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foot
Mar 28, 2002

why foot why

Lote posted:

I will also accept the alternate answer of any taco place has the word Lingua displayed anywhere.

Yeah, if you can't get lengua and tripa, it isn't a taco place.

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MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
Texas stepdad shot and killed 3-year-old for jumping on the bed: police

quote:

George Coty Wayman initially told police the boy was bouncing on the bed shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday and accidentally landed on the gun, causing it to fire, reported KFDX-TV.

But investigators said the evidence did not match up with the 18-year-old Wayman’s account, and they said he admitted to pointing the gun at the child and threatened to shoot if he did not stop jumping on the bed.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
The only good tacos are my tacos and you can't have them.

Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer

PostNouveau posted:

Even with real lovely beers Tecate>Lone Star

it's harder to find tecate tallboys but yes.

Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer
.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004


Well, I mean if he told him once he ain't gonna tell him twice! Lumpy beds suck.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/edwonkkimmy/status/733393155203031040

Are you kidding me

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Schools and Universities really don't focus enough on the parents.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Well, it's more that this is a total non issue dragged into the spotlight for movement conservatives for the purposes of social engineering.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

zoux posted:

Well, it's more that this is a total non issue dragged into the spotlight for movement conservatives for the purposes of social engineering.

Parents spend thousands on schools and universities and their kids get like almost all the benefit of it. That's not fair.

karlor
Apr 15, 2014

:911::ussr::911::ussr:
:ussr::911::ussr::911:
:911::ussr::911::ussr:
:ussr::911::ussr::911:
College Slice

What does this mean when run through the conservative-lizard-brain-translator?

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


Is this an argument against putting students first?

"if we put students first kids rule then kindergarten!"

That's how it reads to me.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

karlor posted:

What does this mean when run through the conservative-lizard-brain-translator?

The adults are socialist conspirators, and social engineering is a catch-all term for the commies corrupting the minds of children and young adults with "tolerance of sodomites and negroids" and things like that.

Which is to say, I'm pretty sure Dan Patrick is saying that keeping the adult communist academics from imposing their agenda is a good thing.

Social engineering is a real dirty phrase on the right.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

karlor posted:

What does this mean when run through the conservative-lizard-brain-translator?

"Teaching my kid anything I don't agree with"

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
The entire process of public education is totally about social engineering; always has been. I'm really disappointed in the TX Supreme Court ruling because now, there's zero incentive to do anything about public education. If anything, the decision will reinforce white flight into rich enclaves to create more Super High Schools like Allen. I can't even imagine what a hell hole a high school with 4,500+ students must be; what kind of experience is that for a young person?


edit: specifically in regard to that Patrick tweet, i'm pretty sure it's directed at the Obama administration guidelines.

Number Ten Cocks
Feb 25, 2016

by zen death robot
Good news, quality of teaching and levels of funding have no meaningful impact on educational outcomes so none of this actually matters, hail Satan, eat at Arby's.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

radical meme posted:

The entire process of public education is totally about social engineering; always has been. I'm really disappointed in the TX Supreme Court ruling because now, there's zero incentive to do anything about public education. If anything, the decision will reinforce white flight into rich enclaves to create more Super High Schools like Allen. I can't even imagine what a hell hole a high school with 4,500+ students must be; what kind of experience is that for a young person?


edit: specifically in regard to that Patrick tweet, i'm pretty sure it's directed at the Obama administration guidelines.

Trust me, whatever the Legislature cooked up to deal with a court mandate would've sucked just as bad.

blue squares
Sep 28, 2007

radical meme posted:

Super High Schools like Allen. I can't even imagine what a hell hole a high school with 4,500+ students must be; what kind of experience is that for a young person?


I went to Allen, and it's super awesome because no matter what kind of kid you are, there's another 50 like you. The anime club, for example, was massive. Nobody was friendless just because they were into weird stuff

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

zoux posted:

Trust me, whatever the Legislature cooked up to deal with a court mandate would've sucked just as bad.

Question, for anyone, not just zoux. Is Robin Hood still alive and applicable to school districts? If it's still alive, did the recent TX Supreme decision affect it?

blue squares posted:

I went to Allen, and it's super awesome because no matter what kind of kid you are, there's another 50 like you. The anime club, for example, was massive. Nobody was friendless just because they were into weird stuff

Interesting. That's a side of it I'd never seen before.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

radical meme posted:

Question, for anyone, not just zoux. Is Robin Hood still alive and applicable to school districts? If it's still alive, did the recent TX Supreme decision affect it?

Yes, no.

http://tea.texas.gov/Finance_and_Grants/State_Funding/Chapter_41_Wealth_Equalization/Chapter__41_Wealth_Equalization/

Wiccan Wasteland
Oct 15, 2012

radical meme posted:

If anything, the decision will reinforce white flight into rich enclaves to create more Super High Schools like Allen. I can't even imagine what a hell hole a high school with 4,500+ students must be; what kind of experience is that for a young person?

