Rookie Numbers.

Did Chicago quit trying? 

Marijuana Breathalyzer Technology.

Sates legalize, sell and tax pot. Then states get more revenue from arresting you for driving under the influence. See how it works?

Marijuana Moment: Federal Agency Will Host ‘Open And Candid Discussion’ On Marijuana Breathalyzer Technology.

A federal agency this spring will convene government officials, forensics experts, academics, industry representatives, law enforcement and standards organizations for what it describes as “an open and candid discussion” about “the path forward to realize meaningful cannabis breathalyzer technology and implementation.”

The two-day event, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is scheduled to be held in Boulder, Colorado, on April 16 and 17.

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Unlike with alcohol, there’s currently no widely accepted field test to determine whether someone is under the influence of marijuana.

In 2023, a federally funded report by researchers at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder concluded that evidence does “not support the idea that detecting THC in breath as a single measurement could reliably indicate recent cannabis use.”

“A lot more research is needed to show that a cannabis breathalyzer can produce useful results,” Kavita Jeerage, a NIST materials research engineer and co-author of the report, said at the time. “A breathalyzer test can have a huge impact on a person’s life, so people should have confidence that the results are accurate.”

More recently, a U.S. Department of Justice researcher cast doubt on whether a person’s THC levels are even a reliable indicator of impairment.

States may need to “get away from that idea,” Frances Scott, a physical scientist at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences under DOJ, said on a podcast early last year.

Scott questioned the efficacy of setting “per se” THC limits for driving that some states have enacted, making it so a person can be charged with driving while impaired based on the concentration of cannabis components in their system. Ultimately, there may not be a way to assess impairment from THC like we do for alcohol, she said.

One complication is that “if you have chronic users versus infrequent users, they have very different concentrations correlated to different effects,” Scott said. “So the same effect level, if you will, will be correlated with a very different concentration of THC in the blood of a chronic user versus an infrequent user.”

That issue was also examined in a federally funded study last year that identified two different methods of more accurately testing for recent THC use that accounts for the fact that metabolites of the cannabinoid can stay present in a person’s system for weeks or months after consumption.

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“The consensus is that there is no linear relationship of blood THC to driving,” [a study preprint posted on The Lancet by an eight-author team representing Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Health Canada and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia identified and assessed a dozen peer-reviewed studies concluded]. “This is surprising given that blood THC is used to detect cannabis-impaired driving.”

Most states where cannabis is legal measure THC intoxication by whether or not someone’s blood THC levels are below a certain cutoff. The study’s findings suggest that relying on blood levels alone may not accurately reflect whether someone’s driving is impaired.

“Of the 12 papers included in the present review,” authors wrote, “ten found no correlation between blood THC and any measure of driving, including [standard deviation of lateral position (SDLP)], speed, car following, reaction time, or overall driving performance.
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Evan [sic] as far back as 2015, a U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) concluded that it’s “difficult to establish a relationship between a person’s THC blood or plasma concentration and performance impairing effects,” adding that “it is inadvisable to try and predict effects based on blood THC concentrations alone.”

In a separate report last year, NHTSA said there’s “relatively little research” backing the idea that THC concentration in the blood can be used to determine impairment, again calling into question laws in several states that set “per se” limits for cannabinoid metabolites.

Seattle considers hiring illegals as Law Enforcement Officers and lowering testing standard.

You can't make this stuff up! 🤣 Seattle! LMAO! SHOKKED I tell ya that Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, SF or LA didn't beat them to it.

MSN: Illegal immigrant police could soon fill beleaguered ranks of blue city.

The Seattle Police Department will now be able to hire participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy first introduced under the Obama administration.

The Spokesman: Seattle commission recommends against new test for police recruits.

Andrea Scheele, executive director of the Public Safety Civil Service Commission, concluded it was neither practical nor advisable for Seattle to use a new police recruitment test that has a higher rate of candidates who pass than the current test. The conclusion is likely to frustrate mayor’s office staff and council members who see the city’s current test as an obstacle to bringing in new recruits.

The test, according to the mayor and crew is, "an obstacle." The mayor's staff and council want the passing test score lowered from 90% to 70% ! 🤣  Yeah, lower the standards because, "Muh ocbastacle!"

Any visitor from the Seattle area who drops by, leave a comment on this. (It can be anonymous). What's the reaction from the general public to the mayor's proposal of hiring illegals for the PD?

