RomaVicta

Did anybody from Texas talk about this rivalry during SEC day? I know we talked about OU which is a big deal. I continually get the feeling that the SEC people go exclusively to Aggies to talk about our arrogance and expectation to run things on and off the field. A&M is an important game to us. It has nothing near the intensity of the OU game. It hurts them to think that. Weirdos

Think of all the heroes the Aggies will celebrate for giving their lives to preserve the Aggie Spirit.

Sadly, old paradigm: Facts and good-faith argument are old politics. Sadly, new paradigm: Sharp, concise rip at your opponent. This is going comparatively high, I suppose, because it's founded in honesty. You wanna win? Recognize the paradigm.

So far, this roll-out seems so well thought out that I think they see some assets that can be applied over time to provide a boost. When things settle down or at the convention, Obama's oratory and endorsement could be electrifying.

This is the best stuff I see of post boomer generations or at least the college types. I've particularly noticed to indifference to bland emotional appeals. I still have the feeling of the younger person trying to please before anything else. Interestingly, I think what you describe is very much working America before WW2 if movies are any indication. Not so much weed and who knows about casual sex.

Exactly. My preference would be to get the US out of the MidEast. The West needs oil, so we can't just leave our allies at the mercy of Iran and Russia. We sewed our hips to Israel's and have a weird sentimental attachment for their pluckiness early on. They're not the little guy anymore. The world needs to be quickly weaned from from petroleum for more than just political reasons, but that weaning would do everybody good. Too bad the American Republicans fucked that up and are fucking that up as much as they can. I would only promise Israel that we will not allow them to be destroyed by a foreign alliance. We'll help them against missile attacks on their homeland and commit resources to keeping enemies from crossing their border. We will not countenance expansion by force or colonization by force (West Bank). Israel doing so would jeopardize if not cancel the promise first stated. Time to stop letting the tail wag the dog. I'm not anti-Zionist insofar as I'm not sure of the definition. I'm just an American who wants the best policies for this country. Our invasion of Iraq was a disaster. Our occupation of Afghanistan after the justified invasion to attack binLaden was a disaster partially due to the disaster of invading Iraq. (We replaced special forces trained to work with local with regular military units. Dumb.) Our military presence there is way too big. We need to remedy the oil problem which will relieve that front.

Time to round up the silent approvers. We know what they're thinking just like we know what everyone present in the vicinity was thinking. Case closed.

You refuse to address my points. The example of Tulsa was not so much a comparison with Israel's ongoing campaign to seemingly wipe out or drive off the population of Gaza although it's not as far off as you in exaggerated outrage want to assert. I was using the example to address your complacence about the Israeli campaign by stating causes and reasons that no longer support that campaign. You're remarkably simplistic in your argument and, now, plain dumb in your fallback position that anyone not buying your bloodthirsty over-simplifications is an anti-zionist with brain rot. It's sort of a cowardly way to avoid really addressing serious points. Again, you state the obvious in your top two paragraphs as though "that's it. We're done here." Of course, I salute your subtle reasoning in putting THE FUCKING U.S. EMBASSY in all caps. I suppose, for you, this would justify the US sending the bombers and the navy to show these MidEast pikers what killing is all about. You could cheer the cruise missiles and Hellfire missile. America! Fuck yeah! You're knowledgable but you seem to like your world easy with good versus evil explaining everything. I'm not going to "argue" with you anymore unless you present something substantive.

You think they killed a lot of Houthi combatants when the Israelis blew up a harbor that is a main lifeline to everybody there? I will be insulted the next time someone presumes to tell me things that are obvious. Your response suggests that I don't understand how terrorists operate. Your response seems to indicate that I'm unaware of how this was started. You condescendingly accept that there are human tragedies but that I need to understand whose fault they are as though the people actually dropping the bombs, firing the tank shells, and pulling the triggers are absolved. You also, naively state that Israel is "actually is trying to minimize civilian casualties." Really? Using 2000 pound bombs (until we really stood up to them and said that was too big) then 1000 pound bombs to obliterate neighborhoods and displace just about everybody in Gaza is the ticket for "minimizing civilian casualties?" All you have to prove that Israel is being careful are the statements of the war criminal executing the campaign. I suggest you use your eyes. Thank goodness Israel is looking out for civilians. Imagine what it would look like if they were conducting a merciless and brutal campaign. I haven't even gotten into their closing of supply portals, shooting journalists, and having cruelty parties with captives. A bloody response to the hideous attacks of last October was justified and expected. This is something else. Please don't wrap yourself in a smug assumption that you have clearer ideas of all of this because you can point to a terrrible provocation and the statements of a monster. Just look. Just ask yourself, do I want my name associated with this? I surely don't.

