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  1. Thanks boss. Knew I could count on a fellow Husker to help. I think we are going to go to the aquarium and the Rose District for food for sure. Concert is at the Mabee Center, so Sunday we will probably be around that area mostly.
  2. @TGHuskerHey, I'm headed down to Tulsa to the Brandon Lake concert this Sunday. Any good recommendations? Food must haves, kids stuff? I know it's off topic, so feel free to move it mods
  3. How many injuries are going to result in this adventure you are taking? I mean, I can play catch and jog around the bases, but that blown hammy ain't going to feel as young as you think it's going to feel.
  4. I think Hilary lost because she was such a flawed candidate. First of all, she is a Clinton. Secondly, she is a woman. There are segments of this population that will never be ready for women in authority. I served on a board that had never had a woman. We voted one on and the next day, three members tendered their resignation. This was about 10 years ago. Third, Hilary ignored entire states due to her own hubris. Once DJT won the Republican primary, she felt she had it in the bag. Fourth, like many have said, Trump found an audience and voting block that was previously non-participant. While I can appreciate your decision not to vote for DJT, can you acknowledge others fear of what a second term of DJT would look like? You may think they are unfounded fears and that the guardrails will hold our representative democracy together. DJT has stated his intentions and has shown himself to be someone who is building a platform based on vengeance, self enrichment, and self preservation.
  5. From my understanding it's a math issue. There are very few voters who will vote the opposite from 2020. That would be a 2 vote swing. Minus for one candidate and plus one for the other. He just thinks it will be an issue of minus one vote cast by not voting at all. The candidate who wins will be the one who can get the "meh" voters out for them. The bases will show out on 11/5. Can you get the voters who will decide to come out if it's a nice day and the lines aren't too long?
  6. It's cutting out the part that she took out $50,000 from her personal retirement to fund her initial campaign. Did she put all of that $50k into her campaign or did she keep some of it as liquid cash? The context before and after this clip are that she kept it as cash. I know it's easy to pick out clips, but I literally watched her testimony yesterday. If the defense had took it to mean she took money from campaign funds they would have pounced. They didn't which leads me to believe they read it as kept cash out at the same time as helping fund her own campaign. Arduous litigation may be boring for most folks, but I enjoyed yesterdays and I had a slow day in my office. And I know that both left leaning and right leaning media outlets will edit these types of things for clicks and engagement. Source material is the best and usually tells the whole picture.
  7. To the bold, I don't know about the 2 years before and 2 years after, he was asked the split between his work for the state and Fulton County, and income derived from his private practice. He testified it was a 50/50 split as far as income. As far as time consumption, it was 99% for the state and Fulton County and 1% to his private practice. He testified he was paid before taxes and expenses roughly around $100,000 for the 2022 or 23 year. Just doing the math, he and his partners were paid at the $150/hour rate if you are assuming 2080 hours of work. The underlined portion I know is wrong. She testified that she couldn't identify exactly where the cash came from because it was an accumulation over years. The defense attorney was wanting her to get very detailed as to providing a receipt for withdraw that could be traced back to for the cash's source. She stated she wouldn't have an exact withdraw receipt because, again the cash was an accumulation of cash on hand at the home over years. As far as the experience factor, I missed his bona fides. He did teach a class that she attended in 2019 I believe. He became a trusted colleague and someone she felt could help. I again state, I don't know if the optics are the best to be dating a subordinate in this high profile of a case. But the defense team for the most part has failed, in my eyes, to draw a direct correlation between the money paid to Wade and wrong doing. Nor any gifts to Willis from Wade that would rise to the level of impropriety.
  8. I could see them being viewed as a funneling system, but the amounts don't add up. She stated that the most she reimbursed was $4k. There were three vacations in question. Napa vacation, Belize vacation, and I think a cruise. The other issue is, they are trying to say two things about these vacations. Either they weren't reimbursed and she obtained illegal contributions. Or she reimbursed him and it's a funneling scheme. It can't be both. The legal system is based on what can be proven. Not what someone could imply. As far as the funds origination, there has to be some sort of link between her taking the funds out and then using them for personal gain. I haven't heard that brought up either yesterday or today yet. As far as hiring her significant other and being over paid for his qualifications, they addressed that was well. He signed a contract to do work. Was only allowed to charge a capped amount of hours. He went through invoices and it showed that he worked significantly more on the case and was unpaid because of the cap. Again, if the assumption is that he was then repaid through these vacations, it's not enough. Her testimony stated that she had contracted several lawyers at rates of between $150-$300/ hour. Not an outrageous number for lawyers. As far as him cheating, again, he was the one who suffered the infidelity that irretrievably broke their marriage. And I don't know that I would equate dating to being a paramour. I'll admit it's not the cleanest of looks to have them dating and working together. But I don't see how the judge, based on facts entered into evidence, removes her from the RICO case.
  9. So I actually watched most of this yesterday. I don't agree with the MSNBC personality at all. The line of questioning from the defense caused them to trip over their own laces several times. The "putting it on his business credit card" isn't the gotcha they think. I use mine for everything as well. Then when tax time comes, I present them to the accountant and he tells me what I can and can't deduct. All good. The insinuation of cash at her home was from ill gotten means is preposterous. I have cash in my home at all times in case of emergencies. My in-laws have told us that they have about $25k in their home as a safe guard against some banking emergency. It's somewhat of a generational thing. Going after Wade about how much the state of Georgia or Fulton County paid him fell flat as well. His partnership was paid the $300k and then it was divided between the partners. So while yes, he was in possession of the whole amount at one point, he only kept his 1/3 of it. It all equaled out to what he filed on his financial disclosure. @Archy1221in your eyes, what about their relationship was unethical? Was it that he was married? His wife cheated on him in 2015 at which point he told her that they would divorce once their youngest went to college. He stayed around for the family. Kept it a 2 parent home while his kids were still growing. Was it the trips they took? She says she reimbursed him because she wanted to pay her own way. I've known several women who have echoed this same mentality. Especially women who have gone through a divorce and were either an equal earner or the primary breadwinner. In all honesty, Judge McAfee is the one who will decide if she should be removed from the case. His interactions with defense council didn't really lead me to believe he was leaning toward throwing her off.
  10. I'm just a normie that feels like my public education was pretty good. I'm not an educator so if a teacher wants to teach my kid a subject a certain way, by all means, teach away. Read a book, go for it. Change math making me feel stupid now, but if you can make it make sense to my kids, knock your socks off. Just so we're clear, I agree with your stance on us normies getting involved in education. Trust your teachers or change schools/home school your kids. You do you boo.
  11. As one of your Normies, don't lump me into any grouping with those childless, non-educator weirdos who want to go make changes at a school.
  12. Had someone tell me that the fields aren't that great to be playing on. When you generate as much momentum and torque as Bahl, you need to have solid footing.
  13. @teachercd, I think this is what you are talking about. At the 6 minute mark, he discusses how you can own as many muskets as you would like. You can call it an AR-Musket, bedazzle it with a shiny bayonet.
  14. I feel like CO just says dumb sh!t to a gullible audience for money. You can't argue with someone like her because she has no interest in acknowledging facts. She will say something so devoid of truth, just to send you down a rabit hole to prove her ignorance. Meanwhile, she thinks she ia scoring points because she is still talking. Or she will just utter her "I'm to pregnant to care about your question" and claim that as a win too. As long as there are those who listen and validate her arguments, she will continue to stay relevant. I wish we'd stop stop equating people who talk loud and fast to those who speak soft and wisely.
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