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Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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Also worth mentioning is the part about the SO liking it when you're soused.
We often talk about how alcoholism/addiction takes a toll on the family and loved ones. It's not just the despair of being unable to do anything. This is a pretty good example. The dry alcoholic frequently is so difficult to live with, and the drinking alcoholic so "malleable," and sentimental, and relatively pleasant, etc. that the spouse, SO, or other family member actually comes to prefer the drunk version and consciously or unconsciously enables it. They also turn into Cajun's "Rescue Ranger," which is pretty self-explanatory. Their co-dependency and other behavior begins to resemble its own form of addiction. The sickness spreads.
Al-Anon is dedicated to remedying this collateral damage. "Black Belt Al-Anons," as BearSchlong often refers to, are exceptionally ruthless at exposing co-dependency and related collateral damage and yanking the SO out of it.
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10 minutes ago, bluto said:
Something else that seems misunderstood, brown moved from south side not long after the guyger shooting. And as I mentioned up thread, his testified occupation during trial in no way passed the smell test.
Also understand trying to apply logic to a guy who wore a damn dragon ball z t shirt to testify in a murder trial is a fools errand. Even Omar put on a damn tie to testify against Bird (one of my favorite scenes)
I think the reason he was dressed like that is he was fresh off the plane avoiding a contempt citation and arrest.
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The worst thing about the Pacific theater was that there were few or no "rear areas" for a break from combat. There was no Paris or quaint French or Dutch town a short march or drive away.
The island campaigns lasted months at a time and there was some downtime between them, but downtime constituted hanging out on a shitty troop transport and going to a place like Ulithi for a few days, where you got a day or two on an island and got to hang out on a tender, which was not bad.
Trips to Australia or Pearl were few and far between. The best places were like the medical island Leckie was on for a few weeks.
Kind of a different deal, but of the same ilk. My Dad was at sea on a destroyer for more than an entire year. They had a dog on board that was raised from a puppy to a mature dog without setting foot on land.
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I think we should draw a distinction between the Waffen SS, the military, and the SS, the political.
The political SS was always composed of fanatical Nazis, the Waffen SS less so, particularly in the lower ranks, but the officers were always "reliable" Nazis.
By 1944, probably half the Heer wasn't even German, and the German ones were 16.
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10 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
If they murdered him in a “drug deal gone wrong” why did the murderers leave 12 pounds of weed, a bunch of THC cartridges, and $4,000 behind?
But they did take Brown’s supposed gun?WIthout pretending to know what happened, according to the warrant, it all went down in the parking lot, outside the silver sedan. The perps took the decedent's "black bag" and gun. For all we know, the black bag contained the other 25 lbs of weed.
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21 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:
A few more things don't add up for me. No known drug dealer is going to be testifying in a court. They don't want anything to do with the judicial process unless they are on trial. And damn sure don't want to broadcast themselves in front of lawyers and cops on national tv. The defense lawyers will tear apart any witness they can and their past and this dude was going to be selling drugs while being a star witness on a high profile case? Also, he had 12lbs in his apartment while testifying in court? Hmmm..And not one time did it come out that he was some drug dealer and could not be trusted in court? But how convenient he is now painted as some thug drug dealer whose word can't be trusted in time for the appeal for the murdering cop.
He was under subpoena and flew back under threat of contempt to testify. He was forced, to some degree.
And defense lawyers are not going to "tear apart" any witness just because they can. They could have brought up any convictions to try to make him "look bad," but to what end? Most decent lawyers understand that just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD.
Bringing up a guy's drug convictions, if any, when he's just testifying about living across the hall from someone could be a pretty good way to piss off a jury. Or maybe they didn't know about it, if it wasn't convictions, or they weren't diligent, which seems plausible.
While this guy did have a fairly prominent role, he wasn't a star witness in the sense that the state could easily have made their case without him. He was cumulative.
And his current status, live, dead, drug dealer, canonized saint, is utterly, completely irrelevant to the appeal.
