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Texas Jeff

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  1. A short history of recent impeachments: Everyone during Nixon: "OMG, WTF Nixon, you are an idiot. You were WINNING! You WON! You shouldn't commit crimes and stuff. Here comes the impeachment." Nixon "Later..." R's during Clinton: "Dude you were getting blowjobs from an intern in the Oval?" Clinton: "No .... hang on ... actually yes" R's: "Here comes the impeachment" D's during Bush 2: "Hey, uh, we noticed you invaded TWO countries after 9/11, and one of them we're not so sure about" Bush: "Gonna impeach?" D's: "No, we're just pointing that out" D's during Trump: "Hey, everyone's saying you pressured a foreign country to investigate Hunter Biden, to make Joe Biden look bad." Trump: "So?" Congress later on: "Hey, you can't just storm the capitol if you lose an election. This is our spot and people died." Trump: "And?" R's during Biden: "Hey, we're thinking about thinking about impeaching you." Biden: "Why?" R's: "Mostly to investigate Hunter, to make you look bad."
  2. They didn't lose a forest fire, they just ran out of trees.
  3. If you go look at the Austin High vs Westlake game on Youtube, the football team leaves the field at about 1:20 into the video. The bands are clear and the teams run back on at 1:51, 31 minutes total. That game was right before the contest performance for both bands, and both Austin High and Westlake have drill teams and large bands with props, front ensembles, etc. Maybe 500 people on and off the field with both schools combined. Pretty much the worst case for halftime length. If you go to one of the early season games, it's about 22 minutes for both bands and drill team. It might feel like an hour to football parents but it's really not that long.
  4. OK, to get this thread back on track I would like to get Aggie tears and Longhorn Band in the same shot: Band is fun my friends, high school or college, especially if you get to go to a game like that with your band friends.
  5. Band performances are 5 mins to get on the field, 8 mins to perform, 2 mins to exit. Max 15 minutes. That's the UIL rule. And that's at the end of the season when they know the entire show. Earlier in the season it's less than that because they only know half the show. Add three minutes for the drill team's performance. That's not a lot of time to ask during a three hour event. Also, in Austin ISD, most bands practice on parking lots. They have no access to turf fields. The shows they do at football games are important because being on turf is totally different than being on asphalt, and the competitions are all on turf fields. You can see this in the first few games of the season where the kids are all over the place on the field. It may not be your thing but it's important to the kids in the band and they are students at the school, enjoying their high school years.
  6. https://www.statesman.com/story/business/real-estate/2023/07/21/upscale-condo-project-proposed-for-austins-clarksville-neighborhood/70439464007/ 247 condos with all the railroad traffic and high voltage power lines that you want. Would be great to have some low income units for Austin High teachers, which it does not.
  7. Well, if you have some time: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/f155e1e0-bec0-40cf-a707-2d117ba4f714 My answer is that the folks in the “eastern crescent”, the traditional non wealthy neighborhoods, may be most at risk. Old non-eastern neighborhoods have deed restrictions and newer neighborhoods have HOAs. But, the city does not enforce deed restrictions, so if you have construction starting on your street, it is up to you to sue to enforce the deed restrictions. Wealthy folks will have the time and knowledge and money to do that, non wealthy folks not so much.
  8. UIL page with school enrollments and cutoffs: https://www.uiltexas.org/alignments
  9. Yep. But her house is a single family dwelling on 6100 sq ft of land, at a corner lot, with no neighbors across the street. It's not even legal to park in front of her house. In other parts of Austin, it will soon be legal to divide that parcel into two (with HOME phase 2) and put three homes on each of those smaller lots. Leslie will never have to worry about someone buying the property next to her and redeveloping it, because the HOME rules do not apply to Mueller.
  10. Leslie pre-purchased a second home in Mueller, where these rules do not apply. She's good. When her term ends she can sell her current home for top dollar and move to the protected house, which is not subject to the new rules.
  11. Northeast ECHS, which used to be Reagan HS ... as in John H. Reagan who was in Jefferson Davis' cabinet, which is why it was renamed. The shooting could have been at the high school or Nelson Field, which is across the street, slightly northeast of Northeast.
