I ran over an ant, you tried to hit a child with a car. I got shamed, you got paid.
AneCDotE
I was in court and this guy is seated next to me in handcuffs. The guy asks me what I did and I said that I accidentally ran over a pet that ran out into the street. He said man, that’s awful, then asked me if I was ashamed, I asked him what he was here for and he said that he was convicted of rape, child molesting and murder. I then said, am I ashamed in front of you, No.
You can’t feel the heat from a match next to a towering inferno.
FACT OF THE DAY!
18 U.S. Code § 1512 – Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant
(a)
(1)Whoever kills or attempts to kill another person, with intent to—
(C)
prevent the communication by any person to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation, parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3).
(2)Whoever uses physical force or the threat of physical force against any person, or attempts to do so, with intent to—
(B)cause or induce any person to—
(i)
withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(ii)
alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the integrity or availability of the object for use in an official proceeding;
(iv)
be absent from an official proceeding to which that person has been summoned by legal process; or
(C)
hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation, supervised release, parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3).
(b)Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(2)cause or induce any person to—
(A)
withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B)
alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(D)
be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or
(3)
hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation [1] supervised release,,[1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(c)Whoever corruptly—
(1)
alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(d)Whoever intentionally harasses another person and thereby hinders, delays, prevents, or dissuades any person from—
(2)
reporting to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation 1 supervised release,,1 parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
(4)
causing a criminal prosecution, or a parole or probation revocation proceeding, to be sought or instituted, or assisting in such prosecution or proceeding;
or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both.
(e)
In a prosecution for an offense under this section, it is an affirmative defense, as to which the defendant has the burden of proof by a preponderance of the evidence, that the conduct consisted solely of lawful conduct and that the defendant’s sole intention was to encourage, induce, or cause the other person to testify truthfully.
(f)For the purposes of this section—
(1)
an official proceeding need not be pending or about to be instituted at the time of the offense; and
(2)
the testimony, or the record, document, or other object need not be admissible in evidence or free of a claim of privilege.
(g)In a prosecution for an offense under this section, no state of mind need be proved with respect to the circumstance—
(1)
that the official proceeding before a judge, court, magistrate judge, grand jury, or government agency is before a judge or court of the United States, a United States magistrate judge, a bankruptcy judge, a Federal grand jury, or a Federal Government agency; or
(2)
that the judge is a judge of the United States or that the law enforcement officer is an officer or employee of the Federal Government or a person authorized to act for or on behalf of the Federal Government or serving the Federal Government as an adviser or consultant.
(i)
A prosecution under this section or section 1503 may be brought in the district in which the official proceeding (whether or not pending or about to be instituted) was intended to be affected or in the district in which the conduct constituting the alleged offense occurred.
I THANK GOD FOR BOXING
I would like to share a story of why everyone should do boxing.
I have trained in boxing, on and off, for the past thirty odd years. Have never been good enough to really do anything with it financially speaking, but it has kept me in good shape. When I severely sprained my ankle while working in the border Patrol, I stood on one leg and and a leg with an air cast and used boxing drills to keep me in shape. As soon as I was cleared to run again, something that I used to love to do, I was able to run down a group of illegal citizens that had crossed. Chasing them down for a little less than a mile, carrying all my equipment , the day after I was cleared to return to work. Boxing is an amazing sport that fine tunes your body. What it does mostly, it refines your reflexes. It makes them quicker and steady.
This was never more apparent when my son, at the age of 8, for some reason decided to cross the street running while an SUV had just accelerated at full speed to beat a light. I had just turned my head to the right to look for oncoming traffic when I caught my son, who was to my left, through the corner of my eye, racing into the middle of the street. Out of nowhere, my left hand, my best hand, I used to throw a mean and quick left hook, even though I’m righty, reached out and grabbed him and pulled him back. The SUV was literally, not figuratively, right upon him. I pulled him back and out of the way. All I can think is that if my son gotten hit that day, I would have never been able to live with myself. It would have devastated me. My son apologized and he knew better. I have been teaching him to the cross the street since he was 5. I don’t know what got into his head.
I thank boxing, it literally saved my son’s life.
QUOTE OF THE DAY!
There is no extremism in religion or in life only extreme interpretations.
