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  1. Godalmighty.
  2. I believe lidig8r has something of an axe to grind with this physician over eating disorder issues.
  3. Well, that vindicates NWS, as apparently message received. Although perhaps not timely enough, but I don't think you can ask for much more given the vicissitudes of weather. Then it appears that Mystic/Eastland lollygagged a bit, perhaps belying the "disaster or evacuation" plan. But it makes it pretty clear that Kerr County officials were almost completely asleep at the switch as far as reinforcing the warnings and providing assistance.
  4. Things have gotten pretty objectively worse since the 90s. For white guys, anyway. And more competitive for everyone.
  5. He was #metoo 'ed once with a not terribly credible allegation. He's had some other problematic behavior relating to either a substance abuse problem or brain injury or both. He seems to be blacklisted.
  6. Yeah, the value of a university education doesn't necessarily lie in the education itself and that has always been true. But the ability of a university education to be a "cheat code" to a better life is probably lower than its ever been. I think there are a few areas where it's difficult to impossible to auto-didact (engineering for example) where the degree retains most of its value. Also, affirmative action or not, more non-white non-males are competing for education and jobs. And even in good ol boy fields like commercial real estate, good ol boys are being pushed out in favor of the objectively more competitive.
  7. There apparently was an Austin attorney named Neal Bonner, now deceased. He was probably the founding director or registered agent of the Mystic corporations and thus became the nominal correspondent on property tax stuff. Not much to be read into it.
  8. You could say that about many criminal prosecutions and it still doesn't happen until you get a hack like Trump in office.
  9. Again, political expediency aside, its just not normal to release investigation files until everyone is dead for 25 years. You don't do it, it never happens. And there has to be a real public interest, not a real public curiosity.
  10. They're not my norms. https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-27000-principles-federal-prosecution#9-27.760 Generally, you don't disclose factual material underlying investigations and prosecutions until constitutional requirements mandate disclosure to the defendant. For uncharged parties, you don't disclose material that might incriminate them because they have no forum in which to defend themselves. 'there is ordinarily “no legitimate governmental interest served” by the government’s public allegation of wrongdoing by an uncharged party, and this is true “[r]egardless of what criminal charges may . . . b[e] contemplated by the Assistant United States Attorney against the [third party] for the future.”"
  11. Like some tiktoker or some such, "what is gonna take to get these people to have some empathy before something bad happens."
  12. The Dems didn't release it for one main reason: the Biden Department of Justice respected norms. To the extent it was an ongoing criminal investigation, in old America you don't release that information. To the extent it was a terminated criminal investigation, in old America you don't release that information until everyone is dead, if then. See, JFK. MAGA therefore brewed it into some giant conspiracy to protect pedo Dems, Trump world bought into it or at least thought they'd curry favor, then they looked at it. Whoops.
  13. https://esearch.kerrcad.org/Property/View/19022?year=2025&ownerId=588726
  14. Yup. And not-so-good. Unclear to me what we're dealing with here. As far as the Eastlands go. I'm not so sanguine about Kerr County officials.
  15. Also, adding to what's been said before, I know a number of people whose judgment I respect that think the Eastlands are/were very good people. Not just nostalgic campers. And, while I think at least initially being a camp director is a labor of love, there's quite a bit of evidence that this has become a big, profitable business over the last 30-40 years and there was some greedheading going on. So, I think it is quite unclear whether the disregard of the flood risk was complacency bred of familiarity or the result of greed and arrogance. I suppose the line is fine.
  16. I believe that's correct. And if you are willing to "go naked" on flood insurance, it's fine. Federally backed loans are going to require it, though. I don't imagine much commercial development is federally backed, though. And, while all this shows an awareness of the potential for flood problems, and a disregard of potential risk, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it, I guess. FEMA can't survey every waterway, they establish floodplains based on historical and statistical data and it makes sense that an aggrieved landowner can do an actual survey and "escape" the floodplain. Now, if we start finding out they played fast and loose with the surveys, that's another kettle of fish entirely.
  17. If I am reading correctly, instead of this arrangement: OP has something more like this: And is having trouble filling the gap.
  18. Well, there is a slightly less than 1 in 4 chance that a Kerr County resident did not vote Trump. And, some of those Trump voters may just be complete ignoramuses instead of hateful fucks. But yeah, it's not those commie libruls that bring up the politics. I'm a conservative. I haven't voted R in nearly 10 years, but I'm still conservative. That ain't conservative.
  19. By many accounts, he seems to be shitting uncontrollably a good deal of the time. That's a lotta shit.
  20. Season 2 is just fantastic all around. Just such a switch from Season 1.
  21. Harmeet is Hindu for Karen. Did not know that.
  22. Were you asking for the brandishment or discharge enhancement or just possession?
  23. When a cat exposes its belly, it feels very safe and comfortable. And if she lets you pet her belly, she trusts you a lot. But careful, that's one of those "pet me three times then I'll bite" places. As she appears she should. A lot of odd cat behavior stems from the fact that, although they are consummate predators, due to their size they are also prey.
  24. And when Maxwell was prosecuted and convicted. And Biden's DOJ followed the usual DOJ guidelines of not releasing material subject to an ongoing criminal investigation, or even a terminated one, because it accuses without giving the accused a forum in which to defend (and also tips off defendants how to defend and spoliate evidence). One of the side effects of releasing this material would be effectively to concede that no one in it would be prosecuted.
  25. My concern is that it's full of militant assholes like the ones speaking to the County Commission. I live in Dallas, so I have the odd Trump encounter, but it's far from a daily thing and I don't have to assume that everyone I encounter is a Trumpist. Some of the posts here indicate that it might be pretty live-and-let-live.
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