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  1. In my best butter teeth voice: "Steve, you're right, all this fan negativity just scares ya to death. I'm just telling you right now, you're on the right path. Tell those negativity nancies the real concern is the team you're facing this week. I mean you just look across the field and you have to be impressed at the talent those teams have at their disposal. Keep on the path Steve. You're right and they're wrong. This is my friend Jimbo, I think you guys have met. He agrees with me."
  2. Those numbers are fake flags. The whorns own the media and minipulate it so they look better than really ares.
  3. Look man, I'm all about 31 flavors, but I also recognize what I most often end up eating. Said a very wise friend once: "I like the one who like me."
  4. Hmmm.. my own history confirms Chocolate, Mexican Vanilla, and Neapolatin are my ice creams of choice, but if caramel is available I'm always game.
  5. Some folks flap foolish, Spewing silly, senseless stuff Sark, see? Same soup, Sal.
  6. I largely agree with a very specific exception, that being clearly demonstrated flight risk. Roman Polanski is the first big name aligned to the subject that comes to mind. Maxwell another. Those who have clear motives, connections and finances to avoid the US criminal justice system's reach. To play my own devil's advocate it seems unfair that because someone is wealthy and connected the risk of flight should be assumed and their life put on hold without clear history of evasion of the law. As such, perhaps a true financial motivation would be most appropriate. Say, millions of dollars in wire transfer funds only held by the court with a demand of passport surrender. I dunno, sometimes I argue with myself.
  7. I would love to differ with you, but I too refuse to delude myself when looking in the mirror. As such, you're not wrong.
  8. Amen Tony! He expressed exactly what I've been posting over and over again. This fix isn't complex but our coach is making it so. Align your offensive game plan the weaknesses of the defenses your facing and the abilities of the talent on the team. Sark did it against OU, then promptly stopped.
  9. It's a lot trickier than it sounds. Weird friend told me.
  10. I don't know what movie that its but given the main actor, set design and costume I'm confident it's both a bizarre movie and comedy. Likely dark comedy, which makes me upset I haven't seen it. Getting back on topic, I don't know who Jim Davis is, but here is Kim Davis. She seems like a really unhappy and unhealthy woman from Kentucky who really takes issue with gays deciding to throw their own freedom away and get married. She was really just looking out for them as single life rules!
  11. We appreciate your attention to this matter.
  12. On Surly, pinned with the pride of predictability, hung the poster Helobious—a twisted tapestry of tattered dreams and tarnished triumphs. Much like Sarkisian’s stagnating offense, the image of Helobious was a parody of power, a bold but barren banner that promised greatness yet delivered nothing but a hollow echo of hollow hopes. Helobious, in all his garish glory, was a grotesque gargoyle of grit that never quite grasped greatness. The poster himself sagged with the weight of unfulfilled potential, his thoughts faded like a forgotten dream, a faded reflection of the ferocity that was never realized. Sarkisian’s offensive playbook mirrored the missteps of Helobious—both men stubbornly stuck in a state of self-absorbed, self-defeating stagnation, trapped in a cycle of ambition without action. Just as the eyes of Helobious gazed outwards, longing for a world he could never touch, Sarkisian’s eyes seemed fixed on an ideal offense that was too distant, too delusional to ever materialize. His post, pinned precariously to the top, was a picture of pompous persistence, clinging desperately to a promise that was perpetually postponed—just as the Longhorn offense, trapped in Sarkisian’s endless echo of ego, meandered aimlessly with no real direction, no real spark. Both Helobious and Sarkisian, in their own ways, had built elaborate illusions of greatness, but neither could escape the inevitable collapse of their own conceited constructs.
  13. The Texas Longhorn offense, under the misguided mastery of Steve Sarkisian, became a baffling, bungled buffet of blunders. With each sluggish snap, the game plan appeared as if it had been hastily hobbled together, a tattered tapestry of misguided mismatches. Sarkisian's schemes sputtered and stuttered, stifling any semblance of success, as his stubbornness overshadowed strategic sense. His play-calling was a parade of predictability, a pitiful procession of passes that were painfully ponderous and runs that were routinely rendered redundant. Instead of innovating, Sarkisian’s approach was a stale, stuttering saga of sideline signals, each more useless than the last. The offense, once a symbol of swagger, now staggered under the weight of his reckless reliance on rote, regurgitated strategies. The Longhorns were locked in a loop of languid, lackluster attempts, with no spark, no surprise—just a series of sad, senseless, and stultifying setbacks that sent fans into a spiral of frustration.
  14. If the wealthy in Moscow start hording fuel and long term consumables, it's going to filter down panic buying in the "middle class". That's when you will know any real plan to overthrow or execute Putin is coming down the pipe within months if not weeks.
