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Posts Made By: Mel Maki

November 19, 2021 10:35 AM Forum: Politics

Kyle Rittenhouse should be a very rich person after he sues everyone in the media who defamed him.

Posted By Mel Maki

I can't see how anybody can listen to him for more than 15 seconds. Most likely nobody has. He has fifty words that say anything surrounded by a thousand words that make it impossible to hear the fifty meaningful words. Does he do this every day?

November 20, 2021 03:16 AM Forum: Politics

Gas Prices Relief On The Way

Posted By Mel Maki

Keep typing, but with Trump gas was cheap.
With Biden gas is high.

November 20, 2021 04:36 AM Forum: Politics

Justice was just served.

Posted By Mel Maki

If the verdict went the other way there would have been an avalanche of anti-gun material, for weeks.

November 20, 2021 04:37 AM Forum: Politics

Justice was just served.

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
Well, my take is the jury got it right. The prosecution did do a piss poor job and I'll bet that prosecutor will be looking for a new job sometime soon.

I. too, hope that this won't embolden gun rights activists to attend democrat or leftist rallies hoping to intimidate the marchers. Nothing good can come of that. 
Yes, nobody is changing positions.

November 20, 2021 04:39 AM Forum: Politics

Justice was just served.

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
Well, my take is the jury got it right. The prosecution did do a piss poor job and I'll bet that prosecutor will be looking for a new job sometime soon.

I. too, hope that this won't embolden gun rights activists to attend democrat or leftist rallies hoping to intimidate the marchers. Nothing good can come of that. 
Yes, there could have been different results in a different place and prosecutors.

November 20, 2021 04:42 AM Forum: Politics

Justice was just served.

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
Well, my take is the jury got it right. The prosecution did do a piss poor job and I'll bet that prosecutor will be looking for a new job sometime soon.

I. too, hope that this won't embolden gun rights activists to attend democrat or leftist rallies hoping to intimidate the marchers. Nothing good can come of that. 
In this case for whatever reasons, the prosecution did not come across as being very sharp. Probably could have looked better in a different case?

November 20, 2021 05:01 AM Forum: Politics

Gas Prices Relief On The Way

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
I see neither Greg or Mel are keeping up with current events:
"Oil selloff intensifies on Covid fears and risk of US-China intervention"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/business/gas-prices-oil-covid-china/index.html
Even your link says, "... relief will be feather-like as opposed to plunger-like."
And the last sentence of your link is predicting higher prices.
Biden and progressives and even China can't be counted on for lower gas prices.

November 20, 2021 08:40 AM Forum: Politics

Justice was just served.

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by David Cotterell
Wondering if Manslaughter should have been the charge.... would the burden of proving self defense be different in that case?  I honestly don't know.

But

I fear that a door has been opened such that a nut-bar (of whatever persuasion) can show up armed with a gun/guns at a protest/rally/riot (of whatever persuasion) and when the attendees try to grab him or take his weapon from him or throw him out the nut-bar can unload his weapon into those people and claim he feared for his life and be found not guilty....

I'm not saying the trial result is some sort of legal precedent that prosecutors and defense attorneys will 'use' in future cases.  I'm saying that there is a small, but definitely non-zero, number of NUT-BARS who will THINK they have a green light that they did not have before this particular result. 

Dave
In this case I agree with the jury these NUT-BARS needed to be stopped. We await the particulars of the next case.

November 20, 2021 09:27 AM Forum: Politics

Justice was just served.

Posted By Mel Maki

Look at the people that attacked him. These are not good neighbors and there are a million of them of them.

November 20, 2021 09:55 AM Forum: Politics

Justice was just served.

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Well, if that's the case, then not being there and letting law enforcement handle it might be the prudent thing to do...
Just a question, did he have as much right to be there as others?