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Really? You put together a list tracking high school kids and everyone gives you rep and thanks you. I put together a list tracking high school kids and the judge doesn't let me within 1000 feet of a school and gives my wife the kids. Fucking bullshit double standards.

Because he’s not a travel rookie. Not a Giles defender but checking a bag as a man is nuts.

I assume you were also headed to Little Rock but after meeting with Giles you decided to go somewhere else.

My dad is Iranian, so I'm not gonna let Iconoclast be the sole Iran authority on this thread. To say the US-Iran relationship is complex is an understatement. You could make a very strong argument that the United States is the main reason why the country is so fucked up. How should Iranians feel about the US when their Democratic PM was overthrown in a coup led by the CIA in 1953? You know who helped them create their nuclear program? WE DID. Do you know who gave them weapons grade uranium? WE DID. I'm sure the majority of y'all know that, but FYI for others that don't. Obama's Iran deal was not perfect by any stretch at all, and the Iranians in charge are still fucking over their citizens. But he treated Iran like and adult and showed them some fucking respect, and in turn, Iran had basically returned the favor. This is how the whole thing is basically playing out: US: You're not complying with this deal. Iran: Dude, we are complying. US: We don't believe you. Plus Obama gave you a bunch of money. Iran: Prove we did something wrong. Oh, and that was OUR money. US: Fuck that. Deal's off. Sanctions are back on, motherfuckers. Oh, and we'll add a few more. Iran: This is fucking bullshit. I guess we'll have to look into starting up our program again to protect ourselves. US: OH, YEAH? I FUCKING DARE YOU. SEE WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS. REGIME CHANGE, MOTHERFUCKERS!!! Look, Iran is a fucking mess. They need a revolution. Let the Iranian people do it themselves. US interference CAUSED the goddamn Islamic radicals to come in power, but now US interference is going to make things better? When are we going to fucking learn? And BTW, my dad probably agrees with most of what Iconoclast is saying. I think emotion is getting in the way, but's pretty understandable. Under Khomeini's rule, his father lost his job, had his home taken away, was sent to prison, and was literally executed by firing squad for simply not converting to Islam. My family has been enormously affected by radical Islam. My dad loves the United States. He came here 45 years ago and has never returned to his homeland. He wants change, and doesn't really care how it's done.I obviously think it's a bit more complicated in order to truly improve the country.

It's buried in a shitheap of a website, which prevents it from being thrown in my face on a daily basis. But some months ago when Avenatti first filed that lawsuit, I dismissed the lawsuit as "stupid" and said something to the effect that he may be the worst lawyer I'd ever heard of. Now every day I feel like the British first leftenant in Pirates of the Caribbean: That's got to be the best lawyer I've ever seen.

Forging a coast guard license to become a river boat pilot is the most Louisiana crime ever. And he was a pilot for three years, apparently without incident. That is objectively bad ass. I fucking love it. Make that guy the AD. I would send my kid there in a heartbeat if it meant that I got to hang out with that salty old river boat gamblin' son of a bitch.

Holy fuck, I'm an idiot.

Maybe all the people that have moved will move back.

I think people just get tired of complaining about our hypothetical future playoff losses to Ohio State, Clemson, and Bama 7 months before any DL can actually sign LOIs. It's not wrong, it's just premature.

That’s a common approach but it’s best to let them do the bragging for you.

Pretty sure this current job, assisting the mentally disabled, is part of his release program.

My parents are refugees of the revolution too. I agree with everything you said. The islamists hijacked the revolution. The risk is that the MEK or some other fringe group who is worse than the islamists hijacks the next one. A policy of regime change only works if you have someone internally who can lead an opposition. Otherwise, you are swapping one a-hole for another. All those people are dead or in jail in Iran. The failson of the shah is not going to survive long enough to consolidate power. The MEK is universally hated in Iran. The best thing the US could have done to effect regime change was to continue the deal. The people realized the islamist regime stole all of the money the US released. Before yesterday, the people blamed the regime for the problems, which helped to bolster the reformists who want the corruption out of the government. Slow secularization and democratization would result in a lasting friendly government. Overthrowing one bad regime to install another one won't. The hardliners are celebrating the end of the deal because it shows that they were right. On withdrawing from the deal: This isn't some grand plan to get a better nuke deal in place. These are the first steps in setting up a pretext for the war that the neocons have been salivating over for decades. Right now, the EU is the only thing standing between this situation blowing up (forgive the pun) into a full scale shooting war. If the EU is forced to back out because of secondary sanctions, then Iran will start up its program again. Then Israel will conduct airstrikes in Iran with its new overfly rights granted by the Saudis (who might join in the fun) because Iran can't have a nuke (I actually agree with that position). The Iranians will strike back, and the US will be forced to act. I'm sure Bolton's power point presentation is a bit more detailed. Any escalation in conflict, and especially the involvement in the US, will disenfranchise the entire population. The hardliners in government will solidify their position. The only way the US will get rid of them at that point is a full on ground invasion. Iran has mandatory conscription. So everyone in the country has some military training. This will be bloodier that Iraq.

