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70sEraVet's JournalCriminal defense attorney explains why you should avoid self-checkout lanes: 'Theft by mistake'
A surprisingly informative article about the perils of using self-checkout at stores. Are we accepting a legal liability when we check our own items?
Jernigan explains that, in the early days of self-checkout, she noticed stores letting people off if they forgot to scan an item.
“They let almost all of these people either scan and pay for the item, or just let them go, but took the item they did not pay for,” she says.
Now, however, stores aren’t as lenient, she says. Jernigan believes this is because shoplifters have become so adept at stealing from self-checkout lanes that stores no longer want to take a gamble on whether a theft was accidental.
“They have lost all sympathy, and they are just taking a ‘Tell it to the judge’ approach,” she adds.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/criminal-defense-attorney-explains-why-170210360.html
A Christmas miracle? Trumpers dumping Trump?
I drive the 20 miles into Clarksville about twice a week -- to shop at a hardware store or a Wal-Mart, or pick up prescriptions at Kroger, etc. On the way there, I pass the Super-Trumper's house. He has a very long driveway, and I always look at all the flags lining his driveway. There are two very large US flags, accompanied by six or eight flags that denote his particular brand of patriotism -- Trump flags, Confederate flags, and Gadsden flags. His driveway is a Deplorable Landmark!
Anyway, I'm writing to report that I drove past it yesterday afternoon and ...... THEY'RE GONE!
Only the two US flags still stand.
What happened?
Did he get visited during the night by three Christmas Spirits?
Or did the angel Clarence show him how much better the world would be if Trump had never been born?
Or, ..... were the superhero trading cards the final grift, the last gift he could take? A Christmas grift.
In honor of the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I'd like to recommend a book.
'1945' by Robert Conroy is an alternative history of the attack, and subsequent war against Japan. The historical details presented in the novel are eye-opening, and the 'if events worked out a bit differently' is really frightening.
https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/1945/
I live in a rural Tennessee county, and I ALWAYS see 'Let's Go Brandon' bumperstickers, keyrings,
flags, etc.
I've decided I would like a 'You Don't Know Jack (Smith)' sign.
I know it only costs a few bucks for a personalized bumpersticker.
"Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix"
I've noticed this series listed in Netflix's Top Ten list this past week, and have been momentarily tempted to check it out. But then I remember reading a couple of books based on pretty much the same premise -- that there was a great, prehistoric civilization, that has somehow gone unnoticed by every archeologist in the world except, of course, for the book's author. The books were always a waste of time, and I suspected that this series would prove to be the same. Then I saw this article in 'the guardian' that reinforced my suspicions:
The thrust of Ancient Apocalypse is as follows: Hancock believes that an advanced ice-age civilisation – responsible for teaching humanity concepts such as maths, architecture and agriculture – was wiped out in a giant flood brought about by multiple comet strikes about 12,000 years ago. There are signs everywhere you look, he says. To prove this, he spends an entire television series looking everywhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/23/ancient-apocalypse-is-the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix
I have to say, that given today's political climate, a well-crafted series that challenges the body of knowledge of every scientist in the world, IS much worse than merely a waste of one's time; it is a DANGEROUS waste of time.
Just watched this great film on YouTube.
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This was before Truman called for the military to be desegregated.
The part about the Tuskegee Airmen gave me the chills a bit, knowing what we know now.
The Electoral College system has screwed Democrats (and, arguably, the country) on two elections.
Close call on the last one.
Time to do away with it, but we probably wouldn't be able to get the votes for the next couple of decades. But there does seem to be a way to make the Electoral College more democratic: the National Popular Vote interstate Compact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
Passage of the Act is currently pending in two more states, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which would reach 241 votes, if my math is correct.
I gave the link to the wiki page, because its good about giving the pros and cons.
"Young voters blocked the 'red wave'. Biden must deliver on student debt cancellation"
An intriguing article on how a more forceful stand on student debt cancellation would further energize young voters, and clinch the Senate race in Georgia for Warnock. Its also suggesting that Biden use a different tactic to achieve debt cancellation.
Biden has the power to make this happen. As things stand, his debt relief plan is sabotaged by bad-faith litigation. While the president has rightly blasted the Republicans behind these lawsuits, the real story is more complicated. Biden could have directed the education secretary to cancel people’s debts using the “compromise and settlement” authority granted in the Higher Education Act of 1965, but instead his administration invoked a different and more limited legal authority. (It was this limited authority that the Texas judge formally took issue with.)
They also chose to make borrowers apply for the program, instead of automatically issuing cancellation – a slow-moving process that bought their billionaire-backed opponents valuable time to cook up legal arguments, find plaintiffs, and line their cases up with sympathetic, Trump-appointed judges poised to toe the conservative line.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/11/young-voters-blocked-the-red-wave-biden-must-deliver-on-student-debt-cancellation
Well, I guess its official; my Maga-Qanon-loving cousin has been on FB, professing her undying love
for Ron DeSantis. And she lives in Tennessee.
"...this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
No doubt, tfg woke up last night and called Malignant in the room down the hall.
"Did you hear a bird? I heard a bird. Made this awful sound THREE TIMES! Never heard anything like it!!"
I had watched two seasons of the Netflix series 'After Life', and was pleased to see a third.
Ricky Gervais' character is a pr..ck, and we try to overlook it, because, (1) he's a funny pr..ck and (2) his wife died, and he is still intensely in love with her. In the third series, he redeems himself, and in a way that feels strangely realistic.
Oh, and as a bonus, if anyone liked his 'Derek' series, he has kept most of the actors and their characters with him in 'After Life'.
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