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I'm going to take it as a good sign that the guy who calls people faggots on the internet doesn't think I'm funny.

Brainiacs have confirmed Angilau will arrive for summer workouts and he's delayed his mission trip.

Don't conflate Jesus' teachings with what "Christians" believe.

The flaw in this woman's thinking can be summed up in her own words. It is not a zero-sum game, and presenting it as such is either short-sighted or a purposefully deployed straw man. Where, exactly, does she think all those people would be working if others weren't paying them to clean their house and mow their yard? Everyone living in a tiny house solves this problem how? She never fleshes out her idea that larger houses somehow come at the expense of poor people, but merely lobs it out there as if it's an obvious truth. It also completely ignores the fact that all of the amenities that admittedly left urban areas during the white flight of the 20th century are now coming back as the tax base has returned. The displacement of the poor folks by wealthy urban youth moving back to the city seems lost on her as well. There are some other eyebrow-raising comments in the article, such as the claim that private playgrounds and pools are being built with taxpayer money. I'm sure some developer managed to pull off such a shenanigan at some point, but generally such a thing would come under rather quick scrutiny. I do agree that the McMansions that many Americans (especially Texans it seems) continue to overpay for are not necessarily a good thing, but claiming that folks living in 2400 sf (as if that's even big!) homes is the reason we have poverty is some serious socialist backwash that even a German like the author should have trouble swallowing. I suspect her real beef is that the development of such homes in lieu of urban housing developments, and all the amenities that would need to be designed and built for a highly congested populace, takes money out of the back pocket of her fellow architects while simultaneously contributing to the further decline of the once lofty status of the profession. She should rest easy, as all signs point to the further growth of inner cities, which means more small dwellings. I suppose as more folks hat move into tiny apartments, the better things will be for everyone. The other aspect at play here is probably regional bias. As a European, she may view the idea of the majority of the populace living at a low-middle class standard, with tiny but efficient apartments, a worthwhile tradeoff for better standards of healthcare, lower crime, less poverty, etc. That's certainly a proven workable solution, but it's also, for better or worse, decidedly unAmerican. Perhaps our little experiment here is coming to a close, but I'm going to enjoy my giant house and the ridiculously large pickup truck that I only own at the expense of the poor while I can, and the rest of the world can bust the fire hydrant if they need to cool off in summer. I'll be in my pool.

🎶 He's got a fool-hearted memory 🎶 🎶 It won't let him see 🎶 🎶 Candi walked out the door 🎶

I'm hearing the same thing as Bill. Banks doesn't have a commitable offer from anyone besides aggy. I'm hearing that the UT staff has basically stopped recruiting him because they have numerous guys on the board above him. He's also got some character issues that I can't get into but needless to say he's not Texas material. But all of this is very fluid and if he does eventually commit to the good guys just remember that I said it was fluid so I'm not wrong.

So....what you are trying to say is that you are Fair and Balanced?

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How many do we need?

She's gonna come out of that hospital looking like Michelle, isn't she?

Bladder transplant from an elephant. Trump wanted more pee pee so she decided to Be Best.

