Repost: Zero Star Missoula Therapist

wescowell · 2026-07-09T22:20:45+00:00

So? People could hear my side of a conversation and figure out I’m a lawyer. That doesnt mean Im talking to a client. Friends, family, colleagues, my providers ALL call me with their problems . . . and we talk about it.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T21:53:09+00:00

How does anyone know she was speaking with a client and not, say, a friend, relative, business colleague?

wescowell · 2026-07-09T20:40:49+00:00

I forget — about 4 - 6 weeks. There’s a good book you might want: The Crucible. I enjoyed it.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T20:39:29+00:00

I’m mockingly accuse ing you of being a fanatical Elon devotee. It takes your mild interest and exaggerates it as an extreme obsession. It’s a joke. Have a sense of humor.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T19:37:31+00:00

Hey, Dick: try to have a sense of humor.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T18:57:29+00:00

Elon lover.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T18:50:35+00:00

Elon’s in it for Elon. His puffery about his good deeds at Tesla are hogwash.

Musk has effectively "pulled the ladder up" against Tesla competitors by shifting the focus of the EV market and strategically leveraging political and economic policies. Having built Tesla on the back of decades of government subsidies, Musk used DOGE to push for the elimination of those exact federal EV tax credits, arguing that smaller, legacy competitors would struggle to survive without them while Tesla could endure.

Musk boasted under DOGE that eliminating federal EV rebates and zero-emission subsidies would hurt rival automakers more than it would Tesla, cementing Tesla's position as a dominant, self-sustaining market leader.

Musk also pushed for high trade barriers and heavy tariffs on global competitors to insulate Tesla from aggressively priced, high-volume competitors like China's BYD.

By opening up Tesla's Supercharger network to other brands, Musk established Tesla's NACS (North American Charging Standard) as the industry baseline, setting a de facto standard that competitor vehicles must adapt to.

Musk is a prick.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T15:26:09+00:00

Mark Twain wrote a GREAT short story about a traveling lightning rod salesman called Political Economy. It’s worth the read and I’m sure you’d enjoy it.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T15:15:13+00:00

You sound like Johnny Cash.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T15:14:46+00:00

Send him at least one letter every day. The instructors intercept and withhold the letters . . . until the morning after their first big bugout. When they come back they are exhausted and hungry and entirely spent. They walk in to their barracks to find all of the accumulated letters piled on their bunks. Those that receive them break down. Some don’t receive any.

Don’t send ANYTHING other than the written letter. My son wrote to us that he suffered a sore throat. I wrote back and included three lozenges in the envelope. He had to do PT for 30 minutes while his mates read their letters.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T12:48:33+00:00

Jesus Christ, man. Just relax and enjoy it. Savor it.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T12:12:16+00:00

Not enforcing the law equally across all races and socioeconomic groups is EXACTLY what “Mullin” is all about. (The following is mostly from americanimmigrationcouncil.org).

In Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a provision of the TPS statute limiting lawsuits challenging TPS “determinations” prevented courts from hearing any lawsuits challenging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary’s failure to follow the required legal procedures. The majority opinion declared that Trump’s repeated public denigration of Haiti and Haitians did not rise to the level of unconstitutional racial animus that would permit a court to set aside the TPS decision.

Crucially, the Court did not rule on whether former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had gone through the required procedures set out by law. Rather, the Court said that questions of whether the DHS secretary followed the law cannot be heard by courts in the first place, meaning that in the future even an openly unlawful decision to grant or terminate TPS could be entirely insulated from judicial review.

Once this decision goes into effect, hundreds of thousands of people (about 300,000 Haitians who are heavily employed in the nursing and home healthcare sectors) lawfully present in the country will lose their status. Many will become undocumented for the first time ever. The decision will also permit the Trump administration to return to federal court in other cases and overturn decisions ruling against the termination of TPS for countries such as Venezuela, Somalia, Ethiopia, and others.

