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Carl Spackler

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  1. 15 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

    Opened a bottle of Balcones Bourbon this afternoon and poured a few fingers into a glass.  After an hour or so, I took a closer look at the writing on bottle.  64.5 proof - well that explains a lot.  I think I'll be starting the weekend off with a nap.

    129 proof, my friend.  Nighty night.

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  2. 43 minutes ago, Dewey said:

     and Hamels has good numbers on the road. 

    Yeah, well, that's kinda what I thought about the Chatwood signing -- decent numbers away from Coors, high ground ball rate, etc., etc.  And look how that turned out.  Of course, I didn't count on Chatwood walking a million batters every game, either.

    Hopefully the new environment will be good for Hamels.

     

  3. Assholes who toss their cigarette butts out their car window and onto the ground when they're done smoking.  You smoked it in your car, so keep it in your car until you get somewhere that has a trash can, fuckwad.  I hate litterers in general, but for whatever reason, this particular type of trash-laying makes my blood boil.

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  4. 12 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    You'd totally get away with it, too.  If anyone had the right to shoot here, it was the black guy.  He came out of a store and saw and armed man confronting his wife.  He had the right to defend them.

    The only reason the old, white guy walked up to that car with his chest out is that he knew he was armed.  

    Such a bullshit case.

    I said above that I don't believe the "stand your ground" defense should apply here, but I disagree that the decedent had a right to knock the shooter down.  The shooter was not assaulting the woman at the time.  You say that the decedent "came out of the store and saw an armed man confronting his wife."  No.  He had no idea the guy was armed.  He came out of the store and saw the shooter and his wife having an argument.  Indeed, it was the wife who exited her vehicle to confront the shooter right before the decedent knocked the shooter to the ground.  The fact that the shooter was having an argument with his wife didn't give the decedent the right to go up to the guy and knock him down.

    With that said, though (and as I stated above), the shooter then should not have discharged his handgun.  The decedent didn't try to approach him after knocking him down, so the shooter didn't (in my opinion) have a reasonable basis to believe that he was in danger of imminent death or great bodily harm.  He should not have shot the guy, and I don't think he should be protected by the "stand your ground" law.

     

     

     

  5. Plenty of blame to go around here. 

    1.  Don't park in a handicapped spot.  It certainly doesn't justify a death, but it's worth noting that none of this happens if the decedent parks in a non-handicapped spot.  I'll just leave it at that.

    2.  That was a pretty hard shove/assault by the decedent.  He had no right to do that.  His wife/girlfriend was not being physically assaulted by the white dude.  If the situation had played out properly, the shooter would have simply called the cops and the decedent would have been arrested for assault.

    3.  Decedent seemed to be backing away at the time the first shot was fired, so I question whether this is an appropriate application of the "stand your ground" law.  The relevant text is: 

    A person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. A person who uses or threatens to use deadly force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be.

    So the question is whether the shooter reasonably believed that using deadly force was necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself.  Granted, he had just gotten violently knocked to the ground.  However, the decedent was not approaching him while on the ground (in fact, the video indicates he started to back up once he saw the shooter draw his firearm), so I have a hard time buying that the shooter reasonably believed he was in danger of imminent death or great bodily harm at the time he used deadly force.  Did the shooter have the right to draw his weapon to prevent further violence to himself?  Yes.  Did he have a right to shoot?  Based on what I've seen to date, I don't think so.

    But, like I said, plenty of blame to go around for everyone.  It's a very sad situation.

     

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  6. Jeremiah Johnson.  Sheer greatness.  Although I am not as old as Armybrat, I saw this movie in the theater.  I have seen it probably 50 more times since then.  And I have it on blueray.  And I don't care -- I will watch it if/when it anytime it comes on TV.

    "You've come far, pilgrim."

    "Feels like far."

    "Were it worth the trouble?"

    "Hah?  What trouble?"

  7. If you lived in SoCal at any point in the past 30+ years, you probably read one of his columns.  The only restaurant critic to win a Pulitzer prize, he had a writing style all his own and a penchant for celebrating the divey places, taco trucks, and stripmall finds instead of fancy restaurants.  L.A. isn't going to be the same, and neither will the food world.

    http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-fo-jonathan-gold-obit-20180721-story.html

  8. 1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Picked up Elijah Craig Barrel Proof in portland this week for $59. Damn this is a great bourbon. 

    Turn yourself in to the local police station, because that's a steal.

  9. 4 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    i talked about how this isn't our year because we lack "professional hitters" in the lineup. Down 5-1 today with the bases loaded and one out, and Baez and Willson, our two All Star hitters, both come up and wildly strike out swinging at terrible pitches. That's why we have no chance this year. 

    Yeah, that was brutal.

    Carpenter continues to scald Lester.

     

  10. On ‎6‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 8:43 AM, jimmyjazz said:

    Their guitarist (Bill something) was a friend of a friend.  Fred was a terrific drummer, and Hoaky was hysterical.  They were sort of a Dixie-fried Uncle Tupelo meets Camper Van Beethoven.  Loved 'em.

    Bill Davis.

    Dash was great.  Hoaky is now a yacht broker and marine surveyor in the Miami area.    

  11. 22 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    For being the future all-time leader in hits, Altuve sucks at getting hits in the ASG

    Now 0-10.

    Altuve's great, but he'd have to play until he's more than 42 years old AND maintain his current hits per season average over that entire time in order to catch Rose.  I don't see that happening.  Even if he wanted to play that long, Father Time starts catching up and the production goes down. 

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