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While similar to the curse of Rocky Colavito that that was made in 1958 the Layne Curse continues for now 66 years.

According to Bobby's wife, after getting traded to the Steelers, Layne said "the Lions wouldn’t win a championship for another 50 years". The curse was made before the Super Bowl and when the NFL had 12 teams with six each in Eastern and Western Conferences. Had the LIons beaten the 49ers, a case could be made winning the NFC Conference lifted the curse, but apparently "the curse" took over in the second half and is still alive and well.

According to Cleveland Indians lore, after being fired as manager in 1958, Bobby Bragan walked out to the pitcher's mound at Cleveland Municipal Stadium and placed a curse on the Indians, saying "they would never win another pennant". Two years later, Colavito was traded. The last time the Cleveland Indians won the World Series was in 1948 and because they are now the Cleveland Guardians, apparently the curse will last forever.

And probably why Nikki Haley is endorsing "mental capacity tests for politicians over the age of 75" and added “They need to let a younger generation take over”.

Statements like that could be overlooked if Haley hadn't promised to raise the seniors can collect the SS they paid into for years. At least she didn't go to war with Disney.

Before calling Rudy, Sydney, Kari, and Mike Pillow, the 4000 votes were taken from Biden and given to Trump.

Ironic that two of Bill's books were banned base on a law he supported. Maybe he will team up with the dictionary people for a class action lawsuit.

According to D. John Sauer the President of the U.S. can legally order a Seal team to assassinate their political rivals. His argument probably wasn't very well thought out because if the Appeals Court agrees with him, look for a Seal team to hit Mar-a-Lago the next day.

Yeah I know Sauer added some mumbo jumbo word salad exceptions that made the judges concentrate on not rolling their eyes. Shouldn't be a problem if they rule against because Trump's NY lawyer Alina Habba said people like Brett Kavanaugh are in Trump's pocket like "so many nickels and dimes",

"I have faith in them. People like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place, he'll step up," Habba said. "Those people will step up not because they're pro-Trump, but because they're pro-law, because they're pro-fairness, and the law on this is very clear."

Last week three University Presidents from Harvard, Penn, and MIT were questioned by House members on if antisemitism speech violated their codes of conduct. All three had problems answering when asked if “calling for the genocide of Jews” is a violation. One of the answers was "depends on the context" as if  calling for genocide could mean anything else. 

But what about in public where people are not subject to codes of conduct. Most of us will agree it's hurtful, but hurting someone's feelings is not the same physically harming them. There are some 1st Amendment exceptions like with court gag orders and social media TOS agreements. But if you see people holding signs on public property calling for genocide is probably protected speech.

...."by the idea of making money for shareholders: Nobody cares!"

Talk about being out of touch with employees. Next time I get a Big Mac, Whooper, Dave's double, or an Arby's roast beef, when they ask if I want fries, I'll ask if that's their motivation to make money for shareholders. 

Wonder why the genius founder Ron Shaich hasn't figured out if he gave his employees stock or profit sharing, they might care?

There are a few narrow categories of speech not protected including incitement, defamation, fraud, obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, and threats. However with the exception of child pornography, the others could be protected speech if the statements are ambiguous. Two current examples are things being said about Jack Smith and Tommy Tuberville.

Someone on "X" asked if Tuberville should be “removed from his Senate committee” and former CIA Director Michael Hayden replied  with"How about the human race?" Senator Tuberville accused Hayden of calling for his assassination and made a report to the Capital Police. During a Newsmax interview, Republican Congressman Clay Higgins said Jack Smith's "days are numbered." 

The Higgins example can and probably will be considered ambiguous because it could mean several other things. Hayden's remark could be borderline, but he did ask a question and later posted,

"I was surprised to wake up this morning and discover that many MAGAnuts had lost their minds over my suggestion that “Coach” Tuberville not be considered a member of the human race. I stand by that view. I’m wishing you all a nice day even the intransigent Tommy Tuberville."

Had a laugh when I read under "freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment" in the Encyclopedia Britannica, incitement was defined as "such speech as to a mob urging it to attack a nearby building". Wonder why they used that as an example of inciting?

I'm only guilt of five of the 12 Things Poor People Waste Money On. Maybe we should make a list of the top 12 things real billionaires waste money on.

I'll start with "million dollar rockets exploding minutes after liftoff".

That topic is being discussed on far right, far left, and everything in between news talk and pod casts.

Served as a juror and when the judge broke for lunch, he told us not to discuss testimony with anyone including other jurors. He didn't give an "or else", but based on the major and most news worthy current trials, doesn't seem to be a "or else" for high profile trials. 

Wasn't really much for me to discuss because I only heard the prosecution side of a DUI case. It was obvious the rule of law applied to me as a juror or judge would not have said it and questioning if it violated my Right to free speech was out of the question and not worth the drama. 

And speaking of drama the defendant in a Civil Trial where guilt was already determined, the Judge is now hearing evidence to decide how big of a fine and the drama queen is going overboard trashing the judge, prosecutor, and court. HIs lawyers are claiming it's his right under free speech. IMO I wouldn't trash the judge that will rule on how much I must pay in damages but that seems to be the strategy in the Manhattan courtroom. Maybe he's hoping for a mistrial by convincing an appeals court he forced the judge to rule against him because of his trash talking.

And Elvis' cousin left the building in Mississippi! Not much to debate about the 2023 election results unless someone like Mike Pillow wants to say the elections were rigged and rigged twice in Ohio.

The Democrats took control of the State House in Virginia and solid red Kentucky elected a Democrat Governor and several counties approved liquor sales.

She said "the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV,” Maybe just a weird coincidence, but my TV screen showed a bunch of guys playing professional football, basketball, hockey, and baseball all on the same night.

The FBI won't look into to it because apparently it's them that are spying on poor paranoidal Marge.

And today the "Kraken lawyer" Sidney Powell plead guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia. That's two down and sixteen more to go excluding their leader. Powell admitted to plotting to unlawfully access secure election machines in rural Coffee County in southeastern Georgia in January 2021. The plea agreement calls for her to be sentenced to six years of probation. 

Misty Hampton who allowed Powell's crew to illegally examine Coffee County voter information will probably cop a plea to avoid prison time as will the former head of the Republican Party in Coffee County and fake elector Cathay Latham. 

Doubt Scott Graham Hall will get a plea deal that doesn't involve some prison time but there might be a deal for much less prison time. The dominoes are starting to fall.

........had Israeli defense information?

Israel was caught more off guard than we were on 911. Not sure Rand Paul blocking funding for the Iron Dome defense system contributed to more loss of life, but who knows.

And don't forget Tuberville blocking military leadership appointments though he did tweet his office will assist any Alabamian need help getting out of Israel. Didn't say that he would assist Americans from the other 49 states or non-MAGA Republicans.

And people actually believe those three are making America great.

Starting to feel sorry for the poorly educated MAGA Kool-Aid drinkers that get their news from the same guy that spread lies about the Sandy Hook tragedy. Maybe they're giving Alex Jones a pass after his brain was scrambled the other day.

Even though Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas says he will nominate Trump, the Republicans rules probably already bar Trump from being Speaker of the House. 

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