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  1. Not really a fan of the Daily Fail but this guy believes he survived the Rainey Street Ripper last June.


    “A man who was drugged and plummeted 25ft off a bridge, narrowly missing certain drowning, believes he could have been targeted by the 'Rainey Street ripper'.


    Jeff Jones, 38, was on a bachelor party trip to Austin with a dozen friends from his home in Boston on June 23 last year.

    He woke up in hospital more than two weeks later with metal rods holding his back together and doctors found the date-rape drug GHB in his system.

    Jones believes he was drugged before the would-be killer pushed him off the bridge over a stream where he was supposed to drown and float away.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13373887/Rainey-street-ripper-austin-serial-killer-ghb-survivor.html

    I know  its the Daily Fail but  they do have a fairly decent reach

     

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  2. 22 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

    It makes me nervous to see Nicole posting in this thread; wondering if maybe she has something to do with the person passing away.

    (and just to be clear about the death pool rules - no points are awarded for a death, if you are involved the event. just sayin')

    Just an FYI I’m back in Austin! Whoo hoo! Just in time to experience the heat wave. image.png.42176f819722eaf7229c7991bb6015f7.png

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  3. The Education Secretary isn’t down with what is happening across college campuses. 
     

    “Education Secretary Miguel Cardona condemned what he deemed the "unacceptable" behavior of protesters on college campuses across the country.

    "I think what's happening on our campuses is abhorrent," Cardona told Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., at the Senate's budget requests hearing for fiscal year 2025 on Tuesday. "It's unacceptable and we're committed as a Department of Education to adhering to Title VI enforcement."

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/college-protests-israel-palestine-war/?id=109734946&cid=social_twitter_abcn

    I guess the White House isn’t down with these campus occupiers nor their bullshit either. Hmmm….🤔 

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  4. 51 minutes ago, troph said:

    first amendment does not protect all speech and neither you nor I are there to hear what is being said.  it doesn't protect any assembly either. frankly I side more on the side of the first amendment here, but it's not carte blanche to do or say anything. I don't think the assemblers are interested in full compliance with first amendment laws.

    Thank you Troph.
     

    You said what I wanted to say. I’m not good at brevity. I’m like a shitty pitcher. It takes me forever to wind up to my point/throw the ball. People then think the opposite of what I’m trying to convey. If you look at the demonstration on the Texas State campus they are calling for their university to cut all ties with Israel.

    im all for the first amendment and for protesting. I walked with those downtown protesting after George Floyd. I was proud to do so.
     

    My heart is in the right place but for some reason if you question the motives of the protesters and their end game here you are in league with vomit Orange Cheeto Trump and his peeps. Or you live Gov Abbott and I do not.
     

     I’m not and never have been in their corner.  But it’s a reason I stopped posting as much.especially on the DT.  I’d rather go where I’m understood better on political issues. It’s not all black and white to me. 
     

    anyway, good point and I guess I’ll get negged again for breathing on the DT. 
     

    rather try to find a missing autistic boy on other platforms than get pummeled for seeing what these protests were from the jump. 
     

    doesn’t mean I’m not interested or won’t post on football or other things. But there is this need to attack any opinion that doesn’t align with the group. And we all know mobs and groups aren’t exactly the sharpest people.

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  5. 17 hours ago, Goredho said:

    Hey, has anyone seen @Nicole44 and Kristi Noem in the same place at the same time?

    Ugg she is so gross. I get people don’t necessarily like my posts on the protest bullshit but damn. Like she’s 🤮 and no way. Yuck no. 

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  6. “Since the Israel-Hamas war began, the U.S. Education Department has launched civil rights investigations into dozens of universities and schools in response to complaints of antisemitism or Islamophobia. Among those under investigation are many colleges facing protests, including Harvard and Columbia.”

    https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/israel-hamas-conflict/university-protests-israel-gaza/507-4fd0b2b4-fc48-4309-a099-690450425395
     

    The article lists Emory, Emerson College, City College of New York, USC, Ohio State, UT, Indiana U Bloomington and so on.

    My question is this: what if the groups were deranged MAGA folk. Would it be ok to shut down campus. Graduation ceremonies and the like? We’ve seen what’s happened at Columbia. What if the protestors were involved in Jan 6 and sitting outside government buildings in every state and you could see earlier encampments not leaving and becoming more emboldened? So just let the protests grow to what is happening in Columbia? Why aren’t they out in front of government buildings? The government is the only entity that can change the tide of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

     

    I don’t give a fuck if no one here likes me or cares for my opinion. In many ways it’s why I post less and less on surly (most posters probably are relieved.) I donate when I can to the World Kitchen (bc I know my money is going to help.) the whole situation in Gaza is beyond my ability to help. It doesn’t mean I don’t feel for and love those people who are suffering. I do but I’m also not foolish enough to believe that we can force Israel to do much of anything. Neg away!

    Still in Atlanta so The protestors are safe from me if they go strolling into the entertainment district for a cocktail after a wild day of trying to occupy campus. 

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  7. “I asked them when they arrested me, 'What are you arresting me for? What are you arresting me for?' They said, 'I don't have to tell you.' I said, 'Yes, you do.' They said, 'here did you get your law degree?' It's like OK, whatever. I got to the jail – they said it was for criminal trespassing," Kayden Casper said. "They can't hold us for too long because we didn't do nothing."
     

    Good on Casper the friendly protesting ghost getting into UT. He goes there I guess? Right? Like all the other protestors on campuses across the country. He’s quoted in no fewer than a dozen articles. Maybe he’s an aggy. The plan is to destroy all college campuses in the hopes they can win a title for something if we are all distracted. I’m just glad I got into UT back in the day. Seems a lot harder now. 

