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TwiceHorn

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  1. Should such thing as a Rapture come to pass, I am fairly certain that the Tim Dunns of the world will be left behind.
  2. Although it is one particular defendant's motion, all the lawyers for all the defendants have probably joined it and are present in any event to argue if needed or merely to observe.
  3. Well, I think this is a nice example of what happens when a normal person decides to stop drinking. And resume, temporarily. Many of us probably could have pulled off the June stoppage, with some difficulty, probably detox. But Christmas would have been a shit show.
  4. You probably get this, but it seems the one outward symptom that characterizes us is the tendency to craving and relapse even after detox and months or years of sobriety, hence my thought on the five year relapse rate. I suspect that the major barrier to the sobriety of the oxy-era opiate/oid addict is detox and once that is done, they're probably sober for good. The wild cards there being do they return to an environment of heavy usage, like meth addicts seem to, and do they continue to have pain management problems that get them back on the pill track,
  5. Yeah it resembles classic alcoholism/addiction in a lot of ways, but I'd be willing to bet that if you tracked the five year relapse rate, among most opioid "addicts" of the prescribed>street pills>heroin>fentanyl variety, you'd find a lot fewer relapses than among conventional addicts.
  6. Yeah it's that and the dopesickness that accompanies physical dependence and withdrawal. I think people become so accustomed to "relief" that they lose their ordinary capacity to deal with untreated pain and the additional pain of withdrawal, and so keep using despite the consequences.
  7. I can't prove it, but some docs back this up: if you are in actual pain the euphoric effect is somewhat attenuated and less likely to be addictive. And, best evidence seems to be that tendency to addiction is genetic, so either you will or won't find drugs entertaining in a pathological way. Finally, I think the opioid epidemic is not classical addiction, but rather people experiencing chronic pain and dopesickness that don't power through it before they OD or get pretty strung out. In other words, a primarily physical addiction, not the combination of physiological and psychological involvement that characterizes classic addiction.
  8. Agreed. I am sure when he read the report, he struggled with releasing it and rued the day he appointed a "bipartisan" special counsel. An article on lawfare talking about how the SC rules are flawed, references another article explaining the flaws in more general terms. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-special-counsel-regulations-strike-again I disagree with the article's premise that Garland overrelies on the Special Counsel rules, citing the Pence investigation. He's right that the rules are just rules and can basically be ignored, unlike a statute (which can also be ignored, but it's more conspicuous). But the Pence investigation is not a good comparison because Pence was not a candidate at the time it opened or concluded. A Special Counsel arrangement is probably good government, but the prior statute was controversial and sunsetted, leaving DOJ to make these rules. Because the rules are there, a straight shooter like Garland is going to follow them, even if he doesn't have to.
  9. 160 in a German market 928 on west 635 about 1992 or so. Belonged to a USAF instructor pilot and had a speedo in kph. 260 looked pretty cool.
  10. Apparently, biliary colic is one of the worst pains you can endure and traditional opiates aren't usually real good for it. Keterolac, which is non-narcotic hyper NSAID, is really effective for it, but causes bleeding, so it has to be stopped before surgery.
  11. Well, right as to the RAF and European forces, particularly in the late 30s and early 40s before we even entered the war. That whole officer-aristocrat-nobleman thing was going on that never was as entrenched in the US military and even less so by the time we entered the war and mobilized thousands of reserve officers and then started pumping them out by V12.
  12. I mean, my Dad was an officer and a gentleman and the US Navy had the sense not to make officers wear neckties in combat and hazard situations.
  13. Yeah, I have a bump as well. The only lingering effect is that I can feel the tissue over the bump kind of "hanging" on it as it adjusts to the new shape of things there. And, apparently I am about 1/4" narrower in the shoulders than I used to be. Doc said I might have to get suit jackets tailored, but I haven't really noticed.
  14. So, what's the deal with Egan's white or undyed B-3 jacket? I kind of wanted a sheepskin jacket for a while and went down a rabbit hole on those things. Never saw anything about a white one. Also, I have always found it bizarre that pilots' uniforms, even for combat flying, seemed to include neckties. That's kind of bothered me since watching Battle of Britain as a kid.
  15. "was responsible for." Someone should ask him what is the MMA. It's a highly technical amendment to the Copyright Act and I doubt he could muster more than, "well, it modernizes music."
  16. Barf. Mine looked like the outboard one, except displace the ends completely. What's wild is when it starts to heal, you see a "cloud," faint at first, but gets more opaque as the bones start to knit. It just appears in the void.
  17. The x-ray of mine made me want to barf, but it was just a single fracture. But it illustrated how the bone ends could rub together if I made a wrong move, and that really made me want to barf. The finger with the bone chip with the tendon attached that was fixed with a k-wire and screw wasn't nearly as barfalicious. I also took a couple of Tylenol 3 in the day after the surgery, probably more out of fear of pain than actual pain, but it was throbbing like a mofo.
  18. It was Garland's choice, maybe, but I don't think Garland saw it as a choice. He was not going to order a Special Counsel to change his report. He publicly requested that he do so, pointing out the problem, but is not going to order him to do anything with respect to the report. I don't fail to recognize anything. You don't seem to understand and never have that a Special Counsel is intended to be independent of the Attorney General. Therefore, an Attorney General that respects the intent of the Special Counsel rules is not going to ORDER him to change his report, or unilaterally change the report before its release. For the 100th time since the Mueller investigation commenced, the ONLY reason for existence and appointment of a Special Counsel is an apparent conflict of interest between the administration, of whom the AG is a cabinet official, and an investigation target. Therefore, they are intended to operate outside the chain of command of the DOJ and free of the direction of the Attorney General.
  19. Garland understands the purpose of a Special Counsel, even if the current rules don't completely enable independence. The idea is that the AG doesn't tell an SC what to do, whether there's any real independence or not. He's not going to tell Hur what to do. Even Barr didn't try to tell Mueller what to do with his report. At some point, maybe every point, the Attorney General of the United States should not succumb to political expediency, despite what his predecessors and opponents have done, and despite what his partisan supporters would have him do. Most importantly, ordering Hur to change the report prior to its release would have been discovered and publicized and would have been a bigger shitstorm than this is already.
  20. Don't be obtuse. Garland asked him to amend the report, pointing out the inconsistency in treatment. He didn't order him to do so.
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