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grandjean87

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  1. That is awesome. I'm very glad to hear you have made such health progress. I've had a rough go of late w/the knee recovery and a couple other things. I'm heading to the phase of life now where just surviving and staying reasonably active is my challenge. Hoping for a better summer coming up. It's a few hours until Holy Week begins, but this is a good place to sign off for the next week. Again, really glad retro is on the mend. Cheers, all. Edit w/NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/us/barkley-marathons-jasmin-paris.html
  2. The Barkley is semi-secret...ssshhh. Anyway, It's pretty unique even for endurance races. Last year, the Belgian guy who holds the record for fastest known times (FKT) on the Pacific Crest and Appalachian trails (both over 2,000 miles) finally finished the Barkley on his 3rd try. Paris holds some long trail records in Britain. The Barkley has humbled a whole lot of very strong endurance athletes. Still only 20 different people have finished it in 35 years since the 5 loop race began. Paris finishing as the 1st woman ever and in such a dramatic fashion was pretty special. Trending on X w/tons of folks waiting on the post they finally got. That last half hour was intense. I felt like it was OT in the Fiesta Bowl, lol. 60 hours is the limit and she was just 99 seconds under. The closest under 60:00 ever. This docu movie from a few years back is an enjoyable watch. The race takes place where James Earl Ray, Dr. King's assassin, escaped for a few days and that is part of the story. Give it a watch:
  3. I did my 1st post-poly spacer replacement run a few days ago. My knee/leg is still weak and swelling, but I got in a slow 2.2m run along my ditchbank and RR tracks that I first ran on in 1971. No Barkley for me this lifetime.
  4. Very nice offer. Probably not on my to do list, but I'm sure it would be fun. I'm just hoping to get out camping more, hit Colorado once this summer, enjoy my niece's lakeside condo in McCall, and recover fully from the last knee surgery. 2025 is a ways off, so...
  5. No clue. Two wrongs make a right? lol. Well, buying the U.S. Sec. of Treasury post isn't cheap. Edit -- saw this post by @karaswisher: "Funneling money to Trump by a major TikTok investor via a non viable social network is peak 2024 Internet."
  6. Saw that earlier. The other parts are Yass is a major investor in TikTok (which Trump flipped on the ban), and rumors he will be considered for Sec. of Treasury.
  7. The guy who was the first to finish the 3 loop race came out to a couple of my runs in the early '90s. He was living in Vegas then. I had a couple friends who did try and fail including one was a really strong runner w/some very good accomplishments.
  8. I never had a desire to try it, and in my ultra years it was billed as a 3 loop course. That's now long referred to as a "fun run". I did exchange letters and had a phone call w/the race director, pseudonym Lazarus Lake, back in the latter '80s. He wanted to come out and do one of my races and see Chief Joseph country.
  9. Hope things are well for yours. Being a parent continues to the end. I know that well.
  10. The Xverse was intense following the last hour of the race. No livestream or filming except at the start/finish area and one place along the loop. Jasmine the story by far, but a record 5 finished the brutal race this year.
  11. Jasmin Paris just became the 1st female finisher of the infamous Barkley Marathons. 59 hours, 58 minutes, and 21 seconds.
  12. She fvcking did it! With only 1 minute and 38+ seconds to spare under the 60 hour time limit.
  13. If he had not run and won in 2016 there would have been a lot less investigative reporting. Forbes probably does not do the 2017 Trump Tower report if he's not president. Then again, Trump was sued by the DoJ way back in 1973 in a civil rights case in NY. That's where this case is so maybe it was just time.
  14. I have no real handle on the current situation.
  15. I think the era of French relevance is very long passed. I have seen some musings on France recently. I'm really thinking Roosevelt Corollary stuff, but there is no political will for that.
  16. Many years ago I read a column advocating for a return to colonialism. I think I recall the famous author, but a quick search did not confirm. The situation in Haiti is already reportedly at dystopian levels. I don't have an answer or policy position. I just know failed states are tragic.
  17. On why was it so publicly known, that is the central, distillation of the history of Donald Trump. Self-promotion and celebrity is at his core. Trump had become nationally known via his self-promotion strategy years before 1988 when my disdain for him began. I think the 2nd essay/rebuttal I posted -- which is not a very anti-Trumpish -- makes some good points on the victimless crime angle. It also points out the duty of the AG "to bring an action in equity against businesses that "engage in repeated fraudulent or illegal acts or otherwise demonstrate persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting or transaction of business." That repeated and persistent part jumps out. The noting of three other equitable enforcement actions under §63 (12) in 2023 by AG James, albeit different circumstances, seems also to resonate. Yes, it's political. James went political long before the '24 election. It's a lot more. Trump is still dirty as he has been since the days of having "C" marked on applications for apartment rentals. In New York.
