Unfortunately state appeals judges are elected too. And there’s very limited appeal to a federal court.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 12:35 pm I get all that, I'm just saying that the appeals process will shut down "locally elected" shenanigans.
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- Fri May 31, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Twitter:The New Batch
- Replies: 1072
- Views: 42513
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2166
- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2166
- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Your argument assumes that the judicial system runs on objective truth. But it doesn't. It runs on what judges rule and juries find. Judges who are elected by the voters in their counties (in most places). And juries who are filled with morons. There doesn't need to be objective evidence of a crime ...
- Fri May 31, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2166
- Views: 65097
- Fri May 31, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
- Replies: 503
- Views: 6666
- Fri May 31, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2166
- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
The problem with your logic (Steve) is that a prosecutor has to actually have something to prosecute. Trump was VERY guilty of these charges. It's not like they were made up. You have a lot more confidence in the Alabama/Mississippi/Florida criminal justice systems than I do. And L-Jam, I don't thi...
- Fri May 31, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2166
- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
*Insert “worst person you know” image* Is this because you don’t believe anything illegal occurred or because you think he’s too polarizing to be prosecuted for something that’s illegal but not illegal enough to risk that polarization? Definitely not the first. The second is closer, but my concern ...
- Thu May 30, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
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- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
*Insert “worst person you know” image*
- Thu May 30, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
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Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
You’re in your fifties. Better take care of that now.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 5:46 pm Ciao from Bologna, Italy…woke up around midnight, looked at my phone, and saw the news.
My GF is sound asleep…boy, is she in for a surprise when she wakes up.
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
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- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Verdict is in, and I’m feeling a wave of anxiety… fuck, either way it’s going to be bad. Guilty on all counts would be bad? Depends on how much you like chaos in the streets. And the precedent of prosecutors and jurors in red counties prosecuting Dem politicians on weak charges. That said, now that...
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
- Replies: 236
- Views: 4231
Re: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
Still, though, what a precision strike.
Re: MLB 2024
Yup. The runner could only go back, it wasn't even inherently the SS ball. Just awful. They changed the rule in 2013. Runners can advance on an IF fly rule. It was the correct call. I thought that was always the rule. If you wanted to try to tag up, so be it. Batter's out, runners are on their own....
- Thu May 30, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1296
Re: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024
Holy crap, RSL had another last-kick equalizer last night.
When did Seattle start wearing RSL’s 2010-2020 home uniforms?
When did Seattle start wearing RSL’s 2010-2020 home uniforms?
- Thu May 30, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
- Replies: 503
- Views: 6666
Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
Brian can play the Jerry Reed character in the re-make. Not sure which Swamper is the best Bandit. Gonna try to shut down in Grand Junction tonight if I can ever get my signed bills of lading here in Denver so I can pick up this load. Albertsons/Safeway is the worst. (Actually Amazon is the worst b...
- Thu May 30, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
- Replies: 503
- Views: 6666
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
- Replies: 503
- Views: 6666
Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
Brian can play the Jerry Reed character in the re-make. Not sure which Swamper is the best Bandit. Gonna try to shut down in Grand Junction tonight if I can ever get my signed bills of lading here in Denver so I can pick up this load. Albertsons/Safeway is the worst. (Actually Amazon is the worst b...
- Wed May 29, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
- Replies: 503
- Views: 6666
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Bill Walton
- Replies: 13
- Views: 258
- Sat May 25, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1296
Re: Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024
Shoulda had Beavers in.
- Sat May 25, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 33061
Re: Car buying
Like most folks, I just hate all the bullshit that old school car dealerships pull. I've read the articles and listened to various podcasts... I know what they are up to and I just don't want to play the stupid, timewasting, soul-sucking game. Carmax cuts out all that crap. The price is the price. ...
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Le Pro Cycling Thread
- Replies: 264
- Views: 16035
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Travel Guide
- Replies: 1268
- Views: 93090
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random personalized license plate thread
- Replies: 382
- Views: 16175
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18264
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Presidential Election 2024
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18264
Re: Presidential Election 2024
I’d love to know who all of these supposed Trump/Biden/Trump voters are if some polls are to be believed That’s fairly logical to me. Some of this will be people who thought Trump was too crazy conservative, then voted for Biden the Moderate, then Biden turned out to be too liberal. There will also...
- Fri May 24, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 33061
Re: Car buying
I would just assume a broker has relationships with dealers and they essentially takes a percentage of what you could have negotiated down for yourself. Probably still worth it to a lot of people who don't want the hassle, but I don't think I'd ever trust they were working for me. This was the husb...
- Fri May 24, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: WHO DICKS THE DICKFUCKERS?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 392
Re: WHO DICKS THE DICKFUCKERS?
... something I did in 2019 while driving stick on the un-American side of the car and driving the car on the un-American side of the road (we were in Ireland). I damaged the wheel on my rental car in Scotland, just parking the damned thing. I found that was the hardest part of driving those backwa...
- Fri May 24, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 33061
Re: Car buying
Daniel Tosh had a car broker on his podcast and he says you're a sucka if you pay the broker. He said in his 45 years of doing it he only took commission from the seller. I didn't even know those were a thing. I'm not sure that makes sense. I asked a guy to perform a service for me - go and find a ...
- Fri May 24, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 33061
Re: Car buying
Likely won't help you in Colorado, or with a used model you've already decided on, but the last car we purchased was done with the assistance of thecarhaggler.com. This guy started haggling car purchases about 10 years ago for friends and turned it into a full time job. Pretty sure he charges $400 ...
- Fri May 24, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2712
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
Workin' and practicin'
- Fri May 24, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51960
- Fri May 24, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Car buying
- Replies: 612
- Views: 33061
Re: Car buying
I would travel for a CarMax deal, other than that... I guess I'm not seeing how i can get f'd going to a BMW dealership to buy a used Toyota truck. Like, they can't upsell me on an M61i or whatever, or even try to sell me on a different truck, since I can already see their inventory. And also, I re...
- Fri May 24, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Doc: The Umentary Type
- Replies: 142
- Views: 2712
Re: Doc: The Umentary Type
A friend and I were talking the other day about how it would be nice if there was a 'quota' you could reach in your life of unintentionally-heard musical artists, and once reached you'd never have to hear them again. Seger is the poster child for that movement for me. Not totally unpleasant, just b...
- Fri May 24, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Culinary Hot Takes
- Replies: 962
- Views: 51960
Re: Culinary Hot Takes
Sorry, Nacho Cheese Doritos in tomatoey salsa are the best.
- Fri May 24, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2166
- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Only because they're dumb and/or bigoted enough to fall in line with the rich people steering. That’s how it used to be, sure. But just as the rich and powerful did in 1930s Germany, they’ve lost most of their control. Many of the not-massively-rich-but-comfortably well off have left the GOP. Eithe...
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fontly Speaking
- Replies: 31
- Views: 525
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Netflix Suggestions?
- Replies: 1398
- Views: 92915
Re: Netflix Suggestions?
We just finished watching A Gentleman in Moscow on Paramount+.
I thought it was fantastic.
I thought it was fantastic.
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fontly Speaking
- Replies: 31
- Views: 525
Re: Fontly Speaking
Yeah, I'm with PDX here. Computers do a fine job of making it work for reading. I've never once thought about the period being an abbreviation for anything. Imagine "anything." being a shortener. That said, legal document where there are likely a lot of different punctuation may be the is...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2166
- Views: 65097
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
I think the principle is "liberalism is the greatest danger facing this country."
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 9037
- Views: 462397
Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Good lord, that sounds awful.