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if you are a solo practitioner, chances are you got a secretary/law clerk and maybe you could hire an investigator for special cases. if you are an ordinary middle-class or lower middle-class defendant/plaintiff, chances are you try and hire the best attorney you are able to afford, and is likely you get a solo practitioner. law is based on precedent and statute. research alone is a cumbersome task and your westlaw and lexus/nexus subscriptions means unlike decades past, you don't literal need go to the law library in 2023, but chances are you cannot delve too much into obscure details o' the case. is just too much ground to cover for even minor cases to go beyond broad strokes. time and money. research is just start as there is pretrial motions to compel and to dismiss and you gotta prepare for depositions, interrogatories and do discovery. gotta go through all evidence supplied by prosecutor or opposing party and then decide if is something missing. typical for complex civil cases such as at issue with trump's fraud situation, you got years o' business documents, emails, and phone records to contend with as well as dozens o' potential witnesses. time and money. as a solo practitioner you probable won't have an investigator for most cases, but for serious crime or complex civil it makes sense to spend the extra money. you and your investigator, who is also likely a solo entity needing do all their legwork by their lonesome, need decide quick how to best spend limited time and resources. often that means the only person you got a chance to genuine investigate is your own client, 'cause they is the one most likely to f' your case. time and... everything an attorney does on behalf o' their client takes time, time which could be spent on other clients and other cases. bill clients don't necessarily mean you get paid by clients. you got a duty to represent your client to the best o' your ability, but you are not gonna be in business for long as a solo practitioner if you fail to recognize who your client is and what they are able to actual afford, and regardless, chances are you ain't gonna be paid in full. etc. being a solo practitioner is a tough racket unless you stick to deeds, wills, estates and trusts... or you get into collections. btw, public defenders is so not as portrayed on tv. public defenders is different than court appointed attorneys who is likely solo practitioners. am not sure where the public defender myths got started, but those folks know what they are doing and they don't just hire any bum off the street who passed the bar exam to be a public defender. SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown were a public defender after she graduated both undergrad and law school from harvard. is rare that a public defender is anything other than an excellent attorney well versed in law and highly experienced. however, the one thing tv gets right is that public defenders is criminal overworked and they just don't have the resources available to them that the da or a high priced law firm has. time and money. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that in a typical civil case such as the carnival fodder geek show trump is current participating when it doesn't interfere with bedminster golf tournaments and his voluntary dj duties down in mar-a-lago, the point is to make the plaintiff whole. am knowing bartimaeus wants trump to get his comeuppance, but a civil trial such as e.j. carrol and trump's current ny fraud case is not designed to make that happen. however, in many jurisdictions you also got punitive damages. maybe persons think all civil cases should award punitive damages, 'course am suspecting barti is jaded enough to suspect that the way mcdonalds and other sooper rich defendants pay for punitive damages is to pass along the cost to customers or lower employee compensation, so... regardless, civil cases is by design meant to make plaintiffs whole and not to punish defendants. if you want a metaphorical pound o' flesh, then criminal is where such happens. the Constitution and the criminal codes o' fed and states takes serious the notion that it is better that ten guilty should go free rather than that one innocent man suffer. the state has to go through all kinda effort to successful prosecute a defendant and unlike most o' europe and the western world, we got curiosities such as the exclusionary rule which means even if a person is guilty they nevertheless might go free if a cop or prosecutor made a mistake. is all kinda arcane rules in the US justice system which benefit defendants... IF you are able to afford the best defense team possible. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

