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Yesterday’s ruling on homelessness is the perfect example of how I’m so deeply conflicted about both political parties. For whatever reason, my two most hot button political topics are wealth inequality and homelessness. And my positions on both are fairly extreme. But, they are the extreme views of each end of the political spectrum, not one end. On wealth inequality, I have a fairly far left view, that wealth is so imbalanced that , for example, I believe a wealth tax of some type is necessary. On homelessness, I believe cities should have significant powers to manage it, including banning camping. Seeing three left justices actually vote against the power of cities to ban camping sent shivers down my spine. I find that position completely unconscionable, and things like that are what keep me from fully embracing the Democratic Party. In my opinion, both parties are forgetting the view that laws and actions by government should always be based on a reasonable balance of giving individuals a fair opportunity. No more. No less. And both parties violate that over and over.

These morons actually believe a coach can’t negotiate with another school for a contract while already under contract. How do they think hires actually happen in, you know, every single coaching search ever?

They are hiring Pierce.

Oh come on that’s ridiculous. That face would never have made it past Assistant Fertilizer Manager.

Man, message boards are an amazing tool for exposing the absolute stupidity of people. These rubes are amazing in their idiocy.

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Tough choices I think you have to pick main characters, which eliminates bit part guys like Earnest T Bass and Tobias Funk. 1. George Costanza 2. Luci Ricardo 3. Homer Simpson

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I think there’s been too much focus on WR and not enough on DT. That WR roster is insane.

I think you might have just said that people 62 years old become nonsensical when they get viruses.

Question for a friend. Are there two types of alcoholics? He understands the type where there is a gene that makes you drink and you can’t stop. Is there another type where they just drink for so many years, several days per week, they develop a craving they can’t stop, which eventually turns into more and more drinks per day and more days per week? He’s trying to understand his situation and isn’t ready for AA.

I obviously don’t know a lot about all these transfers, but I do like how it’s been constructed, their sizes, and their stats. Terry ought to be able to finish top 4-5 in conference, win one or two ncaa games. Anything better than that is a win. Anything less than that and the concern over coaching grows.

Draw up a legal plan for them to make payments to you over the next 30 years to purchase the land from you, with terms for if and when they don’t make their payments. If they can afford to run a ranch, they can afford to pay you something every month to buy you out over time. Make the default terms onerous so that if they keep defaulting your ownership keeps stepping back up. Eventually they will either go get a loan to buy you out completely or agree to sell the ranch.

Baseball fanatics, I’ve gotten removed a bit from the team over the last two years because I was really frustrated with Pierce, to the point where I stopped watching all of last year. As a result, I don’t even know which players are good that we want to keep and those which would be fine losing. I saw the Kennedy and JC notices. Does anyone have a list of “keep” vs “not” that’s been covered in the baseball thread? That would be incredible to reference Also, how good are these two A&M pitcher decommit commits? Can they move into the starters soon?

Anyone who thinks DT isn’t that important as compared to various other positions, just ask yourself one question. Of all the good teams over the years, how many, including Texas last year, had strong DT’s. The answer is “a lot of them”. The reason is that without strong DT’s you are vulnerable to the run up the middle and on the edges. And you are vulnerable in the defensive secondary because you don’t get a good enough pass rush. Our two DT’s last year were crucial to Texas getting to the playoff. Off the top of my head, I can remember more than a dozen specific plays where the DT’s made huge plays at crucial moments. And considering our CB’s and safeties were shaky last year at times, it was the DT’s who papered over that deficiency. DT’s are crucial.

We are finishing up our time in Winter Park. It’s been a good trip and I’ll post more about it when we get back. I did want to mention one thing. Never in my life have I run into more unhappy service workers who do a terrible job. I am always nice and polite with workers. But, virtually everyone we’ve dealt with at any place has been unfriendly. And the number of issues we’ve run into has been unbelievable. The hotel has been a disaster. I’ll post on that later because it’s just plain bizarre. As we thought about what’s happening, one thing we’ve noticed is that a lot of these workers seem stoned. Maybe that’s it. Maybe it’s just typical vacation destination fatigue? After all many vacationers are shitheads these days. Maybe workers are just sick of vacationers. But if that’s the case wouldn’t be bad everywhere? This seems to be Winter Park specific. Weird.

I disagree with you guys a lot, but you might be right here. I just wish it wouldn’t have gotten to this.

Good grief, if this is really what you believe is important, then you would rarely vote for a Republican, demonstrating how clueless you are. Republicans rarely spend money on social programs and love spending their money on Israel and military endeavors. The ONLY reason they don’t support Ukraine is because Trump is compromised by Putin, and they will never support a Democrat administration. You are so dumb.

I’ve been predicting this for awhile with no real data to back up my view. But I do know thru some folks that what they’ve set up for NIL has the potential to be very powerful.

Good lord, you thought that post was a serious political analysis? Who’s the moron?

Random thoughts after reading about the results, and not having witnessed it myself. Many Democrat supporters are acknowledging that Biden is now problematic as a candidate. That is huge. I see no path to a win. There are many people like me that will vote for a dead body over Trump, but there aren’t enough of us. If the Democrats found a really likes le celebrity like The Rock, he would beat Trump badly. But if they don’t do that: A Trump win probably means the world bands together and creates a basket of securities to trade in, rather than the dollar, creating an economic earthquake like the world has never seen, and a major serious debt problem for the US. Russia will takeover Ukraine in exchange for Trump securing a deal for he and his kids to build casinos in Russia. Putin will then take Moldova too, and another “ania” country. China will take over Taiwan, but only after Trump secures favors for many billionaire supporters and himself in China. Social security and Medicare will be gutted significantly, hurting 70% of Americans retiring in the next 20 years. One percent wealth will skyrocket even further, while the 50% will devolve deeper into the abyss. If you thought crime was bad now, just wait.

I can’t watch tonight’s debate, but I look forward to my conservative friends saying Trump owned Biden, and my progressive friends saying Biden bitch slapped Trump, leaving me wondering whether the debate changed any minds or had any impact whatsoever.

Well this is certainly interesting. I met Mike outside the Rose Bowl before the USC game. We sat in the parking lot and drank beer talking about the Horns. It was a great time. What I didn’t realize at the time and until just now, is that we went to the same high school in Austin. He was obviously older than me, but what a weird coincidence.

Very happy with Castle. Spurs have proven half a dozen times they can teach guys to shoot, even if one of their shooting gurus left.

Can someone confirm that CDC used the term natty today? Because if so I will see to it that he not only doesn’t use that term in the future, he will apologize on Twitter for it. Natty - cringe term of the 2020’s.

Is the current NIL system concerning? Yes, but hearing A&M fans like you complaining about it is incredibly hypocritical. Your program joined the Alabamas, Clemsons, Floridas, Georgias, Auburns, and others to develop and implement a sophisticated cheating system with under the table payments to buy players. But now there is a legal system that allows other schools to finally compete, and you’re concerned? Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.