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On 7/23/2025 at 3:04 AM, TwiceHorn said:

I had truly excellent English teachers in high school.  And I didn't take AP. But DaN was part of the curriculum.  I need to re-read it.

Ms. Fish, Mrs. Troutman, Mr. Smith (later a baseball coach), and Mrs. Glover.

Highland Park?

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It really sucks for those kids. Their drunk mom and dipshit right-winger father have really set them up for hardship and trauma.

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16 minutes ago, Nivek said:

It really sucks for those kids. Their drunk mom and dipshit right-winger father have really set them up for hardship and trauma.

The wife says the reports of his death are not true.

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1 hour ago, NorthLoop said:

Dang. And she's pretty credible. 

you say what you have to say when potato sack number one is exhausted and your three hungry daughters keep asking you for potato sack number two.

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5 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

you say what you have to say when potato sack number one is exhausted and your three hungry daughters keep asking you for potato sack number two.

The only potatoes she cares about are the ones that make vodka.

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5 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

The only potatoes she cares about are the ones that make vodka.

True.  I bet her new suitors are amazed at how healthy she is. “American woman has all teeth and belly not too distended.. Only three childs…..can have 6 or 7 more.”

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On 7/22/2025 at 7:57 PM, Jiggy-Z said:

Looks like he enlisted before he got drafted.

 

My read of it too.  I thought he said that he signed up to take advantage of the enlistment bonus and fast track to his whole family getting citizenship.  He listened to the recruiter's promises and fell hook line and sinker.

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3 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

What's really sad is that when a leopard does eat someone's face in Curtis and they survive, they won't have a hospital to help them recover. 

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They are getting exactly what they voted for and they are getting it good and hard

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21 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

What's really sad is that when a leopard does eat someone's face in Curtis and they survive, they won't have a hospital to help them recover. 

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I keep repeating something I read a long while back, the country changed when people started thinking of themselves as taxpayers rather than citizens. I finally got off my lazy ass and ran it down. I think the place I read it must have been quoting this piece in Harpers 2016.

 

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There has been a fundamental shift in American consciousness. The Citizen has become the Taxpayer. In consequence of this shift, public assets have become public burdens. These personae, Citizen and Taxpayer, are both the creations of political rhetoric. (It now requires an unusual degree of historical awareness to know that both politics and rhetoric were once honorable things.) An important aspect of human circumstance is that we can create effective reality merely by consenting to the phantasms of the moment or of the decade. While the Citizen can entertain aspirations for the society as a whole and take pride in its achievements, the Taxpayer, as presently imagined, simply does not want to pay taxes. The societal consequences of this aversion — failing infrastructure, for example — are to be preferred to any inroad on his or her monetary fiefdom, however large or small. 

The article is:

Save Our Public Universities

In defense of America’s best idea

by Marilynne Robinson

 

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On 7/19/2025 at 12:16 AM, Sawbonz said:

It’s ridiculous what rightwing media has done to the people of our country.

You could post this observation on every thread on this board, and you'd be hammer-hitting-nail almost every time.  

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On 7/26/2025 at 10:49 AM, RomaVicta said:

I keep repeating something I read a long while back, the country changed when people started thinking of themselves as taxpayers rather than citizens. I finally got off my lazy ass and ran it down. I think the place I read it must have been quoting this piece in Harpers 2016.

 

The article is:

Save Our Public Universities

In defense of America’s best idea

by Marilynne Robinson

 

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Trying to find an inflection point is mental masturbation.  

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On 7/26/2025 at 10:49 AM, RomaVicta said:

I keep repeating something I read a long while back, the country changed when people started thinking of themselves as taxpayers rather than citizens. I finally got off my lazy ass and ran it down. I think the place I read it must have been quoting this piece in Harpers 2016.

 

The article is:

Save Our Public Universities

In defense of America’s best idea

by Marilynne Robinson

 

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Agree, but the reason for the aversion to paying taxes and also not understanding why taxes actually exist in our system is due to both lack of education and also a right wing propaganda machine the likes of which no one had ever seen. 

