AwgustaDawg

Don't sit in the sun. Only poor people sit in the sun.

Most likely there will be more protestors than people attending the event, and by a bunch.


I have been to one in Pamplona years ago and went a couple of times with a friend in Juarez. The latter was more fun, less "pomp", less commercial and Juarez is a fun city with someone who is local. I think the "season" in Juarez is about 2 - 3 day weekends over the course of the year...it is not a lot. The experience in Juarez compared to Pamplona was like going to a minor league baseball game compared to a MLB game. Not in terms of the quality, I am not an afficianado by any stretch, but in terms of the crowd. Juarez is just fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it BUT it is not for everyone. It is a spectacle and it is seriously cruel BUT no more so than what happens to most cows and chickens, its just done in the light of day with a crowd watching. The three times that I have been the ring was packed to start with and about halfway through the first bull it was about 2/3s empty. It is certainly not for everyone, even people who are interested or curious often have trouble with it....and no mistake, it is cruel and barbaric, but it is also something that humans have done for a LONG time and a part of our history. I certainly get why most would not go....I do not understand for the life of me why they would not want someone else not to go.....the fact that soooooooo many people would indeed prevent me from going if they could is a big part of the reason I have gone. Unless one refuses to eat beef, pork or chicken the manner of killing an animal should be of little concern to anyone not present or involved....I have worked in chicken processing plants and the cruelty a chicken goes through to make a commitment to Sunday dinner is no less cruel than a bull in the ring.

I was told, but I do not know if it is so or not, that there is still some no kill bullfighting in Texas and along the Texas / Mexico border. I hope there is.

Attended one about 20 years ago in a county park on Clarks Hill Lake. Notoriously redneck campground, was then and still is my favorite one on the lake. Anyway the couple was standing with the lake behind them, about 50 or so people in attendance, and 2 dogs which had, apparently, just finished procreating walked between the ceremony and the lake, arse to arse. The preacher started laughing which caused everybody but the bride and her mama to nearly fall out laughing.

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Gladly. Per your linked article, “For decades, Florida’s growth recipe was simple. It combined low taxes, including no personal income tax, with comparatively affordable housing and warm weather.” At no point does YOUR OWN LINKED ARTICLE reference air conditioning as a reason for population boom.

However, I did take it upon myself to do a little research on air conditioning in Florida. I used Google and per your own words “if you have a problem with Google, take it up with them.”

A quick Google search states, “Air conditioning became common in Florida homes during the 1950’s and 1960’s following the post World War II boom in affordable window units, with central air becoming widespread in the 1970’s”

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Florida's population has grown, in part, because every summer millions of people vacation for a week and decide being broke, stoned and drunk in Florida is better than being gainfully employed and a producer in shitholes like Cincinnati. Go to just about anywhere in the panhandle or Jacksonville to Miami...and don't miss out on places like Madeira Beach and the like....the damned place is crawling with "disabled" people, very few of whom are adding much to the athletic prowess of Baja Georgia. A sizeable number of these frickers ain't even got a roof let alone an airconditoner....and they don't care to have either. Then there are the OLLLLLDDDDDD as frick folks, also not a demographic adding to the rosters at Florida schools. Many of this group live in delapidated mobile homes which have AC but are so poorly built and insulated that the AC makes no difference. Trying to claim college football in Florida has sucked for almost the entirety of the history of college football because AC wasn't available is the type of thing a Madeira Beach crack head would say.

The truth is Florida and FSU has always had coaches that sucked for all but a short period of time and Miami had to get in the NIL game, and its on record for fricks sake, to become viable. Trying to claim AC made it easier to recruit to Florida is just discounting how terrible Florida football has always been with the obvious exceptions.

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So apparently private groups can routinely rent out the park. I assume they got in trouble for advertising that tickets to the event would only be sold to one specific religion?

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If that's the case it is unlikely that the private group can't exclude some people for any reason they choose. If it was a child's birthday party, for example, and they rented the entire facility, of course they could prevent anyone they chose from using the facility. If that is the case...and it probably is, Abbott, in typical "sky is falling" old white man fashion is simply pissed off because "they" excluded white folks....whoever "they" happens to be, even if "they" are white themselves....

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This AC excuse is by far the most retarded, beta male excuse I’ve ever read on this site and that’s saying something.

By 1960, Florida had the highest population count of any SEC state BY MORE THAN ONE MILLION PEOPLE of the next highest, which was Georgia. Additionally FSU only started playing football in the late 40’s and sucked until Bowden and Miami started in the 1920’s but was mediocre at best until Schellenberger. In 1960, Alabama had almost two million less people and two major schools winning conference championships. in 1960, Mississippi had almost three million less people than the state of Florida and two major programs with Ole Miss winning five SEC titles between 1947 to 1963.

In short, Florida has sucked for the better part of their history. This past decade has been a mere regression to the mean for that program. Go to your room.

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But its hot in Florida and AC only showed up about the same time as Steve Spurrier as coach....


