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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 4 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    How much energy and CO2 to keep that freezer running

    Freezers have a  pretty low energy to usefulness ratio (or high usefulness to energy ratio) especially when only opened occasionally and used almost full for longer term storage.

    I do my own block ice for game trips and camping as well.  I even bring my starter cube ice from my ice machine at work or home fridge.  No bags here. 

  4. 43 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Trump has been hashtagging OANN for quite awhile now so he would probably like it if more of his supporters would watch it. I don't think it has the market reach that Fox does (for good reason) so maybe this is his shoutout for Fox to get back in line. I'm sure they will.

     

    Regarding the Deutsche Bank topic further: have any of you read the book by David Cay Johnston (The Making of Trump)? Or his more recent book? I haven't looked at the reviews but I'm wondering if my library has a copy as I may read it if anyone has any recs.

    That guy is awesome.  I have not read his books, though.  His Youtube stuff is great.  Very solid numbers and tax guy.  (David Cay Johnston, not Trump)

  5. On 8/26/2019 at 7:05 PM, Deej said:

    I remember the little rastafarian store just east of Tri Towers where all the entitled white kids bought their "Free Nelson Mandela" t-shirts back in 87.

    Yeah, those Rastafarians used to blare their music in the afternoons.  Many an afternoon was spent lounging on the hot tub deck with a few suds grooving to the sweet sounds of da Islands mon. Never bought a shirt though.

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  6. My oldest son lived there in Fall 2007 and Spring 2008.  Those guys were dicks about deposits. I can also verify -shithole.

    CSB: I lived at the Delphi across the street back in the late 80s and during the winter Tri towers would cast a long shadow over 24th st.  On a few occasions when an ice storm would roll in, my brother and I would set up shop on our street lawn and watch the wrecks caused by the  long shadow and unmelted street ice.  There were so many. Good times.

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  7. The 1969 team ended up being a sore spot for me during my time at UT. 85-90.  Although UT had won an UPI championship in '70 and had legit championship worthy teams in 77, 81, and 83 as well as a #1 ranking in '84 and "shock the nation" in '90 to stay in the "relevant" discussion, the program defining days of the Royal era were gone. aggy had begun to assert itself(cheating), sometimes in embarrassing fashion on the football field. There were lopsided losses to Colorado, OU, BYU, UH, and Baylor among others. Yet, seemingly every year, as a member of the Longhorn band, there was some pregame or halftime tribute to the 1969 team that I had to endure.  The complacency was palpable.  The stadium was old and tired, the fans were old and tired, cheating was rampant, the conference was diminishing, and the economy was in the toilet. 

    I grew up in Austin and the start of UT football every year was bright spot for me as welcome distraction from the start of a new school year.  As high school student my friends and I would do our school supply shopping on the drag, not only to get some much better stuff than the average student, but to also bask in the vibe of Longhorn football. It was awesome.  Once I got to UT and started getting to know the inner workings of the "show" I could tell the football program was grasping at straws and that we were has beens. 

    There is no need to rehash those years in their entirety, and I have the great respect for the University and '69 team .  But damn, ever single year it was something about the '69 team. It wasn't just at games either.  There was always some alumni function or ribbon cutting ceremony or some shit that had the '69 team "connection".  It just got beat to death. I could go on about how I was one of the first GEN Xers and was at the forefront of a great change that the University had not yet recognized, but mostly I was just pissed at the total lack of administrative effort put forth. 

    You also have to remember, this was just a mere 16-21 years after that championship for me.  A long time for a 18-23 year old, but in the grand scheme of things, not that long. 

    Now as a 52 year old alum, I realize that even for the blue blood programs every MNC is an event worth celebrating. Nevertheless, my "spidy sense" keeps going off the closer we get to that magic 15 years since the '05 championship, as great as it was, and dare I say, better than the '69 championship.

    In retrospect, I count my blessings as a fan of the program that I really should have had back then.  After all, in some alternate universe I could have been aggy and posted some bullshit about my time in the corp having to honor our university's last  MNC in 1939.

    TLDR: Former disgruntled LHB member got tired of '69 team tributes, got old and realized it beats Muscle Milk commercials. Also, don't live in the past and realize there are no good old days, these are the good old days.

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    No, not intentionally, but giving the idea more oxygen increases the possibility of it occurring and being accepted.

    It’s kinda like how the media took the absurd “Trump wants to buy Greenland” and breathed life into the idea instead of just saying “this is crazy shit, we’re not talking about it.”

    Kind of like that Nobel Peace Prize bit with North Korea.

