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pyrohornIII

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  1. Its in the education thread
  2. Apparently Abbott is going to start sinking large blue county schools from the inside now. They've been rattling the swords for some time. This is a really good article on it: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2023/03/15/446250/texas-education-agency-takeover-houston-independent-school-district/ Texas Education Agency announces takeover of the Houston Independent School District The state-appointed managers will hold immense power. They can control the budget, school closures, collaborations with charter networks, policies around curriculum and library books, as well as hiring or firing the superintendent, among other important decisions.
  3. An assumption I am making, not personal experience. So he might not be gay at all. He just presents gay, at least to me, and Jesus is his beard.
  4. Oh fuck, don't get me started on the one who was a twirler for Baylor (no pics). What's the word for polite arrogance? Or the flat earther who is gay, but can't admit it, because it's against god's will. I don't go to many family reunions, but do feel obligated to attend a funeral now and again.
  5. So basically this kills all whistleblower reporting going forward. Of course none of our ethical upstanding legislators or public employees ever do anything that wouldn't pass any scrupulous test. So we really didn't need it to start with. Those four ought to go stand outside the capital and blow the shrillest, loudest whistles they can to bring attention to this issue. Do it every day, be like grackles. Hand out push cards explaining things. And whistles.
  6. I have a cousin who graduated aggy, and all three of his kids did the same. His wife never went. Very seldom have I seen any of them dressed in anything but maroon, white, grey or black, especially the mom.
  7. I did not realize that was a statue to their fight song. Or is it their anthem? Who the fuck cares? The chick in the dress looks like a Farmer's Only dot com date that got no showed.
  8. I'm hoping the guards break their slumps tonight and carry that confidence into next weekend. However with tired legs, that's probably a big ask.
  9. The guy who built the "Whoop Stop" in Paige (devoted to all things aggy) went on to build a par three truly cow pasture pool 9 hole course named WhizGolf, next to it, complete with the opportunity to tour the portable sheds he's hawking. He's a huge Trump supporter. It's been fun over the years to watch it all die a gradual death. I think Trump owns most of the golf courses and some other properties. Most of the hotels and other buildings worldwide with his name are licensing deals. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/10/23/heres-every-trump-property-thats-dropped-his-name/?sh=191791353571
  10. Wait. She's woke? Isn't that a bad thing? I'm confused. But not as much as she was.
  11. Maybe they feel like they're losing too many viewers because of the Dominion suit and its associated uncoverings, so they are doubling down on the lying? Most of J6 is associated with Trump, and it seems they are distancing themselves from him, so why is it so important to continue to try to influence public opinion on this? Trying to cover their own complicity, or maybe some of the other players like Hawley, MTG, etc?
  12. But it doesn't matter when it comes to Ginny and Clarence Thomas. Right.
  13. They'll have some group buy the campus for pennies on the dollar, then turn it into a Liberty U Lite. They have to have someplace for all these home schooled and religious charter school kids to go for a college diploma.
  14. I think that the Bible thing is a cover and copout. I think the bulk of them are not very bright people, or lazy, or both. They are naggingly insecure about that and band with others who hold up the BIble and yell "We don't need science, we have faith in God!" That's why the 'Pray for our Nation' yard signs irked me so much when they were popular. It's like they don't want to be bothered to try to understand any socio-economic, ecological or other issues to make informed votes. They just throw their hands in the air to hand it over to some all knowing God. Whatever happens is God's plan. Their willful ignorance has been preyed on by both politicians and charlatan hucksters like Osteen, Hinn, Robertson. Look no further than Wilks and Dunn who are using both church and politics for their benefit. The most of them don't even read or study the Bible, they take whatever gets spewed at them first, second or third hand, just like Fox, OAN, etc. It's so much about greed and insecurity and going along to feel part of something important. So much more than the Bible, it's just a prop. If they were truly using Christian tenets, our social assistance program would be ten times larger than our corporate welfare program.
  15. I agree with you on the prison issue. I worked for TDC during that time. It was a case of overcrowding initially brought on by the Wayne Justice order. It was faster and easier to contract with private groups such as Wackenhut than it was to build more State units. Then it became an issue on how to keep those private units full to keep them open. Those units (and the existing State units) provided lots of jobs for rural communities like Lockhart and Dilley. There were a lot incarcerated who didn't need to be just to keep the money flowing. Did we start needlessly imprisoning more to press for the need for privatization, or the other way around? Either way, you know lots of money was involved. As far as tollroads, living rural, I don't keep up with their politics much. I should have left that one alone.
  16. She's in a series called Insatiable on Netflix. She looks pretty good. Don't do a before and after on Nicole though. Oh and I tried to watch the rehash of night court. I just can't sit through anything with a laugh track anymore.
  17. I thought Dead for a Dollar was a pretty decent vehicle for Waltz. It didn't get very high ratings, but I got through it ok. I liked most of the actors surrounding him as well. It's on Amazon.
  18. These guys played today like they didn't have anything to lose. They played loose and just as much for the home crowd as for themselves, maybe more so. I hope by beating the arguably #1 team in the nation as dominantly as they did, that confidence carries forward. Yeah Kansas might not really have had their head in the game at the start, but they tried to make a run late. They wanted it, they just coasted too long, figuring they could dig themselves out. Good game, good season in hard ass conference.
  19. So he's rolling into Bryan with his dog and pony show next Tuesday. I need some ideas for signs to take to the protest.
  20. This is the same state that refuses to expand Medicaid funds to the tune of 6 billion a year. That's heartless in how many people could be getting better healthcare, live better lives longer. Not to mention the boost it would give the economy. So yeah, they don't give a shit if Texans die, so why would we think they give a damn if anyone is educated? Rinse and repeat with stories like grid failure. They won't stop supporting or maintaining. They will simply reduce the effort and send some of that money to non public entities. Just like the moronic private prison scam of the 80s and 90s. Same for public roads going to tollways?
  21. It's a race to the bottom: https://www.insideedition.com/gop-legislator-introduces-bill-that-would-eliminate-floridas-democratic-party-80073 The basis is not recognizing any party that ever in it's history supported slavery or forced servitude. That covers a lot of Civil War era Dixiecrats that jumped ship to the Republicans starting in the Nixon years. But it seems to me that large families would pay much more out in sales tax than they would recoup in reduced property taxes. I doubt very many are living in mansions.
  22. I know a lady in Houston that does a lot of pain management type hypnosis, and she's also done quite a bit of it for anethesiology alternatives. Not sure if they don't feel anything, but it does make it bearable, since some people can not use standard anesthesiology. Granted, it's not widely accepted, but it is known to be used. Went to a taco street vendor in Boystown, Nuevo Laredo about 35 years ago at 5 am. Seems his specialty was cabbage and some mystery meat, probably dog. Good thing I was very soused on pony Coronas. I'm thinking pocket protectors.
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