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77horn

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  1. She lives in Montgomery County
  2. I asked her if she was willing to spend a little to get a "strongly worded" letter over an attorney's signature, just to get him to show up, but agreed she'd never recover any $. I was astonished when she said she'd paid him all but retention.....
  3. Sister-in-law lives in a 3-2 house with Mother-in-law.(MIL is 93.) SIL decided to have the kitchen and both bathrooms remodeled and replace ceramic tile in entry-way. Contractor gave her a price and a 45 day time estimate. SIL signed a work-order to do the job. Work started approximate Feb 15. As of right now none of the items are complete. Kitchen is about 95% complete. Master bath is about 40% complete. Ceramic tile in entry-way has been removed it needs smoothing before installing new tile. No work has been done on 2nd bathroom. Basically no one ever shows up for work. The last time anyone did was July 3. As best as I can tell, when they did show, they would show about 2 days a week and then only partial days. SIL will be told they will be there to work on a given day, and then about 9 am she will text him asking for an ETA. Response is usually "on my way now, be there shortly." Then he is a no-show. SIL says she paid everything except retention. (I have no $ figures or percentages). SIL thinks he wants to do the work, but is pathetic at time management. I suspect it is something deeper, like he is flat our lying when he says he'll be there or he has serious legal/financial problems. SIL wants to give him a short list of items he must finish, and then take the rest of the work to someone else. They are supposed to meet Monday, but I doubt he'll show. I come on her behalf to seek the wisdom of the Surlys on what to do next, especially assuming he doesn't show on Monday. On the "plus" side there are probably $1000 in tools in her garage and she knows where he lives.
  4. Started out on the old Austin 360 (?) board with I think became one of the Big 12 boards. Was on HornFans as well as the Shag. I've carried the same user name on all those. Too lazy to think up another one. Never been a prolific poster though.
  5. According to the Daily Mail she was the one doing the groping, not the other way around as her limelight obsessed lawyer would have you believe. I long for her and her lawyer's 15 minutes to end.
  6. Well, it would seem that you and Orangechipper's cousin have something in common.
  7. "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." ---H.L. Mencken
  8. Generally speaking, I think too much is made of mission statements. But that being said.... I suspect the old "deter war" was a residual of MAD and the end of the cold war. And was sort of an intent to the "meanest son of a bitch in the valley" that no one would fuck with. I think the new statement is more of a recognition of new types of warfare, such as cyber and possibly other non-Army/Navy/Airforce types. I suspect "lethal" was a more generic version of "military". "Sustain American influence abroad" sounds like mealy mouthed stuff a committee would want.
  9. Its the pictures of Hillary in Yoga Pants that are the most damning.
  10. No one should be surprised by the decision. As it has been pointed out, the Executive Branch has well established powers in this area, and while POTUS made stupid remarks in the campaign, the text of the Order was race neutral. But IIRC, the purpose of the ban was for 90 days to put a better vetting system in place. I would seem they've had enough time to make the "travel ban" moot.
  11. I was a HS Freshman in Wichita Falls. WFHS was in the playoffs and had a game against Abilene Cooper that Saturday PM, in Lubbock, I think. My Dad and I traveled to that game with a friend and his dad. Listened to the Tex-Ark on the radio on the way. We were gloomy when we got to the stadium. We were there early and they played the radio broadcast of Tex-Ark on the PA system. Crowd went nuts when Texas won. Then my HS beat Cooper, and went on to win State. That was a good year for football!
  12. This mean they are doubling down on cold fusion?
  13. Back in the mid seventies, I remember driving from Austin to Dallas for the OU game. Arkansas was playing Baylor that same Saturday, and I-35 had a lot of Piggies headed south. Southbound side had swarms of highway patrol pulling over Arky fans, didn't see a single one on the northbound side. Back then teams were limited to 2 TV appearances (maybe a third regional). I had seats on the second from the top row of the west upper deck (it was the only upper deck at the time). The Goodyear blimp was there and during the game, it made a low pass right down the field. I swear the gondola was lower than I was. I also heard stories from the 60s that during the weekend of the game, that there were gas stations in Arkansas that would sell to Texas cars. Any way, back then they were a bigger rival than aggy, but not like OU. I would rather have an annual game with them than aggy. As to why they left, I think all the cheating and backstabbing in the old SWC during the 80s, along with being the only non-Texas school were part of it.
  14. Regarding the OP, Don't know about other areas, but here (Conroe ISD) , school buildings are often rented after school hours by groups such as a church for meetings. So unless the security is being done for these events, a killer could sneak his weapon onto the campus and into his locker on Sunday and then go on his killing spree on Monday.
  15. DDCE Org chart Jan 2018 I count 44 names (could be slightly off on the exact count) on the chart which notes that "Staff positions shown are at the director level and above". I assume a "Director" would have direct reports, but some of the listings don't look like they are full time DDCE, but liaisons other departments (ie. IT, Business/Finance, and HR)
  16. I hear Laurel. On the NYT tool as it goes to the Yanny side, I first hear Yammi and only at the next to last tick mark do it hear Yanny
  17. thanks
  18. Not sure I understand: Wiki Passed the House on July 11, 2006 (317-93 Roll call vote 363, via Clerk.House.gov) Passed the Senate on September 14, 2006 (98-0 Roll call vote 249, via Senate.gov, in lieu of H.R. 4954)
  19. 77horn

