A 78-year-old homeowner has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a suspected burglar 'armed with a screwdriver was stabbed to death during a break-in'.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homeowner-78-arrested-after-burglar-12300739

She also wrote: "There is no equal growth opportunity on YouTube or any other video sharing site. Your channel will grow if they want [it] to!"

Aghdam's father, Ismail, told local US media she was angry because YouTube had stopped paying her for videos.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43638221

David Hogg, salesman of the month!

Last month saw the most gun-related background checks run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of any March on record, documents released by the agency on Tuesday show.

With 2,767,699 checks conducted by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in March 2018, the month beats the previous record of 2,523,265 set in March 2016 by 244,434 checks. That represents a 9.68 percent increase.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/gun-sales-soar-set-record-march-amid-push-new-gun-control-measures/

Sort of like "double secret probation"

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3644730/posts

Rosenstein Secret Special Counsel Memo Was Written After the Feds Already Raided Manafort’s House

The Rosenstein “secret” memo revealed in this week’s court filing is dated August 2, 2017. According to media reports, Paul Manfort’s home was raided July 26, 2017. So that means Rosenstein’s laid out the more specified scope and definition of authority for the special counsel investigation six days after Manafort’s home had already been raided.

What does this mean legally? Well, as always, the the legal experts are divided.

Remarkably honest. But, as pointed out in a reply, the actual hot shooting part of the American Revolution began when British troops attempted to confiscate weapons, lead, and powder.

History doesn't actually repeat, but it often rhymes.

https://twitter.com/Jenny_Trout/status/981301349856915456

What does this mean legally? Well, as always, the the legal experts are divided.

To me it sounds like go conduct your search, and when we have something we'll use that to justify the search.

"Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride"

MLK: "We Can't Keep Blaming the White Man."

"It almost goes without saying that the leading civil-rights organizations today can no longer count people of that caliber in their ranks. Which may be the clearest indication yet that the movement is over and that the right side prevailed. If black Americans were still faced with legitimate threats to civil rights — such as legal discrimination or voter disenfranchisement — we would see true successors to the King-era luminaries step forward, not the pretenders in place today who have turned a movement into an industry, if not a racket."

Not the sharpest "Only Ones" in the toolshed.

When Seconds Count, The Cops Are Only Minutes Away, And They May Frame You When They Get There

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2018/04/04/when-seconds-count-the-cops-are-only-minutes-away-and-they-may-frame-you-when-they-get-there/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/familys-dream-disney-cruise-holiday-12294639

Highlights:
Mother was conscientious enough to get a doctors note, but never bothered to find out what the cruise lines policy was

Family demanded to be let out site to wait as they didnt want to wait in the air conditioned building while their luggage was tracked down and returned

Family complains about being outside while waiting for their luggage to be tracked down and returned to them

Nothing is ever their fault

I don't know about being arrested but it is important to be charged with murder whenever you kill someone. Murder has no statute of limitations. So you need to be charged and acquitted. Otherwise a perfectly legal self defense action can be charged with murder decades later. And with no proof because of the passage of time you probably will be convicted. I know all about reasonable doubt and presumed innocent. But reality is there is a high risk of you getting convicted of a crime you didn't commit.

Be safe. Get acquitted.

Nothing is ever their fault ~ lujlp at April 4, 2018 9:13 AM

The YouTube Video Word of the Day is "AR-15." In case you missed it, the guard had an AR-15. And when he addressed the family, he had an AR-15. AR-15. AR-15. AR-15! Somebody call David Hogg!

That was one chaotic video. And what was with her shirt changing colors from pink to blue to pink?

From May 2017:

"Male birth control is already here. Guess who’s blocking it?"

(Hint: It's not who you might think - but maybe you WILL guess correctly.)

https://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2017/05/01/male-birth-control-is-already-here-guess-whos-blocking-it/

Yes, it's pretty hotheaded, but that doesn't mean the (male) writer is wrong.

And -

SPOILER BELOW:

From July 2016, in Mosaic Science:

"...Parsemus’s efforts have been helped by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, also based in California, which provided $50,000 to help them test the approach in baboons. 'We expected to be out of money last year and we’re not,' (Elaine) Lissner says. 'But the clinical trial is half a million dollars, so that’s a different scale, and beyond that it’s multimillions.' The trial will involve about 30 men and will test Vasalgel as a vasectomy alternative, without looking at reversibility..."

(end)

Given that rumor has it that Parsemus is still struggling financially, that would suggest that even the most likely candidates - rock stars and athletes - aren't all that interested.

So, pretty soon, MRAs will have to ask themselves "who's really the obstacle here - Big Pharma or the majority of American men, most of whom will have to keep using condoms anyway?"

Right now, there are still MRAs who argue that feminists are blocking the arrival of Vasalgel. As I've mentioned, if that were true, they'd be trying to stop single men from having legal access to vasectomies. The only women who want to do that are those who don't want WOMEN to have access to sterilization either - or to contraception in general.

