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The Royal We

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  1. Cracking Up Lol GIF by moodman

    Schilling got pinched too!?  Oh man, this day just keeps getting better.  I'm going to break out my rosary beads in hopes that Prince and Kobach are on deck.  The grifting Sheriff would be a nice quail egg on top of this turd burger. 

  2. 11 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    It doesn't extend to that.  The reasoning for Presidential pardons does not matter.  Constitutionally, Trump can pardon everyone he wants to, resign before Biden's inauguration and have Pence pardon him.   He could even pardon any number of traitors and terrorists currently in federal prison if he so desires.  Ordinarily, pardoning traitors would result in impeachment/removal, but Trump could probably get away with it.  He could absolutely get away with pardoning a white supremacist terrorist tomorrow.  Guaranteed.  But I'd bet he could pardon an islamic terrorist without Senate repercussions as well if he really wanted to.

    State charges are the only thing that holds the line.

    During Barr's confirmation hearing he said that dangling a pardon in exchange for a witness's silence would be a crime.

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    William Barr, President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday that it would be illegal for the president to pardon someone in exchange for that person's silence.

    Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy asked Barr if a president can "offer a pardon in exchange for the witness's promise not to incriminate the president."

    "No, that would be a crime," Barr replied.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/william-barr-confirmation-hearing-trump-pardon-2019-1

    Not that anything really matters anymore, but that was his take in January of '19.

  3. Gotcha, so the bulb was sticking up out of the top of the bucket filled with concrete?  Was the ballast in the bucket too or did you have it in another box up on the dock with an extension cord running down to the bucket?

    Thanks for the idea, I think I'm going to give it a whirl.

  4. Believe me, we really want this to work and for our kids to go back to in-person learning.  We've got a kindergartner, 2nd grader and a 5th grader, so my wife is working her ass off trying to make sure they all get what they need.  I try to help as much as possible while also working from home.  It's no picnic and my wife is pretty frazzled at the end of every day. 

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  5. On 8/14/2020 at 2:32 PM, The Royal We said:

    We started back on Wednesday and took the option of remote learning for the first three weeks to see how things went.  My 5th grader was one of 4 in his class that started remotely, but his teacher was not in school this morning and they sent his whole class home at lunch today.  There hasn't been any communication about what happened yet, but they've been really good on communication so far and I bet we'll find out what is going on this evening.  Maybe she had a family emergency and couldn't come in this morning or something, but sending the kids home mid-day too seems a little odd.

    Communication has been pretty sparse from the school on this, but it sounds like the teacher already had plans to be out last Friday.  A student in the class started having symptoms on Friday morning and that's why they sent the entire class home until 8/24.  They have not confirmed that the student tested positive, but they did say they will adjust and call the kids back to in person classes if new information (a negative test?) becomes available.  So they made it 2.5 days before everyone having to go remote.

    I'm not aware of any other classes having issues yet, but I'm not sure we would ever been informed in that situation anyway. 

  6. Do you know what brand you have?  There are 4 or 5 docks on the lake I live on that have underwater lights and I ride around and hit them at night a few times a month, so I know they work well out here.  I do worry about the bulbs going out or the wires getting snagged by other fisherman doing the same thing I do though.

    It's pretty fun to troll up to a light and see all of the action swimming above them, do you get the same effect from your overhead light? @Dry Elbows

  7. 6 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Its the standard Republican MO even though Trump is like the steroid version of it.

    1) Yell X government agency is shitty! (Even though X government agency is mostly fine, but inefficient or underfunded)

    2) Get power and make X government agency as shitty as possible.

    3) Yell, see I told you it was shitty!  I was right, look how shitty it is!  Lets give its funding to the DoD instead so it can buy a few more thousand dollar hammers with no oversight. 

    When your chief strategist calls for the deconstruction of the administrative state - you sort of waive your right to moan about the lousy state of administration.  amirite?

  8. Has anyone ever run an underwater light off of their dock/pier?  I'm looking at the ones that sit on the bottom and have a timer - the ones that look sturdy are expensive af.  The cheaper ones look flimsy and like they won't last for very long if they are left on the bottom 24/7.  This if for fresh water, something like this:

    https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Glow-Green-Underwater-Fishing/dp/B00GWTRFDI/ref=sr_1_26?dchild=1&keywords=green+underwater+fishing+light+bottom&qid=1597676775&s=sporting-goods&sr=1-26

  9. We started back on Wednesday and took the option of remote learning for the first three weeks to see how things went.  My 5th grader was one of 4 in his class that started remotely, but his teacher was not in school this morning and they sent his whole class home at lunch today.  There hasn't been any communication about what happened yet, but they've been really good on communication so far and I bet we'll find out what is going on this evening.  Maybe she had a family emergency and couldn't come in this morning or something, but sending the kids home mid-day too seems a little odd.

  10. I just wonder if they are actually doing fewer tests or if they are fudging the numbers - the Covid Tracking Project said in their update yesterday that they are getting lower testing numbers from the "local reporting and data from counties."  It seems like it would be a very difficult thing to suppress on a county to county basis - I can't see Harris county lowering their testing data because Dotard wants them to...

  11. Sorry if I missed the discussion on this somewhere else, but what is going on with the decreasing number of tests completed?  I know the reporting structure was changed/yanked away from the CDC, but if they were trying to make things look rosier than they are, 20%+ positivity rate ain't it.

    wtf?

  12. We had a Meet the Teacher event at my kid's school yesterday.  It's a charter school and they have really spent a lot of time and effort to be very thoughtful and thorough on their processes and procedures in an impossible situation.  All of the correspondence sent out to parents about the event said in bold letters - MASKS MANDATORY FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS, it said it on the outside  door to the building, it said it at the entrance to the main office where they were doing temperature checks before anyone could come in, etc.  We go through with no problems, masks on all 3 of my kids and I turn around and see this f'n asshole about to walk up to the office with no mask.  His wife and kids all have them on, but this tough guy has no mask and no one says a word to him.  It's hard for me to describe the rage this caused me to feel rise up when I saw him. 

    How big of a selfish douchcanoe do you have to be to take that situation to make a statement!?  I felt terrible for all of the administrators and teachers that watched in silence as this guy strolls in - he may as well have flipped up the double bird to everyone that had worked so hard to try to make a very difficult situation possible.  I really try my hardest not to wish ill on people, but I can't say I could contain myself yesterday.

    This is why we can't have nice things.  I'm sure this same guy is one of the ones moaning the loudest as the college football season goes down the tubes.   

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  13. 4 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

    If so-called law abiding Republicans choose to vote for Trump over Biden because a state AG who happens to be a Democrat chose to enforce the law against the NRA, then those Republicans are full of shit when they talk about adherence to the law.  

    Exactly.  LAW AND ORDER (only for those who don't support my views)

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  14. Put me in the camp that thinks the combo of schools restarting and Labor Day gatherings is going to make for another dumpster fire in late September/Early October.  We just can't help ourselves from continually touching the stove to see if it's still hot. 

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