Obama appointed federal judge rules non-citizen "newcomers" have a right to carry; protected by 2A.

Newsweek: Undocumented Immigrants Have Right to Own Guns, Judge Rules.

A judge this month dropped gun charges against an illegal migrant in Illinois, sparking further debate about the rights associated with the Second Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois referenced lower court rulings in dismissing firearm possession charges against Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, who was illegally or unlawfully in the United States when he possessed a handgun in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on June 1, 2020.

"The Court finds that Carbajal-Flores' criminal record, containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the non-violent circumstances of his arrest do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense," Coleman, who was appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in her eight-page ruling filed March 8.

Carbajal-Flores was charged under Title 18 of U.S. Criminal Code, which legally disallows undocumented individuals to possess firearms and ammunition "or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce."

Meanwhile, democrats actively seek to pass legislation that prohibits some U.S. Military Veterans from owning guns.

⏬  March 19, 2024 ⏬

NRA-ILA: Anti-gun Democrats Seek to Undermine Law Passed to Protect Veterans’ Rights.

[...] a partisan coalition of anti-gun Congressional Democrats – all but two of whom actually voted for the spending package – is now leaning on the VA to ignore or undermine the rider. In doing so, they are using the usual anti-gun tactics of fearmongering, misinformation, and gaslighting.
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The attempt came in a March 13 letter spearheaded by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), chairman of the so-called House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, to the Secretary of the VA, Denis McDonough, and was signed by 138 Democrat members of Congress.
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The claims in the letter, unsurprisingly, do not hold up to scrutiny and in some cases actually lend support to the rider itself.
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It's true that statutory law allows the VA to make a “competency” determination for the process of administering its own system of benefits. But that determination has no legal effect outside of that context. As the VA states on its own website, “The determination that you are unable to manage your VA benefits does not affect your non-VA finances, or your right to vote or contract.” This makes sense, as it is a purely administrative procedure that contains no adversarial process unless the beneficiary decides to challenge the action after the fact.

Even then, these appeals are processed in the first instance by the VA itself. And it makes perfect sense for some beneficiaries to have a fiduciary, while also legally possessing firearms. The insinuation that standards for assigning a fiduciary take into an account a veteran’s propensity for posing a physical danger to self or other is patently false.

⏬ March 4, 2024 ⏬

U.S. Senate Committee on Veteran's Affairs: After Tester Push, Provision to Protect Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights from Federal Overreach is Included in Must-Pass Government Funding Bill.

A critical bipartisan amendment U.S. Senator Jon Tester championed to protect veterans’ access to legal firearms has been included in the government funding legislation, following his call to Senate leadership to include the provision.

“It’s flat wrong that a DC bureaucrat could take away a veteran’s legal right to firearms simply because they need assistance managing their finances,” Tester said. “We need to ensure the government does not infringe on veterans’ Second Amendment rights, and I’m glad we were able to fix this unfair policy in the government funding legislation. This is a win for Second Amendment rights and for veterans who have made it clear that VA’s current practice is pushing some folks away from accessing the mental health care they need out of fear their firearms will be seized.”

Tester's bill passed, yet democrats immediately work at trying to undo it.

⏬ March 13, 2024 ⏬ 

Roll Call: House Democrats urge VA to find gun rider workaround. 

“We are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to use their power to bypass this rollback and they must do so before a single life is lost because of this legislation,” Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida said in a statement. He was one of three Democrats, including Sen. Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and House Veterans’ Affairs ranking member Mark Takano of California, to vote against the spending law.

The House members urged the VA to establish processes that would automatically seek a judicial order for veterans deemed mentally incompetent. The department should stretch appropriations from previous years out for as long as possible, which would allow the VA to continue reporting names to the FBI background check system while putting those processes in place, the lawmakers said.
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The department should also make full use of state red flag laws to report concerning behavior from veterans and educate state VA facilities about the tools available to them, the letter said.

Biden's dog Commander is above the law.

CNN: Biden’s family dog, bit US Secret Service personnel in at least 24 incidents at the White House and other locations.

NY Post: Biden has given first dog Commander to relatives, the White House said Wednesday following revelations of more brutal attacks on Secret Service employees — including a case in which White House tours were suspended to mop up blood from the floor of the East Wing and another attack where an agent suffered a “severe deep open wound” at Biden’s Delaware vacation home.

NOLO: The "One-Bite" Rule for Dogs.

