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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Also not to be silly, but is there anything forbidding Muller from just lying?
Like the police do it all the time, “Nah man I’m not investigating you, don’t worry, tell me everything”.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
I feel like this might be a case of Exact Words rather than straight out lie.
Basically all this means is that they are still investigating him, and are still working on putting a case together.
edited 3rd Apr '18 8:04:17 PM by megaeliz
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Well, the shooter at the youtube headquarters has been ID'd as a woman by the name of Nasim Aghdam.
CNN: Female shooter at YouTube headquarters identified
LA Times: YouTube shooting live updates
The conservative media people are going to have a field day with this. Twitter is already exploding.
Did we already talk about how Rex Tillerson is not Secretary of State anymore?
Liberal candidate Rebecca Dallet has won the open Wisconsin Supreme Court seat easily.
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edited 3rd Apr '18 10:04:58 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
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Mainly mine revolves around thinking about it hard over the past few months, then coming to the conclusion that "I spent a lot of time reading and looking at guns + I know how they work + I also know the about damage gunshot wounds can cause + no matter what, these are still weapons = we need gun control, any form. As long as they don't ban guns altogether, I'm fine with it."
edited 3rd Apr '18 11:24:18 PM by TheWildWestPyro
Apparently she'd also written a manifesto decrying You Tube's censorship for costing her her audience on the platform.
"Yup. That tasted purple."the beeb says she was angry over what she viewed as "censorship" of her videos http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43638221
I have to say, as much as I don't like how Trump is using the caravan story
as yet another excuse to build the wall, one of his tweets is pretty silly just from the way it's worded:
"Getting more dangerous. Caravans coming."
Ohhhhhh no, the caravans! Whatever will we do! (Nevermind that the caravans have no intentions to crossing into the U.S. because it's a difficult place to seek asylum.
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In all seriousness, though, it's really pathetic that the president is a paranoid old man who watches Fox News and believes every conspiracy they throw out there.
edited 4th Apr '18 5:01:35 AM by speedyboris

And the thing you've got to remember about prosecutors, particularly in mafia style cases like this, is once they get to the big fish, they don't like to ask questions they don't already know the answer too.
Once they get to the big subjects, it's because they've already gotten all the information they need from everyone else, and as I pointed out earlier
, today's sentencing of van der Zwaan makes it very clear that he will not put up with trying to lie to him or the FBI.
I wonder if the timing of this was deliberate, now that I think about it. To make it absolutely clear that if you lie, he will know and won't hesitate to bring charges.
edited 3rd Apr '18 7:23:16 PM by megaeliz