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TwiceHorn

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  1. He needs to have a Jerritt Elliott moment, for sure.
  2. That's about enough of that.
  3. Yeah that was over her knee, probably 3-6" in the box.
  4. That's a run with Stewie at SS.
  5. I think because so much of the motion comes from the legs and trunk, warmup consists of doing things other than throwing. So a pitcher doesn't have to be up in the bullpen.
  6. The hierarchy is as follows: Moron-mental age 7-10 Imbecile-mental age 3-7 Idiot- mental age under 3.
  7. See first year, I actually made outlines, thinking that the process of doing it would reinforce and aid retention. Others obtained outlines from various sources, including me. What I failed to do, though, was sit there and read and re-read the goddamn things over and over and over and over again for at least a day. I hate rote memorization, but this is one way to accompiish it. So, making my own outlines got me thoroughly meadoker grades in the first year of law school. But when I stopped making my own outlines, used others, but did the obsessive re-reading thing, I made law review grades for the rest of my tenure.
  8. What I was trying to say. Well put.
  9. Two beefs my parents had with my early education were a lack of practice of penmanship (they had Palmer penmanship with a lot of drawing of loops) and math tables. So, they forced those two things on me outside of school. As a small child, I pretty much detested practicing anything, but I did those things at their insistence and was probably better off for it. Weirdly, having to learn a system of printing in drafting/mechanical drawing in my teens transformed my handwriting.
  10. A lot of the reporting of the parade seems like it was going down anyway because of the Army's 250th "birthday." Trump is trying to glom onto it for his own birthday, but it seems the Army is having none of it. With fentanyl in them, if you want a discount. Like Amazon devices: you can get em cheaper with ads.
  11. So Americans can pay $4500 for the latest iphone.
  12. And, let's face it, high school civics or government doesn't really cover advanced constitutional topics like separation of powers in any detail. Lucky to get much of that at the college level, much less have it stick. Unless you have sufficient curiosity to dive a little deeper as to how things work or are supposed to work, the facile narratives about "courts bad" work, even when the judges are Trump appointees. Fox provides none of that insight, and neither does any of the social media news or analysis. I think the "MSM" is a bit better about that, for the non-MAGAt, but it don't make a shit.
  13. Yeah Trump has only the vaguest most superficial understanding of anything he's doing at this point. Take the most facile justification and go.
  14. What a load of shit.
  15. Clemson really looks like a better team.
  16. "I would have excepted . . . ." Guess the class president isn't an academic distinction.
  17. Really, all you can say with any confidence is, I'd never take that first drink or drug. So, you can get all self-righteous about "I'd never try heroin/coke/meth/Xanax" or what have you. But, if you're predisposed to be an addict, that drink'll probably get you too.
  18. Well, and sometimes you can pay for "sobriety coaches" and such that enforce abstinence, for a while, that you can't obtain yourself.
  19. I have been slightly taken aback that handwriting is no longer taught. But it's not that big a deal. After I took mechanical drawing in high school, I took notes in a rough version of single-stroke Gothic lettering all through undergrad. Had to go back to cursive in law school to be able to puke out essays faster.
  20. As has been pointed out, most of the vouchers available to families don't even cover the full tuition for a single student, much less the operating budget of an entire school. But I think the main difference is vouchers are payments to parents/citizens/taxpayers, that may be used at a religious school, or not. While the payments at issue here are directly to a religious organization and they get whatever secular charter schools get.
  21. That's a great point about the bond. For the peanut gallery, in a civil case, when a party is temporarily (as opposed to permanently at the conclusion of a case) enjoined, so by TRO or preliminary injunction, the party seeking the injunction has to post a bond against damages the enjoined party may suffer if the injunction proves wrongful. So, sometimes it's a pretty substantial bond. In public-interest cases with the government as a defendant, the bond is often waived. But by the wording of the statute, the bond could be set at $1, or $20, and the whole issue is avoided. I assume "appropriated funds" gives Congress the hook to legislate, probably invalidly. Although I'm sure they'd argue they have the power to determine jurisdiction and this is a jurisdiction issue. And I think just about anything a US District court, funded by appropriated funds, does then would be in violation of the statute.
  22. Actually, I think Rex is pretty bright and actually a pretty decent person. He's a Westlake honk that now lives in the Park Cities with a brief stop at the SAE house on the way. And he's in a field that while often educated is pretty hideously Trumpy and definitely big-business oriented. I can empathize with a lot of that (the irony that one can empathize with so much privilege). I think he's experiencing a bit of an existential crisis that he may not even be aware of. So much of Trumpism is exposing recent American conservatism as just a complete sham that it's really throwing some people that are so thoroughly immersed in a traditional conservative milieu. It often manifests itself as a free admission that Trump is an asshole, but a tendency to deny that he's really a fascist with valid comparisons to historical fascists and also denial that there aren't any redeeming Republicans left, and almost no valid Republican ideas.
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