Find A Lawyer: What Is the 'One Bite Rule'?

24 biting incidents including one so bad WH tours had to be suspended in order to mop blood from the floor and another was a "severe open wound"?

This dog needs to be euthanized. You think your or my dog would be afforded or treated the same?

I TRIED to be 100% Chaotic Evil.

I retook the IDRlabs Moral Alignment Test.

In April I posted; Do you dare take the Moral Alignment Test?

My goal in taking the test again was scoring 100% Evil and Chaotic, intentionally.

I nailed down the Evil. What nuances of Chaotic did I miss by 15%?  🤣

I tried.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* My actual score is Neutral Good, lest anyone think me evil or chaotic. 

Do you dare take the Moral Alignment Test?

How are you doing, morally, these days?

The test is 24 questions. It takes about a minute to complete.

You answer by using your cursor to slide the "white box" to the left or right for each question. 

Sliding the white box all the way one way or the other is "strongly" agree or disagree. Sliding it part way is a basic "agree" or "disagree." You might be able to leave the box where it's at as a "neutral" response but I didn't try that. I answered each question with a slide one way or the other.

My score is "Neutral Good:"😎

Neutral Good:

Individuals who are Neutral Good are directed by their still, small voice and commonly act unselfishly, with just auxiliary respect for whether their activities are lawful or in accordance with social assumptions or customs. Neutral Good people generally approve of what is legal in that capacity and are not naturally rebels, yet they have faith in assisting with thoughtfulness and great deeds through whatever means appear to be important to them. Encouraging great deeds by supporting coordinated society, if that is what the situation prescribes, but jumping on the off chance to go against the grain when this is what is needed. Neutral Good individuals strike a balance between rebellion and order, with emphasis on one or the other viewed as an impairment to the more prominent objective of advancing genuine humanitarian aims across the planet.

Here's the link to the test: IDRlabs Moral Alignment Test. 

Do you dare take it? 💪  

Drop a comment. Any "Evil Chaotics" out there? 🤣

(link fixed)

Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 Years in LA Rape Trial in addition to 23-Year NY Sentence.

Breitbart: Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 Years in Los Angeles Rape Trial on Top of 23-Year New York Sentence.

Oscar-winning Hollywood producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in jail in his Los Angeles rape and sexual assault trial, all but guaranteeing that the 70-year-old movie boss will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO KYLE RITTENHOUSE! NOT GUILTY ON ALL!

Advisory: Sensitive Content:

Kyle Rittenhouse, Innocent of all charges on November 19, 2021! 

Happy One Year Anniversary, Kyle!

Breitbart: Verdict: Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty on All Charges.

Kyle Rittenhouse

Wisconsin Right Now: The criminal histories of Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz.

Rosenbaum: charged by a grand jury with 11 counts of child molestation and inappropriate sexual activity with children, including anal rape, masturbation, oral sex, and showing minors pornography. The victims were five boys ranging in age from nine to 11 years old. Rosenbaum also had open misdemeanor cases for battery (domestic abuse) and disorderly conduct (domestic abuse).

Huber: disorderly conduct conviction from 2018 as a domestic abuse repeater, Battery Misd. A Dismissed on Prosecutor’s Motion
Modifier: 939.62(1)(a) Repeater
Modifier: 968.075(1)(a) Domestic Abuse
2 947.01(1) Disorderly Conduct Misd. B Guilty Due to Guilty Plea
Modifier: 968.075(1)(a) Domestic Abuse
Modifier: 939.62(1)(a) Repeater

[A] case from 2012 with these charges: Use of a Dangerous Weapon, Domestic Abuse, Use of a Dangerous Weapon.

And rinse, repeat additional Domestic Abuse, Use of a Dangerous Weapon and again Domestic Abuse, Use of a Dangerous Weapon.

Grosskreutz: multiple dismissed cases, including a felony conviction that was expunged, second-offense drunk driving, a forfeiture case for not showing obedience to officers, as well as one for loud noises, affiliated with The People’s Revolution, the Milwaukee-area protest group. He was convicted of a criminal misdemeanor in 2016 for going armed with a firearm while intoxicated, accused of prowling by West Allis police. The police report accuses him of “lurking” in an area where police keep their private vehicles, videotaping them.

L-R: Grosskreutz, Huber, Rosenbaum

Rittenhouse, the jury concluded, had reason to fear for his life and used self-defense accordinly. Verdict rendered. Case closed.