Of course its BS. Florida has been irrelevant for about 90% of the time they have had a program. What Spurrier did was remarkable but it doesn't change the fact that Florida outside of Spurrier was less relevant than Ole Miss, Kentucky and Mississippi State.

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You have families of the victims who always have a tough time in these scenarios after thinking certain people were guilty for so long.

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These people were victims as well and their hell has lasted longer than that of the kids murdered. I know that sounds harsh as hell but the families have had to live with that moment for years and years....no parent should ever have to bury a child. The actual victims deserve more from the state and their families do as well. I can't begin to imagine what the victims went through or what the family is still going through....

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In my book 3 murders is fewer than 4 murders. Perhaps you learned that new math and it works out differently for you.

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3 is 25% less than 4 but 0 is infinitely even less than 3. 3 murders should mean there were 3 victims....most likely it does mean 3 people are dead. 0 would mean no person is dead. I understand you have backed yourself into a corner with your comments but math is math, new, old or neither 3 is more than zero....

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justice prevailed in the end.

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Only by the slimmest of margins and even that is open to debate considering the lives involved and the fact that the killer was never identified and probably killed again.....its better that they aint still in jail or executed but their lives, their families and the victims family have been drug through the mud by the state meanwhile the killer has never been identified. And far too many people are OK with all of that.

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But, it wasn't Echols, Baldwin, and/or Misskelley.

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The US "solves" on average, about 50-60% of homicide cases in the US each year...which means if someone is charged with murder the state has somewhere in the neighborhood of 50% having the right person. In the last 37 years somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 people have been completely exonerated, after conviction, of the crime they were convicted of, based on DNA evidence alone. This includes 38 people exonerated from death row and 100 false confessions where dna evidence proved the person convicted based on their confession was not the perpetrator. There is a pretty damn good chance that whoever the state says committed ANY crime that the person is innocent of THAT crime based on loads of evidence.


I know that most of us don't give a frick BUT when the state wrongly accuses someone of a crime and then wrongly convicts that person of a crime not only is that person and their families lives significantly impacted but, and no matter how callous one is this is the disturbing part, the actual perpetrator is NEVER charged nor convicted and is, given the propensity in the case of violent offenders to commit multiple violent crimes, most likely guilt of committing other violent crimes. The whole "well, they may not have committed this crime but they certainly committed a crime and got away with it" and "who gives a frick if someone is wrongly convicted" crowd is providing cover in the court of public opinion for shoddy police work and shoddy prosecution. Those among us who treasure the idea of arrests and convictions over crime prevention are the worst offenders out there because that mentality drives that shoddy policework and shoddy prosecution. Its about as un-American an idea as one could hold and its completely responsible for the insanely high number of people in jail or on probation relative to other similarly situated first world nations.

I know many on these boards are of the opinion that arrests and convictions should have nothing at all to do with guilt or innocence and should be the bar by which police and prosecutors are measured but if you are of that opinion you should be aware that you are the reason crime is as high as it is AND why we have sooooooo many people in prison or on probation, many of whom, based on simple math, did not commit the crime they were convicted of.

They ain't eating the pets in Springfield Ohio despite many claims to the contrary but it seems they may well be eating the pets in Jefferson Georgia...

I gotta be honest...if a pig comes sauntering down my street and I get a chance to shoot the damn thing and turn it into pork Ima take a chance 'cause I like pork me....

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Sounds like you hate hearing the truth.

There are absolutely a lot of "poor" people in America who will spend hundreds of dollars this month on restaurants, coffee shops, vapes, nicotine pouches, alcohol, on payments for stuff they can't really afford, etc., and then complain daily because gas costs them $1 more at the pump. And then they'll drive around all over creation.

I know a dude who just lost his arse by trading in a full size GM truck on a Tacoma, because the Tacoma gets a few more MPG.

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That dude traded because he wanted a new Tacoma and claimed it was because of gas prices to justify him wanting a new Tacoma. Mental gymnastics.

I just bought a 2 year old Corolla to commute in so I could stop driving my GMC 3500. I need the GMC to haul equipment and boats but driving it to work 96 miles a day at 12 MPG was getting expensive. About $485 a month in gas. It costs me about $126 to commute in the Toyota. Payments and insurance costs me about $400 a month so I am in the hole for about $50....however....tires for my truck cost about $1200 and about $400 for the Toyota. Brakes and oil changes are about a wash....but I can buy 3 corollas for what it would take to but my truck....and my truck is probably able to last about as long as half of those corollas if I push it. I am retiring sometime within the next 2-5 years. I am NEVER buying another new truck if I can help it....so buying 3 corollas for the price of one truck is a no brainer. I have to have the truck, I do not have to have it for a commuter because it is impractical. It is 12 years old now and has 126K miles on it. I know from experience I can get 400k out of it...I have done it with multiple GM trucks because I drive like an adult and maintain them myself. Its 1/8 th of a mile to the boat ramp and no more than 20 anywhere I will ever take any equipment.....that truck will be left to my heirs while those cheap arse toyotas, with 300k on them, sit in junkyard...it is a no brainer. Not everyone can own multiple vehicles. I understand that, but for my situation its a no brainer.