Terry the Tiger

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Austin, Houston and Dallas are the real Texas, and much like the rest of America, that is, mainstream and normal.

The rest of the state seems to pride itself on not having changed since the 1950s.

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So if Austin whose slogan is “Keep Austin Weird” is “mainstream and normal”, then maybe you are the one not normal.

And metropolitan Dallas and Houston areas are what they are due to the people that live in the suburbs and not because of those in the city limits.

I love how you believe that concentrated areas of poor and illiterate blacks and Hispanics are considered “mainstream and normal”.

Hilliard needs to develop an out pitch for lefties. His curve breaks down and in on lefties which is generally their sweet spot (see HR allowed last night).

He is doing extremely well now, but I think the book is getting out on him. Teams are figuring him out a little more now. As a result, batters are being more patient and he is getting behind a lot lately and having to throw his fastball when they are expecting it.

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This would be more representative on a per capita basis.

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The oceans and the inhabitants being killed by this plastic really don’t care about the per capita basis.

Sea Turtle: China sure is dumping a lot of garbage in our home.

Shark: But it really isn’t so bad when you consider all the people it has.

Sea Turtle: If it is dumped by 1 person or 1 billion people, it is still the same amount of garbage to us.

If you watched the video from these missile launches, they traveled beyond the horizon without ever seeing an explosion.

I never knew Jackson had a zoo. When I heard “Jackson Zoo” I just assumed it was a reference to the city itself.

I love these stories. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The source of that article said that less than 1% of people used a gun as self defense in nonfatal crimes. It lists over 470k nonfatal crimes. So that 1% is about 4,700 times that people claimed self defense. Well guess what? That number is just less than half the number of homicides each year ~12,000. If the number of homocides is such a big deal, then the number of times self defense was reported is a big deal too.

And of course, self defense is not going to be reported for most non fatal crimes. How many times is there a man-on-man confrontation in most crimes. How is someone going to use self defense when his car is stolen while he is at work? How is someone going to use self defense when someone vandalizes a building? How is someone going to use a gun for self defense when someone does insider trading?

That statistic is the same typical bullshite statistic.

I wonder why the author did not reference this statistic from the source. Those who committed crimes bought their guns from a flea market or gun show only 2% of the time and 40% of them got their guns ILLEGALLY. That statistic is what the stricter gun control legislation people refuse to understand. Criminals don’t follow the law!

So is President Trump supposed to wait for a Congressional vote when Russia or North Korea launches nuclear weapons at us? We have 2,000 troops in Syria. Maybe he was trying to protect those troops from a possible chemical attack.

I wish POTUS would come out and announce that he has promoted Rosensteinberg to a spot in his Cabinet and witness the confusion in the media.

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Shocked. Shocked I tell you that Trump likes bigots. Can't wait to see filth like this run out of the government with our next Democratic President. Just a matter of time. Tic toc.

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I remember when Hillary was a bigot when she was against same-sex marriage when she was confirmed as SoS in 2009.

He answered it the way he should have. There were gays in the CIA when he was over it, and he treated everyone professionally.

Last time that I checked, they were on the Pacific Ocean. They need to spend more time making large-scale desalinization plants more economical.