Tell Me About Texas a&m

[SHOOTER12 8828]

42 minutes ago, C-Man said:

So what happened? Did the facility ever get built? Were those funds redirected to KKL's "charity"? Inquiring minds want to know because I haven't heard shit about aggy saving us from the 'rona.

....and you never will

[Randolph Duke 4034]

45 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

....and you never will

There you are wrong. As soon as the aggy fairy tale machine gets going again, the ags will insist they were "on the front lines fighting the war while no one else on the planet did anything to help."

They have already started with their "aggys on the front line" shit. https://texags.com/s/35948/aggies-on-the-front-lines-faces-of-courage-and-wisdom-amidst-a-pandemic

It's playing to rave reviews from the shit-for-brains contingent.

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"This is classic and should me nominated for an Academy Award."

"Damn, I love this school."

"Aggies are the Best! The Cream of the Crop! America's Best! Good Bull! Gig'em and Be Safe! God Bless! BTHO covid19"

"Outstanding work! I need a Claritin!"

How many people died because people who don't understand the culture of Texas A&M gave those idiots a job to do in case of national emergency? How many more people will needlessly die before those in decision making positions finally accept that aggys cannot be depended on in times of need?

But it helped pay for their shiny stadium, so slap up a "memorial" and call it even. Isn't that what happens in aggyland?

Edited April 13, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[SHOOTER12 8828]

Just now, Randolph Duke said:

There you are wrong. As soon as the aggy fairy tale machine gets going again, the ags will insist they were "on the front lines fighting the war while no one else on the planet did anything t help."

They have already started with their "aggys on the front line" shit. https://texags.com/s/35948/aggies-on-the-front-lines-faces-of-courage-and-wisdom-amidst-a-pandemic

It's playing to rave reviews from the shit-for-brains contingent.

How many people died because people who don't understand the culture of Texas A&M gave those idiots a job to do in case of national emergency? How many more people will needlessly die before those in decision making positions finally accept that aggys cannot be depended on in times of need?

But it helped pay for their shiny stadium, so slap up a "memorial" and call it even. Isn't that what happens in aggyland?

What I meant was that he would never hear where they ACTUALLY did something.   aggy lies don't count.

[TKthunder2 4997]

https://ciadm.tamhsc.edu
then go to the FAQ...lulz
https://health.tamu.edu/about/faq/

[Armybrat 40911]

So, just a drawing of a bland two story box?

Where’s the beef?

[Longboard Horn 40518]

21 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

In real time we are witnessing why people expect so little of the aggys. They lied to the people about their ability to provide in time of need. Because they are understood to be intellectually infirm, absolutely no one is asking any aggy to acknowledge, let alone explain, their previous representations.

But being aggys, nothing will stop them from producing self-congratulatory videos, professing to be "out on the front lines" (which they have already done).

I'm still waiting for anyone to tell us when the aggys plan on addressing the words of John Sharp, and the other aggy idiots, meant when they were explaining why hundreds of millions of tax dollars were being directed to College Station, Texas to establish a "Bio Corridor."

We all knew the aggy "biocorridor" and the aggy "game changing" vaccine laboratory would prove to be no different than the aggy "game changing" perfection of cold fusion, their "game changing" advances in the field of alchemy, their "game changing" plan to feed cotton flour to the masses, and God knows how many other "game changing" ideas they have failed at delivering on.

Q: When will John Sharp be asked why the promises he made when he accepted the money for the vaccine "laboratory" have not been fulfilled now they are truly needed. Where is this aggy "game changer" they promised when they accepted the money from the federal and state vaccine facility?

A: Never. Because John Sharp lied. The aggys took the money and failed to deliver on John Sharp's promises. In a time of great national emergency, the aggys completely failed all of us.

It wasn't the first time, and it unquestionably won't be the last.

The aggys should erect a "memorial" on their campus to all the lives that were lost during the 2020 pandemic. Maybe a big granite slab with all the boastful aggys claims that were just empty words.

