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Nahlin put in a flip pick for Myron Charles to Texas. 60% confidence.

Interesting stuff from a subscriber on 247, who claims to know Jonah Williams and Williams' family. A few Jonah Williams nuggets... AkakHorn (247 Subscriber)

Edith Royal passed away this morning at Querencia Senior Living in Austin. She was 98. Quite a lady.

That's some quality baiting right there. Just dragging their nuts all over his face.

Two anecdotes: 1) the boy messaged us and asked us to order him a camo Harris Walz hat. No such luck. Completely sold out. Seriously, not on back order -- SOLD OUT. 2) at lunch at the Tavern, GOLL correctly observed that Jim Hightower was sitting at the bar, having a snack and making some notes. I had to go to the bar to close out, and chatted him up, asked him how he's feeling about things. "We had a great week last week -- I mean we democrats." I told him "well not just us democrats, all of us, right?" He was pretty pleased with that. He said that he loved Walz, and told me he actually went up to Minn to work for his campaign when he first ran for Congress. "He was just a teacher then, and he's the same guy now. His football team introduced him, and they really do think that highly of him." I asked him how he was feeling about our chances - "We're going to win. I don't remember when I've seen enthusiasm and energy like this." I told him I was surprised by how organized and focused the party was now, and he chuckled "me too, but they are." Hightower was always a great Texas character, agree or disagree with him. Was cool to chat with him.

she is trying to sell an antique MacGregor putter

The only surprise here is the lack of participation from @Nicole44, this stuff is usually her jam. Wait a minute.....

The answer… Last Texas Safety Drafted: 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caden_Sterns Last Texas Consensus All American Safety: 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShon_Elliott And now compare that to aggy… Last aggy Safety Drafted: 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Johnson_(defensive_back) Last aggy Consensus All American Safety: 1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Elmendorf

You look at Colorado State over there, and it's just all about the tradition of this joke never getting old, even a good 8 years after the man himself departed this space.

If you think you hate it now, wait til you drive it.

Oh, another Walz bit I forgot from my quick chat with Hightower. I commented that the GQP keeps trying to attack him, but they have nothing, and he answered "there's nothing for them to use. He's exactly who he is, and he hasn't run from anything he's done." I mentioned "sure, like saying if you want to call feeding school kids lunch is communism, have at it." Jim said "yep, there's nothing he needs to run from." Walz was the first thing he mentioned when I chatted him up, and he flat-out says he's the real-deal and what you see is what you get. I just think it's so damned refreshing.

Asking Nicole for help with a potential murder case.

That's actually a very interesting statistic, that about 70% of Republicans feel democrats are palatable enough to fuck, and 70% of democrats wouldn't fuck a Republican with a ten foot dildo. I'd like to see it corrected for gender as I bet women comprise more of the Democratic Party than the Republican party. In my own circles, I think the average person who still identifies as Republican is kind of clueless about how repulsive they've become through association with who they vote for. They want to see their voting choices as a difference of opinion that shouldn't come between friends or family members. Like we're just walking out of a movie theater and disagreeing about how shitty the last M. Night Shamalamadingdong movie was. But their voting choices directly harm the health, well being or ability for other friends and family members to live, love and prosper. So that has to be reconciled against how they may treat that person as an individual face to face, and they just can't see that they bear a responsibility for the real-world effects of their vote.

hey thanks man, it’s all good. we all know i’ve had enough bad days here for all of us combined, so i get it. no worries mate. hook em.

I had a relative that worked for Boots and Coots way back in the day. He told me the standard MO except for the most high profile jobs (i.e. the first Gulf War oil fires) was to: 1. Show up, get the invoice clock ticking. 2. Drag out the planning and logistics arrangement processes as long as possible. 3. Hope that the fire(s) burned itself out during step 2. 4. Leave. 5. Profit.

Hit the CEO’s and boards of directors of every western company with components sneaking into those Russian missiles. Criminal charges. Jail time.

She's lost a lot of weight, and its mighty insensitive of you to still refer to her as "big Adele"

I was at the range yesterday and saw two Trump hats. I asked the woman at check in if I should wear my Harris/Walz t-shirt next time and she got a wicked smile then said "Hell yes. It would be nice to see that for a change." I might just do that next time.

Even if you feel really great about going to trial, it is not unusual for there to be some moment in the trial where your key witness testimony does not go as planned, and somebody makes a mistake and says something stupid or wrong on a crucial thing. The reason you settle good cases too is that you want to eliminate the chance of a bad result. If you can get a jog-to-third triple with no chance of an out - - instead of a Home-run possibility with a chance of striking or flying out - you take the triple. If you can make Trump look weak and feeble and scared and remove any possible downside of a misspeak in a debate against the pathological liar, campaign manager Ubet would take the no debate in a heartbeat at this point. And if he won’t back out, you can force him to use your own terms. Which is in and of itself a power-play that diminishes Trump. I applaud the strategy.

C'mon, Joe. Let them hit those airfields.

Time to hit Moscow.

Hero.

