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  1. This was a go to party album for us in the 90’s. Fun intoxicating blend of reggae/tex-mex/Caribbean/rock… Some of the coolest covers ever. Werewolves of London, Papa was a Rolling Stone and others. Nothing like a room full of very greasy and lubricated heathens singing along to “Tiki Torches at Twilight” “Tiki torches at twilight Hula girls at the bar All the guys from the office Are throwing up in their cars” Also, just found this at the thrift store last month.
  2. BJU has a creationism textbook.
  3. First time I’ve seen them admit the objective is to put a “filter” on what is being taught. I looked up the school mentioned and they teach using the ABEKA Book curriculum. Apparently one of the top curriculums for Christian schools and homeschooling, along with ACE and Bob Jones University Press. After reading excerpts from their history books, I will invoke my Sovereign Citizen rights if they try to make me help fund that insanity.
  4. Yup. Quiet part out loud. “CORSICANA — In this small city southeast of Dallas, where residents are protective of their public schools, Gov. Greg Abbott touted his plan to allow private school vouchers as necessary to give parents control of their children’s education. “Parents are angry about woke agendas being pushed on their children in our schools,” Abbott said this week during a speech at Park Meadows Academy, a church and school that stresses a Christian education. “Our schools are for education, not indoctrination.” As he made the argument that “parental empowerment” was needed to help filter what’s being taught in schools, Abbott said that empowerment should include creating a system where parents can use taxpayer-funded vouchers to send their children to private schools” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gov-greg-abbott-hits-road-to-tout-school-voucher-plan/ar-AA1868UY
  5. “We're most pleased to announce some very special tour dates in celebration of the 40th anniversary of our debut album. We will be performing the album cover to cover, plus playing other favorites, and have Jesse Ahern on as support. Presale tickets will be available starting at 10am local time tomorrow using the code: ADDITUP” Find ticket links on VFemmes.com/tour
  6. Try “ADDITUP” Worked for me
  7. My favorite thing was the carousel that plays a calliope rendition of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.”
  8. Yeah, careful with window pane. They stick together and it’s hard to tell until it’s too late[emoji3061] I remember Orange Sunshine blotter Mr Natural blotter Plain blotter Orange barrel Blue microdot Purple microdot
  9. This could be trouble. Behind the Pine Curtain middle schools are “ institutes of higher learning” Actually I thought the bill was to outlaw drop boxes at Colleges. The polling place where I live that has the highest turnout is the Community College. This sucks.
  10. Imagine the shit Abner Haynes and Leon King had to put up with. Interesting that a College in Denton, Tx was a leader in desegregation of college football in the South. DENTON – Ten years before Jerry LeVias and John Westbrook made history in the Southwest Conference and a half-dozen years before a Maryland player broke the Old South’s color line, a cab pulled up at Fouts Field, home of North Texas State’s football team. Two Black Dallas teenagers got out, more than a little afraid of what to expect as three white men approached. One stuck out his hand. “Welcome to the team,” he said. On a glorious Saturday afternoon 66 years later, North Texas officials celebrated that handshake with the dedication of Unity Plaza, commemorating the courage of Abner Haynes, Leon King, a football team and a university. And courage it was, because the same month Haynes and King enrolled at UNT, a white mob in Mansfield, an hour south, hung an effigy of a Black male from a flagpole at the local high school with an inscription: This Negro tried to enter a white school. This would be a terrible way to die. Back in the heyday of Jim Crow, a federal desegregation order offered little in the way of security or comfort for anyone in Texas or the South in general thinking of crossing the color line. Under the cloak of a so-called “gentlemen’s agreement,” assuring complicity in maintaining a lily-white Southwest Conference, the state’s most prominent athletic programs didn’t dare buck a racist system in the ‘50s. What made UNT different? “That’s the question everybody’s always asked,” Haynes, 85, said Saturday. " ‘How do you think those guys did that? How did they get away with it?’ “That’s a question they’ll be asking a hundred years from now.” King, Haynes’ old Lincoln High teammate, credited J.C. Matthews, UNT’s president from 1951-68, who saw change coming and embraced it. “And I don’t know of a single incident that came because of it,” said King, who went on to a long career as a Dallas ISD educator. “If anyone ever needed a blueprint of how to integrate a school, they had to get it from North Texas.” Only it wasn’t quite as smooth as all that. As Jeff Miller writes in his fine book, “The Game Changers,” one of Haynes’ new teammates confronted him after their first practice together and asked why Haynes and King didn’t just go to one of the colleges intended for Black students and leave whites to theirs. Even after Odus Mitchell, UNT’s coach, asked his veterans to welcome the newcomers, a handful chafed. At least a couple were certain Haynes and King wouldn’t play. But any lingering resentment dissipated after the freshman team got off the bus in Corsicana for a meal in the fall of ‘56 before a game against Navarro Junior College. A diner employee told the team that Blacks couldn’t eat in the main dining room, at which point three of the white players – Charlie Cole, George Herring and Joe Mack Pryor – led the team out. The hospitality was no better at the stadium. An attendant asked Ken Bahnsen, the freshmen coach, if he really planned to use the Black players. Told he would, indeed, the attendant replied, “Well, they might die.” In the game that followed -- a 39-21 UNT victory, with Haynes scoring four touchdowns and King catching two passes – a bond was formed…” https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/unt-mean-green/2022/11/07/north-texas-commemorates-most-important-legacy-of-mean-green-football-with-unity-plaza/
  11. TexPx

