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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. 1 hour ago, Woland said:

    Except that Biden can now campaign heavily on the Republicans refusing to vote in favor of the very border deal they proposed. "You want a secure border? Vote Biden!"

    Bold strategy, given the shape of the border during Biden's watch.

    The border strategy needs to be about how the Republicans didn't help solve the problem, and then Biden needs to pivot to the job creation and the economy. 

  2. 2 hours ago, bolverk said:

    Wasn't Lincoln kept from being on the ballot in several southern states? If so, what was the legal basis for that?

    MFer was too fuckin' woke.

  3. 9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I have no fucking clue what you're saying, but I've been playing guitar all night and might have drunk some beers.

    David Crosby got inspired by reefer, not Stella Artois Lite.

    You're doing it wrong.

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  4. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    We're talking about crimes here.

    I am talking about immunity in terms of actions within the course and scope of his duties.  I haven't read the case, but my assumption is that the President making presidential decisions - for instance order someone to take out people who are trying to ransack the Capitol and attack members of Congress -- has some immunity from prosecution related to those decisions.

  5. Reading a biography of the great Bill T. Sherman.  Lots of similarities in the years before the civil war.  Didn't realize that some of the southern states kept Lincoln off of their presidential ballots. 

    Lots of similarities in how the dumb southern whites went against their own interests by supporting slavery.

    Difference - the issue of slavery is a good degree more personal to most of those original seditionists that the"invasion of brown people" that frankly, they'd be less passionate about if they actually did have a personal relationship with some of those brown people.

    Plus, those southern boys in the 1860s weren't just dress up soldiers. 

  6. 7 hours ago, Mole said:

    To be fair, Elmo took over the show in a way that contributed to the decline of the show’s quality; and he is whiny, even by muppet standards.  On the other hand, my son loved the Elmo’s World segment and Mr. Noodle and his brother and sister was pretty good physical comedy.

    I gotta disagree.  I originally didn't like him, but if you listened to him he was a rapscallion, and I think he'd fuck someone up if he got the chance.

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  7. 24 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    You can strawman “first duty to the client” all day long and it still won’t obviate a lawyer’s duties to judges, courts, each other and their own professional integrity. 

    Give us an example where two lawyers represent clients with two different versions of the truth, and these duties you refer to would lead to a determination before a jury/judge gets to hear the case presented.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Fine. All of that presumes good faith conduct within respect for the rules. 

    No it doesn't.  It asks that the parties engage in good faith but presumes there will be fuck ups.  And there are usually remedies for those fuck ups.

    As in every other human endeavor.

    You are holding a system designed to try its best to resolve the most difficult conflicts of opposing views of the truth and/or justice by pretending there is a magic eight ball that will come up with the same result in the separate hands of two lawyers and a fact finder.

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I'm on about page 300 of that monstrosity and I started it like 9 months ago.  Not sure I'm gonna get through it.

    Heh.  It's insane.  I did it via audio (about 60 hours total, I think).  Interestingly, I only tired a bit in the last 10 hours or so.  Two round trip road trips from Dallas to SA, and then 30 minutes a night.

  10. 1 hour ago, Satchel said:

    I’m really amazed at how ageism, along with every other ugly thing in our culture, has been normalized. We’re far removed from the time when younger people would pad their midsections so the girth would give them the appearance of age and wisdom. If Biden were  61 instead of 81, based on what we’ve seen so far, would being younger make him a more effective president, I even if we control for the physical decline that comes with aging?

    Just a small point.  Ageism, however ugly you think it may be, is a whole lot more attractive than most "every other ugly thing in our culture". 

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