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Is anyone more optimistic than a restaurant hostess on a Sunday after church?

Ugh. The Pitt. I can’t with this.

@legallymom2 I'm between Chicago and Indy. I find myself more often going Southeast to Indy. Things like this.

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@shaun_show @JBPritzker I felt like the 2nd was that. It’s become untenable.

There will be no hope for future generations in Illinois if @JBPritzker wins a third term as governor. A third term of JB Pritzker would be the death of this once-great state.

@K_AminThaabet I cannot and do not understand. Maybe the enemy of my enemy was my friend, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy. I listened everyday. I referred moderates to her. Then her network happened and the slide began.

Watching Megyn Kelly’s descent has been like watching a neighbor go from wine coolers to fentanyl and bath salts

@realsashastone Excellent point.

I disagree with Megyn Kelly on the flag issue, though I will say there was as much anger over the Ukraine flag so it's not specific to Israel BUT this war is different. We are fighting WITH Israel, not for Israel. I'm so sick of this conversation.

@gatorgar @WonderWomaNinja Correct. Strict Monopoly rules!!

@WonderWomaNinja Everyone who thinks this plays Monopoly wrong using made up rules.

Yahtzee is a fantastic game and monopoly is overrated.

@RichardBShort @nosoup4knowles Yes. And the launch was bad. It wasn’t ready. It’s was boring most of the morning when you want news the most.

@nosoup4knowles Turn came when she got her own XM channel. Ratings are needed.

I can't believe you turned out like this. It's surreal.

@nosoup4knowles This one was baffling to me. I’m so very sad.

@0hour1 Also I do not care what Charlie’s thoughts on present day would be since God called him home and he is not here living it. It is all speculation and a sort of gossip. I do not care. He is missed but he is not here. Stop it people!

They are using Charlie Kirk for their own devilish deeds. I see right through them. They claim his voice with no proof. They smear his name with no witness. These people are unholy.

@CynicalPublius I have the tendency to help too may people who can’t afford a lawyer to the extent that if needed, I could not afford a lawyer. Small, rural law is a service. God provides my every need though.

RE: Lawyerly Thoughts I have retired from the law and placed myself in “inactive status” in my two licensed jurisdictions. This finally gives me the freedom to share my unvarnished thoughts on the law and lawyers in a way I have been unable to do so before. I’m thinking of writing a series of lawyerly musings posts that I can later combine into a full length article. This is the first one. I believe I have a unique perspective on the law, having completed a successful military career before I stepped into law school. This meant that I was not wide-eyed and bushy-tailed in law school like most of my full time program (much younger) peers, and my earlier perspectives as a military decision maker made me cautious about some principles that I questioned as potentially being flawed or dangerous. So let’s talk about one: “EVERY CLIENT IS ENTITLED TO ZEALOUS LEGAL REPRESENTATION.” This is a bedrock concept of the practice of law, and one that lawyers are justifiably proud of as it is an essential component of equal justice under the law. But it has its flaws in the modern era. I remember one summer in law school I was an intern in a public defender’s office. One of our cases was a mass rapist who had been terrorizing women in local parks. This guy had blackish eyes that glowed with a sort of deep evil that seemed to come straight from the pits of Hell—it was like out of a horror film. He was as guilty as guilty could be, but we were trying to get him off on a claim of a bad search and seizure of some critical evidence. We were zealously representing a deranged rapist. The guy needed to be locked away for eternity, but we were trying to get him off. I know most lawyers are comfortable with that and consider it righteous, but for me it was the event that convinced me that I wanted nothing to do with criminal law. But that’s small potatoes to what I think is the bigger, profession-wide problem of “zealous representation.” Whether you are a litigator or a corporate lawyer (like I was), “zealous representation” means taking the facts at hand and interpreting them in the way most favorable to your client. I have found that “most favorable” means taking facts and pushing them in a client-favorable way right up to the edge of the line of lying, but not crossing it. You’re not lying, but are you really telling the objective truth? Over time that thought process of twisting facts away from what most reasonable laymen would consider as “true” changes a lawyer’s brain patterns. If you do this enough, you might stop being able to do anything else. Your brain changes, and not in a good way. I often found myself lapsing into this, but thankfully there remained a little portion of my brain that was still an Army colonel, and I think that little voice held me back. What ends up happening to too many lawyers is that every moment of their lives starts to consist of looking for angles to twist whatever facts are at hand into the manner most favorable to them. That’s a slippery slope. That’s why words like “oily” and “sleazy” are so popular when describing lawyers, and why jokes that involve lawyers at the bottom of the ocean as shark food are so popular. The problem is that as long as you never step right over the line into lying, none of this is against legal ethics. I’m not sure how to fix this exactly. Perhaps continuing legal education needs to focus on the limits of “zealous representation.” Or perhaps every lawyer needs to be on watch to not lose their soul. There are so many excellent lawyers that none of this applies to, but there are just as many who have no problem going into total sleaze-mode to win for their client. But then everything they do in life becomes sleaze-mode, and they harm themselves, their families and society as a result. It’s a large-scale problem. Think of this: “It depends of what the meaning of “is” is.” -Slick Willard

