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Posts posted by pyrohornIII
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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
At what point do these companies affected by all these roll backs on environmental laws decide to hold off on retooling because they aren't too sure the rollbacks will stick? Say if a company went out and dumped a bunch of toxic trash somewhere because Trump's EPA relaxed the laws, could they later be held accountable for it?
Same if not more so for the auto makers. You gotta know they are debating hot and heavy what to do. It's not like these companies can throw a switch and go from light compliance to more severe compliance.
You know though there is someone who is making big donations to Trump to get these laws relaxed, and gonna make hay while the sun shines.
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27 minutes ago, XR4ticlone said:
I appreciate that you somehow made it racial...but for the record I think there are a ton of people from all races that are abusing Gov benefits.
I will see you that ton of people and raise you two tons of corporations.
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Well, he's just going to buy McRaven's love back with a gift of some new jet toys.
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its funny they call it reality TV. It's always been pretty far from any reality I know. More like supercharged scripted drama TV.
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19 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
Seriously, though, Dollar Generals and Family Dollars are saviors to some small towns, like my way-late grandmother's hometown of Clarksville. Thanks to its proximity to Arkansas, it was one of the first Texas towns to get a Wal-Mart, back in the '70s or so. That little Wal-Mart killed most of downtown by 1990. Then they opened a Supercenter in Mount Pleasant, or Paris, or maybe up in Oklahoma. Actually, I think they did all three, and Clarksvillians would drive to the big shiny new stores a half-hour away for their big shops instead of their own cruddy little local, so Bartlesville shut it down.
And then they were proper fucked -- now they HAD to make that long drive, even if all they wanted was a pair of socks or a milk carton full of Goldfish. That was the state of affairs for a few years until DG and FD came back to town, and that's a common story all over
shitholerural America.THIS. Fuck Walmart!
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21 hours ago, Radical Larry said:
I saw that on the news this morning. What a bunch of shit.
you can say that again. And you can say "you can say that again" again and again.
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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:
There are so many people with so much on this man, you have to wonder how he sleeps at night without drugs. Yeah, you can say he sleeps like a baby (because narcissism, totally bought into himself) but if he wasn't worried then why the barrage of tweets against the witch hunt every day? Like so many of us have said, these actions are not those of the innocent. These are the actions of a scared and angry bully who has finally pissed off enough of the other kids they are cornering him in the schoolyard for the final beatdown. And all he is doing is hurling dumbass unfounded accusations as he backs further into that corner.
Something else I have noticed is how much less we see of his family now. I wonder if it is because he is shoving them aside, or they are shrinking away from him for self preservation purposes. But you know all three of them are bigly complicit in all his illicit actions from laundering to treason.
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I think Brennan has to know a lot more about Trump than he is saying. It is like he knows so much bad shit, and he can't say anything specific without stepping on Mueller's toes. So he has been trying to discredit Trump using his reputation alone. That's just not enough and it probably confounds him that his opinion is falling on deaf ears.
I am not a scholar on Brennan, and I accept that there are some shady skeletons in his closet, but I would imagine he justified a lot of his actions by telling himself those acts were done on behalf of the US. Now to know what he knows about Trump and see him selling the country out, I'm sure he is livid he can't do more. So yeah, I won't hold him up as a saint due to allegations about his role in some things done during W's reign of stupidity, but I won't throw him out completely, because at his core, he is a patriot, not a traitor.
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3 hours ago, RPM said:
In case you forgot why Texas likes Beto.
at the :50 mark, they are at Whataburger, asking for spicy ketchup. I'd forgotten about this video, props for re-posting
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I know there are no cops involved, but shit....
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On 8/14/2018 at 7:21 PM, Message Board User said:
The Ted Cruz crowds...
vs the Beto crowds.
I got told how dumb and naive I was to expect someone elected to serve Texas to serve ALL Texans. You look at the pictures that are being posted by these two campaigns and discuss the diversity one candidate draws versus the other.
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24 minutes ago, Message Board User said:
Some of the retweets in Cruz' twitter feed are good for the lulz.
So Rafael was in Lubbock about 15 years ago, huh?
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Is money laundering prosperous?
I get your argument that wealth alone does not mean prosperous. If you use that wealth to make more wealth and you do it well, then that is prosperous, I suppose.
