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Sunday, February 16, 2025

FIRST SUNDAY

Warning: there are parts of this post that will make you very uncomfortable, especially if you have a fondness for donkeys. 

 It arrives every year, unpleasant as can be, like a colonoscopy, tax day, or an arraignment before a DeSantis Drone Judge: the first Sunday without football. 

But fear not. Baseball players have reported for spring training, and our annual summer European sabbatical is close enough for us to start making reservations at hotels and AirB&Bs

Let us address a few thoughts. 

There is chatter and a Miami Herald article about an experienced (and non-DeSantis Drone Judge) who rejected a 20-year prison plea offer in a Domestic Violence Attempted Murder case only to have the jury acquit the defendant who had confessed to shooting at the other party. Lesson? One we preach often: be careful what you ask for in life; you may get it.  

Here's a fun immigration fact. What did the new administration do in support of their increased attempts to deport people? Why the obvious of course- fire a bunch of immigration judges. Duh,   The report is here: Judges Fired. 

Several CLI/Law school interns at the SAO and PDs office are mulling offers for top positions at the Department of Justice, as there are almost no supervisors left to do the bidding of the Evil Sith Lord Bove III. 

And finally, this nearly unspeakable act of cruelty. Do fake goods from China worry you? They should. And whatever you do, do not, repeat, DO NOT buy a Zebra from China. Most likely you will get a donkey with black and white stripes painted on. 

All the tragic details are here. 


And the MAGA crowd spends their days fretting about RHINOS.
Sheesh. 

Don't be fooled. It's a donkey. 




 

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who’s the donkey of the SAO?

Anonymous said...

Rump, I was a traditional diehard baseball and football fan. Hate basketball. Hockey is where it is at, though. Hadf panther tix for the time they were in Miami and got them again two years ago. It is by far the best live sport to go to. And the playoff excitement is the best. Players are fun to follow. There are no 50 million dollar a year crybabies. You can go to a game without being stuck in parking lots for an hour and not get skin cancer in August. Tired of seeing the Fins suck for decades at a time, so I've lost interest in the NFL.
Try the NHL, you'll love it.

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Anonymous said...

we get it … you don’t like the SAO. Not every comment needs to be about them. We can post about other stuff too.

Anonymous said...

I remember my first year in law school taking a trip to Tijuana looking for a donkey show. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. That was the benefits of going to law school in the west coast.

Anonymous said...

Jury nullification is great.

Paul Petruzzi said...

scam

Rumpole said...

Sorry about that crypto scam comment. I am traveling and a blog intern let it slip through. Petruzzi caught it though.

Anonymous said...

Not exactly. “The SAO” was there before us and it will out live us. So no we don’t “hate The SAO”. We disagree with the current administration. They are incompetent. They function with a mentality that is decades old. There are players in that office that are rogue. They lawyer with vengeance with the opposing counsel rather than to do the right thing.

Anonymous said...

Trump is set to gut DHS, too. Only the most fervent, loyal, and zealous will stay turning USCIS into even more of a garbage disposal.

Paul Petruzzi said...

Happy to help. Buy me a drink at our next luncheon.

Anonymous said...

Why does this sound like it was written by an old version of chat gpt?