{"id":171921,"date":"2025-07-24T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171921"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:15:40","slug":"thursday-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171921","title":{"rendered":"Thursday notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No\u00a0 overwhelming news to spout off on at this point – Epstein is still dead, Trump still in office, Democrats are outraged… so we’ll hit a few little items.<\/p>\n

Remember a couple of weeks back when we talked about the bow of the USS New Orleans being found in Iron Bottom Sound off Guadalcanal?\u00a0 Scientists are reporting finding parts of the USS DeHaven, which sank in February 1943 after repeated bombings and taking 167 of her crew with her.<\/p>\n

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The USS DeHaven, which was sunk during an attack off the Solomon Islands in World War II, still has torpedoes and a bell that are largely intact, according to the Ocean Exploration Trust, a nonprofit that recently surveyed and filmed the wreckage with remotely operated vehicles.<\/p>\n

The DeHaven went down in February 1943, after operating out of Guadalcanal throughout the U.S. military campaign there, according to the Destroyer History Foundation. The ship was bombed multiple times and eventually sank, with 167 crew members on board, near Iron Bottom Sound, a section of the ocean near the Solomon Islands known for its WWII-era shipwrecks.CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Ocean Exploration Trust is the same group which discovered the bow of the New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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Somehow I was sure that alcohol played a role in this one. Yep, it did.<\/p>\n

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A 60-foot private vessel collided with the USS Midway in San Diego on Friday afternoon, leading to the arrest of its captain for allegedly boating under the influence and fleeing the scene, according to a Harbor Police spokesperson.<\/p>\n

The collision occurred just before 2 p.m. on July 18, officials confirmed to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Authorities say the vessel struck the hull of the USS Midway, leaving a visible dent on the side of the historic decommissioned aircraft carrier, which now serves as a naval museum and popular tourist attraction.\u00a0\u00a0Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How do you lose sight of a 1000 foot\u00a0 aircraft carrier?<\/em> I hear that elephants blend surprisingly well into bush, and you can almost run into one if you aren’t careful, but their outline is broken by brush. Not sure there is enough brush around San Diego to break up the outline of that much hull. Oh, and the idiot did an estimated $100,000 in damage – looked like a long dent and some paint scrapes on the hull, so it ain’t gonna just buff out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And in closing, if you live in Boston and have strayed recently from the straight and narrow, you just might have gotten lucky. Not with a person of the opposite sex, but with your case.<\/p>\n

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More than 120 cases, including some for assault on family members and police, were dismissed Tuesday in Boston, the latest fallout from a monthslong dispute over pay that has led public defenders to stop taking new clients.<\/p>\n

At a mostly empty courtroom, Boston Municipal Court Chief Justice Tracy-Lee Lyons invoked the Lavallee protocol in dismissing case after case. It requires cases be dropped if a defendant hasn’t had an attorney for 45 days and released from custody if they haven’t had one for seven days. Tuesday was the first time it was invoked to drop cases, while suspects in custody have been released in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Most were for minor crimes like shoplifting, drug possession and motor vehicle violations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not all, though – some were cases of domestic violence, assault on police officers – more serious crimes.<\/p>\n

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The judge, repeatedly invoking the Lavallee protocol, dismissed almost all of the cases after being convinced public defenders had made a good-faith effort to find the defendants an attorney. No defendants were in court to hear their cases being dismissed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case will be dismissed without prejudice,\u201d Lyons said repeatedly, noting that all fines and fees would be waived.\u00a0\u00a0AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prosecutors weren’t happy, but legally there is not much they, or the judge, can do. Note that bright spot at the end, though – “without prejudice” means charges can be re-filed, so it’s not like she is allowing all the defendants to walk scot-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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