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  1. 5 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    I see a LOT of old people.  And I’ve never heard more say ‘they kind of dropped the ball on this one huh?’

    This was the first time I saw cracks.  Not saying it means much but it is the first time any critique of Trump or his admin by more than 1-2 olds I deal with.  

    Whatever inklings they let on now, by November it'll be "but at least he's not a socialist like Biden and Obama." The $500 billion taxpayer funded slush for corporations is peak capitalism to them. Social safety nets for individuals to avoid this type of catastrophe again will just not stand.

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  2. 3 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Don't suggest that in the DT thread. Apparently, that concept is political. 

    They think everything is "CR." Since the trumpists have very little relevant or factual fodder to pump their guy up, they abandoned this place a long time ago. Therefore, since we don't all hail dear leader here, we are an "echo chamber" that they don't like. It's so obvious which of the "no CR!" people are trumpists who are ironically cloaking the shit out of things when they try to run off any bit of criticism of our country's poor resopnse to this crisis.

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  3. If the entire country sheltered in place for three weeks, I can see the possibility of returning to some sense of normalcy in three weeks for easter, but otherwise, with all these patchwork social distancing recommendations and orders from states and municipalities, I just don't see it for at least a month or two.

  4. Lol, never heard of escolar. But here's an article that's directly on point here. As though it was written by a surly poster.

    https://www.thekitchn.com/use-caution-when-eating-escola-66602

    "To be frankly and bluntly specific — and I’m sorry for this — consumption of escolar causes explosive, oily, orange diarrhea. People have reported that the discharges are often difficult to control and accidents can happen while passing gas.

    I personally know someone who ate an escolar steak one night, unaware of its side effects. The next day he was riding the elevator to his office when out of nowhere his bowels unleashed a surprise attack on his pants. As he said later, “Thank God I had my gym bag with me, which had a clean pair of underwear in it.” This explains why escolar is also called the “olestra fish” and the “ex-lax fish.”"

  5. So it's pretty clear from that last comments about the governors that he'll open shit up again and when people die he'll blame the governors, except in redstates where he'll find someone else to blame. I hate this fucking country in a lot of ways, I really fucking do.

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  6. Restaurants here are allowed to fill growlers "to avoid spoliation." I live right by a restaurant with a huge craft beer list and they are selling pretty cheap. I have three growlers I might fill and would tip probably 30-40% to help them out. Question is, how long would growler beer last in my fridge? If if could make it 3-4 weeks, my weekends would be set for at least that long.

  7. 19 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    I agree. We need some sort of government panel to decides who gets care and who gets death. I'm sure a clever name could be created to describe this panel that determines death. Sounds like somethings republicans would support.

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  8. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Actually Greg, many of the things that are right for large urban areas can be applied to those 200+ counties, to keep them from seeing a big jump in cases.   

    Because when he says “this particular point in time”, what happens in a week or two or three when many of those counties start seeing their first cases and don’t know what the fuck to do other than ship them off to one of the four big urban areas?

    Okie governor is also being a stubborn ass about it, saying cities should decide. Tulsa and OKC have had to beg their suburbs and local small towns to adopt their shut downs, pointing out that if the local yokels in bumfuck bfe see a spike, they'll be filling up bigger hospitals in the cities. Also, the governor seems to think we need to see as spike in infections before shutting shit down. Hey idiot, if it spikes, it's too fucking late.

    I'm almost certain that what is pushing this is the idea that if they shut stuff down and it doesn't spike, they'll be accused of being overreactive, while ignoring that the lack of a spike WAS EXACTLY THE FUCKING POINT!!! 

    Someone said it earlier, maybe the disease should just win, we are too stupid to live on this planet anymore.

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  9. On 2/17/2020 at 8:10 AM, Randolph Duke said:

    Judicial Watch is making progress in their efforts to shed light on what foreign governments are doing through the corruption of academia. It will be a part of their push to raise money to support their favored candidates this election cycle.

    There is also the litigation against A&M regarding the Kyle re-seating clusterfuck. For the unaware, when raising money to pay for their football stadium renovations the ags seem to have gotten a bit too creative, selling stadium seating and parking rights that belonged to others and not compensating the true owners of the rights. Those plaintiffs get more annoyed with the university each month.

    Finally, we have the really fun one - the "Bynam" lawsuit that was filed after A&M stole Bynum's (a sportswriter living in Alabama) copyright on a book about A&M's "12th Man" turdition. Bynum filed suit and A&M claimed sovereign immunity. That case is in federal court in Houston, although this time not before Sim Lake. That case has been stayed until the Supremes issue their ruling in Allen v Cooper (should be out any day between Feb 21 and early June).

    Bottom line - Judicial Watch has the info on A&M/Qatar and will be pushing their narrative between now and November and once a ruling is out on the Allen case we will see if things get really fun.

    So it looks like aggy gets to be shitheads again, courtesy of SCOTUS.

    https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/states-shielded-from-copyright-suits-supreme-court-rules?usertype=External&bwid=00000171-07c0-d17f-a7f9-3fcf2d670000&qid=6879713&cti=LFLG&uc=1320018096&et=CHANNEL_NOTIFICATION&emc=lwnw_cn%3A3&context=email&email=00000171-07c7-decc-af71-d7efd24f0000&access-ticket=eyJjdHh0IjoiTFdOVyIsImlkIjoiMDAwMDAxNzEtMDdjMC1kMTdmLWE3ZjktM2ZjZjJkNjcwMDAwIiwic2lnIjoieG1nTldWUFUvZUwyaXpMNmcwVk9hNzRqRmJvPSIsInRpbWUiOiIxNTg0OTc0NDk1IiwidXVpZCI6InRzRjVEaDFWR1FKY0tGN1JZS3k1ZkE9PUdjNmg5QzhQVkpBdTlQaVArMkg2eUE9PSIsInYiOiIxIn0%3D

  10. On 3/18/2020 at 5:00 PM, Pancho said:

    This thread should be on daily Texan 

     

    Would be nice if an outcome was a focus on locality and density to avoid suburbs and long commutes. Maybe housing policies that make it affordable to live near large offices, or a network of remote working spaces so employees can live wherever and go “to the office” at their nearest coworking space.

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