Dutchrudder

Antman is getting larger...

I get to be a neutral observer tonight, not really pulling for either side. Let's hope it's close and intense. Feels like there have been a ton of blowout games this playoffs, and not a lot of great games.

Jake Meyers now up to a nice .305 batting average this year.

Reminds me of Ike when it blew through downtown in 2008, but without the flooding.

1400 Smith got pelted. Energy tower next to Chase

Tornado according to the family. It's in the south part of Bridgeland near Tuckerton and summer camp. One of the people that runs our local Bridgeland Cares group lost his roof. They do all sorts of charity work locally to help families with meal trains or assistance in disasters and such. Fucking sucks 😕

In Cypress, no power, friend at Center point says we will probably be down for a week or so due to the huge transmission towers along 99 getting wrecked. Got my generator out and setup already, we got AC, kids are in bed, so not too bad but very scary during the worst of it. A few homes in our area had massive damage.

Did they not stop the game for the tornado and storm??? Friend sent me pics of downtown after their shelter in place was lifted and there is glass, street lights and debris all over the place. We have friends in the heights who are stuck with trees down all over. One of them had a tree fall on their house and breach their roof. Crazy fucking storm.

I think they are hoping Bielak pitches for the A's tonight. A truly masterful move if it happens.

Well my retirement investments are at an all time high, so I'm gonna have to take the kids out for ice cream tonight! Thanks Brandon!

Ooof, that was a gut punch for OKC, Luka from 30 feet.

OKC looking kind of shaky so far, having a hard time making buckets, but got a few right at the end to close the gap to 10. SGA is going to have to go supernova to drag this team across the finish line again.

4 game win streak and won 6 of the last 7! Things are looking up!

Thanks for the insight, I wasn't aware of that rule. I'm in a couple local groups that are trying to organize to combat this kind of stuff, but it's in the infant stages. I can raise the issue and see what they say, but we would likely need a legal organization to help litigate these types of issues. Do you have any suggestions on who to contact? Is there an ACLU type org that would help? Honestly, I have no idea how to proceed with this stuff, it's all new to me. Any guidance is much appreciated.

Has anyone Czeched on him yet?

Yup, this is my district, and it's quite the learning experience I'm going through right now. The measure to remove chapters of science books that cover vaccines, climate change, diversity and other topics came towards the end of a 5 hour board meeting. This was after parents were allowed to talk (1 minute each), budget discussions, awards, staff changes, announcements, etc, it was not on the published agenda. There was no expert testimony about it, there wasn't much discussion at all, just the opinions of several board members that don't have any background in these subjects. The board voted 6-1 to exclude those topics and that was it, it took less than 30 minutes. Really a shame that my kids are going to have to go through this dumb culture war over topics that these people don't understand, but here we are. My first kid is going to kindergarten in the Fall, so it won't hurt him much right now, but in a few years those topics should be covered. In the meantime, we are facing a $138m deficit in Cyfair. We are losing 2/3 of our librarians, and the ones that are retained will be assigned to multiple campuses. Other staff like janitors, teachers, summer classes, etc are being cut as well. A lot of it is due to being underfunded by the state, who is currently withholding tax dollars to public schools because Abbot will not sign any increases until vouchers are passed in some form. That amounts to ~$1100 a student across the state, and about 20% less funding overall. That's significant, and I certainly don't know any family or business that wouldn't be severely impacted by being forced to live off their 2019 budgets today, so it's pretty sad to see Abbott trying to blame it on the ISDs for not being better money managers. If yall are in Texas, and whether you have kids in school or not, please look into your local school board elections and vote. It really does matter, I know a couple of our board members won by slim margins. They were all within 2-3k votes of the normal people who care about education. 3 of the dumbasses that voted for this will be up for re-election in 2025, and I hope we can dump them if we can raise awareness and get out the vote.

Interesting stats:

"Can I tell you something Bill? Most of the shit you say is not smart, it's just sort of obscure." lol Here's the full podcast if anyone cares:

He won 3 of the last 4 MVP awards, and if not for a racially charged attack by Kendrick Perkins' and some dumbass media members, he would have a MVP 4peat running right now. I think plenty of people have recognized and understand how good he is on the floor. I agree he isn't on the same level of hype or media attention as MJ or Lebron (both in sports and non-sports media), but I think that has more to do with his personality and media approach. He's not a firebrand, he doesn't stir up controversy to steal the spotlight, and he doesn't make shitty comments about his teammate's performance or his "next team" to drive more discussion about himself. He's just built differently in that regard, and I think that has a lot more to do with the lack of media coverage and exposure, because he's just not that juicy of a story. Jokic is certainly as talented as those guys, but he has the personality of a businessman. He clocks in, does his job while daydreaming of riding horses, clocks out, and goes home to his wife and kids. I really like that about him, and I think it helps his team on and off the court. Must be nice knowing that your team's best player is not creating distractions or picking and choosing who gets traded next. Team stability is an underrated quality that Lebron and KD never seem to appreciate.

They said after game 2 that only 5 teams had ever comeback from being down 0-2 while having homecourt advantage. Looking like #6 is gonna happen Thursday night. Hell of a turnaround and if the Nuggets win a ring this year, it's going to shut up a lot of haters.

Mariners are losing to KC in the 7th right now too, might be the only team in the division to win today.

Vic's second walk-off hit as an Astro!

LeBron and AD to the Cavs for Garland, Allen and Mobley??!!??

Yeah, but if they let him say fuck and bleeped out shit, it would be funny. Or at least that's the joke.

Saw a Reddit thread that was fun. If Seinfeld could have had 1 use of the word "fuck" (or any variation of it), where would you have inserted it in the show? A few of the top voted ones: Yeah? Well, I fucked your wife. What the fuck are ya doing, ya little piece of [still bleeped]?!? Thanks for ruining my daddy's business you fat fuck. You want a Christmas card?! Here's your fucking Christmas card! You had to have the BIG FUCKING SALAD! Person on beach - “Is anyone here a marine biologist?” George - “Fuck.” I got a lot of problems with you fucking people! And now you're gonna hear about it!