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TwiceHorn

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    I was pretty conflicted about some of my answers.  There was frequently a word or two in the questions that kind of wtf'ed me.

    Also may not have answered "strongly agree" (or disagree) enough.  I'm out on fanaticism, so there's that.

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    21 minutes ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

    Historically the police in the park cities are more concerned about someone hauling around dead hookers.  Well, at least since the late 80s.

    For Park Citizens, probably true.  Soon as they see your DL addy from some trashier locale, you might be in for a Bubba's dinner at the hoosegow.

    But, more seriously, unless you go Mockingbird west or Hillcrest north because you like traffic, you aren't gonna be in the Park Cities long.

  3. On 10/14/2019 at 9:11 PM, JohnnyRage said:

    Topo Chico is manufactured BS. Also, anyone that drinks mineral water out of a plastic bottle is a dolt.

     

    Yeah, I said it. 😉

    All true.  I usually drink cheap-ass Refreshe seltzer water.  But, Topo, with its extra-turbo carbonation, is something else.  Also the basic mineral water it's made from seems pretty tasty.

  4. On 10/13/2019 at 11:56 AM, BurntEyes said:

    If you'll allow me, I'll walk you through a list.

    My flight was delayed getting into Dallas Thursday.

    5 close friends didn't join me for dinner on Friday night at the place we always eat.

    There was a bitchy singer at the evening venue and someone I thought was a friend neglected to pay a fair substantial amount of money after saying they would.

    Not many hot chicks were out in Ellum. 

    GM didn't bring the new Corvette to the car show. Fucking assholes 

    I don't drink and it was a real bitch getting water or anything besides beer inside the fucking Cotton Bowl. I have a health issue related to my drinking past where that could cause me to have a seizure.

    We lost the game in a bad fashion. I think our head coach sucks. My friends mostly bailed after the game. I had to walk a long way from the stadium to get an Uber. Gaston road to be exact.

    Got in arguments here about our coaching.

    Got up early. Had to deal with TSA bullshit. Gotta long drive after my flight.

    Now... That was how I used to view shit. While all those things are true... Here is how I really see it, sans booze.

    Despite some big storms I still made it in to Dallas Thursday.

    I got to spend some quality time with my elderly mom on Friday and buy her, her birthday gifts early. I even got something nice for me at REI. 

    Despite the fact they couldn't join, 2 friends from high school, a family member and a friend from my college life wanted to join, but their life stuff got in the way, it was nice knowing they all still care about me.

    The dinner I had was fun with a couple of close friends, at a place I love. One of them dropping their pizza on the floor, which fell out of the to go box, was hilarious.

    One of those friends met his sister who deals with her own health issues. She was a very cool person and it widened my knowledge of my friend to see how they engaged. It reminded me of me and my sister who passed away. It was extremely heart warming.

    We went to a bar, and I feel like I might have helped 3 different people with their own drinking issues, if just in a minor way. I hope so. 

    The twaty lead singer was smoking hot.

    I got to the game early and the weather was amazing.

    The wife of the couple next to me offered to snag me water when she went to get a drink. Her husband was sober and we had a very nice repartee during the game. Crazy world, I'm pretty sure he's been through some similar stuff as me. We also had the exact same shoes on, and I promise, they were the only two pair of those shoes in the stadium. It was really cool.

    We didn't get blown out when, frankly we probably could have save a couple of interceptions.

    I didn't stay long, and I was really tired. I saved some tickets for next year and got to get home and watch the later games. Not only that but got some rest.

    Line was short at the airport. Got some grub and icecream. Don't need it, but fucking it, I didn't eat much fair food so...

    It's nice weather at home.

    I'm happy to be alive and I'm grateful for all of my friends and family.

    It was a great weekend. 

    Note to self: read the football sub less and continue to stay sober. 

    Today is a great day to be alive.

     

     

    The attitude of gratitude.  Nice work, my friend.

    Not a necessary condition for sobriety, but it comes along with it, and it's nice.  Easier to keep sane.

  5. 16 minutes ago, woohorn said:

    Can you park at Mockingbird Station Dart lot free and walk? Sounds too good to be true, but DART must have parking there.

    It's a little bit of a haul across Central, but doable.  I might consider parking at the Park Lane station and riding down.  Park Lane doesn't share its parking with retail and other like minded football fans.

