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TwiceHorn

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  1. Nevertheless, that's a product of the Catholic church and spurious Christian "doctrine" like manifest destiny. A perversion of the teaching of Christ. It is actual legitimate Christian doctrine to spread the faith, by education and example, not coercion and certainly not by force.
  2. I assume you are familiar with the saying "mediocre white man," which is often invoked by anti-racists when referring to the unremarkable white men that have dominated American everything from the revolution on. And while arguing that DEI provides a relief from mediocre white man. Whether it's racist or not, the "white man" version of it doesn't sound like the public Talarico to me, much less adapting to "black man" for All red, which really does fit in so many ways.
  3. So, dumb question. Is it anglicized to something like tell-eric-oh or more latinized tall-ah-reeko? I'm troubled by the mediocre male thing. I don't think that sounds like something he'd say, just because he doesn't seem to employ those kind of meme-sayings very routinely at least in public discourse. But his denial was a bit lukewarm and kind of sounded like "that's not what I meant (but it is what I said)." And the whole incident on both sides or all three disturbs me.
  4. Related concerning her and the Fulton County search warrant. The Atlanta FBI SAiC, Paul Brown resigned or was terminated over resistance to the search. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/fbi-agent-in-charge-of-atlanta-office-resigns/85-a8d4ebc5-bd47-41bd-a60d-64bff77a1cde
  5. Dug around, seems he's in private practice still and securing pardons and favorable treatment for his clients from the administration. Pardons and dismissals and such.
  6. And on an individual, one-to-one basis at that. Maybe ideally inspiring dozens or hundreds or even thousands, but still on an individual rather than collective basis.
  7. Blanche seems to be a terrible advocate. Especially for this administration, but I have never seen him advocate for anything else. He was very lackluster during the Trump trials. It could be that he just doesn't believe in anything he says. Believing in what you're saying and advocating for usually helps any advocate. But the best can argue for something they absolutely do not believe in and do it convincingly, or at least enthusiastically. I'd kind of like to see a debriefing on his path to power and the aftermath. He seems overall pretty unlikely to be this way. Speaking of which, whatever happened to Chris Kise? That guy seemed to be a pretty effective advocate, but seems to have dropped out of Trumpworld once his legal engagements terminated. @DDD Dad know anything?
  8. You mean no crank-gobbling time?
  9. I was on the Texas Relays Student Committee and one of the things we had to do was tie posters to trees around campus advertising the Relays and whatnot. That was extremely hazardous duty around dusk especially around Gregory and up and down 24th. As a freshman, I walked from the Castilian up and down 24th to classes in Painter, RLM, Welch, and ETC. On rainy days, the amount of grackle shit actually made the sidewalks slippery and the smell overwhelm even those odors from the lab vents in Welch and ESB. Nasty. They were still reporting on grackle mitigation efforts on campus well into the 90s.
  10. As stated, those are not judicial warrants and do not entitle agents to enter onto private property to make an arrest. They're just pieces of paper that say "you can arrest Juan if you see him (out in public)." In a normal criminal case, a cop can arrest someone if they witness them committing a crime. Or, if they have a judicial warrant for arrest based on proof of probable cause that a crime was committed, which typically comes in the form of an affidavit of a LEO, a victim of, or a witness to, the crime. Being present in the US unlawfully is not always or even usually a crime and very few people if any witness the events that lead to unlawful presence. The requirements for arrest then are relaxed, but not the requirements for entering on personal property to effect a search or seizure, which remain governed by the 4th Amendment and require a judicial warrants. So these non-judicial or administrative warrants are adequate to secure someone's arrest in a public place.
  11. I will say this about Tillis. For about a decade he and minority member Chris Coons have shepherded amendments to the Patent Act through Congress. That's more or less apolitical and a fairly arcane or obscure but important topic. It's not performative and doesn't gather him any/much attention from partisans. So he's not a completely brainless toad like Tuberville or some other morons. But yeah, he can back off his selling out to Trump because he's not seeking re-election.
