Best wishes to his family and friends

I’m flipping through my daughter’s yearbook. I shit you not there is an entire page devoted to the Dungeons & Dragons Club!!!

Headed to Kokomo soon for this game. The Juniors are stacked, but can they beat the seniors? In the all-time series, the seniors lead the juniors 41-11. Any predictions? We'll use this thread for tonight as well.

This could break the Internet. Will be one of the most watched interviews of all time. Kudos to Tucker for doing real journalism.


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One of the all time greats.

RIP

I used to regularly post things that happened on this day, but I got away from it. Anyway, it turns out very little cool happened on 25 June, but that was the day in 1913 that the famous 50th anniversary of Gettysburg began, which Ken Burns made famous on PBS:

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A fascinating, frustrating, and tragic cold case

Wiki for those who may not know about the case

There's a lot of speculation that Judge Cannon is deliberately trying to delay her case in order to help Trump. She has delayed setting a fixed court date, which wold necessitate implementing basic procedures that need to be completed prior to the actual trial.

The speculation is that she knows the temporary May date that she is loosely holding on to will undoubtedly need to be moved, But she's going to delay moving her date as long as possible to keep the space "filled".Basically many people feel that she is purposely holding on to May as a target date in order to prevent any other trial court being able to successfully fill the vacated May slot.

She has also so far been able to refrain from issuing written orders where she will violate a CIPA rule and allow Jack Smith to go to the 11th Circuit and move for her dismissal.Eventually she'll have to shit or get off the pot and Smith will pounce. But for now he is biding his time and waiting for her to screw up...

Part of it is that she has no idea what she is doing, and has never handled a CIPA case before. As a result she is in her eagerness to accomodate team Trump, basically violating provisions of CIPA procedure. As yet she hasn't committed anything to an official written order that is directly challengeable.

For example, the law does not allow for anyone but the Govt and Judge to be privy to the meeting where it is determined which documents can safely be presented at trial and which ones are too sensitive to even be allowed in Court. After Trump's attorneys filed to be allowed to attend ,rather than summarily denying the motion,as the law prescribes she created a "briefing meeting" where the idea could be "considered".

It's just another delay tactic and not even allowed under CIPA, but it's a way for her to continue to delay the ongoing process informally, without issuing an actual written order which is subject to review/discipline. Remember she tried this kind of move early on, and the same very Conservative 11th Circuit that Smith would go to now already smacked her down.

Unlike Cannon (and apparently Trump's legal team) Smith has a very thorough understanding of CIPA law, so she has to tread very carefully. He takes this shit very personally, and I'd say he is going to force her to get with the program, conduct the case the way the law prescribes, or he is going to get rid of her.

He has laid a number of rhetorical traps which again she has been able to avoid by not making any official moves that would get her in trouble. But he's going to continue to push and force her to either settle into a schedule in line with a May trial date, or admit that isn't possible and free up May for another trial. Possibly the DC case...

Now I probably haven't done a good job of explaining all that, but it sort of sets the stage for Smith's latest filing in the case. On Fri he filed a response (which I'm told is unusal) to counteract some of Trump's lies about the nature of the case. Maybe he is trying to impress upon Cannon the gravity of the charges involved, and counter Trump's claims that he's the victim of a political witchunt. Here is the Politico article discussing Smith's Fri filing...


Now if any of this interests you and you're like me in feeling like you benefit from video presentations more than just reading about something yourself , Glenn Kirschner provides a useful breakdown. Full disclosure Glenn who is a former US Attny is an unabshed liberal and works for MSNBC.

He's not someone I watch a lot of videos from, his tag line is hokey, and sometimes he strikes me as a little pompous. And in most cases he is just adding to stories I already know about.

But one part of this story really grabbed my attention, and I thought others might find it interesting as well. Esp when one of the defenses for Trump's actions is people claiming that MAL was a "secure fortress"...

This excerpt from the Politico article appears to underscore Smith's attempt in the filing to wake Cannon up to the gravity of the situation...

