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Whipping them into a frenzy to buy tickets for the 24-25 roller coaster. 5 reasons Texas A&M football will far outperform the Longhorns in 2024 (gigemgazette.com)

The combined West is close to a billion people, maybe a bit more to include Japan, ROK, and Australia. It’s the wealthiest places in the world. It’s embarrassing to be in this situation. Democracy has to be armed better than tyranny. We’ve had a generation of leaders who don’t get that.

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You have to have a twisted sense of humor to laugh at this. Perfect for the Surl.

Espada listening to Surly lineup gurus

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Happy Sunday from Madagascar boys and girls. 41 hours door to door travel from ETX. Wordle 981 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #765 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 🧭⭐🚩🔤🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Daily Quordle 762 4️⃣7️⃣ 6️⃣3️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #travle #438 (3/7) ✅✅✅ https://travle.earth Connections Puzzle #259 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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first, an egg lemon soup. The second, a salad. The third, venison pastistio. The fourth, smoked lamb shoulder on lentils, lemon sour cream dill mint situation.

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Combat veteran reporting that the Ukrainians tricked Russians into shooting down their own A-50. It flies a repeating, predictable figure 8, so Ukrainians fired a surface to air missile near its path, mimicking an air to air missile, triggering the A-50 to release its heat traps. Russian SAMs, believing there’s an adversary in the air, fire, but the only available target is the A-50. This is apparently the “Israeli Maneuver” because Israel did it to an Il-20 in 2018. Russia deserves a lot of credit for failing to evolve and in fact, shooting down their own critical aircraft, again.

I swear to God when this motherfucker dies I'm inviting every one of you to the Black Sheep Lodge on Lamar for a night of drinking on me.

Ffuck yeah

Looked and didn’t see this posted elsewhere, including LOL forum.

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Go home Rodney, you’re drunk.

Holy smokes!

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Gerry confirmed that Jacoby has completely blown off the coaching staff starting in January. Made it seem that his decisions might make it difficult to find a new place willing to pay him what he thinks he should get. He also said that Texas has ZERO interest.

The defining trait is doublethink. Or, as Orwell put it, believing that 2+2=5. Most people think 1984 is all about surveillance and loss of freedom under Big Brother. But, it is doublethink that props up Big Brother, the propaganda, and the entire totalitarian system. And doublethink is all over American culture, hence the rise in fascism and authoritarianism and overall idiocy. Doublethink is the cognitive ability to hold two contradictory beliefs and think both are true at the same time. Rather than feel shame, the doublethinker feels pride in knowing they can cognitively stand astride reality and believe falsehoods are truth. They have to believe that to avoid guilt and shame. That's why MAGA-GQP is impervious to facts and logic. That's why MAGA-GQP always feels superior to everyone, especially any intellectuals -- elitist, educator, leftist, scientist, philosopher, etc... -- who might demand consistency. The media will never demand that in any rigorous manner. It is doublethink -- and the ability to get away with all over the media/cultural landscape -- that empowers MAGA-GQP-Christian theocrats. It's one thing to show the funny hypocrisy, but no one will really press them on the doublethink as a form of madness. Orwell knew doublethink was madness. That the ultimate warning in 1984.

Ok, who's cutting onions in here? She can do no wrong.

Fwiw, Gerry said he doesn't believe Choice will leave to take a non-HC job.

There is only one plutocrat in the world who has announced “I’m going to put a chip in your brain” and he’s the one our biggest idiots think is going to save them from a microchipped new world dystopia.

So many of our social problems would be better addressed if our "public" sources of information were better about actually getting useful information and not just repeated soundbites ad nauseum

The Guisadilla at Rolando's this morning. I hate myself-

You think this team that is 6-8 in the conference is going to suddenly figure things out after 4 months of tripping over its own dicks way more often than not against anybody with a pulse, then win 3 out of its last 4, 3 of which are against better teams? You're laying even money on that? You're lucky I have an ethical problem with betting against my alma mater, or I'd make you my personal ATM.

Typing this all on my phone so excuse any fat finger mistakes. We are here for my mom’s birthday - she’s turning 72 and hasn’t ever really been to New Orleans, so I planned to hit a lot of places that I’ve been and that I’ve been wanting to try to show her what she’s been missing. I’d never been to GW Fins, but based on this thread it was our first night’s dinner. We had an early reservation, but had to push it back because the rest of my family was delayed getting in. It was worth the wait. I didn’t get pictures of everything, just a couple of entrees - Scalibut was outstanding and the dry aged yellowfin was otherworldly: The table also had the lobster dumplings and smoked yellowfin dip for starters; Parmesan crusted sheepshead and sea scallops for additional entrees, and desserts that were outstanding - the Salty Malty ice cream pie took the honors. But no photos of any of those. So far it’s been the best - and most expensive - meal of the trip. We are staying off Magazine in the lower Garden District. This morning had some coffee at Mojo Coffee House and laughed about this flyer: Then walked down to Molly’s Rise and Shine for a light breakfast since we had Jazz Brunch booked at Commanders. It might not photograph well but this Roasted Carrot Yogurt with Granola there is one of the best dishes in New Orleans in my opinion: And this hash brown with anchovy crème fraiche and salmon roe my sister ordered was delicious: We went to Commander’s Palace for Jazz Brunch, and it hasn’t lost its fastball - everyone enjoyed it. My septuagenarian mom told the Jazz trio she was a Robert Johnson fan and they played a jazz version of Crossroads for her; complete with using her knife along the frets on the guitar to get the sound right. Bette than “somewhere over the rainbow” a table asked for a few minutes earlier. I forgot to take photos of much there, but I did get one of my entree - a duck confit / Leidenheimer bread french toast dish they called “Ponchatoula Strawberry Glazed Duck Pain Perdu” I don’t know how to describe it - it all worked but I’d never think to put it all on one plate. I went and looked up the description because there’s no way I’d remember it all: “Citrus confit picked duck leg rolled in macerated strawberries and sticky praline syrup over griddled Leidenheimer French bread stuffed with French Truck café au lait spiked Creole cream cheese.” I also had the turtle soup and the soufflé, and a lot of brandy milk punch and left happy - but also needed to walk around the Garden District after all of that. We did a lot more walking and sightseeing after that - took a street car down to the quarter, went to Jackson Square, etc. My mom is an artist (watercolors and printmaking for the most part) and has never met a stranger, so she was in her element. We came back to the Garden District for dinner tonight and went to Shaya. I didn’t get any good pics there and even if I had, it wouldn’t have done it justice. I don’t think fancy hummus/baba ganoush/masouka/kafta kebabs/etc and pita bread are all that photogenic, but it was all amazing. And the cocktails all hit it out of the park. I haven’t seen Shaya mentioned here much but it should be on your radar if you’re in town for more than one day. It was a great change of pace, and just plain great to be honest. GWFins gets the slight nod from me for best meal of the trip so far, but this was a close second. We have a late breakfast/early brunch reservation tomorrow morning at Atchafalaya which I’m looking forward to, and then it’s back on a plane to Austin while the rest of my family drives back to Houston/San Antonio/Corpus. All in all, not a bad first trip to New Orleans for my mom - I hope she comes back a lot now that she’s retired and has the time. There’s a lot more places I’d like to show her that we didn’t have time to get to.

Cross-posting (put it in the transfer thread as well) ... wow.

You should try again after actually thinking about what you write. For example, I believe in natural rights that do not require governmental authority, but I think the Christian religion is a fraud. So no, believing in natural rights doesn't make you a Christian nationalist because it doesn't even make you a Christian.