Below, the obligatory missing bicep shot of Grosskreutz.

Disclaimer: Ickyness factor: 🤣

"Dude, Where's My BiCep?"

A little Bactine, Flex Seal and Duct Tape will fix that right up!

Indianapolis doesn't know what works to reduce gun violence.

The Conversation: Reducing gun violence: A complicated problem can’t be solved with just one approach, so Indianapolis is trying programs ranging from job skills to therapy to violence interrupters to find out what works.

The city is also trying many promising approaches to reducing violence that – if proven successful – could benefit other urban areas across the U.S.

 "To find out what works."

Enforcing existing gun laws and maximum prison time for crimes by those using guns are answers that somehow eludes this Indianapolis Think Tank. I'm going to guess there will be several studies, task forces and millions of dollars spent on the elusive solutions they seek.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! From the same link as above: 

U.S. cities, including Indianapolis, now have have until 2024 to tap into a comparatively large stream of federal funding for community-based violence intervention. That money was included in the $1.9 trillion stimulus package enacted in 2021.

Using these federal funds, the city is partnering with the Indianapolis Foundation to award grants totaling $45 million from 2022 through 2024 for local efforts to reduce gun violence.

Oh, Look! A Federal Gravy Train of Money! So it IS about teh money! No one saw that coming. No one.

 

Did someone say, "Grants?" Millions of dollars to Left-Wing PR agencies churning  out "guns are the problem" PSAs. Or maybe "studies" on issues such as, "Venues for Integrating Serial Killers Back Into Suburban Society."

Guess I'm old-fashioned. I like my violence interrupters like this: 

Murderer could be hanged on live TV. Well, viewership of the syndicated reruns of "Friends" would drop dramatically during the timeslot.

RT: Murderer could be hanged on live TV.

An Egyptian court says broadcasting the execution could serve as a deterrent for other would-be criminals.

A court in Egypt has called for the live TV hanging of a convicted murderer, arguing that it could help deter other would-be killers, according to letters to parliament quoted by local media on Sunday.

During a highly-publicized two-day trial earlier this month, 21-year-old Mohamed Adel was convicted for killing fellow student Nayera Ashraf outside Mansoura University in northern Egypt in late June. It was reported that Adel stalked the girl for some time, and when she refused to marry him, he devised a gruesome plot to kill her.

According to video footage of the incident, which went viral on social media and sparked outrage across the country, Adel repeatedly stabbed Ashraf as she got off a bus near the university, jumped on her, and slit her throat in front of a number of horrified onlookers.

Adel pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to death on July 6. However, due to the heinous nature of the murder, the court now wants to make an example out of Adel, and has asked the government to allow a live national TV broadcast of the execution.

Hit the link for more.

No doubt the execution would be sponsored by a detergent manufacturer, "when you really need to get those tough stains out!" Would there be play-by-play analysis from The Team At Egyptian News Television?

Chicago Mayor Beetlejuice is Above The Law. Unpaid traffic tickets and running red lights.

She is Above The Law!

FOX News (Yahoo Archived): Chicago Mayor Lightfoot refusing to pay speeding, red light tickets as they pile up.

Multiple police-driven vehicles used to transport Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have reportedly racked up multiple traffic tickets that have gone unpaid despite the mayor's advocacy for stricter speed cameras in the city.

Two of the SUVs used to shuttle Lightfoot throughout Chicago have accumulated three speed camera tickets and two warnings in the past month. The tickets have so far gone unpaid, CWB Chicago reported on Monday.

Additionally, CWB Chicago reported that one of the SUVs in the mayor’s fleet has a red light ticket that has not been paid and two SUVs that were previously assigned to Lightfoot’s security detail have outstanding speed and red light tickets.

One of those SUVs is eligible to be booted and impounded over the lack of payment.

As a "leader", Lightfoot sets high standards and examples for others to follow. A true role model for the young'uns.

Where's her cowboy hat? I think she should wear it all the time. It's gives her such a certain...je ne sais quoi.

Israeli couple charged for plot to impregnate minor daughter to defraud state.

YNet News (Archived): Israeli couple charged for plot to impregnate minor daughter to defraud state.

According to charges, man allegedly raped stepdaughter, 11, with mother's consent so she would seek an abortion, which would then allow them to receive large sum of money from the state to buy an apartment.

The Lod District Court on Sunday filed an indictment against a couple from central Israel, alleging the man repeatedly raped his minor stepdaughter with the mother's consent in order to impregnate her and then seek an abortion to collect a large sum of money from the state.

