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Of course Trump is lying about the cop's 401K, but there's another aspect to this story and others that he tells. People are always just walking up to him and telling him things. You imagine he's standing on a corner with his hands in his pockets maybe whistling a sweet tune. Any number of admiring, grateful citizens come up to him. "Hey, you're the president, aren't you?" "Yep. Best ever. My, aren't you a big, strong, tough-looking fella. Cop?" "Uh, yea. I just wanted to say...." "Tears are running down your cheeks. Here's some tissue from the heel of my shoe." "...Thanks. I'm so proud of what you're doing for America. My 401K is up 39% in under a year. Thank you thank you thank you!" "You're welcome. Have a nice day." Resumes whistling Zippity Doo Dah. This is the same man who took a motorcade across the street to see the grieving Bushes. He doesn't visit soldiers. He doesn't do personal meetings with real people. No one is breaking through Secret Service agents to chat with this lying sack of shit.

First year few days of med school, you're kind of getting to know everybody... After the white coat ceremony about 12 of us are at a random table. So out of the blue, one guy pipes up and takes his ring off and gets into an elaborate story. The other 10 or so people at the table (he was there with his Mom - we all had family, no big deal there) are intently listening. He doesn't get 2 min in and I'm having trouble containing my laughter. I finally acted like I was having a coughing fit and excused myself to grab another beer. I had to wait the next 15 min to return. He held everyone hostage with some story about how special that ring was. The reason I laughed so hard is because I had heard for years how fucking nuts these people are...but I assumed things were REALLY exaggerated and there's no way they were that fucking insane. Well here we are, meeting my first aggy in a public setting and BOOM, he goes full aggy. CSB?

Hot dogs with cheddar cheese wrapped in pillsbury pizza crust with Hot Wolf brand chili baked for 25 min.

Your move Florida.

Rookie, she's pissed that you had no issues and found a way to function without her.

Take the stranding, pussy.

Your mom's shithole is a deep pocket.

Yes, and like that, the surly liberal cabal have become what the conservitards have been for some time -- win at any cost, no matter the means. But what's the alternative? We are in a street fight to the death against a dark form of governance. The other side has paid off the referees and thrown the rules out the window. We can sit here and cry "foul!", take the high road and be right about it, but it won't fucking matter one bit. I'm as centrist as they come. I hate the idea of aligning myself at a pole when I often see those that traditionally sit there are wrong. I don't want to be in this situation, but its being pretty much forced on me. When you see a presidential candidate calling on Russia to affect the election, when you see him obstructing inquiry into that, when you see us turning towards plutocracy and the likes of Putin and Kim, when you see us alienating the great democracies of the world, when you see kids in cages and when you see nothing being done to deter these things, then you have to choose: What will America be? The playground of rich, white, male Christians who define the rights, roles and opportunities of everyone else within it? A sham of a democracy to preserve that order? It is clear that if you choose to back Trump and/or the current GOP that enables him, you are choosing that America. And if you aren't willing to defeat that by any means necessary, then you are allowing it to happen. As someone who values equality, freedom and human rights as core ideals on which all other political concerns rest, I cannot make that choice. Even if I probably wouldn't agree with a coastal liberal about a whole lot. Even if it means bending the rules to re-level the playing field. If Trump loses, there is a chance to restore those ideals to their rightful place at the forefront of our society. If he does not, then they are assuredly lost.

jesus, mueller about to fall into the same goddamn trap that comey did. these guys are ned starking all over the fucking place.

