I’ve seen pictures. It’s a McDojang.
(All bolding mine.)
I know I’ve been shut out of this wretch’s ever-shrinking bubble, but what the heck.
[ol]
[li]The OP never asked Clothahump *where *he thought he should get his insurance.[/li][li]Clothahump was asked multiple timesto clarify whether or not he believed the OP should have the same spousal insurance rights as someone in an opposite-sex marriage. He never once offered to clarify his position, preferring to take the “I don’t give a damn” route, until other posters said “OK, we’ll just assume you’re in favour of equal rights”. [/li][li]Despite Clothy’s assertion to the contrary, this question of equal rights is directly relevant to the law suit that led to the Supreme Court’s instructions. [/li][li]The OP, fervour, only “jumped a mile” to his conclusion because that was the exact message of the news article in the Washington Post.[/li][li]There are in fact at least some few folks in Texas who want to deny benefits to same-sex couples, which is why this case is still ongoing. [/li][li]Clothahump’s ORIGINAL postin this thread was to make yet another trite partisan snipe, with an unsubstantiated claim about liberals fleeing economic hardships in California. Which he was promptly called out on, but has never even acknowledged that challenge.[/li][/ol]
But this, of course, is all perfectly clear to anyone who has read the thread and understands what words mean.
Reading Clothahump’s interpretation of any exchange he’s had on this board is like listening to Trump deny something he said a few seconds ago, on camera, as if replay buttons don’t exist.
I will say that one thing Clothahump and I share is a tendency to make typos when posting, as evidenced below.
Well done, Not Carlson. Thank you for saving me the trouble, as I really didn’t have the energy to comb through the thread to construct such an edfice.
I was resigned to giving it up as a bad job, but, in gratitude for your hard work, and in recognition of the fact that you’ve been placed on the bubble, I’m quoting it here.
I’m content to leave it at that.
Except, of course, that NC was totally wrong in his assumption. But hey, why let facts and reality get in the way of a rant, right?
I’m tired of this. To paraphrase the Hon. David Crockett:
♫ . . . killed him a bear when he was only three. ♫
You’d have done better to qote what David Crockett said at The Alamo:
You have that hung on the wall in your kitchen?
By the way, I’ve seen your McDojang’s website. Much talk of the warrior life and having values and honor.
None of which you display.
Plus how you play on stranger danger and bullying to attract students.
Balderdash, sir! Tommyrot!
“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.”
Is the actual quote.
Wiki
Here’s an interesting and recent articleabout how the state’s political system shifted so far left. Even as a right-leaning moderate, it’s pretty infuriating. Essentially they gamed the system such that the GOP gained and maintains control even though a much smaller percentage of the populace is actually Republican.
On top of that, the nutbag, Evangelical crazy wing (think Ted Cruz, Dan Patrick, Freedom Caucus) is causing intra-party acrimony and being pains in the ass for the more moderate, old-school Republicans (the Joe Straus faction) who are much more moderate and reasonable.
Kind of like what’s happened at the national level, only at the state level a bit earlier.
Scumpup, try learning some real history instead of revisionist bullshit or what a movie showed. Crockett was killed in combat. Two seperate survivors reported seeing him and his men dead and surrounded by Mexican bodies"
[QUOTE=The Diary of William Fairfax Gray, recounting the eyewitness testimony of Travis’s servant Joe]
Crockett and a few of his friends were found together, with twenty-four of the enemy dead around them.
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Susanna Dickinson]
“I recognized Col. Crockett lying dead and mutilated between the church and the two story barrack building, and even remember seeing his peculiar cap lying by his side.”
[/QUOTE]
Sigh. What part of “paraphrasing” did you not understand?
What the hell. I’ll wander into this mess again to note that Texas has a net influx of residents from California according to this March 2017 Sacramento Bee article. And apparently the net flow is lower income workers leaving California and higher income individuals moving to California. IMHO that sounds like economic reasons. Feel free to argue about the causes of those economic issues.
Not up for debate is that California has had a Democratic majority in both houses since 1970, though the governorship has shifted between parties.
Clothahump claimed:
So it might not be a wild inference that with a legislature firmly in one party control for 47 years that the spending priorities and economic policy of that party effectively set the economic policies of that state, for good or bad.
And economic policies in California have led to a sizable $400 billion (as of 2015) state debt, enough to worry analysts. Housing costs are a worry with California being home to some of the highest housing costs in the nation. Near the top of the nation’s longest average commute times, that would be California. So no surprise that California has the third highest cost of living of all the states.
From here.
California debt 388.8 billion
Texas debt 369.2 billion
Pop is 39.5/Cal vs. 28.3 Tex.
Debt per capita is 9843/Cal vs. 13045/Tex
Commute times
California 27.2
Texas 25 minutes
Iggy, I think you’ve provided a good contribution to a side discussion of this thread (started, and immediately abandoned by Clothahump) regarding the shift in the political leaning of Texas.
You’ve provided several sources, a relevant quotation from one, a summary of others, and an interpretation of their meaning.
You have presented a convincing argument and shown a willingness to debate with honest intent.
In other words, all the things that **Clothahump **has refused to do.
Now he can come back after 5 pages of ignoring challenges to his purely partisan snipe and simply quote your post to say “See!? You’re all liars!”
In fairness to Clothahump, it’s not that he refuses, it’s that he’s incapable. Sadly, I must inform you that our little **Clothahump **is an idiot.
Why is this a failing of political parties? California has always been a desirable place to move to.
That in itself will always result in higher housing costs.
California has had a notable housing shortage in certain areas. The Law of Supply and Demand would anticipate that this would result in construction of more housing units and/or conversion of existing housing stock to multi-family units resulting in a reduction of housing costs from their peak.
Alas lawmakers have been reluctant to revisit various regulatory issues. The result is limited development and increased housing costs. This LA Times article gives a review.
As it stands the average home in California is more than twice the cost of the average home nationwide. Rents are 50% higher, on average. This has put particular stress on lower income individuals who find themselves spending in excess of the recommended 33% of gross income on housing costs. That is a difficult target to meet with 1.7 million Californian households spending more than 50% of their gross income on housing.
Unfortunately bills to make it easier to increase the housing stock have proved tough to push through the legislature. Efforts to ease permitting to add additional housing units end up opposed. Environmental legislation has increased the permitting costs. And reforms have sometimes gone the wrong direction with the Democratic controlled legislature removing a major funding source for redeveloping neighborhoods in 2011.
There has been some progress, but far more is needed. A Dec 2016 reform has made it easier to construct so called mother-in-law units. But in the last five years the Bay Area has added more than a million jobs. That is a lot more people. And only 51,000 building permits were taken out in the area during that time. Better hope a lot of those are apartment buildings since mother-in-law units aren’t going to be enough.
See also
California needs to build a staggering number of homes and we are way behind from the Pasadena Star Times.
Surely there are things a legislature cannot remedy. Homebuilders cite a lack of available land in areas where people want to live. But time consuming regulation is a significant issue.
Note it is not the existence of regulation per se that is cited as the problem. It is the lack of streamlining so that necessary permit can be obtained in a reasonable period of time. And that needs a legislative fix.
I’ve always suspected what Davy said was more like, “Ya’ll may go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.”
History probably cleaned up his grammar.
Patently false. It’s endlessly hilarious.