According to the charges presented in court, the stepfather — whose name was placed under a gag order to protect the identity of the child who was just 11 years old at the time — convinced his partner to allow him to have relations with her daughter to impregnate her.

The couple planned for the girl to seek an abortion, which would then allow them to collect a large sum of money from the state for the purpose of buying an apartment and covering other expenses.

Despite the child's refusal to cooperate in with the scheme, the man allegedly raped her on a bi-weekly basis for three years, using severe violence against her in some cases.

The girl’s mother, who was also hit with rape charges, was aware fully aware of her partner's actions and threatened to kill her daughter should she speak out about the abuse.

The police investigation found that the couple also kept a journal tracking the girl's menstrual cycle.
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The defendants were charged with the rape of a minor and family member, abusing a minor, conspiracy to commit a crime, obstruction of justice and more. The man was also charged with sexual abuse of a minor family member, and the mother was also accused of assault and making threats against a minor.

Attorney Shiran Bergman, who represents the couple, said: “The mother had a hard life. Due to her state, the court accepted our request and ordered to have her inspected. We’ll consider our steps after we receive the investigatory materials and the mother’s diagnosis.”

Oh! "The mother had a hard life." A "diagnosis" is required? The mother and step-father are criminal degenerates. But hey, you know, we have to wait until an official "diagnosis" is determined.

The sweet, delicious unfathomable tears of sadness of Nancy Pelosi on SCOTUS overruling Roe v Wade.

 

LINK

The unfathomable tears of Liberal sadness are raining down and they are glorious!

SCOTUS overrules Roe v Wade.

Breitbart: Supreme Court Overrules Roe v. Wade in Dobbs Decision – Returns Abortion to State Lawmakers.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the Supreme Court in Friday’s 5-4 decision:

    Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return the authority to the people and their elected representatives.

Roe v Wade was bad law. It never should have been a federal issue. Returning it to the states is the right move.

An excellent decision.

And the LibTards REEEEEE s'more! GOOD! Let's taste those sweet tears of unfathomable of sadness!

A late shout out to Justice Clarence Thomas and a belated Happy Birthday to this great American!

Let the LefTards REEEEEEEE! Music to my ears!

Bad Spaniels 1; Jack Daniels 0

One is a dog chew toy. The other is a glass bottle of liquor. If you can't tell the difference,
 you should not buy either product, or always buy both.

Tech Dirt: Jack Daniels Gets Chewed Up In Trademark Case Over 'Bad Spaniels' Doggy Chew Toy.

We've seen roughly a zillion trademark disputes and cases in the alcohol industries, but perhaps nothing quite like this. Jack Daniels, the famous liquor company, found itself in a prolonged court battle with VIP Products LLC. At issue? Well, VIP makes a doggy chew toy that is a parody of Jack Daniels' famous whiskey bottle and trade dress.

...while the toy isn't exactly similar to the Jack Daniels bottle, it's a clear homage or parody of it. Parody, of course, has space carved out for it by the First Amendment. While trademark law might lead one to see a problem here, it's the fact that even this commercial product is expressive parody that keeps it from being trademark infringement.

The Jack Daniels folks didn't agree.

So Jack sued.

Back to Tech Dirt:

...the court held that, as a threshold matter, the Rogers test needed to be applied. Under that test, a trademark infringement plaintiff must show that the defendant’s use of the mark either (1) is “not artistically relevant to the underlying work” or (2) “explicitly misleads consumers as to the source or content of the work.”  Id. at 9 (quoting Gordon, 909 F.3d at 265). The Ninth Circuit vacated the district court’s finding of infringement and remanded for a determination, in the first instance, of whether Jack Daniel’s can satisfy either element of the Rogers test.

It seems damn near impossible to imagine any scenario in which Jack Daniels manages to satisfy the Rogers test. And the real question is why it felt any of this expensive litigious adventurism was necessary in the first place.

The short story: Jack lost. Good!

Why the corporate brain trust at Jack decided to move forward with this case is nothing short of mind-boggling. Can the PR/Ad/Legal Team at JD be so unimaginative, humorless and petty?

Could it have been that hard for JD to partner, in some way, with Bad Spaniels for a co-branding promotion - maybe buy a bottle of JD and get a Bad Spaniels chew toy? This is PR and Advertising, not brain surgery.