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  8. I don’t know. I guess maybe don’t suck off on Hamas and cry fowl when the chickens come home to roost? Like this is a very organized protest across college campuses for what purpose? educate all of us on how sad it is? This 1000 year old war. Make us stop what exactly? Protesting the strikes on Gaza for what end? Why now? Especially after an unprecedented attack by Hamas. These fucks protesting need to go the fuck home. Go home. 
     

    You have to pick a side in this war. Sitting and cover your faces and crying about a thousand plus year old war. I have sympathy  for the innocent people in harms way. But this is bullshit and these hired fucks should go the fuck home. 
     

    if you do what you’ve always done you will get what you’ve always gotten. The Middle East and Russia remind me of this. Still trying to do the same shit and get different results. Maybe I don’t know try new leadership. Find better leadership. I have about as much sympathy overall for the Middle East as I do the Russian people. Time and again they choose poorly. Boo the fuck hoo. 
     

    if I seem pissed the fuck off I am. I rarely wade into this shit. I’m Lebanese, Jewish and German/english. I studied history. What the fuck do I know? Not much. Go home protesting dumb fucks. Go home. And who paid them to organize like this? And fuck them too. 

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  9. Just for fun…before the monsoon. He’s making incredible shots over and over again. On a whole other level from everyone else. Period. I don’t know what happens when he takes time off for fatherhood and how that all will go but as of now there isn’t anyone playing on this level. 

  10. Police believe he may have been targeting women in the attack for the most part.

     

    Cauchi’s family released a statement saying he “has battled with mental health issues” since he was a teenager.

    “Joel’s actions were truly horrific, and we are still trying to comprehend what has happened,” the family said.

    “We are in contact with both the New South Wales Police Force and Queensland Police Service and have no issues with the Police Officer who shot our son as she was only doing her job to protect others, and we hope she is coping alright,” the statement said.

    Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi, told CNN affiliate 9 News that he was “heartbroken” for the families of the victims.

    “I’m extremely sorry. I’m heartbroken for you. Look, this is so horrendous, that I can’t even explain it,” he said. “To you he’s a monster. To me, he was a very sick boy. He was a very sick boy.”

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/15/australia/australia-sydney-mall-attacker-targeted-women-victims-intl-hnk

  11. 17 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    what meds was this guy not taking?

    I read a couple of articles that he was known to police and had a mental Health history and issues. I assume he’d been diagnosed and likely prescribed meds and so on. Just went off them. It’s not a massive leap of logic. This shit happened more times than we can count of late. Off meds and does something violent is happening with increasing regularity. 

  12. 5 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Åberg definitely sounds like he spent some time in Texas.

    It leaves a mark. Especially west Texas (Panhandle area) lots of twang. 

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  13. Scottie is a bad ass! 
     

    What an amazing tribute to Vern. 
     

    Scottie Ice. Sincerely. He’s just like IceMan. 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

     

    Aberg is going to be a force. Marikawa already is. Glad to see Homa having a good Masters. Same for Fleetwood. BDC falling apart was expected. I wish Scottie could finish with an Eagle so he too can get that crystal trinket for an Eagle. 

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  14. If the best a person can do off their medication is murder innocent people: I am sorry but they need to be forced to take their medication or be institutionalized. There is no dignity letting a person not take their medication.  None. Now people are dead bc we think it’s “mean” to force someone to take their meds. It’s not. The only difference is he didn’t have a gun he had a knife. He could have killed the same amount of people or more with a gun but if he’d had a GUN people would just be focused on that. Which is fine. Gun violence enrages me. But I’m tired of people missing the very large elephant in the room. Fucked up people being allowed to wing it. And that’s a recipe for disaster. 

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  15. 3 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    This is a pretty good write up. No known motive, but they’re blaming it on unspecified mental illness.

    https://www.9news.com.au/national/major-incident-declared-at-westfield-in-bondi-junction/0d713266-ca1b-449d-8dd5-cdf422ea092b

    Kinda common place these days with this particular age group. Just paying attention. This age group

    of people have likely been given the most therapy of any generation before them.
     

    They are the most “maligned” among us. Yet they are so fucking unhappy. I have a sad answer for them. It never gets any better. Sack the fuck up.
     

    If the best they can do off their  meds is grab a knife and go stab a bunch of people—they need to be force fed meds for the rest of their lives.

     

    Against their will. If that is all they can do then you have two choices: institutionalized or dead. Imost people can’t control themselves any better than that. People just don’t want to hear the truth which is: they can control themselves to a degree they’d rather not want to. 

  16. 3 minutes ago, Stringer said:

    Outside of Scottie’s eagle, it’s a blood bath out there.

    It does not look fun. The wind should be much better today they said this morning. But honestly, this is brutal. I do like a little disaster golf but this is ridiculous. Puts going all over. 

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  17. Since this will be our last Masters on planet earth. Who do we want to come in second if Scottie winds up with the win? I pick Homa. But most of the dudes up in the top seem like good dudes 

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  18. 4 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Iron Dome is better than anything we have, so I doubt many drones get through, but… some will. 
     

    Israel can hit any target they want in Iran so their response will be interesting. 

    🙏🏼 my heart just aches. There will be a response. And quite frankly if Israel took out the theocracy of Iran with a couple of blasts I’d not give two fucks. Mind you I’m not talking about civilians. I’m talking about where their “government” is and leaders are.
     

    sad shit of affairs that’s happened to their country since the Shah fell. Jmo. Sorry for posting in the thread after my singular post months ago but this is just upsetting and scary shit. 

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