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blackguy32 posted: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. Resigning seemed like an extreme move for a bit, but then they announced it might take them TEN MORE loving DAYS to fix the water system.
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Aliquid posted:anybody else have Dads that complain about south texas rice farmers and the LCRA even though they have no skin in the game? Not since the drought situation has eased. I heard a fair amount of "why are we sending them OUR water/who would try to grow rice in Texas" back when Lake Travis and Buchanan were sitting under 50%, but now that the lakes are pretty much full no one is paying much attention. Also, if you want to go deep nerd on LCRA data, I recommend their River Report.
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And of course, idiots are wanting to ease water restrictions now that the drought is suspended. Oh no I can only water my lawn once a week and have to use a bucket to wash my car! Muh freedumbs!
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I thought our restrictions were going permanent, it's sad to see them being rolled back.
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Aliquid posted:I thought our restrictions were going permanent, it's sad to see them being rolled back. Water isn't limited resource dude, it loving falls from the sky lol
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MariusLecter posted:Water isn't limited resource dude, it loving falls from the sky lol ......uhhhhh.
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May 23, 2016 19:49
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Lake Travis is really pretty right now
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CommieGIR posted:......uhhhhh. I'm just playing my part as a Texan. 
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MariusLecter posted:I'm just playing my part as a Texan. stop praying, we're full!!
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PostNouveau posted:Resigning seemed like an extreme move for a bit, but then they announced it might take them TEN MORE loving DAYS to fix the water system. Also, is Blake Farenthold still a piece of poo poo?
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blackguy32 posted:Also, is Blake Farenthold still a piece of poo poo? Let me check.  Ayup.
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I like how the year that we finally get enough rain for the cotton my dirt-farming kinfolk raise to be profitable is a year where China's poised to flood the market with its own cotton reserves.
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https://twitter.com/ChipBrownHD/status/735067609788342272 I dunno if y'all have been following the poo poo going on in the Baylor football program but it's real bad.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/ChipBrownHD/status/735067609788342272 The emphasis on sports in Colleges is the problem.
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May 24, 2016 15:51
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Pretty hilarious that Ken Starr is about to be fired for failing to properly investigate allegations of sexual misconduct.
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lol of course Briles is still safe.
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ReidRansom posted:lol of course Briles is still safe. ""The feeling is if the board got rid of Art (Briles), they'd be sitting in a $300 million mausoleum instead of that new football stadium," one source close to the situation told HD."
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Well he didn't try to cover up a murder, so he's not the worst Baylor's ever had.
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zoux posted:""The feeling is if the board got rid of Art (Briles), they'd be sitting in a $300 million mausoleum instead of that new football stadium," one source close to the situation told HD." Ahaha and that was exactly the reason I almost typed in my post.
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I'd take that with a grain of salt, Chip Brown is a mouthpiece for Texas football and has a pretty bad track record. I hope it's true though
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Well, he's now reporting, and Wapo and other national outlets are starting to pick up, that it's a done deal and Starr is out. In more worrisome news, Aggies are trying to acquire The Bomb  https://twitter.com/eramshaw/status/735151752987566080
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zoux posted:Well, he's now reporting, and Wapo and other national outlets are starting to pick up, that it's a done deal and Starr is out. This would be a really big get, and I hope we manage to pull it off. Both the UT and A&M systems took a pretty big hit during the Perry years (where he stacked their boards with a bunch of his lackeys), and we could use some increase our profile and the level of research that people in the systems are able to do.
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zoux posted:Well, he's now reporting, and Wapo and other national outlets are starting to pick up, that it's a done deal and Starr is out. They can't even manage bonfires, can't wait for them to gently caress this up too.
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MariusLecter posted:They can't even manage bonfires, can't wait for them to gently caress this up too. To be fair, the A&M nuclear program is better than the UT one. UT tried to win a national lab contract and failed last time, so I too am hopeful that UT+A&M+UNM+Boeing+Battelle can beat out Lockheed Martin. Running a national lab is one of the few feathers in a research institution cap that no Texas university has.
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Heard that also over lunch. And we have an excellent nuclear engineering department. One of the best, in fact 
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Didn't UT used to run Los Alamos? Not during WW2 I mean, like fairly recently.
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zoux posted:Didn't UT used to run Los Alamos? Not during WW2 I mean, like fairly recently. UT was going to bid in 2005 but they dropped out. I thought UT made a bid for another lab recently too but lost.
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I was at UT during the nuclear bid and was against it but have no memory of why also yeah after that tweet, Starr is gone
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Aliquid posted:I was at UT during the nuclear bid and was against it but have no memory of why I knew people who were against federal grants because they were anti-war or something. Was it that?
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https://twitter.com/bysambrose/status/735203108301639680 Who the gently caress knows man
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Did anyone vote in the primaries today? I skipped them since I don't have any lege primary runoffs and whoever the Democrats nominate for RRC is going to lose anyway.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/bysambrose/status/735203108301639680 My gut says that what's going on is that the board of regents has basically made up their mind regarding Starr and is delaying until the 3rd either to decide what to do with athletic director Ian McCaw and Art Briles, or to get whatever paperwork is involved in firing a college president (and whoever else eats it) without getting sued. Or both, I suppose. As a Baylor alum, all three of Briles, McCaw, and Starr should probably be gone, but if only one ends up eating it I hope it's Starr. Briles is almost certainly culpable in sweeping things under the rug at this point, but the repeated failures of Baylor's Title IX office and general sexual assault procedures (the less publicized of which don't involve athletes at all, yet reportedly involved similar levels of institutional neglect - see http://musingsofstef.blogspot.com/2016/02/i-was-raped-at-baylor-and-this-is-my_4.html) lie squarely on Starr's desk, if you ask me.
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e_angst posted:This would be a really big get, and I hope we manage to pull it off. Both the UT and A&M systems took a pretty big hit during the Perry years (where he stacked their boards with a bunch of his lackeys), and we could use some increase our profile and the level of research that people in the systems are able to do. The idea by Perry and his cronies that if it didn't turn a profit, it shouldn't be part of the university system was horrible. Does anyone know what Abbott's attitude is towards the universities?
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radical meme posted:The idea by Perry and his cronies that if it didn't turn a profit, it shouldn't be part of the university system was horrible. Does anyone know what Abbott's attitude is towards the universities? Going to guess it is something along whatever his crazy base of support believes, so not enough Jesus, guns and big government is bad classes.
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Oh hey that loving insane Board of Education candidate lost her runoff. Yay
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PostNouveau posted:Oh hey that loving insane Board of Education candidate lost her runoff. Yay Now my kids are gay.
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foot posted:Now my kids are gay. Win-win
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