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I'm sorry, look at all these old fucking goblins at this thing: Let's go one by one: Beatrice She has not missed a single city council meeting or church bingo in 35 years. She's was a clerk at the DMV her entire adult life and is now retired and receiving pension benefits, yet constantly complains about the size of the government and tax rates. She once touched Ronald Reagan's shoulder at a campaign event in 1980 and has not washed that hand since. She thinks all lives matter, not just black ones. Bernadette Older sister of Beatrice, the two have not spoken since Beatrice touched Reagan as Bernadette alleges Beatrice slapped her hand out of the way to touch him first. They have lived in the same house their entire adult lives. Ted Cruz reminds her of her own son, Bernard, who she hasn't seen in 30 years because he got his ear pierced senior year and she threw him out of the house. She isn't exactly sure who Ted Cruz is, and is concerned that his last name ends in a Z, but she still supports him because Lincoln was a Republican. Joe Joe is a retired Sheriff and came to see Cruz speak because he wanted to hear Cruz's position on building the wall. Joe believes that the wall is the only way to keep the residents of Brownwood safe, event though they are 100s of miles from the border. Joe has seen first hand the impact that illegal immigration has had on Brownwood from when he was a sheriff and he busted what he calls "the cartels" when he pulled over a 20 year old Hispanic man because he was bored and then found a roach in the car. Joe loves to tell anyone within earshot at the cafeteria how he wasn't afraid to testify at the trial and made sure the guy got 30 years in prison. In his free time, Joe watches Fox News and that's about it. Saul Saul is the town mechanic down at Saul's Auto. He employs three Hispanic mechanics who do all of the repair work. He casually uses racial slurs around them and pays them below minimum wage and in cash. He smokes 3 packs of Marlboro Lights 100s a day. He's been rebuilding a '67 Camaro for the last 15 years but can't ever get it running and for some reason. He thinks the other mechanics are sabotaging it but he can't yet prove it, although Joe has some ideas of how they can set up a sting operation. Unknown No one is really sure who this guy is or where he came from. When asked his name he replied "Under the laws of the Constitution I am a sovereign man and you cannot make me answer." He never misses a Ted Cruz speech, unless he is on duty monitoring Jade Helm exercises or on vacation in Charlottesville. Bill Bill always comes to Underwood Cafeteria from his job at the plant on Thursdays for lunch, because Thursday is the meatloaf special, and Bill loves the meatloaf special. All Bill wanted to do was enjoy his meatloaf special, and then this asshole gets up and starts talking about god knows what. Bill should have known this was going to happen when he saw all these cunts like Joe and Beatrice in here. Bill just wants to eat his fucking meatloaf in peace.