Any rationalization about not getting the top DL talent on the table in Texas, and to some extent, regionally, is going to fall flat when Texas finds itself up against programs that are recruiting better and developing just as well. 4-5 star recruits developed well, on average, win more match-ups than not against lower ranked guys, also developed well. Bama, Clemson, Ohio State - these are programs doing well are cleaning up in recruiting and developing their OL and DL talent very well. We're whistling past the graveyard if we believe that either: 1) we'll coach ours up better than they'll coach theirs up or 2) we don't need great DL play to be a championship caliber team. Sorry.

Ask @closetojumping, he's the expert on SoCal recruiting.

Your mom is the easiest plug and play of all.

And also anyone reporting anything negative about the President should lose their credentials. That seems safe. But at least the Tahoes of the world can be happy that the president isn't black.

Both can be true--she can be right in this instance and still need to shut the fuck up and go away.

I'll take "Net Neutrality" for $200,000. One of the biggest backers of shitcanning net neutrality paid Trump's personal lawyer, who also happens to be in the RNC leadership, $200,000 in "insight" fees while the Republican Congress is in the process of dismantling the widely popular net neutrality regulation. Every Republican Congressman has some explaining to do.

Holy fuck. Surly will argue about anything.

Rockets in 2 1/2

I’d prefer that we focus on what the team on the field looks like not the outside of the stadium.

CA's doing just fine dude. 5th largest economy in the world. And I'm curious just how this impedes "liberty". Do other building standards impede liberty? Mandatory fire sprinklers? Engineering standards? Or, are you just being your usual dumbshit self, taking pride in being a simpleton?

Did y’all do karate in the garage? Make bunk beds to free up space for activities?

I'll take this softball. That's a safe bet, since by all accounts Kendall hasn't stepped away from a table since 2015.

Went to the Kentucky Derby this weekend, hit the bourbon tour on Friday. Stitzel-Weller distillery, now Bulleitt, sat in Pappy’s old office and enjoyed some 10 year. On to Kentucky Artisan Distillery, home to Jefferson’s, which was a fair experience, and then on to Buffalo Trace for the last tour. We encountered special Derby mid sized bottles of Blantons literally flying off the shelves but limited to one per person and no time to stand in the long checkout lines before our tour, so I hid quite a few of them around the gift shop prior to our tour, and with other members of our group following my lead, we all went thru the line multiple times after our tour to acquire more than one per person......with customers asking where we got them and clerks saying I thought we were already sold out..... Onward to Saturday where we were twisting off at the race all day..... before the most exciting 2 minutes in sports a vendor comes by with a tray of mint juleps and my buddy hands him a couple hundred and takes the entire damn tray of juleps (literally, the dude just took his straps and walked off) for our box....it got a little hazy after that. Damn good time.

In fairness, IIRC, the initial report made it sound like he was trying to get the contract voided on the basis that it lacked a signature from Trump as a formalistic matter, even though she was paid and all parties performed. And your reaction, reasonably, was that Trump could clearly enforce the agreement as a legal matter. What Avenatti knew, and I don't think we did at that time, is that Trump didn't want to admit that he was a party to the contract. He wanted the agreement to bind her, but without publicly admitting so, which he would have to do to enforce it. Filing the lawsuit forces him to take a stand one way or the other - either he's a party and she can't get out of it, which creates other problems for him with the payoff, or he's not a party and the agreement may not be enforceable. Which is why it was, actually, brilliant.

Trump is the one who successfully convinced Cohen to name his company Essential Consultants LLC instead of LOL LLC or Massive Liability Company LLC.

Per TFB, there are two silent commits that have not dropped. They correspond to the Carrington tweets from March 31, and yesterday. The one from yesterday won't resolve itself for a while, maybe as late as the end of summer. Draw your own conclusions from that.

Wrong Mr. Pickford all together.

That white lady is giving Giles a dirty look, so I only assume that she posts on this thread.

We signed the state's #1 RB on NSD2 because TH was getting annoyed with the RBs 2 months later in Spring. You can't read or something?

I was very proactive and aggressive when it came to plugging your mom's holes last night.

Sohrab Ahmari is a former WSJ columnist who writes for Commentary magazine. He is also a fellow Iranian-American who is a must read, especially involving Iran. I leave you with this excellent piece that he has written. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/iran/obama-killed-his-own-iran-deal/

No. The money which was released was not US taxpayer dollars. It was money that was either frozen during the sanctions or money that was owed from a cancelled fighter jet order in the 1970s. It was Iranian money. You argue about whether it was wise to return it, but it's bullshit to claim it was US taxpayer money.

he filed so he could accept campaign donations. he is using those to fund his legal defense.

