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I think people are also really overestimating how hard it is to get a degree. It's not that hard, especially with some of the places you can get them. Maybe it costs more at first, but if the statistics presented here are accurate, then maybe the savings that eventually come from less organizational waste (less effective work, more complaints, more lawsuits) would be something that helps offset more than some are realizing.

What would it hurt though? It's not as if being educated is a bad thing, or that there's no value in a degree. What would a microeconomics class do? I'm sure it wouldn't hurt when investigating any kind of criminal enterprise. How do you expect people to understand case law and legal precedent if they aren't well rounded enough to pass a class on history that gives reasons for changes in laws or classes like sociology and psychology that explain public or organizational behavior? It's not like a college's curriculum is "random mandatory" classes. There's a little more thought that's went into what you need for a degree than that.

Baltimore's FOP has released a letter asking the prosecutor recuse herself. When the police, the people who never get the benefit of the doubt, are claiming about the unfairness of the system, I think most would probably find that a bit ironic. There are some real gems in that letter, including: "at all times, the officers diligently balanced their obligations to protect Mr. Gray", and the conclusory, "as tragic as this situation is, none of the officers involved are responsible for the death of Mr. Gray". I also find it odd that they accuse the prosecutor of pandering to the media and public, yet release an open letter on Twitter for all to see. I bet they even have a suggestion for who the prosecutor should be.

So it's obvious she's just some crooked lawyer dead set on ruining good police's name. She has no idea what they go through or how they put their lives in danger!

Doesn't sound bad at all. How many subjects and do the topics rotate? We have a few static each year and then a few that rotate between various topics (Trusts/Guardianships, etc.). Studying is kind of a game of roulette.

MPT killed me here. MBE was actually my highest.

Try 4 here. You almost forget about it for a day or two at a time.

No way someone would ever lie to get favorable treatment for themselves. That's preposterous.

They also have a warrant for a police officer's uniform that was worn that day. Everyone is leaving that part out.

Not for awhile I'd say. License is only good for Texas, but can get a reciprocal without having to take the Kentucky Bar after 5 years I think. If I did it before then, I think I'd have to take one day of Kentucky's testing for the stuff that's just State specific, but I'm not trying at all to sign up for any more bubble sheets. Have a job lined up at an Oil and Gas place down here and am probably one of the only people on the site who might not be bothered if the price at the pumps crept back up a little.

Those who speak loudest... Trey Radel, Busted On Cocaine Charge, Voted For Drug Testing Food Stamp Recipients That said, I do think that there's something to be said about the distinction between people using their own money and taxpayer's money.

Really digging the strategy I used yesterday and the past few days. 5/68 tonight and keep climbing up some of the curves (would have been top 10 in a 500+ player pool if I hadn't subbed in Tiago against the numbers because I thought he was "due" last night). A bit of a nerd, but I'm putting the numbers from a few offshore sites into a spreadsheet and comparing the lineups based on the numbers and a few different projections and trying to fine tune it. Right now, it's a lot of work to win a dollar game, but moving up in the percentiles and kind of feeling it out. Next test will be the $2 games or some $1 games other than 50/50 I guess. I do like the slow burn of a $1 nightly lineup when you have action on the whole day. It's not really the money, it's the competition.

I think it's more that I learned I passed the Bar Exam today and also found out I'd gotten a job that I'd applied for after a month of waiting. Good day and I don't feel like arguing. I'll come back to it in 2 or 3 days once I'm mad at the world again and start a thread on it even. For now, I just wanna enjoy myself and be happy. Proving up a constitutional, criminal, or civil procedure issue to a BGP audience isn't really high on my priorities right now. Give me a few days.

Exactly counselor. I have no chance. The defense rests.

Trust me, it's not that. It's been a busy day and I don't want to get all worked up. Woosah for me for the next day or two. It's getting the thread off topic anyway and I've typed plenty on how I feel about it. I'm not getting into a probable cause, warrant, all that what if game tonight. Happy thoughts here.

You are telling me. Texas' Bar is a bear. Three days and the first day is an MPT, Civ Pro & Evidence, and Crim Pro and Evidence. They get you nice and wore down before you go up against the national scale the next day for the MBE when everyone else is on their first. All or nothing, so retakes are the full thing. I'm just glad I'll probably never have to take a Bar Exam again if I wait 5 years or so.

