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  1. I guess an addendum to this is that this is a semi-sorta retirement place candidate. Or was at one time, so I am curious what it's really like.
  2. So, I've been going down there off and on most of my life. One of my best friend's growing up's mother grew up in a really cool house on Hwy 39 in Hunt/Ingram. She's in her 80s now and they are retired down there, as are some other older family friends. Beyond that, I don't really have much feel for who lives in Kerrville/Kerr County. Lotta old, white, fairly wealthy retirees. Probably a lot native cedar-chopper type rural poors too.
  3. It's not really your problem, but you can look up the LLC here, assuming Texas, and see if it is actually dissolved. https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/account-status/search Even if dissolved, LLCs are not a magic shield. Someone had to sign the disclosure for the LLC and the members/managers are liable in their personal capacity for fraud they committed or conspired to commit. And Gil Bang is right, although an LLC is there to avoid personal liability, the number of times its owners fuck that up probably exceeds the number of times it provides much of a shield. Also, it seems fairly unlikely that the listing agent would have any liability, unless they conspired with the LLC and its members/managers to provide a false disclosure. The listing agent may be in a tough spot because they're no longer in touch with the seller, or isn't getting cooperation in responding to the complaint.
  4. By pretty much all accounts, Dick Eastland was a good guy. Good friend of mine worked at Mystic about 40 years ago, his wife was a counselor and sent two daughters there. He's not nearly as fun to point the finger at as the feckless Kerr County officials that put partisan politics ahead of people's safety. Unfortunately, though, it appears that Da Fino is right. There's almost no way he doesn't bear significant responsibility for this. Good people have feet of clay.
  5. Not sure if it's natural or acquired. Relatedly, some people have a tendency to explain every damn thing with a conspiracy theory. And they tend to be dumb as fuck. And are extremely influential these days.
  6. Lost a lot of respect for him representing Paxton in his impeachment.
  7. I mean, look at the OP, the guy is a little nuts. Funny as it may be, there's really no need to go there in that particular way. So yeah, he's nuts. Also effective, apparently.
  8. Why tho? Gullible people?
  9. Coming back to this, didn't realize he was on Infowars. That close an association with Jones does not speak well of him. But, I'm sure he's quite used to dealing with lunatics and inured to it. And that is a great place to drum up business from lunatics, which is sort of his stock in trade. This from their website, which reflects what I said about being absolutists: We went up against the government because they were trying to censor a guy who protested in favor of LGBTQ rights. Then, we used the same underlying briefing to support a woman who protested against Pride Month. We are Catholics who assist pro-abortion protesters and Satanists. We are Jews who fight for Nazis’ free speech rights. We are gays who fight for people who want to end marriage equality. We find the greatest purity in supporting speech we despise, because that is what freedom is about.
  10. Why? For teh lulz?
  11. It also costs money, but at least it might be Trump money this time around.
  12. Maybe they're pissed because their union leader told them they should be pissed. For what reason, I don't really get. Seems like they might have an axe to grind with the Chief. @wood? As our local firefighter mentioned, it's not like Austin has excess capacity and is flood-free.
  13. If Austin swiftwater rescue knew they needed to knock on doors, why were they needed in Kerr County? Do you really need specialized rescue personnel to knock on doors with two days' notice?
  14. Business Owner at Faciti Consulting https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradfaciti Brad may be going through some things atm.
  15. Bannon was at one time an officer in the US Navy and served in the Pentagon and later a bit of a wheel at Goldman Sachs.
  16. Randazza is one of the top first amendment lawyers in the country. He started out repping porn companies, but has done a good bit of ACLU-worthy stuff too. I guess he's a bit of an absolutist because he's repped some right-wing douchebags as well. I don't think he aligns that way, though.
  17. Saw an article about Trump talking more shit on Putin than ever before. Trump thought he could do peace there, but he was wrong. So his supporters saw things as more weapons to Ukraine or peace and because of Trump's fellatio of Putin that Zelensky was the obstacle there. Now that Trump can't do peace and Putin is being seen as the obstacle, I think Ukraine is gonna get popular again.
  18. He absolutely dictated that letter and no one was allowed to correct it. Either that or it was written in collaboration with the same person that writes his Truths.
  19. And there's a nugget of truth there, too, in that the Big Beautiful Buttfucking and most bills like it are 1000 pages of dense, incomprehensible text that very few outside the CBO fully understand (and even then on a "per-section" type basis). So you can lie with near impunity because very few can correct you with simple truth.
  20. And that's exactly what I meant about the argument, if any.
  21. There's also this. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4190530/
  22. Just for the sake of elabotion of the concept, you can make much better state arguments, such as Better knowing the nature of local disasters Better knowing how to respond to them with available resources (and what should be brought in) And maybe best of all If you are going to stiff disaster victims (or reimburse them generously) you have a local electorate to deal with the fallout
  23. Factual bias? Concerning. At least it's not 787 Million worth and counting of outright lies.
  24. Yeah I don't think you can justify it as some kind of naive mistake. Where the debate comes in, if any, is how justifiable is it to take advantage of a program, without committing actual fraud or deceit, when you know you don't need it and aren't the intended beneficiary. People do that all the time with tax breaks. PPP loans, all sorts of shit, without incurring severe moral judgment. There was a guy in my law school class, an Hispanic Californio, very well off (twin turbo Supra as his grad gift from ND), white, actually Jewish looking and may have been with a German surname, but he could legit check the "Hispanic" or "Mexican-American" or whatever the box was and was getting free tuition to UT Law.
  25. Corollary to this, though. Although in theory, I think the notion of federalism and state primacy is a good one, in my experience and observation, the federal government does a better job with almost all of the functions where the state, or Texas in particular, has a parallel function. But yeah, we can cut FEMA, cut federal taxes accordingly and maybe do that for a lot of things where the state has a primary interest, knowledge, and responsiveness to local priorities. They're also gonna need to raise taxes.
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