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  1. Good news for some in East Kentucky

    https://www.lex18.com/news/decision-2019/lee-county-elkhorn-city-legalize-alcohol-sales

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     Three eastern Kentucky communities that have banned alcohol for decades have voted to legalize alcohol sales.

    All of Lee County, McKee in Jackson County and Elkhorn City in Pike County have all legalized sales of alcohol despite staunch resistance from opposition. 

    Elkhorn City's mayor, Mike Taylor, has been outspoken in his opposition to sales of adult beverages. Despite a failed attempt to legalize alcohol sales in previous elections, the measure finally passed this time with a vote of 262-202.

    According to Beattyville city council member Lisa Moore, the wet/dry referendum also passed in Lee County 1,243 - 779.

    The Jackson County clerk's office confirms the referendum passed in McKee with a vote of 100-81.

     

  2. 21 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Wow thanks for this flaming hot take 

     

    Reality Check #1: Trump personally campaigned in Kentucky within the past few days for that Republican, and Trump made it clear that the vote for Bevin’s seat was a referendum on Trump.  

    Reality Check #2:  There we’re down-ballot races won by Republicans with anywhere from 52%-61% of the vote  - which means that Republicans down-ballot received up to 150,000 more votes than Bevin.    So were there a shitload of Democrats who liked Beshear, but voted R elsewhere?  Or were there a sizable chunk of Republicans who simply didn’t give a fuck what Trump said and were willing to cross over for the right Democrat?  Or did it come down to independents who favored Beshear over Trump’s guy?

    MoscowMitch is going to have to spend a lot of money figuring all of that out.

  3. My only problem with bringing broadband to rural America, and I do think it would benefit many, is that it potentially exposes even more children to those stupid fucking videos of that Ryan kid unboxing and playing with toys.   

    I don’t give a fuck how much of a white supremacist you are; I don’t care if you named your kid Adolph.   You can be a KKK member who admires Hitler.  I would never want you to walk into a room where you kid is watching one of those stupid fucking Ryan videos.  

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  4. 57 minutes ago, F250 said:

    The interesting thing about Evangelicals is that they consider the Mormons to be weirdos and a cult. But since Trump has risen to power the LDS church has distanced itself from Trump Republicans and the Evangelicals are making up shit about Trump being God's chosen one.

    Trump and Co. don’t like immigrants, and brown people in general, it seems. 

    Mormons love immigrants/brown people, because every one of em is a potential Mormon.    My dad used to run into their missionaries in South America, and a buddy in the Army ran into their missionaries in several different countries in Africa.  He said even when they warned them “hey you’re American/white/etc. you should get the fuck out of Dodge”, they usually would tell them it’s cool, the locals will take care of them, etc..  He was impressed that some of the missionaries spoke the native languages, but he thought they were dumbasses for hanging around in certain areas.  I think he only saw male missionaries in those area.  

  5. 9 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Nationwide broadband as a public utility is a good start.  The folks in rural America are actually left behind in the interconnected digital age.  Our society hasn’t done much to rectify it either because profits and DGAF.  

    Interracial porn access through broadband will drag them across the finish line.  

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  6. 41 minutes ago, troph said:

    the notion that Dems can't read much into Beshear is true BUT the same trends are occurring in the burbs in KY as they are playing out elswhere.  That's a nationwide phenomenon.  KY is going to Trump no doubt, but the same phenomenon will make other states much tighter and will require him to spend money defending and time visiting those states and they are still going to be tough wins and some will be lost.  So I think there is plenty to take away from this one.

    It also means that Republicans won in spite of Trump, not because of him.   If Trump was as bigly of a draw as he tells everybody on twitter that he is, Beshear should have lost by 15-20.   

    That is going to stick in the minds of plenty of Republican politicians, even if they don’t talk about it out loud.   This happened in Arizona, WI, PA, and MI last year.   

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  7. 2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    is he trying not to shit his pants?

    He’s just discovered there are no penguins at the National Zoo, and so now he doesn’t know who is going to help him out.  

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  8. 38 minutes ago, woohorn said:

    Serious q since CR: are Mormans considered Christian enough that Pence types will get bent over this?