Now my question is about those who gain wealth by illegal or immoral means. Maybe not all their wealth but at least part of it. Like those legislators who use insider trading information to line their pockets, or pay for play funds. Are those guys prosperous? Or are the crooks? Or both? I am confused.
And no way is trump a billionaire, not even if you ignore all his debt.
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The fact that so many people in Trump's inner circle were taping him on a regular basis tells me they were used to him double dealing. Add in his disdain for doing anything via email or written memo (the tearing up of the latter) and it's further obvious he likes to say one thing then do another with no proof of having done so.
How he is, how he does people wrong, from associates to contractors is going to catch up with him. I wouldn't doubt there will be a recording released at some point where he disses his base as mindless ignorant sheep. I don't doubt there is at least one recording out there that says just that. Hearing that their orange god semi-privately thinks they are mindless shills, will that sink in and break his base from him?
They'd probably call the tape fake and carry on.
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26 minutes ago, Js1 said:
I think so.
I don't see Gen X and Millenials getting older and suddenly becoming socially conservative. They've also been fucked so hard by the trickle down bullshit and GOP-caused recessions, I don't see them suddenly becoming "fiscal conservatives" since that doesn't exist anymore.
This. It's going to be a lot different world for many of them than what their parents and grandparents grew up in. Jobs will be disappearing due robotics, going offshore, computerization. Much more student loan debt to overcome. Higher debt burden personally and nationally. As technology advances it will further separate the haves from the have nots. There will have to be a readjustment of our valuation system, in what and how we value. Once that begins then econo-political system will change as well.
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His name recognition is getting out. I had a sign in my yard for 6 weeks. Last night it got destroyed. Ordered 3 more. Fuck em.
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thanks, deej. With the easy access to porn (or just hot women in general) on the internet, most of these younger lads don't understand how hot this was for us, back when we just had 3 networks to choose from. There was something very arousing about seeing something you didn't get to see on the regular shows...usually nipples like that one.
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Tilton was ok, but I enjoyed Principal more.
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13 hours ago, lemonandaturd said:
Got to pay well to get people to move to that shithole.
Not only to move there, but to weigh down your careers by putting aggy on your coaching resume.
Joining aggy staff is detrimental to most careers. Especially head coaches. The only ones who seem to get out with any upward momentum are assistant coaches that join in the first wave of a new coaching group. Kind of like Kliffy and Sumlin. I don't remember any HCs who moved up since Bryant?
Of course aggy thinks being aggy HC is the ultimate career goal of all coaches, so I guess it has to do with perspective what others consider moving up.
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10 hours ago, Bullneck said:
From the corner office of the used car lot that is.
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3 hours ago, Ten Bears said:
That aggy thread is terrifying.
Is it just an aggy phenomenon or is every chik fil a the most popular place in town now? I mean here in aggy land they have cars stacked up 10+ deep in the drive through pretty much all day.
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25 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Also I don't think the other numbers are correct unless you're only looking at one specific timeframe and I bet they took all the numbers from 2009 only.
Agreed. It won't be long and someone will post the undoctored one. I would go with early in each administration. What Obama inherited from W and what Trump inherited from Obama.
Texas ranks dead last in % of adults with health insurance
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This is a problem our society has through many layers. We have been programmed by marketing to eat things bad for us, and more of it at that. 10 to 12 ounces of soda was a large back in the 60s, now it's 44 oz? 64 oz? Same for chips, bags have trebled in size. And they are loaded with more and more additives for flavor. You can't go into a fast food place without asking if you want it jumbo sized (mom joke opening). So there is a lot of bloat going on out there. And as the Dollar General thread mentioned, rural areas are going away from fresh veggies and foods to more processed twinkie type shit.
But there is a huge amount of bloat on the provider side in admin, big Pharma etc. Everybody wants a piece of the pie. I broke my arm, my local GP x-rayed it. set and casted it for $100 back in 1972. Did it all in his office. Flash forward to 2005, my son broke his arm, it cost $3,400 after ER visit, ER doctor, some ortho guy looking long distance at the X rays and who knows what else. Calculating for inflation, that 100 in 72 was worth $463 in 2005. That is nearly $3,000 difference in payment for the same procedure. That is bloat.
The problem is solvable, but both sides have to be willing to work from each end to reach a workable solution in the middle. That's something we seem to have lost the knack for. Or maybe those who stand to profit from the status quo are blocking such negotiations. Other countries make this work, you would think we could. While the ACA isn't perfect, it has been an important first step in the right direction.