Green, a mechanical engineering student at Casper College, expressed remorse for her crime and pleaded guilty to arson back in June, receiving the minimum prison sentence rather than the 20 years she could have faced.
According to prosecutors, Green told police that she opposed abortion and suffered from debilitating anxious nightmares about what might happen if the clinic opened, which she hoped to quell by burning it down.
Pro-Black Lives Matter corporate giants Google and Meta joined a growing list of virtue-signaling companies that slashed their “diversity” budgets in 2023 amid a rough year for the tech industry.
“Some companies have laid off DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] staffers and leaders of diverse employee resource groups, downsized learning and development programs and cut budgets for external DEI groups by as much as 90 percent in 2023,” CNBC reported Friday.
The DEI cuts are a laughable reversal of the virtue-signaling bluster some companies trumpeted in the wake of the BLM riots following the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
Many “woke” corporations bent the knee to race-hustling grifters by donating money to Black Lives Matter and investing millions to expand so-called “diversity” programs to hire more black workers.
“By mid-2023, DEI-related job postings had declined 44% from the same time a year prior, according to data provided by job site Indeed,” CNBC reported. “That’s a sharp contrast with the period from 2020 to 2021, when those postings expanded nearly 30%.”
This only makes total sense: When your company is not doing well because of a tough economic climate rocked by crippling inflation, hiring scores of people solely on the basis of their skin color — as opposed to actual qualifications — is a dumb move.
Devika Brij, the CEO of an eponymous consulting group, said some of her clients reduced their DEI budgets by as much as 90 percent this year.
There is an interesting ruling in the ongoing litigation of the case of Mark McCloskey. We previously discussed the case, which became a cause célèbre for many on the left and the right after Mark and Patricia McCloskey of St. Louis appeared outside of their home in an armed standoff with protesters in St.Louis. I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. He then sough the return of two firearms. The Missouri Court of Appeals has now prevented that return of the weapons by denying a motion for replevin. The basis for the decision is very interesting: McCloskey is pardoned but still considered guilty.
In McCloskey v. State, Judge James M. Dowd was joined by Judges John P. Torbitzky and Michael S. Wright in ruling that a pardon does not mean that you are innocent, but excised of guilt. As such, the state law on the seizure of the weapons stands. Since McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and forfeited ownership and possession of the two firearms in exchange for the State dismissing the felony charge, the state law remains in force on confiscation of the weapons:
” While we agree that the pardon restored all of his rights forfeited by the conviction and removed any legal disqualification, disadvantage, or impediment, Missouri law is unequivocal that a gubernatorial pardon obliterates the fact of the conviction, not the fact of guilt. Thus, McCloskey’s guilty plea, for which he obtained the benefit of the State dismissing a felony charge punishable by jail time, survived the pardon and importantly, with respect to the issue at hand in this replevin action, triggered the guns’ forfeiture. Therefore, since McCloskey’s guilt remains, it follows that he is not entitled to the return of the weapons….”
Michael Cohen, a former fixer for Donald Trump, said in a court filing Friday that he accidentally sent his lawyer fictitious artificial intelligence-generated citations that were later submitted to court.
Cohen, who was also an attorney for the former president, said he mistakenly thought that the AI bot Google Bard was a “super-charged search engine” while researching legal cases that would show precedent for eliminating his supervised release.
The cases produced by the artificial intelligence service did not exist, he wrote in a filing first reported by The New York Times.
Cohen said in Friday’s filing that he has “not kept up with emerging trends (and related risks) in legal technology and did not realize that Google Bard was a generative text service that, like Chat-GPT, could show citations and descriptions that looked real but actually were not.”
And the irony is that she was lucky it was only burglars and not really cops. Had it really been cops she would have been imprisoned or dead
Three burglars impersonated Los Angeles Police officers and called for residents to open the door to their San Fernando Valley home this week before breaking in.
The incident was reported Dec. 27 just before 10 p.m., according to police officials.
Three men wearing dark hoodies approached a home—in Lake Balboa on Forbes Avenue near Sherman Way—yelled out “LAPD” and called for someone inside to open the door before smashing in a rear window and a sliding door, police said.
The home’s surveillance video shows three masked men wearing black walking along the side of the home before breaking in.
Only one person was inside the home at the time—an Arizona woman who was house-sitting for her daughter.
“The bedroom door burst open and there’s a flashlight and a gentleman saying ‘LAPD, LAPD’ and then I hopped up … and he pulled the door closed and took off,” the woman, who gave her name only as Pamela, told ABC7 News.
“It’s evident that the suspects did not anticipate the presence of the victim at home,” an LAPD spokesperson said. “Hence, officers filed a ‘hot prowl’ report, signifying the heightened risk associated with burglaries occurring when residents are present.”
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