I loled openly at the suggestions that the HoF give ol' Shittin' Ted a participation trophy.
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Rush Limbaugh thinks Irma is just liberal media hype,
In other news Rush can not say whether or not he's evacuated his Florida home due to "security reasons" but he will be broadcasting from a different unknown location next week because liberals hate the truth... or something.
Good news, you guys! Trump doesn't REALLY suffer from mental illness or dementia. He's just being drugged on a daily basis to make it APPEAR that he has mental illness or dementia.
And who's doing all that drugging? They, of course, the very same they who gave Reagan brain damage by transfusing him with cold blood after the Hinckley assassination attempt.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
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Originally reported by FactCheck
So, what do we know for certain? One, Battley and Gingrich were already separated and in the process of getting a divorce when he visited her in the hospital. And two, Battley wasn’t dying of cancer.
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"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Okay, that's just blatant. And the vote to deny this guy his most basic rights was 8 to 1? What, is being a member of the Ku Klux Klan a requirement for serving on the Louisiana Supreme Court?
I'm tempted to say that something else must be going on, but it's hard to see how to interpret this as anything other than blatant racism on the part of both the police involved and the court. Maybe the suspect did or said something to piss off the cops, and that triggered the response, which the court decided to support -- for some reason. But even if that's the case, they came up with a really, really stupid "justification."
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There's a couple of things going on in that case. First, lower courts have hated Miranda v. Arizona since its inception in 1966, and the U.S. Supreme Court started regretting the decision not many years thereafter. Miranda is part of the culture. Everyone knows about it. I doubt the Supreme Court would ever overrule the case outright because no one relishes the idea of going down in pop history as the one who took away our Miranda rights. SCOTUS and the lower courts have opted to keep Miranda alive in form but riddle it with exceptions. Miranda only applies when someone's in "custody," so they've narrowed the criteria governing what qualifies as custody to a shocking extent. If a defendant manages to jump that hurdle, he must then prove that he was subject to "interrogation," which the courts have made impossibly difficult to show. And if the defendant is still in the game, the court still has the option of saying that he didn't unambiguously invoke the right to counsel, which is what happened here. The end result is that Miranda's still around, but you simply never see evidence thrown out, a conviction reversed or a new trial ordered based on a Miranda violation.
Second, and more important, Louisiana state government is stuffed to the rafters with racist neo-Confederate shitlords. Clearly, that includes 8/9ths of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
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"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
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