@PatrickoftheG You may enjoy perusing this link. Lots of useful links embedded in this wonderful article too:
(Com Tam is a dish derived from poverty. #Rice was a precious commodity in Vietnam. Rice farmers would save the rice that broke during the milling process. Broken rice grains were regarded as inferior and therefore harder to sell so farmers would use up the broken rice for themselves and their families instead of letting it go to waste.) https://www.vickypham.com/blog/com-tam
Gillen: #FaniWillis didn't report any of the personal trips w/ #Wade on her financial disclosures that she is required to do as a DA. Willis filed false disclosures & Wade's affidavit is false too.
Next, Richard Rice (another defense atty) is up.
#Rice: Wade & Willis lived a lifestyle of the rich & famous w/the money from the Wade contract. That is the personal interest of Willis in this case.
#Rice: #Wade & #FaniWillis want you to ignore that the relationship started in 2019. >2k calls & >9800 texts in 2021. The Porsche Experience isn't open at night & restaurants aren't open. Yeartie said it [the relationship] started in 2019. Bradley in his text msgs which are substantive evidence says it began in 2019.
Rice: How much is enough? $17k is enough (the amt Wade allegedly gave as a benefit to Willis). Here in Fulton, $100 is the threshold for gifts to public ofcls.
#Rice: The State didn't bring in #FaniWillis' bank records & no proof of the cash withdrawals by Willis. But, yes the burden is ours to prove.
Rice: Willis said in the church speech that the trial team she put together has a conviction rate of 95%. That means that she told the public that these defendants are guilty.
Rice: If hosting a fundraiser for a political opponent is a conflict of interest, then Willis has done worse since then.
Made myself some fried #asparagus & #Teochew style soy garlic fried #porkChops (cut after cooking). Eating them with steamed jasmine #rice. Today's #lunch in a bowl.
Pests destroy rice fields in Mindanao, Philippines
"Zamboanga del Norte's agriculture chief says armyworms have so far damaged at least 445 hectares of the province’s more than 16,000 hectares of rice fields in at least seven municipalities and Dapitan City."
Ahhh, and nothing beats the love and respect I have for this country's #rice farmers than taking 4 #unlirice cup scoops and diligently finishing all of them down to the very last butil or grain I can see and eat! :cirno_thumbs_up:
"#Rice prices in the #Philippines continued to rise in January despite slowing overall #inflation, with El Nino and India's export ban promising to exacerbate the trend in the coming months.
Velasquez pointed out poor households have been hit hard by expensive rice, with low earners forced to spend outsized percentages of their income on the grain."