this is maybe not the most illustrative situation for showing evidence o' a two-tiered justice system. defendants rare get gag orders and am not having a recollection o' a person violating such an order multiple times. is obvious that in a civil case normal person ain't gonna give the proverbial middle finger to the judge who is deciding whether to dissolve your business permanent as well as generating an appropriate fine for fraud already found particular when the da is asking for $250 million. but the thing is, the judge's options is limited. finding trump in contempt o' court is a reasonable next step... and then what? is not something people is taught in school, but contempt orders is not punitive. what that means is the judge is only s'posed to fine or jail in an effort to correct bad behaviour. am sure there is other examples, but the only long duration jail times am recalling related to contempt is in cases involving journalists. there is certain situations where a journalist may be compelled to give up their source, but what if the journalist refuses to do so. what if the journalist says they will never give up their source? how much time jail time does a judge get to play with if she wants to test the journalist's resolve? a day? a week? months? is not a fixed time, but journalists have beaten contempt orders by being stubborn. prove no amount o' jail time will compel compliance with the court order and the result is the journalist goes free. as we noted, am not able to recall multiple fails o' a gag order, but you think judge engoron checked? we would not be surprised if first time fails in judge engoron's jurisdiction has resulted in $5000 fines and improbable second fails saw a $10000 fine. am having no idea what were the previous judge responses to what we assume is a near mythic strike three on a gag order violation, but let's assume is jail time. is nevertheless gonna be uncharted territory, no? as a matter o' practicality, am not sure how jail would work for an ex-President and his security detail. even then, what length o' time do you give trump? a couple hours? a day? what length o' time results in trump not violating in the future? is there any time span which would make sense? is the trump gag order silliness evidence o' a two-tiered-justice system or is it an example o' how stoopid it were to make a narcissistic sociopath like trump President in the first place? HA! Good Fun!

am not sure if people are being purposeful disingenuous. yeah, am getting why israel is withholding water and power from civilian populations, but doing so is clear violating international laws. bad. however, comparing russia's invasion o' ukraine and their resulting and ongoing campaign o' murder, looting, raping and targeting the civilian population to israel's efforts in gaza is so not analogous. when hamas attacked civilian populations in israel on october 7, violating islamic law and premeditated engaging in acts so repugnant and vile that any decent person should be revolted, were they attempting to bring about regime change or capture territory? nope. hamas efforts were designed to instill fear in the israeli population, to capture hearts and minds in the arab world and to provoke a response from israel which would make the world pay attention to gaza. ask selves when was the last time there was an israel thread on this board? 2014? sure, there were plenty o' knee-jerk whatabotism posts in the ukraine thread regarding israel, but the last israel thread is forcing sherman and mr. peabody to set the wayback machine near on a decade. why so long ago? 'bout a decade is the last time israel invaded gaza. no coincidence. hamas has few allies among the national leaders o' the arab world and fewer across the rest o' the globe. hamas is an islamic, fundamentalist, terrorist organization dedicated to eradicating jews from the lands former identified as the british mandate. they are not a sympathetic organization. people do realize that one o' the principal goals o' hamas is to generate arab casualties, yes? in 2022 or 2023, hamas (and tehran?) no doubt recognized the increasing trend o' arab nations to seek normalization o' relations with israel, the most tech advanced and stable economy/trading partner in the region. *gasp* in the past, increased rocket and small scale tunnel incursions from hamas terrorists only resulted in mow-the-lawn responses from israel, which had the obsidian board and the world's arab sympathizers irate for about a month longer than the the last israeli tank were sighted in gaza. hamas, increasing isolated in the arab world, needed better than 2014 or 2008-2009. solution: hamas creates a situation where politically israel has no choice but to respond, which is a freaking understatement. need more video and eye-witness accounts o' october 7? am willing to post links if you folks have legit already forgotten. ... again, hamas is not trying to bring about regime change and they don't have any illusions about capturing and holding israeli territory. this is so not a conventional conflict and hamas knows they cannot win a conventional war. hamas generates terror and outrage and then purposeful fights not to maximize israeli casualties, but arab corpses. hamas puts their tunnel entrances, weapon manufacturing facilities and rocket launchers in schools, churches, mosques and residential buildings, daring israel to attack. hamas discourages civilians from leaving areas israel has warned will be subject to airstrikes. etc. serious, am hopeful there is some recognition from you whataboutist folks that you are trying to compare apples and xylophones. am not saying israel is misunderstood innocents who is trying their utmost to avoid civilian casualties-- poor israel is doing their best to uphold international and human rights laws, but hamas thwarts their best efforts. hogwash. following october 7, am suspecting those in charge o' the military response to october 7 is only concerned 'bout civilian casualties if such would result in the abandonment o' key western support. even so, to compare to russia's efforts in ukraine to israel in gaza is transparent flawed and utter ignores realities which should be obvious but constant go without mention. israel is not good guys. israel should not be getting a free pass just 'cause they is responding to the calculated monstrosity o' hamas. even so, compare russian civilian body counts in ukraine and other obvious stoopid metrics is only making poster biases clear. is so not the same, which again does not absolve israel o' responsibility for unnecessary civilian suffering and death. however, am betting Gromnir once again becomes exhausted before the whatabout people do. HA! Good Fun!