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7 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Oh jeez I have no idea why people aren't happy with their incomes. It's not like the entire implicit bargain with the labor force that built the American middle class and domestic consumer market ceased to fucking exist or anything. No, not concern trolling at all.
Let's look at some graphs and imagine they have the Air Jordan logo on them!
First of all it's well understood that workers are keeping less of what they create than they used to. But it's actually worse than it looks.
The black line is the dollars created by work.
The green line is what most people make.
See that blue line? Thats the average comp, which is distorted upwards by income inequality. That's the line in the graph above. But that line is what things (housing, phones) are priced for. Do you know what fills that gap betseen green and blue? Cheap debt.
Do you know what cheap debt does and why we keep debt cheap? To prop up home values. It works!
But why aren't these kids saving money like you did? Well, in part because they are punished for it.
And partly because they pay higher payroll taxes than you did, in addition to everything being more expensive.
How about it @HRSchenker, could there be something to this income thing - that younger workers got fucked? Or are people just buying too much fried chicken?Am I misreading the last one, or has everyone except Armybrat and maybe Tahoe paid the same payroll tax their entire career?
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So I took it in to a Sprint store for "repair." They didn't offer any options except get a new SIM card, which they didn't have. I got one coming tomorrow.
Also, the tech apparently suggested that having Nova Launcher may have corrupted something. JFC GMAFB.
Does this sound like a SIM issue? Right now SIM CARD STATUS is n/a across the board.
It's fucked. Crazy thing, Google Maps doesn't indicate GPS problems, but every other app does, including the weather widget. Maybe GMaps gets by on wifi/wireless data. It disconnects from the network, and restarts with alarming frequency.
If I do get a free replacement when the new SIM card fails, I guess that's the way to go. If I have to pay a 200 deductible, it gets a little dicey.
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On 9/29/2019 at 6:26 PM, TwiceHorn said:
That twitter is great.
I don't think people are watching this video. A goat, a monkey, a pair of mongeese, and a special surprise.
It's made for surly.
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9 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
If this guy is some kind of drug dealer, how did that fact not come up during cross examination?
I find it hard to believe that information wouldn’t have been discovered by the DPD/DA when they investigated the people on the witness list.I'm sure it was known to the state. He was the state's witness.
Given some of the other slapdick behavior of the defense, it may not have been known to them.
The defense could have used any felony convictions that weren't overly prejudicial (judge call), to impeach his character for truthfulness. I'm not sure he had any and even if he did, damaging his credibility wasn't terribly important to the defense, unless perhaps it was his inability to hear Guyger issuing reasonable commands. Bad behavior or "bad acts" that don't result in convictions are hard to use against a witness.
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3 minutes ago, troph said:
NC's against lower level employees aren't going to be enforceable. but misappropriation of confidential information/trade secrets is still actionable, agreement in place or not.
I'm still stuck in the Light era, where you pretty much had to have trade secrets to have an enforceable covenant not to compete.
Is common calling back?
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This is going to come off as a bit dickish, but I guess it's unavoidable.
Why would a woman want to be in a long-term relationship with a guy that drinks so much he herfs up blood on a semi-regular basis.
Watching someone kill themselves in slo-mo is horrific and it usually doesn't involve blood.
Just trying to punch through some of the delusion.
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2 hours ago, ButtFumble said:
this case is a case of some stupid bitch that could simply not believe that she would ever be wrong and thus she had to be at the right apartment door and something was wrong that required her super police powers to rectify like busting in the door and shooting a shadow
This is pretty good, really.
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I mean, clearly all these schmoes are capitalizing on BBQ mania, and to the extent anyone's expecting decent smoked brisket, well yeah, that's an abomination. But we all know better than to expect that.
Firehouse seems especially confused, with brisket, cornbread and hot chicken sauce, but, whatever.
There are edible and tasty forms of brisket that aren't centex-style smoked. Personally, I think they should come with horseradish rather than other sauces/condiments. Hell . . . . Jews have been doing brisket longer than Texans have.
