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  1. I had a lot of family just up the road in Spur, but there are only a couple left now. Grandma grew up with Red McCombs there, and they dated in their youth. When she was still with us, I used to gently tease her about what might have been had she not dumped him and married my granddad. She was always quick to let me know that I wouldn't be around had she made that choice.
  2. That was the expected outcome after watering it down like they did. I'll be interested to see if Segura holds to his line about revisiting this next year. Somehow, I doubt it. I still want to know what the Bryker Woods folks did to get him to back down, because it sure as shit wasn't that a member of his staff was talking out of both sides of their mouth. That's simply SOP for him and his team.
  3. There used to be a nice little cafe in Jayton that I would stop at with some frequency a few decades ago. That town, like so many, has shrunk down to almost nothing now. Maybe 500 people?
  4. Thank you. I've never understood, especially since the BCS era started and continuing into the playoff era, any UT fan who whines and bitches as if the Horns don't get every benefit of the doubt at every possible opportunity. The media companies that run this sport beauty pageant want UT involved whenever possible, as it makes them more money. This same team, with almost any name other than UT, and maybe four or five others, wouldn't even be sniffing the playoffs.
  5. So are we now living in a situation where we get ridiculously early warnings even when the odds of any rain at all are rather slim? The Chicken Little Doctrine, aimed at avoiding litigation and political fallout, can't possibly lead to any unintended consequences. I'll believe it's going to rain when I see it falling from the sky. Anyone who has lived in Central Texas for more than a season or two should know that the odds of rain are higher when it's not in the forecast than when it is.
  6. Based on this thread alone, I'm betting it was a fake Mexican dude from Aledo.
  7. Downey is killing it in his limited minutes on "The Chair Company".
  8. Don't worry. Garza will aggressively prosecute the father (or at least get everything filed on time) when he understandably takes care of this himself. Vigilante justice is not good, but it's all people have left when the system refuses to do anything. Here's hoping no jury will convict him for whatever he does to the deserving piece of shit.
  9. It sounds like what these gooners and incels need is a fuck sherpa. You should start a new business.
  10. I don't know about that one. Most women, let's say any of them between a 3 and 10 on a scale of 10, can walk into any sizable gathering and ask "Who wants to fuck me?" and have a lot of options to choose from. Any woman who is taking even the bare minimum of care for herself has guys pestering her for sex all the damn time, and that includes your wife/girlfriend. The vast majority of men have to work, at least a little bit, to get laid. Women just have to go out in public, and maybe, if they're not at least moderately attractive, take a shower first. If a woman is loyal to her partner, it's because she actively chooses to be on a daily basis. The power dynamic that used to hold things in balance (only men could earn a living and provide financially) is not only gone, it's reversing. This is why you have shit like incels and gooners. They're the guys who can't navigate a world where you actually have to be enjoyable to be around to have a sexual partner. Young Gen Z guys, and those of the following generation, are going to spend their entire adulthood in a world where women make more money than they do, hold the majority of the power positions in the workplace, and still own 100% of the pussy. They've got their work cut out for them.
  11. The media has already been pushing a narrative that UT might return to Lubbock for the first round of the playoffs, and how fun that would be. In this scenario, the winner would likely then play Aggie in round two. I think if Tech wins out (or even if they lose their conference championship game) and UT doesn't stumble, they will make this happen for the spectacle alone. This has never been a sport, but rather a beauty pageant, and that is the case now more than ever. I like UT's chances of a spot.
  12. As I recall, Dobie (the leader in the AISD pack for F ratings) parents were polled last spring about being taken over by a charter, and the vast majority said they would go elsewhere.
  13. I completely agree with all of this, and I'm well aware of it. But I'm tired of terrible AISD administrators using the state as an excuse for their barrels full of failures. It's not an either/or situation; they are both awful. It's the same trap people fall into with partisan political thinking. Just because one party is worse doesn't excuse the other's foolishness. They're both awful. I understand that sometimes you have to hold your nose and go with the lesser of two evils, but that isn't the situation with our failing school districts. We should demand better from them, even if they're playing against a stacked deck. If I complain about AISD more than the state in this thread, well, it's mainly because this is a thread about AISD. It's also because there isn't much to say about the threat coming from the state that hasn't been said. It's clear what is happening there, and while I have no idea how to stop a handful of cult-member billionaires from purchasing our state legislature for their own ends, I can look at who we hire to run our school district and know we can do much better.
  14. The only thing anyone can know for sure is that whatever Segura is saying isn't the truth. That he's throwing his own employees under the bus is interesting, to say the least. Ultimately, he tried to fuck with a rich-person school that 100% needed to be closed based on the cost per student, and now he's finding out what happens when you try to take toys away from grown-up toddlers with money and influence. One interesting aspect is that the last time AISD tried to "fix" these problems, Gina Hinojosa played the race card from the East side and got the can kicked down the road. Now it's rich white folks on the west side doing the same thing. The result will be the same; AISD will continue spiraling until it can't be kept alive. My primary concern with this current kicking of the can is that it will increase the likelihood of a TEA takeover in the next couple of years, and then we're all fucked.
  15. Truth. And Austin doesn't crack the top 25 in this regard. However, some really terrible cities are in the top ten for tax burden for residents (of note, Detroit is #1 with a bullet), so the notion posited upthread that high city taxes are indicative of a real-world, grown-up city is more than a little silly. It's every bit as indicative of a mismanaged shithole. Some of the best American cities and some of the worst American cities have high overall tax rates. In other words, it's a terrible basis for determining whether a city is functional, productive, and a good place to live. For what little we get in Austin, and it is very little, we already pay plenty, in my opinion. That so much of the budget is wasted on a completely useless police force is a further indictment of city management, not a justification to give them more money for graft projects. Fret not, ye fans of higher taxes that incompetent/criminal buffoons waste, this city has, for years, managed to pad the general fund by ripping off citizens on their utility bills when we vote down their requests for more tax revenue. Everyone should budget for an unexplained increase in their water and electricity usage next year, despite no behavioral changes at home. If you don't check your bill closely every month, and you should, you might be surprised by how often they make up numbers to see what you're willing to pay. I've caught them more times than I can remember over the years, and they back down every time because they know they're doing it, and that most will pay them without thought. At least with the old meters, you could catch them lying. The new electric meters allow them to make up whatever numbers they want and they push back harder now when you challenge them on it. Now it's a free-for-all, and they'll get their pound of flesh whether Prop Q passes or not.
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