  15. Trump's ego and "Legacy" (in quotations as this legacy is whatever Trump believes/thinks it will be) are always the first factors in determining any statements or actions he will make. I really don't think the people of Ukraine or Russia for that matter factor into the equation other than how he perceives it will alter his ego or "legacy". In case anyone is curious, power and money followed after a massive gap then women (because a bad ass needs arm candy) is the rest of Trump's "moral compass". He follows the Scarface book of "How to win friends and influence people".
  16. It's clear you have zero interest in actual discussion and instead prefer to rant feel good, illogical tropes and smack. I tried to discuss the nuance and detail to provide you with some additional knowledge. I failed to gain your interest in the specifics and details where the devil actually lays. I'm moving on.
  17. Have you done any research on how your proposed solution works when not tied equally to funding in drug rehabilitation and mental illnesses Healthcare funding? Seattle Study
  18. We actually are right now in multiple states. Many prisons are horribly overcrowded. To the effect that its cruel and unusual punishment. Here is a good place to stsrt
  19. Check the links I provided in my post as the data in them directly conflicts the numbers you provided. The drug war is a money driver for federal and state, it's way bigger than you think and if you're doing away with the drug war imprisonment, be prepared to see board patrol, state and local police forces, coast guard and other massive cuts. Also, be prepared for a potentially likely cartel take over of every major US city. Beyond that have you looked at how Seattle, Austin, Portland and other major cities are doing now that all drug and drug related crimes are being almost completely ignored without required and widely available drug treatment? We're not getting drug treatments now, pulling the financial rug out from under our criminal industrial complex is certainly not going to help that reality. I'm absolutely against the war on drugs but letting all drug offenders of every sort loose including violent ones (gang members and cartel) to keep csa and cp offenders in prison for life put far more lives and businesses at danger. In other words, its way worse for the common good. Look, I empathize with your position and would love to agree, but there is always a quid pro quo. We don't have endless prison spaces. Broad stroke calls based on emotion sound and feel great but they don't function great when you look at all aspects.
  20. For all forms and all types of sex offenders? Okay, I'll play devils advocate. There isn't an endless supply of prison rooms. Option A make the list of crimes that are no longer being charged or prosecuted for lack of space. State: To account for the 13% of sex criminals since we know they wont do Drug crimes the only equal option is: Weapons, Arson, Explosives Federal the only option to match is Firearms. Federal Prisons So no more state or federal arrests for any firearms violations including known murders, cartel members and other us gang members. People who like to play with fire and explosives are also free to roam about YOUR neighborhood now. Option B: Permanantly close all public schools and public education k-12 in the United States of America to build prisons. Option C Cut all federal and state funding on roads and interstates. Making broad sweeping statements feels good, when you have to weigh those broad sweeping statements against logic and budget they aren't as easy to commit to.
  21. I don't know why you directed this at me. My message had nothing at all to say about violators punishment. It was 100% about victims of csa. My post has nothing to do with yours that I can discern. For the record I was sexually abused as a child by a male and female couple. My sister was abused by the male of that same couple. It's taken me most of my life to work through some of those issues and that damage. I don't like to discuss it here as I've seen that sort of information be cataloged by users and brought up in later conversations as a slam point. CSA is irrational in the normative patterns of today's morals. The definition of sexual abuse has changes very dramatically in the last 100 years, hell, the last 20. There was a historical point where marrying a "woman" at the start of her productive cycle made sense. Do NOT take that to mean I'm defending, in any way, csa. Going further back csa between a male childe and man was culturally embraced (for specific groups). Sexual misconduct or sexual crime changes a lot based on social constructs. Less than 30 years ago homosexual acts were still widely illegal in many states. (Sadly it still is in some remote places) Then we get to the what is the point of a penal system. Historically, more times that not it has been used as a leverage for debtors, and a place to put "crazy" people and thieves. Of course, thieves are often debtors, but of course we no longer penalize people for being poor. (This is the sarcasm tag). Its a very unpopular position, but factually true that the US penal system is first classist and sexist, before racist. I know I've wandered way off course, mostly as I had applied and intended to go to grad school for and build a career in the US criminal industrial complex. So I'm going to get back to the subject at hand. I'm of the believe that a criminal justice system should have 2 primary functions. First and foremost is to protect the public from crime and adjudication for people who commit crimes. Then within the penal system it should be to rehabilitate people who have committed crimes to the degree and effect that it best reduces the likelihood of recidivism. A system built purely for punishment is not conducive to a best functioning society. While it "feels" good, and god knows advocating for it gets votes in the US, it ultimately doesn't best serve the public good as a whole. When you also make it classist, sexist and racist it