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  1. 5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well one thing is, there are two bar proceedings cited there.  I'm virtually certain one is a competency type hearing.  Maybe both.  Competence is easy because there aren't any first amendment or zealous advocacy defenses, but they are embarrassing as fuck.  See Chelsea Davis, RIP.

    And, you assume that the Bar is going to win any based on "sedition."  I'm not sure that's a good assumption.  You also assume that any such victory would have a deterrent effect on other "seditionists."  I'm not sure that's a good assumption, either.  But I am certainly Surly's biggest deterrence skeptic.

    Speaking of winning against seditionists. the Sixth Circuit has had Powell, Wood & Co's sanctions appeal for a ridiculously long time without decision.  OH SHIT, we missed this apparently, but they upheld the sanctions with some caveats.  Post incoming.

    Being an active participant in a crime doesn't provide much in the way of a defense, though to me that's more importantly a criminal matter.  In order for the bar to address that, it may require the criminal matter to be concluded.  That I don't know.  

  2. 51 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well you understand that the state bar of Georgia is incapable of sending him to prison for anything. So within the bounds of obtaniium it's a pretty fair result should it come to pass. 

    In so far as what the bar can do, no I'd rather see him disbarred.  If he is allowed to retire, in my mind it still sends a wrong message to other potential enablers.  I'd much rather the state bar have teeth, and an allowed retirement in lieu of disbarment, while functionally the same ultimately isn't the same to me.  A retirement doesn't equate to the public shaming and in turn legal ridicule a disbarment does.  Also, I know it's rare for an actual disbarment to happen here, it shouldn't be.  While the vast majority of the legal provision advocates for their clients within the bounds of law and their obligations, we have lots that color way outside the lines.  The state bar has an obligation to hold their written standards, and no one is begging to be made an example of more than him.  (As an aside, I hope the state bar here starts getting serious and disbarring far more). 

    In so far as the rest of the criminal matters are concerned, obviously that is no.  

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  3. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Lin Wood is losing his law license under threat of disbarment.  Isn't that the desired outcome?  Why shouldn't they allow such a thing?  What thing are we talking about again?

    You keep talking about credentials?  The CPA exam is harder than the Texas Bar, and probably all bars.  I don't know what character and fitness examination they undergo, but I'm pretty sure they have to have five years of accounting school.   Go pick at CPAs for a while.

    No, the desired outcome is him going to prison for sedition.  Just my guess, but this sudden retirement pitch, made by him and released to the public; is a desperate attempt to avoid criminal charges, which are coming.  The kind of delusional thinking that a fool makes right before being indicted; somehow thinking that by volunteering to relinquish his law license it will magically negate the criminal liability he has.  It won't, and in my opinion he is about to be charged and is aware of it, hence this sudden "retirement".  

    Lin Wood is a sad story, I will always remember him as the one guy that stood up for Richard Jewel, a man that was ultimately a hero from the Olympic bombing when no one else would.  That's what makes all of these people who have seemingly gleefully thrown away their lives for Donald Trump ultimately tragic; some of them at one point had done good things, and yet here we sit.  It's really sad that he choose to go down the path he has, but he did and now he has to pay for it.  Despite my feeling bad that he choose this path, ultimately, he did choose it, and that will and should have severe consequences.  

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  4. 1 hour ago, TexasEd said:

    We have a lot of combat veterans from 2002 through 2022 to look after.  Visiting San Antonio and seeing the number of amputees that stay around for access to the Army medical center is eye opening.

    Interesting, the Atlanta VA is I'd say 80% Vietnam era, 20% Iraq I thru present, just based on my eyeball (which is far from scientific).  I know in my wife's unit they had 3 hit with IED's and lose feet or legs, so I know that's out there; for whatever reason, perhaps just the general population make up here, we still see a much older crowd when we go.  

    I did read that during Vietnam there were approximately 9 million service members, conversely, in Afghanistan and Iraq, from 2001 there 1.9 million service members.   That obviously doesn't count Desert Storm and Grenada era people.  That having been said, areas of population distribution of service members are going to vary radically. 

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  5. 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

    When it happened and Vietnam came up, my first thought was "fuck, I was born as close to the 1940s as he was to Vietnam. I'm old.  All the Vietnam vets I grew up around are now elderly like the WWII vets when I was a kid."

    It used to be we went to the VA you'd see a few WWII guys, and a few Korean guys, they gone.  Now the Vietnam guys are thinning out and the ones that are left are quickly reminding me of the WW2 guys.  Interestingly, I think in the next 10 years the VA is going to vastly improve, primarily because there is going to be a lot less people to care for.  

