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  1. 1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

    Yes, and thanks to “Operation Warp Speed”, millions have already been vaccinated well ahead of last year’s original expectations by the healthcare experts.

    Hopefully the manufacturers can ramp up production and the more competent local entities are allowed to take over the implementation of the on-site vaccinating.
    Of course, not expecting our friends over on the Brazos to get their heads out of their asses and crank up that $200 million facility the feds so generously bestowed on them in the last decade

    For the record, Moderna received funds from Operation Warp Speed. Pfizer did not. Pfizer got funds from some German vaccine funding mechanism.

    Bernard

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  2. 1 hour ago, midtown said:

    Good point.  A year ago a ton of people were wondering it we'd even be able to make a vaccine at all now or that it would take years now we are bitching about having to wait a few months.  

    The amazing thing is that scientists had a vaccine ready 23 DAYS after the virus' genome was sequenced and made public by China. Testing, approval, and manufacturing consumed most of the timetable.

    Bernard

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  3. Upside is that if HEB Pharmacy in Wharton, Texas has 400 doses, can other locations be far behind? The location list on the scheduler shows lots (150+) locations. I’m happy to drive my mom to any of them if that’s what it takes. 🙂

    Bernard

  4. I’m flashing back to 2005. Watched the Horns win in Columbus on Saturday night. Drove through the night to Buffalo for Week1 game v the Texans. Texans got smoked. JP Losman looked like an all pro QB v Texans D. He was benched three weeks later because he sucked. His grandpa was sitting on our row. Mike Williams family was sitting in the row behind us. They were all wearing Longhorn t-shirts under their MW Bills jerseys.

    Bernard

  5. 2004 Home Run Derby at Enron Field in Houston. Section 119/120. Sat right across the aisle from him for the whole event. At first I just looked over and thought, “Hey, that’s Tommy Lasorta sitting there. Let’s watch some home runs.” Throughout the night though, the number of MLB insiders (not random fans like myself) who came over to say Hi to him was unreal. Non-stop. It’s like he was the fucking Pope. I didn’t say anything to him all night, because, you know, fuck the Dodgers.... but still, it was impressive to see who did. Baseball royalty for sure. 

    Separately, HR Derby was actually pretty awesome in person. Better than I expected. 

    Bernard

  6. 1 hour ago, capnamerca said:

    Was there with my (now) wife. Fucking amazing. Never seen a pregame like it, before or since. I personally saw people with a thousand dollars in cash in their hands, looking for a "just get me into the stadium" ticket, and not finding one. Goddamn that was fun.

    I’ve been a lot of big events - Super Bowls, World Series games, Final Fours - and nothing has ever been close to scene outside the Rose Bowl that day. Thousands of fans actively looking for tickets. No sellers. None. Another Surly poster and I had two tickets, but our two friends didn’t. I’m a seasoned street ticket buyer. Couldn’t even stiff a ticket for sale all day. 
     

    Forty-five minutes before kickoff, we decided to give up and instead attempt entry via the famous Texas-OU $20 handshake, which we decided should be a $100, then $200, then $400 handshake. We picked the least supervised ticket taker, way off on the left by himself. Just as we are about to execute our plan, a woman and son appeared out of nowhere. “Do you guys need two tickets?” they asked. Why yes we do.

    They wanted $3,000. We talked them down to $2,700. As we’re counting out the money and the total passed $2,000, I thought to myself, “God I hope it’s a good game.”

    Bernard

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  7. You and your daughter are tenants in common on this house. Write up a tenants in common agreement saying she owns 99% of the house and you own 1% of the house. Sign it. Notarize it. Present it to the appraisal district and/or the county tax office. This should be enough to get her a homestead exemption, or at least 99% of it. 
     

    Alternatively, you can prepare a deed that transfers your ownership share of the property to your daughter. Sign it. File it with the county clerk’s office. Any title company can handle this for you in like 5 minutes. Your loan certainly has provisions that say you cannot transfer title without lender consent, but you should be OK transferring it to your daughter since she’s already on the loan. Transferring to a third party is a no-no. You’ll still be liable for the loan of course. 
     

    My girlfriend and I did this two years ago. We owned a house together. I moved out. She wrote me a check for my half. I deeded my half to her. Lender would not approve transfer. We did it anyway. Fannie Mae loan serviced by BofA. Real estate lawyer I’ve known who also owns a title company said me transferring to her was a non-issue. 
     

    Bernard

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  8. 6 minutes ago, 4th_and_18 said:

    “According to body cam footage, Shimanek told his supervisor that he pulled Dillon Puente over because he suspected him of having narcotics, and he arrested him so he could search his car.”

    Cops have officially gone from being compulsive liars to being too brain dead to even be good liars.

    Bernard

  9. The real question is why they stopped the kid at all. Cops claimed after the fact that he pulled him over for making a “wide right turn”. Yeah. Right. On the video they claim they followed the kid for “a mile”. When has a cop ever needed to follow someone for a mile before pulling him over for the high crime of making a wide right turn in bum-fuck Keller, Texas?

    Bernard

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  10. Without family support and a strong game plan to get his shit straight after being bailed out,  jail might be the best place for him right now. Jails are not usually the best place to get help with mental illness, but the can cure substance abuse, at least for a while. Maybe a stint in the slam will do him some good. I’ve seen it work out that for one bipolar girl I know. Parents tried everything including $50k inpatient program at Menninger Clinic. Didn’t work. They didn’t bail her out after her 3rd DWI. Six months behind bars awaiting trial fixed her right up.

    As already touched on above, if he’s facing jail time post conviction, might as well get the clock going now. County is better than TDC, right?

    Bernard

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  11. How much is bail for that kind of charge? And what constitutes serious bodily harm?

    CSB: Dude tried to snatch a purse from a girl I know. Montrose. Mid 1990’s. He grabbed the purse from the front seat of her top-down convertible SAAB which was parked in her driveway. She tried to stop him and was pushed to the ground in the process. Aggregated robbery. He turned down a plea offer of 7 years. Went to trial and got 20 years. He had multiple previous felony convictions. Victim thought it was WAY too steep. Questioned her decision to press charges and testify against him.  

    Bernard

  12. 3 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    Did anyone ask why he seemed to be cutting right across the track the way he did? Sort of like he was missing an offramp and trying to get over from a few lanes.

    There was a group of cars in traffic on the left side. There was open track on the right. Looks to me like RG didn’t realize Kvyat was so close behind him to the right. Their wheels hit and sent RG careening right. Separately, replays showed a piece of car debris flying right under RG’s right front tire just before his move to the right. It’s unclear if the debris affected RG or the car.

    Bernard

  13. 10 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

    Exact shit happened to me in Denver. Luckily I was in a t-shirt and boxers, but it sucked going down to the front desk to get a new key

    That’s not the exact same shit AT ALL. 🙂

    Bernard

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