Is it just me or does everyone think Henry Winkler should play Doug Burgum in the American remake of Judgement at Nuremberg? (Tentatively titled "Judgement at Minneapolis")
Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.
NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.
I was reading a thing about how a company is planning a data center in Utah twice the size of the island of Manhattan (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash). Oh, it'll create jobs! And a whole bunch of global warming, environmental destruction, and pollution (from the Salt Lake drying up and blowing away, among other things).
I like the way that oligarch O'Leary frames it as some kind of patriotic duty to have the data center, to somehow "show China." Who cares what China does. Elon Musk does the same crap, trying to manipulate us into things in order for the "U.S. to keep up." The Founding Fathers wanted us to be free, not to "keep up" with other nations in stupid things.
“I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.”
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions and life sentence of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son.
In a unanimous ruling, the justices said the conduct by the court clerk “egregiously attacked Murdaugh’s credibility” by suggesting to jurors his testimony could not be trusted. They also said the trial judge went too far in allowing evidence of Murdaugh’s financial crimes into his murder trial
But Murdaugh won’t be getting out of prison. The 57-year-old pleaded guilty to stealing around $12 million from his clients and currently is serving a 40-year federal sentence.
Still, the state Supreme Court ruling is a win for Murdaugh, who admits to being a thief, liar, insurance cheat and bad lawyer, but has adamantly denied killing his wife Maggie and younger son Paul since he found their bodies outside their home in 2021.
The justices ruled Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill, assigned to oversee the evidence and the jury during the trial, influenced jurors to find Murdaugh guilty. She hoped to improve sales of a book she was writing about the case. She has since pleaded guilty to lying about what she said and did to a different judge.
Murdaugh’s lawyers also argued before the high court that the judge at his 2023 trial made rulings that prevented a fair trial, such as allowing in evidence of Murdaugh stealing from clients that had nothing to do with the killings but biased jurors against him.
“Sure, I’m a thief and a grifter and a scam artist and a horrible person and a murderer and a scoundrel…. … … and a philanderer, but there’s NO WAY I KILLED THOSE PEOPLE
Judge picking needs to be fixed.
When this is all over there needs to be a LOT of attorneys losing their bar cards.
Yay, Our Liz!
We can haz new thred?
The last time somebuddy asked that, we got Jerry Falwell Jr.s grundle.....
If I could ask a question at the confirmation hearings, it would be:
"Who is your client?"
Any answer other than "The People of the United States" is WRONG.
"What's good for Donald Trump is good for America."
General Morons
The deterioration of ethical standards at the DOJ has been a boiling frog metaphor, or at least, a toad blanch.
now wouldn't that be a blanched toad then? ;)
Is it just me or does everyone think Henry Winkler should play Doug Burgum in the American remake of Judgement at Nuremberg? (Tentatively titled "Judgement at Minneapolis")
Wee Man to play Greg Bovino
OT: @MorePerfectUS
Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.
NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.
Do data centers have anti-drone systems?
They're defenceless against the advancing army of Scots bagpipers
Not yet...
That hum you hear coming from the data center drones on and on and on.
I was reading a thing about how a company is planning a data center in Utah twice the size of the island of Manhattan (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash). Oh, it'll create jobs! And a whole bunch of global warming, environmental destruction, and pollution (from the Salt Lake drying up and blowing away, among other things).
I like the way that oligarch O'Leary frames it as some kind of patriotic duty to have the data center, to somehow "show China." Who cares what China does. Elon Musk does the same crap, trying to manipulate us into things in order for the "U.S. to keep up." The Founding Fathers wanted us to be free, not to "keep up" with other nations in stupid things.
"Is it a salt, or is it a lake? I think it should make up its mind."
"That's gold, Jerry, gold!"
I've been convinced for a while all this AI shit is accelerating our demise. It just gets worse every time I read about it.
The Cartwrights won't let that happen.
“I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.”
― Agent Smith
That doesn’t sound legal.
Let's ask SCROTUS. Money is speech, you know.
Like legality matters nowadays.
That oughta go over well...
"My 'He kept me out of jail' t-shirt is causing a lot of questions to be asked that are already answered by my t-shirt."
Love this!
Phone won’t let me upvote.
THE SPOOGE IS EVERYWHERE!!!!...
That's what *she*... oh, never mind.
ppp
pianissimo!
I p, you p, we all p for pp!
I still mourn my lost p points!...
Liz Dye!? Whodat!?
aka 5$F.
OT- loosing looser's loosing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-emboldened-ice-judges-ruled-090000766.html
Make Losing Great Again.
The lower courts still have a smattering of integrity.
“Facts are stupid things”, “you’re working hard to put food on your family” “He kept me out of jail”.
He loves the poorly educated.
He loves *to grift* the poorly educated.
"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."
*killer guitar solo*
*killer yell*
Moonies drums brought it all together.
This kind of story makes me blanch.
But I'll get better.
I mean, blanching is good...if you're broccoli rabe.
OT
𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡’𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐧
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions and life sentence of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son.
In a unanimous ruling, the justices said the conduct by the court clerk “egregiously attacked Murdaugh’s credibility” by suggesting to jurors his testimony could not be trusted. They also said the trial judge went too far in allowing evidence of Murdaugh’s financial crimes into his murder trial
But Murdaugh won’t be getting out of prison. The 57-year-old pleaded guilty to stealing around $12 million from his clients and currently is serving a 40-year federal sentence.
Still, the state Supreme Court ruling is a win for Murdaugh, who admits to being a thief, liar, insurance cheat and bad lawyer, but has adamantly denied killing his wife Maggie and younger son Paul since he found their bodies outside their home in 2021.
The justices ruled Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill, assigned to oversee the evidence and the jury during the trial, influenced jurors to find Murdaugh guilty. She hoped to improve sales of a book she was writing about the case. She has since pleaded guilty to lying about what she said and did to a different judge.
Murdaugh’s lawyers also argued before the high court that the judge at his 2023 trial made rulings that prevented a fair trial, such as allowing in evidence of Murdaugh stealing from clients that had nothing to do with the killings but biased jurors against him.
https://apnews.com/article/murdaugh-killings-appeal-overturned-65a2ea0610bdb80763b39838ab4fcdb6
“Sure, I’m a thief and a grifter and a scam artist and a horrible person and a murderer and a scoundrel…. … … and a philanderer, but there’s NO WAY I KILLED THOSE PEOPLE
No retrial?
Either way, he's still gonna be in prison until they put him in a pine box. I'm good with that.
40 year Federal sentence? I see a pardon on the horizon
Wouldn't that depend on whether he can still "contribute" a ton of money to Dear Leader's favorite project?
Hm. I don't know anything about this case, so I can't weigh in on whether I think he's guilty or not (of the murders, that is).
That whole family is a Freudian fever dream, and the rot runs deep.
Faulkner couldn't have written it better.