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The destruction of America's public education system
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
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Concerts you are attending
“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
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Concerts you are attending
Try “ADDITUP” Worked for me
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The Last of Us coming to HBO
My favorite thing was the carousel that plays a calliope rendition of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.”
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Psychedelic Therapy for mental health
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
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88th Texas Legislature
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.
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2023 Thread of Racism in America
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/
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LBGTQ
That’s the FISD Administration Building on Ohio Dr.
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Psychedelic Therapy for mental health
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.
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LBGTQ
- Fentanyl laced Oxy, Valium, and Xanax
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- People acting like whiny old people
- RIP Fairfield Lake State Park
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- Covers Good and Bad
- Fentanyl laced Oxy, Valium, and Xanax
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/- Best American Songwriter?
For a duo David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez have a pretty impressive catalog. Also, has Lucinda Williams been mentioned?- Old 97's appreciation thread
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.- Best American Songwriter?
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.- Grammys
- 2022-2023 Winter Weather Thread
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.- Worst Cars Of Your Childhood
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.- A morning in February 2003
Thanks. Should have said live national coverage.- A morning in February 2003
Timeline transcript between Mission Control and Columbia. https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/timeline/- A morning in February 2003
May 27th a Bell 407 working on the recovery crashed in the Angelina National Forest. Two of the crew died.- A morning in February 2003
Surprised a lot Texans don’t remember this. 7 astronauts killed and debris and body parts scattered all over East Texas. Sticks with me because I heard it, felt it and saw it. Of course Challenger was a take off carried live on all major networks. Also wasn’t it the first time a civilian went up? Columbia was caught live on some local D/FW stations. The recovery process for Columbia was also reported on and went on for a long time. - Fentanyl laced Oxy, Valium, and Xanax
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