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Shear Modulus posted:ranking teachers on "cost-effectiveness" (salary and grant awards divided by students taught) ...Surely you mean "multiplied".  Like, as an economist the other way is terrifying.
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Shear Modulus posted:I'm not sure what you mean by "preferential treatment of underperforming students," and I think I'd disagree with you if I'm guessing your meaning correctly, but Powers leaving and a presumed successor being less competent at stopping ideological meddling in university administration is unequivocally terrible thing for Texas higher education. It's a sad state of affairs that the most important job of public university administration is raising money to cover state budgeting shortfalls and stopping political officials from undermining the academy for personal or political gain, but Powers is amazing at both of these jobs. Oh, so low numbers good. It's still damned moronic, but doesn't lead to the immediate and total collapse of faculty teaching. (also, why in god's name would you include grants in the equation, they're actively bringing that cash to the university and the all-consuming administrative maw eats some of that)
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Jul 10, 2014 06:13
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Dan Patrick, noted crazy person and Texas Lieutenant Governor frontrunner, after repeatedly accusing his opponent of wanting to turn Texas into California, accidentally proposed that tax increases be subject to public referendum.
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Sep 30, 2014 03:19
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SirKibbles posted:Dan Patrick, noted crazy person and Texas Lieutenant Governor frontrunner also thinks rape and incest exceptions are things to be debated and not something that would justify women taking up arms, oh excuse me exercising their 2nd amendment rights. I certainly hope Battleground Texas can get its GOTV together, but I don't think it's that likely. And my amusement over the California thing aside, he didn't quite Akin himself in the debate (although "I care about women, if they're five month old babies" wasn't bad).
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Sep 30, 2014 03:42
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SirKibbles posted:We're all horribly goony politics nuts here you might as well do it. VDP only really soft-pedaled the third of those, though? She wants to tap the fund that is entirely composed of businesses paying fees for what they get from Texas, for a pretty cool education program.
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Sep 30, 2014 17:04
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Shifty Pony posted:Cross posting from the SCOTUS thread: Oh come on. Clarence Thomas didn't vote that way because he hates women. He did it because he disagrees with the existence of the post-1860 federal government.
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Oct 15, 2014 02:01
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I should go early vote. I mean, the best chance to stop Dan Patrick was when he was primarying David "zzzzzzzz" Dewhurst, but still. Maybe every legal Latino in the state will miraculously turn out.
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JosefStalinator posted:No one is shocked that Davis is losing - she is a lovely candidate and there's little redeeming about her other than being not-Greg Abbot. VDP, at least, is actually a pretty cool Congresslady. Too bad not enough people are paying attention to that race.
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Frackie Robinson posted:Thanks to this thread for reminding me to vote today Dan Patrick is the important one to stop for entirely too many reasons.
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Even I couldn't bring myself to vote for Dan Patrick though; I just left it blank. gently caress that guy.
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illrepute posted:when is texas just going to turn into a swing state already Can't have Latinos swinging the state if they're not allowed to vote.  Also, nice avatar, zoux.
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But Not Tonight posted:Your link is busted, here have one that works: https://www.texasobserver.org/house-defunds-hiv-prevetion-abstinence-education/ I am extremely mad about this. Abstinence-only sex ed is a monstrosity, and funding it by stripping a valuable, actually-working program is the poo poo-icing on the shitcake. This is going to disproportionately gently caress Hispanics in South Texas and African-Americans, too, which are the two demographics nobody cares about whatsoever.
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Apr 1, 2015 20:21
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Sardonik posted:This Jade Helm 15 paranoia stuff is the stupidest poo poo ever. NO GESTAPO IN BASTROPO
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LeJackal posted:
It's not like the NRA and Ronald PBUH Reagan became abruptly and overwhelmingly pro-gun-control the moment the blacks expressed their constitutional right to bear arms, right?
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Jun 1, 2015 03:11
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Spacebump posted:The justification will be Governor Abbott stopped it by having the Texas National Guard observe the exercise. And more importantly the Texas State Guard, his very own personal paramilitary. 
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Jul 16, 2015 20:16
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karlor posted:I just managed to escape a WalMart (FEMA camp), narrowly avoiding being processed in a Blue Bell (MOBILE MORGUE) refrigeration truck  Oh man, some of my friends are guards at one of those. I hope they don't get punished.
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Jul 16, 2015 22:39
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Vahakyla posted:99% of the time this would just hammer poors and minorities for no reason. Well heck, sounds like we have a winning argument for the legislature.
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CommieGIR posted:Several quotes are saying that Texas legislators are simply saying that its a red herring and most patients will go to dedicated providers, which is laughably false because PP is specifically targeted at those that cannot afford that. Bonus: this will noticeably reduce state Medicaid outlays when these women are unable to receive care anywhere! Small government! 
