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pyrohornIII

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  1. How many of you have stayed at a Trump property? I can't help but think they'd be a little threadbare and under maintained? Faux gilded shit everywhere.
  2. Black Sails on Starz is a good series on pirates.
  3. I'm gonna wait for the Cliff notes. All I have found is people talking about Covid and what should be done on the university level. Or the Reeves notes.
  4. Yeah, we have a really sharp lady, Rose Clouston who heads up the TDP Voter Protection Program. 2020 was her first year, but she has done a great job in getting things organized. But like you said, we don't have a central figure like Abrams yet to do the publicity part. Hopefully we can get organized and one or two will emerge.
  5. If you got Lily topless in those ads, at least half the population would never hear a word of the dialog. Just sayin. But hey, give it a go, AT&T.
  6. Would think the cost of production would exceed any profit to be made. Plus harvest would be an issue. There are some pretty intense subsidies on rice, sugar and honey as well. I think that has to do with keeping some domestic production for protection in trade situations. I wish we could get away from the vertical integration and back to local production. We could solve so many problems if we started farming our lands like we did before corporate farming. And the corporate farmers like AI aren't getting rich either. They have to take on more and more acreage to justify the larger machinery. Cotton harvest now is pretty much all custom work, since the harvesters are a quarter million apiece. You can't afford own one for just 2000 acres of cotton. I worked for a corporate farm in high school, kind of like AI's. The farmer told me then, back in the 70s that our soil wasn't anything but structure, we used it to hold up plants, we added all the nutrients. He was right about that. I'd really like to see a push, some incentive programs to go back more to small natural farms. Those highlighted on Kiss the Soil are what I am alluding to.
  7. Apparently when you check out the uncropped pics, all the surl's made the list by the additional emo's and sports nut's.
  8. I really like that first idea. Start the ballot with about 10 general questions on American governance and history. Weight that vote according to the percentage they got right. Pull the questions from a pool of about 200 at random. Make the 200 questions public for the year before. Like 'Name the 3 branches of government.' People who take the time to brush up or learn about our state/country can get full vote counted. Texas does offer a general ID card for free. But you have to go to a DPS office to get it. Texas also will accept an expired DL, up to 4 years under 69 and over 4 years expired if over 70. However, IDs like used for high school or higher education are not accepted, nor any other federal or state ID. (Think NASA ID, or Hermann Hospital ID). So like in your point 2, the system makes it difficult to obtain accepted IDs. They should at least cut those waiting on general ID ahead of the others waiting for TDL. It's ridiculous. If they want to do this, then they need to have regional mobile units to visit all areas of the state throughout the year. Wouldn't cost much for the added security, right?
  9. Living in deep red rural Texas, we have plenty of opportunity to run across these morons who think they are so much smarter than the average bear. They are dying to get people to confront them. They also tend to talk louder than anyone else, to draw more attention. But hadn't thought of the bank implications. That's a really strong FAAFO deathwish there.
  10. So instead of ranting about the stimulus package increasing the debt, you should be ranting about fixing the broken system that keeps funneling money up. You seem to have a handle on it, why not done yet? The taxes need to be raised just to get back to where we were 20 years ago when it comes to local and state spending on roads, schools, healthcare. I would imagine a graph on infrastructure and other spending would show the same stagnation as our wage scale. Flat, while the upper elite and their corporations keep raking it in at a exponential rate. And all of those bubbles were aided in great part by deregulation. See Hagbard's post below as and example.
  11. Well now that's necessary spending, just like the billions annually in corporate welfare, or farm subsidies we have been shelling out due to Trump's dumbass trade war. That stuff is necessary, but this spending isn't, and GR mocks us for not understanding the difference.
  12. Hope that bank closes her account and flags her as a risk for all other banks.
  13. Thought we already had a rolling power failure governing.
  14. Don't think Cruz has the clout to damage Dr Suess. Plus this is one of the books that didn't get pulled. I mean what is the point, Ted? If anything it's a win for Suess, keeping it current. So the next move is the RNC buys all 1000 copies? But will Trump let them?
  15. It was definitely stupid. Not defending it. I liked Georgia, or more specifically the actress who played her. Brianne Howey. For those interested in seeing her without suffering the program:
  16. Watching Ginny and Georgia specifically for Georgia.
  17. good to great size and average speed/agility?
  18. I would think this past year has offered us enough glimpses of people not acting respectful that we could accept possible extenuating circumstances to drive a teen to walk away. Better than throwing fists. Though they should be granted every benefit, the customer is not always right.
  19. In Texas, would that settlement be capped at $250,000 due to the tort reform from the 80s?
  20. I'd like to see him run as the headliner D, and let a lot of D coattail on him for RR Commissioner, AG, Lt Gov, Board of Education and a host of representatives and senators. Like Sizzle said, the governor of Texas does a lot more representing than governing. He'd be ok at that if he felt confidence in those who came on board with him were competent and in line with his beliefs. I don't see him doing this for the graft. I don't even see it as a popularity play. Seems to be pretty sincere. If he ran as R, he'd never get out of the primaries, thanks to aggy.
  21. But Biden is getting in some pre-emptive strikes. It's going to take a long time to erase the normalization of gaslighting, but at least they are trying. Over and over they seem to be pointing out when these red governors damage their states to own the libs. At the same time they don't let drop the idea that smokescreens are being deployed to distract from the Big Freeze debacle. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/03/12/as-abbott-hits-biden-for-releasing-migrants-with-covid-white-house-asks-why-texas-rejects-funds-for-tests/ As Abbott hits Biden for releasing migrants with COVID, White House asks why Texas rejects funds to test them The feud continues after the president accused the governor of “Neanderthal thinking” on masks.
  22. Yeah, because peace and harmony would really fuck up our economy, right?
  23. Would have been interesting seeing Governor Hogg's family marry into the Butt clan. Particularly Ima.
  24. I would think the third in line of succession would fill the VP slot for presiding over the Senate and thus breaking tie votes. Once the VP is approved then speaker would return to their role in the House.
  25. Why not? If aggy can make up national championships and mount them on their wall, this should be acceptable. Honestly never paid attention to that.
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