Perfectly reasonable question. My case for G&L: 1. First, I don't vouch for the Tribute stuff. I'm talking about the handmade guitars made by legit luthiers in Fullerton, California. It is totally a small scale mom and pop operation. Phyllis Fender, who is like a sweet old grandma, is literally still a chairperson. I don't think they publicize their staff much because they poach dudes from Fender. I know the dude that designed and builds a lot of the Dohenys was the manager of Jazzmasters at the Fender Custom Shop. 2. They are incredibly well constructed. I have put my ASAT Special through hell over the course of 11 years and I only had it serviced once to change out the saddle. And mind you, it was probably 10 years old already when I bought it! Now, the drawback to it being a tank is that many models are heavy. My semihollow 2015 Fender tele with a tummy cut feels like a feather in comparison. 3. Their necks feel so good. They are just fast enough without feeling like a dainty little thing. 4. They have so many customization options. I bet the Fender Custom Shop couldn't top them. And if you buy a custom guitar, you just pay whatever the dealer would sell it for. I.e., there's no charge just for "uh, yeah bro we need an extra $200 cause, uh, this is custom." There is a new Doheny for sale on Reverb right now with all the options I got on mine: painted headstock, rosewood fretboard, pearl dots, vibrato, quirkly pickguard. It is the exact same price as the one I had them make for me. And when they sent mine, they included a fancy black and silver packet captioned "Custom Build Specifications." 5. Leo's post CBS innovations are all G&L property. And there are fucking good ones. And even the dudes who inherited R&D kept improving on Leo's stuff. Read about their dual fulcrum vibrato. I have one on my Doheny and it's simply insane how good it feels and also keeps the guitar in tune. It stays in tune like a fixed bridge. Other good shit: Saddle lock bridge. So simple and effective. Fender would steal the design if they could. And I don't understand pickups very well beyond the fact that they are just primitive microphones, but G&L makes awesome ones - the MFDs and the Z-coils. 6. Even the American ones are so reasonably priced. A handmade guitar that looks even better than most fenders? For $1,500 or so? Cannot be beat. This is the Classic Bluesboy and my favorite G&L. I don't have one (yet) but it's simply perfect. $1,599.00. And if you get a bunch of bells and whistles, you're not going to break $2,000 unless you get it made out of some kind of crazy wood. Bottom of the barrel Fanos are $1,900. Grosh's and Tom Anderson's are a little more. Suhrs start at $2,100. 7. They don't have a ton of huge artists that play them (Jerry Cantrell, Jake Cinniger are two notable ones though) but they are a working man's guitar. Even if Keith Richards doesn't play a G&L, he definitely knows about them. 8. Just look at these: 9. Finally, I think G&L is a loyalty kinda culty thing. People who stumble on them LOVE them and become fanboys. My obsession all started with looking at a rack of telecasters and saying to the store clerk - "whoa, what is that?" The rest is history. TLDR: G&L Rocks and we should all each buy a custom version of our own favorite model.

All I see is a brunette coed with a really short white dress on walking down the aisle.

Spent a few minutes playing around with this this afternoon. I didn’t double check my work but believe this to all be correct We’re the worst compared to the other 29 teams so far this season in # of 0 or 1 run games. Perhaps more concerning, the 3 other teams likely to make the playoffs in the AL have been the best at avoiding low scoring games:

We have entered cloak room territory where I am being negged for suggesting people do their research on why schools often have pretty buildings but poor teacher pay. Its much easier to blame schools and neg away than doing the most absolute most basic research on the topic. I will offer this and then bow out of the conversation. Schools get money in two buckets. One is for people and the other is for buildings, technology, football stadiums, etc. You CANNOT spend building money on people or people money on buildings. The two buckets must stay separate. Districts can raise their own money through bonds for the building bucket but not the people bucket. Sounds stupid doesn't it? Well, thats because it is. From page one of this thread and every other on the topic, I tell people that if you don't understand the constraints on districts, they will always appear to be irrational actors and the conversation will turn into a pissing contest about nothing. Well, here we are What I wrote on page 1: I don't offer a lot of solutions, but I do think the school finance system should be priority one. It creates a lot of problems that trickle down to things like teacher pay. Also, the two buckets financing system means that (for the most part) districts can't raise their own money to pay teachers but they can to pay for a football stadium. . If you would like more information about school finance and why things are the way they are, start here on page 7. https://tea.texas.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2147511834

Boyd and Hill committed together on a Friday afternoon on an Austin news station. They announced their commitment time earlier that week. There was no commitment video to be filmed. There was no "driving from College Station to Austin" to do it. Hamm is just blatantly lying about easily verifiable shit.

