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  1. This time last year Collins was Fong'd to aggy.
    9 points
  2. There’s a whole lot of “not everyone should go to college” elitism going on here. We’ve got a ton of problems in our country, but too many people are educated sure as shit isn’t one of them.
    8 points
  3. I had the unique (apparently) perspective of growing up here. Even though I was born in San Antonio, my parents moved here in 1967 before I turned one. At various times we lived in what is now north central Austin (by Webb MS), then further northwest (behind the old Playland skating rink), then way north(out by Parmer and Burnet), and then finally in Rollingwood. As an adult I lived by campus, way South (slaughter and Manchaca) and then finally for the last 20 years or so out by the Austin zoo. Additionally I own a construction yard where my office is over behind the Calahan's on 183 south. In my construction business I was lucky enough to be able to work all over town and really watch it change over the years. I did a 3 year stint in Houston in the early 90's which had me traveling to Dallas about half of the time and my parents had a ranch down by San Antonio which me spending a lot of time in that city as well. I think when we talk about "old Austin", we are referring to what this city was starting in the early post WWII years to whenever that really changed. Austin did not experience the boom that Dallas, SA and Houston did post war. It had UT and the state government which gave it its unique laid back style which was completely different than SA, Dallas and Houston which managed to get interstate loops back in the 60's along with a lot of home grown businesses that were enormous. Growing up in 1970's Austin probably looked a lot like growing up in 1950's Austin. Yes we had Willy and and his bunch and hippies and whatever was going on with Nam, but that was all an offshoot of the relaxed backwater status we had back then. Hell, even El Paso was a much bigger town than Austin. Some have cited the change occurred when DKR was replaced, but the game atmosphere was the same and kids could still roam free and the stadium would not change for another 20 years and the team was still really good well into the early 80's. Tech investment did not start with Dell. IBM had a huge campus by the early 70's, Tracor, TI, and others had started investing back in the late 60's Austin participated in the Texas boom back in the late 70's and early 80's as well as the bust. During the bust, despite a few landmarks moving or being done away with altogether, the city city almost reverted back to its status in the 1960s or 70s. It was almost impossible to get a job here and things were much as they were. By the time I moved back here in 1993 from Houston, not much had changed from the 1980s. I worked downtown and could still park on the street during the day. Even during the late 1990's during the Tech boom, much of this city was still accessible on the cheap and still felt like Austin. The action had moved from dirty 6th to the warehouse "district", but even that was a great improvement and did not feel like real change-more like just catching your breath and getting over the 80s bust cycle. It felt like that sweet spot when an old declining neighborhood starts to get new life when it is still a mix of mostly responsible existing residents and the eyesores start vanishing and the new people are resourceful and forward thing trend setters and there is that nice period of 5-10 years before the Beamers and Rovers show up. The early 2000's saw the construction of the Frost Tower, but let us not forget that the Hilton went in before Frost. We got our first toll road started in 2003, but Austin was still Austin. Yes downtown was starting to really change, the game atmosphere was different and more restrictive, we had a few more golf courses, but the circles you traveled in were still many of the same old people that had been there for decades. The people stated to be different during the recovery from the 2008 slump, which really did not hit Austin all that hard. It was as if 50 years of pent up demand and failed booms was unleashed from housing to new business, from UT going on a building spree to Lakeway getting filled in. Back when I still went to church I recognized only a few faces where only a few years earlier I knew almost everyone. Parking to go for a run on Town Lake had become difficult almost overnight. It was as if everyone that lived here moved and was replaced with two people in their place. These things don't happen overnight, but in this case it sure feels like it did, because the Austin I knew held its own for at least 40 years. So if you a looking to pin down a time I would say look at 2009 -2015.
    8 points
  4. Passing the time in the off-season making a retro scoreboard piece for a charity auction. 48" x 36"
    8 points
  5. This goes in a “Husbands and the stupid shit they say/do” thread. This morning Mrs. Ace was drinking tea and did that coughing/can’t breath thing you do sometimes when it goes up your nose or whatever. This conversation followed: Me: Are you okay? Her: Yes (says through the coughing fit) Me: Maybe you should go back to swallowing school Her: (once composure regained) “Why? It’s not like that’ll impact you anytime soon.” I have failed, gentlemen.
    8 points
  6. This is one correct answer. The other is that your version of old Austin died when you turned 30. My dad and his friends bitched all through the 80’s about old Austin dying. I enjoyed my version of old Austin in the 90’s and started my bitching in the mid-2000s. My kids currently are enjoying enjoy their version of Austin very much but will be bitching about it by the 2030s. Austin evolves to tune of the young people. You can call that “old Austin dying” but it’s really just you getting old.
