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June 30, 2021 06:44 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

–Elbert Hubbard

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21 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Thread

  1. I’m appreciating the editorial slant of The Sentinel more and more …. today’s editorial board offering is clear:

    Fraudulent critical race theory controversy is a scam to sidetrack critical history education in schools

    While critical race theory has been resurrected as a new fearsome buzzword for conservative extremists, it appears few understand what this decades old sidebar in academia is, and what it’s not.

    More than anything, it’s not a public schools curriculum, and it isn’t “taught” in local or really any public schools. That’s because critical race theory is a 1970s academic concept about how societies might be shaped and formed.

    Shockingly, about 100 parents showed up at a regular Cherry Creek School District board meeting last week to comment on the wisdom of “teaching” critical race theory to students.

    They don’t. They don’t “teach” it in Cherry Creek, Aurora Public Schools, Denver, JeffCo — not anywhere.

  2. The old incontinent fat guy who used to live in the White House says that Herschel Walker, a Texan and dumbass ex-jock, will be running for the U.S. Senate seat in Georgia next year. That's long been SOP for the cavalcade of booger-eating clowns collectively known as RepublicQans: "They mobilized and got out the black vote in GA last time? Well, let's recruit one of our own darkies black folk to run. Which one? What does it matter? How about that one, the ex-jock with name recognition?"

    1. He will be an interesting candidate, if he runs. 

      Mental health issues he discussed in detail in his book would seem disqualifying for many candidates. Perhaps in the party of Trump it helps.

      1. This decision is a muddle. 

         * Trial judge did not believe an agreement was binding if there was no record of it. 

         * On appeal, there was agreement among judges that DAs could not bind their successors on prosecution but might be able to block use of particular testimony. 

         * "Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Wednesday [in a 4-3 decision] that District Attorney Kevin Steele, who made the decision to arrest Cosby, was obligated to stand by his predecessor’s promise not to charge Cosby, though there was no evidence that agreement was ever put in writing."  They not only kicked the decision, they blocked any other prosecution for the crime.

        1. The near-complete lack of deference to a trial judge's detailed, supported-by-the-record findings following evidentiary hearings in the habeas corpus proceeding was more than a little surprising.

          4-3 decision

          Six of the seven justices agreed that the former DA, trumpanzee piece of shit Bruce Castor, induced Cosby to testify in a civil case using a promise not to prosecute his serial rapist ass criminally, only to have a subsequent DA use statements made in the civil case as part of a criminal prosecution. Only one justice accorded appropriate (IMO) weight to the trial court's findings of fact.

          Two of the six justices referenced above parted company with the majority on the remedy. Instead of cutting the serial rapist piece of shit loose, as four justices voted to do, those two justices would have ordered a retrial without any of the tainted evidence.

          Of course, the important thing to keep in mind is that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist piece of shit. On that point there is no room for debate or discussion.

            1. Yesterday's ruling only has preclusive effect as to the Andrea Constand case. However, as Duke correctly notes, it's possible (if not likely) that limitations periods on prosecutions for Cosby's other rapes have expired.

              It looks like Gloria Allred may have a couple of clients with viable civil claims. If so, here's hoping they sue the shit out him and take every last shred of non-exempt property he has. Here's hoping people yell "rapist" and spit on the motherfucker if he's ever stupid enough to show his face in public.

    1. I flipped him off several times as the TEEVEE guys ran through their B roll of images, figuring that sorry excuse for a human being will be rapidly forgotten and tossed into the dustbin of history, so I won't get many more chances.

      The "Stephen Miller" of the Bush administration deserves no accolades. 

    2. Marching off into that great unknown unknown . . . 
       

      You go to [your final reward] with the [person] you have, not the [person] you might want or wish to have at a later time.

  3. I do not understand how or why any free market supporting Republican is worried about any public expense for the collapsed Florida building. Building inspections are just another way to meddle in the free market. 

    People were free to buy somewhere else. Everyone knows Florida made climate change and global warming illegal back in 2015. Buyers in that building were free to have insurance or not. 

    I still almost cannot believe Florida found $100mm in public funding to manage Piney Point. Almost. Why did they need any public funding at all? Free market solutions were available. And as the sea level continues to rise, despite Florida law, these kinds of expenses will just continue. 

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