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  1. Didn't his dog die about three months after his daughter?
  2. His rambling "about" section says he's from Dallas but went to HS in Tulsa....Peace Corps vet (take that, whoever said he's not a hippy). Seems to have gone off the rails in his mid to late 20s. There is some speculation that she OD'd and instead of reporting it, and risking arrest for his meth lab, and suffering from meth psychosis, thought it would be a better idea to just go ahead and chop her up and put her in the deep freeze. Others say neighbors heard her screaming for her life a while back, but did nothing. After all even thought it's gentrified it's still the Bloody Ninth Ward.
  3. He's Angola bound....I've heard from someone whose done time in both that OPP (Orleans Parish Prison) makes TDCJ seem like a cakewalk; I can only imagine what it must be like at Angola, esp for a scrawny white kid with no criminal record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m67wqtXxC4
  4. Kids these days He goes by Kelley Kirkpatrick on FB. Around the time the victim vanished, he pulled down his profile pic, added Dexter in the corner, and put it back up. That is not the victim in the pic, FWIW. This is her:
  5. Surprised not already posted. I would hope the Turkmen gov't has speakers hidden nearby laying this at earsplitting volume:
  6. U.S. Attorney : Your tenure as boss was a short one. Actually, it was unusual in several ways. Let me put this to you as simply as I can. You can avoid sentencing on these charges if you will testify that in fact, you were not the boss of North Jersey, that in fact, your nephew Anthony Soprano was and is. That he de facto controlled your capos with the backing of two of the New York families communicating through their emissary, John Sacrimoni. We want Johnny Sack. But more than him, we want Mangano and Teresi. Corrado 'Junior' Soprano : I want to fuck Angie Dickinson, let's see who gets lucky first.
  7. Georgia was the only one of the 13 Colonies to have banned slavery. General Oglethorpe wanted his debtors and other petty criminals to work with their own two hands and he knew all to well the sort of societies slavery ended up creating -- tiny elites with many slaves, a small middle class with a few, and then a bunch of superfluous white trash at the bottom. There was also a strategic concern -- Georgia was a buffer against Spanish Florida and slaves inherently caused instability by running away and occasionally revolting. So from 1735, the year of Oglethorpe's decree to 1751, when it was overturned by the Crown, there very few slaves in Georgia. As the economy became more and more dependent on rice, slavery became more and more prevalent, and then along came Eli Whitney....
  8. I think UT has been leading that conference academically, indirectly, since the new admissions kicked in, and many an SEC school has huge contingents of Texans who would have gone to UT a generation ago.
  9. You had some abolitionists who believed in the cause of full equality for Blacks, up to and including intermarriage. That was kind of considered lunatic fringe even by most abolitionists. And you had other abolitionists who were quite racist -- while slavery was wrong, they wanted to return the slaves to the land of their ancestors or ship them off to Central America because they were not and should never be considered equal to the White man. They were inherently inferior beings. Up until the last few months of his life Abe Lincoln was in this camp. As usual, Sam Houston had strange views on the subject. He believed in the full equality of Black people, and Native Americans (of course), and yet he owned 12 slaves. It is written that he treated them very well (I've seen first-hand testimony from at least one of them) but it's a very strange philosophy to try to wrap your head around today. Is it more damning to believe in the equality of the people you own?