This is just a shotgun firing of some CFB related stuff that's interested me lately as I've caught up on the preseason magazines and been following various news updates from places of interest. Texas Experience Depth I alluded to this somewhere previously, but Texas is looking more and more likely to start 18 upperclassmen out of the 22 possible starting positions. The last time we came anywhere close to that? 2009. I thought maybe 2014, but when you look back, Strong, for better or worse, cleaned house heading into the first year and we lost like 12 returners in the offseason. Mack Brown and Tom Herman both chose not to do that when they took the Texas job. Brown learned his lesson at North Carolina when over 20 guys were removed from the team during his first 18 months, and he subsequently went 1-10 in his first and second years and barely held on to his job. He also admits to sobbing in his car in the parking lot after a game during this run, which is nice. You know who's going through a housecleaning of sorts right now? Ol'Jimbo at ATM. If my count is right, they've lost at least 5 returners (Harvey, Martin, Bussey, Marchiol, someone else I can't think of right now, maybe one of the Anderson twins, it could be more than 5 for sure) since last season and they have a big class on the hook right now with limited seniors set to finish up and open spots. May he wind up in similar circumstances to Chuckles and FUPM. Speaking of Experience, or Lack Thereof According to Phil Steele, do you know who returns more experience than anyone else in CFB this season? Fucking Kansas. Sort of the old "I've got good news and bad news" joke with "First, the good news is, you're returning a shit ton of your players with on-field experience. The bad news is, you're returning a shit ton of your players with on-field experience." Georgia Southern is #2, but more relevant on the national scene is Wisconsin at #3 and Florida at #4. Wisconsin is a weird program. They may be the greatest irrelevant program in the last 20 years of our sport. They're almost always very good. They've been to the Rose Bowl on multiple occasions since the mid-90's. They were 12-0 last year before losing a close one in the Big 10 title game. Yet no one took them seriously as a playoff contender, really at all, and no one ever does. This year, they bring back almost everyone, they have a standout running back and OL, and a manageable schedule. They play BYU in the non-con, which looked tougher when scheduled than it does now, and then they have to go to Iowa, Michigan, Northwestern, and Penn State. I guess it is unlikely that they go unscathed through that, but I view them as a strong darkhorse for the playoffs. And what about Florida? Meh. They're less talented than they should be. Mullen is an excellent coach. I assume they'll be a bowl team, but I'm not sure all of that experience is very formidable. Flipping the experience concept and looking in the other direction, Steele has LSU at #129, TCU at #120, and Okie State at #119 in terms of on-field experience returning. That output for LSU reflects their returning players with experience before two returning starters were suspended for major offenses in the past few weeks. LB Tyler Taylor is the alleged getaway driver in a pawn store robbery and is charged with numerous felonies. See ya. Edward Ingram, the starting RG, is suspended indefinitely for unspecified reasons, but the LSU mods on their boards haven't sounded optimistic. The monster that ate Chasen Hinds, all 360 pounds of him, is now sliding in from tackle and backing up the guard positions for depth. This is a guy in need of a redshirt and a body reshaping, and this is the kind of trouble with development that a program in chaos gets itself into. LSU opens on Labor Day Sunday in Arlington against Miami, and then plays at Auburn 13 days later. Regarding TCU, this is the year for Texas to turn things back around against Fat Patty. We play them during a tough stretch, but I'm tired of excuses, and tired of blowouts at the hands of those sweaty fuckers. Last year's game finished with a loss at 24-7, but anyone who watched every game knows that Texas was its least competitive all year against TCU. It might as well have been 100-7. The game never felt within reach. Okie State is in possession of a dubious piece of scoreboard on Texas as well. The longest active winning streak at DKR is held by Okie State at 4 in a row. We have experienced a winning streak at home of that length once in the last 8 years. Embarrassing. Speaking of Winning Streaks Without cheating, do you know who has the longest winning streak in D-1? I assume a lot of folks would wind up remembering pseudo-national champion Central Florida. They're now coached by loudmouth shittalking okie, Josh Heupel. So I am cheering for them to head back into the primordial college football sludge that is the lower tier of the AAC. But here's one for you - which P5 team has the longest active winning streak heading into this season? Apparently it's Northwestern, which is fun, at 8 in a row. They open CFB this year on Thursday, 8/30, against Purdue in a conference game that should actually be fun to watch. Anyway, I realize that for some, more than 280 characters is kind of big deal for them to read, but I figure there's got to be a few people on here who've been thinking about stuff like this and might have some thoughts as well.

WTH?!

I'm old enough to remember when standing up for human rights was an American thing.

Does a secret tape prove more than 50 years of Trump saying and doing overtly racist things? His first mention in the NY times was for racist business practices Encouraging death penalty for five black teens (later exonerated) Claiming to have seen secret documents that America's black president was a foreigner "Mexicans are rapists!" Accusing American judge of being biased because "he's a Mexican." Bending over backwards to defend murderous Nazis Pretending not to know who David Duke was even though he's on record talking about him for the prior 15 years "Total Muslim ban" "Shithole countries" Saying numerous times that black NFL players ought to be "grateful" (no comparable statements for white billionaires) But.... tape? We're going to get excited about tape?

Because she is a horrible person. Michael Cohen is also a horrible person. Rick Gates - horrible person. Trump has a surrounded himself with horrible people, because those are the only people willing to be around him. Which is great, because they will gladly throw him to the wolves for a buck or to avoid justice. Fuck him and his cabal of horrible people.

Yes, I know its old. Still a classic and never gets old.

Imade being too big to not play, at 290 lbs, is the weirdest statement I’ve read in awhile. Like, “Shane Buechele, now 6’1”, is too tall to keep on the bench.”

Look, TS12 might be silly to go down this line of argument, but if anything this strengthens his initial assertion that the rankings/evaluations of offensive lineman in-state have not exactly been great.

Bill's so vain. I bet he thought those pictures were about him.

IMO, you (Hugo) worry far too much about what Putin wants. The email story dominated the news cycle because the American public was interested in the story. If they had not been, it would have evaporated into the either like so many nothingburgers. You are focusing on the (assumed) messenger and not the message. It's understandable because it goes against the grain of your political desires and boogymen are useful for provoking fear based reactions (see GOP and Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi! #bothsides). My point with the OP is that we don't need any more boogymen and fear based political outcomes. We had enough with 9/11 and DHS/Patriot Act. We don't need to tear up the bill of rights to protect us from boogymen.

"Chain migration" is only a thing for brown people. For white people it's "family reunification."

Chip Brown is a piece of shit.

