Somebody educate me here. They can just cancel common stock? As in, make it valueless? I guess if the idea is the company is gone and consequently the value is zero, but that does not seem to be the case here. Doesn’t seem right, but what does that matter anymore?
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The boy, who may have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism which has yet to be diagnosed, had no previous convictions.
Oh fuck, here we go…
I suspect most folks know of the link between animal abuse and later violent, senseless crimes against humans. What there is not is a link between fucking autism (even “yet to be diagnosed” autism) and violent crimes. Why the hell do they print dreck like this?
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Last year, an 18-year-old Utahn was staring at the potential of years in prison, accused of having sex with a 13-year-old.
Plea bargain negotiations were at an impasse. Then the Utah Legislature — based on an initial suggestion from Senate President J. Stuart Adams — changed the law.
Two months later, prosecutors offered the 18-year-old, who is related to Adams, a plea deal. The teen would plead guilty to reduced charges, face no additional jail time beyond a week already served, and would not have to register as a sex offender.
The new law was not made retroactive, and the teenager was not charged with the new lower-level crime it created. But in court hearings, the judge, the prosecutor and defense attorney Cara Tangaro — who helped draft the bill language that was adopted by the Legislature — all acknowledged it was pivotal to resolving the charges against the 18-year-old.
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If they can do this it’s just scrip, isn’t it.
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The whitewashing has begun.
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We all owe our soul to the company store now.
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some guy named John Barron called it in…
he then asked if the refigerator was running…
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Thanks to that article, I learned that they were holed up in St Charles, IL. That’s really smart: it’s next to a small regional airport, which is probably how they got there, and it’s NOT convenient to get to and from Chicago from there. No highways going east toward the city from there, but there are a hundred or more different surface street options, meaning it would be harder to harm them en route. And yet, at the same time, getting downstate to Springfield (the state capital) or further out of town to another state is relatively easy. Plus that airport, of course.
And as the cherry on top, St Charles and Geneva next door are sweet little towns.
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It’s a little weird they had to plan ahead like that.
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While I suspect you already know this, it still needs to be said: because it casts autistic people as Other. I’ll admit to a certain amount of confirmation bias in thinking of us as being more prone to caring for animals than most neurotypicals, but you’re absolutely right: I’ve never hear of a link to violent crimes!
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Absolutely true, IMHO because most nonhuman animals are a lot more predictable and reasonable than us Homo saps. Hell, I’m not autistic (at least, not mostly autistic) and would rather spend time with my cats and dog than the vast majority of adults in the world (my family excepted, but can’t think of too many others. OK @j9c, you make the cut too!)
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Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement
https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-students-unsafe-brown-university
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Slacktivist brings up the ‘anti-kitten-burning coalition’ again, with regard to QAnon & MAGA responses to Epstein:
This brings us back to our old friends in the Anti-Kitten-Burning Coalition. News of horrific cruelty produces nearly universal and unanimous horror, revulsion, and condemnation. And very often, those condemnations quickly give way to weird, non-sequitur assertions of innocence and identity.
Thus when news arrives of some horrible incident of animal cruelty, the comment section will overflow with two different kinds of reactions.
The first is simple and visceral and sticks to the topic. Something like: “That’s terrible! I hope the perpetrators are caught and punished!”
The second quickly glances off the topic at hand and then expounds on its real focus: the moral superiority of the writer. It reads something like this: “You people defending such things make me sick! It might not be ‘politically correct’ to say it, but I don’t care who I offend here, so I’ll just come right out and say what you cowards never will — that the people who did this should be caught and punished!”
The first type of response is about being appalled by the kitten-burning.
The second type of response is about being immensely proud at being appalled by the kitten-burning.
In every such case, you’ll find dozens of responses like the latter one, but you’ll search in vain for any hint of who they’re talking about as “you people defending such things.” The complete absence of anyone making such a defense never prevents the Anti-Kitten-Burning Coalition from directing their replies to this audience of imaginary kitten-burning defenders. The wrongness of those imaginary defenders is the bedrock of the AKBC’s identity — of their self-concept. Contrast with such people is how they know themselves to be good and special and extraordinary. It is their assertion of innocence and their defense against moral anxiety.
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Still not a drag queen.
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