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An 18 Year Old Served 27 Years For A DC Murder Sentence. He Was An Exemplary Prisoner. He Was Paroled. Paul Hates This.

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I’d just note for the record that Paul, AFTER age 18, did some stupid things.

Not murder, true. But he did do stupid — criminal — things, in his own telling of his time at Dartmouth.

And Paul didn’t do 27 years of hard time, either.

So when DC decides to include the perspectives of what was a very-young murderer, who has paid his debt to society, btw — on a sentencing commission (as one voice of dozens)… Paul loses his tiny mind.

It seems Paul cannot accept any law other than that embedded in the Code of Hammurabi.

Right-o then. Let’s get on with it: fair is fair. Eye for an eye, and all that….

So — let us commence with cutting off Paul’s left hand, above the wrist, for having “stolen” control of the administrative offices of Dartmouth in 1971. Afterall, the defense of “protesting Vietnam” is no defense under that Code — and so, he’s NEVER paid his debt to society.

Let us treat him as the deplorable thief he was (or worse, as a false prophet — and stone him to death). Let’s get on with it.

Seems… sensible, right, Paul?

Paul…?

Mr. Mirengoff…?

Has the cat got your (generally very loose)… tongue?

The Nashville Compounder Called ACA Pharmacy, No Relation To The American College Of Apothecaries Non-Profits, Is Worthy Of Blame…

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Not (yet) likely a full “Fall of the House of Usher” type story, but the suicide of the COO… seems… suspicious, given ACA’s mounting regulatory difficulties. [It also bothers me a bit that the outfit was — it seems — trying to trade on the “ACA” imprint, more widely known as the reputable American College of Apothecaries. Wholly unaffiliated with this “ACA” compounder, owned by the for-profit Rx Partners.]

ACA Pharmacy seems to have been… largely… out of control, in Music City. Mailing meds to wrong addresses; some of which were not the genuine med, at all. Here’s the story — a very worthwhile and sobering read, from The Wa Po, originally (but via our commenter, I’ve provided an non-paywalled version):

…The orders for custom weight-loss drugs flooded into ACA Pharmacy in Nashville, where white bins holding prescriptions were stacked as tall as the staffers filling them.

Over several months in 2023, ACA produced tens of thousands of its own variety of prescription weight-loss medications. A FedEx truck arrived regularly to ship the chilled boxes across the nation. Wall-mounted TV monitors inside the specialized pharmacy displayed its rising monthly revenue. Then, in late July, it all came crashing down….

Ned Ashley, chief executive of ACA’s parent company, Rx Partners, said in a statement that closing ACA was a “nuanced and multifaceted” decision, adding that the death of its chief operating officer “played a large part.” The death was a suicide, according to public records.

Ashley said questions submitted by The Post about ACA’s finances, operations and regulatory problems contained “various inaccuracies” but declined to elaborate. ACA has no record of receiving any reports of serious patient harm linked to its compounded weight-loss medications, he said, adding that he has no knowledge of employees using the pharmacy’s drugs without a prescription….

“It’s apparent they were having issues maintaining sterility,” said Dan Troy, a former FDA chief counsel who’s now a managing director at Berkeley Research Group who reviewed the disciplinary order….

The biggest concern though, I think (as I’ve said before here), is how little we really know about the long term side effects of even genuine dosings of semaglutide, coupling the use of a serious diabetes med — to “achieve” simple weight loss — for perhaps a life long dosing protocol… seems like… this isn’t likely to end well.

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The Sacklers Are “Eviscerated In Prose” In New Netflix Series: “Fall of the House of Usher”

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There’s a Netflix eight part series that weaves most of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories into a 21st Century setting… where the telling of the “House of Usher” is plainly the Sacklers and its “Fall” is due to a drug called… Ligadone (a highly addictive pain med).

The sister’s whole visage — makeup and wig — closely resembles a member of the actual Sackler dynasty (as pictured in my graphics at upper right).