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27 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Agree, but the reason for the aversion to paying taxes and also not understanding why taxes actually exist in our system is due to both lack of education and also a right wing propaganda machine the likes of which no one had ever seen. 

I'm the choir on that one, Brother Biff. 

A confluence of factors led to this place where we are. Advertising. Slack education. Grad students. The press becoming overrun with college boys and girls who learned templates in school rather than learning how to find news and how not to treat every story the same.

It's a shit show. 

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/this-construction-project-was-time-budget-then-came-ice-2025-07-28/

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MOBILE, Alabama July 28 (Reuters) - Under a broiling Alabama sky a frustrated Robby Robertson, a construction site superintendent, surveys an 84,000 square foot, mostly built recreation center close to the Gulf coast port city of Mobile.
The site is eerily quiet. Last month, the $20 million project was on track for on-time completion by November 1. Now Robertson says he is looking at a three-week delay after about half of his workers - scared by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a job site in Florida 230 miles (370 kilometers) away - have stayed away.

 

Was going to make money and finish ahead of schedule, now overbudget and delayed.

 

Any guesses how Mobile voted?

 

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Posted
On 7/27/2025 at 12:34 PM, Biff Tannen said:

Agree, but the reason for the aversion to paying taxes and also not understanding why taxes actually exist in our system is due to both lack of education and also a right wing propaganda machine the likes of which no one had ever seen. 

Only a naive citizen would not care about Welfare Queens taking all the tax money, but Patriot Taxpayers are very concerned about that issue.

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1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

I'm sure tornado alley will really enjoy the shittier warnings and complete lack of any disaster response over the next few years. 

boot straps.   hang on to them cause that is all that they'll hopefully have left.  

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6 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

I'm sure tornado alley will really enjoy the shittier warnings and complete lack of any disaster response over the next few years. 

We should just let the grass grow in any place named Iowa, Kansas, or a Dakota after the next pandemic in no vaccination/rural /healthcare land- and let the buffalo herds come back.  

Of course, we won’t have a working electric grid to allow us to freeze the thousand pounds of meat - but we can smoke it using the wooden furniture of abandoned family farms.

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Once again Texas shoots itself in the dick

Spoiler

Congress’ new budget bill is an energy earthquake. It could wipe out tens of gigawatts of energy production, just as we’re experiencing load growth unlike anything since the 1960’s. It will drive power bills higher for families and factories, and give China the upper hand in the race for 21st century economic supremacy.

To understand in more detail the impacts of the federal budget bill, this week on the Energy Capital Podcast, I talked with Dan O’Brien, senior modeling analyst at Energy Innovation. His team modeled what this bill really means for Texas and the numbers should stop us in our tracks.

If you’ve been reading this newsletter, you know I’ve warned about this moment for months. Now, the data is here. It’s worse than we thought. We were on a path to energy abundance and we’re about to get energy scarcity including increased risk of blackouts and much higher electric bills.

From Ramp to Cliff: What This Bill Actually Does

Here’s what Congress passed:

* Ends clean energy tax credits abruptly. No glide path, no transition, just a cliff.

* Imposes impossible project timelines that most developers can’t meet.

I’ve written before about how this creates scarcity, not abundance (Energy Scarcity). We’re pulling the cheapest, fastest-growing resources off the table while demand is surging. That’s a recipe for higher prices and weaker reliability.

And make no mistake: this isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s happening right when Texas has proven that solar and storage are great for reliability and affordability.

The Modeling: 77 GW Gone

Dan’s modeling tells the story:

* 77 gigawatts of lost clean energy in Texas, including over 50 gigawatts of solar and over 20 gigawatts of wind)

* Only 2 gigawatts of additional gas

* Household power bills up $400–$500 a year

* Industrial energy costs up 50%

* Tens of billions in lost rural tax revenue

Put that in perspective: ERCOT’s entire summer peak is about 85 gigawatts. This bill wipes out nearly that much future clean power before it’s even built.

