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  1. 3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    The absolute worst thing about those will be 3 hours of bob cole bringing new talent to the stage every 5 songs. 
     

    coming to the Mighty Fine pole is the very very lovely Victoria!  And up next on the nyle maxwell pole is the very very lovey Diana!

    Bob Cole is our own Dave South.  Embarrassing. Thank goodness that you have to be there in person to suffer through him and his all of the crap he brings.

    It is Craig Way for me on all Texas sports audio feeds FTW!

  2. 5 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Seems to be a lot of negativity lately, but in my experience whataburger is still knocking it out of the park 85% of the time. That includes a recent order of a jalapeño cheddar biscuit in Baton Rouge (I was prepared for the worst, but pleasantly surprised).

    OK -- now I really need a jalapeño cheddar biscuit!

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  3. 46 minutes ago, OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys said:

    The system is built with some fundamental assumptions.  One is that the elected will be incentivized to promote the interests of those they represent.  

    that has largely been replaced by two things: the nationalization of every issue such that there is no such thing as a local interest anymore and the politics of resentment when making others suffer is more important than your constituents succeed. 

     

    Nothing is perfect.  I am quite certain that the founding fathers had no idea that we would have a career politician ruling class that dominated both houses of congress.  Term limits -- two terms in the Senate and four terms in the House, plus a four year cooling off period before you could register as a lobbyist would go a long way towards returning to a citizen-focused Congress.  A guy can dream...

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  4. 5 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    I didn’t know that northwest pool didn’t open and that’s ridiculous. I was thinking just the smaller neighborhood ones didn’t open. My kids also learned to swim there and my Dad actually designed the place. 

    Northwest Park is a cool place.  Perhaps the earliest quarry in Austin.  Nicely reclaimed.  As was the one at Far West.

  5. 15 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Yep. Austin used to have a great public pool system with neighborhood pools all over town. Now they either don’t open them or open late in the season and shut them down early claiming they don’t have enough lifeguards, when the very simple explanation for that is they don’t pay lifeguards nearly enough anymore.  
     

    Not sure if it’s deliberate or incompetence but that is definitely it. Austin easily has enough money nowadays to staff them. Hell they did in the 80s and this town had very little money back then, especially when compared to today. 

    It is ridiculous that Northwest Pool didn't open this summer.  (Little known fact is that is where I learned to swim back in the 1960's -- got my turtle and duck patch there!)

  6. 7 minutes ago, sidis said:

    talk about some fucking theatre and red meat for fucking morons…


    how is the Biden administration standing in the way of production in Texas? Lol…Christ. 

    IDK, maybe some reluctance to allow the development or operation of pipelines to deliver products to refineries, questions concerning IDC tax deductions, other general unfriendliness to normal tax deductions for oil producing companies, or his plan to eliminate internal combustion engines in new cars by 2030?  Any or all of that just might impact the long-range and capital-intensive business of oil production in Texas.  Christ, indeed. 

  7. 44 minutes ago, Homercles said:

    Mad respect to anyone at ATC who can continue to operate after witnessing something like that.  

    I hated to see that take-off and crash sequence.  Was he hot-dogging it with the almost vertical take-off and resultant loss of lift and control -- or would some kind of mechanical failure explain what happened?  RIP to a very talented pilot.

  8. 29 minutes ago, mdleast said:

    Mdmost and I had Palmer’s Hot Chicken today. Got the three piece tenders (novice heat which I thought was just right amount of spice without being a chore when you go too hot). Really tasty tenders. Also subbed in the waffle which was great and had a hint of brown sugar in it which made it really good and reminds me of Roscoes out in L.A. (a high compliment). Tip: if you get those with the waffle you don’t really need to worry about the other sides since the chicken and waffle are enough to make you full. Will definitely be going back there.

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    Forget the chicken -- In for the greens!

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  9. 6 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    The process of buying a car never changes.  Horrible industry.  4 squares time!!!

    I hate dealerships and I always use good independent mechanic shops.  I've probably bought my last 4 or 5 cars (teenagers/college kids) from CarMax and I couldn't have been happier.  You do the research on line.  Make an appointment to see the cars that you are interested in.  No pressure and they don't do any shell games on trade-in, price, and financing.  They treat it as the three separate transactions that they are.  Their trade-in appraisals are quite fair and not at all contingent on whether you buy a car from them.  They don't play the price-haggle game, but they did call me back about a car that we'd looked at that had a price-reduction (due to how long it had been in inventory) and we ended up buying it at the lower price.     

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  10. On 8/4/2021 at 6:41 PM, 4th&Five said:

    Got back last night. Everything was as beautiful as we’d been told. 
     

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    Great pics.  Kauai is our favorite place in the world -- so far.

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  11. Losartan was mildly helpful for me.

    Wanting to bring my numbers down more, Doc put me on Valsartan and my hands broke out with bloody blisters/lesions.

    Losing weight and drinking less (during the off-season, of course) has helped me keep things in the old "high-normal" range since then.

    No way that Big-Pharma had anything to do with defining down the BP ranges, right?

  12. On 8/3/2021 at 6:40 AM, Homercles said:

    On a side note, if you’ve never flown into SAN before make sure you score a window seat…it was my third time there and I enjoy it almost as much as the river visual into DCA.  Be sure you walk to Little Italy for some beers under the final into SAN to get a close look at the action.  
     

    No kidding about final into SAN -- you can wave directly at the people working in the nearby office buildings.

  13. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

     

    Ray Perryman. He’s done a great job of branding himself as “the state’s leading economist.” What he hasn’t done is….be a good economist.

    Quite a few years ago, an opposing party hired him as their big-name expert. I’ve never destroyed an “expert” on cross as easily as I did Perryman. And the fun part was using his own previous work against him (he’s a publicity whore, so it’s all out there). His analysis here is utterly one-sided. He isn’t opining about net jobs in Texas. He’s only looking at the loss side of the ledger. Which is what he does: offer utterly incomplete and thus false analyses.

    Perryman has been excluded as an "expert" in many court proceedings.  One-sided analysis is what he specializes in.  Bastiat summarized it well with the phrase "that which is seen and that which is unseen": https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/frederic-bastiat.asp

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  14. 15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    that guy is a fucking stud !!! i would have fell out of my chair laughing so hard 

    if you ask enough women, someone will say yes. his strategy is slightly flawed though, they're not nearly drunk enough yet. 

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  15. 8 hours ago, Deej said:

    I hope you have the year wrong, because you missed out on the 1990 game then, which was the craziest that stadium has ever been. 

    You are correct.  It was the 1990 Houston game that I could hear from my deck in Northwest Hills.  Thanks.

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