Sorry, you already know the answer. Until they put it out, or until there is nothing left to burn? They probably tried the "easy" stuff already. Dry chemicals and foam are options, but bigger fires require matching quantities, and, well, ...it's Russia. They could empty the tanks into rail cars, but the rail facilities look to be very close to the fires. Whatever water supply they had on site is probably gone, so having to bring water to the site is problematic. I'm guessing they don't have a large enough water line already, so building one is an option, though not timely. Bring in rail cars full of water is next, but slow, and getting the water to the fire appears to be an issue. The fire will burn until the source is cut off. With multiple tanks burning, they cannot get enough water to control the fires. Over time, as the fires burn out in the core and spread, they may be able to put out the tank fires that are somewhat isolated, but the tanks are very close together, so ... At some point, the tanks themselves will fail, meaning you have a large, shallow pool burning instead of just the top of the tank. The increased surface area burning closer to the ground will heat the tanks quicker, and again, they are very close together. Black smoke is indicative of incomplete combustion, meaning there is more fuel than oxygen. The hydrocarbons burning are greater than the air feeding the fire, and have been for 8 days. The one thing you never forget about watching videos of old fires and explosions is that the films survived, but the photographers? Not always.

NSIAP

Speaking of Bible stuff.. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/christians-kamala-can-pull-evangelical-voters-away-donald-trump-rcna167561 How I’ve been convincing Christians they don’t have to vote Republican Democrats need to embrace the idea that evangelicals, and especially white male evangelicals, are worth winning and can be won. By Doug Pagitt, executive director of Vote Common Good During the last month, Christians for Kamala joined the ranks of groups supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. In so doing, they stand beside groups as wide-ranging as Comics for Kamala and Deadheads for Kamala. Because Harris has shown she will include us all in her vision for the United States and bring together what has been torn apart, all of these groups have seized upon the newfound enthusiasm among the electorate since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July and endorsed Harris. A religious coalition such as this entering the chat is an important step in the right direction, and, if built upon, could help sway enough movable religious voters in critical battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. What’s more, it could mean breaking the stronghold that MAGA forces have on many of our country’s evangelical voters. Thanks in part to the cooperation of so many self-identified Christian voters, the MAGA movement has seized control of the Republican Party and helped lead our country down a dark, democracy-threatening path. Central to our work at Vote Common Good, I spend a lot of my time traveling the country speaking to voters, particularly evangelical and Catholic voters who are hardwired into voting Republican, working to get them to break out of those patterns. What I’ve learned is that most don’t want or need their elected leader to be like them, but they really do want their leader to like them. It wasn’t clear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton liked evangelical and Catholic men when she ran for president in 2016, and it remains largely unclear to many of these voters in 2024 if Kamala Harris does. Trump, on the other hand, probably doesn’t like them, but he put his arms around these voters in a transactional exchange, and he promised and in some cases delivered them power. But on the trail in 2020, 2022 and this year, I’ve gleaned the reason many evangelical and Christian voters ultimately leave Trump: his obvious lack of kindness. A poll that my organization Vote Common Good commissioned in 2020 showed that in swing states, Trump’s lack of kindness was driving evangelical and Catholic voters away in large enough numbers to potentially affect the outcome of the election. Voters typically realize that the way they vote reflects on them. And those religious voters who defected from Trump didn’t like the way his unkindness reflected on them, whether it be putting migrant children in cages, the way he treats women, the way he treats the press, the way he treats nearly everyone who left his administration and the way he treats democracy itself. Many of these voters know that’s not the behavior they want their children to emulate. The Harris campaign clearly knows it has an opportunity here. The choice of Tim Walz as vice presidential nominee is in no small part evidence of that. But it isn’t nearly enough. Democrats more broadly need to embrace the idea that evangelicals, and especially white male evangelicals, are worth winning and can be won without the party compromising its values. What it’s going to take is a concerted, grassroots effort to reach these voters, listen to them and bring them along on a journey to help them understand it’s OK for them to let concern for the common good, and not allegiance to a political party, determine how they vote. We need to tell them that what Democrats are pushing for lines up with the values evangelicals hold dear — making the world better and bringing people together. Those policies include commonsense gun reform to keep kids safe, engaging solutions at the border and lowering the cost of child care. Many Christians are heartbroken at the idea that they have to choose between a faith that’s meaningful to them and a political identity that has been wedded to it. They don’t know what to do, and we need to help them separate those two identities. --- More at the link above.

He tweeted that they knew he was a Trump voter and told him to show up “open minded” and pretend to be undecided

Spoilered below is this week's reminder that even the clearest eyed aggie redasses still can't control themselves when it comes to building unrealistic expectations. Tarp gives us his top 6 reasons for how Texas A&M makes the college football playoff. Click, clack motherfuckers. This guy is less than a week removed from new reprimands from the communistic media handlers inside of the AD for saying more negative shit about the team and roster, and here he is, touting the notion of making the playoffs with a straight face. Highlights for me include the parts where calls both the Notre Dame game and the Texas game "must-wins", where he references Auburn as a generally lesser opponent, and where he touts their roster depth. The commenters all eat this article up, too.

And now Debbie Downer. Rather than using missiles against Ukrainian forces currently occupying Russia, gonna go after civilians instead and continue pissing off Ukrainian soldiers.

Do we get dogs in the national divorce too???

For fact checking, just hook each candidate up to an electric shock collar and give them a jolt when they lie. Kind of like Venkman's experiment in Ghostbusters.

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