Procedural Question -- Fifth Amendment

What would happen in a trial if a prosecution witness declined on the stand to testify "because the defendant shouldn't be on trial"?

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Noose ladies suspended from California school

Principal and teachers are suspended from California elementary school after leaked photo showed them posing and grinning with a noose

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Originally Posted by Daily Mail A California principal and four teachers have been placed on administrative leave after an image circulated showing them smiling as they posed with a noose. Linda Brandt, the principal of Summerwind Elementary School in Palmdale, reportedly shared the photograph in an email to all teachers earlier this month. It shows four educators – one believed by people close to the situation to have not had her first year contract renewed for a second year prior to the scandal breaking – dangling and pointing to the rope tied into a fashion to hang. Alongside on of it hanging on a classroom wall, the pictures quickly spread to parents via Instagram. 'They had the audacity to show up today,' Shaka Phillipps, a former teacher, administrator, and educational consultant, told Yahoo Lifestyle as she protested them still having their jobs Thursday. 'The integrity of the school is completely compromised. To the black community, a noose is a weapon, a symbol of slavery and lynching.' Her niece attends the school and she said she is 'now questioning the education every student of color has received in this class'...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-NOOSE.html

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Can someone defend the actual electoral college?

What I hat about most arguments about the electoral college is that the side in favor of the electoral college often argue for a principle (state's rights or rural vs Urban or something similar) rather than the electoral college itself.

So let's take that out of discussion. For sake of conversation, let's concede whatever principle you want is correct (whether it is federalism, or identity, or even if you want your candidates to win all the time). State whatever you want.

Why should the electoral college be the system we use to achieve that?

[Input Requested] Breakthrough Institute and Ecomodernism

Anyone got any opinions on the Breakthrough Institute and their Ecomodernist Manifesto
http://www.ecomodernism.org/

Seems to me like they have some good ideas about things like nuclear energy but they have been associated with the climate denier Owen Paterson...

Blindfolded Children

Hi

I would like to know your opinion on this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7x...ature=youtu.be

I know that its stupid to believe it really works. I would like to know how they are cheating. Also it is stupid that a child claims he can read and without the blindfold he needs to wear glasses but with the blindfold he is reading with no problem.

If you know how this magic trick is done I would welcome it.

Never mind find the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4QpaLx91g

Australian forum members are all liars!

http://www.thespaceacademy.org/2018/...0#.XNSZqvZFxOw

I feel so - lied to. Here, it turns out none of you exist, except as actors. AND, you get paid for it!

Move aside Furries. It's Pup Play!

Inside the kinky world of 'pup play' in San Francisco where men act like young dogs while donning masks and are 'collared' by their handlers

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Originally Posted by Daily Mail They romp, growl, nuzzle, whimper, bark and wag their tails. Sometimes on all fours, tongue out or playing with toys such as balls and Frisbees. Other moments, they are flat on their backs, cuddling. Welcome to the kinky world of 'pup play': A subculture of BDSM in which mostly men act like young dogs decked out in gear that includes a colorful array of masks, hoods, muzzles, collars, leashes, mitts and tails, and sometimes coupled with brightly-hued knee socks stamped with paw prints. Unlike, perhaps, other relationships of dominance and submission, there is no one way to engage in pup play. It can be sexual or nonsexual, one can sport the gear or not, and a pup may or may not have a handler, someone who can give commands, such as speak and rollover, or sexual orders. Some also choose a pup identity, complete with names like Threat, Rotten Dog, Dirty, Deuce and Binky. But almost all pups wear a collar, explained Dr Phillip Hammack, one of the founders of the Fog City Pack in San Francisco and who goes by the pup name Turbo. 'The collar is really important symbolically and that is something that most of us tend to wear almost all the time, at least when we're in non-work settings,' Hammack, 43, told DailyMail dot com. 'The collar signals our pup identity. It has our tag on it. 'Some pups are "locked," meaning that they have a kind of owner or - we tend not to use the word master - an owner or a handler or an alpha whose collared them, we'd say.' Hammack, who has lived in San Francisco for about 12 years, said that the mainstream visibility of the puppy play community has dramatically increased in the city since around 2014. 'I will say in San Francisco, I just feel like people barely bat an eye. I mean if they do see us in gear, I think San Francisco is just a place where people are accustomed to seeing diverse subcultures, to seeing interesting outfits and looks.'...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oung-dogs.html

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