    8 points
  7. So now Corby has officially fucked up 2 shows.
    7 points
  8. Huh. My initial reaction is they’ve just weakened two shows
    7 points
  9. You're not going to get me to say anything bad about that episode.
    7 points
  10. Trump supporters don’t like lying politicians? Is that a joke?
    7 points
  11. Maher is hit and miss, but this is spot on.
    6 points
  12. The Stampede: An early look at the 2021 board
    6 points
  13. Tl;dr: The small portion of Sanders supporters that crossed over to Trump was enough to change the outcome in MI, WI, and PA, and therefore the election. However the bigger take away is that Democrats don't need to focus on this crowd - and from what I have seen Sander's messaging has been more focused on energizing voters historically more likely to vote D, but also more likely to sit out, which is wise. Clinton badly underperformed Obama in two states with very small margins of victory, directly leading to her defeat - two states in which Bernie Sanders beat her in the Democratic primaries. Sanders is at the top of the D field vs Trump in PA and is best positioned to bring new voters into the fold, which is probably the single biggest key there given Trump's strength. To say he isn't as well positioned to deliver WI, MI, PA as other candidates is incorrect. Full disclosure, I am going to vote for Elizabeth Warren unless the writing is just on the wall by the time TX votes. So I am not saying this as a Sanders supporter. If you have free time: I will concede the data is limited (WaPo notes three surveys), but the data that does exist indicates the number of Sanders voters that went for Trump over Clinton in the general was greater than Trump's margin in WI, MI, and PA. The same surveys also show that these voters actually hold a lot of the opinions associated with middle aged, uneducated white voters (I haven't seen any reporting on age): Low approval of Obama, don't believe whites have an inherent advantage, high opposition to free trade. This is your "economic anxiety" crowd. A moderate is not the way to reach them. Structural economic and political reform is. That is still secondary to the fact that untapped votes in the historically low participation/disenfranchised groups outnumber the unicorn swing voting white moderate in the midwest and everywhere else. Sander's messaging has been predominantly about getting these groups involved and that's for good reason. Even if every single Trump voter shows up for him again, in these states where he is underwater in approval (-10,-12, -2 respectively in WI, MI, and PA per Morning Consult): Trump won Michigan by 10k votes. Wayne County (Detroit - 66 percent D) turnout decreased by 40-45k from 2012 and Clinton underperformed Obama by 75k votes. Trump got about 15k more votes than Romney. Assume that those 40k missing voters also vote at a 66 percent D clip (in reality they'd likely vote D at a higher rate because nonvoters trend young and minority) and that flips the state. Milwaukee County, WI - Clinton got 50k fewer votes than Obama. You'd think, okay, well yeah she lost the state and he won; but Trump got 30k fewer votes than Romney, so we have a turnout decrease of ballpark 65-70k when accounting for third parties. Trump won Wisconsin by a little under 25k votes. Those 65-70k missing voters voting at Milwaukee County's 65-29 percent D clip flip the state. Further, Trump won but also underperformed Romney in the counties adjacent to Milwaukee - the suburbs. Clinton just underperformed Obama too. Trump didn't run up the score with Obama voters, Democrats just stayed home. So this wasn't some Obama-Trump voter/middle aged white moderate wave that flipped WI and MI. Or rather, if it made the difference, it wasn't because it was a ton of them, but because Democratic voters stayed home. There are Obama voters on the sideline, and knowing what we know about the Obama coalition, they likely trend younger and more racially diverse. This crowd is Sander's strongest bloc. I'll also concede I don't see a similar trend in PA just by eyeballing for this post. Turnout was up across the board and generally the state appeared to consolidate along urban vs rural lines. Trump got 2.9mm votes statewide, about 65k more than Obama 2012 and over 750k more than Romney. In the other two states, Trump's numbers basically tracked Romney's while Clinton just underperformed Obama terribly. Between that and the approval rating gap between PA and the other two, I have to admit I think I need to reevaluate my previous stance that PA is essentially a Democratic lock. It almost looks like WI and MI are lower hanging fruit and PA is where the work is really going to be cut out for Ds. Still between the 2018 midterms, where Democrats absolutely wiped the floor with the GOP statewide, and the fact that the areas driving growth in PA are Democratic and trending more so, I think there's a reasonable case to be made that Trump's performance in the state probably peaked in 2016. I'm not sure there are many new Trump voters waiting in the wings. New voters in PA are more likely to lean D, and in a state where the margin of victory was 45k votes, that matters inherently. Sanders is the leading candidate among young voters, which is among the biggest untapped Democratic voting blocs. Sanders also outperforms every Democrat not named Joe Biden in polls vs Trump in PA. Democrats are going to have to fight for the state, but Bernie is as well positioned as anyone to pull it off.
