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Keef

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  1. One of the more infuriating parts to the conservative reactions to these mass shootings is "we don't want to politicize this tragedy", which is utter malarky of the highest order. The truth of the situation is that these deaths are acceptable to them. The gun violence, school shootings, etc. represent an acceptable level of death so that they can keep their assault weapons. So spare us the thoughts and prayers - you've crunched the numbers of this and decided that you're OK with an Uvalde every now and then. Republicans do a lot of disingenuous gaslighting, but their stance on guns is maybe the worst. If they spent an ounce of the time they waste on keeping certain books out of schools, we'd cut gun violence in half.
  2. The fact that all the $9.95ers are totally silent as to the reason is pretty telling that this was severe, IMO
  3. Good grief. Some hard-hitting journalism right here
  4. Not really. Our tax code is complicated because we administer an income tax system with graduated rates. What is and isn't "income" and when you should be taxed on it isn't straightforward at all. People often say they want a flat tax on all consumption items, but the issue there is that poor and middle income folks get screwed because they spend a larger portion of their income and don't save as much. The more "fair" you make the tax code, the more complicated it becomes as a result. Congress of course doesn't help matters by passing absurd laws that are broad and then relying on an understaffed IRS to fill in the blanks. The loopholes Congress writes in for lobbying interests - and there are many - are also awful.
  5. The IRS could do your taxes for you and then send you a completed return for you to sign off on or supplement as you think is necessary. For the vast majority of Americans, they have all of your info - when you get a W-2, 1099, etc., the issuer has to send a copy to the IRS as well. This has been proposed many times, only to be shut down by Intuit lobby.
  6. Keef

    Fuck Big 12 refs

    In addition to being incompetent and biased, they also trample all over the game. The difference in the game tempo between them and the SEC refs last week was night and day. It seems like they insert themselves at every opportunity and several times blew the whistle for no discernable reason.
  7. I'd forgotten how many good players were on that team with KD. Man we underachieved.
  8. Apparently she recently became a grandmother as well?
  9. The Surly legal eagles can put me in my place here, but I think it doesn't matter what the legal argument is. If you're entitled to sovereign immunity on an issue, the other party has zero recourse. Meaning, they could fire Jimbo for looking at the AD wrong on a Tuesday and call that "cause" and there's nothing he could do about it, even if it goes against his contract. They'd never do that as a practical matter, but I think they technically could.
  10. Can't A&M fire him for cause and he has no recourse because A&M would be entitled to sovereign immunity? Not saying that they would ever do that (no reputable coach would ever agree to work for them again if there wasn't any substance to the for-cause firing), but isn't that the roadblock Leach and Beard encountered?
  11. I can't remember us targeting Xavier much in the second half. It may be that Bama was shading coverage his way, but Mitchell and Sanders played much bigger roles.
  12. Related question I'd appreciate some guidance on. I'm in the UK for several months and am finding its basically impossible to stream ESPN from here. Any tips? Have strugged getting Hulu to work with a VPN.
  13. WWJDD - What Would Jesus Do in Deposition
  14. Are we getting the dean of the UT law school to weigh in on our NIL contracts? Lol awesome.
  15. State bar associations are a joke. They exist only to colect fees, harrass law studens over minor shit, and then immediately turn a blind eye to everything except stealing from IOLTA accounts the minute you're admitted to the bar.
  16. You seem to be saying what these ships are doing is all impossible, violates physics, etc., but don't count out the Russians! And I don't care about the "less extreme" movements of UAPs. Sure, maybe China and Russia could do those. I'm talking about the extreme movements, speeds, transitioning between air and water, etc. that our military has observed and documented.
  17. The same Russia that is getting embarrased in Ukraine has made gamechanging advancements in flight and propullsion? I'm not buying that for a second. They're relevant militarily only because of their nuclear stockpile. And China has shown zero indication they've made any sort of technological leaps that would replicate what the tic tacs can do. The only three posibilities here in my mind are (i) US tech, (ii) a US disinformation campaign, or (iii) "aliens" (whatever that means).
  18. I find it very hard to believe that the US, China, Russia, etc. could build craft with the capabilities the tic tacs have shown without some of the tech revlations becoming public or disseminated in some fashion. For example, you don't just go from the Wright brothers to SpaceX. There were intermittent advances in propulsion, aircraft engines, etc. that were developed over the years that. These craft demonstrate decades and decades of tech advancement. If it was ours, why even release this stuff in the first place and come out looking weak because we can't stop them or say what they are? If we thought it was China/Russia, don't you think our course of action would be significantly more panicked? Our military has collectively shrugged. The only explanation I have for that posture is they know what it is and don't feel like its a threat. And there have been hundreds of these sightings by our military. The partial vidoes that have been released of the tic tac encounters (parts of the videos remain classified) are only a very small amount of the recorded evidence the military has on them per the military's own admissions.
  19. People are going to believe what they want to believe. You have some of the powerful and informed people in government (Harry Reid, Obama, Clinton) saying we have no idea what these ships are and we can't explain them. You have multiple whistle blowers who both ran inquiries into the subject for offices in the pentagon coming forward. Grusch filed a whistleblower complaint through the appropriate channels within the pentagon and the inspector who reviewed his case (and could review the confidential information in support of it) found his claims credible and urgent. He's testified for hours under oath in closed door committee meetings to congress, who is all of a sudden VERRYY interested in this. We have videos, radar sigantures, and all manner of evidence from our military. The military has openly admitted these things exist, we don't know what they are, we can't stop them in our airspace, and we don't think its Russia/China. If you want ride with Mick West and his tired schtick (which he has been doing for years) then so be it.
  20. Mick West is a fuckhead. The notion that Mick West knows more about what happened than the best pilots in our Navy - armed with the most advanced tech we have - and the radar operators on the aircraft carrier is insane.
  21. I'm at a firm similar to Winston and Strawn. Some of the tax partners are $2K/hr. and even senior associates are decently over $1K/hr. The $750/hr. folks were probably first years, as sad as that is to type.
  22. He defered on a lot of the juicy questions to closed door hearings, as its still classified.
  23. Mitch Mustain...that's a name I haven't heard in ages. I remember all the handwringing over Mustain and the other players from Springdale (a two WRs, TE, and OL) that year. None of them really amounted to much of anything aside from one the receivers who had a decent career at USC after transferring from Arkansas.
  24. I mean, I'm 100% cool if we did moneywhip them and no one else could match. Just win baby.
  25. Come the fuck on. People act like there's this long line of get people who've gotten rich giving interviews and publishing a book. How much do you actually think that pays?? He's 36 and has a long career in front of him had he not just torpoded it. He worked on the most classified projects we as a country possess. Do you really think a TV interview with a third rate news organization is more lucrative than transitioning to work as a contractor at Lockheed Martin? And the whistleblower program he's utilizing contains criminal penalties if he's found to be being deliberately untruthful. He's already given hours of classified testimony regarding these allegations to congress and was able to supplement those disclosures with confidential documents that haven't been declassified yet. Do you hear anyone in government disputing what he's saying? Grusch is also represented in his whistleblower complaint by Charles McCullough III who is the original inspector general of the Intelligence Community — this is a serious lawyer. The complaint was signed not only by McCullough, it was also signed by the managing partner of his firm — lawyers of this caliber would be unlikely to sign onto a complaint with these kinds of allegations in it if they did not do something to independently verify the claims, given that failing to do so would open them up to professional consequences. I totally understand people questioning Bob Lazar. I've seen nothing at this juncture to make me question David Grush.
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