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I've got a long list of doozies, but this one is currently my favorite. Fucking recruiting. Sweet Christ.

No. No. No. No. Enough with the "both sides" B.S. Remind me the last time Democrats tried to gut medicare and SS, gut the EPA, gut education, and basically shit on every program that helps the middle class while giving handouts to the rich. Remind me again how Democrats killed net neutrality and abandoned slaying the seedy pay loan industry. Reminds me how Democrats rallied around Citizens United. The two parties clearly have VERY different priorities and agendas. No, they are not "mostly the same on big issues." I'll give you that Democrats tend to give lip service to being against wars while ultimately being too hawkish, but other than that I'd love to see a list of issues they vote lockstep with Republicans on. Oh, wait, I found a picture of that list.

I smell SEC and Candi.

Word on the street is that we pulled Leal's scholarship offer before his ATM visit, so it's not a big loss since we didn't want him anyways.

I've really come to hate these cocksuckers. Probably because the lack of respect I have for them. I fucking hate OU; but I respect them. They have success. All aggy has is a new house note and a short, cuckold coach, but beat their chest like they are Bama fans. I don't hope they lose. I hope they get embarrassed, outed for their bagmen, and defamed. Fuck each and every one of them.

Holy mother of fuck Surly. What the fuck? I go on some shitty work travel and come back to the goddamn beating that is this fucking thread? Mother of fuck. Chill the fuck out. I'm not happy about the Leal thing but it is early. Aggy is going to have to grab and hold on to guys because their season will be what it will be - 7 or 8 wins but some weeks where they will be non-competitive. They are going to get guys because they are in the 1st year bounce. A least of couple of those guys were quoted as saying they were afraid of the large class at Texas last year. Fuck that shit. Yes, Jordan Patterson is the guy that has been recruiting himself to Texas and yes he is fucking good. Also of note, EJ brought his grades to this convo but they are nowhere near as dire as say Josh Ellison or some shit. Don't listen to fucking EJ. The Cal RB is being brought in because he is a scheme fit. Now they will see if he's a cultural fit. Get used to it. This staff will never stop recruiting at and over any position. If they see a player that is a scheme and cultural fit they'll bring him in. The same reason you'll see full classes every year. You won't see any smaller classes until the roster is at a championship level and even then, if a player is a fit and can contribute then he'll be recruited. We are going to see some turnover after the fall and spring every year. This weekend is going to be a good one but this staff is not pushing for fauxmentum or early commits. OU has used 17 of their 56 OVs already, Aggy 14 of 56. That is fucking huge because OU and Aggy have taken the very early approach to this cycle. I'd imagine that both are going to wish that they had paced themselves a bit here. Texas, Clemson, Alabama, and USC are holding back on OVs - taking the opposite approach. After seeing the rush last season between NSD1 and NSD2, I think it's clear that the teams that hold enough OVs to host huge events between the bowl games and signing day are going to have a lot of leverage to complete their classes with talent and not bread. Texas is going to sign a badass class in 2019. There are going to be some quotes from the past few pages that texifornia can pull up for the lulz in Feb.

