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TwiceHorn

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  1. Complete clusterfuck. And extremely expensive.
  2. Yeah, same second-hand. My aunt and cousin were oil-rich from Wichita Falls, and I used to go up and visit for a week every summer. By the mid-80s, my aunt moved to Dallas and Little Rock. Whole thing was complicated by the fact that my cousin inherited my uncle's drilling business, and bought three portable rigs in about 1982. So I think he gtfo to escape the scene of his humiliation. To his credit, though, he didn't file for bankruptcy, but spent the next 10-15 years driving back and forth between Dallas and WF working out his debt.
  3. Just a point, the Biden investigation held off because he was not a federal official at the time he took the bag, so not a federal crime, until he started doling out favors or quid pro quos once taking a federal office. It could have been some form of state-law bribery, but it's unclear whether he delivered any kind of non-federal quid pro quo after taking the bag. In that sense it's a lot like the Hunter Biden thing: did Hunter try to present the appearance of influence in the Biden Administration for fun and profit? Fuck yeah he did, just like Jared, Donny, and Eric. Did he ever actually exert influence over the Biden Administration in return for the various favors he took? Fuck no he didn't because Joe wouldn't touch him with a 10-foot pole that way. Of course, Trumpco didn't care whether he delivered or not and just dismissed the whole thing, pretending it's not shady.
  4. Just making sure no one was taking it as a justification. Just sort of an historical curiosity that makes the "American experience with slavery" somewhat unique. But not in a good way. Our use of slavery was arguably more reprehensible than the rest of our contemporaries. We also come out very badly on the post-slavery assimilation issue, but that's something that most of the rest of the world got to take a little slower than we did. A weak defense of our inhumanity.
  5. Digging around, this seems to be an "ERO" office. Which means Enforcement and Removal Operations. It's not a detention facility, per se. If the place was crawling with either detainees or officers, why not target them individually? I suppose there's an issue of competence. But the guy sprayed a building, apparently, assuming he was going to hit either detainees or officers at random. Turns out he just hit detainees. Maybe that's what he intended?
  6. Why not? Do you know what goes on at these facilities? Whether it's more likely to contain immigrants or ICE officers?
  7. The way this guy sprayed an ICE detention? facility (if that's what this was, or was it a court-type facility?), seems about equally likely he was aiming to expedite some detainee removals.
  8. What I am marveling at, though, is that the idea of a "third country removal" is something that came up long ago, before immigration went insane and before Trump turned it into this. It was not a punitive move, but rather a humane one. Still prompts the question I raised though.
  9. Between the essential cheapness of military surplus after the war, and inflation, I don't doubt it. I believe Oswald purchased that Mannlicher-Carcano 20 years after for like $13. I've seen old ads with similar ridiculous pricing for Moisins etc.
  10. I suppose after a fashion you can use a stripper clip to load any box mag rifle, but rifles designed to use them are comparatively rare, usually military, and usually antiques or nearly so.
  11. You realize I said as much? Slavery was easy for them to ignore because they weren't confronted with it on the daily like we were. Also, it wasn't an immediate economic question. So, despite their ability to largely ignore it, they abolished it anyway, although it wasn't much of economic question. That it was an economic question here, that we chose cheap labor and profit over grotesque inhumanity and immoraility doesn't exactly speak well of us. And it took a war to get there, well . . . . Where they did have an advantage over us is not having to assimilate a sizable percentage of the population in the days, months, years, and centuries after they were recognized as human. That's a pig we still haven't swallowed.
  12. This is so bizarre. On the one hand, if an immigrant credibly claims to be unwelcome and endangered in her "home country," it seems humane to send them back, and better to send them somewhere else and to make arrangements to find someplace that will welcome them. On the other hand, if an immigrant is believed to be unwelcome and endangered in their home country, why aren't they granted asylum?
  13. I might guess that really contemplates Catholic or protestant and is a product of the nation being a hockey puck in the post-Reformation battles.
  14. Seems pretty unlikely. Canada has quite restrictive immigration policies. And you have to buy in to their healthcare system.
  15. He should get negged into Bolivia on the username alone.
  16. I will observe that the American thing was different in that most European nations had slavery outside their national borders, in colonies, where it was "out of sight, out of mind" for the most part. That doesn't make it any better for us, just a little different, and maybe worse.
  17. One thing he said that was bullshit is we were among the first nations to abolish slavery. We were among the last, particularly among what might be considered enlightened nations.
  18. But stripper clip? Also did we ever establish whether Robinson's gun was a modern Mauser or a 98 mod? I saw a pic that maybe looked modern, but didn't preclude a "sporterized" 98. And I saw a bunch of shit about "grandpa's gun."
  19. SKS seems the only really likely rifle using a stripper clip. So 7.62x39? Look kinda like em, if a bit long. For some reason, that cartridge seems to get pointy bullets more often than most you see.
  20. Dismissal of criminal charges? Trumpco is going to attempt to abuse existing laws, no question about that. This EO doesn't make it easier for him to do so. At best/worst it expresses his intention to do so.
  21. Apparently, the idea of a sovereign wealth fund is unobjectionable. But that would require political independence and independent agencies are about to go down the tubes. "White House" equity investments are suspect as shit. I thought we didn't like the government choosing winners and losers?
  22. Dabbling is doing some heavy lifting there. Haven't looked it up, but guess it doesn't include filing 60-plus lawsuits, fomenting a riot at the US Capitol, and the loser whinging about it for five plus years.
  23. Didn't know about that, but I have seen some 401ks with horrible options and the default option being the most horrible.
  24. Limitations has expired, so no. Had she sued within limitations, an oldlaw court would have ordered disclosure of that at least to her, if not publicly. DPS dickface would have qualified immunity, at least initially.
  25. And If that's what Fidelity sticks you in by default, targeted to your retirement year, that's a whole hell of a lot better than what some other 401k manager enties default to or force you into. Another positive point for Fidelity as a 401k manager for small to medium business.
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