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i've had enough. welcome to the cloak room.

I'd rather walk through an HEB in a full Hazmat suit to do my shopping than ever set foot in the white trash paradise of Walmart, mask or no mask.

Seriously guys get a grip. If a mask makes you start to think that Walmart is a good idea, and in fact preferred over God's Supermarket, you need to rethink everything.

It is hard to be more wrong in your wrongness.

And, here she is.

The special teams are a good point. I expect solid special teams this year, if not elite, given the background and focus of the new staff. This also brings to mind situational decision-making and clock management. I simply can't imagine that Sarkisian could be worse at choosing when to, and when not to, go for it on 4th down and also when to step on the gas and go for the other team's throat. Herman was a fucking clown on both fronts. As to the transfer adds, there's a faction in this thread that has taken the position that all of them are useless because they couldn't get playing time behind a slew of 1st round picks or because they were in the FCS. The Finebaum take is his usual incendiary and lazy bullshit. Mack Brown whines about how hard it was at Texas because he won a title at Texas. He simultaneously craves approval for a job well done while being forever butthurt by his ousting once sloth set in. The irony is that the booster side of things insulated his sorry fucking ass for years from scrutiny. A lot of the national writers and commenters always glom on to the trope that "Texas has a booster problem" and it isn't true. Red McCombs and Joe Jamail aren't walking around the sidelines of practice trying to interject these days. There's no faction fighting with the president to fire Deloss Dodds and John Mackovic. The money is smarter and calmer these days, and far more spread out. It's not asking for a bunch of anything other than wins. And guess what? I'll take an alumni base that brings white hot heat to the coaching roles in terms of expectations for winning. Fucking great. I will take UT's alumni base and booster groups over so many issues at other schools. We've talked about it before, but consider the fucking issues presented by just a few examples elsewhere: the Catholic church hierarchy drives decisions at ND; the academics at USC and various other PAC 12 schools are overtly hostile towards sports at this point (something Texas faced in the 70's and 80's); Oregon is beholden to a single entity and whatever that entity's needs and wants are (ask Okie State what that's like when the music stops); ADs control everything at numerous SEC and ACC schools; on and on. Yeah, things are hunky fucking dory at Alabama though. Let's see how it goes when they transition from Saban. That fanbase was a bunch of redneck fuckwads throwing "for sale" signs in their HC's yard after the first loss every season. Like Nebraska in the 90's, those Bama fans sure look docile and supportive right now. I'm sure that will hold up.

Goddamn. Exactly what do we have to be proud of as Texans? Bunch of needle dicks carrying around autorifles and shouting lies repeatedly. What kind of a man has to proclaim his manliness in a group exercise with the other needle dicks? Democratic Texas was a unique mix of individualism and willingness to pick somebody up if they were down. It was about looking at something, anything, as square as you could and calling it what you saw. Now it's a charade where a few of remember echoes of what was. I'm a suburban boy. Not a cowboy. Not a gun totin' killer. I did work the oilfields in my youth. The hard scrabble past and unique brand of humor in the face of a truth could still be heard from time to time. Now we're about 65% Anywhere, USA. That's the goddamn fact. The best possibilty for Texas is the growing influence of Mexican and other south of the border ethnicities here. It's part of the original fabric of the state and probably at the heart of Texan friendliness. I'm about four beers in plus a couple of pain pills (goddamn back). My focus is not optimal. But the sentiment is real. When I discovered Hornfans back in '99, I was in California. I became very emotional reading familiar voices and the distinct brand of humor our state has (all states have their own varieties of the virtues we think are unique to us. It's really matter of nuance.) based in a sense of the absurd. Somewhere in there, a poster started a thread about a friend at Swarthmore who'd written a very articulate and logical letter about what a waste college football was and how he was glad Swarthmore had no team. The person starting the thread asked for advice on answering the letter on the Texas Longhorn football board. Early on, somebody reponded, "that's really a good argument. I think the only thing you can do is kick him in the nuts and call him a fag." That sentiment was echoed for pages with twists and tweaks. I nearly passed out laughing. I guess it reminds me also of George Forman's story about fighting Ali in Africa. As Foreman was wearing out, Ali asked him, "Is that all you got?" Foreman kinda tilts his head recounting the moment, "Yeah, that's about all I got." Truth. Truth. Truth. Cut to the core and face it. Texans, of course, weren't the only ones doing it. Everywhere you go you find humor, courage, and virtue. The Texan flavor of all of that was special. I hate to see it fade away and be replaced to adherence to Big Lies and nostalgia about things that never existed. Have a good night. I believe I will turn more to drinking and less to writing.

