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I see Dave R added to the family collection of traffic citations this week. This time for blowing a stop sign. Court date is May 1st. I just wish that I didn't think that the people having to give up their chicken leg to cover the costs were the littles, not the bad driver.

I've been thinking, there is a reason that ex post facto laws are expressly forbidden by the US Constitution. Obviously this site is a private entity not legally required to adhere to said prohibition. Morality is of course not the same as legality so while they are legally in the clear I leave it to the reader to decide on their morality. It says a lot to me personally about the ethics and maturity of the new leadership that they appear to have chosen the path and method they have. You can't foster personal growth by punishing someone for something they did that was permitted at the time it was done and not even telling them what specifically they did that got your undergarments twisted so they can make an attempt at changing. If instead of growth and learning, the goal is to drive off or even outright ban a large portion of the members and turn the carcass of the site into some sort of barren echo chamber where the remaining people copy and paste platitudes in pursuit of digital bling while paid advertisers flee to higher traffic sites until they can no longer afford to keep it open, they are certainly off to a grand start. Who knows, maybe that's exactly what they want. All I know for sure is I'm getting a doubleplus-ungood feeling.

In this case their point of appeal is "Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator based on a trial court’s conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal defendant’s constitutional right to present a complete defense?" Outside of the context of felon's specific case, it is an interesting question and it looks like there may be a possible circuit split on it. I just don't think their "evidence" was relevant or factual. Someone with an unrelated criminal background might have done something remotely isn't evidence, it is wild conjecture if not outright fiction. I did get quite a laugh that they included the nonsense from that "expert" about universal Plug and Play on the computer meaning that the router was not secured, meaning someone could remote into the computer. That's like saying that because we found an apple core in the trash, he must have had OJ with breakfast.

For those that wish to follow along, the docket is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-937.html the petition is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-937/301156/20240222141956501_Duggar Petition February 22 2024 EFile.pdf The government has until the end of March to respond.

That sweater reminds me of the Spencer jackets that used to be worn over empire waisted dresses. They didn't want a jacket that drew in the natural waist when wearing that cut of dress, so it stopped under the boobs. Having the fabric able to flow freely from the bust line to the floor hid the shape of the waist and hips. Think what the Bennet sisters wore as outerwear in the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. Not sure what Jill was thinking wearing it the crazy way she did since it doesn't do the figure camouflaging/enhancing things that people often use it for, but that may be what the original designer was going for...

Though they would need to know how long the teeth were missing which they might not figure out if this is the first time the practice is seeing the patient. Especially since I figure Jill is too cheap to allow for diagnostic tools like xrays that might show what is happening below the gum line. If they were to ask when the baby teeth came out and were given just a month, they probably wouldn't even think to ask the year that goes with that month because a sane parent would actually be asking why the teeth haven't come in for so long without needing to be interrogated.

With the new (lack of) requirements in Ohio starting with the 2023-2024 school year, she may just have decided to wait to reduce her (tiny) workload. Number of academic hours and subjects were reduced, and no more assessments to cheat on. Also they now no longer need to file the excused letter from the district for the Sr year to issue a diploma, so if Jill had lost the paperwork in her Plexus fueled haze (or whichever daughter was in charge of it was courting/marrying/having a baby), well starting this year she doesn't have to keep her crap organized.

Yeah I had the same thought, a rolling stop at the light is running the light herself, which means cross traffic likely had the green. I suppose if you squint, she could have been hit by someone behind her that was also running the same light, only at a faster speed. Or Jill doesn't know the difference between "traffic light" and "red light" Someone should have gotten a citation for that, but without us knowing when it happened and where it might be hard to find.

They actually do have nutrition labels for most of their stuff on their sales website. Funny thing though, when I went to look at them the product selling pages where the labels are kept were blocked by my ad blocker. Even my browser knows that stuff is crap.

If anyone is interested, Ian Runkle, a defense attorney friend of Emily Baker, did a rundown of the appeal ruling on his youtube channel, Runkle of the Bailey, this week. As someone who has had his fair share of stupid and/or unappealing clients working as a public defender, he has a good take on the arguments and why they were doomed to fail due to Josh's own actions and the failures of his defense team.

Gotta love the phrasing of the Arkansas Times reporting on the ruling. Opening sentence "Josh Duggar of “19 Kids and Counting” and child pornography scandal fame will not get a new trial."

See if your surgery center plans to send you home with one of those ice therapy machines. My mom was given one for her knee even though she had made arrangements to borrow one from a friend. You can also get them on Amazon and from medical supply stores. One trick for those is instead of using normal ice, get about a dozen of those small 4 or 6oz kiddie sized water bottles and freeze those. Then you can just swap out the ice bottles in the water instead of lifting the machine and emptying out melted ice to replace it a few times a day. Just put the melted bottles back in the freezer for next time.

Since they talk about other approved colleges for credit hours, I think the requirement is that of the 96 hours required, 36 of them must be done in person at MBC, and part of that must be during the senior year. I think it refers to butts in classroom seats as in residence, not that they have to live on the campus. Could be a revenue protection type thing where you can't get the degree unless you have paid enough tuition hours to the institution you want the degree from. Either way, their requirements are unclear, which is not unexpected from an institution of their "quality."

It's like these guys saw something about PJs and decided they would become one without putting in the really hard work to do so. PJs are on about the same level as SEALs in regards to the level of physical fitness, commitment, and training they are required to have. Most of these guys probably couldn't even pass the entry physical, and none of them seem to have the mental fortitude to make it through to the end of training. I doubt many of them would even make it through basic, and if they did, they run the risk that in between school assignments to become a PJ (or if they wash out of training) that they'd be in a unit where they may have to take orders from a woman. So instead they waste their grifted money on vanity "training" and photo ops.

Did anyone watch the American Gladiators episodes? The first part was OK, getting into a little bit of how low budget and unsafe the production was. The second part just seemed to devolve into some sort of naval gazing exercise about how everyone hates everyone else but is too afraid to admit it on the record. They could have tightened the whole thing up into a single 2 hour episode. If it were a channel other than ESPN I'd wonder if the bloat was due to needing to fill airtime cheaply due to the current every other decade writer's strike (ironic since that was the background for both renditions of AG)