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TwiceHorn

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  1. 22 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    The thing that 3 days illustrates is that you're stubborn af.  That's terrible news until you decide to get help, and great news once you change your mind about that.  Also not an atypical trait for alcoholics.  I'm going to discard the word "hardcore" here but keep addict.  It's at least kinda binary.  The thing that demonstrates to me that you are an addict is almost anything else, but lets go with the next sentence where you've convinced loved ones that you've checked into rehab and have no recollection of how you did so.  That's some of that gooooood addict shit.  No problem man, nothing we haven't heard or done before.

    Real life will catch up, what you're up to now is not sustainable.  Having been there and understanding what it is like, a lot of us here are really hoping that it catches up in a way that is not destructive to others and ultimately saves your life.  If you have family that has taken you in, my advice would be to ask them for help, or come clean and see what they have to say.  Far easier said than done, although really it's not the doing that is tough, it is the deciding to do.  The first jump.  Going back to the diving in the pool metaphor - it's not actually hard to do, it's hard to ignore your fear and build up the determination in the same instant to launch yourself in.  I think a blueprint for how to admit it might be something like "guys, I can't stop drinking.  I'm scared of what my life might be.  I need help." and then things might flow from there.  I'm a pussy, when a friend texted me asking wtf is going on with me I did some woe is me "hey man i'm sorry if you have to cut me loose i understand" and then a few hours later I was in a hospital, and 4 years later I'm sober and living a kickass life and enjoying myself as I do it.  There might be twists and turns along the way but if you can

    a) decide that you're not going to be able to fix this

    b) get some immediate help to fix this

    c) take a break from running shit and let other folks run your life for a bit

    d) and then turn that magnificent stubbornness on not taking a drink and employing the habits and thought patterns that can help you do that every day

    the outlook is good.

    You don't need to be two pints in on hard liquor to feel good.

    And stop kidding yourself about "feeling good."  You feel like shit.

  2. 1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Just now getting into King. Finished Joyland and just started The Stand. Obviously Joyland isn't a classic King book, but it was a fun little read. The Stand feels like it's going to be great 150 pages in.

    Joyland was fun.  "Wearing the fur" cracked me up.

  3. My problem with it is that a certain segment of the population, here and elsewhere, tends to get lost in the weeds trying to find that big smoking gun somewhere, when you have shell casings and powder residue all over the place and the dipshit in chief has these big black stains on his hands.

    It may not be exactly the same thing, but the endless and breathless conspiracying regarding the subjects of the Mueller investigation ended up blunting the impact of obvious criminality and impeachable offenses.

    Where is the need for speculation about further criminality and corruption when it's staring you right in the face.  Some of it is the natural tendency of message boards to drill down on something and tear it to absolute pieces.  But that tendency has spilled off the internet into the public debate and is befouling the whole process, imo.

  4. 30 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

     

    Hundred, I'm sorry you're going through this and sorry I didn't see your posts until now. In a crisis, you're better off calling AA Intergroup to talk to someone rather than hoping someone sees a post on a message board and is able to get in touch with you directly. The Hill Country Intergroup's number is 512-444-0071; save that in your phone. 

    I don't think three days of abstinence "justifies that you're not a hard core addict", but I think the fact that you think it might is probably indicative of something. 

    Don't put labels on this. Don't get hung up on "loser" or shit like that. You're a broken human being who needs help getting sober. That's all you gotta know right now.

    Man, I read a couple of posts, replied to them, and skipped right over that.  It's merely annoying on other threads, when you wind up posting the same or similar thing to someone else.  Pretty regrettable here.

    And yeah, Intergroup can probably send you a booze ninja 24/7.

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    4 minutes ago, Pasken said:

    I don’t know what your politics are but that’s a pretty stupid statement given the server.

    The server is not a given.  Is it beyond the reach of legal process?  If things were handled in the "normal way" is there any evidence that it would be public?  I suppose it might reduce the number of readers of any transcript.

    The corruption, the election violation, and the abuse of power are evident on the face of the "memorandum."  We don't need anything else.  It's like quid pro quo.

