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  1. I honestly can't tell if this is a joke:

    gov.uscourts.txnd.292215.467.0.pdf (courtlistener.com)

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    It’s hard to see how Southwest could have violated the notice requirement more. Take these modified historical and movie anecdotes. After God told Adam, “[Y]ou must not eat from the tree [in the middle of the garden],”3 imagine Adam telling God, “I do not eat from the tree in the middle of the garden”—while an apple core rests at his feet. Or where Gandalf bellows, “You shall not pass,”4 the Balrog muses, “I do not pass,” while strolling past Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm. 

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    So the Saudis gave $2B to a guy to invest, when that guy invests in Fidelity mutual funds?

    Lulz.

    But Jared was only taking a 1.25% annual fee on that money, which is clearly the going rate for that sort of shrewd investment acumen ...

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  3. 8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Soooooo Yellowstone supervolcano is erupting?  Cool, cool.

    If it would cool Austin down to 60F for a high for a few days like in Yellowstone, mark me down for Team Supervolcano.

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  4. 5 hours ago, Felix said:

    The kind where when it came time to call a new pastor after the old one retired, so called "christians" went on a terror campaign to harass and shame other members of the congregation to get the one they wanted.  People I had known for my whole life, including family, went to any lengths they could, including late night threatening phone calls, hateful letters, and outright back stabbing of folks they had spent generations with to get a "conservative" pastor who would hate as much as them. 

    I left a church my great grandparents had built and never looked back. I was in my late twenties at the time and was the chairman of the stewardship board.  I knew who gave what and was privy to most of the inside information of the church and it sickened me.  I was too young to do what I should have done, so I just left one day and when they called me I told them I couldn't do it any more and I haven't been a member of a church since then.  Fuck them.

    Oh, so you mean, uhh, like a Baptist one?  That's all you had to say ... a Baptist one.

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  5. 14 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    and also what is Jason Aldean

    It's this bitch, who quickly got over his introspection about the need for the free flow of military-grade weaponry ....

  6. 3 hours ago, 'stache said:

    The slippery slope is usually a logical fallacy, but not when dealing with todays right wing. Literally everyone saw this coming. Expect at least a year of congressional hearings on Bud Light and any other company that has ever posted in support of Pride, Black History Month, etc. Does you're company have affinity support groups for women, minorities, etc.? See you in D.C. 

     

     

    Senator Puts Law Firms On Notice Over DEI Work

    Law360 (July 18, 2023, 1:48 PM EDT) -- In letters to 51 law firm leaders Monday, Sen. Tom Cotton contended the firms' clients' — and their own — diversity, equity and inclusion programs may be violating federal law following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on affirmative action in higher education.

    The nation's largest and most prestigious law firms—including Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP and Greenberg Traurig LLP—received his letters, which point to a Supreme Court decision at the end of June that ended race-conscious admissions policies at U.S. colleges and universities.

    "Though that case focused on colleges, the same principles and indeed the plain text of federal law also cover private employers," the letter from Cotton, R-Ark, said. "To the extent that your firm continues to advise clients regarding DEI programs or operate one of your own, both you and those clients should take care to preserve relevant documents in anticipation of investigations and litigation."

    The threat comes as U.S. law firms have embraced DEI initiatives in recent years in an effort to address longtime inequities in the legal industry related to race, gender and other protected characteristics. Law firms with employment and environmental, social and governance, or ESG, departments also often advise their corporate clients on similar efforts.

    Large law firms have grown their diversity departments in recent years, with the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals doubling its membership since 2021 to nearly 450 members today, according to the organization.

    That growth comes as many in the legal industry look to change longstanding inequities.

    A report in February by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association found that attorneys of diverse backgrounds in law firms represent relatively greater percentages of summer associates, but that their numbers dwindle at higher levels of the profession. For example, Black attorneys represented 10.6% of second-year summer associates, but only 5.9% of associates and 2.5% of all partners, according to the report.

    Cotton contends law firm efforts to change those outcomes are now potentially illegal based on the high court decision regarding affirmative action in college admissions. He pointed to "race-based hiring quotas and benchmarks" in his letter, something he says some law firms and the corporations they represent have adopted as part of their DEI programs.

    "Your firm has a duty to fully inform clients of the risks they incur by making employment decisions based on race," the letter said.

    --Additional reporting by Kevin Penton. Editing by Caitlin Wolper.

    Read more at: https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/1700941?nl_pk=c018a0c4-fded-4b4a-b656-d7d4634f2b51&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nativeamerican&utm_content=2023-07-19&read_main=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=0?copied=1

    This is probably all GQP virtue signaling, as I don't think anything has come from his prior threats to the same 51 law firms about ESG matters back in November 2022 (ESG Letters to law firms (senate.gov)).  Kinda shocked that Marsha Blackburn didn't want to ride along on this one again, given white nationalism would seem to be her jam ...

  7. 25 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    World's largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, is undergoing sea trials right now.  If there is a climate crisis there's nothing we can do so we might as well go on a cruise!

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    That MFer is going to make one helluva artificial reef when a Cat 5+ takes it down within 5 years of being put into service ...

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  8. 7 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    The couple of clips I heard of his old show reminded me the ironic deadpan delivery of Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon when they'd do that NPR radio bit on SNL.  But it was hilarious.  Pence's sounded the same, in terms of cadence and delivery, and of course there was absolutely nothing funny about it. I mean, I literally expected him to make the joke, "Well, I guess that would make you an Edie Gourmet!" and then blow a horn.  But it was even sadder than that.  

    Funny, because Pence also loves him some Schweddy balls ...

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  9. 2 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    man I really dont need or want to relive 2011.  That was a fucked up miserable summer from Mid-March to October.   And the whole of August was scorched fucking earth

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    The memory of all those 2011 fires when coupled with all of the downed trees / limbs in the greenbelts after this winter's ice storms is pretty fucking terrifying.  Hope we get some evenly-spaced rain throughout July and August, but will believe it when we get it.

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