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  1. By tempering it with the Constitution, I don't think you can call them religious nuts or fanatics. Had they been fanatics, the various factions represented never would have gotten together. Never really heard Quakers referred to as religious fanatics, either.
  2. That's a load of shit. I'm all for realism about America and it's bullshit exceptionalism. Let's not make it worse than it was.
  3. But they weren't Puritans. First Amendment is a rejection of all that. The majority of them were Anglican, a couple Cathoholics. The mortal enemies of Puritans.
  4. Where does this "religious nut" shit come from? Sure, they were nominally Christian for the most part, but there's about zero evidence that any of them were religious nuts, certainly by modern standards. First Amendment belies that whole notion. And, yeah, there was slavery, which was tolerated more than endorsed, and subjugation of women. Standard shit for the times. Not making excuses for it, it is what it is and it was more progressive than any other contemporary nation.
  5. You know damn well this result, like all of them, had no bearing on the underlying merits of the case or even the prosecutorial discretion in bringing them. Fani Willis is a dumbass and OLC 24-0222 is what it is.
  6. I definitely think there is more of a role for capitalism in drug and device development than in more core aspects of healthcare like providers and facilities. That doesn't mean largely unrestrained capitalism as currently practiced by pharma, as an example. There's a whole wealth of medical technology that we never hear much about, such as imaging and devices, where a whole lot of innovation occurs. Shit's expensive, but I'm not sure it's disproportionately so. I used to do patents on surgical devices that seemed expensive af for single-use devices (few hundred bucks), but not totally outrageously so.
  7. The right, sure. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
  8. I'm not sure it's his legacy he cares about so much as his current, living ability to maintain his inflated self-image, of which wealth is a part, but only a subsidiary one. But it's the same result, either way.
  9. I think his point is that, generationally, the young, men in particular, are significantly worse off than preceding generations due to the wealth/income gap and asset inflation. There's less room for error than there's been in quite some time. That may apply less to white men than women or men of color, etc., but I think it's broadly true.
  10. Despite his goonerness, you gotta at least grudgingly respect Heupel as a pretty, pretty good college QB that basically launched the Stoops/OU/Bag of Dicks dynasty. And then to do as well as he has as a college coach. But geez, dude, get a grip on the bread, Doritos, and m&ms.
  11. Yeah, there's something kind of pernicious about these latter-day D-FW exurbs. I guess its those with new money get in early on a fancy subdivision before it really takes off, then some bigger money comes in for various reasons (proximity to the airport for Southlake), including familiarity with it as a trashy burb in its prior existence. And then the worst characteristics of both new and old money, rural dipshits and more urbane privileged, mix and amplify. Also, you got around.
  12. https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/tracker-entries/air-force-changes-social-media-speech-policy-to-resolve-lawsuit-with-veteran/ http://www.pickyourbattles.net/
  13. Poodle.
  14. Quinn is a dufus for a) unironically wearing a tie bar in the year of our Lord 2024; and b) a tie bar with anyone's name on it; that it's Trump just takes it to 11. And, it's not really surprising that doltish 18-22 year-olds vote Trump. The distressing part is the actual grown adults.
  15. I'd say Klubnik balled out today. Ewers had a nice game. Tre was a beast, happy for him. Guess I should add Blue and Gibson to that.
  16. That's one of the more interesting aspects of the stupidity that has seized us. Things that are clearly Republicans' fault, but not THESE Republicans, RINOs or someone else, but with pretty much the exact same policies.
  17. Yeah true. This year had too many newbs and mercenaries. I just really enjoyed Logan.
  18. Well, they both need to be in high-chairs.
  19. Buy some mufuckin Vanguard 500 or SPDR or Fidelity something or other. It's not that hard.
  20. Logan was the clear leader, but all of em man. All of them. Such a likeable team.
  21. Dug around on this. It was apparently the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, which was passed in 1994 and funded by the initial legislation at 12,600,000 annually until 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Miller_Kids_First_Research_Act So funding "ran out." This would have re-appropriated funding for another 10 years.
  22. I finally landed, with this post, on the problem with "common good" government, as advocated by a bunch of neo-Catholic christofascists. It's that if that doesn't inhere to the majority of the people, and must be forced on them by government and by some arbitrary choices made by the government, we're completely fucked and the government isn't going to fix it.
  23. 174k isn't a bad gig for a 25 year old ignoramus. Also, this says terrible things about Texas. Nothing new, but terrible just the same.
  24. Not going to trial notwithstanding the problem Willis created for herself. She did a sweeping RICO case against Young Thug that turned into a disaster. https://apnews.com/article/young-thug-trial-probation-guilty-plea-0f52263908d42e0f488b78c0641ecfa4 Ten months of jury selection. 27 original defendants, six went to trial, Young Thug finally pled guilty and got time served. It did take "only" 2.5 years from arrest to plea, but Willis indicted Trump in August 2023, so guess where that gets us. And more defendants and more of them likely to defend vigorously than a bunch of rappers.
  25. Fuck you you fucker.
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