I got my PhD at Rice and bartended at Valhalla (all their employees are volunteers, mostly grad students, post docs, and alumni) for nearly 8 years. It is a beautiful campus and world class academics. The girls all have high SATs, so of course it’s not Texas State or even UT level of trim. But there are many cute girls (especially as you approach 30, your scale recalibrates from college and a lot more 19-22 yo’s start looking cuter). As was mentioned, undergrads are randomly assigned to one of 11 “residential colleges”, or basically coed dorms with a little bit of fraternity feel tied in. They stay in the same college all four years. Every month a different college is responsible for a campus wide mega party unless they have a beef with a particular other residential college and blacklist them. The best party is every October or November called “Night of Decadence” or NOD, where it’s a clothing optional block party with a theme. My first year was “Noddy or Nice” and there were many costumes like a fuzzy thong and Santa hat but no top/bra, dudes wearing nothing but a candy cane striped sock on their junk, etc. “Baker 13” is the ritual on the 13th and 31st (for applicable months) where Baker college kids (95-100% dudes unfortunately) run naked but covered in shaving cream (at least when they start out) around campus, splatting their ass up against library windows, etc. and usually end up at Valhalla. Valhalla is the grad student owned and operated pub at the end of Keck Hall, the old chemistry and then Biomedical engineering building. They sell beer as close as they can to cost so poor grad students can get drunk for cheap. When I started in 2003 Lone Star and Shiner were 75¢ and St. Arnold beers were 90¢. They have tried hard to keep at least one option on tap for $1 a pint, even if they lose a little money. It is open to the public every day from 5pm to 2am except closed on Saturdays for private parties. Willy’s Pub is the undergrad bar and pub food joint in the basement of the student union. Also has decent prices but it is only open based on the academic calendar and I heard they may have jeopardized their alcohol license recently. Every March there is an event called BEER BIKE, which is a campus wide participation, relay race in thr parking lot of Rice Stadium where teams are divided by their residential colleges, like they do for intramural sports, and the grad students have a team as well. There are alumni, women’s, and men’s races. You have ten chuggers and ten bikers. Someone chugs, when they finish the next biker can start. They ride three laps around the parking lot and when they cross the finish line the next chugger starts, and so on. I have nothing but good things to say about it. The aggies hate them, they mock UH’s “academics”, and they don’t condone rape culture like Baylor. I wish they would be invited to the Big12 to improve their status but also to poke the eye of a lot of snooty faculty that are actively trying to get D1 sports disbanded from the university.

Rice Institute almost never happened. To understand Rice, you need to read the story of the murder and the forged will. It was James Baker's grandfather who represented the estate and uncovered the plot. The relationship between the Baker family and Rice University was forged through that incident, which is why the Baker Institute is today on the Rice campus. The Rice endowment owns massive amounts of land north of Houston along 1-45 and 1-59. They sell the lumber harvest rights to generate the 5% annual income off the land assets, thus giving them the income they need. Because Houston is growing north at a strong clip, the value of the land will increase above the rate of most other asset classes (the Rice endowment is about to grow a whole bunch more in the very near future). Also, when LBJ pushed for the NASA facility in Texas, it ended up in Houston in large part because Rice University donated the land necessary for the Johnson Space Center. That cemented the relationship between the JSC and Rice. If you want to read something interesting, read Smalley's Nobel acceptance speech. He was a great guy. Very approachable. Addressing a Nobel Prize laureate by his first name for the first time was an interesting experience. Oh, and last I knew, diplomas from Rice were still printed on actual sheepskin (at least by request). The Rice murder story: http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-murder-of-millionaire-william-rice-by-albert-patrick-1900/

Then here's a wacky idea: let's publicly condemn Israel when they shoot unarmed amputees or unarmed children. Let's demand they stop doing that, and punish soldiers who do so, as a condition for our military, financial, and diplomatic support.

Yes. You definitely missed something.

