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Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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4 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:
Anybody in Texas should be fucking embarrassed. Well, all of us as Americans should be sad and embarrassed.
For what it's worth, that's a state court sentence that she will serve less than half of. Manafort is down for 0.85x47 months.
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Typical fucking white collar sentence. I said it once before in connection with the plea deal, which called for double that, but that's too low. Take note because you won't see me write it often.
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So, ontological gentlemen, somehow along the line, I completely missed out on formal logic. Do any of you have any suggestions for familiarizing oneself with the discipline? Britannica has a fairly comprehensive entry, it seems, but open to education.
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On 3/5/2019 at 10:23 AM, Hugo Stiglitz said:
It would be awesome if we had more conservatives that could argue and defend their positions with thoughtful analysis.
Sadly true. Unfortunately, the GOP hasn't put forth a defensible position on anything in a decade or more. Well, wait, prison reform. They did that, in a very half-ass fashion, but they did it.
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1 hour ago, Incredulity said:
Put it in writing isn't really an impediment. I doubt any medical professional/organization would go far beyond a extremely basic analysis of a document.
I think what he means is that the decedent should express his own intention in some tangible form, rather than have family speak for his intentions, which is kind of a hazy, hazardous business.
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Sheriff Bobby Walnuts on the case.
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We all white debbils.
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That's insane on multiple levels. Not blaming the victim, but if your opponent is shithouse crazy enough to pull a long gun on you in the street in broad daylight, it's probably time to consider GTFO.
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4 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
I don’t think our strategies are mutually exclusive. I agree we should do everything in the short term to oust Trump and the GOP from power. We shouldn’t attempt to pander for the Trumper votes.
However, how we approach Trump supporters in our daily lives shouldn’t be met with the same dismissal and scorn. They are usually the ones to bring up politics first and when they do we shouldn’t just let their hateful and misinformed rhetoric go unchallenged. This is the hardest part because it’s uncomfortable and will have consequences but if you remain silent you’re part of the problem. JMO.
Yep, not giving these people any kind of voice other than to call them deplorable and talking about their guns and religion is a big reason we're in this fix. There's a larger sociological issue pertaining to education and opportunity, as well, but I think simply giving these people the dignity of a debate a decade or two ago (when actual debate was possible) would have avoided a lot of this.
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Not directly relevant to medical ethics, but how bizarre. His parents intend to inseminate a surrogate and raise the child in order to preserve their name? Chinese, man.
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14 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
If Robert Kraft was a no-name retiree on a fixed income, he would still have been indicted/arrested for this crime. Cops and DAs almost universally have a policy to publicly embarrass johns in an attempt to stop them. So he would have had his mug shot and/or name in the local press but only people that personally knew him would have noticed it. This happens in Houston every few months. you see the pics in the Houston Chronicle website and EVERYONE scrolls thru them to see if they know anyone.
Now when the cops and DA have a chance to scare off more johns by over-publicizing a famous person, they are going to use that leverage.
As far as the DA wanting attention, water is wet. That is the definition of a politician so its a moot point.
Well, implicit in the criticism is the grotesque amount of taxpayer money and law-enforcement resources that went into this. Wouldn't surprise me if it was in the millions of dollars.
For a bunch of misdemeanors.
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I'm not sure anyone is conflating the two, other than the authorities. Some of us are just using this particular arrest to vent our spleens on a troubling law enforcement topic..
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20 hours ago, sushihorn said:
Probably some ambitious politician looking for publicity to make a move for higher office. It's the same thing that usually leads to prosecutorial abuses like withholding evidence from the defense to get conviction rates up. Unlike the run of the mill defendant, Kraft has the resources to make this blow up in the face of the prosecution.
It's not a single politician though. Trafficking is a federal priority. That means the FBI is on the case and it's doling out money and things to local law enforcement and forming "task forces" with them. It's a very distorted situation that I have been grousing about for a couple of years.
Pay attention, you hardly see a hooker/john bust anywhere in the country that isn't trumpeted as some "human trafficking111!!!11!" bust. Then you have things like this https://www.theblaze.com/news/texas-couple-guilty-slavery-africa
The next time they arrest an actual large-scale human trafficker will be close to the first.
Yes, it's a disgusting and horrific crime, but ask yourselves what they are actually doing about it? The answer seems to be jackshit other than tooting their own horn.
It's kind of like MADD, which at least was a citizen initiative. Did DWI need some enhancing as to enforcement and penalty? Probably, yes. Has it gone too far and turned into an abusive revenue generator for cities and counties? You bet your fur it has.
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Seems to have been theme related. I was on Default which is ok now but wasn't. Switched to main and back and that seems to have fixed it. Chose copy of main amd borkorama.
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Improving
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Css seems reliablly back on both. Still slow initially and searches.
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Firefox and Samsung Mobile.
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Now CSS is back? Still sloooooow. Sloths and old people copulating.
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Proper borked. Borked beyond all recognition. BUBAR.
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Also, an engineer is less likely to be an insincere bullshit artist than most, so there is that.
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On 2/28/2019 at 12:37 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:
I thought acceptance rates at top schools was 20% or less so I don't see how it's considered easy to get into them. You obviously have some percentage that have no business applying but there are still many highly qualified applicants that don't get in.
MBA programs tend to like engineers quite a bit.
And the bit about engineers being socially challenged is horseshit. The biggest collection of awkward, green-eyeshade power tools I have ever been around was found at 727 E. 26th, not at 26th and Speedway.
One thing that is rather conspicuous about engineers is poor communication skills, especially written. That skill just atrophies in a lot of areas of the profession.
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5 minutes ago, triplehorn said:
I have zero expectation that the Manhattan DA would indict Trump even it could. There appears to be an order and coordination to this sprawling investigatory and prosecutorial process across jurisdictions. The longer this goes with Trump coming unglued on Twitter while appearing powerless to do anything, the more people and organizations linked to him we learn about that are in legal jeopardy. And now 8 weeks in, new House investigations are starting to roll. Manhattan DA ? naw.
I was really commenting more on the passage you quoted than anything you said or endorsed. I do think states are more likely to get away with sealed indictments tolling limitations.
What's a shame and a disgrace is that NY state authorities didn't move on Trump 5 or 10 years ago. All of this shit could have been easily avoided. But, NY state is really corrupt, so whaddaya want from me? Fugeddaboutit.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
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Yeah, non-violent crime, less than 10 year sentence, he will be at low or minimum, possibly medical.
I bet Jackson gives him about 5, consecutive. She won't stack the two charges because they're basically the same criminal episode, but since it's unrelated to the ED Va case, I bet she makes it consecutive rather than concurrent.