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SydneyCarton

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  1. He can’t help himself. It’s like asking him to stop being short.
  2. These posts are the posts of a man who squats to pee. Kelly is in year 2. Jimbo is in year 7. Stop with the fucking “they’re basically the same” nonsense.
  3. *Segue. A Segway is what fat republicans ride on city tours.
  4. He doesn’t have to win. He just has to delay.
  5. Can't you ask that of damn near every single person in Texas as well?
  6. I'm not sure PK is going to be eager to bring back a guy that passed him up at Washington. Maybe he would be fine with it. I'm 6'3. More of a First Down Marker, imo.
  7. Well, it makes sense when you consider how much money Austin ISD and the surrounding areas have to ship out to other districts in the state.
  8. Shit man, I'm just trying to keep the kid kind and not create problems at school
  9. How do you define "rare?" Because we haven't found left in the, oh, zero planets we've actually set foot on other than earth, it must be rare? Most scientists think there's a great shot to find life on one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn at this point. Which one is it, Europa? That's in our own solar system and not even a fucking class M planet. Most of the dipshits posting on this site have probably fucked 3, maybe 4 whole women in their life, and infrequently. But that's not a metric I'd use to make a blanket statement like "Most people on planet earth just don't have sex, it's extremely rare." Your logic is flawed. As for the definition of "rare" there's a ton of ways to illustrate that. If there are a billion planets or moons with life, out of hundreds of trillions or millions of trillions of planets, is it rare? By one point of view, namely statistically, sure. But that's still BILLLIONS OF PLANETS WITH LIFE, which I do not think is rare at all. TO put it another way, if you have one billions dollars, is that a lot of money? Becuase compared to the net worth of the entire planet, it isn't shit.
  10. Yeah, we're on the same page here. I'm all about using the lessons of the Bible to raise a good, kind child, who hopefully is thoughtful. And I don't give a shit where the source of that lesson stems. He's going to get a lot of instruction in the teachings of Jesus, and i'm going to reinforce the shit out of those messages. I was raised very Catholic, and my mom was pretty clear early on about the Bible as a parable, and not literal, so I think I've got a pretty good grasp of that. I'm concerned of the conflict that will arise between our home and the school, as well as conflicts between other kids with the "My dad says X" shit. I guess I'm probably over-thinking it.
  11. I apprecaite your earnest response, but I don't think you grasped my point. My son is going to get plenty of biblical teaching at his school. I'm not interseted in re-enforcaing it at home. At all. I do understand what I think you're attempting to illustrate, vis a vis the teachings of jesus himself versus the other areas of the Bible, for which, yes, those are all great lessons. He'll get that at school. I'm more talking about the period of time that comes when he asks questions about God, and I decide to tell him Daddy doesn't believe in God the way they teach you at school.
  12. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this (your post) is fucked up. It's a bond that's put on an election, and people either vote for it, or against it. Yes, they don't want to spend their money on education, they want to spend it on football stadiums. That's my whole point, recaputure bucks aren't building most mega stadiums. If that waterpark is, that's fucked up. But recapture dollars aren't what's building big HS stadiums in Katy or Dallas. It's additional taxpayer funds from bonds they elected to pass. I'm sure if there were a distrct by district bond put up increase funding of schools via private funds, it might pass. Maybe. But those bonds don't go up for vote. Or if they do, we don't really get a lot of publicity for the results. But the situaiton your'e suggesting isn't accurate. But to be clear, anywhere district funds are building mega stadiums, yes, that's fucked up.
  13. Those "interviews" for a 4 year old are fukcing overblown. My son had to do them, it is literally a counselor asking him if he can count to 10, what his first and last name is, etc. If he actively doesn't show some form of personality disorder and doesn't try to eat the carpet, it's good. It's really an IQ test. Fuck up a kid? See above. That's an absurd fucking concept for a 4 year old. It's a counselor in a room asking questions that child will never remeber, like how many parents he has, etc. I can't speak to the parents aspect, there's a lot of shitty parents, and probably a lot more shitty rich parents. That being said, one of the things that private schools will tell you is that the older your child gets, the harder to gain admission into the school is, per se. That's becuase classes are small, and demand rises the older the kid gets, assessment tests get harder, etc, so they sort of tell you that by getting them in at the pre-school traunch, where they will always remain enrolled unless they flunk out or are expelled, is the path of least resistance. It's a compelling pitch, particularly if your child might have a penchant for eating carpet. But I reject the concept that this "fucks up a kid" out of hand. Robin Hood is fucked up. I know the stats on Austin supporting damn near the rest of the state, but there's some Houston districts that give a ton of money as well and don't see shit back.
  14. Aren't most of the mega stadiums built with taxpayer bonds in this districts? Not that I'm defending our public school situation, but my understanding is the super mega ones built in Katy and Cypress and Dallas were all private funds from wealthy districts.
  15. They don't have to raise prices. A private school can just say no, and take the voucher money from the families they want to let in. They don't have to...but you think many sure wont?
  16. I'm curious how the folks who have moved on from organized religion are explaining religion and God to their children when they get to the 8-18 range. It's a conundrum I'm going to start to have to work through here in a few years. Particularly since my kid goes to a private religious school (mom works there, school is fucking outstanding). I have zero interest in taking him to church and teaching dogma, but I'm somewhat concerned with the potential for the whole "My Dad says God doesn't exist" conflicts with other kids that I feel like is inevitable. Hoo boy, this is probably going to be a derail. Sorry in advance.
  17. Granted his post was dated a year ago, but we all know that bullshit was disproven. I had a buddy working that talking point, and a week or two later this article came out, and oddly never heard a peep: https://gizmodo.com/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-sbf-secret-donations-republicans-1849834727
  18. I don’t really understand the purpose of releasing a video like this while the trial is still underway? It’s not changing anyone’s minds, and it just perpetuates the idea she’s going after trump for just political reasons. It’s not much different than trump holding press rounds right outside the courtroom. I guess it will likely enrage him, that’s something.
  19. You're flat wrong here. The money that motherfucker will get playing the stock market alone, considering the wealth he entered Congress with, will be fucking staggering. You're thinking of the bribes he'll get. The real money will be the stock tips from being on varioues committees, dude. He'll be worth a quarter billion dollars by the end of his second term.
  20. You think 54 is fairly young? Because I'll tell you, I'm not even in my mid-40's yet and things are going to shit at a high rate of speed over here.
  21. Yes. Now imagine that you have 3-4 kids, and you've enrolled them in those various schools from pre-school to high school. You're paying well over a million dollars just to get your kids TO college. The math is staggering.
  22. No. Becuase if they did she'd probably actually look like a human being.
  23. Well don't let her watch the new Fall Guy trailer
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