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Anyone care to make some guesses on what the WH twitter and DJT's social posts will say? Given the usual attack dogs on social media are already out there barking, I'm curious as to how it will go. (Feel free to chime in serious or otherwise)
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Anyone else with a layperson's familiarity with history and Loomer's background find it beyond ironic that she seems to be longing for a pope that aligns with the views of the late Father Coughlin? If you're going to align with a religious figure during these times, maybe go with pastor Niemöller.
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Loser cunt Kari Lake is holding Trumpy rallies now
Mrs Whiggins replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
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Narrator: groceries are NOT down.
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I admire this icon. Every one of us has one. The more we use it, literally and figuratively, to love ourselves and each other, the stronger it gets:
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Mrs Whiggins replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
The Boston and NYC shade from Ken White (better known as Popehat--his original handle when he was on twitter) which was funny:- 392 replies
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Eh, sorry, I answered it in that forum. I agree with @perfectchaos007 that it's not so much that there is a gap, they've had some chips fall for other teams in various races and events and they need a little more depth. That's where that talent jamming (mentioned below) can come in handy. A&M can run relay teams A, B, and C down pretty far in the 400 before the times rise and that is valuable. For example, while only one school's relay team earns the points for a win, that still means multiple athletes available for individual events, injuries, etc. Any team, no matter how talented has to not do things like drop the baton because with the top teams placements sometimes coming down to the big relay points, that's going to hurt. That is where breadth comes in (i.e. Tech has some outstanding sprinters, but was weak in other areas and it hurt them). The point about some athletes going straight pro is also a thing. But then again, some schools will still manage to make it work (during the recruiting process) with the similar to bball one or two years while waiting for the Olympics to roll around. The hardest thing about going pro straight from high school is structure. As tough as it is for student athletes to do both academic and athletic endeavors, it is still a worthwhile pursuit.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Mrs Whiggins replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I don't have enough specialized knowledge of this program to specifically answer that. They did have some solid athletes graduate with both teams and the women also had the fortune of having some good younger athletes that are still around to keep the team in contention while the men lost reliable point winner Leo Neugebauer. The women did, after all, finish 3rd outdoors last season, while A&M was number 10. I'd say that is pretty good and coming off of that they will need to rebuild a little. Don't follow recruiting as much as I used to and talent jamming is a thing (Oregon and Georgia in distance and sprints respectively) are pretty good at that as are some of the other top schools (USC repeatedly capitalizes on being the most populous state with a pretty damn good track reputation). Repeated success (similar to football) often has students wanting to attend the number one school, but failing that an athlete will try and get on at a school in the same conference. Most of the recruiting standards (ii.e. event times/distance etc) for the SEC schools are similar so I sometimes wonder if it's just a case of not enough face time to go after the unpolished gems. It's great to land the athlete who's already appeared at a national or state meet whether in-state or out, or to look around elsewhere in the world but it's a tough balancing act and it takes up a lot of time. I'm not going to go into coaching staffs at the various schools; that runs into too much heresay. The scholarship changes that have been proposed for Texas unis may become problematic as well for typical non revenue sports, and they were already having issues. NIL would go a long way I suspect. Some schools' collectives give more to their track & field/xc and I don't keep track (!) of that other than noticing those collectives make a point of putting it in their profile. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Mrs Whiggins replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I get that the big 3 are the sports that drive most engagement, but it is so frustrating (as a more than occasional track fan) to watch them completely ignore their track and field team members who have been Olympians and/or future world champions. They have a handful of dedicated fans on their message board but as someone who has attended meets on their campus, most of the aggies are oblivious. It's a sport in which they've had a fairly decent level of success both individually and team-wise (besides meat judging) and while it will always be a challenge to face traditional powerhouse teams such as Oregon, Arkansas, Georgia, and USC; with only a little more $$ and attention they could actually have something of which to be proud and stop chasing the futility of the rest of it. But as I said at the beginning, I get it. It's football, baseball, and basketball, and thus every year the first in line for the roller coaster are the maroon clad ever hopeful aggie fans. *The latest national rankings for DI Outdoor T&F: Men: 1)USC 2) A&M 3) Tennesee 4) Nebraska 5) Georgia.......17) Texas Women: 1) Georgia 2) A&M 3) USC 4) Arkansas 5) BYU.......13) Texas -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
That's what she said. Lol. But it is still taking a long time for people to wake up about that to Elmo for some reason. I'm talking about the business side of his dealings. I think his baby mammas know all about the rest. -
So are you saying I need to stock up on gin? Because most American gin is ass. Even that Canadian Ryan makes better gin.
