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    So this weekend, I was farting like a banshee, can't directly trace to any particular food or other substance (generally been eating a lot of salad, also putting jalapenos and Tabasco on other things, but that's SOP). I did have a few slices of frozen pizza, which is not normally on the menu these days, so maybe an excess of grease. Anyway, I had farted so much that I became cavalier about them. So I was sitting on a stool at the kitchen bar and passed another one, and there was that kind of liquid sensation that accompanies the dreaded shart. But, it was only as the fart exited my compressed butt cheeks. My impression was that the shart had occurred earlier, somehow unnoticed, but the subsequent fart alerted me to the earlier expulsion of liquid. No damage to clothing or even underpants, but had some damage control to do, nonetheless.
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    The Meadows does have an excellent reputation, though.
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    Well said.
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    Correction, there has been one, exactly one, sex change operation in federal prison. Court ordered as medically necessary in 2022. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/federal-court-orders-first-gender-affirming-surgery-trans-prisoner-rcna25377 However, I doubt that the surgery actually took place, because BOP is excellent at finding ways not to provide extraordinary health care to inmates. They fucking release them before it comes to that.
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    Yeah, that was the fundamental brilliance of the fucking trans ads. They didn't really conclude that one position was right or wrong, just that Allred, Harris, or whoever was "too liberal for [you]." That mitigates the cruelty of the anti-trans message and makes it more about "they're focused on issues that you don't really care about."
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    Acknowledged. It probably don't make a shit, but for historical purposes, at least, I do just quite like the idea of Trump dismissing prosecutions against himself.
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    Well just curious how hair-trigger they are on trademark issues. I have pretty mixed feelings about over-aggressive use of trademarks.
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    Did they actually sue, or just threaten to?
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    Tariffs on Canadian lumber importation are gonna do a number on homebuilding. Unfortunately, I got out of the timber-owning business a couple of years ago.
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    I have seen a couple of suggestions that Smith should ask for a stay in the two federal cases, to resume prosecution after Trump leaves office. Merchan apparently is doing that with the sentencing in the hush money case. There is a big material difference between staying a post-trial sentencing for four years and staying an untried case for four years, namely, the trial. In the NY case, the trial has occurred and the evidence therefore is fixed. Staying an untried case for four years is something else entirely. Memories fade, evidence is lost, people die or become incapacitated, including hopefully Trump. The one thing it does offer, though, is to force Trump to act to dismiss the cases or pardon himself.
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    Funny thing, although Texas has this reputation as under-regulating business, there have been some studies that note that Texas has a lot of laws and a lot of mandatory language in those laws. So, like Texas being a low tax state, that may be mostly a myth. I suspect moreso than under-regulating, it's under-enforcement. Like the CPS saga and the juvenile justice facilities: the laws are there, they're just ignored and unenforced. And underfunded. But, both standard/quality of care and the regulatory environment are pretty qualitative, so it's hard to know.
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    Probably right and that will be, objectively speaking, a corrupt act on his part. Not as corrupt as pardoning himself or otherwise acting to terminate the prosecution, but corrupt. Like it even makes a shit.
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    What was laughable was any belief that the justice system would produce final convictions in less than four years. Actually the opposite of your "laughable take." I'm guilty of indulging in that fantasy. Still, more than any other institution we have, especially those adjacent politics, the justice system is fact-based and thus not a place where Trump will fare well, as evidenced by those recent trial losses that were unaffected by the immunity ruling, or mostly so. But the proximate cause of the failure to hold Trump accountable was the electorate, not the justice system. Trump's flooding the zone with horseshit only works to delay the justice system, it doesn't turn it on its head.
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    She did say "on purpose." Sure some laziness on the part of judges and prosecutors plays a role along with defense attorneys and "delay favors the defense." But hardly any of it is on purpose other than defendants usually want to delay things. But mostly, the system is overstressed. It's not overstressed if plea bargains are an acceptable outcome at the rate they occur, but it is if we think more jury trials should occur.
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    Partially yes. The single most regrettable thing is that it's a pay-to-play system where those who can pay play longer than those who can't. That one, I don't really know how to fix, in a rational way.
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    Stupid sumbitch is blowin about 100 rds per pig.
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    Dude, those "takes" are factual. For good reasons and bad, the wheels of justice move slowly. It's not some opinion. And it certainly wasn't offered in defense of Trump.
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    Oh I am quite sure there will be. Smith goes by the rules. What happens to the report after he submits it is a different story. But, again, a report where indictments were brought isn't going to reveal much. It is only of great significance when indictments are not brought.
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    Has anyone given an extradition deeposition?
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    No argument from me. It would be most interesting if trial dates were more freely available and rapidly scheduled (a first trial setting is often scheduled within a year, but no one realistically expects to meet it). As things stand right now, a civil defendant can expect not to have to face a serious trial date for at least a couple of years in most courts in any case where much is at stake. And you've seen what a criminal case can be like if the defendant is disinclined to plead. There is some thought that in civil dispute resolution, the parties coming to a settlement is more economically efficient than trial. Whether that's true or not, speeding the potential resolution (faster trial dates promote faster settlements and sometimes less expenditure on attorneys fees) would change the game considerably.
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    Well, treaties themselves are the province of the executive, but trade treaties generally require legislation to fully enable them. I'm going to assume that these tariffs violate the treaty, which will invoke dispute resolution mechanisms in the treaty and if Canada and Mexico win (it's gonna take a while) the tariffs will be gone. Then Trump can withdraw from the treaty and not shit the rest of government can do about it.
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    And, the Mar A Lago case will proceed as against Walt Nauta and Carlos D'Oliveira, which will reveal more explicitly Trump's orders to hide documents from the government. But, they'll probably plead out. They could, however, issue a trial subpoena to Trump and in all likelihood that would be enforced, although he could still plead the Fifth.
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    Court records aren't classified. The decision to keep them sealed or public lies with the judge. HOWEVER, evidence only gets filed in the court record in bits and pieces (small ones at that) until trial, at which time it all becomes public. One kind of amusing thing, though, Smith had to put in most of his trial evidence in the motion to avoid immunity. And that is already public record. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-newly-released-evidence-in-the-jan-6-case-against-trump In one sense, that sucks for the prosecution, because they have to reveal nearly the entirety of their "hand" before trial. But the defendant already has most of all of that evidence, in the usual case. On the other hand, all that inculpatory evidence is revealed to the public before the defendant has any opportunity to rebut it. In this particular case, that's delightful. As if anyone read it.
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    Yeah, that's kind of what it boils down to. This is a waste of the court's time, if no one elses. And courts are actually a fairly scarce public resource.

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