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I may be in the minority here, but I think we should avoid posting family pics of non-public figures, even if one of the parents is a proven aggie rube.

Whichever one we get. The other one sucks.

Would be impressed if he noticed before Spring practice that he didn't have an OC

Horseshit. The GOP has run a successful 30 year campaign to make Democrats not just wrong, but literally evil. Like preachers saying or implying that voting dem is a sin. Like catholic churches threatening to withhold communion from democrat politicians. When you consider the opposition literally evil and sinful it's justifiable to "cheat" and to rig the system against them. Not justifiable, but morally imperative. Because they are up against actual immorality, actual evil. The result is that a compulsive liar who doesn't care about church and who has had several marital affairs is a fucking hero to evangelical christians. These people vote in droves. There aren't any swath of dem or even moderate voters who are going to fix this. Dems should have won the Senate and taken a larger majority in the House. There should be several more dem governors. But that didn't happen. Because white christans came out in droves to vote against actual evil. The dems don't have that type of emotional plea and is why we are heading towards theocracy, which will apply to libruls, but with lots of wiggle room for "true conservatives," because their moral flaws aren't real or can be ignored, cause "conservative."

Yeah, but you weren't before Judge Kavanaugh.

Good enough for me. /Texashammer

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Thats not because the Dems were unmotivated to vote. That's because at least 33 to 40 percent of this country are steaming piles of shit racist white people. America isn't in decline because of trump. It's in decline because it's citizenry is so full of ignorant and uneducated morons. The Dems crushed the racist idiot horde in the suburbs where the educated whites live. Unfortunately there's nothing to be done about the uneducated/stupid and ignorant fucks short of extermination, and Mike Judge already told you how they like to procreate.

I wonder how many hyperlinks Rudy accidentally created over those 87 pages.

“Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack. It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu. Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island. And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island. Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation. As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.”

He's married to A&M you stupid sip.

Why did you title this like you work for an online newspaper and need clicks?

This is where Oscar Giles really flexes his muscles and shows Alabama, Clemson and all of the other lackies, whose balls. Whose balls? Texas' fucking balls, sirs. And we're dragging them across the nose of college football with our usual late recruiting cycle master finds on the DL. Giles is like a reverse grizzly bear. He hibernates for 10 months then wakes up and hands Carrington his phone and social media accounts in order to do work.

He'll be disappointed to find that she now reeks of Tom Arnold.

This is an interesting summary of one Texas badass hero involved at Pearl Harbor. Dorris Miller

It's almost like someone (or perhaps a certain duo) under Terry has got a different agenda ... This is where I am going to point out that in the 247 ranking first update after decomm from Aggy Bobby Wolfe fell 124 spots after his meteoric rise, just 3 days after his Aggy decommit Post no-showing Aggy Shepherd has fallen 192 spots in the 247, until the latest Aggy no-show Shepherd was +88. He had a previous +130 jump when he confirmed he'd be at Aggy Jr day. Andre White is up +389 since committing to Aggy in 247 rankings. Demani Richardson up 38 spots after a season ending injury (on the heels of a 120 spot climb just before that), despite very limited SR film, and no new measurables. Calzada is up 477 overall (which included a +977 at one point) despite being awful at the sport of football. Layden Robinson had a +401 place bump the day before he committed to Aggy. Jeffrey Carter is +320 since April just to think this through... DeGabriel Floyd is -32 despite being completely dominant on the field. His murder conviction notwithstanding. Derrian Brown is -28 since his Texas commitment. guessing an SEC commitment would have netted a different result. T'Vondre Sweat is -139 including a -17 point drop the day of his Texas commitment and another -17 point drop the next week. This despite being the dominant defender on a team that has allowed 137 points in 11 games. Peter Mpagi is -586 since the initial 247 rankings. Marques Caldwell is particularly hilarious - his composite score is +139 despite the fact that his 247 is -376. Likewise Payton Powell has a composite +163 despite a 247 drop of -63. Marcus Tillman is -143 on 247. Whittington is +4 composite despite his -79 on 247 (with not a single positive move since January of 2018) checked a couple of OU guys from Texas :: Jamal Morris is -412 on the 247 Kori Roberson is -202 on the 247 EJNO is -40 Stogner -32 TCU :: Barlow is +51 on composite -15 on 247. Tamuzia Brown is -125 Collins -264 Coker -607 Bannon Brown -497 Winters -308 Ellison -31