"The brief is also peppered with factual claims that make Trump’s behavior sound more serious and egregious. When discussing the defense’s request for more information from the Secret Service, prosecutors assert that their interaction with the federal agency that guards the president and his family underscored Trump’s recklessness in keeping a large volume of classified information at his Florida home, which also serves as a social club and a site for political and social events with lengthy guest lists.

The Secret Service reported that “of the approximately 48,000 guests who visited Mar-a-Lago between January 2021 and May 2022, while classified documents were at the property, only 2,200 had their names checked and only 2,900 passed through magnetometers."

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All of these players have a strong interest in the Hoosiers:

Oamar Ballo. C. Arizona
Myles Rice. PG. Washington State
Amari Williams. C. Drexel
Kanaan Carlyle. Combo G. Stanford
Pharrel Payne. PF. Minnesota
Conner Hickman. SG. Bradley

died today. I love his mystery novels. If anybody wants a real laugh out loud funny treat, you should read those. He was a talent in so many ways.

It's important to remember that the Marines in the Pacific made similar landings on multiple occasions in both the South and North Pacific, each time facing fearful odds for the individual Marine to just make it out of the boat and off the beach intact... On at least one landing (and probably two others) the assembled ships and resources eclipsed that of the Normandy landing...

All that said..., Normandy is the remembered "D-day" and understandably so given the stakes at the time... Normandy (in my mind at least), should be remembered primarily because of the guts and fortitude shown by individual soldiers, who having become disoriented and disorganized after having their friends and teammates slaughtered around them (at Omaha Beach and during the Paratrooper jumps the previous night), overcame extraordinary "friction" (the confusion attendant to the violence of combat operations) and strong enemy resistance, bucked the odds, reorganized themselves into small functioning units thru sheer strength of character and "closed with and destroyed the enemy" in spite of the Germans being in prepared defensive positions that "by the book" requires a minimum of a three to one advantage in manpower to overcome (rarely, if ever, was that the case of the Paratrooper engagements and the Omaha Beach soldiers immediately after the initial landing)...

In the case of both the Paratrooper jumps and the Omaha beach landing nearly everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong, from the Paratroopers being dropped miles away from their intended landing zones and having entire platoons decimated before they ever reached the ground; to the bombing preparations being completely off target at Omaha, in some cases simply creating drowning holes rather than breaching any of the German prepared defenses, in others, dropping their bombs too far inland... to entire units trained with critical skills being wiped out...

Actual "close air support" was non-existent and early Preparatory Naval Gunfire was relatively ineffective; not until several Destroyer Captains grasped the situation and in some cases risked their careers by moving closer to the Beach than their orders indicated, providing much needed close in support, which was key to the lock to the door being finally turned..., allowing the landing force to kick it open (at Great risk) thus ensuring that the landing would be a success.

Eisenhowers Message (History Channel montage):
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Air Drop recreated (Band of Brothers);
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Here's the Navy's view of what went on at Omaha:

All those who served deserve our undying gratitude but especially those who were at the "point of the sword" who went willingly, suffered, and often died because they understood the consequences of not going...

Thumbnail Timeline of the Operation:

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From Band of Brothers:
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Begins at 6:30 AM. IUFB begins at 2PM, IU vs. Wisc.(2023). & IU Spring FB @ 3:30 pm

Any report on the Hoosier recruit Faith Wiseman?

“It was kissing and petting and not intercourse, but it was wrong,” Morris said in the statement. Morris also referred to it as a "moral failure" involving a "young lady". He failed not note that it was a serious of molestations involving a 12 y.o.

Morris joined a conference call of pro-Trump evangelical leaders and prayed that the nation would “never have another election stolen from the American people” — echoing Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud.

In 2017, Morris called on parishioners to support a bill — pitched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, as a way to “protect the safety of women and children” — that would have banned transgender people from using public bathrooms that correspond with their genders.