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Posts posted by utee94
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GDit now I am sofa king hungry for some Dart Bowl enchiladas.
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4 hours ago, wood said:
NY Times via AP's Jim Vertuno: Within days after being denied the 2018 payout of the $25M subsidy for F1, Epstein Donated Almost $100K to Texas Governor, Lt. Governor, & Lawmakers & is now Seeking Legislation to Force Retroactive Payment of same $25M Subsidy...
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/05/09/sports/ap-car-f1-us-grand-prix-finances.html
https://apnews.com/d0e1cf252bd342d7a68c9d2d5ffd1f54
"Circuit of the Americas President Bobby Epstein, who also founded the investment firm Prophet Capital, has pumped about $100,000 in campaign donations to state officials and lawmakers in the six months since the 2018 race, including donations to Gov. Greg Abbott, whose office controls the fund, and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who presides over the Senate.
Other donations went to several lawmakers who sit on committees that first considered the bill or live in districts near the racetrack. Epstein did not immediately return messages seeking comment Thursday.
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State law requires applicants to submit an anti-human trafficking plan 30 days before an event as part of an effort to combat spikes in prostitution. U.S. Grand Prix organizers didn't file their plan until 11 days before the 2018 race and were disqualified for reimbursement. Within weeks, Epstein donated $50,000 to Abbott and $25,000 to Patrick, and donated nearly $13,000 to members of the committees considering the bill.
The bill doesn't name the Circuit of the Americas or the U.S. Grand Prix, but it specifically carves out a second chance to apply for events that miss the 30-day deadline for the anti-human trafficking plan if it gets filed seven days prior, and is used during the event. Both of those details apply to the Austin race."
It's not a funny subject at all, but this just reads funny to me. It looks as if the plan regards the trafficking of anti-humans.
Since I am largely anti-human, I suppose it applies to me...
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Yeah that's definitely where I thought the bell-ringing was headed. But that would have been too clever for these writers and, honestly, too clever for Cersei's character.
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38 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:
Has any twisted sick fuck said "peeps" yet?
We still have maybe a hundred of these things lying around since Easter. My kids won't touch them, and they'll eat almost anything with sugar.
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1 minute ago, Gene Parmesan said:
Your opinion sucks, and you don't know how analogies work.
You take internet message boards, and television shows, way too seriously.
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6 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:
Paralleling to real life very few people have an opportunity to commit genocide, so it doesn't happen often, but lots of people have opportunities to commit mass violence on innocent, and that happens all the time. If you gave those people a dragon, they'd probably use it. Even if their 10 year younger self wouldn't.
I'd be surprised if their ten-year younger self had ever fought multiple wars to free slaves, or caused a civil war within their own nation to attempt to prevent the raping of innocent women in conquered lands. So your parallel really isn't much of one. But it's ok, you and I can have differing opinions.
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1 minute ago, Gene Parmesan said:
Why can't we just accept that losing her dragons (basically her kids), and two long term friends, and her advisors betraying her, Jon betraying her, and nobody accepting her as queen, has basically changed her? That certainly happens in real life. Who gives a crap about your ideals 10 years ago when your life was great.
Again, that's certainly what the show is attempting to force us to believe. But the attempt to force us anywhere is the issue. I'm not sure those events would change a person in that way, so much to the point that they pursue genocide.
But I'm not a zany Targaryen, so who knows?
My opinion is, that I'm not buying it. It's a problem for me, and I don't accept it.
It still doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the episode and won't enjoy the next one.
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1 minute ago, SwanderedTalent said:
I stopped thinking I could predict football games with any special insight after our wet fart of a NO LUBE RAVENGE GAME!!! against Tech in 2009, so nothing will surprise me as long as Clemson wins. There's no reason A&M can't go out and play crazy "nothing to lose" football against a Clemson team that has its eye on bigger things and plays diffidently (like they did in the 2nd half last year) and keep it within 14.
but I think if I could only pick one outcome, I'd go with Clemson 52, A&M 13, something like that. not because I think A&M is going to lose eight games or be mind-wrenchingly terrible but because Clemson seems like it literally gets better every single year and they MIGHT be annoyed hearing as much about A&M as they will leading up to the rematch
I think the ags already had their "go out and play crazy with nothing to lose" football game against Clemson, it happened last year in their own stadium, and it got them a very close loss-win. Put it on the wall!
I think this year it's going to be a "revert to the mean" type of game and the reality is that Clemson is simply a much better football team than A&M. And like you, I don't think A&M is going to be a bad, 4-8 type of team, actually 8-4 sounds about right to me. But I do expect them to get beaten pretty handily by the three best teams they play, and Clemson is one of those three.
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11 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:
there was never any chance that after coming close against Clemson last year, A&M fans were going to be even remotely realistic about the rematch
keep in mind that if it had been 42-14, a third of A&M's fans would have expected a win the next year anyway because "WE'S DUE!!!!"
you make it 28-26 and that number goes to two-thirds-- doesn't matter who adds what, loses what, where the game's played, etc. it was close last year and Aggies want to win therefore advantage A&M in 2019
Yup.
My prediction-- Clemson's win will not be close in 2019.
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23 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
I'm not sure if it's okay to post on both threads, but here goes.
I don't think she's crazy. She's angry. Westeros is a horrible place filled with horrible people as far as she's concerned. She sacrifice greatly to protect Westeros from the army of the dead and gets no love. The 'innocents' in the Red Keep flocked to the woman who betrayed Dany and who cold-bloodedly killed a close friend and adviser.
King's Landing embodies what she despises about Westeros. I'm not sure that she wants to rule this shithole.
Eh.
I mean, that's certainly one explanation for what she did. But given her character's previous love and care for the oppressed and innocent in the world, I don't think it's a particularly believable one.
She embraces and even celebrates many of the Dothraki ways, and yet she hated their practice of raping and pillaging conquered lands so much, that she basically created a civil war within her own tribe in an effort to end it. And also, you know, breaking the chains and all.
Even if this is the intent of the showrunners, I'm not buying it. It was a weird and hurried rush toward a plot point without anywhere near enough development to get there in a believable way. Just my opinion of course, and we all gave our own views.
Overall though I still really enjoyed this episode and still enjoy the show. My quibbles are minor. I'll be watching again on Sunday, and I'll be sad to see it all end.
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I like those okay, but my favorite Martinhouse beers are Tyrion, Aegon, and Oberon.
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56 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:
I will readily admit, however, that cramming all of the rapid-fire one liners over the seasons into the "previously on" to try to foreshadow and justify Dany's turn was pretty weak sauce. I mean it's better than her tossing and turning in a dream state while floating heads go by saying all of those one-liners. But not much better.