I always enjoy inconoclasts of all stripes. Someone posted this on FB and thought some here might enjoy. She's a true liberal but might trigger many here, so you've been warned. https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/camille-paglia-hillary-wants-trump-to-win-again/ Camille Paglia is one of the most interesting and explosive thinkers of our time. She transgresses academic boundaries and blows up media forms. She’s brilliant on politics, art, literature, philosophy, and the culture wars. She’s also very keen on the email Q and A format for interviews. So, after reading her new collection of essays, Provocations, The Spectator sent her some questions. You’ve been a sharp political prognosticator over the years. So can I start by asking for a prediction. What will happen in 2020 in America? Will Hillary Clinton run again? If the economy continues strong, Trump will be reelected. The Democrats (my party) have been in chaos since the 2016 election and have no coherent message except Trump hatred. Despite the vast pack of potential candidates, no one yet seems to have the edge. I had high hopes for Kamala Harris, but she missed a huge opportunity to play a moderating, statesmanlike role and has already imprinted an image of herself as a ruthless inquisitor that will make it hard for her to pull voters across party lines. Screechy Elizabeth Warren has never had a snowball’s chance in hell to appeal beyond upper-middle-class professionals of her glossy stripe. Kirsten Gillibrand is a wobbly mediocrity. Cory Booker has all the gravitas of a cork. Andrew Cuomo is a yapping puppy with a long, muddy bullyboy tail. Both Bernie Sanders (for whom I voted in the 2016 primaries) and Joe Biden (who would have won the election had Obama not cut him off at the knees) are way too old and creaky. To win in the nation’s broad midsection, the Democratic nominee will need to project steadiness, substance, and warmth. I’ve been looking at Congresswoman Cheri Bustos of Illinois and Governor Steve Bullock of Montana. As for Hillary, she’s pretty much damaged goods, but her perpetual, sniping, pity-me tour shows no signs of abating. She still has a rabidly loyal following, but it’s hard to imagine her winning the nomination again, with her iron grip on the Democratic National Committee now gone. Still, it’s in her best interest to keep the speculation fires burning. Given how thoroughly she has already sabotaged the rising candidates by hogging the media spotlight, I suspect she wants Trump to win again. I don’t see our stumbling, hacking, shop-worn Evita yielding the spotlight willingly to any younger gal. Has Trump governed erratically? Yes, that’s a fair description. It’s partly because as a non-politician he arrived in Washington without the battalion of allies, advisors, and party flacks that a senator or governor would normally accumulate on the long road to the White House. Trump’s administration is basically a one-man operation, with him relying on gut instinct and sometimes madcap improvisation. There’s often a gonzo humour to it — not that the US president should be slinging barbs at bottom-feeding celebrities or jackass journalists, much as they may deserve it. It’s like a picaresque novel starring a jaunty rogue who takes to Twitter like Tristram Shandy’s asterisk-strewn diary. Trump’s unpredictability might be giving the nation jitters, but it may have put North Korea, at least, on the back foot. Most Democrats have wildly underestimated Trump from the get-go. I was certainly surprised at how easily he mowed down 17 other candidates in the GOP primaries. He represents widespread popular dissatisfaction with politics as usual. Both major US parties are in turmoil and metamorphosis, as their various factions war and realign. The mainstream media’s nonstop assault on Trump has certainly backfired by cementing his outsider status. He is basically a pragmatic deal-maker, indifferent to ideology. As with Bolsonaro in Brazil, Trump rose because of decades of failure by the political establishment to address urgent systemic problems, including corruption at high levels. Democrats must hammer out their own image and agenda and stop self-destructively insulting half the electorate by treating Trump like Satan. Does the ‘deep state’ exist? If so, what is it? The deep state is no myth but a sodden, intertwined mass of bloated, self-replicating bureaucracy that constitutes the real power in Washington and that stubbornly outlasts every administration. As government programs have incrementally multiplied, so has their regulatory apparatus, with its intrusive byzantine minutiae. Recently tagged as a source of anti-Trump conspiracy among embedded Democrats, the deep state is probably equally populated by Republicans and apolitical functionaries of Bartleby the Scrivener blandness. Its spreading sclerotic mass is wasteful, redundant, and ultimately tyrannical. I have been trying for decades to get my fellow Democrats to realise how unchecked bureaucracy, in government or academe, is inherently authoritarian and illiberal. A persistent characteristic of civilisations in decline throughout history has been their self-strangling by slow, swollen, and stupid bureaucracies. The current atrocity of crippling student debt in the US is a direct product of an unholy alliance between college administrations and