1 hour ago, Cygnia said:

Richard Moll, who found fame as a bailiff on the original sitcom ‘Night Court,’ dies at 80

he was also two face and the first villain Duncan McCloud faced.

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Santos had cover from McCarthy for a long time. As soon as McCarthy was dismissed, a lot of the other people from NY posted up a resolution to expel Santos. They were trying to put it up so the new speaker would help get rid of him. And then he was indicted again but the crimes were fraud and theft.

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Cape Fear 5

1975-

Wes wondered how long they had watched the paper to grab him. That took some
patience. He supposed that they had known he had escaped and survived to finish the
job. And they knew he was a reporter. Linking him to either paper would have been
easy to anyone who knew who to call.

 

The fact they had taken Marsden the same way had not escaped his mind. He
wondered about that. He pulled on his clothes off the road and looked around for a
place he could hide until he could sneak away.

 

He didn’t like the fact that they waited for him. He thought they had known he was
going to be at the paper. If they had, someone had told them he was going to be there.

Could Clancy have sold him out?

 

He thought about it as he marched across the countryside. Had Clancy sold him out?
Had he sold out Marsden?

 

There was a way to test the theory. It was simple and direct. If he was right, he didn’t
know what he would do about it. He wasn’t much of a vigilante. Dropping people off
a building seemed too much like work.

 

He wondered if Clancy had put any extra money in his bank. That should be easy to
check with his skills.

 

Everything was starting to be computerized. Banks were investing millions to switch
their old record books to networks that could be reviewed instantly. He doubted they
could keep someone like him out.

 

All he needed was where Clancy banked, and what his file number was. Then he
could just ask at the bank for the account statement. He doubted he could steal the
passbook from Clancy since he didn’t know where the editor kept it.

 

But he did know that Clancy kept his checkbook at the paper in his desk. All he had
to do was get inside and get a check from it. The rest would follow from that simple
move.

 

He paused as he contemplated what he was thinking. He had made a bad move
breaking into Delveccio’s place and stealing his ledgers for the evidence he needed.
Now he was thinking about doing the same thing to one of his managers on the
suspicion that the guy had tried to get him killed because he was a mole.

 

He had no proof that Clancy had done anything. He might be letting paranoia run
away with him.

 

Did his new condition lend itself to being paranoid? He might be cracking up.

And what did he do if Clancy was crooked?

 

First he had to know for himself. He could look at the bank records. He could call
Clancy and tell him he was free to move, and wait to see what happened. He could
tell Clancy that he was at his place, and wait to see if goons showed up.

 

He liked that. It was simple. And if they showed up, he knew Clancy was involved.

He didn’t know what he would do if he did confirm things. He wasn’t particularly
violent, so he didn’t want to beat the editor while he was calm and thinking. That
might change if he got angry enough.

 

The first thing was proving his suspicions. He might be wrong. It might still be bad
luck that goons showed up the same time as he was arriving to deliver his story. They
might have been watching the building.

 

Wes looked around. A piece of civilization was ahead. If they had a phone, he would
be able to call Clancy and tell him he was okay. He could fly to his place and wait for
the goons to show up to pick him up.

 

He had to figure out where he was before he made any calls. He didn’t want to give
the goons any clue where he had gone when they found the trunk was empty.

He had to fly home and set up before they showed up. He could watch them looking
for him while he thought of his next move. He doubted he could call the police on
anyone. It was a thought.

 

Wes found a road sign that told him he was ten miles out of the city. He nodded. Now
all he needed to do was make the phone call and see what happened. He also had to
consider that the phones at the paper were bugged. He didn’t know what to do about
that, but it could clear Clancy if he could find them in the phones, or buried anywhere
else in the office.

 

Once he called, he would know in a few hours if someone was handing Delveccio
information from the paper.

 

He didn’t know if Clancy was involved, but barring someone else knowing about him
getting to the paper and a hidden mike, it was the only explanation for what had
happened. He could test that too.

 

He just needed Clancy to pretend to call from a phone not at the paper.

How hard could that be?

 

Would Clancy figure out he was being tested with this scheme? That was the spot he
didn’t know. It all depended on how stupid they thought he was.

 

They would think he was really stupid if he fell for the same scheme again.

 

So he had three real options. Delveccio had someone other than Clancy in the
newsroom giving him information. Or, Clancy had sold him out with a phone call. Or,
they had watched the building until he had shown up and took him to do the things
they wanted to get the stolen records back.

 

He doubted he would look the same after they were done with him.

 

He believed he would have wound up at sea like Marsden with more injuries from the
beating he would have taken.

 

He decided to call Clancy from home to make his call more authentic. If anyone
traced the call, they would see the call came from his apartment.

