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  1. 17 minutes ago, Bookman said:

    The partial transcript, which I assume is genuine, shows county commissioners acting on emotions and feelings instead of analyzing costs and benefits. It's sad when people like that are elected to positions with power. 

    As pointed out, the 2016 CC that turned down the grant because OBAMA was a seasoned NASA admin who commanded shuttle and ISS missions. Dude WAS smart, he's just a selfish fuck

  2. 8 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Personally, I can't believe Epstein killed himself just before he was about to be acquitted for lack of evidence!

    I wonder how long before Maxwell files for release since she never had a client list

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  3. 40 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Maybe it's not so civil, but anyone worried about civility these days has their head so far up their ass they need an actual beating to dislodge.   

    BAW GAWD THAT'S BLACKLABS MUSIC

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  4. Isn't it funny how in 2019 the cameras were broken outside his cell, and now in 2025 there's no client list and there's actually video but it's missing a minute? YOU'RE NOT TELLING ME BILL BARR WOULD LIE TO ME??? Not the man who ushered Iran/Contra through its burial in the news?

    If it weren't so gross and horrific that this ring of child abuse and traffic weren't being protected by the Trump administration, it would be funny.

    Edit: the above source is garbage but it's what I found. Here's a more authoritative source:

    https://www.justice.gov/video-files/video2.mp4

    The video shifts frame and timing after the 1 minute skip. Which is not something you typically want to see in clean evidence.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    and since every big urban connurbation has sirens already, the kerrvilles of the world get to use our urban tax dollars to help themselves (and 'crazy people from houston') stay alive while spending money in their economy - seems like a good deal to me

     

    They literally had >$5M dropped into one of their accounts and they refused to spend it because it was from the Federal Government and they would do a COVID on them. I'm not fucking kidding

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    Resident: Are you accountable to anyone for how you spend it?  Or is it a, kind of, a reward and shows your support for this particular program? It's not free money.  Being present as we  talk.  How do we know this?  Immediately.  Unless you want it on the COVID lies and vaccination pressure, you have to send it back.  Those are heavy strings.  And those are strings. The deep state harangue and vilified President Trump for calling COVID for what it was and then suggest responses that were non-draconian, and then when Biden took office, the leftist government took its gloves off.  It has lied and lied more about this COVID -- about COVID. 

    The temptation is great, you're accountable, and we would like to know where your allegiance is.

    Resident 2: And I'm here to ask this Court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House.  And Kerr County should not be accepting anything from these people.  They're currently facilitating an invasion of our border, and we're going to support these people?  So that's what I have to say.  Thank you.

    Resident: I happen to know that there is no such thing as free money.  It's never government-funded; it's tax-payer funded.  So they're taking our money and they're putting strings attached to it and then they're giving it back to us.  And they're going to get their foot in the door in this county.  We don't want their  money.  I feel like the people have spoken and I stand with the people.  Thank you for your time.

    COMMISSIONER BELEW:  We have money in the bank, $5.1 million, that was sent to Kerr County.

    JUDGE KELLY:  We didn't ask for it.  They sent it.

    COMMISSIONER BELEW:  They sent it.

    MS. DEWELL:  Exactly.

    COMMISSIONER BELEW:  The money is in the bank right now.  Hasn't been spent.  In the event that you don't spend it, you send it back.  That's part of the Treasury's rules on it.  If you do spend it, whatever percentage, there would be no expense to the  taxpayers in Kerr County.  It would all come out of that account, no matter what you do with it.

    JUDGE KELLY:  And GrantWorks has been very helpful in -- in getting us focused on what colors between the lines and what doesn't.  As of last Thursday, when I got a call from Bonnie White telling me about this -- the problem that y'all were going to present at the meeting, I went and got on the telephone to their Senior Vice President from GrantWorks.  And there -- there are discussions that they want to have with us and so we want to sit down and listen to them. And we want -- we want you to hear them, too.  Because you're the public.  But we -- we need to know and get very comfortable with where we are with this grant before we start taking that money.  And the claw back was the first thing. As far as where that money sits for the next year or two, my old law partner John Cornyn tells me that if we send it back it's going to New Jersey or it's going to New York or it's going to --

    MRS. LAVENDER:  Or California.

