Occasional Reader 8/4/2020 6:32:40 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 8/4/2020 6:41:14 AM

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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Body cam footage of the arrest of Saint George has been leaked; I’d say it does not, ah, support The Narrative.

It never does.  The full video of Rodney King's police troubles show that King, too, was "behaving erratically" due to his drugged-up state.

I believe I noted here some time back that the Left always chooses "heroes" and "martyrs" that are, at best, checkered  The McNamaras did bomb the LA Times; Joe Hill likely did commit the murder he was executed for; Sacco & Vanzetti likely did commit the payroll robbery.  Did the Scottsboro Boys actually assault the women they were accused of assaulting? We'll never know; at least one of the women recanted her original testimony, but there are a number of possibilities there.  Certainly Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown were not the gentle souls their advocates made them out to be; was Eric Garner, another "I can't breathe," also on drugs, like George Floyd?

buzzsawmonkey 8/4/2020 6:42:37 AM

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In #2 vxbush said: What is a Cy Pres recipient? I've never heard that term before. 

The cy pres doctrine is a principle of law that courts use to save a charitable trust from failing when a charitable objective is originally or later becomes impossible or impracticable to fulfill. ... (The term cy pres comes from French law and means "so near" or "as near (as possible".))

buzzsawmonkey 8/4/2020 6:43:37 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: Joe Biden =   Paul von Hindenburg

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...and George Floyd is the current Horst Wessel.

vxbush 8/4/2020 6:51:08 AM

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In #5 buzzsawmonkey said: The cy pres doctrine is a principle of law that courts use to save a charitable trust from failing when a charitable objective is originally or later becomes impossible or impracticable to fulfill. ... (The term cy pres comes from French law and means "so near" or "as near (as possible".))

Thanks, buzz. So, correct me if I'm wrong, but that almost sounds like the leadership of such a charitable trust might find it in their best interest to do something like file a lawsuit and then have their lawyers use this doctrine to prop up their trust with the proceeds?

doppelganglander 8/4/2020 7:07:35 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

I've questioned the narrative since I saw the video of the cop with his knee on George's neck. The cop's weight was on his other knee, not the one on George's throat. Not like any of this will matter, of course. 

doppelganglander 8/4/2020 7:11:49 AM

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Remember that study that claimed psychoticism is associated with conservative political opinions? Yeah, um, looks like it's in fact the exact opposite. 

https://nypost.com/2016/06/09/science-says-liberal-beliefs-are-linked-to-pyschotic-traits/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

"Coding error" my ass.

buzzsawmonkey 8/4/2020 7:18:09 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 7:

I won't say I'm the worst person to ask about this, but I will say that trusts and estates were never my star subjects in law school.  

I think the application goes something like this: IIRC, both the Gardiner Museum in Boston and the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia operate under charitable trusts.  I believe both trusts contained restrictions regarding where and how the artworks were to be displayed; there were rules not only against de-acquisitioning the artwork, but also, I believe, against the collections being moved to another location.  

I seem to recall that the Barnes Collection needed to relocate about 10 years ago; I don't recall whether it had something to do with the condition of the building, the size of the collection, the deterioration of the neighborhood and issues of security, a combination of these, or something else---but they had to break the terms of the original trust because those terms could no longer be fulfilled.  Hence, the cy pres doctrine would have become an issue; if you have to break the trust because you can no longer conduct the trust's business under the originally-drafted terms, how do you do it?

It would not surprise me if misuse of the cy pres doctrine was at the bottom of the tragedy of the Harding Museum in Chicago.  Fred Harding, who made a fortune as a restaurateur, amassed one of the greatest private collections of arms and armor in the world---it in some ways equalled, and in some ways surpassed the quality of the arms collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.  He also had a number of highly valuable antique musical instruments, and some superb models of full-rigged ships, some of them massive.  All this stuff was displayed in his mansion, built to look like a castle, in the Kenwood neighborhood just north of Hyde Park on Chicago's South Side.

The mansion was condemned to the wrecking ball by Chicago's urban renewal program---Kenwood, formerly a millionaires' enclave, had deteriorated to a dangerous slum by the early '60s---and the collection put in storage.  The lawyer administering the estate plundered it, padding the estate payroll with relatives, etc., even though there was little to do with the collections all tucked away.  Finally, when some of the musical instruments known to be part of the Harding Collection started turning up in auction catalogs, some other batch of lawyers started a series of lawsuits to wrest control of the estate from the trustee.  They finally did so after years of litigation, and the Art Institute ultimately agreed reluctantly to exhibit a pitiful fragment of the armor collection, but I believe most of the collection remains in storage.

Occasional Reader 8/4/2020 7:54:52 AM

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Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline must be even worse than we thought, because now we are seeing this:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/391374/

Occasional Reader 8/4/2020 7:56:02 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11:

Also:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/suddenly-dems-want-to-scrap-presidential-debates-ha/

PaladinPhil 8/4/2020 11:23:37 AM

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Occasional Reader 8/4/2020 1:53:51 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 13:

Good to see you, and glad to hear things are going well.

Syrah 8/4/2020 2:11:59 PM

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From my limited experience with the kind of fireworks that you can by on the reservation but which are illegal almost everywhere else,....that explosion in Beirut was not from those.

There is a video that you can pull up on the inter webs of a fireworks factory explosion  in Henderson Nevada that is really frightening to look at, but looks like a small scale version of what happened in Beirut. In Henderson, when the factory workers got word there was a fire, they took off running and didn’t stop until the shockwave knocked them on their ass. The death toll was low because of that.

My guess is that Hezbollah had stuff in that Beirut warehouse that should have been stored far far far outside of town.

Occasional Reader 8/4/2020 2:30:19 PM

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Syrah 8/4/2020 2:37:02 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16:

Mushroom Cloud.

Something big and something not holiday fireworks happened there. 

PaladinPhil 8/4/2020 2:56:25 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 17:

Couple things. One they have said that it was an ammonium nitrate explosion (fertilizer), Second, it was right beside a large grain elevator and the secondary was probably a very large dust explosion. So, until further information comes out, it's possibly a very legit industrial accident.

Kosh's Shadow 8/4/2020 3:36:33 PM

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In #15 Syrah said: My guess is that Hezbollah had stuff in that Beirut warehouse that should have been stored far far far outside of town.

And deny the people of Beirut the opportunity to become martyrs?

Kosh's Shadow 8/4/2020 3:43:48 PM

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Given how much Iranian stuff has been blowing up, I'd be surprised if the source of the Beirut explosion had nothing to do with Iranian weapons.

Time for Hizballah to be thrown out.

Occasional Reader 8/4/2020 4:38:28 PM

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In #17 Syrah said: Mushroom Cloud. Something big and something not holiday fireworks happened there.

My understanding is that pretty much any sufficiently big explosion, no matter what produces it, will cause a mushroom cloud.

lucius septimius 8/4/2020 5:35:25 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

You are correct -- it has to do with changes in air pressure and temperature as the plume rises through the atmosphere.

Occasional Reader 8/4/2020 5:03:06 AM

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Good morning.  Body cam footage of the arrest of Saint George has been leaked; I’d say it does not, ah, support The Narrative.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/body-cam-footage-of-floyds-arrest-leaked.php

vxbush 8/4/2020 6:24:44 AM

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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Good morning.  Body cam footage of the arrest of Saint George has been leaked; I’d say it does not, ah, support The Narrative.

Color me not-shocked. 

Legal question while I work on waking up: What is a Cy Pres recipient? I've never heard that term before.