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Maybe the outlook isn’t so grim; the world population seems to be headed for an adjustment: Link

Maybe gas fired plants aren’t the devil after all. Link

This is why I made the comment elsewhere that Texas needs OU to do well this year, and then beat them twice. If OU loses one or two games (in addition to the Texas loses), then our sos will look worse than terrible. An undefeated Texas would get in but a one-loss Texas team—with our schedule—could get left out. It’s not hard to image two SEC teams making the playoffs, along with Clemson. And if we give the playoff committee an excuse to bypass the Big 12, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that a one-loss ACC team would be chosen instead of a one-loss Big 12 team, especially if that team was Notre Dame.

The quotes below may prove your point.

While physicality is usually associated with defense, you can’t ignore the fact that an outstanding offense doesn’t just depend on great skill position play, it also depends on—more often than not—being physical and winning the line of scrimmage. And for several years, OU has done just that. Generally, their quarterbacks have time to throw; their running backs have holes; and their receivers have time to run routes. Take the 2018 playoff game against Georgia, for example, who was ranked 6th in the nation in total defense, allowing an average of 168 yards passing and 126 yards rushing. OU gouged their defense for 289 yards passing and 242 yards rushing. And you don’t do that without being physically dominant and controlling the line of scrimmage. Now, you might have a point if you’re only referring to their defense. But even then, I think you are mistaken when you say “OU continues to be humiliated…against teams with comparable talent”. Losing previously to Alabama by 11 points and Georgia by 6 points is disappointing (for Sooner fans), but not humiliating. And as far as the “comparable talent” comment, last year’s LSU team had 14 players drafted to OU’s 4. So yes, LSU embarrassed OU last year. No, the talent wasn’t comparable.

Sounds logical but I disagree; that is, unless the Big 12 winner is undefeated. The SEC will get two teams in because, well…SEC. Clemson will probably go undefeated and a one loss, ACC (for all practical purposes) runner-up Notre Dame team would be a tempting invite over a two loss or maybe even over a one loss Big 12 champ.

Hope that doesn’t happen. OU is currently ranked 4th, and Texas needs for them to remain that high when they play. A win would then put Texas firmly in the top ten (probably 6th or 7th), and another win over a one-loss OU team in the conference championship game would get Texas in the top four. A guy can dream, can't he?

It sounds like you now walking-back a comment you made on another thread: “Don’t count on any LEO to do the right thing. Ever.” If so, kudos to you for stepping back from the ledge of extreme hyperbole.

Maybe it was DNC chair Tom Perez who made her a target when, in 2018, he said:

But that’s what Surly does best. If you remove over-dramatic characterizations and the sky-is-falling predictions—along with words like Nazi, fascist, jackboot, brown shirts, Stasi, etc.—then the gloom-and-doom crowd can’t communicate with each other.

^^^ Are we to seriously consider the works of a dead, religious, European white male?

I’m sure that there are more than a few evangelicals who have viewed this thread. And I’m equally sure that they take exception to Sydney’s and others’ broad generalizations, but yet don’t want to participate in a discussion where inevitably they will be insulted. It’s almost like it’s a CR policy: when logic fails, resort to name-calling, down-voting, or both.

Does the daughter-in-law live in Texas? If so, there’s nothing stopping her from getting a LTC, thus giving her the ability to have a gun on her at all times.

Both Saudi Arabia and Russia are making an effort to gut U.S. oil companies. There aren’t many sanctions left with which to threaten Russia, but the Saudis only exist because of our protection. As far as I’m concerned, they can stop flooding the market or else they can deal with Iran by themselves.

Probably not. And if there is, it’s more than likely anecdotal evidence from her district, a district that is minority dominated and historically liberal. Those two facts alone eliminate racism as a motive.

Haven’t seen this posted in this forum but LSU had 16 players at the combine, which is 4 more than UT, Aggy and OU combined. Obviously, Ed is a recruiting guru but that talent difference is ridiculous.

On a lighter note—and before Romney’s vote is old news—I’d like to remind Surly that there was a prominent poster who, last year, said they would eat a MAGA hat if even one Republican voted to convict. I don’t remember who said that, so the would-be-hat-eater needs to fess up. With pictures, please.

According to State Health Facts from KFF.org, there are approximately 18 million white people living in poverty, while the Hispanic and black total is 11 million and 8.6 million, respectively. My guess (based on the last congressional voting statistics) is: 60% Republican for white, uneducated poor folk; 70% Democratic for Hispanic, uneducated poor folk; and 90% Democratic for blacks. Neither party has a corner on the uneducated or poor market. .

No perhaps about it, it’s over-the-top hyperbole. But you’re in the right place for exaggeration. Trump will be gone in a few months, but the real danger to our country will remain: uncontrolled borrowing and spending. Meanwhile... no, our republic is not dead; it’s not dying; and our unique form of democracy will survive.

Australian wildfires perpetrators identified. The kikes kites did this!

Mohsen Rezaei, former chief of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards: The Iranian people better hope that Rezaei doesn’t speak for their leadership. If Iran directly attacks Israel proper—including the deliberate targeting of a city—the Israeli response would be devastating to Iran, to say nothing of what we would do. The Iranians are brazen, but not stupid…..right?

The authors say “we must stop” 80% of fossil fuel emissions by 2030 to avoid 1.5°C global warming, citing a previous study. Is the 50 year, 100% renewables goal based on first stopping 80% of fossil fuel emissions in 10 years? If so, then we had better go to plan B, because neither the U.S. nor the rest of the world will come close to meeting the short-term goal.

Thanks for The New Yorker article. The part that caught my attention was this: He is now forgiven.

Nor does it discuss Trump’s imminent impeachment, or the length of Trump’s trousers, or anything else unrelated to Horowitz’s report. It’s an opinion piece narrowly focused on a report that claims the FBI—at least in this case—misled the FISA court. As such, there should be no expectation from the ‘Surly-ledge crowd’ for the author to opine on anything other than the report.

We used the Kurds and they used us. If we need them again, they’ll be happy to enter yet another alliance with us, in exchange for funding and arms, of course. As for our NATO relations, as long as Europeans depend on us as NATO’s enforcers, then sure, there is going to be a strain. And that strain goes all the way back to Eisenhower when he opposed providing a permanent stationing of troops in Europe because it would “discourage the necessary military strength Western European countries should provide themselves.” Nearly every President since then has raised concerns about NATO’s overdependence on America, although none can touch Trump’s heavy-handed approach. And now, there is a second, relatively new boiling point: trade. The E.U. enjoys a 100 billion dollar trade imbalance with the U.S., and it shows no signs of significantly improving. Those two factors will someday undercut and perhaps cause us to sever some European alliances, but it won’t happen because of Trump and it certainly won’t happen while he is President. BTW, Europe will never initiate ‘breaking up with the U.S.’—we’re their golden goose.