LIBERTY: Would-be law student fights an uphill battle without significant legal help

Saturday, September 16, 2023

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/appeals-court-reinstates-wrongly-imprisoned-students-suit-against-college

Appeals court reinstates wrongly imprisoned student’s lawsuit against college for hiding evidence

  • Would-be law student, acquitted by second jury in 29 minutes, represents himself in civil case. Trial judge repeatedly botched statute of limitations, 3rd Circuit finds.

By Greg Piper
Updated: September 9, 2023 – 11:20pm

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A student who spent 16 months in prison before a second jury exonerated him of sexual assault will get another chance to hold his public university accountable for withholding evidence during his first criminal trial, then refusing to give him a conduct hearing to clear his educational record.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated most of a trial judge’s ruling that dismissed Darold Palmore’s lawsuit against Clarion University – since renamed Pennsylvania Western University, or PennWest Clarion, after a merger – and officials including the campus police officer who withheld security footage.

The three-judge panel unanimously remanded Palmore’s malicious prosecution, Brady due process, 14th Amendment due process, Title IX, negligence, and breach of contract claims for further proceedings.

The ruling is all the more remarkable because Palmore, a D.C. native who had planned to go to law school after his expected graduation four years ago, has represented himself throughout the two-year civil case against Clarion, albeit with guidance from sympathetic lawyers.

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How is this “fair”?

Where is the pro-bono legal help?  Isn’t that one reason that lawyers have a “bar association”?

Argh!

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RANT: A Constitutional Amendment to end the gerontocracy

Friday, September 15, 2023

https://jeffjacoby.com/27202/the-schoolboy-and-the-gadsden-flag

The schoolboy and the Gadsden flag
by Jeff Jacoby
Arguable
September 5, 2023

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Washington is more of a gerontocracy than ever — no president has ever been older and the median age of the current Senate is 65.3 years, a record high. Though some House freshmen are in their 40s or younger, the median age in that chamber, too, is the highest it’s ever been. McConnell’s brain-freeze episodes, Biden’s moments of obvious confusion, and the tragic evidence of Feinstein’s cognitive decline keep raising questions about the age and health of America’s political leaders. Actually, they keep raising just one question: What do we do about geriatric officeholders who refuse to relax their grip on power?

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The Dead Old White Guys didn’t anticipate that a gerontocracy would occur.

Let’s pick an age  — say full social security age  — for politicians to retire.

If they are in an office when they have that fateful birthday, then they are deemed to have died in office and whatever process is in place for a death is used to replace them.

If they refuse to go, then someone can just shoot them under Marque and Reprisal power.

Argh!

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HEROIC: Heroes act and don’t over-think

Thursday, September 14, 2023

https://scoop.upworthy.com/italian-banker-becomes-real-life-hero-by-catching-3-year-old-girl-who-fell-from-5th-floor-balcony?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Man heroically saves 3-year-old toddler by catching her after she falls from 5th-floor balcony

  • The man’s quick thinking and courage saved the life of the toddler and he is being highly praised for his heroic act.

By Shruti Menon
September 7, 2023

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An Italian banker wore the cape of a real-life hero after he saved the life of a three-year-old girl falling from the fifth floor of a building in central Turin. The incident happened on Saturday, August 26, when 37-year-old Mattia Aguzzi was on his way to a bakery with his girlfriend in the morning. “I heard a man scream when he saw the little girl leaning out on the ledge. The little girl kept leaning more and more and climbed over the ledge, she held on only with two arms and her legs were in the air,” Aguzzi narrated the incident to Sky24. He added: “I started yelling at her to stay still and to go back inside but she didn’t hear. When I saw her fall I stepped in the way, closed my eyes and hoped that everything was going to be for the best, I blocked her by cushioning the blow and we both fell to the ground…Initially I didn’t feel any sign of life, then the baby started crying and I breathed a sigh of relief.”

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Great catch!

Don’t underestimate how much risk he himself was taking.

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RANT: Did we used to hang horse theives? Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs”

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12496923/Moment-three-women-beat-Asian-man-Chicago.html

Shocking moment three women beat 61-year-old Asian man to the ground with metal pipe before carjacking him in crime-ridden, Dem-led Chicago

  •     The shocking moment three women attacked a man was captured on camera  
  •     Danxin Shi, a rideshare driver, is no longer able to work after his car was stolen  
  •     Footage shows the moment he’s pushed the ground and hit with a pipe 

By Fiona Connor, Senior Reporter For Dailmail.Com
Published: 16:42 EDT, 8 September 2023 | Updated: 16:42 EDT, 8 September 2023

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The shocking moment three women beat an Asian man with a metal pipe before taking off with his car has been caught on camera. 

Danxin Shi, a rideshare driver, is no longer able to work after his vehicle was stolen by the gang about 5:30pm on Tuesday evening in crime-ridden, Dem-led Chicago. 

Footage shows the moment the Chinatown resident, who lives West 22nd Place, parking his vehicle and walking along the street when he is struck with a weapon and shoved to the ground – where he is beaten repeatedly.

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Guess the race of the three “women”?

I’m fed up with crime and adults who are out of control.

While I’m against the death penalty when the Gooferment administer it, I am for the RKBA and what everyone have the ability to defend themselves.  In this case, deadly force was warranted, and that man should have be able to “convince” the young ladies of the error of their ways.

Quoting my sheepdog post:

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“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.

Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!

Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!

Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”

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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/

GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26

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TECHNOLOGY: Pay attetnion to your dreams?

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

https://youtu.be/oXSFKcACs1g?si=un_vSQ__55Tc1PIF

What’s the Grappler Police Bumper?
FOX 10 Phoenix  — Sep 2, 2023 

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Police pursuits are unpredictable, dangerous, and in some cases, even deadly.

