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« on: Today at 08:06:16 am »I need a scream judge-it....I am perfectly fine with this until you have proof of your allegations..
So Pos and T are good with this?
Wow!
Posted by: purplelady1040
« on: Today at 06:47:06 am »Whether you have a gun or not, it doesn't hurt to warn a person that they are about the get seriously eff'd up if they continue messing with you. I've done it more than once without a gun. If they don't want to listen, then that's on them.People want to say that knives are allowed on school campuses in Texas, no, they are not. The law changed 5 years ago and no knives are allowed.
Posted by: purplelady1040
« on: Today at 05:51:55 am »The local weather people were so far off on weather for this morning. A storm has blown in and pouring rain.
Posted by: purplelady1040
« on: Today at 05:50:23 am »Night folks. It’s that time of year again where I’m following my precious grandchildren all around the country while they show their animals and bring home ribbons, plaques, banners, and trophies. It’s hot in those barns and I’m whipped. Today I stayed in the pool most of the day and that was so comfortable. They took off tonight for Murray, KY. I think I’m gonna sit this one out.Hope they win lots of ribbons! It is that time of year for fairs!
Posted by: purplelady1040
« on: Today at 05:48:13 am »He may have been the “aggressor”. I didn’t speak to that allegation. The fact remains Metcalf told him to get out of the tent and then either shoved him, pushed him, or in someway hit him. That feels like an act of aggression to me. But, perhaps it was merely a love pat. Anthony was in the tent because it was storming outside and he was seeking shelter. In that situation, I don’t see where it would hurt anyone to offer him shelter. He was not “banned” from sporting events. In fact he was scheduled for 2 events that day.He is not the first kid nor will he be the last kid who has had a 3.7 GPA and commit a murder. Look how smart Ted Bundy was. What I see was someone who was the aggressor, was told to leave an area, been suspended from school and showed up at a school event and that makes him a "frightened young man", no what that makes him is someone thinks he is entitled to snub the law.
Anthony was a student athlete at his school and carried a 3.7 GPA. That doesn’t fit the criteria of a degenerate, trouble making, “punk”. I’m sure in the moment he wasn’t thinking about the consequences. He felt threatened and reacted to what he perceived as threats. No, he should not have had a weapon but I bet in these days and times many young people have hidden weapons. It doesn’t make his actions any less deplorable.
He didn’t try to deny what he had done. He owned it and openly confessed the moment he was caught. His concern at the time was for Metcalf. Now I’m sure anyone can twist his actions and claim it was all for show but I don’t believe it was. He was provoked and afraid.
I’m not an advocate for solving your issues with violence but I do understand fear. Metcalf had a good 40 pounds on him. Anthony was a lightweight 160 pounder. Metcalf was a linebacker which means he was strong. Anthony knew that. Regardless of the perceived rules on the tents, what exactly is the harm in letting another person have a bit of space and comfort in the middle of a thunderstorm? Anthony’s team for whatever reason, failed to bring a tent that day.
The whole situation is horrible! Where I see a frightened young man, you see a “punk”. Someone you feel unworthy of compassion. There’s just far too much hatred among young people. I certainly can’t fix it. I don’t condone murder. However, I also don’t condone pure hatred towards another especially when your life is not affected one tiny bit by their actions.
Posted by: purplelady1040
« on: Today at 05:44:30 am »"The law" used to say that you could own black people too. That doesn't make it right.Fortunately that law was done away with and again, if you don't like that when a teen who decides to murder someone and knows the difference between right and wrong can be certified as an adult than contact your state law makers. I have no issues with that law. A teen puts themselves in an adult position and makes adult decisions than they have made that decision. Actions have consequences.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 01:19:19 am »That form of capital punishment needs to end.
An interesting case.
Differs from past appeals because lower court made judgment on merits
Court could have took up merits but did not
The judge in Lee’s case sentenced him to death despite a jury’s recommendation of a life sentence. That judicial override procedure was repealed by Alabama in 2017, but the change in policy did not apply retroactively.
