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  1. For other than "constitutional" torts, anyone having a tortious (non-contractual) legal claim against the federal government or any of its officials must go through the Federal Tort Claims Act. That Act provides a system through which a claim is submitted outside of court and can be paid or settled by the government before a suit is filed. Once the process is exhausted, and a claim denied by the administrative process, a lawsuit can be filed. This applies to you, me, and everyone else, including Trump. For all but the most minor of claims with the most obvious liability, i.e. a drunken FBI agent runs a red light and t-bones your car, leading to a $10,000 property and personal injury claim, you, me, and everyone else would be forced to file suit. The obvious answer for this is to deny his claim and force him to file suit. Not that any of that will happen.
  2. I think that has more to do with Asians being authoritarians and communitarians.
  3. Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971. And, this is going to be like Vietnam and all the rest since: a guerilla war in a place where life is cheap and livelihood (if not freedom/self-determination per se) is at stake and a loser for us that ends only when we tire of the loss of American lives.
  4. Somewhat surprising. I thought most of us inclined to be political perverts (granted I haven't been one until the last 10 years or so) were also inclined to be history and/or military history buffs.
  5. Hey, you know what, "deterrence" hasn't come up hardly once in this thread. I have made an impact!
  6. This is all true, but a bit nuanced. It would be nice to say the federal government has no business telling universities what to do. But then you run into the DOE argument. And then civil rights, and on it goes.
  7. Well, you seem to be arguing that longer sentences are appropriate, while also acknowledging that the majority, maybe the vast majority, of incarcerated are not the problem. Then you say "targeted incarceration." Which would seem to involve a rather careful analysis of who really are the "problem children," rather than just increasing the length of sentencing across the board, which has been the solution to date.
  8. Because it's performative. And arbitrary.
  9. And, how can you predict who is going to be habitual? Once they are habitual or recidivist, I can't argue much with longer incarceration. My overall thought is that sentences are, by and large, too long. And I'm very interested in diversion programs for first offenders or those in "vulnerable" (probably not the right word) populations.
  10. A clearer pic and the actual explanation. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/21/progressive-populist-graham-platner-has-nazi-totenkopf-tattoo.html Not knowing that that is a Nazi/SS symbol is probably acceptable from a meathead enlisted guy.
  11. That's been my sense of things, also. Our talent is always somewhat overrated, in this particular case on the OL, but it's everywhere. And I think/hope that the answer is coaching/recruiting consistency. OSU, Georgia and Alabama have been stacking five stars longer than Sark has been at UT. Is our talent as good as ND, Penn State and some other helmet schools, and better than a lot of others', sure, but it's those tippy top teams we're measuring ourselves against.
  12. MIT did it best when they said federal scientifc grants should be awarded on merit alone. The boostrap crowd is hard-pressed to argue with that. The powers that be at UT don't give a rats ass about academic freedom, they think that's the problem. But I'm not sure they're willing to come out and say so. And I think they're really hesitant to differentiate themselves from schools like MIT and UVa, in any way. I think the bad publicity attending the law firm capitulations weighs heavy on them.
  13. Yeah, the only question is how public will be the goatse'ing.
  14. Note that my "concern" such as it is, is not with hands-on offenders, but non-contact offenders. I can't disagree about actual child molesters. But then there's that Oregon State pitcher.
  15. You've given it some thought, so I commend that. I admit that I don't have any real solutions, but I ask that people not knee jerk. There are absolutely incorrigible criminals out there of all kinds and the only solution may be lifetime incarceration/incapacitation. But that's not all of them or even the majority. I do think things like "drug courts," "veterans courts," and "first offender" programs are a step in the right direction.
  16. Didn't say it was rational. So is watching scat porn and driving drunk. So is burglarizing a Walgreens to get or pay for drugs. Nor did I say that moral outrage is unwarranted. But moral outrage tends to displace rational thought about what we're doing with big chunks of our criminal population. You can go from relatively simple cases like addicts and drug users/possessors, whose irrational acts have mostly been decriminalized, to other areas of criminality with a large psychological component. And some, like drug dealing, that have little or no psychological component at all, and might even be considered rational.
  17. The whole conflict between the Article II CIC power and the Article I declare war power is pretty insane. A major flaw in the Constitution. Congress doesn't want the political baggage associated with declaring war for every little (and not so little conflict) and so is happy to have POTUS holding the bag for the Vietnams, Iraqs, and Afghanistans. But they don't want to be judged harshly by history, either. So, you get an Authorization for Use of Military Force, the last of which was this one https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons. They have been trying to crowbar everything subsequent to 9/11 into that. It's laughable at this point.
  18. I had guessed that it was CIA assets doing the strikes outside the military chain of command and might guess that's what "special forces" means in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Center
  19. They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love.
  20. I know I'm not winning any hearts and minds here, but I am pretty uncomfortable with most aspects of our sentencing regime, particularly at the federal level. And, as I said, I think child pr0n offenses, other than production, are a microcosm of what's wrong with it. Dime store psychology and moral outrage displace everything else.
  21. Lotta truth to this. I think it stems, again, from his overestimation of what our players can routinely execute on offense. The question then becomes what informs that overestimation. And the answer to that question dictates Sark's fate as a coach.
  22. You just made my point for me. I did not say the moral outrage was uncalled for. But it replaces rational thought, which is pretty common in our criminal justice policy.
  23. Have we? Speaking from ignorance or memory failure. I was reading Dead Wake and a reference to the first German gas attack with chlorine gas and had to contemplate what kind of monster would think that's a really good idea. Also musing that while the origins and prosecution of WWI are more complex and nuanced than WWII in a lot of ways, Germans really do seem to have a knack for being morally compromised (U-boat attacks on civilian and even passenger shipping, chemical weapons, etc.).
  24. Neither are most convicted criminals, or unconvicted criminals (the lot of them being justice involved), but that could easily change, both in the addict and criminal affecting you, personally. But they do affect society as a whole in the social cost of their crime, the social cost of their incarceration, and the social cost of their being essentially wards of the state after they are eventually released into the community. And I'm not talking about drunk drivers, I'm talking about addicts that do other crimes. I'm not even going to dignify your criticism of "justice involved" people.
  25. More evidence that the adults are in charge. Also, Lindsay Halligan texts a reporter. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here Reporter seeks comment from DOJ before publishing texts and gets this: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here From cross- and crazy-eyed spokesbitch Natalie Baldassliar.
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