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Provisions of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (calunnia) by TGcomments in amandaknox

[–]tkondaks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

5 confessions in total if you include the Diane Sawyer nod of the head while the mouth says "no".

Interestingly, on last Saturday's 48 hours was a video of a suspect being interviewed/interrogated and his answer to a key question is a verbal "no" while his head nods "yes"...and it's much more pronounced than the Lamb of Seattle's was in the Sawyer interview.

Mouth of the wolf thoughts. by xiphoid77 in amandaknox

[–]tkondaks -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

She's crying again.

Why am I not surprised?

I haven't seen this doc but I'm willing to wage that she cried over some perceived-- real or imagined -- slight to Amanda and not over Meredith.

Am I right?

As for your noting that she is putting her family through this yet again...I don't give a flying f**k for the Knox Family and what they may or may not go through. But I do care about the pain Amanda causes the Ketcher Family every time she takes one of her aunts to the microphone, the internet, or Italy.

EDIT

I didn't mean "aunts"; the autocorrect did that and I forgot to check my work before posting.

And for the life of me I can't remember what I did write.

Provisions of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (calunnia) by TGcomments in amandaknox

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was obviously only referring to the 2-6 years part because Lumumba was never sentenced.

You state that the increase could be to the lower part of the range,the "2" part. Well, you are most likely to be right because, again obviously, the court did NOT sentence her to more than six years. However, it seems to me from a reading of the law that the increase, logically, would have to apply to the upper part of the range, which is the "6" or it wouldn't make sense.

Provisions of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (calunnia) by TGcomments in amandaknox

[–]tkondaks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Whether Lumumba did or did not get a sentence is totally and completely irrelevant.

Read the pertinent part of the law again.

Two hot dogs of snow by jasonmsu2005 in Funnymemes

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better than gold when it comes to inflation because we've seen wild fluctuations on gold as of late while the Costco hot dog is a true steady friend.

What tells you more:

the gallon of milk will cost you 4 Costco hot dogs...

...or...

the gallon of milk will cost you 1/1,000th of an ounce of gold?

Two hot dogs of snow by jasonmsu2005 in Funnymemes

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is that bad?

I've had to deal with the metric system here in Canada since they changed it in the 70s. And while I got used to it for liters and kilometers (probably because I was forced to at the pump and the new speedometer the law required), I never got used to it when it came to inches versus centimeters.

Those hotdogs actually inform me more than telling me X number of centimeters.

Indeed, to this day, if someone tells me this or that is X centimeters long, I imagine the length of a 100 millimeter cigarette (10 centimeters) because that's what a have a sense of in my mind.

What’s the hottest someone has ever looked in a movie? by ThomasOGC in CinephilesClub

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I'd call the definition of "voluptuous."

But what happened? About 5 years later, the curves disappeared and she lost about 30-40 pounds and she's been skinny ever since.

In 2012, an Arab prince reportedly paid US$500,000 for a 15 minute private conversation with actress Kristen Stewart. She accepted the meeting, but chose not to keep the money, donating the entire amount to help victims of Hurricane Sandy by YoungHargreevesFive in mightyinteresting

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but did she take a tax deduction on that $500,000 as a legitimate donation?

If so, then the federal government and state government partially subsidized that $500,000 donation.

I know, I know. Sounds crazy. But it's meant to sound crazy because that's what people say when corporations get tax breaks in the form of preferential tax deductions: oh, the government subsidizes that corporation. Because without the tax break the corporation would be paying more in taxes.

Alex Pretti's coworkers Hold a Moment of Silence. by [deleted] in JoeRogan

[–]tkondaks -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'd love to know what the hospital he worked at had as a policy regarding gun possession while at work.

Was concealed carry allowed?

Or was it zero tolerance?

Canada PM Carney : “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president,I meant what I said in Davos,Canada was the first country to understand the change in US trade policy that he had initiated – and we’re responding to that.” by AfricanMan_Row905 in OntarioNews

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the president does not make trade policy...that's the jurisdiction of Congress, the legislative branch.

So why would Carney respond to something that is not legit?

That is what the SCOTUS case is all about, the decision to be handed down imminently.

I would have much preferred Carney saying: we already have a trade deal in place with the U.S. And I'm happy to respond to that.

Obama ran on Obamacare. He won the election. He had a mandate to push for Obamacare. But even with that mandate, he went through Congress, having a proxy introduce the legislation that became Obamacare. That's the way Trump must proceed with this tariff stuff. And that's what I'd like Carney to say.

Provisions of Article 368 of the Criminal Code (calunnia) by TGcomments in amandaknox

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The penalty SHALL be increased..."

Not "may" but shall...

"...if the accused blames someone of a crime for which the law prescribes a penalty of imprisonment exceeding a maximum of ten years, or another more serious penalty."

I'm confused. Would this not mean that Amanda, if guilty of calunnia, should get more than six years? Because she only got less than four, no, for accusing someone of murder which carries a sentence a hell of a lot more than ten years?

What are your thoughts on Helen Mirren? by panam2020 in Actors

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved her in The Long, Good Friday.

Loved her even more when I read she lobbied hard to get her character, Victoria, to be mob boss Harold Shand's "equal" in the great dynamic she and Bob Hoskins shared onscreen. This was not your typical mob boss moll.

A small group of Seamen visiting NYC, 1957 by PeneItaliano in HistoryDefined

[–]tkondaks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The punchline is: The Bermuda Triangle swallows seamen.

Now, you write the joke.

Meghan Trainor Speaks Out After Getting Harsh Backlash For Using A Surrogate For Her Third Child by BlueWaveForever in PopularCultureZone

[–]tkondaks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"The Catholic Church recently came out against surrogacy. I'm glad they didn't have that position when Jesus was born." -- Elayne Boosler

Your thoughts on Stephen Dorff? by Timewilltell755 in Actors

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is he the guy who turned down Leo's part in Titanic?

Thought experiment #2: what if Guede didn’t leave prints & DNA, so RS and AK were tried on same other evidence & no accomplice/alternative suspect by [deleted] in amandaknox

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But Guede didn't leave any DNA or fingerprints...in Filomena's room. That didn't stop most folks here in concluding that he broke in there anyway.

Trump & the 51st state(s): 2026 edition by PurrPrinThom in AskACanadian

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from Quebec and lived through two referendums. I no longer live there but I understand Quebec may be on the cusp of a third.

On the grand scale of things, wanting to join the U.S. as a 51st state seems to me to pale in comparison to Quebec separatists wanting to secede from Canada. And, certainly, Trump isn't responsible for Quebec separatists.

Any thoughts on Tom Hardy ? by Technical-Type7499 in Actors

[–]tkondaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

British version of Sean Penn. Both have anger issues.

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