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Borrego is a staple in the NAIU household. That dump site has been pissing me off for awhile.

That seems fair to me most of the time. I'm certain the school board in my hometown would've had something to say about the biology teacher if they knew about it, but I'm also certain that most of the kids in my class didn't tell their parents about it because a) less work, and b) parents went to the same church and agreed with the teacher, so they likely never knew about it. However, with the groups trying to radicalize small town councils and school boards, I don't know if long term even that is the right strategy. As to the other, water under the dam.

I was reacting to the part where you said something to the effect of, if you don't like it, you should leave the state. Try to be less inflammatory in your statements if you want me to be less reactive. Now, I may not have taken that to be quite so inflammatory had I not missed your caveats the first time through, and that's the reason that I retracted that part of the post. I still don't understand why you went hard in the love it or leave it paint when you seem to have many of your own misgivings about the bill. And that's what I was looking for you to flesh out. Also, not sure how I feel about local control on this. I didn't get an education on evolution until college because local control meant my honors biology teacher could unilaterally decide based on her religion what was worthy of study in our biology textbook and what wasn't. And she did decide that evolution wasn't real so we were going to skip that section. And she told us were were skipping for that reason, so we got less teaching and some baptist proselytizing for good measure.

I guess I'm not understanding your take, because you marked just as many things as bad or maybe bad as you marked as ok. Seems weird you'd get so fired up about the good stuff that you took a love it or leave it stance, as if the bad and maybe bad parts could just be ignored. That's what got my dander up on your earlier posts. I'd love to better understand your thought process here.

And I'll call myself out, I skipped a section of your post and maybe the section I kept was bolded and italicized. Until you clarify I'll edit out the go fuck yourself.

I don't understand how ix can be enforced if we are going to continue to teach Article 1 Section 2 of the Constitution. Or that many of our founders were slave owners. Those things do not comport with the idea that those are deviations from the founding principles since it was the fucking founders that set it up that way. So yeah, if you think I need to leave Texas for thinking that's some big giant bullshit, I've got to wonder what beliefs you are hiding behind the veneer you show us on this forum. If I'm misunderstanding your point, then let's talk.

Also confirmed Florida, Del Ray Beach at the Ramen Lab.

Lol again. Good news it it works for both posts!

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So they think they are going to lure anyone but the worst frat boy stereotype with Miller Lite? Huh.

I always laugh when the idiot belatedly gets out the phone and claims to start taking a video of the person videoing them, as if it’s some sort of trump card that invalidates their assholery. Spoiler alert, it never is.

Be prepared to go back, because I’m pretty convinced at this point that those people don’t have any sense to come back to. Jesus could come back and tell them they are morons for skipping and they’d call him a libtard Fuck and keep on trucking down this idiotic path. the only hope is that this round kills enough of them that the rest of them finally see the need. It makes me fucking sad and furious to come to that conclusion, because my sister, who is one of my best friends, is currently in the no vaccine for her, her husband or her children camp. I’m already expecting at least one of them will die this year.

Only the blind couldn't see that the madness was already there, it just needed a few more minutes to boil over.

So instead of getting infatuated with a band and following them around on tour, they became Trump groupies instead. Jesus Christ I don't know what to say.

Awesome, thanks! Also, I learned something new about artists being assholes to each other, so this was an especially satisfying link!

I'm in for a multi-pass!

I once got pulled over and berated in Lubbock for having the temerity of turning left in on a game day with a Longhorn sticker on my car. Never asked for an ID, never told me what I did wrong besides being a big city driver in the little utopia that is Lubbock. I can confirm he knew how to scream though, fucker yelled and screamed for a good 10 minutes. The. Later that day Texas got beat by the tortilla tossers 33-9, so all in all the cop was a highlight of that particular trip to Lubbock.

Police: "This teenage girl looked at me funny, that's a hate crime!" Is that what I just read?

So to fight socialism, Tucker seems to be advocating for Communism now....

So let's say the first 6 happen, and even the first part of the 7th. Can you point me to the part of the Constitution that says that all acts of an impeached official that happened while they are in office are automatically null and void? I'll admit I'm no Constitutional scholar, so I probably missed it.

