RomaVicta

I think we're talking the difference between passive and active voice. The point is probably mute, however.

So much gold, @Getafix It's a sad time when the Texas A&M Fightin' Texas Aggies From Texas miss out on their traditional greatest accomplishment of the season. In the great days of the past, the start of the rollercoaster disaster was usually much higher.

It's gonna be tough football. The kind of stuff you never see anywhere else. We're making guys actually come to practice! That's the kind of culture we're talking about. You don't see Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, or tu doing that shit. We'll murder them all with toughness and culture!

How can such frauds have such loyal followings? Obvioulsy, the point is far greater when discussing Trump. I see the rhetorical techiniques and the reliance on outrage and hate. I'm not really surprised they work on some people. But so many people? The Greeks of Athens could banish people from the city who had too much sway that was regarded as a threat to democracy. These were just about always powerful, wealthy people who took up lives in some other city. For some it was a point of pride that they'd been so recognized. The ancients were very pragmatic. If not for the ease of global communication, such expulsions for demagogues and other anti-democratic malefactors could serve all the world's republics well. Maybe we could use a trebuchet and launch them into the sea.

In my musings about the irrelevance of the obvioius, I begin to think that the mob is the instrument to reassert the force of the obvious. Obviously Trump tried to overthrow the system of government. Obviously various persons like Alex Jones profit for themselves by wantonly harming other people. Obviously a few Supreme Court justices are crooked and/or compromised. One has to wonder if the risks of mobs acting in the name of the obvious are worth it when the mobs are mislead into believing they are acting in the best interests of the country by acting for reasons obviously errant. Let's say someone created an illusory enemy and convinced tens of millions of people that that enemy was real and must be destroyed. That mob would be destroying what they're convinced they are protecting. That mob would wear red hats.

Fucking knuckle-draggers. We got a white man problem.

Show a little respect. The opinion comes from an expert on the subject: Elko knows his audience better than William does: If you're going to meet your quota selling life insurance in Katy, Texas, you better put on that blue collar and bring a lunch pail! From the link entitled "back to basics of what Texas A&M is all about," Elko again proves how well he knows what redass is all about: He knows that it's not the growing element of 2%ers who make the decisions (yet). He also knows how to have a winning record at Duke. We've seen your hearts and souls. It'd be less embarrassing for you if you hid them. I will say they're so good at repeating the same thing about the Holy Elk that I start lending it credence. I also lent credence to the idea that the Iraqi army and air force would be a challenging opponent in the first Gulf War.

They're really brillliant and original with nicknames: H-Long

I truly think Trump crashed the GOP criminal operation and does not feel bound by the omertà that keeps those lock-step lying villains in power. Maybe Putin let him in on it or Trump just discovered it in the course of becoming president. Maybe the GOP cabal tried to bring him in. Now he knows too much. He can rat them out and his followers won't be convinced that Trump himself was benefitting. Idiot World

New. Culture.

This was the only thing that got me to buy a ticket for yet another shitty Batman movie:

Maybe we should be more careful about about blowing up people and invading other countries. Maybe we should face our past of propping brutal, absolutely brutal, dictators and training their death squads. Or, we could just use our enormous power to silence even the weakest apparatus created to stop such horrors. Shame on any politician muddying the issue with outrage over the distortion that the International Criminal Court announcement was about equating Israel and Hamas as perpetrators of horrors. The fact is they're both slaughtering the innocent. But that's just way too complicated for discourse here in the land of the free where just about everybody gets 12 years of public education. Creating fine minds.

Those teeth!

Always presented like a revelation.

The game can go either way. And probably will.

Tattaglia. Here are the Mannings discussing them.

I'm sure the threat of not delivering more 2000 pound bombs will put an end to this.

I love that the US and Russia signed and bailed. "What, you mean that's actually a crime? Shit, take our name off that shit!" I was in the car a lot yesterday. I heard the outrage of Israel's spokespersons at being compared by even one iota with Hamas. In the particulars of the crimes against humanity carried out, Hamas' attack was like opening the doors of Hell for the victims. Hooray for Israel! They cleared that bar! Sadly for Israel, pointing to more horrific crimes is generally not a defense for one's own crimes. I would also propose that the focus of the criminal charge is what was done to victims and, for nation states or stateless terrorist groups, who the victims are. In both of these attacks, extreme cruelty was imposed on civilians for no reason whatsoever. Lastly, Israel's official denials and assurances come with zero transparency. They control the news, they shoot at dissenting reporters, they heavily restrict access to their slaughter campaign. The big Israeli denier yesterday exclaimed something like, "We are a free democracy with a revered Supreme Court, how can you compare us to Hamas?" Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It's your own acts, dickwad.

America sent their top guys. A late breaking photo:

Dev Patel Michael Cera That's all I could come with for under 40. I was going to add Kieren Culkin, but he's 41. None of these guys are in Emma Stone's class. Cynthia Erivo has been very good in some things, as well.

Baby Reindeer was excellent. Troubling. Hard to watch in moments, but it was definitely worthwhile. I thought Rust Creek was a solid little movie. Nicely shot and acted thriller.

From TexAgs regarding paying more for All William All the Time:

With our talent, Elko's new culture, our facilities, and our money, the sky is the limit for this waking giant! Even better, we won't have a rude awakening while getting to know the brutal week to week grind of playing in the SEC!

Should the Donald become president again, there's your name for the president's plane. Tower, this is Unindicted Coconspirator 1 ready for take-off.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. We're finally on our own... Abbott's level of shamelessness is jaw-dropping even in these days. I don't know that there is an action against this criminal anti-republic organization that I would condemn. I'm still shocked that we are here. I believe what I see and hear, but I am still shocked by some of it. Crude, but I don't give a shit. This is the face of wickedness.