The doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead says a lack of oxygen was the likely cause. --Failing New York Times

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Of course he did.

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Mass killing #22 so far this year in the United States with 117 killed in such incidents.

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No, the video of him at the store acting just like everyone else, before the police attacked him.

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Celeste Solum? Never heard of her. A quick search brings up nothing that is not self-promotional.

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He looked fine in the video taken before he was attacked.

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More headlines this morning. Seems that Wayne has hidden on yachts at least twice.

The leader of the National Rifle Association said in a deposition that he fled to a private yacht out of fear for his safety following the Sandy Hook and Parkland school shootings.

The 108-foot yacht ― complete with two Sea-Doo WaveRunners and a staff of four people, including a cook ― was where Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the gun rights group, fled after those mass shootings of schoolchildren in 2012 and 2018.

“They simply let me use it as a security retreat because they knew the threat that I was under,” LaPierre said in a weekend deposition in Texas, where he hopes the NRA can file for bankruptcy to avoid a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

LaPierre said the decision to flee to his friend’s yacht, named The Illusion, was due to threats he received after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead. LaPierre then fled to the yacht a second time in 2018 following the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that left 17 dead, according to his deposition.

“And I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting,” LaPierre continued. “And this was the one place that I hope I could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, ‘Thank God I’m safe, nobody can get me here.’ And that’s how it happened. That’s why I used it.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-wayne-lapierre-hid-on-yacht-following-sandy-hook-parkland-school-shootings_n_606c89aec5b6c55118b8765d

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Do you believe the attack on the Capitol was launched by President Trump and his allies?

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You need to start writing and calling the families of these crisis actors. You know to let them know you are on to them.

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I think a cat walked across your keyboard.

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Yep. Probably. When numbers go up, they tend to go down.

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"Chyna" is a person.

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I Love It When they Come Back for a Second Helping

More than a year after Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction, his lawyers are demanding a new trial, arguing in court papers Monday that the landmark #MeToo prosecution that put him behind bars was buoyed by improper rulings from a judge who was “cavalier” in protecting the disgraced movie mogul’s right to a fair trial.

In a 166-page brief filed with a state appellate court, Weinstein’s lawyers took repeated aim at Manhattan Judge James Burke, arguing that he swayed the trial’s outcome with repeated rulings favorable to prosecutors — including a decision allowing additional accusers to testify about allegations that never led to criminal charges.

Weinstein’s lawyers also challenged Burke’s refusal to remove a juror who had written a novel involving predatory older men, as well as his decision to allow prosecutors to have an expert on victim behavior and rape myths testify while rejecting testimony on similar subjects from defense experts.

“Mr. Weinstein had a right to a fair trial by an impartial jury,” lawyers Barry Kamins, John Leventhal and Diana Fabi-Samson wrote in the brief.

“The trial court should have exercised the utmost vigilance in protecting this most important right of the defendant,” they wrote. “Instead, the trial court was cavalier in its obligation to safeguard this right and the consequences for Mr. Weinstein were disastrous.”

Weinstein, 69, was convicted in February 2020 of a criminal sex act for forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 and rape in the third degree for an attack on an aspiring actress in 2013.

He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault stemming from actor Annabella Sciorra’s allegations of a mid-1990s rape — testimony that his lawyers said Monday was so dated it should never have been allowed.

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You are right. I am wrong. Someone else posted it. Sorry.

So anyway, what is up with silly things you post? Are you being paid or do you just enjoy .... whatever it is you think you are doing?

(Also, how do you make big blue letters?)

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You Know What? I Blame Hunter Biden for This.

In March of 2021, the Dow hit all-time highs of over 33,000. On March 10, 2021, the Dow broke 32,000 for the first time. On Jan. 7, 2021, the Dow broke 31,000 for the first time, closing at 31,041.13. The previous high was 29,551.42 on Feb. 12, 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.

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Well, we seem to have policemen who cannot effect a routine arrest without killing someone.

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The State Violated Their Agreement to Fund the Black University.

Citing years of unpaid land grant matches by the state, a joint committee of the legislature discussed a half-billion-dollar sum owed to Tennessee State University.

According to legislative financial analysts, the state could owe up to $544,000,000 to the HBCU.

When the school was founded, the federal government put both TSU and the University of Tennessee on a land grant program. Tennessee was supposed to match dollar for dollar money sent by the federal government to fund the schools.

According to Rep. Harold Love Jr., that funding should've been 75% for UT and 25% for TSU. However, for decades, funding for TSU was inconsistent, federal, state or both never made it to the university.

However, there's also another funding ratio that has the dollar amount owed to TSU at $150,000,000.

Either way, TSU President Dr. Glenda Glover said she believes the state owes money.

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I bet you are a lot of fun to talk to in real life.

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You will recall christnmusicrelease posted the story about how Michael Cohen had killed himself.

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Tell me about three Republican cities.

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I can hardly wait until Wayne sues the paper.

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Thank you, Doctor.

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Yeah. There was the balanced budget, the wall, and of course now we say "Merry Christmas" again.

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I Love It When they Come Back for a Second Helping

(Also, how do you make big blue letters?)

You Know What? I Blame Hunter Biden for This.

The State Violated Their Agreement to Fund the Black University.