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Frank Drebin

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  1. My wife does not work. Kids are in school and her life is pretty damn easy. She is a very good wife. She stays in shape, has pretty routine lunches with her friends, and takes care of house/kids after school. Like me she is a licensed attorney and will occasionally work off and on. She also handles kid doctor visits. Yesterday she spent an hour on the phone with health insurance and a couple medical providers about some bills one or both combined to screw up. Like many on hear, I have a stressful job. Deal with problems most all day long. Yesterday was a doozy for me. I am getting ready to have a trial that's going to require me to be out of town for a month. We are locking and loading. I was on phones or zooms all day preparing. Dropped daughter off at school at 7:30 then went to office. Did not get home until 9 or so. She wants to give me a detailed play by play of her multiple extended phone calls. I am never in the mood for that, but especially after the day I just had (and the week). Apparently telling her I do not want her to replay her phone calls makes me an asshole. She gets defensive and pissed when I tell her to just fast forward to the end and don't subject me to every detail of her misery. But no one wants to hear that shit. Tell me you had a long and frustrating call with those folks. Don't give me all the details. I don't ever do that to her, and believe me I deal with inane or frustrating bullshit every day. I am happy to talk about your day and let's focus on positive things and maybe even negative things I can actually do something about. But I don't want to re-live every slightly bad experience you had when the conclusion was everything worked out fine and there was nothing for me to do.
  2. Sent back my Poncho burnt orange western. The color just does not look great, IMO. Did buy the corduroy burnt orange long sleeve and the Earl. Hope the Earl looks better than the plain burnt orange.
  3. Jamaal would have strolled in.
  4. Does Hawaii still have that Rugby player who is like 6'2" 220 and ran a 10.2 100 that joined team last year but had never played football before? He was from New Zealand.
  5. I love everything about this add. Quality depth. Raises floor of room. And critical if Blue or Wisner gets hurt.
  6. Yeah, I would love OU to experience what Nebraska has. But it is not happening. I do think they bricked the coaching hire with that methed out looking skeletor who they had previously run out of town for being a terrible DC. So maybe they will be A&M level for a few years, which will be nice.
  7. OU will not be Nebraska. Their proximity to DFW and SEC membership ensures that.
  8. Was a bad move. Gabriel is a lot better.
  9. Cannot wait for this ski season. Had let myself get out of shape. Quit drinking a few years ago and have been eating right plus living in the gym. Ready to ski hard this season.
  10. Yes sir. First time using electrics.
  11. Jesus, you must be tolling me. Here it is again for the 4th time -- NO.
  12. I think I have said it about 3 times in this thread.
  13. Your question has been answered repeatedly. Yet you keep "just asking".
  14. I mean I don't know how to be more clear. My position is guests who support Hamas should be deported. US Citizens have different rights. They are allowed to support whatever organization they want -- Hamas, KKK, etc. -- and not face sanctions from the government. As much as I would like to deport Hamas or KKK members merely virtue of their associations, it would not be legal. If they break other laws while supporting Hamas, arrest and punish them. But association or lawfully exercising 1st amendment rights alone? No.
  15. Nothing. They have different rights.
  16. No. Citizens have more robust 1st Amendment rights than guests. Kind of like my house. If my wife or kids are being assholes, I can't really kick them out. But when the neighbor down the street is, I can.
  17. I recommend driving really fast
  18. Aspens are pretty when green or golden. Love the shimmering leaves in the breeze.
  19. If they are supporting Hamas, deport their asses back to whatever shithole they came from. Supreme Court precedents hold that aliens are entitled to lesser First Amendment protections while seeking to enter the United States, because an alien has no right to enter the country, as per United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy (1950). In matters involving alien exclusion and naturalization, Congress has historically been permitted broad regulatory powers, so the government has been able to use the political viewpoints of aliens against them where content-based distinctions against citizens would be impermissible. Some examples: Exclusion of a British anarchist was at issue in Turner v. Williams (1904); Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952) concerned deportation of communists; and Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972) examined denial of a travel visa to a Marxist.+ Resident aliens lack security in political expression So long as that same activity can be used to support the later deportation of an alien, however, resident aliens lack the same security in political expression extended to citizens. According to the decision in Rasul v. Bush (2004), whether an alien is “in” the United States depends upon whether the location is territory over which the United States exercises plenary and exclusive jurisdiction. In Rasul, the Court held that U.S. courts had jurisdiction, or the power to hear a habeas corpus claim filed by detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A passing statement in United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez (1990), a Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure case, casts some doubt on whether “the people” to whom First Amendment rights belong includes aliens. The Court remarked, “[T]his textual exegesis . . . suggests that ‘the people’ protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments . . . refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community.” Anti-terrorism measures affect speech and association rights of noncitizens The USA Patriot Act of 2001 targeted certain speech and association activities by noncitizens in the immigration context. Under the act, aliens may be deported for fund-raising for, providing support to, or associating with groups deemed to be terrorist organizations by the U.S. government. It also excludes entry to aliens who endorse or espouse terrorism or support such groups. In another anti-terrorism measure, the Department of Justice instructed immigration judges to close to the press and the public proceedings involving certain “special interest” cases and asked that they be removed from the court public docket. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals declared this policy unconstitutional, but the Third Circuit upheld it in Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft (6th Cir. 2002) and North Jersey Media Group Inc. v. Ashcroft (3d Cir. 2002). The Sixth Circuit, following the rule set forth in Richmond Newspapers Inc. v. Virginia (1980), concluded that the First Amendment protected the right of access to the proceedings because of the history of access to such proceedings. The Third Circuit found the record insufficient in this regard. The First Amendment rights of aliens, even once lawfully established in the country, are not equivalent to those of citizens in matters of campaign finance. Federal law prevents aliens who are not “permanent resident aliens” (green card holders) from making campaign contributions or expenditures and from participating in political spending decisions.
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