We're gonna hafta have a new rule disallowing Stacy's Mom, because it is the platonic ideal of a good song.
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Gabriel Malor
@gabrielmalor
Oklahoman. Attorney. I write at many places. My husband (the DH) thinks ya'll need to calm down. gabriel.malor@gmail.com
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The DH and I were doing an 80s dance-off in the living room, and he responded to Jessie's Girl with Stacy's Mom, which is within the rules, dammit, and it literally slayed me right there on the carpet.
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This baby has Chucks!
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Stepped outside, just in case. And sure enough - there’s the balloon.
View from my back deck, near Columbia, South Carolina.🎈
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Hard pass.
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You fucking child.
(1) The China spy blimp isn't collecting mass data for the U.S. gobvernent.
(2) Even if the thing were about collecting data for the U.S., yes, it would be better than collecting data for the China government.
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Why is TikTok a greater threat? It's better the US gov mass collect citizen data than the Chinese gov?
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The great love of my life is going to come downstairs in a little while and say "did you sleep?" and I'm going to say
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Oh boy. How is it 5:30 in the morning already?
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I will admit to you guys, the moment we heard that UBL had been found and killed was one of the happiest moments of my life.
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BTW, while I'm talking about it, I want you, yes, you personally, to stop freaking out every time you see a trending story. Stop it. Think about how many trending stories you've seen in your life, and all of them except for like 9/11 and UBL getting his just deserts were nothing.
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Folks, we could have a person on the Moon in a month if we wanted it. The issues is that there is no point. There's nothing there. Yes, yes, space nerds, I hear you screaming about Helium-3. That's all theoretical bullshit. Not a reason to put someone up there eating canned fish.
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40 years ago America could land a man on the moon. Today? Nope.
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And I know everyone hates the War on Terrorism now (even though it was a good thing, fight me), but seriously 9/11 was the last time we had one of those happen to us—22 years!—and the record was not that good before it.
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BTW, while I'm talking about it, I want you, yes, you personally, to stop freaking out every time you see a trending story. Stop it. Think about how many trending stories you've seen in your life, and all of them except for like 9/11 and UBL getting his just deserts were nothing.
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Put it this way.
America = landed on the mothereffin' Moon.
China = took some pictures in Nebraska forty years later.
Everybody relax.
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The issue here isn't whether we can shoot it down. We can.
The issue is whether we *should* shoot such a worthless piece of shit down.
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Oh gosh. TikTok is a much greater threat. Easily. That shit should have been banned two or three years ago.
The balloon isn't getting anything that satellites don't other than some radio signals, which are mostly encrypted.
The balloon problem is the trespass.
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Honest question.... where's the line to be drawn? It was Tik-Tok. And apparently it isn't a "weather ballon" the size of three buses.
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Seth, these idiots have to beat their chests and grunt or their followers will think they have low-T.
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Do you think the govt doesn't know it can shoot down the balloon? It knows. Embrace the humility of imagining that it's a bit more complicated than it looks from your balcony.
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(He won't ever bring me flowers because he thinks flowers are bullshit—"they die!"—so if I want flowers I get them for myself or sometimes his ma and I get them for each other because his father also thinks they're bullshit.)
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The DH brought me wine when he got home. 😍
Find you a man . . .
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There is so much to love in Last Crusade, but it's the scene when Henry slaps Indy for blasphemy and then lectures him about stopping the armies of darkness from marching all over the face of the earth that really gets me.
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Meet the first and only Air Force pilot to shoot down a satellite
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"Heartfelt" is what I thought too -->
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I thought it was quite good and heartfelt as well so I don’t really understand the hate twitter.com/gabrielmalor/s…
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Huh, so my impression from Twitter was that people didn't really like Wakanda Forever all that much, but I thought it was pretty good.
Looked good, sounded good. Certainly better than a lot of late-stage MCU.
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The easiest way to get the feds to stop the Chinese Spy Balloon is to load it up with American-made goods and try floating it between 2 US ports.
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Judge calls #Jan6 defendant Thomas Adams on carpet after he admits to entering Senate floor without permission during #CapitolRiot, but says in news interview next day he has no regrets and isn't really guilty. w/
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Also, this case has had a *trip.* Lost its first judge to the D.C. Circuit (she's now at SCOTUS, of course) and then the next judge to fill Judge KBJ's spot on the D.C. Circuit!
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Fed. judge rules that Trump Campaign did not adequately plead its defamation claim against the Washington Post for a blog post and an op-ed about Trump and Russia.
Trump has 30 days to amend the complaint, if he wants.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9WzhT
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I like balloons.
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Florida man who threatened to shoot members of the gun control group Mom's Demand Action if he didn't get his VA pension (???) has been sentenced to fourteen months in prison.
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Huh. Apparently I missed the news that GLADIATOR is getting a sequel. Didn't he die at the end?
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This is the one where the court relied on, among other things, state lawmakers' participation in a conference calling noncitizens "illegals, criminals, murderers, and victimizers" as evidence of racial animus.
Also cited one state senator's "STOP THE INVASION" facebook ad.
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In March, the 11th Circuit will hear a challenge to Florida's ban on sanctuary cities. The district court held various provisions were passed with discriminatory intent or preempted by federal law.
ca11.uscourts.gov/sites/default/
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8th Cir.: no QI for jail officer who slammed pre-trial inmate to the ground after inmate threw his legal papers and personal items at a wall in his cell, but did not pose a threat to anyone's safety. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/23/02/2
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Very interesting thread about a subject I know very little about.
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DEFINITIVE CHINESE SPY BALLOON THREAD!!!
Nobody asked for it.
I'm doing it.
Here's everything technical you might want to know.... 
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Oh, Judge Hamilton.
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And that doesn't seem that far wrong to me. If the question is, "how does history and tradition inform what the Second Amendment meant when ratified," we've gotta contend with a history that is rife with racial and religious animus.
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"American rights are what they were when Americans owned people" is not, strictly speaking, a place I really want to go, but it's where SCOTUS is taking us, at least if you take Bruen to its logical conclusion.
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SCOTUS' "history and tradition" analysis starts to break down once you realize that America, historically, was really, really bad at respecting the rights of disfavored groups.
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And, as in some recent district court decisions examining gun rights in Colonial America, the Court notes that the national history and tradition was to disarm then-undesirables, like Catholics, Native Americans, and black people.
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