new speaker is this guy house republicans respond to questions about mike johnson's january 6 activities johnson were also one o' the +90 republicans who voted against extending the government shutdown deadline. and judge engoron imposed "serious sanctions" for trump once more violating the court's gag order: $10,000 fine. ... le sigh HA! Good Fun!

ghost rider is thematic kewl. unfortunately, if implemented same as the pnp archetype, the ghost rider loses cavalier's charge, banner and mighty charge. to lose charge related bonuses is a significant sacrifice. but yeah, ghost rider is a nifty option we might consider even though it is probable weaker than other cavalier options. weretouched also has similar appeal as ghost rider in that on paper the archetype is weaker than those already available, but it makes up for lack o' power with admitted subjective cool points. shadowcaster is the one option am most curious 'bout. is no way to implement as it works in pnp, but the new wizard archetype does have serious potential IF all the wotr shadow spell bugs has been addressed. HA! Good Fun!

@Hurlshort https://sanjosetheaters.org/theaters/san-jose-civic/#event=reclaiming-food;instance=20231028120000 you should make t-shirts. "i spent $250 to see rfk jr. and all i got was a (another) lousy measles outbreak." but serious, even in san jose, who is spending $250 to hear a bunch o' crackpots repeat the same doggerel they is sharing for free online? edit: Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources meadows cooperation were assumed back in june but it were a tea leaves reading situation. also, keep in mind this is an "according to sources," story which ain't been confirmed, so am advising caution. update: am gonna repeat our caution about placing too much trust in online "according to sources," reporting. narrow use immunity for meadows as 'posed to blanket use and derivative is a plausible explanation, but am thinking by now a few obsidian posters recognize that we got a policy o' waiting for reliable evidence before we start proselytizing. is so many ways to look like an internet a$$bag, so why set yourself up for predictable tyson fury moments when a little patience will insulate you from deserved mockery? HA! Good Fun!

speaking o' ease o' storage, am having a vulgar quantity o' pots, pans, knives, kitchen gadgets and utensils. so instead o' getting rid o' the stuff we hardly ever use, we bought a couple o' these: we figured if julia child organized her kitchen with a peg board, it wouldn't be gauche for us to do likewise. am reasonably certain we failed to maintain kitchen class and dignity by adding the boards, but we did have enough additional room for a carbon steel pan we were ogling. we shouldn't need a collapsible microwave cover to save space, but we do. we will observe the peg boards are convenient particular now that our knee is shot and we got trouble squatting, kneeling and the like. HA! Good Fun!

feels wrong to add this to politics. ... am knowing it ain't funny, but the fact the US is gonna need once more choose between biden and trump makes us laugh as we recall o'toole's corollary of finagle's law: the perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. HA! Good Fun!