  12. She may not actually get fired, but I think it's pretty clear she's been told to STFU for a while.
  13. That guy is weird as fuck. He's Australian, naturalized. big manosphere type, like Tate or whatever. Ambassador to Malaysia so I guess he can hang with Cheong. Proto-trumpy. His GF is ugly AF too.
  14. That's pretty hilarious. She owes CAIR $125k in attorneys fees and court costs over a bullshit lawsuit she filed accusing them of causing her to be banned from Twitter. Weird citation/site, but a fairly comprehensive story here. https://baptistnews.com/article/loomer-ordered-to-finish-paying-cair-damages/ Bit surprised she didn't try the Alex Jones debt-avoidance scheme. Like Texas, Florida is pretty generous to debtors. Also a little surprised CAIR didn't push harder to collect, but $2400/month isn't quite chump change. Delicious really.
  15. Good point. A federal Trademark application is a relatively simple document in terms of the information required. About 20 years ago, the USPTO enabled electronic filing of them by filling fields in a filing program. The program was accessible to the public and even contained prompts and informational links to explain the significance of the information provided in each field. The IP bar rapidly concluded that the relatively rote but lucrative tm application filing business was going to disappear. But, there's a lot of experience and judgment behind properly filling that simple form and laypeople find new and incomprehensible ways to fuck that up. And it generally takes more time for an attorney to unfuck the application than it would have to have done it right in the first place. AI has no real ability to reason or to exercise judgment. As long as that is a factor in what's required, AI will fail.
  16. I'll bbq your ass if you don't put Esq. after my name in formal correspondence. 😬😬
  17. Why the fuck is that dirty foreigner expressing views on economic policy? He's a goddamn doctor. All due respect to physicians, but many of them are the worst businessmen for otherwise smart people in the history of evar. And I don't count his TV cult as making him a businessman.
  18. Another weirdness. In the US, trademarks cannot be granted until they are "used in commerce." This means that products are sold, or services rendered in interstate commerce, usually products sold from one state to another, or services rendered to a customer in another state. So, most/a lot of trademark applications are not filed until after that use takes place. Of course, here, the BoP, doesn't exist yet, and isn't rendering any services to anyone, so that's a non-starter. However, the law permits you to file an application on the basis of "intent to use," before any such use has taken place. Proof of the use will have to be made before a registration is granted. So, that's kind of normal. But as stated above, usually only commercial entities will file "intent to use," to "reserve" a trademark ahead of time. One feature of these intent to use applications is that they cannot be assigned from one owner to another. The mark must be actually used for that to happen validly. If it is attempted before the mark is used, the registration/application becomes invalid. The reason for this is Congress wisely didn't want a bunch of troll-types filing intent to use applications and then selling them to others who actually were using or intending to use. Analogous to domain-name squatting. Clearly and obviously the intent here is that the current owner/applicant, the USPTO (wut?) will assign to the Board of Peace once/if it gets up and running. And use is going to mean doing actual "peace stuff" and I'm not even sure what that means or looks like. So, this seems to be another example of how bad the Trump administration is at law. In this case, it would seem to be a rather harmless foray into bad IP law. But still.
  19. Pretty cool. I think most people's impressions of RTF was that it was some kind of blow-off. But at least in my day, roughly coinciding with the Minister of Culture's, anyone in actual RTF was sharp, worked pretty hard at it, and as I recall, had to exhibit some talent in the field(s), as well as academic chops, to succeed and graduate. It was a degree plan a lot entered and few completed.
  20. Congrats, amigo. You didn't tell us it was RTF. Last time I checked that was a pretty rigorous and prestigious degree. On the issue of counseling. Seems you had a pretty good experience there and maybe that's a reflection of "the new UT." Back in my day, 80s-90s, such counseling appeared non-existent, at least until you got into upper division. But I kind of wonder if that was more a perception than reality. I'd guess that the vast, vast majority of students in those "open admissions" days never even attempted to engage any sort of counseling, but it might have been there nevertheless. Kind of like office hours for a 300-person class, the professor seemed shocked if someone actually showed up for something.
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