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Posts posted by hpslugga
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Goddamnit, that’s enough
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2 minutes ago, Chrispy said:
I’m not saying it’s the only path to being a shitty driver, but it’s certainly a path, and one that’s entirely avoidable.
Yeah, so is drinking alcohol and taking drugs shortly before operating a vehicle at speeds of nearly 100 mph. You're trying to use special pleading and it's not terribly convincing in the slightest.
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5 minutes ago, Chrispy said:
Not really, when you consider there’s a process for obtaining a drivers license and he illegally skipped the proper training required to operate a motor vehicle.
Again, citizens do that too. And in case you missed what I had said earlier, the dickwad in my case had a thrice-suspended license, and it was precisely because he's a drug addict and alcoholic that has never been to rehab. He has as much of a mental capacity to operate a vehicle as an untrained driver does, and the state has told him precisely that 3 times...and yet his mother still lets him drive her car the way that he does. You're trying to argue that the only path to being a shit driver is to be illegal and to skip training, and you couldn't be more wrong because even licensed drivers make those types of fuck ups every single day.
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1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:
he's not focused on the wrong thing if you consider he's using the anecdote as a dog whistle to evoke the specter of millions of uninsured illegals just waiting to crash into your wife's SUV
Well yeah I mean if that's where someone is, that's the path they'll follow.
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2 minutes ago, Chrispy said:
My anecdotal story was a response, and I’ve stated this a number of times, to a post that asserted there are no illegal aliens in The Woodland and it doesn’t affect me. The assertion was wrong.
And what I'm telling you is that the person in question's legal status as a citizen or not is completely besides the point. Illegal immigration did not affect you in that instance. Irresponsible driving and vehicle ownership, however, did, and that's what you should be concerned about. You're too focussed on the wrong thing. Again, this Bill O'Reilly line of reasoning that you're using is specious.
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14 hours ago, Chrispy said:
Wrong, an illegal alien slammed into my wife’s SUV last year and attempted to take off due to lack of insurance (shocking, I know), but was followed by a good hearted citizen.
Ok so last year, a citizen rear-ended me on 121 near Forth Worth. I was going 70 mph, and he was going so much faster than I was that he actually fucking totaled my 2014 Nissan Altima with his little piece of shit Toyota. He took off and we since learned that not only was he driving with a thrice-suspended license, not only did he flee the scene, not only did he hit someone else just seconds before he hit me (and he also checked into a bridge when he was trying to get back onto the highway), not only was he high and drunk at 7 a.m. when all this falderal happened, not only did he have no insurance on this particular car, he was 34 years old at the time, driving his mother's (who was severely under-insured) car, drunk as a skunk, high as a kite, and destroyed my fucking vehicle and endangered around a dozen lives in the process (3 of us, the other guy he hit, and 5-6 other cars who were in between when he was swerving all over the goddamned 5 lane highway).
Why am I telling this extremely isolated, anecdotal story? Because the fact that he was a citizen is completely irrelevant, just like the fact that your wife's victimizer being illegal is completely irrelevant. Illegals aren't the only ones who have asshole drivers, and they're not the only ones who have uninsured asshole drivers either. You can waste our time making the Bill O'Reilly case if you want by blaming illegal immigration for what occurred, but just understand that most of us can see an issue for what it is. If your wife was hit by an uninsured motorist who attempted to flee the scene for that reason, then the fact that he's illegal is as useful as an asshole on an elbow.
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10 hours ago, texastough said:
You must be from CA if you think the universe of food is vegetables, fruits, and nuts
Not the universe, just enough to keep people from riding rascal scooters at Wal-Mart at age 40
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-No Senate at all. None. Has no purpose. The House is more than adequate to act as the whole of Congress.
-Strict outlaw of political gerrymandering and set some ratio of representatives to people
-Eviscerate the Electoral College.
-Overturn Citizens United and set reasonable caps on political donations.