These numbers aren’t isolated. Princeton’s REPEAT Project and Columbia’s Climate Knowledge Initiative show the same trend: abruptly ending credits doesn’t save money. It costs money—because you’re replacing cheap renewables with expensive alternatives, or worse, with nothing at all.

 

Demand Is Exploding, So Why Are We Pulling Back?

At the same time, Texas demand is skyrocketing. From 2021 to 2025, Texas has experience 6% year-over-year growth, the fastest since the 1960s. AI data centers, crypto, and industrial electrification are all plugging in at once.

And here’s the kicker: the resources meeting that demand surge aren’t gas or coal. They’re wind, solar, and batteries. They’re 92% of what’s been added since 2021. In the first half of 2025, wind and solar made up 40% of ERCOT’s generation mix. Batteries are breaking records almost monthly, keeping the grid balanced during extreme heat and sudden shifts.

ERCOT calculated summer energy emergency risk dropped from 16% to under 1% in one year, because of solar and storage. We have the data. We have the results. So why are we sabotaging it?

The Human Side: Jobs and Rural Texas

The energy sector is one of the largest drivers of job growth in Texas. These are real people—60,000 Texans working in wind, solar, and storage, including 6,000 veterans. It’s rural school districts balancing their budgets with wind and solar tax base and farmers and ranchers keeping their land in their families for another generation.

It’s welders, electricians, and manufacturers in counties that haven’t seen this level of investment in decades.

 

Global Stakes: China’s Electrostate Moment

Zoom out. While we’re cutting our legs out from under us, China is sprinting ahead. Last year, they added 400 GW of clean energy, several Texases worth of power. Last month, they put in 90 gigawatts of solar. The Financial Times calls them the first “electrostate.”

The U.S.? We added 60 GW in 2024. And now we’re debating LNG power plants that don’t exist. As I wrote in Energy Submission: this isn’t energy dominance. It’s energy surrender.

If we abandon clean energy leadership now, we’re not just risking higher bills—we’re giving away the 21st century.

There’s Still Time: Ramp, Don’t Cliff

I’m not arguing for permanent subsidies. We should phase them out, but smartly, with predictability. A ramp-down avoids price shocks, keeps manufacturing momentum, and protects rural tax bases while we scale what’s next.

We’ve already proven the formula: reliability up, prices down, emissions falling. It’s not theoretical. It’s working. And throwing it away overnight isn’t policy, it’s ideology.

The Bottom Line

The Texas grid is stronger than it’s ever been, because of solar and storage. That’s not my opinion; that’s ERCOT’s own data. Reliability is improving, costs are falling, and we’re finally catching up to the energy future the rest of the world is racing toward.

This bill reverses that progress. It’s a choice between abundance and scarcity, between leadership and surrender. And the clock is ticking.

Timestamps

* 00:00 – Introduction

* 02:00 – What is the federal budget bill and why is it important?

* 04:30 – Impact on Texas power

* 07:00 – Why is there only a tiny increase in new gas capacity

* 10:00 – Modeling Assumptions and Safe Harbor Provisions

* 12:30 – Demand forecasts and modeling variables

* 14:00 – Residential energy cost increases: $480/year

* 16:00 – Why that could be worse if Treasury’s guidance is restrictive

* 19:00 – Why are power prices high if renewables are lowering costs?

* 21:00 – 54% increase in power costs for large commercial & industrial customers

* 25:00 – Job losses from the federal bill

* 29:00 – Rural community impacts and manufacturing losses

* 30:00 – Policymakers could revisit this policy as the impacts take hold

* 32:00 – Phasing out credits would protect consumers and end them permanently

 

* 77 gigawatts of lost clean energy in Texas, including over 50 gigawatts of solar and over 20 gigawatts of wind)

* Only 2 gigawatts of additional gas

* Household power bills up $400–$500 a year

* Industrial energy costs up 50%

* Tens of billions in lost rural tax

 

 

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44 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Once again Texas shoots itself in the dick

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Congress’ new budget bill is an energy earthquake. It could wipe out tens of gigawatts of energy production, just as we’re experiencing load growth unlike anything since the 1960’s. It will drive power bills higher for families and factories, and give China the upper hand in the race for 21st century economic supremacy.

