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Samson's Wig

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  1. There is waste everywhere, to be sure, but AISD is spending less per kid than most school districts in the state, and in line with other city school district. Suburban schools spend significantly more (often without paying for it themselves). This type of simple thinking makes folks in districts with giant football stadiums think they paid for it themselves because there was a bond election for it, while completely disregarding the millions in recapture dollars that were received to pay for everything else. Austin residents paid $1.67 billion in taxes and $940 million in recapture (much of which went into the general fund to be passed out to cronies through contract work). It's robbery. I love that Spring Branch tried to put their foot down last year, even though they ultimately had to cave. I would love it if AISD school board told the state to fuck off and come and try to take our money. It would be symbolic, ultimately, but the know-nothing voters in this state need to be made more aware of what type of pure criminals they keep electing, who don't mind stealing from kids to line their own pockets. I suppose as long as it's those inner city kids many still won't care, but it's bound to wake some people up. Our school funding system has been hijacked by low rent criminals, and most Texans don't care. That's not the type of Texans I recall being brought up with.
  2. Gotta love the response of, "Just learn to live with it", to what amounts to direct theft from a school district whose residents pay significantly more than any other district in the state just to allow dipshits in the suburbs to have football palaces and robotic labs that no one uses. Kind of reminds one of Clayton William's "May as well lay back and enjoy it" line (which was amazingly repurposed by a dipshit candidate in Michigan in 2022). This all ultimately amounts to taxation without representation, and if the shoe were on the other foot the folks in the burbs would be marching on the capitol with guns. I don't want to see vouchers pass, but it will be fascinating to watch all the handwringing from the same crowd when their public schools get as shitty as city school districts are now. We just can't stop electing criminals in this state, and it baffles me when the default setting of most Texans, regardless of their politics, is to be hardworking and honest. It's been an amazing and scary con to watch play out since the nineties.
  3. Dropped the wife's vehicle at the dealership Thursday morning for some warranty work and recall service. Great timing. Just sitting there until they figure this shit out.
  4. AISD is fucked. It's nothing new, but it makes me sad every time I think about it. Selfishly, it's in part because I don't want to move or pay private school tuition again. More broadly, it's a disgrace what the party of family values is doing to children in this state. Once TEA backs up their evangelical truck of bullshit to loot what is left of AISD, which is any year now, we'll pull the kids immediately. Not putting them through what those kids in Houston are dealing with. Texas should be completely fucking ashamed of itself for recapture, but the good folks in the suburbs don't care because they got theirs. Raising taxes again is exactly what the crooks in office want, as it provides them with more plunder. I feel stupid every time I pause and actually think about why we live here.
  5. I assume this study was performed in the hope that something may actually get done about the problem.
  6. When it comes to these shootings, it seems like "WTF is wrong with you, towns within a 1.5-hour drive from Austin?" may be more appropriate. Austin is full of Liams, Olivias, Elijahs, Isabellas, Olivers, and Emmas, who just moved to Austin from Brooklyn or San Francisco (or even worse, DFW). They aren't shooting a damn thing, even if they may be a larger cause for concern than dumbass teenagers with firearms.
  7. I’m always amazed how much worse traffic is on the weekends than week days. Week days it’s really just the rush hours bringing people in. Saturday and Sunday it’s all damn day. If it weren’t for you knuckle dragging suburbanites, traffic in Austin would be just fine.
  8. Is it possible the driver was visiting from China? https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/why-drivers-in-china-intentionally-kill-the-pedestrians-they-hit-chinas-laws-have-encouraged-the-hit-to-kill-phenomenon.html
  9. Glad she was convicted. For those outside of Texas, the most shocking part of this story is likely not that the perpetrator is a woman of color herself but that Texas actually passed hate crime legislation. To be fair, a conviction under the hate crime statute is exceedingly rare, but it's on the books. They're rare enough that this is a conviction the Collin County DA's office will be bragging about.
  10. My folks left town the day before and dodged the danger. Fires are not uncommon around there, but this one looks to do some serious damage to the city itself. A lot of friends and family have lost their homes and many more are in Roswell, or back in the panhandle with family, waiting to hear if their homes are lost. It's basically a satellite Texas town, for those who don't know it.
  11. I was heavily involved in the wedding planning, as the maid of honor and mother in law were in another country. End result? We got married on a Thursday. Every venue you could possibly want is available on a Thursday, and will do it for peanuts. Same goes for photographers, bands, etc. etc. etc. This was twenty years ago, but I'll bet it still holds up at least to a degree. It's not as convenient for people who have to travel to attend, for sure, but if you want to have a blow out bash and pay pennies for it, get married on a weekday.
  12. I remember watching that one roll in from the top floor of Moody Gardens in Galveston. Fun times.
  13. Dell has had its fair share of sexual harassment/gender discrimination/unsafe work environment issues over the years. It seems like they've generally been able to manage them and move forward, though. I hear things are in much better shape in this regard than they used to be. It's amazing how many harassment lawsuits were filed over the last twenty years in the tech industry alone, but also not that amazing if you know people in tech. Elon is merely a byproduct of a much larger disease.
  14. NM way too late to be responding to it.
  15. Wait a minute, are you trying to tell us that Steve Gutenberg wasn't a printing magnate? Then how do you explain his constant whining about some dude named Fust? And also, how do you explain this image?
  16. Gap kid is no monster. Aggies fall to their knees in fear and begin attacking one another at the mere sight of him, but that doesn't make him a monster.
  17. Tribalism at its finest. I understand it's human nature and that a lot of people will simply never rise above it, but it's still disgusting.
  18. As far as I know, yes. I highly doubt there are many Catholics under the age of seventy who follow that one, though. I'll ask my Catholic wife and get back to you. Like all religions, it's pick and choose what you like and ignore what you don't, because if you tried to actually follow every rule of any religion you'd go insane.
  19. No true Scotsman, amirite?
  20. God told the SBC that IVF is a sin today. Fuck those pieces of shit and anyone who follows their cult of hatred. All religions are a cult, most of them benign, but Baptists can get fucked twice on Sundays and again on Wednesday evenings.
  21. I was also raised SBC and also gave it all up as a teen once the con/cult became obvious. I could have written this same thing just about word for word, so I don't think it was just your small town congregation.
  22. That area of NM is empty as fuck. I grew up in the panhandle and drove through the Raton Pass all the time on the way to ski or do whatever in New Mexico or Colorado. I once ran out of gas in a new (to me) truck that turned out to have a faulty gas gauge. I think I was around 20 years old or so. I started walking and kept walking for a few hours when, out of nowhere, a school bus with about ten kids on it pulled over, picked me up, and dropped me at a gas station a good ways down the road. Those kids must have had one hell of a ride to and from school every day. I wasn't as lucky getting a ride back to the truck, and now I don't trust gauges anymore.
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