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9 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
Somebody seems a little scared.
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11 minutes ago, Modessit said:
When we were kids, if a cousin got chicken pox all the other kids were brought over to get it, too.
Yep, same here. The idea of doing something like that in 2019 would probably make a lot of younger parents shit themselves.
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56 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
It is the measure of how bad things have gotten that I am grateful for Chief Justice John Roberts.
If you told me back in 2003 when he was appointed, that by 2019 Roberts would be siding with the librool judges on occasion, that’s he’s the swing vote, and that he may put a huge brake on a Republican President....
I would have said “let me guess, the Astros are also going to switch to the AL, win a World Series, and compete for another World Series, LOL!”
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4 hours ago, Lobo said:
by the way, when did the Chicken Pox go away?? I had them about 35 years ago. Then I saw my last classmate/friend with them about 30 years ago. Then I saw some kid with them about 20 years ago. And then just never thought about it again. How/when did they go away?
Vaccine started becoming popular in the mid-90s. I never even noticed it, and just didn’t think about because I hadn’t heard of anybody getting it in years
The Rugrats episode was early 90s. Chicken Pops. Synopsis was funny
Quotewhen Chas and Chuckie finally come over, it's revealed that Chuckie has the chickenpox. Chas puts calamine lotion all over Chuckie and puts mittens on Chuckie's hands to keep him from scratching himself. Didi and Betty take Tommy, Phil, and Lil outside to play and to keep their distance from Chuckie.
The rest of the babies want to know what "chicken pops" is and why Chuckie couldn't come outside. To scare the babies, Angelica tells them that when someone gets the chicken pox, they actually turn into a chicken! Tommy doesn't believe her at first until Chuckie eventually gets covered in feathers (from a Dummi Bears pillow that Tommy and the twins were playing with earlier) that stick to the calamine lotion that Chas put on him. Tommy and the other babies soon think he's actually turning into a chicken.
QuoteTommy, Phil, and Lil notice that they're getting itchy and they realized that they've now got the chicken pox, just like Chuckie. They get scared and start to cry. Chuckie's happy that his friends are joining him, but Tommy and the twins continue to cry and scratch their itchy spots. Angelica makes it worse by telling them that the adults are going to have a barbecue at the picnic and are going to eat them.
QuoteThe other adults explain how their kids now have chickenpox, but Lucy assures them that it's not a big deal and that their kids are actually better off getting it while they're still young, as the chickenpox are much worse if you get them as an adult (especially if you're a man).
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If you want the future of roads in Austin, check out Shoal Creek north of 38th. Half of it is fully dedicated to bike lanes, and with the new dividers going up, there is no going around somebody pulling into the school/Jewish center there in the mornings and afternoons.
And that’s before Bull Creek throws more traffic on that road.
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18 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
The tweets, the meltdowns will be delicious.

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1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
he'll be smearing it on the walls in 5 minutes.
Cousin fuckers aren’t known for their sophistication.
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8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
I'm a bit slighted that Richard Spencer didn't see fit to rage against "spics," being that we are the preferred dark-skinned bogeyman these days].
That’s because he knows y’all are better than the fucking Irish and Armenians.
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10 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
Sort of the right's supposed disdain for movie stars. They hate Hollywood but elect actors and singers to office. Fred Thompson almost parlayed a TV gig as the NYC District Attorney into a presidential nomination. He was hoping to follow the footsteps of Ronald Reagan.
Are you serious? He got his JD from Vanderbilt in the 60s, and was the one who asked the question “Mr. Butterfield, were you aware of the existence of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?” during the Watergate hearings.
He didn't start acting until the mid-80s when he was in his 40s.
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38 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
If ruling for Trump would mean POTUS could not be investigated, then that would gut the impeachment provision of the Constitution. It would literally mean impeachment would have to be undertaken w/o investigation, at least to my way of thinking. I can't see that happening at all.
These justices may be conservative shitstains, but they're not all stupid and they're not all willing to trample on the Constitution.
34 minutes ago, kevwun said:No, I don't expect that Roberts will let them basically declare that Trump is an emperor.
31 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:I'm leaning toward Roberts doing the right thing. But Trump has three votes in the bag (Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito) regardless of the law.
Would be awesome if they don't even grant cert.
Roberts seems like he gives a shit about his legacy, and that of the USSC.
Unlike all of the bought-and-paid-for Rs in Congress, he’s not required to hold Trump’s mushroom while he pisses.
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My first-grader was watching Rugrats this weekend, and asked me about whether he was going to get chickenpox. It was something I had never thought about, even though he and his sister were vaccinated for it.
Granted, until he was born, I just wasn't around many kids, or adults acting in their capacity as parents, so I had not thought about it, but just a weird fucking thought that something so prevalent, and scary at times (sister was hospitalized for it, as was my best friend) when I was a kid is not even a thing anymore - I can't recall hearing about anybody I know having to deal with it in the last 20 years (since the vaccine became popular).
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Our 3 year-old started doing this fake crying/screaming like she was hurt or something. Embarrassing/irritating as hell.
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4 minutes ago, seven said:
Serious question, are black people even allowed in the stands at an Alabama football game?
Tuscaloosa area is bordered by 3 or 4 counties that went for Hillary.
I would imagine that many Alabama players, and LSU as well, remember what he thinks of black NFL players.
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1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:
twitter has completely enabled this monster, and it won't stop until twitter stops allowing him to do it. how many diplomats, patriots, veterans, witnesses or public servants need to be shit on, lied about, smeared, or "discredited", not to mention tampered with or flat-out intimidated before twitter fucking does something.
Shame that, unless he goes looking for it, unlike the boos in Washington and the MMA fight, he will never see how many people on twitter hate him.