I mean, the shit is really starting to hit the fan...

I just hope everyone on the team tries their best and has fun and makes friends.

If this thread is in the cloak room, where are all the posters who hate CR posters going to post their non-political takes on marxism, the tax rate, UBI, socialism, cancel culture, and "wokeness?" because, you know, discussing political things is beneath them.

Does Big Pharma spend enough on R&D to justify the prices charged to Americans?

The R8 Among its tribe.

It's in his username.

One of the best movies ever made! RIP.

RIP to the worst talk show guest of all time (an intentional put on), which made him one of the best talk show guests of all time. He had the balls to keep the bit going. Just found an example, Carson anticipated a battle, and got it. I love it when Grodin randomly asks him, “Do you wear eyeliner?”

I apologize to the board, but I'm not just gonna leave this as a one line rebuttal. It takes 15 seconds to tell a lie and 15 minutes to dissect it: As I stated previously, the biggest obstacles to peace have been US and Israeli rejectionism. To assert otherwise is to engage in fantasy. To repeat, the US endorsed Israel's rejection of the Jarring Mission in 1971, they vetoed a UNSC resolution regarding Palestinian self-determination in 1976 and in 1980, the Israeli government rejected the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that was issued by Arafat in 1988 adding that there can be no "additional" Palestinian state, and the US has vetoed every single UNGA resolution regarding the Peaceful Settlement of Palestine Question. They have been steadfast in blocking peace for going on 50 years together. Accusing the PLO/Hamas of same is just petty projection at best, flat out dishonesty at worst. They did. Here's why, starting with a quote from Avi Schlaim: "The key figure on the Israeli side throughout the first Arab-Israeli war was David Ben-Gurion. As the strongman of the Yishuv, Ben-Gurion relentlessly concentrated power in his own hands. In 1946 he assumed the defense portfolio in the Jewish Agency Executive and immediately started preparing the Yishuv for a military confrontation with the Arabs, which in his view was inescapable. He accepted the UN partition plan, but he did not accept as final the borders it laid down for the Jewish state. Although he valued international support, especially that of the United States and the Soviet Union, for the idea of a Jewish state, he did not expect statehood to be delivered on a silver platter. Realizing that ultimately the Jews would have to fight for their state, he wanted a clear-cut Jewish military victory. That is why he assumed personal responsibility for directing the military struggle and left it to Moshe Sharett to conduct, in New York, the diplomatic campaign for a Jewish state.” He then goes on to explain “acceptance of the UN plan implied acceptance of a Palestinian state, but in practice the Zionist leaders preferred to seek an understanding with one of the rulers of the neighboring Arab States. They had their greatest success with their neighbor to the east, with King Abdullah of Transjordan. Did they have any diplomatic alternative? Did they have a Palestinian option in 1947-49? The answer to this question must be no, because under the leadership of Hajj Amin al-Husseini the Palestinian national movement remained as uncompromising in is opposition to Zionism in the late 1940’s as it had been over the preceding quarter of a century.” The reason for that “uncompromising opposition” was what Benny Morris, Israel's leading historian (and propagandist) pointed out: that inbuilt into Zionism was the idea of Arab expulsion and thus the “chief motor of Arab resistance” to the Zionist movement was the “fear of displacement and dispossession from their homes.” It had nothing to do with Arabs being some inherent war mongers or anti-semites or anything of that sort. They rejected the partition because inbuilt into the Zionist movement was the idea of Palestinian dispossession and expulsion. Who here among us finds fault in that? Who here scoffs at the idea that a people reject the idea of dispossession and expulsion? We're supposed to sympathize with the Israeli position here? But it is interesting that Israeli apologists keep referring to this rejection. As it were, progress has been made. The 1988 Declaration of Independence was predicated on Arafat's notion that he was making these claims based on the "unfinished business of 1948." But instead of rejoicing in the Palestinian position of compromise, which had already been established in 1971, they make excuses. They project. They lie. They blame charters and covenants and empty rhetoric of that sort, while wholly ignoring the sheer ugliness of their own (current) governing party's rhetoric in the same documents of their own. It's political theatre, and the US-Israeli contingency happens to have very bad actors in it. That's quite the artful dodge. Israel not only rejects the idea of the right of Palestinian self-determination, they reject any manifestation of that right, including the right of the Palestinians to choose their own representatives in potential negotiations. Arafat had been signalling a willingness to settle for decades, and the Israelis/Americans did absolutely nothing but undermine and sabotage his efforts beginning with the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and ending with pulling the rug out from under him nearly 20 years later at Taba. So it's very easy to criticize the Palestinians for supporting Hamas, but what other options do they have? They tried the more secular route with the PLO and that turned out to be a multi-decade waste of time. What else are they supposed to do? Support that pushover Abbas and the so-called Palestinian Authority? Sure, keep fucking that chicken. Again referring to documents crafted over 30 years ago by a handful of angry people during an uprising rather than the present day. That's more tail wagging the dog. That's a very dishonest sleight of hand. You'll notice the author just casually refers to "Arab countries." If Israel was not interested in the existence of a Palestinian state, what obligation to be interested in same did Egypt and Jordan incur? The occupations of Gaza and the West Bank by same were utterly brutal, but that tells us absolutely nothing about Palestinian self-determination. These are just excuses to try to evade a peaceful settlement. Egypt has no responsibility to negotiate for a Palestinian state on Palestine's behalf, neither does Jordan. That's just fucking stupid, if you really think about it. Again, Camp David was impossible, which is what Israel's negotiator admitted on US public airwaves. Skip to the 4:00 mark if you want to get to the concession, but honestly I would urge anyone curious about this to watch the full debate because there's more accuracy coming out of the mouth of even Shlomo Ben Ami in this program than there is in an entire volume of articles the NYT has composed over the years. As Finkelstein later points out, Taba ended prematurely because Barak withdrew his negotiators. We can get into the issues of the timing and the Israeli elections and what not, but let's be clear about one thing: the PLO did not reject or walk out on Taba. They rejected Camp David, but that's why Clinton came forth with his parameters in the first place. The Americans, even Dennis Ross (though he later decided to play make believe in that piece of shit book he went on to write), recognized that Camp David was ridiculous, but they didn't want to miss an opportunity to define Clinton's legacy with this negotiation, which is why they rushed into it merely days before Clinton's term ended. Arafat wanted assurance from Clinton that he wouldn't throw him under the bus if Camp David failed, and that was largely because Camp David was so rushed. Clinton assured Arafat that he would do no such thing...and then he did. Slick Willy! Once again, blaming the Palestinians for these failures is not only false, but very stupid.

