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Eastwood

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  1. McVeigh saw it as necessary collateral damage to get his point across. That’s the mentality of most extremists. The non-combatant victims either deserved it or was collateral damage necessary for the cause. Sprinkle in some religion and we get a “God/Allah will sort them out and reward the innocent” angle.
  2. Their main shot caller is rubbing elbows in Qatar and nowhere near in danger. My thought is that he received a boatload of cash to pull this particular trigger, but the question is from whom. But Qatar isn’t as safe as he thinks it is. History has shown that Mossad will find a way.
  3. This concept that Hamas cannot conduct “total war” is a flawed one. I’m not a trained fighter, but if I take a swing at Tyson Fury on the street and get two cheap shots in, I’m in a “fight” with Tyson Fury. The skill level between the two parties is irrelevant. It’s the intent of the initiator that matters, in my opinion. I hypothetically intended on knocking out Tyson Fury with a cheap shot and my life would probably meet a swift end after I failed.
  4. It’s not the distance, it’s the airspace they have to cross to get there. The Arab nations in between might not be openly hostile to Israel, at least not right now, but their leadership would be under immense pressure if they let Israel cross the airspace of a majority Muslim nation to attack another Muslim nation. If Israel did, it would be with a FAFO declaration putting everyone on notice that whoever shoots them down will get some, too. Which is why this is so dangerous. A cold religious war just went hot. Predictable and logical behavior are not on the table.
  5. Israel could glass the Gaza Strip without ever putting a boot on the ground and Hamas’ anti-air isn’t very effective, if it even exists. These air strikes seem very limited, so far. Makes me think Israel is softening them up and going to send in ground forces to completely clean, sweep, and level that place.
  6. Chasing the top is some gambling addiction, heart breaking shit. Profit is always better than bag holding.
  7. You’ll never hit the peak and you’ll have a hard time catching the way down. Selling at the beginning of a spike is the way.
  8. I took the bar exam on a gaming laptop because I knew it had the power to handle the exam software, even if the software was very poorly optimized. You think I’m going to go into the most important test of my life with a Chromebook?
  9. Iowa State seemed to be able to run at will against OU. If the same OU run defense shows up on Saturday, it’s going to be a huge day for Baxter and Brooks (who I now realize sounds like a custom suit company).
  10. Then your memory is starting to fade because this board’s very own Voodoochild had a pic of him and his cohort that was used for meme material by our rivals back in the 00s.
  11. Hate the bush league shit. Just play.
  12. Typical pre-OU heartburn game. Everybody remain calm.
  13. What in the Armybrat is going on in here?
  14. This has all the hallmarks of a pre-OU heartburn game where we have to wring our hands for three quarters and people on the board will furiously type the same lines about the team we’ve seen for the last 10 seasons and lack of focusness and looking past this team because of OU and Texas wins by 10-13 and the hardcore pessimists on this board will spend all of Hate Week convinced Texas will get the shit beat out of them by OU and littering the board with their Debbie Downer tripe… But what do I know?
  15. They’re back to just being happy to be there. Nature is healing.
  16. I swear to fucking Christ, the MLB has the stupidest fucking media strategy in the modern era. I’m closer to Houston than I am to Dallas, but their blackout rules keep me from seeing any and all Astros games, even when they are on national television. Why do I even try to maintain my childhood fandom of a team that the league won’t even let me watch from the comfort of my home 180 miles away while they force feed me a team I never watch 240 miles away. Oh, and they let WGN broadcast the Cubs all the fucking time nation wide because that makes all the sense in the world.
  17. Deion would have been a fool to not embrace the media hype. It’s free exposure for recruiting.
  18. Media got a bunch of views and clicks building Colorado up and is going to get a bunch of views and clicks tearing them back down.
  19. This is going to end up looking like a middle aged, balding version of the Schmitts Gay SNL skit, isn’t it?
  20. Look, I'm not a doctor. I'm actually the other profession on this site (lawyer) that typically fights each other like the bicycle jousting scene in Quick Change. But are we really going to say that a lacerated liver is evidence of the hit being extra malicious? I think the hit is dirty, but nothing more than your run of the mill hard hit that players will eat the flag on just to get into the other team's head. Organ damage is sometimes a freak byproduct of a hit (Chris Simms, Steve Edmonds, Damar Hamlin) and I don't think that severe injury was the intended result. He came in hard and popped Hunter in an almost bang/bang play. He could have pulled up, but wanted to get a hard hit in during a game with a lot of chirping. That's football, per Deion himself. This isn't in the same ballpark, to my eye, as other obvious dirty cheap shots like Kellen Heard on Colt McCoy nor does the CSU player seem to have a history of dirty shots preceding this one like the Burfict hit on Antonio Brown.
  21. Stat shown on the TV last night was that Texas ranked 8th in the FBS in dropped passes. That's more than just ball placement being completely different. That's indicative of a problem. Jugs machine needs to be getting some work.
  22. I always felt like the Patriot League teams should play each other and then teams located where the major military bases for each school are located. San Antonio is Military City USA and having both Air Force and Army being a frequent visitor would be a good tradition and could also be events used for the benefit of the service members stationed there.
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