1) Except the, ‘Russia, if you’re listening, thing. 2) and the Manafort thing, 3) and the Flynn thing, 4) and the Papadopoulos pleading guilty thing, 5) and the Roger Stone thing, 6) and the Cohen thing, 7) and the Kushner thing, 8) and the Carter Page thing, 9) and the Jeff Sessions things, 10) and the Wilbur Ross thing, 11) and the JD Gordon thing, 12) and the Erik Prince thing, 13) and the James Comey firing thing, 14) and the Russian hacking/Wikileaks thing, 15) and the bro-love between TrumpPutin thing, 16) and the Russian propaganda machine favoring Trump thing, 17) and the DJT "I have zero ties to Russia!" thing, 18) and the Eric Trump "we get most of our financing from Russian banks thing", 19) and the Donald Trump Jr. "Our portfolio is made up of a disproportionate amount of Russian money" thing, 20) and the DJT "I sold a $60 million mansion to a Russian oligarch known for money laundering for $120 million that he never once lived in" thing, 21) and the Trump business ties with Putin's favorite sports athlete Fedor Emilianenko thing, 22) and the Trump International Corporation's mysterious private server connection to Alfa Bank, Russia's largest commercial bank thing, 23) and the Special prosecutor being named thing, 24) and the I won't release my tax returns thing, 25) and the Ivanka Trump's vacationing with Putin's girlfriend thing, 26) and the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow thing, 27) and the Trump companies business ties to Felix Sater, a criminal felon indicted for stock fraud scheme with the Russian mafia thing, 28) and the FL Group Icelandic hedge fund with massive ties to Putin being heavily invested in Trump Soho thing, 29) and the Rex Tillerson/Exxon ties to Russia thing, 30) and the Russian ambassador at Trump Tower sneaking in and out thing, 31) and the Trump tried to roll back Russian sanctions the minute he got elected thing. 32) Other than that, there's absolutely no reason to suspect anything. Wait there’s more, 33) And the money laundering thing. 34) And the sex hush money payoffs thing. 35) And the signing of the proposal for Trump Hotel Moscow thing. 36) And the meetings in the White House with Russians thing 37) And the firing of Sally Yates thing. 38) And the hacked States voting thing. 39) and the meeting with the Russian lawyer about “adoption” thing. 40) And then the lying about it with a statement crafted by the White House thing. 41) And the Deripaska sanctioned yet entering the USA on a diplomats visa thing. 42) And the changing the GOP platform on Ukraine to be more favorable to Russia thing. 43) And, the ‘mother’ of all things: not implementing sanctions which passed the Senate 98-2 and House 419-3 in violation of the Take Care Clause (Article 2, Section 3) thing. 44) And the Russian banker giving money to NRA to support Trump thing 45) And the Russian intelligence is now peddling a fake Trump tape to sow new chaos in American political discourse thing. 46) And the David Bogatin buying Trump properties for over $6mil with no verifiable income and tied to Semion Mogilvich, who is so successful at money laundering he gets the name "The Brainy Don" thing. 47) And the Trump Taj Mahal being fined $10 mil for not adhering to money laundering laws thing. 48) And the Rudy Giuliani thing. 49) And the "(sanctioned) heads of all 3 Russian intelligence agencies allowed into US to secretly meet with CIA director Pompeo and DNI Coats, days before Trump blew off sanctions" thing. 50) And Misha Flynn's "US-Russia nuclear proliferation in the Middle East" thing. 51) And the, ‘I love Wikileaks’ thing. And the, ‘Rusher’ Lester Holt interview thing. 52) And the, Jeff Sessions, I didn’t meet with any Russians, but he did, thing. 53) and the Russians at the National Prayer Service thing 54) and the Felix Sater thing 55) The Kilimnik thing. 56) And the Simon Kukes thing. 57) And the yucking it up with Russians in the Oval Office after firing ‘nut-job’ Comey, and thinking it was over, thing. 57) And the wild-eyed Devin Nunes bogus memo run, but the Conservative FBI is somehow the problem, thing. 58) And the Rob Goldstone talking to Mueller thing. 59) And the Gates, in negotiations with Mueller without his lawyers, thing. 60) And the Bannon won’t talk to Congress, but is going to talk to Mueller thing. 61) And the meetings with Putin without an American recorder present thing. 62) And the defending of Putin when O’Reilly calls him a killer thing. 63)And the “Won’t release White House visitor logs” thing. And the "Don't keep visitor logs at Mar-A-Lago" thing. 64) And the Kushner asking for a direct line to the Kremlin at the Russian Embassy thing. 65) And the “Putin and I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded and safe” tweet thing. 66) And the Deutsche Bank records thing. 67) And the House majority leader, McCarthy says to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump and Ryan says “No leaks. . . . This is how we know we're a real family here." thing. 68) And the firing of Preet Bharara thing. 69) And the Russians getting a “no bid” contract to build our embassy there-so they can assure electronic surveillance is embedded carefully-thing. 70) And the attempt to discredit a career spy, held in high regard in the intel community, to discredit the dossier thing. 