In my experience, here's how tournament ball plays out from 7-11 years old. "We're just looking for some good families and good kids. We had the time of our life last year in rec, but just don't want to deal with rec league anymore and end up on random teams. If I'm going spend that much time with someone, I'd like it to be people I know and like. Don't worry, we're going to do it laid back and focus on development more that winning." Oh shit, turns out everyone else we play isn't laid back and we're getting our shit pushed in. time to stop letting the kids play different positions and have them focus on one and field the best lineup we can right now. Start practicing 2 times a week instead of once. Turns out Billy and Bobby aren't as good at 8 as they were at 7. We need to find a way to get them off the team. Here's what we'll do - we'll have open tryouts with the wink-wink understanding that the other 8 players will make the team and Billy and Bobby won't. Billy and Bobby don't make the team. Their parents kind of know what just happened, but not completely. We feel bad about backstabbing their 2nd grader, but that's life, cuts happen. We won't be friends for the next 10 years. Tim and Tom replaced Billy and Bobby. Tim drives an hour in for practices and games. His dad is a dick and thinks his son is incredible, and you can tell Tim thinks the same. They have no interest in making friends and relish the role of the hired gun. Tom goes to different school than ours. He has two older brothers and ever since he got on the team, the other kids have started saying Fuck and Shit after they strike out. None of this really matters because these boys can mash and we are starting to win a lot more. We just won 3 A tournaments in a month and got promoted to AA!! Turns out these guys in AA are pretty good. We need to practice more. As we move into kid pitch, its really time for these boys to play for a real coach. We'll sign up at an organization and play under their umbrella. They have a guy who was drafted in the 35th round and gives batting lessons. He coaches U11 and U13 team as well, so he obviously knows how to coach kids. Coach immediately identifies 3 kids who aren't going make a successful transition from coach pitch to kid pitch. I was already thinking it, but sure am glad I have this guy to do the dirty work this time around. He already has three kids in mind. They aren't bad kids, but we don't have much in common with them or their parents. So much for doing this with good friends and families. But, they, things changed. If we are investing this much time and money, we expect to win. And win we do. We just ran through a couple of AA tournaments. Promoted to AAA!! I've bragged to a few of my buddies about my son being on a AAA team. They don't get it. Fuck, that's because they have girls. They don't realize how big of a deal this is. We are leaving town pretty much every weekend now. Turns out there aren't as many local AAA tournaments as there are for A and AA. Also, we are practicing 3 times a week, plus taking batting lessons from our coach. Its worth it. That's the life of a stud 9 year old baseball player. I admit I did have a weak moment and start to question whether all this time was worth it, but we just won our first AAA tournament. Sure, it was a holiday weekend and the field was slimmer than normal, but nothing will top that car ride home. Feels great when you work hard and earn something like me and my son just did. Well...that was short lived. We just got knocked out in the first round of the next tournament. Coach is PISSED at the kids. And he should be. They must've thought they were incredible after last weeks win. In 6 days we went from top of the world to bottom of the barrel. There's 5 of us still left from the original team. The best of the best at our school. Some of the other kids who were on our team two years ago don't even play baseball anymore. Hell, we did them a favor culling them from the team. Some play soccer. Others go to summer camp with dorks. My kid is getting to travel and see a lot of the region. We are going to play in a tournament in Florida soon. Kid probably won't be allowed to swim because it will tire him out, but he'll still enjoy it. See, we vacation too. But of the 5 still left, its not that they aren't good players, they just aren't on the level of my kid. When my kid pitches, the other guys make errors. When the other guy's pitch, they just aren't nearly good enough. They're kind of making my kid look bad and I feel like he's wasting some of his prime years on a team that can't keep up with him. I was approached by a dad of a player on a Major team. This is what its all about. A whole team of players as good as mine. I don't see my kid being friends with any of the other players. Hell, half of them are from out of town. but he has friends at school and can talk to them at lunch period. Friends with their parents? Heck, no, I don't have time for that. I don't like to talk to anyone when the game is being played anyway. That is a stressful time. And the kids aren't allowed to be silly or cut up in the dugout or the coach will tear their asses up. Good. This ain't rec ball or some fun little tournament team with a bunch of losers. What a great decision. We just won a ton of tournaments. My kid has more USSSA rings than you can keep up with. Bought a couple of special trophy cases to hold them and made part of my office the trophy room. I'm so proud of him. Unlike his little brother who still plays in the local rec league. Sure i don't have time to teach him how to do anything, but its the freaking rec league and he can't even dominate that? Not really worth my time. Maybe we should sign him up for soccer? We are a week away from the 11U season starting and my son just told me he doesn't want to play baseball any more. WTF? Does he know how much time and money we've spent just in this offseason? Its because I let him hang out with that loser kid from school. The one who plays some sports but his parents won't even let him play on the All Star team because they visit their grandparents every June in Georgia. i can't believe what an ungrateful fuck he's being about this. I know lots of parents think this, but he honestly could've been a great college player and have a good chance at getting drafted. I am always going to let him know how much of a quitter he became.

"No it wouldn't."

So you want to eat your own urine and semen - weird, but okay. OP - we have a food board....just sayin'

Filet Oscar from last night.