Let's just say I'm 100% sure that Beto's DNA test would come back as human.

Man I work day to day with a ND PhD Chem Eng. Also with a bunch of aggys, unfortunately. I’ll never take a back seat to any of them, or all of them combined. Anyone who wants to argue merits of the ND vs UT education is baseless.

Angilau is delaying his mission trip and will arrive with the rest of the 2018 guys in a couple of weeks.

I reject the premise that it’s possible to go below the belt with someone who sexually harassed his employee or who obstructed justice at the highest level.

Pretty sure that was me, but fact check it if you like. My bigger point is simply in support in the thinking behind this post. There's nothing wrong with Banks. He'd be excellent depth at Texas and he could turn into a starter. If he doesn't, he's a good character player with enough athletic skills to compete on special teams and graduate. We're not going to capture an elite CB in Texas for this cycle, mostly because there isn't one, but also, the next best things are either fucktards that shouldn't/won't get offers or they're turned off by our depth chart. We're going out of state at CB and if we don't land the targets, we'll find some projects or certain depth. I'd tap the brakes on writing Banks off. You guys put a lot of value in fucking crystal balls. A crystal ball is allegedly supposed to be a prediction of where a player winds up, but they've been bastardized into becoming barometers for where a player might commit. Especially at this time of year. Also, EJ Holland is a fucking twit and he has no clue on what the UT strategy is. They do not give one fuck if Banks decides to commit for some reason to ATM. They'd like to have him, but it needs to make sense in the grand scheme and no single player is going to change their approach, short of a RoJo issue.

The rest of us can see how this moron acts IN THE OPEN and know this is all well in character. Your GOP friends have their blinders on because they voted for a con man and it’s easier to act like they didn’t than face the embarrassing reality that’s slapping them in the face daily.

i just don't see how anyone can watch the last 2 years of durant playing basketball compared to the last 2 years of the thunder playing basketball and not immediately understand why he wanted to GTFO of there. i mean it totally sucks that he (and the warriors) stacked the deck so much that it's taken basically all of the drama out of the later rounds of the playoffs, but once lebron made it ok to do back in 2010 it shouldn't be that surprising that someone followed in his footsteps. and i said it back on the day he decided to go to the warriors and i still believe it's true, once he's won a few championships as the best player on the court, only a very vocal minority is going to care much about the move that got him there.

How can the IDF be expected to stop the disabled people AND the rope tied to fence? These filthy Palestinians will stop at nothing!

As and EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN and a Trump voter I can tell you that Jesus would have voted for Trump and then right after that brought about the Rapture because we moved the embassy to Jerusalem and then our beloved president would be in heaven building a wall to keep the Mexicans out. God bless.

Trumpism all boils down to this: be the worst human being possible. Lie. Be greedy. Be a hypocrite. Fuck over those in need. It’s hedonism for assholes. It’s also high irony that the vast majority of these shitbags proclaim to be Christian. If there’s any consistent teaching of Christ, it is to put the needs of others above those of yourself.

It is clear that 83.7% of you have no understanding of football players, their thought process/psychology, or their daily grind. Almost every swinging dick on this board (that played any meaningful amount of ball) would take a 3rd round NFL grade and sprint to the draft unless you were a sure-fire first rounder with a big insurance policy. Yes, players get better food than most college students. Guess what? The food still sucks relative to what most people prepare at home for a meal. It's mass produced food. It's there in quantity, but it's meh. Yay for food, I guess. Pass up guaranteed $500k-$1MM for dorm food. Right. Got it. I'm on the way. Going to school and playing football is not easy. The schedule sucks. The workload (if you want to actually get educated) really sucks. BUT YOU GET UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS and SWT and CONCORDIA LUTHERAN and ST. EDs and H-T COLLEGE GIRLS!!!! (just kidding, only a handful of you have ever had sex with a girl from Huston-Tillotson... and by you, I mean me.) Stahp. You're 40 years old with two kids. You should have gotten all you could while you could. NFL players fuck. Trust and believe. Malik left and it was time. You're mostly good fans, though....

