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Trump’s America
She's told a lot of pretty filthy lies and been busted on them. You had to figure some heads were going to roll. Bovino. Her.
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Trump’s America
Just think how badly we needed price discovery on shit like this!
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
Yeah, for many years, the big Houston and Dallas firms pretty routinely took solidly ranked SMU, Baylor, and UH grads, even South Texas. For one thing, a good bit of the partnerships of those firms were graduates of those schools. But as national biglaw takes over regional and even national, but Texas HQ firms, firm resume obsession increases and it's probably harder to get by there without UT as a minimum. When I was in school, I was always pissed when some lesser school kid got a clerkship offer and I didn't, because UT Law. In the actual practice of law, it doesn't matter much.
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
I dunno what to think. I initially thought the notion that standardized tests were culturally or otherwise biased was ridiculous. My views on that have changed somewhat. I don't want to think or state that they are the end-all, be-all of, well, scholastic aptitude. But I have to say that most of those with high SAT scores were some of the smartest people I knew. Can't say that with near as much frequency for high class rank. Also, achievement tests were used to place people in the right math and english, among other things. What do they do now? I do think there's probably a wide gulf between top X% at an economically advantaged high school versus disadvantaged, and auto admit might be a disservice to the latter. At the old easy-in, easy-out fail-out UT, I think that would have been very true.
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Robert Duvall has passed
He's talked about the hairpiece he was forced to wear in The Godfather. I think k he even called it "ridiculous" or "terrible" in an interview. But that was done so he could be believable as an adopted son around Michael & Sonny's ages. Ah, looking back, it was more substantial than I remembered.
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Kristi Noem: Kowgirl-Kosplay Kunt
Be interesting to see what her costume expenditures have been.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
And, again, the factual record is bad enough without having to embellish it with bullshit. I just don't like conspiracy theories on #eitherside.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Oh fuck off. That is actually the real issue here and doesn't need embellishment with dumb bullshit like "it's money laundering to the Russkies."
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Late Night Political Talk Shows
As I said on another thread, I've kind of got mixed feelings about this. Equal time is a reasonable rule, if not effective. It does not apply to news, but has applied in the past to quasi-news. Treating quasi news just like news is a big problem we have, so I am not sure applying equal time to Colbert is really offensive. Once you accept that equal time is ok and that it probably should apply to shows like Colbert, I am untroubled by the decision not to air it. Equal time would have required putting on one of the GOP chucklefucks. Thinking about it though, having Paxton on Colbert might be kind of hilarious.
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Robert Duvall has passed
One kind of interesting thing about Duvall is that he was bald from a pretty young age. And never hid it, as most actors do. It'd be interesting to know if he was pressured to wear a rug and if it inhibited his career.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Im gonna assume that a sale would raise its tax appraisal to the sale price. The $30M apparently was based on the land sale in 2023 and hadn't caught up to the improvements.
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2026 Midterms ...
Why does he have Briscoe Cain on his shirt twice. Noticed same on a techbrovest.
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Trump’s America
Thought this was succinct and trenchant for the #bothsiders.
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ICE activity/raids
Yeah, it's Hutchins. They have a lot of industrial properties there, I assume because of a lack of zoning. Very poor former farming area..
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ICE activity/raids
Yeah, as noted elsewhere, this whole story line is BS worthy of X. Wouldn't surprise me if they overpaid for it, but not $100M. Also, https://pnk.group/ is very obviously a front for Russian mob operations.
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