71) And the revealing of sensitive material about Syria/ISIS to the Russians thing. 72) And the refusal to release the Democrats’ memo, cleared by intel agencies on security grounds, after releasing the ‘flagged’ Republican memo, thing. 73) And the Roman Abramovich, Russian steel owner (with whom Kushner met with several times according to his *revised* security clearance application) has docked his ship off the shore of Florida, when Trump was at Mar-a-Largo, thing. 74) And Americans keep learning about Putin-Trump conversations from the Kremlin (Putin said he and Trump “spoke about the Palestinian-Israeli settlement.” on the phone today. No readout yet from White House) thing. 75) And for the 8th time Kremlin (not the Administration) told us Trump spoke with Putin by phone thing. AND we learned that Putin told Palestine that Trump told him he could negotiate on America's behalf, thing. 76) And the Trump takes two abandoned 747s off of Aeroflot's hands for the next Air Force One, relieving the Kremlin of its $750 million obligation to Boeing thing. 77) And the German Woman at the Center of the Manafort Case with Russian contacts who may have serve as the strawman for illegal lobbying in the United States thing. 78) And the Russians giving the NRA money thing. 79) And releasing the Nunes memo thing. 80) And the refusing to release the Democrats rebuttal memo thing. 81) And the trying to discredit the FBI thing. 82) And the forcing McCabe out thing. 83) And the ‘my lawyers won’t let me testify’ thing. 84) And the ‘my taxes are under audit so I can’t release them’ thing. 85) And the Alex van der Zwaan lying to prosecutors about a conversation with Rick Gates thing. 86) And the charges against Richard Pinedo in exchange for cooperating thing. 87) And now Mueller is investigating Manafort for promising Calk a WH job in exchange for a $16M personal loan thing. 88) And the per NBC, Trump has told friends he'd be in trouble if Paul Manafort "flipped" on him thing. 89) And the Kushner Security Clearance being held up by the Mueller Investigation thing. 90) And the Dem memo that confirmed that both the F.B.I. and D.O.J. made extensive showings to justify all four FISA requests thing. 91) And the son-in-law had to have his security clearance removed thing. 92) And the China, UAE, Israel, and Mexico plotting how to manipulate the son-in-law thing. 93) And the Hope Hicks refusing to answer the questions of the Intelligence Committee thing. 94) And the Roger Stone lying to Congress about WikiLeaks thing. 95) And the 20 Gates indictments dropped by Mueller for cooperating thing. 96) And the changing the Republican platform thing. 97) And the not authorizing NSA to do *anything* to prevent hacking of Midterm Elections thing. 98) And the Hope Hicks’ ‘White Lies’ and quits thing. 99) And the Kushner gets his Security Clearance downgraded because he dealt with Russia thing. 100) And the Nunberg decides to comply-after he adamantly wasn’t gonna comply-to the Mueller subpoena thing. 101) And the Kremlin wanted Tillerson instead of Romney thing, 102) And the Trump’s demand for a Kremlinesque Military Parade thing. 103) And the George Nader (UAE foreign agent) thing. 104) And the Trump asking witnesses what they discussed with Mueller thing. 105) And the firing of Tillerson thing. 106) And the vindictive firing of McCabe thing. 107) And the congratulating Putin for ‘winning’ a sham election after Putin poisoned and framed his opponent thing. 108) And the alleged mobster Felix Sater ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’ thing. 109) And the Trump Fundraiser, Elliott Brody’s offer to help lift sanctions on Russian Firms thing. 110) And the Corallo attorneys couldn’t represent Trump due to conflicts of interest thing. 111) And the Rick Gates contact with Alex van der Zwaan (an associate of Paul Manafort with ties to the Russian intelligence service, GRU) in 2016 thing. 112) And the Malloch being served with a subpoena to appear before the grand jury thing. 113) And The Kremlin revealed that Trump proposed inviting Putin to DC during the March 20th phone call thing. Reminder: there was zero mention of the Russian nerve agent attack on British soil nor any warnings to Russia to stop attacking our infrastructure thing. 114) And the Attorney Alex van der Zwaan sentenced to 30 days in prison for lying to investigators who were looking into Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort thing. 115) And the Cohen got raided by the FBI thing. 116) And the Dana Boente’s handwritten notes after talking to James Comey thing. 117) And the Trump's personal lawyer was working out of the Squire, Patton & Boggs law offices, who just HAPPEN to be lawyers for Cambridge Analytica, AND are main lobbyists for Russia's Gazprom oil company thing. 118) And the letting Bolton in the White House without security clearance. 119) And the Trump asking Comey to consider investigating the "pee tape" allegations in order to "reassure Melania" that they were untrue thing. 120) And the Cohen lied about going to Prague in the summer of 2016 thing. 121) And the back channel assurance to the Kremlin there would be no new sanctions thing 122) And the Manafort was stated as being a Kremlin back channel in court thing.