 

Empty promises and lying. What else is new? To quote you RD: “The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.”

[Randolph Duke 4034]

39 minutes ago, Longboard Horn said:

Empty promises and lying. What else is new? To quote you RD: “The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.”

I don't usually expect much from members of the media, but Evan Smith, Editor of The Texas Tribune, is especially deserving of ridicule. I have long mocked him for the garbage his organization publishes.

For those who don't know about Evan or his Texas Tribune online publication, Evan is a former Texas Monthly writer who convinced various corporate sponsors (including the A&M and UT Systems) to finance his publication. In return, Evan panders and lob softballs when journalistic ethics calls for direct questions. Even first raise dmy eyebrows when he assigned Matt Watkins, an aggy, to write hagiographic (and factually incorrect) articles about aggy's athletics department finances.

I spoke to Evan directly, asking why he would assign a writer with an admitted bias about the subject he was covering, and why the Texas Tribune failed to follow up later when additional information was available. Evan's priorities are to his own pockets, not to journalism. His pandering to sponsors such as John Sharp is an embarrassment to his other sponsors, and to legitimate journalists everywhere.

Last week, he sent a "reporter" to interview John Sharp about Texas A&M's "response" to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not once did that "reporter" bring up the promises made by Sharp regarding A&M's having obtained hundreds of millions of dollars to build a "game changing" vaccine development, testing, and production facility.

The entire interview can be accessed via the link below, not that it is worth watching. It stands as testament to how Evan Smith, as Editor of the Texas tribune, panders to sponsors, ignores the failures of government officials who send money his way, and how the Tribune, time and time again, fails its readers.

45 minutes with John Sharp, and not one question regarding whether John Sharp, or any element of the Texas A&M System, delivered on its promises made. Not one.

Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp answers COVID-19 questions

• Apr 8, 2020

https://www.theeagle.com/news/texas-a-m-system-chancellor-john-sharp-answers-covid-19-questions/article_60c4318a-783d-11ea-bc6e-7b30f4a327d5.html

 

Evan Smith's "reporter" somehow missed asking John Sharp to explain his earlier statements, given that we are now dealing with the exact situation Sharp promised to deliver his "game changer" for. She didn't even ask Sharp what happened the money given to A&M by the taxpayers in exchange for the "aggy game changer."

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The center would also supply preventive vaccine for pandemic influenza, and, once it’s up and running, will be able to supply 50 million vaccine doses within four months of receiving a strain of the flu, with initial doses ready in 12 weeks.

“It’s a game-changer not just for Texas but for folks everywhere,” Sharp said at a morning news conference with Gov. Rick Perry to announce the effort.

https://www.statesman.com/article/20130326/NEWS/303269670

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Two of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturers are collaborating to accelerate the development of one for the coronavirus, the companies announced Tuesday.

French drug company Sanofi will partner with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to create an experimental vaccine that they aim to be tested on humans during the second half of the year. The companies are hoping to complete the regulatory approval for the virus by the second half of 2021.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/492663-two-of-the-worlds-largest-vaccine-manufacturers-collaborate-to-speed-up

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[TexasMan 10987]

 

A good Sooner follow, if you're so inclined. 

 

 

[Droopy 2626]

1 hour ago, TexasMan said:

 

A good Sooner follow, if you're so inclined. 

 

 

Glad they left a conference they could easily guarantee to win a national title in...if they were still in the conference?!? The conference that they won that one time? The conference they never dominated ever? The conference that they sniffed the championship game twice in 14-15 years of play? That conference? <JLaw OK.gif>

[Vertigo 20332]

27 minutes ago, Droopy said:

Glad they left a conference they could easily guarantee to win a national title in...if they were still in the conference?!? The conference that they won that one time? The conference they never dominated ever? The conference that they sniffed the championship game twice in 14-15 years of play? That conference? <JLaw OK.gif>

And they were still a 3 loss team that year. 