  12. In a random collision in Austin, the chance of that happening is like 1 in 3.
  13. A few years ago y'all approved a $250 million bond for affordable housting. As part of that bond, Austin is partnering with the Austin Housing Conservancy to buy old apartments. The two paid $35 million for 200 apartments, of which $15 million came from you the taxpayer. That's $175,000 per apartment ... the city part is $75k per apartment. These are old but cheap run down places. According to this article, the current owners raised rents up to 25% on existing residents prior to closing on the deal, as a condition of the sale. From the article: “The city was wanting us to raise the rents and to start charging for utilities and trash pick-up and pet fees,” said Reese, who left Central Properties a couple of months before the sale was finalized. “Which didn’t make any sense to me because they said they were (creating) affordable housing.” One of the buildings was renamed "The Adler" in honor of our former mayor: https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2023/12/austin-helped-buy-cheap-apartments-with-the-intent-of-keeping-prices-low-instead-rents-went-up/
  14. The ESPN predictor favors Texas over Alabama, should it come to that. Alabama and Texas must win to be in, that should be obvious. Should Texas and Alabama both win, Texas gets a spot in every scenario. In that case, a Michigan loss puts both Texas and Alabama in the playoff. A Michigan win has no effect on Texas, they are in ... but Alabama must then rely on a Florida St loss to get in. There are only two "SEC shutout" cases, and they require wins by Alabama, Michigan, Texas, and Florida St, however these cases represent about a 29% chance of occuring.
  15. Hmmm, here's one website for Airbnb's that has a count of around 14,800: http://insideairbnb.com/austin/ I don't have access to MLS, but Zillow shows about 2700 homes are for sale in the Austin area right now, depending on the size of the map. Also, this article says Austin area will deliver about 23,400 new apartments in 2023, to add to the 45,000 apartments created from 2020-2022: https://austin.urbanize.city/post/austin-apartment-construction-how-many
  16. I was once in a room of 60 folks, some of whom were going to be on the jury. The judge said "If you are a convicted felon, you cannot serve, please come forward and I will dismiss you." No one moved. The judge then said "If you are not certain if you are convicted felon or not, please come forward and we will discuss it." Three people needed to talk to the judge. Two left the room, one had to sit back down.
  17. BTW, to anyone thinking that the HOME initiative will provide housing for a teacher ... no way. Teachers start just over $50k, consider a teacher that is a few years in making $60k. A reasonable rule of thumb says you should spend no more than 30% of your income on housing. That's $18k for our teacher. Combine the mortgage and property tax costs, plus some money for upkeep, and consider you probably need 10% of the price of a home each year to afford it. At the max 30%, your teacher can afford a $180k home. Bump that up to $220k or so, because tax exemptions will help out on the lower end. Show me the developer that is planning to deliver a home for $220k, even at six to a lot ... no way ... it's not going to happen. HOME is not for teachers. The teachers that I know make ends meet either by being married to someone making a lot more money, by being independently wealthy and teaching as a 2nd career, by packing into an older home and sharing expenses, by living in a tiny apartment, or by quitting the teaching profession and getting a higher paying job. The school district is building some housing for them that will help, and I predict that as kids leave the district they will have plenty of spare land to build more housing on, but HOME won't help.
  18. Here's the list of P5 non-conference ranked opponents faced by the current top 8 teams: #11 Texas vs #3 Alabama #6 Ohio St vs #9 Notre Dame #8 Florida St vs #5 LSU Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Georgia vs nobody There aren't enough games between conferences to determine who is better. The committee is just picking the four 12-0 teams this week. If you wanted to pick a weak conference ... well .... the SEC went 0-2 in those top games, both upsets, both by double digits.
  19. I ran every permutation of that selector. Per the ESPN playoff predictor, Texas is in with a Texas win and a Georgia, Michigan, or Florida State loss.
  20. let me sum up the thoughts of those leaving: 1. It’s hot 2. It’s hot 3. It’s hot 4. Like really really hot 5. Plus other stuff
  21. Have you tried going here and entering your info? https://tax-office.traviscountytx.gov/properties/taxes/account-search That should take you to a page for your account, and from there you can see your bill. You can drill down to see how much you are paying for each tax entity. The "Proposed Tax" rate vs "No New Revenue" rate is something the lege threw in there. They want you to know what the rate would have been if the tax authority had not raised the tax they want to collect from last year to this year.
  22. Texas's home schedule this year: Rice, Wyoming, Kansas, BYU, Kansas St, Texas Tech Texas's home schedule next year: OOC warmups Colorado St, UTSA, ULM ... then Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Miss St Add road/neutral site games vs Arkansas, A&M, Michigan, OU, and Vanderbilt Talk about upgrading the game day experience....
  23. Money talks. Should have written that on the tower when they had the chance.
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