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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Holy crap I am (I'm) in tears. I missed this and had to go back and watch it. That single clip is probably the Star Trek content I have (I've) ever seen.
  2. I must have watched a different Romo era. We found an abundance of ways to lose with him as QB, just like with Dak. He might have had more "flash" but when it counted the most, he failed. Both the Romo and Dak eras are almost identical. Early Romo was basically Dak, but late Romo was pretty good quarterbacking. Unfortunately late Romo was made out of fragile China. At the end of his career, his ability to make subtle moves to avoid sure tackles from his blind side in the box was unparalleled. Unfortunately it wasn't perfect and he would inevitably take a hit that took him out for a while. We need a quarterback to get to that skill level before he gets too old to recover from the game.
  3. That went a lot better than I expected, so maybe there's hope for a season that isn't completely embarrassing. Our defense sucked donkey balls, but they made adjustments and stepped up after the weather delay. Maybe, probably not, but maybe, they learned how to not suck. Offense in general was pretty good until the end, and you can't really fault Dak, even though I don't care for him. With a couple exceptions he played a pretty good game.
  4. I love how they are able to instantly replay clean plays with good calling, but the moment there is something questionable they act like that is too big of an ask.
  5. This could actually happen...so how are we going to screw it up?
  6. Those sandwiches during the weather delay were clearly the missing ingredient.
  7. Dallas still has time to score again. What a wreck.
  8. 5. If you are uncomfortable with being on a list, printer goes brrr..... There is stuff out there that is currently legal that would surprise many folks.
  9. Holy shit, this exploded, which is guess it deserved to do, because it is an unprecedented grab for power and exceeds the constitutional limits that our republic is based on. Im not going to go back and read every post in this thread since I initially posted about it this morning, but I will add a few thoughts. 1. There are plenty of people from many persuasions who are appaled by this. Calling them out for unrelated disagreements can do nothing but harm the cause. 2. It is a known tactic for Russia to pay people/bots to post controversial content vilifying both sides of any political conflict in order to sew discord. Don't take anything for granted if it is posted from an extreme point of view with language clearly intended to divide. 3. Natural rights such as being able to defend oneself are legitimate, and extend into political situations, hence a well regulated militia. The term "well regulated militia" was used at the time to describe a group of citizens willing to take up arms to fight for their freedoms. It did not mean we gotta regulate those arms. It meant there might be a slave rebellion and we need to be ready (clearly the whole natural rights thing needed some time to mature and recognize that it wasnt6just white land owners who were the recipients of them). 4. The federal tax for short barreled rifles and suppressors goes to $0 on January 1. Suppressors don't make gunshots silent like in the movies, but they do help keep you from being deaf. They do add length, so it makes sense to put them on shorter rifles so that the overall length is manageable. Right now, you can buy an AR-15 with what is called a pistol brace on it and it is still classified as a pistol instead of a short barrelled rifle (sbr). You could theoretically hold that pistol brace against your shoulder and shoot it, but the distance between the end of the brace and the sights on the rifle would not be ideal. Come January first you can then legally register thet "pistol" as a short barreled rifle for free. Then you can put a proper stock on it. You can then buy a legally registered suppressor without having to pay am exorbitant tax to make it marginally quiet enough to shoot without hearing protection. Everyone should have one of these given the current climate.
  10. My truck decided it’s torque converter wasn't all that important a couple or three months ago, so I got to spend a bit of time riding the bike to work while I ruminated on whether or not to fix a 2007 F150 with 213k miles or buy a new truck. And what truck should I buy? I've got about a fifty mile round trip ride to work through mostly straightish highway, so my back tire now looks like this: So I guess I need to pull out the old tire spoons and get a new one. As a side note, I got an F150 Lightning. My Sportster is a 1200 with upgraded exhaust and air filter, but I have no record of any tuning adjustments or anything like that because all that stuff was already on there when I bought it with 300 miles on it. Anyhow, im pretty sure this massively heavy truck can just about smoke my bike off the line. That instant torque is very nice. Now I need to convince the wife the it is worth spending the $2500 or so to upgrade to 1275 with new cams and a proper tuner and a few other goodies so I can get between 90 and 100 horses out of the rear wheel. Because I can't drive a trick that is faster than my bike. It is unholy.
  11. I watched that PBS aircraft carrier documentary almost 20 years ago when I was getting ready to go to OCS for the USMC because they offered a flight contract if you could pass all the tests, and I'm not convinced that things are any different today.
  12. I didn't read the article and wasn't trying to argue with your point, so much as pointing out that it wouldn't be beyond Russia to put out a hit for them.
  13. Meh, like they care about individual candidates. All they care about is division. They people or create bots or whatever to post up GRUHorn type content, and then turn around and pay people to post up Brisket type content. All they care about is division. If knocking off a couple of political candidates out of a pool of 20,000 will accomplish that, then it's all part of the game.
  14. So we're talking about sending the national guard to Chicago to "fight crime" now as well...good thing so many people of a particular persuasion spent so much effort passing laws that are primarily used to put young black men in jail so that God fearing white folks who style themselves as proponents for the downtrodden could feel a little safer have spent so much time trying to dismantle the very thing that could be the last hope for our republic.
  15. Unfortunately, if you are from south of the border, you are Mexican until proven otherwise, which is not an entirely unreasonable suspicion, given that most of our Latino population is of Mexican origin. The greater problem with all of this is that we are doling out death sentences to foreign nationals in international waters for suspected non-death penalty eligible crimes without any due process or declaration of war. Given that our civil rights our supposed to be endowed by the creator and not just available to Americans, this just might be a gross violation of them.
  16. Did Katrina clean up as a spring break mission trip through the BSM. We basically were just gutting houses down to the studs and piling everything out by the street. One of the houses must have been a proctologist or something, because we found this fake foam butt with a hole and stuff in it for practicing sticking sharp objects and stuff up it. Also found gun safes that obviously had ruined guns inside them, old quartersawn hardwood floors that had been ruined, etc.
  17. I somehow simultaneously both respect you more and less by finding out you own a Tec-9.
  18. I thought it was a nice call back to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the novel that Blade Runner was based on). Especially since the previous scene dealt with the central theme of the novel.
  19. Yeah, im not reading the next four pages or whatever have been posted since this, but there is a big difference in mobilizing the militia to put down something like the whiskey rebellion and mobilizing the national guard to fight crime that is at a 30 year low and happens to manifest itself in one particular form of crime. And I'm not even completely sold on the justification of mobilizing the militia for the whiskey rebellion. We fought a war to rif ourselves of the kind of control that a colonizer uses to take control of the colonists, yet a lot of those same aspects were at issue with the whiskey rebellion. And now we are using the militia aka national guard to fight a surge in crime that is actually a statistical low point... It occurs to me that maybe we shouldn't have passed all those gun control laws that were designed and used to keep undesirable people from bearing arms because it sort of puts some limits on our liberty.
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