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Postby SciFi Chick » Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:15 pm

I never, ever want to go there again.
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Re: Texas

Postby Swift » Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:48 am

I can't even make the obvious, inappropriate jokes about this. The world is fucking insane.
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Re: Texas

Postby Cyborg Girl » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:24 am

*headdesk*
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Re: Texas

Postby vendic » Fri Jul 01, 2016 6:05 am

I read the title and figured, haha, what stupid crap could they have done now.
Then I read it. Then I was open jawed and like W.T.M.F.F.?
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Re: Texas

Postby geonuc » Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:57 am

Don't Mess With Texas.

Oy. I enjoyed my time at UT back in the 80's, but like Atlanta, Austin is an island of sanity in a sea of stupidity.
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Re: Texas

Postby Swift » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:38 pm

I almost feel as if they are just trying to constantly outdo whatever their previous stupidity was on such things as guns, civil rights, and abortions

"Well, that was a really, really stupid law, but come on boys, I know we can do better. Hey, how about we arm squirrels!?! Or wait... how about we make it legal for squirrels to shoot abortion doctors!?!"
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Re: Texas

Postby SciFiFisher » Fri Jul 01, 2016 4:18 pm

Swift wrote:I almost feel as if they are just trying to constantly outdo whatever their previous stupidity was on such things as guns, civil rights, and abortions

"Well, that was a really, really stupid law, but come on boys, I know we can do better. Hey, how about we arm squirrels!?! Or wait... how about we make it legal for squirrels to shoot abortion doctors!?!"


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Re: Texas

Postby SciFi Chick » Sat Jul 02, 2016 11:00 am

SciFiFisher wrote:
Swift wrote:I almost feel as if they are just trying to constantly outdo whatever their previous stupidity was on such things as guns, civil rights, and abortions

"Well, that was a really, really stupid law, but come on boys, I know we can do better. Hey, how about we arm squirrels!?! Or wait... how about we make it legal for squirrels to shoot abortion doctors!?!"


Hey Y'all Hold My Beer And Watch This! Is there a Darwin Award for a State?


There should be. Maybe we should bring back the Moron awards. :D
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Re: Texas

Postby SciFiFisher » Sat Jul 02, 2016 3:28 pm

I mean BEJEEBUS! I am probably as close to "rabid Pro 2nd Amendment" as it gets without being totally irrational about it and even I think this is a really BAD idea. There is a line. And across that line is a world where personal safety and ensuring the safety of people who are vulnerable should trump my right to carry a gun. Even law enforcement people won't carry a gun into a psychiatric hospital or a jail/prison for a reason. Texas LEO experts should have been weighing in on this with not just a "NO" but a "FUCKING HELL NO!!". :roll: :o
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Re: Texas

Postby Loresinger » Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:11 pm

SHOULD HAVE ... operative term
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Re: Texas

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:20 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:I mean BEJEEBUS! I am probably as close to "rabid Pro 2nd Amendment" as it gets without being totally irrational about it and even I think this is a really BAD idea. There is a line. And across that line is a world where personal safety and ensuring the safety of people who are vulnerable should trump my right to carry a gun. Even law enforcement people won't carry a gun into a psychiatric hospital or a jail/prison for a reason. Texas LEO experts should have been weighing in on this with not just a "NO" but a "FUCKING HELL NO!!". :roll: :o


Those honkies that wrote that bill of rights of yours probably were not thinking of the mentally deranged when they working on it :P
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Re: Texas

Postby SciFiFisher » Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:38 pm

Sigma_Orionis wrote:
SciFiFisher wrote:I mean BEJEEBUS! I am probably as close to "rabid Pro 2nd Amendment" as it gets without being totally irrational about it and even I think this is a really BAD idea. There is a line. And across that line is a world where personal safety and ensuring the safety of people who are vulnerable should trump my right to carry a gun. Even law enforcement people won't carry a gun into a psychiatric hospital or a jail/prison for a reason. Texas LEO experts should have been weighing in on this with not just a "NO" but a "FUCKING HELL NO!!". :roll: :o


Those honkies that wrote that bill of rights of yours probably were not thinking of the mentally deranged when they working on it :P


No! No! No! The Holy Founders knew all. They foresaw all contingencies that we would face for the next 1000 years. The holy writ is immutable and cannot be changed in form, fact, intent, or spirit! :twisted:
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Re: Texas

Postby Ikyoto » Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:13 pm

Swift wrote:I almost feel as if they are just trying to constantly outdo whatever their previous stupidity was on such things as guns, civil rights, and abortions

"Well, that was a really, really stupid law, but come on boys, I know we can do better. Hey, how about we arm squirrels!?! Or wait... how about we make it legal for squirrels to shoot abortion doctors!?!"

