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Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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9 minutes ago, zlavydra said:
TX southern has a team ERA of 13.71. Is that good?
Jack Neely thought it would be pretty good for about a week.
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11 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
I don't think that this line of reasoning ends at a place where AOC wants to go. For example apply the logic of social responsibility to individuals.
Should WF run criminal background checks on all of their mortgage and auto loan applicants? Should they establish clear criteria that would make certain individuals with a criminal history ineligible for home or auto financing. Example history of DWI results in rejection of an auto loan, or history of a drug distribution offense results in turning down a mortgage as a result of some risk assessment that the individual may use the financed asset in a way that is not socially responsible. I don't think that that is where AOC wants to go with things. Opens up a huge can of worms, imo. How about we expect banks to operate under the regulatory frameworks that has been established and assess risk associated with the financial transaction and leave the social engineering overlay out of it.
It's one way to regulate capitalism, sure, but I think it's way the hell down the list of viable and effective ways to do it that won't cripple the economy.
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On the mountain biking, I have heard repeatedly that although early spring temps can be mild during the day, the freeze/thaw cycle makes a mess of the trails.
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3 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:
Seems like the FBI devoted a ton of assets to this, makes me wonder how long it will be before they seize all of the university campuses under asset forfeiture.
As much fun as this is, it does kind of beg for a cost-benefit analysis, and also a "don't they have something better to do"?
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9 minutes ago, elfenix said:
then again, if the bank made a car loan to a known drug dealer, and said drug dealer had his car tied up in civil asset forfeiture, the bank probably wouldn't be able to use the innocent lienholder defense. so i guess the question is if the bank made a loan in reckless (or worse) disregard for what its borrower was doing, should the bank be held liable?
In your scenario, the bank isn't "held liable," it just loses the ability to exercise its rights. Which is more than somewhat akin to the bank's customers tanking because of shoddy business practices and the bank taking a loss on its loans. The bank pays a price for its lending practices, but isn't independent liable for the torts or crimes of its debtors.
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11 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:
there is already forced mediation for some claims in TX. Leg likely to expand the scope. Don't forget there are 3 parties aside from the insured: doctor, insurer, and facility. It's wicked complicated.
Something you hear now and then is that medicine ought to be treated more like engineering than the mythical black art that it has been accepted as for centuries. When you start talking engineering, you're starting to look at something that can be quantified like a damage and repair estimate for a car or building. So it seems like that is something that might ought to be doable. Public medical appraisers or something. I dunno.
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51 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Convince your health insurance company to give you the $80K in cash prior to a hospital stay, and the hospital will happily take the cash from you.
Actually, the problem with that is that there is no such thing as a "health appraiser" or "health adjuster" that can give a fairly objective estimate of the cost of care. There is the provider and the insurer, and they are irretrievably conflicted.
That's not to say that "health care adjustment" is impossible; it just doesn't exist. Maybe it should.
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How's the weather down there? Gonna get the TSU game in?
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1 hour ago, triplehorn said:
I'm not sure I fully grasp your conflict of interest angle, but Mueller wasn't tasked to or limited to specifically investigate Exec branch employees or Trump/family for events in 2016. While it is inclusive of the Trumps, any evidentiary co-mingling they face would be incidental.
Setting aside TrumpCo involvement, Mueller's investigation is not about examining a static event in the past for potential crimes. It's an active dynamic interface with multiple entities involved in an ongoing pattern of corruption, criminality, and emerging national security threats. Bringing indictments, sealing them or not, timing the release of indictments, and pressuring for cooperation from witnesses to deepen other tranches of Mueller's work all become interwoven as tactical measures for combating active and emerging counterintelligence threats. Conceivably, Trump and family could represent a "middle phase" of Mueller's investigation into Russia's role, international bank money laundering, transnational criminal organizations, and their impact on efforts to undermine our democracy and Western alliances.
Mueller may get fired in the "middle phase" and I'd expect contingencies are in place, but for Mueller to be protected and allowed to captain a very large ship could be the current optimal arrangement post-Trump/family indictments.
Because without a presidential/executive conflict of interest there is no justification for a special counsel.
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1 hour ago, bigup2dahorns said:
As a private school, I think Stanford has fewer concerns about giving someone due process on termination than does Texas.
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34 minutes ago, Js1 said:
I read they offered him a book scholarship, he took it, enrolled and then quit the team.
Do they really have to get a scholarship to get reduced, "afolete" admission standards?
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12 hours ago, triplehorn said:
Given the deadline for current funding through next Sept was 10/1/18, I agree with you. But, for all the chatter last week suggesting Mueller is ready to wrap it up, it again feels like this could keep going on awhile.
A thought I keep returning to re the timing of Mueller’s work is that this is an ongoing counterintelligence investigation into continuous active conduct by perps to redouble and deepen their efforts in the face of what occurred in 2016. So I imagine there must be real time countermeasures being created based on new information from subjects, further IC observations, and more analysis to navigate going forward.
