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Keef

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  1. 2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    They’re the Jackrabbits. 

    Yep.  

    And the rationale (as I remember it being explained to me) was that it prevented poor kids from feeling bad that they didn't have brand name clothes.  That seems a bit too liberal of explanation for the Forney I grew up in, but that was the party line.

  2. I went to Forney High School years ago.  They've had a dress code that was basically this as far back as I can remember (late 90s?).  People would try to get around having to wear a logoless polo by putting on a hoodie, jacket, etc.  Not sure why this is a news story now?

  3. Today was a horrible day for folks who care about the rights of women to choose what goes on in their own bodies and for people who care about a SCOTUS with any air of legitimacy.  That being said, can you imagine how much more volcanic it would have been had that draft opinion not been leaked?  People were ready for it and had already let off some steam.  A conservative judge leaked it - wouldn't be surprised if it was Roberts himself.

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  4. 1 minute ago, DixonHur said:

    it didn't help that the dems didn't really push the issue because they were cocky and assumed Hillary was going to win the election.

    This is also true.

  5. 5 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    She was 82 with pancreatic cancer (since 2009) in 2015...it was really just selfish not to retire.

    Of course, I'm tired of old ass people running the country in general, so... 

    I don't disagree with the premise that old people (including old people I like, like RBG) shouldn't get to pick and choose when they deem themselves ready to step down.  There's mandatory retirement ages in almost every major law firm for exactly this reason.

  6. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Yes, I'm aware of that. What I suggest is that there should've been, because the trajectory the Republican party was on was clear and their possibility of sufficient electoral success to pull off their goals was significant.

    I don't disagree with the premise that the Republican gloves were off and the Democrats failed (and are continuing to fail) at addressing it.  That being said, I don't know how you can fault them for not anticipating that McConnell would refuse to hold a hearing, contrary to how every other supreme court justice nominee has been treated to my knowledge, with 1+ year left in Obama's presidency.

  7. Just now, Asithappens said:

    Well, RBG could've stepped down earlier.  She was kinda selfish with that. Another example of the Dems being incompetent, imo. 

    Uh huh.  Yeah.  That totally would have worked.  Did you miss the whole Merrick Garland thing?

  8. Maybe we could also shift some of that police funding to teachers.  If we expect them, on top of teaching overcrowded classes with limited resources, navigating all the testing bureaucracy, etc. to risk their lives to protect their students (including by being armed and exchanging gunfire with shooters!), maybe we should pay them more than $40k/yr.  

  9. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Counterpoint: imagine the most average, pimple-faced 18 year old.  He can join the Marines, and become a Marine Private.  And the day after his training is completed, he can be ordered to go in and clear a structure of hostiles.  "Human and scared" is irrelevant -- it is an order.  Go in, clear the structure.   That is your job.

    If we can expect and demand green Private Pimpleface to put his life on the line and engage the enemy in a structure until they are neutralized, we can goddamn well expect and demand the same from grown-ass adults with a badge, gun, vests, and all kinds of other fucking hardware.

    If you are a cop and you are unwilling to engage an active shooter, even if you think you are outgunned or outmatched, or you are "human and scared," turn in your fucking badge.  Because you are just an impediment to those who WOULD go in to save lives, like the kids' parents.  Quit, and GTFO of the way.

    Yet none of them will happen.  Because a single party is a complete and total captive of a fringe movement.  So I'm long past giving a shit what people who continue to support them say "but I would support X or Y."  If you won't take the actual ACTION to make sure those things happen -- and the ONLY action that will do so is to kick every GQP politician out of office -- then your words mean NOTHING.

    Agree with all of this.  To be clear, I'd be scared shitless.  I have no idea what I do or how I would react when bullets started flying.  I hope that I'd be brave and risk my life for the kids, but really, I have no idea.  I'm just a pencil pusher and everything I've read about combat is that you just don't know what its like until you're there.

    That being said...there was a lot of self congratulation, "I'm thankful for the police officers", everyone did a great job!, etc. from the police captains that were all over TV after the shooting, and it sounds like we should really only be thanking the border patrol of all people.  From the WSJ/NYT reporting on this, the cops basically "secured the perimeter", handcuffed some parents trying to get in and stop the shooter, and called it day.

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  10. 18 minutes ago, markstanco said:


    Showing my work is super easy.

    My guns have never, ever, jumped out of my safe and killed a single person. It’s crazy. I have over 20 in there. You would think one day they would just go on a killing spree. But no, I keep them locked up.

    Presumably not everyone would use grenades and nuclear weapons if they were readily available either, but that's not a reason they shouldn't be banned.  The evidence is irrefutable that we have an insane amount of violent gun crime, and that's correlated to our high levels of gun ownership.  Britain had a mass shooting in a school decades ago.  You know what happened?  They cracked down on guns and magically the problem has diminished significantly.  

    If you own guns, ESPECIALLY the tactical stuff and you're against regulation, what you are saying is that the level of death due to gun violence (including the murder of children) is at an acceptable level to you where you don't feel like you should be inconvenienced.  I mean, that's what it is, isn't it?  So spare me the thoughts and prayers.  It's a result that, while sad to you I'm sure, is an acceptable horse trade.  So spare me the "mental health" (which we don't invest in and no R would ever support raising taxes for) and "video games".  At the crux of it, this is our faustian bargain in America.

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  11. 40 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

     

    I know Patrick is a nut and we're all desensitized to him at this point.  But MY GOD.  This is insane.  His proposal is turn our ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS into armed fortresses instead of putting forward any sort of restriction on firearms.  What civilized society does this?

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  12. I mean, sheesh, sounds like a citizen of legal age purchased a gun, and golly, no history of mental illness on his record it seems (not that it matters, we wouldn't invest to support that anyway).  Guess there's really nothing we can do here aside from turn our elementary schools into forts and arm the teachers.  Stupid libs for politicizing this.  

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