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And it's on History Channel? Actual history? I may have to reconnect my cable before it starts airing.
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:Hah, as if that "dramatization" will have anything to do with the actual history past names and dates. "* - based on actual history" is still a hell of a lot closer to the real thing than whatever they were showing last time I looked.
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Jan 14, 2015 23:28
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The boom/bust cycle is why my older brother didn't go back into the industry after being laid off from Schlumberger. My little brother works for Shell, but doing GIS stuff, so maybe he's safe. Who knows.
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Jan 15, 2015 20:12
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Nearly everyone in the capital is well off through outside means, state government pay is poo poo because it's assumed you're coming in with other sources. That's the problem. Nearly everyone in the legislature is there on behalf of their real employers.
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Jan 26, 2015 17:43
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I'm more concerned about the tax cuts "no matter what".
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Jan 27, 2015 17:01
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Seriously I don't want to see what happens when yet another false report of a shooter goes around on this campus except this time with a bunch of people barely old enough to be carrying at all stalking around trying to be the one to stop the bad guy. KIM JONG TRILL posted:Perry's challenge to his indictment was denied. Case will proceed. Sweet.
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Jan 27, 2015 23:07
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Nonsense posted:Bueno. How does that benefit job creators though?
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Jan 27, 2015 23:22
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To no one's surprise, the proposed tax cuts are to property and franchise taxes, saving your average person little to nothing and the rich heaps and heaps.
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Jan 28, 2015 14:21
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zoux posted:Theoretically, property tax cuts should benefit most people who rent as well, as the landlords are expected to pass those savings down to their tenants. Of course this doesn't happen at all but that's what they're going to say. Of course that's what they're going to say. They'll also say lowering the franchise tax will allow businesses to expand or pass on reduced costs to consumers, but that's not going to happen either. e_angst posted:As a homeowner in the state (in Austin no less, where our crazy property values have increased my tax burden about 40% over the five years I've owned my place) I wouldn't mind something like an increase in the homestead exemption, since that will be a benefit to people for the homes they live in and not just a boon for property speculators. That would actually be a good way to do it if they were earnest about helping middle and working class home owners, and I haven't seen what the plan is, but I'd expect that's not it.
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Jan 28, 2015 15:50
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We do however require that you relinquish your local freedoms to an all-controlling state government. Thank you.
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Jan 28, 2015 17:56
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Shifty Pony posted:To briefly play devil's advocate preemption is an established legal doctrine that many cities like to play fast and loose with until they get called out on it. Typically that means a lower level of government can't have less restrictive laws though, not the other way round.
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Jan 28, 2015 19:40
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Heh, sounds like conservatives may save us from other conservatives. Seems some of them aren't buying into the tax cut plan and would rather focus on paying down the debt first, so they're talking about poisoning the bill with amendments. Abbot has said he won't sign off on a budget that doesn't include the cuts, so I guess it's a game of who cracks first.
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Feb 4, 2015 01:14
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I recall reading yesterday that he can't do poo poo though because he declined to be party to the original suit.
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Feb 18, 2015 22:34
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Dahn posted:Court orders Travis County to issue license to same sex couple Neat. It's good to not be the last state, at least. And congrats to the happy couple on being the first.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:25
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No, I read it. Doesn't make theirs not legal even if no one else is able to yet. It's also a major crack in the dike; now that one license has been issued, special circumstances notwithstanding, they're going to have a difficult time continuing to justify denying others who may not be in the same situation. I don't think there's any way to legally justify that only people about to die may get gay married.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:32
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1stGear posted:I assume this is a stay on the marriage license? Boy, I sure hope this doesn't hit national news and make the TSC look like massive suppurating assholes! As near as I was able to suss from zoux and warsz talking about it in the chat thread, it's a stay on the order that was given by the judge to the county clerk to issue the license. So I guess it doesn't actually do anything except maybe stop additional ones for now.
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Feb 19, 2015 23:52
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PostNouveau posted:The attorney general says he'll seek to void it. Can he do that? It was legally issued as far as anyone can tell at the moment.
