Sentenced: The U.S. Marine who posted videos on social media criticizing military leadership and the Biden administration’s withdrawal of military assets from Afghanistan was issued a letter of reprimand and a forfeiture of $5,000 worth of pay for one month, after pleading guilty to all charges during his court-martial hearing this week. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. pled guilty to all six misdemeanor-level charges Thursday, including willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer, dereliction in the performance of duties and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The judge, on Friday, said he would have given a two-month forfeiture of pay, had it not been for the nine days Scheller spent in pre-trial confinement. Scheller was freed from the brig last week where he was being held for violating an agreement to stop posting criticism on social media. The judge said he does not condone Scheller’s offenses, but noted his 17 year USMC career, saying that prior to his social media incident, he was an officer with an outstanding record – a record, he said, he weighed heavily. The letter of reprimand was much less than what was recommended. The prosecution recommended a forfeiture of $5,000 of pay for 6 months and a letter of reprimand. The maximum penalty could have been forfeiture of 2/3 monthly pay for 12 months and a letter of reprimand. Sounds like he got off pretty light. I have no idea what military jurisprudence is like, and how much latitude the court has in sentencing. The fact that the judge took his 17 years of service into consideration is interesting. That would never happen (would it?) in a civilian court.

@klaus said in Party for the kids!: I have the feeling that I’d have liked her as a teenager. I have no idea what she was like as a teenager. But in her 40s, I would have liked her....

Yes

Let's go Brandon!

@taiwan_girl said in Guess who's in da Howz: @brenda Do they "hibernate" or semi-hibernate during the winter even when they are in the house? I had some turtles, and even though they were indoor in the winter in a heated house, they seemed to know that it was winter and were very much less active and needed less food than in the summer. If the house is very cold, they will burrow their tummies down into the dirt. Most of the time, they don't bother, because the house is warm enough. Before bringing them in this fall, the temps were getting down to the low 50s (F) at night. It was like that for a few weeks. Now it seems nice and warm in the house to them, even though we don't have heat on yet. With the misting I give them to keep them moist and increase the humidity of their froggo house, they have begun to trill again, as if they think it's spring. This could get interesting! Trilling is one of the signs they are ready to mate. As hubby noted, we have them in a coed froggo house.

@mik said in Storming a Federal Building: Hmm. Crude oil is flammable? At some point...

We're paying for it.

And Nabokov smiled.

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I'm reminded of the snake pic someone here posted some years back. That one was hard. I think Jolly spotted it easily.

@jolly said in 3 classes in four years: So, what is this kid going to do after high school? College or trade school? Ivy league on a -studies path, I presume.

He looks as though he's drunk more than a few millimeters of mercury. It's made him psi-cotic.

Cool story - I like Mark Felton's channel a lot. Incidentally, my brother was hill walking in the UK a couple of weeks ago. He was on top of Helvellyn, a mountain in Cumbria, and two Spitfires flew right over the top of him - my dad would definitely have approved

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when i was in high school, bachman turner overdrive was a thing.