Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

[Winterborn]

Smollett sentenced.

Asked if he wants to say anything, Smollett declines. Finally, the judge says the sentence is not at all influenced by the public interest in the trial.

“The hypocrisy is just astounding,” Judge Linn says, saying that Smollett was taught to be sensitive so issues of race and justice his entire life and then wound up hoaxing a hate crime.

“You know better than anybody else that these are serious matters,” the judge said.

Judge Linn said Smollett did it for the attention. “You wanted to make yourself more famous and for a while it worked. Everybody was talking about you. The lights were on you. You were actually throwing a national pity party for yourself.”

Judge makes a point of saying this was a crime of premeditation. Smollett woke up with the intent of doing something wrong. He describes it as a kind of skit for which Smollett wrote the script and did the casting of the Osundairo brothers.

Speaking of the incident itself, Judge Linn says directly to Smollett, “You put the noose around your own neck.”

Judge Linn said the first responding officer asked Smollett what happened, “Then you start to lie and you haven’t stopped lying ever since. You’ve been lying and lying and lying about this case and that’s why you’re here.”

“You committed hour upon hour of pure perjury,” Judge Linn said speaking of Smollett’s testimony during trial.

Finally Judge Linn announces the sentence: 30 months felony probation, restitution of $120,106 to the city and a $25,000 fine. Smollett will spend the first 150 days of his sentence in Cook County jail.

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Immediately after this long statement by the judge, Smollett pulls down his mask and repeats “I am not suicidal.” He then stands up and begins to rant, “I am innocent! And I am not suicidal. If I did this then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBTQ community. Your honor I respect you and I respect the jury but I did not do this. And I am not suicidal and if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself.”

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/03/10/ ... er-n454398

[JohnStOnge]

See https://federalsoup.com/employee-policy ... ss/362412/.

Someone posted the result of a poll somewhere about Scott's plan. Can't remember if it was here or Facebook. The poll showed plurality support for this item.

But it's really just another indication that Republicans do not live in the real world. Everybody loves to rag on Federal employees. But most people would go ape if they had to live for one month without everything Federal employees do.

Particularly stupid is the idea of saying nobody can work for the Federal government for more than 12 years unless they have something to do with "national security." Yeah. That would really help. Create a situation where there is constant turnover, limited experience, and complicated continuity of operations.

[Ivytalk]

See https://federalsoup.com/employee-policy ... ss/362412/.

Someone posted the result of a poll somewhere about Scott's plan. Can't remember if it was here or Facebook. The poll showed plurality support for this item.

But it's really just another indication that Republicans do not live in the real world. Everybody loves to rag on Federal employees. But most people would go ape if they had to live for one month without everything Federal employees do.

Particularly stupid is the idea of saying nobody can work for the Federal government for more than 12 years unless they have something to do with "national security." Yeah. That would really help. Create a situation where there is constant turnover, limited experience, and complicated continuity of operations.

Great “conservative” analysis, Mr. StOmar.

[Winterborn]

See https://federalsoup.com/employee-policy ... ss/362412/.

Someone posted the result of a poll somewhere about Scott's plan. Can't remember if it was here or Facebook. The poll showed plurality support for this item.

But it's really just another indication that Republicans do not live in the real world. Everybody loves to rag on Federal employees. But most people would go ape if they had to live for one month without everything Federal employees do.

Particularly stupid is the idea of saying nobody can work for the Federal government for more than 12 years unless they have something to do with "national security." Yeah. That would really help. Create a situation where there is constant turnover, limited experience, and complicated continuity of operations.

That sounds awesome! Lets start with the Dept of Education.

[Ivytalk]

See https://federalsoup.com/employee-policy ... ss/362412/.

Someone posted the result of a poll somewhere about Scott's plan. Can't remember if it was here or Facebook. The poll showed plurality support for this item.

But it's really just another indication that Republicans do not live in the real world. Everybody loves to rag on Federal employees. But most people would go ape if they had to live for one month without everything Federal employees do.

Particularly stupid is the idea of saying nobody can work for the Federal government for more than 12 years unless they have something to do with "national security." Yeah. That would really help. Create a situation where there is constant turnover, limited experience, and complicated continuity of operations.

That sounds awesome! Lets start with the Dept of Education.

I’ll see your Education and raise you Energy and Homeland Security.

[AZGrizFan]

See https://federalsoup.com/employee-policy ... ss/362412/.

Someone posted the result of a poll somewhere about Scott's plan. Can't remember if it was here or Facebook. The poll showed plurality support for this item.

But it's really just another indication that Republicans do not live in the real world. Everybody loves to rag on Federal employees. But most people would go ape if they had to live for one month without everything Federal employees do.

Particularly stupid is the idea of saying nobody can work for the Federal government for more than 12 years unless they have something to do with "national security." Yeah. That would really help. Create a situation where there is constant turnover, limited experience, and complicated continuity of operations.

Question for you, mr. Libertarian : Do we need twice as much government as we did 20 years ago? Because that’s what we have.

It’s not the existence of government that we clamor against. It’s EFFECIENCY we want. Elimination of REDUNDANCY, INEFFECTIVENESS, WASTEFULNESS. THOSE are the issues at play.