@SuccessfulQuon Nope. Go!

Is it too late to make a bracket 👀

@EastTNMama Misuse of the nominative where an objective should be in one of my biggest pet peeves.

I just want people who are smart to stop saying “my wife and I” or “my husband and I” when it’s supposed to be me. This one is so very easy to fix. If you would say me you say my wife and me. —She and I went to work. He told my wife and me. I went to work. He told me. Let me help

@PolitiBunny Worst part is raising of all the taxes for everything, everywhere. Making public schools unattendable. So yet another tax,

Be honest, Illinois ... is your life better under Pritzker? Are things more affordable? Are you ok losing the Bears to Indiana?

@chiweedgoy @DarrenBaileyIL @GovPritzker @ilpoliski Independent doesn’t work either. Unfortunately, it’s supported Bailey with no chance of winning or have 3 candidates and Bailey still comes in 2nd.

Illinois is fucked - @DarrenBaileyIL cannot win against @GovPritzker 💀 we've seen this already @ilpoliski was the choice to turn it around Ted Dabrowski should run independent

@APBear76 I will vote for him, but he is a bad candidate and I do not understand why IL GOP doesn’t recruit better candidates to run. Do you think Dems wait around for who just rises up? NO, they had select everyone well before — there is always an “in-waiting” person ready to go.

This is for all the Illinois conservatives and republicans who are crying, doom & glooming, and saying you won’t vote for Darren Bailey in November. You are part of why Illinois is on her knees from decades of democrat control. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. Not just the Democrats.

@realsashastone This is a good ? - political views do not define a person. However, if that person holds out their views as self-defining, then I proceed accordingly. I will not watch left indoctrination shows, but I can enjoy the neutral work of a completely left artist.

I just had someone ghost me after I apologized for being insensitive to her feelings about the war in Iran and war in general. Totally ignored my apology and left me to twist in the wind. But it got me thinking about what to do with anger at someone else for what they think. How do we manage that? I know that on the Left they attacked me for years because of the people I associated with and what I was talking about and who I was listening to. To them, it was how the Right now sees Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson. Because Megyn is associating with certain people that makes her toxic to them and disposable. They treated me the same way on the Left just for associating with mainstream Republicans like Ben Shapiro, let alone Steve Bannon. But I was curious about the world I didn't know. I also didn't like people telling who I could and could not follow. The rebel in me did not want to comply. So now I find myself in a strange place where I feel anger and disappointment at certain people for associating with, say, Candace Owens or amplifying voices I believe are dangerous. And so now what? No one on the Left would ever give me any benefit of the doubt that I was still a good person. No, I destroyed that because to them every Republican is Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. So where do we draw the line and how? When is it justified?

Want to hear something crazy? The Republicans are one fair election away from destroying the Democrat Party and the Democrats are one stolen election away from destroying America. Everything hinges on passing the SAVE America Act.

@DarrenBaileyIL You can’t win. I will vote for you but you can’t win.

To every voter who showed up tonight—whether I was your first choice or not—I want you to know I hear you and I will fight for you. Illinois is our home. It’s worth saving and we’re going to do it together. And we start by firing JB Pritzker. 🇺🇸

@OleMissRebel90 So heartbreaking.

Lead off walk. Stole second. Double. BRUTAL 😭

@BruceWolfChi DB will lose handily. IL GOP is an unorganized, incompetent entity that needs to be overhauled. I hate IL politics.

I voted for Dabrowski. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Me.