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Eastwood

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  1. Sounds like a situation from the not so distant past. Those people got a bailout, though...
  2. Since we're going in on lawyers and the like, she's a Harvard law grad by way of transfer from Miami.
  3. I would love a series that leads up to Clayton becoming the firm cleaner, gambling addiction, failed restaurants, and all.
  4. This is the big one, here. As someone who had delayed assistance from the PPP only to learn that publicly traded companies with market caps of 9 figures or more from loans from the Small Business Administration got their loans first. Where was the outrage? I explained this to Trump voting family members and got just a bunch of "huh" and shoulder shrugging. College really has become a huge money-making scam. A lot of us growing up in the 90s and early 00s had it hammered in our head over and over that "if you want to get anywhere, you need a college degree." If you ask them what kind, the response was "doesn't matter, just having the degree will get your foot in the door." Ok, sure, let's go do it. Then you start undergrad and then a lot of these programs, whether they be BBA, BA, or BS, start telling you "well, sure you might get a job when you get out, but if you really want to be competitive, you need a masters." Then these same people graduate in 08 through 11 and guess how that went. Then they have to deal with older generations who enjoyed affordable college and being able to provide for a family with just a high school diploma if they didn't go to college chirp non-stop about how "nobody forced those people to take loans they couldn't pay back." They took the loans because they were convinced by the older generations and the system itself that college was necessary and the loans were the only way they could afford it. The advising system in college is completely broken. Departments depend on students enrolling in them for survival. My wife, who started having second thoughts about her degree, did a little research about job opportunities after graduation and learned that to get the most out of it, she needed an expensive and lengthy internship program after. She didn't like the sound of it, had an opportunity to switch to a related major with possibly better job prospects, but outside of the department of the original major. She goes to the department, voices her concerns, and they tell her with the utmost confidence that she should stay in her current degree and that she didn't need the internship to get a good job. She stays in and finds out after she graduates two things: 1. there is a ceiling without that internship and it is insanely low, as in "shouldn't have even gone to college" low. 2. The department was on its last leg and needed to keep as many students as possible to avoid being eliminated by the school. I am convinced they straight up lied to her to save their own ass. Now she has a useless degree, but thankfully no student loan debt because her parents paid for it. Very fortunate. Now what happens to her classmates that weren't as fortunate? They are stuck in student loan hell for 20, 30 years? A lot of us from that generation did what was expected of us and were left holding the bag. It makes sense that as more of that generation comes into power that they want to fix those situations for others.
  5. Your resident GME bull checking in. Looks like there might be a hostile takeover by Ryan Cohen in the making. https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/RC Ventures Letter to GameStop.pdf Cohen was the Chewy founder who cashed out, then cashed in on GME, which caused the initial price spike into the console season.
  6. I'm taking the Bar next year. Your explanation tracks with what we were taught, but I still think it's wild that some of these instances wouldn't trigger a Rule 11.
  7. I remember that sanctions are very seldomly brought down. In Civ Pro we had a case, can't remember which, where the judge spent the bulk of the opinion beating the offending attorney about the head and shoulders only to not levy sanctions against them. Now that attorney is immortalized in casebooks. I'm sure Thor up in Michigan might meet a similar fate of being in a casebook or two.
  8. That thread is jaw dropping. Shows just how desperate some of them are for good news or evidence of a "long game." A question I have is if Rule 11 sanctions are coming any time soon. It seems like every case I read about runs afoul of 11(b). Especially (3). How much longer do the courts need to give them for a "reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery" when this was the most covered election in the history of the world? I watched McEnanny hop onto Fox News and talk about how much fraud there was and wave a stack of papers, conveniently marked "Exhibit J" on the front in 70 pt Times New Roman, saying it was all affidavits detailing how poll watching laws weren't followed in PA. What she didn't do, not one time, is cite a specific law and how that law was broken. That essentially tells me that what she was waving around was either just a stack of hurt feelings of R poll watchers in affidavit form or, given this administration's stunt with the health care book presented to 60 Minutes, a stack of Family Circus comics printed on 8.5x11.
  9. I bet Hannity jumps to wherever Trump does. Bet he could even negotiate a piece of whatever network into the deal.
  10. Sounds like she was hired to do a job but spent the whole time worrying about someone else's job.
  11. This episode was essentially The Fly episode from Breaking Bad.
  12. They're digging down between 5500 and 7500 feet? That's wild. /s
  13. I think the methods developed for accurate polling are now insanely outdated. It needs to either catch up with the times or it will just be junk science used to generate clicks during election season. In fact, that's probably where it's going to stay. Nate Silver still made a boatload.
  14. Today I learned that the Hodge Twins turned from social media comedians making fun of fitness trends to conservative pundits. Wild.
  15. So it was just laid out on Hannity by Kayleigh McEnany that they are bringing a time, manner, and place argument that their poll watchers weren't allowed to properly observe the poll workers, complaining about distance and not being able to see, specifically in PA. What she didn't do is lay out what PA law is regarding poll watchers. That leads me to believe that the law itself wasn't violated, otherwise she would have said it was. Looks like they are going to march into court and basically ask for the judge to legislate from the bench and have them declare that the poll watching laws are constitutionally insufficient. That is an insanely steep hill to climb, especially if the poll watching laws have been on the books for several elections with little changes.
  16. The intelligence community is not a fan of Trump. Too many assets and operatives left hanging out to dry and too much ground work that took blood to lay that was bulldozed over the last 4 years. If the CIA is cozying up, it's because they are looking for a spot to stick a knife.
  17. Let's take a look at the whole picture: all major NATO allies have now congratulated Biden. Even Turkey. If you think that NATO is going to allow its largest contributor, both militarily and financially, and the most technologically advanced nuclear power in the world turn into an authoritarian nation with favorable ties to Russia, you're out of your mind. I don't think the Trump family and Kushner have the stones to take it where it really needs to go for them to keep Trump as president. They're bluffing the hell out of it, but they're quickly running out of gas.
  18. Their party went farther right than they were comfortable with. The bulk of the active posters in here were Republicans in the old Cloak Room.
  19. Yeah, all this flailing over PA doesn't matter as long as AZ and NV hold. They can fidget spin all over the legislature and in front of the Supreme Court and Biden still has over 270. For Biden to not win, you need 3 of the 4 out if PA, NV, AZ, and GA to flip. If that happens, then we won't see stability in this country for a long time.
  20. Lotta profit taking here at the end. Red candlestick.
  21. Up almost 10% today. Time to start boat shopping...
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