I was with you until here. This is the type of drivel we make fun of the moutbreathers on TexAgs for.

(About the loss, not about Baker)

6-4-3 DP Game over We win 10-2 43 pitcher the ninth McGuire

Ahh, yes, this pretending by those Conservatives/Republicans that blacks are facing a crisis due to the out of wedlock birth rate, and the perception that you really believe it's a crises when you don't. And ahhh, fucking yes, this MYTH of the absent black fathers perpetuated by Conservatives/Republicans and the reason that white politicians won't talk about it because who the fuck knows. White politicians wont' discuss it because a.) it's false and b.) they don't care....just like you don't care but you're trying to give the perception that you do by speaking about it here. But, let's take a look, shall we? Here are a few websites and videos you and your friends should read and watch: 1.) from https://thinkprogress.org/the-myth-of-the-absent-black-father-ecc4e961c2e8/ 2. 3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/10/the-dangerous-myth-of-the-missing-black-father/?utm_term=.edfd4d9ecd1d 4. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/opinion/charles-blow-black-dads-are-doing-the-best-of-all.html 5. https://www.vox.com/2015/6/21/8820537/black-fathers-day

people are not going to ride their bikes to work here in austin fucking texas. my favorite bit the city did was going to amsterdam to study their bike culture. the average high in amsterdam in august is 71 fucking degrees. ours is 96. we did have one dude in the office who would ride his bike. he fucking stank. bike lanes are fine, and i'm actually for them on many roads where they can fit. but it's for the hobbyists, not the rank and file. bike lanes make biking safer, which is a good thing, but they sure as hell are not getting cars off the road here in texas.

Regular morning at the house: 1. As I'm getting in the shower, wife says, "I'm going to work, bye!" 2. I end up leaving for work before she does.

You mean they aren't here already? And Fuck Stanford. Shut the fuck up about Stanford, you idiots.

In twenty years: 1. Books won't exist. They will have all been burned to stay warm during the nuclear winter. 2. We won't be reading anything, we'll be too busy trying to survive in the post-apocalyptic horror show that civilization has become. Amusing anecdote from the future: when a hunter/scavenger lets a rat get away, and thus has to go hungry for another day, he or she will say "Thanks Obama!' without really knowing where the colloquialism came from or what it means exactly.

You’re so fucking stupid

Forgot to add: I'm a black male. First in the family to get a Masters, and come next year will be the first to get a Doctorate. My father is still married to my mom. They were high school sweethearts, and they are doing on nearly 40 years now. All uncles are still the lives of their children, even though they may be divorced from my aunts. And even then only 1 is divorced. The other aunts/uncles are still together. It's like that on both sides of my family. So yeah, this whole idea about absent fathers in the black community is what's wrong with the black community is nothing more than a dumbass Fox news talking point that the right/conservatives/republicans think they can give that will give the perception they care about blacks and black issues. I'll see myself out as I'm trying to make cacio e pepe for the first time.

Epilogue of Comey Book in spoilers. Pretty solid.

Is he visiting this weekend? No one knew who Moro Ojomo was this time last year and he may end up being the baddest motherfucker out of all the DL we signed last year.

You know who didn’t hear that? Huey Lewis.

My son had his Eagle Scout Board of Review on Monday night. Five adult Scouts grilled him for almost an hour about his Eagle Project, Scouting career and future plans for "life." He was well prepared (I've sat in on several before, so was able to impart some advice) but it was rather nerve-wracking wondering how he was doing in there (parents do not attend). He did pass and has now joined the Eagle brotherhood. And today is his 18th birthday. Whew, that was close! If anybody on Da Surls has a Scout coming up on this process, I'm happy to talk you through it.

He should go see a doctor in St. Lewis. I hear they are good

If we know anything, we certainly know how bad ass LT O-lineman are....

https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals250-de-demarvin-leal-the-latest-to-commit-to-texas-a-m

These last two visits were the first time he really heard Jimbo/Brewster's pitch. He's seen everything Texas has to offer and still picked aggy after two visits. I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about a flip, unless aggy absolutely shits the bed on the field this year, which is not entirely out of the realm of possibility. I remember a tweet posted on shaggy that was probably like a year ago now where Leal talked about how great the SEC is and he wanted to play in that league. At the time, I didn't think it was a good sign for UT but then we didn't hear anything about it and he visited Texas a ton so I figured we were in good shape. It seems like he's always felt that way and aggy was able to capitalize. In a way, Poona getting DPOY in the B12 is great because it shows how good our coaching staff is, on the other hand, it's easy for the other conferences to negative recruit because the DPOY in the Big 12 didn't even get invited to the combine. I'm sure aggy mentioned that and whored out the SEC constantly while he was on his visit, which led to him falling for the (used car) sales pitch.

