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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #100 on: April 09, 2016, 06:34:45 AM »
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I am not familiar with MS's trademark businesses, but Jim's article offers a couple footsteps of an entry into the lack of business backlash. Not sure how I could impact that, but research, research, research. You don't have to be in the specific place to boycott it, but the first thing that pops into mind are the travel bans that cities are enacting towards North Carolina. Same could be done there. I wonder who they rely on for other goods. I always see semi trucks and imagine there's several Ryders, Roehls, Schneiders etc. that can place pressure as a national company, etc.

I don't stop because I always seem to travel solo through there and metal detectors/armed cops at gas stations are totes intimidating. I imagine I could go to MS after moving back to Atlanta this summer, and I would if I had a plan or allies to group with.

I mean, organizing a total trade embargo would work, but trucking works on pretty thin margins especially down there, and saying that you're not gonna ship somewhere is risky for all kinds of reasons. Also you'd probably look like assholes because you're trying to starve people into submission, since that's what threatening a shipping boycott gets played as in the media.

A boycott requires a pretty deep war chest and the knowledge that someone else can't just roll in and snap up the work you're not doing.  Likewise, city/state travel bans are only more than a symbolic gesture if there's a possibility that the employees of your city/state would have reason to go there for official government business.

Basically, Mississippi is shitty enough that soft power tactics don't work.

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #101 on: April 12, 2016, 01:53:10 AM »
https://twitter.com/alisonrapp/status/719309949923274752

So, they're doxxing Alison Rapp and her family. Fuck these people.

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #102 on: April 12, 2016, 04:04:01 PM »
Continuing my theme of ranting about lawyers I encounter in my day job, I would like to point out that formally arguing that a judge, even an administrative judge, is "hopelessly biased" against you and should recuse herself from your case because she interrupted you a lot at oral argument is probably not a good decision.
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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #103 on: April 12, 2016, 05:22:52 PM »
About as good as the folks that keep asking gay judges to recuse themselves from cases bearing on gay rights.  Um, no?  How about no.
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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #104 on: April 12, 2016, 05:34:46 PM »
Continuing my theme of ranting about lawyers I encounter in my day job, I would like to point out that formally arguing that a judge, even an administrative judge, is "hopelessly biased" against you and should recuse herself from your case because she interrupted you a lot at oral argument is probably not a good decision.

Are you working on the Ethan Couch case, then?

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #105 on: April 12, 2016, 06:47:32 PM »
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/apr/11/bill-would-let-therapists-reject-gay-clients-way-tennessee-gov-haslam/359522/

This is pretty terrible legislation all around and I can only hope that Haslam rejects it.

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #106 on: April 12, 2016, 07:25:52 PM »
Continuing my theme of ranting about lawyers I encounter in my day job, I would like to point out that formally arguing that a judge, even an administrative judge, is "hopelessly biased" against you and should recuse herself from your case because she interrupted you a lot at oral argument is probably not a good decision.

Are you working on the Ethan Couch case, then?

Nah, it's a piddly EPA permit appeal being litigated by a guy who loves theater waaaaay too much for an administrative law specialist.
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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #107 on: April 12, 2016, 09:46:57 PM »
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/apr/11/bill-would-let-therapists-reject-gay-clients-way-tennessee-gov-haslam/359522/

This is pretty terrible legislation all around and I can only hope that Haslam rejects it.

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #108 on: April 13, 2016, 09:55:11 PM »
Rocky: you do know what an A-bomb is, right?
Bullwinkle: A-bomb is what some people call our show!
Rocky: I don't think that's very funny...
Bullwinkle: Neither do they, apparently!

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #111 on: April 14, 2016, 07:55:05 PM »
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As Texas’ third solicitor general, the New York Times reported earlier this month, Ted Cruz transformed an “under-the-radar, apolitical office into an aggressively ideological, attention-grabbing one.” He sent pro-gun, anti-abortion amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, “clashed” with the lawyers on his team, and “inserted himself” into controversial cases in other states.

But Cruz didn’t always approve of inserting some things into other things...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/04/13/ted_cruz_once_argued_that_selling_dildos_should_be_illegal.html

If there is a World Series of Segues this has to take top prize.
Rocky: you do know what an A-bomb is, right?
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Rocky: I don't think that's very funny...
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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #112 on: April 14, 2016, 10:10:12 PM »
Yeah that's pretty primo material right there.
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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #114 on: April 20, 2016, 03:37:44 AM »
Wow.

And sadly that's only the second most ridiculous comparison I've heard this week (the first comparing the idea that the billionaire classes have too much money to the persecution of European Jews in 1930-45).

The world is a silly place with silly people. 

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #115 on: April 21, 2016, 07:03:38 AM »
Billy Corgan is also involved with a wrestling promotion that is deeply in debt to a pair of Neo-Nazis who were initially hired to intimidate employees who complained about not getting paid on time. 

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Rocky: you do know what an A-bomb is, right?
Bullwinkle: A-bomb is what some people call our show!
Rocky: I don't think that's very funny...
Bullwinkle: Neither do they, apparently!

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #118 on: April 27, 2016, 01:17:09 AM »
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/watch_ted_cruz_tells_transgender_women_to_only_use_the_bathroom_at_home

Lest your forget that ted cruz is the worst

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #119 on: April 27, 2016, 10:38:26 PM »
Rocky: you do know what an A-bomb is, right?
Bullwinkle: A-bomb is what some people call our show!
Rocky: I don't think that's very funny...
Bullwinkle: Neither do they, apparently!

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #120 on: April 27, 2016, 11:46:05 PM »
I think choosing Fiorina is equally clueless.

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #121 on: April 28, 2016, 12:32:18 AM »
I don't get the pick either.  Traditionally, you don't choose a veep until AFTER you've won the primary.  Doing it beforehand just makes you seem desperate, not hungry, even if hypothetically Carly was a great pick.

Guess we won't be seeing a Donald / Carly ticket of CEOs, though!

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #122 on: April 28, 2016, 09:33:33 PM »
http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/haslam-s-signature-seals-it-counselors-can-turn-away-clients-over-religious-objections#stream/0
They changed this from specifically a religious thing to "sincerely held principles." DL lawyers, what constitutes a sincerely held principle here? Seems that this actually blankets possible discriminatory justifications beyond religion.

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Re: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy.
« Reply #123 on: April 29, 2016, 04:16:34 AM »
Yeah, it certainly does.  "Sincerely held principles" is not defined in the bill nor is it a legal term of art, as far as I know.  The upshot is that its meaning is vague, and it will be fleshed out after the fact by judicial rulings when, inevitably, a counselor invokes it.

Judges have a gigantic toolkit to determine the meaning of a term like this: plain meaning of the words, looking at legislative intent, "constitutional avoidance" (preference for determining the meaning of an ambiguous law that may impede constitutional rights in a way that doesn't do so), an so on.

One interesting thing to chew on: when courts determine whether someone has a "sincerely held religious belief" they give them the benefit of the doubt, even if there is evidence that the alleged belief is not in fact sincerely held.  This is because the Supreme Court has said that probing the sincerity of religious belief potentially violates the Free Exercise Clause.  Logically, there is no reason why judges should give equal deference to a person's "sincerely held principle" since it's a non-religious term.  Be interesting to see if and how that shakes out here.
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