And Mark Hamill (!) plays the family’s ghoul of a lawyer!

Do catch it! Every bit of it resonates — and Poe’s “Raven” flies through it all (warning: intense gore and violence).

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Tech — Aiming For Very Quiet Supersonic Flights: In A NASA/Lockheed Collaboration

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[While this may stray a bit from pure science, it feeds the boy in me (and in Dr. King, who had said as a boy, he too loved very fast jets!) so… we will let it be MLK “Dream” fare, today.] NASA has been working on tech that might help the world’s regulators once again to approve supersonic aircraft for commercial flights.

Quite appropriately, almost 48 years ago now, the old Concorde was retired… in no small part as a result of the awful din of sonic booms, whenever, and wherever it flew faster than Mach 1.

This new demo-tech, in the so called X-59 flies a nearly noiseless Mach 1.1, as it minimizes the shockwaves / interference pattern behind the jet (which makes the thumpingly loud “boom” on the ground below). Here’s the unveiling story, this past week at Skunkworks:

…At 99.7 feet long and 29.5 feet wide, the aircraft’s shape and the technological advancements it houses will make quiet supersonic flight possible. The X-59’s thin, tapered nose accounts for almost a third of its length and will break up the shock waves that would ordinarily result in a supersonic aircraft causing a sonic boom.

Due to this configuration, the cockpit is located almost halfway down the length of the aircraft – and does not have a forward-facing window. Instead, the Quesst team developed the eXternal Vision System, a series of high-resolution cameras feeding a 4K monitor in the cockpit.

The Quesst team also designed the aircraft with its engine mounted on top and gave it a smooth underside to help keep shockwaves from merging behind the aircraft and causing a sonic boom….

Now you know — stay safe and warm, one and all — we will have been sub-zero for about 56 hours (in actual temps, and at wind-chills of below minus 20!) by the time we slip into positive territory, on Wednesday midday. The sun is shining, but it is barking cold here, to be sure. So… nationwide, and south of here in particular (as you may not have the gear, and/or home insulation, on piping, for example)… be safe!

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Tangerine’s SECOND NYSD Defamation Trial Starts Tomorrow — Jean Carroll Case II…

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This short squib on a trial, is to note that it is simply to set damages for Trump’s repeated and ongoing defamation and libel of her.

The first trial established that Trump knew he was lying, when he denied, in 2019-20, having sexually assaulted her — in a department store dressing room decades ago. [H/T, innercitypress.com.]

He has said she wasn’t “his type” (implying that was a defense!) — but then, in a depo, when shown a picture of himself smiling with Marla Maples, he said it was… Jean Carroll. Someone he claims he never met. Someone… who he thinks looks like his first wife — but is not “his type“.

Over the long weekend, Tangerine’s lawyers tried to introduce an old Anderson Cooper 360 interview that Ms. Carroll gave [presumably to show that she said she is getting along fine; that she isn’t shattered by his original violent sexual attack, any longer].

The able USDC Judge just ruled that would be irrelevant, in this trial.

The only question in this trial is whether Trump’s statements — which came after the first $25 million verdict — were false when made, and whether he should have had reason to know they were false (since a jury had just found that much the same statements were knowingly false when made by Trump on the 2020 campaign trail).

He will… lose, again. Likely for at least another $25 million.

This is what an unrepentant sexual predator looks like: Trump.

Speaking Of “Overrated”?! John, Scott and Paul Would… Top The List.

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Here’s Paul’s nonsense deciding that FDR was overrated, as was (in his view) Kennedy and BHO 44.

Yes — this is trivial, so I’ll tuck it under my King Day ’24 fare.

But man are these idiots… tedious.

I won’t engage on the “merits” — other than to note that their statements are self-refuting, in the main. [As bloggers, essentially all they ever added to the national debate — of an original sort, was the Rathergate episode now over two decades ago.]

Out.

