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Post by fauxmaha on Feb 2, 2020 8:31:31 GMT -5
And what two-word descriptor would you give to Donald Trump? "Obama's begotten".
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Post by fauxmaha on Feb 1, 2020 8:45:09 GMT -5
The only thing I'm certain of is that after the game, inexplicably, there will be some manner of controversy involving Tom Brady.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 31, 2020 10:12:08 GMT -5
Sad news.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 30, 2020 11:48:32 GMT -5
Dar just experimented with a new recipe for ginger snaps with cayenne pepper in 'em. Turns out, that's the way ginger snaps should always be made. ( She's been baking cookies non-stop for a week). You'd think that batch would be done by now.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 30, 2020 11:47:08 GMT -5
OK, I can't afford to pay a lawyer to sit around with me. I am not throwing Chad under the bus so I will have to go it alone. I will have to see what they are going to ask and go from there. No elaboration, speculation, wild ass guesses, or loose lips in general.... got it. I don't remember. I wasn't there. Don't know. Sorry, don't remember. Who? No don't know him. Maybe my party chief talked to him. It's been years.... sorry I don't remember. I get that lawyering up is no fun, but I have to say... What I'm hearing in what you're saying is that NASA thinks they got hosed (and they very well may have) and are on the warpath looking for some make-good. And they contacted you. That alone would terrify me. In a perfect world, you'd go in, tell the truth, and that would be that. It's not a perfect world. For all you know, your client has already filled their heads with stories about how all of this was your fault. Do what you must, but I wouldn't take the risk you're contemplating.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 30, 2020 9:39:11 GMT -5
Not a lawyer, but been deposed too many times.
My shorthand understanding is:
1) No, you can't refuse. 2) Getting paid means one of the parties to the suit thinks you can provide expert testimony that will help them. Doesn't sound like that's what's happening here, so no, I wouldn't expect to get paid.
One thing you might try is having your lawyer contact the NASA lawyer and have a conversation. Best case scenario, your lawyer can convince NASA lawyer you don't have any competent knowledge of whatever it is they are trying to figure out, he (your lawyer) prepares an affidavit to that effect and sends it to NASA, and that's that.
The calculation becomes whether its better to pay your lawyer, or sacrifice the time to appear at the deposition.
In any case, I've read enough Kafka to know there's no way I'm going anywhere near any federal investigation/lawsuit without my lawyer standing in front of me.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 29, 2020 18:03:56 GMT -5
After Pelosi and crew completely circumvented the required process step of having the entire House vote to authorize the Committee investigations? You mean that complete unfair abortion of process? Peter, I would like to know where you came up with this "required process." I cannot find any such requirement. If there is no such requirement, does that change your view on the legitimacy of the current impeachment process? The impeachment power is vested by the Constitution in the full house. The Majority Leader can't empower an impeachment proceeding by holding a press conference. For any impeachment subpoenas to have legal effect, the committee must be acting under the authorization of the full house, which means a vote of the full house on an empowering resolution.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 28, 2020 12:44:46 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 28, 2020 11:03:20 GMT -5
I think it's because the privilege of listening to music is no longer special. Hasn't been for many decades.
Today we are inundated with it. It is everywhere. "Background music". Muzak. We walk around with our "AirPods". Our cars have luxurious sound systems. We live inside of a perpetual sound track. It would take a concerted act of will to go a single day without hearing some music somewhere.
Imagine what it was like in, say, 1850. Music was special. If it was informal, at least it was personal. Maybe after dinner your daughters take turns on the piano. Or an old fashioned guitar pull on the porch on a Sunday afternoon. A small group playing and enjoying, and if you weren't making the music you were actively part of the process as a listener, participating through your response. And if it was a formal concert, then that was a really big deal. But in either case, informal or formal, it was something to be cherished exactly because it was special.
As players, we long for the day when we could enjoy an audience's rapt attention. We want them to treat each performance as an irreplaceable moment that must be savored. We want them to get lost in it. But those days are gone.
The ready availability of recorded music has devalued it to such an extent that the audience is largely incapable of such rapture.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2020 16:11:36 GMT -5
Is the opposite of dismantling, mantling? Sexist language. Correct term is persontling.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2020 13:58:23 GMT -5
Interesting how they won't go into the bush after it.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2020 11:22:56 GMT -5
Five years? Except for the hair color, it could be last week. On second look, I'm deeply hurt and offended that you think I would park next to a fire hydrant. What an insult. But I do get credit for nailing the socks, right?
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2020 11:07:55 GMT -5
Too soon, I know...
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2020 11:05:49 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2020 10:58:04 GMT -5
I think I'm with Marshall on this one. His daughter being on the flight saddens me the most. And the other family, and all the rest. This was a terrible tragedy. That said, I'm with Marshall also, particularly in the sense that (other than a relative handful of people), no one "knew" Kobe. What we knew was largely the product of a multi-billion dollar, professional marketing/imaging machine. The Kobe we "knew" was the Kobe their filter wanted us to know.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2020 10:53:00 GMT -5
David, in the morning, five years from now:
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 25, 2020 15:20:36 GMT -5
Are you watching this stuff?
I've been ignoring it all.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 24, 2020 17:22:56 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 24, 2020 12:20:23 GMT -5
It snowed again here last night. Here is the view out our back picture window. Nice!
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 24, 2020 8:29:15 GMT -5
Lunar New Year?
That sounds scary.
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