Thatâs true of Amber Alerts everywhere. The purpose is to find a fleeing abductor right away. It also requires a basis to believe the child is in danger, so you would not usually see Amber Alerts in cases of a parent abduction, absent some known threat.
In those case then the parent had to have been deemed a threat. Maybe they lost custody due to having harmed the child before or for being unable to care for the child. Maybe they made threats to hurt the kid.
Not taking about statistical likelihoods. Amber Alerts say âthis kid is not just missing, but in danger.â
Lou Solomon of the attorney generalâs office is now showing a 2011 document with proposed terms of a loan from Deutsche Bank for the Doral golf course project in Florida.
The Trumps were seeking a personal wealth management loan, which comes with more favourable rates than commercial real estate loans.
The document states that Donald Trump is the guarantor for the proposed loan, and and that he had to maintain a minimum net worth.
Prosecutors then show an email from Ivanka Trump to then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and others about the loan rates.
She wrote: âIt doesnât get better than thisâ.
Ivanka tells the court that she did not specifically recall writing or sending that email.
Under questioning, she also said she didnât recall the proposal, or whether she thought it was good.
Hale, a transgender 28-year-old man going by the name âAidenâ Hale, entered The Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Green Hills, Tennessee â killing six, before being shot and killed by responding officers.
The manifesto detailed thoughts Hale had leading up to what was referred to as âDEATH DAYâ, as well as a timeline in which the shooting would take place.
Audrey Hale: âCanât believe Iâm doing this, but Iâm readyâŠI hope my victims arenât.â
Hale: âI hope I have a high death count.â
Hale: âKill those kids!!!â
Hale: âgoing to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.â
Hale: âWanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little removeds w/ your white privilegesâ
Hale: There were several times I could have been caught especially bâack in the summer of 2021
Hale: âIt might be 10 minutes tops. It might be 3-7. Its gunna go quick.â
Donât mess with Librarians! They are the holders of secret knowledge and will contact each other to find out if you still havenât returned that book from the 3rd grade!
Ivanka Trump is becoming more evasive on the stand
Ivanka Trump appears to very poised, friendly and willing to engage with the attorney general's office during her testimony, but is beginning to become more evasive with her answers.
She smiles and speaks softly, responding politely, but has started to repeat the phrase, "I don't recall," in response to documents being shown to her, including letters and emails she wrote herself.
Chris Kise, one of Trump's attorneys, has also made several objections. Engoron questioned Kise if he was "going to object to every document."
Older episodes can easily be written off as the violent-humor cartoons of the day were known for. Newer episodes donât have an excuse to making fun of child abuse.
That said, I do wonder if the satirical nature of the Simpsons was supposed to be evident in Homer strangling Bart. It always struck me as something he just âdid.â Not really funny or unfunny, just a facet of the show. Itâs possible the writers were originally trying to highlight how a dad like Homer might physically discipline his children out of rage while Marge just lets it happen.
When the Simpsons first came on it was deeply subversive and that era of TV, where things were really opening up beyond the big three networks for the first time, has so fundamentally changed TV programming that people can forget (or younger people can just not understand) what TV was like in the 1980s before insurgents like Fox and MTV changed the landscape.
By the late 1980s the formula, form, and what was socially permitted on TV sitcoms hadn't changed much in 40 years. The Simpsons was a purposeful rejection of all of the 'rules' that sitcoms had followed to that point. A big part of that was the classic TV 'authority figures' who are always right, just, and caring were purposely subverted: the dad is a dumb, self-centered, abusive, alcoholic jerk, the cops are all corrupt and stupid, the teachers hate the children and don't care about their education, the principal is a pathetic loser with delusions of relevance, the mayor is corrupt and womanizing, the preacher just doesn't care at all and wants to be left alone; hell, the children's clown on TV is arguably the most immoral scumbag on the show.
Similarly, Homer strangling Bart was meant as a subversion of the "patient father sits the misbehaving child down for a heart-to-heart where things get resolved" trope of sitcoms of the previous half century; instead dad physically abuses the misbehaving child and nothing is ever resolved. Where TV sitcoms to that point were fantasies about what the best versions of American culture could be, the Simpsons was an over-the-top take down of what our culture actually was.
But, obviously, as the TV culture they were satirizing went away (in no small part because of their show's success) the show needed to change too. In 1989, Homer strangling Bart rather than having a soft-focused heart-to-heart with music rising in the background was unexpected, subversive satire. In 2023 it's just a depiction of child abuse whose original context is long gone. The same show just doesn't work without the cultural context it was created in and meant to lampoon.
While I agree with you and also agree with the decision to not show it anymore, I do want to highlight this bit that you wrote:
instead dad physically abuses the misbehaving child and nothing is ever resolved
The positive thing is that it never (or so raraly that I wouldnât remember) presented the strangling as anything good or helpful. Instead it was always presented as a shortcoming of his personality. Homer is mentally ill equipped to solve conflicts with Bart non-violently. Strangling him was his only outlet and (at least to attentive viewers) it was clearly and evidently damaging Bartâs development. This is for example demonstrated in a scene where Bart has such a trauma that heâs getting âstrangledâ by thin air when he thinks his dad would go for it.
Also, with the knowledge that Bart is, to some extent, Matt Groeningâs self-insert, that does raise some rather unpleasant questions.
Well there is good news, demographic studies have estimated that American Indian populations may have recovered to pre-contact levels, raw enrollment numbers might be lower but people who have a significant share of American Indian heritage number around 8-10 million last I checked, which is the low-ball of where itâs estimated to have been circa 1491, highball being 20 mil.
Wait for real? I thought it was Punjab immigrants, especially with Modi bringing the crackdown hard enough to be sending gunmen to other countries over it
She seems to be choosing her words quite carefully - answering, for the most part, slowly and thoughtfully. She has punctuated some of her answers with a smile.
She is sitting upright with hands in her lap - looking attentively at whoever is speaking or at presented documents.
Itâs a marked difference from her fatherâs testimony on Monday, when the former president was combative with the judge and prosecution team
Theyâll gladly keep absorbing all those tax dollars though, and you better give them a COL increase in next yearâs budget or else fire and brimstone will rain down from the sky.
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