  6. 16 minutes ago, Mole said:

    Thought and prayers for that hope. I predict pages 7-20 will be a mix of Axiom of Choice arguing with someone about ontology while a few other drive-by trolls drop bigoted statements about religious people.

    As to the OP, the politicization of religion is moving to be fully weaponized. Its only going to get worse with the coming election. I’ve seen cracks among my evangelical friends regarding their support for Trump (founded largely on abortion). These cracks have intensified with the Kurdish situation. Friends of mine who have worked with refugees from the region feel particularly betrayed. The only way to keep them in line and voting R is to amp up the religious identity politics.

    The devil is in the details though and some of the articles point have assumptions that aren’t fully founded. In the bakery and similar cases, I don’t see the question as one of church vs state but rather where the line is regarding free expression (a good thing) vs. anti-discrimination statutes (also good). There’s an inherent tension once you acknowledge the validity of religious beliefs that you might not agree with.

    Very solid post.

    I think your penultimate sentence (haha I used it!) might have been what The Clash meant about "cashing in the Bill of Rights."

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    1 hour ago, CowboyFred said:

    Don't know if anybody responded to this but I will go on record saying that I truly believe there is a second un-edited copy of the phone call.  Just judging by the acts of this administration, the way certain punctuation is used in the transcript (use of ellipsis) and the overall deviation from usual practices of transcript release.  The administration claims the use of ellipsis is for any point in the conversation that it became inaudible, but anybody who has experience with any sort of transcript of a phone call, hearing, deposition knows that it is common practice to use "inaudible" because the use of an ellipsis is most commonly used when removing text because it is superfluous to include it or because it should not be released (like a sealed indictment).  

    There are just too many deviations from standard practice and that coupled with the prior acts of this administration lead me to believe that the possibility of a "more complete" copy of the transcript existing.  Just fishy all around.

    Also, to be clear, I am not talking about anything to do with executive privilege or whatever else you're arguing with others about.  I am only responding to your request for someone else to go on record with this belief of another more complete transcript. 

    Yep, I find it difficult to believe that they bother eavesdropping on the call in an official capacity without creating both (or at least one of) a recording and a transcript of that recording.

    That they are stored on a very secure server is initially not nefarious at all.  

    And, none of this addresses whether any such recording or transcript has been altered or deleted by the Administration.

  8. On 10/17/2019 at 4:04 PM, Gene Parmesan said:

    That's fair.  I defer to the lawdogs who said the interview would have been recorded for potential shenanigans.

    One might think there would be corroboration (or not) of the kid's testimony.  Like the gun was found in her hand or near her body.  If that's not the case, not sure there's much point in putting the kid through that.

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    On 10/16/2019 at 12:40 PM, Catdaddyhorn said:

    https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article222794210.html

    "Sixteen complaints against a civil rights attorney from Philadelphia for practicing law in Texas without a license have been dropped, S. Lee Merritt announced on Friday.

    Merritt has gained attention for handling high-profile civil rights cases, mostly involving police misconduct allegations. This includes Jacqueline Craig of Fort Worth; the family of Jordan Edwards, who was killed by former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver; the family of O’Shae Terry, who was killed by an Arlington police officer in September; and the family of Botham Jean, who was killed by a Dallas police officer three months ago.

    Merritt’s ability to represent clients in Texas courts was challenged by the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, a panel established by the Texas Supreme Court. The committee filed a complaint in January in Tarrant County asking that a judge grant a temporary restraining order prohibiting Merritt from practicing law in Texas, but then filed a motion asking the court to withdraw that complaint. The group refiled in Collin County.

    In January, Merritt responded by saying that he only practices in Texas federal courts, making the complaint frivolous. Merritt also works in conjunction with licensed state attorneys, he has said. On Friday, Merritt said the Texas justice system was used as a tool to suppress the rights of the most vulnerable."

    He's actually based in Philly. The only reason he's been in the limelight so much in Texas is because we've had a number of high profile cases lately.  I doubt Crump and some of the other Civil rights attorneys passed the bar in every state in the union before becoming the public face for various civil rights violations across the land.  

    No, that is no doubt true (your last paragraph).  That he seems to usually associate Texas lawyers is a big help for his case.  Maintaining an office here is a bad thing for his case. 

