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Posts posted by gmr548
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Just now, bolverk said:
Not having previously known who this Gavin character is, nor why he was sticking a dildo up his ass, I went to the googletrons for an answer.
Apparently, the act was an attempt to demonstrate that he doesn't hate gay people.
He seems to be really, really fond of the gay lifestyle. NTTAWWT.
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4 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:
Shorter video of Gaetz wanting the Parkland parents removed.
Remember folks, the DeMoCrAt PaRtY is the party of weak betas. Republicans are strong alphas.
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6 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:
Two years and not a single bit of economic policy, you should learn from the past, instead they doubled down on what cost them their power in the first place.
Lol he does not see the irony.
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On 1/31/2019 at 5:32 PM, Lobo said:
So one of the leaders in autonomous cars, smart vehicles, ridesharing technology, one of the most dynamic and trend-setting workforces on the planet, etc, etc, etc---demanded a building with 1,300 parking spaces that won't be delivered for another 3 years when who knows what the fuck we'll be driving?
Yeah, that checks out.
A company so cutting edge can probably read the writing on the wall Austin isn't going to have a useful public transit system any time soon and will continue to favor car-based sprawl as a method of development. It also might tell you that those things you mention probably aren't taking over in the short term future.
That building looks really cool. One of the first of these projects I'm legit excited to see go up.
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On 1/30/2019 at 1:43 PM, Chicken fried bacon said:
Looks like I am traveling with the wife and kids (11,12) to Los Sueños in July. It’s been 15 years since my last trip to CR.
I know July is basically peak rainy season down there but I am really interested in CR for a getaway around the 4th. Have you or anyone else on here ever been in July before? Is the rain a big issue or is it just typical afternoon shower type thing?
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23 hours ago, Your Mom said:
I’ve definitely seen some newfangled techniques in my kids’ math work but I don’t think it’s actually Common Core. I thought I read somewhere a few years ago that Common Core is not taught in Texas public schools. Am I wrong in that?
Yes and no. Teaching Common Core is actually illegal in Texas. Because... Well, Texas. Duh. That said, while I haven't been in a classroom since 2015, the experienced math teachers I knew said that despite the blusterous rhetoric you see out of politicians, the standards have been trending toward CC. A quick google search shows a lot of articles claiming that math standards Texas put forward in 1026 are very similar to CC. Charter schools also have a bit more freedom to set their own.
I don't really have an opinion on CC math because I am not real well versed in it. What little I've seen does seem like it could be confusing at first, but it also seems to resemble how I do math in my head. We are a nation of morons who are terrible at math, even in a day to day sense. If CC helps change that then bring it on.
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5 hours ago, F250 said:
Drive to College Station, video yourself taking a dump on the 50 yard line in Kyle while chanting "AOC, AOC, AOC!" Then upload it to the internet.
You might have to go into witness relocation after that so have a go bag ready.
Judging by the intelligence of his posts, I'd venture to guess Kyle Field is within walking distance.
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Don't get me wrong, I love to see him getting hyped and creating buzz around his name through pre-draft performance. He has put in a hell of a lot of work over the past four years and it great to see it pay off. I think he can definitely have a successful and lucrative pro career.
That said, first or second round seems like a reach.
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They will vote for him again. Every single one.
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So Republicans and/or non-2 party voters can't chime in on either Independent threads (THIS ONE!) or Democratic nominee threads? Wow, the big tent party broadens...
Jesus. No one said you aren't allowed to chime in. Chiming in is the point of a message board. You aren't exempt from peoole engaging with your posts, which is going to include criticism.
Remember folks, it's the goddamn libcucks that are such triggered safe space snowflakes.
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On 2/2/2019 at 2:57 PM, tazhorn said:
Legalize all drugs?
It would instantly stop the flow of illegal drugs.
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On 2/2/2019 at 7:30 PM, tazhorn said:
Yes, guarded/ high tech points of entry on all the state highways on and off I10 and strategically placed checkpoints on I10... Plus a smart wall/ barriers along I10 in remote areas outside the cities and towns on I10 where needed...California through Texas.
Have you seen thousands of eyes going up and down an interstate day and night also watching the border before?