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7 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:Trying desperately to find a crowd that won’t boo him.
Maybe he wants to hand out a trophy or other award. He's heard good things about people who do that.

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1 hour ago, Liquor and Poker said:
And I think that Jean Smart (of all people) resurrecting her career through deep-thought, complex, comic-book TV (this and Legion) is the most interesting story of all. I am waiting for Delta Burke to make an appearance.
Yeah, had a crush on her a few decades ago.
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In 15 years, she can help launch our "women over 70 who still have it" thread.
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20 hours ago, TexasHooch said:
That's what I said Re: season 1. It's Rainbow Six.
With more f-bombs.
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Richard Spencer may get invited back to aggy, but Jacob Wohl and Charlie Kirk get more publicity. Hell, Kirk even gets Donnies retweets
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2 hours ago, Macanudo said:
This has drug mules/deal gone bad written all over it. The couple was driving around the country. The travel trailer and truck crossed the border without them in it. Sure, they could be victims of a random drug dealer stealing their shit but something smells here. And its not tasty buds.
There is a whole industry focused on people who retire and travel around the country. YouTube is full of this shit. Hell, there are a lot of younger folks who decided to do the "van life" thing, where they live out of their vehicles/RVs, travel around taking on odd jobs (or making money off of YouTube videos showing other would-be car campers how to do it). It's extremely popular.
If you see a sprinter van with windows that are extra dark/blocked, with one or two fans, solar panels, etc. on top, yeah somebody is living in it.
What happened, who knows, but if something goes bad, such as a robbery/assault, and If you quickly hid the bodies and could get the truck and trailer across the border, you've gotten rid of a lot of the evidence that would point back to you.
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34 minutes ago, Goredho said:
I'm losing interest in impeachment because I think this is all going to play out predictably.
- Trump will be rightly impeached
- The senate will wrongly fail to remove from office
- The American people will vote Trump's ass out of office by a wide margin
- The cumulative effects of wanton propaganda, electoral college gamesmanship, election meddling, voter fraud and hacking in support of Trump will keep him in office
Trump's tweets convey absolutely no confidence in him winning next year, or even "winning" when impeachment hits the Senate. In fact, his tweets point to a belief that he thinks some Rs in the Senate are willing to turn on him, and he's trying to make them aware that he will gladly make their lives hell (deny them campaign money) or even try and take them down if they don't have his back.
The lack of confidence coming through in his tweets is stunning.
It's political impotence in 280 characters or less.
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If I was going to try and get my kid into racing, short of a Formula 1 race (thankfully close to Austin), I'd find something like this:
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1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:
His entire impeachment response defense strategy is his twattering. The sad thing is, it'll probably work.
He doesn't seem very confident that it will.
The fact that he's reduced to trying (and failing far too often) to prevent people from testifying and fight out battles over documents in the courts (and losing in some cases), speaks volumes.
Here's the thing: he's not ordering Barr to investigate and lock up the Biden, lock up Hillary, etc. He's not having people arrested to prevent their testimony. Hell, he's not even trying to fire Vindman, a Lt. Colonel in the Army, under Trump's theoretical leadership.
He's too much of a coward to do this shit, so instead he wants Ukraine, China, etc. to do that stuff. He's doing his old "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING" schtick.
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21 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
NASCAR is much like the modern day GOP. They don't feel like they need to make any changes, because what they have is working, in spite of the rest of the world changing around them on a daily basis. Of course, Nascar has made some changes with their rules and scheduling, but they have turned off the very fan base they need to survive. Once the current TV contracts expire in 2024 I suspect things will really be different.
I actually think there is a lot of symbolic comparisons to be made between the GOP and NASCAR.
NASCAR has been abandoning, or trying to abandon it's older, sometimes smaller (seating-wise), more traditional, less sexy facilities, located around much of their fanbase, and that helped make NASCAR what it is. NASCAR leadership constantly fights with folks/facilities that could expand the brand. The various raceways fight with the fans over ridiculous prices, seating, and policies. The older, more interesting personalities have been retiring/dying off, and far too many of the younger drivers are fucking corporate robots with bland personalities.
I watched a shitload of NASCAR as a kid, up through the 90s (lost interest for several years after Davey Allison was killed), and even into the early 2000s (Dale Sr's death put a damper on things for me). I have a decent collection of the die-cast cars from the 70s through the 90s, mostly 1/64 and 1/24-scale.
I have absolutely no interest in it today, and short of taking my kid to an actual race, I don't know that I could get him much interested. Even then, the Walmart and Target die-cast aisles, have little to no NASCAR stuff (unlike 15-20 years ago where they would be loaded with the stuff).
NASCAR sold its soul and forget what made it the juggernaut it used to be. I don't think it's as easy as pointing out a decline in ratings or attendance, it's the cumulation of a number of things.
It's the same way with the GOP, although you could certainly cherry-pick certain events here and there that have definitely changed both - Iraq, Palin being selected as VP, etc. for the GOP, and Dale Sr's death, the crop of 80s/90s stars retiring, the various facility changes (or dumping of said races), the rules changes, the move to a standardized platform, etc.
I do think both the GOP and NASCAR biggest fuckups involve doing or abandoning things that should attract the younger crowds. They are willing to sell out for short-term gains, while ignoring the long-term.
Short-sighted greed, plain and simple. They have decided that trying to squeeze every last penny out of the existing fanbases (or every last vote out of the olds) is more important than doing the things needed to bring the younger crowd in.
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Texas 2020 general election
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If the GOP has to spend extra in Texas so that Trump’s margin is a little bigger, or to keep the House and Senate (R), that’s millions that won’t be spent in other states.