becomes extremely dysfunctional and open for extreme versions of abuse of power. All the while, the general public is less safe as criminals are more likely to become recidivist. Which brings me back to CSA and CP and also to broader SA, SB, and other non-consenting sex crime. (I say non-consenting as unfortunately the US criminal industrial complex is still in 3rd world mode when it comes to sex work. Also, drug addiction, but that's a different rant). The hard truth is, predictive recidivism for sex crimes is at best difficult and in some aspects impossible. As such appropriare sentencing for them is truly a quagmire. Below is a long paper the dives into a ton of details with another shit ton of sites of other studies. Its a rabbit hole for which there is no simple answer. Making it worse is the fact that its difficult to determine success or failure of treatment methodologies for sex offenders. I won't dive into all the details as the information in the link is far better than anything I would produce. What I will say is if you care about what's best for US citizens as a whole, all of us, addressing the issues of the criminal industrial complex is, in my firm opinion the greatest social issue facing us all. It ties into every other aspect of our issues in this country. There are no simple answers, purely emotional ones aren't and won't work, and it is used as a tool by our politicians and oligarchy overlords to further divide us, all to their own gains. So I encourage all of us, me included, to keep an open mind when discussing it with others. For all of us to continue to educate ourselves and others when possible. To try and work together to find solutions that best serve us all, including those in the criminal industrial complex. Long, Great Paper on Sexual Recidivism
  22. First, certainly morally I agree with you but criminally I'm torn. Mainly because those in possession of CP are the very people who create the market for and thus the causation of the production of the material. So I'm certainly not giving the owners/consumers of CP a pass, but is it equally criminal to own as it is to actually film or photograph, and distribute the CP? That's not an easy yes answer for me, but I wish both served more severe sentences. As to whether or not it was porn in this case, it brings up the very old semantic argument regarding the definition of porn. If one considers it material intended to stimulate someone sexually, I would argue taking pictures of children for the purpose of stimulating oneself meets that criteria. I certainly don't agree that just pictures/photographs without sexual activity is never porn. I mean, is Hustler magazine porn? I don't want to competelt derail the thread with a very old argument but in my book, taking and/or possession of naked pics of children with or without sexual activity is absolutely CP and should be prosecuted and adjudicated as such. Should it be worse when there is sexual activity or heavier punishment CP? I'd be good with that.
  23. I think it important to point out some distinctions. First, crime data shows being sexually abused does not make one more likely to become an abusers. The low hanging fruit on the data is that female children are abused at much higher rates yet abuser are far more frequently men. Many men convicted of child SA claim to be victims, but there is often no evidence to support these claims. It is theorized they make these claims to garner sympathy. I point it out as the myth of abused male children frequently becoming abusers has so frequently been resold that the children themselves face double the issues in potentially reporting the abuse. That isn't at all to say there aren't victims that become abusers but the data doesn't support that a victim of child sexual abuse is more likely to become a csa themselves unless very specific additional items also exist. (Additional physical abuse, female sexual predation of a male child, other additional types of abuse such as neglect and psychological abuse) Further more, that claim re-victimizes a male if he wants to come out about his abuse later in life. It's terrible than such a stigma has been placed, unfairly and inaccurately, on male child sex abuse victims. One of many papers More Data Pay wall article A in depth and more recent paper
  24. Well, Oregon honestly was where I hope Arch portals if he does and exactly who I was thinking of bringing to Texas.. great minds or something. Perfect world, instead of Arch portaling the change is made and we bring him in. That's a lot of wish casting but with PK on D and Will Stien having free reign of the Texas O with Sark doing PR type shit... money ball.
  25. Honestly, I encourage Arch to portal because at the end of the day at this point in time it's better for his career. Not only do I hope he portals but going to a good team with a good OC and is wildly successful. I strongly believe he would be and it's best for that young man's future to gtfo from under this slop our HC/OC is peddling. Yes, I'm putting the interest of a 21 year old in front of the interest of my beloved Longhorns. It also presses the point and blows open the Sark myth of being the QB whisperer or offensive genius. It also makes CDC push Sark into handing off the offense to a competent OC. Not one of Sark's buddies, but the best Texas can find. That OC should also get full autonomy to bring in all the recruiters and position coaches who are also the top of their game. Does it mean Texas football takes a step back, yes, in the short term. The long term ultimately leads to an HC who can focus on big picture and do HC shit like encourage the team on the side line or debate with refs or keep PK happy or glad hand rich NIL donors. It also, I hope, leads to a fresh, inventive offense that makes waves with it's unique style and approach. It also helps us avoid the longer term massive pain of eventually having to shit can Sark and start again, which I don't think is good for Texas at all.
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