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Gonna derail so hang on tight, brain's a bit muddy this morning. Please excuse me if I misuse any economic terms, it's not an area where I've got a lot from which to draw. IMO, one of the things that actually did make America great was that despite it being an imperfect 'ism,' when it came to policy or practice i.e. not wholly capitalism nor socialism, the blend of what is a product/production versus what is a service had reached a fairly gentle compromise post WWII. America had services at all levels from local to federal in education, the courts, and other infrastructure that enabled the production to happen. Of course, that was built with some systemic issues with which our country was and is now trying to avoid/handle depending upon your perspective, and I'm understating those obvious issues so as not to derail the thread ...but to bring it forward about sixty years, the two-fold attack (one by oligarchical minded extremely wealthy families and the other being foreign adversaries such as Putin) on destroying or privatizing the 'service side' of government is one we will regret even though we will be long gone before it reaches the disaster it will surely be. The potential we have wasted through selfishness, cruelty, apathy, inaction, and ignorance are problems that are not easy to solve, but boy did we squander some magnificent opportunities once we began to open American society and invest in all the people and not just those deemed 'worthy' by the powerful. To use a term one sees a lot: Underserved minority. Gee, that said it all didn't it? The government started to actually serve all the people and some people lost their minds. Wealth inequality is exploited by fear and voters gave into that because they could not envision how much more powerful our economy could be if we embraced the imperfect 'ism' and molded it into something uniquely and diversely American.
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@InkaUtexasI don't have Facebook so the platform won't let me wander around in someone's account like it used to but here's a link (click on his name) I found: The avatar photos match, but he's using first person in Willfully Horn's post and is (according to his page) not a WWII vet so with not being able to scroll too long before Zuck's minion's kick me out as a nonuser, difficult to verify sources and what he's doing (i.e. reposting other blogs or quoting or what).
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can I ask a dumb question? can we have dedicated show threads?
Mrs Whiggins replied to hayden_horn's topic in Movies and TV
Seriously though I agree that it can be difficult to find certain show threads because there isn't a standard nomenclature and sometimes the search engine has loopholes that don't pick up the title, etc. @Pancho created a thread title that (to me) works well because it lists the name of the show followed by the platform in parentheses, i.e. The Righteous Gemstones (HBO Max) Clear and easy to understand. Most of the time things work out regardless. -
can I ask a dumb question? can we have dedicated show threads?
Mrs Whiggins replied to hayden_horn's topic in Movies and TV
It isn't just the threads, it is what is in the threads and I'm here for that: and just for @Bama Chick because I miss her Surly posting: -
How it started... How it's continuing...
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Mrs Whiggins replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
Bit too on the nose there with your fix it @Js1 ...- 392 replies
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Some good ones in there. I especially like the one that is slightly different from Matthew 7:15. Beware of false prophets. They come to you wearing comb overs, Cover Girl Creamy Orange Foundation, and tiny watches on their bloated arms but inwardly they are ravening weak-minded insecure lunatics.
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Two years ago in June, the commencement speech at Northwestern University contained this gem: "The best way to spot an idiot, look for the person who is cruel. Let me explain. When we see someone who doesn't look like us, or sound like us, or act like us, or love like us, or live like us, the first thought that crosses almost everyone's brain is rooted in either fear or judgement or both. That's evolution. We survived as a species by being suspicious of things that we aren't familiar with. In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway. Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges. This may be a surprising assessment because somewhere along the way in the last few years, our society has come to believe that weaponized cruelty is part of some well-thought out Master plan. Cruelty is seen by some as an adroit cudgel to gain power. Empathy and kindness are considered weak. Many important people look at the vulnerable only as rungs on a ladder to the top. I'm here to tell you that when someone's path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so their thinking and problem solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades. Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest."
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
No need for classes when a rake costs <$15. See, that cuts some waste, right Emmitsburg? -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Mrs Whiggins replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Plus this little detail because why not boost revenue in more than just sales: "According to Wired, Starlink supplies key support to scam centers in Southeast Asia with "criminals running multibillion-dollar empires across Southeast Asia appear to be widely using the satellite internet network." Wired identified more than one hundred Starlink devices in use at just one center, KK Park in Myanmar." --source Wiki & https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-scam-compounds/ -
Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Mrs Whiggins replied to C-Man's topic in Cloak Room
Just wait until she notices the bag of kitty litter in the corner used to clean up vomit. The horror. -
Things not going well in the world: India-Pakistan edition
Mrs Whiggins replied to TheFlyingBoat's topic in Cloak Room
He also secured a pardon for his felon father, Charles, granted by his father-in-law on December 23, 2020. One could consider it a late Hannukah present but I suspect given the grantor, it was a Christmas gift from one felon to another. Because, you know, there was a war on Christmas that year. -
Speaking of Steve Carrel being in The Four Seasons, I am so pleased that Crazy Stupid Love is still on Netflix because there is not a number of times that is too many for watching it. I watched it yet again this weekend and the fight scene and the shopping with Ryan Gosling still completely crack me up.
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