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Hmm, he wants a son or two, but at 79 he only requires the woman to be 20 years younger than him?! I know in this day and age of Better Living Through Chemistry, some women that age have carried babies (no doubt with donor eggs and in vitro fertilization), but he really ought to be aiming below the ole 'half your age plus seven' when wanting kids. To be clear, in my opinion nobody near his age should be having kids; it's irresponsible to father a kid you probably won't live to raise to adulthood.

Oh, and he's not an aristocrat, I think. The normal distinctions in the U.K. are, going down in order of precedence:
(1) royal: king / queen then prince / princess;
(2) noble: duke / duchess, marquess / marchioness, earl / countess, viscount / viscountess, then baron / baroness; then
(3) baronet, like this dude, is a hereditary title of dignity and certainly qualifies as part of the gentry, but a clear step below.

Oh, and then this bit:

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Sir Benjamin ... says she can't come from countries beginning with 'I' that have green in their flag, which rules out residents of Ireland, India, Italy, Ivory Coast and Iran. He said: 'I don't mind Canadians, Americans, Germans and Northern Europeans - what I like to call similar people. I don't think marrying an Eskimo is for me....

Slade has a daughter, Violet, with entrepreneur and former child author Sahara Sunday Spain, 34 ....

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About his current baby mama:

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Sahara Sunday Spain was born in San Francisco, California, to Elisabeth Sunday, a contemporary artist-photographer and, Johnny Spain, a former Black Panther civil rights activist and convicted murderer.

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Source: Wikipedia. I wonder what she thinks of his requirements for baby mama number two.

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Should he and his family be forced to drink shitty tap water?

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Abso--f'ing--lutely. If you are spending my tax money, then you drink tap water and don't get to buy any junk food or junk drinks.

And FWIW, I drink tap water all the time, usually straight out the tap and into my cup.

Kids having to get to school when it's dark is definitely an issue with remaining on Daylight Time during the winter. It's not such a big deal for me / my kids, because I drive them, but a lot of kids wait outside for a bus or even walk. Don't think we really want that situation to be in full darkness or anything close to it.

Using New Orleans as an example--and e.g. Shreveport would be considerably worse--by the time you get to the latest sunrise of the year (around January 10), Daylight Time would mean it would not even really start getting lighter in the eastern sky* until about 7:36 a.m., and actual sunrise** would be around 7:59. With more than a few schools starting in the 7:45 - 8:00 range, lots of kids would be waiting for a bus or walking in the dark. Go choose your location and check it for yourself.***

*I've chosen the sun 5 degrees below the horizon for that.

**Which is standardly defined as the center of the sun right at the horizon.

***See, e.g., the NOAA website.

SIAP, but this seems interesting:

September 8, 2025 @ 12:49 p.m.

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We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk

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Source: Jezebel


September 10, 2025

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Political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event

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Source: CNN

(No, I don't really believe "witches" cursing someone directly caused the shooting, but wow things are dangerously hostile.)

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I didn't know the navy renamed ships after each other, until today. I thought a ship's name was its name, until the end of time.

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It’s very common. For example, here is the USS Iowa everyone knows…

But here’s the first battleship named USS Iowa…

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In some ways it was too bad we didn't get the very last battleship the United States planned, which would have been--wait for it--the U.S.S. Louisiana, BB-71, a Montana-class battleship (Wikipedia). Same main guns as the Iowa-class, but twelve of them instead of 9, plus much thicker armor and much bigger.


And there was the older battleship U.S.S. Louisiana, BB-19


and also the nuclear ballistic missile submarine SSBN-743

SIAP, but according to The Sun:

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Adriana Machado Ribeiro, 42, and Marcone da Silva Cardoso, 26, had driven to a hang-gliding launch ramp after a party in Venda Nova do Imigrante, south-eastern Brazil....

The pair began being intimate - but then their movement caused the car to tip over the edge....

After about 100m — before the car hit the ground — the pair were thrown from the vehicle, likely after it struck a rock....

The couple were found naked, not far from the mangled wreckage .... Investigators suspect the couple’s movements inside the parked vehicle caused it to shift and teeter over the cliff edge.

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Went out with a bang.

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I enjoyed her argument attacking defense counsel’s billing in connection with the motion. “Your honor, it should have only taken three minutes to put the citations into google, not 7.3 hours!”

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Well it only takes three minutes--if it's a real case. Chasing ghost-cases and disproving fake citations might be just a tad more labor-intensive.

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I encourage her to take up the appeal as she suggested.

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What, do you own the popcorn concession at the state Fifth Circuit? 'Cause I could see oral argument rapidly moving to ... a different orifice.

So you were in the 24th at 9 a.m. today?

Do you find the most amazing part: that the lawyer claimed it was okay to use Google and ChatGPT and Copilot to check each other, instead of Westlaw or Lexis or even Fastcase? Or that she doubled down on things after being questioned? Or what?

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Fun day for the first-year associate on the other side, I bet.

Texans do. If you move to Louisiana and have a Texas-registered vehicle, then you have like 60 or 90 or maybe 120 (I forget) days to re-register it here, or else you're violating Louisiana law.

As for what Louisiana should do: how about we spend a year dedicated to impounding every vehicle that lacks a valid rear license plate, and then if somebody wants to discuss the costs and benefits of requiring front license plates, we can revisit the topic.

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What ever happened to the ship? Scrapped?

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Per Wikipedia, which I think is correct (ETA--it's copied from the official DANFS):

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After similar duty took her to Guam in January 1946, she sailed through the Panama Canal for a 10-day visit to her namesake city. She then steamed to Philadelphia Navy Yard, arriving on 12 March. There, she was decommissioned on 10 February 1947 and lay in reserve until struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1959 and sold for scrapping on 22 September to Boston Metals Company, Baltimore, Maryland.

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The Navy retained in service some of the WWII cruisers for many years, and others were sold off, some to South American countries, where they continued to serve. The New Orleans, being one of the older ones, made less sense to keep around. I think my 1989-90 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships lists two or three still in service in countries like Brazil and Argentina. Some of you may remember that the former U.S.S. Phoenix became the Argentine General Belgrano, which the Brits torpedoed in 1982 after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.

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Mardi Gras 1946 was on March 5, so the last hurrah for the ship and crew, before going to retirement and eventual scrapping in Philly, may well have been that ten-day visit to her namesake city between January 1946 and March 12, 1946. Did she depart Ash Wednesday, after the Shore Patrol got the last celebrating sailors aboard? I hope they enjoyed some well-deserved R&R.

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This is the guy who got arrested's Linkedin LINK

This is the other guy's Linkedin LINK

Same name, both legal field (although the arrestee is apparently not actually a lawyer), both have worked in Caddo Parish. So an easy mistake to make. But not the same person.

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Upon further review, there appears to be a good chance you're correct and my post above mixed up the two. I've edited my post and tried to explain succinctly.

And if so, then the story makes a bit more sense. And it reminds me of incident about fifteen or twenty years ago, when the administrator at a New Orleans lawfirm put his ... traveling companion (he insisted that's all she was!) on the firm payroll and paid her like $250k before the stuff hit the fan.