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  1. I think a lot of them are figuring out that the majority of immigrants are good, hardworking people and they were sold a bill of goods on "criminal immigrants."
  2. On the Stacy/Eastland thing, I did gather from the TM article that a) Mystic was kind of "abandoned" by the rest of the family to Dick and Tweety Eastland (meaning none showed interest in fully running it, but various family members have continued to be involved) and b) the Eastland branch then became rather proprietary about it. So, it would not surprise me much to hear a Stacy couldn't get back involved heavily in the operation of the Camp.
  3. Yeah, people commit crimes, immigrants lawful and unlawful, are people, therefore they commit crimes. There's no evidence that they commit crimes (other than unlawful entry) at any higher rate than native-born citizens. The idea that they do is 100% propaganda. This whole thing stems from 9/11. We got scared of Muslims. A lot of Muslims started filtering through Europe as refugees and for other reasons. That somewhat unrestrained immigration scared a lot of people. Hence the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment, abroad and here at home. We don't have all that many Muslims immigrating here, and they're fairly controlled. But we have plenty of other brown immigrants, and some cynical fuckers realized that this was the new enemy, the new Soviet Union. So here we are. Anti-immigrant sentiment led to nationalism led to populism led to Trump.
  4. The gentleman's name was JC Mattox, I believe, or JG. Maybe Maddox. My buddy worked with/for him back in that timeframe. Still, though, the Eastlands lived on the property, so they knew what was potentially at stake.
  5. A cheap whore. Much cheaper than Stormy Daniels, who gets paid to get fucked.
  6. I have this absurd desire for a Wenger/Vic Delemont model SAK. One year, a Swiss Army Knife was my Dad's big Christmas present. This would have been sometime in the 70s before they were as ubiquitous as today. That meant a considerable amount of shopping and comparison of Wenger and Victorinox generally and their various models. Dad ended up choosing Vic and later I did too, and of course, that's all there is anymore. But, the Wenger scissor design is arguably superior and the blade has more belly. I am a low-key now high-key SAK fanboi. A Cadet is a knife I reach for more days than not, our kitchen knives are Victorinox. I suppose I am a cutlery cheap date, but they just work and don't break the bank for (to me) dubious incremental improvements.
  7. The media has always been under the thumb of rich elites. The rich elites have never been so self-interested or enmeshed with the government before.
  8. to call what Patel and Gabbard are doing “McCarthyism” is to make too grandiose a comparison. Tail Gunner Joe, a thoroughly reprehensible opportunist, claimed that he was rooting out Communists loyal to Moscow who were hidden in the U.S. government. Patel and Gabbard, meanwhile, don’t seem very worried about foreign influences and they’re not looking for enemy agents. They just want to know who’s talking smack behind their back.
  9. Tillis fancies himself quite the IP wonk. He is far and away the most active legislator on patent issues. I imagine he harbors some notion that federal preemption of AI regulation is worthwhile. And probably sees AI as a patent and copyright issue, mostly.
  10. The money shot: Gabbard, Patel, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were always the unholy trinity of utterly unqualified nominees, people put up for their jobs primarily because Trump and his advisers knew that they would be completely pliant and obsequious, that nominating them would horrify official Washington, and that Senate Republicans would have to bend their collective knee by confirming them. But while Gabbard is thumbing through emails and posts, and Patel is examining heart rhythms to see who’s been rolling their eyes at him, America is in peril. Real spies are out there trying to steal America’s secrets; real terrorists, foreign and domestic, are plotting the deaths of American citizens. Kidnappers, gang members, organized-crime rings—they’re all out there waiting to be caught. But first, Tulsi Gabbard has to find out who doesn’t like the tariffs, and Kash Patel has to find out who snickered at him in the hallway. Priorities, after all. An addendum: Gabbard proposes a "full-spectrum" search of all 18 agencies' communications to ferret out "disloyalty." Spooks getting spooked indeed.
  11. Except for the part where he's Canadian. They're not letting non-Canadians in.
  12. Of course, the question remains, how much worse will be any of their successors. At least Bondi is nominally qualified.
  13. They all seem to be money pits.
  14. For whatever reason, I think these camps are a lot more expensive, even inflation adjusted, than they were 20-30 years ago and the waitlists are far more insane. La Junta recommends you apply at age 2. Haha I got a letter from a friend of mine at La Junta on camp stationery at about age 12 or 13. On the return address where "Camp La Junta" was printed, he added "sux dix."
  15. Catastrophy.
  16. Well, the election that propelled LBJ was between two Democrats.
  17. Is he really polling badly here? In Texas? I have heard Ronny Jackson say that, but he's delulu. I wonder if it isn't a timing thing, file get it out of the way before the primary, get some extra goodies.
  18. No one really knows. It was well-known by the time of impeachment that he had been carrying on with this Olson woman, and had been since his Nate Paul connections were revealed. Paul was raided by the FBI in 2019 and rumors swirled about their connection. The shit hit the fan with the whistleblower lawsuit in late 20 or early 21, where it was alleged that one of the ties between Paxton and Paul was that Paul hired Olson in his Austin office to bring her closer to Paxton. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/11/ken-paxton-whistleblowers-texas-bribe/ Why ol Ang decided enough was enough is anyone's guess.
  19. I guess to be fair, we have to admit that people that come to commissioner's court meetings and rant on things of general interest are complete political perverts. Not necessarily representative of the people of Kerr County.
  20. Seems like that was LaJunta. Pretty substantial cabins, too. And quite distant from the river, relatively speaking. I wonder if that footage is some other buildings.
  21. Well, hardly any of them have that many years of actual experience with the river and the property.
  22. Well, illegal searches aren't a jury issue, so no not in front of the jury he wasn't. Probably something more like flung a bag of dope out the window, which the cops recovered, and he alleged it wasn't his dope and couldn't have been.
  23. Well, there is the problem of bias. In the late 70s we (the US) considered creating a specialized patent court. One of the debates was whether it should be a trial court with technically trained or at least sensitive judges. The alternative was what we got, an appeals court with technically trained or sensitive judges. The main difference being that trial courts find facts and appellate courts do not, broadly speaking. One reason we chose the appeals court rather than the trial court is fear of judicial bias creeping in. And the purpose of the court was not to implement some vague improvement in the outcome of patent cases, but rather to make the patent law more uniform nationwide and to have it "administered" by those more sensitive to its broader purposes. As a general proposition, we don't like fact finders that are too familiar with the subject matter.
  24. Unlike some of the camps, Mystic has been under the ownership of one family for nearly its entire 100 year existence. So, I guess 60-70 years of actual observation of the floods and the property in question breeds a degree of complacency or arrogance.
  25. Speedtrucker is, I believe, an AUSA, so yeah we were referring to federal prosecutions.
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