The Supreme Court has previously considered emergency appeals involving nitrogen hypoxia and allowed those executions to go forward. In October, the court denied a request from Anthony Boyd to halt his execution in Alabama without explanation. The court’s three liberals issued a striking dissent.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor encouraged Americans to start a stopwatch and reflect as the seconds turn into minutes.
“Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating,” Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, which was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas.”
“Your mind knows that the gas will kill you,” she continued. “But your body keeps telling you to breathe.”
The Supreme Court often sides with the state in last-minute death penalty cases on the emergency docket. But the legal posture of Lee’s case was different because, unlike in most emergency matters, a federal district court had entered a ruling on the merits. Steve Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a CNN Supreme Court analyst, said the court’s decision would have amounted to an expansion of its emergency docket.
Alabama’s appeal, Vladeck wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court, should have been dealt with on its regular, merits docket on which the justices receive more extensive briefing and hear oral argument if the case is granted.
An interesting case.
Differs from past appeals because lower court made judgment on merits
Court could have took up merits but did not
The judge in Lee’s case sentenced him to death despite a jury’s recommendation of a life sentence. That judicial override procedure was repealed by Alabama in 2017, but the change in policy did not apply retroactively.
The Supreme Court has previously considered emergency appeals involving nitrogen hypoxia and allowed those executions to go forward. In October, the court denied a request from Anthony Boyd to halt his execution in Alabama without explanation. The court’s three liberals issued a striking dissent.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor encouraged Americans to start a stopwatch and reflect as the seconds turn into minutes.
“Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating,” Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, which was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas.”
“Your mind knows that the gas will kill you,” she continued. “But your body keeps telling you to breathe.”
The Supreme Court often sides with the state in last-minute death penalty cases on the emergency docket. But the legal posture of Lee’s case was different because, unlike in most emergency matters, a federal district court had entered a ruling on the merits. Steve Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a CNN Supreme Court analyst, said the court’s decision would have amounted to an expansion of its emergency docket.
Alabama’s appeal, Vladeck wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court, should have been dealt with on its regular, merits docket on which the justices receive more extensive briefing and hear oral argument if the case is granted.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 01:11:48 am »Supreme Court blocks Alabama from executing inmate with method lower court found cruel and unusual
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a federal court ruled violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
As is often the case in emergency death penalty appeals, the majority did not explain its reasoning. Three conservative justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch – said they would have granted Alabama’s request and allowed the execution to take place. They also did not explain their reasoning.
The question for the Supreme Court was whether to throw out a decision from a federal district court this week that barred the state from executing Lee with nitrogen gas. That relatively new method is partly a response to pharmaceutical companies declining to allow their drugs to be used in lethal injections. Alabama has executed seven people using nitrogen-hypoxia.
But the method has drawn sharp criticism, and a federal appeals court in Atlanta concluded that the protocol presented “a substantial risk of serious harm — severe pain over and above death itself.” After that, a lower federal court concluded that the state could feasibly execute Lee with a firing squad, instead, and that method would significantly reduce the risk of harm.
The court’s ruling does not foreclose the possibility that Alabama could later attempt to execute Lee by firing squad, a method he had requested.
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a federal court ruled violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
As is often the case in emergency death penalty appeals, the majority did not explain its reasoning. Three conservative justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch – said they would have granted Alabama’s request and allowed the execution to take place. They also did not explain their reasoning.
The question for the Supreme Court was whether to throw out a decision from a federal district court this week that barred the state from executing Lee with nitrogen gas. That relatively new method is partly a response to pharmaceutical companies declining to allow their drugs to be used in lethal injections. Alabama has executed seven people using nitrogen-hypoxia.
But the method has drawn sharp criticism, and a federal appeals court in Atlanta concluded that the protocol presented “a substantial risk of serious harm — severe pain over and above death itself.” After that, a lower federal court concluded that the state could feasibly execute Lee with a firing squad, instead, and that method would significantly reduce the risk of harm.
The court’s ruling does not foreclose the possibility that Alabama could later attempt to execute Lee by firing squad, a method he had requested.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 01:02:39 am »Then comes the main event on Friday morning. Nasdaq's market makers will begin matching buy and sell orders to find an opening price, a process that, for large, highly watched IPOs, can stretch well past the opening bell.