-RNC/DNC eradicated. Parties in general aren't the worst of ideas, but they do permit for the worst of behaviors. In a real democracy, when a candidate visits a town, the people tell him what they want him to do and if he's agreeable to it, they'll elect him. In our system, when a candidate visits a town, he tells the people what he's gonna do if elected. And yeah, they did give us Trump and Hillary because those parties select a very limited number of prospective candidates, and it's done completely internally.
-Categorical end of the drug war. Aside from the fact that it was created and maintained by people who have a financial interest in keeping certain classes of people in prison, drug addiction is a medical issue and not a criminal one.
-Strict term limits for all elected officials. 1 term, 2 years.
-All officials must be elected. This includes Supreme Court Justices
-National healthcare system
-Nationally mandated paid sick leave, maternity leave, and vacation.
-Nationally mandated minimum wage of $15 per hour
-Election Day is a federal holiday
-All polling locations must have a paper option (I principally am ok with electronic voting, but not the shenanigans that it naturally entails)
-I've pondered the idea of age maximums for voters, but I cannot go along with it because there's no way to get around the fact that's disenfranchisement of a basic civil liberty. So to compromise, age maxes for public positions. If you're older than 55 years of age by the time your projected inauguration would be, you're ineligible. People like Chuck Grassley and Jim Inhoffe have no business setting public policies that effect 20-year-olds.
-Cabinet members must have 10 years experience in a related field (i.e. the Education Secretary has to have worked in Education for at least 10 years), and they have to be completely answerable to unions. So to return to the education analogy, education policy would be a 100% reflection of the consensus attitude of teacher unions.
-All private prisons must be demolished and pissed upon and the industry is henceforth outlawed.
-Progressive system of taxation (New Deal levels)
-Either renounce the US position in the UN as a permanent member, or at the very minimum put caps on its use of the veto.
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Whoever this guy has pissed off recently needs to play the Power Ball and Mega Millions because they will win both.
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8 hours ago, Helobious said:
The '08 game had... somewhat higher stakes. I'd trade a loss tonight for a win in that one in a heartbeat.
The only thing that ever could be done about '08 is a return of the favor. And let's face it, Tech is never going to be that good ever again.
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Uninteresting thread is uninteresting
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11 hours ago, The People’s Elbow said:
Say what you want but she’s quite unimpressive and uninspiring in this speech. DNC needs newer blood in its leadership.
That's been evident since Tuesday November 8, 2016.
This isn't a time for the Democrats to beat the dust off and trot out the same old Clintonites. Clintonism is fucking dead, and the D's recapture of the House was not a re-embrace of it. It was very disturbing that Pelosi trotted out on stage, of all people, Steny Hoyer, the guy who urged a Bernie-crat in Colorado to drop out of a race.
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3 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:
Or let the bowls play out as before and add an extra game at the end to play 1 vs. 2.
I miss the days when bowls had meaning.
Bowls never had meaning. It was man-made mythology the entire time. I'm sorry, but what you were witnessing on January 1st all those years was just a series of fairy tales.
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44 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:Asking for free elections with no vetting is detestable in your view?
They’re not interested in free elections in the Middle East. That’s make believe and pretend, and that’s why it’s detestable.
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48 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:1. Apply pressure on the thugocracy which thanks to Trump we are doing.
Not really. What little "pressure" is being applied on Iran is just backfiring as usual because it's a stupid idea. When you levy sanctions on a government, the wish and hope is that the crippling of the citizenry will galvanize them to turn on the country's leader. That almost never happens because it's an easy-as-shit propaganda tool to use: "look, the US is the one that's fucking y'all over. It's not us."
33 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:2. Don’t support any groups threatening the territorial integrity of Iran.
Well that would include the US and Israeli governments because they've been repeatedly calling for Iran's destruction for well over a decade by now. Really all you're left with are governments that are supportive of Iran and Iranians themselves in terms of people who fit that description.
33 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:3. Kill Khamenei. He is the prime stumbling block and this where assassinations can be used for good. I would have Maduro in Venezuela killed too.
