I hope some group starts tracking every bill against p2025, so that any time they try to squeeze anything in it into a bill everyone knows and we can make it impossible to pass. We also need to know if any Dems ever allow any of it to pass… Basically it should become the anti-Bible for the left… If it’s in there, it’s never going to be allowed to happen
“Cruelty is the point” is one of the most overused (and misused) phrases on the Internet, but it actually seems to apply here. What other reason could there possibly be for the AG and SC to act this way?
Literally what’s happening at Angola with their farm line. The farm makes 8 million a year (at least so says the farm) so they “can’t” shut it down even though prisoners are dying out there in the heat. Free labor is the racist’s drug of choice.
The Missouri judicial system is racist as hell. I can almost guarantee that the person that decided to make those people stay in prison did it because the prisoners were black.
Vultures and other carrion birds have been used by some cultures to eat human remains too. The bones are then interred, cremated or venerated. It’s called sky burial. I always liked the idea. Giving back to nature.
Maybe someone can look for it since I’m being lazy, but I coulda sworn I saw a piece around a decade ago about how sky burials were falling out of fashion in India/Nepal and it was impacting the vulture populations that partially depended on dead humans as a food source. Now I’m wondering if the issue was sky burials in decline or if it was poison in cattle – or both.
The massive decline in the vulture population across Mumbai and the entire Maharashtra state began from 1992-93 onwards when the Indian government opened this drug for use in livestock as well. Today, there is not a single vulture in the state, according to Rahmani.
“Diclofenac is lethal to vultures. It does not matter from where they get it, from a dead Parsi or from a dead cow,” Rahmani said.
As corpses take longer, sometimes eight weeks, to decompose fully, the tower of silence continues to be a scene of partially decomposed bodies.
This has pushed some of the Parsi elders to blend the ritual of “sky burials” with modern technology.
“For 800 deaths a year, we need at least 250 vultures. But since there are no vultures around, we’ve installed solar concentrators. I think that’s the only way out now,” Dinshaw Rusi Mehta, a member the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, told Al Jazeera.
Of course! That’s another good article, so I appreciate you pointing it out.
It really highlights how this isn’t something we just learned about, it’s something we knew about all along but people ignored it because it was inconvenient to do something about it.
People in the future are really going to reflect pretty negatively of us from the 1900s.
At first it was a lot of what was in this article and the one from Al Jazeera I shared in the other comment, but then it went on to describe the effect it’s having on the Parsis and how the loss of the vultures is ending their religion due to them losing their land due to complaints from the vultures not being able to process the bodies.
It also ended with a note on how now there are adults now that have gone their whole lives without ever seeing a vulture. They hear their parents and grandparents talk about them in relation to their religion, but to the kids they are just another mythic beast like a leviathan, as they’ve never seen one. That’s kind of mind blowing to me, and it’s sad to think how many other animals our grandchildren might not remember in the future.
But wait, Republicans, what about all the welfare queens with like 10 Democrat party welfare sponsored kids? Are they now the most powerful voting block? Or did they never exist?
I really can’t comprehend how someone can look at the state of things and think it is appropriate to subject another person to the rat-ass future that’s coming. That’s before you even consider the expense of raising children, which is also prohibitive.
I’m not sure if this is the same case I read about recently, but it was something along the lines of there being some other much more minor conviction and the AG is arguing that the thirty years spent on the wrongful conviction shouldn’t count towards the time given for the other conviction.
I’d suppose the real motivation is hiding from the enormous civil lawsuits that will be coming in.
Judge William Hickle agreed at a 2020 evidentiary hearing that a jury would likely find Dunn not guilty based on new evidence, ABC News reported. Hickle did not exonerate Dunn, however, citing the 2016 Missouri Supreme Court ruling from Lincoln v. Cassady that only death row inmates can make an innocence claim.
The solution seems simple. AG Bailey and Judge Hickle both need to be seen engaging in [illegal action they are innocent of] by a sane Missouri Justice System officer and an arrest warrant issued for them.
Only death row inmates…it’s not just that it’s beyond the pale but it’s so stupid while it’s at it I can’t summon words.
Oh, I forgot to include the part from Lincoln v. Cassidy which makes it even worse.
We conclude that Relator would be unable to sustain his burden to establish the procedurally barred claims that he was denied a constitutionally adequate trial, rendering it unnecessary to determine whether Relator has sustained his burden to establish a gateway to review those claims. Because the Missouri Supreme Court has not recognized a freestanding claim of actual innocence in cases where the death penalty has not been imposed, we are not at liberty to expand Missouri habeas jurisprudence to permit consideration of the claim in this case. Accordingly, Relator’s habeas petition is denied.
When you read further into the weeds it gets even worse as there are apparently limitations on whether you can claim innocence depending on whether the trial was “constitutionally adequate” and when issues were raised. Just a bunch of excuses that procedure is more important than justice.
A quick Google search on the AG fighting Dunn’s release gives more light to this case.
It turns out Andrew Bailey is in fact a total cockbag, not a partial cockbag but complete and total one. A line from his Wiki:
During his tenure as attorney general, Bailey has adopted hardline conservative positions. He has refused to release prisoners after overturned convictions, attempted unsuccessfully to restrict gender-affirming care, battled initiatives to restore access to abortion in Missouri, and staunchly defended former President Donald Trump over his legal problems.
He appears to just take any hardline right, douchebag, position he can and then almost troll with it.
It’s amazing how the US has allowed so many of these assholes to get into power.
Probably a psychopath/sociopath. Or at least close to it.
It’s amazing how the US has allowed so many of these assholes to get into power.
In our capitalist system the sociopath will always be favored to gain power. They can make decisions without empathy for how it affects people or the long term, decisions of which help propel them to the top of whatever it is they do. This includes bending or breaking the law. Someone who is not a sociopath, more altruistic, more honest, won’t follow the tactics of the sociopath and therefore has less options to gain power and success.
This is how our society is designed and functions, objectively and undeniably. Also arguably it is part of human nature (competition, survival of the fittest) which is what conservatives love at their core. The fact that we try to overcome this with laws and such is difficult and challenging as we can see here. This person should have never got into a position of power, yet he did. How do we restructure society to make sure this doesn’t happen?
I hope Trump continues wearing that stupid fucking rectangle, it has actually made me laugh out loud on a few occasions… It’s just so absurd! As I’m looking at it, I’m reminded of all of his acolytes wearing them too, that’s usually when i finally crack up. I really would like to try wearing one but i just don’t want to give anyone the wrong idea 👂
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