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Skipper

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  1. It didn't. And I'm not going to pretend to have a strong opinion from before that date. Even at a point 20 years ago I was relatively well educated on the subject matter, I still didn't have a strong opinion that either side was "right". And I did know enough from more recent history to realize that Bibi was a piece of shit well before all of this. But 10/7 was a massive escalation (I would call it unprovoked, others would disagree, and then we would go in circles again) but it deserved a response. Maybe I'm biased as I have clients with family there that were impacted so I heard personal stories. Maybe if I had clients in Palestine instead and heard their stories my view might change. I don't know. But I know you can't have terrorists invade your country targeting civilians and not respond. I'm just not going to have an issue with that.
  2. LOL. I've seen enough of your shit post history to know this will be my one and only time to engage with your dumbass. 80% of your posts are just lazily bitching at people that don't agree with whatever bullshit opinion you have. Particularly if you have groupthink support on this forum. So good luck with all of that.
  3. I certainly have no desire to debate the history. I dug into it college and didn't have answers then and certainly don't have answers or strong opinions on that now. But I'm absolutely not critical of the initial response. What happened on 10/7 deserved a massive response in my view. Obviously it would be great if Hamas and other Jihadi assholes had their military bases and operations separate from civilian housing and infrastructure but that's not who they are. Civilian casualties were unavoidable. It's intentional Hamas strategy to maximize civilian casualties to gather indirect support (i.e., opposition to Israel) just like we've seen in this thread every time I check in. If we want to discuss a point in time it was appropriate for Israel to scale back operations (or for the U.S. to scale back it's support), I'm certainly open to that discussion. But the vast majority of posters that are overtly critical of Israel in this thread drew that line in the sand way back in October (and for most, absolutely based on how they viewed regional politics and the history pre 10/7).
  4. That being said, I don't think there is a reality where they could have conducted surgical operations and successfully eliminated Hamas. What Hamas did in October 100% deserved a massive initial response and there were inevitably going to be civilian casualties. It's war and Hamas (knowingly and intentionally) brought that shit on the people they govern. Not just with the initial attack but with an entire strategy of forcing Israel to kill civilians if they want to kill Hamas. Some of the rhetoric from far right in Israel is concerning and given where things stand it's certainly open to debate what the rest of this "war" should look like, but I have a hard time criticizing Israel taking hard measures against nutjobs whose stated goal in life is to kill every jew and who have openly stated they will do it again.
  5. Which is why it doesn't bother me personally that they entered a hospital to take down those assholes because they use civilians as shields and particularly doesn't bother me because from what I've read no civilians were harmed in the raid. I would prefer creative raids even if they bend the "rules of war" (whatever that is worth in a conflict like this) to indiscriminate bombing. That being said - 956 raises a good point in the post above mine regarding that putting israeli medics at risk, although do we really think if Hamas has an opportunity to take out a jew they are going to give a shit it's a medic? I think if a known Israeli of any gender, age or occupation in firing range of Hamas they are pretty much all at equal risk.
  6. Was strongly considering getting back in to their podcast. If it's full of idiotic takes like that then never mind. Get enough absurd anti-Texas bullshit from Corby
  7. Why does it matter where terrorists are killed? If they are hiding out in a "hospital" and only Hamas and Palestine Jihad assholes were killed (i.e., not a bunch of hospitalized civilians) - it sounds like a pretty good operation from where I sit. Not a 'bad look'.
  8. I never understood why they built that stadium with only 65K seating capacity. I generally agree with the whole "smaller venue" movement but Vegas is such a destination for both visiting fans and obvious travel destination for big college games (or you know, Super Bowls) that it could easily fill 20 or 25K more seats. Such a terrible decision.
  9. What are we setting the over/under for NCAA still governing major college football at? 3.5 years? Their lack of any guidelines or clarity around NIL (vague policies that are seemingly constantly changing and now in direct conflict with laws of multiple states), combined with now attempting to enforce "policy" at large programs, might be the nail in the coffin.
  10. Don't even start looking until August. Season ticket renewal emails haven't even come out. Nobody (including Michigan fans) will get tix until July or August. The only sellers are brokers short selling tix to anxious Texas fans.
