May 29, 2024

Reposting in correct forum: Even TSF's lawyers know he is screwed.

NOTE: Originally I mistakenly posted this in the lounge. Apologies to the lounge.

Normally when a client speaks to the press their attorney, confidently standing next to them, has an expression that exudes confidence and support of their client. Blanche always looks hangry and constipated at the same time.

May 29, 2024

Here's why I believe even TSF's lawyers know he's screwed.

Normally when a client speaks to the press their attorney, confidently standing next to them, has an expression that exudes confidence and support of their client. Blanche always looks hangry and constipated at the same time.

May 29, 2024

Even his hair looks like it's thrown in the towel

Thanks to DUer Mira for the pic and inspiration.

May 29, 2024

Let's compare and contrast Cohen's conviction/sentencing to TFG's prospects to pass the time until a verdict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)#

In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts including campaign-finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. Cohen said he violated campaign-finance laws at Trump's direction "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election. In November 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to U.S. congressional committees about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
In December 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine. In February 2019, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, disbarred him from practicing law in the state. In May 2019, he reported to the federal prison near Otisville, New York. In November 2021, he completed his sentence.

Sentencing maximums for TFG per CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-happens-if-trump-is-convicted-in-new-york-trial/

Each of the 34 felony falsification of business records charges that Trump is facing carries a sentence of up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

***My observations to start us off***
- Cohen plead out not requiring the cost and time of a trial, TFG did not
- I don’t recall Cohen threatening witnesses, prosecutors and the judge requiring a gag order, TFG required a gag order and then a strengthening of that order.

May 25, 2024

Please add the funniest/most adorable things children have called things that have stuck in your family

I’ll start us off with a couple.

My nephew started calling his grandfather Daddy Tom. When asked what Daddy Tom’s wife’s name was the young boy thought a moment and asked ‘Mommy Tom?’ All subsequent siblings continued to call their grandparents Daddy Tom and Mommy Tom.

The same nephew impatiently waited for his dad to assemble a bike. After a few minutes he asked ‘don’t you need the indistructions? Forever more my family only used indestructions when assembling something.

May 25, 2024

Women on the Move: Clothing patents spanning 200 years.

In a recent study, a team at the Politics of Patents (POP) project delved into thousands of publicly available clothing patents spanning 200 years of clothing inventions from 1820 to 2020. This unique research revealed a hidden history of innovators and inventive clothing that helped women defy political and societal restrictions barring their access to active living and sporting activities. As a result, a selection of extraordinary “sportswear” from the 1890s to the 1940s was bought to life by sewing sociologist Dr. Katrina Jungnickel and her team at the Politics of Patents (POP) project, which is funded by the European Research Council at Goldsmiths, University of London.

https://bikepacking.com/plog/women-on-the-move-film/

May 11, 2024

My reply to Don Jr's text

**At some point I got on a list for MAGGOTS. I find it therapeutic to answer.**

May 10, 2024

My reply to Trump's text

Somehow I got on a rwnj list. I find replying therapeutic.

May 9, 2024

My reply to Lara Trump.

At some point I got on a list for MAGGOTS. I find it therapeutic to answer.

April 24, 2024

Secret UK women's codecracking army gets belated recognition for WWII work

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/secret-uk-womens-codecracking-army-052759519.html

During World War II, dozens of women Cambridge University students worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi codes, but only now are the unsung heroes getting recognition.

At least 77 women from the women-only Newnham College were drafted to Bletchley Park, the code-breaking centre north of London, during the conflict.

It was there that mathematician Alan Turing decoded messages encrypted by the Nazis' Enigma machine, in particular those sent by German U-boats submarines in the North Atlantic.

Historians widely acknowledge that Bletchley played a key role in bringing down Adolf Hitler.

But the story of the Cambridge women has only recently been revealed thanks to research started by Sally Waugh five years ago.

The 69-year-old former Newnham student and teacher said she wanted to highlight the role of women in this period, often ignored in history books.

"Nobody was ever able to say thank you," she told AFP.

"I had no idea that people from Newnham went to work at Bletchley Park".

Then one day, she came across an article mentioning the name of an old friend, Jane Monroe, who died in 2005.

When Monroe, a mathematician from Newnham, was asked what she had done during the war, she replied unfazed: "Oh, I made tea," said Waugh.

"She was in reality a code breaker. She was a friend but she didn't tell me."

Monroe was unable to talk about her role as she had signed the Official Secrets Act, which restricts the publication of government information deemed sensitive.