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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. That’s correct. And whereas the age of the mother is relevant as well, the age related risk that gets almost no public discussion at all is the age of the father. And what’s really interesting is that the age of a father also seems to impact the outcomes for their grandchildren, likely because of the relationship between paternal age and mutations of dominant genes.
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  3. You know it’s funny about autism. Yes of course the broader definition and wider screening play a role, but there’s this one HUGE risk factor that is well understood, isn’t even controversial, and it increases the risk of autism by ~20%. It also increases the risk of many other things. But people don’t want to hear about it.
  4. I pity the fool
  5. Edit @Pato del Muerto beat me to it
  6. I think he’s similar to Ike. He got the aptitude, but finds the whole thing distasteful. I think it’s unlikely, but I’ve heard people from across the political spectrum are begging him to run.
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  8. I sense real widespread anger at Allred for his conduct in the last campaign among more active the grassroots Democrats here in Travis County. Does it go beyond Travis and you think they sense it at the donor/SDEC/Exec level?
  9. Penthouse Forum has really gone downhill
  10. I think some of y’all just have low standards and would rather pay through the nose and passively accept whatever you get than demand responsive, effective, professional policing. At least when there’s a salad scandal to complain about, amirite?
  11. This is a management problem, not a motivation problem.
  12. I keep saying “he sucks” about Garza so the bolded text above is … quite a leap. examples:
  13. I think I could make that throw to third with one hop in 8th grade.
  14. The DA sucks! You should run against him! But none of that justifies the police not doing their jobs.
  15. Let me get this straight: you don’t like the DA so when there’s a guy breaking into the house next door it’s fine for the police not to respond, even though they can and do respond quickly to low/no risk calls. Do I have that right? Your safety in real time is expendable because Garza?
  16. Y’all. The voters enacted a camping ban. PEOPLE CAMP IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE POLICE HQ.
  17. It’s legit terrible logo design for anything. Consider it done; you’re also ugly This. This is like the very open secret that nobody wants to talk about. Even a lot of cops are frustrated about it. And there’s no appetite to take it on. It they do, it’s quite likely the State Gov will basically gut the homerule charter. But make no mistake: our police do not police this city well. Even when asked, or especially when asked. Want to see 10 cops? Send a landscape truck across Tarrytown after 7pm. Want to see no cops? Call them when your car gets stolen.
  18. No argument there. I’m not a fan of Broadnax (he doesn’t have many), but Cronk was in way over his head here and didn’t lead effectively. Winter storm or no, the timeline was going to be about the same. I agree they go beyond pay, but you have got to be joking about the risk. This is not a dangerous town for cops compared to peer cities, full stop. As much as the APD hates the DA (nobody likes the DA), he’s not the reason our police department is so mediocre at conducting their task. Poor leadership at APD and the police union is the cause of the staffing issues and poor recruitment at APD, and that’s caused by poor management, which is caused by a weak council, which is caused by cheap, dumb voters. The problem with AFD is that we overspend on fire relative to EMS. We don’t tho All of that, in total, is a rounding error compared to public safety. Stop listening to KLBJ-AM. Bad for brains. Your opinion is wrong and you should feel bad. It’s unbalanced and looks cropped on both sides.
  19. I bet he sure missed going up to Muleshoe on Friday nights.
  20. The expense account fracas is a perfect example of how Austin voters get distracted by nickels and dimes while dollars fly right by. The two biggest expense categories are police and fire, at about 37% and 18% respectively. We have among the most well paid police in the state, and yet we struggle to recruit, most of our police don’t even live in the city and the quality of our policing is extremely mediocre. We have bigger fire trucks and more firefighters than we need, and yet we struggle to find funds for parks, underinvest in infrastructure, underinvest in EMS (which is why fire gets to EMS calls before EMS so often), our animal shelters are ghastly and rely on volunteerism to function, and we treat the enterprise departments like piggy banks. And it’s funny, you know, because the people who bitch about salads? They’re the reason why. They’d rather live in a penny wise, pound foolish city that gives a blank check to the cops but can’t stomach the idea that a senior exec has an expense account. And then you whine about why we don’t have top talent even though we pay top dollar? My man, it’s the same reason nobody good runs for city council: the pay isn’t nearly enough to take such a bad job.
  21. Good post- however I believe the phrase “Five Cities in the Middle of Nowhere” came from Warren Leslie’s remarkable post-Kennedy assassination anatomy of the reactionary Dallas power structure and the Citizens Council, Dallas Public and Private, all the more remarkable since Warren Leslie was an Executive VP and and primary spokesman for Neiman-Marcus at the time.
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