jerrymahoney

I once asked my no-English Thai girlfriend who would say fa-ma-LEE what the word family meant and she said: No

Posted July 24 (JM) However maybe the more incriminating part of the coversation just precedes the 11,780 vote request: And you are going to find that they are — which is totally illegal, it is more illegal for you than it is for them because, you know what they did and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. And you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. ... You know, I mean, I’m notifying you that you’re letting it happen. So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. https://aseannow.com/topic/1300947-georgia-supreme-court-denies-trump-bid-to-quash-fulton-county-investigation/?do=findComment&comment=18223776

'Assisted living' is the term often used in the US. My brother for a while sold long-term care insurance at a Prudential broker. He said that most of the people who bought such insurance had a relative or close friend who should have had such insurance, but didn't.

Yes -- I remeber JFK ... and when Nixon won, Reagan won and 2 Bush's won. But as someone who lived in mid-town Manhattan in the 1970's when Donald J.Trump from the outer-boroughs tried to ingratiate himself with the Manhattan elite by being famous-for-being- famous, the notion that this guy was now President was unfathomable.

On the evening of NOV 08, 2016, I went to bed early evening in Thailand with the NYTimes political writers claiming that Ms. Hillary Clinton had a 90+% chance of being elected President. When I woke up early the next morning Thai time around 6 PM Eastern US time, the same NYTimes writers were saying that Donald J. Trump had a 90+% chance of being elected President. I never want to have that wind-knocked-out feeling again after realizing just how many people had underestimated DJT. So when I read all the slam-dunk sure-thing type postings on here regarding the three and possibly four criminal indictments, I just say: Maybe.

From the NY times article I cited earlier: “There are many ways that this could become a lawsuit presenting a vital constitutional issue that potentially the Supreme Court would want to hear and decide,” Professor Paulsen (one of the authors) said.

Well if Judge Chuktan decides that Trump has violated terms of his bail release orderand revokes bail, I guess she can send out a US Marshall squad to find him and return DJT to the Judge's venue.

I would like nothing better than see Trump red-carded but the quote I put in above is from someone who had to try these charges in Court and he says: Not so fast.

Sure but as I have linked before, there are some hard core backers who see Trump as the vessel for their re-workings of the government: Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 The agenda being pursued has deep roots in the decades-long effort by conservative legal thinkers to undercut what has become known as the administrative state — agencies that enact regulations aimed at keeping the air and water clean and food, drugs and consumer products safe, but that cut into business profits. “It would be chaotic,” said John F. Kelly, Mr. Trump’s second White House chief of staff. “It just simply would be chaotic, because he’d continually be trying to exceed his authority but the sycophants would go along with it. It would be a nonstop gunfight with the Congress and the courts.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

They also had a big Wurlitzer theater organ for silent movies the one I remember was von Stroheim's Greed. Carnegie Hall Cinema (c.1959-1997) ► II/5 "Style 150" Wurlitzer, Op. 2095 (1931)

To the above: Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6 Published Aug. 10, 2023 Updated Aug. 11, 2023 But James Bopp Jr., who has represented House members whose candidacies were challenged under the provision, said the authors “have adopted a ridiculously broad view” of it, adding that the article’s analysis “is completely anti-historical.” (Mr. Bopp’s clients have had mixed success in cases brought under the provision. A state judge, assuming that the Jan. 6 attacks were an insurrection and that participating in them barred candidates from office, ruled that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, had not taken part in or encouraged the attacks after she took an oath to support the Constitution on Jan 3.) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/trump-jan-6-insurrection-conservatives.html https://archive.is/9NgbX

my favorite during my years living on west 57th street midtown Manhattan https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6011

Doesn't make any difference. I would say that the above statement was political far more than possibly legal. The vast majority of criminal cases end in plea bargains, a new report finds February 22, 2023 A new report finds that the vast majority of criminal cases end in a plea bargain. In any given year, 98% of criminal cases in the federal courts end with a plea bargain ... https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-criminal-cases-justice So my interpretion is that, in those 98% of cases, if someone indicted says I don't have the money to contest this, the Feds say: Fine. Let's make a deal.

I don't know that there is any legal challenge to the amounts the prosecution is forcing the current defendant to spend on defense. But chumps have a vote and at least, barring some train wreck, Trump is well on his way to the nomination

From the same article linked: “I talk to Republican donors all day every day, and not one has called to express frustration that their money is being spent on legal bills,” said Caroline Wren, a Republican fund-raiser who works with candidates and groups aligned with Mr. Trump. “They are as disgusted with the political weaponization of the D.O.J. as millions of Americans and more than willing to stand and defend these folks with their dollars.”

From the linked article quoted above: "His advisers — both legal and political — insist the investigations are simply an effort to broadly drain his coffers." So that may be a political statement or may be a legal statement.

Spiraling Legal Bills Threaten Trump With a Cash Crunch By Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman Aug. 11, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET ... Mr. Cheung accused Mr. Biden and the Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, of using the government’s “unlimited resources” to try “to force the Trump campaign to spend, spend, spend to defend innocent Americans who have been targeted.” ... His advisers — both legal and political — insist the investigations are simply an effort to broadly drain his coffers. One of Mr. Trump’s many attorneys, John Lauro, said on Fox News within minutes of the third indictment being made public that the former president is “being forced to spend money on legal defense, which should be spent on the discussion of critical ideas and critical issues.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/donald-trump-legal-bills-campaign.html https://archive.is/u2EAA

From NYTimes: The judge described Mr. Trump’s candidacy as “a day job,” like another defendant. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/trump-judge-protective-order.html https://archive.is/yOhZN

From the available information, it would seem that, by the time a problem was recognized, it had already progressed to prostate cancer metastasis else a radical prostate removal would have been available.

I love the part in the Once Were Brothers doco when Robbie explains the beginnings of one of his 2 most famous songs. "The Weight" (the other being The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down). He said he was noodling around on his C.F. Martin acoustic guitar when he looked inside of it and saw that the Martin Company was based in Nazareth, PA. Thus come the opening line: I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half-past dead. I also once read elsewhere that he saw the song like a Luis Buñuel movie

Robbie Robertson, songwriter and lead guitarist for legendary rock group The Band, is dead ... TMZ has confirmed. Sources close to Robbie tell us he died Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling prostate cancer for about a year. We're told he'd been doing ok, recently, but on Tuesday he told his wife he wasn't feeling well, and she took him to a hospital. We're told his wife got a call from the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday informing her Robbie had passed. https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/09/robbie-robertson-the-band-dead-dies/

On a separate note, the TMZ report is that RR died from prostate cancer. No one should have to die from prostate cancer.

I saw The Band 4 times: Fillmore East, Schaefer Harvard Stadium, Boston Symphony Hall and Watkins Glen. Janis Joplin gave one of her final performances here. I remember one Boston writer saying The Band came on more like the Budapest String Quartet than a rock band. Great stuff. I like their performance at 1971 Academy of Music more than the Last Waltz. His later years tiff with Levon Helm over song-writing credits was sad.

Then maybe he should just go into his local immigration office and ask how much it costs to get an extension without the requisite 800/400 K in the bank.

The allegations in the indictment are not violations of the charges until a jury says that they are. As I have said too often before I voted agains Trump twice. I am just a realist as to how the law works in complex trials.