  18. I'd smoke a joint with those two around a camp fire. Anytime, but only low THC strains. Just for fun, here are two short arguments/essays/whatever by law profs on an obscure site w/two differing views. The first one born might climax over. The rebuttal, oh, oh, oh, yes, yes, yes... https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/18/president-trumps-kafkaesque-civil-trial-in-new-york-state/ https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/19/thoughts-on-judge-engorons-opinion-a-response-to-calabresi/
  19. You do know that the AG's investigation of the Trump Org. began in 2019? Litigation over subpoenas the next year. Long before this election. The AG's suit of the organization took place a couple months before Trump even announced he was running in '24. And, after the related tax fraud guilt of the organization, what do you think is going to happen next? What was the State of New York to do? Drop it all? I'm not posting this for you. You are who you are. Once those blinders are set, they are set. There are politics wrapped up in the civil cases against the Trump Org. and DJT and co. That doesn't mean politics explains everything. That's for the general audience, all five of them. lol.
  20. 1. That wasn't the point. Not even close. The point is subjective decisions get made all the time in the justice system. Who to prosecute, what charges, who to cut deals with, what sentencing, etc. We can complain about it. Unfairness abounds. I can complain about a former latch key kid student w/no priors serving a 10 year fixed sentence because she got caught up in shit her shitty boyfriend and family were doing. A truly wise prosecutor would have done something different. But, she was guilty of the charge. Kind of like someone else albeit a civil case. 2. I think I have answered all your questions even ones a bit absurd. Now, can you come up with any comparable situation? Something that even remotely approximates. Not "if he was a Democrat". I mean, any Republican w/o the comparables would not have been charged as such (63-12). If the "normal" Republican isn't charged, it's probably about more than party. Come up with a situation where a state and city has known a fraudster and crime dude for 50+ years since he basically beat a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. A situation where a private business run by one guy is guilty of tax fraud and related stuff and bank and insurance fraud to the hilt -- and it's publicly known -- and they take no legal hit. That's why James made the fraud part of her campaign. There was public support. People tend to be anti-crime of all sorts.
  21. What does that matter to the guilt of Trump and co.? There are infinity minus one examples of selective justice in the federal system, the several states, and countless municipal courts. If the exact particulars were there -- let me repeat -- the exact same particulars and there are many, the answer is unknowable. Maybe. Maybe not. Now, if you toss out all the many particulars from publicly known fraud to a linked guilty tax fraud case to all the rest of the Trump baggage, then no. But, that is pretty meaningless. There is no comparable situation that you can come up with. Don't feel bad about not being able to provide that example. I'm not sure anyone can.
  22. Sorry blue, but you are like a race horse with blinders on once you think something that has political elements is wholly explained in terms of binary politics. Nothing, but politics. Even here in this thread, I've pointed out a few legitimate issues/criticisms with the case/ruling. There is a lot more to the case/trial/ruling than politics. See the 92 page ruling and evidence. Sorry that you are unable to see this or understand the law.
  23. Do you know what the fundamental problem is when viewing seemingly everything through a binary political lens?
  24. The 8th Amendment is a trending talking point in the right wing ecosphere. I think it's an attention getter, but mostly kind of moot. The appeal will deal with the disgorgement $$ which will be adjusted (or not). As for the political angle, I never said there wasn't one. However, unless you can find and name a comparable case where some "Democrat" is guilty of all the same stuff where it is publicly known, there is no direct comparison. "Others must be guilty, too" isn't a real defense of the position of unfairness for this or any other legal matter. Trump was guilty of stuff that was publicly known. Find a "Democrat" who ran a private, closely-held company that was found guilty of extensive tax fraud the prior year. I can't recall any. The trial presented an ocean of direct evidence. Other than appealing the $$ amount, I don't see where the judgment is in error? This is a repeat of a repeat, but the law violated is one that has a long history, recent history, and was written for very broad purposes. There is legitimate criticism that how it was used in this case was unique, but it fit the law which (again) traces its history back for almost 70 years for the financial center of NY. I'd worry a lot more about countless other real miscarriages of our imperfect justice system(s).
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