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Orange&White

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  1. Meh...City Managers get fired all of the time. It's part of the job. It is usually because they have been made the scapegoat for something they had nothing to do with, or because there was Council turnover and the new council wanted to hire their own guy. I'm not saying this is a good hire or that every CM that gets fired isn't for a good reason. I am simply saying that City Manager's get fired all of the time for a lot of reasons that don't necessarily mean they suck.
  2. Meh...it's got dark tint and air conditioned seats
  3. The post i quoted and responded to clearly stated that all cops are bad.
  4. Let’s get rid of all of them then. Let’s just roll with no police and see what happens. Obviously they are serving no purpose at all right now. So we can save a few hundred million a year and all of Austin will be really happy to be rid of them.
  5. I have a hybrid of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sinsemilla. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff
  6. So the guy that is crazy can be locked in prison. That is exactly my point. I understand all of those other things you mentioned about ability to incarcerate and that the prisons are the biggest provider of mental health, etc . I know that because those facts have been brought up in this thread, and every other like it, ad nauseum. Again, no one thinks this is ideal or best practice or what the long term solution is. But as bad as those things are, they should still not be a deterrent to locking up someone that attacked a person with a machete for no reason.
  7. I wasn't aware that the prisons got a vote or an option on who the courts sentence to prison? Are you saying that the prisons have a right or ability to deny a prisoner that has been convicted to prison time?
  8. I still get it. There are no good options. But that is exactly why I am asking what some of y'all think should be done right now with the violent/aggressive/repeat offenders? Just keep letting them out until some magical cure that everyone agrees on and funds? At some point, the most violent repeat offenders have to be locked up to protect society. No one wants that. No one if hoping that is the permanent fix. But RIGHT NOW, in this immediate environment, that is the only option. Repeatedly freeing them to commit progressively more dangerous and violent crimes is ridiculous. Anytime there is discussion here of a violent/aggressive/ repeat offender, it seems that it cannot be discussed here in a vacuum of "this one particular guy is fucking crazy and needs to be locked up". It always devolves into the context of trying to solve the entire homeless/mental illness issue in one conversation that goes in endless circles.
  9. I know the toolbox is limited, and I understand that, but there are a couple of posters here that do nothing but deride the people who are in favor of locking up the most dangerous people, and then go on to tell the same story of how the system is broke. But they never, ever offer any alternatives or solutions that can actually be achieved.
  10. I’m really curious about the opinions and ideas of what can and should be done, in the current environment and budget constraints, for people who attack random and innocent people with machetes, and destroy a small business owner repeatedly. Sure, you can sit and bitch and moan about mental health care and unfit to stand trial, but what do you actually propose be done with the machete guy RIGHT NOW? What do you propose should be done with the guy that repeatedly breaks the window of the exact same establishment, right now? Im not talking about pie in the sky perfect plan with unlimited budget that everyone magically agrees upon. I am talking about today. Because some of you seem to be content to just keep letting these obvious dangers to society keep getting let out, knowing damn well they are going to do the same shit again and again. Is that it? You are good with the way Garza is handling this right now? Are you fine with the collateral damage now as long as you believe it is going to eventually lead to some kind of reform? If the guy was breaking into your house once a month and threatening your family would you feel the same? Or is it because it is a business owner downtown or some rando on a hiking trail that you are fine that they keep getting set free to do shit again? Seriously, what are y’all’s recommendation for the immediate problem, within the immediate environment of public opinion, politics and budget?
  11. You know what else is not appropriate in today's society? ATTACKING PEOPLE RANDOMLY, WITHOUT PROVOCATION, WITH FUCKING MACHETES. I don't give a single fuck if that guy stays in a mental health facility for the rest of his life if it keeps one single other person from being attacked with a machete.
  12. Exactly. This gives you a better idea of what "Sometimes Island" really is. And for perspective, that cliff on the left side of that ridge is the deepest point in the lake at about 185' when the lake was full.
  13. Few things: 1. There may be more people with straws in the water now, but 4-5 years ago the LCRA dramatically changed the thresh holds that need to be met to supply water downstream to rice farmers and environmental concerns in the estuaries. 2. The Arbuckle Reservoir in Lane City in Wharton will eventually come online this year after years of delays. It will hold 90k acre feet, which is about 75% of what Austin uses in a year. Obviously it is downstream and cannot be used to provide water for use in Austin, but the idea is that you can use it for the downstream needs and send less out of Buch/Travis to do it. And it collects all of that water that falls south of lake Travis that currently just flows to the Gulf with no benefit. 3. "Droughts end in floods". I've lived on or near Lake Travis since 1983 and there is definitely a cycle. The lake can be completely filled in three days if the right storm hits at the right place. Think Memorial Day weekend.