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

I wish Barry would put a Chechen bullet in all of you talking about fast forwarding through an amazing 25 minute television show.

Fuck off cunt

.........this is where you tell us what it is so we don't have to get OB subscriptions

I don’t know if this is the right thread for this but I love Ted Lieu just flat out calling Barr a partisan hack.

My nightmares have come home to roost. I fear this is the final piece needed to awaken the sleeping giant that is aggy.

I'd argue that refusing to testify publicly is a much larger political gesture than just showing up and answering questions.

Cain was literally so torn that he literally didn't know what team he was going to pick when he walked up to the podium. That's a fact.

Quick A&M roster numbers I tried to put together. This is probably not 100% accurate, because none of the A&M sites have an updated and accurate scholarship board, but it's probably close. Assuming this link's classification for each player is accurate: https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/Season/2019-Football/ScholarshipDistribution/ Current Roster- 88 scholarships if Mowry and Ellison, and the rest of the 2019 class make it to campus (Blades was questionable I believe). They have to get down to 85 by fall camp; if Mowry and Ellison greyshirt or whatever, A&M only needs to lose one more scholarship player over the next three months to get down to 85. If that player is a senior or older guy they'd lose anyway, then that doesn't help them much, while if it's someone from a recent class (2018-2020), then it gives them an extra spot in their 2020 class. Mowry, Ellison, or Blades not making it in at all also helps their 2020 class in regards to class size. Graduating seniors- 6 Draft eligible after the season, not counting the six graduating seniors- 28 By fall camp 2020: current roster + 2020 class + late joining grayshirts - attrition ≤ 85 Let's assume that Blades makes it in, but Mowry and Ellison don't, but take prep-school classes to be able to greyshirt and join later, and their remaining scholarship they must lose by fall camp comes from an underclassman This gives: 85 + 2020 Class + 2 - (6 graduating seniors) = 81 + 2020 Class. Scenarios: With 0 attrition, they're at a class of 4 scholarships If Mowry and Ellison have to go JUCO, and with 0 attrition, they're at a class of 6 scholarships Whatever class number you're trying to get to will be 4-6 (depending on Mowry/Ellison) + attrition So, if you're trying to get to full class of 25, you're looking at a non-graduating senior attrition number of 19-21 depending on Ellison/Mowry over the next 15 months If you're looking at an arguably more reasonable number of, say, 19, you're looking at a non-graduating senior attrition number 14-16 15 months is a long time, and Jimbo only really has to get rid of one more guy for this upcoming season. Some guys will retire instead of come back for a fifth year, some will medically retire, Jimbo will force some to portal, and a handful might leave early for the draft. Interestingly to me, 2020 is the season aggie mods have circled due to Mond being a senior and the schedule being easy, but I think a ton of their attrition will need to come from 4th/5th year seniors to be for that season if they want to get to a high class number, which would presumably hurt their team on the field. Anyone feel like checking my math, or want to check the # of graduating seniors?

Interesting and good point. I had the opposite experience. I was pretty sure I was an alcoholic from my 20s, but I said "sure, that's me, I accept" re: the first step so quickly that I didn't give it the proper consideration. Step 1 doesn't really mean "I gotta stop drinking". Or, it doesn't just mean that. To me, that's all I got out of it for a long time. You have to really accept what "my life is unmanageable" means. It doesn't mean "I'm not managing my life very well right now!" or "I got a lotta problems!" or "I gotta stop drinking to get things back under my control" or "if I weren't such a worthless piece of shit, I could manage my life, but I am so I can't". It means the life that I have lived until now is completely fucking unmanageable by a human being, any human being. It's not about how strong I should be, or how many different decisions I should have made in 2004, or poor poor pitiful me they're always picking on me. It is an explicit admission that someone a lot more powerful than me is going to have to drive how I react to life, because whatever I have done up to now has not worked and won't magically start working if I lean into it more or try harder or drink more heavily. The latter half of Step 1 leads directly into Step 2. It's meant to. If you don't read it that way, you're not getting it. I wasn't. I thought it meant that I had made a big mess to clean up and once I had seized control of my life and fixed everything via AA, it would be Achievement Unlocked and I'd move on to the next stage.

I never thought I’d see the day that a UT grad taking over for aggy Rick Perry would somehow be a worse governor, yet here we are.

