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  1. Day Two of the NCAA DI Indoor Championships

    Results thus far:

    Men's Heptathlon (in progress)

    3 Events completed

    1. 60m: Leo Neugebauer (4) 6.98 (889 points). First place was Grant Levesque of Houston 6.79 (958 points)

    2. Long Jump: Leo Neugebauer (2) 7.73m/25' 4 1/2" (992 points). First place was Till Steinforth of Nebraska 7.77m/25' 6" (1002 points).

    3. Shot Put: Leo Neugebauer (1) 16.72m/54' 10 1/4" (896 points).

    Currently Neugebauer leads overall points with 3664. Second place is Heath Baldwin of Michigan State with 3520 points, (-144).

     

    Women's Pentathlon (in progress)

    3 Events completed

    1. 60m Hurdles: Kristine Blazevica (5) 8.45 *8.447--there was a tiebreaker and Blazevica was faster than 6th place *8.450. (1028 points). First place was Allie Jones of USC with 8.20 (1084 points)

    2. High Jump: Kristine Blazevica (9) 1.72m/5' 7 3/4" (879 points). First place was Destiny Masters of Wichita State with a jump of 1.84m/6' 1/2 (1029 points)

    3. Shot Put: Kristine Blazevica (6) 12.43m/40' 9 1/2" (690 points). Jaden O'Brien of Notre Dame was first with 14.34m/47' 3/4" (817 points).

    Currently, Blazevica is in 6th place with 3509 points, -152 behind leader Jenelle Rogers of Ball State with 3661 points. Blazevica's PB is 4430 points (total from all events) from the Big 12 Conference Championships this year.

     

  2. Indoor Championship results for the women's and men's weight throw:

    Women: The Longhorns had no athletes in this event; Jalani Davis of Ole Miss earned first place throwing 24.80m/81' 4 1/2".

    Men: Jeremiah Nubbe (9) 22.19m/72' 9 3/4". First place went to Kenneth Ikleji of Harvard with a facility record toss of 24.32m/79' 9 1/2". Nubbe finished just out of scoring range.

    Tomorrow morning will begin with the men's heptathlon and the women's pentathlon events.

  3. 2 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    "I don't think they're competent enough to [insert action item]..." is basically the tag line for MAGA, yet here we are.  

    I've read the playbook (Mein Kampf), and I'm done underestimating those fascists. 

    I've got cocktails ready to go on the ledge; would you like a Necromancer, a Corpse Reviver #2, an Undertaker, or a Suffering Bastard? (the first two are my faves of the four).

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  4. Big Dan Rodimer doesn't know how to beach properly.

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    Daniel Rodimer, 45, was reportedly dressed as Ken from the “Barbie” movie when he got in an altercation with Christopher Tapp, 47, during a Halloween party last year at Resorts World.--LA Daily News via the Associated Press.

     

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  5. 50 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

    Have to wonder if she's beginning to question that stance of not taking any corporate donations, but only grassroots.    I would think there would be at least a few decent moral corporations out there, right? 

    Bombas should give her a call. I switched to their socks for running back when they first started and someone sent me a pair. Not cheap socks but I'm a fan.

  6. 13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    It’s telling though - he seems slightly spooked.

    No he doesn't. Not really. He didn't raise as much as his opponent, but he's just pulling the usual grift because if he pulls any money he can use that as a 'see, even Democratic voters like me'. Texas will keep him in office because the majority will just click on his name w/o a second thought.

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  7. After a slight change in the schedule, tomorrow begins the NCAA DI Indoor Track Championships with the Men's and Women's Weight throw.

    Jeremiah Nubbe of Texas will be competing. He has the fourth best seed time.

    Then on Friday, the events begin in earnest with a slate of heptathlon events, numerous prelims, plus a few distance finals.

     

     

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  8. 22 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

    Sorry - I should have said it’s a good solution to save it from rusting. I have PPF for aesthetic and protective reasons on my car, but the cybertruck is the dumbest El Camino wannabe ever. 

    I had an El Camino Hot Wheels car that I "borrowed" from my older brother. That little car could fly down a side by side straight piece of track and won the neighborhood head-to-head races with other kids (I loved Hot Wheels cars when I was a little kid). It even had a tiny bed cover in the back that lifted up. It kind of looked like this one below only it was dark green. I have no idea where he got it but likely a garage sale cause my folks used to pick up a lot of toys that way. He had a shoe box full of cars. 

