Posts posted by hpslugga
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18 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:You are seriously overhyping these glorified scrimmages. "Kids playing football having a great time"? Does that now equate to quality? More football is not better. These games are no better than the junk they air on ESPN3 any given week. Played in front of crowds you'd see at a middle school games in Texas. In 10 years, we might see every single team in FBS get a bowl game because you know, kids having a good time and all.
Keep adding pointless scrimmages but not expand the actual playoffs, the games that matter? Does not compute for me.
Bowl season is completely watered down with so many pointless matchups. Meanwhile, every other division of college football laughs at the bowl games while they have an actual legit playoff. Where every game means something and not just "kids having fun".
Not only that, bowl games are not about “kids having fun.” They’re about businesses making fucking profits. That’s all it is and it’s asinine to assume otherwise.
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2 hours ago, Machinator said:
When was the last time a bowl meant something? That line was crossed a long time ago.
I don’t say that in terms of the bowl games, just the sport in general. In other words you can’t make the bowl games any better by expanding them, but expanding them definitely devalues the sport.
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11 hours ago, Machinator said:From a viewer's perspective, why does it matter if they add more bowls?
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.
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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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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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-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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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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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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My alma mater? I was pissed at the NCAA, but mostly for allowing all of what transpired in the Commerce game, which was an abject disgrace to humanity. Regardless, them's the breaks. Even with a win vs. Commerce, we still wouldn't have won our conference (Tarleton was unbeaten) and had to rely on outside help to get in. I hate being in that position and fully recognize its perils.