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Ojo Rojo

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  1. I'm not sure I agree with Kasparov's premise, which is that the West should be acting militarily. We want to avoid WWIII and if the sovereignty of Ukraine is the price for that I think the calculation has been that is the price we must pay.
  2. This. There is literally nothing he could do to turn away his voting base. Video of him doing unspeakable acts would be brushed off as "fabricated by the deep state." Actually, I take that back, the one thing, the ONE THING, he could do that would probably turn his people against him would be to say something nice about Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, George Soros or Hilary Clinton.
  3. Or accept negotiated terms to save face. Something like Ukraine won't enter NATO for ten years or somesuch. Throw in a gas pipeline to Germany or two.
  4. Someone doesn't like Aaron Rodgers. Others don't either. They post all the reasons why and discuss. One of those reasons is that he was less than truthful when answering a question about his vaccination status. Some people think that COVID and vaccines are a political topic and that the government and big pharma want to kill them. Other people tell them all the reasons they are wrong and stupid. The end.
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    Getting old sucks

    I've had pulled muscles in my lower back that acted like this. Just bent down like I do all the time and for whatever reason, BAM. Can't hardly move or walk. I've probably had it once or twice a year for the past 5 years or so (I turn 48 in a month). There is a miracle drug for it - prednisolone.
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    Getting old sucks

    Hernia surgery scheduled for 2/24. No big deal, but still sucks. 47 y.o., about to be 48. In other cool news, a colleague of mine who is my age went to the hospital in mid-December with severe abdominal pain. Cancer. Died Friday. 3 kids under age 6. The older I get the more people I know who are my age who become disabled or dead. Feels like being in an electrical storm and you can see the lightning getting closer and closer but you don't know if or when it's going to strike you.
  7. I assume it was over a period of years, not all at the same time.
  8. I watched part of a video of the incident. Patrick and Hidalgo were standing next to one another at a corner of the tent. One of the officers came over and asked her to take a seat. She refused. Patrick told her to sit down and shut up, apparently. You can't hear that in the video. Conservative talk radio picked it up and turned it into "Hidalgo was grandstanding and our hero Dan Patrick put her in her place." I'd like to know what the protocol is for something like this. If a constable is killed in the line of duty where does the county judge normally stand at the funeral? Does the Lt. Gov. normally come to the funeral? I'd like to know the political persuasion of the officer who asked her to take a seat. I find using a funeral of a fallen officer for political gain despicable for either party. Maybe it's always been that way and I'm just a naive idealist. How about go to the funeral for the right reasons - to show support for law enforcement and to maybe say a word of gratitude and comfort to the grieving family. Forget the fucking photo op.
  9. In the "how low can politics possibly go" category, it appears that Dan Patrick and Lina Hidalgo (Harris County Judge) are competing for stage position at a slain officer's funeral. I have no doubt that both of them are using the appearance for political purposes. Whether either of them is sincere is in their hearts alone and we'll never know. Patrick and the right wingnuts (like Michael Berry) are piling on Hidalgo and making it seem like she disrupted the funeral. I don't know what standard protocol is for who gets to stand where. Patrick got to stand at the front; not sure why that wasn't okay for her too. Anyway, the whole thing is just despicable. https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Lina-Hidalgo-Dan-Patrick-Houston-police-funeral-16831534.php
  10. Is that a lot? I used to charge $3,500 and I was always upside down relative to what my hourly rate would have been. A lot of times "simple" probate would turn into more though.
  11. Yeah, you can't use a small estate affidavit if there is a will. I would have recommended that you "lose" the will, but it sounded like you had already disclosed its existence to the insurance company so that wasn't an option.
  12. Haha! No worries. I actually don't do much probate work anymore, but even if I did there are so many people who don't know what to do an don't listen to advice out there that this will never not be a problem for a and there will be no shortage of work. I used to do probates of simple estates (independent administration, no debt, no fights) for a flat fee of $3500. I was always upside down compared to what the hourly rate would have been, but I'm hard-headed about trying to give clients value. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that if a client doesn't get value for what I do then it's their own fault or they were fucked from the beginning. Anyway, your advice is good as far as reducing the workload (and cost and time) in probate. Having as many of your assets converted to "non-probate" assets, which is what you described, is a simple and effective thing you can do.
  13. If you open a probate or administration you are required to post a notice for creditors. Creditors stay on top of those probate notices, so they would likely be aware and may file a claim on the estate. Limitations may have run on their ability to collect it. I am assuming credit cards. I don't deal much with credit card debt, so I don't know if cardholder agreements have some kind of tolling agreement that would extend the limitations period for suing on the debt. Couple of other possibilities for dealing with it. One is that there is a special kind of notice you can give after the estate administration or probate is opened that will shorten the limitations period to four months. If the unsecured creditor does not file their claim within that period then the claim is barred. I have knocked out a bunch of unsecured debt doing that in the past. If any remains they will usually negotiate it down, in my experience. So, send your notice and if that doesn't knock it out then negotiate with them. If that doesn't work make them go all the way to get their money.
  14. I tell people all the time, "There's the technical legal answer and then there's the practical answer." The technical legal answer is that you would have to open a probate in order to negotiate the check. The practical answer is that you can do whatever the bank will allow you to do. I would go to your bank and tell them the issue and ask them if they will allow you to deposit the check. They probably won't unless you have a relationship with the bank and they want your business. In other words, they need a compelling reason to take the risk, unless you happen to work with someone who DGAF or sees it for what it is. The risk is pretty small - it's a small amount of money and who is going to bitch? If you don't get the answer you want the first time I would try a couple more times, either with different people within the same bank or a different bank. If that doesn't work, you might be able to file the will as a muniment of title only, which doesn't involve a full-on probate, but would provide some cover for the bank. That process is in between probate and an affidavit of heirship. It should be a lot cheaper than probate and a lot faster. I would check with the bank in advance, though, to make sure they will deposit the check if you do it that way.
  15. I understand she is telling him she might be pregnant. Need a little help with the rest.
  16. Yes, Bay City. Same HS as Richard Walton, Hart Lee Dykes and LaBradford Smith.
  17. Not binging bc ain't nobody got time fo' dat. But I'm watching an episode or two a night. Pretty good so far.
  18. I think the guy was on the spectrum. Alex Honnold too. You cannot be a normal human being and do the shit they do (did).
  19. Truth. The Alpinist was probably the most amazing of the three to me. Climbing icefalls without a rope? Soloing mixed climbs? Soloing the Emperor Face? Any small error and it's certain death. Just crazy.
  20. Necrotic Chicken
  21. Let's take wagers. I say he's the next Bachelor on that TV show that proves the decline of western civilization. Either that or he's going to fight Jake Paul. One of the two.
  22. Names have always been kind of a sensitive subject for me. Names are important and should be treated as such. Instead of projecting some positive trait, so many people pick names that only signal how dumb they are. Drives me nuts. Anyway, when we started talking about having kids I made my wife aware that this was a danger zone for us. So we agreed to a system. We did not find out the sex of the baby before the birth, so we had to have girl and boy names. The system was that at the appointed time, each of us would send the other a list of ten girl names and ten boy names. The highest name in common from both sets of lists would be the winner. It actually worked perfectly for our first. We started deviating from the rules after that. Fortunately, naming our kids didn't lead to violence or divorce like it could have.
  23. Wordle 213 6/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Was sweatin' this one.
  24. Phuc Me? My grandfather, who I loved very much, was named Rufus. I fought hard for it. Womb-holder couldn't do it.
  25. I'm pretty sure it is spelled Ruprecht.
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