    6 points
  14. No idea how this will be on tapa but I did a grilled chicken sandwich that turned out phenomenal. Started with a spicy honey mustard sauce made with stone ground mustard and hot Cajun spice. Rubbed the chicken thighs with a mixture of salt, pepper, smoked paprika, cayenne and garlic powder. Grilled and served with toasted bun, bacon, pepper jack, sliced avocado and honey mustard.
    6 points
  15. Thanks. I've started wearing a giant clock around my neck to boost my Flavor Flavonoids.
    6 points
  16. University tuition is on the pharma cost train. So much of the money spent is "free" (loans/insurance) that there's no market penalty for raising prices.
    5 points
  17. What about the lawyer? The teacher? The social worker? The accountant? Why is every conversation about this crises reduced to "hurr durr, idiot children taking out millions to learn medieval poetry"
    5 points
  18. Heart transplant on the V was a huge success. Replaced the screaming hot lead pickups that were in it with a pair of TV Jones Classics. The recorded before and after from my phone doesnt nearly catch the improvement. The stock pickups were bright and punchy, but no midrange or bottom end. Great leads, but I couldnt get nearly full rhythm sound I need for our music. Now its fat and sounds like, well, a Gretsch. Took a picture of how much thicker the TVJs are below.
    5 points
  19. This article asks a salient question. Cruz said "I'm a Christian first, an American second ..." Can you imagine if one of the Muslim members of congress said "I'm a Muslim first, an American second?" Or if Bloomberg said "I'm a Jew first, an American second ..." What's with the Christian privilege in the U.S.? http://churchandstate.org.uk/2019/12/ted-cruz-im-a-christian-first-american-second-imagine-if-muslim-or-jewish-politician-said-that/ Article also points out that Cruz gave less than one percent of his salary to charity.
    5 points
  20. Taste-wise they're somewhat between a barred owl and a bald eagle.
    5 points
  21. Jane Fonda should be drawn and quartered. Fuck that traitor in the goat ass.
    5 points
  22. 5 points
  23. Just walked through the room where my wife is watching and caught the first few minutes. I much preferred Ricky telling them all what a bunch of fuckfaces they are.
    5 points
  24. It began approximately 5 years after you moved there.
    5 points
  25. 4 points
  26. 4 points
  27. I don’t believe either of those and neither dies Fong — he’s simply doing his boy Elko a solid on the day he CB Grimes to UGA.
    4 points
  28. Why does it need to be officially confirmed? You think he had a legit offer to UT and picked Praire View A&M?
    4 points
  29. SInce we're parcing various parts of our history in support of whichever argument we fancy, let's not forget that prior to the battles with Texas and the US, mexico ceded VAST swaths of territory the the fledgling US. Not for altruistic reasons, but to allow idealistic settlers to become a 'carnal shield' to the raiding Conanches (see earlier Comanche/Mexico wars). Wars that decimated northern Mexico. In the plains. On horseback. With the weapons and technology of the day. The Comanches were unmatched. The oncoming settlers were slaughtered wholesale, giving the Mexicans a bit of reprieve....who knew full well what would happen when settlers dared intrude into Comancheria.
    4 points
  30. You should always avoid the Wal-Mart of the seas even in times without epidemics.
    4 points
  31. Who gives a shit when old Austin died? I like the new Austin. I liked the old Austin. I'll like newer Austin when someone bitches in 10 years how Austin was cool 10 years before. New Austin, old Austin, it beats the shit out of living in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and anywhere else in Texas.
    4 points
  32. Not with this bullshit again. Austin is more diverse than it has ever been. It is a freaking minority-majority city. The Hispanic and Asian populations have skyrocketed. The share of non- Hispanic Whites has dropped 20 percentage points in the last few decades. And along with the White share, the Black share has also declined. However, in absolute numbers there are more Black people living in Austin than ever before. I could post a bunch of links, but I'm not going to bother. I've done so before, and had negative responses because it doesn't fit in to the narrative certain people wish to believe.
    4 points
  33. You toast sourdough like Duck'O Death cooks bacon
    4 points
  34. If Bloomberg really wanted to use his money to help the country he would buy Fox News and change the programming.
    4 points
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