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Also just a reminder that today was oral arguments in (presumably) the final hearing on Fisher v. UT-Austin. I found out through reading a New York Times story that she is from Sugar Land, which explains everything.
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Trabisnikof posted:They're not asking for permission, so if it gets cancelled it will be day-of. However, I could also see them getting a lot of volunteer shooters and too few volunteer bleeders. That mock immigrant round up got cut off didn't it? Anyway a fake shooting in the current climate is such a massive public safety risk, I don't see how the admin doesn't find some way to preempt it. A cancellation is probably better for them anyway, get Ted Cruz tweeting about ivory tower elitist college liberals trampling 1st amendment rights.
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Badger of Basra posted:Statesman said a gun rights group just did a "mock mass shooting" at UT. I guess this is to go along with their terrible idea from last year of a "mock" illegal immigrant round-up. I wonder if they'll use a sniper.
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Badger of Basra posted:Also just a reminder that today was oral arguments in (presumably) the final hearing on Fisher v. UT-Austin. I found out through reading a New York Times story that she is from Sugar Land, which explains everything. Speaking as someone from Sugar Land, yes.
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Here's an interesting breakdown of the how if the Republicans get their way and remove non-voters from the population counts for the purposes of making districts, it could result in some safe Republican districts going away.quote:Redrawing the district to equalize eligible voters would be hard, however, because the district would need to gain 7,290 adult citizens (a citizen voting-age population gain of 6.8 percent), a task made more difficult by the fact that all of the surrounding districts are also underpopulated and one — District 103 — is a Latino majority district protected by the Voting Rights Act. At this point the Republicans are so damned far ahead in Texas that their attempts to disenfranchise non-Republicans can do more harm than good to them.
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I wouldn't gently caress around with a bunch of gun rights nuts feeling their oats.
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What are they gonna do, shoot me?
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Speaking of guns:quote:Why I Caved on Guns When I Ran for Governor of Texas  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/wendy-davis-open-carry-gun-rights-texas-213423
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computer parts posted:I wonder if they'll use a sniper. 
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Badger of Basra posted:Speaking of guns: So is this brave or opportunistic? At least she didn't try to blame her gun stance on her loss. That is better explained by the sentence "I was fundraising in Colorado when I got the call..." zoux fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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ReidRansom posted:Speaking as someone from Sugar Land, yes. I was going to defend Sugar Land till I saw she went to my high school. God drat it.
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Does anyone in this thread actually like Texas?
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oldpainless posted:Does anyone in this thread actually like Texas? I like Texas, I just don't like Texans. Here's the university's response to the Pistol Passion Play Posse 
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Paxton is being a poo poo again. quote:Reversing course yet again, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to federal court Wednesday to seek an emergency order blocking nine Syrian refugees from arriving in Houston Thursday.
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zoux posted:I like Texas, I just don't like Texans. I was going to say I like some Texans, but thinking about it, all the ones I like were raised outside Texas.
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oldpainless posted:Does anyone in this thread actually like Texas? I like Texas weather right now.
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I like that the Texas Education Certification Board has agreements with other states so that I can get the gently caress out and teach in a place like Minnesota instead
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blue squares posted:I like that the Texas Education Certification Board has agreements with other states so that I can get the gently caress out and teach in a place like Minnesota instead Teaching is bad everywhere.
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blue squares posted:I like that the Texas Education Certification Board has agreements with other states so that I can get the gently caress out and teach in a place like Minnesota instead Yeah Minnesota's a big step up http://www.kare11.com/story/news/education/2015/12/09/st-paul-teachers-threaten-to-strike-over-violence/77028052/
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It's less the state of teaching and more the state of everything else in the state. I just want to go somewhere where the leaders are at least competent enough to accept the medicaid expansion. I just renewed my health insurance and I'm getting loving gouged because of Perry and Abbot.
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^ Yeah, that.oldpainless posted:Does anyone in this thread actually like Texas? About Texans? My answer is that most things about Texans you've read are true, but this doesn't come through in everyday life so much because most people just mind their own business and go about their day like anywhere else. Like the person driving next to you on the highway might be anticipating the imminent Rapture and destruction of all nonbelievers. But you'd never know it.
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Scalia's got some hot takes on the UT casequote:There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well. One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they're being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/justice-scalia-suggests-blacks-belong-slower-colleges-fisher-university-texas
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Scalia's got some hot takes on the UT case Indeed, the negroid mind can only move so fast after all, now let me show you some materials about the science of Phrenology!
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http://www.khou.com/story/news/politics/2015/12/08/dead-heat-mayors-race-new-poll-shows-turner-king-tied/77014288/ New poll has Turner and King in a dead heat in Houston, at 38%. Please, Houston, I love you. Don't gently caress this one up.
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Bushiz posted:http://www.khou.com/story/news/politics/2015/12/08/dead-heat-mayors-race-new-poll-shows-turner-king-tied/77014288/ Oh poo poo. I assumed that Turner's strong lead in last months election would carry on to the runoff.
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The weirdest part: Chris Bell endorsed Bill King.
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The UT working group released its recommendations for campus carry restrictions. It's a lot more generous to CHL than I thought it would be.
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oldpainless posted:Does anyone in this thread actually like Texas? Austin is great. The rest of Texas loving sucks. I bring a puke bag with me every time I drive to Houston or Dallas.
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Austin traffic is the loving shits at all times of day.
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loving Plano http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/texans-begin-nightly-smashing-windows-of-muslim-family-only-six-weeks-after-they-move-in/ quote:A Muslim family in Plano, Texas fear that they may have been targeted with a hate crime after rocks smashed through their windows at least two times in the last week.
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PostNouveau posted:loving Plano I like how all of these Islamophobia incidents are happening in suburbs. Irving, Plano, Pflugerville..
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zoux posted:The UT working group released its recommendations for campus carry restrictions. It's a lot more generous to CHL than I thought it would be. Well, you have to be 21 to get a CHL, so that automatically knocks out the vast majority of the student body.
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who the gently caress is both 21 and lives in on-campus housing?
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blue squares posted:who the gently caress is both 21 and lives in on-campus housing? This is why I thought the fight over it was stupid as hell. It was actually a proxy fight on the question "are guns good or bad" and the actual impact is going to be more or less nil.  lol Fred Cantu zoux fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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zoux posted:This is why I thought the fight over it was stupid as hell. It was actually a proxy fight on the question "are guns good or bad" and the actual impact is going to be more or less nil. Ugh Heather Way.
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Badger of Basra posted:Ugh Heather Way. Whozat?
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zoux posted:Whozat? UT law professor, she runs their community development clinic. I'm sure she does good work but most community development people rub me the wrong way.
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