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  1. Just now, Captainant said:

    Guilty on 8 counts, mistrial on other 10 counts. That's manafucked. Going to prison AND have to keep spending money to defend himself.

    basically in for life. why not just do a plea deal on the last 10 now?

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    ATLANTA — Civil rights advocates are objecting to a proposal to close about 75 percent of polling locations in a predominantly black south Georgia county.

    The Randolph County elections board is scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss a proposal that would eliminate seven of nine polling locations in the county, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. Included in the proposed closures is Cuthbert Middle School where nearly 97 percent of voters are black.

    "There is strong evidence that this was done with intent to make it harder for African Americans," ACLU of Georgia attorney Sean Young said. The ACLU has sent a letter to the elections board demanding that the polling places remain open and has filed open records requests for information about the proposal to close the polling places.

    County elections board members did not immediately respond Wednesday to a phone message seeking comment on the proposal.

    Young and others from the ACLU plan to attend the elections board meeting Thursday.

    According to the latest census figures, Randolph County's population is more than 61 percent of black, double the statewide percentage.

    The median household income for the county was $30,358 in 2016, compared to $51,037 in the rest of the state. Nearly one-third of the county's residents live below the poverty line, compared to about 16 percent statewide, according to U.S. Census figures.

    https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/15/us/ap-us-polling-places-proposed-closures.html

  3. 38 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Or...

     

    There’s the belief that no matter how crazy things get with Trump, and there is a hyper-overreaction by many on this front; it’s not possible to be worse than if his opponent had been elected.

    The story has yet to be played out...

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  4. Part of our remodel included windows. We received quotes from $9K to $36K from different vendors. I believe Anderson was $36K so our debate was go cheap with WW at $9K or upgrade to non-vinyl which would run around $18K from a local Austin company. 

    Yes, vinyl is the cheapest route and may not last 30+ years but we figured that it would be cheaper to replace in 15 to 20 years than double our cost so went with WW. WW is franchised so each company is independently run but were very happy with our install and price.

    Price with all other players are negotiable.  

  5. 14 hours ago, bernorange said:

    Rand was advocating for Brennan's firing long before Trump was elected.  Your statement begins with a false premise.  Reality has more nuance than the narrative being pushed in the OP.

    Mental gymnastics to justify Rand's support of a President who has no qualms shitting all over the constitution. Again, shows it is party over principles despite all their prior grandstanding 

  6. 25 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    He thinks that you should not cheer lead the security revocation of a guy who endorsed torture and rendition, policies that promoted mass surveillance of Americans, lied about droning civilians and a variety of other CIA and military activities, and spied on a Senate oversight committee because Trump's motivation is in part his narcissistic political impulse to punish people who say not nice things about him.

    I do think that you have to give some credit to Rand. He knew how to position the issue so that it would resonate with Trump.  "This guy is monetizing his security clearance and using the credibility it affords him to bullhorn mean things about you. You should revoke it."

    It is the reason Brennan's security clearance was revoked which is to silence critics which is antithetical to Rand's supposed Libertarian beliefs.

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    Very interesting accessible reading

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    Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family—all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction.

    Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the “barbarians” who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.

     

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