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I think she's going after Dany. Whether you liked watching her stumble around the ruins of King's Landing for a half an hour or not, it was pretty obvious that she was touched by the plight of the innocent townspeople and became more enraged with the needless destruction every moment. And she knows that exactly one person is responsible for all of that needless destruction.
Dany, you just made the list.
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1 minute ago, TexArcher said:
Good points.
Maybe part of the point with Dany is that it's a fine line between killing for the right reasons and killing for more power once someone gets used to killing in the first place.
Or, maybe the point is on us: once we excuse killing for the right reasons, we make it easier for a tyrant to rise then start killing for the wrong reasons.
Either way, I feel that people calling this a "flip" with Dany are missing the point. It's not a flip. It's just the next part of her arc. Whether it's a huge leap or not depends on whether you believe she was ever good and noble in the first place or whether she was always going to burn King's Landing either way.
I think there was enough evidence established over multiple seasons, that she was a defender of the weak and oppressed-- and especially women-- that it was strongly against her nature to slaughter an entire city's worth of them. That's what people are struggling with, and I think it's a legitimate criticism of the writing.
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7 hours ago, Fat Bastard said:
Some way or another the Dothraki and Unsullied need to leave Westeros either by boat or on a funeral pyre by the end of next week. No way that’s happening unless somehow Snow turns the dragon on them.
I have a feeling the new seat of government will likely be in the north and there won’t be any more dragons in Westeros (save for a few unhatched eggs they show somewhere on a fadeout)
5 hours ago, wutang75 said:
Ok - the episode is about them taking her out. What about the unsullied and Dothraki? They follow her - how do you take them out? If she gets killed, you still have to take care of them somehow.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro10 minutes ago, slorch said:Why is there no magic? red woman was the last sorcerer? IMO this is the laziest writing of all.
Bran storyline is still lackluster as hell when the balance of the kingdoms is at hand. Hodor died for this fuck?
Cersei, if she survived, Brienne, and Dany could all have offspring that take the story forward. That seems the least of our, the viewers', concerns right now.
The real question is why anyone would follow Dany, breaker of chains but ignorer of rightful heirs to the Throne...why is the truth such a threat?
Bran is a skinchanger. It's entirely possible he could warg into Drogon and make it take out the dothraki and the unsullied if necessary. Perhaps Dany too, but I think it more likely that pissed-off Arya gets to her first.
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Gross.
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1 minute ago, NowThis said:
just once though, not enough. Htown Horns need more Texas without having to drive 140-180 miles.
I expect Rice will get slotted in a few of those years as our 3rd OOC game.
And our hatred of Cougar High is far from inexplicable.
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19 minutes ago, mdmost said:
So our upcoming OOC has these home and homes on it: LSU, Alabama, Michigan, tOSU, Georgia, and Florida. Not bad. Not bad at all. Playing the best of the Big 10 and SEC without having to join either conference.
Exactly. This is a direct response to the vocal minority that think changing conferences would actually be a good idea. Getting to play the best teams in the SEC and B1G, while not having to play Illinois and Indiana and Kentucky and Texas A&M, is a GOOD thing.
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56 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:
This article on KHOU's website has a video of one determined-ass lightning strike:
Video: 12-second lightning strike hits same spot over and over in Fort Bend County
In unrelated news, this guy was sighted at the Waffle House in Rosenberg an hour later:

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6 hours ago, Augustus said:
Exactly.
As I've noted here before: I have Plantagenet blood. But that doesn't stop that Saxe-Coburg-Gotha bitch from sitting on my throne.
This just means you're a frog and had no business on the throne of England anyway. Plus your idiot line gave us York and Lancaster and caused all kinds of ridiculous problems. The Hundred Years War was a mercy compared to your ancestors' rule. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
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I like both of them just fine, but think even average pho is better than the best ramen I've ever had.
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My guess-- Aaron Rodgers will play a small-time knight that think he deserves the Iron Throne, gets leap-frogged at the last second by a much more deserving character, and will then whine about it for decades while also being the douchiest knight the Seven Kingdoms has ever known.
Or he'll get torched by a dragon, which would be really, really satisfying.
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Chicken fried steak should have yellow gravy and should be ordered at The Stallion.
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2 hours ago, utee05 said:
Maybe since he isnt selling out to InBev it is ok?
Sam Adams makes better beer than Dogfish Head, and that's what makes it ok.
IMO


Bernard Jr plays with cap gun. Cop busts cap in his ass.
in Daily Texan
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Quite true, but the ED 209 was not terrified of being shot by a cap gun. At super-close range that sulfur smell can be really irritating to a human officer, but no so for a robocop!