ShazzieB
ShazzieB's Journal"Possibly eligible for parole" are the keywords here.
"Possibly" means it could happen, not that it necessarily will.
"Eligible for parole" doesn't mean parole is automatic at that point. There are criteria that have to be met, and a lot can happen between now and then.
"Possibly eligible for parole" is a hypothetical statement. It is not a given that he'll be out at 15 years, and I'll be surprised if he is.
Life was never on the table.
Not for 2nd degree murder. And as someone pointed out, charging him with murder one could have resulted in his going free. The bar for conviction would have been much higher, and it wasn't worth the risk.
Personally, I wasn't expecting that he'd get the maximum sentence of 30 years, and I know he could have gotten a lot less than he did, so I'm okay with this. Thrilled? No. But I am very glad it wasn't less,, which it very well could have been. Knowing what the realistic possibilities were,
In a strict moral sense, sure, he deserves to be put away forever. But that's not how sentencing decisions are made. It just doesnt work that way in this highly imperfect world that we live in.
Considering how this could have turned out and how amazed and relieved we all were when Chauvin was actually convicted on ALL counts, I'm okay with this.
The bangs were definitely in keeping with the times.
I was 15 (I think) when this first aired, and I absolutely adored it. Those bangs were very much in style at the time. I had them myself (they looked terrible on me, but I didn't know it then ), and so did most of the girls in my school and quite a few young, female celebrities. So the bangs were cool by me.
I do remember thinking Lesley Ann Warren wasn't really pretty enough to play Cinderella, though. In my mind, Cinderella was supposed to be stunningly beautiful, drop dead gorgeous, and Warren was just moderately pretty, in a girl next door, rather ordinary sort of way. Not nearly the level of glamor that I thought was called for!
Later on, I discovered the soundtrack in the library, checked it out, and played that big old 33 1/3 rpm lp until I knew all the songs by heart. I still remember (most of) the lyrics to my three favorites (In My Own Little Corner, Impossible, and The Stepsisters' Lament).
One thing about this version of Cinderella that is different from most other versions is the way the stepsisters were portrayed. Instead of being totally evil and hateful, they were kind of pathetically inept in a way that was played for laughs and actually made you feel a little sorry for them, especially if you were (like me) the kind of girl who always got overlooked by the boys in favor of the cooler, prettier girls. The Stepsisters' Lament, which they sang at the ball, was hilarious. And here's a bit of trivia: Prunella, the "fat" stepsister, was played by Pat Carroll, best known today for voicing Ursula the Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid.
J think you nailed it.
Attention withdrawal. Sounds right to me..
I wish he would die soon, too. Like you, I've never felt that way about anyone, and I don't like that I feel that way about him. I just can't help thinking it would solve a whole pile of problems for the country if he passed away. Like all the stolen election nonsense. Just imagine if he was no longer around to fan the flames on that.
Whatever was left of his cult would probably find someone new to worship, but it's unlikely to ever be as large or as menacing as it has been. It is very much a cult of personality -- HIS personality. Without him, I think his followers would soon fade back into the RWNJ wallpaper.
Republicans would still be garbage, but without his influence, I think they'd be easier to manage garbage. I think the mere fact of his continued existence affects them and the country as a whole in more ways than we realize. The U.S. needs to recover and move on from the disease that is Trumpism, and that's harder to do as long as the disease vector is still around continuing to spread its contagion.
A Judge Has Thrown Out A Lawsuit Brought By Hospital Workers Over A Vaccine Mandate
Remember the Texas hospital workers who went to court over their employer's covid vaccine mandate? Well, it didn't go so well for them...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 117 employees at Houston Methodist Hospital who were suing the hospital system over its COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
In a five-page ruling issued Saturday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes upheld the hospital's vaccination policy, saying the requirement broke no federal law.
"This is not coercion," said Hughes. "Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the COVID-19 virus. It is a choice made to keep staff, patients, and their families safer."
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In his ruling, Judge Hughes called the plaintiffs' claim that currently available COVID-19 vaccines are "experimental and dangerous" an argument that is both false and irrelevant. "Texas law only protects employees from being terminated for refusing to commit an act carrying criminal penalties to the worker," Hughes wrote, adding that the "press-release style of the complaint" fails to specify what illegal acts the plaintiffs were alleged to have been asked to perform.
"Receiving a COVID-19 vaccination is not an illegal act, and it carries no criminal penalties," the judge wrote.
The judge also denounced the plaintiffs for equating the vaccine mandate to forced experimentation by the Nazis against Jewish people during the Holocaust. "Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible," Hughes said. "Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on victims that caused pain, mutilation, permanent disability, and in many cases, death."