Yup, once married we had to go through all that as well, and it was a giant pain in the ass. I have a very large binder sitting in my closet that we used to prove we were in a real relationship when we were required to go in person to an immigration office to be interviewed for the green card, and another ream of paperwork beside that we had to send in to prove we were in a real relationship 2 years later to get the conditions removed. And when I say a ream, I mean a ream. We spent $60 to make copies of all of it so in case it got lost in transit we wouldn't have to start from scratch on building the case again. We haven't gone through the nightmare of citizenship yet, so that one I can't speak to. And by the way, all we were looking for was the same change to go through those nightmare processes as every other married couple, so my comments about the shittiness of that process are more general in nature, and related to our fucked up immigration laws in general, and not how those laws were used to make it harder for us as a gay couple, post marriage, to get a green card. It all felt pretty easy at the time, mainly because we were just so ecstatic we were finally allowed to do it, all the hurdles felt like speed bumps.

Because he was not born in the United States. We had finally, a year before the rulings, gotten him through a masters degree so he had an H-1B visa, so he could've worked for 5 more years before that expired, but the only way he was going to get a green card was to get that employer to go through the massive expense of sponsoring him (which frankly they couldn't afford, and by law we wouldn't have been allowed to help them pay for) or for him to marry a citizen.

Yeah, and I can tell you a few things about my marriage specifically. #1. We went through 12 long years, most of which my now-husband was not allowed to work because we weren't allowed to get married, so economically, getting married was fucking huge from us. Once he was allowed to work as well, suddenly we could plan for the future, we could put aside money for retirement, we could think about a life with vacations and potentially starting a business, and all the other things that were just not a possibility before the laws were changed. It wasn't all bad before hand though. I was a lower level project manager for a computer company making jack shit when we got together, and him not being able to work forced me to actually apply myself and grow my career, because I got tired of wondering monthly whether we were going to be able to pay all of our bills if we decided to go out for dinner once a month. He also wound up with 2 American degrees, because the only way we could keep him here was to put him in school. And it hasn't been all good since we got married either. We're still paying for those 2 American degrees and will be for awhile. All in all though, the financial stability of not having to worry that missing a paycheck would be a catastrophe that would be difficult to overcome, the emotional stability we have because we can make our own choices about our lives now, the comfort that we take in knowing that if something happened to one of us, the other could make decisions without having to carry around lawyer drafted paperwork everywhere we go, those things have been invaluable. I'm going to pretend like you are being honest in your question and the inflammatory parts are just your immature attempt to appear to be cool.... There are hundreds and hundreds of data points that quantify the marked improvements in quality of life. I have lived with those marked improvements daily since the Windsor decision. In my specific case: 1. Financial security - being allowed to be a 2 income household means we aren't living paycheck to paycheck 2. Emotional security - the very fact we no longer have carry around powers of attorney so that we could go wave them in the face of some hospital administrator if one of us was incapacitated and hospitalized has been bigger than you'd think. Imagine going on vacation and an emergency happens and the hospital wouldn't let you see your loved one because of no defined legal arrangement. That happened routinely before Windsor and Obergefell. That meant that gay couples had to carry paperwork with them every time they left town just in case, or risk not being able to make decisions about their significant other. 3. Mental stability - we no longer have to spend all of our days obsessing over the ins and outs of what could happen because of the whims of elected officials who are feeling some heat from their right flank, and therefore veer off to attack us. The amount of brain power we expended just worrying about that can now be put to better use, and I can tell you it's a loss less taxing to support other groups in the same boat and to work with them to get out of that attack cycle than it is to be the person that is getting attacked directly. I'm sure I could go on and on, but I think I've probably already given you more than you actually cared to read so I'll leave it here for now. To sum up, I will always be thankful for Edie Windsor and Jim Obergefell for their willingness to walk the paths they walked so the rest of us would be able to live a life much closer to free than most of us ever dreamed would be possible. I also won't forget you oldtimes that go back to the Hornfans days, because while most of you were on the Republican side of the fence back then on this issue, you were almost all willing to listen to the arguments and to rethink your conclusions. Y'all being willing to entertain the arguments made me a better person, helped me articulate what I wanted in a clearer way, which paid dividends in my life well beyond this message board. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for you group of assholes, so thank you too.

I only read through that 3 times, so maybe I'm just not being thorough enough, but I didn't see any reference to safeguarding our electrical grid. Can someone point me to that part of the document?