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And then, right after the court hearing: Jenna Ellis @JennaEllisEsq The politically-motivated Left failed miserably in their attempt to destroy me. They’re now trying to falsely discredit me by saying I admitted I lied. That is FALSE. I would NEVER lie. Lying requires INTENTIONALLY making a false statement. I never did that, nor did I stipulate to or admit that. As has become sadly typical, the opposition-controlled media is intentionally twisting the truth, conflating the full RPC standard with the actual stipulation. The standard reads, “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, OR misrepresentation.” The Colorado bar counsel and my counsel concluded that it was best to resolve the bar complaints by agreeing to a public censure.

Bill To Ban Child Marriage In West Virginia Defeated By Republicans CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee. The Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill on a 9-8 vote, a week after it passed the House of Delegates. The vote came shortly after the bill’s main sponsor, Democratic Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, testified briefly before the committee. She said that since 2000 there have been more than 3,600 marriages in the state involving one or more children. Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent. Anyone younger than that also must get a judge’s waiver. “For now, there will be no floor for the age of marriage in WV, endangering our kids,” Young wrote on Twitter after the vote. In a rebuke, Cabell County Democratic Sen. Mike Woelfel reminded the committee after the vote that Wednesday was International Women’s Day. Some of the bill’s opponents have argued that teenage marriages are a part of life in West Virginia. Kanawha County Republican Sen. Mike Stuart, a former federal prosecutor who sided with the majority, said his vote “wasn’t a vote against women.” He said his mother was married when she was 16, and “six months later, I came along. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” (And a good argument for contraception)

Ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis admits to lying 10 times while pushing election fraud lies Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, admitted in court that she “misrepresented” the truth at least 10 times on major TV news interviews and on social media while pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” about fraud “stealing” the 2020 presidential election from Trump/ Ellis made this admission by signing a legal document stating that she “violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or intentional misrepresentations by attorneys,” by pushing these lies despite having zero evidence to back them up, CNN reported. For example, on the November 20, 2020 installment on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business, Ellis claimed, “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.” Following the November 2020 election, Ellis repeatedly said that the election had been “stolen.” In her recently signed document, Ellis agreed that she, “through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” Colorado News Wire reported. Responding to Ellis’ admission, Bryon M. Large, a disciplinary presiding judge in Colorado, censured Ellis, saying, “The parties agree that Respondent [Ellis], through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public.” When asked in December 2020 about the criticism she received for pushing Trump’s “Big Lie,” Ellis told Fox Business anchorperson Charles Payne, “My life is in service and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ and so whatever anybody else says really doesn’t bother me. Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country,. That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”

Businesses are legally required to turn a profit, and it is up to government to assure that they conduct themselves in an ethical manner and pay their fair share of taxes. If you are right-wing minded, the government has no business "meddling" in the workings of the "free market". Private businesses are in business to generate the largest possible profits in the shortest possible time and seek to influence governments to allow that to happen with the fewest restrictions. In an ideal society there is a dynamic balance between the welfare of the citizenry and private enterprise. The problem arise because , obviously, businesses have more money to influence government through direct financial donations and through media of one sort or another, tipping the scales. A good government, be they federal, provincial or civic mediates that balance. Its an imperfect situation but no better one has presented itself.

Ivanka Trump Rats Our Her Dad And Brothers In Fraud Case Ivanka Trump went with the tried and true defense when people start trying to save themselves. She blamed her father and brothers for the fraud. The Independent reported: In court documents, Ms Trump’s attorneys argue that the fraud complaint filed last year against her and her co-defendants by New York Attorney General Letitia James “does not contain a single allegation that Ms. Trump directly or indirectly created, prepared, reviewed, or certified any of her father’s financial statements”. “Other individuals were responsible for those tasks,” her lawyers wrote. The New York Attorney General has a much different view of the case that has Ivanka Trump just as involved in the fraud at the Trump Organization as the other family members. Ivanka Trump clearly is not going to take any legal bullets for her family. Just like her father, She found someone else to blame, and that person is her dad.

Please give an example of any NDP administration event(s) that mirrors the Stefansson incident.

Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Would Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine -REUTERS Donald Trump has long insisted that the Ukraine war would have never happened if he were still president, going so far as to blame the “rigged election” on Russia’s unprovoked invasion while claiming he had the magic words to stop the fighting “immediately.” During a radio interview with Fox News host (and longtime confidant) Sean Hannity on Monday, the twice-impeached ex-president finally revealed how he personally would have prevented the war. According to Trump, all he needed to do was let Russia “take over” parts of Ukraine.