[BDKJMU]

Women and parallel parking
Police have not said whether she will be charged. If someone steps on the gas instead if the brakes and kills someone, how is that not manslaughter? Should charge her Bentley drving ass with manslaughter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -park.html

Hope they checked her for a prescription drug DUI. I used to train a really wealthy older gentleman and his wife was always out driving her car "high" on prescriptions. Scratches and dings all over her high dollar Mercedes. Acted like she was entitled to do whatever she wanted.

The real irony in all this was that she was beside herself over her grandsons marijuana problem. They had to do an intervention on her because she had so many prescriptions!

Time to ban old people from driving, at least on city streets with pedestrians..

[SeattleGriz]

[BDKJMU]

Here we go again…get ready for the nationwide riots.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/video-sho ... n-by-cops/
Edit nevermind, cop and victim are both white, nothing to see here.

[89Hen]

Here we go again…get ready for the nationwide riots.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/video-sho ... n-by-cops/
Edit nevermind, cop and victim are both white, nothing to see here.

They were going to take blood on the scene?? I've never heard of this.

[AZGrizFan]

Here we go again…get ready for the nationwide riots.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/video-sho ... n-by-cops/
Edit nevermind, cop and victim are both white, nothing to see here.

They were going to take blood on the scene?? I've never heard of this.

Article said it happened in the station.

[89Hen]

I only looked at the pics... they were outside.

[JohnStOnge]

One could argue for putting this in the "Other College Sports" area but it's political. I think the people who don't think guys who think they are women compete in women's sports got their icon:

https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/trans-swi ... caa-title/

He/she or whatever won with a time of 4:33.24. I don't know what's going on with the Division I mens swim meet. Couldn't quickly find it. But I did find the details on the mens Division II 500 meters free style final:

https://swimmeetresults.tech/NCAA-Division-II-2022/

The guy who won the Division II mens 500 meter freestyle swam it in 4:20:44. That is almost 13 seconds faster than transgender person swam it in the women's Division I final.

If ever the people who are fighting against letting guys who think they are girls compete i women's sports had an event to make their point, this is it. A guy who would have had ZERO chance of ever winning a NCAA title as a man declared himself to be a woman and got one.

[UNI88]

One could argue for putting this in the "Other College Sports" area but it's political. I think the people who don't think guys who think they are women compete in women's sports got their icon:

https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/trans-swi ... caa-title/

He/she or whatever won with a time of 4:33.24. I don't know what's going on with the Division I mens swim meet. Couldn't quickly find it. But I did find the details on the mens Division II 500 meters free style final:

https://swimmeetresults.tech/NCAA-Division-II-2022/

The guy who won the Division II mens 500 meter freestyle swam it in 4:20:44. That is almost 13 seconds faster than transgender person swam it in the women's Division I final.

If ever the people who are fighting against letting guys who think they are girls compete i women's sports had an event to make their point, this is it. A guy who would have had ZERO chance of ever winning a NCAA title as a man declared himself to be a woman and got one.

There is a Trans in Sports threads on the Poly Board where this is already being discussed - viewtopic.php?f=10&t=52339&start=100

You actually had to go past it to find this thread.

[JohnStOnge]

See https://federalsoup.com/employee-policy ... ss/362412/.

Someone posted the result of a poll somewhere about Scott's plan. Can't remember if it was here or Facebook. The poll showed plurality support for this item.

But it's really just another indication that Republicans do not live in the real world. Everybody loves to rag on Federal employees. But most people would go ape if they had to live for one month without everything Federal employees do.

Particularly stupid is the idea of saying nobody can work for the Federal government for more than 12 years unless they have something to do with "national security." Yeah. That would really help. Create a situation where there is constant turnover, limited experience, and complicated continuity of operations.

Question for you, mr. Libertarian : Do we need twice as much government as we did 20 years ago? Because that’s what we have.

It’s not the existence of government that we clamor against. It’s EFFECIENCY we want. Elimination of REDUNDANCY, INEFFECTIVENESS, WASTEFULNESS. THOSE are the issues at play.

Liberarianism isn't anarchy. It's not "no government." It's being free to do what you want to do unless what you do definitely harms someone else.

Establishing a system by which nobody could work for the Federal Government for more than 12 years unless they were involved in a "national security" position would be an absolute disaster.

Also, 20 years ago was 2002. In 2002 we had 2.8 million civilian Federal Employees. In 2020 we had 2.9 million. I seriously doubt that there has been a big jump since then.

I don't know what you are talking about when you say we have twice as much government now. But it's not twice as much Federal Employees.

BTW, we had 2.9 million in 2000. see https://www.statista.com/statistics/204 ... in-the-us/.

Another thing in his proposal is to cut the number of Federal Employees by 25%. Let's just assume we have 3 million right now. That would mean 2.25 million. The link I provided goes back through 1982. The lowest number during that time frame is 2.7 million.

Saying "cut the number of Federal Employees by 25%" really smacks of brain dead populism. I can pretty much guarantee you it's not based on any kind of rational analysis with respect to what would be best.

