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It's the bottle shape. The label should be different enough to claim fair use, but the bottle shape is too similar.

Not that any reasonable person would ever mistake the two items.
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bill_g wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:23 am It's the bottle shape. The label should be different enough to claim fair use, but the bottle shape is too similar.

Not that any reasonable person would ever mistake the two items.
Except the brown "bottle" is not a container that could be filled with fake spirits. Generally sold in different kind of distribution / retail channel.
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June bug wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 5:44 am
keith wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:00 am
June bug wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:17 pm

Yes.
And then the Senate will take up the issue.
To what avail?

If the Senate remains 50-50, the Dems won’t have subpoena power.

Even if it’s 51-49, the ultimate arbiter of any subpoena will be…the 6-3 Supreme Court.
Roberts believes in institutions...to an extent

He'll be happy to appear before Congress and have a conversation about judicial-ethics reform.

Then he'll thank Congress for its suggestions and opinions, put them in a briefcase, and toss it into the Potomac.

And that will be that.
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And my guess is that the SC doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
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Our only hope now is if one of them is invited to Cibolo Creek Ranch for a weekend of fun.
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:thumbsup:
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Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:47 am Our only hope now is if one of them is invited to Cibolo Creek Ranch for a weekend of fun.
Thomas is in the hospital, and I'm rooting for the cholesterol.
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Gregg wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 4:09 pm
Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:47 am Our only hope now is if one of them is invited to Cibolo Creek Ranch for a weekend of fun.
Thomas is in the hospital, and I'm rooting for the cholesterol.
OK. That is funny.
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Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:47 am Our only hope now is if one of them is invited to Cibolo Creek Ranch for a weekend of fun.
What's special about that ranch? I tried Google it, but nothing illuminating came up
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Justice Scalia went to that ranch for a visit and never woke up.
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Kriselda Gray wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:43 pm
Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:47 am Our only hope now is if one of them is invited to Cibolo Creek Ranch for a weekend of fun.
What's special about that ranch? I tried Google it, but nothing illuminating came up
That's where Scalia died.

Ninja'd.
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Mr. Gneiss wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:47 pm Justice Scalia went to that ranch for a visit and never woke up.
Which, of course, gave rise to the Scalia murder conspiracy theories. Including those touted by the (then candidate) former president.
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we now know that Scalia was suffocated with a MyPillowtm

You read it on the internet, it must be true.
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His Illuminated Majesty's Imperial Air Forces, as is our policy, have no comment on that event.

Any Pupperoni scraps found at the scene are strictly coincidental.

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Gregg wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 12:22 pm His Illuminated Majesty's Imperial Air Forces, as is our policy, have no comment on that event.

Any Pupperoni scraps found at the scene are strictly coincidental.

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Look, we has alibi, we iz innocent and we iz so adorables that even if we were guilty we iz still innocent!

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Woah. I didn't know they made doggie seats for cars. It always annoys me when I see pet owners driving around with their dog(s) running loose in the car -- or worse, on the drivers lap.

Very cool restraint system.
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Gregg wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:48 pm Look, we has alibi, we iz innocent and we iz so adorables that even if we were guilty we iz still innocent!

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Biscuit is looking at the driver like, "Do you even have a license and I want out NOW." Root Beer is opting for pretending she's somewhere else. :biggrin:
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Or Biscuit is thinking that it was her turn to drive. :lol: :lol:

And also too :lovestruck: :lovestruck:
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Biscuit is very skeptical of my driving, and hasn't even been in an airplane with me yet. Root Beer just knows that sometimes a cookie has fallen in the car seat somewhere and she is gonna make sure before sister finds it.
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um, kids (and their parents) dressed in KKK robes wouldn't be anywhere NEAR a black Santa...
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Dr. Ken wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 2:30 pm
No. Alito did not “suggest[] that if the LGBT+ community wants equality — a Black Santa should be forced to take pictures with kids dressed in KKK robes.” He’s doing what the Supreme Court has done since its inception - he’s trying to figure out the contours of the parties’ position on the issue. This type of sound-bite reporting irritates the snot out of me.
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Maybenaut wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 2:51 pmAlito did not “suggest[] that if the LGBT+ community wants equality — a Black Santa should be forced to take pictures with kids dressed in KKK robes.” He’s doing what the Supreme Court has done since its inception - he’s trying to figure out the contours of the parties’ position on the issue. This type of sound-bite reporting irritates the snot out of me.
Yes; and no.

Yes, this is the classic method of stretching a proposed rule to its extremes, to see if it still works at the margins.

But: there are better methods to do so without this kind of trolling. Its ... "colorfulness" was very intentional.

It is also kind of dumb, as comparing LGBT+ customers (desiring wedding-related services, presumably) to the KKK is not only offensive, but inapt, as I don't believe a Santa actor (of any color) would refuse on religious grounds. Nor would the Santa actor be denying services based on status in a protected class, i.e., the entire point of this SCOTUS case.
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Maybenaut wrote:No. Alito did not “suggest[] that if the LGBT+ community wants equality — a Black Santa should be forced to take pictures with kids dressed in KKK robes.” He’s doing what the Supreme Court has done since its inception - he’s trying to figure out the contours of the parties’ position on the issue. This type of sound-bite reporting irritates the snot out of me.
Even if your're correct (which I don't agree with) what a horrible comparison/analogy.
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