I think she is suggesting that evacuating Houston during Rita was a nightmare and ultimately found to have been unnecessary. Even if you use counterfluence on the highways, you are evacuating 4 million people up I35. At some point, the hurricane overtakes the huge caravan evacuating, and it becomes its own emergency.…

Because the flooding is unprecedented and unpredicted, and this nursing home had never flooded before. I get it is horrifying. But this storm is worse than anything we have had since Galveston at the turn of the last century. And that storm, itself, was probably not as bad as this one. They just didn’t have a sea wall…

The state and local governments are responsible for making decisions about evacuations and how to advise residents. FEMA handles the federal response. That’s the division of responsibility. Lots of the local governments (with the notable exception of Rockport) were telling people to use their best judgement. Very…

Yes, when Houston evacuated for Rita, it was a total cluster fuck. So it’s dicey at best to decide whether or not to evacuate America’s 4th largest city.

This level of flooding was unexpected and unprecedented. The decision was made not to evacuate this nursing home because it had never flooded before and wasn’t expected to. Hindsight is 20/20 of course. So glad they got them out as quickly as they did.

That’s not circumcision. That’s malpractice.

Actually, I’m on record wholeheartedly defending newborn male circumcision. (So much less traumatic than having to be circumcized later in life for medical reasons, as my father experienced.)

Removal of the entire penis isn’t circumcision, it’s mutilation. Now circumcision, on the other hand, has a lot of health benefits that you just don’t seem to want to look into.

Since you are dedicated to making this post about something completely unrelated to the article, I’d like to mention, I subjected my son to non-consensual circumcision when he was a week old. Would make the same decision over and over again, everyday. It was a decision made for health reasons, and I feel awesome about…

This article is not about your penis. Not everything circles back to it, no matter how much penus-havers need to make it about that. This is a DIFFERENT, UNRELATED ISSUE. Not everything is about dicks.

As long they also include the introduction of bathroom bills in state legislatures in that definition of “economic terrorism.”

I was in Austin too! It was an unforgettable experience. Here are a few of the great signs I saw. My favorite was the little girl in front of me at the intersection of Lavaca and 11th. That whole tableau with the women arm-in-arm beside her and the American flag flowing gave me the feels real hard when I was there.

My first thought on seeing this jacket.

Looks like Tilda has her receipts in order.

All the stars for reminding me of Fear of a Black Hat.

Wow, excuse me for not spell-checking on an on-the-fly response. Your response is surprisingly hostile. Did I run over your dog or something?

Um, I’ll try not to pretend then. Thanks for setting me straight. lol

Same here. I get info on the pidgeys and weedles hanging at the pokestops at a nearby church. But it will not show me the jiggleypuff that is literally next door, on the sightings. The tracking photos out of the San Francisco beta showed a tabbed system, one the nearby showing mons at pokestops, the other a sightings…

I can appreciate that. I just don’t understand the ecstatis response it evokes in people.

The recommendation that I have followed is to run through scenarios in your head so that you get a sort of mental practice. I know that it’s weird to do. But I found it kind of comforting. I used to work at Texas State in San Marcos, coincidentally where the nationally recognized law enforcement active shooter…