[AZGrizFan]

Question for you, mr. Libertarian : Do we need twice as much government as we did 20 years ago? Because that’s what we have.

It’s not the existence of government that we clamor against. It’s EFFECIENCY we want. Elimination of REDUNDANCY, INEFFECTIVENESS, WASTEFULNESS. THOSE are the issues at play.

Liberarianism isn't anarchy. It's not "no government." It's being free to do what you want to do unless what you do definitely harms someone else.

Establishing a system by which nobody could work for the Federal Government for more than 12 years unless they were involved in a "national security" position would be an absolute disaster.

Also, 20 years ago was 2002. In 2002 we had 2.8 million civilian Federal Employees. In 2020 we had 2.9 million. I seriously doubt that there has been a big jump since then.

I don't know what you are talking about when you say we have twice as much government now. But it's not twice as much Federal Employees.

BTW, we had 2.9 million in 2000. see https://www.statista.com/statistics/204 ... in-the-us/.

Another thing in his proposal is to cut the number of Federal Employees by 25%. Let's just assume we have 3 million right now. That would mean 2.25 million. The link I provided goes back through 1982. The lowest number during that time frame is 2.7 million.

Saying "cut the number of Federal Employees by 25%" really smacks of brain dead populism. I can pretty much guarantee you it's not based on any kind of rational analysis with respect to what would be best.

Who has said that? I haven’t seen anybody here say that.

[89Hen]

libertarianism is a pipe dream. Libertarianism is a Branch Dividian cult.

EVERYONE agrees there should be some laws and some degree of liberties that have to be constrained to have a decent society. All we're really arguing about are where the lines on which it's drawn.

[UNI88]

libertarianism is a pipe dream. Libertarianism is a Branch Dividian cult.

EVERYONE agrees there should be some laws and some degree of liberties that have to be constrained to have a decent society. All we're really arguing about are where the lines on which it's drawn.

Criminy Pete, you make Libertarianism sound almost as bad as the catholic church.

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[Ivytalk]

libertarianism is a pipe dream. Libertarianism is a Branch Dividian cult.

EVERYONE agrees there should be some laws and some degree of liberties that have to be constrained to have a decent society. All we're really arguing about are where the lines on which it's drawn.

Shows how little you know. You conflate libertarianism with anarchy, which is only one strain of libertarian thought. If libertarians can push the duopoly toward recognizing liberty in any sector of public life, whether guns or cannabis or land use, they’ve succeeded.

But the Libertarian Party is one big dumpster fire right now.

[kalm]

libertarianism is a pipe dream. Libertarianism is a Branch Dividian cult.

EVERYONE agrees there should be some laws and some degree of liberties that have to be constrained to have a decent society. All we're really arguing about are where the lines on which it's drawn.

Shows how little you know. You conflate libertarianism with anarchy, which is only one strain of libertarian thought. If libertarians can push the duopoly toward recognizing liberty in any sector of public life, whether guns or cannabis or land use, they’ve succeeded.

But the Libertarian Party is one big dumpster fire right now.

Oh man are you correct here IMHO.

This the actual freedom angle worth honoring. It’s why both libertarianism and now anarchism interest me.

[kalm]

libertarianism is a pipe dream. Libertarianism is a Branch Dividian cult.

EVERYONE agrees there should be some laws and some degree of liberties that have to be constrained to have a decent society. All we're really arguing about are where the lines on which it's drawn.

Shows how little you know. You conflate libertarianism with anarchy, which is only one strain of libertarian thought. If libertarians can push the duopoly toward recognizing liberty in any sector of public life, whether guns or cannabis or land use, they’ve succeeded.

But the Libertarian Party is one big dumpster fire right now.

But as a follow up…

"The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

[SeattleGriz]

Newsflash! House flipper down the street goes off deep end, but may just be crazy like a fox.

Bought a shit hole of a house for $675k and now has it listed for $1.45 million a couple months later.

I went to Zillow to see how much it was listed for and noticed my place jumped 95k in the last 30 days.

[BDKJMU]

They were going to take blood on the scene?? I've never heard of this.

Article said it happened in the station.

And the BLMs said ad nauseum 2020 that this type of thing wouldn’t have happened if Floyd was white. Wasn’t Clenzy on here saying the same thing? If the MSM and the left weren’t total hypocrites on this, they would be giving it the same level of coverage and outrage as the Floyd situation. Instead its like 1% of that..

[BDKJMU]

SC brings back the firing squad.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/17/south-car ... executions.

[Ivytalk]

Shows how little you know. You conflate libertarianism with anarchy, which is only one strain of libertarian thought. If libertarians can push the duopoly toward recognizing liberty in any sector of public life, whether guns or cannabis or land use, they’ve succeeded.

But the Libertarian Party is one big dumpster fire right now.

Oh man are you correct here IMHO.

This the actual freedom angle worth honoring. It’s why both libertarianism and now anarchism interest me.

Well, we do have “left libertarians” who are more interested in social issues, and “right libertarians” who are more interested in economic issues. It’s a big tent when you think about it. Liberty comes in many varieties.