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  1. Well, somewhat surprisingly, this goes well beyond the contents of his book. He was sending Intel summaries daily while NSA to two relatives by email, yes AOL, and IM. This is, of course, crediting the DOJ with following the normal rules, which may not be wise. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/john-bolton-indicted-for-allegedly-mishandling-classified-information
  2. Yeah I assumed something like that was true. Just talking shit.
  3. Cancel, no, but a court might impute an income offset if he is proven to be intentionally un- or under-employed.
  4. Bitchin framerates on muh gamez, man.
  5. No. And apparently the Biden DOJ was looking into it as well. Shifty Schiff is left off and I think they're going to have a hell of a time with that. Speech & Debate.
  6. That seems to be true. Bolton apparently played pretty fast and loose with the classified information laws when authoring his book. That, of course, was not Trump's concern, but it seems to be pretty factual.
  7. Also, "house __________." You know what he really wanted to say there.
  8. Well, another thing is, I think they'd like to take women out of the workforce entirely and thereby "solve" unemployment for straight white males and also the child and elder care problems.
  9. Was he "affiliated" with the Eyes of Texas protest? On the one hand, I thought that whole thing very ill-conceived. On the other, I can't completely blame him, either.
  10. That guy is a complete fucking cunt. Gorsuch really should disclaim him if he pretends to be a better man, but he won't because he isn't.
  11. Getting a bit out of mine also (hell most things are out of my zone, if they get technical). But, like other cops, those ICE agents and their superiors will have qualified immunity, requiring them to have committed a clear constitutional violation to be held liable. False arrest without probable cause would seem to clear that hurdle, but QI requires a more precise analysis than that, so it's like "is there a case clearly ruling that immigration cops cannot constitutionally detain US citizens," and there probably isn't, or if there is, Charles Alan Wright could distinguish it, so QuAlIFieD iMmUNity!
  12. I think the central thing that raised UT's profile was top X% admissions, which is a political by-product anyway. The let err'one in then fail 2/3 of them out had worked pretty well for the rigorous majors, anyway. I have or had a few qualms about the state U getting all hard to get into, and thought the fail-out system was a good compromise. It also seems that top X% is a pretty good compromise. I wonder to what degree business and engineering faculty will feel pressured by this as they tend to be either apolitical or somewhat to really conservative. But I would hope or think a more intelligent type of conservative than MAGA. Perhaps BeauVine yields insight there.
  13. Jesus wept. Point of order, the event center was not in "Dallas," it was in Allen. Lotta realtors up in that bitch. If you're not familiar with the hymn referenced above, it's really quite lovely and may capture true Christianity better than any I can think of. That rendition didn't need anything other than the piano, IMHO, but I tend to detest "praise bands." The song was written in 1966 by a Caholic priest whose parish was the south side of Chicago.
  14. §25. Oath of Speaker, Members, and Delegates At the first session of Congress after every general election of Representatives, the oath of office shall be administered by any Member of the House of Representatives to the Speaker; and by the Speaker to all the Members and Delegates present, and to the Clerk, previous to entering on any other business; and to the Members and Delegates who afterward appear, previous to their taking their seats. The Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Eightieth and each succeeding Congress shall cause the oath of office to be printed, furnishing two copies to each Member and Delegate who has taken the oath of office in accordance with law, which shall be subscribed in person by the Member or Delegate, who shall thereupon deliver them to the Clerk, one to be filed in the records of the House of Representatives, and the other to be recorded in the Journal of the House and in the Congressional Record; and such signed copies, or certified copies thereof, or of either of such records thereof, shall be admissible in evidence in any court of the United States, and shall be held conclusive proof of the fact that the signer duly took the oath of office in accordance with law. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title2/html/USCODE-2011-title2-chap2-sec25.htm Key takeaways. The use of the mandatory "shall," so it's not optional for the speaker. And it must be done "previous to entering on any other business," which would seem to apply to Members who "afterward appear," like Grijalva. Additionally, by executing/subscribing the written oath, which must be provided by and returned to the Clerk, are conclusive proof of taking the oath. She should do that.
  15. He's turned out to be a real cocksucker.
  16. They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love.
  17. Seems a rather disproportionate fraction of these young GOP racist/radicals are guinea wop dago greaseballs. I use the slur for teh lulz but also to point out that it wasn't so long ago we had a bunch of different ethnic out groups and I believe that sort of thing cometh again, and that right soon.
  18. It is true that RRS results often don't reproduce. that includes bad teams performing well and good teams performing poorly. I am gonna guess that youth in critical positions is our main ailment and while motivation may have helped, we're going to progress this season.
  19. I could look it up, but isn't "Metis" about the same as "mestizo," that is, a cross between indigenous and colonizer? Also, in case anyone hasn't noticed, miscegnation produces some remarkably attractive humans, so I say let's get on with it.
  20. Well yeah, conservatism within the context of liberal democracy. And, although my examples were monetary or fiscal in nature, it goes beyond that. It seemed to me for a good while that Rs, by comparison, were less likely to do stuff that had unintended consequences, yes, cost, but other things as well, as nice as a progressive thing might sound. And, although I approved of the "status quo," that didn't entail enshrining me or my fellow male whiteys and rich-ies, just a healthy whenever government makes a big departure, there's usually a lot of fallout kind of thing. Also, being an alcoholic and making recovery and getting reconnected with spirituality/faith/the spaghetti monster, whatever, got me to a more progressive mindset.
  21. Can't improve much on that. But more than any slogan like small government, I am just fundamentally conservative. I'm kinda cheap, I'm super-careful with my clients' money and resources and my advice to clients is conservative, although I present more extravagant options. I was never comfortable with the social/culture bullshit.
  22. And, if you start reducing the "what do we do with the morons" question and carrying the oiligarch's solution to its end, everyone ends up being a moron, a drag on the bottom line. That includes various intelligent and diligent folks that didn't choose the "right course of study," or through various life events categorized as "luck," so that the line defining "morons" starts to creep to the right of the mean and before long, it's the sub-90% and not just the sub-50%.
  23. Thanks for the reminder on this. Love things with a nautical bent. An observation on this that sort of encapsulates Larson. In recounting contemporary headlines, he threw in that a Grape Nuts ad referenced its ability to fortify youngsters for schoolyard fights, complete with an illustration of such a fight. Great shit. Maybe this one:
  24. And all the positives they attribute to Stephenson are actually negatives going by his track record at ATT.
  25. Is that a brand of hair extensions?
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