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Oct 19, 2015 23:07
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Pervis posted:What happens when they get pregnant? Didn’t this same scenario play out in some other state and it turned out to cost the state more money? That's a bit of a hiccup, yes.
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I am sort of surprised at the apparent goon support for "top state officials do not have to reside in the town where the organizations they command are". That was the one state prop I thought might actually go down in flames that I wanted to.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:53
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zoux posted:It doesn't really do anything good or bad unless you happen to be one of the four (?) statewide officials that have to reside in Austin. Certainly less than ten, yeah. It matters less than the hunting amendment, so that's hilarious, but at the same time it really does gum up the works sometimes when top officials are unavailable. None of the props this year were terribly important in and of themselves, although 1 and 7 could have significant revenue related side effects.
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Nov 4, 2015 22:02
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zoux posted:I'm fine with Sid Miller loving off to uncharted corners of west Texas never to be seen nor heard of ever again. Frankly, this argument might have sold me on the vote.
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Nov 4, 2015 23:54
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PopRocks posted:I live in Austin and I am all for this. Every couple of years stage legislators from bumfuck add some "gently caress austin" bills because they don't like our plastic bag ban or taxes or other ordinances. Yeah, in 1880 it took a couple weeks to get here from El Paso and that made sense but now you can just fly in or telecommute or make the drive from Georgetown to push your agenda and leave my city council alone thanks. This is actually a very solid argument that I hadn't thought of before.
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Nov 6, 2015 05:17
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zoux posted:One of these days ill do a big old effort post about TxDOT funding, planning and construction in order to haunt your dreams. I have some exposure to that too so I'd be real interested.
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Nov 10, 2015 22:07
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Badger of Basra posted:I don't know if he can stop them from living here but he directed the state refugee support services not to help them or something. I'm not sure that's legal either, but Texas is pretty good at "oh, you think we're illegally discriminating? prove it in court  "
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Nov 16, 2015 18:18
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No Safe Word posted:If you read the letter it's literally threatening to sue them for not going along with Abbott's unilateral action of "hey let's just stop taking refugees" which has no legal basis at the moment. I guess Abbott's takeaway from being Attorney General was "hey, frivolous lawsuits and lawsuit threats do have a chilling effect!"
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Badger of Basra posted:I get my tacos with corn tortillas. You are a correct man.
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Sir Tonk posted:It's ok to like Torchy's as long as you don't pretend that it's Mexican food. This is an entirely reasonable compromise.
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enraged_camel posted:Their tacos are pretty sizable. I find one quite filling, whereas in a lot of other places I have to get two, or sometimes three. Yeah, one taco is exactly the sort of portion size I should be eating now that I'm old and decrepit. (Also, 5.95 is very on the high end for my location, although I will admit that if we carried a Thai taco I'd probably get it somewhat often anyway.)
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Happy Pancha Ganapati. Ganesh is frankly a very Republican deity - god of luck, entrepreneurship, and business (but I repeat myself).
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blue squares posted:Let's all just agree that Greg Abbott is a disaster and actively makes me feel embarrassed, and if he died I'd be happy even though I'd sort of feel bad about that Governor Dan Patrick. 
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Ohtsam posted:Thankfully a lot of the brutalist architecture from the 70s/80s is being torn down or renovated away RIP Zachry building.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/707953232652316672 He gets to live his lifelong dream of spending an afternoon or two hanging out with Secret Service agents and receiving their full attention.
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zoux posted:Boy y'all can't help yourselves huh? What's your hypothesis, then?
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zoux posted:"Don't bite on obvious trolls" Oh, you meant the start of the exchange. Good point.
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PostNouveau posted:Is that a leash? While a pet tiger on a leash is technically better than a pet tiger not on a leash, there was at least one poor decision somewhere in this chain.
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Reik posted:I'm the idiot that would probably die trying to get a hold of the leash and getting the Tiger to settle down so it wasn't shot by the police. It looks like a modestly sized tiger (at present  ) and I would totally believe that as below it may have been treated like any other cat.It looks like it only comes up to the top of a pickup tire. It won't take your head off if it gets playful, and its odds of severing an artery if it kneads its paws on your leg are probably only about 5%. (The bad scenario is if it was abused or neglected, but the leash is a good sign) I probably would have talked to it from the car, and may conceivably have gotten out if it seemed like a nice kitty. Edit: I am glad it was a very nice kitty, although I am also okay with the owner being prosecuted if he hosed up anything at any point. Sounds like it would be a great zoo kitty if necessary! Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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"There are no meaningful careers in data processing" 
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radical meme posted:Rick Perry used his appointment authority as a personal ATM; fucker went into politics as a teacher and came out the rear end end a millionaire. I can only imagine how the licensing process would be corrupted and abused. Tax money for public education you say, gently caress that, time for tax relief, maybe even some rebates. Cotton farmer who realized the real money was in politics (and or lobbying). Gotta say, he had one main goal and he accomplished it.
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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.
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