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  1. softlynow
    Why not solidify a newly captured state, and stay in the south? Plenty of room for development in Virginia. They could double down on the posturing and threaten to give DC it's third area hub by ditching ATL Hartsfield for BWI Thurgood Marshall.
  2. softlynow
    They need to be making those overtures simply quiet that idiotic talk of retributive taxes on their operations.
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    Yes, but I doubt his issue is resonating largely enough to register to even the minority of tour players who lean center or left. The event is a money event on those tours, but Augusta National runs it, and funds the purse. Will viewership be down? Maybe, but not much. Then again non-golfing Trumpkins and "liberal tears" could mean higher viewership. But if you dig into the finances of the tournament, you'll realize it's actually pretty impervious to this kind of thing. Hell, if they lost all corporate sponsorship they could easily make up that lost revenue in a weekend of concessions, charging normal captive audience prices instead of the insanely low $1.50 for a pimento cheese sandwich, etc.
  4. softlynow
    This trend really just reinforces how out of the mainstream the current GOP is operating. I don't take this as an indictment of the state of our brand of capitalism. There are other really damning indicators, though.
  5. softlynow
    The PGA, European Tour and Japan Golf Tour could all pull out, and the tournament would go on as scheduled. IBM might pull its sponsorship, and we'd get to see TM commercial-free again. Augusta National and CBS aren't messing with that weekend anytime soon. If Delta and Coca-Cola had stones they'd float HQ relocation plans.
  6. softlynow
    The Federalists fucked around with the Alien and Sedition Acts and found out in 1800. A little bit of history rhyming, I hope.
  7. softlynow
    FDR did prolong the Great Depression . . . when he insisted on a balanced budget in 1937 and a mini-recession within the GD ensued.
  8. softlynow
    I’ve got a client who’s been waiting for 6 months in our jail. I suspect it’ll be another several months before he’s transferred. Republicans don’t care about working the problem. Just like immigration and abortion, they just want the issue to run on because it’s the easiest red meat for them to chop up.
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    In my experience, the juveniles who actually are incarcerated, beyond local detention, have seriously injured people. The system is designed to skew towards rehabilitation, and all but one of my juvenile clients have spent only a brief period detained, and were released to their parents/guardians pretty quickly. The exception was horrific. I fought the transfer, and was able to delay it for almost a year. When his case was officially transferred he was 17, and he turned 18 before he pled (I didn't keep the case because he could afford me for the transfer, but became eligible for a court-appointed attorney once his case was transferred). I'm a big proponent of better facilities and more rehabilitation services for people that need to be incarcerated. But from what I've seen, it takes quite a lot for juveniles, even in the most conservative counties of this state, to reach the point where that need arises.
  10. softlynow
    You can’t transfer an under 15 y.o. in Texas except for capital murder. I’m not sure why the cutoff in the Texas juve system is 19, but it is. Seems like a much easier fix can be made than a wholesale re-imagining of the system.
  11. softlynow
    Why?
  12. softlynow
    So you're in favor of a complete redesign of the juvenile justice system simply to match the criminal majority age with your preferred voting eligibility age? The flexibility and resources are there (to the extent they're going to be) - just transfer the kid to criminal court. 15 year olds sometimes need to go to prison or go on probation for 10 years.
  13. softlynow
    If you don't try him as an adult, that's what happens.
  14. softlynow
    So a 16 year old rapes and murders a couple girls and is released from TJJD on his 19th birthday with no criminal conviction on his record? Not sure you have the votes for that particular reform.
  15. softlynow
    You need to clarify this a bit more. In Texas juveniles can be transferred to criminal court (to be tried as an adult) at age 14 for capital murders and certain other first degree offenses, and at age 15 for other felonies. 17 is our age of criminal majority. Each state has differing ages for both juveniles that can be transferred and outright majority, some allowing transfer as low as 10 years old.
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    The problems with that are 1) Dems should ALWAYS be the party that believes in governing justly, and tries to follow that belief and 2) liberals in red state big cities dump tons of money into Dem campaigns. The latter point is the important one, really. Obama didn't make campaign stops in Houston because of principle, he came here for the money. Everyone expects something for their contributions. Red state liberals expect favorable policies will include themselves, while Trumplicans only expect liberal tears, which is why a GOP presidents can punish blue states. Getting the shaft is still getting what they want.
  17. softlynow
    I don't see how saying it's tough to break in to the business, and that maybe folks who want to should look to examples of those who've done it is justification. It's simply not the conversation that some in the replies wanted to have. Lance, on the other hand, is justifying:
  18. softlynow
    That's just an example of people talking past each other. Jane tweet an opportunity, supplements the tweet with her experience and pointing out this is 'how it's done.' Commenters point out that 'how it's done' shuts out people without some level of 3rd party financial support. Jane doesn't get that point, but commenters don't get that she's not justifying the system.
  19. softlynow
    That’s what you get when a party becomes entirely about weaponizing greed and petty grievance.
  20. softlynow
    If we had a functional mob, we wouldn't need laws to get justice. Texans aren't what they talk themselves up to be. Everything's bigger but our balls, apparently. We repeatedly take it dry and ask for more. By the time the next national abortion/gay rights/trans rights/immigration/gun rights/police brutality story takes over the news all the anger and willingness to hold Texas Pubs accountable will be gone. The Capitol should be surrounded by angry people demanding heads on pikes.
  21. softlynow
    Anything but simple majority rules in the Senate is silly. The filibuster wasn't in the Senate's original rules, and only came about because Aaron Burr was a moron. The Senate already protects minority interests by constitutional design. Either make the Senate more democratic in makeup, or in function. The former requires amendment, the latter apparently requires heaping largesse on West Virginia and Arizona. WV definitely needs federal help, Arizona not so much, but Dems need to figure out the cost of getting rid of this stupid rule.
  22. softlynow
    The lesson is when you realize something is rotten, move on. I've been a Texan fan, but had not read or heard anything about Easterby. Now that I have, and learned about the prosperity theology beliefs of the McNair's, the dysfunction and incompetence of the Texan administration makes sense. They've been taken in by a philosophy that is, in reality, simply meant to enable grifters, and they've now promoted one to Executive Vice President of Football Operations. A fucking conman preacher. Jerry Jones shouldn't be mentioned in a conversation with these clowns. He's 100x the owner that Cal is. If I had Texans gear, I'd be donating it in short order. Edit to add: Hell, he fucking looks like a conman pederast:
  23. softlynow
    Major bi-partisan legislation was routine in every presidency up until the black guy took office. I don't fault Dems for not understanding that the first black president would make a third of the country completely lose their minds. I will fault them going forward if they don't use the tools at their disposal now to counter the GOPs madness.
  24. softlynow
    Yeah, that’s right, just write your confession to any and all federal crimes you’ve committed in the space provided, what’s the worst that could happen?
  25. softlynow
    Yep. I took his summer intensive Ancient Greek class, and recall a negative op-Ed about Mack Brown Texas Football that summer (2001). I don’t remember the topic, but he was plainly anti-athletics. No doubt he finds an opening for his bitching at least once a year.

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