  10. I would argue that you are probably right, but only at the level of the middle class (almost non existent in the South) and above, especially not in the South. My great-grandfather took down his dad's life story about a year before the elder man died circa 1890. I say "took it down" because the old guy was illiterate, like so many of his time and place -- the Old South, 1820-90. James spent the first 30 years of his life picking cotton, rose to the level of overseer (hated by Blacks and Whites alike), and eventually managed to acquire a Mississippi tanyard and two slaves -- an elderly married couple who were capable still of sitting down and making shoes. The War came along soon enough and swept away his little empire and our family came to Texas during early Reconstruction, in no small part because he was openly racist. He said something about not wanting his children to grow up around free Blacks. While that sounds terrible, what he might have meant is "under the domination of free Blacks," as the part of Mississippi they lived in was majority Black then and that entire county is virtually all Black today. He chose a part of Texas -- Bosque County -- deliberately because there were very few Blacks there. He seemed to have typified that dictum -- "in the North, they love the Black race, but hate the individual, and in the South they love the individual and hate the race," because once in Texas he hired a local Black teenage boy who soon enough became something very much like part of the family with his own kids. So, he was openly racist on the big issues but James absolutely hated slavery. Again and again he came back to that in his mini-memoir, and yet he owned two. That is because he hated slavery-- and I do believe most White men of his time, class and place hated slavery -- not because it was immoral or wrong or out of a shared sense of humanity like some in the chattering classes up North did but simply because it fucked him, a poor White man, over good and hard. He could not fairly compete against free in the labor market. What seemed to eat at him even more was how the slaveholders looked down their noses on people like him, as if the mere fact they owned Black people made them better than those who did not. This in addition to the wealth it afforded them enabled them and not him to educate their kids. His kid brother with whom he picked cotton for decades managed to escape his class by marrying a slaveholding widow who...well, let's say it's like "no pics" would be a blessing here if she settled for trash like him. Anyway all of a sudden lil' bro is strutting around like the cock of the walk even those he was a callus-handed cottonpicker still...He wound up commanding a company of home guards during the war and James deserted at the first chance he could. He was about 45 and being bossed around by his shithead brother, fighting for a cause he hated. I bet slipping out of that camp felt awesome. It did kind of suck later when his widow -- who outlived him by 25 or 30 years -- could not get a Confederate pension but so be it. Blood money. Anyway, nowhere did he ever question the morality of slavery and I don't believe that I've ever heard of an example of anyone from the Southern po' white trash who did. They didn't have the time to parse through the morals of it and likely in many cases probably never even had been presented with the cases against it in any detail. To them it was Just the Way Things Were.
  11. I've seen it twice all the way through. Hagman regarded it as a comedy and says you should too. As such it kicks ass in every direction.
  12. Fun fact -- the vast majority of Northerners did not meet the call to arms to free the slaves, or because they thought slavery was so evil it must be stamped out. They fought to preserve the Union. Which is NOT to say that the South did not pick that fight because of slavery. It very much did, under the flimsy cloak of states' rights. (to own slaves) Nuance, people. One very prominent Northern general did: George Thomas. He agonized as long and hard as Lee and came down on the other side. At the time, this was a question on which reasonable minds could disagree, contrary to the modern crowd that thinks they would have easily had the clarity of thought and mortal passion of John Brown -- who was such a sensation because he was so unusual, and who was thought of as a terrorist by some in the North as well -- on an issue the vast majority of Northerners did not think worth fighting or dying over. And as far as I know that was not why Thomas remained in the US Army. From that day forward he was dead to his family. His portraits were turned against the walls, his letters tossed in the fire unopened. None of them ever spoke to him again. After the war he would send his impoverished sisters money but they would not touch it, denying it came from their brother, because they had no brother. And on hearing that he had accepted a command in the US Army, his old buddy / former West Point student JEB Stuart wrote to his wife that he would like to hang George Thomas for being a traitor to Virginia. He was regarded with suspicion in the Union army for a time until the Dubs came rolling in and by the end of the war he was one of the most successful and low-key badass generals on either side. (He prevented a total rout at Chickamauga, turned the tide at Chattanooga, and then annihilated Hood's entire army at Nashville and Franklin. One of my backyards as a kid was bounded by an old stone wall that had been a firing line of his. /csb) He died in 1870 and none of his relatives attended his funeral. Sometimes I think the rise of Trumpism has given us this idea we would know bullshit when we saw it back then too, and because many of us have relatives we perceive to be brainwashed, we would function the same way back then, but this fails to acknowledge that the South was a cradle-to-grave slave society. If you think you would have had the balls to declare yourself a Southern abolitionist way back then, take this challenge -- go to a small town diner in East Texas all by yourself when it's super crowded rocking a Nancy Pelosi shirt, and imagine that being your life, day in and day out, with the added bonus that your wife would prob stop fucking you and your parents would cut you off. And then consider yourself lucky you just got dirty looks from the entire room because being an abolitionist in the South of the 1850s could very easily get you tarred and feathered or killed.
