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  1. You got this thread off to an excellent start. I never opened it before because I didn't know how well the subject would be handled. Compliments. Politics started becoming more like sports back around 1980. On election night, I worked at an airport warehouse, some of the other young men were gathered where I was working were talking about the election. One asked who I would vote for. I was conflicted. "Probably Carter." "Carter? Man, he's going to lose!" It was revelatory. It was all about being on the winning side pulling for the winning team. Of course, it became more pronounced over the decades. For GOPS, so many of their voters should sport some kind of jersey. They already have a team hat that they wear like true team supporters everywhere they go. I, too, find myself ambivalent about US teams. I now hate the U!S!A! U!S!A! chant. It sounds like a taunt rather than a cheer. "Fucking ashamed." You nailed it. Ewers wearing that shit bugs me. The subject should not be introduced in any public way in sports. Sadly, again as you note, that ship has sailed.
  2. Maga, Christian head of some church, vehement alleger about the dangers to your children from others, and hostile to anyone not having boy-girl male-female intimate relationships. Oh, he's also a child raper. Over a six-year period. Outrage. I imagine brutal punishment which was not my thing before these dark days. I guess I'm venting fury. Maybe shackle his foot to a chain connected to a tow hitch protruding from an old pick up truck. Rig it to go 10 mph without a driver. Put it on a circular path on a flat desert plain. Let it go and leave him alone to drag and drag and drag. Give it some time. If he survives, to prison with him. If not? He won't be missed. I'll go imprison my rage again. It's not becoming. I'm not a reader of Shakespeare nor do I see many plays of his. The man had wisdom. Thou doth protest too much. In modern English? Every accusation is a confession with this scum. Thank goodness they're in charge.
  3. We never "formally" declared war on anyone in Southeast Asia back in the 60s, so there was no Viet Nam War. Certainly, it is. Just ask any native Louisianan high school coach. Fantastic! The Aggies pondered this regarding Jimbo. Why can't we put him charge of stadium cleaning? His contract stated, according seemingly knowledgeable Aggies, included language defining the job specifically, so A&M couldn't do that. We put Leon Black in charge of maintenance when we hired Lemons to coach basketball. I think McWilliams was also reassigned, but I think he got a pretty good job promoting UT or something. Black's job wasn't humiliating, just sort of amusing.
  4. That's what I expect.
  5. I doubt it will be as interesting. Jeff Bridges, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy. It was more than just a heist flick. It will be relatively flat as a 2025 American studio movie. I hope I'm wrong.
  6. I felt the same. It's also overwrought with every person involved in command positions breaking into tears. Sure, do it with a few for impact, but, jeez, not everybody in the movie. I particularly hated the non-ending. Chickenshit. Amateur. Too bad because they assembled an outstanding cast.
  7. Sounds like you know more than I do. I did a quick scan this morning and thought the Senate compromise funds SNAP and pays federal workers. I don't know what the status of the thing is in the House.
  8. Thanks. I had no knowledge of that. Still, isn't she talking about a gambit that is working? You kids.
  9. Places still exist where there are rules. Not everywhere is the United States political shambles. Not sure what your point is in entering a pretty specific discussion about a journalism bastion. Why even write about football or any subject? I'm with you on the exasperation in general.
  10. I laughed when the Aggies impaled themselves on their guaranteed contract to Jimbo with no conditions. I thought is was a one off. Now, it makes me sick to think of institutions of higher learning risking 100s of millions of dollars then loosing it. I also don't know how comfortable I would be if I were already worth 10s of millions of dollars taking all that money in failure. Integrity? That still a thing? Maybe I never understood it. It's all a big toilet swirl of fiduciary suicide and greed. I have no idea how to fix it. The schools can't form an illegal trust and they can't even remember why they exist. Crazy fucking world these days.
  11. The donkey also opened the SNAP food supply to people who are suffering. Anything short of total victory is a defeat for Dems. Anything they can claim as victory is victory for the GOP criminal organization. The newspapers quote them when they say so, so it must be true! Such a fatal spiral.
  12. I completely agree. It's bad journalism. However, if the BBC recognized it as such, they should have forced those guys out at the time. Waiting all this time is a terrible look for them as a once respected news organization. They either ignored bad journalism (damaging their credibility which used to be a big deal to news outlets) and waited until forced to take action, or they don't think it's bad journalism and they are abjectly capitulating to POSUS (sic). I have not seen the tape. The fact is that POSUS did incite an insurrection (treason, fuck the letter of the law) and you'd have to doctor it up pretty fiercely to make him look worse, so why do such a useless thing? Either way, the Beeb (a friend of mine who worked there referred to it as such. Kinda catchy.) has shot themselves in the gonads.
  13. I guess I missed the code lesson. Still, I don't think it was intended as ironic nor are people responding to it as though they are. Whatever, my friend.
  14. He should also be under a jail somewhere if not swinging at the gallows.
  15. Everything is a total fuckup by Dems according the "we're losing because of messaging" crowd. The republic will fall, and Democratic historians will blame the Democratic Party instead of the actual perpetrators. It's self-crippling. It's blind to the game at hand. It's also evidently an addiction. As to the post, what is not praiseful about the word "masterful?"
  16. @Rip76, I included that. I think the big point here, if I'm not mistaken, is a head of state choosing to sue a foreign newspaper. Period. Petty and embarrassing. No. I'm not used to it.
  17. skin thinner than a grape's
  18. This just in, whiny litigation across the water:
  19. OMG! It's Ohio!
  20. Mildly amusing. Aggies think this proves how good they are. More fart huffing: Pure Aggie Yes, we envy A&M's achievements in that same period of time. We won two MNCs right before the 55 year mark and won the SWC 7 years in a row ending in 1975. We've played three times for the MNC and NC in that same period of time.
  21. I've kind of fallen in love with Indiana. I had a similar feeling for Iowa State when we were Big 12. Indiana football is pretty old school tough discipline. I enjoy watching their games. I pretty much think they deserve their ranking. I'd love to see that matchup. I'm glad of the expanded playoff because of the wild possibilities. We'd be the story of the decade if we took it all (must win out). What a ride! A footnote of pleasure would be doing in the year the Aggies have their best chance since the 90s (fuck the Covid season).
  22. It's pretty wild and fun when you can't really point to a dominant group among the top ten teams. It felt like it would be that way from the beginning. I'd say Bama, Georgia, and Ohio State are the barely elite. A&M has done with their easy schedule all that can be done. I suspect that they belong lower in the rating, but it's so hard to tell for sure. If we get our safeties back and Arch keeps growing, we might end up being the national monster. Big if. If Arch can execute from the start, I think we can jump ahead of Georgia early. Sark's specially designed plays will work. Then we have to see if we can hold off their furious fourth quarter comeback.
  23. Worldview is such a nice word for psychopathy. They'll probably use Epstein's plane as the ultimate flaunt to their blind Church of the Cruel Jesus supporters. Not only are they teenagers, but they look pre-pubescent! Jackpot!
  24. Don't be stupid. Be a smarty! Come and join the Nazi Party! A little rictus. A few years ago, I caught a video of him going from normal to this pose with such creepy ease. It's like a switch. I'm sure he can go from full stupor to this plastic expression in a millisecond.
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