  14. Well I guess I’ll find out. I take delivery on Friday. A5 45 Sportback. Premium Plus. Blackout package. Convenience package. Air conditioned seats. Black paint, dark brown interior. $3k off msrp and includes 4 yr/50k mile warranty and 4 years of maintenance. It will be on the market at 3 years and 360 days.
  15. That is the one. I am more curious as to why the case against Robert Chody seems to have all but disappeared. No news on it in over a year.
  16. Maybe she's just jealous that those victims were getting more dick from attractive men than she was? Now that she's found herself a "boyfriend in Atlanta" she does not feel the need to murder as many gay men?
  17. I’m looking at a 2024 A5 45 Sportback. Anyone have a newer model A4 or A5 that they have opinions on? Thanks
  18. In my dream, the US is using some sort of super nuke satellite shit to knock ruskie planes from the sky. Something akin to the bullshit super weapon Putin keeps alluding to, but we all know that he is full of shit, and does not have . Basically calling his bluff and showing him that we, in fact, have what he is completely making up and we are using it on him in front of the entire world. Well, that and a Kiera Knightly, Natalie Portman threesome.
  19. This smells like pasken or whatever the fuck his name was. It's complete utopian bullshit fed to transportation and planning student when they are freshmen, that does not account for years and decades of grift, corruption and just plain stupidity that are involved in public transit projects.
  20. Um...that was not beef, it was the last homeless guy that died in that camp. Donner party style.
  21. ETJ de-annexations are done at the request of the land owner. So the de-annexations occur on a parcel by parcel basis. It is NOT that the entire ETJ gets to vote for removal and, if the majority vote is for it, then the entire ETJ is dissolved. Edit/Clarification: IT CAN be done the way you described. If you live in a subdivision and think that the entire subdivision should be removed from the ETJ, you can submit through the appropriate process and, if you have all of the requirements met, the city will have to have it on the next election and all of your neighbors will have to approve it by majority to have the entire subdivision removed. However, the VAST majority of what is happening now is that a single landowner petitions to remove his property and the City is granting. There is a process the city can make the landowner go through to get approved, but it is so costly, time-consuming and so stacked in favor of the land owner that the Cities are simply just granting them their request for de-annexation from the ETJ.
  22. Is it though? Remember when the citizens voted to re-instate the camping ban and the City made a map that showed that they would re-locate all of the homeless to the neighborhood parks, even though that was illegal? Now, incorrectly counting votes to achieve their outcome is a bit cray cray, but making it difficult to vote for your neighborhood to be de-annexed is exactly the type of petty bullshit the city staff has shown themselves to not be above.
  23. The ETJ Dis-annexation thing is backfiring spectacularly already. All the people who lived out in the ETJ and wanted the cities to "just leave us alone" got what they wished for, and now developers can decide to leave the ETJ with no regard. Once those developers leave the ETJ of the city, there are literally no controls on what they can build. So now there are MASSIVE manufactured housing developments being developed with on site sewer treatment and wells, massive industrial complexes, etc, right next to some pretty spectacular properties. And those adjacent owners are completely shellshocked there is nothing anyone can do to stop it from happening next to their family ranch. It was obvious knee-jerk, ill written legislation that was basically a middle finger to Austin and it is now backfiring all around the state. It will all swing back the other way in a few years when everyone realizes how bad it is. Making it difficult for the cities to annex puts a huge burden on the counties. They are left to provide law enforcement and, ems in some cases, in little donut holes in and around cities which makes patrolling them and getting to them in an emergency a clusterfuck. They also get stuck with more ongoing road maintenance. I suspect the County lobbyists will eventually get some of this relaxed.
  24. My bet is he is heading to somewhere like NYC for Today show. Dude is the NBC Golden Boy.
  25. Holy Fuck was that guy a piece of shit. You could tell he lives in some sort Fantasy Utopian city planner wet dream and was wrong about just about everything eh stated but had the arrogance of Terrell Owens. Complete fucking shitstain. It is definitely not shock that he doesn't come around anymore since his fantasy land choo choo train has gone not even as bad as we told him it would, but actually worse.
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