To understand in more detail the impacts of the federal budget bill, this week on the Energy Capital Podcast, I talked with Dan O’Brien, senior modeling analyst at Energy Innovation. His team modeled what this bill really means for Texas and the numbers should stop us in our tracks.

If you’ve been reading this newsletter, you know I’ve warned about this moment for months. Now, the data is here. It’s worse than we thought. We were on a path to energy abundance and we’re about to get energy scarcity including increased risk of blackouts and much higher electric bills.

From Ramp to Cliff: What This Bill Actually Does

Here’s what Congress passed:

* Ends clean energy tax credits abruptly. No glide path, no transition, just a cliff.

* Imposes impossible project timelines that most developers can’t meet.

I’ve written before about how this creates scarcity, not abundance (Energy Scarcity). We’re pulling the cheapest, fastest-growing resources off the table while demand is surging. That’s a recipe for higher prices and weaker reliability.

And make no mistake: this isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s happening right when Texas has proven that solar and storage are great for reliability and affordability.

The Modeling: 77 GW Gone

Dan’s modeling tells the story:

* 77 gigawatts of lost clean energy in Texas, including over 50 gigawatts of solar and over 20 gigawatts of wind)

* Only 2 gigawatts of additional gas

* Household power bills up $400–$500 a year

* Industrial energy costs up 50%

* Tens of billions in lost rural tax revenue

Put that in perspective: ERCOT’s entire summer peak is about 85 gigawatts. This bill wipes out nearly that much future clean power before it’s even built.

These numbers aren’t isolated. Princeton’s REPEAT Project and Columbia’s Climate Knowledge Initiative show the same trend: abruptly ending credits doesn’t save money. It costs money—because you’re replacing cheap renewables with expensive alternatives, or worse, with nothing at all.

 

Demand Is Exploding, So Why Are We Pulling Back?

At the same time, Texas demand is skyrocketing. From 2021 to 2025, Texas has experience 6% year-over-year growth, the fastest since the 1960s. AI data centers, crypto, and industrial electrification are all plugging in at once.

And here’s the kicker: the resources meeting that demand surge aren’t gas or coal. They’re wind, solar, and batteries. They’re 92% of what’s been added since 2021. In the first half of 2025, wind and solar made up 40% of ERCOT’s generation mix. Batteries are breaking records almost monthly, keeping the grid balanced during extreme heat and sudden shifts.

ERCOT calculated summer energy emergency risk dropped from 16% to under 1% in one year, because of solar and storage. We have the data. We have the results. So why are we sabotaging it?

The Human Side: Jobs and Rural Texas

The energy sector is one of the largest drivers of job growth in Texas. These are real people—60,000 Texans working in wind, solar, and storage, including 6,000 veterans. It’s rural school districts balancing their budgets with wind and solar tax base and farmers and ranchers keeping their land in their families for another generation.

It’s welders, electricians, and manufacturers in counties that haven’t seen this level of investment in decades.

 

Global Stakes: China’s Electrostate Moment

Zoom out. While we’re cutting our legs out from under us, China is sprinting ahead. Last year, they added 400 GW of clean energy, several Texases worth of power. Last month, they put in 90 gigawatts of solar. The Financial Times calls them the first “electrostate.”

The U.S.? We added 60 GW in 2024. And now we’re debating LNG power plants that don’t exist. As I wrote in Energy Submission: this isn’t energy dominance. It’s energy surrender.

If we abandon clean energy leadership now, we’re not just risking higher bills—we’re giving away the 21st century.

There’s Still Time: Ramp, Don’t Cliff

I’m not arguing for permanent subsidies. We should phase them out, but smartly, with predictability. A ramp-down avoids price shocks, keeps manufacturing momentum, and protects rural tax bases while we scale what’s next.

