Hmmm chit chats really slow lately. Oh well...
I WIN!!!
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Hmmm chit chats really slow lately. Oh well...
I WIN!!!
Darn, I didn't realize it was first to 63,881. That does seem like a kind of arbitrary number, but there's a beauty in that.
That actor smollett has friends in high places as well as a relative. Bet favors were had. Hope the FBI investigation into it will find out the truth. also the Chicago PD is sending him a bill for the investigation expenses lol
Smollett to Robin Roberts on GMA in an answer to why he was targeted by MAGA hat wearing white folk: "I come really, really hard at 45". Trump Derangement Syndrome - what a joke!Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
You can find pictures of him with Mooch and maybe even Barry - those are friends in high places all right.
That's funny. Did they say how much the bill was???? Might have to get creative to get any justice in this case. I usually don't feel so vengeful but the way he keep lying and acting so smug, makes 2 days of community service and $10,000 seem inadequate.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
The propossed bill they will be serving him with is said to be ~$130,000. Could be a cover up payment in disguise lolQuote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Yea and that horrible female Maxime Waters and Kamilla Harris!Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
There won't be a bill. That's just talk. We haven't sunk so low as to say, "we'll investigate your claim as long as you pay us for it."
Prosecutors do this all the time, it's just not always so public. They get to decide whether or not they want to prosecute a case. If they say no, then that's the end of it most of the time. That means that we have some laws (that I can point to, but won't) that are on the books, but which you can pretty much break in front of a law enforcement officer and get away with it, because they know the prosecutor won't take it to court. In the cases I'm talking about, the prosecutors won't take it to court because it's so very hard to prove that the crime was actually committed. This may be similar. As long as he doesn't admit to it, and he is sticking with his story, they have to prove that something didn't happen. That's a heavy lift.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel sent the bill already - $130,000 dollars.
According to the prosecutors office, they used a program that allows for restitution and community service. He was not exonerated at all.
If he pays the 130K it is an admission of guilt.
If he does not pay they can sue in civil court. This does two great things. It opens the case that was sealed and it changes the rules of guilt to be just a preponderance of evidence. That's how they first got at OJ...
I don't think it's a heavy lift at all. You have the two brothers confession, got incriminating text messages, got him giving them money...... I've certainly seen cases less compelling go to trial. Plus the states attorney said she believed they could have proven him guilty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I don't really care about if he went to trial or not, what bothers me is him not having to admit guilt and then sealing the records. I know it boils down to lying to the police and staging a crime, not really a major offence. But you can see by the outcry from the people of Chicago that they felt they deserve some accountability. I feel the states attorney has let them down. I just wonder WHY???
I'd have to say that this whole story has never held much interest for me. When I first heard about it, my thought was, "who?" When I heard that the police decided it was a phony report...that was all I heard and left it at that. Frankly, I believe this is only making the news because it was some kind of celebrity (though I still don't know who, or where the celebrity was from). Heck, I didn't know it was Chicago until Rham Emanuel's name came up. I thought it was NYC.
Now that I know ever so slightly more....so what? Are folks really shocked that a rich person gets different treatment? Are folks really shocked that a celebrity gets different treatment? Are folks really shocked that a celebrity did something to attract attention to themselves? I doubt anybody on here would be surprised by any of that. It's just more "stupid pet tricks".
Yeah, I didn't have any idea who he was either. People know who he is now, so I guess his publicity stunt worked. Not so sure it going to work out to his benefit in the long run. But it's a crazy world so who knows???
I would say that it will. There's the old adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity, and that may be even more true today than when the phrase was coined. After all, the audience of today is highly segmented/targeted. If you want to appeal to the broader public, then you have to be somewhat careful not to be too outrageous. However, if you've decided that YOUR audience is X, then it may be better to be outrageous in a way that X will appreciate, even if it alienates Y.
I have no desire to do anything like that, but if your livelihood depends on the support of some segment of society, then it certainly behooves you to recognize that and act accordingly. For the rest of us, our livelihood likely depends on not alienating some broad segment of society, but otherwise it doesn't matter. For him, he needs the active support of X, for the rest of us, we just need not to have the active opposition of X. That's a MUCH lower bar.
Of course, he has angered a fair amount of his group X, as well, so this may work against him....it's just that, if I had to put money on it, I'd bet that it doesn't hurt him. Just a guess, though.
To quote Airheads: "Rock stars don't go to jail. Christ, Vince Neil only got 30 days and he killed somebody."
To paraphrase Shaggy's last post: Don't put all your X in one basket.
Yeah, that's true. Putting things in a basket could hamper your ability to retrieve them.
I don't know whether that last pun is based on a local definition or a general definition.
Just need one of those new processors, with multi-hamper threading.
Just watched "The Dirt", a NetFlix movie about Motley Crue. Very much a movie about Sexxx, Drugs and a little Rock & Roll. Had some funny parts.Quote:
To quote Airheads: "Rock stars don't go to jail. Christ, Vince Neil only got 30 days and he killed somebody."
Yeah, I watched it too. I was a big fan back in the 80s (had the hair and everything). It was fun but, I suspect, a little more complimentary to their rock star image than reality would have been. They were pretty much irredeemable ass-holes.:rolleyes:
They need to throw the damn book at him and make an example or anyone is going to be able to do the same without repercussions. So many damn snowflakes. Time to turn the heat up and melt their arses!