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I agree.

When I was called for jury pool I remember listening to the case descriptions and the list of witnesses. Often times, from the list of witnesses I knew the outcome of the case already, e.g., a wife battering case where the witnesses were the ambulance crew and the emergency room staff.

Potential jurors are asked if they know any witnesses, if they would have preconceptions, if they were related to law enforcement personnel, if they have had experiences that would create impartiality in the current case, etc.

The defense attorneys pick up on those sentiments. I felt you had to either lie, be a poor listener, be emotionally unattached to the world in general, or, as you say, have an agenda to be picked at all.

going around blaming right wing extremists!

There was an eye witness who said that the shooter wore a camera strapped to his chest. That was verified by school security cameras.

Wearing cameras in such a manner is practiced by elite paratroopers to film jumps. A theory was proposed alluding to 3 soldiers who had been kicked out of an elite airbone regiment nearby in the recent past for neo-nazi comments.

Germany's Spiegel Online identifies the alleged shooter as Mohammed M. It normal in German news not to give the family name in press reports. He is a french national of Algerian descent.

He was sentanced to 3 years in prison in Kandahar for setting bombs. During a Taliban attack in 2008 he managed to escape.

The link above is to the Spiegel Online news ticker on this story.

There are strict “driver” laws.

Bus and truck drivers have (or did have) paper discs that they slide in behind the speedometer. The discs are transcribed with time and speed.

I think 8 hours is the max.

When I worked as a tour guide I would stay up and keep a conversation going with the driver on overnight bus trips.

France, for example, is a very monotonous drive a night.

This accident in Switzerland is more likely driver error than falling asleep, given the location and time of day.

I think she had a ear phone or teleprompter and was able to muddle through some obfuscation of “Critical Race Theory” after her handlers were forced to go look it up.

That's exactly the impression I had.

First, she seemed to sneer at Joel Pollack's description of CRT and when Pollack asked her to give her description of it she couldn't.

A short time later, when the opportunity came up, she rattled off the definition of CRT as if she were reading a definition.

At that time I thought it sounded just like the description of CRT I had looked up on Wikipedia a day earlier.

She was either fed it on a teleprompter or over her headset. She was not prepared for the challenge originally.

Was this good for conservatives?

I don't believe this was the Tea Party as much as it was the Campaign for Primary Accountability.

The CPA's purpose, in a nutshell, is to attack by primarying specific districts in order to build conservatism in government from the local to the federal.

I'd say it was good for conservatives.

Thanks.

I knew it was in that area of the country, but wasn't sure which state.

Why did it take so long for this guy to come up with an affidavit? We needed him in 2008.

He did say something in 2008. I'm just not sure if it was before or after the election.

He was pretty straightforward about what he knew and didn't back down when accused of being a crackpot. He was an Obama supporter as well.

Then he got a college (teaching?) job (in Tennessee?) and decided to drop off the radar because he was getting too much attention and did not want his new employer disrupted.

My guess is that the recent affidavit was a result of Sheriff Arpaio's investigation, but I can't be sure about that.

If the reporter called it the Blunt-Rubio amendment in the question and Romney thought it was about a Ohio state law, then Romney is either dense or lying.

In my opinion it's the home life that builds these types of responses

I think it's another perverted consequence of PC diplomacy.

In schools now kids will get suspended even if they are just trying to defend themselves.

For example, if a kid tried to block a punch he'd get suspended as well as the punch thrower.

I actually had to tell my own kids that if someone punches them finish the fight because you're going to get suspended anyway. They wouldn't get in trouble from me for defending themselves.

Back in the day kids would often settle things with a fight then become friends after that.

That stress reliever doesn't exist anymore.

Administrators just suspend the combatants without trying to assess the background information.

What size is the doughnut bin?

Fits four fried chickens and a coke.

....It's got a cop motor, a 214 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.

Here's a link from Fox News Insider.

Notice this:

"And this school, we’re told, lost points this year because too many children were bringing their lunches from home and they did not meet, according to this inspector, the USDA guidelines.”

I'm betting on the following scenario:

The principal told the staff to crack down on the bag lunch situation. The staff did what the boss ordered. Now that it has gone viral no one wants to own up to the fact that it was an edict that was mindlessly passed down among the ranks. No one had the common sense to ignore it.

