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Time to fire up the BBQs and celebrate the start of summer! What are you doing this weekend? Staying home or hitting the road? Is your firm going to do summer hours this year? Perhaps a summer dress code? What else is going on out there?
Enjoy your weekend, but whatever you end up doing, be smart and don’t drink and drive.
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Did I really just get an email from Adam Laxalt that was addressed to:
"*|IF:FNAME||FNAME|*, *|ELSE:|*Friend, join our special guest, Governor Ron DeSantis, at the Morning in Nevada PAC's eighth annual Basque Fry!"
If that bothers you, call 866-828-0022
Here is something that bothers me – is Metro out of the small crime business? I've had several clients late AND I personally tried to report a crime and they just will not take a report. I mean you can't even fill out paperwork. These are all cases where there is an identifiable suspect. They won't even give you a form. Misdemeanors to be sure but last I check those are crimes.
Wait until your home is broken into, even less effort there.
Metro is bogged down by administrative bloat. They are fuckin worthless. Everyone knows they will not lift a finger for property crimes (not really minor when it's your car that's stolen or home broken into). And let's not forget Metro's all-time work avoidance favorite: "iT'S a CIvil maTTEr."
Sounds like CCSD. . . . I mean DETR . . . . . . Actually, I mean Nevada in general.
It's not even just the little stuff they ignore. I have had multiple clients who were the victims of embezzlement on a hug scale. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. First, you have to prepare the entire case for them. Provide all the documentation needed to bring the case. Then you turn that in to the detective and nothing happens with it. Every single time. If it isn't on TV or a murder, nothing will happen.
This is among the reasons that our best officers are leaving for other jurisdictions. I have a Detective level family member that just recently relocated with his family to Texas.
An irate drug-addicted client tried to stab me one time (to be fair it was half-hearted and he could hardly stand) and he dropped the small pocketknife and ran away. I took the knife to LVMPD and tried to file a report. She asked, "Did anyway die?" I said "No." And she said, "You know they're not going to do anything."
Judging on the massive payouts cities across the country are paying to BLM and Antifa protesters who were allegedly roughed up by cops while mostly peacefully protesting, and judges who think petty crime is beneath them, why should we expect cops to give a damn?
Just yesterday I was waiting for my wife at the mall when two men ran out of the store with arms full of merchandise, jumped in a car and sped off. I couldn't help but wonder: Why run? No one is going to stop them. No one cares. If some stupid hero tries to stop them and so much as hurts a hair on their heads, he'll be sued into oblivion. Keep your head down, say nothing, and carry about your day hoping to make it to tomorrow.
Or move to Utah or Montana where I hear some semblance of law and order still exists.
If they accept the report, it becomes part of the crime stats. They can't let that happen because people might get alarmed.
I'm not sure they ever cared. I've heard of metro declining to take reports for 20 years.
New Topic:
A’s fans are abandoning their team. We can’t really blame them. The more this happens, the more the powers that be will work to buy out the last year of the contract in Oakland and move the team to Summerlin in 2024. It’s getting ugly in the East Bay.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/oakland-athletics-attendance-crowd-vegas/okoyufyiyy9hdcz8cwbdd16y
"John Fisher abandoned A's fans, then gaslit them to get Vegas stadium deal." There, fixed it for you.
Corollary Topic:
John Fisher, the A's owner, has been abandoning the team for years. He doubled the seat prices, and continually trades away the most valuable players. This means the fans a) won't buy merch with a player's name on it because if they're good, they're gone in the off-season and b) have no idea who is actually playing. It's the second-least valuable club in the whole MLB because the owner is driving it into the ground.
The A's are currently in a decently-sized market. The lack of owner investment results in a failed ball club. If the A's come to Las Vegas, a smaller market, the lack of owner investment will result in a failed ball club and Las Vegans on the hook for $300 mill. Screw that noise.
$300M bill AND a carcass empty stadium, sitting economically unproductive on the most important intersection on LVB.
NBD.
But hey, those A's fans had it coming.
Lowest payroll in MLB. Several players earn more per year than the entire team. Why buy a last place team unwilling to put a competetive team on the field? Isn't the idea to attract tourists?
