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Ghost of LL

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  1. Cross-posting from the Best Buy board, but Son of GOLL, @Brisketexan, and I are making a thunder run up to Dallas Saturday morning with a Saturday late afternoon, and we have a spare seat. It's free to the buyer of kolaches and Slim Jims. First row west side upper deck at about the goal line. Let us know your playlist and opinion on whether mustard or ketchup goes on a corny dog. ETA: So @Macanudowas the first to jump in. So here we go tomorrow morning. In preparation, I'm going to Maudie's tonight for a fucking Strait Plate with double refrieds. Brisket's truck is going to smell like a Tijuana sewer by the time we reach Georgetown. @immamac--in anticipation of updates tomorrow, perhaps this thread should be moved to the general football board?
  2. He's made the calculation that he'd prefer to run against Harris in 2028 than try to run as a Republican after a second Trump term. He's not wrong. And he won't be the last one to make that calculation. I guarantee you we'll see other high Republican officeholders who might have presidential aspirations subtly undermine Trump over the next 29 days.
  3. You know--I know this wasn't directed at me. But as a condescending cunt myself, I find that I never do tire of it. I wonder if @closetojumping has had the same experience.
  4. And as I was telling @Brisketexan on Friday, I was kind of cheering a little bit for aggy for exactly this reason. The aggycoaster isn't very much fun if it doesn't go up. That and the fact that I just irrationally resent Missouri being in the SEC (or even having a football program, really). It's just a nothing program that plays in a nothing stadium. It has no redeeming value whatsoever. It only got into the SEC because the conference decided it needed an even number. Missouri ought to be playing Kansas every year. That's their rival. And the Big12 is the level at which they belong. Fuck Missouri.
  5. The thing that stood out to me about Missouri (apart from everything you observe about their wretched defense) is just how poor the offensive play design was. There were multiple plays in which they had two receivers within three yards of one another. And when that happened, aggy of course had three DBs in the area (and even then incompletions were a matter of luck). There's no reason for that type of play design. It's just awful. And it damned sure isn't akin to anything aggy would see from us. Can we just remember for one minute that we were playing MissSt with our fucking back-up quarterback. I get that our back-up quarterback is named "Manning." But he's still the back-up behind a starter who is significantly better. And even behind our QB2, we still beat MissSt by three touchdowns.
  6. And y’all thought this was going to be a boring day of college football.
  7. I’m starting to get real concerned about our trip to Nashville.
  8. They may not get any television money, but damned if they’re not going to win the conference. It’s like when a big program pays a supposed cream puff to give them a September game, and the cream puff goes home with $1.5M and a W.
  9. So I’m starting to get the impression that Missouri may not be very good.
  10. Just popped into my head for some reason.
  11. What kind of Texan are you? You're supposed to grab your Colt, saddle up your horse, and join the posse that presumably was riding at dawn. I mean, if you had done that you'd at least have made it to Columbus by now.
  12. Boy, that strawman sure took a thrashing. Well done, you. I don't have time to get into a tit-for-tat on accounting. As the article I posted noted, it is exceedingly difficult to count dead civilians in an active war zone. Let it suffice to say that there are many thousands of dead civilians, which is consistent with the means and methods we've all seen Israel using. And no, telling civilians to leave entire cities so that those cities can be leveled is not to Israel's credit. It smacks of collective punishment operating under the guise of civility. And yes--I think Israel is not doing an adequate job of policing its own war criminality. For just one (relatively very small) example of that, see Israel's inaction in prosecuting the WFK murders.
  13. "I mean, yeah--he killed a cop. But on the other hand, they shouldn't have woken me up at 4:53 AM to tell me about it. NOT GUILTY!"
  14. The official count is 41,000, which is three-and-a-half dozen. Now, that may be an overcount. But it also could easily be an undercount. Regardless, out of a pre-war population of around 2,000,000, that's a metric fuckton. As to "wontonly," yeah--I feel pretty good about that characterization. Israel was using 2,000 lb. bombs in heavily urbanized environments. But apart from the bombardment, Israel prevented food and medicine from entering Gaza, and it notoriously murdered aid workers. And yeah--"murdered" is the right word. I do credit the fact that Hamas has taken shelter in populated areas. But Hamas' war crimes do not justify or excuse Israel's.
  15. It's an abuse that is going to have a real-world consequence as everyone disables their emergency alerts on their phone. So when there's a tornado that nobody gets notice of, or when there's a kidnapped kid that nobody knows about, you can thank DPS and the Hall County Sheriff's Department. Buncha stupid fuckwads.
  16. #TeamSeth
  17. It’s the power they’re deriving from these fucking fire uniforms.
  18. It's not an issue, as evidenced by the fact that the one time it occurs it causes national headlines and prompts a six-page (and counting) thread on the Surl. If it were an issue, then it would be so commonplace that it wouldn't even earn your (or any other poster's) notice. You'd be like "pfft--another one. That's some bullshit." Kind of like how Americans are about school shootings now. That's an issue. And Americans' callousness and non-recognition of when another one happens tells you just how big an issue it is. This, however, is completely fabricated.
  19. Well I hate to say this, but all of our restraint-urging is pretty pointless if we're not going to impose any consequences for non-restraint. And so far, we haven't shown any inclination toward imposing any consequences. The closest we have come is not vetoing a pretty weak-kneed resolution in the UNSC after Israel went in and wantonly killed a few dozen thousand civilians in Gaza. But notwithstanding their non-restraint in Gaza and Lebanon, we haven't done anything toward cutting our material support for Israel. And with our current political situation, it is a little difficult to imagine us doing so. So the leverage we have with Israel is pretty non-existent. Who really cares what Israel's response should be, given that we don't have the present ability to impact it in one direction or the other? At this point, it's just a "que sirah, sirah" situation for the United States.
  20. I suspect this is part of the battlefield-shaping phase of Israel's coming aerial offensive against Iran. If Israel wants to attack Iran, it doesn't exactly have to go across Syrian and Iraqi airspace, but it sure makes it easier. But Syria has a whole bunch of Russian air-defense weapons systems, including Pantsir-1s and S-300s. Now, Syria has a lot less ammunition for those air-defense systems. And that makes a route to Iran over Syria a whole lot easier. And by the way, if you're Iraq right now, you may just want to declare your airspace open.
  21. I don’t know whether this goes here or the Ukraine thread, but whatever:
  22. And there is something of a prisoners' dilemma, isn't there? We'd only need one vote. Who's going to be the one to supply it? Because we're only making this deal with one person.
  23. Forget Susan Collins. You offer Lisa Murkowski anything she wants to go from I to D.
  24. It's not a new thought, and I share it. But I one add one thing: the era of the "media monoculture," as you describe it, was really very brief. It lasted from roughly 1925 to roughly 2010. Before 1925, there was no mass media. People got their information from local newspapers, word of mouth, and just made-up bullshit. You had newspaper moguls like William Randolph Hearst who were able to move public opinion on major national issues. And you had newspapers expressly backed by the political parties. But apart from that, people lived in their own bubble getting the information to which they made a conscious effort to expose themselves. And ok--maybe that wasn't great. I mean, we had a civil war. But for most of the history of democracy in America and elsewhere, that's how it has always been.
  25. I mean, objectively, yes. But as an SMU Law grad and a guy whose wife is a UCF alumna, there's a lot for me to like. The potential for Mrs.LL to lord yet another UCF victory over her UF friends when they come to town next month is just too delicious.
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