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  9. In Michigan, health officials are scrambling due to two adults with confirmed measles diagnoses visited several facilities attempting to get treatment. The contact tracing at the health facilities was somewhat easier due to visitors usually checking in with name and other information, but the adults also visited a CVS as well and thus everyone is crossing fingers that more cases don't crop up there.

    Here is a letter to the editor in the Tampa Bay times from a 92 year old reader who had the measles long ago:

    https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/03/06/i-had-measles-86-years-ago-dr-ladapo-heres-what-my-life-has-been-like-letters/
     

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    The misery of measles

    Measles? Perfect as we revert back to the ‘50s. | Column, Feb. 28

    I am 92 years old, and for 86 of those years I have struggled to see and hear following a severe case of measles when I was 6. I am deaf in one ear, the other ear was damaged, and I have diminished sight in one eye. It also affected my balance, and I have always to be careful that I don’t fall down, or in or over something. (I should have bought stock in Band-Aids.) I am a retired university professor with a big family so I have persevered, but it hasn’t been easy. Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s advice to parents about unvaccinated kids going to school in a measles outbreak is stunningly stupid and amazingly wrong.

     

     

  10. 4 hours ago, NoName said:

    Typical Musk Things

    can't deliver the Cybertruck because of rain!

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    This just cracks me up for more than one reason but the main one is that when I spent some time living in a northern state, I made a pretty good sum from selling my "southern" used car because it was in good shape: properly maintained and most importantly: NO RUST because I had been domiciled where there was no snow and no road salt. Now Elonstans are buying a vehicle that acquires rust (and eventually corrodes) if it gets wet, salt not necessary. Yeesh. Talk about buying an automobile from the carnival midway. Clown show.

     

    Also: here is the fact check regarding the airline flights referred to by disingenuous political and billionaire malcontents and dupes (spoilered because it mentions the President and thus may trigger some people who are CR sensitive)
     

    Spoiler

    TLDR version:

    The federal government transports adult detainees in its custody from one facility to another, or from one U.S. city to another during deportation proceedings.

    The vast majority of people on the flights are unaccompanied minors who crossed the border, requested asylum under immigration law, and are being released from federal custody to a parent or sponsor.

    Some of these flights happen at night, but they are not covert operations. The same types of flights were done by the Trump administration.

    Longer article from same source (PolitiFact)

    Republicans campaigning for office are running ads that hammer President Joe Biden’s management of the U.S.-Mexico border. They claim that the administration is using planes to fly "illegal immigrants" around the country.

    Republican Tyler Kistner, making his second consecutive campaign for a U.S. House seat in Minnesota, made his claim about skullduggery in the dark.

    Biden "has been secretly flying illegal immigrants into communities across the country in the middle of the night," his ad on Facebook and Instagram claimed.

    Other Republicans have run social media ads making similar claims. They include Lisa Scheller, who is running for a U.S. House seat in Pennsylvania; Jake Corman, who is running for Pennsylvania governor; U.S. Rep. Randy Weber of Texas, U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa.

    Experts said the vast majority of people trying to cross the southern border into the United States are summarily turned back. Exceptions are made for unaccompanied minors, some of whom are transported by planes to be with relatives or approved sponsors — a practice also done during the Trump administration. 

    How the process works

    Kistner’s campaign did not reply to our requests for information to support his claim.

    Two law professors and directors of immigrants’ rights clinics, Fatma Marouf at Texas A&M University School of Law and Nicole Hallett at the University of Chicago Law School, walked us through the process.

    Because of a public health law known as Title 42, invoked at the start of the pandemic by the Trump administration and continued under Biden, the vast majority of migrants are turned back and not given the opportunity to make their case for why they should be allowed to stay.

    Those encountered at the border who have been allowed to remain are, by and large, unaccompanied minors. They typically are taken first to facilities near the border and then transferred to the temporary custody of the U.S. Health and Human Services department, which eventually places the children with family or sponsors in the U.S. If family members or approved sponsors are not able to arrange transportation, the federal government pays for transportation, including flights. 

    The charter flights are not publicized and sometimes are done in the middle of the night to protect the confidentiality of those being transported and to guard against anyone who would interfere with the flights.

    Republicans, including Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, have complained that they were not notified about the flights and U.S. House members from New York asked the Biden administration to stop such flights to their state.

    The Washington Post’s Fact Checker reported that sometimes the federal government tries to save money by arranging for flights that land late in the evening.

    Most unaccompanied minors turn themselves in to border authorities and by doing so are "actually following the rules of seeking asylum," said Marouf.

    ICE Air Operations is the air transportation arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is responsible for the detention and deportation of immigrants.

