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  1. That's 10-straight incomplete for Reed. Arch-like. But I give Arch tons of credit for not being a turnover machine.
  2. Holy shit. This is pure comedy!
  3. Lulz.
  4. Bahaha holy fuck.
  5. Not gonna get my hopes up yet, but what an unlikely and perfectly Aggy upset.
  6. Goddamn, every photo of the Oval Office includes more fucking gold.
  7. As mentioned above, from a purely analytical standpoint, the Federal Tort Claims Act precludes or does not waive sovereign immunity for malicious prosecution or defamation claims, except where the bad acts giving rise to them are those of law enforcement officials, which in this instance means cops. It would require, then, that cops fabricate or suppress evidence, resulting in the dismissal of a criminal case, or something of that nature. Pardoned people should have no claim for malicious prosecution, whether law enforcement officials are involved or not. As noted elsewhere, a pardon implies guilt and certainly does not actually resolve a conviction other than to relieve the consequences of it.
  8. In the interest of full-on pedantry, I think rent-seeking and regulatory capture are symptoms or features of capitalism, whereas the competition and efficient markets features of capitalism are supposed to foreclose or eliminate those things.
  9. The other problem with running a government agency entity as a business is "putting the public first." Sure, private businesses are decentish, better than government, at squeezing a penny until it screams. But they fucking suck at serving any constituency but shareholders, and the customers/public gets the shaft. Take shareholders out of it, with a non-profit, and they start serving themselves.
  10. Addendum to the above. When Pacino first entered the scene as Hoffa, doing his best scenery-chewing Devil's Advocate schtick, I was like "uh oh." But by most accounts, Hoffa was a bombastic, blustery character and agree with the above that Pacino played him with more nuance and "empathy-generation" than did Nicholson.
  11. One thing, I think monopoly or monopolization, at least defined somewhat economically (the power to set/control prices), only touches on the dangers of capitalism and corporate power. Maybe it's just more regulation in general/particular, environmental, workplace safety, worker security, customer privacy, etc. that's needed or necessary. But it also seems that "corporate" power needs to be viewed from another lens, entirely. I'm not 100% sure what that is.
  12. Really late to the party. I knew the backstory somewhat and had seen it on Netflix for ages, and could have sworn I watched it. If I did, I didn't remember hardly a damn thing about it. Except the actual Hoffa "climax." Is there another recentish film that depicts that? Sopranos prequel? It is in the back of my head that I have seen that scene, but with other actors. Maybe I'm just getting senile. I did notice the "aging" discrepancy, but for whatever reason it didn't much interfere with the film for me. I am somewhat extra fascinated with mob permeation of unions because I disdained unions for many years, but now see their abosolute necessity. Teamsters involvement with the mob seems somewhat inevitable, one way or another, because the mob has seemingly always had it's fingers in transportation/trucking. Are/were other unions as notoriously mobbed up as Teamsters?
  13. It will probably be cited as a reason not to release them, yes. The law, such as it is (meaning there's not a whole lot of law on this subject after grand jury secrecy), favors non-disclosure of investigation materials other than by using them to try people in criminal or civil cases. That's whether an investigation is ongoing or concluded. The case for non-disclosure gets stronger if there is an active investigation. This is law "by analogy" to the policies of the DOJ with regard to investigation materials, and things like FOIA that permit the government resist disclosure of investigation materials. There's also probably a pretty strong argument that any investigation is a pretext and unlikely to result in criminal charges because of the statute of limitations. For actual sex crimes, limitations is long or non-existent. For any sort of "material support of sex offenders," it's probably five years.
  14. But yeah, not all blocks are created equal. Sometimes it's more the hitter's fault, other times, it's a great block. Could score it like errors in baseball. Haha.
  15. You could argue that hitting into a block is an attack error.
  16. He's a big fan of the regime, including Elmo, no doubt.
  17. And Stefan Passantino, the lawyer who suborned Cassidy Hutchinson's perjury until she came to Jesus has a similar claim against the January 6 Committee. And his shitass case has been dismissed by the trial court for similar reasons to that of Flynn: his claims sound in defamation and the Tort Claims Act does not waive immunity for such claims. It's on appeal. Politics aside, these cases are dogshit and don't deserve a nickel.
  18. Some fun facts. The United States does not waive its sovereign immunity under the Tort Claims Act for actions for malicious prosecution, UNLESS it is the result of the actions of law enforcement officers and prosecutors are not law enforcement officers for that purpose. Accordingly, Flynn's complaint was dismissed for failure to state a claim and on grounds of sovereign immunity/subject matter jurisdiction because he could not identify a law enforcement officer that maliciously prosecuted him. He was given the right to amend his complaint, a second time. but the judge specifically warned that the complaint must comply with Rule 11. After that order and before filing any amended complaint, all of Flynn's attorneys withdrew despite being from Jesse Binnal's jackleg firm. It's a reasonable inference that they couldn't/wouldn't file a complaint that didn't violate Rule 11 and survive a motion to dismiss. So, his case is absolute legal dogshit and should be fired into the sun. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66930673/47/flynn-v-united-states/ But Trumpco has been dilly-dallying around keeping the case alive when it should be DOA.
  19. Such a load of shit.
  20. Yeah and that narrator liked to sweep with a real broad brush on "Protestants" versus evangelicals. He was right that, for a variety of reasons, Catholic churches tend to be more strongly tied to their parishes (there's a regional aspect to that that isn't present in other denominations). I didn't see a single Presbyterian, Methodist, or Episcopal church on that list. Or Lutheran for that matter, but they've got Missouri Synod like Presbys have PCA and I guess now Methodists have our own sect of shitheels.
  21. And also, apart from the joy of watching Trump squirm, these documents are ambiguous as fuck and not supplemented with testimony. To the extent there are actually innocent people in there being subjected to innuendo, that's exactly why you don't release investigation evidence that hasn't resulted in an indictment. It's a total shit show. The only thing that makes this a good thing in any real way is that Trump is at the vortex of the shit storm.
  22. To be fair to you corn dogs, LSU is just letting the politicians in the athletics henhouse, at least so far. Aggots are letting them in the classroom.
  23. They could actually crow that they brought all that good stuff back but now illegals are ineligible. Ignoring that they've always been ineligible. Shit, they've already blown the budget and deficit straight to hell, why not tack on a few billion for the people.
  24. Not needling you, I've cited Brooks before. It's just that these "common gooders," typically fundamentalist Cathoiics, do a great job of identifying the problems, but their proposed solutions are too white-hetero-Christian in perspective. https://www.patrickjdeneen.com/ https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/adrianvermeule/ I think Deneen is more sane than Vermeule.
  25. This is hugely overblown. On the other hand, if your negligence causes a "lifetime injury," say paralysis, like, I dunno, Greg Abbott, the judgment is going to seem pretty huge.
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