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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:
I like the one comment asking if they're still allowed to drive if they don't drink.
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zoux posted:School finance constitutional What, really? Did some other court reverse the previous ruling? Or am I mixing things up again?
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May 13, 2016 16:28
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zoux posted:School finance constitutional Seems like it breaks down to "stop bugging us about this, make some damned laws to fix the poor schools". Sadly, this is a bit like the fire department saying "we aren't going to keep putting out the electric fires in this house, fix the damned wiring so it stops catching on fire", not acknowledging that no one in the house is an electrician (and in fact some of them are devout pyromaniacs). EDIT: Here's the Tribune story on the ruling - https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/13/texas-supreme-court-issues-school-finance-ruling/
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May 13, 2016 16:31
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The irony of Gregg Abbott bitching about wasting money suing the government.
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Personally, I think gay marriage is bad - and I won't support it in this state.
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May 13, 2016 17:33
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Its good that it was ruled constitutional because Dan Patrick wants to give up federal funding over the right to discriminate against transgender kids:quote:DALLAS (AP) Texas' lieutenant governor says the state is prepared to forfeit billions of dollars in federal funding for public schools following an Obama administration directive over bathroom access for transgender students.
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Why are all of our state's leaders so extremely dumb and bad and loud?
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Thermos H Christ posted:Why are all of our state's leaders so extremely dumb and bad and loud? I'm sure you've met the people who vote. They picked someone just like themselves.
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Thermos H Christ posted:Why are all of our state's leaders so extremely dumb and bad and loud? Because they're Texans.
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Aliquid posted:Et tu, El Arroyo? Got to stay relevant somehow when you aren't anywhere near the top Tex-Mex restaurants in the city.
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foot posted:Because they're Texans. I wish that was the reason,.
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Shifty Pony posted:Its good that it was ruled constitutional because Dan Patrick wants to give up federal funding over the right to discriminate against transgender kids: Dan Patrick will do anything to usher in the lovely voucher program that he wants.
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AfterFather posted:Dan Patrick will do anything to usher in the lovely voucher program that he wants. Well his supporters want it badly, without it they can't afford private school tuition and their children will have to go to public school and deal with *those types* of people. Determining what *those types* of people mean, I leave that as an exercise to the reader.
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Ratmtattat posted:I'm sure you've met the people who vote. They picked someone just like themselves. I suppose you're right. It's easy to forget when you spend most of your time in the major urban centers.
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Spacebump posted:Got to stay relevant somehow when you aren't anywhere near the top Tex-Mex restaurants in the city. The food was nothing special but a $2 marg on the rocks with a floater is
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Aliquid posted:The food was nothing special but a $2 marg on the rocks with a floater is Whoah srsly?
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Thermos H Christ posted:Whoah srsly? Thirsty Thursday at El Arroyo is classic Austin.
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There's a petition to put up a statue or statues of Spurs players in San Antonio. The best execution imo would be giant-sized Tim Duncan and David Robinson, facing north on either side of I-35 like The Argonath
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PostNouveau posted:Tony Parker astride I-10 East Emulating the Arc de Triomphe would be appropriate
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Aliquid posted:There's a petition to put up a statue or statues of Spurs players in San Antonio. As long as they're big enough to wear the boots outside north star I'm up for it.
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Aliquid posted:hahahaha quote:“Allow men in ladies rooms,” Kelly asked, “or allow trans women in ladies rooms?” Willfully ignorant, or just that dumb? Who loving knows anymore.
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Parachute posted:Willfully ignorant, or just that dumb? Who loving knows anymore. Little of A, little of B? I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're run of the mill amoral dickheads just following the party line, but it's just as likely they've just bought into the panic whole hog. I've seen a handful of generally pretty conservative friends and family members basically saying "this is a dumb thing to be worried about, let trans people do their thing" which is refreshing. Between Cruz losing out and the pretty swift backlash against this kind of stuff, the seizing and foaming at the mouth by the religious right has been pretty entertaining
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Parachute posted:Willfully ignorant, or just that dumb? Who loving knows anymore. lol holy poo poo. National political figure Dan Patrick is off to a great start.
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Schnedwob posted:Little of A, little of B? I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're run of the mill amoral dickheads just following the party line, but it's just as likely they've just bought into the panic whole hog. I'll have you know that the "seizing and foaming at the mouth" is being touched by GOD and HIS wisdom! Usually around rapidly flashing lights.....or the mention of Obamacare.
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Some rear end in a top hat Austinite tried to start a Uber vs Cabs fiasco by posting a video of a mean and no-good cabbie gangster forcibly removing him from a cab, and claimed the guy kicked them out for not agreeing to pay an exorbitant ransom (a tip.) Then it turns out, the cabbie hears about this video on morning talk radio, and calls in to say the kid hopped in his car at a light without hailing while he was on his way to pick up another fare. Hope this blows up, because over night a lot of uber fanboys were trying to gin it up into a controversy. Here's a video: https://streamable.com/5ejf
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If they harass all the cabbies out of business Austin will have no choice but to beg Uber and Lyft to come back right?
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Fag cake guy has dropped his lawsuit: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/pastor-alleging-anti-gay-slur-on-whole-foods-cake-/nrNTt/ I couldn't tell from the quoted statements if he was admitting he lied about it, or just saying it was wrong of him to go public with what allegedly happened.
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MariusLecter posted:If they harass all the cabbies out of business Austin will have no choice but to beg Uber and Lyft to come back right?
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Badger of Basra posted:Fag cake guy has dropped his lawsuit: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/pastor-alleging-anti-gay-slur-on-whole-foods-cake-/nrNTt/ Well Whole Foods filed a countersuit which still hasn't been dropped, so I think he was trying to placate them into dropping the suit while also maintaining some kind of deniability in case they proceed. So he just said WF did nothing wrong and he shouldn't have sued them, without actually admitting that he maliciously filed a lawsuit with false allegations and hoaxed evidence.
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:Nope, Austin will just have no cabs or Uber or Lyft while another million people move in. This is Austin - nothing about traffic or driving will ever improve. I was there this weekend and the poor city really has just outgrown it's road system and there really isn't any way to improve the areas that need it. It's a city desperately in need of an efficient mass transit system but there will never be any money or will to do that.
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radical meme posted:I was there this weekend and the poor city really has just outgrown it's road system and there really isn't any way to improve the areas that need it. It's a city desperately in need of an efficient mass transit system but there will never be any money or will to do that. There's the money, just not the will.
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It's so weird because it's West Austin that's gumming up the works but theoretically it'd be South/East/North that would see the most annoying construction. I wish we could annex Rollingwood, Cedar Park and Lakeway and institute a city income tax.
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Aliquid posted:It's so weird because it's West Austin that's gumming up the works but theoretically it'd be South/East/North that would see the most annoying construction. I wish we could annex Rollingwood, Cedar Park and Lakeway and institute a city income tax. Hahahahaha. But yeah it does suck about rail. I was in Phoenix in January and their metro system was great.
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I was saying that as a silly never-gonna-happen thing but apparently things are more civilized outside of Texas and it's somewhat common.
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Aliquid posted:I was saying that as a silly never-gonna-happen thing but apparently things are more civilized outside of Texas and it's somewhat common. A friend who moved to NYC was visiting Austin with his boyfriend (who's lived in NYC his whole life) and the boyfriend could not believe we didn't have a city and state income tax.
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