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  1. 8 hours ago, 4th and 5 said:

    Anyone want to guess what the wait for a bed for competency restoration at the state hospital is right now?

    I’ve got a client who’s been waiting for 6 months in our jail. I suspect it’ll be another several months before he’s transferred.

    Republicans don’t care about working the problem. Just like immigration and abortion, they just want the issue to run on because it’s the easiest red meat for them to chop up. 

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  2. 7 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Trying adolescents as adults so frequently is a toxic byproduct but not my fundamental 

    issue. My real issue is that the United Stars locks up minors at a rate higher than any country where we have good data on the question, and it’s not even close—- we are lapping the field.

    I might be Ok with that if the high incarceration rate gave us lower juvenile and adult crime rates and safer streets, but we suck at that metric, too.  And Texas has one of the worst records for maintaining humane conditions for the kids we put in kiddie jail. 
     

    We just basically suck at our approach to it all. Our system is biased towards ensuring that the most egregious offenders (your hypothetical double rapist and murderer) get the justice we think they deserve as opposed to being biased toward the bulk of offenders getting the support, training, and intervention that could help them become contributing members of society. 

    In my experience, the juveniles who actually are incarcerated, beyond local detention, have seriously injured people. The system is designed to skew towards rehabilitation, and all but one of my juvenile clients have spent only a brief period detained, and were released to their parents/guardians pretty quickly.

    The exception was horrific. I fought the transfer, and was able to delay it for almost a year. When his case was officially transferred he was 17, and he turned 18 before he pled (I didn't keep the case because he could afford me for the transfer, but became eligible for a court-appointed attorney once his case was transferred).

    I'm a big proponent of better facilities and more rehabilitation services for people that need to be incarcerated. But from what I've seen, it takes quite a lot for juveniles, even in the most conservative counties of this state, to reach the point where that need arises.

  3. 4 hours ago, Foosters said:

    I spent 3 years inside the juvenile justice system including representing 3 kids the state was trying to lock up for the rest of their lives for crimes committed at 15 and 16. California has since ended the practice of "transferring up" kids younger than 15.

    Not sure how Texas would do it, but I'm unclear why they would have to be released on their 19th birthday. Here, juvenile jurisdiction for those in DJJ (Juvy prison) ends at age 25. Honestly, the programming and rehabilitation that the kids get for the 7-9 years they are in is so far beyond what adult prisoners receive its not even comparable. They get mentors, they get actual job training and linkage to union jobs upon release, and they receive an actual education with teachers in classroom settings. Not to go to deep into it, but the life stories of the three I represented would bring even the most hardened to tears. These were persons who never had a chance and they had all been severely abused throughout their lifetimes. 

     

    You can’t transfer an under 15 y.o. in Texas except for capital murder. 

    I’m not sure why the cutoff in the Texas juve system is 19, but it is.

    Seems like a much easier fix can be made than a wholesale re-imagining of the system. 

  4. 1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Yeah, unless when you pass the law that removes the option for trial as an adult, you also pass language that adds additional flexibility and also mandates additional resources to rehabilitation when it comes to juvenile sentencing. 

    So you're in favor of a complete redesign of the juvenile justice system simply to match the criminal majority age with your preferred voting eligibility age? The flexibility and resources are there (to the extent they're going to be) - just transfer the kid to criminal court. 15 year olds sometimes need to go to prison or go on probation for 10 years.

  5. 5 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I would be absolutely fine with not trying anyone under 18 as an adult. 

    So a 16 year old rapes and murders a couple girls and is released from TJJD on his 19th birthday with no criminal conviction on his record?

    Not sure you have the votes for that particular reform.

  6. 1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    14 year olds can drive in hardship cases in some states. Driving a car isn’t a good proxy for the type of judgment required for voting.  It’s more fine motor skills, coordination, capability of understanding signs and rules, etc. Also, 16-17 year olds are by far the most dangerous drivers on the road per mile driven and it’s not even close, so that’s not a ringing endorsement. 

    I am loath to give credence to most R arguments, but the ability to comprehend long term consequences and appropriate ways to relate to society (ie, capability to be charged with a crime as an adult) is a better proxy for your readiness to participate in government. I don’t see how you say someone can vote for the legislators that write laws, but not be subject to the laws they’re voting for. 

     

    You need to clarify this a bit more. In Texas juveniles can be transferred to criminal court (to be tried as an adult) at age 14 for capital murders and certain other first degree offenses, and at age 15 for other felonies. 17 is our age of criminal majority.