Ha. Yeah, just like killing Saddam Hussein worked so well for the people of Iraq, right? Symbolic killings appeal only to the symbol-minded. Killing the head of state might make you personally feel good, but the issue isn't what makes you feel good. It's about what's best for Iranians in general, and for a foreign power to kill him would only incite them further. I mean just look at us. Most of the country finds Donald Trump to be a pathetic, loathsome creature and they'd like nothing more than to see him take a long walk off a short pier, but I'll be goddamned if anyone can find any respectably sized demographic who would support getting rid of him via assassination by a foreign power.
33 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:4. Call for a national referendum for free elections in Iran without any vetting by the Islamic theocrats
What makes you think the United States is interested in free elections in the Islamic world? Did you not read the Palestine Papers w/r/t the US' dismissive attitude towards the idea of hoaxing the 2006 PLC election? If the US' desire for free elections in the Middle East were fuel, it wouldn't power a flea's motorcycle around a drop of rain. You know better than that.
33 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:Obviously #3 is a wish but the rest of these items are doable
They're also detestable.
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2 hours ago, Bigbend1812 said:
Did not have a problem with it. I would have used the other two and made him kick it 4x.
Why?
1 hour ago, Goo Punch said:kickers expect to get iced nowadays, so the best way to ice them is to not ice them at all.
This is the correct answer, and the more timeouts you have, the more time the kicker expects to elapse until he kicks the ball. No big deal either way when it's one timeout left, but 3? If I were a HC and had all 3 TO's and that critical FG came up, I'd stand next to the ref and not call the TO. When you do that, he's really expecting you to do it and he's not expecting to actually kick anytime soon.
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On 10/28/2018 at 12:15 PM, futureman said:
how does the team stack up to the previous two years? is morris the gamer that jones was? I know he’s putting up great numbers but jones was special.
The defense is better than last year, Morris isn't Jones good but he's good enough.
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Greater political/philosophical insight than anything Kanye has offered.
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58 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:
Our offense averages around 31 points per game
Which would have been impressive in 1988.
And that's not to be critical of even anyone on the staff, but to act as if watching this offense isn't very often at times akin to pulling teeth is to live in a fantasy world. This team isn't out of the woods yet by any means. They're certainly getting to that point, but the OSU game was a sobering reality check.
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22 hours ago, hayden_horn said:
really, i think it's fundamentally time to address WHY these people are in the caravan.
That would require self-reflection, and that's not our strong suit.
22 hours ago, hayden_horn said:these people legitimately fear death and reprisal in their homeland. if there was ever a more clear-cut case for asylum, i'm not sure i've seen it recently.
Again, that would require abandoning ethnocentrism, and for the great bulk of just the posters here (forget the country for a moment), that's a biological impossibility.
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1 hour ago, Gaffords said:
O the ass hat that thinks he knows Briles offense... Im not breaking down plays for you i said what i THINK plain and simple. If you can't see Leach's dna all over Briles shit, then i can't help you..
Who said I needed/wanted your help?
And the contention that there are only bare-assed minimum, tenuous points of contact between those two offenses isn't rooted in opinions, i.e. what you "THINK." It's rooted in history and demonstrable fact, neither of which even remotely support what you said, which was absolutely wrong about absolutely everything it tried to assert/suggest.
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3 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:Putting the Bible on there is pretty tacky and lame.
It's not a cross-out of the Bible, it's a cross-out of these vulgar hypocrites that call themselves "the religious right" who on one side of their neck preach about Jesus and then, on the other side of their neck, espouse political beliefs that have absolutely nothing to do with anything that's written in the Bible. Too often, those people read into the Bible things that it does not say, then they don't read what it does say. In other words, they read between the lines without reading the lines.
3 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:Saying you want to ban Chick Fila is just preposterous
And again, that's not what's being said. It's exploiting yet another stereotype: the idiot southerner who proudly brandishes the Confederate Flag and cannot for the life of him/her see the irony of pairing that with the MAGA hat.
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51 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
Womp. Womp.
This bumbling idiot has less of a grip on reality than my 3-year old daughter has. The fact that so many as 1 person voted for this buffuckingfoon even in the primary is absolutely shocking.
