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Excuse me, Tarp told me he was "Back with a Vengeance": https://247sports.com/Article/Texas-AM-Roster-breakdown-LB-Santino-Marchiol-is-back-with-a-vengeance-119589982/

Classic Barton Simmons. Watson basically has all the NFL tools and an NFL projection, but it's his skills at the HS level holding him back from being ranked higher. In the case of Johnson, he's done everything one can at the HS level and is a perfect fit for his college offense and a chance to be a special player, but those lack of NFL tools are really holding him back from being ranked higher. Which one is it you fucking piece of shit, because you shouldn't be able to have it both fucking ways.

Yeah, Jordan really knows how to pin someone down.

Beavis and Butthead behind him are killing me.

Dinner went off the rails when CTJ realized EJ's business card has a watermark

That's bullshit. Firstly, if you took all the 3rd party voters in Texas and gave them to Hillary, she still would have lost the state. Secondly, as mentioned above, if anything, the votes for libertarians hurt Trump since most are typically GOP voters. Thirdly, Hillary was the overwhelming favorite to win, the fact that she lost to Donald f'ing Trump is a testiment to her as a candidate, not Gary Johnson voters. Perhaps if the DNC would have run a legit primary instead of all but anointing Hilary, things would have been different.

Full fucking Aggy

Well, those libertarian votes sure changed the status quo, alright. We went from a pig pen to a septic tank

lol but shit like Sanders' free college plan, which would cost far less than that, is a pipe dream. This country is so impossibly fucked up.

It's fairly ridiculous that so many "conservatives" think the response to that graphic should be the other countries coming up to meet our line instead of us moving down to meet theirs.

Pretty sure Trey Gowdy's hair is always a mess because he just removed his hood.

$75 mil for Jimbo is going to be one of my favorite aggie jokes of all time

Thank God the 1990s were such an innocent time. We all know people like Ken Star and Gingrich had no political opinions or biases when going after Clinton. Time to wrap the Peter Stzork Witch Hunt up. Its gone on long enough and is costing tax payers too much. Amirite, Repubs?

Well. The United States was part of the Spanish, French, and British Empires way back in the 1700's so there is some history there and a claim that it's part of all of them. It's actually an interesting history.

That sounds a little too pacific.

Strzok response at 2:20

hello from overseas friends. its been interesting. hope you fools are ok. lets hear from Bill on this concept a bit

We don't register kids in high school automatically, which is common and is the subject of ongoing federal litigation. What we do is make it has hard as possible to become "deputized" to register voters. You have to take a 6-hour (?) class and go through a bunch of other shit just to be able to sign people up. That means that campaigns generally cannot rely solely on volunteers to register voters--they have to use paid workers who are already certified. That drains campaign cash and limits the number of people who get registered. And that shit all has to be done 30 days before an election. For some reason, we won't let people register 29 days before an election. It makes no sense, since we have voter id--if you have to produce an id at the polling place, why do you need to be registered ahead of time? Other states have same-day registration. Produce your drivers' license and sign an affidavit saying you live at that address, and you're registered. There's no practical reason we don't do that here; we just don't do it because it would increase turnout.

This reminds me of something that happened to my sister's brother-in-law. He was in a meeting at work and his wife calls him and hysterically tells him to come to highway X, where she has pulled over to the median, and help her. She has a situation. He told her to call a garage to come deal with her car, but she says it is not her car, and that he has to come help her himself. Now he understands his wife is the perfect blonde stereotype and that it will be something ridiculous; however, it is his wife so he excuses himself from the meeting and drives out to where she is pulled over. He gets there and she is standing outside the car. He asks her what is the problem and she says "it" is under the driver's seat and he needs to remove "it". So he asks what "it" is and she says a turtle. So of course he asks how the hell a turtle got under the driver's seat. She says she was driving down the highway and saw a turtle crossing the road. She pulled over and picked it up and put it under the driver's seat so it would not get run over. She drove off and everything was fine for a few minutes until the turtle started to trying to bite her feet as she is driving. That is when she pulled over to the median to call him for help. She says the turtle is very angry. He goes to the car and opens the driver's side door to see this turtle, basically expecting a small box turtle or something. Turns out his wife had picked up a full grown snapping turtle and stuck it under her driver's seat.

'culture'

So...Like my ex with husbands?

My early defense of Flake was misplaced hopeful optimism that the conservatives would stand up to Trumpism. I defended Flake because I was hoping his efforts would snowball into a bigger repudiation of Trumpism. If that happened, we would avoid much of the catastrophic consequences down the road. Sadly, we won’t. However, because the Republicans have gone full Kremlin in defending the Manwhorian candidate, a vicious democratic backlash against them is the only hope to squash Trumpism out of our mainstream political culture. Flake sucks and has been a tremendous disappointment.

It sure looks like it. I’m here to acknowledge that my mild optimism about his actions wrt North Korea was misplaced. In retrospect, I can’t believe I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I should have known by now that there is no redeeming quality in this man. #teamanyonebuttrump.

A bunch of new posts on the NBA thread. Did something go down today?

Charges against Stormy Daniels dismissed If you rub the clit, you must acquit.

For me, it's three-fold, especially if I get my in-laws to pay for the brisket. (1) delicious cheap food and I'm the hero (2) sanctioned drinking for 12-20 hours (3) I don't have to interact with my family ("Sorry honey, you know I'd love to go to the dinosaur museum with you and the kids but I gotta stay here and tend this beast")

Retarded people sound retarded.

Probably because if we did the country would be much more ignorant that we already are.

That video looks like it would be a good hustle for a team of an older white woman and a black kid.