    Each state has differing ages for both juveniles that can be transferred and outright majority, some allowing transfer as low as 10 years old.

     

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  7. 56 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    I agree, somewhat. But it has become problematic that red states get to eat from the federal trough in both GOP and Dem administrations. While blue states are told to get fucked when there is a GOP administration. The just solution would be for future GOP admins to treat all states equally, but since that isn't going to happen, some "turnabout is fair play" needs to occur. You are going to keep electing the same types of people and we need to stop turning the other cheek. Texas will be taking in a massive amount of federal money in 2021 while electing people that don't offer aid to cities and states in distress in blue states.  Texas wanted to be separate. Be separate. Pay for your own shit including the vaccine. 

    The problems with that are 1) Dems should ALWAYS be the party that believes in governing justly, and tries to follow that belief and 2) liberals in red state big cities dump tons of money into Dem campaigns. The latter point is the important one, really. Obama didn't make campaign stops in Houston because of principle, he came here for the money. Everyone expects something for their contributions. Red state liberals expect favorable policies will include themselves, while Trumplicans only expect liberal tears, which is why a GOP presidents can punish blue states. Getting the shaft is still getting what they want.

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  8. 11 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

    Eh, there is some of that for sure but she is absolutely justifying the system. She straight up said the career is a grind that's not for everyone while holding herself up as the paradigm of grinding it out for success. 

    She probably should have just posted the opportunity and ignored the twitter eggs that came after her but she didn't do that. 

    I don't see how saying it's tough to break in to the business, and that maybe folks who want to should look to examples of those who've done it is justification. It's simply not the conversation that some in the replies wanted to have.

    Lance, on the other hand, is justifying:

     

  9. 4 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

    Didn't see a great place to put this and didn't want to start a new thread, but NFL writer (and TexasEx) Jane Slater is in a twitter dustup today I though was interesting.  Started when she posted what (to her) was a pretty innocuous signal boost for an unpaid intern position: 

    People call out the exploitative nature of this type of gig and how it unfairly favors young people from wealthy families and she doubles down:

     

    Of course it's pointed out she has a wealthy grandfather who supported her financially while she got her career off the ground and she completely misses the point and makes herself the victim: 

     

    And scene! 

    Anyway, nothing much to glean here probably. I'm sure Jane did work hard for her career but it was frustrating for me to see her blind to her clear privilege while she lectures about how hard she was grinding. The fact that grandpa was supplementing her rent just shows the great work ethic that he was able to instill. 

     

     

    That's just an example of people talking past each other. Jane tweet an opportunity, supplements the tweet with her experience and pointing out this is 'how it's done.' Commenters point out that 'how it's done' shuts out people without some level of 3rd party financial support. Jane doesn't get that point, but commenters don't get that she's not justifying the system.

  10. 2 hours ago, Bookman said:

    What criminal laws were violated?

    If we had a functional mob, we wouldn't need laws to get justice. Texans aren't what they talk themselves up to be. Everything's bigger but our balls, apparently. We repeatedly take it dry and ask for more. By the time the next national abortion/gay rights/trans rights/immigration/gun rights/police brutality story takes over the news all the anger and willingness to hold Texas Pubs accountable will be gone.

    The Capitol should be surrounded by angry people demanding heads on pikes.

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  11. Anything but simple majority rules in the Senate is silly. The filibuster wasn't in the Senate's original rules, and only came about because Aaron Burr was a moron.

    The Senate already protects minority interests by constitutional design. Either make the Senate more democratic in makeup, or in function. The former requires amendment, the latter apparently requires heaping largesse on West Virginia and Arizona. WV definitely needs federal help, Arizona not so much, but Dems need to figure out the cost of getting rid of this stupid rule.

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  12. 33 minutes ago, youdunnf'dup said:

    Pretty sure he was simply asking the Texans organization to keep the promise they made when they signed him long term. The first opportunity they got to break that promise, they did. Im sure he feels like he was sold a bill of goods so that he would agree to sign on the dotted line. Stop looking at this like “why should a 25 year old qb be able to have input on a GM hire”. The answer is, because he was told that was going to happen. That’s why. The only lesson here is don’t make promises that you can’t or don’t want to keep. 