They're all guilty.

This is nonsense. Some wack job who said he quit because "God" told him to.

That expresses the problem quite well.

The TEA party originated from Rick Santelli's rant about bailouts, debt and Obamacare. It is/was a fiscal concept.

Due to it's lack of hierarchy various groups with non-fiscal agendas were able barge in on the movement in order to cash in on it's popularity.

In the real world, those groups should have iniated their own grassroots rallies to promote their agendas and judge their instrinsic worth (or lack thereof) among the voting populace as a whole.

I believe this election can be won via a focus on drawing from both sides to the center rather than a focus on increasing turnout in your own base as Rove did with W.

That's what the tea party caused originally. It was a movement that drew from adjacent centrist groups for fiscal reasons.

As groups from the outer left and right with non-fiscal agendas glommed on to the Tea Part movement, however, it has caused the dilution of focus from it's fiscal roots, as your phrase illustrates.

The question is, why/how are they interfering with the GPS in your phone?

From what I gather they bought the satellite bandwidth but want to use terrestial antennas as repeaters using that frequency to enhance broadband reception.

I think the frequency that is meant for satellites being amplified via terrestial antennas is what is causing the interference.

Some consider it a backdoor move to horn in on the expensive terrestial wifi network.

I understand it's more complicated than that, but when you get down to the nitty gritty I think that's the issue.

My guess is that In Vermont most of the rivers drain valleys into the Connecticut river from west to east. They have a long run across the state.

In NH The run off is divided between the Connecticut and the Merrimack rivers. The Merrimack is central, thus the river runoff isn't as long..

Vermont doesn't have a lot of paved roads, so if one is damaged it can cause really long detours.

Having Route 7 and 4 out paralyzes everything in the southwest. The 2 highways, 91 and 89 run along the CT river, then midstate to the northwest.

I lived near the Bartonsville bridge that washed out. Depending on where you work and shop it could easily mean a 20-30 mile detour with a lot of washboard gravel roads. That could be why the woman was so upset.

A lot of the gravel roads follow the valley streams, so I suspect a lot of those are washed out as well.

That could be.

In a club you have to get along with the players the boss gives you. For the national team you can pick them.

he used to watch Jurgen Klinsmann coach Bayern

The Bayern defense performed poorly under Klinsmann. He implemented a 3-back line that gave up 5 (!) goals in the home opener. He eventually had to revert to the traditional German 4-back line and double stoppers that his predecessor used and thereby lost authority/credibility with his own system..

He was replaced about 2/3's of the way into the season after being embarassed by Barcelona in the CL and it became too risky a gamble on reaching a Champions League spot in the Bundesliga..

Bayern is a very traditional club. Not the best fit for Klinsmann who brought in all new coaches (who didn't speak German) and training techniques. He also changed things such as their traditional pre-game hotel, and publicly demeaned players.

Bayern is run by former world cup players.They're very professional and give their coaches a lot of leeway. The coach has to produce, though. Not reaching the CL is not an option for Bayern.

Network TV in over here is received via satellite dishes. There are no outside analog antenas, rabitt ears, etc. The dishes have replaced those.

You need a receiver, but those are cheap, and you pay the same TV tax as the analog days, but the network programming is FTA.

What I see, then, after stripping away all the bureaucratic jargon that devolved after the fact, is that the case arose because a landlord told his renters they couldn't have TV.

It's not like the US where a dish is optional for TV.

Spiegel Online has a photo. You can just see a little bit of the house but it looks like a shack., especially by Scandanavian standards.

Spiegel reports:

..the perp admitted to the bombing and shooting but that he does not consider himself guilty of any crime.

..the perp gave himself up without a fight and had ranked (considered) his possible arrest as a 'transition to the propaganda phase'.

..the perp has a lawyer, but on Monday he will present his motive to the court himself. He also wants the session to be public.

... the perp told the police re the murders that he ranks (considers) his actions as 'cruel but necessary'.

Spiegel kept using einstufen when reporting how the police described how the perp viewed his deeds. einstufen means to rank, scale, judge, etc. I found that somewhat strange.

The Norwegian police are also saying that in view of the extent of the killings one has to doubt the perp's soundness of mind.

Nothing further about the 6 new arrests other than what has been posted already.