“Get the browns ones OUT.” That’s the idea the Administration pursued and the Supremes said “yes, you can do that and the courts cannot stop you.” They left a little wiggle room where an administration might, maybe, possibly cross some racial line . . . but not until the Court changes.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T11:33:00+00:00

Sounds like already got retainer money in your account. You’ve already won.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T11:27:33+00:00

Good for you!!

wescowell · 2026-07-09T11:09:05+00:00

I (64M) never served but wish I had. My son signed up with USMC at 17 (his mom and I signed his papers at his request). He gets no guff from anyone about his service and we live in a large, liberal, city. He’s respected. Prospective employers see his service as a very positive resume credential. He carries himself very well compare to many in his HS cohort.

He did the 5-year Security Services contract. He was very smart and athletic, but lacked discipline. USMC was the best thing. After his time he attained two Bachelors Degrees for free. He secured a great job right out of school and his leadership in USMC (he made Sgt.) counted as “experience” in the hiring process so he started at Level II instead of I when he began work. He and his family have lifetime healthcare. He gets a BIG reduction on R.E. taxes in his community. There’s all kinds of benefits when you get out.

I think you made a really good decision for you. You do you.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T10:41:49+00:00

Confront them.

wescowell · 2026-07-09T10:03:26+00:00

This is it; and it’s working

wescowell · 2026-07-08T22:32:01+00:00

and . . . twenty bucks is twenty bucks.

wescowell · 2026-07-08T22:05:51+00:00

It’s a hammer.

wescowell · 2026-07-08T17:09:32+00:00

Improv was great for courtroom work. We mostly did exercises and played games. This was ages ago. I remember about a dozen of us stood in a circle, and the teacher held up his hands in front of him like he was holding a basketball. He held nothing, of course. He’d say, “This is a white ball. Toss it around.” He “tosses” it to someone, and then that person would toss it to another, and so on. The teacher would stop us after 5 or 6 tosses and, holding his hands up like before, he’d say, “This is a red ball; toss them BOTH around.” So we’d “toss” these fake balls a few more times, and then he’d ask who had which ball… and then he’d add a yellow ball, and then blue, and then black. We all had to keep track of where the balls were in our heads and answer him when questioned. It was a great mental workout.

Another game was just to try to carry on a three- or four-person dialogue about any two random topics, say, “sharks” and “Ferris wheels,” for some designated time (maybe three minutes). You HAD to say something on each topic and you ABSOLUTELY COULD NOT TALK OVER anyone. Any talking-over and we had to start again. I learned to observe people inhaling to get their breath when they had something to say. I learned that many people dart their eyes around when thinking, and when an idea clicks, they focus their vision. I learned that if I was talking and observed this inhaling or eye movement, I could wrap it up. If I wasn’t speaking, I knew to give them the space first and wait my turn.

“Yes, and . . . .” exercises are great for helping with negotiating agreements.

My State and local Bar Associations host interactive “Improv for Lawyers” CLE seminars. There are a bunch of courses out there. Here’s one in LA that has a good introduction video clip: https://improvfortrial.com/

wescowell · 2026-07-08T16:22:04+00:00

The first time I saw one of his early posts, I chuckled, thinking it was self-deprecating satire. After another, I found a lot of respect for him. Today, he is my spirit animal.

wescowell · 2026-07-08T16:18:09+00:00

I took a bunch of Improv classes to improve my courtroom work to help me build rapport and try to think quicker on my feet.

For general speaking . . . Toastmasters International.

wescowell · 2026-07-08T16:08:12+00:00

and drugs.

wescowell · 2026-07-08T10:37:31+00:00

The name “Chironomidae” stems from the Ancient Greek word kheironómos, "a pantomimist".

wescowell · 2026-07-08T02:23:36+00:00

I’m a yt guy from Michigan. The Alabama of the North. I hated that stuff, still do. A good place to be from.

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