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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke’s Nightly Dessert Is Adorably Relatable
While at the gym, Van Dyke swears by the treadmill and weights (yes, he still lifts in his 90s!). After his sweat session and with feel-good vibes in full effect, he typically swings by the market, runs errands, and heads back home for a quick nap before dinner. Then before bed, he always indulges his inner child.
Dick Van Dyke's Nightly Dessert
Throughout the day, Van Dyke explained to the Chicago Tribune team that he prefers to steer clear of overly processed and fast food, instead leaning into "light and fresh" fare. "I watch what I eat. I'm not much on meat; maybe once a week. I have blueberries every morning. I watch my sugar level," he said.
When Van Dyke was a kid, he always dreamed of growing up and being able to eat candy every night. That inner child is still alive and well: "There's the biblical admonition about putting aside the things of your childhood. But I take that to mean self-centeredness, willfulness; not creativity and wonder," Van Dyke continued in his chat with the Tribune. "Walt Disney and I always said we were children looking for our inner adults."
So to indulge his inner child, Van Dyke gleefully admitted, "I do eat ice cream every night."
What They Didn’t Want You to Know About Derek Chauvin's Case
According to Wikipedia and other sources, George Floyd's heart stopped en route to the hospital. Most sources say Floyd had a pulse detected by a paramedic before being loaded into the ambulance, although another source disputes that.
Floyd was pronounced dead in the Emergency Room. It is not true that he was alive in the hospital, although that might be a matter of definition. Paramedics tried to resuscitate Floyd for at least 30 minutes. One source says an hour.
So the video contains false information, making it a conspiracy theory. He states that the prosecutor and medical examiner lied and falsified records.
However, he may still have valid points. The trial is suspect and took place in a politically charged environment. I think that the cause of death is not clear. George Floyd had cardiovascular disease, a heart tumor, an active case of COVID-19, a lifetime of drug abuse, and a dangerous level of drugs in his system.
There is no evidence that Derek Chauvin intended to harm George Floyd. This makes the murder conviction unjust. At most Derek Chauvin is guilty of involuntary (or negligent) homicide. He was negligent, but these guys have difficult jobs. Chauvin was a police officer trying to do his job, however improperly.
Convicting the other police officers who were doing crowd control also seems unjust. At least one of these guys was a trainee who would likely be inexperienced and took direction from his superiors.
https://san.com/cc/judge-rules-chauvins-defense-may-examine-george-floyds-autopsy/
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/george-floyd-was-alive-when-he-arrived-at-the-hospital/116735751/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/us/derek-chauvin-trial-george-floyd-day-13/index.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/lung-expert-testifies-george-floyd-died-because-his-breathing-was-restricted
https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/08/985347984/chauvin-trial-medical-expert-says-george-floyd-died-from-a-lack-of-oxygen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqEp63duIc
"Two autopsies, and one autopsy review, found Floyd's death to be a homicide.[26][27]
On March 12, 2021, Minneapolis agreed to pay US$27 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Floyd's family. On April 20, Chauvin was convicted of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter,[4][28] and on June 25 he was sentenced to 22+1⁄2 years in prison.[29]
All four officers faced federal civil rights charges.[30] In December 2021, Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating Floyd's civil rights by using unreasonable force and ignoring his serious medical distress.[31][32] The other three officers were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.[33] Lane pleaded guilty in May 2022 to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter[34] and was sentenced on September 21, 2022, to three years in prison to be served concurrently with his federal sentence of 2+1⁄2 years.[35] Kueng pleaded guilty on October 24, 2022, to the state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter and was sentenced to 3+1⁄2 years in prison, to be served concurrently with his federal sentence.[36][37] Thao waived his right to a jury trial on the state charge in lieu of a review of the evidence and a determination by a judge.[38] He was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter in a written verdict delivered on May 2, 2023, and he was sentenced to 4+3⁄4 years in prison.[7][13]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd
I don't see any of this being overturned, although I would like to see Chauvin get some leniency.
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Floyd autopsy altered by political pressure
"I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd," said Sweasy under oath. "He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd's neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation," Sweasy added.
By day two, Baker knew the risks involved in telling the truth. Sweasy continued, "He said to me, 'Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn't match up with the public narrative that everyone's already decided on?' And then he said, 'This is the kind of case that ends careers.'" Although Sweasy knows very well why Baker altered his diagnosis, Carlson may not. This story bears retelling in the light of Sweasy's unwitting confirmation.