Self-determination. They've been saying that since January of 1976 when we vetoed a Security Council resolution that the non-aligned countries brought forth and would have given them that had we not vetoed it. We vetoed a similar resolution in 1980 and have since vetoed every single time it came up in the General Assembly, all of this despite the fact that there's an overwhelming international consensus in favor of granting them this. Completely ignoring the reprehensible impropriety of that question, as Israel has not a stitch of legal entitlement to the West Bank whatsoever, those terms are clearly written and have been for over 50 years. This is neither rocket surgery nor brain science. They occupy Gaza externally. When they say they "pulled out," all they really did was withdraw settlers/settlements and relocated them to the West Bank as settlements rapidly increased after the so-called "Gaza withdrawal." And the withdrawal was not a charitable act, either. They pulled out because Gaza was trending towards uninhabitability. For example, the drinking water is 90% unfit for human consumption. Most of the arable land is gone. But more relevant to your point, the IDF still monitors who can enter/exit, they have the blockade in place, they control the airspace, etc. That's not a real "pullout" in any meaningful sense. Again as Cameron put it, that's an "open-air prison," and since that's the case, one has to know that there's a warden, and it sure as shit isn't Hamas. 1. Hamas didn't "take over," they won in an election that every single international monitoring agency (and it was one of the most heavily monitored elections in history) called "free and fair." Hamas won the election in 2006 because contrary to your apparent perception, Fatah is a group of retched collaborators, and the Palestinian population knows it full well. We aren't as well informed about it because we don't live there. We live in a country whose mainstream media espouses ridiculous talking points like "Saeb Erekat is smart" and "Mahmoud Abbas is a moderate," and we're all just supposed to nod in agreement and not burst into hysterical laughter. And that's not at all to defend Hamas. Hamas is a reprehensible organization. But that's how bad the opposition was, more on that later. 2. As to the issue of rockets, that's hardly a justification for what Israel regularly does to them (mowing the lawn). It's a severely overblown issue off of which even Israel continues to stooge itself. In its so-called "Operation Protective Edge," the MFA reported that over 7,000 rockets and mortar shells were fired and only 1 house in Israel was destroyed. That's because they're not "rockets." They're enhanced fireworks. In fact, Theodore Postol (the MIT professor that exposed the fraud of the Patriot Missile Defense system during the first Gulf War) gave Israel's so-called "Iron Dome" an efficacy percentage of about 5. That is, he estimated that Iron Dome deflected around 350 projectiles which is about half of what the MFA claimed (721, IIRC). Either way, that's a quibble between 5-10%. 40% of the "rockets" were basically duds, meaning they landed in the border area where there was no Iron Dome (because that's only located in major urban centers). And that's not even to excuse the very act of firing such fireworks, but ask yourself a question: what would the United States do if the Zetas fired such primitive weaponry from Nuevo Laredo into Texas? Well they may respond rather strictly, but one thing they very likely wouldn't do is launch airstrikes/drone-strikes/Marine raids/etc to such an extent that it would yield over 100,000 civilian casualties, but that's what Israel did when you adjust the numbers per capita. 3. Like I said, even Israel stooged itself off its own propaganda. When they were trying to scare the living shit out of its citizenry about the tunnels and rockets, people fled and tourism took a nose dive. The MFA then toned down their rhetoric and in some cases would tell people that "everything's OK, you're not being targeted, etc." In fact, Michael Bloomberg went over there shortly after Protective Edge and said that Israel is "safe, and a great place to visit." That's not what you say when you visit a land that's being bombarded by rockets and tunnel crawlers. You say something like that when it's...not experiencing those things. Again, they're filthy collaborators that only look out for themselves. That may appear to be a "legitimate partner for peace" if the two sides were the whole of Israel and the leadership of the Palestinians, but that removes the Palestinian people entirely from the equation, and I'm sorry that you apparently believe this, but Fatah/The PA couldn't be bothered to give two shits about the Palestinian people. They know that and that's why they enjoy very little popular support. There's not a shred of evidence to support that claim. They don't even know what those "needs" are and are only concerned about their own wants. They're already in that position and they have been for some time. If you read Avner Yaniv's rendering of the buildup to Israel's aggression against Lebanon in 1982 (where the PLO was headquartered), you'll notice that one of the prime movers of Israel's decision to do that was, to quote him, Arafat's "peace offensive," meaning his reaching towards negotiating the diplomatic settlement that they'd been seeking for the previous 6 years. The fact that Hamas is in the equation now is irrelevant because they have not at all rejected the principles of the 1988 Algiers Declaration. There are a myriad of other facts and factors to review, to be sure, but the point is Israel (and the US, if you think it through) has been in a relatively cornered position since 1976 and it's just been excuse after excuse and lie after lie as to why this conflict hasn't been settled, despite the fact that a very broad international consensus supports the very framework of such a settlement, for 51 fucking years.

