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  1. I love surly threadjacks, but there's a reason an LLM is an LLM. The law degree in England and Wales is an undergraduate degree, often an LL.B., bachelor of laws. Further study led to the LL.M. Although the law degree in the US has mostly always been a graduate degree, at first and for many years it was the LL.B. The J.D. is a relatively modern development. Hang in there all of you. Got thoughts and prayers and similar shit behind you.
  2. Also, when the 12th was drafted and adopted, those two Art. II conditions were the only ones on POTUS' eligibility. Did the 22nd create another condition of eligibility, or a term limit?
  3. I don't think he's looking for forgiveness. He is looking for vindication and to be adored by everyone, or at least for his enemies to admit he was right. That's why he's such a cunt about those who oppose him: as a narcissist, it deeply wounds and offends him that not everyone loves him.
  4. There's an interpretation that that language means the constitutional eligibility requirements of Article II, but not that of the 22nd Amendment. We're talking about Trump here. Republicans can't find enough ways to debase themselves before him.
  5. When oil started to recover in the early-mid 90s, shortage of steel tubulars (drill pipe, casing, etc.) was a huge issue and limiting factor for drilling. 1.25x tubulars are gonna be fun, too.
  6. The way, apparently, would be to run as VP to someone who wins the Presidential election and abdicates/resigns.
  7. Happened to check Sherry Walker. Non-military, former United pilot. Lives in The Woodlands. Anti-vaxxer and general purpose lunatic. She herself is a DEI hire. Couldn't get a job as a pilot until 1998. https://ae4hf.org/?page_id=1529 And insists on calling herself "Captain." Should we start referring to the pilots on here as O Captain, my Captain? @DaysOff @Leeroy Jenkins
  8. They just finished 69ing.
  9. Forgot about that. In addition to being a complete dolt and stooge, she is a full on cunt.
  10. What about a foofaraw?
  11. The other thing was she made some pretty scurrilous allegations against UT coaching and medical staff on the way out. Wasn't sure what to think at the time, but I think she was probably full of shit now.
  12. Yeah, that was a monstrous grudge match. My client spent $3M, the other side spent more than 10 with V/E. It was funny because the case started in the Employment section, then IP had to get involved, and then Employment realized they'd lost a ton of billables to IP, so they started mucking around again. Huge big law circlejerk.
  13. Got damn, that's nearly 15 years old.
  14. I had a client do this, wound up taking nearly a whole office of a company with them, because the old employer was that bad and the people identified with them were that good. They had an overbroad covenant not to compete, no anti-solicitation clause, but they were in litigation for the next three years solid. As tends to be the usual case, though, it turned into an IP case.
  15. To be fair. it does not appear that Whiskey Pete directly ordered the removal of specific books. Possibly worse, though, is the whole chilling effect of this type of order. One thing I find particularly galling is that integration of the military has been a leading force in integration of society and the willingness of abused minorities to serve the country that has abused them is a marvel of the best of America. Edit to add: Article also says USNA had eliminated affirmative action in admissions, which I initially thought was a blinding glimpse of the obvious in view of the fact that it is a federal institution. However, I believe that the state of the law is that the courts defer to military judgments of the necessity of affirmative action and similar things, so the academies were free to continue affirmative action before this order.
  16. Glad you're back, friendo. You have valuable insight on things.
  17. Kinda have to think Liz Holmes is on deck. I dunno, though, chick. Watson has the additional benefit of being black, because once in a while, Trump throws a small DEI bone.
  18. Amusing (but not really), how SoS Rubio is left mostly out of foreign affairs to diddle around with domestic shit.
  19. Can't edit, but I say all the foregoing as a child who was a massive Civil War buff, and a "fan of the Confederacy," based mostly on regional bias and being 8 or 9. I do not remember anyone, which seemingly would have been my parents, nudging me in that direction. But, I distinctly remember my parents reminding me that ultimately, the Confederacy was on the wrong side. I was too young to be a racist, and my parents did nothing to encourage me to be one. Later in life, I don't recall being fed anything historically inaccurate about secession or the cause of the Civil War, even in a great white ISD. But the whole lost cause mythology was there, omnipresent even at UT. Offering up historical complexities like states' rights, the role of the federal government, and the loyalties of US military officers to their states rather than their country/federal government. That stuff is all fine as far as it goes for a deep dive biography or an upper-division history class. But the fact that Confederate apologism worked its way into everyday discussion of the Civil War even among the uneducated is a testament to how effective a propaganda tool it was. And still is. I'm not a huge fan of bandying about traitor/treason regarding today's public enemies as I think it often overstates a case that is bad enough. But it absolutely applies to Confederate government officials and military officers. Jefferson Davis, traitor. R.E. Lee, traitor. Stonewall Jackson, traitor. Nathan Bedford Forrest, traitor and virulent racist. Hood, Bragg, traitors. Simkins, traitor. Littlefield, traitor. There's no way around it.
  20. Well, ackshually, they haven't. Unless you want to contend that Perkins Coie, Jenner Block, and Wilmer Hale aren't big law.
  21. It's all just bullshit because there's no actual market for either stock as they aren't publicly traded. My guess is that he's trying to imbue Xitter with the hysterical bullshit that is AI.
  22. BASIC ftmfw.
  23. Just for a bit of perspective, "Temporary Orders" are common in adversarial Texas divorces, so much so that they are mostly boilerplate. So given the poor state of legal reporting, this could mean he's bashing her around or could be more "benign." https://texaslawhelp.org/article/temporary-orders-temporary-restraining-orders-tros
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