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Ghost of LL

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  1. 40 minutes ago, RayDog said:

    Do i have to threaten to sue you for slander to get you to stop making these false allegations?

    Please.  Sue me for slander.  If you want, I'll PM you where you can serve me with process.

    A word of warning, however--I'm hiring @Brisketexan as my lawyer.  He's very expensive.  And that's of importance to you because you'll be paying his fees.  Because, you see--my first filing will be a motion to dismiss under the Texas Citizens' Participation Act, Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code ch. 27 (you should google that).  And when I win that motion, an award of fees is mandatory.

    Oh, and now with that, all the lawyers on here can get 0.1 hours of self-study CLE credit.

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  2. 1 minute ago, RayDog said:

    While there are some underage ones my guesstimate is 2 to 4%.

    So you think there's some sort of margin-of-error for fucking underaged prostitutes under the PROTECT Act?

    Look, man--aside from everything else, these are not the types of admissions you want to be making in a public forum.  I mean, if your goal is to stay out of federal prison.  If your goal is to take a criminal off the street, then by all means, keep typing away.  You're just giving the U.S. Attorney evidence (if they were actually around to obtain evidence, that is; but alas, they're not due to #trumpshutdown).

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, Mole said:

    Buried the lede.  Raydog hires 10 prostitutes a month? Am I interpreting that correctly?

    That's not the lede.  That's old news.

    Other old news--most of the prostitutes are underage and RayDog can't come back to the United States because if he did, he'd be arrested under the PROTECT Act.

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  4. 25 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm glad I haven't paid much attention to this mess.  I will say this, as a father of a great kid (cue "he was a great kid") who as a young teenager is only now showing any signs of having even a shred of leadership potential, I think it's kinda shitty to extrapolate shitty teenage behavior too far forward in life.  I don't think my son would ever disparage someone for their race or sexuality but I've seen him go along with the de facto group leader in goofy jackassery dozens if not a hundred times or more in his young life.  He's a follower.  An inherently moral, ethical follower.  At times "follow" wins out.

    This is not to say Smirky McSmirkface isn't a dick -- he seems to exude dickishness -- but I'll bet there's a dozen boys in that group who are quite literally going along to get along.  Throw in a completely naive world view and sometimes things that get told as "truth" are just absorbed as such, until much later when actual experience teaches otherwise.

    Being a former stupid teenager, I can sympathize with stupid teenagers doing stupid things.  I never did anything like this, but I did plenty of stuff of which I'm ashamed.  And I'm glad that my stupidity didn't occur in an age of camera phones.

    But even so, when we had a class trip to DC, we had parents and teachers who would've immediately stepped into that and ushered us away (because it's far from inconceivable that a bunch of stupid asshole teenagers from Highland Park circa 1989 could've done almost exactly that same thing).  And that's the chaperones'/teachers' job--be the fucking adult and keep your charges from engaging in stupid-teenager behavior.  In so doing, you shield your charges from the consequences of their predictable stupid-teenager behavior.

    And that's a really important job in 20019, because in the age of the camera-phone, the consequences will never be the same.

  5. What the fuck is Jodi Ernst doing?

    It's increasingly apparent that Iowa is going to be the GOP's Alamo.  They're going to lose Maine and Colorado, and they're probably going to lose Arizona since they've stuck themselves to McSally.  But if they can somehow win Iowa and the presidency, they'll retain the Senate.

    So what the fuck in Jodi Ernst doing to retain her seat right now?  Fucking nothing?  Farmers are getting killed by the shutdown, and she's completely absent.  

    I guess she's banking on the notion that people will have forgotten about all this by November 2020.  But I'm not sure that's going to happen when people are being hurt as bad as a lot of farmers are, and the cause of that pain is so readily identifiable.

    Oh, and by the way--San Sullivan in Alaska may have a similar problem.

  6. 30 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    And lovely to hear a representative from the air traffic controllers union on CNN this morning state unequivocally that air travel is demonstrably less safe because of the shutdown and continues to get more unsafe each day.

    And her statement had nothing to do with TSA screening and everything to do with stressed and overwhelmed air traffic controllers and the lack of support and maintenance personnel.

    My brother-in-law is an air-traffic controller.  He strongly counsels against flying right now.

  7. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    You misspelled “shitshow.” We’re a “shitshow.” Pretty sure that’s Aramaic or something.

    No--Britain is a "shitshow."  

    We're a "clownshow."  That comes from the Low German.

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  8. The Conservative and Labour Parties are going to fracture over this.  A party can't lose a vote like this by that margin and remain a party.  If Gladstone couldn't hold together the Liberal Party after the Irish Home Rule debacle (which was arguably less of a debacle), there's no way Theresa fucking May is going to be able to hold together the Tories.

  9. 22 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Corbyn is so much worse than May, and it isn't even close.

    God, he is.  But the Government just lost a vote on a critical national issue by 230 votes.  Even if the Government survived a no-confidence motion, I don't know how May can remain in office.

  10. 24 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    What are the thoughts here on Gillibrand?

    Fuck her for Al Franken.

    23 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    One of them should run against Cornyn.....

     

    Honestly--I have a hard time imagining a more uninspiring candidate than either of the Castro boys.

    Give me Victoria Neave or Colin Allred or M.J. Hagar.

  11. This is my real complaint about both of them.  They never want to run a race they might lose.  Sure, he's running for president but that's a long shot with no downside.  Why not run for Texas governor?  Both of them have sat out statewide races and Beto has passed them by.

    Fortune favors the bold.


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  12. 3 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Courting billionaire support is already strikes 1, 2, and 3 for me.

    I decided to look at her Wikipedia page and...

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    While Harris was the San Francisco District Attorney, the overall felony conviction rate rose from 52% in 2003 to 67% in 2006, the highest in a decade; there was an 85% conviction rate for homicides, and convictions of drug dealers increased from 56% in 2003 to 74% in 2006. ...

    Officers within the SFPD credited Harris with tightening loopholes in bail and drug programs that defendants had exploited in the past. ...

    In 2012, Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo ruled that San Francisco District Attorney Harris's office violated defendants' rights by hiding damaging information about a police crime lab technician, and was indifferent to demands that it account for its failings.

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    I'll vote for her over Donald in the general, but no thanks in the primary.

    If I were a district attorney, I'd aspire to a 100% conviction rate.  We'd work to get that (in part) by identifying bad cases and dismissing them at an early stage.  So I don't see increasing a conviction rate as necessarily a bad (or even) neutral thing, because it can be done by reducing the denominator.

    But if I were a district attorney, any assistant DA who did not produce exculpatory evidence would find him/herself looking for a job and answering a bar grievance.  To the extent Harris knew of such failings among her subordinates and failed to take such action, that's a big negative.

    I will admit to being Kamala curious.  But if she had a part in prosecutorial misconduct, then I'm out.

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