Regarding players "not meeting expectations" Fuck Chip Brown had this to say in a recent article: Lower: Without a doubt, the player who has come back to earth for me is Rice grad transfer left tackle Calvin Anderson. He doesn't have the size, feet, hands or confidence of an overachieving guy from a low-level Group Of Five school like Rice. He has the size, feet, hands and confidence, so far, of a guy who started for a team in Conference USA that — as I've pointed out repeatedly — went 5-7, 3-9 and 1-11 the last three seasons. Anderson looks like a freshman body-wise, standing next to guys like Denzel Okafor or Tope Imade, who both look great. We'll see if Anderson's confidence can bulk up in a hurry. So far, I'm not banking on it. Fuck Chip Brown forever. I really mean Fuck Chip Brown.

I love Hamm, but I think you give him too much credit. He isn't monetizing the group think, that is just how he thinks. I mean the guy threw away his family to chase high school kids around, so I do agree that it is just sad.

Say what you want, but I think the Aggy's retractible end zone seating is boss.

Yeah, I had the same impression. Here's how I've looked at it: I'm a competitor. A pretty dedicated one. The judge is the ref. Sometimes, you get an easy-going ref. Sometimes, you get an asshole ref who makes it personal. In EITHER case, only losers bitch about the ref and make him the focus of their game. Winners play the game, and adjust to whatever kind of ref they've got. If it's a judge I can laugh and banter with, I do that. If it's a judge who tolerates no fun and games, I play that way. If it's a judge who expects everything presented in a 2-page brief or less, I do that. I play my game within the confines of the rules the way the ref at that game interprets them. That's how you win. BUT....that doesn't mean that we the people should tolerate a pointlessly irascible judge. I remember coming home years ago after a pretty big hearing in Fed ct. in another state. I told a story of the judge blowing up and yelling at me for 10 minutes (it was fully expected, we all knew it was coming, HE knew it was coming, so we let him make his point to ALL the parties, then moved on). I didn't enjoy it, but it was part of the game, I was ready for it, and I didn't let it bug me. My wife said "yeah, that's why I'm not a lawyer. I'd have cut him off and said 'listen, fucker -- you work for ME! You got that? You work for the people, we don't work for you!" While, of course, I told her that's a good way to get a taste of a jail cell....she was also right. And I DO really appreciate the judges who are respectful of all the parties and lawyers in front of them. There's a Fed judge I know who purposefully lets ALL attorneys make full arguments, and put on their full argument/case, even when he already KNOWS that it's a dog and they're gonna lose. He explained to me one time, "I know these folks paid a lot of money for their attorney to prepare their argument and go to court. I think I owe it to 'em to let them see that they got their money's worth. That way, even when they lose, they can feel like they tried, had a good lawyer, and were given a fair shake." That's the way it should be, and as public servants, more judges should remember that. A lot of them do, by the way. We tell the stories of the cranky ones. We don't tell many stories about the mundane, boring judges who just let us try our cases and issue rulings as requested.

Push the keyboard away for a bit, take some deep breaths, and pull yourself together. You're completely unhinged over something irrelevant. texasstrong12 didn't come strong with his original premise, but you have gone off the fucking rails this morning. I feel like you're performing a recruiting board rendition of William Foster coming unhinged in a Korean convenience store because the clerk wouldn't him change.

Trump and Omarosa are pretty much the same person. Backstabbing media whores

Everyone failed in 2016, all of us. The media, the intelligence community, Obama, Congress, big tech, and everyday citizens...especially the ones that didn’t vote. First, Russia wasn’t going to be stopped but much more should have been done to contain it. I linked this article for you before, not sure you read it. It’s one of the best pieces of journalism I’ve read over the past two years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.b1dbcf4cb351 Yes it’s Wapo, and it concludes the Obama administration’s approach to Russia in 2016 was a huge failure. IMO Obama should have ignored Trump’s false rhetoric and done what was right, he should have exposed Russia’s entire operation in real time while it was happening. He should have forcefully repudiated Putin in public. The FBI was also asleep at the wheel, dropped the ball on Trump, and played into Putin’s hands with the email investigation. The media was also doing the Kremlin’s work by never ending coverage of Hillary’s bullshit emails. When they weren’t putting Hillary’s shit on blast by propagating emails stolen by Russia, it was all eyes on the Kremlin candidate because ratings. The media should have been doing more investigating instead of standing in front of a Trump rally with a microphone. The social media platforms did not give a shit about what Russia was doing until they got exposed by a whistleblower with pink hair. They actively tried to conceal from the public the role they played in subverting American democracy and we probably still don’t have the whole story from Facebook. And it’s not just Facebook, a shitload of what I call “subversion profiteers” were in on the disinformation feeding frenzy too. And finally, WE, the electorate failed for our inability to defend ourselves from the most significant state sponsored attack on the American people since Pearl Harbor. We didn’t seek to be informed on the things that should matter to us. We got distracted by a complete circus on television and the internet that was the 2016 election. Putin was the ringmaster dictating much of what we would see and when we would see it in the news and in our social media feeds. Everyone failed because we weren’t good enough at our jobs as citizens. We didn’t do our duty. The solution: Be better Americans.