    LBGTQ

    That’s the FISD Administration Building on Ohio Dr.
  12. I’ve had some experience with: LSD Mescaline (from Peyote buttons) Mescaline (synthesized) Psilocybin MDMA In my experiences real MDMA is the best one to do with someone you love. Lasts about as long as shrooms but not as long as the others. For me it’s similar to Mescaline, visuals not as intense as the others but has a tactile element that is missing from the all the others.
  13. TexPx

    LBGTQ

  14. Yeah, remember this? “A look back at the Plano heroin crisis, 20 years later” https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/plano-heroin-crisis-20-years-later/287-aa66547d-943f-43a4-929e-d7a2efde22ec
  15. At least we are getting a new on this year. https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2022-10-14/we-need-more-places-for-texans-to-go-palo-pinto-highlights-state-efforts-to-invest-in-new-parks
  16. The Feelies
  17. Nowadays, however, it’s no longer a secret. Fentanyl dominates the drug supply on the West Coast, and increasingly across the country. Powdered fentanyl, along with methamphetamine, are about all you can find here on Wall Street, said Meakin; and even the methamphetamine is likely to be cut with fentanyl. As for the blues, they’re still out there, but they are fooling fewer and fewer people. “People are consuming them with full knowledge they are fentanyl, not oxycontin,” said Emanuel Sferios, founder of DanceSafe, who has closely tracked the opioid epidemic, referring to the time-release version of oxycodone. “Many -- if not most -- illicit opioid users these days know they're consuming fentanyl.” So evolved is the market that fentanyl has finally developed a nickname, at least in Southern California: “Fetty.” “Fetty is like another name for fentanyl,” said Mary Schafer, a former user based in San Diego. “No one really says ‘fentanyl.’ ‘You got fetty?’ It doesn't sound so bad when you say it in public.” Mexican organized crime groups may have noted the change. They are now churning out multi-colored “rainbow” M30 pills, which are showing up in drug busts around the country. It’s unlikely many users believe the rainbow pills are a legitimate pharmaceutical product and the DEA says it is a cunning way to attract younger users. The nickname also demonstrates that many American users, perhaps the majority, now realize when they’re consuming illicit fentanyl. Up until now, the fentanyl crisis was largely characterized by users being unaware that fentanyl was adulterating drugs like heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and counterfeit pills. Fentanyl is still adulterating those drugs, but for the first time, most American users seem to realize it, particularly when it comes to opioids like heroin and pills like oxycodone. “I’m sure it’s more now -- people who know they’re taking fentanyl -- than it was before,” said Steve Campman, chief medical examiner for San Diego County. https://insightcrime.org/news/deception-demand-us-fentanyl-users/
  18. For a duo David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez have a pretty impressive catalog. Also, has Lucinda Williams been mentioned?
  19. Yup. They played with Killbilly near the end of their run. They were a great band with a lot of talent. First time I saw Rhett he was singing folk songs in front of some Cafe on Elm Street. Next time I saw him was at the Killbilly farewell show at Clearview. The ended their show with a sizzling cover of Anarchy in the U.K. followed by Allen Wooly absolutely shredding on a cover of Little Wing.
  20. Best? I dunno, but what about Gary Louris? Collaborated with Mark Olson on most songs on The Jayhawks first four albums, and wrote most of them on the last seven. Wrote songs for Nickel Creek, Dixie Chicks and, I think Golden Smog. Extra points for being a great singer and underrated guitar player.
  21. TexPx

    Grammys

    Never watch awards shows. Don’t know why I’m watching this, but the performances so far have been pretty good.
  22. You can buy a sapling here if in stock https://legendarytrees.com/shop-trees/ I bought a seedling 15 years ago and donated it to our local Heritage Museum for Arbor Day. It was some special deal from American Forestry Association I think.
  23. Wow. I thought I was the only one who had one of those. Mine was a two door coupe in dark blue. My dad was a service mgr. for a Toyota dealer. Obviously I was much sportier than you. Mine was actually a pretty nice little car.
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