I hope the circuit court takes this up en blanc

I agree. The current Supreme Court robe colors are way too dark now, and white would be a good change.

Step 1: cut a hole in the 1m cube.

Mod parent -1, Lacks Reading Comprehension.

I think the translation for 'pants' into Yankee is 'underwear' in which case it's a little less nonsensical. I believe 'trousers' is Brit for the Yankee 'pants'.

Very insightful post and I agree with just about everything you said, except this part:

The leftist view that we need to prop up these companies is completely wrong. The righties' hands-off approach to all things private inevitably leads to wild fluctuations as companies consolidate and dominate government and individual roles followed by epic collapses and rebuilding periods.

The government leaders of both left and right want to prop the companies up. It's everyone else who opposes this. As soon as the economy started tanking the 'free market' right turned immediately to corporate welfare, and the left went along with it because they're spineless.

The left has more to lose here as their base strongly disapproves of corporate welfare while the right's base is more interested in keeping their portfolios afloat than actual free market ideology.

The Rothschild family, in order to destablize the US economy consipired with the Free Masons and the Illuminati

And Colonel Sanders, before he went tits-up.

Another thing--most people use their left hand for chords on a guitar and the right for picking. The impression here seems to be that we'll see a YouTube video of this guy's bionic hand noodling up and down the neck, but chances are it will just be a pick holder.

I think you meant the company that makes the bombs for the B1. Airplanes are generally not intended to cause bodily harm, unless you're talking about NWA's economy class seating.

Like a solar-powered flashlight!

My interpretation of this trial is that they're trying to get a criminal conviction, any criminal conviction, so that the findings of fact can be used in the civil wrongful death case. That way they can pretty much focus on just how big a wad of cash they're going to get.

I was curious, so I looked this up. It's murky, but apparently if he's been tried and convicted in Germany but won't serve his sentence then he can be tried again in the US. I guess they're arguing that his sentence was too light and should be treated as if he hadn't served his sentence.

I doubt Germany would have extradited him to the US for this crime since they'd tried him already, but if he goes to the US of his own free will there's no reason he couldn't be arrested and tried again under US law. It sounds like he'd have a good argument to get his case thrown out, though.