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oregonjen's JournalOhtani a victim, Mizuhara accused of stealing over $16 million from him
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/sport/ippei-mizuhara-shohei-ohtani-investigation/index.htmlIppei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani, faces a federal charge of bank fraud after allegedly stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani, a US attorney in Los Angeles announced Thursday.
US Attorney Martin Estrada said Mizuhara made unauthorized transfers from Ohtani’s bank account from November 2021 until January 2024.
Mizuhara used his close relationship with Ohtani – someone whom he accompanied on a constant basis due to the Japanese star’s limited understanding of English – to fuel his gambling addiction, a statement from the US attorney’s office said.
Estrada said Ohtani is “considered a victim in this case,” and there’s no evidence suggesting Ohtani was actively involved.
I follow this person, Tia Levings, on Instagram. She explains dangers of the evangelical community
She escaped that world and wants to educate those like myself who don’t understand it.
Is it possible to embed Instagram reels?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3qF9jvrQL-/?igsh=M282cm0ybnV6NTVv
Chevrolet commercial
Brought tears to my eyes.
Reminds me of this short video of a man with dementia singing Annie’s Song
https://youtube.com/shorts/xBbxiv53wpA?si=1qI5gvMtfTkKcQXt
Katie Couric and Mary Trump interview Adam Kinzinger
This is a great interview. I may not agree with Adam Kinzinger on many issues, but he is ethical and intelligent.
Nicolle Wallace just hit the nail on the head
In covering Jack Smith’s new filing to gag Trump, she posed the question she faces, how should the media, including her own show, discuss what Trump posts and what he says. Giving him a platform allows Trump to give orders to his base.
Allowing Trump a platform, without calling him out on his lies, gives him the ability to taint the jury pool and threaten those involved in the cases he has been indicted. Kristen Welker and NBC, need to think twice about airing the interview on MTP this weekend.
Nicolle’s show today was amazing. You can see and hear her frustration and she is correct, a second Trump term would eliminate her job and the job of everyone at MSNBC and the rest of the news organizations that provide factually correct news.
Anybody heard of Project 2025?
These Instagram reels contain language that may not be safe for work.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwzuW53LLP5/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Fundamentalists are planning to take over the country. I follow a woman on Instagram, Tia Levings, who left the evangelical church and she shares her experiences and educates those who are unaware just what the religious zealots want to do. I’d never heard of it, so I Googled. I’ve been paying attention to Trump’s multiple indictments and other world news, but I’ve completely missed hearing about Project 2025. Truly sick stuff. This next election is so very important.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw0_J_OrELg/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-30/conservative-groups-draw-up-plan-to-dismantle-the-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision
Keith Olbermann bulletin regarding Trump violating the magistrate's warnings
The podcast bulletin is an addition to his 8/4 episode. 12 min of awesome ranting.
Today is the day Oregonians can pump their own gas
I’ve been spoiled having gas attendants fill the tank for me!
https://www.koin.com/news/politics/gov-tina-kotek-to-sign-self-pump-gas-bill-into-law-friday-officials-say/
House Bill 2426, once signed, will bring the ban to an immediate end.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Gov. Tina Kotek’s office has confirmed that the self-serve gas bill, awaiting her signature since it passed with bipartisan support in June, will receive her approval on Friday.
Once House Bill 2426 receives the governor’s signature, it will bring the ban – in place since the 1950s – to an immediate end.
The bill allows gas stations across the state to give drivers the option to either pump their own gas or have an attendant do it. It also requires that gas cost the same amount no matter what service a person chooses and does not allow stations to have more self-service pumps than attendant-service pumps.
Neal Katyal-Why the Trump trial should be televised-Washington Post opinion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/trump-trial-tv-broadcast/The upcoming trial of United States v. Donald J. Trump will rank with Marbury v. Madison, Brown v. Board of Education and Dred Scott v. Sandford as a defining moment for our history and our values as a people. And yet, federal law will prevent all but a handful of Americans from actually seeing what is happening in the trial. We will be relegated to perusing cold transcripts and secondhand descriptions. The law must be changed.
While many states allow cameras in courtrooms, federal courts generally do not. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53 states: “Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom.” Whatever the virtues of this rule might have been when it was adopted in 1946, it is beyond antiquated today. We live in a digital age, where people think visually and are accustomed to seeing things with their own eyes.
A criminal trial is all about witnesses and credibility, and the demeanor of participants plays a big role. A cold transcript cannot convey the emotion on a defendant’s face when a prosecution witness is on the stand, or how he walks into the courtroom each day.
Most important, live (or near-live) broadcasting lets Americans see for themselves what is happening in the courtroom and would go a long way toward reassuring them that justice is being done. They would be less vulnerable to the distortions and misrepresentations that will inevitably be part of the highly charged, politicized discussion flooding the country as the trial plays out. Justice Louis Brandeis’s observation that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants” is absolutely apt here.
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Anyone play today's Phrazle?
Quite apropos regarding current events, no? 
https://solitaired.com/phrazle
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