     

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  11. I've been rather teetotally lately because I've been trying to keep the BP low but it was nice to have some wine with dinner tonight. Meatloaf leftovers and a couple of glasses of red and away we go...

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  12. 2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    Just finished this prelude to the future of our country

    That's on my list but I'm a high number on the library holds for it so I'll have to wait my turn.

    About 3 chapters in on this one, At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell. I have zero background in philosophy and a post by @safe sex that mentioned Sartre intrigued me so here I am.

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  13. On 2/28/2024 at 8:29 PM, Surly Bevo said:

    You must not seem to realize how many lawyers we have on this site.  Fuckers live for pouring over shit.

    Go find a group of 10-year-olds playing Monopoly.  Whoever read all of the top of the box and knows all the rules....he/she is gonna be the lawyer in the group.  

    My older brother did this but he became a programmer with HP and EDS. Wicked smart.

  14. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    Let's be honest, circumstances aside, it's one of the great photos in American history.  That doesn't mean it needs to be used in government offices and publications, though, given the back story.

    It was indeed; it's also a matter of perspective because my experience with an unwanted assault by a stranger was different. Had he kissed his fiance and thanked the nurse, the photo might not have happened, but if the late Nurse Friedman was forgiving of the moment, then I am willing to consider her perspective as well.

  15. 10 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Don't forget the most damning fact (at least the most damning absent direct evidence of him scheming through Roger Stone with the Proud Boys, which I do think likely happened): that Trump tried to use the delay caused by the violence to stop the certification. He called Mike Lee (meaning to call Tuberville) during the attack and pressured Tuberville to delay the certification. He didn't just fail to do his duty, he actively betrayed his duty by trying to use the violent attack to his personal advantage. 

    Your last sentence was what drove Adam Kinzinger to vote for the second impeachment, only one of ten Republicans to do so. (Just finished his book that came out last year). Kinzinger served in the military and was aghast at the betrayal of the oath of office. He paid for his vote by being shunned, but it was the right thing to do.

    Edit addition: that was not the only reason for the vote, but the entire event resonated with him because of the significance of the certification.

  16. 19 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    What does the V-J Day photo have to do with CRT at UT?  (Beyond that, it doesn't appear to me to have captured a particularly non-consensual act, but maybe there's a back story I'm not aware of.  Regardless, it's not germane to the thread.)

     

    12 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    To be fair, probably 75% of posts on Surly have nothing to do with the thread title.  

    Back story that is not germane to the thread title of CRT at UT, but then again, what Rufo has amplified is not germane to CRT either:
     

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    Decades later the unknown couple was identified as the American sailor George Mendonsa and nurse Greta Zimmer Friedman. Greta Friedman was 21 years old on August 14, 1945.

    After reporting to work at a dentist’s office, she heard the news: Japan had surrendered, and World War II was coming to an end. She wandered into Times Square when a passing sailor locked her in an unexpected embrace. “I did not see him approaching, and before I know it I was in this vice grip,” she told CBS news in a 2012 interview. “It wasn’t my choice to be kissed. The guy just came over and grabbed. That man was very strong. I wasn’t kissing him. He was kissing me”.

     

    Spoiler

    She later went on to say that she understood the emotion of the moment, but with respect to our backward viewing lens, it's complicated once one knows the story. What good would her complaining about it have done at that time in history? Nothing. Things have only changed bit by bit in the 70 years since this photo was taken.

     

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  17. Obama: An Intimate Portrait  (2017) was worth checking out from the library just to remember so many events from the former President's two terms. Souza took some great, great photos.

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    Almost through with former congressperson (IL) Adam Kinzinger's Renegade, which was released last year. Kinzinger was one of ten Republicans that voted for former President Donald Trump's impeachment (the second one) after the events of January 6th. He was in his office in an adjacent building when the Capitol was breached. Writing is a little stilted (although he had a co-author).

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  18. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    How long until Rs start screaming about how this new over the counter birth control is over the counter abortion?

     

    34 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yesterday?

    Jimmyjazz speaks truth.  This is not something new. In addition, the bill to which the former speaker refers was passed in 2022 in the House but languished in the Senate due to stalling by the GOP.

    March 22 marks the date (52 years ago) that single women were "given" the right to use birth control by SCOTUS ( 1972 Eisenstadt v. Baird). Prior to that, it was only married women who had the legal right to obtain and use birth control (due to Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965).

    Ironic that the word control is and always has been about who is "allowed" to wield it.

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  19. Also, Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps 7.07 meters winning gold in the long jump, the former Longhorn was joined on the podium by American Monae' Nicholas who finished second.

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