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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14839540 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26760 on: February 07, 2013, 09:40:11 am »

I cannot say I'm terribly shocked.

I still think I should have got a warning for my behaviour in a certain deleted thread though >.>
Okay...BAD WOLF! *shakes the Finger of Warning at you for whatever thing you did*
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26761 on: February 07, 2013, 09:41:12 am »

Whack him with a newspaper?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26762 on: February 07, 2013, 01:03:15 pm »

I always miss these derails.
The fact that they get deleted always makes me think that they're more interesting than they probably were.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26763 on: February 07, 2013, 01:43:36 pm »

Go home, Euld, you've seen too much internet for one day  :o
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26764 on: February 07, 2013, 02:09:07 pm »

http://azstarnet.com/business/local/bill-would-allow-law-practice-without-law-school/article_7ed8df53-7bff-58f7-9971-227452ed2773.html

Good News West Virginia. Arizona is taking your place as the armpit of the nation where bad ideas go to thrive.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26765 on: February 07, 2013, 02:10:42 pm »

http://azstarnet.com/business/local/bill-would-allow-law-practice-without-law-school/article_7ed8df53-7bff-58f7-9971-227452ed2773.html

Good News West Virginia. Arizona is taking your place as the armpit of the nation where bad ideas go to thrive.

Well, you do say that law school is a colossal waste of money.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26766 on: February 07, 2013, 02:13:43 pm »

http://azstarnet.com/business/local/bill-would-allow-law-practice-without-law-school/article_7ed8df53-7bff-58f7-9971-227452ed2773.html

Good News West Virginia. Arizona is taking your place as the armpit of the nation where bad ideas go to thrive.


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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26767 on: February 07, 2013, 02:15:13 pm »

http://azstarnet.com/business/local/bill-would-allow-law-practice-without-law-school/article_7ed8df53-7bff-58f7-9971-227452ed2773.html

Good News West Virginia. Arizona is taking your place as the armpit of the nation where bad ideas go to thrive.

Wel, you do say that law school is a colossal waste of money.

It is, in its present form.

Abolishing it isn't the answer, reforming it dramatically is.

http://azstarnet.com/business/local/bill-would-allow-law-practice-without-law-school/article_7ed8df53-7bff-58f7-9971-227452ed2773.html
Step right up and get the lawyer who has had no schooling.

"You're not going to damage anybody's health by having an unsanitary law practice...."

(Aimed at the legislature) You stupid bastard.... Do you know what prison is? Do know what losing your home to a judgment is? Do you know what losing custody of your kid is? Do you know what losing your business and/or job is? Do you know what a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) followed by a PreI (Preliminary Injunction) followed by a PerI (Permanent Injunction) is?

You don't like lawyers. So what? You're a real estate agent and a business consultant. These laws are aimed at YOU....

You know what, I might conceivably be elected to public office one day (if people don't find out I'm gay). I wouldn't dream of trying to regulate the practice of medicine off my own personal beliefs, because I would be grossly unqualified. I have no medical training. If I were a lawmaker in this position, I would want a report from several doctors that was well reasoned, rather than flying off the handle.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26768 on: February 07, 2013, 02:18:59 pm »

I don't think it would have much of an effect if it was passed. You still have to pass the bar exam, and that's not really doable without law school.

Now, if it was "anyone can open a law firm and start taking clients", that would be disastrous.
You know what, I might conceivably be elected to public office one day (if people don't find out I'm gay).
You're too cynical about that, you know? There are six gay members of Congress right now.

It wasn't too long ago people said America would never let a black man be President...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26769 on: February 07, 2013, 02:30:19 pm »

You know what, I might conceivably be elected to public office one day (if people don't find out I'm gay). I wouldn't dream of trying to regulate the practice of medicine off my own personal beliefs, because I would be grossly unqualified.
And that's why you'll never be elected to public office. Cause that ain't stopping NOBODY in public office these days. Voters don't think that way, they think "Hey, that feller has money and a nice suit and good hair, so he must know what he's talking about. Especially cause he's saying what I wanted to hear in the first place."
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26770 on: February 07, 2013, 02:36:58 pm »

Yeah, Truean, from everything you've said, I'm not actually sure this is as bad as you're making it out to be. People can spend that money doing an apprenticeship of some sort instead, they still have to pass the bar exam, and I'm not sure that would result in a noticeable decrease in the quality of Arizona legislators.

But then, I have serious problems with legislated qualifiers that amount to little more than "you must have spent 'x' years and 'y' dollars in order to work in this field' when it should clearly be qualifications based.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26771 on: February 07, 2013, 02:48:18 pm »

It does seem to slip dangerously close to the Slippery Slope (tm). It wouldn't be too bad on it's own but if people see that they might start loosening the more important regulations...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26772 on: February 07, 2013, 02:52:23 pm »

I would vote for Truean  :o

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« Reply #26773 on: February 07, 2013, 03:02:43 pm »

So I am now a crusty old man. Seriously. I turn 20 today. :o
Mixed feelings about my old age, so I decided I'd just whack it in the WTF thread.

(I haven't been able to follow any of these threads in aaaaages!)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #26774 on: February 07, 2013, 03:41:41 pm »

Former Los Angeles Police Officer Is Sought in Shootings

That's not the WTFpoint of the story, though, this fine bit is:
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In the midst of the chaos, two people were shot by the police in what Chief Beck described as a case of mistaken identity after police officers thought they had spotted Mr. Dorner’s car in Torrance. They opened fire; one passenger in the vehicle suffered a minor gunshot wound and the second is in stable condition in a hospital with two gunshot wounds.

Aaaaand that's the only mention of that incident. Really? Really L.A.? A manhunt is excuse enough to just blast some black people in a Nissan?

I especially love it because the slight mention of this pathetic incident comes after this lovely quote:
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“Well, of course he [the fugitive] knows what he’s doing, we trained him,” Chief Beck said.

Swell.
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