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Law and order, just not for rich people. Impressive even by WSJ standards, the columnist compares years of systematic falsification of invoices to fishing without a valid license.

 
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It is only https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/?utm_term=.1acc16715163 (the last possible moment) to reverse course and prevent a scale of climate disruption that will plague humanity for as long as we survive — which might not be as long as we had planned.

But . . . But what? We have proven our resilience. We have shown we can ignore the evidence. And the warnings. We can put up with the nonstop lying about it. We can evade our responsibility for a really long time! So if we’re tough enough to do that, we are tough enough to watch the landscape burn away, and our house with it. Or watch it blown away, and our children with it. We can stand in water up to our knees and hunt for floating photographs of our parents, who were alive here yesterday. We can withstand the endless stream of refugees walking from nowhere to nowhere, because we now understand their plight since we are also refugees now, walking from nowhere to nowhere. The crops have failed and new diseases ravage us, but what is that to us? We showed we were strong enough to ignore common sense. We can deal with this.

We are writing a whole new, concluding chapter, the climax and conclusion of the sorry saga: How Can People Be So Stupid? Ever wonder? Well, look around. We is us. We are committing the largest blunder, BY FAR, in all of human history, right now. Yes, us. And we KNOW it. We have the facts right in front of our noses. We had the time and the capacity to avoid it. And we chose not to. CHOSE!

The only thing we may be better at than stupidity is blame shifting. Let us count a few of the ways. My personal favorite is: the “environmentalists” didn’t talk about it properly. It’s their fault. They were too alarmist. They didn’t make dealing with climate sound like fun. Another favorite is: it wasn’t OUR job to solve this, it was the politicians we voted for that didn’t solve it. How about: There were arguments on both sides! We have more excuses than the damned trying to talk their way out of hell. Which is where we are, pretty much, at this point.

Okay, we screwed up, but don’t we get a second chance? A do-over? An opportunity to make up for past indifference and save the planet at the last possible minute?

All right then, here’s your chance. The United Nations has issued what may be our last feasible warning to act or succumb. So, what are you going to do about it now?
 


The Trump administration has adopted a surprising new line of reasoning on climate change: acknowledge the likelihood of catastrophic global warming, and use this as rationale for doing nothing about it. Instead of arguing the problem is small or nonexistent, they argue that it’s too big.

The new logic showed up in an environmental impact statement on emissions standards by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Within the 500-page document is a section on climate science, the well-understood role greenhouse gas emissions play in changing the climate, and the scientists’ predictions that without curbing those emissions, the global temperature will rise about 4 degrees Celsius or 7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. This much change in global temperatures would destroy agriculture and lead to widespread deaths from heat and famine.
 
Notice that the boy was subjected to extreme humiliation including losing his job, being cuffed and arrested in front of his class mates, formally charged with rape and confined in a juvenile detention facility. He's now being home schooled to avoid the bullying he was forced to endure. ALL of the mean girls eventually confessed, but were not punished in any way by the school or by law enforcement.

The Kavanaugh hoax wasn't an isolated event. It is rapidly becoming the norm despite claims from the left that the opposite is the case. It really wasn't all that long ago when numerous similar (suspected) hoaxes by white girls resulted in lynchings.

Lawsuit accuses Seneca Valley 'mean girls' of targeting boy with false allegations

Paul Peirce
Oct. 3, 2018

While “Mean Girls Day” is being marked Wednesday in reference to a mention of Oct. 3 in the popular 2004 cult movie, the parents of a former Seneca Valley High School student claim in a federal lawsuit filed this week that their teenage son was terrorized by false accusations made by five “mean girls” at the school.

Michael J. and Alecia Flood of Zelienople, Butler County, the parents of a teenage boy identified in the lawsuit as T.F., seek unspecified civil damages against the girls’ parents, the school district and Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger’s office. The lawsuit, which includes the term “mean girls,” alleges they “conspired in person and via electronic communication devices to falsely accuse T.F. of sexual assault on two occasions.”

Neither Goldinger nor Seneca Valley school officials returned calls seeking comment.

The 26-page lawsuit — filed in Pittsburgh on the eve of Mean Girls Day — alleges that T.F. “was forced to endure multiple court appearances, detention in a juvenile facility, detention at home, the loss of his liberty and other damages until several of the girls reluctantly admitted that their accusations were false” this summer.

The lawsuit contends T.F. was bullied on multiple occasions by classmates. In one example, the lawsuit said students last year placed masking tape with the word “PREDATOR” written on it on his back without his knowledge during choir practice.

