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Samson's Wig

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  1. The craziest part is that we act like graduating high school is an achievement worth celebrating anymore.  Congratulations!  You have surmounted the absolutely lowest imaginable bar possible for achievement!  Now get out there and change the world!

     

    Don't get me wrong - go have a party and enjoy the end of the drudgery that is high school.  But the ceremonies are stupid, especially when they're filled with white trash morons blasting air horns and cheering like their kid just accomplished something amazing rather than the reality - he or she managed to show up to school each day for at least 60% of the time and they're getting a participation certificate for the trouble.

     

     

     

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  2. 31 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Huh.  I look at it more in terms of neutralizing one of their key red herring arguments: "What we really need is good guys with guns!"  Fuck you, we had good guys with guns, lots of them, it was an utter failure.  Cross that solution off your bullshit list.

    Just like "it's all about mental health!"  Fuck you, every country has mentally ill people, we're the only one with 288 mass shootings.  Cross that solution off your bullshit list.

    Just like "we have gun laws, we should enforce those!  He shouldn't have had a gun on school property!"  Fuck you, there was nobody wiling to enforce that gun law (as opposed to the "don't sell an AR to someone till they turn 18," which worked like a charm.  So, some gun laws are meaningless -- cool.  Others fucking work.  So, cross that argument off your bullshit list.

    None of us are saying we shouldn't ALSO address mental health (we should, for about 10,000 reasons -- gosh, can you imagine taking  policy action that reduces mass shootings and other assaults/murders, AND reduces the homeless problem?  Gosh, what an amazing thing!).  None of us are saying that good guys with guns can't/shouldn't protect people (they should.....they didn't here, because cops are terrible awful no good very bad people, but in theory, it should help, and on occasion, it actually has helped.  So, yeah, when we look at the contrast here, we get to be pissed off -- this is also a "cops are bad, exhibit eleventy billion" issue).

    Gun violence in this country touches on dozens of issues.  We shouldn't ignore any of them.  Instead, we ignore one of them (the actual guns), and functionally ignore the rest because, while the GQP SAYS those other issues are the real issue....they don't do anything about those issues either.  Because they are pieces of dick.

    I get where you're coming from, but the "good guys with guns" folks don't give a shit whether their argument is neutralized or not.  Internet debates never changed anything. Arguing for the sake of debate can be loads of fun, and I'm all for it generally, but this is an issue that requires action and we fail to do anything over and over.

    If we could somehow manage to magically fix mental health issues, clean up the police departments and ensure they respond properly to dangerous situations, elect finger wagging soft hearted folks who speak eloquently on the evils of gun violence, raise the age to purchase a gun to 25, pass red flag laws in all 50 states, etc. etc. etc., school shootings and mass shootings will still happen.  There is only one way to stop it.   But we won't do it.  We will, however, bitch and moan about all of the ancillary issues because subconsciously we think maybe something will happen to address those.  I suppose from a palliative standpoint that makes some folks feel better.  I thinks it's fucking pointless.

    It's going to take the type of passionate, pigheaded, long-term, potentially insane behavior that has led us to the point of Roe v. Wade being overturned to change gun laws in this country.  That's what we need.  Steal their playbook.  Get it done. 

  3. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    All true but it's not like Southwestern is cheap. Curious that she didn't go to a higher profile law school. 

    Agreed.  Maybe her LSAT and essays sucked.  In my area, I deal with Southwestern grads somewhat regularly.  She's the most impressive I've come across.

    Anyway, back to Amber Heard.  She's crazy, but she's not that hot, which makes the equation very confusing as to why anyone would put up with her.  I've never understood the fascination.  Has always been kind of weird looking, in my opinion.  Not ugly, just not worthy of adoration.

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  4. 9 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Finally looked up Ms. Vasquez.

    Thirteen year lawyer, but not a partner, that's odd.  Odd, too, that an associate has such a prominent role in a high-profile case.

    The other oddness is USC magna, but Southwestern law school, which is pretty meadoker for that undergrad.

    I'm a bit less whelmed by that cross.  It's effective to show she's a psycho bitch and to rehash her previous potential lies, but it's not terribly smooth.

