pyrohornIII

I started going to games about 64, I guess we I was 6. Two things always made the games good at home. One was being able to see guys down under the stands when they came out onto the field and then back in after the game. At that point the dressing rooms were under the west side bleachers and the Horns entered and exited the field around the 50 on that side. The other thing was those programs. I still have a few left somewhere, but really wish I had saved more. I also wish someone would do a collection of them online somewhere. Again, you are talking about appealing to a 6 year old. That's back in the day when every little cafe had a Cowpokes calendar at the register, and you could buy Aggie Joke books in convenience stores. Saturday mornings were sacred because that was the only time you had 3 hours of uninterrupted cartoons and seeing those program covers put Bevo on the same hero level as those heroes in the comic books. And vice versa for the anti-heroes, like the bears and owls and aggies. Very roadrunner and coyote in retrospect I guess.

You know high waters were never a fashion statement, other than telegraphing that you were from poor stock and wore hand me downs or your family couldn't afford to keep a growing kid in clothes. But just the past year or so, it's coming on. That and the expensive dress shoe and no socks. But then i never got the whole sagging thing. The only thing I have that meets today's fashion are couple of pair of old overalls that are faded and worn by wear, not bought that way, lol. It's not reallly a racial thing, that look Disu is sporting, is it?

All you can do sometimes is just shake your head.

Did I call it or what? Next will be syndication on OAN.

Seems I saw it was Luna trying to rein in AOC. I can not imagine what it would be like to be that intelligent and have to try to get some sort of logical legislation done with the ignorant attention whores. I am very surprised we don't see more outbursts like this. I mean talking civilly with these people isn't working, so JC is just talking to them like the middle school mean girl bitches they want to be, in terms they get.

I thought these Justices were supposed to have thicker skin. They are selected to make the tough impartial decisions for the good of the country. You'd think his wife would be proud to be married to such a person. But no. She's worried about signs her neighbors put up has to do something like this as protest. Imagine how much shit she's been spewing in his ear for years now, to get to the point where she'd go public in such a big way. This reeks of "the lady doth protest too much." I wonder how long she and Ginny took to come up with such a smacking plan, and how Ginny will upstage her next. Very ripe for a SNL skit here, maybe the Supreme wives, played along the lines of Stepford.

The way Abbott keeps upping the game with each new action being a little bolder and fascist than the last is apparently their plan to normalize their shit. Same with Trump and his lies. For some reason if he can tell a larger whopper today, then the slightly smaller one he told yesterday doesn't seem so bad and is just accepted. Abbott said it best when he said, "It could have been worse." Just sums up the whole thing. We begin to accept the crap they say and do, because each day they prove that indeed 'it could be worse.' It's like with Hitler and his gradual taking of territories and countries in Europe. Everyone knows it could be worse, but do we rise up against him and bring it to a head now, or do we give him what he wants now and hope he's happy with it? We have been Chamberlains for too long now, we are going to need a Churchill for keeping our democracy. At first, I thought it had to do with his need for attention, as it is in Trump's case. But there is a thing in people that needs to dominate over others however they can. It makes them feel superior and they find places like churches, KKK, Rotary clubs, whatever to share their ideals and actions. The internet just made finding and joining these kinds of groups easier, and took them nationwide, if not globally. I don't know how to counter that, and maybe I am seeing it wrong, but deep in all this I can't help but suspect the hands and money of a very elite group of monied people are inventing these groups and stirring a certain side up with hate rhetoric. Whether that money is American or Russian or possibly both, it would be difficult to prove. They are doing exactly what they accuse of Soros. Every accusation is an admission, right? I don't have the answers, sometimes I just write things out to try to see if it makes sense to anyone else, and maybe someone has some ideas on how to combat all this shit.

Thing is back 40 years ago when I was a staunch Limbaugh listening and Conservative Chronicle subscriber, I used to think that taking inner city people out of their environs and setting up camps or communes for them to give them a chance to be productive was the answer. And others felt the same way. And we thought we were brilliant for having such ideas. But I looked at it from a perspective of helping them get a fresh start, gain some self-respect. I think many others looked at it as a way to just get them out of sight and to gentrify those old neighborhoods. They have been championing similar ideas for homeless all across the country. Just expand the program and move out more undesirables. It's one reason our US penal system is so big, and there aren't any serious attempts at decriminalizing MJ, because you put all those miscreants back on the street, and lose the income off their incarceration that lines the pockets of the private prison system.

I say we develop some dark money PAC to fund a project called Clean Up America or some such nonsense. Then use that money to recruit from the MAGA masses those that will come and build these camps of segregation they are pushing in project 2025. Ship them off to the boonies and form them into work groups. Give them the responsibility to design these camps, reminding them of who will be housed there, which should ensure that austerity and poor workmanship are the common thread of all these camps, considering they are building them for less than human life forms. Keep telling them their paychecks will be there in two weeks. That TFG is taking time to sign each one because he is so proud of all their work. Then lock the gate with all of them inside. Tell them it's a test to see if the conditions are truly horrific enough. Then begin intervention classes to counter the MAGA mindset. Those that can get clean can go, others stay. And yes, it seems drastic and ridiculous, but this is the sort of thing they intend for people of color who are legal citizens. Just flip the table on them.

