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  1. This little smirk by Jamie Raskin absolutely kills me while James Comer is like, “a what now?”
  2. Can we change the thread title to - MTG - Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body? I swear this was stolen right from Surly
  3. MrBig

    Twisters

    This is Shania Twain now
  4. Not as frustrating as seeing someone who is pretty fucking smart working at a job where their intelligence is pushed aside for a stupid asshole like Elon Musk.
  5. The prosecutor needs to do some reverse psychology and make Cohen state how much he think Biden sucks so MAGA can stop pushing the line that we shouldn’t “believe a word he says.”
  6. My weed guy uses Signal so I’m sticking with Signal
  7. He sells merch too. She’s planted the seed that, hey, no matter what you think of me, yes I sell merchandise to make $$ the same way Trump sells merchandise to make $$.
  8. I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned this has the stink of Art Acevedo all over it. Houston mayor says police chief is out amid probe into thousands of dropped cases https://apnews.com/article/houston-police-chief-resigns-rapes-uninvestigated-fdb590e799793991cecc63183955d29a HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s mayor has replaced the city’s police chief, saying Wednesday it was the best thing for a law enforcement agency that’s still under intense scrutiny over why hundreds of thousands of cases were never investigated, including more than 4,000 sexual assault allegations. Mayor John Whitmire said he did not push out former Police Chief Troy Finner but accepted his retirement as the police department needed to move forward under new leadership. During a news conference, Whitmire said the ongoing investigation and questions of what Finner knew and when were having a cumulative impact “on the morale in the department, the focus of the officers and the confidence that Houstonians need to have in their police department.” Whitmire, who took office in January, had expressed confidence in Finner after the chief revealed in February that more than 264,000 incident reports in the past eight years were never submitted for investigation as officers assigned them an internal code that cited a lack of available personnel. Finner had said he ordered his command staff in a November 2021 meeting to stop using it after learning of its existence. Despite this, he said, he learned on Feb. 7 of this year that it was still being used to dismiss a significant number of adult sexual assault cases. READ MORE Whitmire’s confidence in Finner seemed to quickly end this week after Houston television stations reported Tuesday that Finner had been informed about the dismissed incident reports in a 2018 email. Whitmire called the discovery of the email the “final straw.” “The bottom line is the department is being distracted due to issues with the investigation ... from its primary mission of fighting crime,” Whitmire told city council members. He appointed assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite as acting chief. In a late Wednesday afternoon post on the social platform X, Finner did not address his sudden retirement. He called the last few months of his career “the most challenging” and “painful” because “some victims of violent crime did not receive the quality care and service they deserved.” “But, it was beneficial because we implemented measures to ensure this never happens again,” Finner said on the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Our department and our profession will be better because of it.” During a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Satterwhite was asked by reporters about when he first learned that cases were being dismissed because of a lack of personnel. Satterwhite, who has been with the police department for 34 years, said he briefly attended the November 2021 meeting where Finner told his command staff to stop using the code but left as he was focused on other duties. Satterwhite said that sometime in late 2023 or earlier this year, he might have heard something about the code related to a specific case but it wasn’t until later that he learned of the magnitude of the problem. “We as an agency … on this one failed,” Satterwhite said. Satterwhite said becoming acting chief has been difficult under these circumstance as he and Finner are longtime friends and attended the police academy together. “I’m going to do my best to make it better and then we shall see,” Satterwhite said. Finner had apologized in March about the use of the internal code to dismiss the incident reports and had said he would be transparent and truthful in the ongoing investigation. Regarding the 2018 email made public this week, Finner posted a statement on X saying he did not remember that email until he was shown a copy of it on Tuesday. “Even though the phrase ‘suspended lack of personnel’ was included in the 2018 email, there was nothing that alerted me to its existence as a code or how it was applied within the department,” Finner wrote. Several city council members on Wednesday expressed gratitude for Finner, who joined the Houston police department in 1990 and became chief in 2021. City Councilor Carolyn Evans-Shabazz said she misses him already. “His efforts have significantly contributed to our community’s safety and wellbeing,” Evans-Shabazz said. After Finner made public the department’s use of the internal code to dismiss these cases, Whitmire launched a review by an independent panel. Whitmire said he hoped the panel could provide a public update next week. The Houston Area Women’s Center, Houston’s largest non-profit supporting victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, declined to comment Wednesday on Finner’s retirement. But in a social media post in February, it said sexual assault survivors “pay a high price” when investigations aren’t clearly resolved. Police departments around the country are facing an urgent staffing crisis as many younger officers resign and older officers retire, according to an August report by the Police Executive Research Forum. Applications to fill vacancies plummeted amid a national reckoning over how police respond to minorities. An April 27 report by the same Washington-based think tank found more encouraging numbers. “Small and medium agencies now have more sworn officers than they had in January 2020,” according to the forum’s report. “In large agencies, sworn staffing slightly increased during 2023, but it is still more than 5% below where it was in January 2020.”