Runs up credit card bills, pays 'em off. Sounds pretty, uh, well, uh, boring to me. Sounds like me. And oh, I dunno 140 million other people. This is going to be good, this is. They'll probably find he got a hole punched in his achievement snowman, instead of a gold star, in third grade. THEN shit will hit the fan, it will! I am laughing out loud at this latest thing.

I was planning on smoking a 12 pound brisket on Saturday but I had a last minute recording session and had to leave town, my wife messed up the recipe but it turned out great, here is what happened: I brined the 12 pound brisket starting Friday night then left town. My wife on Saturday night forgot what I told her and took the brisket out of the brine and rinsed it, she then rubbed it with a mixture of ground chipotle pepper, black pepper, chili powder, sugar, cumin and cilantro, she then cut it in two (don't ask why) and put each piece in a large freezer bag, put half a bottle of liquid smoke in each bag and put them back in the fridge, on Sunday night she put both pieces into a large metal turkey roasting pan then covered them with a mixture of Stubbs and cattleman's BBQ sauce, she cooked it at 225 for 5 hours. I was pissed with I got home and while I was yelling about her screwing up my brisket she shoves a piece of the brisket in my mouth, I almost popped a boner, it was the best fuckng brisket I have ever tasted outside of a restaurant. My wife is giving me the biggest shit eating grin along with a told you so look.

Would you guys shut the fuck up? I had the wife convinced the 2 foot rule was strictly enforced.

Which is exactly how the Texas GOP wants it. To that end, they've made it difficult to register voters, and difficult for registered voters to vote. They know theirs is a minority party, and they intend to keep a minority party in power as long as possible. It's anti-democratic in the extreme. But that's the modern GOP.

That's because Beto knows if he's going to win, he has to turn out non-voters. People who don't traditionally vote in midterms and people who don't vote period. And it's a great strategy because - 1. Texas has abysmal voter participation rates. Texas was 47/50 in 2016, with 55% participation. National average was 61%. It was 53.8% in 2012. And, oh yeah, Texas was DEAD LAST in participation in 2010 and 2014 midterms. 2. Texas has abysmal voter registration rates. 44/50 with 68% of eligible citizens registered. Only 48% of Texans aged 18-24 are registered, which is well below that age group's national average (55%). Beto needs to plow about 15% of that big money into voter registration. Get people deputized to register folks. Blanket the college campuses across the state and register every 18 year old in high school (and the eligible 17 year olds who will be 18 by Election Day). The March for our Lives kids from Parkland were in Houston recently doing registration for that specifically.

That's an interesting caveat.

3 SCOTUS appointments potentially. end thread.....

So, I spend a week every year with a cousin by marriage who is one of our country's go-to guys on North Korea. He's met Kim more than once, has toured certain nuclear facilities, negotiated for hostage releases, the whole deal. He has briefed folks in the current administration several times. He just got back from a recent meeting with one of the other nations that took part in the six party talks back in the day. He had both positives and negatives to say about where we are. 1 -- The DPRK is a nuclear power. It is going to remain a nuclear power. They are never going to give up their weapons, and why would they? Truly, we're the only nation that seems to still have that as a goal. 2 -- now that they have nukes, they're probably SAFER to deal with than they were before. They're not scared. Everyone in the room has a gun, now they do too. That makes them feel much less nervous. So, what should our goals be? Most importantly, limit the number of nukes that they have. That means letting them keep the weapons they have, but having them surrender fissile material and plutonium. IF you have a limited number of nukes, the games you can play are limited. If you have 100, you can play much more dangerous games (survive a first strike, counterstrike selected targets, and still have more weapons for a second counterstrike). How do we get there? Well, it's a slow game, like it always has been. We could trade a relaxation of sanctions, but that cat's already out of the bag (at least by South Korea and China). Honestly, we don't have a whole lot of leverage -- Trump gave it away. BUT, he also gave credit for Trump. Sure, he'd have much preferred that he went into the summit prepared, having spent time negotiating a pre-packaged deal that ended the war, expressed a commitment to denuclearize the peninsula, and actually had the DPRK surrender some fissile material (and of course, formal relaxation of some sanctions). But he did say that only a Republican could meet with Kim, and an outlier like Trump was the kind of guy who could do it. And, even if no concrete terms were agreed to, the relationship created and general commitments made should mean no war in the near future (and that's, you know, a good thing). He also observed that Pompeo's recent visit was a disaster, mostly because the admin wasn't listening to the experts. Pompeo went to North Korea thinking he was going to meet with Kim. He didn't, and it was embarrassing. And the DPRK has the upper hand right now. They can slow-play all of their "commitments," and there's not much we can do about it. Good news: war unlikely. Bad news: negotiations with this new nuclear power will take strategy and finesse, and the admin has demonstrated neither. So, there you go. I plied him with several good Ballast Point beers to get this info. Enjoy.

Bullshit. These are not Beto stances. Fuck you.

As Trump's employers, I say we fire him for his "out-of-work sexual conduct."

I think we should take more guys like Vince Young, Ricky Williams and Earl Campbell

I do absolutely miss the way Obama carried himself. Reading his tweets since the election is a breath of fresh air even if I disagree with some of his politics. Since Trump 1st gathered momentum, I feared his longest lasting impact would be democrats getting another super majority. He's utterly embarrassing. I voted against him when Cruz still had a chance to lose to Hillary, and ultimately flushed a texas vote on the GJ believing they could crack 5% and get FEC funding. Of course they didn't. I'm moderately pleased with the SC justices. Recognizing Jerusalem seems good. The repubs managing to pass one substantial piece of legislation (tax "reform") while controlling congress is inexcusable. Their unwillingness to address the deficit after 8 years of screaming about it is outrageous. It lookd like the differences between DJT's 4 years and HRC's theoretical lame duck 4 years will be relatively superficial (despite folks like jimmy claiming it's the end of the republic, lulz), and then the pendulum is swinging back with authority.