    The lesson is when you realize something is rotten, move on. I've been a Texan fan, but had not read or heard anything about Easterby. Now that I have, and learned about the prosperity theology beliefs of the McNair's, the dysfunction and incompetence of the Texan administration makes sense. They've been taken in by a philosophy that is, in reality, simply meant to enable grifters, and they've now promoted one to Executive Vice President of Football Operations. A fucking conman preacher.

    Jerry Jones shouldn't be mentioned in a conversation with these clowns. He's 100x the owner that Cal is. If I had Texans gear, I'd be donating it in short order.

    Edit to add: Hell, he fucking looks like a conman pederast:

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  13. 6 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Well, that combined with Obama and the Dems' insanely stupid attempt to actually negotiate legislation with the GOP, thinking they could get some Republicans on board. 

    Major bi-partisan legislation was routine in every presidency up until the black guy took office. I don't fault Dems for not understanding that the first black president would make a third of the country completely lose their minds. I will fault them going forward if they don't use the tools at their disposal now to counter the GOPs madness.

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  14. On 1/8/2021 at 3:43 PM, Pip said:


    This is Tom Palaima’s schtick. Ignore him, he’s a grumpy old man howling at the wind.


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    Yep. I took his summer intensive Ancient Greek class, and recall a negative op-Ed about Mack Brown Texas Football that summer (2001). I don’t remember the topic, but he was plainly anti-athletics. No doubt he finds an opening for his bitching at least once a year. 

  15. 14 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    So we lost the game and it was completely my fault. 
    I got rewarded for my efforts by parents screaming at the refs causing the refs to stop the game- having my wife and mom almost get in altercations, and being heckled and screamed at by the parents on my team. 
    Fun times. 
    I’m trying to decide if I’m going to quit or not. I’ve forgotten more basketball than these fucksticks will ever know. When I say- it’s my fault that we lost I mean that literally. I let all of the kids take at least 4 minutes in the spotlight (32 minute game), mixed up al their positions and encouraged everyone to try something different. 
    We lost by 5 (28-23) against a team that only had 5 (we have 6- they didn’t have a complete spaz mine showed up) where their 2 best players were on the ball literally 100% of the time. 
    this is city league people- not select. 
    Nobody should give a shit but whatever. I didn’t want this job- they begged parents to volunteer and my wife signed me up over my strenuous objections. And now everyone else can coach better. Fuck it- let them I think. 
    My kid sucks. He’s better now than he was last year, but he doesn’t seem to like me coaching him (he says he does but I don’t see excitement or happiness on his face) and as much as I loved sports I’d just as soon he didn’t play because he does it in such a half assed and lackluster way that it just seems like a waste of everyone’s time. So I go out there and clap and encourage and instruct and bite my tongue as these dipshits and morons act like it’s game 7 of the nba finals. 
    It is literally absurd.  

    Have fun with the parents. Go Norman Dale and require 4 passes every possession, practices without a ball, bench a couple and play with 4 to end a game, hire an alcoholic to be your assistant, get thrown out and let the alcoholic finish the game.

    I’m only half kidding. My way to say “fuck ‘em” would be to finish the year my way, and not let them know they bugged me.

    Any way, good luck. You’re a brave one for doing it, a better parent than any of those others. 

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  16. 1. No more than one missed XP all year. 
    2. Zero games kicking off both halves. 
    3. Take the RZ FG most of the time in first halves. 
    4. Bijan with 15+ touches a game. 
    5. Wiley with 5+targets a game. 
    6. A 100% stop rate on 3rd and 17+.

    7. Proof that from time to time winning is actually sort of easy. 
    8. Zero staff members tied to the Briles rape regime. 
    9. Zero Sark dirty 6th sightings. 
    10. McConaughey buy-in. 
    11. Olds complaining about something new at DKR next year. I’m not exempting myself from this. 
    12. Pain. 

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  17. 23 minutes ago, UTEX_ME said:

    9 months is a long time.. post covid game 1 will be a sell out. 

    I don’t think it’s a given that we pack the place for the Ragin Cajuns, Rice or either Kansas. Seats will also be empty to see Tech if that game is late in the year and they’re garbage again. A Herman led ‘21 squad will be an easy ticket to get, especially so given our home schedule. 

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  18. 4 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

    Ok, maybe we don't want Urban as our new HC. This is one of several tweets liked by s Shelly Meyer. Others were about HQC and Zinc. 

    They’re content to remain in Ohio. I’m sure their shitty views don’t stop there. 

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