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Skipper

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  1. Pretty consistent with my interactions as well. Exact order. Limited experience around any NHL guys but those guys have always seemed super down to earth/normal when I've seen them out and about.
  2. About once a month when slow I'll take a look at this board then flip over to Orangebloods and read their board and it's hilariously night and day. All UT fans that somehow found their message board political tribes. To be clear, I think both extremes are crazy. And I'll vote for Kamala. But 55% of this State will vote for Trump and the vast majority of those are full blown MAGA. So that a bunch of former Texas athletes fall into that category is not at all surprising to anyone not living in an echo chamber. Just not sure why this is deserving of a thread considering the reality is their political viewpoint is relatively mainstream.
  3. A board comprised of ultra liberals somehow shocked to find out a few former Texas athletes fall into the other 55% of the state population that disagree with them politically. LOL.
  4. Just an elite public speaker. I remember almost 20 years ago I sat in on some public speaking workshop in DC for work and his '04 convention speech (before anyone really knew him) was the example shown as a "perfect speech". He wasn't even in his prime then and still nobody has touched him since.
  5. This is a Cloak room topic so really should be discussed over there. But I would call savers that siphon cash that accumulate interest or invest excess cash anticipating returns "financially responsible" in contrast to a massive chunk of current society. And those in that category are almost certainly cutting fat checks to the govt. I've got hot takes on 'more taxation' as a solution (to inflation or otherwise) but this would veer way too off topic into the other forum.
  6. Agree with this 100%. From what I witness on a micro basis with acquaintances/family spending well above their means + on a macro basis with data showing no real slowdown in discretionary spending in the face of inflation, it just doesn't add up at all without the combination noted above. I was just pricing some potential holiday travel and pricing is insane with limited availability where I was looking. But why not keep raising prices if people keep paying for it? I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop but that has probably been for 18 months now. There is going to be a reckoning at some point.
  7. Tell me Kamala isn't actually supporting 44.6% capital gains tax idiocy like I'm suddenly seeing on twitter.
  8. This the guy I've had great experiences with 2 years in a row. Capt. Josh (@fishinfrenzycharters) • Instagram photos and videos Really a bay guide but he took us out a bit with calm waters. He has good equipment and will spend a lot of time looking for the fish (i.e., you might spend a lot of time driving around). If he finds them and they aren't biting he won't waste time in that spot. It's been pretty obvious both trips that other captains try to follow him at times to see what he's doing. He's a bit more expensive but good odds you will come back with a haul. I have another guide that is a bit cheaper but great with kids. More into teaching and the experience. 2 different types of trips but both good.
  9. Nice. We were there a couple of weeks ago. Catching ghost shrimp occupied my son for hours daily on the beach. We had a slow day bay fishing first day out but my 7 YO son landed a 30 inch red right as we were about to call it a day. Was pretty great. The other day was slow in the bay early as the water was super calm and fish weren't biting (only 1 keeper trout) but it was calm enough we went several miles out in his flat bottom and caught 5 keeper snapper (and another 4 that were just under the limit) + 15 big spadefish all in about 90 minutes. Was a blast. Cook your catch at Viva was amazing (was last year as well) but it's gotten pretty popular so for anyone reading make reservations in high season. First time we tried (on a Sunday) they weren't event taking walk ups so we immediately booked for Thurs and they only had a handful of spots left it seemed like.
  10. Who gives a shit if it's just a video and not misinformation or AI. If you want to counter with videos of actual peaceful protests by non-lunatics feel free. The ongoing disruption and destruction caused by these losers remains newsworthy IMO.
  11. Horrible. I don't understand what the life guards could have possibly been doing. How do you miss that? Is it going to come out that these were just cross-fit bros without any basic lifeguard training out there? Or were they just too concerned with "stopping the competition" and what impact that would have on the results? Just ridiculous regardless.
  12. Are you friends with Helobious?
  13. Who could have predicted A&M boosters would shove all the way in on NIL after we stole their coach. We'll see if they can keep the momentum after this off-season but maybe a wake up call to Texas Baseball Boosters.
  14. That will be the next fun mini drama to watch play out. I agree pretty much zero benefit to Trump debating her but she will try to goad him constantly into a debate and watching him dance around it will be fun.
  15. Still somewhat baffling to me. It was such an unforced error driven by pure arrogance that he had the election locked up. I think Trump is still a favorite but Vance didn't gain him any votes and will almost certainly lose him votes among women post Kamala shift. He could have chosen someone like Rubio that would actually talk issues and policy and potentially sway moderate votes that 'someone' in the room might be able to keep Trump in check (similar to Pence VP strategy) but instead he just chose another MAGA that isn't even any good at the MAGA performance art aspect.
  16. Agreed. I'm enjoying this season overall but they are spending too long on Daemon at Harrenhall I'm sure there is a payoff eventually but seems they could get wherever they are going cutting out 1/3 of the screen time.
  17. I do Vonlane once or twice per year for Texas football games and it's a great experience.
  18. Houston power seems like a shit show. I'm never one to give Oncor much credit but when damn near all of the metroplex had power go out after Memorial Day (on a storm that wasn't really forecasted) they got crews in from out of town pretty damn fast and seemed pretty competent solving the problem. My power was only out about 18 hours. All of our neighborhood (and all but a handful of people I know throughout) restored within 48 hours and pretty much any stragglers in the metroplex within 72/84. From what it looks like Houston was completely flat footed which isn't really acceptable given everyone knew a damn storm was hitting "somewhere" along the coast. What a mess. Sorry guys.
  19. That is clearly the best bet to everyone outside of apparently Biden and his inner circle + a handful on this board with their head in the sand.
  20. The Dems probably don't have a winning strategy at this point. But it certainly isn't running Biden. The fact that Biden is digging in and thinks he is still the best option to beat Trump is further proof he's going senile. Everyone clinging to that hope is flat out living in denial. You all can cuss the media all you want but I watched the debate and it was clear 15 minutes in that Biden was fucking toast this election. Kamala would almost certainly be a huge underdog coming in late but she will actually have a chance to make up the difference unlike Biden. His narrative is set no matter how many 'fiery' interviews he does.
  21. Fuck that. It isn't the media's fault he completely embarrassed himself in the debate pretty much proving the narrative (that already existed) that he is too old to run again 100% correct.
  22. I talked to a coach that was on a staff with him that said he can't draw up a basic defense on the white board. Pure Incompetence as a coach. But great recruiter.
  23. WTF are you talking about dude. What data or history exists regarding an 80+ year old borderline senile politician running for President? The data doesn't exist because nobody has been dumb enough to try it until now.
  24. That argument in 2020 failed because we all watched the debates and saw Biden hold his own. Seriously, take a step back and go watch debate footage from 2020 and from last week. It's not even close to the same Biden.
  25. If these were team friendly contracts I might agree with trade bait, but pretty much universally thought to be horrible contracts from the commentary I've read. Particularly Ilybushkin or whatever his name is which I've seen multiple people indicate is in the running for the worst contract signed yesterday.
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