So, the ruling is that they should be investigating the history themselves, not consulting experts, by reading books written by ... people who don't know?
I know the obvious answer should be "experts" but, from how originalist readings seem to turn out, it isn't.
Reorganizing the legislature to ensure equal representation of all citizens would come pretty close to doing that all on its own, too.
No, that's just what she wants! (crimes)
It's very funny that after all of that 49% of the people went with some version of "sure, why not."
This has got to be "no one else is real enough to get a say in things" thinking.
Iran says they'll only do it if the US stops doing something.
The US hears only "they don't like it when we do that."
The US concludes "we can do it a lot in order to force them to do what we want".
It would be very funny if the Atlantic slipped a few things into their "do you have any comment about this stuff we're going to publish?" letter to the FBI that they had no intention of actually publishing, just to see what would happen.
It's very funny if you check the verse, which is (like the article says) about repentance, but it's written from the perspective of God. It says if people repent then "I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." How humble of him!
I have also reached the stage of state employment where I probably should start keeping a Fiscal-Year-PTO-Total spreadsheet. My agency is a bit loose on the vacation accrual credit, in a "bonus we don't have to put in our budget" sort of way.
I don't because I don't like celebrating my birthday anyway but I will absolutely take days off on the grounds that "I feel like not working next week".
PTO is part of my compensation package, and using it is no different from spending my wages.
That's 100% a "and once you take out the restaurant expenses, like silverware, utilities, rent on my apartment, food to sell and eat myself, wages for employees..." type measurement.
They're at least trying, anyway. And it's mostly "no longer ina war" and "country mouse city mouse" stuff.
It's very funny when the interviewer notes that the guy who goes on about how shocking the shameless women are (for doing normal stuff) immediately starts getting shit from his friend.
I have to admit, I feel a lot more sympathy for the Taliban guys in that article.
The actual interviews that it's excerpting from are a lot more interesting, and they come off differently in them, though.
www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/c...
It's like every time Google or Amazon or something says they plan to create a new office, and places start bidding, as if they're going to put it in a small town in South Carolina for a break on property taxes.
I know it's implicit in the lede, but not putting "out loud" in there still made me hope for the alternative.
Ok, one stupid post away from blocking you, but yes.
Legally those things happen a lot BECAUSE IT IS LEGALLY MORE COMPLICATED TO PROSECUTE POLICE FOR THIS SORT OF THING IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE IT'S LESS SUCCESSFUL IN GENERAL.
Yes Federal law enforcement personnel while on duty are legally pretty much in the same situation as anyone else. Keith Ellison probably just doesn't want to prosecute a cop who killed someone on video that resulted in a huge public uproar.
Honestly if you're going to argue that Keith Ellison is too cowardly to prosecute a cop I don't know what to say, here.
They move the case to federal court since it involves federal law enforcement, then argue that they were doing their jobs and enjoy immunity from prosecution as a result.
Are you seriously unaware that law enforcement personnel have killed people in the past and gotten away with it?
This is a very stupid claim to make about prosecuting federal law enforcement officers killing people while on duty. It is a complicated thing to do in the best of cases.
Plenty of public figures showed their asses during the metro surge, Ellison and Moriarty aren't in that group.
Right - and they're also just more complicated cases. If the AG had a normal workload, and the Feds weren't hiding evidence, there would still be a lot to do for them.
The vastly more complicated cases where huge amounts of evidence are being held by the Feds and not released are going to take a lot longer. Minnesota is suing the federal government for the evidence right now, though.
This case is the easiest one, so it's first one through the door.
They've issued an arrest warrant.
Those ones are going to be a lot more complicated, for annoying and important reasons, like questions about their job duties, evidence being withheld by the Feds to protect them, etc.
In this one it's just obviously illegal, not job related, and the guy confessed to the police at the time.
After a straight up bottle of tequila I'd have cut off a friend at a party in college when we all lived on the same dorm floor.
At this point the really dangerous foreign powers are running rampant anyway. It wouldn't be worth it for them.
If he somehow ended up an unwilling agent of, I don't know, Czechia or Mozambique we might be better off.
It's not that he's incompetent (they all are), it's that he's unambitious.
Hegseth is incompetent and wants a big war. Miller, Noem, and Homans are incompetent and want a genocide. Patel is incompetent and wants to get drunk and show off to his girlfriend.
Absolutely true.
Anyone would be incompetent and corrupt, but Patel doesn't have the ambition to be corrupt enough to matter, or the malice to be dangerous.
So, sure, give him a jet and pay for his booze and let him fool around. We'll be fine. Imagine Miller or Bovino in there.
In the US there are substantial differences in college attendance rates that could influence it. It's unlikely they're enough to cover that full amount, but it could be one factor.
It's also good because it means you can run and breathe at different rates.
