Holy shit, high five! Wife had $280k discharged yesterday!
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4 wowsJust got the bad news that a 15yo friend of ours is on end of life care.
This boy and his family were the first other family we met with the same diagnosis as our older son and we were there first too. It was an instant connection. The kids were even the same age. This was at an out of state study on the diagnosis, basically kids Alzheimer’s, so after a few days we all went home, us to the Midwest and them to Texas.
Over the years we met with them at annual conferences and always had that connection. They were all in on finding a cure. Then their family fell apart. The mom couldn’t take it and took off, eventually settling in Europe somewhere. The dad was devastated but stayed involved in the community. Then he remarried and moved to Washington with his new family and other daughter. Their son was left in Texas with his grand parents. We still followed them on social media and almost never did we hear about their boy.
Until this morning. His organs are shutting down and the end is near. Along with a picture of him in a hospital bed far from the days of a fun little boy running around playing.
This world is brutal.
Consequentially this is the main reason I stay off Facebook, my feed is too full of dead or dying children. -
4 wowsGOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court reverses rulings that struck down partisan gerrymanders by Republican lawmakers
https://lite.cnn.com/2023/04/28/politics/north-carolina-gerrymandering-supreme-court/index.html
By Tierney Sneed, CNN Updated: 12:46 PM EDT, Fri April 28, 2023 Source: CNN
The Republican-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court – reversing previous rulings that were handed down when the state Supreme Court leaned Democratic – said Friday that North Carolina’s constitution gave state courts no role to play in policing partisan gerrymanders.
The ruling is a victory for the GOP state legislature, which brought the case back to the state Supreme Court after Republicans flipped seats on the court in the midterms, giving them the majority. The GOP legislature had also taken the case to the US Supreme Court – where Republicans were pushing an aggressive theory that would limit the role state courts can play in election disputes – and it is unclear whether Friday’s ruling prompts the US Supreme Court to dismiss the case that is before it.
“Our constitution expressly assigns the redistricting authority to the General Assembly subject to explicit limitations in the text,” the new opinion from the North Carolina court said. “Those limitations do not address partisan gerrymandering. It is not within the authority of this Court to amend the constitution to create such limitations on a responsibility that is textually assigned to another branch. Furthermore, were this Court to create such a limitation, there is no judicially discoverable or manageable standard for adjudicating such claims.”
The 5-2 opinion was written by Chief Judge Paul Newby, who was joined by the four other Republican members of the court. Democratic Justice Anita Earls wrote a dissent joined by Justice Michael Morgan, a fellow Democrat.
The ruling is a major loss for the voting rights groups that had challenged the congressional plan that had been drawn by the Republican legislature after the 2020 census, as the ruling will prevent them from going to state court in the future bring claims of extreme partisan gerrymandering against North Carolina maps
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/28/politics/north-carolina-gerrymandering-supreme-court/index.html -
3 wowsFinally got to digging around in that old IDE hard drive that kept blue screening my PC.
Uh yeah, this isn't my hard drive.
There's a bunch of photos of a family on here who I've never seen.
After a bit of digging, it looks like they previously lived in the house that we were renting back in 2013. I'm guessing I found a hard drive while we were there and tossed it in my pile of other hard drives. -
3 wowsVenta-cat
(Video with sound)
https://i.imgur.com/atz9g7h.mp4
Gallery link https://imgur.com/gallery/1qejCSB
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3 wowsattn NY/NJ/CT denizens.
I am sad to announce that STEW LEONARD has gone to the great dairy farm in the sky. For the uninitiated, it is a local chain of supermarkets that is the equivalent of a bad mescaline trip. The store is designed like a maze and filled with nightmarish animatronics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC2aFz44scQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB-LGkqWzXg
It's amazing.
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2 wowsSteven Crowder got gender-affirming surgery
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2 wows"When I found out that the spouse of the chief justice was soliciting business from law firms, I knew immediately that it was wrong," the whistleblower, Kendal B. Price, who worked alongside Jane Roberts at the legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, told Insider in an interview. "During the time I was there, I was discouraged from ever raising the issue. And I realized that even the law firms who were Jane's clients had nowhere to go. They were being asked by the spouse of the chief justice for business worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there was no one to complain to. Most of these firms were likely appearing or seeking to appear before the Supreme Court. It's natural that they'd do anything they felt was necessary to be competitive."
Roberts' apparent $10.3 million in compensation puts her toward the top of the payscale for legal headhunters. Price's disclosures, which were filed under federal whistleblower-protection laws and are now in the hands of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, add to the mounting questions about how Supreme Court justices and their families financially benefit from their special status, an area that Senate Democrats are vowing to investigate after a series of disclosure lapses by the justices themselves.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts-chief-justice-wife-10-million-commissions-2023-4
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