federal bureaucrats — a scandal that ballooned over two decades with barely a word of protest from our putative academic leftists, lost in their post-structuralist fantasies. Political correctness was not created by administrators, but it is ever-expanding campus bureaucracies that have constructed and currently enforce the oppressively rule-ridden regime of college life. In the modern world, so wondrously but perilously interconnected, a principle of periodic reduction of bureaucracy should be built into every social organism. Freedom cannot survive otherwise. What is true multiculturalism? As I repeatedly argue in Provocations, comparative religion is the true multiculturalism and should be installed as the core curriculum in every undergraduate program. From my perspective as an atheist as well as a career college teacher, secular humanism has been a disastrous failure. Too many young people raised in affluent liberal homes are arriving at elite colleges and universities with skittish, unformed personalities and shockingly narrow views of human existence, confined to inflammatory and divisive identity politics. Interest in Hinduism and Buddhism was everywhere in the 1960s counterculture, but it gradually dissipated partly because those most drawn to ‘cosmic consciousness’ either disabled themselves by excess drug use or shunned the academic ladder of graduate school. I contend that every educated person should be conversant with the sacred texts, rituals, and symbol systems of the great world religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, Judeo-Christianity, and Islam — and that true global understanding is impossible without such knowledge. Not least, the juxtaposition of historically evolving spiritual codes tutors the young in ethical reasoning and the creation of meaning. Right now, the campus religion remains nihilist, meaning-destroying post-structuralism, whose pilfering god, the one-note Foucault, had near-zero scholarly knowledge of anything before or beyond the European Enlightenment. (His sparse writing on classical antiquity is risible.) Out with the false idols and in with the true! There’s a lot of buzz about the ‘intellectual dark web’. One of its leading figures is Jordan Peterson, who is in some ways like you — he provokes, he works in an array of disciplines, he encourages individual responsibility. I saw your podcast with him. What did you make of him? Why is he so popular? There are astounding parallels between Jordan Peterson’s work and mine. In its anti-ideological, trans-historical view of sex and nature, my first book, Sexual Personae (1990), can be viewed as a companion to Peterson’s first book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999). Peterson and I took different routes up the mountain — he via clinical psychology and I via literature and art — but we arrived at exactly the same place. Amazingly, over our decades of copious research, we were drawn to the same book by the same thinker — The Origins and History of Consciousness (1949), by the Jungian analyst Erich Neumann. (My 2005 lecture on Neumann at New York University is reprinted in Provocations.) Peterson’s immense international popularity demonstrates the hunger for meaning among young people today. Defrauded of a genuine humanistic education, they are recognising the spiritual impoverishment of their crudely politicised culture, choked with jargon, propaganda, and lies. I met Peterson and his wife Tammy a year ago when they flew to Philadelphia with a Toronto camera crew for our private dialogue at the University of the Arts. (The YouTube video has had to date over a million and a half views.) Peterson was incontrovertibly one of the most brilliant minds I have ever encountered, starting with the British philosopher Stuart Hampshire, whom I heard speak impromptu for a dazzling hour after a lecture in college. In turning psychosocial discourse back toward the syncretistic, multicultural Jung, Peterson is recovering and restoring a peak period in North American thought, when Canada was renowned for pioneering, speculative thinkers like the media analyst Marshall McLuhan and the myth critic Northrop Frye. I have yet to see a single profile of Peterson, even from sympathetic journalists, that accurately portrays the vast scope, tenor, and importance of his work. Is humanity losing its sense of humour? As a bumptious adolescent in upstate New York, I stumbled on a British collection of Oscar Wilde’s epigrams in a secondhand bookstore. It was an electrifying revelation, a text that I studied like the bible. What bold, scathing wit, cutting through the sentimental fog of those still rigidly conformist early 1960s, when good girls were expected to simper and defer. But I never fully understood Wilde’s caustic satire of Victorian philanthropists and humanitarians until the present sludgy tide of political correctness began flooding government, education, and media over the past two decades. Wilde saw the insufferable arrogance and preening sanctimony in his era’s self-appointed guardians of morality. We’re back to the hypocrisy sweepstakes, where gestures of virtue are as formalised as kabuki. Humour has been assassinated. An off word at work or school will get you booted to the gallows. This is the graveyard of liberalism, whose once noble ideals have turned spectral and vampiric.