More at link: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/13/1006065385/a-judge-has-thrown-out-a-lawsuit-brought-by-hospital-workers-over-a-vaccine-mand
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They actually tried to drag the holocaust into this! The stupid is so far off the charts with these idiots that we need a whole new chart. 😬
Unfortunately, there are some atheists who are VERY vocal and never miss a chance to mention it.
And those people don't just mention their atheism matter of factly; they do it in a way that is hostile and insulting to those who don't agree with them and gets people's backs up. It may just be a small number of atheists who do this, but they are so vocal and so hostile that they draw a lot of negative attention to themselves, and to atheism in general. Imo, they give non-atheists a negative impression of what most atheists are like and what atheism is is really about.
The kind of people I'm talking about are the ones who make categorical statements about religion being THE cause of EVERY BAD THING that has EVER happened in human history and claim that ALL organized religion is 100% bad and terrible and ALL followers of EVERY religion are also bad and terrible. All of which is at best a vast oversimplification of an extremely complex topic, and at worst highly insulting to those who hold differing viewpoints.
I'm sure that there are lots of non angry atheists such as yourself, and I can well believe that only a minority of atheists behave in the manner I just described. But unfortunately, all the attention tends to get focused on the loud, vocal, and angry (or at least angry sounding) ones.
As an agnostic, I feel I have a lot of common ground with atheists, but the attitudes I described above are a major turnoff to me. I do not practice any particular religion currently, but I have in the past, and I regard religion and spirituality as having been positive influences in my life in many ways. I don't belong to any particular religion at the moment, but if I can find one that I can be a part of without having to appear to support teachings I disagree with, that could change.
I understand why atheism makes more sense than religion to a lot of people. I'm not there myself, but I get it, even though my personal experience and (for lack of a better term) "intuituion" pull me in a different direction. I do NOT believe in a "sky daddy," I do NOT believe in a literal heaven or hell, and the idea that there is one "true" religion with a lock on THE truth whose adherents will receive some special eternal reward that is denied to everyone else is repugnant to me. I dont think anyone or any group has a lack on THE truth.
I respect ethical atheists just much as I respect ethical Christians, Jews, Buddhists, or any other religionists. If we could all extend that kind of respect to each other, and refrain from blanket statements about each other, such as "ALL religion is [fill in the blanks]," "ALL Christians are [fill in the blanks]," "ALL atheists are [fill n the blanks]," etc., that would please me greatly
What did ANY of those pea brains think they were doing?
That's a rhetorical question, of course (as I presume yours was). But here's a stab at a literal answer...
I don't think these people, or any of the others, really knew what they were doing, except following Chump's orders. HE told them to go there, and that's the only reason they needed. Their lord and master said "Jump!" and they didn't even ask "How high?" They just jumped, because HE wanted them to, and they wanted to please him.
He got them all riled up with that rally and his speech. He made them feel like they were special, telling them there was a very important job he needed them to do, that ONLY they could do. He told them to go down to the Capitol, and he made it sound like he was going with them. So they went. They may have figured (if they thought about it at all) that he was going to tell them what to do when they got there. But I don't think they thought about it much. Their "god" was giving them a job to do, and they were thrilled to do his bidding. The details didn't really concern them. He said "Go," and off they went.
And then they got there, and the rest, as they say, is history. And I know it all sounds ridiculous, because it WAS ridiculous. But there are people who know how to get others to do ridiculous things, and Chump is one of those people.
So, anyway, that's my theory, fwiw.
I understand his aversion perfectly!
As far as I'm concerned, lobsters and crabs ARE bugs. I don't eat any kind of shellfish at all, not just the buggy ones. I love actual fish, but basically all invertebrates are a nope for me (as food). I know I'm weird, though. I'm almost positive I have ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) although I've never been diagnosed. There's a long list of things I. Will. Not. Eat.
The whole time I was growing up and for quite a while after, I felt like a freak. Eventually, I stopped caring and figured out that owning my weirdness was the way to go. Now, if someone comments on what I'm (not) eating, I say, "Yeah, I know, I have very weird eating habits." It's amazing how fast people lose interest in criticizing you once they realize that you know you're weird and really don't care what anyone else thinks about it.
YES!
I could not agree more if I tried.
I'm sure that for every woman like that college graduate, there are many stories that did not turn out nearly so well.
What the girl in the video was saying has to do with bodily autonomy and the right of women to make our own choices. What some individual woman manages to achieve despite being a single mom is completely beside the point.
Of course he has something to hide.
The turtle probably has more skeletons in his closet than an anatomy professor.
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