By Friday afternoon, the world's most valuable private company will be private no longer, and the market, not SpaceX, will set the price from then on.
Where the stock opens compared to its $135 offer price, and where the stock closes on the first day of trade, will provide judgment on whether SpaceX's market debut is an initial success.
By Friday afternoon, the world's most valuable private company will be private no longer, and the market, not SpaceX, will set the price from then on.
Where the stock opens compared to its $135 offer price, and where the stock closes on the first day of trade, will provide judgment on whether SpaceX's market debut is an initial success.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 01:02:22 am »SpaceX sets $135 IPO price ahead of Friday Nasdaq debut
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/spacex-sets-135-ipo-price-ahead-of-friday-nasdaq-debut-101955774.html
Fixed price not the usual range. At $135 per share, SpaceX will raise around $75 billion and have an anticipated market capitalization of $1.78 trillion.
It will make Musk the world's first trillionaire.
SpaceX plans to sell 555.6 million shares to hit that $75 billion, with underwriters holding a "greenshoe," or option to sell additional shares if demand outstrips the initial allotment, of approximately 83 million shares worth around $11.2 billion. The company reportedly told investors it would stop taking orders Wednesday, a day earlier than usual, giving SpaceX and its bankers all of Thursday to determine who gets shares in the largest IPO ever.
The biggest open question is how much ends up with retail investors. SpaceX is reportedly targeting a retail allocation of roughly 30% — far above the 5% to 10% typical of most IPOs — but the final figure remains unsettled.
In addition, SpaceX's IPO shares are running four times oversubscribed which indicates strong demand; however, this amount is often inflated by institutional investors to make sure they receive enough stock for their clients. In actuality, demand could be less, adding to the uncertainty.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/spacex-sets-135-ipo-price-ahead-of-friday-nasdaq-debut-101955774.html
Fixed price not the usual range. At $135 per share, SpaceX will raise around $75 billion and have an anticipated market capitalization of $1.78 trillion.
It will make Musk the world's first trillionaire.
SpaceX plans to sell 555.6 million shares to hit that $75 billion, with underwriters holding a "greenshoe," or option to sell additional shares if demand outstrips the initial allotment, of approximately 83 million shares worth around $11.2 billion. The company reportedly told investors it would stop taking orders Wednesday, a day earlier than usual, giving SpaceX and its bankers all of Thursday to determine who gets shares in the largest IPO ever.
The biggest open question is how much ends up with retail investors. SpaceX is reportedly targeting a retail allocation of roughly 30% — far above the 5% to 10% typical of most IPOs — but the final figure remains unsettled.
In addition, SpaceX's IPO shares are running four times oversubscribed which indicates strong demand; however, this amount is often inflated by institutional investors to make sure they receive enough stock for their clients. In actuality, demand could be less, adding to the uncertainty.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 12:55:39 am »Any soccer fans?
FIFA World Cup is here
USA first game in Group D
United States vs. Paraguay at 9 PM on FOX
FIFA World Cup is here
USA first game in Group D
United States vs. Paraguay at 9 PM on FOX
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 12:51:00 am »Stanley Cup Finals
Game 5
Carolina 4, Vegas 2
Carolina leads series 3 games to 2
Game 5
Carolina 4, Vegas 2
Carolina leads series 3 games to 2
Posted by: Mark J
« on: Today at 12:49:13 am »"...DOJ Agency Has No Record of Trump’s Shady IRS Settlement - The Justice Department office that should have handled Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS says it has no records about it at all...:
Posted by: Mark J
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Posted by: Mark J
« on: June 11, 2026, 11:54:25 pm »Night folks. It’s that time of year again where I’m following my precious grandchildren all around the country while they show their animals and bring home ribbons, plaques, banners, and trophies. It’s hot in those barns and I’m whipped. Today I stayed in the pool most of the day and that was so comfortable. They took off tonight for Murray, KY. I think I’m gonna sit this one out.
That will keep you busy!