  9. Did any of you guys see the Stormy documentary on Peacock? I believe the things she said about Trump and all the shit she’s gone through, but something about her (no pun intended) rubbed me the wrong way when I really wanted to like her for standing up to Trump.
  10. Foster the People is still riding the success of “Pumped Up Kicks” which was released nearly 15 years ago.
  11. You ready for Canelo/Mungiua tonight? This weather makes it so hard to stay up late for the main event when I’m already tired and it hasn’t even started.
  12. Don’t forget to add Mumford and Sons into the mix.
  13. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar This movie is not good, but it has its moments and was pretty ahead of its time for being released in 1995. I used to sit and watch this movie with my little gay brother so my dad wouldn’t get pissed that my brother wanted to watch a bunch of drag queens instead of playing football. It also helped that the movie had Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes in it. My “approval” of the movie helped my brother get comfortable in his own skin and not be ashamed of being gay. A lot of young people didn’t have that kind of support back then.
  14. And I was thinking starting my own country called Tittyfuckistan was a bad idea
  15. John O’Reilly filed suit in April 2007 alleging, inter alia, a claim of misappropriation of trade secrets against Elon Musk. The alleged misconduct occurred in 1995, but O’Reilly claimed that he did not learn of it until 2005. The court, concluding that any claim that might be asserted belonged to O’Reilly’s former employer, Remote Telecom, Inc. (RTI), a suspended corporation, granted Musk’s motion for summary judgment. O’Reilly contends on appeal that the court erred in granting summary judgment. We will affirm the judgment. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND O’Reilly filed this action against Musk on April 4, 2007. In July 2007, as a self-represented litigant, he filed the operative pleading, the second amended complaint (complaint). O’Reilly alleged that in October 1995, he met with Musk, who claimed at the time to have been a student at Stanford University, to discuss the possibility of working as a salesman of O’Reilly’s Internet Merchant Channel (IMC), selling advertising to merchants. IMC “was [O’Reilly’s] proprietary, Internet-based mapping and advertising system.” The system, developed through the efforts of “[O’Reilly] and his staff” “provided a highly user-friendly interface that permitted Internet users to view merchant advertisements (such as restaurant menus) and then obtain driving directions to those merchants.” During the meeting, O’Reilly “informed Musk that IMC was proprietary and confidential, [and] Musk verbally represented to [O’Reilly] that he would keep IMC information in confidence.” (Capitalization omitted.) O’Reilly disclosed to Musk at this October meeting and on two subsequent meetings that month various aspects of the IMC, including its operation, existing and future merchant base, and pricing. O’Reilly and Musk “agreed to formalize their working relationship” after the former returned from a business trip. When O’Reilly returned, he was unable to reach Musk and thought that he had simply decided not to pursue the job. We will sometimes refer to the allegations in the complaint in this paragraph and in the succeeding two paragraphs without the prefatory “O’Reilly alleged” in order to avoid undue repetition of the phrase. Musk thereafter, having “misrepresented himself [to O’Reilly] as simply a Stanford student seeking an opportunity to sell IMC advertising, ” gained access to information about IMC that he then used to enhance a concept that he had for his own business, “Zip2.” Zip2 was sold in March 1999 to Compaq for $307,000,000 in an all-cash transaction. O’Reilly learned about Musk’s company, Zip2, and that it was described “as ‘an online map service’ company, ” upon reading a book in April 2005, nearly 10 years after meeting Musk. It was not until this time that O’Reilly became aware of Zip2, realized “(a) that he had been injured; and (b) that it was Musk who had caused the injury.” (Capitalization omitted.)
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