Our boy Graham is at it again. This time it's all about how much respect A&M should be getting, compared to the Whorns. I figured some of you stat guys would like to tear this apart. Is Texas A&M football the most disrespected program in the SEC? Texas A&M football, while idiosyncratic, is certainly a team that has had their share of accomplishments in the SEC. Why, then, the disrespect? By Graham Harmon | May 13, 2024, 10:47 AM EDT Is Texas A&M football the most disrespected program in the SEC? (gigemgazette.com)

The whole approach seems to be to just muddle along, throw shit at the witnesses and see what sticks. Pretty much the same way Trump runs a campaign or anything else. Problem is the jury isn't full of MAGA worshippers. Pretty sure that was juror 4 and they were disqualified before the jury got properly seated. But I had forgotten about the one who listened to Cohen's podcasts. Probably one or more of the Meidas ones.

Right in time with the strange line of questioning of Stormy where Necheles was trying to get Stormy to testify that Trump was a great golfer. Then he comes out in is Friday departure comments going on about how Biden sucks at golf, can't hit it 100 yards, how his (Trump's) body is god-like and Biden is scrawny. Such a insecure little weasel TFG is. And it's all shit that intelligent people see through with no trouble.

Billy is just too ****ing tough for me to mess with! What a man who curses in asterisks!

Yeah, it was a better game than most because they each got a DD, instead of one contestant lucking into 2 or all 3. Thought it was funny Victoria knew that Donna Summer lyric so handily. Doesn't seem like her genre, but she might have been a bad girl growing up.

Yeah, I get way annoyed watching him flail away at that buzzer. It distracts me more than it should. But yet again tonight he won, even with the only faulty buzzer. If I get 3 or 4 right answers a round at this level, I'm doing pretty good. It seems to me that the answers are harder now than they were maybe 20 years ago but then I understand this is the champion level, so questions would reflect that. I remember watching this with my grandmother back in the 60s when Art Fleming was the host. And then Hugh Downs followed in the next time slot with Concentration. Or I might have those reversed. Still, fond memories. She never watched soap operas, only game shows. My other grandmother was the opposite, all soap, no games.

Unfrosted was enjoyable to me, but then I fall into the targeted age range. Otherwise too many gags would leave someone younger scratching their head. But it was cool how they were able to meld time periods into a scene, like the mascots rioting. It didn't happen a lot, but now and then they got one in.

Considering who posted which, it's spot on analysis.

I don't see Jr being able to sit that long without getting a hit of coke hourly. Plus no way Jr can even get out of bed in time to attend. Ivanka is the only semi bright one, distancing herself. It might actually wake some people up and grab their attention.

This thread is like a reset after spending time in the squalor that is the Deion thread. Excellent example of two different types of humans. Earl always gave his Momma credit for raising him right. I agree.

Easiest person to sell to is a salesman.

Lil' Dribblers starting kids so young on regulation size courts, even with lowered baskets messes with their mechanics, I think. Having to heave the ball from the free throw line at 8 or 10 is a lot different than at 16 and up. Looks to me like her shot is a mixture of that young heave and adaption as she grew up.

If she is married, why is she still using Saban as a last name? Doesn't strike me as a feminist type. No wedding band either. Guess she could have taken it off. Shrugs. Just all seems off.

I really thought Sanders was going to use his popularity for a good thing when he started pushing the HBCU as a positive, and hopefully increasing their popularity which in turn would expand the opportunities for more athletes to get higher education. When he abandoned them as quickly as he did, it was obvious he was using them as a steppingstone to a bigger platform to promote his kids, himself or both. That move just made him even more despicable to me. There is nothing gracious about this person. I think of Jim Brown, Ali and others who put themselves in the line of fire for standing up for the civil rights of people of color. All Sanders does is promote himself and his legacy, which is sad, considering how much good he could do if he wasn't so narcissistic. Pretty much the opposite of Kaepernick.

From what I read today, season 3 is even better than the first two. And they set pretty high bars, IMO.

What other institute of higher learning is there in the state of Texas that is perceived as a hub of a critical and oft liberal thinking? There is no other, and for decades students and faculty coming to UT Austin has meant for them a place to imagine and push for a better world, generally for all, not just the uber rich. It has been the history of UT students and academia to speak up when they disagreed with something. And the bigger the injustice the stronger the response. I do not agree with your recommendation that people simply move on. UT has always fought for the right to change the world. This is just another example of that, and I see no problem at all with some peaceful protestation remind UT admin what the University means to so many.