Hmmm, maybe he’s a bigger fan of Jimbo’s family lifestyle than we realize.

Mega threads fucking suck. Fuck those.

Newly released footage of Nellie Ohr this morning......

Went out and saw the train. Took the kids to go witness this. It was special. I took a video and seeing the casket and the family waving and holding up signs saying thank you was pretty moving. Even W was smiling. My cousin who is a retired marine and overall badass sent this to me after I sent him the video. I think it summed it up nicely. "Thanks for sharing. I wish so badly I could’ve been there to witness the events. People think that sports events or a lot of other things hold a great deal of weight. In the grand scheme of things. This is what matters. 10’s of thousands of people lined freeways, Roads, railroads, you name it. All to pay their respects to ONE man. No controversy, No kneeling, No nonsense. Just patriotism And American pride for one of the greatest human beings to ever grace this earth. You and our “Texas” family were blessed to experience such a thing."

Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” but only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against an Austinite, when property valuation is on the line!”

Looks like Adimora canceled his ASU visit plans. Reported on 247.

Don’t be a fag. Just call it Smear the Queer.

Here's a picture of them delivering the presidential documents to the Donald J Trump presidential library on the campus of Texas A&M University...

Random People! Nothing Burger! Cc @Thetexashammer

Every tweet has a dick pic. His avatar.

Lol at the guy who took an 8 car motorcade to go 200 yards calling anyone lazy.

My favorite part is that Trump is mentally incapable of grasping that calling someone HE HIRED “dumb” and “lazy” might reflect poorly on him as well...

This country didn't spit them out in 2018. The gains in the House seem like a big deal if you look at the election against other elections, but we're in new waters here. We have a substantial minority completely divorced from actual policy or even a care about personal integrity looking to have their basest fears and prejudices exploited. Trump will likely go down in flames, but what next? That huge minority will want somebody else to avenge Trump and stroke those same deplorable aims. It's the electorate that's the problem. A single election won't undue 30 years of hate programming. Programming in both senses of the word: the electorate has been programmed by radio programs. I can see Dems celebrating the defeat of Trump and Trumpists showing up to protest the deep state, fake news, the ascendancy of wimmin and nigras, and the crucifixion of their combed-over god. I see deaths. I wonder about terrorism masquerading as patriotism. Trump just took the wheel of that car. Pulling him from behind the wheel won't stop the car.

Thanks, Reagan.

What a reasonable take. Is the rest of the pac 12 like this?

this is like when my wife tells me how much money she saved by buying $200 worth of shit that was "on sale"

