pyrohornIII

Are we going to do the annual "donate $25 of pyro's money to someone else" side wager too?

Lackey was about a decade before my remembering zone. I have enjoyed reading your recollections of him. He reminds me of another UT DB from the valley who went on to play in the pros named Landry. One of the best things about Surly is this type of service. It's kind of like having a digital hall of honor we can open any time and share things about great people of UT. It's oral history turned into written. I wish we had one board devoted to UT individuals who made an impact, great or small, so we could have our own little wikipedia here in surly for reference.

Take a handful of Thermotabs, right?

This is a pretty good site for latest data on cases and death trends in Texas counties. Doesn't get in to vaccination rates. https://247wallst.com/tracking-coronavirus-in-texas/?utm_source=newsbreak&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsbreak&utm_content=tracking-coronavirus-in-texas&wsrlui=t9454741 Here's the article I found this link in: https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0bkNNSxg?share_id=eyJ1c2VyaWQiOjMwODg4NTkyLCJkb2NfaWQiOiIwYmtOTlN4ZyIsInRpbWVzdGFtcCI6MTYzMDY5Mjg1NDkyN30=&s=a3&pd=025bX65z&hl=en_US

Well, it sure as hell wouldn't have helped anything. Just another way to muddy the water in the big blue counties.

Curious what the vaccination rate would be at the stadium considering how many are coming in from outside Travis Co. I can't imagine what this looks like for B/CS. But Trump said heat is this thing's enemy, right?

Enjoyed The Defeated. Good to see Taylor Kitsch doing well.

I doubt he got the whole nut up front. I would imagine there are stipulations in his contract to grow his base, or possibly bonuses for base growth? Either way, he's grifting. This type of thing started happening in the rural area around San Antonio a few months back. It's what finally got my brother's attention.

Here's a spin I hadn't seen yet. Might be a bit far fetched, but it seems plausible under this law.

and the women who aren't satisfied by those men. Go back and watch the debates on this topic, the heartbeat debates on the House floor. Those women are the handmaidens for Abbott, Patrick and their ilk. Just ignorance appealing to ignorance.

This country, and especially the red states are hopelessly repressed when it comes to sex. This is just an extension of the misogyny we are seeing rear its head to stand alongside racism. It's driven by very unhappy older white people who are scared to death of losing control. Not just men, but women too. The TDP would do well to put together a talking point around increasing sex and parenting education. Add in relationships in general. Never mind what the red morons say about it, start pushing for the right things. This is a prime time to get out some strong messaging.

I'd like to think we took some of that extra time to put in different control boards in a lot of that gear. Everything works fine until they press the trigger, then the missile goes about 500 ft and then does a 180 and homes back to the launcher.

ISWYDT. I'll counter:

19-year-old Navarro College student dies from COVID-19 https://www.fox4news.com/news/19-year-old-navarro-college-student-dies-from-covid-19

I guess Covid isn't fast enough for some of them. Civil war training going strong. Dumbasses.

Yeah and that kind of crap makes Art Bell type shows seem sane. And from what I read lungs aren't one of the more successful organs to transplant. The following hits very close to home for me: Why Some White Evangelical Republicans Are So Opposed To The COVID-19 Vaccine https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-some-white-evangelical-republicans-are-so-opposed-to-the-covid-19-vaccine/ The bolded part about "end times" reflects a lot of sentiment that this country has jumped the shark, and there is no way it can ever repair itself. Therefore death and living in heaven forevermore is preferable. Suicide by Covid. God will sort it out and reward those who were loyal to him.

For the first time in a long time, I like the odds that any stupid mistakes be corrected, in game and after.

Did you forget Crenshaw?

Cawthorn is being called out by his inattention to his home district during and after the historic flooding there. Remind you of anyone else? And I love the opening line of the article. During natural disasters, even hyper-partisan Republicans used to think that when mother nature struck, they should at last pretend they cared. Not anymore. Cawthorn was more interested in his Fox News schedule. Primping for the Fox News and Newsmax cameras, making sure his hair is just right was obviously more important than his constituents suffering the floods in Western North Carolina. https://crooksandliars.com/2021/08/local-paper-pillories-madison-cawthorn

There's a local guy that does AC repair commercials. "I'm Carl Dickhead. You can trust ClimateFixers because you can trust me." Incredible. I'm sure all his cards have that little fish symbol on them too. Saw an article today that said Congress is subpoenaing Paxton's communications with Trump and staff leading up to 1/6. That would be awesome, to suck up to Trump to get a pardon, only to be shot down in flames for those efforts later. Glorious. "

Good Girls Revolt. Its a story of female journalists in NYC at the inception of the Women's Liberation movement. It's been interesting to watch and see how different things were just 50 years ago, even in the center of a culture that was supposedly so woke for the time.

The Great Debaters (Of Wiley College, Marshall, TX)

She was a month off from finishing her course in medical data recording when Covid shut it down last year. It pays a lot better, she can do it from home and it's less stressful. Since it was an in person class, it was put in suspense. They started it all over again in the spring, and she was once again attending. Set to finish and be working by August at the latest, then this relapse. So, maybe the third time will be the charm. Right now, she can't do much of anything without expending all her energy, and has bouts of depression and anxiety to go along with it. She sleeps a lot. True, and better internet access in the rural areas. They've thrown some words at it (Ashby), but it hasn't amounted to much yet.

On a positive note: My friend the EMT from Atlanta went outside and walked to her mailbox for the first time since Memorial Day. She didn't have the option of getting vaccinated when she caught it last Sept through making runs. She has been in and out the hospital 6 times since then. But today was a good day, and I hope to hell she doesn't catch another bronchial episode, because I doubt she'd have a bed available. There wasn't any disability check either, though she's been eligible since June 1. And of course now she can be evicted. But we've been keeping her rent and car payment current, so there's that. Just so fucking irritating to watch these fuckers go on about their freedoms and not have any awareness what it is costing everyone else. And on top of that, the idea that some fucker can get a PPP loan and buy a Lambo long before she can get her much needed disability check. And before some dick says bootstraps, she was working double shifts in Apr/May that wore her down and made her susceptible to this latest round. Sorry, I got good news, but needed to vent. Still a long row to hoe on this one, but much better than 2 months ago.

They have moved on from foreclosures to evictions for making money. While the money is better in foreclosure, the turnaround in rent/eviction is faster, so it's a matter of quantity over quality. And the more renters defaulting justifies higher deposits and rents. So the money is getting better. And these fucks don't care if anyone gets hurt, or if the thing isn't sustainable, as long as they get theirs and get out before the market collapses.