DanRydell

It’s hard to take Amash’s “I’m a principled conservative” schtick totally seriously when he claims to be a deficit/debt hawk but votes for every tax cut

Wonder how that’s gonna affect her Christian Pop career.

That’s been my experience in Travis as well. People bitch about their appraisals but I don’t know anyone who would happily sell their house for its appraised value.

California has seen harshly the problems created by permanently pinning appraisals to the sale price. You create a scarcity problem, discourage property transfers, and create a revenue problem.

Connelly released a true crime podcast earlier this year, Murder Book, where he spends some time interviewing the detectives who have been his sources and inspirations. Unfortunately season one of the podcast wasn’t great (poor audio quality, Connelly isn’t a very good host, hard to follow story).

I completely agree property taxes are inherently problematic because they’re taxing an unrealized asset. Your house quadrupling in value doesn’t increase your income. But the solution is an income tax, not increasing sales taxes even more.

The legislative budget board calculations for the tax swap proposal are out. To the surprise of no one, it would be a boon for those with incomes exceeding $150k paid for by those making less than $99k.

Was hoping Hendricks could keep it under 80 but he really had to work in the 9th.

You care enough about American politics to post incessantly on here and you've never even read the Constitution? It's only 7,500 words.

There was some hinting around it during the Stannis/Melisandre stuff and references to the prince who was promised but not explicitly, no.

Because the NK created the White Walkers.

I agree that major characters dying in battle really hasn’t been GoT’s style. I’m one of those who thinks GoT is at its best when it’s people talking in rooms so I frankly find the battles to be the least interesting scenes that don’t involve the Night King/White Walkers/wights. But upping the consequences of the Battle of Winterfell would have at least meant the Night King had some impact on the show and on these characters beyond simply an eight-season long MacGuffin to get these characters together.

A person’s death can both be random and pointless while also being consequential.

What does that have to do with your argument that every major character’s death has to have a point?

The point is that’s how life works. War is hell and death is almost always random and pointless.

Austin voters already have a remedy if they want to make a change in their city leadership. It’s not the proper place of the legislature to usurp local control on purely local issues, at least where nobody’s fundamental rights are being violated.

Yes really. That was the whole reason the wildlings were moving south.

The NK started marching south six seasons before the wall came down

Qyburn’s spent a long time building his dragon bow which is now in the opening credits so presumably it’s going to play a role.

Even accepting the Night King as so simple-minded leaves plenty of completely unexplained questions. Why did the NK have such an interest in gory, large-scale art installations? Something that was seemingly so significant that it was featured three different times, including in the series premiere and the season premiere and yet was apparently ultimately meaningless? Why did the NK decide that NOW was the time to march south after waiting thousands of years? Accepting Bran’s explanation for why the NK wants to kill Bran, what’s the rush? If he is always able to find Bran, why not stand back and let his wights kill literally everybody else before tracking down Bran? He doesn’t even have his wights take out Theon first? Just because he wants to risk it all in order to flex on Theon? The NK being immune to everything but dragon glass, having been created by dragon glass, makes some sense. But why can he also be killed by Valyrian steel? He’s immune to the fire of Valyrian dragons so it’s not simply some Valyrian magic shit.

I’m not complaining about not knowing. I’m complaining about the answer being a profoundly uninteresting waste of time and energy over seven seasons.

What a fucking waste the entire Night King/White Walkers storyline turned out to be. Glad we’re at least finally rid of that shit so the show has a fighting chance to be interesting again over the last three episodes.

It was pretty meh IMO. Zero people dying in the entire Avengers compound getting blown to shit was fucking stupid. All in, a grand total of two Avengers (and allies) died and both were by suicide.

My impression as well. I enjoyed the food quite a bit but it was pricey.

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