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  1. 15 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    I agree with @immamac. It’s fairly straightforward to figure out what becomes CR and what is just news, for the most part. 

    And while I dislike the maga crowd with the heat of a thousand suns, I don’t want to scroll thru news threads and constantly have to read the same 10-20 posters bitch about the stupidity of the Republican Party.  Why not? Because they are doing so many stupid things these days it’s turned into a constant barrage of stupidity.  Every fucking day Trump and his staff do something stupid, illegal, or immoral. And people, myself included, just can’t take that misery constantly every day. It’s too depressing. Just keep that shit in a CR thread and it’s manageable.  

    You’re not wrong to a large extent, but my beef is that imma and blacklab have created and reinforced an environment where the MAGA cabal can screech “no CR!!!!” on shit that’s pretty damn benign and they immediately jump in to save their feelings. They’ve catered to and coddled that crowd for so long that they have the privilege of dictating any discussion which remotely strays into politics which, has been discussed ad nauseum, is pretty many current event these days. It’s tiresome that one group gets to dictate the discussion here. If the mods would tell the MAGA cabal to STFU and grow up every now and then you might see people not get so wound up about the inconsistency in moderation here. Maybe not, but we’ll never know because the mods have taken a hardline position that MAGA is a protected class.

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  2. 26 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Large corporate employer- what do you think?  I’m sure I’ll be pissing in the wind by asking corporate giving for small local inclusion.  
     

    @West Kerr Horn does your org have a landing page I can direct to?  Google search returns some social media pages and charity rating pages that don’t have much on you, and a .org page that seems to just be a go daddy unused page. 
     

    are you set up to receive money from foundation of the hill country?

    In a case like this involving a large employer, I think your best move is to advocate for money to be given to the community foundation who can then distribute the funds to vetted local organizations in the front line. Obviously, I can’t speak for every community foundation, but the ones I’ve had involvement with do really good work and are pretty efficient.

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  3. 3 hours ago, kevwun said:

    I would imagine the majority of those campers came from Tump supporting families though.  Rich, white, Jesus loving folk vote Republican.

    I know people are mad and I’m not calling you out singularly, but it doesn’t make a fucking difference. Kids don’t vote. And, FWIW, everyone I know that either had kids at camp in Hunt, has sent kids in the past or is an adult that went to camp there, myself included, definitely didn’t vote for Trump.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Chopper said:

    My last stop at a McD's was about 8 months ago and they had a buy one get one free for the QPs. So I used a hack I've heard about. Got two with the sauce on the side and made my own double. It was alright.

    I've heard good things about their spicy chicken sandwich. Haven't tried. I did hit up Culver's to try out their new spicy ckn sand and it was not good. White meat chicken with the texture of a stack of wet paper. 

    You were expecting a tasty spicy chicken sandwich from a chain based out of Wisconsin? I could have told you how that was going to go and saved you a few bucks.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Not that Bob said:

    I'll try to shorten this. Mi esposa has something wrong. Saw numerous doctors in home town. Several diagnoses with treatment, but no improvement. During this she had 3 MRI's at 3 different places. All 3 interpreted as "normal". Got referral to MDA. Surgeon puts the MRI into his computer. Looks at it for about 30 seconds. Motions us to slide our chairs over to where we can see. "There it is right there". Points to obvious spot on the MRI that three other doctors had interpreted as normal. 

    Who read the scans initially? I’m amazed at how often things get missed. My wife and I both have examples of things getting missed, fortunately they were both orthopedic issues and not cancer. First was my wife who had been having knee pain (she’s a runner) and got the all clear on an MRI. After it not going away, I sent the scan to a buddy that’s a pediatric radiologist and he took one look at it and saw a meniscus tear. She had surgery a week later. In my case, I tripped over a broken sidewalk while walking my dog in the dark. Had an x-ray the next day and got the all clear. Continued to have pain and couldn’t walk without a limp for six months when I finally made an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon. He took one look at the films and said he would have operated on me the next day after I had the original x-ray. Ended up having lisfranc surgery and I have an assortment of screws in my foot as a result.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Tylerocks said:

    As someone without kids, I am not handling this well, I can't imagine what those of you with kids are going through.

     

    I hear you. I don’t have kids and I swing between distraught and rage. I can’t imagine how much that’s amped up for the parents around here. I’m having lunch on Thursday with a friend that had two sons rescued out of one of the cabins at La Junta that has been seen all over the news. I imagine that will be an emotional meal.

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  7. Just now, landman said:

    That and for the second straight month not a single illegal made it in.  Apparently.

    Just throwing shit out there for the dumbasses to lap up.

    This administration cracks me up. They put out the most obvious propaganda that can easily be disproven and people just lap it up. “The average American now makes $675,000 annually” and people would believe it while looking at their bank account with less than $1,000 in it.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    If Europe was smart, they would make sure no Americans come into their countries to ruin them like we've done to our own country.

    They let Cruz in last week.

  9. 1 minute ago, troph said:

    BL just made it clear the news of failed leadership belongs in CR only. Fuck me I’m so fucking sick and tired of this. NOTHING WILL CHANGE.

    too soon.

    this shouldn’t be political.

    lets focus on the rescue. 

    thoughts and prayers.

    This couldn’t be anticipated.

    We get to hear this nonsense and when we call out the lies, the failures, it’s not news.

    Fuck all of this. EVERYONE should be forced to see the facts. I can’t even. 

    You left out “It could’ve been worse”

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  10. 46 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Our friends sister is friends with a lady who had a kid there(kid is okay) but she said her kid told her that she heard her friends on the 1st floor be swept away as well as her counselor. She said she climbed on top of the bunk bed and was rescued. Kid said she heard all the other girls screaming as they floated away

    A whole lot of kids and families are going to need grief counseling. I hope there is some sort of way to ensure these people have access to the care that they are going to need on an ongoing basis.

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  11. 1 minute ago, TOR said:

    What is this about a new 'wall of water' heading downstream towards Kerrville and an evacuation being ordered?  Anything to that rumor?

    There’s a flash flood warning in effect. SAR has been pulled back due to the potential of flooding.

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  12. 32 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Jim Spencer is bringing it on Facebook regarding a previous post:

     

     

    And that can’t be posted on the DT thread because of the “politicizing a tragedy” and “too soon” crowd on this board.

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