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Has actor Hugh Jackman fallen on hard financial times or does he genuinely worship Bill Gates as someone who knows what is best for everybody else? The latter scenario is actually scarier than the first.
Yesterday's insurrectionist displays of blocking major thoroughfares and highways along with airport entrances shows that the HAMAS lefties were in full force.
So you found your blind squirrel, DUmmy.
I've been reading this site since 2001. I found it while taking a web design course at the Empire State Building back in that summer before the towers fell, and it has since become my go-to for news.
BOINGggggggg
) in the Empire State Building, I find non-credible the claim that (s)he has used DU as a go-to for news but never gave in to the itch/urge to post there. I don't think "political animals" of whatever POV have that degree of self-control.sarisataka
Will we see people cheering on and defending Iran
In the US?
My guess is yes
no_hypocrisy (45,995 posts)
My experience as a prospective juror in a criminal case
All prospective jurors were under oath to answer truthfully.
I made the first cut. Educated with three degrees and nine years of college and graduate studies.
Then came the survey. Our present employment. What type of media did we regularly engage in. Including social media.
I answered that I was a defense attorney and I didn't entirely trust police to accurately record what actually happened.
I also put down that I was a devotee of MSNBC and regularly viewed Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Joy Reed, etc. For radio, I listened to WBAI, an independent franchise of Pacifica Radio. I listed one program on it, "On The Count," which is devoted to the rights of convicted inmates.
I was asked if I could listen to this criminal case and remain impartial. I responded that I could.
However, the prosecutors excused me with one of their preemptory challenges. It's their right. My progressive views indicated that I would be a loud voice during deliberations and they just didn't want to take that chance.
So, as far as TSF's team wanting their jury panel to contain just one dissenting voice, it will be difficult. If that one voice lied on his/her survey and his/her "interview" with the judge before being seated, s/he will be removed during deliberations and replaced with an alternate juror. The proverbial fine-tooth comb will be applied to ALL prospects.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218867000
Meanwhile, Bragg is releasing murderers to murder again, rapists to rape again, assaulters to assault again, and thieves to steal again.
I wonder how well that "34 felony counts" will age. The ham-sandwiching may not fare very well when Bragg has to present evidence and Trump can actually defend himself.