hmmm. the uk didn't want jews in the british mandate lands o' the middle east. the jews and arabs in the british mandate were doing a bang up job o' creating chaos for the brits, so the brit solution were to delay dealing with the issue. temp uk solution: keep as many jews as possible from relocating to the british mandate lands. after ww2, jews would escape detention camps in europe and then the brits would capture 'em, usually at sea, and lock 'em up in the dozen or so pow-style detention camps on cyprus. very humanitarian. 'course the uk wanted jews in the uk even less than they wanted 'em in the british mandate lands. US were hardly angelic bystanders. truman tried to pressure the uk into opening up the british mandate to displaced jews and the british suggested that if truman wanted to save the jews, then the US should take 'em, but truman couldn't get Congress to accept the relaxation o' nativist policies from previous administrations until 47, and there were no positive jewish immigration laws passed until 48. immediate following the war, truman sent a guy named harrison to inspect the detention camps where jews were being kept in europe. after reading the harrison report, truman contacts gen. eisenhower in august o' 45 and orders him to improve the camp situation. "As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them. They are in concentration camps in large numbers under our military guard instead of S.S. troops. One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at least condoning Nazi policy." eisenhower took the matter serious and personal, which led to dramatic improvement in living conditions for displaced jews who nevertheless remained, for years, in US supervised concentration camps following ww2. the situation for jews in camps managed by other powers were no better. again, 48 is when the US final opened their doors in a meaningful way to displaced jews. 'course almost simultaneous the US state department began adding limits on any and all immigrants whose country o' origin were soviet. is not so much forgotten history as it is history which were rare if ever taught, so there weren't a chance to forget that jews and other peoples detained, abused and murdered by the germans continued to suffer the tender mercies o' enlightened europeans and americans for years following ww2. regardless, the uk worked hard to prevent jews from reaching their middle eastern colony. brits delayed doing anything meaningful for as long as possible, which is the most common political solution to difficult problems even if it is almost always a fail. edit: so @Elerondobserves how curious it is that two thousand years o' retributive christian antisemitism is glossed over by so many. in response, one poster responds that he were raised in an atheist country... germany. germany? HA! Good Fun!

people (many/most) don't understand that ww2 hardly resulted in instant tolerance o' jews from the western world. is a common misunderstanding that europeans and americans welcomed displaced jews after ww2 and that just ain't the case. it took america a couple years to abolish anti-jewish immigration laws which had been in place since the late 1800s and remained throughout ww2, and the US were far more accommodating than most o' europe.... and then the cold war ramped up (almost immediate after ww2) and sudden there were added restrictions on russian jews and those from soviet satellites. how many jews were murdered by local populations when they were first liberated? unknown, but one reason jews were rounded up and detained in old concentration camps for years, were to protect 'em from enlightened westerners looking to do 'em harm. oh, and 'course the unscop report determined that the brits had illegal restricted jewish immigration to british mandate land, detaining those displaced european jews in the infamous cyprus camps. 'course the brits were dealing with a problem created by the rest o' europe 'cause nobody in europe wanted to accommodate displaced jews. https://www.c-span.org/video/?476538-1/the-million western history textbooks is a bit fuzzy on a few o' the details regarding western tolerance o' jews after ww2. HA! Good Fun!

we frequent use fried capers as a garnish. our linked microwave video from atk includes a quick, easy and usually mess-minimal approach to frying capers. ff to 6:24 if interested. however, we do recommend one o' these: https://www.tovolo.com/product/tovolo-large-collapsible-microwave-cover-food-and-meal-prep-kitchen-gadget/ at $12 on sale it is one o' our better cooking gadget investments. nowadays we typical poach eggs in the microwave, and maybe one-in-twenty attempts (am ordinary poaching two eggs at a time, so one outta forty eggs) am getting an explody fail, which is not fun. is much easier to clean the cover than the entire microwave. am mentioning 'cause a catastrophic caper disincorporation has happened to us more than once, although the result is a bit less dramatic than the egg. HA! Good Fun!

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Israel-Hamas War Day 14 | Red Cross Says It Has Two American Hostages Released by Hamas

Kenneth Chesebro: Pro-Trump attorney who helped craft fake elector plot pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case An attorney who worked to undermine the results of the 2020 election, Chesebro helped develop the Trump’s campaign’s plot to put forward unauthorized slates of GOP electors in Georgia and six other states. (In previous court filings, Chesebro’s lawyers have denied that he devised the plan.) HA! Good Fun!

"A Manhattan judge tore into former President Donald Trump on Friday for failing to delete a post attacking his clerk on his campaign page, weeks after the imposition of a gag order." https://themessenger.com/politics/trump-gag-order-blatant-violation-judge-engoron HA! Good Fun!