I think the only reason Allen hasnt split into multiple schools is due to them being a power in football. I remember all of the Texas HS Football coaches being upset about Forney being split into two schools due to them being a football power in the early 2000s.

blue squares posted:

I went to Allen, and it's super awesome because no matter what kind of kid you are, there's another 50 like you. The anime club, for example, was massive. Nobody was friendless just because they were into weird stuff

:laffo: That would be like running into a quarter of my graduating class.

karlor
Apr 15, 2014

:911::ussr::911::ussr:
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College Slice
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/733410678980104192

need a combination of :clint: and :gay:

Killer-of-Lawyers
Apr 22, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
Steers and Queers man.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmw07nzRA3I

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

blue squares posted:

I went to Allen, and it's super awesome because no matter what kind of kid you are, there's another 50 like you. The anime club, for example, was massive. Nobody was friendless just because they were into weird stuff
Same. Also consider whether you would prefer Allen to one of the schools in Dallas, Arlington, etc. where I knew kids who'd get jumped daily.

Parents still live in Allen in one of the older (circa 1980s lol) neighborhoods and I grew up there, so can remember when there was practically zilch west of 75 and one grocery store. I was in one of the first classes to attend the new high school. It was a very white environment back then, though (somewhat) seems less so now the few times I've driven by it. There were only a handful of non-white kids in this massive school.

One of their neighbors is an ancient black woman who was the "help" for Margaret McDermott, who is still alive (I think) and lives in a ranch hidden in a swath of land that was never overtaken by development. Old Allen versus New Allen. Lady is amazing, ridiculous cook and moved to Allen in the 1960s. I couldn't believe it when she told me that.

radical meme posted:

The entire process of public education is totally about social engineering; always has been. I'm really disappointed in the TX Supreme Court ruling because now, there's zero incentive to do anything about public education. If anything, the decision will reinforce white flight into rich enclaves to create more Super High Schools like Allen. I can't even imagine what a hell hole a high school with 4,500+ students must be; what kind of experience is that for a young person?
I was a deeply alienated young person but looking back that was more of a personal problem than an outcome of growing up in Allen. I didn't have trouble making friends.

Rather ordinary and safe, really. Orderly. Conservative. If anything it was too orderly. Allen was notorious for its paranoid overreaction to the Columbine shooting.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990518&slug=2961362

And made an appearance in Bowling for Columbine if I recall because of the expensive security systems they established (and then scrapped) in the early 2000s.

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 00:28 on May 20, 2016

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Also funny story about those bomb threats: AISD assembled its students in auditoriums days after the Columbine shooting, and in a display of amazing paranoia and incompetence, threatened them with canceling classes for the rest of the year if they made bomb threats. Which the students proceeded to do using the school's own payphones.

I only remember because I was in one of those auditoriums. They sacked the superintendent after that.

Number Ten Cocks
Feb 25, 2016

by zen death robot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/05/20/state-gop-declares-most-texans-are-gay/

blue squares
Sep 28, 2007

Finally

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

radical meme posted:

I can't even imagine what a hell hole a high school with 4,500+ students must be; what kind of experience is that for a young person?


My school was around 3000 when I graduated (my graduating class was ~720 and the incoming classes were even bigger; they eventually built another high school) and it was ok. It kinda prepped me for A&M, where there are 50,000 undergrads and still growing.

citybeatnik
Mar 1, 2013

You Are All
WEIRDOS




Nice to see the GOP accept the Kinsey Scale in at least one state.

Can't help feeling that this is the sort of mocking pendantry that'll do no good in the end though.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

this is mega yikes

https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/732772786968494080

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

It is at this point that Beidermann realizes his conversations are being taped.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

MariusLecter posted:

It is at this point that Beidermann realizes his conversations are being taped.

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

blue squares posted:

I went to Allen, and it's super awesome because no matter what kind of kid you are, there's another 50 like you. The anime club, for example, was massive. Nobody was friendless just because they were into weird stuff

i thought you said you never leave you apartment

FBS
Apr 27, 2015

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/733699336736002050

I'm waiting for a special session to be called in Texas so our wonderful legislators can come up with even better headlines than dumb old Oklahoma :allears:

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

FBS posted:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/733699336736002050

I'm waiting for a special session to be called in Texas so our wonderful legislators can come up with even better headlines than dumb old Oklahoma :allears:

Reading this closer, this is heavily sensationalized. It's a resolution that calls on the state's congressional delegation to introduce articles of impeachment in DC. State lawmakers pass these things all the time. It's basically a formal announcement that the OK state lege thinks Obama is bad. Or one house, if it's like here, resolutions can be passed by just one chamber and don't have to be signed into law.

I mean, gently caress them, but it's not that big a deal.

Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer

MariusLecter posted:

It is at this point that Beidermann realizes his conversations are being taped.

I can only hear this in Ron Howard's voice

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Bushiz posted:

I can only hear this in Ron Howard's voice

holy poo poo

blackguy32
Oct 1, 2005

Say, do you know how to do the walk?

PostNouveau posted:

Day 6 of a water boil advisory. Third one in a year. :sigh:

Kind of glad I moved from Corpus. At least Ron Olsen resigned. One of my friends was calling for his head on a platter basically. She did the same thing to Abel Herrero.

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

anybody else have Dads that complain about south texas rice farmers and the LCRA even though they have no skin in the game?

this can't just be me

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