Amazon Labor Union Update — JFK8 Facility To Hold A “All Hands” Union Meeting February 24 or 25, 2024 –To Discuss Officer Slates, And Amendments To Bylaws…

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We had not covered this smallish piece of internecine litigation before, as we knew the parties would wisely agree to settle their differences, and now that is exactly what has happened. The ALU, led by Mr. Smalls, has agreed to hold a mass meeting in late February, so that all members may weigh in on resolving what 40 or so dissenters claim is. . . too much power concentrated in Mr. Smalls’ hands by the by-laws.

I will now predict that the dissenters will see the error of their ways; Mr. Smalls will remain in charge, but the 40 will see at least a few representatives added to the governing board. Here’s the latest, from Bloomberg Law — and now the ALU may return to getting a bargaining session called with the recalcitrant Amazon management, the real villian — in this three act play:

…Amazon.com Inc.’s first labor union has reached a settlement agreement with a group of dissenters who accused leaders of illegally preventing officer elections to retain power.

The parties agreed to set aside their differences and hold a mass meeting next month to discuss officer elections as well as changes to the union constitution, according to the consent order entered Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York….

Now you know — Dr. King would applaud Mr. Smalls’ wisdom here. Onward.

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Hinderaker Mischaracterizes A California Pharma Products Liability Case. Y A W N.

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I don’t really care, because no one listens much to him anymore… but he has essentially made-up, of whole cloth, what the California appeals panel held.

The court did not find the manufacturer liable for NOT bringing a product to market, but instead for intentionally engaging in anti-competitive behavior (lawless monopolies, used to prevent newer product innovations, and intentional product delays, to stifle real competition in the HIV therapeutics arena — and extend the life of the older product, creating an artificial, and thus unlawful resale price maintenance scheme).

Whether it will stand at the Supremes, after a review, remains to be seen, but this is NOT (as John sensationally claims) a case of a company being sued for deciding a product would not be economic to produce.

What a feckless… liar he is, that John.

Well… This Is… The Wheel That Is… Karma, Spinning Now.

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Here at Noon on MLK Sunday 2024, Hinderaker… tells some truths, based on polling he’s reviewed:

…This ABC/Ipsos poll is troubling. It is a survey of 2,228 Americans who answered the phone… [to the effect] that 56% think that the Supreme Court should either bar Donald Trump from running for the presidency, or else let each state decide. Consistent with that finding, 49% support the decisions by Colorado and Maine to bar Trump from the ballot, while only 46% oppose those decisions. And, finally, 56% support the bringing of federal and state criminal charges against Trump….

Whatever you think of Trump, it is hard to see how he can be elected [in the general] when most people think he should be subject to criminal prosecution, and a plurality don’t think he should even be allowed to run….

This is not just the “normal bad news” for John, in the sense that Tangerine cannot win the general election against any living Democrat… it is (as my graphic has suggested for a year) doubly bad news — because if the Normie GOP nominates say… Nikki Haley instead, Tangerine will intentionally scorch the Earth by running a third party chaos campaign, peeling off about a third of all likely GOP voters.

Trump will single-handedly, and wholly-intentionally… guarantee a GOP loss, in retribution for not nominating him.

And, as John now fully realizes… the GOP will almost certainly lose in any event, if he is the regular GOP nominee.

So — there is nothing these guys could possibly do, to fix the brand they chose to destroy, by backing Tangerine in 2016.

J U S T I C E.

Scott: I Forget. Were They Trying To Kill The Veep, To Prevent Election Certification?!

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Mr. Johnson apparently should be moved to a memory care facility.

This morning, he’s forgotten that “petitioning, for a redress of grievances” — even in boisterous tones and actions — is First Amendment activity.

He can no longer rationally distinguish between trying to kill Mike Pence while he certified a peaceful turnover of power by election, from chanting in favor of rights, and land, for Gazans.

Probably… he should just… go eat a big hot bowl of codger meal — or go take a long nap. Or both, actually.

That would be… best for all concerned.

Out.