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  1. They'll hire good attorneys and not just on a contingent fee. There will be political pressure to change things. These will be things that not every group of random victims can do. The aggy bonfire victims are probably a pretty good analogy. Not necessarily of the wealth or connectedness of these folks (a couple were though), and they beat the bushes pretty hard for money and accountability.
  2. Yeah I figured that might be a Hunt Hunt but wasn't sure. The new sure didn't connect those dots, at least that I saw.
  3. Yeah, I went to Longhorn. Two other kids from HP in my cabin, two from Midland Lee, a St. Marks guy, and I was probably unaware enough of Houston to evaluate those guys. Ran into a couple of em at UT.
  4. Question on this. I get severe weather alerts on my phone. Is that tied to my e911 registration or whatever? Or just location data? I have kind of assumed the latter and as long as my phone knows where it is, I am getting the relevant alerts.
  5. They're all white for the same reason HPISD is all white and the SBMISD Memorial attendance zone is all white and a few other examples. It's first of all economically exclusive. Second, people of color that can afford it a) probably don't value the experience and b) don't want to send their kids to an all-white camp. There was probably a time when a person of color would have outright been denied admission to one of those camps. That's probably no longer true, but also probably rarely or never tested.
  6. I don't think people are making it about that. They are acknowledging that the Mystic girls come from some relatively powerful circles or adjacent thereto and the authorities will likely be held to account as much as possible, which may be in contrast to tragedies occurring in poorer communities. And also about the simple fact that Texas Hill Country camps are now expensive, therefore exclusive, and pretty much accoutrement of the upper class. They've been around for a long time without necessarily being that, except in the de facto sense. Apparently a lot of people are unfamiliar with the phenomenon. There's also some legitimate talk about how the current regimes in Austin and DC operate on a "government doesn't work" theory, which they usually prove in spades when they're in office without ever reducing overall government spending.
  7. Buncha NE Texas rubes giving rich fraudsters a pass because [Cloak Room]. Bet they'll happily put the hammer on some Nigerian Medicare fraudsters. Astonishing.
  8. Look, the point is not to tit for tat. This Perkins chick made an horrendous comment. Many of the same type of sentiments were expressed about browns and Katrina. And they were less isolated. It isn't exclusively one side or the other.
  9. it has become increasingly a thing of the upper class, whereas just a few decades ago, it was middle, upper-middle. And, from my observation, broad brush, yeah, it's stay at home moms-- with nannies. So not just upper class, but getting into idle rich territory. It's just another aspect of asset inflation and wealth disparity.
  10. Also worth pointing out that the Cypress Lake facility was constructed by the current, Christy, "Christian idiots" that own/run the camp today. As opposed to the less Christy idiots that built out Guadalupe in the 20s.
  11. The TM article pointed out that there was quite a bit of corporate structuring going on at Mystic for tax and liability purposes. But you'd have to think the property would be at risk in any event. Also, Lee Bass is a neighbor and had offered to purchase chunks of the land to buffer his own property. Another nearby longstanding Hill Country camp, Arrowhead, just flat sold out because of the property value. From a purely "business" standpoint, it will be interesting to see what happens.
  12. No, it's not that specific, but the dog whistle is pretty clear. And if you really want evidence of it you can scour the internet for it and you'll find things just as scurrilous as what Sade Perkins said in an X comment or whatever it was.
  13. If you know anything about it, you know it's really not a "church camp," no matter what it says. Church camps are Pine Cove, Sky Ranch, Mo Ranch and so on and so forth, founded by explicitly "Christian idiots" and churches. And the allegation I responded to was that churches build camps in flood plains. Everyone builds camps near water, pretty much, it's kind of the essence of camps. The idiots that found them may be Christians, but that's coincidental.
  14. Yeah, he apparently learned his ratfucking lessons from Roy Cohn very well. He's almost as much a savant at that as self-promotion.
  15. Mystic is not a church camp, despite recent descriptions. It was founded, and its location selected, by UT football coach EJ Stewart.
  16. I mean, it's been 20 years. Were you alive? Paying attention? https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9600878 That piece of shit Franklin Graham for one. Google "hurricane Katrina God's vengeance."
  17. Yeah I figured it was something like that. It's blown the fuck up over the last 50 years. Apparently so had Mystic. Seems like it's a big business now. Forty-fifty years ago, I thought it was more a labor of love.
  18. There were a not insignificant number of people, whose current political philosophies you can now guess, that said Katrina was God's vengeance on the dirty darkies and den of iniquity that was NO.
  19. Mystic may have become a little more "Christy," but historically is right in line with Stewart and Rio Vista. Historically, they're slightly more "traditional," horsey archery riflery camps, while your Longhorns and Champions are more aquatic. I think Longhorn created "Ranch Branch" to try to attract those campers and now there's some third thing entirely.
  20. A whole hell of a lot of pilots are engineers. And I imagine many of those who aren't share a lot of thinking with engineers.
  21. I don't think it's actually difficult for them, they just have a tough time internalizing that "more likely than not" is adequate proof or evidence for anything serious. On the other hand, I think a lot of people have trouble internalizing what "beyond a reasonable doubt" coupled with the presumption of innocence means in a criminal matter. And I've been practicing law for 30 plus years and am not wholly sure what "clear and convincing evidence" is
  22. As has been pointed out, that was not an uncommon sentiment about Katrina, going the other way, but geezus.
  23. Yeah, that's fucking weird. Doesn't happen among the people I know.
  24. Didn't see this mentioned, but some minor Houston official made some scandalous and deeply offensive remarks on a TikTok (of course) about this disaster. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/whitmire-sade-perkins-camp-mystic-20628967.php She made some valid points that have been acknowledged here, that if these girls were darker there would probably be less of an uproar and far fewer consequences. In comments on her post, there was the following:
  25. It's an interesting question. Recent tendency has been to blame Soviet communism, but that ignores what a complete shitshow Tsarist Russia was. It seems the very thing that made Russia ripe for the Bolshevik revolution, massive poverty and wealth-disparity, is exactly the thing that turned Soviet Russia into its own dictatorship where the people were mere pawns. The big answer seems to be that in Russia life has always been very cheap. In the context of Stalinism, Arthur Koestler in Darkness at Noon described it as a "vivisection morality," a willingness to experiment on live people that tends not to exist or to a lesser extent in other developed nations. And that seems to be the thing that is transcendent in Russian politics and society: their leaders are more willing to sacrifice a lot of life, and the populace to tolerate it, than other countries.
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