I could get behind this just to watch what happens at the Galleria during rush hour
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8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
I'm torn on how I want the Ds to run. My head says lean center to try and get some of the Rs, like the family member I mentioned earlier, but then I worry that they are too far gone already and fuck em, so let's go forward with the progressive ideas and leave them behind.
That either party needs to play to the center to win elections is a myth that has been consistently busted, including numerous times in recent years, and yet still somehow persists. Winning elections comes down to two things:
1.) Motivating your base - this has proven especially potent for Democrats because they have a larger (albeit geographically clustered) base, and for opposition parties because of the natural complacency that sets in among the supporters of the governing party. Some moderate, ala Hillary, doesn't accomplish that goal. Remember, she openly courted Republicans. It is documented that her campaign devoted resources to chasing pipe dreams in AZ, GA, and even TX. It didn't work out and the lack of enthusiasm from the base cost her the election.
2.) Being "charismatic" enough to pull in new voters and the 10 percent of this country that doesn't actually lean strongly one way or another, "independent" affiliation be damned. Your family member leans R. They are looking for a reason to vote R. Any reason. They are Bru McCoy to the Republican Party's USC. It would take a catastrophic meltdown for them to defect. And if they do, it will be more they Republican Party's doing than of any Democratic candidate. Conversely, I am an independent but in reality I vote D at a 90 percent plus clip, and at this point cannot imagine voting R outside of an extremely localized election. Rs could run a Romney or a Charlie Baker or whoever, and I'm sure they're fine and all, but I'm probably not voting for them because they're the party of Trump, Cruz, Patrick, etc. Data shows most "independents" are similar. It is a very small portion of the electorate whose vote is actually up for grabs, and while they are an important faction, they are not the most important factor in determining an election result.
I put charismatic in quotes because that word has expanded meaning in politics. It doesn't just mean engaging, sociable, and well-liked like it means regularly. In politics, it is basically means having a big personality, one way or the other. Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan... All of them as much or more because of perceived personal traits than any political positions. Similarly, Trump brought out the racists and the conspiracy nuts, Obama brought the youths and a huge minority vote, Bush rode the evangelicals... They each cultivated outsized following/turnout concentrated in their core constituencies that proved decisive. See Beto here in Texas - even if he is somewhat middle of the road for a national Democrat, he ran far to the left of what any other Texas D would have dared try. And he damn near won because of young people and suburban white women. Some moderate Democrat - HRC, John Kerry, whoever, doesn't make that happen.
Both of those points are kind of intertwined. The American electorate is finite. Even in the most hyper-charged political atmosphere in decades we have turnout below 60 percent. We know how ingrained people's political opinions are and how hard it is to get them to flip. You just don't get a lot of ROI moving to the middle. All of the resources you deploy will yield a relatively small number of votes at the end of the day. Motivating the democratic base would have won the Ds the election in 2016. Looking at 2020 - major Democratic policy positions have solid majority support among the American public, while Trump's support, as rabidly loyal as it may be, is at 40 percent at the most optimistic count. With that kind of advantage, you don't need to go chasing a few confused Rs. You need to energize, organize, and ultimately turnout the people - who make up the majority of this country by a significant margin - who are already sympathetic to your platform.
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4 hours ago, Gardner Barnes said:
Why do the most hardcore aggy have weird shit going on with their faces - like this dudes with the uneven eyes
Humans and sheep aren't supposed to breed.
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2 hours ago, Chooky said:
Over 4,000,000 Texans voted for this.
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FWIW, this basically describes me in 2010 when it was top 10 percent and there was no cap on the proportion of the class that was auto admits. I was top 15-20 percent at a big DFW HS, though not one I'd call "competitive." Made up for it with good essays, a high ACT, and sports/student govt. Probably didn't hurt that I was from a poor, single-parent HH. Hell, I wrote one of my essays about the need for a college football playoff. I've heard some similar stories. I think UT really means it when they say they take the holistic approach with in state kids that aren't auto admits.I guess I didn't really convey my meaning well in my first message. My daughter went through this process last year. Competitive high school in Dallas area, she was in the 15-20% class rank and had good grades and test scores (those are the hurdles I was referencing, NOT the 6% auto admit limit). My wife and her were both convinced she had no chance due to the top 6-7% issue and wanted to go down the pricey college advisor route, etc. Her counselor at school and I both just said focus on the essays and let it ride. She got her acceptance letter into the program of her choice in January 2018 (not business or engineering mind you). I think it was that I had her add "Hook 'em!!" at the end of her essay. She remains convinced it had nothing to do with it. YMMV.
