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  1. That's pretty wild. Compulsory religious education of multiple faiths.
  2. Deus Vult.
  3. The case is likely to be for false testimony to Congress, ie perjury. That can be a very tough case for a prosecutor to prove unless there is contemporaneous evidence that the statement was false and the perjurer knew it. That actually does happen sometimes, and actually most of the time when a perjury case is actually prosecuted, so there's little chance of the perjurer successfully claiming s/he forgot or was mistaken. Unfortunately for Comey (but also probably fuck him, at least a little bit), that kind of case is pretty hard to negate ahead of trial. So, it's unlikely he'd be convicted, but also unlikely he'll avoid a trial. Rap/ride all that. There will be motions to dismiss, just like Trump in his cases, but they'll be far more valid, but not necessarily grantable. There will be one based on selective prosecution that will be a lot more credible than Trump's, but those are exceedingly hard to win.
  4. I got a couple of killer questions. What was the cause of the US Civil War, as set forth by each seceding state's declaration of secession? And How do tariffs work?
  5. Yes. To a certain extent law is just law, but experience in an area and more than passing familiarity with the statutes and interpretations helps a lot. Of course, her main function is to order line prosecutors to file a case, and they do know what they're doing. It might not surprise me that, if a grand jury goes along with it and an indictment happens, those prosecutors sandbag the thing. As Wittes said, Comey is going to have top flight law dogs that are going to push this hard. Halligan and her office are gonna get pantsed.
  6. He gone. https://www.kxii.com/2025/09/25/oklahoma-state-superintendent-ryan-walters-resigns/ This is fun.
  7. He's a foul-mouthed online dipshit, just like me!
  8. Oh, I'm sure she has. But in her first go-round, she was doing so excessively, and relatively poorly, until a foot injury curtailed it. And the NC followed.
  9. Gaslit? Biden openly changed border policies that resulted in more border encounters and crossings. He was open about it because it was thought to curry the Latino vote, among other things. Republicans lied that "encounters" was the same as entries or crossings. Granted, Biden's policy was not popular, because Republicans constantly lied about the criminality of immigrants and that they were taking American jobs and "stealing" benefits for which they are mostly not eligible and don't actually receive. Oh, and lets not forget the first significant border legislation in more than 20 years that Trump torpedoed for his own selfish purposes.
  10. For the record, I did not stomp her foot. I've been quite pleased with her setting this year and she's mostly avoided jump sets.
  11. Another thing. Trump wasn't charged with criminal "mortgage fraud." New York has a special civil statute that makes actionable fraud that is not a) criminal in nature or b) pursued by a defrauded party to a transaction. The ostensible reason for that civil statute is that New York is the financial capital of the world and to keep that mantle, needs to be able to civilly pursue fraud to keep their markets at least appearing honest.
  12. Well, it seems both are a result of under vaccination. "Less than 80% of eligible children in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania were vaccinated with MCV1 in 2023 – far below the 95% coverage rate required to retain herd immunity. In both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro the coverage rate for MCV1 has remained below 70% and 50% respectively for the past 5 or more years. Romania reported the highest number of cases in the Region for 2024, with 30 692 cases, followed by Kazakhstan with 28 147 cases." I'm glad our politics lead to vaccination rates similar to impoverished former Soviet republics. Where vaccine skepticism is flourishing. https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/03/25/romanias-measles-crisis-whats-driving-europes-biggest-outbreak Also *fewer
  13. Welp, shareholder lawyers finally doing something that might actually be in the public interest for once.
  14. She doesn't have to plead incompetence or negligence. The loan origination papers say it was a secondary residence, not a primary residence. She can simply argue, "from the outset, they knew the purpose and character of the loan, they provided the paperwork and I signed it. If there's something in the paperwork that says otherwise, I didn't notice it and would have thought they knew what they were doing, given that it was understood at the outset that this was a secondary residence." Most jurors are going to buy that. Certainly enough to prevent a conviction, either by acquittal or mistrial. And most prosecutors know that as well, which is why a goodly number of them won't bring Trumpy bullshit cases.
  15. Probably a couple of steps above. Habba has a few more years of experience, but working for herself. Halligan was at least in a firm where she'd get fired if she fucked up too bad. Speaking of which, in the recently decided appeal of the Carroll case, there were about a half dozen instances of alleged errors on appeal (the main things you appeal) that were waived or not preserved by the parking lot lawyer at trial.
  16. Well, he does have a "graduate certificate" from Western Seminary. A whopping 16 hours or less of solid ratfuck babtis theology. https://www.westernseminary.edu/academics/certificates-diplomas/graduate-studies-certificate Can be credited toward a masters degree!
  17. Not true. Proving mortgage fraud requires proving an intention to defraud, beyond a reasonable doubt. Merely showing "incorrect" application papers is insufficient to prove that. There has to be some proof of intention to defraud. For example, the failure to properly check boxes could be negligent and it is the government's burden to prove that it was not, but rather an intention to deceive. That the initial loan application specified that it was for a "vacation home" almost, but not quite, negates that intent. She had either informed the CU that it was intended as a vacation home or/and she understood that the CU understood that intention, however it was communicated. That makes this a difficult case to prosecute, in the absence of something from her, in addition to the paperwork, that says something like "oh, that's a mistake this is a primary residence, not a secondary residence, vacation home, or rental property." That kind of thing would take it back into the realm of a prosecutable case.
  18. Also, it is alluded to, but a Boston College historical project led to the taped interviews of Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes, among others. And "Mackers," the interviewer Anthony McIntyre, was a member of Hughes'/Adam's "brigade," and, after serving a prison term, took a PhD in history. BC was subjected to a subpoena for production of the tapes to the Police Service of Northern Ireland and were eventually produced. So, while the tapes provided Price's and Hughes' confessions in their own words, they weren't necessarily corroborated and both had motive to besmirch Adams, as did McIntyre, all opposed to UK negotiations, Sinn Fein, and Adams himself.
  19. Do we know each other? Not particularly a fan of New West, but I did attend on occasion on what some might call a "hogging" expedition And that might have been my conveyance.
  20. Good show with very interesting and "realistic" subject matter based on fact, but not completely factual. I have always been intrigued with Irish independence stories, but knew comparatively little about the troubles. Some other good ones in the general field. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117039/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117039/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2614684/ The last one being more troubles related, the prior two being more historical.
  21. God knows private, for-profit industry is intensely interested in the hunger of people that can't purchase their products and generating many studies to prove it.
  22. I don't have a preference for violence. But when an administration is violent and lawless, that seems to be a natural result from the populace. I would rather the administration not be violent, lawless, and hateful ab initio.
  23. Electoral popularity, especially among the stupidest Americans, does not make a policy right. If that puts me in the minority, fine. And, maybe now that people have seen what this actually means, we're not such a minority anymore. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-polling-trump-deportation-d138992f803e2d0b5b399aa9eaa36581 Have an administration of violence and inhumanity, reap.
  24. Reap the whirlwind. According to Jesus Kirk, some gun violence is an acceptable cost for the right to bear arms against tyranny.
  25. To elaborate: Revenue share means a university athletic department or university can share up to $21M of revenue actually generated by the AD/university. Not sure if it's limited to money generated by athletics or if a university could allocate tuition/donation revenue from the academic side. The important thing to note here is that the institution can use institution funds to pay athletes other than with scholarships. This is a first. NIL pays athletes with non-university funds, ostensibly for use of the athlete's name, image, and likeness. The two funding sources are independent. Campbell and Sellers supply funds through NIL.
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