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  1. You used that term with respect to doctors. Dude. You and I both know that docs are often idiot savants with dunning kruger: smart about exactly one thing, but they then extrapolate that to believing they're geniuses about EVERYTHING: medical issues outside of their field of expertise and experience, issues entirely outside medical field, etc. What do those assholes think they are, lawyers? I respect and have genuine empathy for your experience, and yes, this doc's timing and language were shit. But in the end, what makes me most ragey is 1) stacks of dead Texans created by a culture and governance that leads to body counts (El Paso, Uvalde, Uri, Kerrville) that either didn't need to happen at all or didn't need to be that large, and 2) the knowledge, with dead-solid certainty, that we're going to continue with more of the same. We will demonize "the other," we will denigrate anything and everything that might help the common good as evil communism ripped from the pages of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate file, and more shit like this - and deaths - will follow. "How dare we politicize" this from the exact same crowd that attacked California and its officials while an uncontrollable fire was still raging pisses me off (then, layer on the fact that the "failures" they tried to point to were nonsensical -- there was no massive spigot of magical water that could or would have gone to Pacific Palisades, for example). Every disaster needs real, open, failure analysis after-the-fact. What went wrong, what could have gone better. Sometimes, the answer is "well, this thing here and there could have been done better, but in the end, this outcome was largely unavoidable." Other times, the answer is "the flood/winter storm would have happened no matter what, but several things could have been done to reduce the hell out of the body count." Not only will we not get that, we won't change our approach in general to, you know, maybe plan for such things in advance.
  2. I wish more would go towards Camp Wood and the Nueces River up there.
  3. The first major wave of tariffs on Liberation Day seemed to at least follow Trump’s own dumbass flawed logic regarding trade deficits. Yes, they were completely ridiculous, but there was a method to the madness, even if most reasonable people disagreed with the method. These newer tariffs seem completely arbitrary and punitive. We have now progressed to Trump lashing out at countries because he is frustrated the world didn’t line up to make deals with him. When Bessent is acknowledging the TACO nickname, it’s obvious that Trump himself is aware, and this time he will want to shake that label. Didn’t Canada make a trade deal with Trump a couple months ago? And now they have a fresh 35% tariff to show for it. Why would anyone make a deal with him? I don’t know where we go from here. It’s wild that the stock market hasn’t imploded.
  4. Jane, you ignorant slut! (see, Dan Aykroyd). I agree with much of your post. Certainly, we should be able to all agree that the language used by this doctor was inappropriate. The highly offensive part (to me) is that it appeared the doctor was using this horrific disaster as a platform to broadcast her political view at a time when hundreds of families in Texas were at the height of their fear. THAT is not acceptable. If this doctor knew about the flood (and she said she dead), and watched any news reports from the morning of July 4, that should have been a strong sign to keep your MAGA statements to yourself until we know so much more. Because she did not, the potential damaging impact on families was far greater. Now, if she came out today, with an intelligent post (much like your post Brisket, only just toned down a bit to make it look like all people could get behind), it would have had a much stronger impact. It was also questioned, why this doctor? Because I have been fighting back against medical and mental health incompetence for a number of years now. A doctor in Colorado came out with a theory on "Terminal Anorexia." it took me almost 2 years before I got that doctor to not just back away, but refute her initial opinion. Therapists and idiot doctors coming up with treatment protocols not backed by research or medical science. The eating disorder field being taken over by militant fat activists. It has been maddening. We should expect and demand more from the brightest and best in our society. Ok... rant over.
  5. Probably not much. I think that song has been a mainstay on the setlists for all of their tours going back to 1987.
  6. It’s our go to mindless show. They don’t yell at each other like most reality shows. For several years it was #1 in Australia. We’re on S10 of Australia now. Seasons are about 45 episodes each. There are 15 seasons of Australia, 5 seasons UK, 3 seasons New Zealand, and 3 of South Africa on Amazon. there was a terrible U.S. version years ago, with celeb cooks and cat Cora as a judge. It was only like 8 eps and a horrible show, never to return.
  7. Fucking this. And I can guarantee you that Doctor will face more consequences, and is more likely to change, than ANY of our leadership/power structures/culture. We will continue to charge full speed-ahead down the "fuck the common good, always and all the time" path, against all evidence and reasoning to the contrary. And we will not just not punish leadership for their decisions that lead to suffering and death, we'll REWARD them with re-election. A doctor who made a shitty comment will suffer consequences (and she should). Elected officials who decided not to install flood warning systems because "treasonous communism" will suffer zero consequences, and will actually be rewarded for their decision.
  8. This. While the full story is complicated, parts of it are pretty simple. Society as a whole had a great increase in opportunity post-WWII. For around 30 years, almost all of that expanded opportunity was provided to white males (women weren't in play, minorities were kept as second-class at best). So, relatively mediocre white dude could get a college degree and get a job that provided a path to a good life, even prosperity. Then, the economic opportunity stagnated and even contracted some. AND.....mediocre white guys had competition for those good jobs. Smart, well-educated women jumped in the pool. Smart, well-educated minorities jumped in the pool. Used to be, there were 100,000 good jobs out there, and 95,000 went to white dudes. Now, there are 90,000 good jobs out there, and 40,000 go to women, and 20,000 go to minorities.....leaving 30,000 jobs for white dudes (yeah, the numbers are totally made up to illustrate the point). These numbers aren't exact proportions, the point is that a pool of good jobs and prosperity that used to be 95% for white dudes is now a much smaller percentage for white dudes. And.....having lost a historical advantage that was NEVER rightly theirs to begin with (sorry, it wasn't exactly fair to have largely frozen black men out of the professional world for over a fucking century after we ended slavery)....white dudes are PISSED. They want it all back. And, if they can't have it....better to destroy it, so nobody else can have it.