Good luck to your daughter and your wallet.
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Best time to go grocery shopping
That's me, after catching up on a bit of work I put off this weekend. I typically go to a SB party just for the social/ food element, but had other stuff going on this weekend. SB was what I decided to sacrifice to take sure of what I needed to do at work. Don't feel like I'm missing much.
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Damn. Mizzou is shit already. Imagine how bad they'd be without cheating.
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Moronic dribble is the style you like?
Drivel*
The irony of this post is incredible.
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16 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Democrat party.
It's the "tu" of politics.
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On 1/28/2019 at 11:37 PM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:
I ain't slogging through 5 pages of sewage-
They're a generation that, if they were white and male, had to have a plan to fail. They were shoved into unprecedented prosperity by and large due to government policy, policy gifted to them by those who survived the Depression, were convinced by a Hollywood actor that government was the problem hindering them, that ignored its value, that government was aiding the "others", and if government would just unhitch this drag, pull up the ladder behind them, they could realize their boot-strapping, delusional, snowflaking, completely independent arc to even greater prosperity.
They're fools and most will die that way. Fools.
This is a good summary. They have the audacity to scold Gen X and Millennials for their life choices, approach to work/life, or politics with seemingly no awareness that they were set up for success in a way no generation before or after them could, or ever will even come close to. They were born and came of age in a time when this country wielded economic dominance the world has never seen, and probably never will again given that a third world war won't leave anyone as last man standing. They were born with first and goal on the one and fumbled the ball away on third down. And they won't even be alive to see the havoc their leadership from the 90s until now will wreak on the world in terms of climate change, stratification of wealth, etc.
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3 hours ago, CO Horn said:
I’ll bite. There are currently 10 Federal Holidays. Of these only 6 do most companies close. I don’t think many businesses would close if they made Election Day a National Holiday. Not saying I’m against it, just don’t see the point.
Making it easier for the millions of Americans employed by the various arms of federal, state, and local governments to vote while establishing the cultural norm that would likely lead to some participation in the private sector? In general, when it comes to measures of expanding access to the vote, a pretty compelling argument should have to be made NOT to do it.
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3 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
Ha!
New York?
Globalist cuck.
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On 1/29/2019 at 9:44 AM, SmokeyTheBear said:
Can any GOP supporters really outline their platform at this point? Cause all I can see as their platform being is: move money from middle-class and poor up to the top percentages, limit civil liberties, limit voting population, choke all public services (education, utilities, infrastructure, etc) to allow for private enterprises to fill the void, get far-right judges into key positions to ensure this cycle continues for years.
And if you agree with this strategy, how do you think this will benefit the country long-term?
The funny/sad thing is that the platform of GOP supporters does not line up with GOP policy goals. The actual GOP doesn't believe a fucking word of what they're saying about trickle down, privatization, etc. being good for the country as a whole. They know it isn't. And they could give a fuck about abortion or guns at the end of the day, those are just good wedges. Their goal is to create a feudal system with corporations and their investors replacing houses of nobility, rolling back most economic and social progress made over the past 150 years. The rubes keep drinking the fucking kool aid though. Cause things were better when the coloreds and women knew their place, and Omaba might still be out there to take our guns.
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Cosigned in regards to Sam. Freshman Sam + Maryland Sam into what we saw moving forward is one of the quickest and most dramatic changes of course I've ever seen in a QB. He still has room to improve too, which just feels too good to be true after the QB drought we've had.
As to Herman, he's obviously done a good job so far despite the setbacks we've all, myself included, harped on ad nauseam already. I need to see him deliver in 2019 as a favorite in at least 10, maybe all 12 games before I am totally sold. He has proven prone to failure in that roll, and yet it's where we all expect this program to be.
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