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Brisketexan

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  1. 2 minutes ago, CDAK said:

    In my opinion, it's never arrogant or entitled to exercise your due process rights.  

    Oh.  Okay.

    So, people have rights.  But perhaps there are times when it's smart to exercise them versus not exercise them.  That's the point.

    And I've never said it's arrogant or entitled to exercise your due process rights.  I'm saying that sometimes it's NOT SMART to exercise your rights (splitting threes at the table).  If the REASON for you making that not-smart decision is because you think your shit don't stink ("Split those threes!  I'm a blackjack god and can't lose!"), then that's super-not-smart.

  2. 3 minutes ago, CDAK said:

    I don't take issue with your saying the decision is not smart. I take issue with calling her entitled or arrogant for requesting a jury trial.  Those are different concepts no matter how you try to conflate them.  

     

    Jesus.  This is terrible.  How do you not get this?

    Not ALL requests for a jury trial are evidence of arrogance and entitlement.  SOME may be.  This may fall in that "SOME" group.  

    Further, not ALL decisions to exercise one's right to a jury trial are wise.  One can choose to exercise a right UNWISELY (that doesn't make it any less a right, it just makes it an unwise decision.  Example: you have the RIGHT at the blackjack table to split a pair -- the dealer can't stop you, it's your absolute right.  It's a WISE move to split aces, or eights.  It's an UNWISE move to split threes).  And the reason for that unwise decision MAY be arrogance or entitlement.  That's the logic here.

  3. 3 minutes ago, CDAK said:

    I object to calling her arrogant and entitled for exercising her due process rights.

    Gosh, then I guess it's a good thing I didn't say that, then.

    25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    If they're exercising them because they think "I could NEVER be convicted".....then yeah, it's not just arrogance and entitlement, it's arrogance and entitlement so grand that it overrides reason and logic. 

    I bolded the word that you seemed to have missed.  I don't know what her reasoning is.  IF (note the emphasis) her reasoning is that "there's no way anyone as beloved and awesome as me could ever be convicted," then that is arrogance and entitlement, and it's also on such a large scale that it gets you in an ass-heap of trouble.

    Seriously, stop being so obtuse.

  4. 1 minute ago, CDAK said:

    ou said, if her motivations for rejecting a plea deal are X, that's "arrogance and entitlement so grand that it overrides reason and logic."  Now you're asserting that she may not have been "intelligent[]" in rejecting a plea deal.  Your arguments are inconsistent and all over the map.

    Ummmmm.....what?

    Yes.  I said that she may have made a decision based on arrogance and entitlement, instead of logic and reason.  So....yeah, that would be "not intelligent."  Choosing to go with your feelings/perception as your decision-driver instead of sound reasoning is kinda textbook "not smart."

    OF COURSE not all people who opt for their right to a jury trial are "arrogant and entitled" (let's Venn diagram this, verbally).  Some are truly innocent, and/or have a reasonable belief that the government cannot prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.  Others just aren't smart enough to figure out how shit works.  Others have an arrogant and entitled worldview that leads them to think that they are bulletproof, and nobody, including the government, can touch them.  I can't believe that I have to type this out, but -- I am speaking just about that last group.  Which is a real thing.

  5. Just now, Your Mom said:

    My dad took me there in the late 80s. I took my then-wife in 2001. I went again with my dad in 2014. Took my kids in 2017. 

    I’m no Catholic but this cathedral goes beyond religion. Hand carved stone, not a single power tool, just the strength of many generations of men and lots of ingenuity and the art.  All that art. The building itself was art. 200 years in the making. Can you imagine starting a project that you know your great great great great great great great great grandchildren will have to finish?

    This is gut wrenching. I’m glad my kids got to see it. 

    This sentiment is why, the first time I picked up Pillars of the Earth, I couldn't put it down.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, CDAK said:

    I'm sure I'll disagree but I don't know what distinction you're trying to draw.  What are the acceptable motivations for exercising your due process rights?  And are there any other unacceptable motivations for exercising due process rights?

    We all have rights.  We have a right to tell a cop "why don't you fuckin' make me?"  Just because you have a right doesn't mean that exercising it is wise.