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    24 minutes ago, suddenly shaggy said:

    You, like many of our right-wing posters, have a curious habit of a near perfect memory for convenient evidence and simultaneous ability to be unaware of basic, but inconvenient, evidence. 

    You must have missed nearly every article written about the whistleblower's allegations and almost all of our discussion. It's literally one of the biggest abuses of power alleged in the whistleblower complaint. I guess you didn't read the coverage, or the whistleblower complaint, or participate on here while it was discussed and you must have inexplicably missed one of the central points of the allegations. 

    It was also widely discussed when Trump released the memorandum you, like the rest of the GOP, continues to disingenuously try to call a "transcript". I guess you missed all of that too.

    The normal way is that these memoranda are prepared and circulated to relevant staff, ambassadors, agencies etc. The abnormal way is that someone in the Trump administration immediately intervened in the aftermath of these calls, illegitimately classified the documents and hid them in a codeword-level server to prevent disclosure of the President's crimes. This, according to literally every reputable article yet published on the matter, is different from how these are normally handled and I should hope the fuck so.  

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/03/odd-markings-ellipses-fuel-doubts-about-rough-transcript-trumps-ukraine-call/

     

     

    I am not a member of the GOP and have not been since prior to 2016.  I probably did vote for an odd republican in the last state election.

    I am aware of the allegations that it was stored somewhere different than usual.  I maintain that it's not terribly material.

    I will no longer engage with you because you have a habit of reading into my posts things that are not there because you think you know what my politics are.

    Good day.

     

  7. 1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

    In my limited understanding, the use of the code word server is generally reserved for extraordinary circumstances where the contents of the conversations are extremely sensitive to national security. This server is not used for regular conversations between the president and other foreign leaders. “Code Word” designation is like the top level of top secret. Beyond top secret. 
     

    Moron presidents having moron conversations don’t usually qualify. They are abusing the government classification system to cover up obvious criminal activity. This isn’t hard. They are not good criminals. 

    See my previous post.  Yeah, it's a clumsy way to try to bury it.

  8. 29 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I'm not giving anyone any benefit of any doubt.Do you think state conversations are or should be stored on an insecure server?  The internet perhaps?  What IS THE NORMAL WAY?  No one is talking about that.

    Now, maybe you can talk about how no one but Trump loyalists or family members have access to that server.  But no one is doing that. 

    I'm talking through a) the likely existence of both or either a recording or a transcript and b) its likely storage on a fairly secure server in response to questions about same.  That's not defending anything.  

     I don't give a fuck if only copy of the transcript is printed out and sitting in someone's desk drawer or a file cabinet, or that the recording is on an 8-track tape.  What the fuck difference does it make where it's stored?  It's not going to be public in any event.  

    Bitch about non-disclosure if you want to, that's fine. No one is saying if it were handled "in the normal way" the White House press corps or Bob Mueller or Preet Bharara would already have a copy.  

    Clarifying.  It seems to me that where exactly it's stored, short of the extremely unlikely publicly accessible location, it's going to take legal action to get Trumpco to cough it up.  Thus, to me, its storage location is not material.

    And, if Trumpco refuses to cough up a complete transcript, then any fact finder should be entitled to construe the "memorandum" against him.

  9. 47 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Some of those old carriers looked like they had a high center-of-gravity.  I mean, I know they used lots of scaffolding, wooden flight decks, etc., and that there was a lot of heavy shit below the waterline, but still, they look like they could make a turn just a little too fast and everything is going down.

    Yeah, may not have actually been the case, but the sheer height of the flight deck above the gunwales of the Kaga (way higher than Langley or Argus) is strange and top heavy looking.

    My first impression of Kaga and Akagi was from either an illustrated book on Midway or maybe a model box.  Something like this that really exaggerates it:

    Toku_SP20_a__59565.1481174642.jpg?c=2

  10. 2 hours ago, suddenly shaggy said:

    I know you are a lawyer, but you need to stop giving these criminals the benefit of the doubt every time. They've long ago lost any assumptions that they are being truthful and forthcoming. If Trump is talking, he is lying and it's the same for his entire administration and the bulk of the GOP. 