Putin’s Troops Filmed Threatening to Turn Weapons on Bosses OFF THE RAILS “You can jail us all! How many years is it, 5, 7, 10? We don’t give a ****!” Allison Quinn News Editor Updated Mar. 08, 2023 12:17PM ET / Published Mar. 08, 2023 12:11PM ET REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko Listen to article3 minutes A group of Russian troops sent to Ukraine to fight for the Kremlin’s “new” territory is threatening to raise absolute hell over what they describe as pointless suicide missions—and they’ve made clear they’re willing to turn their weapons on members of their own team if necessary. The draftees from Kaliningrad have already appealed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to complain of ancient weapons, lack of training, and people dying “for nothing.” In a video released publicly earlier this week, they shamed top military brass by saying there appears to be no battlefield strategy whatsoever and declaring that “this is no way to fight a war.” Now, a video has leaked capturing the aftermath of their complaints. In a five-minute clip released by the independent outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti, the men can be seen surrounding a commander sent out from Kaliningrad and warning him they will put up a fight if they are not heard. “You can jail us all! How many years is it, 5, 7, 10? We don’t give a ****!,” one soldier yells after the commander tries but fails to convince them to obey orders and storm Ukrainian positions.

Jim Jordan, MTG, And Lauren Boebert Refuse To Sign Letter Condemning White Supremacy Republican on the House Oversight Committee like Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert refused to sign a letter condemning white supremacy. Via: The Independent: Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee asked their Republican colleagues to sign a two-sentence statement that plainly rejects white supremacy, white nationalism, and a far-right conspiracy theory that suggests politicians are intentionally seeking to displace white Americans by loosening immigration. All 26 Republicans on the GOP-led committee have signaled that they will not sign the statement, which a committee spokesperson characterized in a statement to The Independent as a distraction.

Louisville Police Department ‘Unlawfully Discriminates Against Black People’: DOJ A new report by the Department of Justice determined that the Kentucky police department responsible for the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor “unlawfully discriminates against Black people,” among other findings. The report, released Wednesday, found that the Louisville Police Department uses excessive force, uses invalid warrants to conduct searches, unlawfully stops people and “violates the rights of people engaged in protected free speech critical of policing.” The DOJ’s two-year investigation began following the killing of 26-year-old Taylor by Louisville police officers, who knocked her door down while executing a drug search warrant. Taylor was fatally shot by police after her boyfriend fired a shot at the officers as they came through the door. Last year, a Louisville officer pleaded guilty to falsifying the warrant that led to the deadly shooting. The scathing report details widespread abuses of power within the department and a lack of accountability. “Failures of leadership and accountability have allowed unlawful conduct to continue unchecked,” the report says. “Even when city and police leaders announced solutions, they failed to follow through. In LMPD, officer misconduct too often goes unnoticed and unaddressed. At times, LMPD leaders have endorsed and defended unlawful conduct. A street enforcement unit that violated LMPD policy and federal law has been repeatedly rebranded, but never disbanded.” The report also notes that the city of Louisville has paid out more than $40 million in the past to resolve claims of police misconduct.

Getting older ain't for sissies.

‘You’ve Been Screwed’: Russian Inmates Rebel and Flee From Commanders. “Everything the enemy has, we will allow you to take,” an official tells fed-up inmates in a bizarre pep talk. -REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko The demented prison-recruitment scheme top Russian military brass are using to find fresh cannon fodder for the war against Ukraine apparently isn’t going so well: 11 inmates are on the run in Donetsk while their fellow recruits have been tossed into basements for refusing to fight. That’s according to the independent outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti, which released damning leaked audio on Tuesday that captures the unfolding chaos. About 70 inmates are being held against their will in a basement in Donetsk after a conflict with their commanders went off the rails, one inmate told the outlet. He said he and 10 others had managed to flee during the mayhem, but now they’re terrified the military will track them down, execute them, and list them as missing so the circumstances of their deaths will be kept under wraps and their families will never receive compensation. “If you refuse to go fight, people from Wagner will come and we’ll shoot you,” the inmate recalled being told. Just before the prisoners’ escape, a man identified as a Russian Defense Ministry official was caught on tape trying to convince the group of angry inmates that they better follow orders. A 10-minute clip shared by Ostorozhno, Novosti was reportedly surreptitiously recorded after the group of inmates recruited for the war effort refused to storm Ukrainian positions in the Donbas, and apparently began to catch wind of the fact that they were simply seen as an easily expendable resource to carry out human-wave style attacks. “You were given a task yesterday, and you refused,” an unnamed representative of the Defense Ministry says as he scolds them. “I haven’t scared you with anything yet. Why would I need to scare you? I want to ask you, why didn’t you go carry out the task?” “Those before you went through the exact same thing, there were 75 people–” the official says, before an inmate cuts him off and yells, “Of whom only 11 people remained? I was with them in the hospital!”

