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Fifth Element Not sure how she would have been resurrected absent 22nd century tech. Maybe those alien turtle creatures intended to return, or something. The reason it sorang to mind was in contrast to The 5th Wave. I just watched another Chloë Moretz movie, where she plays a 13 year old girl whose older cowboy friend sells in the girl’s restroom of a seedy pool hall to settle a gambling debt. I didn't see the name, and don’t think I’ve ever actually seen the beginning, but it looked well done. No silly CGI, car chases, explosions, etc. not that car chases are necessarily bad. There is a famous car chase scene in a drug movie set in New York that is relevant to the plot and well filmed. I always hate those chases that end up in oncoming traffic—they should end in a rapid head on collision within seconds, but in film world there hero evades onrushing cars without ever flipping or rolling. Stupid. But it seems like every story seems to have to go into opposing lanes. Same with the crashed vehicle exploding, which doesn’t happen in reality—only rarely do crashed vehicles even catch fire. If you ever watch YouTube crash videos, the car catches fire in maybe one percent, which could be artificially high as an artifact of burning car crash popularity. I think most car fires are the driver pitching lit cigarettes into the back seat. I bought a used Ford Galaxy cab the family of a former cowboy owner burned out the back carpet this way, who later died in a bunkhouse fire from smoking in bed. Moral of this story: smoking in bed is suicidal. St. Peter won’t let you in the pearly gates for that. |
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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |
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Jalmari Helander |
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Smoking is Suicidal There would be one every other year or two. My dad had a cleaning business where it shocked me to see the neat little rectangular holes in the pillow cases and burned into the carpet near the head of each bed, like shell casings from spin the Russian roulette pistol. |
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Shiva www.cdc.gov. Smoking-related illness in the United States costs over than $300 billion each year—about $225 billion for direct medical care for adults and more than $156 billion in lost productivity, including $5.6 billion in lost productivity due to secondhand smoke exposure. I'd have a hard time believing cigarette related fires cause >$300,000,000,000 annually. |
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OK The 2021 national estimates for residential building smoking fires and losses show that there were 7,800 fires, 275 deaths, 750 injuries and $361,500,000 in dollar loss. So 1-2% of the smoking damages. |
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Argumentative |
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Shiva Just that smoking is far more damaging to society than specifically smoking in bed |
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What We Do in the Dark |
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here's an unusual short clip from one of my favorite movies, done as a music video. just an everyday horseback ride... youtu.be |
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related... with some comments by Terry Gilliam, and with mentions of South Park, Monty Python, the jaguar shark, and so on. youtu.be quiz question: on the title image at the start, what is the explanation for the small tree on the right side, between the antlers? |
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Eega Caution: spoiler if you read past the basic information en.m.wikipedia.org |
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Godzilla, Minus 1 Bravo 👏🏼 Available on Netflix |
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Here it is www.youtube.com |
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One Should go in the Horror section |
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1 "Idiocracy" watch it for free on the Internet Archive>>> archive.org |
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Horror |
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Not yet. Probably will, but with a barf bag on hand... youtu.be |
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Jeff Bridges as the president, Gary Oldman, Sam Elliott, Joan Allen, William Petersen (CSI, Manhunter), Kathryn Morris, Christian Slater. really good political movie. hadn't seen it in years, showed up on my tv's free movies. |
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The art of self defense en.m.wikipedia.org) |
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Vigilantes Inc. Two family dynasties, one Black, one White, on a 3-century collision course. Operatives of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp secretively challenged Major Gamaliel Turner's right to a ballot, launching an investigative reporter's hunt to uncover and expose an astonishing vote suppression scheme that threatens to overturn the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. youtu.be |
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Is Groper Allowed to Vote? |