There is one downside to all of the unmasking going on that no one is talking about. There’s a teacher with a slamming body at my kid’s preschool that handles drop offs in the mornings. Well, she finally took off her mask and as my dad used to say, she could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence. That material is gone, sigh.

I don’t really see the point in “punishing” retail establishments. Retail and restaurants have been brutalized by the pandemic. They’ve had to make some hard no win decisions throughout this thing.

I get angry about it because the spread of that lie is what killed my dad. He believed it, fucked around, and found out. Now, go fuck yourself.

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Way to DT up the cloak room.

you really think one fire could get them all? i guess it doesn't hurt to try.

Hey, did you look for them over there?

I, for one, am excited you were so proud of this joke you decided you needed to post it on both the football and recruiting board.

Just about ready for our first summer with the new pool. Landscaping and new grass all went in about 3 weeks ago. Lay out chairs arrived this weekend. Just need our furniture for the area around the firepit. And the cracked pump housing for the waterfall feature is still backordered for a while, but that's not exactly a necessity.

Now that I have all these masks sitting around, I am never walking into another Walmart again without one on. This might be the best personal long-term outcome from the pandemic.

This. Well, that's because those folks aren't particularly smart. They live in a world of simplistic outcome-based reasoning. Guns good, libs bad, therefore libs should be for everything that restricts/takes away guns. That's not true, at all. The problem with this case was the "warrantless" part -- no 4th amendment protections, no due process. The test for any such law -- whether it be a red flag law to temporarily sequester firearms or a law to temporarily sequester a person who is an active danger to himself or others -- is going to be a due process test. Cops come in and grab the guns because your wife says she's afraid? Generally a no-go (if there's an immediate, exigent threat, some temporary action might still be allowed, depends on the facts). Cops and wife present adjudicative facts to a judge, who after hearing and allowing the gun owner an opportunity to appear and contest (for a long-term order -- short term orders for a very limited time might be done ex parte), issues an order to sequester the guns, that almost certainly passes muster. It's about the due process, not the guns. The guns are just the mcguffin in this story.