    She graduated a mediocre law school at a time big law was dumping partners and slashing costs every way they could thanks to the Great Recession.  That was probably the worst time to become a lawyer in the history of the country.  Most big firms revamped their partnership structures rendering it damn near impossible for a young attorney like Camille to get ahead.  Fortunately, on occasion cream rises to the top even in those ridiculously antiquated firms.  Good for her getting such a high profile opportunity. She nailed it.  She'll easily be able to leverage this into a partnership at her current firm or a new one.

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  5. 27 minutes ago, justhookit said:

    Yup, it’s confusing as shit and seems to change weekly, but technically since Dad is past day 5 and hasn’t had fever he should be good to go. Just should wear a mask in public thru day 10. And that’s why I’ve told him just to stop testing. Fuck whatever his wife has to say. He really needs to get back to Austin to take care of an office move and a house issue before he goes to Europe next month.

    Good advice, and in line with CDC guidelines.  He could test positive for three months, but after day ten any virus in his system is nontransmittal.  We've had a couple of years to get this data together, and only very severe cases result in being contagious past day ten of symptoms.   

  6. My ten year old son is still running a 102 fever after developing symptoms last Friday.  Deep cough as well.  I feel bad for the guy, he's been stuck in his room for the most part, and if things don't improve he'll miss the entire last two weeks of school.  This shit doesn't just go away in a couple of days for everybody, not even kids.

    Wife, Daughter and I all tested negative on a PCR test this week.  Weird virus.

  7. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    This is Texas.  We've already diverted $1 billion in COVID relief to the governor's border theater production.  You think he has any qualms about direct handouts to his crypto bros?

    Of course not.  But I stand by my statement. 

  8. Seems like most of the folks I'm hearing from that have it now are getting it for the first time.  I wonder if this is due to the transmissibility of the new subvariant or simply the general relaxation of protective measure we've all slipped into.  Either way, a large wave that doesn't result in much hospitalization may be a good thing if it signals that we can finally start treating this thing like a cold.

  9. 2 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

    I don't get people who won't run their A/C and take pride in their lizard like existence.  It's like people who cheap out on a mattress when they could do better.  You spend a 1/3 or so of your life in bed, don't skimp.  You spend 1/3 of your life (if you live in Texas) in generally blistering heat....don't skimp.  

    My top theory is that it is some form of religious self-flagellation mentality trickling into the secular aspects of their lives.  Or maybe it is leftover Great Depression austerity pride passed down from parents/grandparents.  Fuckers can go be a monk in a Sonoran sweat lodge if they want to, I'll be comfortable and cool in my house.  ERCOT can get fucked along with anyone purposefully choosing to sweat while sitting at the dinner table so they can earn tough guy and/or woke eco points.

    My other working theory is simpler.  The people pridefully talking about how fucking hot their house is are either female, old, have ruined their circulation with smoking, or suffer from an iron deficiency (or some combination of the four).  I have more sympathy for these folks than the former, but they'll still have to deal with hard nips if they come over to my ice palace for Sunday brunch.

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  10. 5 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Our school now they let everyone know if there is a positive but do not shut anything down.  The sick kid stays home until 24 hours without a fever.

     

    5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    This sounds like a reasonable mitigation.  My question would be about which parents are bothering to test their kids and notify the school, as opposed to sending them to school with “allergies” 

    The numbers will look no different than the number of asshole parents who sent kids to school with a fever pre-Covid.  That type of shit is what one would hope this pandemic would train out of the populace, but it hasn't come close.  Fever = no school.  Period.  Same for work.  Until we can change this mentality we'll just rinse and repeat every flu season and for every new novel virus that pops up.

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  11. Everyone in our house has dodged this shit through the entire pandemic, until today.  Son (4th grader) woke up this morning with 102.5 fever, sore throat, head congestion, and a sore neck.   Tested positive for Covid.  He's vaxxed but it's hitting him pretty hard.

    His pediatrician had to remind herself how long he should quarantine, etc. as she hadn't dealt with a Covid patient in so long.

     

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