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PTINS

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  1. I’m going to give that a big NO. “The People’s Republic of Boulder” is not a suburb, Boulder made a decision ~ 50 years ago to create a buffer so they would never become anything like a suburb of Denver. Along the Boulder Turnpike and the Front Range, the City of Boulder has bought enough land over time to create ~ 5 mile buffer between Boulder and the inevitable growth coming from Denver. Other than being in Colorado, Boulder has little in common w/ Denver and the it’s suburbs. It’s so sad to see the foresight Boulder planners had compared to the development cluster fuck that has consumed Austin. I’ve never been to Allen, but I imagine it is similar to the countless well to do suburbs that border most major cities in America. Having lived on the edge of the buffer in Boulder County, please don’t put the City of Boulder in the same sentence as some Texas suburb, to avoid anyone thinking there might be any similarity between the two.
  2. Repost from Jjdoc on SEC Rant...
  3. RIP Mike Leach. A national treasure gone too soon.
  4. The Anschutz family has been in oil & gas and real estate since the 1900's. Philip Anschutz bought out his father in the 60's, and invested in stocks, railroads and real estate, including 9,000,000 acres along the Utah-Wyoming border. Amoco discovered oil on the Anschutz Ranch in the late 70's, which eventually became a billion-barrel+, with a "B", oil pocket, the largest oil field discovery in the United States since Prudhoe Bay in 1968. His railroad interests included downtown real estate and warehouses in Denver, and other midwestern cities that became very lucrative in the downtown revitalizations in the early 90's. He used his railroad right-of-ways to lay fiber optic cables across the country (Quest Communications). Anschutz has two private cars at the end of the Ski Train from Denver to Winter Park. Phil was one of those guys who made "fuck you" money everywhere he looked. Anschutz and the string of heirs have many ties to Colorado, Denver, and CU. The CU student population has been full of trust fund babies for many years and while that wealth may or may not manifest in the university endowment, it is there. We lived outside of Boulder from '93-97. Bronco's and Buffs winning = Exceptional football atmosphere. I like Deion. He will do well if he listens to the football people around him. And Ralphie is in the top tier of football mascots.
  5. Austin Venues Armadillo World Headquarters, (used to sell more beer than the Astrodome) Original Schlotzsky's
  6. When visiting San Antonio, Gerald Ford thought he would be go local and eat a tamale w/ his hands. Nobody told him to remove the husk first. Among the many things that cost him the election.
  7. Rylanders (grocery) Minimax (grocery) Nickerson Farms (hiway food) Ritters (gas stations) Saigon eggrolls (food cart on the drag) Schlitz Screaming Yellow Zonkers (Glazed popcorn)
  8. 104 rushing yds in first qtr
  9. Wow, Q stepped into a throw
  10. 2 first qtr rushing TD’s. Who woulda thunk?
  11. Not the same, but I remember the first time I moved back to Texas from Oklahoma. Crossing the Red River and seeing "Welcome to Texas", surrounded by Texas license plates, and the Longhorn shaped rest stops. A stress or burden you never knew was there is just lifted off your shoulders, lifting your spirits because you are home. When someone says a foreign invader, I used to think of Mexico or Canada. Typical American. That concept changed when we went to Manderscheid, in Rhineland, Germany. Two castles ~ 1,000 years old about 1,000 feet apart, separated by a shallow valley with a wooded creek in the middle. Still hard to grasp that Eurasians have been fighting over the same "dirt" for thousands of years. But it's not just the dirt, it's the descendents of generations of dead soldiers, raped women, murdered parents, and orphaned children. Fuck Russia.
  12. I saw this guy 4 days in here at the house.
  13. This. I love America not so much for what it is, but for what it aspires to be. Sell the promise? That happened long ago ..., the internet amplified it. The daily freedoms we enjoy that so many take for granted are recognized around the world, not so much for the scars and warts we have, but as a contrast for what many around the world don't have at all, and want. The simplest of things, basic freedoms. "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson It seems the next step is to wreck the Crimea land bridge supply lines. Once the rail is compromised, Russian supply & logistics is fubar, and the Russian territory will eventually collapse from within like a black hole, similar to Kharkiv, Izyum & Kherson.
  14. Great day for some football. See y'all in a few hours.
  15. Great news on your mother. That dwarfs any sports related event! That said, my Saturday was pretty okay: Sunrise at Thunder Creek Ranch, Utopia, Texas Son got him a 10 point buck at sunrise Aggy loses ugly, again... I Lee Harvey'd ~ 150 lb wild pig at sunset, fresh venison & pork Texas beats K-State on the road (really happy to see Coburn find the beast within) Houston Astro's (Go 'stros!!!) spanked the Phillie's and are World Series Champions, again .... I don't usually get sprinkles on my ice cream, but the other losers on Saturday, OU, Tech, Okie State, and Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee & Clemson
  16. Growing up in the late 60's-early 70's, I made a personal judgement that Democracy works for an educated populace. That was also premised on a belief that an educated populace, when given a choice, will do the right thing. It's hard to admit how flawed my thinking was. I confused education w/ making reasonable and logical choices. We have an "educated" society that doesn't have the deductive reasoning to spell cat if you spotted them the the "c" and the "a". Unfortunately, that's not the worst part. The realization that so many people will make a conscious choice to do what they know is "wrong" is ... um ... sad.
  17. FIFY Really? "There are no absolute truths in science, so yes there are such things as multiple truths, we just may not know it yet." That is probably the most ignorant thing I have ever read. Multiple truths? I'm guessing you weren't a science major. Taking selective information that supports a preconceived notion, while ignoring other information that refutes that preconceived notion, is not science. That flawed thinking and reasoning is why ill informed people believe there are versions of the "truth".
  18. Call it what you will, but the market cap of the just the FAANG stocks has risen almost $3 Trillion in ~ 20 years. A significant portion of that value increase is shared by the majority of pension funds, 401k's, and numerous individuals who have chosen to invest in these particular stocks. Those "obscene corporate profits" have resulted in a proportionate increase in stock value, meaning each individual investor has realized a proportionate increase in their investments. One share of Apple in 2006 was ~ $35/share, and has split 7 for 1 in 2014 and 4 for 1 in 2020, giving you 28 shares from your original 1 share. Your $35 original investment in 2006 is worth over $4,000 today. Perhaps characterizing a 100 fold increase in value as a trickle is not the correct term.
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