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Ghost of LL last won the day on February 11 2021
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Probably so. There aren’t just a whole lot of people out there. So it’s easy to know the handful of family names. The solar farms have been quite controversial, as I understand it. I’m not a local, so I haven’t much paid attention. I just know that some people aren’t happy with their neighbors leasing their land out to be used for power generation.
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So fun story on that: nearly a century ago, we had a Great Depression. Many are saying it was the best Depression. It came at the end of a half-century of nearly uninterupted Republican government. Many people don't know that. Anyway--I digress. My family has had a few tracts in Bell County for a very long time. I didn't really know how long. I knew it was family land and that was it. Cotton farming, mostly. But Cotton is hard on the land; for the last 20 years it's been corn. And corn doesn't make very much money. So we leased the upper tract to a solar outfit to build a solar farm. A few months ago, Oncor came asking for an easement to run transmission lines across the lower tract. There was some family discussion, but at the end of it we decided to go ahead. There was some discussion about the fact that my grandparents had kind of envisioned that as the bug-out property. Papa worked for the DOD and figured it might be good to have a place of last resort if the end of the world came about. And these days, . . . . But in that discussion, I asked how it came about that the family owned this random property (or really set of properties) in Bell County. And it turns out that my great-great grandfather was a soon-to-be-retired teacher in the very early 1930s, and as local farmers went bankrupt he would buy their tracts for virtually nothing from the local bank (which itself was about to (and ultimately did) go bust). So yeah--we leased out that tract to Oncor. It paid for my son's first car: a new BMW. There's plenty left over for his sister's car in a couple years. And along with it comes a lesson in family history. And why the family's crest ought to feature a vulture.
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Umm, Mandy—according to my BIL, I believe the correct term is “cloud seating.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Yes—he really fucking spelled it that way. Because he’s a goddamned moron. But sadly, the reality of it is that he’s completely average.
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Meanwhile, my idiot BIL is posting on Facebook “Cloud seating has GOT to stop!” And that’s exactly how every politician is going to escape accountability. And it’s exactly why the GQP cultivates that type of stupidity. if any of you think any positive change is going to come from this disaster, you’re very sadly mistaken.
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The flow on the Perd at Fredericksburg just doubled in the last 15 minutes. I mean--goddamn.
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Well, Kerrville is about to get wiped out by this flood. And a lot of people won't be able to rebuild with FEMA now functionally out of business. So any of y'all looking for some cheap Hill Country real estate and willing to take advantage of some human misery . . . this may be your shot real close to home.
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But you can’t remove politics from it. Somebody who would support causing this much suffering is not a good person. They’re great people to you. But they’re bad people. It’s something we all have to deal with. My brother-in-law is a guy whose company I enjoy. He’s been good to me. But knowing his politics and listening to what he has to say about various out groups and the joy he takes in Trump hurting them—he’s a bad person. And I very frankly don’t want to be around him.
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Which would suggest that the people you know are not, in fact, either smart or good.
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The Ten Commandments - coming to a Texas classroom near you!
Ghost of LL replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I'm not talking about Protestants broadly. I commented on "Protestants who fetishize the Ten Commandments." And that's a lot of them. But it's certainly not all. I'm fairly atheistic these days, but I grew up Catholic. And at least when I went through CCD, the Church was pretty fucking supersessionist. I assume it still is, based on my occasional readings of what the Pope has to say. So I tend to think of this weird love of the Ten Commandments among purported "Christians" as a purely Protestant phenomenon. -
The Ten Commandments - coming to a Texas classroom near you!
Ghost of LL replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I don't think it's even a matter of squaring that circle. It's just a fucking circle. If you look back at the original text--and any Biblical scholar worth a damn will agree with this--Yahweh isn't saying "I am the only god out there." He's saying that "you shall have no other gods before me." That necessarily implies the existence of "other gods." Now, Yahweh is a jealous fucker. He doesn't want you putting Baal or Zeus ahead of him. But he's not saying that they can't be co-equal. And he's sure as shit not saying that Baal and Zeus don't exist. So fire away and hang your Vedas and Sutras and whatever else. Just don't hang them above the Ten Commandments, I suppose. Or maybe do. Jesus told y'all fuckers that the Ten Commandments don't really matter. There are really just Two Commandments: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” I'll just never understand Protestants who absolutely fetishize the Ten Commandments in the face of Jesus's actual fucking words. -
AMERICA FIRST! This is every client I've ever had who said "we're just filing a quick suit for declaratory judgment." Yeah--those counterclaims are a real bitch, though.
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Don't worry. The Department of Homeland Security's counter-terrorism center is led by . . . hold on . . . let me check my notes . . . oh, god--a kid who was working at HEB last year.
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Jesus Christ--we're a fucking vassal state of Israel. I don't know how you can come to any other conclusion when listening to Donald Trump, who congratulates the Israeli military before he congratulates our own.
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