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jimmyjazz

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  1. 4 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    I could see the small town lack of options argument in the days before the internet.  Now it should just be a matter of Googling your options.  Surely it would just be a matter of shipping the cake along with a set of instructions to put it together if it's going to be that complicated.

    LOL have you ever gotten married?  Good luck with that plan.  Brides aren't fucking mail-ordering their cake.

  2. 8 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Yeah, that wasn't the reason, but keep using that strawman.  We got where we are today because the democrats went all in on HRC.  We literally had the worst two candidates for major parties in the history of elections.  

    Technically, we got where we are today because approximately 12% of Bernie supporters voted for Trump in MI, WI and PA.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Johnny Sack said:

    I couldn’t vote for someone who used the term super predator or uses a fake black accent to a black audience. That’s some racist shit.  

    What if they say "super" with a slight lisp?

  4. Just now, Johnny Sack said:

    Same shit has been said when Reagan, Bush 1, Dole, Bush 2, McCain and Romney ran.  It’s lame. 

    That's a pretty weak argument.  "Former pejorative statement was lame, therefore it is always lame in the future."

    Trump is an overt racist.  You vote for him, you own his views.  Sorry to all the racists on this board.  (Not really.)

  5. 5 minutes ago, retread said:

    A man who argued nine cases before the SC doesn't have an opinion about that question?

    Editor, Harvard Law Review

    2-time national champion, collegiate debate

    Top 4 in world, collegiate debate

    HS Valedectorian

    Clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist

    Associate AG, Department of Justice

    Solicitor General, Texas

    9 appearances before SCOTUS

    US Senator

    Can't really answer a question about the constitutionality of a Presidential self-pardon.

     

     

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  6. 2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

     


    So, only 30,000,000 racists. No problem. For fuck’s sake.
     

     

    I call bullshit, as Trump received 62,000,000 votes.  If you voted for Trump, you're a racist until proven otherwise.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    Cruz is such a little bitch. Can’t believe he represents us Texans. 

    I wasn't raised in Texas, but I always had this quasi-Hollywood impression of it being a state where men were men, etc.  I've lived here 33 years now and I don't think my impression was wrong.  Most Texas men tend to be somewhat stoic, a bit private, nice enough but not super outgoing, willing to do hard work.

    And somehow Ted Cruz was elected Senator.

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    You think we need these protected classes for gays?  What evidence is there for a need?  They are not protected in Texas and in the majority of jurisdictions for public accommodations.  Do you know a lot of gays having trouble getting served at a restaurant?  Or getting a room at a hotel?  Or getting turned away from a movie theater or a sporting event?  Or getting a cake made?

    Why does the amount of discrimination matter?  If gays are being discriminated against and cannot find relief in the law, then the law needs to change.

  9. 21 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    They don't want to spend the coin it takes to maintain real grass.

    Pro stadiums have full-time staffs that do nothing but baby that grass nearly 24/7.  Even a rich athletic department like UT can't really dedicate that many resources to a single facility.

    Wut?  It's a few guys and some water.  Assuming 120,000 sq feet watered 3X per week (1" water) that would be $1,200 per week (COA commercial water rates).  We maintained DKR for all but 35 years of astro/other turf with no complaints.  That's about half the size of a full-turf baseball field, but I don't think cost is REALLY the issue here.  (And yes, I understand football pays the bills.)

    Plus, when you figure cost of other maintenance on artificial VS grass fields, grass begins to pull even.

  10. 7 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Women are also much more likely to go to the doctor for minor shit a man would skip.  And that’s the truth. 

    And this could be argued as good reason to charge young men more; i.e., lack of preventative health measures.

  11. 5 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Oh really? 

    Link

    It was a hypothesis.  I wasn't asserting those things to be true.  (Well, I do think it's likely young men cost more than young women when it comes to driving and accidents.)

  12. Just now, TahoeHorn said:

    No.  Young women have much higher health care costs, mostly due to maternity costs.

    Well . . . it's kinda hard to get pregnant without sperm, so maybe the rationale is that those costs should be spread across both groups?

    I honestly have no idea what the actuarial cost drivers are in your examples.  I'm just thinking out loud.

  13. 7 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    Insurance companies can charge young men more for driving insurance but can't charge young women more for health insurance.  What's with that?

    I don't know the answer, but I suppose it might be explained by demonstrable evidence that young men have more accidents than young women, but no such evidence exists regarding health care costs for the 2 demographics.

  14. On 5/15/2018 at 5:30 AM, South Austin said:

    I haven’t been to the 5th Street location in over a decade, but the one on Far West started sucking shit a few years before it closed. 

    Yep.  We used to take the brood up there every once in awhile but eventually it just wasn't worth it.  Clammy cheese, sauces seemingly out of a can, etc.

  15. 13 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    I don't think anyone is arguing that discrimination is OK,.  I agree  that discrimination should be completely unacceptable.but I think people have a right to run their private business the way they want.  I don't have to agree with them.

    Wait . . . so you think discrimination should be "unacceptable" but you also think people should have the right to discriminate in private business?

  16. 2 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

     

    I'm not sure title IX has anything to do with it.  McCombs Field has a better surface than the Disch.  The AD simply didn't want to maintain grass at the Disch.

    Has CDC made a stand on this or is it a leftover from Mike Perrin?

  17. Not really seeing the problem in discussing the rules of baseball as applied to plays in the Austin Regional . . . in a thread about the Austin Regional.

    But hey, as others have said, surly gonna surly.  Yay, bitchassedness.

  18. 3 minutes ago, DanRydell said:

    I also think it’s different, not legally but morally, if it’s a baker in Denver, where hundreds of competitors are happy to serve you rather than say in Lufkin, where you could conceivably be blackballed by the entire town.

     

    Doesn't this imply that the legal interpretation needs to lean in favor of the consumer as opposed to the business?

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