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  1. 3 hours ago, B00M said:

    Then what happens? Seriously asking because I don't think it will make any difference.

    Is the general public not already against the homeless? Or do we only oppose it when it's in our backyard?

    I heard some cedar park council member campaign commercials a few months back. "Vote for me, that person wants a homeless shelter in cedar park!"

    You will get people elected to the City Council/Mayor who promise jails, not homeless shelters, who promise strict laws and cleaning up the sidewalks and streets.  

    We are more tolerant than a lot of other cities in Texas.  That tolerance will go away fast. 

  2. 54 minutes ago, Monster said:

    You're upset because we haven't started sending young men 11 thousand miles away to kill Iranians?   

    That’s one of the things that really makes me wonder about this whole thing.  If we hit Iran, we know they’d hit back, and hit back hard, and yet we deployed less than a thousand additional troops, and most of those were for drone operations.  

    There should have been another carrier group headed that way, or at the very least some additional ships to support and defend what’s already over there.  The Air Force should have been moving a shit-ton of planes out of the states and Europe.  The Marines and one of the Army’s light infantry divisions, or perhaps an airborne regiment should have been heading over there, even if we weren’t going to invade, to cover areas around the Strait of Hormuz.  

  3. 2 hours ago, Lhorn said:

    Maybe it’s a little tinfoil hat but I kinda thought the same.  At least I wouldn’t put it past them. Allow the homeless to invade suburbia and become a nuisance in regular people’s everyday life and hope that people will be throwing money at them to make it go away. 

    I could actually buy it with this City Council - them hearing bitching from both sides, and just throwing their hands up and saying "fuck it, let's make the situation worse, then we'll get more money/support/whatever."  Not all members, but maybe enough to swing things.

    The only problem is that they are running a real risk of things going horribly wrong, and turning the general public against the homeless.

  4. This comment was posted on a military site I follow - kinda mirrors what some of us said about him being assigned other duties.  

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    This guy got to his unit from OSUT shortly after they returned from a deployment, lost his shit at JRTC and had his weapon taken from him, failed several PT tests, and was chaptered before the unit deployed again in 2017, after about 17 months in the Army. He's was a soup sandwich.

    OSUT = one-station unit training - basic and advanced combined   JRTC = Joint Readiness Training Center - very stressful/high tempo training.  Them taking is weapon away from him would have been a huge red flag.

    Photos of him in the Army lend credence to him failing his PT tests.   He was packing too much weight for an grunt.  

  5. Friend who has a condo downtown likes his conspiracy theories when it comes to the City Council.

    He thinks they wanted to ramp up the public's interaction with the homeless, in order for the City Council to come along in a year or two and say "okay, this isn't working, the homeless problem is now worse, so we are gonna need to spend a shitload more money in order to fix it!"

    Anybody wants to watch the show, there were some real crazies.

    http://austintx.swagit.com/play/06202019-642/0/

     

  6. 2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    It's a little confusing, here is the ordinance before it went to the council, I'm not sure if any text was changed in the meeting.

    The changes only apply to areas that are NOT designated by the City of Austin as camping areas but ARE considered public areas.  It relates to camping in non-camping areas.

    Parks (aka Zilker Park) are considered public areas.  "Public area" means any outdoor area to which the public has access, but  streets, highways, parks, parking lots, alleys, pedestrian ways, or common areas of schools, hospitals, apartments, office buildings, transport facilities or shops are specifically called out as "public areas".

    The neighborhood parks we frequent have posted curfews (unless there is a special event going on).  We frequent Ramsey and Pease, and I don't see them allowing the homeless to move in and camp.  Not that the City Council isn't capable of being that fucking stupid, because they are.

    For a while, for a few years, there would be one or two homeless guys show up on bikes with trailers in the mornings, and they would setup shop there at Ramsey in the little roofed pavilion where the bathrooms are, and spread all of their stuff out, cook (electrical outlets are there), sleep, do internet stuff (unsecured wifi nearby) etc., but they were usually out of there before the evening.  I have a feeling, given the amount of parents with little kids in that area, and those being the only bathrooms, that the cops would run them off.  

    I just don't see them letting those guys take over the parks.

