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  1. This appears to be unfortunately true. Aside from his willingness to prevaricate, an officer of his rank knows what he did was criminal. Fuck, a bunch of armchair warriors here know that's unlawful. He should have refused the second strike, and probably the first, too. It has come to light that an awful lot of our SF operators are pretty much meatheads. Their officers shouldn't be, but probably are. McRaven may be more exception than rule.
  2. Meaning the Trailside? Had a bad rep for durability, but it's a bullseye/target pistol, not a truck gun. Along the same line. Current production is said to be less than great, but the old ones are lovely.
  3. You seriously contend that American diet doesn't have an outsized effect on BMI and obesity? And "safe space" and "bigot"? Thought you'd be a big RFK fan.
  4. I think you mean iron lung.
  5. Well I do know that the DoD IG is now at risk, that's for damn sure.
  6. Yeah, contrary to current popular belief, an organization can encourage or at least welcome religion by not endorsing any single brand or flavor of it.
  7. First comment: Hegseth's "fog" comes in a 750ml bottle
  8. RIP
  9. And that the congress would be so starved for votes to go right along with it.
  10. Also fun thing. From what I can glean, the article they were supposed to comment on was about bullying of transgender or gender dysphoric teens. And nowhere does this little brainwashed cunt giving her biblically informed personal opinion say anything that might condemn bullying for any reason. Y'know, like Jesus would do.
  11. Yeah, the first one is problematic for basically all administrations now that Congress has abdicated the power to declare war. All of our "wars" are now suspect and "individualized" strikes potential war crimes or murder. At least until now, most of those were at least colorable exercises of the 9/11 AUMF. The "double tap" is really extra though. Here's what I see as problematic for kegbreath. Even if he didn't explicitly give the order to make the second strike, the soldier/sailor that did was operating under general orders that made it clear that's what was to happen.
  12. Where does he write anymore?
  13. For core constitutional functions, yes. The only remedy for presidential criminality is impeachment, which can presumably be followed by prosecution. Under this scheme then, using pardons as an example of an undoubtedly core constitutional function, POTUS could profit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for pardons granted toward the end of a term when there is insufficient time to impeach. This would have been a much better hypothetical horrible than "Seal Team 6 killing political enemies," that was dismissed as hysterical. One problem with all this is, outside of Trump, it never comes up or has not in the last 250 years. Congress could speed it up by enacting some Presidential crimes, though, and get a more sane Court to oveturn/revise the ruling. After consideration, all presidential immunity should be presumptive, only, the presumption overcome by balancing the "chilling effect" against other considerations.
  14. I think I knew that. He's been pretty quiet though.
  15. Not sure whether I agree with Will on anything anymore, but I'll give him props for that. He could always turn a phrase.
  16. 28 USC 1498 purports to govern such claims for patent and copyright infringement and the copyright section purports to include statutory damages (17 USC 504 of up to $150,000 per work infringed). But from limited observation, 1498 is not completely successful in creating the full scope of statutory remedies for patent and copyright infringement against governments, the sense being that you're going to come up short, relatively speaking, if you have to sue the gubmint. One of the more powerful claims that can go along with the copyright is the "false light" claim that can be recognized under the Trademark Act, but I'm not sure those are viable against the government.
  17. I'm not aware of any "double-taps," meaning secondary strikes to eliminate hors de combat from an initial strike. We have been doing various strikes with missiles in conflicts short of declared wars but that also resemble authorized use of military force. What we haven't been doing is a) extrajudicial killings of people normally regarded as common criminals b) in a conflict with "narco-terrorists" designated solely by the President in a "conflict" that doesn't immediately endanger Americans and has nothing resembling a congressionally authorized use of military force, except some presidential declaration. Then you reach the issue of a second strike to eliminate hors de combat from the first strike.
  18. It's outside my usual area of practice, but I've been following these issues. The performing rights orgs (ASCAP, BMI, etc.) have licenses for nearly every conceivable scenario. One exception is political advertising and campaigns. For those, you have to go straight to the holders, usually the musicians. I suppose because of the political aspect that the orgs don't want to undertake (or artists don't want to let them). Correction, as DDD notes, PROs will provide licenses for political things, if the artist hasn't opted out. Many have. Also, to use with a video, you need a "synchronization license," which PROs don't provide. Trumpco has lost several of these. One pain in the ass, though, is when an actual administration does it, that is, the government, the infringement is reclassified a 5th Amendment taking and the suit/claim has to proceed In the Court of Federal Claims.
  19. What a waste of ordnance. For maybe 500 kg of drogas. If anything.
  20. Also a bunch of super-anti-government types. Even though they may applaud mass deportations of browns, they're probably not fans of bastropo gestapo either. Puts them in something of a quandary.
  21. This is a glaring demonstration that the immunity ruling is fucked up. The pardon power is a core constitutional function of the executive: he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. Therefore, no matter how egregious the case of bribery, POTUS can never be prosecuted for it.
  22. Probably not locals trashing the joint, of course.
  23. In Idaho of all places. Do we know where?
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