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  1. On 11/14/2019 at 2:21 PM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Alan Albright is in Waco.  Everyone knew he'd do well.  Got in on voice vote.  Counts was put up by Obama, it was returned, and Trump put him up again.  Cam Barker is a super genius, but had a very right leaning career because he worked for the Texas AG, so he's signed a lot of briefs that assert very right leaning positions.  I don't really hold that against him, even though all the D senators did.  Ada Brown got 80 votes.    Hendrix was another one nominated by Obama, returned, and Trump renominated.  Got 89 votes.

     

    Whatever the process is, at least in Texas, it hasn't gone too haywire.

    Cam Barker strikes down eviction moratorium.  says that it isn't interstate commerce but general police power of the state.

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/qt71rci75p5znj4/Texas ruling.pdf?dl=0

     

     

  2. 14 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Movies/TV shows set in the past are a bit "cartoonish" with the look. Not EVERY person in 1977 wore bell bottoms and drove a Chevelle. Not every person in 1986 had a Walkman and parachute pants. But in the movies they all do.
     

    i think the point is a little different.  i'm suggesting it is possible to dress like 1979 and 1984.  you can't really dress like 2015 or 2010 or 2005 in any way that is different from 2020.  and not just dress, but everything else that is indicative of moments in time of a culture.  if i was to make a movie about 2005, what visuals would i put in it to show the viewer it was 16 years ago?

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  3. Just now, HornOnTheBayou said:

    I could have sworn he was already dead. Was there an urban legend in the late 90s that he died or am I imagining that?

    Feel like I remember that too. 

  4. 25 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    This guy was a true piece of shit. 

    young actors that are cast in mockable roles end up weird.  another example is dj qualls, the skinny kid from road trip.  the need to overcompensate for their casting seems to be real and comes out in weird ways.

  5. On 12/9/2020 at 3:39 PM, 0xdeadbeef said:

    I don't care that there are 2 SpaceX Dragon capsules docked at the ISS right now or that SpaceX makes landing a orbital booster look routine or that Tesla has pulled the global Auto makers kicking and screaming into the electric vehicle world, for my money, Elon's unwillingness or inability  to light this Starship prototype while I have time to watch just show that Musk is a fraud.   

    All I'm hearing is excuses:  Most advanced engines ever made, most complex 'belly flop' landing ever attempted, early prototype,  first tests, blah blah blah.  

    Put up or shut up, bro.

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    T-63 minutes for this bad boy.

    looks like something wile e coyote would design

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  6. On 12/19/2019 at 2:53 PM, Parliament said:

    Has fashion changed as much since 1998 as it did from 76 to 98?

    That's pretty interesting.  I think the pace of change of the entire culture has slowed, I guess.  We have more and more technological advances, so a movie like The Departed like entire plot devices revolving around crazy things called "text messages" feels laughable now.  But everything else about that era still seems relevant.  I'd say every single article of clothing, every saying, every haircut, every environment in there would work in a movie about today.   But that was 15 years ago already.  Think about the differences between 1975 and 1990.  Or any other 15 year period in there. 

     

    Hell, in Boogie Nights you have the same characters looking like 

    mark-wahlberg-boogie-nights-1997-RYYJR8.

    and this

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    in the same movie, representing like a 5 year change.  Pretty weird.

     

  7. Political parties are nimble enough to recognize a losing hand and adjust over time.  For the Republican party in particular this is true -- we say all the time on here that they only care about the acquisition and use of power, not enacting some underlying philosophy with that power.  They just tried to gain power to undemocratic way and ended up losing the House, Senate, and Presidency. I think they'll start realizing they currently have a losing hand in pretty short order, have to deal with the realities of needing actual votes, and somehow adjust to grab additional voters.  My guess is that will mean putting a veneer of respectability back on the party so that young votes and non-racist votes are easier to get.

     

    I don't think they can adjust soon enough that they will avoid paying for it for at least one more election cycle though.  I think we are in for crazy town Trump idolatry for at least until 2022 because Trump, Gaetz, Cruz, et al have the biggest microphones and will fight to keep it that way as long as they can.  The consequences of this path won't be fully accepted until another series of losses.  Then they will lose their influence.

  8. 3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Given that "Fran" is derivative of the old Spanish word roughly translating to "fuck", and "Cisco" was slang for "Chinese", and the whole thing translates roughly to "Fuck the Chinese", yeah, that would be a good start.

    My translation maybe spotty though.

    It's Saint Fuck the Chinese.  

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  9. 1 minute ago, bad_teammate said:

    OK, so?

    So honoring greatness inspires others to greatness.  So naming things after people reminds later generations of their history. So our world is more colorful than just a bunch of places names "Aspen Tree School" and "University of That Hill By the Highway"  

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  10. Seems like a weird purity test.  Particularly weird in the case of Presidents, imo, where there are tens of thousands of issues that their decisions will have a direct impact on.  Of course negatives will be found.  Was Lincoln a net benefit to the world? Obviously. Does it hurt my feelings that this school chooses not to honor him? It makes me wonder if Lincoln doesn't meet their standard, who does?

  11. 17 minutes ago, baboso said:

    Speaking of the National WWII Museum, it is outstanding.  

    I was a little down on it.  It only hit on the highest of high points that it left so many gaps.  It was like 5 scenes from Europe, 5 from the Pacific.  All presented very grand way so you can really enjoy those scenes, but it was only those few.  That was my takeaway.  Nothing even moderately obscure discussed.  
     

    Hard to say negative stuff about it.  I want to say what they did have was exceptional, just limited.

  12. 2 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

    The brain cancer made have made the guy mentally unstable (which brain tumors pressing on the wrong spot are known to do) or he could just be unstable anyway.

    Absolutely tragic. Being a physician and healthcare worker is actually associated with a significantly increased risk of being a victim of violence.

    that's interesting.  so it could be a cause of the murder in a very literal sense.

  13. 2 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    "Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”

    Iiiiii..... don't remember.

    Yeah.  I love that answer.  "Wait.  Are you an informant for the FBI?" "Uh, I don't remember being an informant for the FBI."  Very credible.

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