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  1. From the EO: "claims that the United States has “used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” That's not a fucking claim, that is an objective, verfiable fact. Fucking hell. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep163/usrep163537/usrep163537.pdf
  2. Seems like about half the snakes we identify are water snakes. They come in a lot of varieties. This is one of the sort of dark mottled variants. He was pretty aggro. Or she. Also, ha, this is my own pic of my own encounter and, look closely, you see that same pattern.
  3. Read the comments on that, and weep.
  4. I think that's a nerodia, water snake, specifically a diamondback variant. They can look an awful like cottonmouths, especially mature ones with the very dark, mottled coloring. They also flatten their heads to look like pit vipers. And they're often found around water. One of the key identifiers when you can see the head is some pretty easily visible vertical stripes along the jaw on a light background, usually yellowish.
  5. Yeah, the truth of it is for most that there is some feeling of inadequacy that drinking helps you forget about. Then you do stupid shit while you're drunk, which gives you more to feel bad/guilty about, which in turn justifies more drinking or using. If no other stupid shit, how much and how often you drink. But, that's a cycle that really anyone can get into and if you drink/use enough, you develop tolerance and withdrawal, making it more difficult to quit. But, there's still more going on with it than that. The addict seems to have an abnormally "positive" response to substances and once withdrawn, an abnormally high tendency to revert to substance use.
  6. Well, Donald Trump and a Republican party that is afraid to challenge him. Both of which are thoroughly enabled by a stupid and hateful electorate. So it is really kind of the all-time trifecta. They envisioned two of the three but not all three at once.
  7. Trump really means the Gilded Age, between the Civil War and the turn of the 19th Century. Which was a golden age for oligarchs and pretty shitty for the common man. But we had no income tax, and big business ran roughshod.
  8. Watch the assholes claim state secrets privilege in order to avoid this. /not classified
  9. Haha and it's Boasberg. Guy needs to watch his cornhole. So far, this guy is the hero of Trump 2025.
  10. For reference purposes, the vast majority of legal work gets handled in the US Attorney's offices, both civil and criminal. And, for a lot of that stuff, the people at "Main Justice" in DC are just a layer of bureaucrats. But there are several major divisions, Civil Rights, Environmental, and Antitrust, among others, that are civil in nature and concentrated in DC. I'm not sure if it's better to decentralize those or centralize them. Whichever makes more sense, you can rely on Trumpco to do the opposite.
  11. Well, the uniform response from the base is that we don't need no Canuck or Euro commie fags anyway. But apart from aspects of "globalization" that are objectively pretty bad, like offshoring most manufacturing, the fact is that the economy is global and that has been and probably continues to be more to our benefit than anyone else's. So, yeah, we actually kinda do need those Canuck Euro commie fags to buy our shit.
  12. I could probably get behind merging DEA and ATF, especially if that meant curtailing the drug war. But what it means here is that there will be no more regulation of firearms and lots of extra-stupid drug war. The "civil litigation office" thing is interesting, because those look like pretty active civil litigation centers and most of what Main Justice does is civil litigation. Probably means non-enforcement of civil rights and environmental laws.
  13. Tax crimes looking particularly tasty.
  14. Well, he's a good dude, good poster, and apparently quite involved in humanitarian aid, so that gives him more of a stake in this bullshit than a lot of us have. @InkaUtexas cmon back, my dude, you are missed. Geez. I have had some pm convos with him, seemed like a good, level-headed guy.
  15. They sell a ton of smart watches. I suppose the market for navigation is pretty dead, but not sure. And to answer the question, here's a repair guide and the comments have suggestions on finding parts.
  16. Same device same issue. But mine is less fuct up than yours.
  17. Standing and on a rest and in battle-rattle. Fuck that guy.
  18. When an administrative agency seeks to make a rule through informal rulemaking, § 553(b) requires that the agency publish a general notice of the proposed rulemaking. § 553(c) requires that agency to give interested persons the opportunity to submit written comments and that the agency consider such comments. Individuals can submit comments on proposed rules electronically at Regulations.gov . The agency must give individuals a period of at least 30 days to comment on the proposed rule. Before publishing the final rule, the agency must issue a “concise general statement of their basis and purpose.” Lastly, § 553(d) provides that the final rules are published in the Federal Register .
  19. Good article on the ramifications of the Federal Records Act, as well as other applicable statutes. https://www.co-equal.org/guide-to-congressional-oversight/congressional-oversight-of-executive-branch-records-preservation
  20. I rode the elevator with Boone Pickens pretty regularly. Drove himself to work in an older BMW wore khakis and ropers most of the time. Superficially pretty nice, down-to-earth guy. He never called me shitbird.
  21. That's true and what Hillary did probably deserved some kind of sanction. However, I do tend to believe the FBI/DOJ personnel that declined to prosecute because intent would have been hard to prove.
  22. What's amusing is Ratcliffe did some word-parsing there. I don't think he said much in the chat, therefore HE personally did not reveal any classified information. Which raises another glaring point: having substantive policy discussions by phone chat is completely normal to this confederacy of dunces. Not one word from anyone to the effect of "why are we doing this by chat" or "is it good/proper to do this by chat?" while Hegseth is talking about leaks and OPSEC.
  23. That. Is. Fantastic.
  24. Democrats, if they ever return to office, need to get serious about some court-packing. One thing, though, I believe it would be pretty difficult to "punish" a single judge, because the smallest "unit" Congress addresses is a judicial district. So, they could punish the DC District Court, where Boasberg sits, but they'd also be punishing a number of Trumpy judges. Plus, the side effects of further reducing the size and capability of the district courts would have severe ramifications for every day business in a system that is already underfunded, as we have discussed somewhat ad nauseam. And, the federal district courts are pretty heavily relied upon by the oligarchs to protect their oligarchy.
  25. But, because you made me think of it, I will reminisce. Back then, following Texas Baseball was a bit harder than it is today. I was still a student, a law student, so going to games was readily available, but news coverage not so much. The Daily Texan was a bit hit or miss with box scores, and news of things like the CWS also a bit hit or miss, especially given that DT was running on summer staff by June. Add in the fact that I was taking first-year exams in May, I was pretty unplugged. Nevertheless, I was aware of the championship series/game against Wichita State, but completely unaware that it was a single game championship. So I tuned in and watched and was completely bumfuzzled that it seemed to be over after one game.
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