YEAH!!
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Re: Texas

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:29 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:
Sigma_Orionis wrote:
SciFiFisher wrote:I mean BEJEEBUS! I am probably as close to "rabid Pro 2nd Amendment" as it gets without being totally irrational about it and even I think this is a really BAD idea. There is a line. And across that line is a world where personal safety and ensuring the safety of people who are vulnerable should trump my right to carry a gun. Even law enforcement people won't carry a gun into a psychiatric hospital or a jail/prison for a reason. Texas LEO experts should have been weighing in on this with not just a "NO" but a "FUCKING HELL NO!!". :roll: :o


Those honkies that wrote that bill of rights of yours probably were not thinking of the mentally deranged when they working on it :P


No! No! No! The Holy Founders knew all. They foresaw all contingencies that we would face for the next 1000 years. The holy writ is immutable and cannot be changed in form, fact, intent, or spirit! :twisted:


Great, now you'll tell me that Benjamin Franklin's real name was Hari Seldon, and James Madison's was Gaal Dornick :P
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Re: Texas

Postby SciFiFisher » Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:26 pm

Sigma_Orionis wrote:
SciFiFisher wrote:
Sigma_Orionis wrote:
SciFiFisher wrote:I mean BEJEEBUS! I am probably as close to "rabid Pro 2nd Amendment" as it gets without being totally irrational about it and even I think this is a really BAD idea. There is a line. And across that line is a world where personal safety and ensuring the safety of people who are vulnerable should trump my right to carry a gun. Even law enforcement people won't carry a gun into a psychiatric hospital or a jail/prison for a reason. Texas LEO experts should have been weighing in on this with not just a "NO" but a "FUCKING HELL NO!!". :roll: :o


Those honkies that wrote that bill of rights of yours probably were not thinking of the mentally deranged when they working on it :P


No! No! No! The Holy Founders knew all. They foresaw all contingencies that we would face for the next 1000 years. The holy writ is immutable and cannot be changed in form, fact, intent, or spirit! :twisted:


Great, now you'll tell me that Benjamin Franklin's real name was Hari Seldon, and James Madison's was Gaal Dornick :P


Whoa! You are even more intelligent and awesome than I thought! I honestly thought I was (maybe) the only person who would get the reference. :o
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Re: Texas

Postby SciFiFisher » Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:30 pm

Sigma... Have you read Gordon R Dickson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_R._Dickson

For most military types his Dorsai series is the classic read. :mrgreen:
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Re: Texas

Postby geonuc » Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:45 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:Whoa! You are even more intelligent and awesome than I thought! I honestly thought I was (maybe) the only person who would get the reference. :o

As if. You've got a room full of sci-fi fans here. ;)
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Re: Texas

Postby SciFiFisher » Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:54 pm

geonuc wrote:
SciFiFisher wrote:Whoa! You are even more intelligent and awesome than I thought! I honestly thought I was (maybe) the only person who would get the reference. :o

As if. You've got a room full of sci-fi fans here. ;)


Apparently seasoned (translate that as "old as dirt") and hard core serious space opera true science Science Fiction fans. :dance:
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Re: Texas

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sun Jul 03, 2016 6:33 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:Sigma... Have you read Gordon R Dickson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_R._Dickson

For most military types his Dorsai series is the classic read. :mrgreen:



As a matter of fact I have. Never read his Dorsai series, but he wrote a 1961 Novella called Sleight of Wit. Which I've always thought it was pretty good, might have read a couple of other short stories, but he was never all that big round here :)
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Re: Texas

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sun Jul 03, 2016 6:35 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:
geonuc wrote:
SciFiFisher wrote:Whoa! You are even more intelligent and awesome than I thought! I honestly thought I was (maybe) the only person who would get the reference. :o

As if. You've got a room full of sci-fi fans here. ;)


Apparently seasoned (translate that as "old as dirt") and hard core serious space opera true science Science Fiction fans. :dance:


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Re: Texas

Postby vendic » Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:41 am

Ah Daneel...
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Re: Texas

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Mon Jul 04, 2016 12:25 pm

Olivaw :P
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