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  1. 12 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Garbage platitudes designed specifically to let you avoid arguing against massive social welfare policies you dislike but you know are broadly popular among the Democratic base.

    "No no no we can't make sure your son doesn't die of having to ration his insulin, we need the president to make sure we get the right guy to bring the Undersecretary of Transportation coffee."

    First, you seem like kind of an asshole.

    2nd, I think some of the items you listed in your post I quoted will definitely see some early action and positive change, like climate change for example or as I mentioned, roll back of tax cut and then some addressing of wealth inequality through some kind of tax plan and restriction of influence or even foreign wars and other unhealthy entanglements/alliances. 

    3rd, it is not a garbage platitude to suggest that these issues are not easily solved, especially healthcare.

    4th, nobody, not even you, "likes" massive social welfare policies, even though I consider them money well spent.  They are unpleasant because they force us to admit our previous shortcomings and lack of vision,  payment for them often comes from those who did not benefit from their neglect and the responsible parties are seldom held accountable.  Even the intended beneficiaries are often left out in the cold due to bureaucracy, lack of foresight in implementation, or spreading the benefits to thin.  Does that mean they should not be addressed with vigor? No.  Just don't expect a miracle even if the Ds sweep all branches in the next election. 

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  2. 11 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    Yes, if we elect Dem garbage who will do nothing to avert climate disaster and do nothing to make sure tens of thousands of Americans every year don't die for lack of healthcare and do nothing to help those suffering under student/medical debt and do nothing to end our wars abroad (and will actually cheer as Israel murders more children) and do nothing to end the housing crisis, I will melt down.

    The suffering of those people will make me Mad Online and you will have truly won by owning me.

    And my tears will flow into your cups and you will know true victory.

    Congratulations!

    At this point, I think any Dem winner of the GE is going to have their hands full putting out fires and undoing damage from the current admin. A reasonable platform would be rolling back the last tax cut in order to pay for some, wait for it...infrastructure.  But seriously, there has been so much damage caused by Trump at more than just the State Dept.  Its almost like Energy, Interior, Ag, and EPA are doing the opposite of what they are supposed to be doing.  Trump has unleashed a swarm of political termites(not my term) all over the place and will take years if not decades to undo.

    I would set my expectations low given the damage and the fact that they will be trying to do this during an inevitable slow down in the economy. Sins of the past do not eaasily fix themselves, Obama outside should have told you.

    Pulling for Liz though.

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  3. Herman always seems to have a game or two  like this every season, usually against bad competition.

    The feel of this game reminded me of OK St. last year.  Slow start on O, get behind play catch up.  Lots of uninspired play.

    Also felt a lot like the end of the Conference championship game last year.

    Not to pump any sunshine but even after all of the poor game planning and in game adjustments or lack thereof, it really came down to unforced mistakes.

  4. On 9/27/2019 at 9:37 AM, Chad Fuck said:

    From Carters through Cash you basically get to tell the entire history of Country Music through the vehicle of one family.  I can see why he did that.

    Burns did the same thing in his Jazz series.  He weaved and vectored Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in through the whole thing.  I will admit that it made much more sense to do it with those guys.

    CSB: Back in the fall of '85, the Longhorn Band played a halftime show at the TX/OU game with Willy Nelson.  We were supposed to have have two rehearsals with him in Austin the week of the game, which he no showed for.  Then he was supposed to be there for our morning run through, also a no show.  He came out and did the halftime show cold.  In spring of that school year Willy approached the band and we were all set to do an album with Willy.  I was selected to be one of just two trumpet players in the band to go into the studio and record.  Man I was so excited. I was just a freshman at the time and I thought I had died and gone to heaven.  The album was never recorded and I think it died under the weight of hippie lettuce and threat of IRS audit. Still love Willy even though he denied me of my uncle Rico moment. My oldest son became a professional trumpet player and has toured with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, so I guess I have that going for me. 

     

     

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  5. On 10/9/2019 at 10:54 PM, UpperWestside said:

    The biggest point of any of this still remains this.

    New York absolutely despises Dotard. They will gladly prosecute him. They will have the goods on him. He will not skate free on this. Every dumb thing has done will come to light in this investigation. That may sound simplistic, but Dotard is reviled in a way that few others are here. 

    There was always more than enough public information on DJ and his business dealing prior to the 2016 election cycle if these guys and the media would have done their damn jobs. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Do you actually bring in $250k+/yr in taxable income? Were you right or wrong about the M4A tax actually making you pay more?

    rEaDiNg HoW dOeS iT wOrK

    She would eliminate the income cap on Social Security taxes for those earning more than $250,000 a year, imposing a 14.8% levy on incomes above that amount, split evenly between employers and employees.

    Isn't it funny how bad Republicans always are at discussing tax policy? Usually they do something idiotic like fail to understand how progressive taxation works, but this is pretty good.

    Actually this tax is not split between employees and employers.  Think of it as a 100% tax on the additional employee earnings of 7.4% paid for by the employee and withdrawn from the employees check and handled by the employer just  like other 7.4 tax on 100% of earnings (below x amount).  i.e it is all the employees contribution just two different tax rates.

  7. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Nah, that’s bullshit.  No one thought OJ Simpson was innocent after he was found not guilty. 

    Impeaching Trump cripples him politically no matter how hard they try to spin it. 

    Yes but....

    OJ is brown and what is he wearing in this picture?... I thought so.