  9. 12 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I hate the theoretical “will Trump leave office?” debate because by discussing it we’re already normalizing him not leaving office.   It’s like I’m watching a self fulfilling prophecy go down in real time.   The fact this is a legitimate discussion also illustrates how much Trump needed to be gone yesterday.

    ..and let's hope we don't end up with Bush Gore 2000 situation.  The Onion did a piece back then with Clinton declaring himself "president for life" complete with fascist rhetoric and a picture of him decked out in Mussolini like regalia.  It was funny because it was so over the top ridiculous and because over the top  fascist dictator did not really fit Clinton's personality.  this time, not so much. 

  10. 17 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I hate to break it to Mama Cuccinelli, but she raised a complete piece of shit.

    Heard that interview on the way to work this morning.  Of course, he was full of shit, but when he got to revising the Statue of Liberty thing, I had to stop listening.  Went over to B and E on 104.9 where I was assaulted by yet another Diamonds Direct commercial...sometimes you can't win.

  11. Snakes for sure because of the element of surprise.  They don't make any noise if they don't want to and usually I just happen upon them sitting there with a shit eating grin on their faces like they meant for that to happen.  We have a half mile track around our property that I used to run on almost every day.  In the spring and fall I would see them but not before I ran up upon them sitting there on the trail as I ran past them with an interrupted skip stride.  i would finish the lap and then call it quits.

    Have not seen huge fat walking sticks mentioned.

    Like this:

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    One was perched by our front door jamb a few weeks ago.  It was about 8" long in the torso and had its front legs folded out in front of it so as to make it look like it had only 4 legs.  It was about as thick as a Husky pencil.  I was going in and out loading up my gym bag, coffee, guitar, etc before I went to work and I kept forgetting it was there and it freaked me out when I opened the door and again on every return.  Reminded me of that creepy Demagorgen from Stranger Things and appeared almost mammalian.

  12. 40 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    pretty sure that type of mental compartmentalization shows signs we're dealing with a real live sociopath. 

    tough to find them out in the wild.  they should interview him in season 3 of mindhunter.

    Was there a season 2?

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  13. Franken had a history of bringing the behavior found in the writing room of Saturday Night Live to politics.  I was reading my wife's copy of "Giant of the Senate" and in it, Franken detailed a few occasions where risque behavior/comments had gotten him in trouble on the Senate campaign.  I read it after he resigned but, taking all into account I got the feeling that there might have been more there than was reported.  FTR, I found nothing he did during his senate campaign offensive.

  14. On 7/4/2019 at 10:10 AM, blacklab said:

    I've really enjoyed Dark. German series about evil things happening in a small town. Finished season one last night and moving on to season 2 now. 

    Finished this on Sunday (both seasons)  They have been renewed for a 3rd season.

    Perfect German combination of Stranger Things and Lost. 

  15. 3 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    The Japanese cars got better in the late 70's into the early 80's as far as looks.  Their pickups were little workhorses and I bet you can probably go to some areas as close as Mexico and still see some of those operating in the remote villages.  

    You are correct about the CAFE standards and the lack of innovation around them as  being one of many reason the US auto industry started the multi decade decline during that era.    GM was full of mindless bean counters who also pushed the thinking that America's love affair with the new Japanese cars was only temporary, hence they brought to the market some of the ugliest POS ever such as the Pontiac Aztec.     I think many of those idiots still had that mindset until 2008 when they finally had to file bankruptcy.  I still wonder at times if GM has finally figured it out because having owned one GM vehicle since 2008, it had several mechanical issues that had to be addressed before the standard bumper to bumper warranty expired.  Needless to say we washed our hands of that 2015 Yukon real quick.      Can't say the same for the two F-150's or Honda we've owned during since 2008.  Likewise for the Toyota we traded in for that above noted Yukon in 2015 as I wished we would have gone ahead and kept it for a few years more and then downsized to the Honda my wife drives now.  

     

    I should add Ford and Chrysler had their share of the same mindless bean counters.     At least Ford got a clue much earlier than the other two and was a tad more proactive  and avoided the bankruptcy mess GM had to go through.   Barely.  

    CSB:  I had an '86 Mazda B2000 pick up truck in charcoal grey that I sold to one of my workers back in '96.  He drove it to Durango, Mexico, hit it with a few can of light blue spray paint and it is still going strong to this day, unlike Lee Iacocca.

  16. 26 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    underwrite health insurance individually.

    It's a whole lot better than creating another pile of funds for the government to mismanage.

    So walk me through what that looks like, wrt this problem.

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