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DanRydell

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  1. Your solution to fix MLB is to make it less popular and less profitable?
  2. It was one of the smarter little things I’ve ever seen the city do to improve traffic and people are too stupid for it to help. If they would also just widen that exit a smidge and add a second left turn lane it’d be great.
  3. Only a problem with me if you create a traffic backup in the exit lane trying to merge back in.
  4. Most people mistakenly believe the War Powers Act expanded Presidential power to engage in military action.
  5. The President is on national television announcing he’s committing high crimes.
  6. The Constitution says Congress has the power to declare war. Not that the President does as long as France and England join him.
  7. For 16 years the police have been saying the suspect car is a "late-model white or blue Chevrolet Camaro or Pontiac Trans Am" which is not all that descriptive so it seems like there must already be some significant evidence they're not disclosing that makes them so sure this particular Trans-Am is the vehicle in question.
  8. https://www.statesman.com/news/rachel-cooke-case-williamson-sheriff-discusses-new-evidence-today/0u9QKcWodrBtNX4uvGC5KL/?utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Statesman&utm_source=SF
  9. Season one was a little shaky but last two were great
  10. The Texas nominees have mostly been Abbott cronies. Probably because he endorsed Trump before Cruz and Cornyn.
  11. This. Being evasive about specific cases is pretty standard fair for confirmation hearings. The bigger problem is she's just outrageously unqualified.
  12. Demand is not the general demand for buying sex regardless of particulars. Demand is dictated by the particular market circumstances.
  13. IIRC, he also went to school through a masters with the government footing the bill through athletic scholarships and GI bill.
  14. Making it more difficult for Johns to find workers, see pictures, read reviews, vet workers to ensure they aren’t cops, etc., will reduce demand. Making it more difficult for workers to advertise and vet Johns to ensure they aren’t cops or violent or anything will reduce supply. It will not eliminate supply or demand but it will reduce sex trafficking and prostitution more than using those websites to bust Johns or workers will, which was all I said. I know a number of sex workers. My bias is that they be able to do their job as safely and successfully as practicable. Websites shutting down due to SESTA/FOSTA and the backpage seizure make their jobs more dangerous and less profitable. Im not in favor of these laws or actions.
  15. I'm less concerned with whether its supported by Britain and France and more concerned with whether its authorized by Congress. You know, the branch of government tasked with deciding whether to get involved in offensive military actions.
  16. Someone who campaigned for Ag Commisioner by touting his evangelical bonafides is a piece of shit? This is my shocked face.
  17. Looks like it was a Title VII opinion which follows the recent circuit opinions. I would agree that the original intent of Title VII was probably not to cover transgender discrimination but it seems pretty logical that transgender discrimination is discrimination based on sex.
  18. I think his point was she wasn’t far enough to the right to get one of Bush Jr.’s nominations. She was certainly more qualified than Elrod or Haynes and less of a piece of human excrement than Clement or Owen.
  19. Did she say gays and transgenders are protected classes under the Fourteenth Amendment or that discrimination against gays and transgenders is sex discrimination under the Civil Rights Act?
  20. Louisiana and Indiana launched large-scale voucher programs and students performed worse.
  21. Special Counsel can investigate tertiary issues in order to obtain cooperation from key witnesses.
  22. Yup. And I would imagine federal judges are just as uncomfortable with it so whatever was in the warrant application must have been pretty compelling.
  23. Fair enough (although comparing Chapel Hill to Grapevine or Sugar Land makes no sense). I wouldn’t move anywhere smaller than those. I don’t see myself going anywhere due to a combination of career, family, and inertia but Austin is in a shitty place now size wise. I’d rather either be in the 100-300k college town range or be in an urban environment where I can get rid of my car (Chicago, NYC, SF, etc.)
  24. A pair of douchebags at Chick-fil-a today
  25. Not in Texas but I would move to smaller college town elsewhere (Boulder, Madison, Charlottesville, Chapel Hill, Bloomington, Columbia, Lawrence, Eugene, etc.).
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