    Trump is abusing his power and selling American interests out for personal and business reasons. There are also transcripts of conversations with Putin and MBS hidden in that codeword sensitive server. Wouldn't surprise me if there are some Erdogan conversations as well. 

    It's nefarious as fuck. The evidence is being hidden by his co-conspirators in a codeword sensitive system rather than being handled in the normal way to prevent discovery of the President's crimes. 

    I'm not giving anyone any benefit of any doubt.Do you think state conversations are or should be stored on an insecure server?  The internet perhaps?  What IS THE NORMAL WAY?  No one is talking about that.

    Now, maybe you can talk about how no one but Trump loyalists or family members have access to that server.  But no one is doing that. 

    I'm talking through a) the likely existence of both or either a recording or a transcript and b) its likely storage on a fairly secure server in response to questions about same.  That's not defending anything.  

     I don't give a fuck if only copy of the transcript is printed out and sitting in someone's desk drawer or a file cabinet, or that the recording is on an 8-track tape.  What the fuck difference does it make where it's stored?  It's not going to be public in any event.  

    Bitch about non-disclosure if you want to, that's fine. No one is saying if it were handled "in the normal way" the White House press corps or Bob Mueller or Preet Bharara would already have a copy.  

  11. 6 minutes ago, TexasDPT said:

    At the 1:00 mark, this is why Texas will never be a strong ball control team.

    Jerritt coaches them to "play the ball high, 20 ft, and 10 ft off (the net)"...meaning the back row players are already planning to pass the ball near or behind the 3 meter line and therefore limiting options in the transition offense.  The only place the setter can put the ball is to the left pin (the typical Texas offense for the past decade). 

    Even with hard driven balls, you still want to try to pass the ball 3-5 ft off the net, so that the setter can run an offense with more attack options and to keep the opposing defense guessing where the ball is going.  But he doesn't coach that and focuses so much more with blocking to slow down the ball (which, in itself, is a good thing).  

    But when Texas starts facing opposing teams with elite hitters, the block becomes a non-factor and the weakness in passing/ball control is truly exposed (pretty much every post-season tournament run minus 2012 - but no team could really stop Haley/Bailey that year even though every team knew they were getting the ball).

    Texas has had some of the most elite hitters in the country in recent history: Destinee Hooker, Juliann Faucette, Bailey Webster, Haley Eckerman, and Paulina Prieto-Cerame...but none of them could pass as a left-side hitter at the next level and because of that, most had their careers end early (all of them had to transition to the Opposite position after college but Hooker is the only one who made the move successful). 

    Elliott has done so much for the Texas program, but this will always be the thing he is remembered for.

    So you're saying Jerrit is a big fan of this song:

     

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    Edited by TwiceHorn

    On 10/1/2019 at 9:17 PM, TwiceHorn said:

    To give an idea of how hard a Monell claim is to make out, apparently, in the Jordan Edwards/Balch Springs case, Balch Springs had no policy at all concerning the use of deadly force.

    Judge Lynn has dismissed the Monell claim at least once with an opportunity to re-plead to allege sufficient facts and the plaintiffs are now on their second or third try.

    Looking around in connection with the Jefferson case, I see that Judge Barbara Lynn also has the Guyger civil suit.  And, like the Edwards suit, the Magistrate Judge has recommended that the Monell claims against the City of Dallas be dismissed for failure to state a claim.  Meaning, the City of Dallas is off the hook.

    Judging by the Edwards case, the decision is likely to stick at the trial level.  And given that Lynn is a smart judge and the reviewing court would be the Fifth Circuit, it's likely to become permanent.

    I'm not sure if this is shitty lawyering by the attorneys or just representative of the difficulties of pleading and proving a Monell claim.

    The reporting of the magistrate's decision indicates that the fact that Guyger was off-duty, and not acting in an LEO capacity makes it even less likely that she was acting pursuant to a policy or practice of DPD.  That angle on it had not occurred to me.

  13. What a shitshow.

    The damages claimed in a civil suit would mostly go to her estate, to be distributed according to her will or intestate succession.

    However, some close family members may be able to claim their own damages for loss of  consortium, which requires a pretty close relationship.  This may be angling toward that.

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