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South Austin

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  1. Better looking, too.
  2. Your corollary was going to be my response. Sure, in the abstract we can argue that disaster response should be a state activity. Why should my tax dollars as Texas resident pay for some awful nature shit that happens in Florida or Kentucky? But as you allude, when left to the states, there are a lot of states that do an awfully shitty job in providing public services, such as education and roadways and other transportation infrastructure. It may be because they are governed by a political ideology that doesn't want to spend money for those things. Or, as a whole some states are poorer than others, and might not legitimately have the resources. But that's where our federal government has stepped in, whether through the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, or FEMA. Until Trump 2.0, that is.
  3. 77 million voters see no problem with Texas Republicans.
  4. He's going to cram them all in on the last day, and then it'll be like . . .
  5. Katfid: "Morgan Freeman, Patrick Warburton, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson."
  6. You mean they actually run a campaign?
  7. Man, I'm sorry.
  8. I read somewhere that some of the parents had already received them. That was a gut punch. I can't even imagine.
  9. Interesting. I've never heard of this dish, and looked up a couple recipes and will make sometime this summer.
  10. Was that Jeremy Allen White talking about the show, or Carmen Berzatto talking about the restaurant?
  11. No shit. Greg, you're a Longhorn graduate and fan. Are you going to call Steve Sarkisian a loser when during a press conference after a loss he owns up to mistakes the team made and how it could have prepared and/or performed better? I'd kill to have aggy Rick Perry back as governor.
  12. I joined the Episcopal Church in 2009 after being baptized, confirmed, and raised Catholic. I've never heard any of my priests say anything or hint anything remotely like "our interpretation is right, and all of you sinners are wrong." I acknowledge, though, that there are degrees among the Episcopal church, and some parishes and some dioceses can be more religiously conservative than others, and my church is on the liberal side. One of our young priests currently at my church said it best: "The enemy of faith is not doubt, but certainty." I've always felt our clergy gives us permission to question and doubt, and most of the messaging I hear from the pulpit is that it's not about believing, it's about living.
  13. I'm not kidding, Chris.
  14. He's going to be slow to respond. He turned down a federal grant that would have allowed Surly to increase the timing of alerts when a user gets tagged in a post. That's not political. It's just facts.
  15. This needs to be a front-page article. I mean, what the ever living fuck? A city manager going on a run during a flash flood warning?
  16. Going to be hard to get around governmental immunity in order to hold the county liable.
  17. Yeah, all that is fair. But speaking to a point Texas Fight seemed to suggest, I don't know that it's fair to say the parents fucked up by sending their kids to camp where it was obvious they'd be sleeping in a flood plain. Even with all that historical data you cite, the parents assumed that the staff at Camp Mystic was equipped to respond to a possible flash flood, and I don't know if that assumption is a parental failure. As I mentioned above, I've never before thought to ask what system Camp Champions has in place to respond to possible flash flooding conditions, and it's not like the chances of that area along Lake LBJ flooding are 0%. Maybe that's naive of me, and I'm sure I'll ask the question before paying the camp fees for next summer if Champions doesn't reach out first. Along those lines, I wonder if riverfront or lakefront camps in the area will take some kind of hit next summer. No matter what assurances camps will provide, I can see some folks look at what happened on July 4 and say "nope."
  18. I expect nothing but hospitality, manners, and sobriety from the fans in Columbus.
  19. Apparently there were a shitload of people of varying intelligence levels that didn't see this coming at all.
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