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  1. Any child sexual abuse is a huge problem. I'm not sure the quantity of it has changed. Like a lot of things in the last few years, discovery/reporting of it may be more prevalent.
  2. Of course it is. Huffpost is a bit breathless at time but on clearly factual matters, is pretty accurate.
  3. It's not a 100% correlation, but it's strong. Those who perpetrate child sexual abuse are often the products of child sexual abuse. That doesn't necessarily mean at the hands of parents, but it probably does mean relatives or close friends. And I'm pretty sure that correlation applies to "hands-on" abuse and I would be wary of extending that to this type of thing. There's a tendency to do that that I am not sure is warranted.
  4. Sir, this is an Arby's. I didn't say institutional racism.
  5. Yep. Despite the desire to suck up to Trump, this is starting to look like the law firm deal where the optics of capitulation are just bad.
  6. This is probably going to be one of those things where systemic bias comes into play. All of those involved in the medical and administrative end are relatively upper class, the victims are relatively lower class. There's probably not going to be anything expressly saying "don't give that kidney to that dirty brown poor when we got a perfectly good white boy here." But there's probably going to be a whole lot of decision points couched in medical or sociological terms that favor the more affluent patient/recipient.
  7. I mean, he called it "cold." It wasn't "hey check this banger from the internet, glad Kirk's dead." I've been in and out of this thread, not taking data for my regression analysis. My sense of it, though, is very few condoned his death. And the above doesn't contradict me.
  8. Hardly anyone here condoned the killing of Kirk. A lot of people declared him a piece of shit. The two are not the same.
  9. Yeah, Apple doesn't sell your shit to the extent Google does, but they lock you in and make it difficult to leave. Google does the same shit, to a slightly lesser extent, and sells your shit. All of that is rent-seeking, not innovation. And what of it is innovation gets corrupted into rent-seeking.
  10. Speaking of which, those Alvarado ICE-interferers have additionally been indicted for material support of a terrorist organization. Given that the statute requires that the terrorist organization be "foreign," and there is no statutory provision for designating a "domestic terrorist organization," I'm not sure how that's gonna work.
  11. Also that chick with swords for legs in Kingsman is a pied noir.
  12. Well, somewhat surprisingly, this goes well beyond the contents of his book. He was sending Intel summaries daily while NSA to two relatives by email, yes AOL, and IM. This is, of course, crediting the DOJ with following the normal rules, which may not be wise. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/john-bolton-indicted-for-allegedly-mishandling-classified-information
  13. Yeah I assumed something like that was true. Just talking shit.
  14. Cancel, no, but a court might impute an income offset if he is proven to be intentionally un- or under-employed.
  15. Bitchin framerates on muh gamez, man.
  16. No. And apparently the Biden DOJ was looking into it as well. Shifty Schiff is left off and I think they're going to have a hell of a time with that. Speech & Debate.
  17. That seems to be true. Bolton apparently played pretty fast and loose with the classified information laws when authoring his book. That, of course, was not Trump's concern, but it seems to be pretty factual.
  18. Also, "house __________." You know what he really wanted to say there.
  19. Well, another thing is, I think they'd like to take women out of the workforce entirely and thereby "solve" unemployment for straight white males and also the child and elder care problems.
  20. Was he "affiliated" with the Eyes of Texas protest? On the one hand, I thought that whole thing very ill-conceived. On the other, I can't completely blame him, either.
  21. That guy is a complete fucking cunt. Gorsuch really should disclaim him if he pretends to be a better man, but he won't because he isn't.
  22. Getting a bit out of mine also (hell most things are out of my zone, if they get technical). But, like other cops, those ICE agents and their superiors will have qualified immunity, requiring them to have committed a clear constitutional violation to be held liable. False arrest without probable cause would seem to clear that hurdle, but QI requires a more precise analysis than that, so it's like "is there a case clearly ruling that immigration cops cannot constitutionally detain US citizens," and there probably isn't, or if there is, Charles Alan Wright could distinguish it, so QuAlIFieD iMmUNity!
  23. I think the central thing that raised UT's profile was top X% admissions, which is a political by-product anyway. The let err'one in then fail 2/3 of them out had worked pretty well for the rigorous majors, anyway. I have or had a few qualms about the state U getting all hard to get into, and thought the fail-out system was a good compromise. It also seems that top X% is a pretty good compromise. I wonder to what degree business and engineering faculty will feel pressured by this as they tend to be either apolitical or somewhat to really conservative. But I would hope or think a more intelligent type of conservative than MAGA. Perhaps BeauVine yields insight there.
  24. Jesus wept. Point of order, the event center was not in "Dallas," it was in Allen. Lotta realtors up in that bitch. If you're not familiar with the hymn referenced above, it's really quite lovely and may capture true Christianity better than any I can think of. That rendition didn't need anything other than the piano, IMHO, but I tend to detest "praise bands." The song was written in 1966 by a Caholic priest whose parish was the south side of Chicago.
  25. §25. Oath of Speaker, Members, and Delegates At the first session of Congress after every general election of Representatives, the oath of office shall be administered by any Member of the House of Representatives to the Speaker; and by the Speaker to all the Members and Delegates present, and to the Clerk, previous to entering on any other business; and to the Members and Delegates who afterward appear, previous to their taking their seats. The Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Eightieth and each succeeding Congress shall cause the oath of office to be printed, furnishing two copies to each Member and Delegate who has taken the oath of office in accordance with law, which shall be subscribed in person by the Member or Delegate, who shall thereupon deliver them to the Clerk, one to be filed in the records of the House of Representatives, and the other to be recorded in the Journal of the House and in the Congressional Record; and such signed copies, or certified copies thereof, or of either of such records thereof, shall be admissible in evidence in any court of the United States, and shall be held conclusive proof of the fact that the signer duly took the oath of office in accordance with law. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title2/html/USCODE-2011-title2-chap2-sec25.htm Key takeaways. The use of the mandatory "shall," so it's not optional for the speaker. And it must be done "previous to entering on any other business," which would seem to apply to Members who "afterward appear," like Grijalva. Additionally, by executing/subscribing the written oath, which must be provided by and returned to the Clerk, are conclusive proof of taking the oath. She should do that.
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