No shit. Where are you on the policy of crimes against humanity? Where are you on information one could find in wikipedia on why the port is critical to humane interests? I don't have a problem understanding why Israel moved and how they (and you) justify their actions. I also understand why the white people of Tulsa decided to wipe out their black community. So? You seem to be keeping your focus narrow to justify what appears to me to be bloodlust and the thrill of conventional weapons being used. You seem to defend wildly disproportionage responses to attacks on Israel. A bank robber needed the money to feed a drug habit. Again, so? What about the act and its consequences?

Way back during my first stint at Texas, I went to College Station to pick up a friend and proceed to Houston. I was immediately depressed by the buidings of the school and the not-much around it. What really got me was the pervasiveness of dark maroon. Even the street signs back then were dark maroom. I literally felt sorry for my friends who were enrolled there. I wasn't a big partier or barfly even thought the drinking age was 18 back then. It was just the difference in atmosphere between UT and A&M and their surroundings. The color on their wildly creative pool party flyer looks like a mistake.

Yeah, but which two states? They need to be kept apart. Hmmm. I say, give them Mississippi and Kansas. They can flip a coin.

I fought the Japanese, Germans, and (shamefully) Indians across the lawns of Dallas and Houston. I died many times. My arm was shot many times. We didn't do it for medals or praise or some lame, "thank you for your service." We were soldiers and men (even the girls). We did what we had to do. I sometimes wake up at night shouting, "Duck, Imaginary Man! Duck!"

Prison rape and violence is no joke to me. However, I do relish the irony of people who use cruel means and delight in inflicting more punishment than is due now calling for this turd with eyeballs to be safe while incarcerated. He's one of them. A malignant white pustule with white pustule connections that almost always protect their own. He pushed his luck too far. I wish he were being put in a harder prison where I would hope no violence is visited upon him or anyone else. He should have to take his chances just like anyone else going in for the first time.

But it's bad PR, so let's send another freighter full of 1000 pound bombs to Israel. The Palestinian civilians are paying for the Hamas outrage, they may as well pay for the flag burning and grafitti outrage as well.

Woo-hoo! Israel doubles down on crimes against humanity! I've usually thought of you as a little deeper, 956 Worldwide. You're coming across a little war-mongery. Someone attacked us! Let's go destroy and starve everybody adjacent! The target: I concur: Your Aggie is showing. "Oohhhh, look at the butthurt." Very manly. Israel blows up and kills scores of Palestinians targeting a couple of Hamas leaders. Even had they killed them, The cost to non-combatants was criminally high. How much difference would it make? Sure, kill your enemies, but don't keep touting it as some huge blow to your enemy's capabilities. The US started using the blowing up of guys like this as a scorecard indicating, "hey, look how good we're doing!" but nothing really changes. Again, kill these vile enemies all you want, just don't use this minor achievement to justify horrendous suffering inflicted on others. Here, Israel seems to have retalliated out of all proportion. They use famine as a weapon once again. And we claim Israel as a close bossom buddy whom we just have to supply with the weapons they use to inflict famine, homelessness, and displacement on the innocent. I wonder if Netanyahu is trying to trigger a massive showdown with the Arab world where he can rely on the US to help him win big. He can count on us not allowing Israel to be erased. He abuses that certainty.

There's money in right wing talk radio. Piers want's to dip his bread in that gravy while it's still warm.

Maybe they're a little peeved that Israel is using recently supplied 1000 pound bombs, good ones! they're from America!, to obliterate their homeland, families, and structures. It could be that they don't think anything will come of their demonstration, but they must voice their helpless fury even in futility. It's bad politics to burn the US flag. It's bad American policy that makes us complicit in a horrendous slaughter and displacement. Other than us smashing countries with minimal discretion, supporting Israel in this invasion is maybe the worst foreign policy I've witnessed. I'm sick that our name is on this.

I can see why Morgan is despised in the UK.

I've decided to give that shit spewer the same benefit of the doubt he gives anybody they want to tear down. Nada.

They have that bastard on to say shit that they want to say but are too timid to own. He speaks his vile puke and the people who invited him there to say it clutch their pearls. "That was rough." Fuck you and your viewership in the most rough of ways.

Her likeness should be on the Congressional Medal of Honor. I was very late learning her story. No one has ever been braver or brave for a better cause.

I quibbled earler, but fuck these guys and their constant distortions and outright lies. I clearly heard him say colored. Prove me wrong. Neither here nor there, but I copied this from above: Can there be a more insecure notion than that of a man card? I often hold my beloved's purse when it's heavy to give her a break. I've even, gasp!, stood by myself with it in a public place. I've been big and more formidable looking than I likely am for most of my life, so it likely prevented any needle-dick saying anything about my man card. I was ready to drawl, "why don't you just sashay over here and collect yourself?" I imagine Aggies wearing this notion out all the time. Strange for such men of manly manfulness.