POLITICAL: Did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

Friday, July 11, 2025

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Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students in deal to avoid execution
By REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON and MARK SCOLFORO
Updated 12:35 AM EDT, July 1, 2025

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said Monday.

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I always wonder if he really did it, OR did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

As a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I’m against the death penalty for moral and irreversible grounds.  Moral because the Gooferment shouldn’t be able to do anything I can’t do since Gooferment is a fiction and represents a collection of individuals.  Irreverable since mistakes happen and there is no way to un-die someone.

We have the saying that “better a hundred guilty go free that one innocent be imprisioned”.  Plea bargains, regardless of the guilt or innocence, seems to make a mockery of our sense of “justice”.  Any more than poor “defendants” get Legal Aid and rich “defendants” get the best money can buy.  Also, even a rich “defendant” can be impoverished when faced with a Gooferment bureaucrat with unlimited funds to convict them.  

Finally, how fair is our “justice system” when some civil and criminal cases “cost” a staggering amount of attention, time, and money?  A Pyrrhic victory is a win that comes at such a significant cost to the victor that it is almost tantamount to defeat.  One has to wonder.

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INTERESTING: Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains

Saturday, June 21, 2025

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Science
A grassland bird eavesdrops on prairie dog calls to keep itself safe from predators
By CHRISTINA LARSON
Updated 10:04 AM EDT, June 12, 2025

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air.

“Prairie dogs are on the menu for just about every predator you can think of”— golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, foxes, badgers, even large snakes — said Andy Boyce, a research ecologist in Montana at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

Those predators will also snack on grassland nesting birds like the long-billed curlew.

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Isn’t “nature” amazing?

Who have thought that birds could evolve to listen and differentiate between “danger – ground” and “danger – air”?

I find this almost unbelievable.  I know from all the war movies that listening and smelling was ssential skills in most kinds of warfare and hunting. 

From my time in survival school, I know that animals had no worry about me “sneaking” up and eating them.  I wouldn’t have survived on what I could have caught.  Laugh!

In our modern world of “bread and circuses” is there equivalent skills in keep us safe.  Like “situational awareness” to avoid crime.  “Marksmanship” to end threats quickly.  “Listening” and “reading” to avoid frauds and misinformation.  “Distrust all experts, politicians, and bureaucrats” who seek to deceive us for their own reasons.

Maybe we can be like “the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains” and warn family, friends, acquaintances, others of our species, and other species to the dangers we see?

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