The lawsuit alleges the boy was further damaged from “gender bias” by school officials and Goldinger’s office, which even after learning the girls’ accusations were false “did not take any action against the females involved,” said attorney Craig Fishman of Pittsburgh, who represents the Floods.

“(T.F.) was basically being tortured in school by the other students and investigators, but the administration was only focused on protecting the girls who were lying,” Fishman said. “Once the allegations were proven false, they really didn’t care one bit about T.F. and there has been absolutely no repercussions against the girls.”

The teen boy is being home-schooled, Fishman said.

According to the lawsuit, the first allegation occurred in July 2017 at an area swimming pool where T.F. worked as a lifeguard with then Seneca Valley High School graduate Megan Villegas, who is the only teenage defendant named in the lawsuit. The others are minors and are referred to only by initials, Fishman said.

Villegas could not be reached for comment.

The lawsuit contends T.F. was charged with sexually assaulting a girl identified in the lawsuit as K.S. on the pool premises, and Villegas corroborated the K.S. claim by saying she was present during the alleged assault.

“T.F. was fired at the pool,” Fishman said.

In a tape-recorded interview with school officials in 2017, the lawsuit alleges K.S. said she made the sexual assault claim against T.F. because “I just don’t like him.”

“I just don’t like to hear him talk. … I don’t like to look at him,” K.S. reportedly disclosed in the recorded interview obtained by Fishman.

On Oct. 2, 2017, K.S. told fellow students “that she would do anything to get T.F. expelled … and accused T.F. of sexual assault” with school officials, the lawsuit states. T.F. was subsequently charged in juvenile court with indecent assault and two counts of harassment.

The Floods eventually agreed in late 2017 to a consent decree where he would not admit guilt but was required to stay out of trouble for six months and report to the county probation department.

In March, another girl — identified as C.S. and a friend of K.S. — reported to a school counselor that the boy had walked into her home uninvited and sexually assaulted her. The allegations were supported by information from two other girls, identified as E.S. and H.R., according to the lawsuit.

On April 9, Zelienople police charged T.F. with indecent assault, criminal trespass and simple assault.

“On April 10, T.F. was removed from class at Seneca Valley High School and placed in leg and wrist shackles by the Jackson Township Police with the assistance of Juvenile Probation Officer Michael Trego,” the lawsuit said.

Trego testified at a hearing that T.F. was a threat to the community, and the teenager had to spend nine days in a juvenile detention center before being released on home-electronic monitoring.

“After 28 days, T.F. was only allowed out of his home to mow his lawn,” the lawsuit contends.

During the case, T.F. was told by school officials he could not play baseball “because every time he was wearing a Seneca Valley jersey, he was representing a school.”

According to the lawsuit, the criminal complaints against the boy began to unravel in May when three of the witnesses admitted they had lied.

On Aug. 30, Goldinger’s office sought an order dismissing all charges against T.F. filed for the March allegation because of the false reports, according to court documents. On Sept. 10, the charges in connection with the 2017 swimming pool incident were ordered closed, according to the lawsuit.

“The Butler County District Attorney’s office promised to file a petition to expunge the record of T.F. in September, but has not yet done so, providing further evidence of gender-based discrimination. The (district attorney) has refused to file criminal charges against K.S., Villegas, C.S., E.S. and H.R. due to gender-based discrimination,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit claims school officials have repeatedly refused to mark the academic records of the girls who lied about the assaults.

“T.F. has had psychological trauma because of all this. He’s had to see a psychologist to deal with the physical symptoms which are the direct result of being accused of something when he did not do anything wrong,” Fishman said.
 
Once the Dems take over the house next month, a proper investigation into Kav will ensue. It will not end will for Kav.

As things stand it's not looking so good for the Dems next month. Whatever you are reading in the media, the Kananaugh thing really hurt their chances. Unless the markets tip over before then, the Dems taking over the House is no longer a sure thing. Of course, the probability of the markets tipping over before then is pretty high.
 
As things stand it's not looking so good for the Dems next month. Whatever you are reading in the media, the Kananaugh thing really hurt their chances. Unless the markets tip over before then, the Dems taking over the House is no longer a sure thing. Of course, the probability of the markets tipping over before then is pretty high.
I don't see the markets tipping over but I'm certainly not going to say you're wrong. Corrections are bound to happen but they'd have to totally tank to go back the the levels they were under the half black thing.
As for the dems gaining control, I was fairly certain they would (hard to go against history). But as they continue to act like 36yr olds having a never ending temper tantrum I'm hoping they fuck themselves. They certainly are giving it their best shot.
Time will tell.
 
...they'd have to totally tank...

As the saying goes, the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. I have always found it infuriating to know exactly what's coming, but to not know exactly when.
 
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