As I reported on these pages in August 2021, an exhibit surfaced in the case of Chauvin colleague Tou Thao that should have resulted in a new trial for Chauvin and the release of Thao and the other two arrested officers, Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng.
The exhibit, a memorandum, was that powerful. It memorialized a November 2020 conference between Dr. Roger Mitchell, former Washington D.C. chief medical examiner, and several prosecutors. Sweasy was not among the prosecutors present. Nor was Freeman. All but one were from the attorney general's office.
This should not surprise. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose affiliation with the Nation of Islam cost him a shot at becoming DNC Chair, kept a heavy hand on the case. "The AG taking over the Chauvin cases was difficult," said Senior Assistant County Attorney Judith Cole in her deposition in the Sweasy suit, "particularly when we had a governor who kind of threw us under the bus."
The memorandum detailed Mitchell's effort to coerce Baker into including neck compression in his diagnosis of Floyd's death. As noted above, Baker conducted an autopsy on Floyd on May 26, 2020, the day after Floyd's death. Baker reported that same day to the Hennepin County prosecutors, "The autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation. Mr. Floyd did not exhibit signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone injuries, or internal bruising."
Three days later — Friday, May 29 — the state filed its initial complaint against Derek Chauvin. According to the complaint, "The full report of the [medical examiner] is pending but the [medical examiner] has made the following preliminary findings. The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation." Without a diagnosis of asphyxia, however, the state could not accuse Chauvin and the police officers of committing or abetting "Murder-2nd Degree." This is where Mitchell came into play.
A well-connected black political activist, Mitchell boasted of his involvement in Baker's diagnosis to the attorneys present. Their summary of that interaction reads in part:
When the preliminary result came out via the criminal complaint, Mitchell found the statement was bizarre. Mitchell was reading and said this is not right. So Mitchell called Baker and said first of all Baker should fire his public information officer. Then Mitchell asked what happened, because Mitchell didn't think it sounded like Baker's words. Baker said that he didn't think the neck compression played a part and that he didn't find petechiae. Mitchell said but you know you can not have petechiae and still have asphyxia and can still have neck compression.
Mitchell first called Baker on Friday, May 29. He "thought about it more that weekend" and on Monday he called Baker telling him he was about to send an op-ed to the Washington Post critical of Baker's findings. "In this conversation," the memorandum continued, "Mitchell said, you don't want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn't see what they saw. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong."
By that Monday cities across America had gone up in flames, none more ferociously than Minneapolis. The ever thoughtful Mitchell showed Baker a way out of the jam. According to the memorandum, "[Mitchell] said there was a way to articulate the cause and manner of death that ensures you are telling the truth about what you are observing on the body and via all of the investigation. Mitchell said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis."
Late on that same Monday, Baker's office sent out a press release that began, "Cause of death: Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." (Italics added). With a stroke of the pen and the complicity of the prosecutors, Baker turned four innocent cops into murderers and justified the self-destructive social revolution that followed.
"There was extreme premium pressure, yes. The city was burning down," Sweasy's former colleague Patrick Lofton said in his deposition. He and Sweasy withdrew from the cases against Lane, Kueng, and Thao on June 3, 2020, just a week after Floyd's death. They did not believe the three officers should be criminally charged. "I can tell you that everyone that I associate with to any degree, professionally or personally, agreed with our decision," Lofton testified. He described the pressure on the prosecutors as "insane."
Lofton wrote his letter of withdrawal, he said, "because I have to sleep at night." He and Sweasy might have slept better had they gone public with what they knew, namely that Chauvin and his colleagues were being tried for a crime they did not commit.
How did Floyd die? I asked my consultant on this case, John Dale Dunn, a veteran emergency physician and lawyer with expertise in matters of cause of death. Dunn is in a position to know. He wrote a chapter on forensic evidence for the American College of Legal Medicine. "Derrick Chauvin didn't kill Mr. Floyd," he told me. "His bad heart did." (READ More: The Semantic Burden of Speaking While White)
Dunn believes that Baker did an "assiduous and thorough autopsy." His findings, he argues, "did exonerate the police officers — there was no evidence of asphyxiation or strangulation, not any evidence of damage or compromise of the airway of breathing of Mr. Floyd from the prone restraint." In fact, Dunn made a video recreating the final minutes of Floyd's life. His conclusion, "The prone position restraint is not harmful or lethal."
