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I imagine that spending levels will remain at the same level as the current budget, plus growth and that they will use some surplus money and RDF funds to end up passing a modest rebate to tax payers that they can trumpet as some sort of revolutionary triumph of conservative economic philosophy. The last budget, relative to Texas, was very generous and good so we shouldn't have a 2005-style cutting crisis on our hands.
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I'm worried about the state of our highways and with the expansion of oil-gas, trucks are cruising those roads in greater quantities. Two instances already in the past year, large rocks, not pebbles, have threatened to launch through my windshield into a passenger's face. I don't begrudge the driving trucks, but drat some of the state highways are not that great to be on. Mock liberals in the news and in legislation til the end of the earth, but keep our roads good please legislators, it is an endearing quality that my car has lasted as long as it has because our roads were mostly alright for so long.
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I hope you're not in one of these counties... (Live Oak, Dimmit, LaSalle, Zavala, Reeves and Culberson)quote:"Since paving roads is too expensive and there is not enough funding to repave them all, our only other option to make them safer is to turn them into gravel roads," TxDOT spokesman David Glessner said. We'll see if anything changes this next session, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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It's like literally 300 miles of farm to market roads. I mean, not ideal but it's not like they're turning US 290 into a dirt road.
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Yeah, even in Austin there's been a worrying lack of road crews lately. At least as far as I can tell.
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An Angry Bug posted:Yeah, even in Austin there's been a worrying lack of road crews lately. At least as far as I can tell. I see you haven't been downtown lately.
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I spend too much on student loans to really afford a car right now. So I just hitch along on shopping trips which usually head outside the city.
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Oh goodie. The horror begins. After the comptroller's estimated budget they are already talking about the possibility of tax cuts.
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I don't trust that estimated budget at all.
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Shifty Pony posted:Oh goodie. The horror begins. They've been talking about it since forever? ReidRansom posted:I don't trust that estimated budget at all. Doesn't matter, until he issues a revised budget estimate that is the amount of money they will be working with. Also if you're in Austin today there is a huge open carry rally at the Capitol and they're gonna be 3D printing guns.
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Open carry will almost certainly happen this session, and I'm OK with that. Campus carry may happen also, but I'm not as OK on that one.
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zoux posted:Also if you're in Austin today there is a huge open carry rally at the Capitol and they're gonna be 3D printing guns. Is this a huge rally in relation to other rallies or a huge rally in relation to other open carry rallies (so two dozen people)?
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Shifty Pony posted:Is this a huge rally in relation to other rallies or a huge rally in relation to other open carry rallies (so two dozen people)? The crowd of gun-toting dudes wandering around during SXSW is always fun for the tourists.
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Shifty Pony posted:Is this a huge rally in relation to other rallies or a huge rally in relation to other open carry rallies (so two dozen people)? Huge in the amount of free publicity it is getting.
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zoux posted:Also if you're in Austin today there is a huge open carry rally at the Capitol and they're gonna be 3D printing guns. Ugh, why such neat things have such horrible fans?
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ReidRansom posted:Open carry will almost certainly happen this session, and I'm OK with that. Campus carry may happen also, but I'm not as OK on that one. College kids can't afford guns or 3D printers.
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For some reason, moderate Jewish dude Joe Straus is still the Texas Speaker of the House. He's getting his next Tea Party challenger today, who got robocall support from Glenn Beck.
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Hmm no Heckler & Koch, not real Texans.
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Don't you feel safer because these guys are around?
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 Also, red is for Strauss, green is for Turner. It's the first record vote for the Speaker in 40 years so expect some revenge  Also of Turner's 19 votes, 16 are from the metroplex and all are white Republicans.
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So is there a lot of crossover with Linux advocates, or...?
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An Angry Bug posted:So is there a lot of crossover with Linux advocates, or...? That guy will definitely be eating something off his foot later.
