NICE

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From a story in the Daily Wire:

“The way you keep ICE out of LA is by enforcing the law, not defying it,” he continued. “I look at what Mayor [Daniel] Lurie did in San Francisco — clearly, no friend of the Trump administration — but he called the president and made a deal. He vowed to have SFPD crack down on crime, and the president agreed to keep ICE out of the city. … You don’t see [any] riots, no crazy videos of ICE agents having chaotic arrests. That’s how it’s done.”

“Why is it that only certain cities are having all this chaos with ICE?” he said. “They are in a lot of cities, but there are only problems in places like LA and Minneapolis. It’s not a Democrat/Republican thing. Memphis doesn’t have chaos. Liberal San Francisco doesn’t have the chaos, unlike LA.”

The “common denominator” in these chaotic cities, Pratt argued, is “activist mayors using their city, their residents, their businesses as fodder for their political grandstanding, and people suffer as a result.”

I seem to recall President Trump was threatening to tack the word National onto Immigrations and Custom Enforcement which would give us the title acronym.

All three of my kids live in Portland (a veritable hotbed of anti-ICE demonstrations) and two of them are starting to complain about the local taxes. Of course, that might just be a function of their age.

The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 4 - Netflix Series

The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

They really fell down on this one. It's like 90% of the show is about women commiserating about 'poor, poor' Mickey Haller. Christ on a crutch. It doesn't move along like the older seasons did, the pace is glacial. I suspect the show has been infected by the Harlan Coben disease.

That said, there is a good scene near the end of episode eight where Cisco is leaving a high rise hotel after having served a subpoena to a gangster. Previously Cisco had been beat up by a couple of thugs who caught him snooping around the gangster's previous hotel, so when he sees a couple of thugs in the hotel lobby while he is on his way out, he gives them a wide berth. But as he is walking across the parking lot to his car, he realizes that the reason the gangster freaked out when Cisco showed up at this door is not because of the subpoena (he doesn't give a fig for the subpoena), but rather because he is afraid of somebody else, somebody else who has sent those two thugs he saw in the lobby, who were headed to the elevators. About the time we see the light in Cisco's eyes when he realizes this, we also see the gangster falling from his eighth floor window in the hotel. He lands right on the top of a car with a satisfying smash. He was a villain, after all. 

In episode 10 we have a scene where the whole debacle is wrapped up in the Judge's chambers. Besides the prosecutor and Mickey, we've got the county Sheriff, a couple of FBI agents and somebody higher up in some local government office. The FBI won't let out any information that would exonerate Mickey because it would compromise their investigation of a nationwide biofuel fraud operation. You kind of get the idea of how difficult it is for the FBI to make these kind of cases.

The show also lays out how the biofuel fraud worked, and it was easy as pie. All you have to do it lie and the government starts pouring money into your pocket. No wonder the Somali's in Minnesota managed to make off with so much loot. Nobody is watching the effing store.

Cast

Actor	Surname	Title	Character	Surname	Role
Manuel	Garcia-Rulfo		Mickey	Haller	a criminal-defense lawyer and recovering addict.
Neve	Campbell		Maggie	McPherson	Mickey's first ex-wife and a criminal prosecutor.
Becki	Newton		Lorna	Crane	Mickey's second ex-wife and his legal aide
Jazz	Raycole		Izzy	Letts	a former addict and the firm's office manager
Angus	Sampson		Dennis 'Cisco'	Wojciechowski	Mickey's go-to investigator and Lorna's husband.
Cobie	Smulders		Allison J.	Haller	Mickey's half-sister
Lana	Parrilla		Lisa	Trammell	a chef accused of murdering a real estate developer
Michael	Goorjian		Alex	Gazarian	a contractor affiliated with the Armenian mob
Hemky	Madera		Felix	Vasquez	an FBI agent
Angélica	María		Elena	Haller	Mickey's mother, an actress
Philip	Anthony-Rodriguez		Adam	Suarez	Big cheese in the district attorney's office
Angie	Campbell		Jessica	Westfeldt	an intern at Mickey's practice
Lombardo	Boyar		Frank	Valenzuela	a bail bondsman acquainted with Mickey
Constance	Zimmer	DDA	Dana	Berg	a deputy district attorney prosecuting Mickey
Scott	Lawrence	Judge	Lionel	Stone	the judge presiding over Mickey Haller's case
Kyle	Richards		Celeste	Baker	a new client of Lorna
Jason Butler	Harner	Detective	Kent	Drucker	investigating the murder of Sam Scales
Jason	O’Mara		Jack	Gilroy	Maggie's new boyfriend
Marcus	Henderson		Yannick	Bamba	Crip who guards Mickey in jail and becomes his new driver
Gigi	Zumbado		Grace		a forensic video analyst who dates Izzy
Sasha	Alexander	FBI Agent	Dawn	Ruth	Vasquez' partner
Emmanuelle	Chriqui		Jeanine	Ferrigno	Alex Gazarian's girlfriend
Javon	Johnson		Carter	Gates	a new client of Lorna accused of murder
Christopher	Thornton		Sam	Scales	a con man who owes Mickey money because of his repeated arrests
Elliott	Gould		David "Legal"	Siegel	Mickey's mentor and his father's former legal partner

Derived from Wikipedia

Previous posts about this series:

• Season 3
• Season 2
• Season 1

The Los Angeles Nazi Bunker

The Los Angeles Nazi Bunker
Mark Felton Productions

A little history recollection. I sort of remember hearing about some of this a long time ago, but all I heard was just a gloss of some names.

Bosch: Legacy - Amazon Freevee Series

Bosch: Legacy | All New Series | Season 1 Trailer
Amazon Freevee

Even though we have Amazon Prime, this show still subjects us to advertisements. There aren't too many and they aren't too long, so it's not too bad. Still annoying, though.

I generally like Bosch, but I'm a little tired of his daughter. This show puts more emphasis on the suffering of the victims and less on catching bad guys than the original, but it's tolerable, and my wife really likes Bosch, so I sip my beer and watch the drama unfold. I do like Mo, Bosch's hacker. His hair and beard are the scruffiest, so he is not particularly attractive, but he cool, calm, collected, and pulls off some good stunts. We also get an inside look at how some criminals operate, and it's not all illegal drugs and murder. More everyday kind of crimes, crimes that don't make the news, but have a big impact on the victims.

This time we have Honey Chandler, former defense attorney, running for district attorney against the corrupt, liberal guy who has brought so much misery to Los Angeles. Her biggest problem is cleaning up the corruption in the police department. She made her name winning big awards from the police department for civil rights violations, so she is not a fan favorite in a large part of the cop shop. On the other hand, her opponent is hated for early release of criminals and his failure to prosecute them, so she has a fair shot at winning the election.

This is another one of those series that is in the midst of release, so only a few of the episodes are available.

The Lincoln Lawyer | Season 2 Part 1 Official Trailer | Netflix

Clever courtroom drama, high powered lawyer with a bevy of beauties chasing after him. Now that I think about it, we've got the same three lead characters that we had in Perry Mason: the hot shot attorney, his hyper competent secretary (Lorna played be Becki Newton) and his own private snoop (Cisco played by Angus Simpson). Elliot Gould also appears as David 'Legal' Siegel, AKA the voice of experience. Very entertaining.

Update February 2026 replaced missing video.