yells about things he heard other people say.

Seriously, do you write notes and history, and keep them by the computer so you can go back and say things like "like in 2002 so and so said this...."?

I don't remember screaming about Saddam having nukes and I didn't come on the board

until 2006. Is it possible you are full of it again?

Bill Cosby retrial verdict: Guilty on all 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018...ness/553644002/

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Comedian and TV icon Bill Cosby has been convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault at his sexual-assault retrial here Thursday, on the second day of deliberations.

It was not the outcome Cosby or his high-powered defense team wanted but it was an answer to the question that has haunted America since October 2014: Is "America's Dad" really a serial sexual predator who drugged and molested Andrea Constand at his nearby home in January 2004?

Last June, another jury at Cosby's first trial deadlocked on that question after days of deliberations, forcing Judge Steven O'Neill to declare a mistrial.

For the retrial, the jury of seven men and five women voted unanimously that the answer was yes. Cosby, charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, could get 10 years in prison on each count. He denied the charges, asserting that his sexual encounter with Constand was consensual and that he only gave her an over-the-counter allergy medication.

At 80 and in failing health, any prison term is likely a death sentence.

Advocates for rape victims and lawyers who represent many of the five-dozen women who have accused Cosby of being a serial rapist immediately started celebrating outside the courthouse here.

They mounted regular protests during both trials, including a topless protest on the opening day of the retrial, hoping to influence the media and the public.

But the jury, which was sequestered at a local hotel, saw and heard none of this. They were instructed not to let outside influences, such as the Me Too movement to call out sexual harassment and assault, creep into the jury room.

"The pressure to be politically correct coming from the Me Too movement should not but unfortunately could influence the jury," says California trial attorney Lara Yeretsian, who followed the case.

Cosby could appeal the conviction, arguing that the jury was biased, "but it’s not easy to show the jury was tainted," Yeretsian says. "You have to get inside their minds to determine bias or hope they make statements to others to that effect."

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, who failed to persuade the first jury, had a difficult job: A 14-year-old alleged sex crime. No physical or forensic evidence. An accuser who waited a year to report it. An acclaimed defendant whose iconic status garnered him support.

And there was the dauntingly high burden-of-proof standard that every prosecutor must meet in a felony case in the American criminal justice system: Persuade 12 jurors "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the defendant is guilty and vote unanimously to convict. All it takes is one doubtful juror to change the outcome.

Cosby was charged in December 2015, just weeks before Pennsylvania's unusually lengthy statute of limitations on sex crimes was about to expire. In the previous year, Cosby was accused by 60 women who said Cosby drugged and assaulted them in episodes dating back to the mid-1960s.

All of those accusations were too old to prosecute, except Constand's. She did not report what she said happened to her until a year later, in 2005, but the then-district attorney said there was insufficient evidence to charge Cosby. So Constand filed a civil suit against him instead. Cosby was deposed for the suit, which was settled and sealed in 2006; as Steele revealed in his opening statement at the retrial, Cosby paid Constand $3.4 million to settle their case.

After the first Cosby accusers began coming forward in October 2014, the Associated Press went to federal court seeking that the deposition Cosby gave in the civil suit be released "in the public interest," and they won. In it, Cosby acknowledged acquiring drugs, specifically quaaludes, to give to women he sought for sex. That gave county prosecutors "new evidence" to give Constand's long-quiescent criminal case new life.

Steele, who was running for district attorney that fall, put up attack ads criticizing his opponent for failing to prosecute Cosby in 2005. He won. The following month, he charged Cosby.

The first trial took place in June 2017. After six days of testimony (the defense called only one witness and then rested) and the equivalent of five days of deliberations, it ended in a mistrial.

The retrial was different: There were 13 days of testimony and arguments and a day and a half of deliberations, and there were more witnesses who testified. Prosecutors were allowed by O'Neill to call five other accusers of Cosby — "prior bad acts" witnesses — to testify that he did the same thing to them, too.

And Cosby was allowed to call a former friend and colleague of Constand, who testified that Constand spoke of a plan to frame a celebrity with false accusations so she could sue and make millions.

Both prosecutors and defense lawyers were more aggressive in their courtroom tactics and cross-examinations, and in their regular sniping at each other. The defense launched a caustic attack on Constand in its opening statement, labeling her a greedy "con artist." The prosecution bashed Cosby as the real "con man" whose sordid extramarital sex life and predatory behavior belied his good-guy image from his years on The Cosby Show.

Much was made in the media and outside the courtroom about the fact the retrial took place in a dramatically different environment from last year — after the dawning of the Me Too movement that began in October 2017.

What happens outside a criminal courtroom is supposed to stay outside. But human nature is what it is, says Yeretsian. Few jurors could escape the cultural revolution of the Me Too movement, she says.

"Jurors don’t live in a vacuum, and they could be responding sympathetically to the movement, even on a subconscious level," Yeretsian says. "The diligent juror will do his or her best to only rely on the evidence presented in the courtroom. ... Still, the movement could sneak into the deliberations room when determining the credibility of Constand and the prior bad acts witnesses."

Your looking for the POS of the week thread ....

He would go to the top of that thread even if his name was added last.