  11. I agree tix in the Texas allotment will be scarce. But I'm not remotely concerned about getting tix generally in a stadium that sits 100K+. I'm guessing ticket prices will be comparable to any of our other big games the past couple of years (Bama (both places), TX-OU, Sugar Bowl). It's pointless to even start thinking about tix this point as the only people selling are short sellers looking for suckers.
  12. Is there a market for game day charters? I know when we played Notre Dame we (and tons of Texas fans) stayed in Chicago and went on a party bus. Hell, if I remember correctly either the guy advertising was on shaggy or at least got linked there and ended up filling like 5X his typical busses with Texas fans.
  13. I caught part of the hardline segment talking about the party. Dave noted it was great that they were out mingling with the PI's, just chatting, taking pictures and giving autographs. What? Imagine being a grown ass man asking one of these guys for their fucking autograph. Dear lord.
  14. HELOC or a full blown refi are the only things that make sense to me here. Run the numbers on both. It makes zero sense to worry about "getting house paid in full" when you are carrying that kind of high interest credit card debt. You are just pissing money away monthly. Get quotes for HELOC and full blown refi, run the numbers on what makes sense, then get out of credit card debt, cut up the cards and use debit card/ pay all bills from checking account, then use any excess each month to either pay off HELOC principal or mortgage principal to eventually get back where you are now with respect to home equity.
  15. Texas has a history of hiring more established assistants that get here and feel like "they made it" and get lazy in recruiting and all other aspects of their job (particularly back in the Mack era). I don't have an issue with Sark taking a flyer on a young guy he views as hungry. He's earned that leeway in my view. If it doesn't work out it's not like he's not going to be in a position to cut him loose after 1 season.
  16. Helobious is just doing a bit right? Has to be.
  17. Beard had a ton more leverage than RT. It will be interesting to see how his deal is structured. I could see RT's agent negotiating for a higher buyout percentage year 1 to protect against this scenario. Isn't this all subject to a public information act request? Not sure why it's not out there if so.
  18. And people are still running with it. Surely some enterprising reporter is going to figure this out sooner or later given the outlook on the season. There probably aren't many scenarios that can get RT fired this year but 3-15 in conference should absolutely be one of them were that to play out.
  19. Scroll back a couple of pages and that was how people were referencing it. I also would not expect that to be the case but haven't researched it and couldn't find it based on a couple of quick google searches.
  20. Regarding buyout, do we know for sure his deal is fully guaranteed? I kind of assumed buyout would be lower than standard given the circumstances.
  21. I read an article on the Dallas dining scene recently that basically came to this same conclusion. That high end (big night out) places and low end (high volume) places are still doing well. But middle tier restaurants are struggling significantly absent bringing something really unique to the table that drives customers.
  22. For those keeping score, I did in fact stay home from work after fever went from normal to 103+ in a span of 3 hours last night. Total beatdown. Pretty sure this one is the flu. I've had a nice run of probably 8-10 years without a meaningful flu but guess I was due. Hoping the flu vax at least makes this short lived.
  23. Would be nice to actually win a game against someone other than Minn or Chicago one of these days. Maybe start tonight?
  24. If not frozen too long trying pouring hot water into the pump. I'm not sure when things froze for me but I was able to bring mine back after a couple of cycles of hot water. If that didn't work, I was just going to shut power off to the pool equipment and pull drain plugs and hope for the best as it thawed.
  25. I think this is a big chunk of it. In particular the older generation and the undecuated. I'll add in a couple of other categories among those that are educated when I tried to drill down into this last election. 1. People that feel so strongly about pro-life that it trumps (no pun intended) everything. I don't really pretend to understand these people or how they can reconcile morality voting for Trump but they exist. 2. People that think the liberalism in society is a bigger problem than Trump. Last cycle it was BLM riots and more locally Eyes of Texas and Homeless infiltration in Texas cities. This cycle it will be DEI and open borders among other issues. Fox News and social media will help shift focus from Trump's idiocy onto these and similar social issues to convince educated whites that holding their nose and voting Trump is better than 4 years of further spiraling and "becoming California or Chicago". It doesn't necessarily need to make logical sense as none of these voters are going to do a critical analysis as to how much Biden's policies actually impact whatever perceived issue they have. It's enough to get this type to say I don't like Trump but I'm not voting for "X liberal policy" and that's that.
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