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  6. 12 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    If you just ignore ALL THE OTHE DATA POINTS about this scenario other than Ukraine would benefit from NATO wiping out Russia. It starts to make sense. 

    In all honesty, for the betterment of the entire world, I'd be fine with that outcome.  The destruction of Russian's military capability would be globally stabilizing, and if it lead to the dissolution of Russia all the better.  I just hope we don't take many casualties (I know we would).  

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Midnight Ambler said:

    Why would they do it? To slow Ukrainians advancing? But then there’s nuclear fallout on an area they covet. And we’ve stated that NATO is all in if that happens. That is suicidal level stupidity, which is too dumb even for Russians. 

    Putin doesn't so much care about keeping Ukraine so much as he cares about preventing Ukraine from becoming a beacon of western success next to his fiefdom.  If he believes we won't nut up, he will do it.  

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  8. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Re Georgia and Hungary- Are they betting on Russia winning the war? Or are they just betting on a Putin-ruled Russia continuing to be a strong player in the region after the war ends somehow? That’s not a bad or dumb bet, and it involves some realpolitik.

    My prediction, BTW…and it’s almost certainly wrong, we’ll just see HOW wrong: the counteroffensive slowly re-captures territory lost in the east, and importantly, down to the Sea of Azov, cutting the land route to Crimea. Ukraine then makes life shitty for Crimea. An armistice is signed that has Ukraine keep what it has recaptured, and Russia keeps Crimea. Massive military buildup on both sides of the demarcation line. Requires some sort of international peacekeeping force to keep fighting from flaring up again. The Ukraine Russia border becomes Europe’s Korean border.

    As much as I'd like to say it's all or nothing, this is a very likely end game scenario.  

    What I really don't get is Orban and his continuing fealty to Putin and Russia.  Even in the best case scenario for him, Russia is still going to be very isolated and generally only able to partially help him like in the past.  This seems short sighted to me on his part.  Georgia makes a bit more sense, especially given their geography (even though they have their own axe to grind).  

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  9. 25 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    You watch the great escape recently or something?

    That's a good one, but I was thinking something of a larger scale, to get heavy equipment, i.e. armor in behind the enemy.   Any which way they could do that without going thru the defensive fortifications would be nice.  

    If I am doing this correctly, something along the lines of South Austin's Mom's vagina (sorry, man).  Bottom line, if they can get a breach with some sort of mass force behind the Russian lines, the Russian's are fucked in the south.  

    I was actually thinking about the attempted breach at the siege of Richmond by the union.  While ultimately a failure, an interesting idea.  

    Again, I have no reason to believe that any of this has actually happened.  

  10. So I was looking at the deep state map and got to wondering, would it be possible for the Ukrainians to use a boring machine to tunnel under the Dnipro River?  I don't know a ton about this sort of process but with the benefit of google, from what I understand some of these machines can do 60 feet a day, and even the slower about 30 feet a day.  With that in mind, I started looking at spots along the river that are both not too wide and seemingly sparsely defended.  One of the challenges would be how to hide the initial set up, I'm thinking a big farm house or commercial barn near the river bank, with a target on the other side of a similar nature; even better an existing rock quarry.  The next challenge would be figuring out how to remove the material as quietly as possible, I'm guessing at night, and that would be slow going so as not to arise suspicion with heavy equipment coming and going.  There is a rock quarry to the east of Nikopol, and due south is the river and subsequently rural area across the river, which would make material disposal easier.  The other aspect of using a quarry would be the ease of concrete production.  

    In order for that scenario to work, you'd need to tunnel at least 10 mi, which if my math is right would be somewhere near 6 to 9 months to complete.  It's admittedly a crazy idea, and I have no reason to believe this has happened at all.  However, the Ukrainians do have heavy mining experience and I would guess none of this would be technically too far fetched for them to achieve.  I also don't think it would have been terribly difficult to sneak a big boring machine into the country given all the other stuff that's been sent in.  

    Again, I don't know a ton about this sort of stuff, perhaps some of you do.  Could it even be done?

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  11. 9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Medvedev says they'll make the war with Ukraine permanent. Because Russia literally justified why Ukraine should be in NATO.

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    https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-07-03-23/h_de2af2e2df958e67ae7ac262cf50a436

    Wagner suspending recruiting efforts for a month.  NCAA sanctions on the horizon?

    https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-07-03-23/h_3cec7591d9d0c2616bea85ad4538743c

     

    Wagner was giving out gold Trans Am's?  

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  12. 25 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Same. Telegram seems super shady to me as well, whether that's warranted or not, I don't know. Getting info on this conflict and, let's face it, "war porn" are the only reasons I still have an account with Twitter.

    I think it's probably a good rule of thumb to steer clear of anything the Russians seem to favor.  But maybe that's me.  

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