 

He flew home in his flat form. He let himself in with a spare key he had hidden in a
gap behind the outside light. He looked around at the row of tiny cabins pushed
together. He didn’t see anyone watching the place and he was happy about that.

 

Time to go to work, Wes. Once you know one thing, you can ask about others.

 

Stealing the ledgers without telling anyone had been a good idea if there was
someone on the paper telling Delveccio who was investigating him.

 

He hoped he was wrong. He didn’t want Clancy to be calling the mob on him. He
wanted to hand in his story and move on to the next. And he had no idea what he was
going to do if Delveccio’s mob showed up at his place.

 

He would have to have words with Clancy if that happened. He doubted he could
commit violence on the man. It had been a long time since he had tried to hurt
someone intentionally.

 

Maybe he should think about turning the ledgers over to the police, or the Feds. He
doubted the locals would do anything, but maybe he could get someone to look at the
operation and draw some of the heat off himself.

 

He reached for his phone. He needed to make this call before he chickened out. Then
he could make his next move to try to get out from under with his skin intact.

 

If Delveccio’s men showed up, it showed that he couldn’t trust the paper to help him
out of his problem. He would have to think of some way to get the mobster off his
back that didn’t involve being filled with holes and set on fire.

 

He called the newspaper and asked the switchboard to connect him with Clancy’s
desk. The night editor instantly answered the phone.

 

“I had some problems coming in with my story,” said Wes. He moved to keep an eye
out one window while he talked. “I am at my place getting some clothes together. I
am going to have to take off for a while until the heat goes down. I’ll let you know
when I get back in town.”

 

“What do I tell the boss?,” said Clancy. “We were counting on that story.”

 

“I’m going to leave it and the ledgers in the bedroom closet of my house,” said Wes.
He went to the closet and took the clothes out of it and bundled them in a bag to take
back to the hotel. “I’ll leave the door unlocked for you.”

 

He placed the bag next to the door. No one was outside yet. The longer he waited, the
more likely he would run into Delveccio’s stooges. He needed to get somewhere he
could watch the door without being seen.

 

“I have to go, Clancy,” said Wes. “I will call when I am back in town.”

 

He took his bag and flew over to the roof of another set of row houses across the
street. He laid down to keep his outline out of sight as much as possible. He wanted
them to go in without figuring that he was waiting on them to show up.

 

Wes watched his watch as he waited. He planned to give the goons a couple of hours
before he headed back to his borrowed room at the hotel. Either Clancy, or someone
close to him, told Delveccio where he was, or they didn’t. He wasn’t going to wait
around all night to see which it was.

 

He really hoped Clancy showed up to get the story in person. Then he could watch
what happened without any problem. The most likeliest thing to happen if he did
show up, was he left with the box of shoes. The rest would be making sure he went
back to the paper and opened the box.

 

That was the only way to make sure Clancy hadn’t tried to get him killed.

Tracking the leak if he could clear Clancy would be a small problem, but it could be
doable with the right bait.

 

He couldn’t string any inside man along for long before he became suspicious that
someone was suspicious of him. Then he would bail and let know Delveccio know
he was blown.

 

Two cars rolled up outside of his house. He recognized some of the men who got out
and started for the front and back doors of his place. It looked like Clancy had turned
him in.

 

He should have known he couldn’t trust the night editor. What did he do now?

How many other papers did Delveccio have his fingers into? What happened if he
approached someone else with what he had?

 

He needed to think about going full on vigilante. He couldn’t let Delveccio hunt him
across the city. He had to turn things around. He couldn’t run forever.

 

He had to get to his room and stow his baggage. He needed to make sure that his
registration was still legitimate as far as that goes. He had to fix things if it wasn’t.
Then he had to get something to eat and think of how to get out from under.

 

He had not ever thought things would go this way. He had thought reporting was the
way that he could change the world for the better. He had never thought that he would
have to put on a mask to protect himself.

 

He needed to think about how he wanted to go ahead to deal with Delveccio.

He definitely wasn’t going to be able to do anything through the system.

 

He decided that going down there and busting those guys up for breaking into his
place would get him nothing. He might have a small twinge of satisfaction but he
would still have the same problem. He was on the run from a criminal chief who
wanted him dead and he  had no way of fixing that except by doing something like
drowning him in the ocean.

 

He wasn’t ready to do that yet.

 

He needed clothes he could wear when he was flat. He needed another permanent
place to stay. Eventually someone would get wise to the hotel dodge. When that
happened, he was out of a base of operations. And he needed a way to get Delveccio
to confess to his crimes so the mob boss would be off his back.

