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softlynow

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  1. We’re not allowed to be assholes here anymore? What kind of woke shit is this?
  2. They won't need to be too creative, really. Scalia wrote this in his dissent to Arizona v. United States: "As a sovereign, Arizona has the inherent power to exclude persons from its territory, subject only to those limitations expressed in the Constitution or constitutionally imposed by Congress. That power to exclude has long been recognized as inherent in sovereignty." 5 or 6 (will Roberts flip?) on the court will just go with this reasoning this time around (though Thomas and Alito will likely write concurrences, given the different path they took in their dissent last time). Next up Abbot will call for the creation of a special division of DPS whose sole mandate is to hunt down undocumented workers. They will, of course, become the best funded agency in the state, because shit in the Chryons on Fox News or OAN are the real problems government is meant to tackle.
  3. Got to give credit to Andre Ware for being completely unafraid of being wrong and then absolutely unwilling to learn from his mistakes. If there's a replay in a Texans game, he routinely predicts the wrong outcome. Basically his color commentary is like looking at a photo negative.
  4. Iowa tonight. 0 points, 155 yards. 3 TOs. More penalty yards (46) than rushing (35).
  5. I’d love to avoid a rematch. Saban still has his fastball and somehow having FSU luck into a title game against us would greatly please me. I think Bama would beat either UM or Wash.
  6. Oh, nice twist. The plot thickens!
  7. So Bama over UGA, Texas over Bama and OU sneaks their way in yet again.
  8. Lot of ACC on the committee member resumes, inuring the chair. I don’t think this is the year an undefeated ACC champ gets left out.
  9. The SEC will be represented. Stop lying to yourselves. Right now, Wash, Bama and Mich (100 out of 100 times Mich wins this game) are in.
  10. Bad Teammate’s screen name checks out.
  11. Duke has to replace 15 starters, I think. He might realize his chance to cash is now or never.
  12. When thinking these thoughts, your immediate reaction should have been that he's either a grifter or a vacuous oppotunist. He's ugly Tulsi Gabbard. Noteworthy enough for a wikipedia page, and ultimately nothing more.
  13. Steven is Tipene in Maori and is Tapani, Tahvo or Teppo in Finnish.
  14. 5 star fraud
  15. I have doubts that he's Chilean.
  16. People in the FN (or the more deplorable networks) bubble are unreachable, but they aren't sufficient to win jack shit. An actual cut to SS is the end of the GQP as a viable national party. Now, a new center-right leaning party that peels off folks from the Dems is a possible result, but that might take an election cycle or two for that to shake out. We're overdue for a party coalition shake-up. The current "system" has arguably existed since Nixon's southern strategy. The previous systems all lasted 30-40 years.
  17. Social Security checks still go out during government shutdowns. However, the military not being paid would present a rather large PR crisis.
  18. Some of us? How dare you!
  19. Charles III would probably show his contempt for us and hand that authority over to the Duchess of Sussex.
  20. No, they know the media are their willing allies. The same media they disparage incessantly are as spineless, incopetent and complicit as everyone else involved in our current predicament. The journalistic standards that evolved in the age of Murrow are insufficient in an age where one party is nihilist. Add in that journalists are all chasing clicks seeking sweet 7-figure TV gigs, along with the fact that the owners of mass media are all happy to have the tax-cuts-are-magic folks in power, and you get 24-hour both-siderism that the billionaire class is only too happy to exploit. They truly are morons, but a moron with the settings on mouth-breather and all the cheat codes at the ready can still beat most video games. Put another way, hand Greg Davis the '99 Rams or '07 Patriots and he'll likely win more than his fair share.
  21. It's amazing, and if you think about it, explains so much. We all have our own TheJosh to deal with. Laws and other rules are made to deal with, and sometimes by TheJosh. Wars are fought over misunderstandings of TheJosh proportions. I sometimes think TheJosh may now be the Lt. Governor of Texas.
  22. OK, sure. (Caveat: I have no clue why the evidence below was relevant, because I was not inovolved in the litigation, just present in the courtroom at the time) This involves a Pro se litigant in a trial in which she is fighting to retain certain rights to parent her biological child. The opposing attorney had a witness on the stand to, among other things, lay the predicate for and describe the contents of a photograph. The appropriate testimony is given to admit the photograph, and, over a non-sensical non-legal objection, it is entered. Fine. Then counsel asks the witness to describe the contents of the photograph. She begins: Witness: "It depicts the Respondent fisting another woman" Respondent: "Objection your honor, [turning to witness] how can you say I was fisting her when my fingers were only halfway in?" Judge: "M'am. I have asked you time after time to address the Court and not the witness when you make an objection. Now, do you have a legal objection? Respondent: "She can't just sit there and lie like that! It's not fisting if your whole fist doesn't go in the vagina!" Judge: "OK. There having been no legal objection made, your objection is overruled."
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