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  1. 47 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    #5 is gonna be a problem for all neighboring countries

    I think they’ll handle it well. I think we will see the best in the people and countries opening their doors to all these folks. 

  2. 36 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    Why do we have to compare them, can we not just say both are not the best choices?  Just cause one is better than the other doesn’t make the other great.  Also come on man speech and motor skills not a challenge for Biden?  Now you’re just fucking with me right?  Our standards are very low on both sides right now evidently. 

    This isn’t an episode of First Take where Stephen A. gets to yell at whatever pour soul is there to be the counterpoint. There has not been a presidential election where Trump would be the better choice. Not one and that includes Andrew Jackson’s forced death march of Native Americans whose only sin was existing on land that white people coveted.

    You can feel free to keep this up. No one is going to stop you. It would be my hope that at some point you would realize there is no comparison to be made or that neither were the best choice. One guy sent us down a very dark path towards whatever whim or narcissistic thought he had that day. The other guy is having to attempt to fix a list of disastrous choices by his predecessor that’s longer than the Bible. 

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  3. 26 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    UEFA has pulled the Champions League final from St Petersburg. That should show Putin. LOL

    I was honestly shocked they’d do it, but it’s mostly inconsequential to do so. The better move would be to remove the Russian clubs from UEFA. Not that they are all that successful in the CL or Europa, but just remove them all. That’s about as much as they can do.

    It would be nice if Russia was just banned entirely from any international sports leagues as well as competitions going forward. Authoritarians love using sports to promote the agenda. It isn’t going to stop this crazy man from what he’s doing, but it would be the right thing to do.

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  4. 42 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    So, what is Putin's endgame here?

    He obviously doesn't want Ukraine in NATO so close to Russia.  But if NATO were ever going to let Ukraine in, it would have been during this build-up.  So he could have accomplished that goal with a bluff.  And he invaded anyway.

    And he's not just taking the "separatist regions" in Ukraine's east.  That alone would've given him more of a buffer, if that were really all he wanted.

    No, this is a full-scale invasion.  It looks like he's going to take all of Ukraine.  And he's using his proxy Belarus to make it a multi-national invasion.  Cruise missiles are hitting the capital of a European country, for fuck's sake.  

    And after Ukraine falls, then what?

    Is he going to round up Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the others?  Put the whole band back together?

    Or is it going to be worse than that?  Is this his Sudetenland move?

    I honestly have no idea.  I think we all knew something was coming, but this feels really big, really consequential and probably beyond Ukraine.

    Any reasonable speculation out there?

    Is he stopping at Ukraine? I have my doubts. However, he is going to need his friends in China to join if he really wants to go further than Ukraine. That seems highly unlikely that they would also make themselves an international pariah, even with their own imperialist ideas.

  5. 7 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    And then Shannon Bream in the studio has her usual smiley cheery demeanor.   I mean, at least pretend to be concerned for your own reporter if nothing else, you sociopath.  Bret Baier keeps trying to steer her into being more somber, saying things like prayers for the Ukrainian people and their correspondents on the ground, and she just keeps on with the vapid beauty queen tone.  It is just weird.

    I googled this to be certain because of the last name, but sure enough Sid Bream is her brother-in-law. The first baseball game I ever saw in person in 1988 at the Astrodome had him starting at 1st base. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Fuck.  I vote in one of the whitest, richest precincts in the state 10 minutes from my home, if not in my former elementary school (RIP).  I always wait in line at least an hour.

    I have had mixed results in places I have been. Texas was the longest wait I had in an election back in Dallas. When I voted here in 2020 the line was pretty long and was encircling the block. Primary voting is usually walk in and walk right back out no matter the location. 

  7. 9 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    That was the crux of the link I placed in the post several above that one. Steady diet of propaganda and gaslighting has an effect.

    The gaslighting has a more direct effect at times with people who are genetically predisposed for this kind of stuff. There isn’t a party line in the brain that says only one side can do it. Right now we just happen to be seeing the consequences of years and even decades of gaslighting towards people who are easy marks.

    What triggers a lot of people who are in the GQP to commit terrible acts upon their fellow human beings is that they will think far more impulsively and when someone says to head to the Capital like we saw last January they act without a thought about possible consequences. In short many people who F around have and will find out. Gritty comes for all of them at some point.

     

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  8. 5 hours ago, Creasy Bear said:

     

    Honest question, how do you explain Biden killing the Keystone Pipeline but giving the go ahead on Nord Stream 2?

    It was stated quite clearly at the time that Europe, Germany in particular, did not trust America to be the world leader again that it had been since the end of WWII. Biden was told in some fairly clear terms that Germany was going ahead with this deal and he did not push the issue. There are consequences for the actions of leaders and countries and one of them was this pipeline going ahead. I mean this is some fairly easy to find stuff if you would just look it up and read about the news from independent sources.

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  9. I think you have spent a good deal more time than I have thinking about his son than I have. Yes a team will draft his son if LeBron indicates he will go there. I would have no qualms of seeing my team or any other team draft his son if they want dad to play for them too. If at 40 you are getting someone who can play 30 minutes a night for 60-65 or so games a year with something resembling a 19-7-8 stat line then yes there are teams that’ll do it and it’d be cool to watch. 

