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jpe12 commented on the blog post North Carolina Register of Deeds Seeks Money from MERS for Unrecorded Mortgage Transfers
Such a suit would border on frivolous. If filed, it’ll be tossed immediately.
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jpe12 commented on the blog post Ohio: SB 5 Includes Anti-Gay Marriage Language
Not really. The passage you cite is already OH law, and has been for several years. That law initially made reference to the collective bargaining section of the Ohio Revised Code, and the current bill strikes that reference consistent w/ repealing the collective bargaining law.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Let’s Play With Some Numbers Once Again (Teachers style) by dakine01.
Didn’t see the “and such.” Makes more sense now.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Let’s Play With Some Numbers Once Again (Teachers style) by dakine01.
We’ll assume our new teacher is getting paid twice a month for nine months so will have a pre-tax bi-weekly income of $1,401 (payday on the 15th and the end of the month). Taxes and such will probably pull that down to roughly $1K take home
On that income, total tax will be about $2,500, so [...]
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jpe12 commented on the diary post We Need to Overthrow “Corporate Rights” by latigo1026.
If corporations no longer have rights, we can prohibit Mosques from buying Korans. That’d be kinda funny.
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jpe12 commented on the blog post MERS Tells Servicers to Stop Foreclosing in Their Name
His second sentence is completely wrong and tells us that either he didn’t read the opinion or did and didn’t understand it. (because the vast majority of the opinion is dicta – except for the part that finds that MERS can seize the house – it expressly doesn’t hold _anything_)
That he misunderstands very, very basic stuff suggests you read him skeptically.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Gorilla’s Guides: “An Introduction to Islam” — Part 17, Overview and pause for questions from readers by GorillasGuides.
A consequence of Tawhid is that Muslims regard life as a “seamless garment” we do not distinguish between various aspects of life as westerners tend to do
The West has had many totalitarian systems that, like Islam, demolish any distinction between public and private spheres.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Justice Thomas’s Weird Court Silence by elves chasm.
It’s not so weird. One hears over and over from scholars and practitioners that the oral arguments just aren’t that important.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Patriot Act roll call review: can you do more than talk? by danps.
They never have, fwiw.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Police Brutality Alive and Well in Houston: Teen Battered [Video] by Rayne.
Local activist Quanell X…</blockquote
pfft. Really?
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Police Brutality Alive and Well in Houston: Teen Battered [Video] by Rayne.
If it were my house he robbed, I’d say he got off light.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Water Cooler – BREAKING: CCR and ECCRHR To File Torture Case Against George W. Bush! by Bill Egnor.
Ooh, a strongly worded letter. That’ll show ‘em!
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Water Cooler – BREAKING: CCR and ECCRHR To File Torture Case Against George W. Bush! by Bill Egnor.
I think they’ll be able to ignore it completely.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Stand up and oppose the dangerous GOP legislation to redefine rape by bdaraio.
The counterargument I’ve seen from some is that “forcible rape” is a technical term tied to an FBI classification, and actually includes sex w/o consent (which encompasses both sex while passed out and sex w/ a minor too young to form meaningful consent).
Any response to that?
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jpe12 commented on the blog post Federal Judge Voided Entire Affordable Care Act Because of Lack of Severability
Vinson, by the way, was not bound because of the lack of a severability clause to throw out the entire bill. The Roberts Court just struck a single provision from the Sarbanes-Oxley law even though it lacked a severability clause. So he’s not being entirely honest here, either.
He’s being honest; you just don’t understand the law here. Severability is presumed unless the stricken provision is central to the whole law. This is a fact-intensive inquiry; Vinson seems to get the law right, although you can certainly criticize him for getting the factual analysis wrong.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Ambac v. Banksters: Email, RICO and JPMC’s Billions by TuffsNotEnuff.
The Ambac allegations are pretty explosive; it’ll be interesting to see JPMC’s response.
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jpe12 commented on the blog post Headed to the Koch Rally
Orion Energy LLC and Orion Energy Systems Inc are two different companies. It’s possible the former was spun off the latter (which could explain the similar names) or that OE LLC is a joint venture w/ BP, but I haven’t seen anything to that effect.
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jpe12 commented on the blog post Headed to the Koch Rally
Citizens United Not Timid* is a different organization. Citizens United – the org that won the SCOTUS case – actually sent a cease-and-desist letter to Citizens United Not Timid.
* I started by writing the initials, which then set off a giggling fit.
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jpe12 commented on the blog post Headed to the Koch Rally
Orion Energy Systems is a public corporation. I don’t see any indication that they’re owned in part by BP.
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jpe12 commented on the diary post Banker Pay Is Pretty Good – The Price of Destroying the Economy by dakine01.
The board also approved a new annual base salary of $2 million for its chief executive, up from $600,000. Mr. Cohn and others will see their base salaries increase to $1.85 million, according to the filing on Friday.
Deductible? Seems not to be :
In the case of any publicly held corporation, no deduction shall be allowed under this [...]
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