I don't think Beto will be able to beat Cruz, mainly because of Cruz's undeniable charisma and charm.

some assorted team pitching stats thru 18 games: era - 2.62 whip - 1.10 baa - .213 205k / 50bb in 161.2ip

GF?...GTFO with that shit. This thread is about our dumbass wives, you still have a chance. Also that's your bad for letting her drive.

Go back and check it out then. You'll be surprised.

One reason I give the ags little chance of actually accomplishing anything in college football is that their lack of self-awareness prevents them from honestly assessing the status of their program and making any necessary changes. Every time aggy makes a move, it is an emotional reaction to some trigger, not a logical step to move a carefully devised plan forward. The ags are convinced they have a blue-blood program with a long and storied past that is on the verge of one of the greatest era in the history of college football. In reality, they haven't had consecutive seasons of being even moderately competitive in conference play in a generation. The people who have been overseeing the program during what is one of the more dismal periods of aggy football (and that is saying something) are still in decision making positions today. Hiring Fisher wasn't a logical choice, it was an emotional choice - "He has won a championship before so he is assured to do it again, under totally different conditions! Yay us! He's grrrrrreat!" They were pissed and frustrated at Sumlin's lack of accomplishment, so they reacted emotionally and fired him. The people running the aggy program have no overarching plan. They haven't had a plan to build aggy athletics in my lifetime. Because their culture is so prone to false hero worship, they constantly reach for saviors to take them to the promised land. They always have, and they always will. It is who they are. Before it was Jimbo, it was Johnny. Johnny was mentally ill and lacked the ability to focus mentally. But not a single aggy saw that. Johnny was their hero and could do no wrong. And all he delivered was one third place finish in their division. Hardly what any objective person would consider "the promised land" for a major college program in Texas willing to throw all the money they could borrow at their football program. Their best chance would be to bring in a total outsider with a proven track record as AD (as Texas did with CDC) and let that person build the program. But that isn't how aggy works. What the ags should do is talk with top out of state recruits and ask them why they never considered Texas A&M. If aggy ever will have a chance to do anything in college football, it will be because they improved their national recruiting, which will require them changing their culture so that the "aggy experience" isn't so off-putting to all but a very small demographic nationwide. But aggy doesn't work that way. Which is why aggy never accomplishes much. Hiring Jimbo Fisher isn't going to change aggy's fortunes one bit. But it will be one of the most glorious eras we will ever witness. Glorious for everyone but aggy.

Stanford this, Stanford that, Stanford, Stanford, Stanford. Why don't y'all go Stanfuck yourselves

Holy SHIT STFU!!!

For many Americans, the fading of the America of our parents and grandparents is a positive.

Where is blacklab to punish you Stanford discussing sumbitches when you need him

Maybe fade the background pic to this?

Texas doesn't lose recruiting battles, it just runs out of premature commitments.

Go get her, Vic before she wastes away!

Didn’t we beat some euro teams in Europe who were mostly full strength under klinnsman? Didn’t we cap more dudes under him than we did under arena and Bradley combined? he clearly didn’t get the job done, but at least he threw shit at the wall to try. Arena round 2 was fucking predictable as shit, with predictable shit results. Klinnsmans lineups, positioning of players, and leaving landycakes at home for Brazil were head scratchers but at least we didn’t know we were getting uninspired soccer before the kickoff.

In terms of EXISTENCE of the issue, you're correct. In terms of DEGREE....you're way off base. And I say this with ZERO forgiveness or tolerance for lying from our leaders, period. But it's like saying "hey, they're both sick" when referring to one person who has a head cold, and another who has Ebola and blood leaking from all of their orifices as they approach death in a matter of hours. I've never seen anything remotely like this. Nobody has. The VOLUME of lies is staggering. So much so that they have overwhelmed our collective ability to even call attention to all of them. Yesterday's cavalcade of lies is washed away by today's tsunami of utter and complete falsehoods. We can still talk about the key lies of previous administrations because those lies STOOD OUT. They were, relatively speaking, exceptions that were easy to spot. With this administration....truth-telling is the exception. Don't tell me "hey, don't be afraid of a little virus" when we're talking about Ebola, not the common cold. Degree matters. It matters a lot.

Ahem.

This is what you get for dominating Big 12 basketball. You can’t have it both ways, you are Kansas. Run Self out of town. It’s your only hope for creating balance.

What in the fuck did I just click into? A debate about the efficacy of taking a proven grad transfer at TB when we have scholarships available? What the fuck is going on here?

I hit 5 years sober earlier this month. A good start.

Dip cups were spilled

Burton hasn't been this down on Texas DL recruiting since last December's signing day.