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This started a week or so ago. The Russian forces are making incremental gains but it is costing them some 500-600 casualties per hundred meters and that number is climbing as new weapons arrive for the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian military tactics seem to be deplete the Russian forces. At this point, the Russians have lost almost all their fighter jets and between 80-90% of their armoured vehicles. For about 4% of the American military budget, about 80-90% of Russian military capability has been destroyed. Reports of mutiny and desertion are almost daily.

The Ukrainian army can retreat from Bakhmut and still survive- Putin cannot. The Wagner group has cleaned out every prison in Russia and Belarus as well as every one they can access- murderers, rapists and so forth and apparently are now clearing out psychiatric wards and registering 16 year old boys for military service.

Safe injection sites as stand-alone facilities work to an extent. They work best in conjunction with "registered addict programs", safe housing and ongoing healthcare. Several countries have very successful programs-- Switzerland and Portugal for two. There programs have been very successful in reducing medical crises among addict/users, reducing drug-related crime and prevalence of dealers, demands on demands on healthcare, police and courts/jails, and overall reduction in active chemical dependents.

Narcotics Anonymous

Als a lot of BS.

As former President Donald Trump pursues the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, he continues to face a variety of federal and state investigations — some criminal and some civil. Simultaneously, Trump is being probed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks has, more than once, pointed out that even President Richard Nixon during the 1970s didn't have as much legal baggage as Trump. Smith and James' Trump-related investigations intersect in some areas. Both of them are probing Trump's post-election activities of late 2020 and early 2021, but Smith is doing so at the federal level while Willis is doing so at the state level. And Smith's investigation is broader; Willis is zeroing in on Trump's efforts to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia. In an article published by Above the Law on March 6, Baltimore-based reporter Liz Dye emphasizes that Georgia is among the states where Republicans are "proposing bills to impose statewide oversight on local prosecutors and even remove them from office if they fall out of favor with the ruling party." Their vehicle in the Peach State is Georgia Senate Bill 92, and Dye finds the bill's timing suspicious in light of DA Willis' Trump-related investigation.

We're talking about human beings who often cling to dreams which are really fantasies in the face of all evidence to the contrary. We are driven by emotion, not reality.

Russia orders 21 mobile crematories from China to hide the truth about own losses as well as the deaths of Ukraine civilians. "Ashes are easier to move than bodies".

Why did this cop turn up dead? A heroic police officer rescued at least three people after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. A year later, he was found shot in the head By Thomas Lake, CNN OKLAHOMA CITY — The bombing memorial is a somber and beautiful place, framed by two monuments called the Gates of Time. The 9:01 Gate commemorates the innocence before the explosion, which happened at 9:02 a.m. and became known as the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. The 9:03 Gate represents “the moment healing began.” But some survivors never healed. With time, their suffering only got worse. This story is about one of those people. His name was Terry Yeakey. He was an Oklahoma City police officer and a military veteran. Yeakey saved at least three people from the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, the day a terrorist attack killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others. Something happened to Yeakey in those hours in the wreckage. He was badly shaken, and his worldview seemed to change. In time, he grew suspicious and afraid. He ran afoul of his supervisors. He went on secret missions, withholding his motives and plans from fellow officers. He seemed to be conducting his own investigation. And then, 385 days after the bombing, his body was found near some trees in a field off a country road. His wrists were cut. His neck was cut. He’d been shot through the head. The authorities said it was suicide. But among those who knew Terry Yeakey, not many believed he had killed himself. In a recent interview, his sister Lashon Hargrove said this: “I think they murdered Terry because he knew too much.”

Do not underestimate the power of hope. In one experiment, rats were put into containers of water with no chance of escape. In about two hours, they began to stop swimming and started to drown. They were fished out, allowed to rest overnight and then placed back into the same containers of water. They continued to swim for two days. The difference? The rats now believed that they had hope that they would be saved. Similar events have been recorded for humans.