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  1. If you are waiting on the death of a perp to obtain closure on the death of a loved one, you're never going to get closure, no matter what happens.
  2. Adults in charge. Don't usually like the term, but complete beta cucks.
  3. Some truth to this, for sure. But in the case of both Christians and Muslims, the fundamentalists seek and get more attention than the more devout and principled adherents. And potentially comprise a larger percentage of both religions. And, of course, one of the practical, if not theological, aspects of fundamentalism is a willingness to inject the religion into politics. Fundamentalism often IS politics.
  4. But most observers of Judaism confine criticism of the Orthodox to that relatively small sect of the faith, so the criticism is more principled and limited. Fundamentalism in Christianity is more pervasive and even moreso in Islam. As legit as the criticism is, the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. One thing, though, Judaism has almost always been a minority religion and lacked power. So its excesses have been somewhat limited and criticism considered unwarranted or unjustifiable, just like a lot of legitimate criticism of minority groups.
  5. The Islamic religion has a lot of problems that make many of its adherents problematic. The precise same thing can be said of Christians, and the problems are very similar in origin (ancient texts selectively interpreted by uneducated clerics and followed slavishly by uneducated adherents). The difference being that often, practitioners of Islam are brown, while practitioners of Christianity are white. But even this isn't really true so much anymore. And Islam is not a minority religion. It's kind of like what is actually antisemitic and what is legitimate criticism of Israel. Curiously, hardly anyone levels criticism at Judaism, per se.
  6. I mean, the worker, whose votes Dems need and probably should be getting, can be complete troglodytes on just about everything but labor issues, which is why so many of them have voted Trump recently, and unions flirt with him. One thing that cracks me up, though, is it is scurrilously bad to paint with an overbroad brush on Muslims, but perfectly A-Ok to do the same thing about "Christians," who have a lot of the same problems, with less violence, and are probably more diverse from a "who calls themselves Christian" standpoint.
  7. Opting in or out is for plaintiff class members -- athletes. The defendants are the NCAA and P5 conferences, who are parties to and bound by the settlement. I'm not sure any universities are actual defendants. The only opting in or out by universities is leaving their conference.
  8. Matthew Kaczmaryk, yes. And to assert the most outre Texas DTPA claim I have ever seen in my life. Had it been any other litigant, Kaczmaryk would have shot the suit into the sun in a matter of weeks.
  9. Well, he went to a creepy Christian high school (Ben Lippen), seems to favor a fairly creepy Christian college that he does not attend. And he writes about an ultra-right-wing public university that may actually have the most prominent/successful athletics of such an URW institution. There's a thread there.
  10. Supporting != character.
  11. To be fair, though, a poor probably isn't getting charged with any of this. Diddy's high profile was a key component to this prosecution.
  12. Yeah my clients that are all involved in manufacturing to a greater or lesser extent, and therefor on imported goods, much from China, have been tearing their hair out. I know of one that is a for-sure Trump voter and I gather he thinks he's fighting some kind of righteous war. Weirdly, he asked me if I could do an exclusive distribution agreement for a Chinese product. I suppose if it's exclusive then a 20-140% add-on is immaterial, but he's probably competing with something/someone.
  13. Yeah, I used to harbor the notion that government was inefficient. But then you give a clear-eyed look at most of private corporate America, and you realize it's a shit show everywhere you turn. It's human nature.
  14. "Vietnam will pay." Is he that stupid or just lying at this point? And what is this shit about SUV or "large engine vehicle." The single reason more American cars aren't exported is that they aren't cars, but rather trucks and too large and too fuel-inefficient for the rest of the world. Not to mention it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to actually export entire vehicles anymore.
  15. Seems a valid point that may be it is or will be co-opted by ICE to find people. But, for now, it seems legit. https://www.slashgear.com/1900631/ice-block-app-explained-what-is-how-works/ And one reason it isn't on Android is that it couldn't be as anonymous on Android.
  16. I was in Austin from 84-91 and continued to inhabit regularly for a few years thereafter, returning for football games etc. ZTejas never was a big fave, having showed up at the end of my "era" there. I considered it kind of "nouveau" and frou-frou. I find it funny that it's mentioned in the same breath as Katz's, Hut's, or Threadgills. With ya on Threadgills, but quite enjoyed Hut's.
  17. Not advocating for her, but I imagine she's no great Trump fan. Most federal line prosecutors do it because they love the work. Due to the historical nature of civil service, I think most of them think they will remain insulated from the politics of DOJ and will probably behave accordingly. They may be wrong to a greater or lesser extent, but until it actually happens to them, a lot of them are likely staying put.
  18. This is very definitely happening, but doesn't seem to be happening at US Attorneys offices with as great a regularity as at Main Justice, which is going to be mostly civil division people. One of the prosecutors was Comey's daughter and there seems to have been little turnover in the team since the indictment. Also, even if some or most of these line prosecutors want to GTFO, they'd probably wait until finishing this case to do so.
  19. To me, a very strange prosecution. Yes, he did some whacked shit, but seems mostly of a private nature, redressed mostly by civil lawsuits from the aggrieved. I think one of the key things was "hUmAN TraFFiCkinG!!1!," which has been some kind of political bullshit criminal priority for some years now. I think the impetus for it is we are trying to exert pressure on other countries to prosecute/regulate/prevent it, so we're trying to "do our part" or "set an example" or some shit. I dunno. That they could manufacture a human/sex trafficking case against a prominent individual must have been seen as some kind of coup. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying human/sex trafficking doesn't happen or condoning it. It just seems that it is harder to investigate and prosecute, especially in some spectacular way. And it seems US authorities are really stretching to try and make something stick.
  20. Should review your civics books on federalism.
  21. Christing fuck, that's awful.
  22. Yeah the prosecution doesn't work for the families. Period. Do they get some consideration? Sure, but not that much. They serve the interest of people, which includes not spending a shit ton of public money to satisfy a handful of aggrieved people.
  23. Many states have laws against profiting from such things. But for non-profit (to the defendant) interviews, the right is really more that of the press and the public, or that's the way it is going to be analyzed.
  24. Yeah, that's hideous. We throw around the term "ghoul" a lot, and that's ghoulish.
  25. And, I think it's a tall order to resist the desire for vengeance, but I really think that trying to find some kind of solace or resolution to the death of a loved one though the "fate" or "disposition" of their murderer is probably a pretty futile endeavor. It might serve as a distraction for a few years, but when it's over and done, you're still left with it.
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