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TwiceHorn

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  1. I'm really thinking not having much of a lead at half last week exorcized some demons. Not all of them, but some.
  2. I think he is exceptionally afraid of taking a hit, with the injury. He's never really good, but now he can't/won't take off and I think is more skittish than usual. When he's been having a very clean pocket, he's been pretty on fire.
  3. And I think he was trying to avold the closing defenders so he had a clean catch.
  4. Don't think I have ever seen Ewers do this. Every throw is on and he's stepping into them, or as close as he can come. Whoops, there's a backfooter for his first incompletion.
  5. Red Zone TD after false start. What sorcery is this?
  6. We really don't have to belabor this any more.
  7. Of course she can, but while we are wildly speculating, why don't we look at what is actually happening.
  8. Yeah, similar to psych meds, anti-convulsants often aren't very well understood and it can be very trial and error trying to find one or a combination that is effective. And they require lengthy "titration" periods. I think the surgery referred to is something with the vagus nerve that seems to be effective for many. Texas is probably one of the worst states to live in for this kind of thing, both the social services aspect and the medical aspect.
  9. Riley Gaines is/was a mediocre swimmer at Kentucky of all places that has made her bones bitching about the Penn trans swimmer, after tying her for 5th in the 200 freestyle.
  10. Nor did I ever say such a thing. As acknowledged in the article, the case is turning into a furball because of all the classified shit. Even a good unbiased judge would probably have trouble keeping this on track. That said, she had the opportunity to move the trial date at Trump's request and declined to do so.
  11. Agreed. This incessant incantation of "core political speech" is not going to get them there. One of the remarkable things, as usual, each side was given 20 minutes. Somehow or other, Trump's side wound up lasting 70 minutes. I didn't see what the government wound up getting, but the total was more than 2 hours. Quite unusual. For the peanut gallery, when you're doing oral argument, there's usually a pair of lights, green and red, up near the judges bench. In the last few minutes, the red light starts blinking and when it turns full red, you usually stfu, but also answer any pending questions from the judges, they give you that. Not sure how it bled into 70 minutes, but the judges obviously didn't do anything.
  12. On a related note, perusing lawfare, which is a really fantastic source for things Trump and others, I came across this. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/m.-evan-corcoran-s-attorney-client-privilege-in-florida It's a discussion of why the DC District Court's order piercing attorney-client privilege on the crime fraud exception may not bind, or even persuade Cannon (her proclivities aside). For one thing, it's an order of another, co-equal district court. I thought it had been fully appealed to the DC Circuit, but apparently not, they just declined to stay the order and did not hear a full appeal on the merits. Even if the DC Circuit had, its ruling would not be binding on a court in the 11th Circuit, just highly persuasive. But the main issue, according to the article, is that it's not the same party, so issue preclusion (res judicata species) does not apply. I suppose that's technically true in that the witness was Corcoran, not Trump, but everything seemed to indicate that Trump's attorneys were there asserting his interest in the privilege, including the abortive appeal. And, of course, the privilege is Trump's not Corcoran's to waive or otherwise lose. That would seem to make him the "real party in interest" even if he wasn't technically the one before the grand jury or before the courts. I am intrigued by this issue, because it seems like if Corcoran's notes and testimony are excluded from the MAL trial, the obstruction case gets a bit harder. Maybe not with the separate DeOliveira/surveillance issue.
  13. I didn't listen, but I have read some coverage. I think the gag order will stay in place, but might be narrowed some. The judges weren't buying Trump's argument completely, but I think they were a bit skeptical of the government's position in spots too. Caveat, as always, with the difficulty of sussing a ruling from oral argument questions. And, I don't put much stock in who appointed the judges. Outside of Trump appointees, and a few outliers from GWB, most of them are just going to do the judge thing. Some good discussion here. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/three-appellate-judges-two-hours-and-a-first-amendment-conundrum
  14. I think it boils down to this: people believe that business is more efficient than government. They may be right in one respect in that business often has one goal, profit, that is relatively simple to attain, while government is far more complex. But, even considering that, they tend to believe that a "bidnessman," "uncorrupted" by politics, fundraising and lobbying, can do a better job in government than a career politician. It's a long-standing idea, see Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, 1939. And that's before you indulge any illusions that "you" are more likely to become a wildly successful bidnessman than a nasty career politician.
  15. How dishonest can a buyer really be?
  16. I suppose the bias against engineers is mostly anecdotal/experiential. But, as an engineer and a law dog, I can relate that engineers analyze, in many ways a lot like lawdogs. But when you have engineers independently re-analyzing something, there's a large risk they come to a different conclusion. Whenever you give something over to a judge or a jury for an independent decision, you often find that they see things differently than either party has argued or apparently viewed the case themselves. They often bring up something as decisive or important that nobody thought important before. So, with that being a known feature of a "new" fact-finder, you can't have someone re-analyzing the evidence, if you can help it. The other thing about engineers is that their analyses tend to dispense with "noise," things they think are insignificant to the outcome. And sometimes law is all about the "noise."
  17. When I was in high school, we all farted around with Skoal, Copenhagen and the various chews. I never really got the point of plug in a pouch. The old school stuff like Day's Work and Brown's Mule were portable without the pouch and I think you could smoke it in a pipe if you were so inclined. It was also very strange tasting, very sweet, maybe licorice or some other flavor that to me did not work with tobacco at all. The most interesting thing though, a player on our high school team bought some peach chew at a tobacco store. Tasted pretty much like a peach jolly rancher and the tobacco was almost completely masked. So everyone was chewing on that. It also made prodigious, very viscous spit and the floor of our dugout was covered with it. It would stick to people's spikes and make strings connecting them to the concrete. That was hideous and the coach banned it on that ground. I always kind of liked Beech Nut, before the Wintergreen. It was kind of the Copenhagen of chew.
  18. Yeah if Gideon sucks at teaching zone, there may be an obvious reason for that.
  19. Having a shit first half I think is exactly what this team needed. That's what I have kind of sensed this whole time. This team, without Sark, was fully capable of goat-fucking a first half and getting us way behind. Instead, we live up to his vision, dominate first halves, and fall apart in the second. This was just what we needed.
  20. Talent that keeps fucking up at critical moments and getting hauled off the field injured.
  21. Meh, very different situations from what the vag brigade has been whinging about.
  22. Absolutely bleeding clock. 4+ minutes so far.
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