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jmowreader's JournalWhy the Seattle Mariners shouldn't sign Shohei Ohtani
During the All-Star Game recently held in the Northwest's only ballpark, fans in the stands were chanting "Come to Seattle!" when Ohtani played.
Please understand that there are three very good reasons to bring Ohtani to T-Mobile Park: they are in desperate need of another bat, they really need another good SP, and the most "Japanese" MLB city is Seattle. After all, it was Seattle who inflicted Ichiro Suzuki on the single-season hits leaderboard. He would like Seattle, Seattle already loves him and they sure as hell need what he does on the field.
There's only one reason they SHOULDN'T sign him, and it's money.
The 2023 Seattle Mariners payroll is $91,218,812. The most expensive player on the Mariners' 2023 roster is Teoscar Hernandez, who earns $14 million. They only have four men on the team earning more than $10 million - Hernandez, Luis Castillo ($11,425,000), Eugenio Suarez ($11,285,714) and J.P. Crawford ($11,000,000). More than half the team is earning less than $1 million per year and two others are earning less than $2 million.
In the 2023 season the Los Angeles Angels are paying Ohtani $30 million. Simply stated, the Mariners can't afford Ohtani.
Who is the Florida GOP planning to replace DeSantis with?
Florida term-limits its governors, and DeSantis is on his last term.
It goes without saying the Florida GOP wants to replace him with someone at least as destructive to carry on his legacy. Do they already have someone waiting in the wings, or will they have to dig up someone new from the Fifth Circle of Hell to take the job?
Just so you know, the latest Woke target is the Barbie movie
They're pissed off at the whole thing, and that the "Doctor Barbie" is played by transgender actor Hari Nef.
So...I guess I'm gonna have to go see it.
I have made a command decision where I want Trump's remains to go
I want him:
cremated
his ashes mixed with 240 pounds of bagged concrete mix and the proper amount of water
the concrete to be cast into a block
the block coated with a waterproof substance
and then it will be dropped into a septic tank in an undisclosed location.
Larry Nassar stabbed "multiple times" in prison
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/37989188/report-larry-nassar-stabbed-multiple-s-federal-prisonA source who first learned about the attack on Sunday evening confirmed to ESPN that Nassar was taken to the hospital after suffering multiple stab wounds.
Nassar was a sports doctor. In 2017, he got 60 years in prison on child pornography charges. In 2018 he was resentenced twice: first to an additional 40-to-175 years for sexually assaulting gymnasts, then to an additional 40-to-125 years for three counts of sexual assault that weren't in the first bundle of sexual assault charges.
He was first sent to an Arizona prison, where he was attacked shortly after being placed in general population. This got him sent to USP Coleman II, where he was attacked on Sunday, July 9, 2023. This will get him sent to another prison - probably ADX Florence because they can't convince prisoners anywhere not to try to kill him.
His first victim, Sarah Klein, is quoted as saying "I absolutely do not support violence because it's morally wrong and death would be an easy out for Nassar."
The first woman to accuse him, Rachael Denhollander, is quoted as saying, "None of the women I've spoken with are rejoicing today. We're grieving the destruction across so much. We're grieving the reality that protecting others from him came with the near-certainty we would wake up to this someday."
Madison Mallards collegiate summer baseball game postponed after umpire dies in auto accident
https://www.wkow.com/news/northwoods-league-umpire-killed-in-car-crash-on-way-to-mallards-game/article_5b12556e-1e93-11ee-a0e6-139cf031696d.htmlThis is very sad.
The Madison Mallards are a collegiate summer league baseball team based in Madison, WI. On Sunday, July 9, three umpires including Conor McKenzie were traveling to Madison to officiate the game when their car got in a wreck. McKenzie died and the other two are reported in stable condition.
The game has been rescheduled to August 1. During their July 10 game against the Wausaw Woodchucks a moment of silence will honor McKenzie.
No further information is available.
OceanGate suspends operations
https://abcnews.go.com/US/oceangate-suspends-exploration-commercial-operations-after-titan-implosion/story?id=100779250OceanGate, the company whose foldable submarine killed five people in June, reports that they have suspended "all exploration and commercial operations."
The US Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation is lead agency into the catastrophe. They are being assisted by the National Transportation Safety Board. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are also conducting an investigation to determine if any Canadian laws were violated in the incident.
Today in Gay History: Thank a gay man for your freedom!
Two hundred forty years ago today, the thirteen British colonies in what we now call the United States of America had gotten so fed up with the way the Crown was treating them, they wrote a nice little letter to the King telling him his presence here was no longer required.
The King was not amused.
In the war that shortly followed, the Colonists were getting their butts kicked not only by the well-trained British troops the King sent to bring us back in line but by themselves. They couldn't fight, and their camp sanitation was terrible. Dysentery killed nearly as many Colonial soldiers as the British did.
General Washington knew if he didn't do something the Colonies would remain at the end of the British supply lines and he'd find himself at the end of a rope. What to do? Yes, of course: find someone who actually knew how to fight and get him in here to straighten out this unruly mob.
Washington knew of a great general, the Baron von Steuben.
