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Baconboy

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  1. I was thinking about this too. Either LCRA (or whoever makes these decisions) is completely incompetent, or there was concern for the safety of boaters on those lakes if they opened up the floodgates earlier because they had to know the water was coming. After seeing the footage of all the water flowing over Starke dam I feel like the only reason to not open them sooner was concern over the safety of the people celebrating the 4th on the lakes. If that wasn’t the case then someone should get fired.
  2. That’s a really confusing, misleading, and shitty tweet. Don’t click.
  3. The camps we’re talking about are all upstream. That’s not to say there isn’t flooding downstream too, but looking at the radar I don’t think you’re getting accurate info.
  4. I was in Wimberley during the Memorial Day flood several years ago, and I can tell you this is easier said than done. That downpour came out of nowhere and the rate at which the river rose was incomprehensible. By the time the weather reports/warnings started coming out there was little first responders and officials could do - though I will say they were all over the place doing what they could.
  5. And I knew you were talking about Pasadena, CA. Made me laugh though since this reminded me of rumors homeland security once initially dismissed a threat as non-credible since it entailed targeting a refinery in Pasadena, and their high level investigators quickly determined there are no refineries in Pasadena. Fortunately someone eventually realized there's also a Pasadena, Texas.
  6. Well shit. And to think this whole time I thought we were talking about Lower Alabama. No wonder I'm so confused.
  7. In that case I think you meant to write Pasadena, California.
  8. “Gravy Seal open carry types” - I’m not sure if I’ve been living under a rock but I’ve never heard this term before, and I love it.
  9. And before anyone else gets their panties in a wad over this (or gets tricked by a far-right leaning, billionaire-funded smear machine again), if you read the bill you’ll see it only applies to the following people/entities: Sec. 255.0015. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL ADVERTISING CONTAINING ALTERED MEDIA; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) This section applies only to a person who: (1) is an officeholder, candidate, or political committee; (2) makes expenditures during a reporting period that in the aggregate exceed $100 for political advertising, other than an expense to cover the basic cost of hardware, messaging software, and bandwidth; or (3) publishes, distributes, or broadcasts political advertising described by Subsection (b) in return for consideration. So if you want to make funny memes fire away. You’re safe so long as you aren’t a politician, PAC, or getting paid to do so. Sincerely, Dade’s mom
  10. Speaking of dirty money, if you’re going to link articles published by Texas Scorecard, you should know Tim Dunn was the primary financial backer of Empower Texas; Texas Scorecard is an online publication that was launched by Empower Texas; Tim Dunn is on the board of Texas Scorecard; Tim Dunn is a contributing author for Texas Scorecard. Tim Dunn is the one who wants to kill this bill because it would criminalize misleading campaign materials like the ones aimed at Dade Phelan when Patrick, Paxton, and their cronies were trying to get him primaried. The dirty money guys you mentioned above are the ones who funded the article you linked, and are the ones fighting against this bill.
  11. You should realize you have this completely backwards. While Phelan is a Republican, he is the former Speaker of the House who Patrick and Paxton tried to get primaried. Phelan led the effort to impeach Ken Paxton, something he actually got the majority of Republicans in the house to support. Read the bill. This is related to the mountains of misleading campaign materials aimed at Phelan in the primary; much of which was funded by the $3 million Defend Texas Liberty PAC (largely funded by Tim Dunn) gave Dan Patrick ahead of the impeachment trial in the senate.
  12. We’re shitting the bed but what’s going on with these refs is absurd.
  13. That was only 8 seconds, btw.
  14. Good point. And on related note it’s amazing to watch the once absurd plot of “Canadian Bacon” taking shape before us in real life.
  15. If only this guy was still alive.
  16. They were both out-messaged and out-lied. In swing states Republicans hammered home the message that Kamala Harris supports taxpayer funded transgender surgery for prisoners and detained migrants. She also supported cutting funding for ICE. These are really easy points to communicate and like it or not these ideas are very unpopular with most Americans. Too many people in this thread are unable to come to terms with the fact that this should have been a landslide victory for democrats, but they shot themselves in the foot by continuing to vocally support unpopular fringe causes. I had a political science professor who always hammered home the idea that if you want to win an election you have to win over "Johnny Six-Pack". Johnny Six-Pack isn't going to research the Republicans lies, but he absolutely knows he doesn't want his taxes going towards transgender surgery for prisoners. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/kfile-harris-pledged-support-in-2019-to-cut-ice-funding-and-provide-transgender-surgery-to-detained-migrants/index.html
  17. Well you’re in luck because sadly that’s what our state leaders seem to want too.
  18. So what you're saying is they're "ChINOs"?
  19. Good to know. Everyone around me in the stadium just assumed they didn't want to throw a third flag for PI. I heard Dusty Dvoracek mention in postgame that the ball was tipped, but didn't believe him because fuck that guy.
  20. You clearly don’t know much about football if you can’t understand why success rate is far more important than win/loss record when ranking teams.
  21. Oh come on. There's lots of football yet to be played and there are no weekends off in the mighty S-E-C!!!* *Am I doing this right???
  22. Hey man, my eyes are nearly fifty years old, I was sitting in the stratosphere in section 105, and was 4 margs and 5 beers deep at the time. Can we all just agree I pretty much have a photographic memory?
  23. We actually threw a deep ball early in the first quarter (2nd drive?) that resulted in a DPI call. Our receiver (maybe Bond?) was covered but it got us 15 yards, sadly making it one of our most successful plays of the game. Would have been good to throw deep more to at least try to keep their D honest instead of just letting them jump the shorts routes and hammer our guys on screens. For the record, it was under thrown and we got the PI call as our receiver slowed and came back for the ball.
  24. Right, but in that instance didn’t he rob his own bank, and the teller recognized him since he’d been there several times before?
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