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His ability to vote in Florida could also be affected by the prosecutions against him in Georgia state court and federal courts in Florida and Washington, DC, although those trials are unlikely to happen before the election. Can Trump vote in the 2024 election? Yes, unless he is incarcerated for his felonies in New York at the time of the election or convicted of a felony in another jurisdiction that takes away his right to vote in that jurisdiction. Trump is a Florida resident, and Florida law says that a person convicted in another state can vote in Florida if they are allowed to vote in that other state. Since he was convicted in a New York state court, his eligibility to vote in Florida is governed by New York’s law, which allows everyone who’s not currently serving a sentence in prison to vote. According to the Florida Division of Elections, “a felony conviction in another state makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida only if the conviction would make the person ineligible to vote in the state where the person was convicted.” Trump has been convicted of felonies in New York and under New York state law, so New York law will determine his eligibility to vote in Florida. Under New York law, a person convicted of a felony is disenfranchised only while incarcerated for that felony. Thus, Trump will be able to vote as long as he is not incarcerated for his New York felonies at the time of the election. If Trump can vote so long as he’s not in prison, why are so many other Floridians with past convictions who are living in the community disenfranchised? Florida treats residents convicted of a felony in the state differently than residents convicted of a felony out of state. Under Florida law, people convicted of a felony other than murder or a felony sexual offense in a Florida state or federal court are disenfranchised during any term of incarceration, probation, parole, or other forms of community supervision and until they have paid off any fines, fees, court costs, and restitution ordered by the court at the time of sentencing. Therefore, had Trump been convicted in Florida, he would have been barred from voting unless he had completed all the terms of his sentence — including payment of any related court debts — or had his voting rights restored by the state’s clemency board. The Brennan Center supports the right to vote for everyone who’s living in the community, and that includes Trump. The fact that he likely will be able to vote — while the more than 1 million Floridians living in the community will be denied that right simply because they were convicted in Florida — demonstrates the injustice in the state’s approach. Additionally, the difficulty of determining Trump’s voter eligibility shows how complicated it can be for any Florida resident to understand their own. This confusing system underscores the unfairness of the state’s prosecutions of dozens of people who were confused or misled about their eligibility to vote. Would Trump be eligible to vote in the fall if he’s convicted of a felony in Georgia or federal court? It depends on which case results in a conviction, although a completed trial in any of them before the election is highly unlikely. Trump has two active prosecutions related to his role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election: one in federal court in Washington and the other in Georgia state court. His prosecution in Florida federal court for his alleged mishandling of classified documents was dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon on July 15. If Trump were found guilty of another felony in the DC federal court case, his voting eligibility would be unaffected because people convicted of a felony in DC do not lose the right to vote. A Georgia state felony conviction, by contrast, would likely disenfranchise Trump unless he was pardoned by the state’s governor or had his voting rights restored by Florida’s clemency board. Georgia law establishes that people convicted of a felony cannot vote during any period of incarceration, probation, or parole and unless they’ve fully paid any fines for that felony. A federal conviction in Florida would likely disenfranchise Trump as well unless he was pardoned by the president or had his voting rights restored by the state’s clemency board, as people convicted of a felony other than murder or a felony sex offense in Florida are barred from voting during any period of incarceration, probation, or community control and unless they’ve fully paid any fines, fees, court costs, and restitution ordered by the court at the time of sentencing. Could Florida’s clemency board intervene if Trump does become ineligible to vote? After the news of Trump’s conviction, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the Florida Clemency Board, which is made up of DeSantis and the three members of his cabinet, would step in to restore the former president’s voting rights if needed. The clemency board could probably follow through on that promise. If Trump were in prison for his New York convictions at the time of the election (which appears unlikely), he would not be eligible to vote in Florida unless the clemency board restored his voting rights. The Rules of Executive Clemency require people with out-of-state or federal convictions to complete all nonfinancial terms of their sentence, including any term of incarceration or supervision, before they can apply to have their rights restored. The rules also limit restoration to those who do not have pending criminal charges. Thus, if Trump were incarcerated at the time of the election for his New York felonies or any of his prosecutions were active, he would not be eligible to apply to have his voting rights restored. That said, the clemency board has broad authority to restore civil rights under Florida law to people with out-of-state or federal felonies. Its rules give the governor “unfettered discretion to require at any time that an individual matter be treated under other provisions of these rules, whether or not the person satisfies the eligibility requirements of a particular rule.” So DeSantis could bend the rules to allow Trump to apply even if he otherwise would not be eligible to do so. Trump’s application would then have to be approved by DeSantis and at least two other members of the clemency board. |
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Art of Self Defense |
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Oppenheimer |
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unusual WWII film. while set in the Pacific (specifically Guadalcanal), it is probably more about other things. very poetic, emotional, philosophical. some interesting discussion out there comparing and contrasting with saving private ryan, ...the two being very different from each other (both released in 1998). thinking it might help me appreciate the film, I read a little about how Guadalcanal fits into the course of the war. an important chapter. |
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