Tim_Capps_

I am on a pilgrimage for the truth. I seek it. I desire it. I long for it. I blog often at #Social #Political #Spiritual #Truth

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@JeffRatcliffe 31 year League. 12 teams. Core group has been together for 30th of those years. We make an effort to get together every year. This year is special due to a catastrophic illness for one of our dearest friends don’t discount live drafts. I appreciate your words today

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@tedcruz You do realize this is a small Spanish territory ON the African Continent, right? So Spain did not get overrun. Know your geography. Quit fear mongering.

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@Morning_Joe we are debating whether Mika is wearing a blanket or a shawl today

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@k9y5kncxft @SpencerHakimian Yep. But that is a tough spot she was in.

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@CSimmsQB speak truth! Shout it from the rooftops!

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@KariLake @NEWSMAX @jaketapper You are still around, @KariLake

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@Clayd28 Your takes get old. Always negative.

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@DugOutDemonMLB I liked it at first but there is no time to analyze picks. Zero flow

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Quit calling it a war, @ScarboroughNow @Morning_Joe Congress has not declared it.

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@Anthony_in_DC @brithume What’s the opposite of TDS?

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A bartender in Galveston, Texas was arrested for serving a drunk customer who killed someone. She makes $25 an hour. A federal judge makes $236,000 a year and has absolute legal immunity for every decision on the bench, including releasing violent offenders who kill again.

42 states have dram shop laws. The bartender’s causation chain has two links: pour drink, person crashes. Exposed window? Sometimes three hours. She can be charged with criminal negligence, sued in civil court, and lose her livelihood. All for failing to eyeball whether a guy at a crowded bar was too drunk for one more round.

The judge has a pre-sentencing report, a criminal history score, a risk assessment algorithm, victim impact statements, and a prosecutor arguing the case in front of them. Every tool the system can produce. And when they get it wrong? Nothing. Absolute judicial immunity, codified since Bradley v. Fisher in 1871, means a judge cannot be sued for any act performed in judicial capacity.

How absolute? In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Stump v. Sparkman that a judge who signed a petition to sterilize a 15-year-old girl without her knowledge or consent was fully immune. The court acknowledged the act was reprehensible. Didn’t matter. Judicial act, judicial immunity, case closed. That precedent still controls today.

The recidivism data is where this gets obscene. The U.S. Sentencing Commission tracked violent offenders released in 2010 across eight years. 63.8% were rearrested. Median time to rearrest: 16 months. These numbers haven’t moved in two decades. The 2005 cohort and the 2010 cohort produced statistically identical outcomes. Judges aren’t making unpredictable calls. They’re making well-documented bets with other people’s lives, and the base rates have been published and available the entire time.

The bartender gets three hours of ambiguous signals. The judge gets the full weight of the federal data apparatus. One of them can go to prison for getting it wrong. The other can’t even be named in a civil suit.

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@mtgreenee I have never agreed with you more. Well said. Have you read Hillary’s opening statement today?

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@nicksortor @ShadowofEzra Yes. Please do.

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@Fuller_Clint Put me in Coach!

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@heykayadams Why do we have all these useless stats?

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@cspan @LucasFoxNews Correction: Secretary of Defense

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@GovAbbottPress @GregAbbott_TX This is about looking good to Israel and AIPAC.

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@Karlant36652451 @GregAbbott_TX Evidently you can. Ridiculous.

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@GregAbbott_TX How about focus on guns?

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@AdamSchefter @DavidMulugheta @AthletesFirst Best move Jerry has made since blowing it with Jimmy