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Ojo Rojo

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  1. It was the right outcome based on the law and the evidence. It was a good outcome for whatever healing or change can come from this tragedy. I keep waiting for a turning point. At some point, if you are a cop, do you look at this and change your approach? Do you say to yourself, "Hey, maybe I shouldn't shoot this guy because I could be charged with a crime." Hasn't happened yet. Maybe this is the moment. I doubt it, but it could be.
  2. Me too. No fucking way. The judge would have Allen charged the shit out of the jury before accepting that.
  3. Or a betting pool.
  4. Hold onto your butts. My call: Guilty on all three counts. I'll be honest, I thought before and during the early parts of the trial that they were going to have difficulty with causation. The coroner's report, toxicology report, other medical issues, etc. combined with the BARD evidentiary standard I thought was just going to be too high of a bar. But the prosecution and their experts have really done an excellent job.
  5. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Yes, and I've thought maybe the mouse was it. Just seems like such a small movement. But, I guess anything you spend 8+ hours a day doing can add up.
  6. Memorial Day. What can I say? We're planners.
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    Getting old sucks

    None of it is unbearable, but it does slightly affect my quality of life. My biggest thing right now is pain on the bony protrusion on inside of elbow, commonly referred to as "golfer's elbow." Except, I don't play golf and I don't have any other type of repetitive motion that would cause such a thing. It's very tender and can sometimes be such a sharp pain in certain positions or movements that can affect my grip or movement. Have also had right heel/foot pain for the better part of a year. Figured it was from running more during COVID when there wasn't shit else we could do except go to the running trail. Except I haven't been running as much and it still hurts pretty regularly. I limp, especially in the morning. I figure probably garden variety arthritis. Now my shoulder is fucking up. Lots of crunching and grating sounds when I rotate my arm in circles. Painful at times. I think I've tied this to bench pressing on a flat bench. Starting lifting more when the gym opened back up and we stopped going to the running trail. Anyway, just seems like it's always something over the past couple of years. I don't think I've had a day pain free in over a year. Got an appt. with ortho on Monday. When they asked what was wrong with me I said "old age." The girl was like, no really, what's wrong with you. So I said, "elbow, shoulder, heel, neck and back, pretty much in that order." We'll see what the doc says.
  8. Wife: You need to give me your detailed plans for the upcoming holiday weekend so I know how I'm affected and can plan accordingly. Me: Pffffttt. Plans. Like I can have any fucking plans of my own without consulting with you and considering the kids. Also Wife: I am now telling you about my plans that I made without telling you or consulting with you or considering you. Also, these plans might put our kids in danger since you won't be there. Guess who is the one in trouble right now?
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    Getting old sucks

    Question for those over age, say, 45: Is pain all the time now just part of the deal? The last year or so I have had pain of one kind or another every day. I'm beginning to wonder if that's ever going to change.
  10. Cool. Thanks.
  11. ISWYDT
  12. I'm not sure of the rules. I got banned a while back for defending Urban Meyer over the situation with his assistant and his wife. I actually have positive rep now, but I still can't post anywhere but CR, I think. Anyway, I'd like to come back if you all would see fit to rep me back into existence.
  13. The quote from his lawyer about being charged with a crime is maddening. The dumbshits who follow him will believe it. I guess the best way to explain it would be to bring up OJ again to illustrate that there are, in fact, both a civil justice system and a criminal justice system.
  14. The filibuster as it exists today was not instituted by the founding fathers. So even if the original intent was to give the minority a real voice through the senate, it has been taken to grotesque proportions and is actively harming the country.
  15. This is the best, most concise information I have seen on the history of the senate filibuster, how the rules and the use of it have changed over the years and what, if anything, should be done to change it and what the effects of those changes would be: https://whyy.org/episodes/should-the-democrats-kill-the-filibuster/?fbclid=IwAR2-7OXGp-hgL76NIUpc4CYpVGIAt41lsNCdNBk0ototsBcQMyVnRy4hRFw
  16. Not a bad idea. Put a check box on the 1040 that says, "I do not want my tax dollars to pay for welfare." Their tax dollars are not paying for welfare anyway, so it's meaningless, except to the Luddites who don't understand it.
  17. Yet again, I find myself asking, "Is this real?" How can it possibly be real? Please tell me it's not real.
  18. So are you saying any economic concerns related to a huge swell in immigration are unfounded?
  19. This has always been the biggest question for me. I spent a few hours one day researching on the web. I tried to find reliable sources and those with juxtaposed policy positions. What I discovered is that undocumented immigration either has a small benefit, net zero or small cost. It's not huge one way or the other. I haven't read anything about it, but I do worry about what the long-term effects would be of flooding the country with new poor people via some new guest worker or open borders policy. I'm reliably left of center on social issues, but I also would like to preserve our high standard of living. I would think at some point immigration would reach critical mass and would start overtaxing social services, schools, hospitals, etc. I would also think it would greatly increase the supply of cheap labor, which would lower wages among the poorest people and drive them further into poverty. I worry now about public schools. I have seen in my own neighborhood public school that more than 50% of the kids are Hispanic (and I live in a white-ass neighborhood). I don't know for sure, but I think it's the presence of multifamily housing. I see that doing nothing but increasing here. I'm guessing, but wouldn't a higher ratio of multifamily to single family tend to decrease the property tax base and the source of school funding?
  20. Ad seg would be my guess.
  21. Except it has everything to do with Trump because the only reason why this particular article is of interest at all (and the reason it was posted here) is because Trumptards can incorrectly use it to compare what Biden is doing to what Trump did. Classic false equivalency. As has already been pointed out, no one wants to see kids in prison-like shitty temporary housing, okay? (unless you are R and the kids are brown) But sometimes the situation dictates that is the best we can do. It's the humane, best bad option Trump could have used too, but chose family separation and cages instead to appease his racist xenophobic base.
  22. A lot can happen in three years. I think Jan. 6th cost Trump a lot of the relatively moderate R voters. McConnell has signaled that he wants the party to divest itself of Trump. If he wins the civil war within the party Trump won't get the nomination. If he runs as a third party candidate all the better. If Biden does a decent job and there's no crazy disaster then he'll get reelected anyway.
  23. Nobody's mad at them yet. Wait til the taxpayer funded bailout. I don't see these people paying $100,000 electric bills.
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