    Iran

    Was originally against the deal, as it was heavily front-loaded with Iran benefits. But they are a sunk cost and the idea of "snap back" sanctions are and forever will be a joke, we are better off staying in. As to the lawsuit, I doubt the victim's families will ever see a dime
  20. Your right, it was Rice Stadium or the Astrodome he wanted it moved to.
  21. UH started SWC play in 1976, and the conference broke up in 1996, and during those 20 years they won 7 times, so no they weren't a true rival. But they did win the SWC in their first year. Their best success was using the run and shoot, which was new, novel, and people didn't know how to defend it. Also about that time, the had a big cheating scandal. They hired a law firm to investigate what was really going on prove they were honest. They fired that firm announcing nothing had been found. A few weeks later, the NCAA put them on probation. They blamed Texas for turning them in (as opposed to admitting they cheated). After the SWC broke up, their program had terrible facilities and support. They wanted to bring Football back to campus and want to play Texas in their old tinker toy stadium. Dodd$ wanted to play it at Reliant Stadium, but they insisted and built some bleachers to add capacity. Couple days before the game, and inspector condemned those bleachers . They refused to refund those tickets, rather allowed those ticket holders to watch a closed circuit broadcast. Now they have hired a rape accessory for their football staff, and want to swing their dicks like they are big boys. Well....fuck them.
  22. In the absence of something extraordinary, I think Trump is primaried and loses in 2020. At which point he makes wild claims about the election being rigged, cheating Dems, etc. Among the extraordinary things that could happen. NK peacefully rejoins SK in a SK style government. With that he could ride to re-election. Not likely to happen, but I was shocked when the Berlin wall fell. Dems take control of the House/Senate in 2018, and they certainly impeach him and may very well convict. (If so, I kinda agree with Fondren that he will have to be taken from the White House by force.) But if they try to kill him, they better get him. If they start it and don't remove him, 2020 will be very ugly, but he may very well win. But I see nothing in Trump that has him resigning, or choosing not to run. People who think that are likely the same delusional ones who thought he would drop out before the 2016 convention or election.
  23. Perhaps not, but how does that explain why Pelosi and Reid never got one passed. The real answer is that neither side is willing to budge. This requires compromise and neither side is willing to do it. And putting it entirely on one side is partisan horseshit.
  24. Agreed, but our constitutional process is built around a broad consensus to do something. And for quite a while now, it seems like both sides are infested with extremists who, rather than compromise and get something better, would rather get nothing just to blame the other side. (See wildcat09's post)
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