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  1. 17 hours ago, bornontheblue said:

     

    Although born and bred in California, Shapiro understandably decided his home state had become too far left but rather than move his business to a politically moderate state closer to California like Nevada or Colorado, he's moving to Tennessee, a state whose flagship university has some fans who showed themselves to be by far the biggest bigots of any opponent SDSU has ever played. Never thought Ben would turn out to be such a chump. To quote a guy Shapiro once disliked immensely but now defends at every turn, "sad."

  2. On 10/15/2020 at 7:17 PM, Nevada Convert said:

    Jeffrey Toobin is a complete hack. Toobin was actually a student of Dershowitz, and when Dershowitz was on his show months ago, Toobin went after him, and he got schooled and his ass handed to him. It’s not a good idea to attack your old teacher, especially when he’s much much smarter and more experienced than you. 

     What's REALLY not a good idea is playing with yourself while on a video conference. :D

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  3. Not everybody on CNN is awful like Don Lemon, Wolf Blitzer and the modern version of Anderson Cooper.

    People like Jeffrey Toobin, Abby Phillip, Jim Sciutto and Jeffrey Diamond and all the retired military bigshots who hate Trump's denigration of their profession are very good.

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  4. 3 hours ago, soupslam1 said:

    Maybe he was making a point about the dead voting? By the way, why do people enjoy watching this train wreck? 

    Great question. The Kavanaugh hearings were so brutal that I decided I wouldn't watch this latest version of what seems to be a totally pointless exercise because at least in this day and age it ultimately all comes down to voting the party line.

  5. 22 hours ago, smltwnrckr said:

    I'd put money on the court upholding zoning laws and regulations that allow states to functionally outlaw abortion in all but the biggest cities and allowing states to ban receiving abortion pills. I'd consider that a functional overturning of Roe.

    I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I would bet that it does. Not just cuz of her, but because of the three justices picked under Trump (one of whom I like).

    Right. Although I don't think Roe will ever be completely overturned, I envision a day in the not too distant future when the addition of ACB will result in many women in the Bible Belt, Utah, Idaho, etc. having to travel several hundred miles to get a legal abortion.

  6. 49 minutes ago, NVGiant said:

    That's good. If Dems talk about anything other than the ACA and hypocrisy then they really don't deserve to win in November.

    I haven't watched even a minute of it but if the Dems haven't been hammering the Repubs on the hypocrisy of their position they are once again tripping over their own feet.

  7. 24 minutes ago, Akkula said:

    You can only coast on post WWII success so long.  The past 50 years hasn't been that great for a lot of folks.

    I'd say the past 40 years and it began with the Reagan tax revolution and subsequent actions by the Dems which condoned the Republicans' desire to pad the pocketbooks of the 1% while placing blame on the poor and the so-called welfare state.

  8. Just now, toonkee said:

    I'm sure her children are lovely people but they really aren't my concern here. Did she alter her judgement because Trump politics or no?

    Sorry about my lack of clarity but I was being sarcastic. To be clear, you and I are on the same page on this one while lawfor continues to show his true colors of being not an objective observer of this election as he has ambiguously asserted for months but rather a died in the wool Republican.

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  9. Just now, toonkee said:

    what about all her fam and the fact she didn't mask up at the rose garden? The question of if she did not do those things because of political or other pressures seems valid.

    You didn't get the memo. Her kids don't matter.

  10. 6 minutes ago, thelawlorfaithful said:

    Nope, she already had the Rona. This a dumb question.

    Jeebus.

    You act like it's established that once having survived COVID, one is immune for at least six months. However, that's inaccurate.

    Further, her family members haven't survived the virus have they?

  11. 1 hour ago, Akkula said:

    The more effective thing to say is that all the Republicans lied in 2016 when they said the reason they wouldn't confirm was because it was an election year.  They really should have said...we control the senate and there is nothing you can do about it...we won't allow you to fill a seat.  Just because they can invent a new reason in 2020 doesn't mean that was what they said when they lied about not holding hearings for Garland. 

    Yes, The only conceivable significance for having the nominating president be of the same party as that which holds the majority of Senate seats would be if the process provided for senators to simply vote to rubber stamp the president. And if that were the case, questioning of the nominee and others as has historically occurred would be superfluous. As such, the distinction raised by the Repubs is pure BS.

  12. 1 minute ago, soupslam1 said:

    Democrats should be damn lucky Trump has nominated a very well qualified moral person like Amy Barrett. He could have nominated a person with a similar character to himself. 

    Aside from character he could have nominated the Puerto-Rican American from Florida. Doing so would have at least theoretically helped him win a state which is a must for his reelection plus she's 10 years younger than Barrett so in theory was likely to have remained on the court even longer. Moreover, I respect the opinion of Harry Littman greatly and Littman opined that although he disagrees with some of what Barrett has written, she has a superior legal mind. In contrast, Littman said he has read at least 50 decisions authored by the Florida woman and he views her as a mediocre jurist.

    That said, now that there are 6 practicing Catholics on the court and a seventh, Gorsuch, who was raised a Catholic before converting to another socially conservative relation upon getting married, although abortions aren't ever going to be determined to be unconstitutional, the holding in Rowe figures to be considerably narrowed in the future.