  10. You see those messages and it really shows you the effectiveness of horrifically negative propaganda. Some people are more predisposed to fall for this stuff and it’s on display right there in those messages. 
     

    I don’t agree with you, have nothing in common with you so that equates to being subhuman? That is an extremely damaged human being to think that, let alone put it out there for consumption. What a social construct and life that person must have.

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  11. This will probably be one of the odder submissions to this thread, but I injured my middle finger and ring finger in a fall over in Jersey the first week in December. It was just gruesome to see. I was in shock seeing my middle finger just hanging there so I popped it back into place twice, bone crunching sound and all. After I got past that and having to take off my jacket, sweater and undershirt so I could wrap my left hand up to stop all the blood loss I called 911 and almost passed out before they showed up. I do not cuss often, but when I fell I said the F word three or four times at the top of my lungs. 
     

    Anyhow after 5 hours in the ER the only doctor and nurse (both were great) showed up to stop the bleeding and gave me stitches. I was there another five hours after that taking tests that determined I had ligament tears. My middle finger looked like hamburger meat and they could only stitch around it. The skin that has grown back is as soft as a newborn which is kinda funny to be honest. Three weeks later I got the stitches out right before Christmas, but discovered a few days later that two were still in my ring finger. I said forget it and left it like that. The middle finger though was in some not great shape and it bent down and would not move. I still have zero movement of it because of the tear, but I am slowly getting it back straight. I do not want to go the surgery route, but I will if I have to. One poster on this board saw it in person and boy howdy does it still hurt to touch it! I am not big on pain meds, but I have had to take some oxycodone a few times to alleviate the pain of straightening it back up. 
     
    That is where I am at currently. This thing works well, but it’s slow to get it straight. I feel fortunate to still have both fingers after the severity of the fall, but this has been exceptionally trying because I am a lefty. I still cannot grab onto things well (Have dropped many things) and writing is a non-starter as is typing. It’s crazy how the loss of use of one finger can alter so much of what we do. Anyhow I just wanted to share this because someone reminded me that I can talk as well about things bothering me and that I do not always have to be the one listening. 

    One photo is this morning and the other was after some cleaning took place in the ER before the stitches went in the middle and ring finger in December.

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  12. 4 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    A lot of innocent people in harm’s way.

    War is failure. And brings heavy burden for the vulnerable.

    Putin and the CCP have the absurd notion that we - as western democracies - would dissolve in civil wars internally right about now. The CCP and Russia believe they can break us internally.

    The new Allied Powers are setting up shop. Undefeated. 

    What is happening to the people in harm’s way is grotesque.  The world is watching. 
     

    God, please bless and protect everyone in harm’s way.

    If war is the answer to solving a problem then everyone failed. Innocent young men and women fight the wars of the old. We fight each other over every single thing imaginable and for what? You get to say you have control of people and land you covet? 
     

    I am reading a stellar book right now that focuses on how and why we as human beings act the way we do. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between a human or a chimpanzee making a decision. This part, seeing the inevitable loss of life to come, is the worst of all the impulses of human beings that have the ability to do this. 

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  13. On 2/8/2022 at 1:35 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    Jojo Rabbit.

    Thread. 

    This is what I would’ve put too. Man that is such an amazing movie to watch. I saw it several times in the theatre before the pandemic started and would say that it is my all-time favorite movie. I was lucky enough to get a front row seat to see it and then have Taika Waititi come and do a Q&A afterwards with us for 30 minutes. Had no idea he would be the one to do it, but Taika was pretty cool to listen to and funny as well. 

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  14. I guess if you look at that pick as bringing you LeBron for a year or two then it is worth it even at his age. If the Thunder pick his son it’s just one of many 1st rounders they have over the next several years. 

  15. Just watched Uncharted. It was fun overall. There’s obviously some suspension of disbelief in watching a movie like this, but it was good throughout. They spaced out the action just about right in balancing it with the story being told. I am sure someone on here will watch it and not enjoy it, but I did and I would watch it again. 

  16. 7 hours ago, Underdog said:

    Meh.  At my age and married for so long not like I’m going out to paint the town red.  Siena is one of the local teams I keep tabs on. 

    What year was it that they made the tournament but could not have fans at home games? I feel like it was in the late 80’s maybe that this happened?

  17. The league I follow the most is the WCC and I think it should be a three bid league this year. Santa Clara is giving the Zags all they want right now and I would give USF a good shot to keep their game with them next week to single digits at the under 8 of the 2nd half. Right now I would go Gonzaga, St. Mary’s and USF. This has been a fairly good year for the league as a whole.

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  18. 5 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Bron Bron blaming everyone but himself for the Lakers roster.  

    Normally, I would think Bron to Okie City would be a non starter but they're the only team with enough draft picks to make it work for the Lakers and if they somehow promised to sign Bronny, I think he might go for that.  He sees the writing on the Lakers wall and the next 2-3 years are his last shot at a title.  Assuming Okie City gets a high pick this year to go with their current 3-4 good players, getting Bron and a few other free agents puts them in the mix.

    Just don't see Bron going to 'Slobster and fake cowboy steakhouses.

     

    Okay, cool LeBron. If you’re angling to get Rob Pelinka fired just say so. 

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