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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 1, 2016 18:06:09 GMT -6
Being a Libertarian is a comfortable philosophy if you have money. If you have so little money you don't pay much in taxes, you surely won't have money to buy education, health care and maybe even food or transportation in a libertarian private marketplace that doesn't provide aid to the poor. As long as you have money and can forget there are poor people suffering even worse under a libertarian world than they do under a conservative or progressive one, you're good. If you have aid to the poor to fill the safety net gaps of libertarianism, then it's not really libertarianism.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 1, 2016 18:21:46 GMT -6
I agree parents/culture are the major issue, which is precisely why you cannot compare the outcomes/costs of private systems with caring parents to public systems with some number of disadvantaged, uncaring or absent parents. Even comparing public magnet schools to public schools is a false comparison with similar selection bias....the magnet schools have mostly parents doing a good job who at least have self-selected a better environment for their kidd vs a public school system that has some kids without those parental and cultural benefits.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 3, 2016 16:52:48 GMT -6
Today was interesting. The usual Sunday golf/bike combo, except the temp was 95 when we climbed on the bikes at noon. After the mile-long climb to mile 6.5, I knew this was going to be a tough day. I did not have much energy, despite drinking gatorade and eating energy bars.
My wife went on to the 10.5 mile turnaround and I rested and met her at the 7.5 point. Whereupon we changed a tire for a lady who was stranded with a flat...then headed back. I had to stop several times, then finally I was done just inside the 2.5 mi point. I nearly passed out. No energy. Lightheaded. Had to lie down. 911 was called, and I was hauled over half a mile down the trail on a stretcher to the nearest road by the Austin paramedics. After getting in the ambulance, they hit me with1500 cc of saline, and now I am fine but I learned a lesson the hard way. Hydrate!
When they were shooting me with very cold saline, the strangest thing happened. You know how you get a brain freeze when you drink those cold Dairy Queen slushes? I got that kind of brain freeze in the muscles of my arm where they were shooting in the cold liquid. Bizarre.
Two bottles of gatorade isn't enough for 20 miles in 95 degree heat. In fact, 95 may just be too hot for me to ride. Will have to re-evaluate.
Another thing: When the Mexican kid who stopped to help me was talking to 911, he said "an elderly guy is down". Elderly?
All good now. Or at least as good as can be for an ELDERLY guy.
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Post by Terry's Peeps on Jul 3, 2016 17:02:45 GMT -6
Wow.
Glad you're okay Coast.
Definitely gotta hydrate in that Texas heat.
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Post by Positivity KS on Jul 3, 2016 18:05:31 GMT -6
Just be thankful that Trump wasn't already President. The wall would've been built and that kid wouldn't have been there to save you.
Glad everything is ok!
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Post by jackref on Jul 3, 2016 20:26:09 GMT -6
Glad to hear you are OK Coast. Scary stuff.
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Post by All Drop In on Jul 3, 2016 21:09:34 GMT -6
Great to hear you're OK Coast. Look at it this way. You could not even be elderly.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 8, 2016 19:39:14 GMT -6
this bad boy is hanging out on the kitchen window. If he hangs out there all night, that web might be a hammock by morning.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 8, 2016 19:47:38 GMT -6
That's just a garden spider, btw. Harmless unless you are a bug. Total wing span about the size of my hand.
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Post by jackref on Jul 8, 2016 20:27:36 GMT -6
That's a big fucking spider. Prior to moving south the scariest spider I had seen was a brown recluse. Here there are too many to count and everywhere. My patio is like a country club for those bastages. But you get used to it, its weird. The good part is I haven't had a single mosquito bite since we moved here. Ergo, they can stay
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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 8, 2016 20:55:41 GMT -6
Word. If you have arachnophobia, you probably shouldn't live in the South. No mosquito bites here either, but then in addition to spiders, Austin has millions of bats around and they each eat 1,000 skeeters an hour.
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Post by All Drop In on Jul 8, 2016 21:12:35 GMT -6
I was pretty much good with spiders until that hairy bastard rode into Illinois in a sorority t-shirt box. That changed the way I look at the SW and spiders in general.
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Post by Danny Busch on Jul 8, 2016 21:17:38 GMT -6
That's a big fucking spider. Prior to moving south the scariest spider I had seen was a brown recluse. Here there are too many to count and everywhere. My patio is like a country club for those bastages. But you get used to it, its weird. The good part is I haven't had a single mosquito bite since we moved here. Ergo, they can stay that is the scariest spider you can see. Have you not seen the pics of rotting flesh from that fool? I found a black widow on my porch in Arkansas.
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Post by jackref on Jul 9, 2016 6:34:50 GMT -6
Yea but it was a one time thing. Not something you see everyday. And I should clarify, I don't have a bunch of brown recluses hanging out on my patio, just random spider varieties, none that are poisonous to humans.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 9, 2016 6:55:38 GMT -6
"I don't have a bunch of brown recluses hanging out on my patio"
Just Ravi and friends.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Jul 26, 2016 13:41:57 GMT -6
Hasn't rained here since early June, I think. Supposed to get some today, but all we are getting is thunder. Rolling, bowling thunder. Summer storm thunder. But not a drop of rain.
Who knew Texas had the dry heaves?
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Post by Coast2Coast on Aug 12, 2016 16:44:30 GMT -6
8 days in a row at 100 degrees,and 24 so far this summer. Today, 103. Sun is intense. My face gets so red so fast, I look like KS after a night of Calvert.
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Post by Positivity KS on Aug 12, 2016 22:45:42 GMT -6
8 days in a row at 100 degrees,and 24 so far this summer. Today, 103. Sun is intense. My face gets so red so fast, I look like KS after a night of Calvert.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Aug 18, 2016 22:33:46 GMT -6
Dry season ended early this year. Rain for 8 straight days and predictions of rain every day for the next week or more. 11.5 inches so far. It has been spread out, so flooding not as bad as previous storms where we got 11 inches in a day or two. '
If it's rainin, it must be time for football. Watched the high school kids practice in the rain and mud today and it brought back memories. Harken back to high school two a days where you would get so muddy after the morning practice, mom had to wash the uni and get it dry before the afternoon practice....only to bring it home full of mud that night to do it again.
And those old football cleats would get so soaked, it was like you were running with concrete shoes.'
Good times.
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Post by Danny Busch on Aug 24, 2016 18:07:12 GMT -6
WI WTF? What in the hell is happening in the ground right now. Everyone's yard is being overtaken by some kind of flying larvae that has just hatched. I can't tell if its ants or bees or what the hell it is but there are thousands upon thousands in everyones yard.
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Post by Positivity KS on Aug 24, 2016 20:03:11 GMT -6
Is it the ones that make the high pitched sounds?
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Post by Positivity KS on Aug 24, 2016 20:05:33 GMT -6
And do they look like this?
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Post by Danny Busch on Aug 25, 2016 5:16:04 GMT -6
NO....i know what those are. It looked like little ants with wings. There would be clusters ever foot or so in the yard and those clusters were erupting with winged creatures that were taking off into the air. There would be hundreds of these things in each cluster.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Aug 25, 2016 19:05:54 GMT -6
Ants with wings are CUTTER ANTS!!
The team is working out in your neighborhood to prepare for the season.
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