Btw, in an old book by Village Voice columnist Ellen Frankfort, I found out there was a tiny clamp or valve for men in 1972 called Bionx - and it's almost impossible to find anything about it online! All I DID find was at Reddit, from 2017. Quote:

"Such a thing was attempted. It was called the Bionx Valve, IIRC. I was so excited, I immediately wrote to Planned Parenthood to ask if I could be included in the trials. They wrote back and said the project had been abandoned due to scarring issues. The current work was in the area of vasectomy reversal."

VR

Lenona, this was from Life magazine circa 1972. I thought it was a really striking photograph from back in the day, and managed to dig it up on the internet about ten years ago. Google will probably make me take it down pretty soon.

But looking at it today was the first time I noticed that there are two different gauges, right (normal) and left (heavy-duty).

You have to look closely to notice, because there's not a vas deferens.

That's right... I went there.

“So you need to be charged and acquitted. Otherwise a perfectly legal self defense action can be charged with murder decades later. “

Not exactly true. A statute of limitations doesn’t work the way you think it does.

Maybe using crystals for guidance isn't that bad an idea.

Isab there are people who were convicted of murder decades after the killing happened and it was later shown to be self defense and pretty obvious self defense at that. But decades later witnesses have moved, evidence is lost, so proving your innocence isn't a simple thing.

Texas has the habit of charging people with murder. You show up in court and the DA says he thinks everything was legit (self defense or whatever). You are then acquitted. It takes about a day to go through everything. And this is because Texas sometimes has lousy DAs who charge innocent people 30 or 40 years later.

If you care to be clearer on how I am wrong I am all ears Isab. And I don't know about other states. But this is the habit in Texas.

If you care to be clearer on how I am wrong I am all ears Isab. And I don't know about other states. But this is the habit in Texas.

Ben at April 4, 2018 6:57

There are many other crimes and situations where a statute of limitations is of little use, because it doesnt begin to toll until certain conditions are met. There are many different levels of murder and generally in most places in the US only first degree murder has no statute of limitations, the other lesser charges do.

I’m not inclined to write out a lecture in con law, but if you honestly think it is better to go through a trial for an overcharged murder, rather than never be charged at all you need to take a closer look at almost all employment applications, and background check forms, and also what a good defense attorney and court fees will be in a murder case.

The process *is* the punishment.

It is possible that Texas uses some kind of abrieviated process to dismiss charges for people who act in self defense, but I guarantee you, it is not the same as an actual acquittal.

Also an acquital in a self defense shooting does not keep you from being sued in Civil court which has a much lower burder of proof than criminal court.

In addition, you have the burden of proof backwards for criminal cases. You dont prove yourself innocent. The state is charged with proving you guility, and 20 years after the fact, that becomes difficult indeed, so difficult that most elected prosecutors arent going to abuse the taxpayer funds that way, least they lose the next election.

We do have some sort of abbreviated procedure here. You do go to court and there is a judge and jury. The DA states in their opening that they view the killing as legitimate. The defense attorney says they agree with the DA. The jury deliberates and says not guilty. It takes about a day to go through the process since none of the pre-trial stuff is needed.

Essentially Texas has a history of bad DAs who would charge completely innocent people with first degree murder 20+ years after the fact. And Texas juries are far too likely to rule guilty on little to no evidence. I understand that in theory the burden is on the prosecution. But Texas juries haven't always followed that. So some charismatic DAs have made a career out of digging up old cases and charging false charges to pad their resumes. Getting acquitted in an abbreviated trail stopped that from happening.

I do understand that civil issues are not blocked by this. But we haven't had an issue there.

“We do have some sort of abbreviated procedure here. You do go to court and there is a judge and jury. The DA states in their opening that they view the killing as legitimate.”

Sounds like an inquest, which doesn't protect you if new evidence comes to light. Just sayin.

Crid, how did you ever find that photo? I tried just now with a few different searches and couldn't duplicate it.

Can't remember. I was internet-searching over years, having seen it just once in late childhood. Rather than identifying it through a text clue, it *might* have happened when Google did one of their complete magazine series dumps, as they did for Spy... But when it appeared, I finally saved it to disk. Also, reverse-searching it now through Google images brings no results.

Another picture in Life magazine, one which I never found, showed a bunch of elementary school kids clambering into these weird study pods for individual reading time. I grew up in a pretty freakishly futuristic grade school, one run by a nearby university... But that one picture in Life magazine when I was eleven made it seemed like I'd been excluded from all the world's opulence.

Coulda sworn it was in color... They were absolutely stunning in all the different hues, with a phalanx of children charging eagerly.

You are the lawyer and not I Isab. So you would know better that I do. I was told you can't be charged twice for the same crime. Double jeopardy and all that. This supposedly covers that situation.

You are the lawyer and not I Isab. So you would know better that I do. I was told you can't be charged twice for the same crime. Double jeopardy and all that. This supposedly covers that situation.

Ben at April 5, 2018 5:43 PM

Sure you can. You can be charged as many times as they like. You can only be convicted once. And there are exceptions to that as well. If an act is both a state and a federal crime, they have no problem trying you and convicting you in both courts for the same crime. Double jeopardy does not attach in those circumstances.

I wouldn't count on anything covering you. If I recall Texas is the state that indicted their own governor for an act that was within his official powers.