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Cap33

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  1. We had this issue too. Those fuckers will drive up and, if they don't think anyone is there, they'll just drive away. We had to have a person at the house constantly during working hours when they were supposed to show up so they couldn't pull that bullshit and actually do the inspection. No, they can't. Just as an example (and this could have changed in the last few years, but I doubt it), plumbing inspectors must be master plumbers, but the City doesn't pay them anything close to what a master plumber makes. What master plumber wants that work? That's why so many inspectors are semi-retired and DGAF.
  2. In all seriousness, the ban on Covid vaccine mandates is a wake-up call to the business community. They're starting to realize that this minority calling the shots is not business-friendly if the business interests get in the way of certain very large donors' social agenda.
  3. Look, these beauties aren't free. You may not recognize them from this picture which appears to show them just after installation. The ones you're probably used to seeing are black and damaged from UPS trucks running over them. If you're really lucky, you get the posts and the speed bumps that fuck up your car like these along Shoal Creek. Mobility bond funds at work!
  4. This x a billion. I really resent the city's refusal to engage the neighborhoods and come up with reasonable, workable solutions. Any dissent is met with being called a NIMBY or worse. It's like they've hired consultants to just overlay a new plan onto a map, pat themselves on their backs, and collect a check. Maybe I'm being hyperbolic in thinking that, but the utter refusal to listen to street-specific concerns and dismissal of alternate ideas sure makes it feel like that's what's happening. The City won't answer basic questions about whether we have the infrastructure (electric, gas, and sewer lines, to start) for this, what happens to the tree ordinances that will get in the way of three homes per lot, and (I'm being dead serious about this) how the city is going to pick up my trash and recycling if I have nowhere to put it because of all the cars parked up and down the street.
  5. The kicking challenge for me is the most entertaining part of the show week to week. LMAO that that stoner kid almost cost them $75K each.
  6. Why didn't they just move over to all the empty seats in the end zone?
  7. We had no trouble getting into the Fair through one of the east gates. The attendants were in "Show and Go" mode, and it was a breeze. Getting OUT of the Fair was ridiculously stupid because they made everyone walk through one narrow gate with a second one blocked by another attendant on her phone. I've never had to wait in line to exit before, and it's not like they were checking for people walking out with beers or anything. I don't get that at all. Getting into the game at Gate C was fairly typical, but they were not letting anyone through without Gate C being the designated gate on the ticket. Some students were arguing with the attendant about being sent around to their correct gate, and they held up the line with that discussion, but there wasn't anything unusual about the wait time. I usually try to get in 45 minutes before kickoff though. I guess those same attendants didn't give a shit about enforcing any rules whatsoever because they could not have cared less about showing a pass out slip after halftime. Getting into Section 11 was a real treat, and the cop standing there was just enjoying the game I guess.
  8. This was true in our area. The guy didn't even want to see my pass out ticket to get back in Gate C. I'm always amazed at the number of people who sneak in and make the concourses SRO viewing, but yesterday there seemed to be more of this than usual.
  9. In for $100 and good karma before hitting the road for Dallas.
  10. I grew up in one, so I'm well aware. But so is the church. If your church tells you to do online school while your kids keep their eligibility to play football, I think plenty may see it as a win-win.
  11. There's big money to be made in online schooling. That's how they'll appease the rural "Christian" base on the vouchers.
  12. My biggest concern is that the conference increases the degree of difficulty with some ultra shitty officiating because people are calling this a trap game, giving them reason to think they can get away with trying to fuck with us. Don't (shouldn't) make a shit. Hook 'em.
  13. Beer in wax cups, particularly that served at the State Fair, has restorative properties that may reduce the harm caused by running your Solo cups through the dishwasher.
  14. Same for the dishwasher. If you're going to use plastic food storage, hand wash it.
  15. We fly in/out of Denver twice a year. Every time we're on our back to to DIA, I wonder what family fleeced the government by selling off a bunch of worthless land. And I'm equally amazed that Pena isn't shut down nightly with accidents because the lighting and signage is so bad. Holy hell, I hate that airport. The kids always bitch about the SWA terminal not having a Chik-Fil-A, and I refuse to get on that stupid tram for any extra trips.
  16. It's obvious that this is no contest. So they'll flag Baylor enough to be able to point at this game and say, "See, here's a game where your opponent had more penalties than you, so stop whining."
  17. Re-upping this because 'tis the season for college applications... Does anyone have a source for last year's acceptance rates per college or major? My kid is not auto-admit but top 10% and applying to College of Liberal Arts as either Government or History major. I have heard from others who claim to have it on good authority that those two majors have a lower acceptance rate than other LA majors (except maybe Psychology), and that Colleges of Communication and Education are easier to get in. Anyone have any intel or sources you're willing to share? This stressed parent would very much appreciate it.
  18. This is all I hear from them after we beat Alabama: "The SEC is down across the board this year."
  19. And then the conference continues to fuck us over. I share the outrage, but we have no leverage behind closed doors. This is a job for John Bianco to start working the media with video evidence of the fuckery directed at both departing schools. No one will feel sorry for us because, if you haven't heard, we're responsible for the conference realignment upheaval. The point isn't to get sympathy; the objective is to make the Big 12 a national joke because it has the shittiest officiating and everyone knows it. Let the media put the conference and its chairman on blast for engineering outcomes and being the petty pussy ass bitches that they are. It's really hard to imagine the Big12 being so spiteful that they ruin the conference's best chance at having a playoff team, but then again it's the Big12.
  20. For it to happen before the 2025 session, I think it would take Abbott adding it to a special session call, and the House agreeing to fund it. (Someone correct me on that if it's wrong.) The House could tell Paxton no and force the TX Supreme Court to decide whether the Whistleblower Act applies to him as an elected official. If the Court gets that right and then lifts the abatement, discovery starts up again. And at trial, the plaintiffs will get a presumption of retaliation that the OAG would have to rebut.
  21. I rewatched De La Garza's cross, and when the defense was asking him about the time line, he didn't want to concede the date the whistleblowers went to the FBI because he didn't have personal knowledge of it. The lawyer was incredulous and asked him something like "you don't know? You're the head of HR, aren't you?" He answered "now, yes." If it were a regular trial, I have no doubt Dutko would've picked up on it, but he was thrashing the guy and on the clock. And as someone mentioned up thread, these senators are reading all of this anyway.
  22. Buzbee was rubbing Rusty's mistake in his face. If he really wanted to question Brickman (and I don't really think he does; Brickman is solid and pulls no punches), then he'd want to take him on cross and be a dick with a bunch of leading questions and "objection, non responsive as to everything after yes/no." Yes, he could do the same by asking to treat him as a hostile witness, but it's extra effort, and Patrick may not go along. And I agree they should have limited hearsay objections significantly. This has been ridiculous. I thought for sure she was throwing up in the bathroom.
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