Europe knew about this guy too: he'd been run out of every decent country on the Continent for being very gay, and he was about to be executed for it. The colonists cut a deal with them: let him go, give him to us and you'll never see him again. They were okay with that.
Von Steuben came to the United States and freaked out about how bad Washington's army was. They were even doing stupid shit like putting latrines next to the mess hall. Von Steuben wrote "Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States," which became known as the Blue Book and was used until 1812. He organized a company of 100 men to serve as trainers for the rest of the Army. And he fixed the latrine situation right away. Under his guidance the Army turned itself around.
After the war, the new nation was so grateful they gave him an estate where he could farm and be as gay as he wanted.
So while you're celebrating your freedom today give a thought to the gay man who made it possible.
The 303 Creative decision is more precedential than it appears
A tort is an act or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another and amounts to a civil wrong for which courts impose liability. In the context of torts, "injury" describes the invasion of any legal right, whereas "harm" describes a loss or detriment in fact that an individual suffers.Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/tort
There are three general categories of torts: intentional torts, negligent torts and strict liability torts.
For instance, if you were to hit Donald Trump in the head with a coal shovel, you would be liable to an intentional tort. If you were to leave your coal shovel lying in a place Trump could step on it and, when he did, it hit him in the head then you would be liable to a negligent tort. If you were to hang your coal shovel on a hook that was advertised as strong enough to support this particular implement, the hook broke and the falling shovel hit Trump on the head, the hook's manufacturer would be liable to a strict liability tort because their product was not suitable for its intended purpose.
You could arguably claim that the standard set in the landmark case "Sibrel v Aldrin," in which retired NASA Astronaut Buzz Aldrin punched moon landing denier Bart Sibrel in the mouth and the court ruled Sibrel had it coming, would apply in this case because if there's anyone walking the earth right now who needs to be whacked upside the head with a coal shovel it is Donald Trump. This is an argument for another time.
In all three forms of tort the standard is similar: actual harm needs to have occurred. If I merely own a coal shovel Trump is not entitled to sue me on the theory that I might, one day in the future, assault him with the tool. I must at least try to hit him.
303 Creative v Elenis is different. In this little piece of nonsense, Lorie Smith first claimed all of these things: that she might add wedding websites to her list of services; that Unrepentant Sinners who wish to enter into marriages she doesn't approve of might want to hire her to make websites for their Sinful Gay Marriages; and that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Agency might come after her if she refused to create these sites. It seems that if a plaintiff is going to start pulling theories out of her nether orifice said plaintiff needs to go big or go home. After the case got thrown out of court the first time, her attorneys, the odious group "Alliance Defending Freedom," seem to have stolen some poor bastard's identity to falsify a message claiming someone wanted to buy a same-sex wedding site from her. This would demonstrate that she needed the Court's protection from Cthulhu, De Debbil Himself and the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Agency. Or it would...maybe...if the person requesting the quote was getting married to another guy or he wasn't in the website designing business himself.
The Supreme Court, by a 6-3 margin, decided it was perfectly fine if she didn't want to follow this law that she doesn't like.
Our beloved website has been up in arms regarding this decision since the Supreme Court handed it down, and rightfully so. But in this instance, their assault on human rights and decency is not the first thing we should be upset about.
The reason you should be so mad about 303 Creative is this: The Supreme Court of the United States has expanded tort liability to cover imagined harms rather than simply actual ones. You'll remember I said Trump couldn't sue you until you tried to hit him. Well...now he can. The new field of imaginary torts is broad and fertile...and it needs to be salted, soaked with diesel and set afire numerous times to nip this in the bud.
Corrupt Minnesota business owner dies in Montana warbird crash
https://theanswerhawaii.com/news/national/founder-of-minnesota-based-precision-lens-dies-when-vintage-airplane-crashes-in/6f5f571cf5d76021b49d1cb7b0066b97Paul Ehlen, cofounder of Bloomington, Minnesota-based medical products company Precision Lens, died at 8:07 am Tuesday, June 27, when the World War II-vintage Curtiss P-40E aircraft he was piloting lost power and crashed at Ravalli County Airport, Hamilton, MT, during his takeoff on his way back to Minnesota.
Okay...plane made in the 1940s, elderly aviator at the controls, stuff happens, right? Well...now it gets interesting.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/court-enters-487-million-judgment-against-precision-lens-and-owner-paul-ehlen-paying
Precision Lens sells, as you probably guessed, products for eye surgery. They were caught by the feds for making kickbacks, in the form of expensive travel and entertainment, to ophthalmic surgeons to induce them to use Precision Lens products in cataract surgeries billed to Medicare. They maintained a fund Precision Lens used to pay for this travel. The government found that Precision Lens' conduct caused 64,575 false Medicare claims to be filed, resulting in $43,694,641.71 damage to Medicare. The result was that Precision Lens and Ehlen were ordered to pay $487,048,705.13.
I checked Ehlen's OpenSecrets page...lots of money flowing to Republicans, including $5600 to Trump.
Me being a suspicious individual I can't help but think this crash isn't what it seems.
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