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  1. Let’s be fair, they have ample hate for white evangelicals, too, particularly those actually following the lessons of the gospels. Only bad news for thee…
  2. Gerry reiterated that he’s in the class if Texas wants him but that Texas is looking around and might be prioritizing a juco who’s a cleaner/safer fit at nose.
  3. Texas is one of the highest profile collegiate competitors in any venue in which it appears and it just seems bad business to treat it as an invisible entity. He‘s right in that Duke’s perimeter D was outstanding.
  4. This--I don't watch a lot of college basketball but Bilas and whoever were just totally uninterested in calling the game. I get it's Duke, but Texas isn't fucking Samford.
  5. Re: Newsome, at least he fucking did something. I'm a little over the establishment Dem "we have to fight" but it's empty rhetoric.
  6. I don’t think either of those were by consensus considered “2024 truisms”. That’s basically a straw man argument and while we should be happy about the results last night, we still have every significant lever of power in the hands of Republicans for the foreseeable future.
  7. Same, I’ve tried watching it three times now and keep falling asleep in ep one. For me, the game is meant to be dark fantasy and the season premiere looks like a cosplay convention. They should be looking to GOT for production inspiration, not Xena Warrior Princess.
  8. I was referring to this when I was describing the Dems generational struggles with communication. Too many of the older crowd are trying to imitate Kennedy or MLK (even Obama is prone to this but he’s a world class speaker and funny so he can get away with it). Everyone else needs practice on getting to the point quicker. I listened to Jake Auchincloss’s interview with Derek Thompson and he’s a great example of a compelling biography held hostage by his ambition to sound like a well educated Harvard man.
  9. Well, the evidence is that the Democratic brand is so tarnished there an independent does better, so I’m not sure what underpins @chainsaw’s faith here.
  10. Holy shit, Ted was there? I bet he didn't arrive until the 4th quarter.
  11. It's even more noticeable in Fairy Tale, which he tries to resolve by writing that the lead character is a bit of an old soul and enjoys boomer media. I'm waiting for the next book in which he tries to update his "gee whiz" 1950's vernacular to modern times by having the kids repeat "6, 7" incessantly.
  12. This concept is getting lots of play on the lefty podcast circuit, but culture leads politics. Voters aren't rejecting left policy preferences; they've rejected the messengers in contested spaces.
  13. LCHorn

    Mad Men

    Counterpoint--that look Sally and Don exchange in this scene is in my small handful of favorite moments and I love it even more now that I'm a dad with similar age kids (this whole episode is just replete with payoff character moments and it's SO satisfying).
  14. This--to @956 Worldwide point, the constant talk about this as a conflict between center-left and left is the wrong way to look at it. It's a contest between generations and their comfort in communications mediums, not ideology. Mamdani's platform isn't winning a Senate race in Nebraska and the next version of a successful Democratic party needs to have space for both visions.
  15. Your question might have been rhetorical, but I'm held hostage in an online, recorded CE program and can't do much but listen and click "I'm still here" every five minutes so I'll indulge ( @Wulaw Horn and @UTPhil2006 laugh to themselves and say "you idiot, take an in-person class and it'll be over in 5 hours"). Anyway, maybe they did? You can look up the address on TCAD and see if they have an authorized agent representing them under the account section (top left), which would be evidence of a protest. Property condition supported protests are the low hanging fruit once a protest is past the county and in the hands of the ARB. If you hit them with a spreadsheet of values their eyes will glaze over, but those civic minded senior volunteers love pictures.
  16. Maybe--listing agents promoting mysterious competing offers is up there with "I've kissed a girl! It was at summer camp, no you don't know her."
  17. I like Simon, too, but I also think how we're managing the position needs an upgrade. A ton of NIL money is getting devoted to top high school backs and it's probably the most misspent position on the field, relative to production.
  18. I've actually quizzed TCAD appraisers and outside appraisers who argue on behalf of commercial clients to TCAD on this and there's a general skepticism outside of TCAD's office on any consistent methodology produced by a mass appraisal. If you follow values, you might expect to see (based on MSA appraisal data) 5% or so annual unimproved value increases in the years 2014-2019 (I usually cite those because they were the most recent before the pandemic disrupted the market) and declining improvement values to reflect age related depreciation* (you wouldn't expect to see that on every property, but that would represent the mean outcome). Anyway, that's not what you'll see--land values jump around, sometimes they adjust downward, then increase the improvements value, sometimes both go up, sometimes both go down (a lot of that in the last year). You are correct, however, in that scarcity of comparable sales leads to a lot of distorted "market" valuations. *somewhat in defense of this, improvement value doesn't linearly do anything--it might depreciate based on age, or increase based on replacement cost factors.
  19. I wrote a "how to protest your taxes guide" I teach to realtors for advising their buyers. TCAD values, particularly on higher value properties, aren't all that accurate using commonly understood appraisal practices, but are a crude estimate based on a mass appraisal software. I don't know they are truly useful as a measure of real property value (and to be fair, they are only loosely trying to be). I get your point, however. I'm sure the builder is wondering why his agent can't get him $2.5m.
  20. Both of those dudes are starters for their team and they are going to be paid to be retained. If you want to grab a RB you need to look at the Big 12 or the ACC and look for someone who wants a higher profile going into their draft year.
  21. I mean, it's pretty gorgeous. I feel bad for the builder; just being on the market for six months sucks and he's been making fairly modest price reductions (I'm sure his agent is affirming that it's priced right for the market and can't believe it's not getting more traction). You just don't get this aggressive if solvency isn't an issue.
  22. Same here-I’m not interested in investing in an undeveloped lot. Sell me how you’re going to convert that to money.
  23. Does a dude who played less than 60 minutes for Texas even count as a former Horn?
  24. Sounds like being an AE for a beer and wine distributor. I did a home loan for a guy who said of his profession “you’ll never make a million dollars, but you’ll get to live like you make a million.”
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