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“Stand down order!” <drink>
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I think that Trump‘s press conference was a huge success, because I don’t really hear anyone talking about Epstein anymore. They’re talking about Trump and Prince Andrew.
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This is correct. War story. When I was a baby lawyer, we somehow got involved in a civil Rico case against Mellon Bank in federal court. The short version is they were selling home mortgage financing with negative amortization aspects that were supposed to be approved under Fannie Mae underwriting guidelines. They sold the loan packages, but nobody could get their clients approved because they used far stricter underwriting instead of the guidelines mandated by the contracts. Mellon kept loaning more money to builders to keep them afloat, and they got further in depth until they went bankrupt and Mellon swooped in and bought all the properties at $.10 on the dollar. I flew to Pittsburgh to depose the vice president in charge of the program, who was thoroughly unimpressed at me and our Rico suit. Arrogant and insulting was the tone of the day, and his superiority dripped from every word. On a hunch, one of my final questions was, “When you learned the underwriting guidelines we’re not being followed, I guess that put Mellon in a bad place because it did not have the funds to meet the loan obligations.” He answered by laughing, and then telling me I knew nothing about the financial world and the financial solvency of Mellon Bank. His last line “We could’ve fully funded if we wanted to” became the reason I defeated the summery judgment and got to trial, and the reason they gave us a seven figure settlement. I literally learned that there is much fruit to be picked if you went as high up the tree as they would let you. Those captains of industry were so arrogant they could not be bothered to learn anything about the facts of the case or the legal theories involved. You just interrupt their golf games and mistress meetings. And I would bet my house that there were no negative consequences to him for me winning my piddly lawsuit. As brisket says, they truly have almost no consequences as a downside.
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Sounds like you’re gonna need a products liability lawyer instead of an auto accident lawyer.
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What a simulation. One of the world‘s most notorious pedophiles says that the President of the United States is “dangerous” and does not have “a decent cell in his body” …. And that is a reply asking about Trump’s view of women.
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Bannon does not have a purple code. He may have a purple drank.
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i’m not sure if Steve knows that 12 o’clock high refers to where enemy fighter aircraft appear on a strafing run to down the bomber. 12 o’clock high does not refer to the bomber doing the mission.
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Agreed. Sue Storm has to be the most sexually satisfied superhero in whatever universe.
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Rowling had a chance to make Harry Potter (a story of young teenagers separated from their parents at a magic boarding school) far more believable. She chose not to. For example, no mention of a single member of House Gryffindor showing up in the Hogwarts infirmary because the Busteum Developo and Dickus Enlargeum spells were botched.
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If she did not remove her name from the petition, whatever it is wasn’t enough.
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This is rather huge. It turns out the accuracy of Ukrainian drones wrecking shop in Russia is due to the fact that the drones use cell phone towers to figure out where they are and where they’re going. Because Russia is Russia, the only solution is to turn off the Internet. One city of 600,000 has just been notified that it is permanently shut off until the well-defined end of the special operation. But in other major cities, they are severely limiting Internet access without any warning. Millions of people’s phones no longer work. They can’t buy shit on Russia’s version of Amazon. They can’t use their mobile banking apps. They can’t do all the things with their smart, phones that people in a modern world do with their smart phones. Like buy gas at the pump. They have to have cash. Where is the cash? In the banks. If I don’t know how long this will last, how much cash should I take out? I’m guessing most of them think all of it. The additional angle is that if people do not have smart phones, then they can’t use them to coordinate protests against the government or to organize in any way because they are seriously pissed that the war is going on and has led to all of their cell phones being useless and to not having Internet access at home for work or socializing. This smells huge.
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Things not going well in the world: India-Pakistan edition
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