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Now we pretty much have to elect Trump in 2024, whether we like it or not. Democratic party operatives have already shown that impeaching during a election year and burning and rioting in American cities in the run up to the election can influence the presidential election. Now, if they are successful with this they will prove that weaponizing the legal system and pursuing political prosecutions can also influence the presidential election. If they are successful with that you can be sure that you will be seeing these tactics used over and over and over again every election cycle from now on. Good job Dems, I'm sure y'all thought this all the way through.

If she's elected I'll really feel bad for COH employees. She's got a long, dismal track record with staff. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sheila-jackson-lee-chiefs-of-staff-tunrnover_n_880330 https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/23/sheila-jackson-lee-steps-down-two-powerful-posts-not-congress/ https://dailycaller.com/2011/03/02/congressional-bosses-from-hell-sheila-jackson-lee/

Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: "I Stand Here as a Freed Slave"

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on North and South Vietnam

From Texas Monthly... https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/mooned/

....this will be fun...

Illustration by Slug Signorino Cecil replies: Dear Gene: I am saddened to report that DO NOT HUMP does not have any of the off-color significance that seems to give many of the Teeming Millions their principal reason to go on living. It refers to a common method used to sort freight cars known as “humping,” which involves the use of a man-made hill, or hump. A track heads up the hill and branches into numerous parallel tracks on its way down the other side. To make up new trains, a switch engine pushes a string of cars to the top of the hump, where the cars are uncoupled one at a time. Having determined the car’s destination, a worker in a nearby tower pushes buttons or throws levers or whatever to get the track switches (you know, those things where one track divides into two) lined up properly. The car is then given a nudge, causing it to roll down the hump and onto the right track. The advantage of humping is that it’s a lot faster than having switch engines shuttle back and forth all day making up trains. The disadvantage is that it’s sometimes a little rough on the freight cars and their contents. Occasionally a car derails going down the hill, meaning the crew has to stop working and try to get the wheels back on the rails, which is not much fun, particularly in the middle of winter. What’s worse is the possibility that the car may roll down the hill too fast and crash into the car in front of it, jostling or damaging both the cars and what’s inside them. Special gimmicks on the rails called “retarders” are supposed to slow things down and prevent this, but they have been known to fail. Accordingly, cars with especially delicate contents are marked DO NOT HUMP, which tells the yard crew to set the car aside for special handling. This applies particularly to the tank cars used to haul hazardous chemicals, many of which have DO NOT HUMP stenciled permanently on their sides. The railroad business, I might note, is one of the few fields where a guy without advanced training can still hope to wreak major environmental havoc. An old high school teacher of mine once told me about the time he worked in the steel mills helping switch coal cars. During his first week on the job, he was asked to participate in a risky maneuver known as a “flying switch.” The idea was that the locomotive would head toward a switch pulling a single coal car behind it. At the right moment, somebody would uncouple the car and the locomotive would scoot ahead through the switch onto the main line. Once the locomotive was clear, my high school teacher was supposed to throw the switch so the coal car would roll onto the side track. Everything worked great until they got to the part where the teacher was supposed to throw the switch. For reasons that time has mercifully expunged from his memory, he waited to throw the switch until after the coal car’s front set of wheels had headed out toward the main line. The back set, however, was now headed onto the siding. You see the obvious problem this presents. My teacher had the privilege of watching a magnificent slow-motion disaster in the making as the coal car sort of rolled sidesaddle down the line until the tracks got too far apart, whereupon it toppled over and spilled 50 tons of coal all over creation. A great moment in railroading — nearly as funny as the time I almost knocked out the side of a building with an overhead crane. But we’ll get to that story some other day. Cecil Adams https://www.straightdope.com/21341767/what-does-do-not-hump-mean-on-the-side-of-railroad-cars Where is this?

Jackson Lee wants to be ‘education mayor.’ With Miles at HISD, how would that work? (Editorial) https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/sheila-jackson-lee-education-mayor-18267747.php

Drove over the new path today on Synott and it looks complete in both directions as far as you can see. I'm hoping they will at least get the Fiorenza to Storey park segment complete asap, even if there's more to do connecting it east to the existing trail at 59.

The waiting times comparison for busses vs trains are only ever going to be valid on a very limited set of routes. There's no way you will ever be able to serve any significant fraction of the total bus stops by rail. So, first and foremost, METRO should be taking the lead on improving shade at bus stops. That's far easier and quicker than rebuilding entire roads.

Apparently, the city has a plan to plant 4.6 million trees in the next 7 years. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2023/03/24/447243/city-plants-first-270-of-100000-tree-goal-in-order-to-create-more-green-space-in-houston/ Last go around for this sort of thing, 10 years ago or so, they planted a lot of the trees in the medians. Prettier for driving but not so much for walking. We'll see how it goes this time around.

They're continuing to make progress on the segments between Eldridge and the beltway (Fiorenza->Driscoll->Storey parks). Haven't investigated east of the beltway yet. Also haven't heard the opening date.

I've walked that section a couple of times. It's a really nice trail. From the main campus you end up in one of the parking lots.

I'm sure the folks in the multi-million dollar homes in University Place just need that extra little incentive to sell their cars and take transit instead. "What? No car wash? Barbie, we need to sell the Rolls now!"

No doubt mostly true, though a double-foam doppio oat milk frap seems more stereotypical of a different sort of poser. However, the original community org post doesn't really seem targeted to the homeless population.

It is, but for the tiny fraction of people who are homeless, suggesting they go to the park when there are in fact many public places that have air conditioning plus the cooling centers set up by the city seems a bit silly.

When it's 101 outside, seek refuge inside.

On the other hand, except when the sun is directly overhead, tall buildings on both sides of the road in a built-up urban environment will provide shade (as seen in the picture above). Not against the concept, but it would be more relevant in suburban areas.

According to Google Maps, West University is a bit of a car wash desert. Surely you don't think these folks are going to be dumping their cars and taking the bus.

In Spring it's 832 day.

I'll trade you a pedestrianized Allen Pkwy for wider freeways. Win win!

Perhaps, but shutting down pipelines and publicly stating he wants to eliminate fossil fuels has it's effect. Plus, it makes him the visible target for higher prices going into 2024.

Perhaps, although an administration opposed to fossil fuels doesn't help gas prices. Which in turn drives other goods higher. Regardless, he gets to take the blame. You can argue prices would have gone up anyway, but the percentages would likely have been different. Swing voters in 2024 won't likely give much weight to the list in blue, but they will remember that their cost of living is much higher than it was 4 years prior. That's why the Democratic party has fully embraced banana republic tactics of late.

Walmartophobia strikes again. I'd be far more afraid of vendors, artists and entertainers trying to run it.

He also didn't do these things...