I put the timeline in the spoiler below.

Kim has gotten entry to the world stage and elevation to world leader. Bibi got the American embassy moved to Jerusalem. Russia has an American head of state who refuses to lift a finger when it comes to Russian cyber attacks on the United States, China is being allowed to enter new markets while we play trade wars, and Iranian hard-liners have gotten the United States to back out of the nuclear agreement, thereby freeing Iran to pursue a nuclear weapon. What do we get?

Same thing happened to me:

USC often acts late, because they can. Remember that.

He just wanted to retire at 48 with a government pension earned from years of trying to take away everyone else's pension.

Why does Rice play Texas?

When they’re done with her she’ll be a scatback

You mean where I reacted to the only reasonable discussion (shooting statistics) doesn't count? I look at game 1 like this. Celtics shot gooder. Cavs shot badder. I'll further my judgement of this series when there are more statistics to prove otherwise. Do I have to say the sky is falling to "add"?

Negs every Derka post on Cavs vs. Celtics thread. Gets called out for negging. Checks to see that Derka has searched for his posts on multiple threads, only so Derka can neg them. Well done, derka douche

You're starting to sound very aggy in your defense of the sheep humpers.

They have a grad student pub called Valhalla and it is one of the best places in Texas. I think draft is still a dollar and I know that Friday is still family day, where you can bring your toddlers and let them run all over campus while you get your Pearl on. Or whatever. It was Pearl dark when I was taking my son there in the late '90s, early 2000s, and back then it was about 50 cents a cup and less at happy hour. We lived right by campus and at the age of 3, one time, I told my son to lead me home, and he knew the way back, all the way through campus and then through a few blocks of actual Houston. That's some proper parenting, y'all. My stepmother (my second one) is a grad and she's pretty fucking cool and way hotter than you'd think for a Rice girl from 1972. And she parties like you wouldn't believe even though she's about 75 now. I have a soft spot for Rice. I partially grew up about two blocks from the campus (on a street called Institute Lane, named after Rice, when it was still and Institute). It's home to me, in a way, and they are mostly harmless as rivals to us on the field. Except when they are not.

They do this so they can tell themselves that they didn't finish the ice cream.

Wish they would have shown what he tweeted after this one: "The culture of a MILF determines readiness more than any botox, foreplay, or size of rack. We are constantly on the lookout for gals that are great culture fits from the right husband. We've found that women who cheat on Jimbo Fisher consistently produce nice, parking lot-ready blowjobs."

Armybrat told me it was a scatback called Homo Habilis out of Pleistocene Permian

Sure. He doesn't sound picky. Just give him $60...

Nice little Saturday at the mapplewhite house

Topwater reds this morning. Also landed two cobia on the duck boat. Limit of trout brought home for the grease as well.