Hahaha... don't tempt me. I'm in between jobs for the next two weeks, so I've been tutoring. My night is actually going to be a night of full sleep. I've been to an orientation today, had an interview yesterday, and tutored three different times in the last two days as well. Some time with a pillow and HBOGO is in order.

Thanks. Much appreciated. Texas is really bad about getting results out quick because so many people take it down here, so it's been a long few months.

You left out the DA. Come on, you're always mentioning the DA too. Put him in there. Thanks for the lecture on the law. I think I know how it works. I can make some points but I'm through wasting time on this. Also, since I got so much heat over the autistic kid's thread, I'll go ahead and use the, "well, the Judge didn't see it that way, he dropped the charges".

I'm sure it was completely unprovoked too. Makes perfect sense that he'd just come out yelling like a crazy person for no reason at all. It takes two to tango.

Ok, we're beating a dead horse now. Officer didn't have a warrant. Gates probably didn't know someone called him in. I think we're also reading conflicting reports and that there's probably a serious misunderstanding as to the lawfulness of the officer's actions, so I'll leave it at saying that I'll trust the guy with the Yale law degree over the officer, but that's just me. In major cities, there are plenty of exclusive locales that form their own municipalities just so they don't have to deal with some guy fresh out of academy on a power trip. In San Antonio there are a handful of places that just serve maybe a thousand or so people in very upscale neighborhoods. Many of these places are gated with only one way in and anyone who doesn't live there has to leave an ID at the gates to enter and exit. I've only been inside the gates a time or two to go to an event at one of our Dean's houses, but trust me when I say that the perimeter of the area is very secure and is closely monitored (cameras, etc.) by very good officers who are there because they do their job well. It's actually a pretty solid deterrent to crime. Sure, these places probably aren't immune to crime, but it's not exactly a high crime area either. These are rich people who pay to keep everyone out, not to let the threats into their homes. I think it's fair to say that the officer could have used much better judgement and that he probably didn't understand what he was and wasn't legally allowed to do as well as Gates. It's cool if you disagree and to each his own, but I don't see why the guy arrested in his own home is the one who should come out of this whole thing looking bad. It's like the guy who takes a job at an uppity country club and complains about the bratty kids there being rude. He doesn't care to take their money, but he doesn't like their rudeness either. All good, I'm sure they probably found someone happy to replace him who'd put up with it. That's kind of a luxury of living in one of those places. Agree to disagree if you want, and I'm not saying Gates handled things perfectly, but I'm beating a dead horse trying to explain myself on this one at this point.

Two winners tonight on FanDuel. Kind of takes the fun out of it, but if you want to take the time to do it, go to a website like Bovada and look at what the guys are projected to do by the gambling books, put things in a spreadsheet, and build an optimal lineup. Surprisingly, the gamblers are more accurate than me. Apparently, I should have been doing this all week.

Kobe is a bit more talented than Monta Ellis. He is also far more level headed (or at least he wouldn't wreck a scooter and show to a team doctor with road rash and a broken leg and say he did it playing pickup).

Nah, it's okay to call people out when they publicly claim to be above that when they are retaliating against you because they don't like the content of your message. I may be a lot of things, but at least I can admit it. Know it all? Check. Elitist? Apparently. Smart aleck? Definitely. Low class? By my own admission. See.

I agree with your first point and think that social status is part of getting in. I don't think it's as much of a factor in being the head of some Departments for them though. Sure, social status is probably some of it, but there are plenty of people in those positions who didn't grow up with a heck of a lot either. I'm not upset either. I really didn't understand the meaning of low rent when I said it, but that doesn't mean I've reversed and am going to say the guy made a good decision. Anyone can call in a complaint. If someone calls in a complaint and police come and arrested you in your own home, after you'd showed ID and the officer had then refused a lawful request to give you their badge number, then you'd probably be upset too, but that's just my guess. Sorry, I don't see this as anything more than an officer who didn't "know his role" so to speak, but probably soon found out in the blowback. If he wants to play detective, I'm sure there are plenty of other neighborhoods in Boston that need some, and he probably won't have to deal with people he feels are entitled in that role either.