Why is the conservative internet running around claiming scoreboard on this and crowing about the conservative justices? It was a unanimous decision. And imo, the correct one. I am no 2A pom pom waver, but I like limiting our police depts from doing warrantless seizure of property wherever possible.

Post 2009 gas can nozzles.

No one likes a bragger.

“Lady Bird” is always incorrect. It’ll always be Town Lake except to carpetbaggers.

Stupid road signs. "Low Bridge." Wulaw Horn scoffs at you!

Tetons

Can the ads move to DT now?

Let’s suppose the answer is yes. Whats the relevance? Yes, I know where you’re going with this. You’re trying to establish that Israel doesn’t have to negotiate with them because they’re a terrorist organization, right? Well if that’s the litmus test of who gets to and doesn’t get to negotiate the ending of the occupation, then Israel is disqualified as well, as is the United States from participating. Israel and the United States have perpetrated far worse acts of terror than anything the PLO and Hamas combined have ever even been accused of, let alone actually committed. That doesn’t stop Hamas from attempting negotiations with them and it shouldn’t stop the Israelis either. To argue otherwise is to propose a double standard.

Uh huh. "Two words Mr. President. Plausible deniability."

Clearly what we need more of in politics are techbros with no understanding of anything but math.

Seriously...the fuck is wrong with you? I'm not even a never-Walmarter--sometimes I'm feeling lazy and want to buy laundry detergent, fuel additives, bananas, and an HDMI cable from the same store--but come the fuck on. Sure, give me shittier quality food to avoid having to wear a mask for 15 minutes. Explains you profile picture, at least.

Whorns247 Amirite?

pretty impressive that they have managed to gaslight themselves.

Purdue Pharma is to big pharma as Delorean and Lada are to big auto.

Anastasis beat me to if, but this may be the most aggy shit I’ve ever seen on this website.

I am vaccinated and do not need a mask, but unlike you, I respect private businesses’ requests to wear masks. They don’t say anything to you because they’ve instructed their employees not to have confrontations with anti-maskers (I.e. - assholes) that intentionally flaunt their policies.

Any record below 10-3 for this team should be considered a disappointment and an indictment of Seven Win Steve's hopes as the head man. It feels like every 3-5 pages of this thread gets infected with vaginal secretions and a craven need to lower the expectations of the collective because of a few posters' own weak-willed ability to do anything in life but hide from the sunlight. I see a lot of knobs on this board continue to buy into the premise that something like an 8 win season will be okay because ... "transition". Right. I was talking to someone in the AD last week and they are pushing that same narrative out. Fuck them and fuck you too. "Arkansas will be tough. Louisiana will be ranked. Someone in the Big 12 is always better than expected. OU and ISU will be top 6 teams." Just thoughtless, dickless whining trying to lower expectations for the new regime. Guess what? This is a "transition" fucking schedule. -Arkansas may return a lot, but they lost their best defensive player, the QB, and the #2 WR, at least. Oh, and they went 3 and fucking 7 in a terrible SEC. The fucking expectation is that Texas should beat them, on the road, in a hostile environment. If you don't see it that, you're wrong and you need to fix your bullshit. -Louisiana returns a lot - a lot of fucking players no one wanted. They may be well coached but if your expectations are so milquetoast and pussified that you don't expect a talented and well-coached Texas roster to go out and beat a fucking Sun Belt team in front of the largest crowd this state has seen in 2 fucking years, with a newly built-out south end zone and its noise wall in structure, then maybe cheering for Texas football isn't the right past time for you. Maybe take up painting or croquet. -The Big 12 team that will be and should be better than everyone expects? Yeah, that is Texas. Enough equivocating about OSU or TCU or other drivel from dithering dildos. -OU and ISU will be plenty good. Neither team carries more talent into the stadium on game day than Texas. More experience at QB? Sure. It ends there. Texas has a full roster. Texas has talent everywhere on the field. Someone whined about depth on defense up above, and I assume it's because they can't read and don't understand what they're watching when they watch the sport. Texas has depth on the DL and in the secondary. Texas has made strides in creating depth at LB. Worried about a pass rush? Fine, but that's what the money is for with this defensive staff. On offense there is no dearth of talent at any spot except WR and even there, the starting talent is fine. Whittington and Omeire, if healthy, can play anywhere. TB talent and depth? Check. QB talent and depth? Check. OL talent and depth? Check. If they fucking let Wiley play, there's plenty of help at TE too.