There is something potentially invaluable to our nat sec interests in allowing certain individuals and relationships to proceed under scrutiny for some period of time.
It seems to me, though, that a CI investigation is not as subject to conflict-of-interest as investigation of executive branch employees and family/employees of Trump, and therefore can proceed without as much fear of executive interference as the matters Mueller was engaged to investigate. In other words, I'm not sure it's necessary to prolong the Mueller investigation to pursue that investigation.
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One of the cooperating witnesses, who has pled guilty, was the Director of College Entrance Exam Preparation at IMG Academy.
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Where it starts to matter is with ACA plans, which, as far as I can tell, all have deductibles of about 6-7000/12-14000. The lower tier ones (with premiums under or at about $1500/month for a family) cover very little prior to hitting that deductible, so you are a cash customer until then. That means there is some incentive to spend that out-of-pocket money wisely.
There is some notion that the ACA "catastrophic" model is how health "insurance" should be handled in the future, which will increase the need for spending the deducible wisely.
Of course, countering this incentive is that the lower cost plans have very narrow networks, so there isn't any choice to exercise the competitive price option. And, of course, the deductible scenario itself disincentivizes spending it wisely (might as well burn through that fucker and get what you pay for).
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They allege that Huffman and her husband "made a purported charitable contribution of $15,000...to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter. Huffman later made arrangements to pursue the scheme a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so."
Don't have much opinion on Huffman. People liked her in Sports Night, I think, but:
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Hospitals.
Hospitals need to get their ration of shit in this. They have successfully avoided it so far.
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She had some problems, but she was funny as hell.
The lege, the lege going to fist city, and shrub are some of hers that have stuck with me through the years.
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2 hours ago, triplehorn said:
DoJ funds Special Counsel Investigation through next September ?
Looking at this through the lens of funding seems to add another dimension to Pelosi's remarks today about slow walking impeachment.
That seems like a stretch. According to the article, the Special Counsel has to submit a budget request before 10/1 of a given year for the following year. Whatever that budget is "funds the special counsel through September," that is, until the end of the fiscal year. It's not like they do quarterly budgeting or something.
Also wow at Preet Bharara, he's quite the media boy. Someone needs to shit on his head for giving Wall Street a pass. https://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2017/03/taking-of-critical-perspective-on-the-work-of-former-us-attorney-for-sdny-preet-bharara.html
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20 minutes ago, Parliament said:
He's an infected asshole. Ie, "a lawyer good at his job." He got what he deserved.
I don't know that he got anything, except some bad publicity (and probably a number of new client contacts from maniacs like Holmes). I'm not sure he was an investor, I don't recall. But, as Elihu Root wisely noted, half the job of any decent lawyer is to tell his client he's a damn fool and should just stop. Before this, I would have rated him one of the best, if not the best, lawyers of the last 25 years and would have expected him to haved heeded Root's advice regularly.
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On another note, it would be interesting to know some details about her home life growing up. There were some allusions in Carreyrou's book to some fairly aberrant behavior by her parents. It might have an innocent explanation, but it kind of sounded like they did a pretty good deal of pretending themselves.
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I lost a lot of respect for David Boies, both for being hoodwinked by her and for doing her evil bidding and doing it evilly.
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On 3/5/2019 at 3:49 PM, TwiceHorn said:
Slab foundations didn't really become popular until after the war, so I doubt it's a slab.
One thing you kind of have to watch for with older houses, particularly in more rural areas, is that the piers are actually drilled and sunk piers, rather than piles of rocks or even tree stumps, or concrete blocks sitting on the ground. It's still more easily repaired than a slab most of the time, plus the plumbing and wiring benefits. But if one of those "piers" moves, it could make a mess as regards drywall/plaster
32 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:So this is not what a pier and beam foundation is supposed to look like?
JFC, beyond my wildest imagination.
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So I saw in a TM post/article that a Riscky progeny has some new joint/stand in FW. Wonder if he learned how to cook BBQ somewhere?
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On 3/4/2019 at 2:51 PM, ztejas said:
I'm not sure a diner should have "chicken tenders" or mashed potatos with skin in them. Brussels sprouts are debatable. It's very corporate masquerading as home style. IIRC it was a one-off Black Eyed Pea, RIP (never much liked it either).
Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
in Daily Texan
Posted · Edited by TwiceHorn
For once, I'm not bitching about their jurisdiction. I agree that only the FBI could/should handle this. But you have 36 parental defendants, most of whom are couples, so you're looking at something like 18-20 kids that benefited from this fraud. Out of how many college applicants/freshmen?
Maybe we should be grateful that they aren't entrapping terrorists or helping local cops make HUMAN TRAFFICKING!!!11!!! arrests.