  9. 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.
  10. I've already quoted this wondrous quote, but it bears repeating: Kerr County Judge Robert Kelly said at a news conference on July 5 that “no one knew this kind of flood was coming.” “This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States, and we deal with floods on a regular basis,” he said. “When it rains, we get water. We had no reason to believe that this was going to be anything like what’s happened here. None whatsoever.” I know what he was trying to say, but it really does make him sound like an idiot.
  11. For 2014 we had a solid core of upperclass defensive players but depth was pretty sparse. That repeated in 2017 to an extent. Gone in 2018 were Poona Ford, DeShon Elliott, Malik Jefferson, Hilton Hill. The 2012 defense had a pretty significant contribution from guys that were factors in 2014. The depth probably had too much reliance on underclass guys then progression until their final years. Then the core guys left, and you start over. Specific to Diaz and Orlando, they aren’t great coaches that can sustain but are capable of bigger years when it hits right.
  12. It will be interesting to see if they can get to the land. And also interesting to see what happens to the value of land with river access. I suspect some rich folks, like the ones on oceanfronts everywhere, are going to build things squarely in the danger zone, regardless.
  13. Joc seems like he has always been a very streak-based performance guy. When he's hot he's on fire. We just need to see that version more often when he gets back. Proximity to Jerry Jones, maybe.
  14. To be clear, the 1:14am text was not an "evacuation" text though it probably should've been treated as such. It said "life threatening flash flooding was expected" or somesuch. Mystic is gone. Plain and simple. The insurance policies are not going to be big enough to cover the liability claims. Read somewhere on this board (I think) that a group of parents -- mostly fathers -- have already started discussing a situation where they settle for policy limits and then the current Mystic grounds are turned into some kind of memorial and public recreation area. Mrs C-Man heard somewhere the Mystic property is worth anywhere from $50M-$100M but wonder if that much could be gotten considering what just happened there and future less-favorable flood mapping (presumably).
  15. Yeah I've been watching that all morning. Frio's gonna go crazy.
  16. "Core"? This suggests they are going to continue to wear stupid-looking alternates.
  17. You can't ensure that "disasters never happen." You CAN ensure that areas and communities are 1) properly warned, and 2) as well prepared as they can be for when they happen. Katrina: warning was good. Preparation was shit. Levees were shit, in large part due to local corruption, due to entrenched power structures that existed for generations (sound familiar? Leadership getting locked in place, with no changes or challenges, is usually bad news). Helene: better warnings would have been good. Shit, I recall Inka and I looking at the forecast rainfall, and commenting 24-48 hours beforehand "that shit is going to be really bad in the mountains." California wildfires, Maui fires: wildfires are often really tough. Step 1 in many cases is "avoid building a lot of structures in areas that really, really want to burn," but that ship has usually sailed. Having resources available, with a game plan to use them, is key. In both of those cases, weather conditions were such that the resources at hand either couldn't be deployed or were just overwhelmed. Interestingly, just last week, I spent an hour watching California respond to a local wildfire in an area of hills and canyons. It was a spectacle. They fucking know what they are doing, and they pour resources onto a fire early, to make sure it doesn't get bigger. Truly, it was pro squad level work. So, believe it or not, for wildfire fighting, I'd say "learn from California," and even then, we know there's only so much they can do. Texas Winter Storm outage disaster: who should you vote for? Maybe people who didn't purposefully design a grid set up to fail, starting with SB-7 in 1997 and continuing for decades. The Uri outage was a predictable, natural result of policy choices made by our leadership. And not much meaningful has been done to change that state of affairs. Kerrville floods: read the meeting minutes of Kerr County rejecting flood warning systems. We'll learn plenty more, but that's a pretty good start. Disasters are inevitable. The full measure of human and economic costs of same often are not inevitable. Things are better when you act instead of react. Shit, in the current environment, if we didn't already have the Highland Lakes system built (which prevents Austin from being hammered by river floods), there is a 0% chance they would be built today. Because fuck doing something that provides benefit to the public.
  18. Yeah, he's a total piece of shit. It doesn't really matter if people find him entertaining or worth watching. What matters is there are 8 players that put up $10,000 that have to deal with his shit. I'd be calling the clock on him continuously and calling the floor asking them to tell him to shut up when he's talking about the hand I'm playing. I'd also go over and high five the guy who knocked him out.
  19. But but we all learned you can upgrade hamburger helper by getting additional ingredients from Whole Foods, which is totes deep South Side Chicago!! If there'd been some Sox' fit it would have completed the picture.
  20. I think the Rattle and Hum tour was the best they ever did with it live but it was pretty solid at the sphere a couple of years ago. My seats were last minute so not great but still gives a good idea. I wonder how long Edge has to re-rehearse the riff to get back up to speed whenever they go out IMG_5685.mov eta: actually, i just remembered the super bowl halftime show right after 9/11 where they did mlk right into it...that was pretty fucking amazing.
  21. Yeah....I expect that a lot of the bodies are never going to be found. And others, or parts of others, will be found months or years from now at random times and places. Just gruesome, shitty stuff. Nature is a mean bitch, and she gives no fucks.
  22. We can start a support group.
  23. My senior year was okay. Ten wins, last SWC champions, a win at aggy, the first year of Ricky's record-breaking career, my first trip to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. But it was still Mackovic'd with an unacceptable tie against a shitty OU team after a huge lead at halftime, and a flat performance in the loss to Virginia Tech.
  24. You killjoys can take the feeling of winning the last SWC title and upsetting Nebraska after you take it out of my cold, dead hands.
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