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  8. 18 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I guess any list like this has to include Archie Griffin and Ron Dayne, but I wish they didn't have to be included. I mean, yeah, they have numbers and trophies, but neither was an all-time great compared to the others on the list or other guys like Earl Campbell or Marshall Faulk. Also, I know he's a fucking murderer and piece of human shit, but OJ Simpson didn't even make the honorable mentions? I wasn't alive when he played, but I thought he was electric? 

    I was lucky enough to watch Marshall Faulk at SDSU and I know that it's an also-ran school, but that guy was unfuckingbelievable to watch, and his NFL career proved it wasn't a small school fluke. I was surprised they listed him at all. He tends to get shorted.

    OJ used to just knife through those defenses unmercifully. 

  9. On 9/20/2019 at 11:39 AM, crash_davis said:

    there's one singular goal shared by every species on earth, the goal of procreation, the survival of the species.  that drive is in every species, in the genetic make up.  there are MANY animals that die just to procreate, salmon and monarch butterflies just to name two.

    i think it's fascinating there are people who resist this urge.  i can understand the reasons but still find it fascinating.

     

     

    I was musing about this thought the other day and realized that besides the limitations that kids bring, they literally do take the life out of you.  Sometimes I can actually feel my life force/soul draining out of me through an unseen conduit directly to my kids. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

    My favorite was when there was a pile of Texas players on a fumble.  And the okie state QB just runs up and sticks one arm in the pile.  Okie State ball.

    I was posting in the Charlie Strong thread and saw this.  Makes you wonder if is wasn't Texas people fixing that game to get rid of Charlie...then again T. Boone Pickens.

  11. 48 minutes ago, pepper brooks said:

    Guys available who had better resumes than Charlie, and I am not AT ALL saying they turned out to be better in their jobs, nor am I saying they would have worked out better at TExas.  Chances are they would not have, but the list included:

    Briles

    Malzhan (he openly stated he wanted the job)

    Mora Jr - they interviewed him and moved on quickly

    David Shaw - turned down the job twice mainly because he had his dream job, and we didn't offer him enough to make texas his new dream job

    Harbaugh - was a really hot name to return to CFB.  he was waiting to get the UM job, but for the right price likely would have taken the Texas job (according to someone who would know)

    CHarlie 

    Chris Peterson - we didn't even consider him

    Hindsight, it would seem Briles would have obviously been better, but we would have been really embarrassed.  Malzhan would have been exponentially better than CHarlie, but im not sure he would have been a great long term fix.  My guess he would have been about like Mackovich here.  Mora likely wouldn't have worked, but then again who has worked out at UCLA?  He still a better football coach than Charlie, but probably not a long term solution.  the rest, meh...in the end we checked a non-football box with Charlie, and got a guy I think we are relatively happy with as of now.  Recruiting has picked up dramatically, toughness and playing hard has picked up dramatically, and we have developed a QB after 10 years in the desert.  

    Yeah, so pretty much Malzhan, who I would have been happier with, even at the time of hiring.  Guess there was some box he didn't check...and his wife is pretty much batshit, perhaps that was it..too much for the blue hairs....and thus we arrive at Charlie Strong.

  12. 2 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

    It took Mack 6 years at Texas to have a win like Georgia.

    One could argue that Nebraska 98' and 99' and aggy 98' were just as big,  even though Mac did not follow up with another huge win until , as you say, years later in 2004 or 2005.   I think we give Herman more credit for the Georgia win  because we don't have any significant history after the win that would establish an upward trend or just marking time like Mac circa 1999-2004.

  13. 2 hours ago, pepper brooks said:

    saban had agreed to a contract he was ready and willing to sign (this is 100% true).  he mandated it be to his desk by the Friday before the red-banquet.  mack and powers got word and blew the thing up.  

    Ok, so even if Saban was not a pipe dream, after the above, we were still left with my original scenario.  Charlie was the best choice given the available pool at the time and our list of minimum requirements and $.  Now I am not saying that that list of requirements was properly weighted for things that really mattered, like assistant evaluations and performance, but  he did check a lot of the boxes, as they say.

    If you disagree, then throw out some names that met the criteria at the time and we could debate.  I just don't remember there being anyone I was excited about that wanted to come here.

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  14. 1 hour ago, pepper brooks said:

    I was fine with the hire at the time as long as he hired a great staff.  The moment he brought shawn twatson along his tenure here was over before it started.  you cannot bring a guy to run an offense in an offense driven league who was fired from two of the worst offenses in the conference previously.  it also didn't help that he brought a DC who'd been fired for sucking as DC at Okie Aggy. Charlie was doomed to fail when he hired his staff.  Never mind he was also dumb enough to kick off to start both halves of a game and decline penalties when the opposition had made a first down.  

    This...and as I recall the talent pool of know commodity coaches willing to move was pretty thin.  Franklin would have been better but he had baggage.  We dodged the Briles bullet if he was even under serious consideration at all.  Saban was probably a pipe dream, and we were not hiring a coordinator with no HC experience.  Charlie seemed like a good fit to rid the program of the entitlement bug.

  15. On 9/2/2019 at 7:01 PM, GSU&UT said:

    Yep, THAT argument in particular is insane to me. China is aggressively trying to build out rail and move to renewable energy because they understand exactly how fucked humanity is in the next 50 to 100 years. You can't point the finger at China anymore and I'll be India will be doing the same.

    Also, China and India have correctly pointed out that we should also be looking at this on a per person basis rather  than just output on a countrywide/continental basis, and not so much so that they can get away with more due to their populations but as a way to curtail the holier than thou rhetoric from "the west".

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