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pyrohornIII

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  1. Here's another good article along the same lines. This one is more about the inherent loneliness that has been growing in America. Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Weaponization of Loneliness - The Atlantic QOSHE - The Weaponization of Loneliness - Hillary Rodham Clinton Of course since it's Hillary, there can't be any credence shown to her insight and the right wing pundits are having a field day with it.
  2. Our depth is better than last year all the way across the board. It's been a long time since we've had a 3-deep that isn't peppered generously with JAGs. I think Sark has put together a great staff to develop this young talent both in coaching and S&C. I think that depth is going to bring us at least 2 more games than last year. Getting the bye week after OU will help recover and hopefully prevent UH from being a trap game. I also like getting Baylor early. Seems they always are a harder out at the end of the season. I can see 11 wins. Like a lot of you, the biggest cloud casting doubt for me is the officiating. I think they will have to try to get into the Texas players' and coaches' heads early in some games by throwing outlandish flags. It will be the only way to keep it close. And even if our guys play a perfect game, they will fabricate things. So how well Sark can control the emotions of the team to keep their focus on the opponents and not the refs will be important. I see losing 1 for refs. I go 10.
  3. Georgia55 is a good group. I hope someone in Texas develops one soon. We definitely need all hands on deck starting now. It's refreshing to see new blood getting involved and that helps reach new targets with different messages that might appeal more than the tired old trope. We need election workers all over, especially the redder counties. I'd suggest you reach out to your precinct chair first. It's pretty interesting how many people we get volunteering on our voter protection hotline that come from other states, usually blue ones. They make the efforts to train on the confusing Texas voter laws to help out. Usually it's folks from California or up in the Northeast.
  4. Money Pit more like it. And it will be someone else's money.
  5. I want to do this for Halloween
  6. About in the same timeline, we had an older guy in our town when I was growing up that got his jollies fondling little boys' junk through their pants. Everybody knew the guy, he worked at a local hardware store. His wife also worked for a local merchant, so they weren't like big wigs in the community. I don't know how many victims he had, but I know it was considerable. Seems enough kids had experienced it, that it was an inside joke among us and we called him Homo Hal. No one ever did anything, no one ever reported him. Maybe the adults knew and figured it was pretty harmless as long as it didn't go further? Maybe the kids never said anything. But yeah, that kind of thing wasn't often pursued, we didn't get any stranger-danger lectures. This shit didn't happen, not the bad stuff. we lived in Mayberry, Texas. You have to remember this was about the time Whitman climbed the Tower. That was unimaginable too to that society. Personally, I went through a quick encounter being accosted by him in the grocery store. Lasted maybe 30 seconds and all I could think was "what in the world is he doing?" I mean this guy was older and everyone liked him, so it was confusing to me at like 6 if he was doing something wrong, and if I was right to stop him or not. Before I could act, he was done and walking off after patting me on the head like nothing had happened, me holding that dozen eggs. But I don't think it had a lasting effect on me other than the oddity of the moment and the memory. But each kid is different. So yeah, at least in our little corner of Texas, things were different. So the question to me is, are we better off or worse when you consider all things that have evolved or regressed?
  7. Simply mind bottling.
  8. And he's a helluva a nice guy, to boot. I was fortunate to attend a screening of Deep in the Heart with him giving the introduction. Deep in the Heart trailer Books or DVD make great presents.
  9. I remember there was a lady who served on the school board for Seguin some years back that took a teacher to task for something that concerned one or more of the students. She ended up the school and her personally lost a lawsuit due to her running and end run and not following the chain of command. Wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't happen here.
  10. bingo, they've been downgraded to sub humans. All of Abbott's machinations to drum up this "emergency" has infused a lot of cash into the border economy. Whatever Biden does needs to be even more generous with the cash inflow into that area to offset any earnings loss. I could see some of these folks running some sort of onboarding center, where they get paid to help weed through the migrants and get them in the right lines of deportation or processing, We all know the system is broken, but Biden just coming in and overpowering Abbott will just lose the Dems more votes. Votes that have been bought with taxpayer money, both federal and state.
  11. It took a couple of episodes to get the flow. At first it had this Broadchurch feel to it, but then it started showing its true colors. Got a lot of neat plot twists too.
  12. It seems Colt wasn't much more confident at that stage of his career either. Entering the year after last year's roller coaster ride, it seems that he's trying hard not to put out any bulletin board crap or words he'll have to eat later. And like some of y'all said, he does seem somewhat shy, so good chance he was hiding behind his mullet and swagger. He's playing all that down now, like the Athletic article said. Phase 2 of building a great leader/QB.
  13. Colorado? Don't see them in one of these mixes often.
  14. How long until they start figuring there should be reparations for all that training those fine white families bestowed on those base slaves? Personally, I tend to value a person's grace and courage under hardship and persecution far more than I value the material wealth someone has. And it always seems to ring true that one that has an excess of the latter came by it on the backs of those in the former class.
  15. Already DeSantis door knockers roaming parts of rural Texas. Whether they are home grown or import wasn't determined. I'm sure Abbott will send out a goon squad soon to squash them.
  16. So many peaks and valleys for that family. Have to salute the resolve and determination not to let it get them down.
  17. Whaley leaves Madisonville for DC opportunities at New Boston High School Chris Whaley making moves in HS coaching
  18. A&M wants votes in the Texas Lege. It needs voters sympathetic to A&M policy to keep electing those folks. They aren't anti Brown. In fact they've been courting the hispanic vote for decades. Remember Elsa Murano and how long she lasted? They will sell out what principles they have left to gain a larger voting bloc and this is another example. They're not worried about inclusivity. The largest minority is hispanic, and that's what they are concentrating on.
  19. I didn't realize Mackovic coached at Rice.
  20. I'm proud that Texas has finally sent someone up there who has the same chops that Porter and AOC do, and that's Jasmine Crockett. I wish these wonderful women got as much coverage as the trolls who seem to stay in front of the media saying stupid shit that sucks so much oxygen out of the room there's none left for talking about how some of our representatives are fighting the good fight every day up there. I'm not disparaging those like SJL, as I have heard her speak several times and have been impressed, but these younger women seem to bring a fire and snark that plays much better. I'd like to see us have a thread on Dem Rising Stars, but not sure if it would be redundant with having individual threads.
  21. I watched Buffalo Soldiers: A Quest for Freedom last night. It was not just about the black men who served in the founding of the West, but covered all the way through Korea, when all the armed services branches were finally desegregated. The army asked for black troops to volunteer to fight amongst the other men during the Battle of the Bulge. 5000 volunteered, 1000 were chosen. But since they would be reinforcements into white divisions, and not black ones, each soldier had to accept being busted down to private, since the Army couldn't have any black men with higher ranks than whites. And even with this stipulation those men voluntarily gave up their rank. Those ranks were never restored, even after the war. Pitiful. This kind of thing is what they are hoping to erase from history, but never will be able to. Only those who want to willfully ignore certain parts of history for their own comfort will accept any of these whitewashed versions being brandished today.
  22. It's Texas-OU to most people because it's Texas vs OU, and it's not OU-Texas to be alphabetical, it's Texas-OU because it's played in Texas.
  23. I remember this happening, but I don't think it happened in CS. That game was Home for Rice on the odd years. Here's a vid on the 73 game that really turned up the heat. We should probably have a MOB thread.
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