I know this is hours later now but, as I am just now reading through winding down for my night, this is what I'm watching!
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It's ok, we understand here. This is your safe space. If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.
I've also known some sleaze bag business owners who seek these kinds of services because they want to find a way to take advantage of programs n things they don't actually qualify for.
Qapla'! Fucking Ah-maz-ing!
So glad it wasn't just me that immediately thought of him.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/07/states-felony-conviction-voting-rights
Virginia, Tennessee, Iowa and Kentucky still have policies that result in at least some US citizens being effectively shut out of democracy for life. Several other states, including Florida, Alabama and Arizona, predicate voting on having enough money to pay off court fines and fees – another barrier that makes it nearly impossible for low-income Americans to regain the right to vote.
Oh wow! That was a fun read!
The Bjorn are based on the Borg from Star Trek. The actual name comes from the former Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg.
I have not thought about that game in a very long time. I have definitely forgotten some of the details it had!
Piping in with some odd history info. They were originally made to give theater patrons something to watch while the main film was re-wound. Theaters used to play the same movie on repeat all day until they got a new film, then it was that movie all day. There were no "move times". If you showed up midway you just stayed until it repeated so you could catch the beginning. Also why news reels and other visual media would get played.
Psycho made the change to set times. Hitchcock did not want anyone to accidentally see the end without starting from the beginning. Shortly after that those movie trailers got bastardized into the ads we now know them as.
Dunno. All my brain can see is shop smart, shop S-mart!
Arizona is one of roughly 20 states where judges must face the voters to keep their jobs.
Under the system, voters must decide to retain or reject judges two years after their appointments, and every six years after that. Of 1,500 judges who have gone through the process since the mid-1970s, only six have lost — and three of those losses occurred in 2022.
No Supreme Court justice has lost, but Justice Montgomery came close, in 2022, garnering 55 percent of the vote. Republican legislators, who control the statehouse, are now considering a proposal to make it more difficult to remove Supreme Court justices except in extraordinary circumstances.
The two members of the court who face retention elections this year are Justice Bolick and Justice King.
Given the likelihood that Arizona voters will already be weighing a ballot initiative to enshrine the right to an abortion in the Constitution, those judicial races may well attract more attention than usual, said Paul Weich, a lawyer who writes the newsletter Arizona’s Law. “I would anticipate that the abortion access initiative coalition is going to be urging people to not only vote for the initiative but to vote for no on retention for those two justices.”
Damn skippy I plan to.
So glad you were there at that moment for those dogs. That story had me on the edge of my seat in distress for a moment!