  13. 20 hours ago, soupslam1 said:

    Aren’t most of the drug offenders in prison for selling and very few for using? I have no sympathy for sellers since they play a part in screwing up other people lives

    Many of those imprisoned for sales involved marijuana .The feds continue to stupidly list marijuana in the same category as heroin, meth, etc. because presidents have appointed people from the military or politicians to run things who are very uninformed. Meth in particular will absolutely destroy your body over years of regular use. In contrast, for centuries people have ingested cannabis regularly with only minimal negative effects and the assertion it leads to "harder" drugs is a fallacy in my experience. Therefore, the belief of the feds that selling marijuana to others will screw up their life is a real stretch. If the feds would stop opposing the use of marijuana it would be considered the same as alcohol in virtually every state.

    I'm on the fence about legalizing all drugs.

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  14. 6 hours ago, modestobulldog said:

    This is an interesting point.  Many on this board are anti-death penalty.  I used to support it, now not so sure because of arguments made on this board.

    Two things turned me against the death penalty. One was the advent of DNA testing which has proved that some people the state has put to death actually didn't commit the murder they were convicted of. The second was a financial consideration. Because of all the due process rights possessed by those sentenced to die, it actually costs the state considerably more to put them to death than it does to keep them locked up forever.

    But I sense you and I are on the same page philosophically, which is to say I don't think the state putting somebody to death is inherently wrong morally. I fully support reducing sentences for those whose only crime has been the use of illegal drugs. However, beyond that all this recent push to lessen time in prison is utter nonsense. "You do the crime, you do the time." Period.

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  15. 12 hours ago, soupslam1 said:

    Three more constitutional Supreme Court Justices will definitely soften the blow for me. It’s the best thing that has come out of the Trump presidency. It’ll hold the loony leftist Dems at bay until I’m dead. 

    Well, that's good for you. As for me, like I've said before, I've always felt abortion was such an ambiguous issue that I really don't care how SCOTUS rules on it and I'm in the process of watching The Tudors for the first time and have gotten to season 4 and it reminds me how pathetic people are who argue over religious doctrine like that. Obamacare also doesn't matter to me since I'm drawing a public pension tied to which is a great medical plan which I'll always have. So with the exception of Scalia's idiotic originalist doctrine becoming the philosophy of the majority of the court, it's irrelevant to me whether Barrett gets confirmed and even that is balanced by my belief that by voting on the nomination before November 3, Moscow Mitch and his Band of Merry Men are going to be shooting themselves in the foot politically.

  16. 4 hours ago, toonkee said:

    Curiously, you choose to spend more time worrying about the supposed hypocrisy of some jag off named toonkee on a sports conference message board that your team isn't even a part of and not the hypocrisy of actual judges or leaders. 

    Take a break, go eat some mediocre ice cream and think about what you're doing here.

    Stunner is obviously having hella fun denigrating RBG and getting bigly stimulated by the nomination to SCOTUS of another so-called Pro Life judge.

    Good on him. 2020 has been so miserable that we all need to be able to blow off some steam when the opportunity arises. I expect to be doing the same beginning the evening of November 3.

  17. On 5/13/2020 at 12:06 PM, modestobulldog said:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I am not following your logic. I asked the question if not wearing a mask was the equivalent of murder. It seems like in this dialogue, you are stating that it is the equivalent of being a murderer, rapist, or drug dealer.

    Jeebus. lighten up a bit, will ya? You and Bob have been inching toward the cliff on this issue and now almost have one foot over it. (Don't know why the software didn't pick up all the rest of your post. Whatever.)

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  18. 45 minutes ago, FresnoFacts said:

    Newsom announced that Nevada and Colorado have joined California/Oregon/Washington reopening planning group.

    Yes!!!

    We can do this, guys! Five non-red Western states as one new country, half a dozen non-reds in the East and the rest can be the new Kingdom of Mar-a-Lago!

  19. 51 minutes ago, FresnoFacts said:

    The misinformation that some people believe is concerning to me.

    For example, in the LA Times this morning there was this:

    Lets see, we are at 1,000,000 total case in a population of 329 million. 1 case per about 329 people? I wish winning the lottery was at those odds.

    As indicated in other Times articles, that 31-year-old doofus you alluded to is in the demographic which has recently had the most surprising rate of infection. My sense is that they've heard the stats that people of their age without compromised physical health are almost never dying from COVID-19 so they just aren't at all concerned about it. What they ignore is that, one, even absent any symptoms, if they become infected and continue to refuse to comply with social distancing norms, they could easily spread the disease to far less hardy individuals, and two, like a friend of mine's cousin in Israel, some who are infected who don't die get extremely sick for more than a week and many of those who survive only through having to be on a respirator suffer damage to some of their internal organs through oxygen deprivation.

  20. 5 hours ago, BestintheWest said:

    When I drafted Damien Williams last year before the season the projections were through the roof. He was a top tier running back, Kareem Hunt was cut off, it was Williams' show all the predictions trended up.Then the games were played. What a +++++ing let down. Nowhere near projections. Total bust as a 3rd round pick.

    There is seriously a football player with that name? http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/la_riot/article/0,28804,1614117_1614084_1614510,00.html

    And he was born and raised only about two hours from his namesake's despicable act. I sure hope this Williams was named after a relative.

  21. 16 hours ago, CPslograd said:

    https://nymag.com/author/andrew-sullivan/

    Good article from a lefty.

    Agreed. I've been saying this for about a month: Just because Trump has argued that the cure could be worse than the disease doesn’t mean it isn’t potentially true.

    People need for elected officials to not simply talk the talk but to walk the walk that returning to normal will gradually begin to occur. In the meantime, we're having a heat wave here in SoCal and although L.A. County allowed people to flock to Malibu beach, Mayor Garcetti's cops were patroling beaches within the city to preclude anyone from using them.

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