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Ghost of LL

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  1. 49 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    That's surprising. I haven't looked at any polls lately, but the Tories haven't been pretty far down in them lately. If they are, why not wait for improvement and the scheduled elections?

    Maybe the thinking is that it’ll only get worse?

  2. 13 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Abbott might just roll past Santa Anna as the worst Texas leader ever.

    Well, between his response to Covid and his handling of the electric grid, he's definitely killed far more Texans than Santa Anna ever did.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    GOLL and I were just talking about this.  If young Brisket was a current student, I wouldn't have been involved in today's protest.  Not my thing, not an issue I'm bought in on.  However, if tomorrow, the student body is going to engage in a general strike and protest in protest of the actions of the State of Texas in violation of the Constitution, young Brisket would be pressed up against the barricades like a mofo.

    Yep.  Frankly, if the students don't call a general strike after this, then I've got no use for 'em.

  4. 2 minutes ago, YChang said:

    lol got this email from UTPD. 
     

    THIS IS A DISPERSAL ORDER FOR OCCUPANTS OF THE SOUTH MALL:

    I am Assistant Chief Ashley Griffin and I represent the University of Texas at Austin Police Department. Your conduct is in violation of Penal Code Sections 42.01 Disorderly Conduct, 42.02 Riot, 42.03 Obstructing a Highway or other passageway. 

    I command you in the name of the People of the State of Texas to disperse, and if you do not, you shall be arrested for Violation of Penal Code Section 42.01 Disorderly Conduct, 42.02 Riot, 42.03 Obstructing a Highway or other passageway.

    Nah, man--that's not how this works.  You don't email the Riot Act.  You have to read the Riot Act to the rioting mob.

    Jesus--it's like these fuckers have never deployed the redcoats to carry out a massacre of citizens petitioning their government for redress or something.

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  5. 10 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Texas will never elect a black woman to statewide office.  We're busy trying to take our entire legal and governmental system back to pre-Civil War, and you think we'll EVER elect a black woman to anything?  My brother....come on.  

    This state is shitty.  It will only get shittier.

    I’d elect her. I’d elect her so so fucking hard.

     

    Wait—what’re we talking about?

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  6. 6 hours ago, dcbc said:

    Counterpoint:  I give you The Jury of the DamnedJohn Wilkes Booth, Lizzie Borden, John Dillinger, Blackbeard, Benedict Arnold, Richard Nixon ("but I'm not dead yet"), and the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.

     

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    Yarr--this chair's too high, sez I.

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  7. I gotta say, I think I'd prefer to play the Kings if for no other reason than I don't think we've ever had a playoff series against the Kings.  And there aren't just a whole lot of Western Conference teams that the Stars haven't had a playoff series against at one time or another.

  8. 23 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

    The only team I enjoy seeing fucked over is Pittsburgh.  There’s no denying the greatness of Sidney Crosby … but, he’s a sniveling pussy.

    Huh.  I forgot Sidney Crosby even existed.

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  9. 2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

    My dad used to take me to Medina so this caught my eye.

    There are water customers who use it.

    More here: https://www.expressnews.com/hill-country/article/medina-lake-reservoir-drought-low-levels-18695562.php

    And apparently the San Antonio Water System is paying the Bexar-Medina water district millions of dollars for water it hasn't used since 2015.

    Gotta love government and their prudent financial activities.

    It is a prudent financial decision to lock down the capacity that a water utility is going to need at some point.

    Take-or-pay contracts of that nature are pretty common, because that's the only way reservoirs get built.  A reservoir costs billions to build, and it's not going to be funded and built if you don't have guaranteed customers. 

    SAWS doesn't really "pay for water that it's not using."  When it needs that water, it really needs that water.  So it pays for that water to be available when it needs it.  if it doesn't need it, ok.  But the water was available to SAWS and couldn't be used by anybody else.  So it really was used by SAWS.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Was she any good?  She doesn't appear to be aging all that well.  The plastic surgery probably doesn't help.

    I mean, I guess.

    If the show had started at 8:45 and had the arena been at a comfortable temperature, I think the show would've been ok.  But when she doesn't start until 10:30 on a Sunday night and doesn't want the a/c turned on, it's kind of easy to be put into a foul mood off the bat.

    Probably half the songs she played were some serious B-side shit.  I mean, I know all of Madonna's hits.  And she has a lot.  I'm from the 80s, goddamnit.  But I didn't know a lot of the stuff she played (and judging from the crowd reactions, I wasn't alone).  And then she had two 15- or 20-minute little soliloquies, where she was trying to be deep and thought-providing, but was just vapid and trite and dull.  I mean, that's a lot of content to have to slog through to get her to sing the songs you showed up to hear her sing.

    When she does sing those songs, it's pretty entertaining.  She's not much of a dancer anymore, but her backup dancers are entertaining.  And the whole staging is often pretty cool.  But on the whole, . . . meh.

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  11. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

    Looks like she usually ends between 12:30 and 1. Seriously. 

    We left around 1:15 or 1:20, and it looked like it was probably going to finish in the next 15 minutes or so.

    But yeah--I'm tired this morning.

  12. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Iran is a pustule.
    There is zero fucking reason for Iran to be in hostilities with Israel, yet they have been for decades, because they are a psychotic islamofascist regime.
    They’ve been in FA mode for a long time. I don’t mind the FO.
    And collectively, we have embarked on a new era of global conflict. It’s stupid as hell, but stupid is humanity’s brand.
    Now lots of things go boom.

    Call names all you want—right now, Iran is acting pretty rationally. 

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