He's probably going to try to give California back.

Absolutely not. They don't need to shout "WOLVERINES!" from the rooftops into a megaphone. Sure, the Soviet Union was plenty evil into the 1980s but it was a much more subtle "the gears of the State just grind on" type of malevolence. By 1986, I think most Russian comrades had already begun to lose their confidence in the State, and the way they've portrayed its banal immorality so far seems spot on from my recollections.

Marcel Brooks is setting up a visit to Austin this weekend. Texas could still be in this if the coaching staff really wows him.

And schools used to be segregated. Shit changes. Does it taste good? Count me in.

Because of an industrial scale ongoing conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Roach- "I talked to Ringo over the weekend and he said that he wasn’t for sure yet if the unofficial in the summer would happen." Suchomel- ""I checked in with the mother of five-star cornerback Kelee Ringo last night and she tells me they've talked to the Texas staff about visiting the weekend of June 21. Ringo's mother told me she hopes to make it but "Kelee definitely will." Fud-

When men like slorch and workswithseed get really irrationally passionate about women's pregnancy, it's creepy. Mind your own fucking business, weirdos.

How many were without power before the storms? /oklahoma joke /still hope everyone's OK.

Oh good, another "it's a life!" bleater. Let's say for sake of this argument that "it is a life". Fuck yeah they are costs. Are they not? Are "babies killed" due to financial inconvenience? Damn straight. There are babies dying because of "financial inconvenience" as we speak. Born babies who need medical care that YOU can provide. Babies dying of liver failure, and bone cancer. You have a liver and bone marrow. You can give it to those babies and they will live. I mean, give it pursuant to your own expense and bodily harm. Withhold it and those innocent babies will die. Why should you not be required to save these innocent born lives, but women be forced to save the lives the babies they are gestating? I mean....if they are of the same value? Why should a woman who did not ask for a growing life to be placed inside her, perhaps even took precautions against it or perhaps not, but now not want it there, be forced to support it with her time, money and body, at potential harm to herself, and you not be forced to support a growing life that will surely otherwise die without your action? Why can you use lethal force against an innocent human being who is appropriating your property and resources and causing you to fear bodily harm, but a pregnant woman can't? WHY NOT DONE?

Several studies show that as long as the person exhausts the muscles they will have the same result.

Yep, Democrats refusal to do their constitutional duty is putting party over country too.

