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  1. “He had models illustrating loses in lung function to the individual percent, although he had no personal knowledge of Floyd’s respiratory capacity when alive.”
    I was waiting for him to explain how Floyd was breathing OK with his lungs full of liquid. The guy was drownding.

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  2. I think Satyricon (which I remember seeing about 45 years ago and wondering “what was that all about?”) is more than a description of Hunter Biden but of Western Civilization itself. Hardly an original thought I know.

  3. The overwhelming majority of so-called “hate-crime” incidents are fabricated for political purposes; on campuses nationwide, it is nearly certain that any such incident, even before the investigation, can summarily be dismissed. Unfortunately, until the wholly illegitimate and completely unconstitutional category of hate-crime (fully as fraudulent as that of “hate-speech”, which is also completely arbitrary and subjective) is relegated to the dust-bin of history, those who are ideologically motivated to perpetrate such hoaxes will continue to be incentivized to lie.

  4. Oxygen levels from a VIDEO????!!!
    Absolutely IMPOSSIBLE.
    I use oxygen levels in my work , and it is not possible to tell oxygen levels with any meaningful accuracy by looking at white people. Black people–please!
    That’s why the pulse oximeter was invented–because there was NO WAY of telling oxygen levels in a person until the heart rate got slow, or blood in the surgical field was dark.
    (That clip that goes on your finger which calculates oxygen saturation by analyzing light transmission through tissue and stays on til you leave the Post Anesthesia Recovery Unit. Why anesthesia is now safer than your drive to the outpatient center.)

  5. The court packing scheme is taking me straight back to Venezuela. That was a key element in Chavez’s consolidation of power. Without a truly independent judiciary, even after the Opposition won 2/3 of the National Assembly, a super-majority that should have allowed them overrule Chavez on nearly everything, Chavez used his control of the Supreme Court to effectively neuter the Opposition by applying criminal charges to all the Opposition politicians.

    Make no mistake… they are following the same playbook.

  6. The evidence of Chauvin’s innocence is effectively inadmissable.

    The evidence of his ‘guilt’ preordained.

    He’s a white cop and a black man died while under his knee.

    It wouldn’t have mattered if Floyd had immediately pulled out a gun and blew his own brains out.

    It would still be Chauvin’s fault.

    A white cop arresting a black man or woman is effectively, ‘proof’ of racism. If a black person dies, regardless of the cause, it’s murder one.

    That is the reality every white cop in America now faces…

    Case closed.

  7. It’s cricket insofar as the executive branch nominates justices. There is absolutely nothing to stop a president from nominating as many justices as he wants and nothing to stop the Senate from confirming them.

  8. My hope is that appointment of the commission to “study” the Supreme Court’s “reform” will turn out to be a punt by the puppet Biden Regime’s operators. The mere announcement of this appointment can still serve as an effective threat to the court’s conservative majority.

  9. Hunter’s idea of heaven: Two hookers, a bichon frise, and a stuffed full-size teenage ninja mutant turtle. All recorded for posterity by a hooker taking a selfie in a mirror; that somehow ended up on Hunter’s laptop.

    If you pull up the slide show on the DailyMail link, you can also read a text message exchange about the discarded handgun.

  10. om, that story got the poster banned from Twitter.

    The race pimps are in control right now.

    Lee, CO2 monitors were made mandatory on anesthesia machines when I was just beginning as a surgeon. That device alone dropped the malpractice rates for anesthesia to the same as internal medicine. The oximeter is now almost a toy they are so cheap and common.

  11. The Albion College thing is of some minor interest to me because it’s my neck of the woods, peripherally. I notice that Albion happens to be where the two branches of the Kalamazoo River converge. Further, this thing with the graffiti is remarkably similar to another fake hate crime that happened at my alma mater just down the road a number of years ago. It seems almost as if student bodies at such small or smallish liberal-arts schools in the upper Midwest seem to be growing prone to such ‘incidents’.

    I’m sad about Prince Philip. The fact that he and I share a name is part of it, of course. (Checking into his biography, it is of interest that he was born in Greece and had some connections with German royal houses. I suppose I can take this to combine little touches of three countries that I esteem in one way or another.)

  12. In other roundup news:

    A top Republican super PAC endorsed Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) if she runs for reelection in 2022—after former President Donald Trump and Alaska’s GOP said they would work to primary her.

    The Senate Leadership Fund, which is aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), said Murkowski has shown “conservative values” and noted that she voted for Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett. The group added that Murkowski also voted for Trump’s landmark tax bill.

    “Alaska needs the kind of experienced representation that Lisa Murkowski provides in the United States Senate. — [blah, blah, blah]” said the Fund’s president, Steven Law, in a statement on Friday.

    Sigh.

  13. @Philip Sells:

    Apparently one of his nicknames (behind his back of course) in the Firm was Stavros.

    I’ll miss his irreverent sense of humour.

    I wonder how many other participants in the Battle of Cape Matapan are still living today.

