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I get most of you are from countries other than the U.S. so let’s clear up a few misconceptions. @YoungWillz Executive orders are not laws. They are directives for how federal agencies carry out laws. Any such executive order of this kind would have the same force after this ruling as it did before - none. As for the other mention an executive order in which Biden is able to disqualify Trump on the grounds of him being a felon, just no. Again that’s not how executive orders work. Felon voting is a state matter. Qualifications for the presidency are explicitly stated in the constitution and only an amendment to said document can change them.

Unless I’m much mistaken, the last Chinese imperial subject.

Easier said than done. You may be impervious.

https://catholicfreepress.org/news/bishop-emeritus-daniel-patrick-reilly-96-fourth-bishop-of-worcester Diocesan newspaper in Worcester has it.

The question is can he outlive them all? Blumenthal is 98, Marshall almost 96, and Califano is 93. It would be absolutely astounding if he managed it, but it’s within the realm of possibility.

Or perhaps Olive Oyl running out?

I wonder if that’s what did him in?

The benefit of executing a Bundy (of which there is very little) is far outweighed by the danger of the state murdering innocent people under the guise of justice. No standard is high enough to avoid these judicial miscarriages. The danger is simply too great.

You are profoundly ignorant. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1973 the U.S. has executed roughly 200 innocent people. About 4% of people executed are later found to have not committed the crime of which they were convicted. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1306417111 As to your request for a narrative explanation: someone (usually a young, poor, poorly educated, Black male) is arrested for committing murder. They’re probably not a saint but they didn’t kill this person. Cops arrest them, knock them around and/or coerce a confession out of them before they call the PDs office. They finally get a PD in there and he’s overworked and exhausted and has no resources so he isn’t able to get whatever judge to throw out the confession. So the jury hears it and convicts. Let’s say all of this happens in Texas where they fast track executions, so, despite having grounds for an appeal and a retrial, he’s executed before somewhere like the Innocence Project is able to take up his case. Later on, someone else gets picked up for something else and in the process of an investigation it turns out they did the first murder the other guy died for. Whoops. 200 times in 50 years.

Don’t reply to him. Seriously, you’ll regret it.

The president can’t pardon state crimes.

Weddings can be very stressful.

I rather think inserting an unnecessary comma is as dumb as running two words together.

No, but often lines up with bipolar disorder, which he definitely has.

He was only 60. Calm yourself.

The only thing keeping me vaguely hopeful is that it’s a leap year, which have been fruitful in the past.

I suppose there really is no accounting for taste.

Seems reasonable to re-post this. In the interim Knap and Ellsberg have died. I also found obit info for Scharer. The mystery four are still mysterious. @Ulitzer95 @arghton @tracy A little help? As I forgot to ask for it last time.

I appreciate his being placed here because his apocryphal inclusion on the list is widely believed. However, he was not on either the first or second lists. I believe he was on the third “list”, which was not an enemies list really, but he was certainly a lowercase enemy of Nixon. Regardless, good spot and an icon.

Don’t hold your breath.

I’m impressed she’s made it this long honestly. Her alcohol abuse was prodigious.

Not sure how reliable this is but it appears philosopher and noted atheist Daniel Dennett has died. Once we get proper confirmation we can put him in the appropriate thread. https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/

Wait, what? You of all people are saying this to another member? Are you familiar with irony?

This makes the legendary Sandy Koufax the last Brooklyn Dodger of the 1955 World Series winning team. I believe there are other Dodgers from earlier years but I’ll have to confirm. Remaining Dodgers: Jim Gentile (57) Fred Kipp (57) Sandy Koufax (55-57) Robert Aspromonte (56) Thomas Brown (44-45, 47-51)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter Have another go, will you?