Biden to NRA: We ‘don’t have the time’ to prosecute gun buyers who lie on background checks

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/18/biden-...kground-checks/

Biden: We need more gun laws because we don’t have time to enforce the ones we have

https://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/18/b...e-ones-we-have/

How is this the idiot of the week when this article is from 2013?

I think we found a new subject for the week.

From a purely semantic standpoint, you have a point.

From a broader standpoint, he has a point.

We have so many gun laws now. And yet, there's the v.p. saying they don't have time to enforce them, so we need more?

On a side note, I'm not sure whey the v.p. was saying the Obama administration didn't have time to enforce the laws. It's the police that enforce the laws.

Mike Huckabee is your Idiot of the Week for his aboutface after last night's WHCD.

Idiot of the week:

-Insert image of Trump-

Every week.

Context:

Lol what a train wreck

Ya ... hes the train wreck here ... ...

BOUNCING BALL ....

So are you saying huckabee isn’t a complete hypocrite?

What a stunning example of tone-deaf irony.

Not defending Huckabee at all, but I will admit that I thought that comedian at the WHCD was savage.

I've never seen the right cry more about someone complimenting another person's makeup.

I’m sure he is a complete hypocrite .. we all are at times ...

But hes not being even a wee bit of a hypocrite in this case ....

Anyone else surprised that the dude who calls everyone a "weedhead" but cries to the mods about being called a "drunk" can't understand the concept of do not dish out what you cannot take. I hope Diam has a pony and some playdough to help him cope!

If I remember correctly it was you guys who started the Drunk talk after Nazi, Racist, Xenophobe, Homophobe failed to achieve your goal of nailing him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz6W0znOfk

Good thing you're never correct


It's honestly funny watching the most mentally incapacitated members are always posting youtube videos? It'd be funny, but I think they think that people click on them.

#snowflake

Why do you have to drag oldcold into this?

Not particulary a fan of the Gov., but come on, that is his daughter they were talking about in some of those jokes.

EVERYBODY needs to strap on a set and STFU If they can't take a joke, and get so bent out of shape they should have nothing at all to do with running our towns, cities, counties, states, or Federal Governments.

Michelle Wolf's White House Correspondents' Dinner remarks condemned by WHCA president

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/peop...alev/563835002/

Come on now, if she really had a Father she'd know that lying is bad.

Did u hear what was said by at the whcd? ... do u know exactly what your defending?

Could you imagine what the Libs would say if Michelle Obama was sitting in attendance and a comedian said half of what was said toward Sanders toward Michelle Obama. Wow!!! There would be no talk of taking a joke that is for sure.

Y'all literally said her Portrait was trash and didn't look like her and no one said a word because we know Cons have bad opinions. Michelle said Sarah had a perfect smokey eye and y'all freak. You cons are so catty.

lol look at this dude who doesn't know how the three branches of Government work.

There were a lot of other things wrong with this post, but I just wanted to focus on the funniest.

It would've been really cool if you had simply copied my entire post on this. But, in a a failed attempt at making me look bad, you quoted just 1 small part.

Tell me the last time someone from the judicial, executive, or legislative branches of gov't. arrested someone.

See, legislative makes the laws. Judicial interprets the laws and penalizes, and the executive branch signs the laws.

So, again, I'm not sure how Biden was saying the O administration didn't have the time to enforce the laws (yet at the same time wanted more laws???)

Hey, but, got a link to Trump asking for a Nobel peace prize for what's going on in N. and S. Korea?

Like I said, it was the funniest part. There's a lot of things wrong, you not getting how the three branches of government work was just the funniest part. You don't need me to make you look bad, you do it all by yourself.



It's never happened. No one at the FBI has ever made an arrest before either. Actually, there have actually been zero arrests in the US history.


Actually the executive branch enforces the law. That is why they are in charge of the DoJ, which is in charge of US Marshalls, FBI, DEA, ATF and a whole host of other alphabet agencies.



You should read what Biden says if you want an answer and stop lying out of your mouth. Biden said the DoJ doesn't have the time to check every 4473 form that's filled out incorrectly. That's one law that they do not have the time to enforce. I am sure a brilliant, capable mind like yourself might understand why the ATF can't spend all their time reading paper forms looking for crimes. The SEC spends most of their time reading paperwork and they're more useless than Trump in a crisis. I think Biden is pointing out the obvious that having laws that aren't based in misfiled paperwork would be a more effective use of police time. I really can't see what's controversial about it unless you're a liar and conflagrate the issue by lying.



Sure. Turn on a TV and see what his surrogate says.

So, Trump never said it.

Thanks for playing. And proving yourself to be........fake news?

I never said Trump said he wanted it... This is more lying on your part. I hope I set you straight with your Biden lies. I also hope you understand the three branches of government now. Either way, you still have to pay me $10 for tutoring you in 3rd grade Social Studies.

Uhm, the FBI has the power to arrest people for federal crimes, and they are under the executive branch of power. It's why the President could fire James Comey but not Paul Ryan or Clarence Thomas.

This is incorrect. All the executive branch does is sign bills. When the libs tear up the constitution, they will replace him with a ballpoint pen. Do not listen to him, Arch. Continue to wrap your head in tinfoil.