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Nicole44

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  1. RIP Big Red. Bill Walton was awesome.
  2. Genuinely sad. RIP. This will end up being a political football no matter how his loved ones will feel about it. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/johnny-wactor-of-general-hospital-shot-and-killed-in-downtown-los-angeles-report/amp/
  3. This ⬆️ bless his family and so very tragic. Addiction, depression, mental illness, suicide. For the lovely moment of silence as well. Tomorrow is promised to none of us but it breaks my heart that there are so many Grayson Murray’s hurting out there. My prayers and thoughts are with his loved ones. Heartbreaking man. I’m not trying to be cheesy or inappropriate by attaching the number but I know this whole tragedy can be such a trigger for so many. the moment of silence was awesome and yet it’s dusty in here I guess. ❤️❤️💕💕
  4. I love this one and the sort of cinematic music…
  5. He is playing really well today. Shame about yesterday.
  6. Oh and I also love The Man with One Red Shoe. That movie is on right now. It’s fucking hilarious.
  7. Scottie being difficult to beat may be boring for some people but I think it’s actually drawing in more viewers. Either you want to see him crush the competition like I do or people want to see him get beat. You have to have a consistently amazing number one. And he’s that. I’m sad about Jordan but maybe he should hire some of the people Scottie has around him. He’s ruined a lot of what made him unique. Sad.
  8. I loved him. We have a lot of stars the exact same age. Cloak & Dagger was one of my favorite movies as a child. I thought this was cool about him. He was a Longhorn! Hook'em Dabney and RIP. And he was Austin born. Not a transplant. Badass. "Coleman was born in Austin, Texas on January 3, 1932. He attended Virginia Military Institute, and the University of Texas at Austin. He was drafted in the United States Army in 1953 and served in Europe."
  9. My cousin and her husband and kiddos live in Johnson City. They are definitely getting a new roof/gutters. This is from the other night:
  10. 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
  11. Just an FYI I’m back in Austin! Whoo hoo! Just in time to experience the heat wave.
  12. Rest in Peace Patty Simcox!
  13. 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….🤔
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. “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.
  17. “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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. It leaves a mark. Especially west Texas (Panhandle area) lots of twang.
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