A Toast and Cheers to Bad Spaniels! Who's a good dog? Who's a good dog?
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Who will be breaking the law on Easter? Be Rebellious!

We are breaking so many Covid-19 laws, ordinances and regulations tomorrow. Somewhere, in an undisclosed, semi-rural area southwest of the Twin Cities - or is that northeast? (feel free to track us, Google) - about 40 of us will be getting together for the day. This was planned over a month ago and we're going ahead with it.

There are a few, newer caveats implemented. Everyone agreed that anyone not feeling well, no matter how slight, won't attend.

A decontamination station will be at the home entrance, with hot soap and water, disinfectant, sanitizer, Clorox wipes (yes, someone actually scored some of those!), thermal temperature scans for the kiddies, three big kick-ass RAM extended-cabs will be blocking off the private driveway and me and two of my nephews will be guarding the gate with our AR-15s and other various firearms, including revolvers that we're likely to frequently twirl on our index fingers like cowboys.

Cousin Cletus is our designated sniper. He's also responsible for supplying the Tupperware of Spleef and in his possession at all times, he holds the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

This is the first time in my memory that restaurants won't be open for Easter buffets. An impact that is all too painfully harsh both economically and socially.

That places of worship are closed is truly sad. I've heard in the news some are holding services while people remain in their cars in the parking lot and I think that's an acceptable workaround - considering the circumstances - rather than indoor mass.

What are your plans for Easter? Family gathering? Small or reduced number of guests from past years? Isolation? Going on a cruise, maybe?

Will you be Breaking The Law?

All parties mutually agreed in canceling the running-chainsaw and cleaver-juggling contests, but that's more due to the weather forecast than fear of Coronavirus.

UK leaves EU. Brexit happens!

BBC: Brexit: UK leaves the European Union.

The UK has officially left the European Union after 47 years of membership - and more than three years after it voted to do so in a referendum.

The historic moment, which happened at 23:00 GMT, was marked by both celebrations and anti-Brexit protests.

Candlelit vigils were held in Scotland, which voted to stay in the EU, while Brexiteers partied in London's Parliament Square.

Boris Johnson has vowed to bring the country together and "take us forward".
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Britain joined what was then European Economic Community on 1 January, 1973, at the third attempt. Two years later the country voted by an overwhelming majority to remain in the bloc in the first nationwide referendum.

Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron held another referendum in June 2016, amid growing pressure from his own MPs and Nigel Farage's UK Independence Party.

Mr Cameron led the campaign to stay in the EU but lost by the narrow margin of 52% to 48% to the Leave campaign, fronted by fellow Conservative Boris Johnson.

Mr Cameron's successor as prime minister, Theresa May, repeatedly failed to get her version of an EU withdrawal agreement passed by Parliament and was replaced by Mr Johnson, who also failed to get his plans through.

Mr Johnson managed to secure an early general election in December last year, which he won with an 80 seat majority, on a promise to "get Brexit done".

[.] Most EU laws will continue to be in force - including the free movement of people - until 31 December, when the transition period comes to an end.

Arlando Henderson; The first thing you do with stolen cash is post images of yourself with it on social media.

Arlando Henderson, a former bank employee in Charlotte, North Carolina, allegedly stole $88,000 from a bank's vault. (Obtained by New York Daily News)

NY Daily News: Man accused of stealing $88,000 from bank where he worked arrested after posing with money, posting photos on social media.

Arlando Henderson was arrested by the FBI on Dec. 4 and charged with financial institution fraud and related charges — based off Henderson’s greenback-laden Instagram post.
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On at least 18 occasions in 2019 he stole cash from deposits made by the bank’s customers from the vault, and then deposited some of it in a nearby ATM.
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Henderson also made a $20,000 cash down payment on a 2019 Mercedes-Benz, according to the indictment[.]
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He might have even gotten away with it, weren’t for his wish to tell the world — via social media ― what an accomplished professional he was.

In several Facebook and Instagram posts, Henderson posted pictures where he is seen holding large stashes of cash, or posing in front of his new car.

“I make it look easy but this s--t really a PROCESS,” he posted on Facebook on Aug, 4, from Charlotte.

Less than a month later, on Sept. 1, in a post tagged as written from San Diego, Henderson wrote, “Looking at my brand thinking this how I got rich.”

His 15 minutes of fame probably made it easier for investigators to locate him.

He likely never bothered watching "The Sopranos" or "Breaking Bad."

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