and the top comment from reddit: Oh Lordy, the fan theories at work about this one. "It's the pale horse of death!" "It symbolizes Arya's redemption after a life of chasing revenge!" And my personal favorite: "It's Bran warging into the horse to save her!" And in the end, after all the debate, it was some dressed up UberSelect there to drive Arya around the block, just so she could stare menacingly at another character for a while, and deduce with her 200 IQ assassin insight that Dany was--in fact--dangerous. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh man, these aren't quickie answer questions... but... ... I'll make 'em quick (for now). - Some of these features have been around for years, some now just cropping up on "radar packages"... most are good descriptors of what's going on but should not be used to make decisions per se. It's more during/after the fact. Plus, you can easily have a tornado (especially a weak one) without some of these factors. - One more quick context: for several decades, but especially the last 15 or so, one "breakthrough" that seems to have occurred with understanding tornadoes is that sorta somehow, a wind "gets going" on the surface, a circular type of thing, kind of like a "sideways tornado" only the wind isn't (yet) nearly as fast. That "sideways wind" gets picked up in a supercell as updrafts increase (i.e. air going up into the cell and becoming vertical). Then that air cools as it rises, gets faster, and begets all kinds of hell (hail, electricity... and spinning vertically). So the idea is that a tornado usually (well, educated guess) develops when 2 factors are present, and usually both must be present - only one doesn't cut it. The factors are: 1) velocity of the column of air begins to show a great contrast (usually the upper part in mid-level atmosphere spins a lot faster than the lower part). And: 2) there needs to be sort of a continual 90° "bend" of horizontal inflow air, which gets pulled up, gets vertical, and spins faster. Again, this seems to be a reliable factor, but it's the tip of an otherwise non-really-well-understood deal. So what some of these values are, are measures of the strength of the differences in velocities through the air at lower levels (LLRV in the graphic above), maximum difference between velocities measured at various levels (MRV), and the greatest difference in the lowest clear level of rotation (LLDV). What all this boils down to is that tornadoes like 1) "bent" wind coils, and 2) different velocities (shear) up the column. Basically this is akin to sabermetrics in baseball... a lot of newfangled measurements that might mean something significant... but might not. Fun stuff to play with, but not supposed to be at this point anyway the Ten Commandments of Tornado Formation. So I'm gonna skip over the very long links between this idea and the metrics for the most part (lots of calculus there), so I'll just answer the others you named: - Storm relative depth - this is a general number derived by calculating the distance between the storm's inflow (usually at or near ground level) and the height of the storm's most pronounced shear point (greatest difference in velocities in the column) within the lower levels of the storm (something called effective bulk shear, or EBS). These are complex calculations, with readouts that would stymie Einstein, but it's sort of boiled down here to the percentage of the column where these extremes take place; i.e. the distance is about 62% of this column in the lower part of the storm. It is not a simple measurement of the storm's height or whatever. The idea here is that the larger the % in this figure, the more likely a storm is to have tornadic potential - but again, it doesn't mean it'll happen. - Strength index is again a fancy calculation of measured points in the lower level of the storm. The idea here is that it seems that storms that might go tornadic often have strong rotation, often the strongest in their lower levels (makes sense, a storm with higher speed rotation in the upper levels might not touch down and so there's no tornado). Storms with higher lower-level rotation get the higher number... so a storm with say 2,304 is going to be "less likely" to go tornadic as one with say 6,403. In this case, 4392 is about lower-mid severity on the scale. Storms with 6500 or above are most often associated with tornadoes. - TVS signature - this is a 1/0 terminology determined by a bunch of calcs (duration, depth of shear/column, speed, etc. a figure that covers the speed of rain moving to/from the sample point, etc.) that all gets boiled down to a "true" or "false". However, again, 1) storms that show "true" might be rotating higher up, so it's not a given that it's going to be a touchdown, and 2) there have been tornadoes, especially weaker ones (EF0-2) that might not even have this signature because the vertical column of shear might be very shallow or so discombobulated that the signature hasn't shown up. You often see these signatures in the well-known "red/green -yin/yang" Doppler signatures air/rain moving toward the sample point shows up green, moving away red). Usually when you see that popping up, you tend to ignore the "true" or "false" determinations (it's right there before your eyes, though 99% of the time it'll be "true). This is more for less-developed shear storms. In this case it says that it's not (yet?) picking up the traditional to/from diversity in a rotating storm. The calculations themselves are way out of my league, but I sort of understand what they mean. Good enough for now, I guess.

Noodles in cream sauce made with fresh wild morels I found and fresh spring peas. Topped with a filet that's drizzled with a little reduced balsamic and some parm.

RE: Why would the six kingdoms just let the North walk away without claiming their own independence? - At the end of the story, the North is the largest kingdom with the strongest military. Not to mention that they also have some of the strongest and best-loved personalities in Westeros. These things coupled with Bran on the throne would allow the North to dominate the politics of the seven kingdoms. - With the North off doing their own thing, the richest and most productive parts of Westeros are left on the table for the remaining six kingdoms to share. The North is unlikely to ever pose a military threat while Bran is King. - The Ironborn, with their geography and recent history, are in a good position to be the go-between for the six kingdoms and the North. There is a lot of potential financial gain there which can make up for all of that “not sowing.” The bulk of their fleet was destroyed, and Euron’s ship building frenzy likely left the islands bare of timber for a generation. They don’t look to be able regain the military capability to secede for some time, so they make the best of things and become peaceful traders with the remaining ships they have - Dorne is now the largest and most powerful of the remaining kingdoms. Why be independent when you can finally make your play to be the dominant family in the kingdom without bloodshed? Whose going to challenge them? The Tyrells and Freys are gone. Tyrion and Sam are the last of the Lannister and Tarly families. Gendry is the only Baratheon. The only somewhat remaining family in the South is the Tullys and they aren’t what they once were. Bronn isn’t going to have a handle on things in Highgarden for a while, especially since he is distracted with all of the brothel building. The Martells were the least impacted financially and militarily by the war, so they are in prime position to exert their influence for the foreseeable future. Why waste that opportunity just to say they are “independent?” - The other kingdoms and families have lost too much and lack the strength to go it alone.

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