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A duo allegedly raped a child under the age of 16 before a bust at a Eureka hotel, international news is now covering stories of local property buyers inheriting millions in cannabis fines, a tattoo artist was found guilty in the death of his ex, Eureka officials tapped a contractor for their proposed housing and transit center downtown, Humboldt’s only safe parking shelter for the homeless is set to expire despite successes in Arcata, Humboldt’s top reps supported Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, the Eureka City Council approved a cease-fire resolution for the Israel-Hamas war, the local ABC and FOX affiliate has been ‘love’ reacting to divisive public posts on Facebook, a road realignment has begun after landslides destabilized the Fleener Creek area along the coast near Ferndale, the Supreme Court will soon hear a big case impacting homelessness, a guy allegedly evaded police in his truck and then crashed it in front of an officer days later, Jared Huffman sarcastically thanked Samuel Alito for highlighting the ‘threat of Christian nationalism,’ the final leg linking a trail system from Eureka to Arcata is still scheduled to be completed later this year, events, and more.
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Mcdonald’s may leave California, crack me up. Just the start of fast food leaving California, it takes a couple years before the typical voter realizes they didn’t have a choice. But, better late than never.
Voters have a choice, all right, as do non-voters. Both can vote with their pocketbooks. Just don’t go to any of those places, don’t patronize them. All fast food is overpriced, and their food is toxic. It’s the case with most chain restaurants, period. Pretty soon it’s going to be mostly creepy AI robots serving the customers who go in those places, anyway. Stay out of those places. There’s a certain . . . chain convenience store that’s a household name which I absolutely refuse to step into anymore, because their fluorescent lighting creeps me out, plus there are usually panhandlers and drug dealers loitering outside. In all of these instances, I’ve seen individual franchises of fast-food chains, coast-to-coast chain restaurants, and convenience stores fold in different towns, because locals just didn’t go.
Choices are not so simple as a “fast” “food” drive-through though American’s have such expectations none the less. McDonalds would do us a favor leaving the planet ..the business model/practices have decimated public health and ecology.
Unfortunately it is the most ignorant or busy and/or poor who are forced to rely on “Fast” “Food”…no choice in the matter; our Country and perhaps species has built its’ own tomb. I feel most sorry for the children and their parents who rely on that crap. At least when i was young there was still real food at Taco Bell, Mc Donalds etc.; like any drug peddler they weaned us off the pure stuff and started adding deadly “Fillers”.
Personally, i keep snacks on hand and have not eaten “Fast” “Food” in many decades except twice : once i succumbed to peer pressure and once I was without snacks on hand and both times were regrettable enough that it didn’t tempt me back though i could see how someone can get a food coma from in and out and loose their critical thinking and problem solving abilities where as Chipotle’s food was simply over priced cardboard and shocking cause they used to be good when in Bay Area decades ago.
California’s democrat legislators are completely unhinged…You do have a choice for real change. Remember all the democrat tax increases, free medical care and housing for criminal illegal aliens, $ 950 shoplifting threshold that is bankrupting businesses. Remember this in November and vote republican for a change we can all live with.
Against my better judgement to vote for a convicted criminal, documented liar, spoiled whiner and downright ass. Yes, I am a lifelong Republican.
You know this trial was an election interference sham just like the Russian Collusion case that was a complete lie. $Millions of taxpayer dollars wasted due to a weaponized political and two-tiered judicial system. Throw in chronic TDS for people such as yourself spewing lies about Trump.
What I do know is that justice prevailed. No lies from me, all documented nastiness from a egotistical wannabe emperor. What color is the sky in your world Joe?
Stalin would be proud of your type of justice.
If that was the case then why did Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama only have to pay fines for committing the same crime. Hillary paid Christopher steel over a million dollars for that bull 💩dossier, She Did not declare it and when she got caught she lied about it and only had to pay a $8000 fine. Obama on the other hand got levied the largest campaign finance violation fine in history, having to pay over 350 million dollars for failing to disclose donors and return illegally contributed money. But Neither one got charged criminally..
Clinton and Obama’s cases were administrative misreporting and handled by the FEC (you’ve got the numbers on the fines wrong) but Trump’s action were considered deliberate attempts to circumvent the law and thus prosecuted. 12 jurors agreed.
Exactly my point Kym. And what numbers did I get wrong? Clinton lied about paying Christopher Steele over a million dollars for that b******* dossier that then was used to start the whole Russia collusion thing. Personally she only got fined $8,000.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/07/obama-campaign-fined-big-for-hiding-donors-keeping-illegal-donations
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/clinton-dnc-steele-dossier-fusion-gps/index.html
The number you got wrong was you inflated the FEC fine by almost 1000x…it was $375 thousand not $350 million. And the number was literally in very first sentence of the US News article you linked to.
