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  1. This is the first time he's really been pressured consistently, so it's bound to cause some problems.
  2. Volleyball is a well-deserved #2 and a lot of fun to watch.
  3. Bout to turn this off and take a nap.
  4. Well, if you're trying to keep the ball out of the end zone, it's probably easier if your body is outside the endzone too. Just as a point of reference.
  5. Kinda looking like Sark gonna have us a shit season and be forced to address some things.
  6. I will have you know that I am licensed to practice before the USPTO, which I am entitled to do in all 50 states.
  7. In street clothes among other large humans, Bijan looks less imposing than I would have thought.
  8. also *nigras most likely.
  9. Well, I don't think it's bozo's friends we're talking about. It's the electorate. Over which bozo, you, and I have no influence. Dems have the smart people captured already, even if a bunch of us don't really like them. And the MAGA base is irretrievable until Trump dies. There is some "persuadable middle" that made the difference in the last election. They're dumb as fuck, but not as hateful as MAGA, mostly. And while I love Warren, myself, I recognize that I'm a geek and wonk and that she just didn't have the "rizz" or whatever during her campaign to reach that persuadable middle.
  10. Or that people don't use the vast resources of the internet for benign and beneficial purposes.
  11. Well, he's been melting his brain with drugs and alcohol for decades with intermittent spurts of sobriety. I can tell you there's no more miserable person on earth than an addict that keeps relapsing.
  12. Do you really need to ask?
  13. Cross him off then. Never really liked the sumbitch anyway.
  14. Some of those old trademarks and logos and whatnot are actually abandoned by the university owners and sellers try to go royalty-free. UT really was one of the first institutions to monetize its trademark IP heavily, so hardly anything is abandoned and everything is subject to licensing and royalties.
  15. You see that pretty often when it's a manufacturer sale. All the vendors on Amazon are resellers and didn't get that discount from the manufacturer. I have the Amazon Visa, which gives me "bucks" to spend. Sometimes I'll see a manufacturer sale on something that doesn't filter down to Amazon, and its a dilemma whether to use actual money and get the full discount or Amazon play money and pay more.
  16. Ah fuck it, let's just go straight simple Jack. Sec. 31.03. THEFT. (a) A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of property. A racially neutral statute. Can this be enforced in a racist manner? Or conversely, because this is a facially neutral statute, is any enforcement of it racially neutral?
  17. The issue in the trial is, did Comey lie to or otherwise obstruct Congress. Anything that doesn't bear on that may be excluded. If Comey were guilty or in danger of being found guilty (all signs here are no), then he might fight to create some "improper motivations" sideshows to distract the jury. I'd tend to think if they do just go straight to trial, it will be a simple presentation where Comey probably doesn't even call a witness and wins by directed verdict.
  18. And no Harpie Murray.
  19. That about sums it up.
  20. Well, if he's footing the bill, its a lot faster and several hundred thousand cheaper to go to trial. But I think there's reason to believe he's not footing the bill and Fitzgerald came out of retirement for special reasons, that might include fucking with the Trump DOJ.
  21. You could also argue that both are instances of "the state" attempting to influence education policy. But to do that, you have to go hypocrite because you've been saying that the feds (DOE) should have no role in education policy because LoCAl cONtrOl. If the state is to have a role in education policy, it should be the State of California, not POTUS.
  22. Yeah, it is, but there's still a bunch of inference and innuendo. This risks making it all extremely explicit. Unfortunately, this kind of dismissal is hard to obtain. After you prove the vindictive motive, you also have to prove that the results are different, that is, that similarly situated defendants were not prosecuted, so the vindictive motive was the proximate cause of the prosecution. And that can be really tough and nigh-on impossible. So, it's a dilemma for Comey/Fitzgerald: pursue a low-percentage motion that will be very embarrassing for the administration/DOJ, or just go directly to trial ASAP and pants Halligan.
  23. A question on the above is, if Comey/Fitzgerald pursue the vindictive prosecution angle, how public will the evidence become? An aspect of it is that a motion to dismiss the indictment on this ground requires an evidentiary hearing, meaning witnesses may be called and documents introduced. There may also be depositions of witnesses so as to avoid the necessity of live testimony, which is usually preferred in criminal cases. Evidentiary hearings are not the norm in motions to dismiss, which are usually decided "on the paper." The government will resist this discovery with everything they've got, I'm sure, including a lot of lying and dissembling. And will also try mightily to keep the fruits of the discovery from public view. But Fitzgerald has the reputation of pursuing this kind of thing to the bitter end and is just the guy not to capitulate to the government's shenanigans. And Halligan is one of the least likely attorneys to be able to defeat him. The judge, Nachmanoff, is a Biden appointee and served five years as a magistrate judge and prior to that was a federal public defender. So, salty as fuck on criminal stuff and not inclined to defer to the government at all. There's a really good chance this turns into a complete shit show for the Trump DOJ.
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