    Lots of very, very smart and experienced criminal defense attorneys advise their clients "look, I know you have a right to a trial, and to make the government put on their evidence....but I've SEEN their evidence.  If you do that, you'll be convicted, and go away for 20 years.  My advice is that you waive your right to trial, and take the 2 year deal they are offering."

    Having a right is one thing.

    Exercising/not exercising it intelligently is another.

  7. 1 minute ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    fuck it, its offensive, its a horribad idea.... like Aggy level bad.

     

    we dont need to rebuild it exactly with all the built in arches, but the external and internal view need to be the same, along with the acoustics.  

    The problem is, it will be 30 + years before its restored, and its going to cost multiple billions of dollars to redo.

    Says you.

    All we gotta do is a slight tweak to migration patterns, and voila, it'll be done in a year, for a few million, max....all we gotta do is get a few trucks full of these guys to Paree.....

     

    IMG_0440

     

    On time.  Under-budget.  And will introduce taco truck food culture to Paris....will be fascinated to see what they do with it after a few decades...

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, CDAK said:

    It's arrogant and entitled to exercise your due process rights including a jury trial?  The guilty have due process rights.  They aren't entitled or arrogant if they exercise those rights rather than pleading guilty.

    If they're exercising them because they think "I could NEVER be convicted".....then yeah, it's not just arrogance and entitlement, it's arrogance and entitlement so grand that it overrides reason and logic.  Which is a thing that actually happens.

  9. 1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:

    Yeah I hear what you’re saying but the way he’s posting would put him on the really shitty far end of the spectrum of your typical ignorant and or racist and or I got mine trump supporter. That’s a pretty rare level of shittiness.

    By way of contrast my Dad is a trump supporter but he’s actually a good guy who has been a Republican his whole life and has just been brainwashed by Fox News as he got older. What we’re seeing out of Icono on this board is much more next level shit. 

    Maybe.  Maybe not.  I think that Icono is the Trumpkin id.  This is who they truly are.  Many of them conceal it, use language that sanitizes their beliefs, etc.  But when they hear Trump at his most evil and dehumanizing, do they get a knot in their stomach....or do they nod their heads?  I think all but a handful nod their heads.

    The horrifying thing is exactly what you post about -- folks who we THOUGHT were actually "good guys"....aren't.

  10. Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    If they get the fire put out, they will have to work quickly to get things in to support the outer walls.

    IF...IF they can get it out without the walls falling.....absolutely.  It's going to be a massive, short-fuse engineering project.  But, some things are worth saving.  Indeed, sending the message that our collective cultural heritage is worth saving is important.  They are symbols of our humanity, and humanity -- all of it -- matters.  Notre Dame, Palmyra, the Parthenon -- they belong to all of us.

    Damn.

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  11. 5 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Icono is a bit, right? 

    In the sense that 40% of Americans right now are "a bit," then yes, he's a bit.

    I don't block him, because I think we all need the glaring sight of our political reality to confront us every goddamned day.  We don't get to look away.  We have to see our hideousness in real time -- refusing to look at it is cowardice. 

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  12. Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Just an absolute tragedy all around.  The documents and history that we are losing right now is horrific.  

    We are ephemeral fucking creatures.  Even our greatest works can, literally, go up in smoke.  I'm sure I'll be able to philosophize on this in much greater detail after the smoke clears.  But for now, just the loss and helplessness -- fuck.

  13. 3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    You guys all talking about what you have or have not done to your house in the past year....as if that matters in any of these figures (unless you end up disputing it)

    Oh, we know that.  Really, it goes to the point that the entire process is arbitrary bullshit.

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  14. Didn't go up a lot....but they popped us HARD last year, so we already got our screwing.

    What's weird is that a couple of years ago, they effectively flipped the land value and the improvement value.  Before, the improvements were worth a bit more than the land -- maybe 30% more.  Then they jacked up the land value (about 85%), and reduced the improvements value about 35%.  So, if you look at each element separately, it looks like the land is overvalued, and the improvements are significantly undervalued (our house hasn't dropped 35% in value -- shit, we've painted, replaced an AC unit, replaced floors -- at the very least, it should have stayed steady).

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