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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I pay the Homer tax
  2. Early Christianity was uniquely dangerous and radical in multiple ways- it explicitly challenges (and really insults) the value system and power symbols of the empire. It also directly mocks how Rome manages and co-opts regional clients and takes direct aim at the financial system. I’m tempted to write an essay here about how Rome became “Christian,” the role of official Christianity in precipitating the fall, and parallels between the official Christianity of Rome-in-fall and American Christianity today, but I’ll skip it and just suggest that Christianity is better understood through the lens of the Beatitudes and the parables of Christ than through the social behavior of people who pray on street corners. @Clintonaldo your heart is sad because your spirit is well. Focus on the basics and you will find joy in service and mercy.
  3. I’m an alligator! I’m a mama-papa-coming’ for you!
  4. Friends, Wes Virdell understands you are busy but asks you to make time to comment and support this important effort.
  5. Sounds to me like you understood the assignment.
  6. I don’t know what that is or how to get it, but what’s the $100 for?
  7. How are we watching Rangers games in Austin? I use Hulu + and the other services but I’m not sure how to find them?
  8. Well goddamn how is my tailor going to get me my suits?
  9. That’s really atrocious
  10. The TWolves shot 50% from behind the arc. Only one team with at least 35 attempts has ever done that in a playoff game and lost.
  11. Be interesting to find out who set it in motion
  12. But seriously why’d they put a roundabout there? Usually it’s precipitated by a resident complaint about the need for traffic calming where a stop sign wouldn’t be appropriate. Gotta be a report on that
  13. Really? No prior history of any negligence of any kind ever? Nobody ever rolled the stop sign at the T even once? Nobody ever sped into it when someone was turning? Not every Very impressive. But what I was talking about was that your example of unsafety was someone failing to yield, which didn’t cause an accident.
  14. 100% I put no weight in it whatsoever. Your own example is why - the configuration of the interchange gave you the time and sightline to avoid an accident caused by someone else's negligence. There's data on this: roundabouts reduce injury accidents, period. If it is "routinely unsafe," the data will bear that out. And if you can find me a single example of an intersection in Texas that was reconfigured to a roundabout and the result was either more injuries or less throughput, I'll stand down. But until that time, I will remain skeptical about the perceived danger of things that make you more attentive. Lots of rats, raccoons and possums living in the ceilings now.
  15. We have a multi-decade leadership vacuum to go with the worst voters of any large city in Texas, and what success we have had has been the product natural advantages overcoming our collective determination against becoming a great city. I don't known what Austin will do, but whatever it is, it will be stupid and myopic, and when it's done we'll blame everyone but ourselves for the results.
  16. Brisket and my running commentary in the stands, starting from the failed penalty kick:
  17. I keep hearing this when roundabouts are installed. When do the accidents start?
  18. Good Tsar, bad boyars. Nobody beats the riz
  19. I sort of made my peace with this last night. I am and will remain a Mavs Fan For Life, and I really like a lot of these players. But this organization is not the Dallas Mavericks anymore. They are Las Vegas Sands Corp, and I don’t have any more of a bond to that than LAs Vegas Sands does to us or to the city of Dallas.
  20. What you don’t understand is that 1) it’s aggregated in the graph and 2) it makes your point even weaker this is basically you right now:
  21. keep fucking that chicken
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