Res ipsa loquitur

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/10/14/trump-nobody-attacked-clinton-in-debate-sanders-a-maniac/

USA TODAY


Trump handles hecklers


By William Cummings 19 hours ago [ Retrieved 2:15 PM Thursday 15 October 2015 Pacific Time USA ]


“I’ll tell you how dishonest the press is,” he said. “We have thousands of people in the room … and we have about 10 people over there. They’ll get the headline. You won’t. That’s pretty disgusting but that’s the way it goes.”










http://apnews.excite.com/article/20151015/eu--germany-homeland_duped-8839ff37fe.html

excite tv


'Homeland' attack: Artists slip criticism of show onto set

Oct 15, 3:25 PM (ET) [ Thursday 15 October 2015 Pacific Time USA ]

By DAVID RISING

BERLIN (AP) — "Homeland" star Claire Danes walks through a narrow alley in Lebanon in the latest episode of Showtime's hit show, and passes a wall sprayed with graffiti in Arabic.

Producers had asked for something generic — they suggested "Muhammad is the greatest" — to give the feel of a Hezbollah-run refugee camp. But the group of three artists hired for the job decided to make a statement.

The message that was seen by more than a million viewers when the episode aired in the U.S. on Sunday was: "Homeland is racist."

The scene was actually filmed this summer in Berlin, but the group, calling itself "The Arabian Street Artists" — the name itself a tongue-in-cheek jab at the initial solicitation from "Homeland" producers for the set work — kept their actions quiet until the episode was shown.

On Wednesday, the three — Berlin graffiti artist Stone, Heba Amin and Caram Kapp — published the details on Cairo-based Amin's website, and the images quickly went viral.

"I think this really had an impact, and we obviously struck a chord," Stone, who goes by one name, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

"From the reactions we have seen, a lot of people had not so happy feelings about this show so there is a lot of happiness coming our way right now."

The caper was pulled off so well that even "Homeland" producer Alex Gansa gave the artists his grudging respect.

"We wish we'd caught these images before they made it to air," he said in a statement provided by Showtime. "However, as Homeland always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can't help but admire this act of artistic sabotage."

The Emmy award-winning show now in its fifth season is extremely popular, but has also been widely criticized for its depiction of Muslims, and also by the governments of Lebanon and Pakistan for its portrayals of their countries.

So when the show approached Stone this summer with the project looking for "Arabian street artists" who could add authentic-looking graffiti to the film set depicting a Syrian refugee camp, his first inclination was to say no.

"When we got the call we were really, really unsure if we would do anything for them and most of the artists I asked were totally saying no from the beginning, they had no interest in working for them," he said.

"And that was the conclusion that we came to ourselves — until we got the idea we could insert our message into the show."

Stone said the artists initially considered using Arabic proverbs and slightly rewriting them with coded messages.

"The question was, how can we get a message across that is not so blatant that they will immediately recognize it," he said. "But then when the actual shooting started, it was pretty clear no one would even look at it."

So they started adding their blunt messages, including: "Homeland is a joke and it didn't make us laugh;" "Homeland is not a (TV) series"; "There is no Homeland"; "Black lives matter"; and "Homeland is watermelon" — using an Arabic expression meaning something is superficial or a joke.

So far, Stone said, the artists have been overwhelmed by the positive reaction they've received — mostly from the U.S. but also from the Middle East.

"We thought it had the potential to go viral, but when it really did yesterday that was a bit of a surprise," he said.

Mohamed Andeel, an Egyptian cartoonist who became popular among activists following the 2011 uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak, said the fact that no one from the series understood the words reflects the extent to which they respect Arab culture.

"I think it's a very smart move," said the 29-year-old satirist. "Artistically, it's smart and it uses graffiti very appropriately, corresponding to the idea behind graffiti in the first place."










http://ncis-los-angeles.hypnoweb.net/guide-episodes/saison-2/episode-203/script-vo.152.701/

hypnoweb.net


NCIS: Los angeles 2x03 - Borderline

aired September 28th 2010


SAM: We don't have anything on him. We yank him in off the street, we blow any chance of ever going back under in this organization. Plus, Memo hates cops of any kind. He'll be lawyered up as soon as we bring him in, and we may never find those missing marines, Hetty.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:54 AM Friday, March 23, 2012


So what? I mean, who cares? WHY ARE THEY TRYING SO HARD?


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 March 2012 excerpt ends]










http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/double-trouble-3251112/

tv.com


NCIS Season 13 Episode 4

Double Trouble

Aired Tuesday 8:00 PM Oct 13, 2015 on CBS

Vance partners with Gibbs and returns to field duty when a murder is connected to a former NCIS agent he locked up years ago for stealing evidence.

AIRED: 10/13/15




http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=ncis&episode=s13e04

Springfield! Springfield!


NCIS

Double Trouble


A settlement could have netted more than this










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:23 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 07 January 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/01/you-should-know-better.html


I wonder if he pays someone to watch this stuff. Because you know *he* isn't watching it. Can you imagine some kind of out-of-touch-old-guy sitting around on the couch at 8 PM at night watching CBS broadcast television?










http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/check-3060387/

tv.com


NCIS Season 12 Episode 11

Check

Aired Tuesday 8:00 PM Jan 06, 2015 on CBS

The NCIS team investigate a series of crime scenes that appear to be copycats of previous cases.

AIRED: 1/6/15


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 January 2015 excerpt ends]










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=ncis&episode=s13e04

Springfield! Springfield!


NCIS

Double Trouble


I told you we were following that taxi too close.

Damn.

Well, it's not every day the Secretary of the Navy insists on stopping by. I think you just added another zero to our settlement.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=ncis&episode=s13e04

Springfield! Springfield!


NCIS

Double Trouble


MAN 2: Everything that mattered.

(conversation continues indistinctly)

(quietly): I knew the lawyer was connected.










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrne_v_Boadle


Byrne v Boadle

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Byrne v Boadle (2 Hurl. & Colt. 722, 159 Eng. Rep. 299, 1863) is an English tort law case


Facts

A barrel of flour fell from a second-story loft and hit the plaintiff on his head. Under these conditions, the plaintiff could not provide direct evidence as to whether the person responsible for the barrel had breached his duty of care.

Judgment

Initially, in the lower court the case was non-suited through a direct verdict because the plaintiff could provide no evidence. Subsequently the appellate court concluded that, under these conditions, the fact of the accident itself provided sufficient circumstantial evidence to establish the breach of a duty of care. Baron Pollock said the following.

“I think it would be wrong to lay down as a rule that in no case can a presumption of negligence arise from the fact of an accident. Suppose in this case the barrel had rolled out of the warehouse and fallen on the plaintiff how could he possibly ascertain from what cause it occurred? It is the duty of persons who keep barrels in a warehouse to take care that they do not roll out, and I think that such a case would, beyond all doubt, afford prima facie evidence of negligence. A barrel could not roll out of a warehouse without some negligence, and to say that a plaintiff who is injured by it must call witnesses from the warehouse to prove negligence seems to me preposterous.

The present case upon the evidence comes to this, a man is passing in front of the premises of a dealer in flour, and there falls down upon him a barrel of flour. I think it apparent that the barrel was in the custody of the defendant who occupied the premises, and who is responsible for the acts of his servants who had the control of it; and in my opinion the fact of its falling is prima facie evidence of negligence, and the plaintiff who was injured by it is not bound to show that it could not fall without negligence, but if there are any facts inconsistent with negligence it is for the defendant to prove them.










http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mens-rea

Dictionary.com


mens rea

(law) a criminal intention or knowledge that an act is wrong.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:40 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 15 October 2015