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Stilicho

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  1. It was folly, but then again, a lot of it is folly. Lawyers or law professors have a tendency of trying to thread reason through Supreme case law and try to have it make sense (4th Amendment jurisprudence is but one example), but it is much easier when you recognize decisions for what they are: political statements driven by the makeup of the Court and the context of the case. Too many decisions are simply reverse-engineered to try and keep some semblance of precedent, but they rarely even try now. Scalia spent decades bitching about non-enumerated rights and the Due Process clause... until he needed something other than originalism to anchor his holding in Heller. Kavanaugh explicitly ignored settled Indian Law for five centuries and latched on to a single-line of cases that arose out of western state jurisdiction battles. No one in the field ascribed to the McBratney line of cases the authority that Kavanaugh has. Gorsuch, who actually seems to give a shit about Indian issues, at least called him out on that. Then he goes onto the same sort of slanted reasoning / record twisting to get to the decision he wants in the Kennedy case, overturning decades of Establishment Clause jurisprudence in the process. TLDR: the Court is a mess. It's just a political stamp from the majority at the time.
  2. Sick fucks like Kenny Bilko and the New Scotland Front, that's who.
  3. We're trying. She's not even a Democrat, but the party apparatus is beyond fucked up here.
  4. They’re complaining that the university may be used as a… university?
  5. Offensive wizardry schemed up 3 points on a short field for the entire half. That’s a new level of ineptitude against a defense of this caliber.
  6. Overlook Hotel?
  7. In the land of the blind and all that...
  8. It's not that he can't read the room. He wants to be the heir apparent. He wants Trump's army of dickbags as his own. This is the motherfucker that everyone needs to keep an eye on.
  9. Angus King looks like a backcountry gynecologist.
  10. Oklahoma will be damned if the sacrifices start without us: https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/as-state-reopens-oklahoma-workforce-leaders-discuss-asking-for-end-to-federal-unemployment-payments/ https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/state-encourages-businesses-to-report-workers-who-refuse-to-return-to-jobs/
  11. Huge surprise here, I know, but Oklahoma is going to start opening back up starting Friday. https://www.okcommerce.gov/wp-content/uploads/Open-Up-and-Recover-Safely-Plan.pdf At least now I won't have to listen to my coworkers plot and plan to attend the next "freedom protest". FML.
  12. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/31/texas-company-offered-n95-masks-amid-coronavirus-6-times-usual-price/# So I deal with this company pretty regularly in Oklahoma. I wonder how much of this is truly going on behind the scenes.
  13. I don’t know. Browbeating the olds into dying for a Dow Jones bump seems like it’s in the wheelhouse of conservative views. They’re espousing the shit out of that idea.
  14. The JHU tracker I've been using here currently has at #3. But we'll be #1 by tomorrow evening.
  15. It's been an ongoing process with both my 15 year old and 8 year old. Mostly a heavier dose of interactive learning that they were already doing, but they're trying to put together and email lesson plans to us daily. We've been working through some of the recommendations from the last round of PTCs each evening as well. It's opened up a lot of issues regarding student meals and childcare, but a lot of people are trying to chip in and help where we can. I will say that shutting them down may be the one thing in this godforsaken state that they've actually gotten right since the pandemic began.
  16. Exactly. Fuck means testing. Get the money in people's hands now. If you don't need it, whether due to paid sick leave or personal savings or whatever, give yours to someone who does (like your local supermarket checkers). This isn't difficult.
  17. I don't think Governor Dickbag has made that call yet, unless I missed it this morning. The Slighty Lesser Dickbag Mayor of OKC, who had a similar tweet about eating out this past Saturday night, shutdown the bars, restaurants, gyms, etc. here in OKC last night. It's not statewide yet.
  18. I think the Jaime Harrison / Tim Scott foul up was his coffin nail.
  19. Over the other three?
  20. I fucking hate our fanbase. At some point, some asshole is going to throw Bob Stoops out there.
  21. BJ has always had two speeds: 1. Killer hit with the possibility of targeting. 2. Burned deep. He needs to be playing closer to the LOS. We probably don't have the non-injured personnel to pull that off right now, but it doesn't make it any less true.
  22. Great talk Tom. It's fucking Kansas.
  23. Channeling my inner-fatkid.
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