Yesterday,-I think I may have figured out how to prevent getting shorted in a grocery delivery order if there is one item you want a bunch of – six or more – and nothing else will do. The secret is to order however many you want of that one thing, and then, if necessary, add just enough to put your order over the minimum, so that if even one thing is not there, they will have to cancel the order. That’s what I did, and if I hadn’t, I would have gotten three at most, and maybe only two, when I wanted 8. They sent me eight – and on the receipt it was broken down to two, three, and three – in other words, they got 2 from hither, three from thither, and another three from yon. And I received my eight. So I’m feeling a bit smug.
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HuffPost – The FBI Says It Still Opposes Leonard Peltier’s Freedom. Its Argument Is Full Of Holes.
Quote – HuffPost has been reporting on Peltier’s imprisonment for months, and we emailed the Office of the Pardon Attorney late last month to see if a clemency petition filed in July by Peltier’s attorney has moved along in the review process. The FBI unexpectedly wrote back. It sent over a statement saying it strongly opposes clemency for Peltier.
Click through for the bottom line. Which is, if the FBI’s statements were factual, I can see their being so pigheaded/ But the list of people who disbelieve the FBI’s statements, on the basis od what appears to be pretty solid evidence, is so long now I couldn’t reproduce it, and includes people as different as Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and Senator Brian Schatz. Of course emotons run high. What is needed here is facts.
Democrstic underground (Tommy Carcetti) – So, admittedly I hadn’t been paying that close attention to the “Hunter Biden laptop” story…
Quote – So I naturally just wrote the entire story off as right-wing bullshit/disinformation…. As it turns out, it was in fact right-wing bullshit/disinformation. But I had no idea how extreme right-wing bullshit/disinformation it actually is. Turns out, it is a pure dumpster fire on a train-wreck level of bullshit/disinformation that only the stupidest, most gullible idiots would possibly believe has any merit.
Click through. The Washington Post is his source, and I can’t get into it. but he has a helpful quote from it. And it really is dumb. So childish, I can’t imagine how the BS-ers managed to spell the long word correctly.
The Daily Beast – Manhattan DA’s Star Witness: Indict Trump Now or I’m Out
Quote – Michael Cohen, the New York lawyer Trump used for years as his family company’s trusted consigliere, told The Daily Beast he’s already wasted too much of his time on a case that slowly and then suddenly doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Prosecutors only have until the current grand jury’s term expires on April 30 to issue charges, at which point they must ask jurors who’ve already done this for six months to continue hearing evidence—or call the whole thing off and awkwardly make the entire presentation all over again in front of another 23 jurors.
Click through for details. After the 2020 election runoffs, I said “Thank God for Georgia.” I’m saying it again.
Food For Thought
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