    But, when a lawyer represents someone pro hac vice (provisional admission solely for the purpose of that case) in federal court in a state in which s/he is not admitted, they usually advise their client "at home" in a state where they are admitted.  For example, many lawyers from all over the US represented clients pro hac in the Eastern District of Texas when that was a thing in patent cases.  However, their basic attorney-client relationship existed in a state in which they are licensed.  To use Philly as an example, they represent a Pennsylvania HQ'ed corporation in Philly typically, and appeared in a litigation filed beyond their control in a Texas federal district court.

    It's rather odd for a non-Texas lawyer to represent a Texas client in a Texas court without being admitted there.  That it's a federal court case, standing alone, is not an answer to the unauthorized practice question.  That it's a federal case alleging purely federal claims goes a little further toward answering the question in his favor.

    It's almost trivial to waive into the Texas bar without taking the Texas Bar Examination, almost.  Not sure why he doesn't do it, either waive in or take the Texas Bar.

  10. Yeah sorry.  But you just knew that a thread about religion, would bring out the haters.

    I'm not a fan of bringing religion into politics or vice-versa.  But it can be a difficult line to toe where religion informs (or disinforms as the case may be) strongly held personal beliefs.  Just call them personal beliefs without resorting to religion, either way.

  11. 21 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    my company has that too. it's called responsible accounting. do you want a cookie?

    Most privately owned companies do not.

    Are you trying to prove that there isn't a war on religion?  Or that it's a one-man war comprised of you?  Or just that it's justified because of  . . .  wait for it  . . .  your beliefs.

  12. Speaking of the funnel, look at that 1930 pic.  That long tube with a giant circular opening is the funnel.  Wild.

    Also, all three of those flat surfaces were operational flight decks, although the middle one was damn near useless.

    Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the Kaga, lots of pix.

    This all reminded me that many of the large US warships launched in the 10's and 20's were electric drive.

  13. Probably the most interesting aspect of it is the response to Mr. Birde-mann's (birdman?  Fits) grievance on the family law attorney, Brandon, he hired to get unsupervised access to his kids.

    Although it seems his baby mama did him pretty dirty while he was knocked silly, there apparently was a goodly history of domestic violence prior to the accident.  

    Jeana Lungwitz is the director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at UT Law.  She, more accurately third-year law students, assisted baby mama in getting a DV protective order, which altered the custody arrangements.

  14. 16 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    I can't speak for the Methodists, but there was a time when a bunch of Episcopalians wanted to push us towards evangelical shitheadism. Fortunately most of the frozen chosen said "no thank you" and they just left the church. Of course, the ECUSA continues to lose membership at a steady rate.

    That was partially in jest, but those two denominations, among many, are rarely at the forefront of most shitheadism (love it).  There's also a healthy streak of flat out pinko (also jest) liberalism in both denominations, Roman Catholics, as well (birth control and divorce policies and molestation "policy" notwithstanding).

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    12 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Twice, what other organizations get property tax exemptions? I’m legit asking because I don’t know. It seems to me that there is no reason for a church to not pay property taxes but maybe I don’t understand the issue well enough.

    It depends on the state, and I didn't know until you asked, but Texas exempts property taxes for all charitable organizations, much like 501(c)(3).  https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/property-tax/exemptions/index.php.  Worth noting that while Texas has an exemption specifically for religious organizations and a separate one for charitable ones, there is significant overlap:  a religious organization must also qualify as a charitable organization.

    So, again, if a church otherwise qualifies as a charitable organization, denying exemption because it's religious would probably be a problem.

    But, again, closer examination of how "chartitable" or "non-profit" any organization is seems like a worthwhile thing to do.

    As usual, the IRS has some pretty good info on 501(c)(3) https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/exemption-requirements-501c3-organizations

  16. One thing about this Moto G7, the screen notifications that come up real time, like incoming phone calls, text messages, etc. are these huge white blocks.  They're super-readable, but less slick looking than the little banners from Samsung.  Is that what Android looks like?  I'm guessing so because the text app is messaging and the dialer is google.

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    There are two main ways "religion" avoids taxation.  There is an exemption in most states' codes for property taxes (and income taxes, if any).  And, for federal income taxation, they are 501(c)(3) exempt.  Many organizations other than churches are 501(c)(3) exempt.

    Eliminating 501(c)(3) for churches (rather than everything) would be legally problematic.  Eliminating it altogether would be problematic problematic.

    Eliminating the property tax exemption would probably be most immediately crippling to legitimate churches.

    Rigorously enforcing the proscriptions of 501(c)(3) on political activity and individual benefit, across the board, would probably be a good thing.

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