 

He had no idea on how to do that. He needed ideas and he had no one to talk to about
this. He needed to look into what other masked men did if he wanted to be one
himself.

 

He couldn’t use the newspaper morgue. Clancy would call the mob on him as soon
as he showed his face. He decided that he could use the library to do what he needed
to do.

 

Old papers were kept for a bit, and there was a microfiche reader with older prints
than that. He could read up on other masked men and see what kind of methods he
could use to help himself out.

 

He would have talked to Mister Robot, but the adventurer had been killed with his
team of allies years ago. No one knew what had happened to Animal Boy, or if he
was still around.

 

The Mark had vanished from the spotlight. Wes had no way to call him, or anyone
based out of the East Coast.

 

The closest active hero to him was the Rockets. There had been talk that the second
one was moving east to join a team, but no one knew for sure.

 

He made a note to look for a way to call either one. Maybe they could give him
pointers, or point him in the direction of someone who could help him.

 

That would be better than flailing around waiting to be caught out in the public and
shot dead before he could use the tattoo to heal his wounds with the transformation.

Wes transformed and flew off into the night. He still had things to do.
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There are two kind of people in this world said the man with no name. me and them.

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Harding is being represented by a Trump attorney which is cool because Trump has blown 37 million from his superpac on 60 law firms. So there was bound to be some kind of overlap in Florida.

 

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Trump is being sued by the NAACP in DC. You will never guess who the judge is.

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Chesebro pled out? Bro, he filed like ten motions to dismiss in a row, and the Judge was like you're not reading the law right for the motion. Let me explain the reason I am denying your motion to you.

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My son and I were talking about going to work while he cleaned up his personal space

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Trump was never going to get any real jail time. There is a threat of it in the GA case but mostly this has been about fining him and taking his money. He was never as rich as he said he was, and now that that has come out, other things are coming out to hurt his dealings. His donation machine has nearly broken from all the stress of paying his fees to his lawyers.

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I feel like I missed some other court cases Trump is involved in, but I don't have any idea what it could be. I admit I don't know if Hilary got her money out of him for instance

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9 hours ago, unclevlad said:

Yeah, I might be confusing which judges and which orders....

 

But in my defense, it's rather a lot to try to remember.....</snark>

Trump has eight major cases going on, some of them he has already lost. And he has other people suing him over different things.

 

Judge Engoran is doing the fraud case in NY, and Trump has lost the first charge. The trial is about the other six charges and if he can be found guilty on those.

 

Judge Kaplan already ruled for E Jean Carrol to get five million in one law suit, and ruled that the second suit is settled except for the awarding of damages against Trump. (This is what I meant by Garland shoving Trump into the oven, because this second lawsuit was at one point being defended by the DOJ because of Bill Barr. And Garland was stuck with it for a bit, and then he said the DOJ is withdrawing the means of defense for Trump over that other case. When Jordan and the Judiciary Committee Republicans were going after Garland, they were all like why aren't you putting Hunter Biden in jail for life. None of them as far as I know asked why he reversed on Trump and let him lose that suit)

 

Judge Chutkan is doing the Jan 6 trial and has told Trump that he is going to trial in March no matter what. As many motions that can be filed will be answered but in March, it will be go time.

 

Judge Macavee (spell check here) is doing the Georgia trial about the election interference. When Chesbro and Powell said they wanted a speedy trial, he was like okay we're doing this next month (I think next week but I could be wrong). And so far he has dismissed all of Chesbro's motions to get out of trial. Everybody else said we're going to waive the speedy trial claim at that, and Scott Hall, one of the coconspirators has already flipped and been sentenced.

 

The Judge in Colorado that I mentioned up thread is handling a lawsuit to disqualify Trump from the Colorado ballot. Word is other groups are trying to do the same thing in other states. I don't remember when Trump is supposed to go to trial there but if either the GA trial or the Jan 6 trial finish before the complaints can finish this trial, then that stuff will be able to be used against Trump in this trial.

 

Alvin Bragg in New York has the criminal case against Trump for his tax stuff and Stormy Daniels under Judge Marchon. I don't know the status of this case. I think Micheal Cohen is supposed to give testimony against Trump for this but I am not sure.

 

Judge Cannon has the file stealing case in Florida. Popok and Miceallis are of the opinion that she is incompetent and has artificially delayed her trial. My read is that all of these other cases will be done before her first week of testimony is even in. So far she has been allowing top secret information to be read into the public record, not known how a grand jury works, and not known how classified documents transportation and holding works. She hasn't done anything to be asked to be recused, but she is not showing a lot of competence.

 

Also Trump tried  to file lawsuits against Cohen, Engranon, James of NY, and Willis of Georgia and he withdrew the claims.