  14. }}} (4) RIP Britain’s Prince Philip, dead at 99. He and the Queen were married for 73 years, and apparently it was very much a love match.

    Perhaps, but one has to wonder how much of Charles being a total buffoon (obvious candidate for the “English Upper-Class Twit of the Year” for multiple years) is his fault, as the father. :-/

  15. Another item for your roundup: Roberta Jacobson, who served as US Ambassador to Mexico from 2016 to 2018, and who was appointed
    “White House Coordinator for Border Matters,” resigned today. The National Security Advisor claims she essentially served as long as she committed to: “the first 100 days.”

    I suspect we will gradually learn that she grew so frustrated with the Biden policy that she decided to get out before her reputation was destroyed. I would not be surprised if others follow her out the door.

  16. }}} I think Satyricon (which I remember seeing about 45 years ago and wondering “what was that all about?”) is more than a description of Hunter Biden but of Western Civilization itself. Hardly an original thought I know.

    Actually much more a stark view of the value of Avant Garde film-making, popular in that era, as the PostModernists took over much of the art world. It was after this that you got such artistic wonders as “Virgin Mary in Elephant Dung” and “Piss Christ”

  17. }}} The oximeter is now almost a toy they are so cheap and common.

    There’s one on my fitness watch, somehow. No idea how accurate it actually is.

  18. Further to my comment about Roberta Jacobson — it turns out the source I was reading got it wrong. She will retire (resign?) effective the end of April. So she is completing nearly 100 days.

  19. I just read through Branca’s account of the trial.
    Eric Nelson is a living clone of Perry Mason on cross-examination.
    I hope he doesn’t succumb to fatigue or worse.
    And I hope he is already packing to leave town.
    Does his family live in Minneapolis?
    I didn’t know so I looked for some data and found this information about him, and now I have some answers to that and other questions. Excerpts are not in the same order as in the article.

    https://heavy.com/news/eric-nelson-derek-chauvin-attorney/

    According to his Facebook profile, Nelson is married and has two children. He and his family live in Minneapolis.

    I really, really hope they have already left town.

    The 46-year-old Nelson, a partner at Halberg Criminal Defense in Minneapolis, is the lone attorney representing Chauvin in court.

    Nelson is one of 12 attorneys who work with the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association (MPPOA) to defend officers in criminal and civil trials, according to Fox News. …
    Brian Peters, the executive director of the MPPOA, told The Associated Press that Chauvin’s legal defense is being fully funded by the association despite being fired, because, “Chauvin earned the right to representation through his years as a member of his local union.”

    I had always found it concerning that he was the only legal person at Chauvin’s table in court, and especially if the union has this many on retainer, but apparently he isn’t actually working alone.

    Nelson will be the only lawyer sitting alongside Chauvin in court during the trial, while the prosecution team will have 14 attorneys, many of whom will be rotating into the court for different portions of the proceedings.

    Earl Gray, who is representing another former officer, Thomas Lane, told The Washington Post, “He is outnumbered, but sometimes too many cooks spoil the broth,” adding that in court, “Only one lawyer can speak at a time.” Gray told Bloomberg Law, “He’s an excellent criminal defense attorney. He might not have a huge name yet, but he isn’t that old yet.”

    But the police union said Nelson is not really working alone, according to The Associated Press. He has been working behind the scenes with the three other attorneys hired by the MPPOA to defend the other three former police officers facing charges in Floyd’s death. He also has been able to turn to the eight other attorneys in the MPPOA’s 12-lawyer rotation, the AP reported.

    Peters, the association’s executive director, told the AP the association has also hired consultants who are experts in use-of-foce and medical issues, ” and Eric has been working very closely with those consultants … It may appear that it’s just Eric, but that is very far from the truth.”

    He has good credentials and a great reputation, and, as Branca has shown, lives up to his billing.

    From his firm’s website:
    “Eric is a frequent lecturer on various criminal topics including driving under the influence of a controlled substance and the manufacturing of methamphetamine. Eric routinely speaks throughout Minnesota and serves as a judge in moot court and mock trial competitions.”

    Michael Brandt, another Minnesota attorney, told The Post, “Sometimes you don’t see him coming. He’ll lull folks into a false sense of security, but the wheels are spinning, and he’s thinking three or four moves ahead.”

    But the trial is making things hard for other local lawyers.

    Another Minneapolis-based attorney with the same name, Eric C. Nelson, added a disclaimer to his website because of the high-profile nature of the Chauvin case.

    The other Nelson, a divorce attorney, wrote, “NOTE: IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE ERIC NELSON WHO IS REPRESENTING DEREK CHAUVIN, THAT’S NOT ME. YOU WANT THIS GUY. (Welcome to Minnesota, where the name Eric Nelson is as common as walleye sandwiches. I wish my parents had named me Thor instead. Then I wouldn’t have this problem).”

