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landman

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  1. So create an area all to yourselves, and then beg for handouts. Beautiful.
  2. Glad to see cancer and heart disease have been eradicated from the world. Where do deaths from medical mistakes fit in? Estimates of over 200k in the US die each year from them.
  3. Not sure surging is the right word. Not with a few cases.
  4. The news reports on this read a little differently: FORT WORTH -- A 31-year-old man fatally shot by police early Friday after officials say he swung a metal rod at officers has been identified as Joey Ellis. The shooting occurred shortly after 3 a.m. after officers were called to a disturbance at the Great Western Inn in the 1800 block of Lancaster Avenue. There, police said, Ellis told officers he had broken windows to several vehicles because the manager would not give him a room for free. Ellis was being escorted to a patrol car for further investigation when he broke free and attempted to run, said Lt. Abdul Pridgen, police spokesman. Pridgen said officers attempted to subdue Ellis using a Taser and a baton, but the man continued to resist arrest, picking up a cinder block as if he was going to hurl it one officer and later trying to remove an officer's gun from its holster. Pridgen said the man had picked up a metal rod and was swinging it in a threatening manner at the officers when he was shot by officers E. Pate, 34, and M.E. Anderson, 26. Not sure what the final report was...still, wonder why they never seem to get shot in the leg to get them down.
  5. I'm afraid this generation is more concerned about themselves (look at me stuff) than they are about making the world a better place. Hope I'm wrong, but I don't have a lot of faith.
  6. 11 year olds are not in first year of kid pitch. They are in the last year two years of little league.
  7. If that same person caught the flu and not Covid, would it be listed as a flu death or not? Or caught a cold that turned into pneumonia and died - which way is it listed?
  8. The average flu does this every year as well, albeit over 6-8 months. And there's a vaccine for it.
  9. They made the decision last weekend and start letting friends know Monday morning. Lease is up in June so they decided to just go ahead and close now. One of the two brothers died last year which also played a role. Robert is working on opening his own restaurant once things get back to normal, so we'll see the food return at some point. He's not sure where yet, but has been looking at opening south/Del Valle area. Supposed to meet with him in the coming weeks to talk investment.
  10. Meant to post Friday, but received my loan documents at 4:00 via DocuSign. Had funding in the account 45 minutes later.
  11. So, if you and yours are in the house for two weeks, and your friends are in their house for two weeks (and assuming everyone is doing this) why can't you and your friends get together after the end of two weeks? Again, everyone is staying in and no possible exposure during the two weeks. Conversely, having a conversation in the front yard, with everyone maintaining distance, can happen now.
  12. Application approved yesterday afternoon. Just need the SBA language now. Not sure how some are getting money if the language hasn't been issued yet.
  13. My banker is telling me they still don't have the note language from the SBA yet. Anyone else heard this?
  14. We are not in the tens of thousands. We just hit 10,000. Tens implies multiples. We aren't there, yet.
  15. We can subject ourselves to being around other people doing take out at restaurants and going to stores like Academy, but a guy can't drive a tractor or swing a hammer all day by himself? That makes a lot of sense. The social interaction on jobsites is less than just about anywhere else.
  16. Abbott just issued an order allowing development and construction activities to continue statewide, overruling Adler.
  17. I see I've been cast to another thread. Didn't think I was going political, just trying to offer another take. Will work on playing in the sand box better. I get this is serious, just have a lot of questions. When I see numbers that show over 85% of all tests are negative, seems we are heading in the wrong direction with testing. Something like 600k have tested negative to the 80k positive. That's a lot of testing that for whatever reason is being done on people that maybe don't need it? In turn it is tying up doctors, staff, and using test kits that should be done on others. Do these people have symptons, or are they panicking due to what they are hearing? Either way, they are having an impact on hospitals, etc. I also am curious as to if the flu vaccine has any impact. How many people that are positive had the vaccine? And how many people that tested negative have had the vaccine? Valid questions in my opinion. And seems the reporting a couple of weeks ago about antibiotic testing has fallen to the side. What is going on with the test group in Washington? Maybe I missed it. Our family is following the rules/orders the best we can. Staying away from folks - not ordering take-out, having conference calls, etc. But I'm also in the essential business category (land development - public works), have a family company, and need to put food on the table. Our son at UT is now living at home and is immune compromised. So this is VERY serious to me. And why can other countries test tens of thousands and have results in minutes, and we're tripping over our selves trying to test hundreds?
  18. Around 1.200,000 people die in the US each year from cancer and heart disease. We know a number of contributing factors for both yet do nothing. This will not come close to that. Yet we are destroying our lives over it. And in the US, the death rate is approaching what it is for the flu. And that without factoring in the tens of thousands that have had it and never knew.
  19. We believe so, as do our contractors. Those items would be inspected by the city and inspection fees would have been paid to the City.
  20. Is any aspect of the project public works, i.e. water main work, installing a water line for a meter, repairing a public road, etc.? The stop work order says if a project has any public work aspect to it, then the entire project is exempt. That's what we and our contractors are following. Understanding that getting inspections will likely still be a problem.
  21. Per a conference call with Adler and some contractors this morning, the City of Austin is going to direct inspectors to quit inspecting job sites starting Friday, unless they meet affordability. Public works (most subdivisions) though exempted in the order, will also be put on hold, per Adler. There were police at office building sites in downtown Austin this morning stopping workers and giving warnings as well. Group of builders and contractors apparently have the Governor's attention and he is going to address in some fashion so that all cities follow the same guidelines for construction/development/housing. Austin is the only city effectively shutting it down.
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