    Depends on the Christians.    I don’t have a problem with them, but my wife goes to a large Southern Baptist church, and they do not care for Mormons.  Trying to add to the Bible with the Book of Mormon, and claiming to have living prophets is straight-up blasphemy. Some go so far as to say they are the false prophets prophesied in the Bible or whatever   

    And I know plenty that openly vowed to vote against Romney, albeit third-party.  

  9. 13 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I don't get what the big deal is, this is Politics 101, everyone does it. 

    This gets lost in the shuffle - we talk about how Trump is what a poor person thinks rich people say and act like, etc.

    This whole Ukrainian/Russian thing is exactly how somebody who is used to greasing the palms of various local officials would act on the world stage - thinking they should be able to cut out various people/organizations and go directly to whoever they want to do their bidding, and operating in the belief that your personal lawyer should be able to handle anything for you.

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  10. 22 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    Don’t understand why the dems haven’t been pounding that point harder.  “Release the REAL Transcript”.  They should be shouting this repeatedly.

    I actually wonder if perhaps they have a copy they are sitting on.  

     

  11. 2 hours ago, bolverk said:

    PSA to Travis voters: The new machines are a vast improvement and the touch screen makes it go really quick. No more turning the dial to scroll, scroll, scroll, push to click.

    Very impressed and liked how clear the paper trail is.

     

  12. 2 hours ago, bolverk said:

    PSA to Travis voters: The new machines are a vast improvement and the touch screen makes it go really quick. No more turning the dial to scroll, scroll, scroll, push to click.

    Very impressed and liked how clear the paper trail is.

     

  13. 4 hours ago, gecko said:

    Also....anyone else notice that the same actor who plays the dilly dilly Bud Light king is the same actor playing John Clark?

    They cast him well.   Would love a season focused on him covering Without Remorse.  

  14. Cross-posting this

    I’ve heard this rumor from multiple people, both from a neighborhood email list, and from some people from the neighborhood I was talking to after voting this morning.

    The rumor is that the Randall’s at 38th and Shoal Creek is going to be torn down and replaced by a large apartment complex.    I don’t like their prices, but i usually stopped by a few times of week to get stuff for my kid or us, and I always thought an H-E-B would just kill it there.  Even so, they always seemed busy enough.   

    That would be such an Austin thing to do - replace a neighborhood grocery with apartments.  Because, you know, we need more traffic on 38th, Exposition, North Lamar, Shoal Creek, Mopac, etc. as people have to drive a few more miles to get to a grocery store.  

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  15. 34 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    So Trump is saying that, if the Mexican President just picks up the phone and asks, Trump will help wipe the cartels off the face of the earth?  I’m sure Trump supporters are salivating at the thought of thousands of dead brown people. But Trump better be careful about poking this bear. The cartel doesn’t play. 
     

     

    His tweet is about the Mormon women and kids being shot and burned alive in Mexico.    He will be on to Schifty shortly.  
     

    https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/11/05/americas/mormons-attacked-us-mexico-border/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

  16. 1 hour ago, BradInATX said:

     

    Good grief.

    But there's no way that woman believes any of the crap she's spewing. She's 100% pure con artist. That's straight grift, not even with some sort of rationalization that allows her to feel personally justified about what she's doing. She's scamming the dumbest of the dumb, she knows it, and doesn't care. She's perfect for Trump. Guarantee you she's an atheist.

    And yeah, as others have said, they're definitely smashing.

    A thrice-married “Christian” who was caught coming out of a hotel with Benny Hinn is not on the up and up?  Shocking I say, shocking!

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  17. I’ve heard this rumor from multiple people, both from a neighborhood email list, and from some people from the neighborhood I was talking to after voting this morning.

    The rumor is that the Randall’s at 38th and Shoal Creek is going to be torn down and replaced by a large apartment complex.    I don’t like their prices, but i usually stopped by a few times of week to get stuff for my kid or us, and I always thought an H-E-B would just kill it there.  Even so, they always seemed busy enough.   

    That would be such an Austin thing to do - replace a neighborhood grocery with apartments.  Because, you know, we need more traffic on 38th, Exposition, North Lamar, Shoal Creek, Mopac, etc. as people have to drive a few more miles to get to a grocery store.  

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