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Historian Patricia Hilliard-Nunn

Doonesbury, Lil' Abner, Prickly City, Bloom County, Pogo, Non Sequitur, et al, would argue differently. Speaking of Non Sequitur, this is nothing like the hidden message that got Wiley Miller's comic dropped and I'm somewhat dismayed that something so innocuous would rise such ire. Even as politicized to stupidity as everything seems to be, I didn't think it was this bad.

Probably has more to do with Sony having the Spider-Man license, than anything Disney is doing.

17 years between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, wasn't it? I can't help but wonder if the fact that Fantasy and Science Fictions pulp origins makes people believe they should get things done fast. Pulp authors were fast (at one point Charles Gibson wrote 1,680,000 words a year), and a lot of that tradition carried over in the paperback market. So in the 70s and 80s you get things like Stephen R. Donaldson doing 6 books in 7 years and that was seen as the norm. However if you look outside of Fantasy and Science Fiction you get a lot of acclaimed novelists taking years to complete their novels. Thomas Harris too 8 years (on average) to complete the Hannibal Lecter novels. Mind you I don't know if these new trilogies like Rothfuss are stand alone books that link together (like the Lecter novels) or cliffhanger seriels left unsatisfying by their lack of continuation to completion either.

Grace Dieu

First film role I saw Curry in.

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Off the top of my head, Norman Lloyd, Jane Withers, June Lockhart Nehemiah Persoff, Rhonda Flemming, Angela Lansbury, and Eva Marie Saint all started in the Golden Age / pre-1960. I'm sure there are more, but not many, if any, as big as de Havilland

RIP Olivia de Havilland

Rip John Saxon

^A friend of mine, doing genealogy, found out she was related to a family with the last name Poopenfart. The Lighthouse is super weird. Good, but definitely not for everyone. I think I liked Tge Witch slightly more, but it was good.

My days the last few week have involved hearing complaints from people. "You didn't give me Item A!" "You asked for Item B, here, and we gave you item B, here." "But I need Item A, and now it is too late! What are you going to do about it?"

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Creators behind the Suikoden series are planning to kickstart a 'spiritual successors series, Eiyuden Chronicles. If its more like the first two than the others, I'd be interested. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/7/24/21337046/suikoden-spiritual-successor-eiyuden-chronicle-kickstarter

I'd ditch the anthem - iirc its a post war bit of 'patriotism' that just kept going.

Curious about this since the unmarked police thing started - Isn't the action of taking people off the street and holding them but not charging them and not having a warrant or probably cause opening the officers who detain people to unlawful detention / false imprisonment charges?

I'd think they'd want to be able to test to see if the first medicine was working before prescribing a second. But then I'd rather not have a prescription for anything if there was another way to resolve it that I could do.

I don't think its necessary, but if a law changed in the legally proscribed manner (by duly elected officials and/or the vote of the public as proscribed by law) and meets any local or federal constitutional challenges, I wouldn't be against it. I'm not an expert, so I'm sure someone here will correct me if I am wrong - my understanding is that they have that ability if the person is on Federal land. If you're caught spraying graffiti on a fed building, feds can detain you there as they have jurisdiction. If they get video footage of you spraying graffiti and you are long gone and legally obtain a warrant for your arrest, my understanding is that for that warrant to be served at your home, the local municipality has to do it and turn you over into the custody of the feds, or it has to be done jointly with the Feds joining in on the serving of the warrant with the local municpality.

Those two links aren't really talking about the things that people are objecting to - ie both of those links are about incidents on Federal property involving Federal personnel. No one is disputing the use of Federal law enforcement on Federal land. The dispute is over Federal forces detaining people on city/county/state land, where they don't really have jurisdiction. Typically US Marshalls have to work with the local police to deliver a warrant on suspects, etc., when dealing with city/county/state lands.

I don't know what the mob wants (isn't that kind of the point with mobs, though, that they become a thought process of their own, often with neither rhyme nor reason?) That's why its so important for people who want peaceful demonstrations to not allow a mob mentality to seize control of the group, and to renounce and remove bad actors. Two wrongs, don't make a right, though. The only thing the Feds are really doing IMO is opening themselves (or the personnel) to civil lawsuits when they try to police the city with no authority to do so as they are, themselves, violating the law. As an aside, typically when a local municipality is overwhelmed, the course of action is for that municipality to declare a state of emergency and ask the governor to deploy the state's national guard. Not for DHS to send people in Enterprise Rent-A-Vans to grab people off the street. You are wrong. They have no legal authority to be deployed past federal land (excepting, perhaps, a nationwide declaration of martial law for example as in the case of an invasion. Since there is no nationwide declaration of martial law...)

What part of "Local policing is the job of the City/County/State as applicable" didn't you understand? While the Federal Government, arguably, has the right to protect Federal land (and buildings on it) it has no jurisdictional authority on non-Federal lands. They do not have the authority to drive blocks away from Federal land/buildings in unmarked Enterprise Rent-A-Vans and abduct people off the street because they think they may or may not have done, or be about to do, something or another. The business you speak of has a right to expect the municipalities with authority (city-county-state) to protect them, but not the Federal government. Unusual circumstance does not give the Federal government the ability to do things that it has not the authority to do. If you accept that, then you've discarded the rules of law we have built up and the Federal government is the mob (or at least, a mob) defining rules and arbitrarily deciding when they obey the law.

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That's why I asked if it was Federal land. I don't know.