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pyrohornIII

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  1. This is the same state that refuses to expand Medicaid funds to the tune of 6 billion a year. That's heartless in how many people could be getting better healthcare, live better lives longer. Not to mention the boost it would give the economy. So yeah, they don't give a shit if Texans die, so why would we think they give a damn if anyone is educated? Rinse and repeat with stories like grid failure. They won't stop supporting or maintaining. They will simply reduce the effort and send some of that money to non public entities. Just like the moronic private prison scam of the 80s and 90s. Same for public roads going to tollways?
  2. It's a race to the bottom: https://www.insideedition.com/gop-legislator-introduces-bill-that-would-eliminate-floridas-democratic-party-80073 The basis is not recognizing any party that ever in it's history supported slavery or forced servitude. That covers a lot of Civil War era Dixiecrats that jumped ship to the Republicans starting in the Nixon years. But it seems to me that large families would pay much more out in sales tax than they would recoup in reduced property taxes. I doubt very many are living in mansions.
  3. I know a lady in Houston that does a lot of pain management type hypnosis, and she's also done quite a bit of it for anethesiology alternatives. Not sure if they don't feel anything, but it does make it bearable, since some people can not use standard anesthesiology. Granted, it's not widely accepted, but it is known to be used. Went to a taco street vendor in Boystown, Nuevo Laredo about 35 years ago at 5 am. Seems his specialty was cabbage and some mystery meat, probably dog. Good thing I was very soused on pony Coronas. I'm thinking pocket protectors.
  4. So is Brad Underwood still under the cloud of the OSU scandal, even though he was never alleded to be involved? Ilinois just re-upped him for 4.1 million up to 4.5 mil by '27. I was hoping Texas would pick him up instead of Smart, but water under the bridge.
  5. The hard decision is to tax the wealthy and have them pay their share. And it's those wealthy who own the stocks in our "non-profit" healthcare systems and insurance companies and drug companies and just about every other support business involved with our healthcare. True, while race is the easiest dividing line, the elite rich have either always had us fighting their wars, or fighting amongst ourselves, all in order to keep up from noticing how they are picking our pockets. It's the gilded age all over again, just different fields of monopolies. So there's your pendulum and hopefully it starts swinging back towards humanity soon, all over the world. I wish we spent as much time discussing this as we do the racism and other devices they use to keep us divided.
  6. That last part says it all: ...for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...
  7. Well it's not like there are any books left in the library to distract them from learning some math.
  8. True, but I was thinking of the guy who ended up with 2 extra tickets because his brother had to cancel.
  9. Correct, its just another way to gain a monopoly on ticket sales by Stubhub and the few other electronic sellers. Cuts out the scalpers.
  10. Would be nice if they concentrated more on the weak referee work and horrendous announcers. Then the length of the game wouldn't be as important. Those two things often make watching games a beating. I have gotten to where I set it up at the start of the game and pause it. Then I go do something else for a while, and when i return, I can fast forward through the commercials and replay shit. I usually FF through the halftime drivel too, stopping for the updates on other games. It means I can't get involved with the game thread, so there is that downside.
  11. Even before JJ, the Cowboys didn't draft a lot of UT players. But even fewer after JJ. I was surprised to see how many Horns went to Philly.
  12. It will really start collapsing when professors start opting out of Texas schools and go to those who have tenure tracks. I thought first about how those kids couldn't engage in extra curricular things like athletics or other activities, not without a huge sacrifice of time from the parents to ferry their asses around. It would not surprise me if some are already thinking of boarding those kids who have to travel so far. Set up bare minimum barracks and charge out the ass to house and feed them. What the parents can't pay, the state will give them yet another voucher program. Basically a boarding school for the poors.
  13. I need to boost this. I just watched it and have to say how well it was done. Not only from his NBA side, but the work he did for civil rights. I was impressed by his writing, both books and newspaper articles. He was a well rounded, courageous man.
  14. A Man Called Horse was a different kind of western, but it really left an impression on younger me. Not exactly a Western, but Man from Snowy River was always a favorite of mine.
  15. And they had no problem assassinating VY's skillset, character and career to stay on Fischer's good side.
  16. I agree, but its part of his character's persona more than it is bad acting on his part. He got a SAG nomination for the role. I rate the seasons 1-4-2-3
  17. Soap, Taxi, Night Court (the original), Rockford Files, Quincy, Columbo, The Fugitive. I have a hardbound copy of M*A*S*H around somewhere. Army green cover with red cross on it. BBC classics like Are You Being Served, Fawlty Tours, The Avengers, Dr Who, Jeeves and Wooster and of course the old Benny Hill show with Hill's Angels. There was this one good show about an alcoholic socialite mother and her down to earth teen daughter. Maybe some of y'all remember the title. It was pretty funny.
  18. From Hell to Eternity. WW2 picture done in 1960. Typical acting for that time, but the story was pretty solid and it was a good thing to make the focal point of a movie. I caught it on TCM.
  19. Been binging on the Sinner. Pretty decent as far as detective stories go. Takes some literary license, but the stories in the first two seasons had some interesting plot twists. How they bring in Pullman's own past is well written. I'm on S3, and I will admit each season starts off very boggy, but picks up.
  20. That's pretty much what the Kama Sutra is about. Why on earth would we want to teach our kids these things when we can control them much better with ignorance and guilt?
  21. Yes, yes we should. We should be asking them if they have questions and answering them honestly. We teach our kids how to handle guns, how to cook, how to make money, how to do just about everything but we fail miserably at teaching them about sex, relationships and parenting. And generation after generation gets worse at it while the world now has so many other ways to fill in the voids, like the internet.
  22. A minute and a bit into the second half, Carr is outside the arc on the wing and Mitchell is there setting a screen. They called an offensive foul, but there was no word as to why, and the review went back to some WV grunt making a 3. I assume the foul was a moving screen on Mitchell?
  23. TD;cr. Too dumb, couldn't read.
  24. I enjoyed Woo. It took a few episodes to get everyone fully into character, but eventually there was some pretty nice character development. Most of the stories were pretty well thought out and not overly trite, so you weren't solving the whodunit 10 minutes into the show. I'm watching The Glory, which is another Korean series on revenge for childhood bullying. It's kind of hard to follow because so many of the names are similar. Like I can't even distinguish between female and male names, because Su Yo Loengu means nothing to me, not like Ted or Bill or Sue would. So it takes a while to get everyone sorted. That and the dubbing is really bad at times, really distracts. But the story seems good so far and makes me anticipate the next episode.
  25. If you have Showtime, George and Tammy was a good watch. I grew up listening to Tammy in particular, because she was my brother's favorite. I thought the whole thing was pretty well done, sure explained a lot of chemistry. Also a recommendation for The Hunters, since the last season is about to drop.
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