*snort* and we thought Gromnir were old. hoon is so stuck in 20th century thinking. never read a cyberpunk novel? multinationals is not near concerned with the old power politics models as they is with the bottom line. when the inevitable amazon-berkshire hathaway-johnson & johnson and microsoft-disney mergers final and inevitable occur... HA! Good Fun!

am agreeing, but am gonna note we might not be the best judge o' such things. for instance, we heard a good way to keep a dog from engaging in destructive digging is to lay down cayenne pepper where you is trying to discourage your canine's unwanted behaviors. sounded like a good idea, so we sprinkled/poured a fair amount o' cayenne on a patch o' landscaping. *sigh* the pepper attracted all our dogs, and not just the digger. am frequent giving the pups table scraps which is featuring capsaicin-heavy ingredients, so am guessing the dogs ordinary olfactory reactions had been overwritten a bit with a counter-intuitive pavlovian response to the hot stuff. ... in retrospect, we shoulda' seen that coming. HA! Good Fun!

killers of the flower moon is released on the 20th. our understanding is that scorsese original had a faithful adaption o' the book for his script but then he met with osage tribe representatives and afterwards made considerable changes. is that good or bad? dunno. recent deceased robbie robertson wrote the music for the film. HA! Good Fun!

got a very powerful 80 synth-pop influence, which is not a criticism. see what he thinks o' tainted love, don't go (yazoo)... and 'bout 1000 others. edit: am s'posing the downside is your son might really like take on me, or one o' the other 80s synth pop tunes. can't imagine the agony o' listening to those over and over and overandoverandoverandover... HA! Good Fun!

hopefully you are still close enough to work to commute by bike. HA! Good Fun!

have shared multiple melt singles on this board, including family snapshot and biko not too long past, but has been a while since we listened to intruder and glen campbell is a challenge for us 'cause while am typical left with our jaw on the floor after listening to his guitar solos, is almost none o' his songs we enjoy. that shouldn't be possible, but still is. HA! Good Fun!

the false electors cases in michigan, georgia and the fed courts has overlap, which is one reason why numerous defendants were pushing for their state trials to become fed. the problem for those defendants is each state chooses electors for the Presidency based on state laws and regulations and the individuals who were acting on behalf o' the trump campaign were not acting as officers o' the US government when they encouraged folks such as james renner to sign forgeries o' official state documents. for the fraudulent electors scheme to have been dreamt up simultaneous, insular and discreet in multiple states challenges credulity o' even the most naïve. am gonna suggest that trump campaign lawyers and staff were organizing the conspiracies for the benefit o' one guy: donald trump. however, while it is illogical and difficult to believe james renner could be guilty o' a conspiracy regarding fraudulent electors w/o somebody(s) from the trump campaign also being guilty, each defendant is gonna get due process. in any event, is multiple flippers in multiple false elector cases. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* am knowing that were not meant as a self own, but... made even more amusing 'cause again, zor misses the important part: what reasonable person would argue against waiting for more/better info before making accusations and casting aspersions? curious, and beyond the ordinary reasonable we got at least one advocate o' the irrational and obdurate. moving on, and regarding the recent US veto, "Thomas-Greenfield said the United States was disappointed the draft resolution made no mention of Israel's rights of self defense and she blamed Hamas for the Gaza humanitarian crisis." am disappointed 'cause am not thinking a humanitarian ceasefire requires the establishment o' blame. sure, israel wants it to be understood that they is responding to the murder and kidnapping o' its citizens, but to make a ceasefire contingent upon such a recognition does strike us as... inhumane. the ownership o' the moral high ground territory is extreme subjective, but refusing a humanitarian ceasefire does not look good for those claiming such a lofty perch. HA! Good Fun!

stated with far more brevity than our previous post: as for the venezuelan sanctions deal, "Maduro's government and the opposition reached an agreement in Barbados on Tuesday on electoral guarantees for an internationally monitored vote to be held in the second half of 2024. But the deal stopped short of Maduro agreeing to reinstate opposition candidates who had been barred from public office." that last portion is more than a little disappointing. HA! Good Fun!