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3 hours ago, Gaffords said:
Just because ESPN bitches abouy his offense being a plug and play gimmick so his qbs suck in the nfl doesn't mean it a bad thing.
ESPN has been rather supportive of him, and it's been for 2 reasons:
1. They fucking hate Craig James for duping them into believing that fictionalized, melodramatic soap opera only to have the entire story fall apart at the deposition phase in the lawsuit. When you read the depo's of Leach, both Jameses, and Hance, you cannot possibly come away believing any of that fantasy story unless your feelingest of feelings wanted that strongly to believe it from the outset. At that point, I'd say that such persons are either delusional or dishonest with themselves. ESPN knew that.
2. His success at Wazzu. Wazzu, historically, is a trash program and he has turned them into a viable contender for the conference title. When you can keep having that kind of success for that long, "plug and play gimmick" is a very out-of-court accusation that even talking heads on ESPN take care to avoid.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:He won a Hiesman at Kentucky with Couch and a #1 draft pick.
Um, no.
Ricky Williams won the Heisman and Couch finished a very distant 4th in the voting. It's true that he was the #1 draft pick for the lowly Browns, I will give you that.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:Take a look at Briles Offense... That has Leach's fingerprints all over it...
Except it doesn't.
Briles' offense was fully developed at Stephenville, as in before he ever worked for Leach. And he's not the only offensive coach that worked for him and refused to adapt his system in any way. Manny Matsakis was the Special Teams coach in the same years Briles worked there, and the Triple Shoot remained completely unchanged by the time he took another job.
Here are the similarities between those 3
1. They use a base 10/11 personnel set operated out of spread formations (Briles and Leach go primarily out of the gun, Matsakis is a 50/50 guy on that question)
2. They operate their offenses at an accelerated pace.
Seriously, that's it. They have as much in common with each other as Sid Gillman did with Bill Yeoman.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:I'm not saying Leach handed Briles a Veer and Shoot playbook one day. But Leach spent quite a bit of time grooming his young assistants to succeed as coaches later on.
Again, that's bullshit. Briles was going to end up being an NCAA HC whether he worked for Mike Leach or not.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:I would lay odds on the V-S being a joint project between the two.
It's not. The Veer-and-Shoot is exactly what the name implies: a marriage between the Veer and the Run-and-Shoot (mostly Ellison's version as opposed to Davis), both of which significantly pre-date Mike Leach's time in 1st grade. Again, Briles was already running that offense at Stephenville and if he learned anything from Mike Leach, it was to stop being so quirky with his personnel sequencing. He would line up with 5 wides on one play, quickly shift off all 5 of the skill players and then bring in a tight wishbone set to run some sort of option on the very next play. So it was addition by subtraction.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:There are things in the Veer and Shoot that could only come from a Pirate's crazy genius.
Such as?
Mike Leach didn't invent a goddamned thing. He perfected a methodology, yes, but to act as if he re-invented the wheel strains credulity. The guts of that offense are nothing more than a fusing of concepts that were made available by people like Bill Walsh, Don Coryell, Norm Chow, Hal Mumme, and Mouse Davis.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:not sure why everyone assumes Leach couldn't draw up running plays to begin with.
It's not a question of his ability to draw anything up. That's a given, and he's not all alone in that ability, either. His problem has always been his unwillingness to dedicate himself to it. Bob Stoops once commented that very frequently, the argument of running vs. throwing came up when they discussed 3rd and short plays. Bob usually wanted to run, Mike wanted to pass. It's not that Mike doesn't know how or what to call w/r/t running the ball, he just rarely wants to do it.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:Leach attended BYU where he graduated law school
As mentioned, he got his JD from Pepperdine.
3 hours ago, Gaffords said:It's probably the reason Briles is so secretive with his playbook. It has Leach all over it.
That's a nice fairy tale.
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New Bowl Game Coming in 2020: Myrtle Beach Bowl
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A viewer or a fan?
A viewer: I suppose it doesn't either way
A fan: cheapens the product. I'm sorry, but there isn't a single person on Earth who could ever in their life successfully argue that having yet another game between two 6-6 teams somehow makes the sport better.