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  1. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

     

    Oh cool, cool. Referring to his victims as "victims" is too loaded, but calling them criminals (despite them not having been charged with any crimes) is just fine.

    When Rittenhouse gets off because of this bullshit, we're definitely going to see some more right-wing violence.

    Wow. I've asked for that jury instruction on all my trials. So have a number of my colleagues. I've never seen the motion granted.

  2. 6 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    FDNY and NYPD are full of shitheads.  A lot of them are racist assholes who treat NYC taxpayers (you know, the people who pay their fucking salaries with our taxes) like shit.  9/11 was 20 years ago, and because of the sacrifices that were made on that day, they think they are above the rest of us. 

    No more free pass.  You fuck around, you find out.  Also, most of them live in Staten Island which explains a whole lot.  Staten Island is New York City's asshole.  It honestly has more in common with New Jersey than it does NYC.

    You've just described every city's police and fire departments. Shit, we have members of the Los Angeles Fire Department who live in Texas and fly into CA for their shifts:

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-08/lopez-column-more-than-100-la-firefighters-live-outside-california

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  3. 7 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I mean, that's the reaction, but they're saying what most of us here already knew. 

    My wife thinks I'm going mildly older person insane because I've added land around the Great Lakes as potential investment vehicles, not so much but for our son's lifetime. 

    This is the source of my anger. Watching my 5 year old daughter, knowing that she gets to deal with a world on fire because of the greed of others.

    This planet was wasted on us.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

    I would think most of the "anti-mandate" crowd would gladly agree to something like this.  However, from reading the past 100 pages or so of this thread, I wouldn't think the CR would agree to any part of this.  

    I think you've got it backwards. You think the anti-mandate crowd will be "ok" with having to provide paperwork from a doctor attesting to a positive Covid test in order to access businesses and services? Have you been following their arguments at all? And I'd have no problem with the above being the norm here. Sure as shit beats the current landscape.

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  5. 29 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    you were wanting Mack Brown to go away in 2003....???    bullshit.

     

    the year where we finshed 2nd in the Big 12 before the Champ game.... where we got totally BCS fucked because Kstate DESTROYED ou that week, meaning Kstate got the auto invite and ou, despite being beaten like a bitch, was given the chance to go play in the MNC vs LSU.?

    we were #5 in the fucking country and we werent allowed to play in a big 4 bowl game for the 3rd straight year.

    our whole team was sick and fucking tired of finishing in the top 10 and not being allowed to play in a fucking Big 4 bowl game.  If ou wins that fucking game we get to play in one of the bowls.   instead we get the Holiday Bowl for the 3rd out of the previous 4 years.   Thats why we got rocked  ( just like Cal did the next year).

    it was the reason Mack got so much shit in 2004 reminding the voters that we got fucked the last 3 years in the big bowl games and that we had clearly played better than Cal and deserved the '04 Rose bowl.  Mack wasnt going to let us get fucked again in the voiting.

    old lawyer joke,

    if the law is on your side, pound the law.

    if the facts are on your side, pound the facts.

    If neither is on your side, pound the table. 

    He did that and FAFO

    There was a decent number of Texas fans wanting Mack gone by '03. Repeated record-setting losses to your main rival will do that. I still remember the FireMackBrown.com website that was up and running around that time.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    He can’t flip his hips and doesn’t change direction well enough for safety. Straight line speed is way less important. His best shot was at LB but he refused to play it. 

    So I'm generally regarded when it comes to the finer points of the sport, but isn't Harold Perkins being recruited to play the "star" position? And aren't he and Owens very similar in terms of athletic traits and build?

  7. 1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

     

    its how its going to be prosecuted is my bigger concern.    by definition, this is going to be a he said/she said situation.

    based on the premise, permission to have sex is implied.  and since having a condom on was the expectation, i get that its assumed you would continue with the condom on.

     

    all that being said.... how do you prove the guy removed the condom intentionally?  unless the guy flat out admits he did it, its gonna be super tough to prove.

    I guess we do a rape kit to prove semen in the orifice.  ...

    but all that proves is they had sex, which  we all agree was  already consentual .       If the condom breaks is that his fault?  if the condom comes off inside her, is that his fault?

    does the guy need to keep the broken condom as proof he didnt stealth her? what about guys who go soft immediately after release and basically fall out of the condom?

     

    in my mind the ONLY way this could be prosecuted is if you have a clear pattern of a guy doing it to multiple people otherwise there is just way too much grey area

    This is often the case with domestic violence and sexual assault cases. He said/she said. 

  8. 1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

    Assuming that you are currently paying in $10k range (which may be totally wildly off), and adding $20k to that, that would put you in the $1.5MM range (at my rates).  I think that still counts as humblebrag, even on the surly?

    Yeah, I guess so. I was attempting the opposite though. Our combined salaries mean we don't get hammered on state income taxes. There's no question that once your income reaches a certain level, your tax burden is higher in CA. As far as the house, we entered the RE market in 2013 with a $550k purchase. Thought we overpaid then. We've been lucky.

  9. Just now, Anastasis said:

    This is how you humblebrag guys.  Our of curiosity, are you calculating this by taking the current value of your house in CA and just rolling over that value to TX tax rates?  Or are you comparing like to like houses in TX and CA and also accounting for the differences in housing prices?  And for your CA property tax liability you are using I assume a locked in property tax valuation (if I understand how those things work in CA right)?

    Is it?

    I fully acknowledge that my house, if picked up and dropped somewhere in Texas, would not be valued close to what it is now. I used average property tax rates for various zip codes to calculate Texas tax burden. For CA, I'm just going off of my tax bill from last year. IDK, maybe I'm way off. 

  10. 3 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

     

    Agree to both of these.  I mean pay lower overall "income taxes".  They will still get hit with property taxes, sales taxes, etc..  They will also have to have a car, because unlike New York City, there is not really viable public transportation in Florida (or Texas really).  They do not think about any of that when making these decisions.  Most people don't.

    I've done the math and my annual tax burden would be higher in Texas than it currently is in California. Yes, the state income tax exists, but the property tax I would be paying in Texas is $21,000 more than I currently pay in CA.

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