By @djrothkopf So we know this, Russian government representatives reached out to the Trump campaign in 2015 and undertook multiple initiatives and had multiple points and series of contacts with Team Trump for the next couple years. It's not just the Trump Tower meeting. It's not just the interactions with Wikileaks. It's not just the Russian ties to Cambridge Analytica. It's not just Konstantin Kiliminik, a Russian agent working hand in hand with campaign chair Paul Manafort. It's not just the ties between Flynn and the Russians. it's not just the links between the Russians and Eric Prince through the meeting in the Seychelles and beyond that. It's not just the ties of Wilbur Ross. It's not just the Trump Organization dealings with Russia. It's not just Jared Kushner's dealings with Russia. It's not just Kushner and Flynn's dealing with Kislyak during the campaign. It's not just the candidate Trump asking for Russian help. It's not just the GRU hacking for which indictments have already taken place. We can go on. But let's not stop before we discuss the many benefits the Russians delivered to Trump via hacking, the dumping of files, the manipulation of social media and other avenues...all to support Trump over Clinton. Nor should we fail to discuss the benefits Trump offered the Russians since he gained power. There was his covering up their hacking and his efforts to slow investigations of it. There was his denying the conclusions of the intelligence community about the Russians. There were the talks between Flynn and the Russians about waiving sanctions. There were the meetings with Trump when he was president when he handed over classified information to the Russians. There were whatever promises or concessions were made in Helsinki. There was a pattern of placating the Russians or failing to enforce sanctions for months and months. In other words, there was plenty of quid and plenty of quo ($50 million penthouse apartments and the promise of big deals or financing benefits aside). From the outreach to Cohen to just the first months of the admin we can count more than a dozen separate avenues of connection at the highest level. In any normal campaign or administration, just one would set off alarm bells and have the president calling the FBI into action. But instead, in addition to those dozen avenues, the offers that were explicitly or tacitly accepted, benefits to both sides & the overt betrayal of the U.S. to advance the political or economic interests of Trump and those close to him, we have the president obstructing justice. Actively obstructing. Threatening to fire all those getting closer to the truth. Lying and lying and lying some more and urging staff to lie and witness tampering and so on. This is not a case of possible collusion. This is sweeping, multi-layered, high level conspiracy led by Vladimir Putin and the Russian intelligence community and involving the active cooperation and complicity of a man who was a candidate for president and then president as well as his entire team. This is the biggest scandal in the history of the American presidency and there is not another that is close to it. But that is not all we know. The DoJ believes the president of the United States directed the commission of campaign finance felonies as a candidate. The NYT produced extensive and compelling evidence of serial tax fraud by the Trump family. The state of NY is investigate fraud in their charities. The House will soon begin investigation of Trump money laundering. A case involving his violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause is under way. In other words, as massive as the Russia scandal is, it might not be the biggest Trump scandal. It might not even be the scandal that brings Trump down. But what we know is that all of these or any of these scandals must bring him down. This criminal has no business being the White House. He has no business walking freely among us. 2019 is going to be the worst year of Donald Trump's life except for all those that will follow it. These cases will be investigated further and then proven. Some may be prosecuted while he is in office. Some may wait until he leaves office. But someday this is already certain, no senior American public official--not Richard Nixon, not Andrew Johnson--will go down in more disgrace or be more reviled by history than Donald Trump. And that is as it should be.

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Be Best.

Treat him just like the other enemy of the country from about 8 years ago... Just dump his fat ass into the ocean and let him be shark shit.

Giles is stepping up his game!

Both arms? Holy crap, even after all I've been through that about made me hurl thinking about it. Be leaving the wound open to treat the infection and help drainage is the worst nightmare. After my amputation I still had infection so they had to leave it open for about 10 days and would come in Daily to do a high pressure water debridement on the dead tissue. that was the one and only situation where I was trying to find a way to kill myself. Initially they gave me very little for pain other than morphine and I was literally blacking out from the pain so they started giving me Twilight sleep so I would not go into shock. Your cousin is one tough son of a gun going through all the way out in one piece

Greatest Christmas ever. Back in 2001 when my oldest granddaughter was 4 or so, she and our daughter and son-in-law came to our house in San Antonio for Christmas. Of course we set out milk and cookies as tradition dictated, but added a couple of small surprises. We had deliberately gathered some ash and soot and sprinkled it around the fire place and put some footprints around courtesy of my rubber rain boots. We then took a piece of red velvet and ripped it and hung it on the fireplace screen, of course it had smudges of ash and soot on it also. The next morning when she came downstairs she immediately checked to see it "Santa" got the milk and cookies (I he sure did!), and when she saw the footprints, soot and ash along with the torn part of the Santa suit she just freaked out. I've never seen a child more excited or happy on Christmas. /csb Edit, my wife and I were reminiscing about this last night and there was part of that special Christmas that I had forgotten. Around 7:30 or 8 on Christmas Eve my wife had to go to HEB, (believe it or not it was open) and ran into a Santa Claus driving a red Mustang convertible which I believe was a 64 65 model. She said he was the most real looking Santa Claus she had ever seen and told him where we lived and asked him to please come by the house. The only thing I was upset is she gave him $300 to do it. So anyway now that she is letting me in on the scheme. When he knocked at the door I told our oldest daughter to answer the door for me that I was busy. She and the granddaughter went to answer the door and I don't know who had the most shocked look on their face the daughter or granddaughter. The funny part was is after he wished everybody a Merry Christmas he went out to his Mustang, and of course he already had a pretty good buzz on, and he started laughing going ho ho ho Santa's lost his stinking keys.