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Feb 19, 2015 23:54
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VitalSigns posted:To her credit (uggghhh feel so dirty), Governor Mary Fallin has indicated she will probably not sign the history-ban bill even if it passes because she's concerned denying students college credit will hurt her electoral chances in the future. There we go. Much better
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Feb 20, 2015 05:21
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Dahn posted:Lots of cops bully some old dudes at a VFW hall in TX. Lol it happened here in Bryan. I've heard of those Republic of Texas guys before; they get up to some crazy stuff. They're not a full on militia, but there are militia groups tied in with them.
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Feb 24, 2015 21:10
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CommieGIR posted:Do they have any ties to the militia groups that Rick Perry used to patrol the border? I don't recall the names of the particular groups. I just recall reading or seeing something a couple years ago where they were doing "training weekends" out in the sticks, and I definitely recall seeing the RoT name attached. It's probably a safe bet they do.
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Feb 24, 2015 21:15
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Eh, I'm OK with that if it means they reverse the decision on letting a bunch of roads go back to gravel. Personally I'm hoping they don't try capping property tax. Because it will pass if it goes on the ballot, and that's going to gently caress us California hard.
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Feb 26, 2015 02:10
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JosefStalinator posted:As a California transplant, I cannot warn you hard enough about how awful a property tax will be. That said, I think enough Republicans in Austin recognize that without property taxes they'd probably have to institute a state income tax, so I wouldn't be shocked if they keep any efforts to institute a cap under wraps. Well, local pols all over (even Republicans) are pushing back against the cap proposal, so that's good, at least.
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Feb 26, 2015 04:57
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Plus it just means some poor underpaid janitorial staffer has to clean it up.
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Mar 7, 2015 04:18
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Heh, apparently there are discussions toward eliminating daylight savings time in Texas going on in some committee or another. I'm not opposed to the idea.
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Mar 10, 2015 13:10
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Some douche filed a bill trying to make it illegal to record cops, ahahhahaha. But I don't have the details handy.
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Mar 14, 2015 02:12
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Won't stop people, of course, but at least they'll get dinged for it.
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Mar 25, 2015 21:35
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zoux posted:I've several times put off phone calls while driving because of the Austin hands free ordinance. You're a reasonable person though. The world is full of people who aren't. Sure, some may stop, but most people careless enough to text while driving are probably gonna keep at it.
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Mar 25, 2015 21:41
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loving liberals
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Apr 1, 2015 20:18
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Fair enough, but I'd say it would all depend on who was there first. You move in next to an existing BBQ place, that's on you.
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Apr 2, 2015 01:30
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Somewhat fortunately, our lawmakers here seem to be more beholden to business than they are to the vice and virtue police and will probably kill it for fear of pissing off all the giant corporations headquartered here. Hilarious that they want it to override local ordinances though.
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Apr 8, 2015 15:10
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lol raw milk, why always with the raw milk. Also, open carry passed the house yesterday because of course it was going to. Guess there's just reconciling it with the senate version yet.
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Apr 21, 2015 15:16
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VitalSigns posted:
Funny thing is he's all backwards from the way the system was set up and no one is going to bother calling him out on it. We have civilian leadership of our military precisely because people did question the military and didn't want to give it too much power.
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May 6, 2015 23:33
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That's a bummer. On the plus side, at least they legalized weed.
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May 8, 2015 22:33
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Did anyone offer any reasons why they opposed it?
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May 8, 2015 22:41
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We should just split the difference and standardize it to that. be 30 minutes off from everyone else
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May 8, 2015 22:46
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And it isn't over. There's a strong chance of rain basically every day in the next 10 somewhere in the state.
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May 14, 2015 19:44
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zoux posted:It's sine die yall and nothing terribly egregious passed, so it's a win so, campus carry is dead?
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Jun 1, 2015 15:51
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That powdered alcohol one is probably just a bit premature. Once the stuff starts being widely sold you'll probably see it come up again in a lot more places.
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zoux posted:What were they supposed to do about a state law that was specifically written to override their fracking ban? Secede? Leave it in place as a symbolic thing? Challenge the state law? Iunno.
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