     JUDGE KELLY:  -- or California.  And so I don't know if I'd rather be the custodian of the money  until we decide what we have to do with it rather than giving it back to the government to spend it on values that we in Kerr County don't agree with.  So --

    COMMISSIONER BELEW:  And any spending of it would have to be done in Commissioners' Court so you'll be able to see it and know it.

     They eventually signed a $7.5M contract with Motorola for emergecny comms which just serve fire fighters, cops, and EMS.

     

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  6. 25 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

    Take it to the cloak room jabroni. Keep this bullshit out of here.

    what the fuck? Flooding and hurricanes affects us all - it's not political. What the fuck is wrong with some of you? We shouldn't be cheering on the woodchipping of our emergency infrastructure.

     

    Fecklessly attempting to shout down factual reporting is fucking political. It's a goddamn weather man! 

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  7. 1 minute ago, texasdago said:

    I place blame at leadership across the board, not parents or counselors 

    Parents, counselors, and campers are victims in all of this. State and local leadership are the ones responsible for this mass casualty event

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  8. 4 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Is it the state, or the people? Chicken, or the egg?

    The same man who said we should all be doing is praying, is the same man who unilaterally authorized billions for a border wall project that has since been abandoned unfinished. There's money available, but that would be admitting that the climate has changed and become more dangerous for Texans.

    But I'll leave further comments for a more appropriate thread.

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  9. 5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    As has been pointed out, there's a lot of "virtue-signalling" surrounding prayer these days. And I don't think Jesus would approve.

    Not like there's a parable explicitly about that or anything lol.

    11 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

    Insensitive asshole here, but there's a thing I've seen the last 48 hours I just can't quite wrap my head around:

    I've seen god knows how many "prayer warrior" posts the past few days, 99.9% from women, including  a lot by women I know, that seem convinced if they post on social media that they're praying hard enough, they can literally cause rescue to occur.  Like Stringer said in his post earlier, it's as if here's a finite prayer threshold that must be met before a miraculous outcome can be granted.

    I absolutely understand the benefit (and inherent goodness) of having friends express genuine, heartfelt sympathy, but this ain't it.

    My biggest issue is that the State is advocating for prayer over implementation of meaningful flood alert and warning systems. Can't spend a million on sirens, but can find billions for hateful projects that are quickly abandoned. But please keep praying!!!!

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  10. 54 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    there are 2 streets in highland park this morning with green and white ribbons on at least one tree for multiple houses

    someone with river oaks access please do a driveby and report back

    Energy Corridor around Memorial and Kempwood had a bunch of green ribbons and bows on trees

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  11. 29 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I wouldn't call it weird for what it is at its base.  It's just fun shit for kids to do during the summer.  But because it's expensive and there are limited spots available (and because people have been attending for generations, it is exclusive and because of that, it feeds into the exclusivity of fraternities and sororities later

    Not for nothing, but 5 out of 5 of my wife's cousins (no pics) that went to Camp Mystic are/were biiiiiiig into Greek Life, and were all debutantes. Camp Mystic ain't fo po' people 

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  12. 17 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    They won't. That's the beauty of the cult. You can profess to know the contents of every single email on Hunter's laptop, but you can completely ignore and pretend that you've never heard about all the things that make it 99.6% likely that you voted for a pedophile on three separate occasions.

    Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.

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  13. 55 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

    Someone previously stated something to the effect of "...yeah I turned my phone on do not disturb at bedtime".  Yep, I'm guilty of that at times.  Anyone else guilty?  Hindsight usually has 20/20 vision.   Before it is all over there will be plenty of blame to go around.  

    Emergency alerts punch through DnD, but people started turning them off after the State started to abuse it with the BLUE ALERTS for a cop stubbing their baby toe 500 miles away

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  14. 9 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It prompts the question why local officials didn't get off their asses, call all the camps, or hell, stop by, and say, "hey, you know what's going on with the weather, right?  Do you have a plan?  If not, let's make one right now."

    Why would those repubican public servants give a shit about serving the public?

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