@cliff-mashburn said
Again with the killed police officers nonsense.
NO police officer was killed on Jan 6.
The rest is just as dishonest but I'm not going to bother.

Officer Sicknick died the following day of stress-related stroke sustained during the 6th January riot. But for the riot, he would be alive today.

@mchill

In order to understand Trump's oft-repeated charge that he's the victim (of a "witch-hunt" ), it helps to know something about who his mentor was.

His mentor was Roy Cohn.

Now, for those who are too young for that name to resonate, he was Senator Joe McCarthy's 'rotweiller', right-hand man, and legal counsel. Yes, that Senator McCarthy -- the one who instigated a 'witch-hunt' in the the 1950s. Everything Trump does in and around courtrooms , he learned from Roy Cohn: delay, prevaricate, intimidate witnesses and judges, accuse your accuser of what you did (e.g. rig an election), turn the charges upside-down and cry 'I'm the victim here! not my accuser', avoid the facts, deny responsibility, blame someone else, decry the procedure, decry the evidence, deflect, deny-deny-deny, distort the legal system against itself, automatically appeal any decision you don't like, counter-sue your accusers for quadruple the sum because they can't afford the legal fees to defend themselves against spurious charges, but under no circumstances address the facts or ever admit defeat (even when the sentence is unequivocally "you did it and you're guilty as Cain" ). All these tactics are straight out of Roy Cohn's playbook, and the whole 'witch-hunt' narrative dates to Sen. McCarthy himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

@rajk999 said
Good Idea, but about half of the US population do not have a garden. Of those that do about half of them have only flowers and other inedible plants. Even less have chickens running around. The average family in the US have only dogs and cats. These stats are similar in most first world countries.

In fact having a garden that produces food or contains animals for food ...[text shortened]... nned in some residential areas, as the priority is preserving the market value of the neighbourhood.

Luxury problems. Like, ‘my Truth Social stocks just lost 35% of their imaginary value.’

@averagejoe1 said
Happy that I have 2 votes!!! Rare on the Forum. One says political, one says not.

That doesn't mean I think the trial should be aborted. It should go ahead, and he should be convicted if the evidence indicates guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

@BigDogg

You have luxury problems. People in Gaza and Haiti are starving.

@Anglian

Russ is working on an update now. You might suggest this to him directly.

@mott-the-hoople said
corrupt democrats abusing the justice system to interfere in the upcoming election…

Ok, so they’re politically motivated, to keep a felon out of office. Happy now?

@spruce112358 said
Agree. The Swiss version of Democracy is excellent in a lot of ways.

The main complaint I've heard from the Swiss about their society is a funny one: 'so damn perfect, it's boring!' I've especially heard this from younger people...

Fiscal responsibility is essential, but thorough-going across-the-board direct democracy, as in Switzerland, is not scale-able. Wouldn’t work in country with 300 million inhabitants. Switzerland has a Population roughly of the size of Munich, Berlin, and Hamburg (combined), so direct democracy works here.

@no1marauder

And that happened after he was sworn into office?

@no1marauder said
Actually, they were committed while he was in office from February 14, 2017 to December 5, 2017. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indictment-34-felony-counts-charges-new-york-read/

This case is being prosecuted by the County of New York DA, not the DOJ.

Weren't the hush money payments made during the campaign, in 2016, before he was in the WH?

@Russ

TU from me, Russ. It's tedious work, ... I do know a little bit about coding.

@anglian said
Can we have a check flag to prevent non-subscribers from accepting new challenges?

Despite setting the game name to 'for subscribers only' I still get nonsubscribers accepting ..... is that something about nonsubscribers that they can't read English?!

If there was a check flag that excluded non subscribers that would be most helpful

I don't understand what the issue is. You do not have to accept any challenge; any game can be unilaterally terminated with the first three moves.

@wajoma said
Could be construed as a racist remark, Haiti being the first country to gain independence from the colonisers. SA is heading the same way.

Well, that speaks volumes about you and says nothing about me or Haiti.

@no1marauder said
There's a table in this article covering dozens of recent cases where people were charged with violations of NY Penal Law sec. 175.10. https://www.justsecurity.org/85605/survey-of-past-new-york-felony-prosecutions-for-falsifying-business-records/

Many pled guilty to lesser charges, others had multiple convictions of other sections of the Penal Law. The closest case to ...[text shortened]... f Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree only after trial but his sentence isn't mentioned.

Quoted from your second link:

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§ 175.10). Although the jury acquitted defendant of insurance fraud, which is the crime the People alleged that defendant intended to commit or conceal by falsifying business records, the jury could "convict defendant of falsifying business records if the jury concluded that defendant had intended to commit or conceal another crime, even if he was not convicted of the other crime" (People v McCumskey, 12 AD3d 1145, 1146 [4th Dept 2004]; see People v Crane, 87 [*2]AD3d 1386, 1386 [4th Dept 2011], lv denied 17 NY3d 952 [2011]).
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My emphasis. Well, that is the clincher, isn't it?

@no1marauder said
Actually, they were committed while he was in office from February 14, 2017 to December 5, 2017. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indictment-34-felony-counts-charges-new-york-read/

This case is being prosecuted by the County of New York DA, not the DOJ.

OOps, sorry, I'm confusing two separate cases. There are so many ...

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