    There's plenty of van-campers, and that's been a growing thing over the past several years (go hitup YouTube), but they don't bother people, and actually try to remain as inconspicuous as possible.  The vents on the top of their SUVs, Honda Elements, vans (mini- and commercial), and sprinters (some starting at $60,000), give them away, as do the blackout curtains.  But they aren't a problem.

  7. 4 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    Man, screw getting a hotel, I'm just gonna pitch a tent somewhere whenever I visit Austin.  (In the camping sense, not the boner sense)

    Law of unintended consequences.

    Maybe this will help take with the City Council's little war on short-term rentals.

  8. 1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

    Yep.  It ended up meaning nothing when O’Reilly, Megan Kelly, and even Roger Ailes left.  The personality actually doesn’t matter at all.  Just get a robot to read the anti-lib screed and say the red meat line the audience wants to hear, and Fox will still be golden. 

    Kelly could be moderate/liberal, and she couldn’t care less who she worked for as long as her checks cleared.  But O’Reilly, he firmly tied his brand to the Fox News wagon, and then poof, he’s gone and most people can’t even remember exactly when it happened. 

    O’Reilly should have been the wake-up call to Hannity and the others . Some of his defenders were acting like Fox News was making a hugely mistake that they couldn’t recover from.  Now it’s “Bill O’Who?”

    The racism and loss of advertisers is fine for the time being with the Murdochs, so it will be interesting where this goes.  I was surprised Hannity was pulled that quickly.  Wonder if he’ll be there Monday.   He’s doubling down on twitter.  

     

  9. 18 minutes ago, Deej said:

    I think this allows them to camp anywhere, as long as it's not some sort of hazardous sutuation.

    One of the stories had this part:

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    Camping on private property or in city parks is still not allowed, but those who are camping in public spaces will not be subject to police enforcement.

    The City Council is acting like a bunch of dumbasses, but they know if they allowed the homeless to setup shop in Zilker, Mueller, Mayfield, Pease, etc., it would ensure that a bunch of new council members  would be coming in with a mandate to clean the homeless out.  

  10. 56 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    asking permission to attack? Fucking next-level gamesmanship. No one's ever even tried it. Maybe they say "yes" on accident and then THEY are the asshole when a bunch of civilians die!

    "Hey, can we bomb you?"

    - "No."

    "Hey, can we bomb you?"

    - "No."

    "Hey, can we bomb you?"

    - "No."

    "Hey, can I stop asking?"

    - "Yes.

    "Hey, can we bomb you?"

    - "No."

    "Hey, can I stop asking?"

    - "Yes.

    "Hey, can I stop asking?"

    - "Yes.

    "Hey, can we bomb you?"

    - "Yes."

    "AHHHHHHHH GOTCHA! NO TAKEBACKS!"

     

    It’s like asking the popular girl in school if you can tell people that you kissed her, and her telling you to fuck off.

    Unfortunately for Trump, she’s not going to come back in two weeks and say she’s needs money and that for a $100, she’ll let you go down on her for 10 minutes as long as you don’t tell anybody.  

  11. 40 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Tucker would be the clear front runner to replace Hannity.  Good thing he hasn’t made any headlines lately.

    If Trump is listening to him over his generals and cabinet members, he’s the clear front runner.  

    I’m surprised Hannity could be that much of a dumbass.  Surely he’s got a competent personal lawyer, skilled in real estate transactions, who could steer him clear of this shit.....oh.

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  12. Lachlan Murdoch can’t be too happy right about now.  

    Hannity doesn’t realize something that’s very important, and that the Murdochs know:  He can be replaced.  Trump might bitch, but Trump and his base will still tune in to whoever replaces Hannity.  The olds sure as hell won’t risk the socialists on MSNBC or CNN. 

  13. 53 minutes ago, TDunk said:

    So, he's waiting to strike Iran until later this week when the Democratic debates start up.  That way he gets the ratings splurge and he is back in the focus.  

    It would be just like him to unify the Democrats just as they are really getting nasty towards each other.  

  14. On 6/14/2019 at 1:15 PM, gyroprotagonist said:

    The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?

    A real billionaire wouldn’t lost his shit over a few million that his campaign raised to pay his staff. 

    Then again, a real billionaire could afford to pay his staff.

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