OP here. My only point in this was that we could be watching A's games in Summerlin next year and not in a few years when the Tropicana stadium is built.
Quit the hate and nonsense and embrace it. They're coming here and you can just cry harder.
To elaborate on 12:09's point, the A's payroll is about $59 mill. The next cheapest ball club is the Orioles, at $63 mill. My Dodgers pay a total of $262 mill. All the players are are 1-2 year contracts, and the most highly paid players are all free agents by 2024. We already have a minor league team. We don't need another one that comes with a hefty public price tag.
"Quit the hate and nonsense and embrace it."
Emperor Has No Clothes nonsense.
This discussion of the A's reminds me that their long-term play-by-play broadcaster was just fired for blatantly , and loudly, using the N word during a game broadcast. He was gushing about how wonderful his visit was to the "National Negro League Baseball Museum."(the league which existed for African American players prior to MLB integrating in 1947).
So, on the broadcast, he simply, and outrageously, referred to it as
"The Ni**er Museum."
And of course he subsequently has people rush to his defense, including (most conveniently)black acquaintances he has, to insist he does not have a racist bone in his body, and that he simply miss-spoke. I can't speak to that as I don't know the individual, but it seems like a very strange way to miss-speak, if he is being truthful that he never, ever before used the N word.
And just a couple years ago, the Cincinnati Reds long-term broadcaster was fired when he a was coming back from commercial break, and while not realizing his mic was now reactivated and live, he angrily, and in quite animated fashion, proclaimed some city as "one of the f*g capitols of the world."
His subsequent explanation, which was quite unbelievable, is that he did not realize that using such term to describe gay people was negative and demeaning.
These guys both needed much better public relations skills and advice. Not only were their explanations lame, but both compounded their problems by proclaiming that they are "a man of faith."–the worst thing to say when accused of bigoty.
It may be very unfair and unreasonable, but many interpret "a man of faith" pronouncement as being indicative of rigid, Christian fundamentalist bigotry–particularly when offered as the major defense to an accusation of actual bigotry resulting from, what on its face, appears to be an outrageously bigoted remark
I saw the replays of both instances.
Yes, the explanation by both left much to be desired but the A's broadcaster perhaps should be afforded more latitude than the Reds broadcaster.
Although, like you, I am perplexed how the A's broadcaster simply "accidentally" used the N word. But keep in mind that he knew he was live, intended to be speaking on air of the topic in question, and was very positive and glowing about his visit to the museum in question.
But the Reds broadcaster believed he was NOT yet back on air, and its clear his tone, when using the term f*g, was quite negative angry, and even repulsed.
But even with all those qualifiers in place, still, how does the A's broadcaster "accidently" use the N word?
people always call me racist
but they never say im wrong
@8:59 sometimes the analysis is done sequentially so we never get past the first step of you being a degenerate racist. There’s no need to move on from there.
SCOTUS did the right thing here. Great quote: "The taxpayer must render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, but no more," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.
https://reason.com/2023/05/25/the-county-sold-her-home-and-kept-the-profit-over-unpaid-taxes-scotus-wasnt-having-it/
That's rich. CJ Roberts quoting Jesus.
Dear Law.Dawg,
As my penance for insulting law enforcement and incurring the wrath of the Great Thwacker on the Friday of a holiday weekend, I humbly submit the following:
Folks, don't use ChatGPT for legal research; it makes up cases. And when opposing counsel writes a letter to the federal judge saying, "hey, these citations don't exist," ESPECIALLY DON'T use ChatGPT to create the cases out of whole cloth. And if you do all that, DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT attach the cases to an affidavit saying "how do you do fellow law-talkers, here are my cases that I totally found in my research."
The federal judge Will. Get. Pissed.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca-inc/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc
AI ain't taking over the law anytime soon. It'll start with the solos.
Hahaha thanks for the comment Hooge
This is just crazy. I looked at a few of the manufactured cases. They read like real cases. Very scary. Nothing is as it seems these days.
Uh, did you read the "Delta" case where a "trial court" opined that Delta, who flew Plaintiff out of Texas, did not avail itself of the privileges of doing business in Texas, and therefore there was no personal jurisdiction? Even for Texas, that's insane.