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TwiceHorn

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  1. Um, that whole 4th Amendment thing? Speaking in this case about the checkered origin of the truth. And, again, had the procedures had the time to spin out, he'd be convicted on more than 34 counts.
  2. So what's going on at Inks? I'm thinking about the floating cabins at Camp Longhorn.
  3. Yeah, agreed. News outlets is one thing, but private is not. The off chance it's inaccurate could be horrific.
  4. Well, I think the election was lost due to people who really aren't Trumpanzees, but were simply insufficiently engaged or smart (like Rogan himself) not to be taken by the propaganda. And some of the more benign Trump forces like Rogan and Von heavily influenced them. So, if you are able to uninfluence them the same way, they will probably flip and we get something more resembling 2020.
  5. I guess we as individuals are allowed to ignore the annoying and intrusive Amber, Blue, and Silver alerts. Personally, I keep the Severe Events activated because they have actually alerted me to things I didn't know were going on. But, if you have responsibility for a bunch of other people, I don't think you are or should be allowed to turn those off. But, even had the camp directors and others responsible had them on, it sounds like they may not have gotten anything. Still, there's weather radio and I think it's incumbent on LEO and county officials to take seriously and notify places like camps and schools of severe situations in unincorporated areas.
  6. Kerr County: Donald J. Trump 76.8% Kamala Harris 22.4% Most Mystic campers are going to be from affluent areas, so it's not guaranteed, but a decent percentage of Trumpists. Trump has a way of coring those people out. Eating out their substance.
  7. Point of order, most Republicans in fact do not listen to Jesus. At all.
  8. If "she" is really a "she" or a "he," it's Canadian, for God's sake.
  9. Yeah it seems the message was delivered by NWS/NOAA and in time. You can quibble about whether it was "serious" enough, as if predictions of 4-8" when 10+ came would have really made much difference. It did say "life-threatening flash flooding events." The message didn't get out and wasn't heeded.
  10. utee94 is a good guy I think and not actually a Trumper and probably considers himself pretty apolitical. But in that may have his head a bit in the sand about what Trump is doing to our country. The thrall in which Trump holds hardcore red state politicians like Texas' is something to behold and really fucking disgusting and un-Texan.
  11. Yeah, let us not forget that DOGE blasted email to everyone giving them a deal to retire/resign that included an implicit threat that if you don't, you'll be terminated.
  12. Oh I see the address you put in. Again, that's the nearby Camp Mystic Cypress Lake. The Camp that was destroyed is north where the striped part meets the blue part, just south of the River and on either side of that creek. It's not labeled on Google Maps (and is not searchable any longer oddly) but here about where it says "Edmunson Creek" is about the center of it. One of my best friends growing up's mother grew up in a really cool house right around there on Hwy 39 and was a Mystic camper herself I guess in the 50s. I used to know the area pretty well, but it has been quite some time now and things have gotten hazy. But yeah, the FEMA map was kind of spot on as far as Cypress Lake being out of the flood zone.
  13. Not sure how you're reading that, but the adjacent "Regulatory Floodway" means certain to flood, and the rest of it means Special Hazard Flood Area (SHFA), so squarely within the 100-year floodplain and without a base flood elevation.
  14. Yeah that's a bald faced lie. But I think the real answer is that cell phone service sucks out there so people didn't get the blast. I think it has been established that NWS made the warning at 114AM.
  15. Yeah and a lot of this area is unincorporated Kerr County, so the Kerr County Judge is the authority.
  16. See my post above. Wrong part of Camp Mystic. The one in question is over by Mystic Springs on that view and further to the west. Correction: I was looking at the wrong camp-like cluster of buildings. The original Mystic is north of there, right before 39 crosses the Guad.
  17. But, y'know, if the dumb motherfucker really does recant, that is one of the best omens for the end of current fascism. There's hardly anything Dems could do that would be more effective. So, they should get their asses on his pod and connect the dots for him and the rest of the troglodytes.
  18. Yeah, the problem is that the old, original Camp Mystic is the one we're talking about, not the newer, added on CM-Cypress Lake. The original camp is to the west on the bank of the Guadalupe. For whatever reason, only Cypress Lake is indicated on Google Maps/Earth.
  19. Well, over the years, I have known various folks that "checked a box" for affirmative action that were very privileged, but nonetheless members of minority groups. It certainly violates the intent of the law, but not the letter. So, it's one of those morally ambiguous things like taking a tax break that's legal but not consistent with the intent of the law. And, of course, any law that permits use of the law in a way highly inconsistent with its intention or purpose is, at minimum, a poorly drafted law. Also, given that his father was Columbia faculty, he was "deceiving" no one. I'm sure the admissions committee was gtfo with that. Politically, though, it's pretty toxic in multiple ways, as you note. Then we have the whole fruit of the poisonous tree problem with the information itself. I think denigrating factual information because of its tainted origin (key word here is factual) is something best confined to circumstances like the 4th Amendment. It seems rare that truth should yield to circumstance or procedure.
  20. And, unfortunately, even if it doesn't reflect poorly on him, it's one of those edge cases in which affirmative action (DEI!) is actually inequitable.
  21. I thoroughly enjoy Waterworld.
  22. Meaning it's not a new traveshamockery, it's the same one from a couple of weeks ago.
  23. Probably worth pointing out that this is just more DVD. The district court tried an end run around the stay of injunction and this cuts it off. Kagan concurred with this despite dissenting from the stay.
  24. Yeah, and that's the problem Dems have. They sound smart and wonky.
  25. Yeah I do show up, I don't try to lie my way out of it. I'd do it if I got picked, but thus far it hasn't happened. Mostly doesn't have anything to do with me because I rarely make it to a courtroom even, but once there, I do feel the chances are slight that I'll get picked.
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