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Normally I would expect a white racist be punished more than a black racist. However, in this case, Smollett badly embarrassed the city so we might see some equivalence.

If he does not get three years, we have a clear case of bias to cite. So we have that going for us.

A similar case in Illinois recently in a sentence of 3 years in prison, the maximum for a false police report.
Mitchell Dutz reported in Dec that a black guy stole his car with his baby in it. The report was fraudulent, he was charged with reckless conduct just like Jussie was. Mitchell pled guilty and was sentenced in Feb to 3 years. Lets hope the Illinois judges stay consistent.

https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190204/farmington-amber-alert-faker-mitchell-dutz-pleads-guilty-sentenced-to-prison

The club can handle 1000 people to a cocktail party. You need 2x3 feet for one person. They thus have at least 6000 square feet plus they must have kitchen space. I guess they have maybe 10,000 square feet.
Times Square rates are pushing $3,000 per sq ft per year per Jeffrey Roseman, “a founding partner of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s retail division, who predicted that benchmark will be surpassed this year..” That would be $30 million per year.
They can seat 550 people for their one show a day and their price runs about $50. For a whole year they might take in $10 million.
I can see how they have a rent problem.

The people who run the hotel said they host conventions all the time. Vendors haul around tons and tons of suitcases, etc up and down from their rooms all the time. No one bats an eye.
Also, the guy was in a freebie room on a lower floor for a few days then paid money and upgraded to “suite” level. In that level, no questions are asked. That is where you have to go if you are going to host a hooker. No visitors in non-suite rooms. He had room service in there, it was not privacy he was looking for. Of course, higher up in the floors would give him a better shot, but he could not have traded guns in a regular room.

Sure, we’ll give you money to help exploit your mineral resources. You are now the 51st state. Sign here.

The sturdiness of riding mowers can be compared by measuring the thickness of the deck metal.
I run a sharpening shop, I have sharpened probably 2,000 mower blades a year for 16 years. I sometimes take them off and re-install them. On any mower, the first thing to go is the deck. They wear through the sides from erosion. They also crack at the spindles.

One eighth - 11 gauge) is a death sentence.
Three eighths (7 qauge) is good.
A quarter inch (5 gauge) is better.

Cub Cadet and John Deere both have beefy decks. The only thing I don’t like about John Deere is the “proprietary” nature of many of their fasteners. For example, I once took the blades off a large John Deere bush hog. The nut is 2-17/32” a “non-standard” socket. Two and half (very common) won’t fit. JD would have sold me a 2-17/32” socket for $80, but rather I got underneath with a side grinder and took the nuts down a 32nd until the 2-1/2” fit.

I went to Sydney V. Roland Elementary in Radnor, PA next door to the corporate headquarters of TV Guide during the years 1959-64. Wyeth Labs was on another side and Burroughs Computer on another. The school is long gone.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” - Galatians 6:7

If you like the efficiency of the VA system you will love the gov’t run 5G network.

Joe was not an investigator. He could easily ruin the guy’s life but what if he were wrong? The correct thing is to follow the law and let the process work. Joe followed the law. That is all anyone can ask.

Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
A bunch of guys get stranded on an island and make stuff from scratch, like a telegraph system. Plenty of detail on methods of thriving, not just surviving.

Maybe the guy who was engraving the die ran out of room and deicded to truncate “America” rather than start a new die.

Yes, there is a possible, and unproven, mechanism explaining how global warming can cause earthquakes.

Global warming causes increased evaporation, thus increased snowfall. If there is a net movement of ice towards or away from the equator, the moment of inertia changes. Thus the speed of the outer solid shell (mantle) of the Earth changes. This increases/decreases shear in the liquid zone between the solid core and solid mantle. This changes the forces underneath the continents, thus increasing/decreasing earthquakes.
There is no evidence that this is happening to a degree that would actually change things. No one knows right now. I tend to doubt that it is happening based on what I have read.

“State employees have a duty to notify regarding suspected abuse. That was one issue.” mewzilla

Correct, the law requires them to report it to their immediate superior, which Joe did. It was the head of athletics and the head of the University got fired for not reporting it to police. Joe did his job.

My grandfather, Fred Slugg, was a volunteer firefighter in Hatboro, PA when the dirigible went down in Lakehurst, NJ. They were called to the fire and helped put it out.

How could it possibly be that a ship gets finished and they find that it weighs more than they thought?

I build a lot of stuff in my career and we could just pull a total weight right off the CAD system. There was no such thing as a surprise.

The Left will not stop the investigation, they are like dogs running down the street really thinking they are going to catch that car. Trump does not want them to stop either, they are digging up more dirt on Democrats than Republicans.

All higher mammals (non-placentals) are conceived as female. About a quarter of the way through gestation, IF you happen to have a good copy of SRY (Sexual Region on the Y chromosome, although it can occur on an X chromosome) then it will express itself and convert the nascent ovaries into testes. If that process fails, you stay female. Intra-sex is female. That is why there are only two sexes.

I worked in a papermill. A wad of gum introduced into the water system could shut us down for several hours to change half a million dollars in damaged machine clothing. Same goes for masking tape. Gum is banned from vending machines and there is no masking tape in the store room.

A black hole can have mass, spin and charge, that’s it. All are measureable from the “point of no return”.

A moving charge creates a current which creates a magnetic field. I suppose that is the magnetic field they measured but I don’t have access to the paper.