  13. He did, but you can either believe that all the HS recruiting services, Davis's coaches at UGA, and every team in the NFL that passed him over five times in the draft were wrong about his skill level, or you can believe he happened to catch lightning in a bottle in Denver, where his somewhat limited skill set -- he did get to the hole in a hurry and could make that one cut count -- was ideally matched to a new offensive scheme that caught the league's defenses off guard. Put Charles in that situation, and we'd see the 10-yard minimum offense of Hornfans dreams for real. He'd have run for 3000 yards per season in that blocking scheme at that time. I kid, but only a little.
  14. Terell Davis is kind of a joke. He was later revealed to be a system RB. For a while there Shanahan found a long string of nobodys who all popped it for 1300 yards or so for a season or two only to be replaced by the next man up. Davis just a) was first in line; and B) held it down longer than the rest of them. Olandis Gary, Mike Anderson, Reuben Droughns, and Tatum Bell all had 1000 yd seasons in that era, not to mention Clinton Portis, who was far more talented. His YP dropped off from 5.5 his first two seasons in the league (both with Denver) and never topped 4.3 again, even though he was running for 1300-1500 yards regularly for a few years in DC. Denver allowed you to match or exceed your college stats as an RB in a way I've never seen. Droughns rode the pine for three years and finally got his chance his fourth year in the league, matched his senior numbers at Oregon, cashed in, had one decent year for Cleveland (a half-yard per carry less than at Denver) and two bad ones, and hung 'em up.
  15. Because of that horrible stutter he was able to overcome, he was regarded as special needs and allowed to compete in the Special Olympics as a kid. Can you imagine how pissed you'd be if you had a kid with legit special needs who was special needs fast having to compete against Jamaal fucking Charles? I can only imagine all the muttering in the stands at all those meets.
  16. JC's career is like an extreme version of Priest Holmes. Underused early, injuries....JC was better but not by miles and miles. Both would probably have better chances at the Hall if they didn't have idiot coaches early on.
  17. Re Layne, you'd think the guys who were also baseball studs would have really strong arms, but I played LL against Gardere in HS and he threw meat. Struck me out in one AB because I was overswinging at his 75 mph "heat." I really, really regret that AB.
  18. For us over the last 45 years I'd say it was McIvor Simms Swoopes VY maybe Morenz? Mock? Colt After average to weak and the way on down to Case
  19. I've posted at length about this before on here, but my mom and uncle managed to set themselves on fire as toddlers in a backyard barbecue accident. Mama spent about a month in a burns ward at age two or three on a constant morphine drip. As she aged her scars faded but to her they looked as fresh as the day they formed -- she thought she looked like a monster. (The burns were mainly on her arms and legs -- her face was untouched.) She came of age in the '60s and was a total wild child, and at some point the brother of a male friend of hers -- my eventual godfather -- mailed over a little bag of heroin from Nam. For my godfather, it was fun. For mama, it was a severe relapse into an addiction she wasn't aware was hard-wired into her by all that time in the burns ward. Heroin and codeine and methadone would end up destroying her life and leaving all four of her kids traumatized -- at one point or another, she abandoned me, and then her second set of three kids with my stepfather, in favor of painkillers. My uncle is sober but a miserable bastard who never married nor even brought a girlfriend home, ever. He's financially successful, but a bitter, angry man, a real-life Scrooge. Burns will fuck you up.
  20. Baseball writers are kinda pitiful in how much of a premium they put on guys being nice to them. And it doesn't matter if the dude is secretly all kinds of fucked up like Kirby Puckett. Big Papi was and is really good at PR and Bonds and Clemens have never given a shit about it.
  21. Rodney King / John Lennon / Stupid questions thread.... "Why don't we, like, ask Russia to join NATO too, man?"
  22. Man, the first few pages of this thread are an abominable shitshow, featuring Texans idiocy, judgmental shag at its best, a classic @Greenspoint "Ballgame" declaration (on Foreman's career), Derka necrobumping the thread with his overanalyzing of Instagram and the slew of experts opining on Foreman's impending demise, and amid it all, actually inspiring information, such as that until now, no modern NFL running back has ever comeback from a ruptured Achilles. Foreman is not "back" back, in that he is not the starting RB under normal circumstances where he is, but he's done better than anyone else who's suffered the same injury, apparently.
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