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  1. 1 minute ago, slorch said:

    what does being anti-abortion have to do with those other folks?

     

    ohhhh.  I forgot...abortion improves lives by preventing their plights.  

     

    Only it doesn't.

    It has to do with them because discussing them in the context of abortion showcases the rampant hypocrisy of many anti-abortion advocates. For example, many of the same people who wax poetic on their self-righteous soapboxes about saving babies' lives are the same ones who are ok with denying government assistance to families in poverty while yammering about how they should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. You (the general you) shouldn't get to go on about how we need to pass legislation to make abortion illegal while denying people services and assistance that would help prevent them from getting to that point.

    I don't think anyone here will disagree that having abortions to "prevent their plights" should be the absolute last resort for anyone in that situation, but we as a nation could do a much better job of helping people to not end up in that position in the first place.

  2. 53 minutes ago, TexasMan said:

    This thread is depressing:

     

     

     

    46 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    I really want this to be satire.  But it's not, is it?

    Matt Walsh is, unfortunately, very real. I'd tell you to go read more of the stuff he's written but your head would explode.

  3. Regardless of the story itself, the acting was phenomenal. We've never seen Cersei cry, or see Tyrion slack-jawed in shock. The Hound's whole demeanor as he fought his brother was fantastic. I'm at least grateful that the actors were able to get everything they could out of the script.

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  4. 10 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

    What I thought was unfolding was, Cersei would ring the bells as a trick, and unleashes a surprise attack once Dany's forces lower their guard.   It fails, but Dany is furious and goes justifiably apeshit because the surrender was fake.    But what happened is that she got nearly everything that motivated her for years, and her response was to destroy virtually all of it. 

    This is what I thought, too. They were Chekhov's gunning the bells like crazy but it didn't play out like I hoped.

    10 hours ago, Juicy said:

    would have made for a much better story if Jamie wouldnt have blown his whole redemption arc, making up with Cersei and would have killed her, rang the bells and then Dany went mad. 


    The jamie death was the worst of last nights mistakes. 

    When Jaime showed up with Cersei, I was expecting him to be Arya in No One mode. 

  5. Came across this after Patton Oswalt tweeted it with "how in the who in the why in the actual fuck". I've done some googling and am pretty sure, but not 100% sure, that it's real.

     

  6. Bran's character makes no sense to me. I don't see the point of his storyline at all. I thought it would be somewhat relevant during the fight with the NK but even that was dumb. Part of me is hoping there's some big reveal coming up that I'm totally not seeing because it would at least justify all the time they spent developing him as the Three-Eyed Raven. Everyone's fighting the NK and his ass wargs into a bunch of ravens? What?

    Him getting pushed out the window in Ep 1 was his greatest contribution to the storyline.

  7. 6 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    BY NOW WE’RE all familiar with the battle tactics in Game of Thrones: Confront your enemy head on—usually in some nicely arrayed lines—and hack at them until no one’s left alive or someone has won. It’s a tried-and-true method, with little in the way of actual operational depth. And as Sunday night’s Battle of Winterfell showed, it's particularly ineffective against an endless army of the undead. Spoilers ahead, obviously.

     

     

    https://www.wired.com/story/game-of-thrones-winterfell-battle-tactical-analysis/

    This is awesome. And it seems to get more and more detached and technical as it goes. By the end the author sounds like Alex Honnold critiquing movie climbing scenes.

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    While unconventional, Arya's attack falls into the clear confines of the allies’ overall objective, and she should be commended for taking the individual initiative to carry out the final plan.

     

  8. 11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yes, it's appeals.  They are almost automatic, whereas they are optional in all other cases.

    There is no "beyond a shadow of a doubt," it's just a reasonable doubt.  But that's just the guilt phase.  The punishment or penalty phase, which considers death versus life without parole, and must evaluate whether the defendant represents a future danger to society; only after ruling that "there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society" will the jury choose the sentence itself, by deciding whether there is "sufficient mitigating circumstance or circumstances to warrant that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole rather than a death sentence be imposed"

    It's a complex deal and it has to be.  Because it doesn't get applied just to "open and shut" cases.

    Got it, thank you. 

  9. I'm glad King is dead and I think it's been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he clearly committed the crime he died for, but the Cameron Willingham case is the one that gives me the most pause when I consider whether or not we should have the death penalty. I'm not a lawyer but I've read a lot about that case and it looks to me that there was at least enough evidence to not pass the "beyond a shadow of a doubt" test. I think he was executed by mistake, and that's horrifying.

    What I don't get in cases like King's is why it takes 21 years. He was convicted and sentenced in 1999. Why did it take so long to carry out his sentence? Is it the appeals process? I understand due process and needing to make sure no stone is unturned when facing an irreversible sentence, but what is it that makes these things drag out forever?

  10. 3 hours ago, Chooky said:

    It's impossible for me to support the death penalty after horrifyingly seeing so many people exonerated with the arrival of DNA testing.  But damn if this guy isn't the most highly qualified motherfucker to receive the honor.  That dead-eyed void of a human existence would test the bounds of the most merciful among us.  

    john-william-king-execution-texas-death-

    What you said.

  11. 8 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

    She did.  Worked with Stephey on DWI ads while he was in prison. 

    A long read but worthwhile if time is on your side:  http://alt.cimedia.com/statesman/specialreports/jacqui/jacqui.pdf

     

     

     

     

    I remember reading that article when it first came out. I'd totally forgotten about till now. The description of the tub room gives me chills. In 2014 I was in an accident at Crystal Beach, during which about 3/4 of the skin on my left palm was scraped completely off, along with some skin on my fingers. I was covered in mud from a ditch and had a pretty grody wound on my forehead. They took me to the burn unit at UTMB and to the tub room to clean me up. I'd never thought about what it was called till now, but reading the description, it's definitely what it was. They'd given me two morphine shots in the ER about 30 minutes earlier, and once I was in the room, they gave me a fentanyl "popsicle". Despite all of that, I'm not ashamed to admit that I screamed the entire time they cleaned my hand, somewhere around 30-45 seconds. I couldn't help it. It was the worst pain I've ever felt. They warned me about it beforehand and did it as quickly as possible, but still.

    All this to say I cannot imagine the pain this girl went through. I can't imagine multiplying what I felt when they cleaned that small part of my body. I hope there's a heaven if only to give Jacqui a blissful eternity free of the awfulness of her last 20 years.

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