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CTC2

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  1. I thought “looks down” conveyed the opposite. But, I’ll take it.
  2. I figured I would stay in District 10 because McCaul’s house looks down on my backyard, but it is just insane how it carves up just a sliver of Travis and then goes over and grabs rural East Texas.
  3. So the guy who got elected because prices were too high, immediately and intentionally makes prices even higher and his supporters cheer. And, it’s not a cult?
  4. Tell me about it. Absolutely no one would pick me out of a lineup as the guy who has been heart stented nine times.
  5. I’m here for the cancer I will eventually get from all the chemo and radiation I had 30 years ago to cure the cancer that I had.
  6. Tired of thanking heads not acknowledging that the only thing they are interested in is her saying that Trump had no involvement but Clinton, he was knee deep in it. Isn’t pretty obvious how this plays out?
  7. I took that class (and finished it) in 1988. The prof was smoking hot and it was just me and two other guys in the glass with a bunch of women. I look back at it fondly. Only class I attended a study group in. I remember we read The Bell Jar and Handmade’s Tail.
  8. I think the plaintiffs are sending message to not pardon Maxwell. And if you do, we will cut you. We know more than you about this case. Don’t fuck with us.
  9. Lawyer for victims came on tv and just told congress that Epstein Estate has birthday book and other information in its possession. Easy to subpoena as the lawyers are willing to cooperate.
  10. I will forever regret that I didn’t get in the business of separating these knuckle draggers from their money.
  11. I foresee a time where the University has become so MAGA that I won’t be able to justify ticket costs, LFD donations etc. I’ll still watch on tv but I’ll feel better about where my dollars are going.
  12. I would add don’t sleep on work/intern experience in the area of their major. At least five years ago, that was a big deal. Someone who would know gave me that advice. I had a business acquaintance in their chosen field who was kind enough to let them spend a few weeks working at his business during the summer for no pay. I was at a party and happened to meet the dean of the school they were wanting to admit to. Of course I took the opportunity to mention my kids and they offered to meet with them and have them meet with a professor. It never hurts for people to see how much they want to get in. They even attended a class which also inspired them when it came time to write essays and resumes. My impression was that the colleges will do those meetings for anyone who asks. Even if it played no part in the decision, it did help my kids to focus in on what major they wanted within the college and focus their extra curricular time on meaningful activities. My kids went to a large competitive high school and did ok but definitely not better than top 20%. If you understand how UT does the holistic review you know how you can make up some ground in these other areas. Good luck to all.
  13. That’s why I feel like they don’t plan on surrendering power. Too many people would be prosecuted if they did.
  14. What the fuck would that be?
  15. Ha!, that wasn’t the cause of mine.
  16. As I recall during the last year of Fred Akers tenure, admissions was guaranteed if you were either in the top 25% of your class or made 1100 or better on the SAT. I remember this because in the 11th grade I made exactly 1100 the first time I took the SAT and proceeded to to screw off the rest of high school and managed to drop out of the the top 25% by graduation.
  17. I posted in the DT thread about my experience in joining a search team for a couple of days. My CR comment on that is that nearly all of the efforts going on in Hunt right now are being carried out by non profits. Some are religious based, others are ex military. I am positive that a lot of these folks were MAGA. Believe me, there were lots of signs of where these folks came down on things. What I am having difficulty reconciling is that these people were obviously doing good work and I am appreciative of their efforts, but are also supportive of some of the worst people to ever inhabit our government, and who are doing some pretty terrible things. There were several chaplain types walking around supporting those who were doing the work. I give them credit for that. But, one in particular came up to check on me and ended our discussion by asking if I wanted to pray for our leaders and especially our President. Out of respect for the work he was doing, I did not make a big deal of it but it was just hard to reconcile. Like I said, it is extremely admirable what these people are doing and I want to give them credit for that. I just don’t understand how they recognize the suffering of people in one way but not another.
  18. In addition, there is barbed wire, nails, shards of metal everywhere. A ton of hazards and a lot of people disregarding. Volunteers were urged to go to Hunt VFD and get tetanus shots as well. My friend stepped in the wrong place and had a nail go completely through his boot. Luckily, it missed his foot. I threw my clothes away and put my boots in a bucket of soapy water and scrubbed them down. Plenty of people working down there not caring about the dangers and just doing what they can.
  19. My 17 year old self was lit getting broken up with on the phone by a girl I had been seeing while they were performing. I didn’t really hear most of it because I could not look away from them on the tv.
  20. Sometimes it’s just a matter of who is willing.
  21. As someone who was definitely not part of that crowd at UT, it’s the first thing I did when I had daughters. My parents certainly didn’t know anything about all that. To me, summer camp was going to the Tom Nissalke Basketball Camp at SHSU.
  22. I went to search with a group on Friday. If you have ever been to Hunt, you won’t recognize it. Looks like it was clear cut. Standing near the river and looking at the debris line was daunting. So much water. Hard to really understand it without seeing. I thought it was strange that I encountered no dead animals other than fish. Maybe they have been removed but still strange. I mostly was searching the high water line. Can’t tell you the amount of Mystic t shirts and shorts that were on the ground in my am search area. As a father who sent two girls to camp in the area it was rough because I recognized what a lot of the things I came across were. Hard to see. Heartbreaking. &nbsp If you have been keeping up with the numbers you will know that the bodies found have been slow the past few days. I did not come across anything. No smells other than the stench of silt which is everywhere. Its not just a little. It’s everywhere and deep. The main search tool seemed to be excavators digging up the silt on the banks and people lined up on the side of it looking underneath what was dug up and the watching as the bucket was sifted. Other excavators are moving trees and brush piles while spotters look in the area beneath. This is going on all up and down the bank. There are lots of non profit organizations in Hunt running this machinery and either supervising volunteers or their own people doing the spotting. Every person who told me what to do, handed me a water, food, or a cold towel was with a non profit. No FEMA or any other official types that I saw. I wonder how long this will be going on and Abbotts claim that they aren’t leaving until all missing are accounted for seems unrealistic. I did come across some game wardens walking around the water line trying to detect decomposition odors. One issue with this is that you have to till up or poke the silt wi th a stick to get oxygen to potentially what might be underneath it in order to detect a smell. The scope of this flood is just massive. Being there made it feels enormous. Finding everyone who is missing just seems very difficult. I saw no National Guard. Nowhere. No military vehicles, no base camps, nothing. Not saying they aren’t there but I didn’t see them. In fact outside of the game wardens , I had the impression that it’s just locals and the non profits. I’m assuming that’s not the case but I covered a lot of ground and that’s all I saw. Met people from all over the country. It is really bad down there. I’m just not sure what will happen over the long haul.
  23. Mo Ranch has entered the chat: https://nypost.com/2025/07/08/us-news/mo-ranch-summer-camp-safely-evacuated-70-staying-along-river-ahead-of-deadly-flooding/ Two things can be true at the same time. Eastland could have been a great guy who did a lot of good things for kids as well as got complacent and dropped the ball when he needed to be on the top of his game.
  24. Thanks, but this is different and authorized. I was just told that all I need to do is get to Kerrville.
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