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Your opinion is wrong and you should feel bad.

I heard his nickname is “Bull”

So, this one? Surly?

Yeah. Me too. Went from 1-2 interceptions every 4 games to seemingly 4 interceptions per game. LBs have gained the ability to levitate midair and do a 180 to make formerly safe throws almost impossible to make.

I don't follow Michigan too much, so I was surprised that a D-1 tailback's parents named him such a nerdy name. ("Kal El" is Superman's birth name in the comics, which I learned from re-watching Mallards on VHS a hundred times back in Jr. High).

Go home dad, you’re drunk.

At some point we need to flex our Texas- ness and just tell the networks we don’t start games until 6:00 pm or later in August and September in the name of fan and player heat safety.

Agree. Rewatched it. We would have at least 10-14 more points in the first half without mistakes (Blues fist fumble, Cook’s drop), not to mention the weird decision to take 3 points off the board (and that FG was due to back-to/back penalties on Helm). That’s at least 13-17 points right there, and that’s not even counting Blue’s 2nd fumble.

So is Con Todo. I won't be there, but I'm happy for them to get the exposure.

Turns out they did. See my post above. It was surprisingly blunt.

Jesus, this was an epic bitchslap to Paxton from the (normally friendly) SCOTX: https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459231/240813c.pdf The opinion opens with this absolute banger: Remarkably, the State’s presentation to this Court takes no position on whether the State Fair of Texas, a private entity, has the legal authority to exclude patrons carrying handguns from the Fair. This may surprise many observers, given that the ostensible purpose of this litigation is to determine whether Texas law entitles law-abiding Texans to carry handguns at the State Fair despite the Fair’s recently enacted policy to the contrary. That is a very important question. It is a question on which both law-abiding handgun owners and the operators of the State Fair deserve a clear answer. It is a question to which further litigation may provide a clearer answer. But it is not a question answered—or even addressed—by the State’s emergency filings in this Court. This Court cannot possibly order the State Fair to allow handguns to be carried at this year’s Fair when the party seeking that relief does not even argue that Texas law obligates the Fair to do so. Then, they follow it up with this: The State Fair of Texas is a private entity that operates the Fair on public land leased from the City of Dallas. Whether Texans have a legal right to carry handguns at a mass public event of this nature is not a question that should ever be in doubt. Law-abiding handgun owners in Texas know that there are certain places where they may not carry their weapon. They need to know—with maximum clarity—whether the State Fair is one of those places. Yet the State’s filings do not even attempt to answer that question. Instead of arguing that the State Fair lacks the authority to prohibit guns at the Fair, the State instead argues that the City of Dallas may not promote or enforce the State Fair’s prohibition on guns. Assume the State is correct. Assume that section 411.209(a) of the Government Code prohibits the City of Dallas from assisting in the enforcement of, or associating itself in any way with, the State Fair’s gun policy. Even if that is true—and it may well be—this would not mean that handgun owners are entitled by law to carry their weapons at the State Fair despite the State Fair’s contrary policy. On that pivotal question, the State’s filings are conspicuously silent.1 And then this footnote (and if you ever practice appellate law, you know that the footnotes are usually where the sickest burns live) was slid in there: 1 The State contends that the Fair’s gun policy would be unenforceable if the City’s police department is prohibited from enforcing it. That is obviously wrong. The Fair intends to hire private security, and the Dallas County District Attorney is not a party to this case. Perhaps the worst possible outcome from all of this would be a court order that sides with the State but actually only enjoins the City of Dallas and its police department based on section 411.209, which is the kind of order for which much of the State’s briefing seems to advocate. That order would leave the State Fair’s gun policy in place—and expose those who violate it to potential liability at the hands of local government officials who do not work for the City—while giving the law-abiding, gun-carrying public the misimpression that the courts have green-lighted their carriage of handguns at the Fair. To the extent the State advocates for such an ill-conceived half-measure, it does so unadvisedly. Next, the Opinion points out that Paxton has had an AG opinion since 2016 that contradicted his argument in this case: An Attorney General Opinion issued in 2016 was not so silent. It concluded that private parties leasing government-owned facilities cannot make carriage of handguns on their leased property a crime by posting the familiar signage described by sections 30.06 and 30.07 of the Penal Code. Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. KP-0108, at 3 (2016). The AG Opinion went on, however, to address a key question that is entirely unaddressed by the State’s filings—whether private parties leasing government property can exclude carriers of handguns by invoking the traditional authority of a tenant to control entry to the property and to exclude non-compliant visitors as trespassers. The Opinion concluded that a private party in such a position likely could prohibit guns in this way under Texas law. Id. at 3 n.2. AG Opinion KP-0108 was recently withdrawn pending consideration of a related opinion request, RQ-0558-KP. But withdrawing the Opinion is not the same thing as repudiating its analysis or explaining why it was wrong, which the State has not attempted to do in this Court. If the AG Opinion was correct about the common-law authority of private parties who lease public property, then the privately operated State Fair may well have the authority to exclude handguns from the Fair, and this is the case even if the State is completely right about the City of Dallas’s obligations under section 411.209. If the AG Opinion was wrong, then surely the party seeking a result at odds with its own publicly stated opinion must at least explain why its opinion was wrong. Finally, after going over some other issues with the shitty reasoning and lack of support in the motion for emergency relief that the State filed, the Opinion closes with this: It should go without saying—though perhaps it cannot be said often enough—that a judge’s role in this case is not to decide whether the State Fair made a wise decision. Our job, instead, is to decide whether Texas law allowed the State Fair to make the decision for itself. The State declines to take a position on that essential question but nevertheless asks this Court for an injunction overriding the State Fair’s decision. It should also go without saying that our answer, for now, must be no. All of the italics in my quotes are from the Court itself, not from me. Here's some inside baseball: Courts italicize in the opinions to emphasize ridiculous takes by the appellant or appellee. In this case, the Court's Opinion is emphasizing just how shitty and devoid of reasoning the State's motion was. If I ever received an opinion in a case I was involved with, I'd probably voluntarily resign my law license. It's that bad. Paxton, on the other hand, just released a statement that said, essentially "The Supreme Court is wrong."

But fewer swangas. Not none, because I've seen photos of Teslas with them. So just fewer.

So they would hire one of our assistants?

I'm only a founding partner. I let my other partner take on the "managing" title and all the B.S. and headaches that comes along with it.

This belongs in this thread as well as the Aggy thread:

I mean, it's not the 12th anniversary.

I have some notes. First, pretty sure there's not 192 FBS teams. Did you mean 92nd? Second, it's 92nd, not 92th. Third, maybe the first 4 teams on this list are so low because they played our D already?

Death by sun-snu!

The game time will be 3:15

Let's get a petition to have the Mariachi every game, those guys fucked. Also, the digital down marker is an SEC thing.

Why are you trying to make the stadium cleaning crew lose their jobs?

Why would that trigger anyone? He got Fried Chicken and Iced Tea, which is great there. So are their breakfast tacos. Just don't get the "barbecue" and you'll be fine.

I smoke almost exclusively with mesquite. But I'm from South Texas originally (Medina County, where the parisa comes from). I say almost, because sometimes I can't find it in Austin. It does burn hotter/faster. I also have adjusted my temperatures and times over the years to account for that. I can smoke a 12 lb brisket in 8 hours on the regular (I try to smoke it around 350 instead of 225, and I pull it and rest it after that still wrapped), and to be quite humble, it's better than 90% of the homemade brisket in these parts that is over oak. It takes a little bit more babysitting, but hell, those beers aren't going to drink themselves.