These pursuits put not only officers’ lives in danger, but also innocent people who happen to get caught up in the chaos.

Until recently, there was no safe way to bring them to an end. Officers would have to rely on something called a ‘PIT Maneuver’ (PIT, according to an article on the U.S. Department of Justice’s website, stands for Precision Immobilization Technique) to try to stop the vehicles they were after by forcing a vehicle to spin out and come to a stop. Another option is to lay down spike strips to deflate the tires, but even then, the suspects would often keep going on the rim only.

Five years ago, however, a new option emerged in the form of the Grappler Police Bumper.

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What a great idea!

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TINFOILHAT: 9/11 Will We Ever Get the Truth?

Monday, September 11, 2023

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/09/04/9-11-22-years-later-will-we-ever-get-the-truth/

9/11, 22 Years Later: Will We Ever Get the Truth?
Guest Post by Kevin Barrett

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Carlson built his career by cultivating a reputation for straight talk, unfazed by political correctness. But as he suggests, straight talk about 9/11 in general, and WTC-7 in particular, is unwelcome in today’s USA. In mainstream media, even asking questions in unacceptable.

Why can’t we ask questions about Building 7? Because the answers are all-too-obvious—and all-too-embarrassing to the rulers of the intertwined American and Israeli empires.

World Trade Center Building 7, a 47-story high-rise, collapsed into its own footprint at 5:21 pm on September 11, 2001, seven hours after the Twin Towers were destroyed. Numerous witnesses reported police and emergency personnel announcing that WTC-7 was about to come down. Seconds before it fell, witnesses overheard a countdown to demolition (“five-four-three-two-one”) on police radio, followed by the massive explosion that precipitated the “collapse.”

The building fell at absolute free-fall for the first two-and-a-half seconds, and near-free-fall thereafter. That means that all of WTC-7’s vertical supports had somehow been simultaneously and completely removed. The only known mechanism that can do that is professionally-prepared-and-timed explosives.

The obvious controlled demolition of Building 7 threw a monkey wrench into the US government’s official 9/11 narrative. WTC-7 had been one of the most important buildings in America. It housed the CIA’s second-largest headquarters after Langley, Virginia, as well as the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission with its Enron files, the Internal Revenue Service, and many of America’s biggest corporate heavy hitters. What’s more, WTC-7’s 23rd floor was the home of New York’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), where the local and federal governments would manage their joint response to any major disaster—like 9/11.

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Bottom line: NO!

Like the JFK assassination, RFK, MLK, Malcom X, etc. etc., the “truth” is that the tyrants seek to control “We, The Sheeple” and this is all kabuki theater.

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POLITICAL: What Federal Gooferment agencies would you shut down?

Sunday, September 10, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/trumps_movement_transcends_politics.html

Trump’s Movement Transcends Politics
By Matt Kane

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But the gloves are now off. So much about the American political system is rooted in precedent, and a precedent has been set that will allow Trump to open investigations into the many troubling actions taken by his predecessors. Another Trump election could bring true generational change to America for the better. He has vowed he would quickly bring down inflation and gas prices, strengthen the economy, secure the border, and reintroduce a strong America on the global stage in just months. But taking on the Deep State is most important now, and he has demonstrated that he understands how vital this task is for America’s long-term future by recently urging Republicans in Congress to “fight fire with fire.” He also referenced “an eye for an eye” when asked, if re-elected, if he would “lock up” those in government who commit crimes.  

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Recently I read someone complain that calling Washington DC a swamp it really unfair to swamps everywhere.  A better adjective would be a sewer.  Like the old joke about calling politicians “morons” was unfair to real “morons”.

That being said, Vivek Ramaswamy has at least begun to address the list of Federal Gooferment agencies that he would shutdown.  Desantis has four.

Us little L libertarians, have an inexhaustible list: Federal Reserve, FBI, AFT, DHS, IRS, HHS, D of Education, D of Energy, Agriculture, … … and on and on and on. 

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Money: The Cantillon Effect

Saturday, September 9, 2023

A Cantillon effect is an uneven change in relative prices resulting from a change in money supply, which was first described by 18th-century economist Richard Cantillon (who inspired political economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/biflation.asp

This is what we are experiencing today.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Usign “e-waste” to revive an electric scooter

Friday, September 8, 2023

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-used-80-discarded-vape-batteries-to-power-an-electric-scooter-proving-the-importance-of-e-waste/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=05-09-2023

Man Used 80 Discarded Vape Batteries to Power an Electric Scooter Proving the Importance of E-Waste

By Good News Network – Sep 2, 2023 

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A clever graduate has used 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter—and to make a point about waste.

The 23-year-old Brit says disposable vape devices are marketed as expendable, but still have plenty of power—and people need to know that.

It didn’t cost any money to pick up 80 discarded vape batteries and he wired the lithium-ion batteries to a scooter purchased on eBay for $37 (£30).

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Wow.  Now there’s an “injineer”.  

I’m more impressed with scooters when I see them in use.  While I’m too old and heavy for one, and they really are only for “fair weather”, there is a lesson for “youngsters” who can’t drive yet that there are alternatives to “shank’s mare” aka walking.

It also demonstrates the value of “lateral thinking”.  

Wish I was young again, there seems like there are MORE opportunities for youths to succeed in unconventional 9-5 wage slave jobs.

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TECHNOLOGY: ​Score one save for what3words.

Thursday, September 7, 2023
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/farmer-nearly-crushed-huge-bale-hay-saved-father-two?utm_campaign=USA B2C Newsletter 2023
 
​Score one save for what3words.  Everytime I read one of these stories, I think how valuable a (FREE) tool it is.  I then share these stories on social media to encourage others to download it and have it when needed.  Forewarned is forarmed. IMHO
 
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