There was, of course, evidence of methamphetamine and opiates in Floyd's system but not enough to kill. Floyd was a user. He had acclimated to fentanyl. There was compelling evidence, however, "that Mr. Floyd had three-vessel coronary artery disease of the heart" as well as an "enlarged heart from high blood pressure." The methamphetamine use increased the risk of Floyd having a sudden heartbeat regularity problem. "Mr. Floyd was upset and anxious," concludes Dunn. By resisting arrest, he set himself up for "sudden death from cardiac arrest, a sudden heart stoppage."
Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Who is Brian Lozenski? He is a national leader in the CRT movement, the foremost authority on CRT in Minnesota and, most significantly, Tim Walz's most important education advisor. Lozenski is not on the fringes of Walz's administration but at its very center. Lozenski was the de facto leader of Walz's so-called "ethnic studies" curriculum ("ethnic studies" is, in effect, a new name for CRT), which is at the heart of Walz's education program.
Walz has been working diligently for years to embed ethnic studies in the curricula of all grades...
Under the new ethnic studies standards, Kersten reports, first-graders must "identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power" and "use those examples to construct meanings for those terms." Fourth-graders must "examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements." High school students are taught to view themselves as members of "racialized hierarchies" based on "dominant European beauty standards." However "jargony," it is clear enough that these standards are intended to lead students to disdain America and join in the overthrow of their country.
If Lozenski is a revolutionary, and he incontestably is, then so is Walz. Walz was a very weak candidate. Moreover, he was to the Left of Harris — exactly what Harris, who was trying to tack to the center, did not need. But, odd as it may sound, Walz was chosen as Harris's running mate, not because he was the most likely to help her win — he clearly wasn't — but because he was the most ideologically compatible with her and the machine that ran her. It actually is not so odd if we keep in mind that the destructive Left, like all revolutionaries, is more concerned with maintaining ideological purity than winning. Likewise, Harris, who was far from the strongest Democrat, was also chosen because her views were most compatible with the revolutionary views of the machine that selected her.
What do we make of the fact that Harris chose as her running mate a man who wants to overthrow America? Could it be that she didn't know whom she was choosing? No, it couldn't be. She, and/or the machine that ran her, knows perfectly well Walz wants to overthrow America.'
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This is all good if you want to live in a dictatorship. Were the regulations passed by Congress? How about the free market deciding which energy to use?
Most fossil fuels will run out by the year 2100. Coal will be the last fossil fuel to run out, and it is very likely that we will need it.
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Worth Repeating
The video is a bit long. The bottom line is that a man wanted to live off the grid, hiked completely unprepared into the middle of nowhere in Alaska, found himself unable to get back to civilization due to the summer thaw, and starved to death.
I am also reminded of the foreign tourist family who drove their rental car out into the American desert, despite warnings from the rental car company not to do something like this and perished after the car became stuck.
Richard Roeper commented on things like this, saying that wild animals need to stay in a controlled environment away from us and that people need to stop being stupid.
People are very fragile. Many people will meet a bad end one way or another because they don't realize this.
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When Star Trek celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 1991, she was interviewed. She joked that they should look her up on the 50th anniversary and that they could find her at the Old Folks Home. I remembered this, so I looked her up 25 years later. She was in good health and doing well.
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Today, the packages of Hershey's Kisses at Walmart vary slightly in price depending on the size, but they average about $8 per pound. So the average price of a Hershey's Kiss is 8 cents each. (Each Hershey's Kiss weighs 4.5 grams or roughly 1/100th of a pound.)
This makes the Hershey's Kiss rate of inflation over 55 years 1600%. During the same period, the official rate of inflation, which I always find suspect, is 850%. Either the official rate is wrong, or Hershey's Kisses rose faster than inflation.
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Republicans are registering more new voters than Dems in Pennsylvania
Zoom out: Republicans have registered more new voters across the Keystone State so far this year (94,603), compared to Democrats' 87,325 as of last week, per the state.
- But Dems still hold a commanding lead for total registered voters statewide with 3.9 million compared to Republicans' 3.5 million as of last week.
What we're watching: Voters not affiliated with either major party could prove decisive in this year's election.
- Those voters now top 1.3 million across the state after adding more than 76,000 since Jan. 1.