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  1. 22 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I didn't know about Soul Glo, but do remember the name and his being a fun poster.  What happened?  RIP.

    I actually worked with him a little over 10 years ago and I had no idea that he had passed. I would also be curious to know what happened.

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  2. So Chrispy/Donkey has been banned at least 4 times (there were two Chrispy accounts, with one ending in _) and GRHorn has been banned 3 or 4 times...why isn't the community able to have these dipshits turfed permanently? Obviously a question for the mods, but if someone comes in your house and shits on the floor, you should be able to keep their ass out of your house.

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  3. I assume Bravo caught a ban, because he disappeared for a while. Sadly, I guess it ended.

    Last night Sack dropped "family foundation" "pay your mortgage to Haitian kids" "kill all dems" and likely some other gems. Must have been a wild happy hour at Cracker Barrel.

    Maybe with the midterms coming up, he'll reenter the rat-fucking world.

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  4. 16 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Sack's folder on black people statistics must be bigger than pornhub's servers.

    Agreed, but what's really odd I that this is yet another graph that stops in 2012 or so. The results probably aren't very different now, but I guess that's when he stopped getting  FWD:FWD:FWD email chains.

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  5. 2 hours ago, TurkeyChew said:

    Kyrsten had her best fundraising quarter ever with $1.6mm

    Just over 2 percent of Sinema’s fundraising haul this quarter — $33,983 — came from small-dollar donors, or those who have given an aggregated total this election cycle of $200 or less.

    There was once a poster whose thesis was around the fundraising and how the small dollar donor was an indicator or something about it, I forget his name but wish he would remind me of the thinking and correlation between grass roots and credibility...oh! @bad_teammate

    Seriously, that's at least 3 posts where you are begging and tagging him. Sorry, he's not going to fuck you.

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  6. 17 hours ago, C-Man said:

    I think I'll start a separate thread but feel it's appropriate to drop this here. Feels like there is strong representation from non-traditional cuisines.

    https://www.dallasobserver.com/guide/top-100-dallas-restaurants?fbclid=IwAR0fhcFJVIAuyDBb56WYFCnpDA8tlRfJjhjfp3Gr59J-vcXJnurLNzykDF0

    That was a really weird read. As you mentioned in the other thread, Monarch isn't on the list (I don't think Meridian was either) and the Lucia blurb mentions Macellio, which closed a long time ago and obviously Lucia is there now. It sounded old, but then a place like Roots was included (Roots is great, btw) so I didn't know what to make of it. The good news is the list is causing us to finally hit Loro, so that's a win.

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  7. 8 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    I see why you have to be taxed to "give" money, i get that charities are a hard concept to get. Next you'll tell me you give, but when you do do ask a picture of the person you help to make fun of them? Do you laugh at the homeless? Those people debase themselves publicly every day in your eyes.

    https://nypost.com/2021/10/28/white-house-in-talks-to-pay-millions-to-families-separated-at-border/

    You don't have to play dumb either.

    It has literally been 1 day since I donated to a charity, so swing and a miss on that one.

    I don't laugh at the homeless, obviously, but it's nice that you see your needs as being as dire as theirs. You really are a repugnant person, but you don't exactly hide that, do you?

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  8. 17 minutes ago, Creasy Bear said:

    Is gay marriage fears still a thing?

    Well, this is from October 23, so you tell me...

    AUSTIN — Do private citizens in Texas need to recognize gay marriages?

    That’s the question Rep. James White, a Republican lawmaker running for statewide office, asked the attorney general last week. White’s request for opinion caused a stir on social media, baffling constitutional scholars and angering gay rights advocates.

    More than six years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide in Obergefell vs. Hodges — and with few other protections for LGBTQ Texans — they wondered, what exactly is White’s point?

    Experts said they didn’t think White’s request would have any impact on current law, chalking it up to political posturing ahead of a conservative primary race. It may be part of a conservative trend to leave unenforceable laws on the books in case these rulings are reversed.

    The 2015 Obergefell decision made the ban on same sex-marriage in Texas and 12 other states unenforceable. But lawmakers have never removed the language, which voters enshrined in the Texas Constitution in 2005. In an interview with The Dallas Morning News, White said he is not asking Attorney General Ken Paxton to reject the court’s ruling on gay marriage.

    “Some people were saying, ‘Oh he’s asking to see if Obergefell is applicable to Texas,’” White said. “No, I’m not saying that. It is applicable to Texas — as it applies to government officials recognizing different marriage constructs.”

    He added: “But how does it apply to private citizens?”

    White did not have an example for what situation he seeks to address nor did he say a specific incident spurred him to ask the question at this time.

