Plan B Forum

Just caught the end. Don't know his name, living in London, complaining about the living standards. Apparently his best friend in Norway is living in an apartment block with a gym and a swimming pool open to all residents. "Of course he's in prison. He got three years. But with good behavior they'll...

I remember the toilet paper 'shortage' during Covid, and people were advised to use Kleenex or equivalent. I wanted to go into the streets and yell Noooooooo! at the top of my lungs. As Crackpot clearly knows, and most people do not, they are entirely different products. We've all seen what happens ...

From the DOJ's website: https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy-use-force My bolding for emphasis: 1-16.200 - USE OF DEADLY FORCE AND PROHIBITED RESTRAINT TECHNIQUES A. Deadly Force Law enforcement and correctional officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only ...

Thanks BSG. So in essence, whatever MN does, the US Attorney can make it a federal crime and then drop the case or, as you say, mount a half assed prosecution, and MN can do nothing about it.

Madison, Hamilton et al must be turning in their graves.

Someone help me with the law here. If Minnesota wants to bring some kind of criminal charge here (murder, manslaughter, whatever) can they? The shooter is a federal employee and, at least in some eyes, acting as part of his duties. My guess is that ICE will get him out of the state - probably alread...

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) appears to have got the message.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/567 ... mateurish/

No-one knows who these ICE agents are. There are many untrustworthy police (a minority, but too many) but at least they have been through training on de-escalation, how to handle weapons, how to assess a situation and so on. The ICE agents have unmarked vehicles; their faces are covered; we don't kn...

What is the point of inverting the bow and holding it halfway up? Does it give a different sound? Is that something a violinist would do as part of a piece?

A longer explanation of this moronic capers going on in Texas, about race and gender studies, is at https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/.

I've seen post on FaceBook saying, in essence, measles is OK. We all had it when we were young and we survived.

Yes we did. Except, of course, those who did not. I had a friend who died at 13. From measles.

. . . or the Taiwanese? I think Trump has just given the green light to China; and possibly other 'reclaiming territory' wars e.g., former Yugoslavia.

I listened to a few minutes of his press conference this morning - I couldn't stand more than a few minutes and turned it off. He was talking about the Monroe Doctrine as if he had just heard of it (and he probably had - although his fifth grade teacher probably told him about it, little Donny wasn'...

"shots" ?? "violently kills"

I think he means 'shoots' - and is there a non violent way of killing people?

These people are ridiculous and shameless about it. Losing losers who won't admit they lost, objective reality notwithstanding. True of course; but in many ways it is the whole point. Trump (and his cronies) have discovered that lying and being shameless about it actually vacuums up votes - "he tel...

And, of course, we took a man who ran a company which was fined $1,700,000,000 for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid, and made him a US Senator. If these people in Minnesota did in fact defraud the government, I expect them to be arrested, tried, and if found guilty, punished. I'm pretty sure they (i...

I travel to UK twice a year - replaced my passport a few weeks ago. All done on line, got a photo .pdf from Walgreens, very efficient. The amusing thing was that I paid USPS something like $70 for a speedy post to send my old pp to Peterborough; it took two weeks to get there; they turned it around ...

lib told us: I’m not a wealthy person, but I’m able to do some good. I donate what I can to three charities: Wounded Warrior, St. Jude, and the ASPCA. What do you donate to? I give to Wounded Warrior (and a similar charity in Britain) because although I disagree with many of the military adventures ...

As a very frequent car renter I have to agree about how useful this arrow is. My only gripe is that the image is of a petrol (gas) pump with an arrow pointing (say) to the left. Which leaves me in my rental car, hurrying to catch a plane and filling up at the airport so they don't charge me 3x for t...

Per BSG: I’ve just got season six left to watch now and reluctant to start it because then the fun will be all done. I know what you mean. I got 'Clown Town' for Christmas - the latest - and I don't want to read it but I probably will, soon. I was the same with the Aubrey Maturin series of novels wh...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/d ... ivist-dies

She turned into a bit of a right wing nutter as she grew older.