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Did you ever watch the pilot episode for the new Hawaii Five-Oh? In it the governor of Hawaii decides to a create a police unit unhampered by things that get in the way of results. No red tape, no rules, no respect for civil rights. Just kicking ass and naming names. Getting the bad guys no matter what it takes. In short an adolescent power fantasy that only a moron who confuses real life with Mel Gibson movies would think would produce good results if they tried it in real life. Newsflash. People try it in real life. They take the most aggressive cops, give them a badass backronym like SCORPION or STRESS, tell them they’re “elite” even though they actually have no special training just special latitude. They encourage the unit to prioritise maximizing the number of suspects they take down over worrying about proper procedure, put them on constant patrol in the most crime ridden areas, encourage them to think of everyone around them not as people to be protected but enemies to be suppressed and make maximizing their number of busts per week the priority while ignoring the misconduct complaints. And then wait for the inevitable results. Units like these don't just suffer from a lack of transparency and use tactics likely to spawn violence. Their rhetoric attracts "police officers who enjoy being feared," Balko notes, and it positions these officers as both elite and beyond the normal rules. There are all sorts of horror stories about similar units, such as Detroit's STRESS unit ("Over a two-year period, the units killed at least 22 people, almost all of them Black") or Los Angeles' CRASH unit ("More than 70 officers were implicated in planting guns and drug evidence, selling narcotics themselves and shooting and beating people without provocation"). https://reason.com/2023/01/30/the-most-popular-police-reforms-cant-stop-the-next-tyre-nichols-from-being-killed-heres-what-might/

A weapon is no less a weapon because it is being used to kill animals rather than people. But it is true that guns have a secondary use as a toy.

Well Alberta is the Canadian province most influenced by the United States. Still, there's an election coming up in March, and that will be its test. So far Smith hasn't been elected by the public. She's just hijacked a party that was falling apart.

The unelected new premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith's most recent turn of the wheel consisted of promising to pardon everyone who had been convicted of violating Covid restrictions, followed by announcing that she was calling up the prosecutors "regularly" about the cases, but "preserving their independence", explaining that she actually called the Minister and Deputy Minister of Justice rather than the prosecutors themselves, and finally claiming that "many people don't know" that the premier isn't an American governor and has no authority whatsoever to pardon anyone, something that the Minister of Justice apparently explained to her.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-1932-bonus-army.htm

There are two reasons why the French are using a ship built in the United States in the film. The first is that in order to do their research for the creation of the Acheron, the film makers went to the museum ship the U.S.S. Constitution and carefully mapped every detail of it. So far as I know, there are no French ships of similar vintage still around. The second is that in Far Side of the World, the Aubrey/Maturin novel which inspired most of “Master and Commander, Far Side of the World”, Aubrey was actually up against an American frigate in the first place. They just changed that to avoid alienating the American audience, I believe part way through production when it was too late to switch out ships.

Foxes don't have prehensile tails though. So magic monkey man?

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Waheela The Beast of Bray Road is bipedal.

https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Mokele-mbembe https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Flatwoods_Monster

"I know the secret knock" <explosion>

Amanita Strength: 08 Endurance: 13 Agility: 12 Intelligence: 06 Charisma: 25 Disintegration Ray: Range 8, 1d20 damage, Power cost 2 per shot Weakness Detection +2 to hit Heightened Charisma A +14 Special Requirement Female 110 lbs Level 3 +1 strength, +1 intelligence, +1 charisma inventing attempt (failed, Basic Hits 3 Modified Hits: 5 Damage Modifier 0 Accuracy +1 Detect Hidden 6% Detect Danger 11% Reaction Modifier 4 Carrying Capacity 100 lbs Basic HTH 1d3 Move: 33 Power: 39 Amanita is a fearsome killer for hire who makes a point out of not just killing her foes but reducing their bodies to nothing but dust.

Defamation is a statement that injures a third party's reputation. The tort of defamation includes both libel (written statements) and slander (spoken statements). State common law and statutory law governs defamation actions, and each state varies in their standards for defamation and potential damages. Defamation is a tricky area of law as the lines between stating an opinion versus a fact can be vague, and defamation tests the limits of the first amendment freedoms of speech and press. Elements To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.