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Saw a story about a Michigan woman claiming she parlayed $50 into $11 million playing Roulette at a licensed Online casino. Said she lost about $8 million and stopped playing with $3 million in winnings. The article was more about her attempting to claim the winnings than how she could win millions starting with $50.

The claim was she went to a regular casino, got a $100,000 cash advance but when she went back to collect the rest of the winnings, was told there was a glitch, the winnings were not real, but she could keep the $100,000 if she signed a waver and didn't tell anyone. That's when the first red flag appeared. 

It's an understatement to say "there was a glitch" when someone claims they parlayed $50 into $11 million by "playing most of the Roulette numbers". Read on the casino's website there is a $250 straight wager limit on Roulette so she had to win 1250 times playing just one straight number to win $11 million without any losses. By playing "most of the numbers" and starting with $50, it's highly unlikely she could win $500. And another red flag.

That Online casino is licensed in Michigan and very doubtful they would risk being suspended even if a player could win $11 million. State Lotteries placed limits on how much a drawing pays out by either limiting the number of tickets sold or by dividing their limit by the number of winning tickets. 

Maybe it's just another example of someone very gullible believing they could win that much or more likely believing lots of people would believe their story. IMO, I'd trust Online casinos run by a state lottery or possibly one run by a large casino company.

Former President Donald Trump shared a post on his Truth Social account on Friday, declaring him as "second" only to Jesus. Can't wait for Paula White's Truth Social response.

Jones said "it's his right as an American to falsely accuse parents of being involved in a plot to stage school shootings."

Said that after a Texas jury awarded $45.2 million dollars in punitive damages in a defamation suit brought by the parents of a murdered Sandy Hook elementary school student whom "extremist conspiracy media baron Alex Jones smeared as a crisis actor”.

But almost every die hard MAGA Kool-Aid drinking Trump supporter see nothing wrong with Jones' InfoWars.

"The appeals court also pointedly noted that Trump had presented no evidence that he had declassified the sensitive records, as he maintained as recently as Wednesday, and rejected the possibility that Trump could have an "individual interest in or need for" the roughly 100 documents with classification markings that were seized by the FBI in its Aug. 8 search of the Palm Beach property."

Regardless of his weird claims that he could declassify the documents by simply thinking about doing it, the Appeals Court ruled the documents belong to the People.

And the people of New York seeks $250 million in penalties. Found a copy of the actual lawsuit. For those following along, this is civil and not a criminal lawsuit.

Not my opinion, just an article I saw in USA Today.

Just saw a Blog entry titled "Biden is not a war time president" but on further review, the article in link says nothing about being a "war time president". It's just another example of someone trying to mislead people he thinks will believe his obvious BS.

Do all the MAGA Kool-Aid drinkers think everybody is as gullible as them or just some of the Trump lovers here?

Last week they took his phone and now this. After being in court multiple times on illegal drugs charges, one would think Mike has enough sense not use a cell phone to run a multi-million dollar business. His high priced bargain basement lawyer should give him a lesson on "absents of malice speech" too.

FYI: the underlined "this" is a link to the story.

"The Pretrial Fairness Act abolishes cash bail and provides for a presumption in favor of release for misdemeanors, traffic offenses and other petty offenses, provided a defendant is not deemed a risk to the community by the arresting officer."

Never was arrested so I don't know the pretrial process or how the bail amount is determined. I know of a woman that lost her house when you used it as collateral to bail out her son. He was arrested on drug related changes, missed several court dates, and the bail bondsman had no other choice. 

“One of the primary goals of the law is to make sure that we're having in-depth, detailed hearings when we're taking away someone's freedom"

Interesting law, because pretrial incarceration there is a presumption of guilt especially for misdemeanors. Many people spent time in jail and later were found not guilty.

Maybe someone here had experience and can explain the process from arrest to arraignment, pretrial bail hearing, and how long someone that couldn't post bail was in jail.

And adding to the "what were they thinking" question, Marco Rubio is co-sponsoring Graham's ill timed bill banning women's rights. Rubio is in a close reelection battle and there are many other issues that could help his campaign. Read a poll showing most inflation is most important to Americans. For instance:

"Jeanine Spanjers, 44, from Racine, Wisconsin, said that rising inflation had caused her to change her lifestyle, including driving less, skipping vacations and even abstaining from popcorn when she goes to the movies. A state employee, she also said she believed that Democrats were handing out too many government subsidies, pointing to relief payments distributed during the pandemic.

“What’s getting on my nerves is all this free stuff,” she said, criticizing how all the children at her son’s school received food stamp cards, including families who could afford to pay for lunch. “Republicans would never do something like that. It disincentivizes people to go out and do something. I’m starting to feel like people are being rewarded for not doing anything.”

Many of the Florida voters feel the same way but by making something the Supreme Court said belongs to the states a Federal issue, Rubio can only lose votes. Especially when many Florida voters agree with Spanjers.

"Still, Spanjers said she planned to vote only for Democrats, saying abortion is her top issue. “I had made that choice once, and I have two sons,” she said. “There’s people who can’t afford kids and shouldn’t have kids, or just maybe it isn’t the right time in their life.”

Old white men can spin the issue many ways but the women will be deciding "Yes or No" on having a choice.

Roger Stone accuses Lindsey Graham of "willful sabotage".

Even Mitch McConnell disagrees with Lindsay Graham's proposed national abortion ban. Lindsay is only doing what he does best, flip flopping on almost every thing. I suppose his thing against women started when they stopped him from fondling Monica's blue dress. 

Not all the GOP and not all of their MAGA chapter are against women having rights but Graham wants to prove he is against it, probably in an attempt for five minutes of fame.

Similar when I saw where the "bird man parolee" shared his French-Canadian women with unshaved legs fetish in the News Forum. Lots of us go off topic now and then, but at best that is just plain weird and very sexist at the worst.

Whatever it takes to get people to notice him I guess.

Found a study by the Pew Research Center the suggest that. 

I'm pretty sure Eric Trump wasn't talking about  the "Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace" when he said "no one did more for Christianity than his dad". But than again Eric never said exactly what his dad did for Christianity in general.

Your mileage might vary

Was Eric talking about one of the Popes, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, a leader of a large Protestant Organization, Jim Bakker, or maybe the Apostle Paul? Nope Eric Trump was talking about his "pop a tic-tac and grab them by their **ss*" dad. 

Maybe Eric's version of the Bible says teargassing peaceful protesters for a photo opp in front of a Perish House was the "Christian thing to do" because he read where Jesus pushed 5 blind people out of his way, kicked 4 Lepers, and spit on 17 children wanting autographs on his way up the hill for a speech. Or maybe because his daddy threw paper towels to the multitude of hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.

Though to be fair, Stormy Daniels mentioned that "the Orange Don" called out the name of the Lord several times during their "spiritual encounter".

Most Americans see Trump's MAGA as threat to democracy.  The childish drama queens will say they only polled people that hate Trump but more about not liking his actions as President, the lies he spread about the election results, and convincing a large group gullible people to illegally break into the Capitol Building and chant "hang Mike Pence". 

They don't hate Trump; they just would rather him stick to what he does best, bankrupting companies and cheating on his wife and while playing golf.