I've seen lawyers say that as weak as Cook's fraud accusation is, it makes the James accusation look like an easy conviction.
Also I think South Pasadena was likely a more enlightened place than Temple City, we were a pretty conservative little town.
Do you have it backwards? James's indictment is extremely wafer thin. It is a single checkbox on a thick stack of documents where there is evidence that James made it clear to the broker that this was not going to be her primary residence. She also checked a box in another document in the stack that the house would not be her primary residence. Federal prosecutors also already investigated this under Seibert and came to the conclusion there wasn't enough evidence to charge her. It was only after Trump force Seibert to step down/fired him and replace him with his flunky that it went to the grand jury. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/letitia-james-grand-jury-trump-indictment Much like Comey's case, the defense is also likely to make a malicious prosecution claim to get the charges thrown out and they are going to have a metric ton of evidence to support that claim. It is incredibly hard to prove malicious prosecution (see Trump's claims of malicious prosecution against James and she ran on investigation Trump).
Not sure then, but quite a few of my classmates are fairly conservative. And not ones I would have thought. My impression was that we were far more liberal than was probably the reality.
Yeah, just re-read it was my phrasing was unclear. As weak as the Cook case is, the James case is even weaker. Without looking it up, I think the argument against James is based on a single paper on a loan application (out of like 50 pages) either 42 or 47 years ago.
It was obvious to me from second grade, when the teacher asked who our parents were voting for and me and one other kid were the only ones who said Carter.
Haven't been to any of those. The closest I've been is Charlotte, NC, which is actually a nice city to visit. Love the vegetation and the southern architecture, and it's quite diverse.
Can't quarrel with Portland or New Orleans, I really enjoy them, but I still like San Francisco better. To me -having grown up in Buenos Aires- a real city has to be very crowded and noisy, a place to get lost walking in the anonimity of the crowds, and San Francisco works for me at that level. LA I'd put a notch below, having lived in Socal for a number of years, although it has its charm. Aside from the obvious (beaches, close to snow), I do love the richness of its ethnic neighborhoods. But downtown sucks and the traffic is the worst. The others I haven't been to yet.
I was at a work dinner with some Alabamaians like 15 years ago. They all said the hottest place in the south was Tennessee. Humid AF
I'm hearing the Nobel Committee has installed a new Prize.... and it's called the Nobel Piece Prize. It will be awarded to the one who has proven to be the best in separating a country from democratic values.
We didn't have that conversation in our school. What I'm reminded of is a school I worked at for year in Milwaukee. It was a wealthier school, not unsmiliar to SoPas, and most of the teachers are clearly Liberal. But the area is heavily Republican, but there was a healthy dose of liberalism in the school. So the students in my school might have been more liberal than the community I lived in. And then some of the kids grew into their conservatism.
Funny thing that: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...reaction-if-he-does-not-win-nobel-peace-prize
The guy who posted this in the Maps thread would disagree. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/the-maps-thread.2129496/page-73#post-43249576
Oh, I know a LOT more than that, probably because, like John Mellencamp, I live in a small town. Lots of people have children and simply want a more wholesome and outdoors-inclusive environment for them until they're a little older.
I was more miserably aware of how humid it was Boston (Worcester, really) one day in July 2005 than any other time in my life. I'd grown up used to playing outdoors and whatnot, but there was somewhere I had to walk to get to, and it was in the middle of the day. I just could not stop saying to myself how humid it was.
Pronounced "Wista." Yeah, we do get some humid days during the summer, but it's not like humid season lasts for months like in some parts. I was in Forida in June and that was absolutely miserable!
Google Maps says it's possible in about 35 hours non-stop, but he'd definitely want to stop and see the sights. Plus, being on a motorcycle, he'd may want to take more breaks than if he was in a car.