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What a travesty of justice.  

The Prosecutor was obviously politically biased and tried to sweep this under the rug.  

These hate hoaxes are more frequent than hate crimes and I believe that we need harsher penalties for hate hoaxes than ordinary false reports.  Hate hoaxes are designed to divide people and build hatred between races/genders/orientations.  The people who engage in them should be penalized harshly to prevent that.  

Some guy lies through his teeth and claims he was a victim despite all the evidence being ridiculous? Is he running for president?

In any event, he won on the issue I said he would win on, which was that they basically offered him diversion, and then tried to take it back after he completed it.

The problem is that the diversion was offered by a politically motivated prosecutor in an effort to sweep this hate hoax off the front page.  Also, one of the Presidential Candidates bought Smollet's ridiculous story hook-line-and-sinker.  No one that naïve should be anywhere near the levers of power.  Fortunately, she lost.  

It was proven that Kim Foxx was shady on the dismissal (and many other things), which is why a respected former Judge brought it to light. Foxx had no business dropping that case after claiming to recuse herself.

The case was reopened as a result, and justice was served.

Justice was served until the Illinois Supreme Court reversed it.  

Foxx should be disbarred just like that clown down in Durham was over the Duke Lacrosse Hate Hoax.  

These Hate Hoaxes are getting troubling.  

It's always been a strange state to me. It's a state with a bunch of medium sized cities and none that are a true "draw".

I.e. I don't see putting Cleveland, or Cincinnati, or Columbus on my "must visit for a vacation" list. Just as I don't really have "Indianapolis" or "Omaha" on my "must visit for a vacation" list. But with Ohio, they make it up in volume lol.

To me, it's the opposite of what you usually hear about a place: "It's a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there."

The reason I say it's the opposite is that these medium sized cities seem to have most of the advantages of large cities, without most of the "big city problems" that really big cities have. They're never going to be the "draw" that NY, Chicago, SF, Seattle, Atlanta, etc are. But they also don't have a lot of the downsides that NY, Chicago, SF, Seattle, Atlanta, etc do. It just seems like a nice, albeit a little boring, place to raise a family. And when raising kids, boring and safe isn't exactly a negative lol.

So Ohio to me is the state where I'd probably say: "I wouldn't want to visit, but I might like to live there."

Ohio is unusual in having so many not huge but also not tiny urban areas.  Compare to states like Illinois and Michigan where the largest cities are Chicago and Detroit and #2 is a suburb of #1.  

25ish years ago I had a class in Urban Geography and Ohio had more mid-sized+ cities than all but a few states.  

Ie, Ohio's largest City (there is debate as to whether it is Cleveland, Columbus, or Cincinnati but that is a separate topic) isn't all that big.  None of the three are anywhere near as big as Detroit let alone Chicago but compare Ohio's 3rd largest City to Illinois' or Michigan's and Ohio's is something like 10x as big.  

No. That's not how the English language works.

Well, when you are ready to, let me know.  

Until then you have demonstrated to everyone that you simply aren't knowledgeable enough on this topic to have a discussion about it.  

Maybe time to bring back the OT Tourney, best state

The funny thing about Ohio is that while it doesn't have that one vacation destination, it has more cities I would want to visit, and definitely the most cities I would want to live in of any state in the country.  That's kind of the problem, is that everything is so spread among so many places, that there is no one go to place.

My oldest had a travel baseball tournament in Akron last year, and we went to a minor league game in Akron one night, and the NFL Hall of Fame the other.  In two different cities, neither of which would likely rank in the top 5 cities in the state.

Hell, effing SANDUSKY has the best amusement park in the world

hell I like Pa./Pittsburgh/Michigan just not times like tonite