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TwiceHorn

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  1. Prosecution by Trump's DOJ? Are you fucking kidding? Great move by Kanna to put them on the spot.
  2. As I have pointed out, responsible governments don't just release dirt on their enemies. If they can indict and convict them, they try.
  3. Because allies don't get prosecuted by this administration, especially when they're IN the administration. If Trumpco thought for a second they could pull together some half-ass indictment against Bill Clinton or another Dem on this without the evidence blowing up in his/their face, they'd have done so on day one.
  4. Definitely a weird grandstand. Another total debasement to the orange god.
  5. Assuming the files are criminal in nature, ie evidence seized using search warrants, pursuant to grand jury subpoena and other criminal processes, they would be in the sole control of the DOJ. HoR ain't got nothin to do with it unless they somehow obtained copies, which a norm-following DOJ would resist for the same reason it doesn't make such files publicly available. So, unnecessary grandstanding by House Rules Committee.
  6. Well, tariffs haven't really been in effect, either. It's gon get worse.
  7. Dumb old fuck doesn't know what arrested or indicted means, anyway. Worth pointing out that he was initially arrested, federally deferred, and convicted in Florida between 2005-2008, during the Shrub administration.
  8. I'm a criminal law hacker, so I always have to look at the statute. C seems to have provisions for all three. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/924 Although I am unopposed to the idea of an enhancement for firearms, I think the results of 924 are pretty draconian. Oh, and I thought you were a lawdog.
  9. I've enjoyed him (Kebbell, not your lil bro) often since Rock N Rolla.
  10. Leave it to the Brits to say it concisely and cuttingly: The combination of small government ideology and climate crisis denial has distorted the politics of the state to the extent that basic decisions that might bolster climate resilience are shunted aside. The impact is seen at all levels, from the state capital in Austin down to local neighborhoods.
  11. On the lawsuit front. No lawsuit is going to bring any children back, obviously. A lawsuit is a vehicle for accountability, provided it doesn't settle. And money is thin gruel for the bereaved. I would not blame a parent who chose not to sue at all. It's an extremely valid decision not to have to relive the trauma through a bunch of civil procedure and discovery lasting 4-5 years.
  12. It is several miles downstream of Mystic, so if they both received and acted on the 114AM NWS alert, CLJ had some more time. What's interesting is HoH is across 39 and more than 100 yards from the bank of the Guad.
  13. Well, hmm. UT was most assuredly not selective in the 80s and 90s. "Room for above average and good students" pretty much excludes elitism. I suppose that depends on the definition of elite, but most of them include highly selective and the current eliteness is a product of the selectiveness imposed by "top __%." But I think its outcomes, particularly in certain fields, were elite.
  14. And that the California examples came not from random doctors, but politicians and officials, including POTUS. And then lets not forget the less directly offensive, but equally inappropriate self-congratulatory press conferences from Kerr, Texas, and federal officials.
  15. This, I think, is proof positive that Trump isn't playing some kind of 4d chess or have some vision, however unlikely, of trade surpluses, weakened dollar, and low interest rates. He is simply lashing out at countries he thinks have been "unfair" to us in some way. Or to him or his interests.
  16. It will be interesting to see if they can get to the land. And also interesting to see what happens to the value of land with river access. I suspect some rich folks, like the ones on oceanfronts everywhere, are going to build things squarely in the danger zone, regardless.
  17. Fucking gross. Also, perfection for the timeline. Who's Hunt? Wesley Hunt.
  18. Hmmm. Well I was contemplating this. It seems that the nature of things is that most of us probably made better grades than our parents in more rigorous curricula in hs and college than our parents. Yet, our ability to live a better life than our parents hasn't necessarily risen concomitantly. Like, I make more money than my parents did, in inflation-adjusted dollars , but my mom was stay-at-home and they purposely moved to an "elite" school district. Things I'm not sure I could or would do today and that are objectively harder than they were in 1963. A lot of that is just the result of equity, sans affirmative action. "Regular" white people got opportunities previously reserved for "elite" white people. And then that opportunity started spreading further. White women started doing things previously reserved for white men. And then other "minorities," with a boost from the Civil Rights Act, and yes, affirmative action. That's progress, but is it "progressive" or just sort of the natural order of things absent a cultural and economic revanchism like we're currently experiencing.
  19. Godalmighty.
  20. I believe lidig8r has something of an axe to grind with this physician over eating disorder issues.
  21. Well, that vindicates NWS, as apparently message received. Although perhaps not timely enough, but I don't think you can ask for much more given the vicissitudes of weather. Then it appears that Mystic/Eastland lollygagged a bit, perhaps belying the "disaster or evacuation" plan. But it makes it pretty clear that Kerr County officials were almost completely asleep at the switch as far as reinforcing the warnings and providing assistance.
  22. Things have gotten pretty objectively worse since the 90s. For white guys, anyway. And more competitive for everyone.
  23. He was #metoo 'ed once with a not terribly credible allegation. He's had some other problematic behavior relating to either a substance abuse problem or brain injury or both. He seems to be blacklisted.
  24. Yeah, the value of a university education doesn't necessarily lie in the education itself and that has always been true. But the ability of a university education to be a "cheat code" to a better life is probably lower than its ever been. I think there are a few areas where it's difficult to impossible to auto-didact (engineering for example) where the degree retains most of its value. Also, affirmative action or not, more non-white non-males are competing for education and jobs. And even in good ol boy fields like commercial real estate, good ol boys are being pushed out in favor of the objectively more competitive.
  25. There apparently was an Austin attorney named Neal Bonner, now deceased. He was probably the founding director or registered agent of the Mystic corporations and thus became the nominal correspondent on property tax stuff. Not much to be read into it.
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