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waiguoren said:
@Kafir-kun

Are you not concerned with Elizabeth's vote for a $700 billion Pentagon bill or her efforts on behalf of General Dynamics and Raytheon? Our bloated military is a huge issue, and Elizabeth is on the wrong side of it. Sanders is much stronger in this area.
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Do you mean Bernard Sanders? You must address him properly or risk exposing your gimmick.
 
to funny
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/07/bar...wup-just-days-before-the-california-bar-exam/

Studying for the bar exam is a stressful bit of awfulness, but one that is necessary if you want to be a real-life attorney. It would certainly make life easier if you knew the precise subject matters that would be tested ahead of time, wouldn’t it? Well, those who are taking the July administration of the California bar exam have unexpectedly received that valuable bit of information, just a couple of days before they’re scheduled to take the test.

On Saturday evening, folks signed up to take the California bar received an email telling them the subject matters being tested on each of the essay questions. The reason why Donna Hershkowitz, Chief of Programs at the State Bar of California, took this most unusual step is that some California law school deans were inadvertently provided with the inside information. Though it is unclear how many deans were privy to the information, how long they had it, or whether anyone actually taking the bar exam on Tuesday had access to the topics, the powers-that-be at the California Bar decided in an abundance of caution to share them with everyone.

You can read the email for yourself:

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Initially some suspected the email was a hoax — some bad actor causing chaos days before the exam. Indeed, in an email sent to the Class of 2019, David L. Faigman, Dean of University of California Hastings College of the Law, advised students, “Please stay confident and, for now, assume it is some profoundly misguided joke.” But it isn’t a hoax — it was confirmed as legit by the official Twitter account of the California Bar.



Ted Kang@tkang
· Jul 27, 2019

Is this real? @StateBarCA @atlblog



State Bar of California

✔@StateBarCA

Yes.


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Well then.

As you might imagine, here at Above the Law we’ve been inundated with test takers weighing in on the snafu. Here’s just a quick sample of the comments we’ve received:

The CA bar done fucked up….

This is insane.

California Bar Made a big uh-oh

But not everyone is happy that the Bar threw a monkey wrench into the last few days of studying for the most important exam of their lives:

You can’t make this up. Please report this ASAP and help put pressure on the California Bar Association to make this right.

I don’t know what else the California Bar could have done once they realized the subjects of the exam were outside of their exclusive control. It’s certainly better that everyone has access to the information than only a select few have the heads-up to double down on their Civ Pro notes.


As Tammi Rice, Vice President of Kaplan Bar Review noted, students about to take the bar exam have to use the information to their benefit without overly obsessing over it:

“This leak represents an unprecedented situation for a widely taken bar exam and while there are still questions to be answered about how this happened, right now students’ only concern should be their final days of review. The good news for exam takers is that it eliminates about a dozen possible essay topics, so they know exactly which essay topics to focus on and which to ignore in their last days of preparation. This gives them the opportunity to hone their skills in the lead up to Test Day. We advise students to remain focused on their prep and to not let this throw them off their game. For all the students who have been studying hard for the bar exam: they’ve got this.”

Though it seems likely the information has ramped up the stress bar exam takers are feeling right now, now is not the time to lose focus. It might seem like a big reveal, but there is nothing too crazy or infrequently tested on the list (the Remedies/Constitutional Law crossover is interesting, but not overly shocking), and an objective memo is the most common PT format. Best of luck buckling down and making the most out of the precious time remaining before the bar exam.
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JDragon said:
Do you mean Bernard Sanders? You must address him properly or risk exposing your gimmick.
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Hello Mr Dragon.

I referred to Sanders by his surname, as usual. There is no gimmick. When writing his full name, I always use “Bernard Sanders”, as a perusal of my posting history would indicate.

Wonderful to converse with you, good sir.
 
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JDragon said:
My day just took a dramatic turn for the worse reading this:

Man of African origin pushes mother, kid (8 years old), in front of approaching ICE train at Frankfurt main station. Mother survives, kid dead. Perp arrested.

Edit: Eritrean national, no apparent relation to the victims.
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Horrible crime. @tonni made a thread on it.
 
JDragon said:
My day just took a dramatic turn for the worse reading this:

Man of African origin pushes mother, kid (8 years old), in front of approaching ICE train at Frankfurt main station. Mother survives, kid dead. Perp arrested.

Edit: Eritrean national, no apparent relation to the victims.
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Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

Doing a little digging it seems like this is something of a trend in Germany at the moment?
 
Some good news.

Harvey learned to walk down the stairs and it only took him one day.

But unfortunately I didn't get a video of him throwing himself down the stairs
 
Prokofievian said:
Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

Doing a little digging it seems like this is something of a trend in Germany at the moment?
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There's been a bunch of people pushed in front of trains?
 
Prokofievian said:
A few. At least 3 including this one within the last year.
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That's messed up. I did a search but it came up with examples from the US and UK (probably because I used English terms).
 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
Yup. And we got a trashcan that has a lock. I'm not confidant it will stop him but he'll have to work for it
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Ruprecht said:
That's messed up. I did a search but it came up with examples from the US and UK (probably because I used English terms).
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The last one was just a few days ago actually, in Duisburg (near the Netherlands). There was another case in Köln, September 2018. And another in Berlin in March.

https://www.thelocal.de/20190722/wo...shed-in-front-of-oncoming-train-near-duisberg

So, 4 in the last year, although the one with the broken vertebra seems like a different M.O.
 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
Yup. And we got a trashcan that has a lock. I'm not confidant it will stop him but he'll have to work for it
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You could engineer like...a jack in the box trashcan that would traumatize him into an irrational fear of garbage cans.
 
Seems also like the kind of crime that invites copycats due to the attention.
 
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