It was only a fine because the misreporting was not a criminal act, but what Trump did was very much a crime and thus two completely different things.
You think you got me, but that actually makes it even more of a double standard. So how is failure to disclose illegal donors and trying to keep illegal donations better than paying a hooker to keep quiet?
One is illegal and the other isn’t. You can pay all the money you want to keep someone quiet about sexual encounters. What you can’t do is falsify business records for those payments without properly disclosing them.
Bill Clinton used funds to pay Paula Jones, who alleged sexual harassment. Clinton settled the lawsuit in 1998 by paying Jones $850,000. The settlement was part of a civil case and was not linked to campaign funds and was definitely well-known and not hidden. There was no falsifying records.
He settled a lawsuit. That doesn’t make him a criminal or Trump who has settled and lost certainly dozens of lawsuits would be one.
The payments to Stormy Daniels by Trump were made during the 2016 presidential campaign and hidden by falsifying records, and the timing suggested they were intended to prevent potential scandals from affecting the election outcome.
If Trump had used personal funds and properly reported the payment to hush Stormy, it could have been legal though possibly less effective at keeping the affair quiet.
I wasn’t referring to Bill Clinton’s case settlement. I was referring to Hillary Clinton Not disclosing paying Christopher steel for the steel dassier. Not only did she not disclose the payments of over a million dollars of campaign money, but she lied about it when she was caught and then only received an $8000 fine.
In Trump’s case, several of the charges and subsequent convictions were based on evidence that suggested deliberate actions. For instance, some of the charges related to obstruction of justice involved actions that prosecutors argued were intentional efforts to interfere with investigations. The specifics of each charge varied, but the overall narrative presented by prosecutors often included allegations of deliberate wrongdoing.
The case involving Hillary Clinton and the Steele dossier payments was handled by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The FEC found that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) had misreported payments related to the dossier. This misreporting was determined to be a violation of campaign finance laws. However, the FEC’s action resulted in a fine, which is generally indicative of a civil infraction rather than a criminal one. The fine suggests that the violation was viewed more as a compliance issue rather than a deliberate attempt to deceive.
One was determined to be deliberate attempts to hide wrongdoing, the other wasn’t.
The choice of venue for the decisions are political choices to get an assured result.. Of course the Steele Dossier funding was hidden as knowingly as Trump’s hush money. If Clinton didn’t know exactly the origins of a mainstay of her political campaign, ie Trump was in the pay of the Russian government, it would be a pretty serious lack of control on her part. An unbelievable lack. She lied. The same goes for Biden and his son’s many frauds.
Biden and Clinton simply had much more government savvy, organization and control than Trump in conducting their criminal actions. More deeply embedded government organization. Not more honest by a long shot.
However Trump, while pretty inept at governmental mutual back scratching, is much, much better at rhetoric casting Democrats as the evil in the swamp. And various Democrat entities keep getting all outraged at him doing that, even if they are really doing what he did themselves, and taking him to court on what are mostly technicalities. Trump does not belong to the Politician’s Old Boy Club.
The trouble is that, Trump being Trump, he just uses these court actions as proof of the evil of the Democrat Swamp. Professional politicians just can’t yet believe, they refuse to believe, that Trump is not cast out the political arena as they think he ought to be. So they double down. They thought he would be done in by accusations of red menace connections. He wasn’t. They thought that he was sure to be caught out on fraud because their ideology insists capitalist are all sleazy thieves (though why the Democrats cozy up to them for funding anyway?) but he wasn’t. So they resorted to an endless stream of “he lied to authorities ” convictions. They would have much preferred to find he screwed widows and orphans out of the family farm, they believed he surely must have, but, although they spent endless public funds in the attempt, they couldn’t find it. So they settled for “he lied.” Unfortunately that is just more fuel for the Trump bonfire.
This whole fiasco has become like being confined in a car on a long distance trip with two children fighting about who touched who first when the parents don’t care. They just want them both to shut up and behave. If the power involved was not so dangerous, any rational person wouldn’t care a hoot for either side.
Oh I see, Obama got find 375 thousands not millions, my bad. Still seems to be a double standard though when it comes to prosecution yeah ? Or would it have been OK if Trump paid stormy Daniels to make up some b💩 story about Biden’s sexual deviances instead of paying her to stay quiet about having sex with him?
Trumps the tip of the iceberg have you ever heard of Dennis Hastert? I’ll never not vote third party RFK all the way
Yes, vote for tyranny
We have that now with OBiden. Stalin would be proud of Biden.
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/mcdonalds-leaving-california-rumor-source-19488843.php
Yeah, no. Oh, the internet, isn’t it grand.