And also beat the KD, RW, Harden Thunder in 5 games, who a year later made it to the Finals (against Lebron of course). Ironically(?), it was Dwane Casey's defensive game plan that frustrated Lebron so much that finals. Lebron mentioned it in a PC this year about how much it changed him. It also got Casey his gig in TOR that off season. Saying Lebron "shou'dve" beaten that Mavs team is disrespectful to Dirk etc, AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. Now back to the MJ-Lebron debate...

It’s a nice day to be spanked...

just cut and paste the whole script

There is a level of revulsion that all "normal" adults should have for anyone who rapes children. If somone works for you and other employees come to you and say "boss, Jerry's fucking little kids," there is only one course of action to take. You cannot put the reputatuion of the program ahead of protecting children. Paterno would have been a hero if as soon as this was reported to him he had immediately suspended his D coordinator and waited for the police to investigate before deciding which way to go. Any other decision makes him complicit. Anyone who is not sickened by that must not be able to grasp what a terrible event being ass raped by a grown man must be for a kid. Little kids depend on adults to protect them from the monsters.

We need a banner with CDC's face on it that says "CDC is our standard".

You do great work gathering information for those of us who check this board every day. It is much appreciated. I wouldn't worry about a mistake like that.

Fucking this, man. Third-world countries struggle to pull themselves up because they're saddled with low-level corruption at every level of every government agency. In America, we may not have that problem, but bribery how we make national laws. Corporate America greases up the congress, has their lawyer draft a bill and hand it off for a legislator to sponsor. Everybody gets a steak dinner and a life of ease, the legislator has a $5-million-a-year lobbying job waiting in the industry that bought him, and the corporations get a government finger on the capitalist scales and/or massive privatization of tax dollars. And it's all legal. It's exactly how the system works.

I don't think its more liberal. Its definitely more reactionary. But I understand why. I used to be a Republican, and then one day I was attacked by the Republican president. A Republican president I had voted for, to be clear. It opened my eyes and made me look at my positions in a way I had never been forced to look at them before. I became a libertarian, mainly because that was the wing of the Republican party that best represented my views. I posted some about how my political affiliations had changed, wherever I was posting at the time, but that was it. In West Mall, and then Cloak Room I had bought into the "both sides" team, and remained firmly libertarian in my views, until life got in the way and I started to realize that there are definitely situations where government is necessary, over and above national defense and roads. I was still mostly libertarian in nature, with a few exceptions. But my posting on West Mall and Cloak room, for most of the lives of those forums, was related to gay rights and both sidesisms. I will vote as a Democrat in the midterms, and for the foreseeable future, and that's not because my views have changed all that much. I've adjusted my views some based on life experience, but mostly, I still want a government that is on the small side and that is sane. What has gone off the rails for me is both sidesisms. Yeah I don't like Republicans. Yeah I don't like Democrats. But, it is perfectly clear that the Republican party has been heading down this path for a long long time. Evangelical leaders got us started, then guys like Limbaugh and Hannity put a political spin on this nihilism that's spread through that party like crazy. You know things have gone off the deep end for a party when leaders in that party start taking Alex Jones seriously, and that has happened, repeatedly, in the last few years. This is no longer a both sides situation, because the Republicans as they exist today are so much worse than the Democrats that both sides has no meaning. All those things that Brisket brought up are insane. But all of them are true. There is not another president in my lifetime who could have actually done all those things and survived it. Hell, most of them wouldn't have survived the bullshit they put up with from the Okie EPA guy. The fact that this hasn't really changed the popularity of Trump says a lot of things about the Republican party as a whole, and none of them are good. It tells me I can expect more of the same for at least the next decade. Maybe the Dems will get worse or the Reps will get better, and I will go back to my both sides arguments. Or maybe one of them will actually become a center right party who cares about the rights of all people, and I can actually find a home. But for now, its time to go with the lesser of two evils with full voice, and that means I will vote with the Dems for the first time. This is the legacy that is being left by this brand of Republicanism. It's turned people who were happy enough just to throw away their vote and bitch on the sidelines into people who will actually cross the aisle and vote against them. That's not because a change in ideology of the posters on this board, its because of a change in ideology of one of the parties. And for the record, since I got the right to vote, I have voted for President this way - 1992: George Bush, 1996: Bob Dole, 2000: GW Bush, 2004: Libertarian candidate, 2008: Libertarian candidate, 2012: Libertarian candidate: 2016: Gary Johnson (only one whose name I even remember).