We’ve already proven the formula: reliability up, prices down, emissions falling. It’s not theoretical. It’s working. And throwing it away overnight isn’t policy, it’s ideology.

The Bottom Line

The Texas grid is stronger than it’s ever been, because of solar and storage. That’s not my opinion; that’s ERCOT’s own data. Reliability is improving, costs are falling, and we’re finally catching up to the energy future the rest of the world is racing toward.

This bill reverses that progress. It’s a choice between abundance and scarcity, between leadership and surrender. And the clock is ticking.

Timestamps

* 00:00 – Introduction

* 02:00 – What is the federal budget bill and why is it important?

* 04:30 – Impact on Texas power

* 07:00 – Why is there only a tiny increase in new gas capacity

* 10:00 – Modeling Assumptions and Safe Harbor Provisions

* 12:30 – Demand forecasts and modeling variables

* 14:00 – Residential energy cost increases: $480/year

* 16:00 – Why that could be worse if Treasury’s guidance is restrictive

* 19:00 – Why are power prices high if renewables are lowering costs?

* 21:00 – 54% increase in power costs for large commercial & industrial customers

* 25:00 – Job losses from the federal bill

* 29:00 – Rural community impacts and manufacturing losses

* 30:00 – Policymakers could revisit this policy as the impacts take hold

* 32:00 – Phasing out credits would protect consumers and end them permanently

 

* 77 gigawatts of lost clean energy in Texas, including over 50 gigawatts of solar and over 20 gigawatts of wind)

* Only 2 gigawatts of additional gas

* Household power bills up $400–$500 a year

* Industrial energy costs up 50%

* Tens of billions in lost rural tax

 

 

Sounds like we need to build more coal plants, just as Jesus wanted.

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36 minutes ago, Saint Tacky said:

 

“On Facebook and Instagram, Thach presents a fun-loving, active life with friends, family, a love of motocross and the outdoors. But on X, his posts take a tone similar to his wife’s X account.    Mixed in with motocross and BMX video clips are racist and anti-trans videos and memes”

but also…

“Friends describe him as always willing to help new riders set up their bikes or polish their skills. “I don’t think anybody out there would have a negative thing to say about him,” said Hurst real estate agent and longtime racing colleague Jeff Luna. “He is just a good dude.”

 

 

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RURAL COUNTY VOTES TO DEFUND THE ONLY NEARBY HOSPITAL .  SHOCKED THAT NEARBY HOSPITAL IS BEING DEFUNDED

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/trump-medicaid-healthcare-cuts-missouri

 

”For many in Pemiscot county, its emergency room is the closest available without taking a 30-minute drive across the Mississippi river to Tennessee or the state line to Arkansas, a range that can make the difference between life and death for victims of shootings, overdoses or accidents on the road”

“Yet its days of serving its community may be numbered. In May, the hospital’s administration went public with the news that after years of struggling with high rates of uninsured patients and low reimbursement rates from insurers, they may have to close. And even if they do manage to navigate out of their current crisis, Pemiscot Memorial’s leaders see a new danger on the horizon: the “big, beautiful bill” Republicans pushed through Congress earlier this month, at Donald Trump’s request.”

 

This is madness!  Surely the good people of Pemiscot county did all they could at the ballot box to prevent this!…..

”Trump carried Missouri, a midwestern state that has veered sharply away from the Democratic party over the past three decades, with more than 58% of the vote last November. In Pemiscot county, where census data shows more than a quarter of residents are below the poverty line and the median income is just over $40,000 a year, he was the choice of 74% of voters, and Republican lawmakers representing the county played a notable role in steering his tax and spending bill through Congress.”

 

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On 7/28/2025 at 5:10 PM, Covri said:

Nebraska leading the nation in faces eating by leopards. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving dude.

 

 


 


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Never has there been more succinct or accurate representation of American farmers:

 

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Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism.

 

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8 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Never has there been more succinct or accurate representation of American farmers:

 

 

You might be the only literate mother fucker on here.



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