we have reached the point where a single reality is unrecoverable
we are at the point where waging war for a single truth-fact-based reality is jeopardizing the existence of a football board that we all love
if it were my board i would wipe out everything except sports and call it a day
my dungeons and dragons alignment is True Neutral, dead center, so let me try to mediate this shitstorm with a proposal:
1. the forum titles of Daily Texan and Cloak Room and the ostensible purpose of each forum, as named and so defined 19 years ago (!) no longer accurately represent the content posted therein
2. rename them, left/right, red/blue, maybe run a mod thread stickied to the top of each forum asking for nominations of the new name for that forum, then run a poll
3. those on the left upset that DT allows alternative facts news will drop their crusade and accept the double standard - the 'right' gets their forum, the 'left' gets theirs, and there is no longer any attempt to bifurcate "news" and "politics"
i used to be almost exclusively a DT poster but had to move over to CR when the rona started
i used to think the issue didn't exist despite what i had been told, but i have now seen enough evidence of it, and the 'invisible dot' is apropos
it is most evident to me in situations where there are 2 or more threads spanning both DT and CR
imma is trying to enforce something that defies logic and language so i feel empathy for him and understand when he blows a gasket
@Dbeasy please go back one page and read my posts #1130 and #1131 and reply with your take on imma's assertion that 1 of those 2 posts is what imma says they are, i.e. which one of them is opinion:
the out-to-prove something was '94
the gold standard for the nats was 2009
they care plenty but the juju hasn't been right since juergen was fired
even for the big 5 bad juju tanks 1 of 3 full international tournaments
at a national/federal level this dichotomy allows dembiden vilification and so be it...
but in Texas, where republicans control 100% of the government and have for 3 decades, the 2 categories are exactly the same thing
i feel like HAL in 2001
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cnn just aired a NEWS CONFERENCE from kerrville where the kerr county sheriff said he didn't find out about the flood until 911 calls started coming between 4-5am, and when pressed said he can't give a timeliine and right now his only purpose is recovery and remains etc.
this was followed with a vacationer interviewed who said he didn't receive any advanced warning but at 245am the water was getting in to the house he was staying in
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/us/texas-floods-warning-system-invs
Behind the scenes, NWS officials were communicating with local emergency managers in the affected region over an internal messaging platform. Typically, the media is expected to treat messages from this platform as off-the-record, but a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official granted CNN permission to report general information about the Texas disaster from the platform.
The messages show that after initial briefings on the afternoon of Thursday, July 3, about the potential of heavy rains to come, emergency managers from some counties in the region were posting on the system, querying forecasters about what to expect. Those messages picked up in pace as the flooding began in the early hours of July 4.
But no emergency manager from Kerr County participated in those discussions on the messaging platform. It’s unclear whether officials were reviewing the information being shared.
accuweather dude says there is a NOAA weather radio transmitter in kerrville
anyone with a NOAA "SAME" weather radio would have received all of the alerts and if the radio was on no way they could sleep through it
all the magat gubbmint had to do was pass out NOAA weather radios to each of the camps and every resident or business owner in the floodplains
cnn has been reporting that "kerryville" applied for a fema grant in '16 and didn't get iit
my read of the posted minutes does not jive with this
am i wrong? did i miss this in another source other than the reddit link i posted earlier?
cnn has reviewed chat comms between the nws and all adjacent counties who were interacting with the nws
kerr county shows no interactions on this chat system transcript
you likely recognize cnn's chief investigative reporter pam brown
her dad was governor of kentucky
her mom was phyllis george, miss america 1971
pam just broke down live reporting from kerrville
only olds will remember george was one of the first women to hold a national sports tv job
george was born in denton and went to unt and tcu
so the texas connection explains pam's breakdown because she's a mystic alum
cbs and now khou totally ignoring what's in the minutes - the kerr county leadership did not take money given to them because black president, democrat president, rona not real, values
it's in the fucking minutes
somebody to the rescue please
texas monthly, axios, the hill, anyone
then the cbs head talked about his conversation today with i think moser "we tried to get a grant boo hoo us waah waah" cbs totally letting the kerr county fuckers off the hook or completely ignorant of what's been uncovered online in the last 24 hours
i've seen it on 385 heading from fort stockton to marathon
heading west on 10 watched a giant anvil form on the horizon, at least 30 miles wide, drove around it on the north on 10, then on the west side of it on 385 and came up on a low water crossing where the sign said "watch out for flash floods" and we slowed to a crawl and 8 feet of water 100' wide came down the arroyo
we got out and fired one up to thank our stars, and the water was gone in less than 5 minutes