    He mentioned the rights of clergy to reject gay unions — but said that is not the sole reason he filed this request. Then he waved off — but did not completely reject — that he wants the attorney general to weigh in on whether businesses can deny services to same-sex couples.

    “I don’t know if businesses are private citizens,” White said, while acknowledging they may be owned or run by private citizens. “Maybe a private citizen could be someone who says they’re a preacher. ... It could be a church deacon board.”

    White said Hillister Baptist Church, where he attended until recently, checked its bylaws after the Supreme Court ruling to make sure it defined marriage in a way that was “consistent with church doctrine.”

    Legal to turn away customers
    Constitutional law experts said there are no state or federal laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in public accommodations, and outside of the handful of cities that expressly ban it, it is legal in Texas to turn away customers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. They added that White’s request is perplexing because the First Amendment already extends private citizens the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages.

    “Private citizens do in fact have the ability to maintain their own personal beliefs,” said Dale Carpenter, a constitutional law professor at Southern Methodist University.

    University of Houston political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus wondered whether White’s request may simply be a political statement to underline his conservative bonafides. White, who spent a decade in the Texas House, is challenging fellow Republican Sid Miller for agriculture commissioner in next year’s Republican primary election.

    “There’s currency in being the most conservative politician in the room,” Rottinghaus said. “This gives him a chance to be able to plant that conservative flag on an issue that conservative voters are still skeptical about.”

    Rep. Jessica González, a Dallas Democrat and member of the House LGBTQ Caucus, blamed Republicans like White for continuing to push more anti-LGBTQ rhetoric even after what was one of the most conservative legislative sessions in recent history.

    “This is a clear reminder we must always be vigilant and ready to defend our rights,” she said in a statement to The News.

    White rejected the idea that his letter was made for headlines. He’s made similar requests in the past year on controversial topics like vaccine mandates, critical race theory and police brutality.

    Rottinghaus said White needs to shore up his right flank ahead of what will be a very conservative Republican primary.

    “Strategically, to run as far right as you can on these issues will benefit a candidate at the ballot box,” he said.

    Two current trends
    Aside from politics, Carpenter sees White’s request as tied to two current trends in conservative legal circles.

    One is the political and legal tactic of leaving unenforceable laws on the books in case a Supreme Court ruling is reversed. This argument — that the high court can only block government officials from enforcing a law but not permanently “overturn” or erase a state law itself — has most recently been an idea popular among anti-abortion advocates who hope the more conservative court will revisit Roe vs. Wade.

    But Carpenter said it could also be used to attack LGBTQ rights. For example, in addition to the amendment in the Texas Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman, a state law banning sexual contact between people of the same sex is also still on the books.

    Leaving these laws on the books has hurt LGBTQ communities even though they’re not enforceable. In Louisiana, for example, law enforcement officers arrested gay men under the color of that state’s ban on gay sexual contact in 2013 and 2015. The charges were dropped.

    White told The News this so-called anti-sodomy statute “didn’t come up” in his conversations with constituents.

    The second issue is about whether businesses can turn away LGBTQ customers, especially those seeking wedding services like cakes and flowers. Carpenter noted that Texas law already allows this.

    “[White is] asking the attorney general for a symbolic statement asking for the exclusion of people who already aren’t protected in state or federal law,” he said. “I will be much more interested in seeing how [Texas AG] Ken Paxton responds rather than what’s in this letter.”

    Paxton, a Republican opposed to expanding gay rights, is up for reelection next year. There is no deadline for him to issue his opinion, which does not have the force of law but can be used to bolster a litigant’s arguments in court.

    “The effect [Paxton’s opinion] would have is on his base, who would presumably like what he has to say,” said Sanford Levinson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. “I think it is completely political and has nothing particularly to do with law, in any standard sense.”

    Carpenter said the last line of White’s request included a curious statement: It asked Paxton to declare that the Supreme Court ruling does not allow private citizens in Texas to recognize these unions.

    “If he is saying that private citizens cannot recognize same-sex marriages, then that is clearly a violation of the First Amendment,” Carpenter said.

    White demurred when asked whether he wants Paxton to say Texans are banned from recognizing gay unions. As for his personal beliefs, White said he supports the “one man, one woman” definition of marriage but added that does not mean he has “had bad experiences” with gay couples.

    “We accept a lot of stuff we may disagree with. Overall it’s part of life. It’s part of living in a small ‘D’ democracy,” he said. “Just because I prefer Ford trucks does not mean I dislike Chrysler trucks.”

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  9. I used to work for a company that sold a software product for CRE. The owner used to remind us that we are working with C students (at best) so we needed to explain everything slowly and simply.

    In short - they are morons.

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