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9 minutes ago, KuЯdt said:
Well, it was a lot higher than Austin 😃
We started the 3 cross country rides at 7000 feet, and did 5-7 miles of climbing, followed by some fun descents. Each of those rides totaled about 2k of elevation gain, so I was gasping for air especially on the first day. However, it was more of a "get in the groove and grind" type climb - mostly smooth trail and constant grade. Not like around here where it's punchy and technical. Wasn't too bad by the 3rd day although my legs were about done.
The lift assist day started above 11k for each run, but of course it's downhill so no suffering just pure fun.
No fainting or puking? I can see a couple four five thousand feet being just what I need to start blowing chunks on the trail.
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How was the altitude?
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So is Gowdy resigning three months early? Wtf?
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:
Pssst. There ISN’T a GOP base. It’s been replaced in its entirety by the Trumpers. There are no normal cells left in the body. The whole thing is cancer.
Once you accept that, everything that’s happening makes sense.Right, but my point is that pre-Trump, they had no idea who their base was, hence Trump.
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11 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:
I totally agree with this. The only caveat is the polling numbers. I'm assuming large numbers of people don't know the difference between impeachment and actual removal from office. If that's the case, then the impeachment numbers look even worse. That means we're at 55% of people want the president impeached and removed from office. That's an astounding number.
The GOP is misreading their base here. They'll do what they're told. All it takes is a few sermons and three weeks worth of reassurance from Fox News. The GOP doesn't realize it but they have no political blowback from removing him. The Powers That Be know that already, is my guess.
You're right about the Dem strategy, though. The longer it takes they better they are.
I think the GOP has no fucking idea how to read their base and hasn't since sometime in the Obama administration. That's why we got Trump and they are slavishly following him because, unbelievable as it seems, the guy has a base and knows how to work it.
Also, I'm not sure it's any aspect of the investigation itself except that it provokes Donald to commit another outrage.
So, yeah, on the one hand, they've got what they need to be completely legit on impeachment, but on the other there may be value in keeping it going. If, somehow, Trump can restrain himself, it might go on too long.
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Haha, no. I'm a lawdog with flexible hours as long as I get my work done.
It was actually somewhat easier when the heat forced me to ride early in the morning. Now I can do "lunch breaks," or leave early as long as I don't have meetings or planned/conference calls. Somewhere upthread I mentioned taking work calls and even sending documents sitting astride my bike or on the side of a trail. I'm almost never "unavailable."
Since the rains departed, I ride 3-4 times a week, with one on the weekend. The rides themselves are rarely longer than an hour and a half, so if I work it right, it's a long lunch, or rolling in at 10:30 or 11. Or leave at 3.
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Just now, Chewbacca said:
Land Rovers have always been unreliable as shit. You know why the British drink warm beer? Because Lucas also makes refrigerators.
True, hence the parenthetical. But it got much much worse as they modernized the Range Rover.
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12 minutes ago, Okie State said:
Yes, agreed in general although I do like buying my wife a car that just works. You do understand that car enthusiasts are in the minority though, right? A whole lotta people out there give no shits about cars outside of it having Apple CarPlay and getting them from point A to point B. This is Toyota's target market with nearly every vehicle they make.
Valid observation, but equally true of Honda, and Honda isn't nearly as stagnant as Toyota. At least they do weird Honda shit.
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Land Rover had a similar philosophy of "tried and true" (but British, unfortunately) before doubling down and splitting eights on the Range Rover. They really got into reliability trouble then, trying to build a modern luxury vehicle.
I also read somewhere that Land Rover stuck with ancient everything because they felt they couldn't obsolete all the parts cached in African and Asian backwaters.
You kind of wonder if Toyota is losing or has lost its ability to innovate during this recent period of stagnation. That they abdicated the Supra to krauts gives this theory some legs.
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Really, it's all politics. There's plenty of evidence and enough investigation. Add this to the Articles and get on with it.




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