Any internet mention of a non-relative female, who in any way might be physically attractive, must be accompanied by photos featuring said female.

Why didn't this logic prevent you from starting this thread? Are you actually worried that a stupid bill proposed in communications between members of the minority party is going to become law? A bill that doesn't even actually exist in reality let alone on the floor of Congress? You are worried about a memo between members of the minority party but absolve yourself of worrying about the authoritarian tendencies of the party in power, mentioning that you don't take the President seriously despite the actual implementation of authoritarian policies. That smacks of partisan behavior whether you want to believe it or not.

Yes, I need a new phone camera. No, I give zero fucks about image quality.

Comparing seating capacity is like comparing undergraduate enrollment. A&M has more students than us. Fine. Who fucking cares? We have a new medical school and the US Army Futures Command along with multiple best-of-the-best colleges (business, engineering, etc). We don't have the same mission as Texas A&M. We never did. They've gone from turning out dudes who stick their arms up cow vaginas to the Arizona State of the SEC, just a big mostly pointless four-year "university" that anyone with a pulse can get into. FUCK THEM. They are irrelevant to what we're doing whether it's varsity athletics, intramural Quidditch, or academics.

*golfclap heads over to Ag247 to check the current roster for DEs... * I guess you could add Stripling to this list, but WTF is this shit? I guess CB recruiting had kept me so befuddled that I had missed this shit ...

Have you ever gotten a side salad at a burger joint? [shot of sad limp salad] And then your friend got the triple cheeseburger, with extra jalapenos and grilled onions? [shot of tasty burger, with all the stickers on the wrapper] You just got out-Whataburgered. Don't get out-Whataburgered.....vote for the Texan. Vote for the triple meat cheeseburger. Vote for BETO.

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Just need some Chinese Needle Snakes and gorillas, though they won’t freeze in winter

Mugging the haves to give it to the have nots is a bad strategy. You can’t just give hand outs and expect the middle class to recover. You have to structure the welfare system in such a way that encourages people to work and earn. And you have to have jobs for them. I’m intrigued by what Maine has done and wonder if it could scale. Income disparity is a bit of a red herring imo. The goal should be to make sure everyone is able to earn enough, not to bring down the high earners because you don’t like how much they have.

I'm not gonna stand here and have that Kitner boy spill out all over this thread!

Not my wife, but my father-in-laws wife. She is one of the brightest people I have ever met, has a phd, and is President of a small university. We’re on vacation a few weeks ago, and I was cooking breakfast for everyone. She sits down at the kitchen island and opens her laptop. 30 seconds later I hear something I haven’t heard in a long time: You’ve got mail

Abortion.

Look, the trade war is fucking dumb. The Space Force is also fucking dumb. Both of those, (as well as the $2T tax cuts) are drops in the bucket compared to what just 1 year of M4A would cost this country not to mention whatever the fuck a pie in the sky "tuition-free college" scheme would fucking cost us. What a dumb fucking tweet.

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It hasn't been mentioned, but he was also really, really good in Spy Game (2001) with Brad Pitt. Very underrated movie, IMO.

If I'm here and you're here, doesn't that make it our time? -spicoli

Mangino was the biggest hire in that state.

If posting facebook memes is voter manipulation--if that's what we're talking about here---not ballot fraud...then maybe the problem isn't the Russians, or social media...maybe its our education system. Maybe we are paying the price for not teaching people to think for themselves. I'm starting to think we're blaming the Russians, because we don't want to admit we (or a lot of us+ our electoral college) elected a known asshole/game-show host. TheRussiansDidThis.gif We're still talking about fake articles and memes right? Not voter/ballot fraud, right? Also think the military-industrial complex are ready for another US-Russia cold war because cold wars print money.

Sounds like Pocahontas got herself a scalp

You’re just mad you didn’t start this thread.

Cool

What a legend

At the restaurant last night. Wife and I ordered margaritas. 4.5-yr-old son wanted a taste but I told them they were grown-up drinks. Waiter: Yeah, those are for Mom and Dad. Son: How did you know their names? Waiter: Lucky guess.

Don’t start no shit, Juan be no shit.

Y’all do what you want. I think he’s a whiny bitch and don’t want to ever see him associated to Texas again. He was fucking poison on the team last year and he put himself over the program again a few weeks ago, in public. That shit has been screenshot and sent to every recruiting target we’re in on for the next 3 classes. Fuck that selfish shithead. Some of you guys that have short memories and fungible loyalties should refocus your attention to the NFL and NBA. You may not be cut out for this little “the program is bigger than any player or coach” notion as a supporter for college teams.