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  1. Hell, most of Florida and a good bit of the rest of the Gulf and Atlantic Coast states.
  2. Well, glad it worked out. I just did the one on mine and my wife's car recently. They did not suggest doing all four, or give me a 4-for-1. One thing I did do before letting Discount do it was check Rock Auto. There are various "flavors" of TPMS sensors, from generic one-sensor-fits-most, to OEM, to OEM-equivalent. Many times, Rock Auto will sell you an OEM part or very good equivalent, for a lot less than even an AutoZone or OReillys will sell a generic, or a shop will charge you for the part. For example, I recently bought AC-Delco iridium plugs for a tuneup for about half what AZ and OR wanted for them. An AC-Delco O2 sensor was more like 1/3. For my car, the GM-AC-Delco monitors were about $30 more than Discount's installed, so I decided to go that route.
  3. This may be a blinding glimpse of the obvious, but it just occurred to me with clarity. This seems to be symptomatic of the "American Dream." Even without knowledge of the normal distribution, morons seem to know that they are morons, not smart and/or not educated, and are close to the majority. And intelligence and education correlate pretty well with success in America. Yes, a moron can get rich or attain the middle class by hard work, pretty much alone, but the odds are not great. In order to maintain the illusion that "anyone can 'make it' in America," there needs to be a devaluation of intelligence and education. Add in a little demagoguery and you have an elevation of ignorance.
  4. One can come to a theological certainty that their faith is the only way to salvation without engaging in imperialism, colonization, and greed. One can be nominally a member of a faith, engage in imperialism, colonization, and greed, and justify it by claiming faith certainty compels it without ever having broached the question from a theological or philosophical standpoint and otherwise having little or no opinion on the matter. As stated above, war, imperialism et cetera happen wherever there is man, with or without religion. If man/society happens to be religious, religion will often be claimed as a justification. Rome was expanding its empire long before Christ and the RCC. Heathen Celts and Carthaginians were invading resisting them.
  5. I'm not really sure that certainty was the result of any theological or philisophical thinking. I think it's more a post-hoc justification for imperialism, colonization, and greed.
  6. Of course, but often "legislative" decisions are a mixed bag of motivations and it can be difficult to discern what motivated a particular action or inaction. In this case, it's not at all.
  7. Actually, I am even more perturbed at what preceded this tragedy. I start with the proposition that the government of the State of Texas, at many if not most levels, seems quite unconcerned with improving the lives of its citizens, especially if that comes at some cost to the government or taxpayers. Yet, it will spend taxpayer money lavishly on corporate subsidies and tax breaks etc. and do other things to make the "lives" of institutions and corporations easier in this state. So, the leadership of Kerr County on several occasions refused to modernize and improve its flood warning systems with this specific situation in mind. If that were merely a cost-benefit analysis, I might cut them some slack. If it were that sirens are noisy, or we need to improve the roads, or even give money to the cops. But both the leadership and citizenry of Kerr County could have obtained the money to do that at no fiscal cost from the federal government. And declined to do so for overtly partisan, ridiculously political reasons and they said so right in the public record.
  8. Saw it somewhere, maybe not on this thread, but AP among others was reporting that Mystic had just passed it's inspection or some such. I noticed that most camps note their membership in a trade org of some sort and licensure by the state and post links. This is the State Dept. of Health Service site/page for camps. https://www.dshs.texas.gov/youth-camp-program I didn't see much/anything about disaster planning in the certification/licensure information/application, etc.
  9. She's smiling at her own cleverness at dodging the question.
  10. As mentioned previously, I was raised Methodist. In I think 7th grade Sunday School, we did a "unit" on world religions, which included touching on differences between us and other denominations. Which prompted some questions like "are we right and they wrong." Even on that pretty pointed question, the teachers hedged including ministers. We were never taught that our way was the only way, point blank. It was another matter of faith.
  11. She seems like a real syphilitic cooze. And *more than
  12. What is it you need, cuntburger? Some FEMA? Fucking white trash.
  13. I have no hope for the hardcore Trumpists, that's not who I am thinking about here. I am thinking about those who made the difference between 2020 and 2024. They're not all-in on evil, but they are influenced by guys like Rogan and Von.
  14. That letter is distinctly Trumpian in using capitals for emphasis and overuse of superlatives.
  15. Makes me think they idolize Bill Clinton because he was such a policy wonk. But that is not why he got elected. Nor Obama
  16. I'd go right ahead with the Cleveland Steamer. Maybe even a Hot Karl.
  17. There is often the tiniest nugget or kernel of truth buried somewhere in most MAGAisms.
  18. The AG doesn't represent the President, duh.
  19. I am a staunch defender of the church exemption, for churches that stay out of politics. This is
  20. The most transparent administration for shit that happened during other administrations. Let's see how transparent they are about their own shit. Early indications are poor.
  21. That was just the University. They sued a shit ton of people, including fellow students, crane and equipment rental companies. It probably wasn't a ton of money, overall, but anyone that had any kind of responsibility paid one way or another.
  22. Also, regarding Mystic, just Dick Eastland died. I believe his wife survives and various of their children and other family members have varying degrees of responsibility at the camp. And, as noted, there is a network of corporate entities involved and the land. The land. Lee Bass was offering $5-10k/acre 15 years ago.
  23. Yeah, according to the TM article on the 2011 lawsuit, the land is owned by one corporation and the camp operated by another that rents from the landowner corporation. That probably got even a bit more complex subsequent to that lawsuit, but there are some fairly wealthy entities that are going to be on the wrong end of this. At minimum, that land is hugely valuable.
  24. In establishing legal negligence, past experiences with floods will be highly relevant. But, you're right that a jury could well bang the camps pretty hard on just an in loco parentis notion. HOWEVER, the camp owners are well-known and fairly beloved in Kerr County. In the 2011 lawsuit between the local family and some "auslanders" in the family that live in Houston now, the jury decided in favor of the locals the first time around and legally screwed the pooch bad enough that a new trial was granted. It's going to be interesting and will go on for a good while.
  25. Not each, total. ~$100k/kid. The ability to recover from the county and municipalities is going to be legally limited, but you can bet they're going to sue everyone in site and probably on some novel theories that will generate cost-of-defense settlements. So, it's probably not what they'd get from deep-pockets private defendants, but I imagine its going to be healthier than $100k/kid.
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