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Todd Gack

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  1. I think you can be at the lowest elevation in an isolated area adjacent to a floodplain and still be out of the floodplain. There would just need to be a breakline of sorts between the 100-yr floodplain and your area/subdivision. The one thing that might've boned you is there may have been a LOMR (letter of map revision) in review at the time you checked the FEMA flood maps, and said LOMR might've shifted the floodplain due to surrounding developments. Hard to know for sure what happened without lots more details. But as a general rule, if you want to buy land anywhere close to a floodplain and you notice new developments being built in the area, it's very hard to trust the publicly available flood maps as being the most current.
  2. I don't think it's nuance as much as people are trying to make sense of the potential logistics of it all. So you're stopped on the street, put in cuffs, and stuffed into a van. After that, I assume you're blindfolded and either taken to a random holding facility or straight to the airport. Is it there where someone tells you "I hope you told your family you loved them this morning because you'll never see them again. You're going to a South American torture prison where you will eventually die." Or do they take a page from the family separators at the border and lie the way ICE told parents that their kids would be returned to them after a medical evaluation? I'm not sure what exactly is gained from this clarification, but it's a mind-boggling series of events that we're witnessing and will likely need to explain to our kids someday.
  3. yeah that's the Reddit consensus I saw for a low recoil starter handgun. Wife who has never even touched a gun will need something almost toy-like to learn. And the shotgun is def on the list. Hunter buddies have been telling me that for years - pistol-grip shotgun with buckshot for general home defense.
  4. Prolly should be a separate thread, but what type of "arms" should a person who knows fuck-all about guns (me) look to invest in? Fired my first non-pellet gun at a range during my bachelor party about 8 years ago. Wife will be a hard sell to keep them in the house, but desperate times...
  5. "Nazi Barbie" in the comments pretty much sums it up
  6. Indeed it is. Another fun fact... did you know Dustin Hoffman was in Star Wars?
  7. Super PAC is my understanding http://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-america-pac-trump-d248547966bf9c6daf6f5d332bc4be66
  8. since Moore is coming back, I'll guess Vasek. As long as fuckface venebles doesn't poach him, I think we'll cope
  9. Speaking as a dad of two little ones, seeing a sandy hook once PER WEEK would be enough to just keep my kids home indefinitely. I imagine millions of parents would do the same, work be damned.... which would effectively grind the economy to a halt. And then maybe the oligarchs who don't give a shit about guns would pressure our elected officials to tell the pseudo-oligarchs who only care about guns to fuck off and pass gun control legislation. So in general I agree with you, but I think the threshold we need to reach is not as far off from present reality.
  10. At present, he's still a sooner so he sucks balls. but if he leaves, how good is he?
  11. Kakistocracy A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
  12. Democrats gonna democrat. They let fear guide their decisions on this, per usual. Can't give a Palestine sympathizer any speaking time for fear that they'll say fuck the prompter and go off-script. That might hurt the goals of raising $1B to run ads pandering to Liz Cheney's friends.
  13. I think/hope that the Brisket's on this board aren't actively cheering for the extermination of innocent people to teach a lesson to some Americans who voted against the best interests of said innocents. I think it's more an attitude of "this extermination is actively happening, and voting for the fascist will ensure the job is finished, while a vote for the alternative offers some hope that it'll end sooner rather than later - so all you fucktards threatening to withhold a vote or vote 3rd party better come to your fucking senses". And since they did not, the "I told you so" part of us is looking forward to telling them "you voted for this, go fuck yourself". Same with the undocumented people who went maga and are now on the doorstep of being deported. The ugliness in all of us, myself included, is taking up a lot more space in our brains post election. Anger/Lewis Black is manning the controls for the foreseeable future.
  14. The problem with Obama is he eventually fell in line with the Dem party establishment and became a run-of-the-mill corporate democrat. Likely also a big reason a bunch of Dem candidates coalesced behind Biden to make sure Bernie didn't get the nomination in 2020. I think by "trump-type" figure, we need someone who is not beholden to the corporate overlords puling the strings in DC. And who doesn't give a shit about decorum or past demons coming to light. Ideally someone who can raise a bunch of money off of their previous celebrity status. Jon Stewart comes to mind right away, but he'd never run IMO.
  15. My memory is fuzzy on this but IIRC, the cages were used solely to house the children of known criminals who crossed illegally - primarily drug and human traffickers. The parents were kept in jails awaiting trial and deportation and Obama admin had the cages made so the kids wouldn't have to stay in jail with other (presumably dangerous) criminals. Again, I could be way off on that but that's what I remember hearing from my sister who is an immigration attorney in the Valley. Trump used the cages to separate families who entered through ports of entry to LEGALLY claim asylum. And of course he did it so incompetently that some families had to wait months to be reunited.
  16. yep. remember those scenes from Handmaids Tale where they grabbed women and stuck them in the back of police cars and vans to take to Gilead? I'd imagine Trump-style mass deportations would be closer to that than any type of detainment and due process.
  17. It's not the dying that makes me sad. Everyone dies. It's the preventable suffering that will slowly be inflicted upon people - primarily the poor, immigrants, and women. Add in some child suffering due to roll backs of vaccines and the continued deconstruction of public schools... like, as a parent of young kids, is it not a DUTY now to explore moving the fuck out of Texas or even the US? Feels like it's the least I could do for my kids future.
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