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Judge Engoran put an order in to tell Trump to stop attacking his staff. Judge Chutkan put her order in. The judge in Colorado put in a protective order for witnesses because of Trump's behavior in September according to the story dateline that I found.

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Plus he already owes Jean Carrol five mill, with another award on the way once that first case is settled. Judge Kaplan said we're not going to have another trial the same as the first. All the jury needs to do is award damage. The NYAG case has already found Trump guilty of one of the seven counts. The rest is about the other six. The fact that he has a paper monitor and his licenses are dissolved must already be galling.

 

As an aside, Merrick Garland stuck Trump like a prison shanking in the shower. Jim Jordan should have been on him about that instead of worrying about the obstruction case that is under Chutkan in the DC circuit.

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Update on Rudy.

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business insider says 17 Trump lawyers have been sanctioned with some of them becoming co-defendants. Some like Alina Habba got sanctioned a mill, and then got sanctioned again before another judge. And of course, Good Ol' Rudy got his license yanked, hauled into court over refusal to follow discovery, sanctioned, summarily tried and found guilty, and needing to pay what he owed.

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And Popok and Miceallis said he lost that motion like he loses most of his motions. 

The only people he beats in court are the ones who don't have enough money to outlast his footdragging. Anyone else, he gets hammered.

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it's obvious why Trump took the documents. he was selling the information for influence or money. The problem has always been proving either one of those.

 

It's like the speculation that Jared Kushner was put in charge of that 2 billion hedge fund because Trump gave the Saudis the list of their enemies and where they lived. No one has looked into it as far as I know, but that's what it looks like to me.  

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Pastor in florida was hooked up for pressuring the addicts he was supposed to be helping into stealing from Home Depot and reselling the stolen equipment on EBAY.

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The Bobs did switch around again. The new Bob wanted a lot of stuff like contracts that only covered one movie, and caused Scarlet Johansson to win her lawsuit, and green lit a lot of stuff for the streaming service. They got rid of him and brought back the old Bob to steer the company since he got the money back from the failure of the Lone Ranger and John Carter.

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You can do like Chris Carter used to write the X Files and have index cards with scenes written on them, and just put them down for your writing as you go, Cancer. No one is going to say anything, and it's run on the honor system anyway.

 

I don't know what I am going to do. Right now I am just trying to clock words for what I am already working on. I need another 275k to beat the 50/12

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On 10/9/2023 at 12:33 PM, Old Man said:

 

She was seven and ten years old, I'm not sure when her genius was supposed to start being depicted.  She had access to a giant ant at seven and was being shrunk at 10.

 

 

Cassie had way more access to tech and brilliant scientists than Peter Parker did.

She didn't create the ant or control the shrinking. Cassie had access maybe to Hope, who may or may not be a brilliant scientist before her dad got put on house arrest and the Pyms went on the run for ten years.

 

Peter Parker on the other hand went to a school known as the Midtown School of Science and Technology which had its own television studio, laser gun, and chemical lab, worked with the Avengers and SHIELD, and had Tony Stark as his personal mentor as well as mentoring himself.

 

it's okay to say Payton Reed created an older character different from a younger character in a way that created plot holes/inconsistencies. It happens all the time.

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One of the headlines I saw was there was a chance that Trump leaked Israeli intelligence.  I don't know if there will be any confirmation until after his 91 counts and two civil suits are settled.

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7 hours ago, Old Man said:

 

  Like when Cassie Lang, who in the comics was experimenting with Pym Particles by 2005, does so in the movies in 2023 and that's supposed to be... weird?  Or wrong?  I don't get it, sorry.

Cassie Lang has only been on screen four times and only has access to the particles in the last movie. And she has not been depicted as some genius kid in her other three showings. I mean eighteen year olds who survive an almost world ending apocalypse that is fixed by their time traveling dad and his friends might pick up some tricks maybe.

 

It was a little weird that Cassie became Stature in the comics because the age seems off, and the fact that she hardly saw her dad at all. But I posted a link to a thread from CBR where they were trying to figure out the DC  kids' ages and how they related to each other and it looked like a lot of history resets going on. So the same thing could have happened to Cassie depending on Marvel's sliding timeline.

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Sue centric would be the direct opposite of Fantastic Four (2015) where it was reported that the director didn't want the character around. Kate Mara had to come back and wear a wig to refilm some of her scenes.

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Popok and Friedman Dinifialo are saying that all of Trump's companies and trust are to be dissolved in ten days. They think there will be an emergency stay as Trump's lawyers try to appeal the decision but the decision is not going to be appealable. The only thing left is the writing of the check for the NYAG's office.

 

The judge is like you can't value your property two hundred times more than an evaluator's base number.

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