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  1. The Dems didn't release it for one main reason: the Biden Department of Justice respected norms. To the extent it was an ongoing criminal investigation, in old America you don't release that information. To the extent it was a terminated criminal investigation, in old America you don't release that information until everyone is dead, if then. See, JFK. MAGA therefore brewed it into some giant conspiracy to protect pedo Dems, Trump world bought into it or at least thought they'd curry favor, then they looked at it. Whoops.
  2. https://esearch.kerrcad.org/Property/View/19022?year=2025&ownerId=588726
  3. Yup. And not-so-good. Unclear to me what we're dealing with here. As far as the Eastlands go. I'm not so sanguine about Kerr County officials.
  4. Also, adding to what's been said before, I know a number of people whose judgment I respect that think the Eastlands are/were very good people. Not just nostalgic campers. And, while I think at least initially being a camp director is a labor of love, there's quite a bit of evidence that this has become a big, profitable business over the last 30-40 years and there was some greedheading going on. So, I think it is quite unclear whether the disregard of the flood risk was complacency bred of familiarity or the result of greed and arrogance. I suppose the line is fine.
  5. I believe that's correct. And if you are willing to "go naked" on flood insurance, it's fine. Federally backed loans are going to require it, though. I don't imagine much commercial development is federally backed, though. And, while all this shows an awareness of the potential for flood problems, and a disregard of potential risk, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it, I guess. FEMA can't survey every waterway, they establish floodplains based on historical and statistical data and it makes sense that an aggrieved landowner can do an actual survey and "escape" the floodplain. Now, if we start finding out they played fast and loose with the surveys, that's another kettle of fish entirely.
  6. If I am reading correctly, instead of this arrangement: OP has something more like this: And is having trouble filling the gap.
  7. Well, there is a slightly less than 1 in 4 chance that a Kerr County resident did not vote Trump. And, some of those Trump voters may just be complete ignoramuses instead of hateful fucks. But yeah, it's not those commie libruls that bring up the politics. I'm a conservative. I haven't voted R in nearly 10 years, but I'm still conservative. That ain't conservative.
  8. By many accounts, he seems to be shitting uncontrollably a good deal of the time. That's a lotta shit.
  9. Season 2 is just fantastic all around. Just such a switch from Season 1.
  10. Harmeet is Hindu for Karen. Did not know that.
  11. Were you asking for the brandishment or discharge enhancement or just possession?
  12. When a cat exposes its belly, it feels very safe and comfortable. And if she lets you pet her belly, she trusts you a lot. But careful, that's one of those "pet me three times then I'll bite" places. As she appears she should. A lot of odd cat behavior stems from the fact that, although they are consummate predators, due to their size they are also prey.
  13. And when Maxwell was prosecuted and convicted. And Biden's DOJ followed the usual DOJ guidelines of not releasing material subject to an ongoing criminal investigation, or even a terminated one, because it accuses without giving the accused a forum in which to defend (and also tips off defendants how to defend and spoliate evidence). One of the side effects of releasing this material would be effectively to concede that no one in it would be prosecuted.
  14. My concern is that it's full of militant assholes like the ones speaking to the County Commission. I live in Dallas, so I have the odd Trump encounter, but it's far from a daily thing and I don't have to assume that everyone I encounter is a Trumpist. Some of the posts here indicate that it might be pretty live-and-let-live.
  15. Well, it's not very arduous if they grant 90% of them. Regardless, I laid out all the salient information right there in my post.
  16. Cry more fat cunt.
  17. They aren't "appeals." Apparently anyone at any time can apply for removal from a particular flood zone, but they come most often after FEMA revises flood maps. https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/change-your-flood-zone/loma-lomr-f This is an example of such an Amendment/Removal. https://map1.msc.fema.gov/data/48/L/11-06-3437A-480419.pdf?LOC=74f39c316f21aa289bece6f31ba64320 If you have the patience, you can dig through all the Kerr County Unincorporated Areas LOMAs here. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/advanceSearch#searchresultsanchor And, I'm not surprised that it occurs mostly in high-value whiteyville. I very seriously doubt there's anything preferential going on, but this is exactly the kind of thing that wealthy white Americans know to do that poorer and browner ones don't because they have been excluded for so long.
  18. Yep, they're awesome. I'm a pretty good sharpener, but cut my teeth on 1095, 420-440, and SAKs. I can get them pretty fucking sharp pretty quick without a lot of material removal.
  19. I think a lot of them are figuring out that the majority of immigrants are good, hardworking people and they were sold a bill of goods on "criminal immigrants."
  20. On the Stacy/Eastland thing, I did gather from the TM article that a) Mystic was kind of "abandoned" by the rest of the family to Dick and Tweety Eastland (meaning none showed interest in fully running it, but various family members have continued to be involved) and b) the Eastland branch then became rather proprietary about it. So, it would not surprise me much to hear a Stacy couldn't get back involved heavily in the operation of the Camp.
  21. Yeah, people commit crimes, immigrants lawful and unlawful, are people, therefore they commit crimes. There's no evidence that they commit crimes (other than unlawful entry) at any higher rate than native-born citizens. The idea that they do is 100% propaganda. This whole thing stems from 9/11. We got scared of Muslims. A lot of Muslims started filtering through Europe as refugees and for other reasons. That somewhat unrestrained immigration scared a lot of people. Hence the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment, abroad and here at home. We don't have all that many Muslims immigrating here, and they're fairly controlled. But we have plenty of other brown immigrants, and some cynical fuckers realized that this was the new enemy, the new Soviet Union. So here we are. Anti-immigrant sentiment led to nationalism led to populism led to Trump.
  22. The gentleman's name was JC Mattox, I believe, or JG. Maybe Maddox. My buddy worked with/for him back in that timeframe. Still, though, the Eastlands lived on the property, so they knew what was potentially at stake.
  23. A cheap whore. Much cheaper than Stormy Daniels, who gets paid to get fucked.
  24. I have this absurd desire for a Wenger/Vic Delemont model SAK. One year, a Swiss Army Knife was my Dad's big Christmas present. This would have been sometime in the 70s before they were as ubiquitous as today. That meant a considerable amount of shopping and comparison of Wenger and Victorinox generally and their various models. Dad ended up choosing Vic and later I did too, and of course, that's all there is anymore. But, the Wenger scissor design is arguably superior and the blade has more belly. I am a low-key now high-key SAK fanboi. A Cadet is a knife I reach for more days than not, our kitchen knives are Victorinox. I suppose I am a cutlery cheap date, but they just work and don't break the bank for (to me) dubious incremental improvements.
  25. The media has always been under the thumb of rich elites. The rich elites have never been so self-interested or enmeshed with the government before.
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