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Longhornmaniac8

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  1. We beat ISU 7-0, and are currently up 1-0 on OU in the top of the 2nd.
  2. Hey I got the insurance I asked for. Thanks, tceh.
  3. 3 unassisted to end the inning. Let's put some more insurance up.
  4. Ellis Ks looking. 2 Down. Good job, guys.
  5. If you're addressing me, no, I didn't do that at all. I was just too lazy to expand the box to see exactly what you wrote. It wouldn't have changed a single word of my reply had I correctly quoted you. Your next-level pedantry notwithstanding, most people would hold the phrases "for convenience" and "of convenience" to be more or less equivalent. If you'd like to explain how your distinction between the two is meaningful, I'll shut up and listen.
  6. I respect that you hold those views. The problem is, you're requiring that anyone else believe them before you have a dialogue with them. I think guns are a disposable entity in today's civilian society, and on a personal level I would be perfectly happy if we got rid of them, but I also respect that others disagree. I'm not going to expect anyone else to believe what I believe in order to discuss the inherent nuance in that debate. I will never agree with you that a zygote should be viewed as a person. I think that's rooted in a fantasy, just as you think my "laissez-faire" approach to 1st and 2nd trimester abortions is morally reprehensible. But we don't need to agree on that to take meaningful strides towards a common goal. Every "abortion of convenience" (which is an astoundingly offensive way of putting it) you speak of starts with an unwanted pregnancy. Get rid of the unwanted pregnancies, and you get rid of those abortions. So why are so many pro-lifers against that? Shuttering Planned Parenthood will do more harm to your overall goal than outlawing abortions will do good. There is a reason why we have an ever decreasing amount of teenage pregnancies and overall abortions, and it's not because abstinence-only sex education is prevalent and abortions are illegal. It's because more and more people have access to contraception, counseling, and good sex education than ever before. The problem is largely rectifying itself naturally. Just get the pro-lifers out of the way and let the logical conclusions follow. I'd argue that making abortion illegal is about the biggest red herring in the entire abortion debate. This Fact Sheet paints a pretty damning view on the Pro-Life agenda in term of actual hard data. While I won't agree with you, and won't support legislating a woman's control over her body, I will stand beside you and work with you to reduce the number of abortions. They aren't remotely mutually exclusive.
  7. This sums up my view, and I'm pro-choice. I don't know anybody who loves abortion. There are people who get them repeatedly not because they wake up and think, "today is a good day for an abortion," but because they grew up in an environment that didn't value/afford safe sex education and contraception. I'm all for the amount of abortions being reduced, but it will only be accomplished through education and the provision of contraception, not the banning of abortion, which will only make them less safe while not acting as a deterrent. Abortion is an act of desperation for many ("I'm too young for a child," "I can't afford this baby," etc.) and desperate people don't follow the law. The problem is, the most vocal people outspoken against the ease of access to contraception and a comprehensive sex education policy are also the same pro-life religious fundamentalists. This, above all else, is why I have a major problem with the pro-life movement. If they were consistent in their principles, and really cared about reducing abortion, this would be the first thing they would do. But it isn't. I have my own beliefs why that is, but that's for another thread.
  8. Agree with previous poster re: Top Notch. Either their Fried Chicken, Burgers, or Onion Rings (even though I'm not a fan of rings, personally). That restaurant just screams iconic Austin. Fuck, now I want Top Notch. Pretty good list, overall, though.
  9. Phew. We survived another Giles attempt to blow the ga....nvm. Good win against a bad team.
  10. What a long way we've come when we're 14-7* and have quite a bit to complain about. Not that it isn't justified at all, just that it's nice to have a team playing .667 baseball and wonder what's going wrong.
  11. Got a pretty neat vector from Tower yesterday. Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk
  12. This is a great set of videos! Thanks for sharing them! He's such a joy to watch.
  13. I added a few places on here. Major's in Liberty Hill is really damn good. Their buns are legit, and I had a really damn good cheeseburger. Alamo Springs Cafe is pretty well known, and rightfully so, but I added it for largely the same reasons, interestingly enough. Irie's Island Food is a small restaurant in Port Aransas. Last time I tried to go they were sold out for the day, but we just missed it. They've taken the concept of Torchy's and adapted it to seafood tacos. That is, they've gringo-fied it. Really damn good.
  14. Belize, Costa Rica, Turks and Caicos. Shit, Siesta Key in Sarasota is the nicest beach I've been to in this hemisphere maybe with the exception of Orient Beach in Saint Martin. Your point is valid about ease of access for Texas, but beyond that, it's pretty damn easy to get to any of those places from airports in Texas. Sure, the flight is an hour longer, but that's about the extent of the differences.
  15. Fight me. Michi is decent, but their broth comes nowhere close to the quality of Tatsuya.
  16. LOL no. Tatsuya is the only correct answer when it comes to ramen in Austin.
  17. Soto up at Lakeline is arguably the best meal I've had in Austin. Dropped some coin, but it was sublime. No worse than Uchi/Uchiko, and arguably better. The waitstaff there has been consistently the best I've had anywhere. They know their shit.
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