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  1. This is the first time in a looooong time you have seen more than a couple Texas hitters with .300 plus BAs in the early season.  Even with the advantages early season provides, we have had almost everyone sub .300 with 10 games.

  2. Well, first off they're from Waco.  Second, his name was Billy Wayne.  Florida is right.

     

    On a serious note, I don't know what is the proper reaction to witnessing an execution.  Violent outburst doesn't seem to be it, though.  It's a strange case.  The decendent had no prior criminal record and was non-violent and trouble-free for 30 years in prison.

    We just need to stop this shit.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Oh, I understand that this allegation doesn't have an SOL issue (although there's a reason that they rarely actually prosecute such stale crimes, even if the SOL hasn't run -- nobody remembers shit from 20 years ago, so your witnesses are largely worthless).  But I have experience with other cases where there WAS an expired SOL....and law enforcement conveniently leaves relevant facts out of their request for a warrant (like, facts that would demonstrate that the SOL had run).

    Oh totally agree.  Can you imagine trying a civil case over facts occurring 20 years past?  Just seems like legislators want to plaster bandaids all over child sex crimes and that's one of them.  Bandaids that have lost all their "stick."

  4. 8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Powerful law enforcement officials and groups digging up ANCIENT allegations (seriously, often way outside of any statute of limitations) to arrest people, seize property pursuant to a warrant, and generally make their lives hell?  

    This isn't a new play.  It's a rather common one.  For serious. 

    There is no statute of limitations on sexual assault of a minor.  While I guess I get that, I do look askance at prosecuting crimes that may have occurred 20 years ago or more.

  5. The rules require Mueller's report to explain any prosecution or declination decisions.  Obviously, he has declined to prosecute Teh Donald.  I think the rules require him to state something to the effect of "there is probable cause to believe the President committed the following offenses  . . . .  My office declined to prosecute based on 24 Op. OLC 222 (2000)"

  6. On 1/29/2019 at 9:00 PM, Bama Chick said:

     


    Because the Republicans wouldn’t hold a vote when Obama was in the White House.

    Kush got a bill through the Democrats wanted. Big whoop.

    Obama's record on prison reform, criminal justice, and related issues was pretty bad for a liberal.  He even fucked off his clemency plan.

    And, the prison reform bill, in its various forms, has always been primarily sponsored by Rs, and, gasp, the Koch Brothers.   It sort of defies expectations.

  7. Gawd, that article:

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    The next day, when some of the jurors talked to reporters, it emerged that there had at first been some sentiment for con­victing Mays on all counts, but it had subsided because the jurors were not cer­tain that Mays had acted “willfully, knowingly, and intentionally” on the night Randy Webster died. And there was obviously a great deal of sympathy among the jurors for the young policemen. “Nobody wanted to convict the young men,” one juror told a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, “but we couldn’t get around the throwdown gun.

    Beam me up, Scotty.  I've had enough.  I'd join Brisket on the ledge, but people have been this stupid for as long as I have been alive.

  8. 46 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

    This case was the first thing that came to my mind, I remember very well  reading the story in Texas Monthly when it was published nearly 40 years ago. This would not be the first rodeo for HPD.

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-throwdown/

    Geezus shit dicks.  Forty years this has been going on.  This was even before the Drug War got started bigtime and Congress went batshit on crime.

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    Then Webster went to the district at­torney’s office and called on the assistant DA who presented police shooting cases to grand juries, a man named Tommy Dunn. A career civil servant, Dunn had been with the DA’s office for 23 years. He had handled thirty or forty police shooting cases before grand juries, never doubting for a minute that the officer had been in the right. He was very much a part of the law enforcement community. He knew what a tough job being a policeman was, and he had very little sympathy for criminals.

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    “Why the hell would policemen put down an unloaded gun?” Dunn asked. He said he would believe the police ver­sion of the story until it was proven wrong. But he did give Webster the name of the taxi driver: Billy Dolan.

    I saw Thin Blue Line, and that pricked my ears up (and the Adams case occurred in 1976).  I remember being particularly disgusted by daring Doug Mulder, the DA that tried Adams. I dunno, I thought this phenomenon had expanded in the 80s.

  9. 1 hour ago, retread said:

    Yeah, interesting to consider. It was a different time where there was a significant stigma attached to infidelity. Hillary was both pilloried and praised for standing by her man.

    Honestly, I don't see how he would have suffered any repercussions outside of bad press and maybe some D losses at the ballot box. You're right that the Rs were 100% invested in getting something.

    Was it really a different time though?  AFAIK, infidelity is still frowned upon. A disqualifier from holding office, apparently not, as demonstrated then, and  . . .  more recently.

  10. 36 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    I want to jump on this before this catches.

    Feeling Clinton should've been impeached and convicted and that "R" or "D" doesn't matter, this doesn't mean both sides are equally bad. It means we hold both sides to a consistent standard. And Trump has clearly gone much further below that standard than Clinton did. Both fall short of the standard, but Trump falls much much shorter

    Twas in jest, my dude.

  11. (cost or value at acquisition)/number of owners = cost basis

    (sale price of share - cost basis) x capital gain tax rate = your taxation

    Costs of sale (realtor, lawyer, etc) add to cost basis.  If it was inherited, it was probably assigned a value during the probate and on the Estate Tax Return, and you are probably stuck with that.  Otherwise, you might be able to fudge it upward a little. Minimizing your taxes would involve some lyin, if not outright fraud.

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