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An Angry Bug posted:So is there a lot of crossover with Linux advocates, or...? Oh lord yes. There are a ton of articles everywhere about this but I can't find one that gives any hint of attendance. Also, boy oh boy am I glad Wendy ran for Governor. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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zoux posted:
I remember reading the idiot opinion pieces about how "Turner really has a chance now guys!" 
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Trib's opening day Storify recap.
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Strauss, much like Boehner, knows where the bodies are buried. e: and those boots look like poo poo. Seriously that's some sloppy loving work on that logo.
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Nah it's because he works with Democrats, all of whom supported him in today's vote.
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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...tter-premium#/0 House OKs panic buttons in wake of open carry confrontation Houston Chronicle posted:AUSTIN - The Texas House approved rules Wednesday to be able to install panic buttons and eject hostile members of the public from their offices, after a confrontation between lawmakers and open carry advocates visiting the Capitol on the opening day of the 2015 session. Open Carry Texas is the worst organization in the state and if the ban doesn't get repealed this session it will be entirely their own fault and I will laugh so loving hard.
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Anyone not watching this is BANNED FROM THIS THREAD FOREVER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28698RwYdCw The cast list is crazy Chad Michael Murray as Mirabeau Lamar Jeffrey Dean Morgan as 'Deaf' Smith Ray Liotta as Lorca Brendan Fraser as Billy Anderson Max Thieriot as Jack Hays Bill Paxton as Sam Houston Adam Hicks as Truett Fincham Thomas Jane as James Wykoff Sarah Jones as Pauline Wykoff Johnathon Schaech as Colonel Sidney Sherman Olivier Martinez as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Christopher McDonald as Henry Karnes Courtney Gains as Cole Hornfischer Kris Kristofferson as President Andrew Jackson Jeff Fahey as Thomas Rusk Jake Busey as Samuel Wallace Trevor Donovan as Kit Acklin Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Emily D. West Jacob Lofland as Colby Pitt Robert Baker as Big Foot Wallace Madelyn Deutch as Curls Darby Hinton as President Burnet Raúl Méndez as Juan Seguin Geoffrey Blake as Colonel George Hockley John Elvis as Yellow Knife Joe Egender as Beans Wilkins Dillon Lane as Yancey Burn Stephen Taylor as Gator Davis Olga Segura as Concepcion James Paxton as Roy Alixandra von Renner as Susanna Dickinson Marklen Kennedy as Zacharias Amen Igbinosun as Nate Samuel French as Gavin McDonough Vico Escorcia as Sarah Ewing Harding Junior as Jupiter Darrell Fetty as Doc Ewing Felipe de Lara as Francisco Horacio Garcia Rojas as Buffalo Hump Daniel K. Walker as Fuzz Bill Millsap as Raw-Boned Drunk Taylor Brock as Ruthie Robert Knepper as Empresario Buckley Jeremy Davies as Sergeant Ephraim Knowles Crispin Glover as Mosley Baker Rob Morrow as Colonel Fannin Rhys Coiro as Vern Elwood Joe Egender as Beans Wilkins zoux fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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zoux posted:Anyone not watching this is BANNED FROM THIS THREAD FOREVER    This is seriously amazing.
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As a newsitem to you filthy Texas transplants that post in this thread with your California senisibilies: all public school students take a year of Texas history in seventh grade, so those men and women are icons to us.
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And it's on History Channel? Actual history? I may have to reconnect my cable before it starts airing.
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They're making a Vikings but for Texas. Good poo poo.
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:They're making a Vikings but for Texas. Good poo poo. It's an eight hour mini series.
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The only Battleground Texas worth paying attention to.
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zoux posted:Bill Paxton as Sam Houston This makes me very happy
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QwertyAsher posted:http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...tter-premium#/0 Open Carry Tarrant County is demonstrably worse than Open Carry Texas and that Kory Watkins is going to wind up getting people shot. Watkins and his organization are the worst of the worst.
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