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Posts posted by elfenix
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Marwinning!
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when you get to whataburger and your seat is taken.
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On 5/28/2018 at 9:44 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:
I think the entire monetary bail system should be removed or severely cut. Too many people do not have the money to pay bond, which forces them to stay in jail. Reports are that upwards of 70% of arrestees have a job, so the chances of them losing the job is now 100%, when they can't post bail. Many ultimately plead guilty for a sentence of time served just to get out. Bail forces poor people to stay in jail regardless if they're guilty or not. Or it places financial hardship on the person's family to come up with the money (i.e. visit to the payday lender.) All the while, this is a person that hasn't been found guilty of anything.
The bail system operates on the notion that a person will return to court to get their money back. However very few people get any money back because they utilized a bail bondsman, who gets their down payment (10% or whatever) as the fee.
Instead a better system would be one where most arrestees, the non-violent offenses, are released on their own recognizance unless they have a record of not returning to court. Obviously violent arrestees (murder, rape, terrorism, etc.) should not be released if they are deemed to be a violent threat to the community. And perhaps allow some discretion for bail in cases where someone has a high likelihood of running.
Like most, I think the majority of people arrested are guilty of that crime or something else. I'm not trying to make it worthwhile for them to commit a crime and not serve time. But I would rather see the system put them in jail/prison once they're deemed guilty instead of when they're arrested.
And one of the best benefits is this lowers the need for larger jail systems, saving the taxpayer $$$.
there's a charitable bail fund in NY that pays people's bail (small dollar figures, almost everything is under $1,000), has a 95% court appearance rate, and a much higher rate of non-guilty outcomes as well:
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i've never heard a national broadcast team talk this much shit about the refs
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refs thoroughly fucking the rockets
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I like 3 run bombs
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Thanks for the inviteI'm going with:
13 pound brisket, 2 racks of spare ribs, small rack of beef ribs, 4 links of jambalaya sausage, 2 pounds of frog legs and two cases of Lone Star. -
Dried pork and venison sausage from buc-ee's
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667' feet sounds like a lot
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Correct answer was "about three-fiddy"Rental car started out at 3/8 was around 1/4 when I got the call.
"I put in $27 to fill it up, how much do you think I should add?"
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"I'd put in $10"
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3 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:
What were you thinking AJ Hinch?
guessing he's sitting in the clubhouse wondering wtf is going on like the rest of us
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godfuckingdamnit!
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jesus christ
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making this way too interesting guys
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rossi seems pretty good
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watching on dvr:
how the fuck was davison not black flagged by race control to fix his obviously non-working car? dude was 10 mph slower than everyone else and in the racing line. i saw that wreck coming 30 laps ago
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3 hours ago, Shaggy3.0 said:
And then aggy goes retro—channeling their inner Javorskie Lane.
sec graduate? i thought that was just a joke around here. nope, turns out it's true. "i'm a texum sec university graduate"
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tucke3r!
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fuck off curry
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he was not in the act of shooting when the contact happened
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how the fuck is that on ariza?
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1 minute ago, Sidney Sherman said:
ok what in the fuck are they watching how was that not a foul???
no clue
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2018 Houston Astros Season Thread
in Baseball
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fuck, that was close