  20. A salute to Eric Nelson and his client. Minneapolis is well served by both of them.

  21. Perhaps, but one has to wonder how much of Charles being a total buffoon (obvious candidate for the “English Upper-Class Twit of the Year” for multiple years) is his fault, as the father. :-/

    The English Royal Family has a long history of buffoons. Philip was probably an effort to get some new genes into the chromosomes. Victoria and Elizabeth II are probably the best since Elizabeth I.

  22. The mere announcement of this appointment can still serve as an effective threat to the court’s conservative majority.

    Yep. And we know that four of the six Republican appointees on the court are easily rolled.

  23. Perhaps, but one has to wonder how much of Charles being a total buffoon (obvious candidate for the “English Upper-Class Twit of the Year” for multiple years) is his fault, as the father. :-/

    Actually reading commentary on Charles reminds one that high school never ends for some people. The man has done one disagreeable thing in his life – he had an affair with an old friend then married to someone else. (Don’t tell me about Diana – she was a borderline personality who had three affairs to her husband’s one). He doesn’t do anything undignified in public venues, so the ‘buffoon’ complaint makes no sense.

  24. I saw the Hunter Biden article. It felt like running my fingers through raw sewage.

    Anyone who has ever had a loved one who was an addict will find the article, especially the text-message exchanges, depressingly familiar. As we are told in AlAnon: addicts lie, addicts cheat, addicts steal. It goes with the addiction; it’s part of the disease. All of this was on full display in Hunter’s messages.

    We are also taught in AlAnon not to enable the addict. Hunter’s father has clearly not learned that lesson (although his love for his son seems heartfelt). As I said, it’s depressing.

  25. Daniel Schwartz:

    It’s indeed depressing. But far more depressing, and important, was/is the media and social media coverup. This was published in a British paper, not an American one. In our media, Hunter is getting interviews about his new book and treated with respect.

  26. It goes with the addiction; it’s part of the disease.

    It isn’t a disease. It’s a way of life.

  27. Art+Deco on April 10, 2021 at 2:31 pm said:

    It goes with the addiction; it’s part of the disease.

    It isn’t a disease. It’s a way of life.

    No, I think there is a genetic component. My older son had both grandfathers alcoholics. He was an alcoholic from age 16 to 26. At that point, thanks to a terrific rehab outfit in LA, he got sober and has remained so for almost 30 years. He is a successful trial lawyer and although we disagree on politics, he is doing well.

    Fortunately, it skipped a generation but I think there is something to genetics. I also think there is some biology to massive obesity. Maybe it has something to do with gut bacteria and not genetics. There is some evidence for morbid obesity and I know of none for alcoholism. Probably a genetic element.

  28. No, I think there is a genetic component.

    There’s a heritable component to a wide array of dispositions and behaviors, or so they tell us. Life isn’t a disease.

    I’m pleased your son’s on the wagon. In my family, we’ve two cases who quit drinking ‘ere there was any such thing as rehab and one case where stints in rehab were just steps in her dance macabre. (And two cases who never bothered with temperance or rehab).

  29. It isn’t a disease. It’s a way of life.

    For myself it was both a disease and a way of life. I kicked the disease by changing my way of life.

    Some of the things they tell you in AA is suspect but if you work the program and REALLY want to stop chances are you will.

    Today I can have a drink or two and walk away BUT I’m not in the environment that I was when I was drinking heavy/daily. So your environment at least for me anyway played a big part.

    Also I noticed some that went to AA weren’t really alcoholics per say. They were sad lonely people. Also some were there because it was the popular thing to do at that time.

    I would put Hunter in the cat of sad and lonely plus a friging attack.

  30. Also crack head, alcoholic sex addict. He’s probably addicted to anything he touches!

  31. I would put Hunter in the cat of sad and lonely plus a friging attack. Also crack head, alcoholic sex addict. He’s probably addicted to anything he touches!

    He was married at age 23 to a handsome woman who gave him three children. He’s never had an extended bout of unemployment leaving him broke. He’s had no objective reason to be sad or lonely. He’s been in the connections biz since he got out of law school, which certainly takes some energy and skill. That having been said, it’s a social corrupting and personally corrupting way to make a living. He could have earned an honest living and provided for his wife and children adequately. He could have kept his pants zipped when not with his wife. He could have obeyed the drug laws, as any prudent person does. He could have quit drinking when his wife asked him to, as she almost certainly did. He chose not to live that way.

    You realize that he has a real talent for seducing women and enticing them into his crazy. That’s something else he shouldn’t be doing.

  32. As we are told in AlAnon: addicts lie, addicts cheat, addicts steal. It goes with the addiction;

    Ponder a different direction of causality: people foundationally willing to lie, cheat, and steal are well-adapted to the life of the addict. If they had actual scruples, they’d lay of the booze and the drugs as such are placing them in occasions of sin. (Yes, I’ve seen this up close and personal. She was showing signs of moral degeneration nine years before liquor was a gross problem).

  33. When I see Hunter Biden photos and read about his frenetic, sordid, obsessive, gross, repulsive, selfish (x eleventy-billion) behavior, it’s clear he’s running from something. As though a literal demon is chasing him.

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