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Evil Bill Obrien

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  1. Paxton just pissed he isn't getting a cut of the action out in Loving County...really is a great scam
  2. Paid $100 for a last-minute hotel in Luling this weekend so yeah I feel your pain. Absolute highway robbery.
  3. Kinda shocked Houston falls into this trend and is even slightly less fat than San Antonio...
  4. Tech fans graduating from throwing batteries at opposing teams to throwing knives?
  5. Coaching Carousel this season:
  6. Unfortunately, there's a not insignificant portion of the population that believe this whole heartedly...
  7. Well if we get to Skynet becoming self aware and initiating Judgement Day before Team Elephant can plunge us into Christiofascist Handmaids Tale scenario...gonna call that a small win
  8. Guess I better go take a good picture of the newly repainted Houston Pride Crosswalk (Installed and upkept with private funds) before Gov. Sitler and Mayor Shitmire have it removed
  9. Well on the bright side if Gov. Pritzker wants to pull an Abbott and have Illinois Guard troops monitor "invading forces" like Abbott did during Jade Helm in 2015 he won't have to send anyone who can move that quickly... https://www.texasobserver.org/how-greg-abbott-got-played-by-the-russians-during-his-jade-helm-freakout/†
  10. Yeah Trump up and refusing to pay for work done is the least surprising thing to happen in a while...
  11. Well if the ICE ad checks clear...
  12. I will admit I have had to make changes to my life and the way I do things to make riding the Red Line to work every day work for me (moving to within walking distance to a station, learning to not let things like homeless people bother you, learning to not feel helpless without my car parked nearby, etc) but in my own experience it has paid dividends and will do it for as long as I am able to not have to go back to the daily driving my own car through the mad max hellscape that is Houston during rush hour. Houston just isn't a city where public transit is going to be more convenient, easier, or less stressful than driving a car unless you put some effort into it on your end, but it can be done and it sucks that now the Transit agency and City are working to make it even harder.
  13. My main fear right now is they really are just degrading the service to the point where they can justify curtailing service (look out for future 12–20 minute headways on the Red Line during the week) and then eventually removing it. METRO becoming the street paving arm of Houston Public Works is another sign of that change in focus from actually providing transit services to just being a piggybank for the City and whoever happens to be Mayor to use at their own discretion. Unfortunately, this time got a shithead Republican in very thin Democrat clothing Mayor Whitmire... hopefully the voters in the can see this as a problem and not make a mistake like that again...
  14. Quote from that article that caught my eye: "The space will also serve as a visitor’s center and will be the largest mass timber building in the entire nation. All the wood used will be sourced in Texas, according to Chancellor Hegar." ...Aggy and building with large amounts of timber...what could possibly go wrong??
  15. Yeah caught that and the LINK Houston protest race on Friday where the basically tied the Red line train walking for 7 blocks downtown. Thing is it was working much better just a few weeks ago and the City/METRO is actively degrading the system to the point at which it's nearly unusable. Thing that really chaps me is all the responses I have seen from METRO keep emphasizing they are working for a solution that works for everyone...as in they are trying to cater to the thousands upon thousands of single occupant cars driving downtown by slowing the trains to a crawl...what is the point of having a transit agency that is going to screw over its own riders to let people in cars get around faster?
  16. Aggy Olympus Has Fallen:
  17. Who should be First Lady of Texas Cannabis Law:
  18. About a 50/50 chance they voted for this by voting for Trump so don't know if you can really say they did nothing wrong...
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