• Re: NFL Stadium Construction Site Shuts Down When Rope is Found

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 31 22:10:14 2025
    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:53:13 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    According to Google (loosely), rustlers were lynched in the late 1800s,
    whereas blacks were lynched both then and in the early 1900s.

    Hanging was the method of execution in many states well into the 20th
    century.

    Sure. But not with the same threat of local spontaneity.

    Meanwhile, your "noose-finder" suggestion has promise...

    You don't understand the difference between a lynching and a judicial execution?

    (The last two executions in Canada were in 1962 and were done at the
    same time by hanging. Until capital punishment was ended in 1976, a
    mandatory appeal was required. My grandfather was a jury foreman on a
    capital murder trial - it was the accused second trial after an appeal
    had resulted in a new trial. They had to first agree to guilty or not
    guilty and if guilty whether or not they recommended mercy. "Mercy"
    meant a more or less automatic life sentence - and he said that
    despite having not "no reasonable doubt" but zero doubt the accused
    was guilty, recommending to deny mercy was the hardest thing he ever
    did in his life. Following a death sentence all such cases were
    referred to the federal cabinet to be passed or commuted to life
    imprisonment and all such cases were commuted from 1962 - 1976.

    As you can probably tell, my grandfather and I discussed the case on
    several occasions in my senior high school years)

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 31 22:14:49 2025
    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:58:36 -0500, super70s
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    This new stadium being built next to one built in the 1990s (which will
    be torn down) is an extravagant boondoggle for state taxpayers anyway
    as far as I'm concerned. The Kansas City Chiefs have been in the same
    stadium since 1972 so obviously a swanky stadium has no effect on a
    football team's performance.

    Is the new stadium being built for a major sports event such as the
    soccer World Cup or the Olympics?

    I know that the family that owned the #1 radio station and the local
    NHL hockey team in our town built a new ice arena for them. The
    project ran heavily over budget and in the end they lost both the
    station and the team.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Fri Aug 1 12:22:02 2025
    On 8/1/2025 1:10 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:53:13 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    According to Google (loosely), rustlers were lynched in the late 1800s, >>>> whereas blacks were lynched both then and in the early 1900s.

    Hanging was the method of execution in many states well into the 20th
    century.

    Sure. But not with the same threat of local spontaneity.

    >> Meanwhile, your "noose-finder" suggestion has promise...

    You don't understand the difference between a lynching and a judicial execution?

    (The last two executions in Canada were in 1962 and were done at the
    same time by hanging. Until capital punishment was ended in 1976, a
    mandatory appeal was required. My grandfather was a jury foreman on a
    capital murder trial - it was the accused second trial after an appeal
    had resulted in a new trial. They had to first agree to guilty or not
    guilty and if guilty whether or not they recommended mercy. "Mercy"
    meant a more or less automatic life sentence - and he said that
    despite having not "no reasonable doubt" but zero doubt the accused
    was guilty, recommending to deny mercy was the hardest thing he ever
    did in his life. Following a death sentence all such cases were
    referred to the federal cabinet to be passed or commuted to life
    imprisonment and all such cases were commuted from 1962 - 1976.

    As you can probably tell, my grandfather and I discussed the case on
    several occasions in my senior high school years)

    Afaics, a question of mercy is addressed only after guilt is decided.

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Fri Aug 1 11:52:22 2025
    On 2025-08-01 05:14:49 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:58:36 -0500, super70s
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    This new stadium being built next to one built in the 1990s (which will
    be torn down) is an extravagant boondoggle for state taxpayers anyway
    as far as I'm concerned. The Kansas City Chiefs have been in the same
    stadium since 1972 so obviously a swanky stadium has no effect on a
    football team's performance.

    Is the new stadium being built for a major sports event such as the
    soccer World Cup or the Olympics?

    Primarily for the NFL team, the city already recently built a nice
    soccer stadium although it isn't big enough for something like the
    World Cup.

    I know that the family that owned the #1 radio station and the local
    NHL hockey team in our town built a new ice arena for them. The
    project ran heavily over budget and in the end they lost both the
    station and the team.

    Developers always hype these glitzy projects up with promises of new
    jobs beyond the actual construction of the stadium which never seem to
    happen.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 1 21:00:40 2025
    On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 11:52:22 -0500, super70s
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I know that the family that owned the #1 radio station and the local
    NHL hockey team in our town built a new ice arena for them. The
    project ran heavily over budget and in the end they lost both the
    station and the team.

    Developers always hype these glitzy projects up with promises of new
    jobs beyond the actual construction of the stadium which never seem to >happen.

    I referred to the 2026 Soccer World Cup previously and guess who is
    making all kinds of long term benefits in exchange for $600 million
    plus totally screwing up our downtown for 4-6 weeks - all for 4 games.

    (Mind you that was pretty much what Vancouver experienced during the
    2010 Winter Olympics...)

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 1 20:58:40 2025
    On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 11:52:22 -0500, super70s
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Is the new stadium being built for a major sports event such as the
    soccer World Cup or the Olympics?

    Primarily for the NFL team, the city already recently built a nice
    soccer stadium although it isn't big enough for something like the
    World Cup.

    Interesting - given our local stadium whose primary tenant is the
    local Canadian Football League team (typical game attendance
    30000-35000) is being used for the 2026 World Cup (but not the final).

    Obviously there will be a lot more people watching on TV...

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