PORTER v GARCIA
Let us start by saying that if the fight on the 15th has half the action this fight had then it will live up to the hype. This is going to be considered a candidate for fight of the year. It was a see saw battle for the first half of the fight but it was Porter’s ability and tenacity that pulled it out in the end. This fight is also an in-depth look at how judges score fights. Porter was overwhelming, as he usually is in all his fights and he was quick footed, quicker then Garcia, and had his in and out game down. You can tell it frustrated Garcia a little. Garcia, showed some amazing timing and had the cleaner harder shots as he visibly wobbled Porter at least once but he could not follow up. The difference in the end was Porter’s stamina for which Garcia tried to diminish by landing some thudding blows to the body, which you can tell bothered Porter because he tried to return the favor, When you hurt someone to the body, their instinct is to go to the other person’s body, which Porter did with effectiveness. Porter was the physically stronger fighter while Garcia seemed to be the stronger puncher and had more eye catching shots. In the end, according to compustats, never a super reliable way to actually record landed punches but has some viability, showed that Garcia landed more power shots but threw way less. Porter overwhelmed Garcia with punches in bunches, landing some very good shots of his own, but was caught just a smidge more. The question that presented itself was what were the judges going to reward? It was a game of accuracy versus activity and in a close fight like this, the judges rewarded activity. I congratulate Showtime Shawn Porter, seemingly a really good guy, which may have also played a role in the decision, on his win and his endeavor to obtaining a World Championship. Who said nice guys finish last.
It goes down in the record books and every time future generations look back at world champions in probably the most talented division in boxing history, right there with the middleweights, with the likes of the greatest of all time, not Mayweather, Robinson, though Mayweather might be second on that list, Shawn Porter was one of them and I personally believe he deserves that honor.
The one knock and maybe the reason why Garcia might have given the fight away is because he looks for the one hitter quitters. With someone like Porter, who has an excellent chin but was hurt, Garcia needed to press that advantage. Instead of looking for the opening, Garcia needed to create that opening when Porter was hurt. Porter would have turtled up but Garcia needed to break through the shell and land some good hard shots to get the knockdown. Porter followed up quickly every time he felt that he hurt Garcia even though Garcia had good defense. That might have been the difference.
I had the fight 114-114 but was overruled because my opinion doesn’t matter.
IF ABORTIONS SHOULD BECOME ILLEGAL THEN SO SHOULD ORPHANAGES
There is a lot being made of abortion rights and Roe v Wade with the The Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh being grilled in the Senate to see if he meets the standard that we expect from our highest Jurist Prudence officers. The fact that we are still worried about abortion rights is a little troublesome. Having two cases that set precedents in that area, we would think that the matter is decided. It seems that there are still people that think that a man can tell a woman what to do with her body or even another woman can tell a woman what to do with her body. However we feel about abortion, we should first realize that these people are individuals and can do whatever they want to their body as long as it does not hurt another living person. The question that then rises is when do we become living people? Is it on conception or when we can freely breathe on our own outside that mother’s body, it will never be the father’s body and even if science ever thought of a way to make that happen, I ain’t doing it, see Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
To play devil’s advocate, lets say that abortion rights were overturned. How then can you not illegalize orphanages? Some people that choose abortion, choose it because they are not financially equipped to take care of a child, among other reasons. If that person is not, for whatever reason, able to take care of that child, then the State steps in and takes custody of that child. They then try and place that child in an institution until they can FIND a suitable home. Well, I think that they should be able to force a family to take that child, that’s right, I said it, forced to take that child. Not just any family but billionaires, millionaires, senators, congressman, judges anyone that can give that child a good home and upbringing. How would the law not interpret that as a reasonable solution if you force a woman to have a child who wanted to opt for an abortion? If you can force a person to have a child than you can force a suitable family to take care of a child that is in an orphanage or a State institution under the same reasoning that you outlawed abortions in the first place. That’s a laymen’s opinion and to be taken any way you want. Taking away choice is a dangerous game, they start with minuscule choices and work their way up to who you can marry and who you can’t and then proceed from their. Democracy is synonymous with freedom that is synonymous with choice. Once you allow the erosion of choices you allow the erosion of democracy.
My views on abortion don’t matter because I’m a man and I can’t have a child but if your argument is that the Constitution affords you the right to life, my argument is that it also affords you the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Being locked in an institution is not liberty nor do the chances of happiness increase when you are put in a place where affection is limited to a math equation, time allowed with minor divided by amount of minors taking age of minor into relevance. It seems that the constitution would best be served by forcing a capable family to add one child then forcing an institution to have 50 children.
Law Degree = Crayola + opinion + me ;).
FACT OF THE DAY!
Irritability in men is often a result of high stress cortisol levels and low testosterone levels. Some men respond by acting out while others hold these feelings in and become depressed. Behaviors characteristic of men with Irritable Men Syndrome include: Angry.
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
I think there is too much drama being made about kneeling during the anthem when some fans will remain seated so they won’t spill their beer.
We kneel before God, we stand for what we believe, we sit not to spill our beer.
The Effects of Gaslighting
Want to hear something funny, I believe that the President just got gaslit. That someone would actually come out and say they are the resistance to hold back the President’s policy of destruction at this time makes no sense. Why would they do it now? Why not wait until after the next election. The only thing I can think of is that that they tried to gaslight the President prior to the Mueller probe questions or they are trying to create a particular riff in his cabinet. Either way, I wouldn’t take too much of what is being said and done too serious unless the person comes out in the open and says it. I would think it best be kept quiet if it were true, since it wasn’t, I believe that it is a fable.
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