[Bullneck 19206]

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From _The Rice Thresher_ Nov 29, 1973

Controversy continues afte satircal MOB halftime

by STEVE JACKSON and DANA BLANKENHORN

It started at halftime. The favored Aggies were down 17-0 as their band left the field and the MOB marched on. For three years, the Marching Owl Band has performed humorous halftime shows; this week's offering was a "salute to Texas A&M," parodying the Aggie military band.

Goose-stepping onto the field to the tune of an old German march, distinctively unmilitary in a variety of silly hats and helmets, the MOB was greeted by booing which continued as Bob Hord, the rubber-booted drum major, led them down the field. The first formation was a chicken thigh, as guest honor Marvin Zindler, an exbaton champion carried out a virtuoso triwling routine. Zindler, the man famous for closing down the Chicken Range in LaGrange, was also booed by the A&M sections.

"As any A&M freshman will attest," the loudspeaker announced, "at the bottom of every Senior Boot is a big heal." The MOB formed a boot; parts of the audience laughed.

The Aggies didn't. Ice and paper began to fly onto the field, intesifying as the band formed a fireplug for Reveille, the female collie mascot of A&M, and a twirler paraded with an empty leash, to the tune of "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"

The last MOB formation was a ragged attempt at the coutermarching "Aggie War T" done, not to the War Hymn, but to "March of the Wooden Soldiers." The trumpeters blew Retreat, the Aggie band started playing, and the Aggie team pushed through the MOB on their way to the bench.

The scene in the Aggie stands was equally confused. As the MOB returned to their seats, a cacophony of obscenities, insulting gestures, and challenges to fight exploded. Although the Aggie yell leaders and officers attempted to restrain the crowd, two band members were assaulted, and one knocked down. Neither was injured.

The tension did not subside as the game resumed. An hour later, after the Aggies' narrow 24-21 defeat, the stadium emptied-except for the MOB, the Aggies beside, and their fans above. The Rice flags were torn from the stadium poles. Cushions and ice fell from the upper stands, and a ring of gesticulating, uniformed figures surrounded the MOB, which was by now also ringed with police. Several A&M students were restrained by their fellows from rushing the band.

Finally, instead of leaving the stadium, the band was escorted by police- and the Aggies-across the field and into the tunnel until the stadium was cleared. But a few hundred stayed. Most of the Aggie fans left, angry or hurt. And in the tunnel, a shell shocked band settled to wait. Separating them from the campus were a metal gate and a crowd of angry Aggies.

Inside, Bert Roth was feeling old, distraught, nervous. He is principal of a Houston elementary school. He is also the MOB's director. "I should have known this was going to happen."

"What's wrong? We Can't help it if they can't take a joke."

"No, look. When you do something like this, it's fun, everyone enjoys it. But you've got to take your audience into account. Because if they don't like it..." he stared out at the field, "we have to take resposibility for it." Then, almost as an afterthought, "I have to take responsibility for it."

"Why? We're not the allwise judges of what they think."

"We goaded them. We're responsible. I'm responsible."

About 350 people were gathered outside the gates at the south end of the stadium. Possibly 40 were uniformed Corps members, the rest of the group was divided, more or less evenly, between A&M students and older fans, mostly alumni. Some 500 more wander between the gate area, the nearby buses, and the van beside which the Aggie band was lined up in a hollow square around their equipment, waiting to go home.

The atmosphere outside is almost carnival. The crowd is angry, yes, but it is a cheerful anger. They fully expect the band to come out. Some want to "give these kids a good talking to." Some want to fight. If the band won't come out, the Aggies may come in.

The MOB leaves the tunnels and climbs into the east stands. Their attitude is still one os disbelief. "This is America..." says one. "This is 1973. And here we are, surrounded in our own stadium by Aggies!" His audience shrugs.

A half-dozen uniformed Corps members scale a drainage pipe west of the gate. They make it look easy, as, one by one, they catfoot along the stadium wall and leap inside. Emerging from behind a consession stand in the band's rear, they encounter a large Houston policeman. The verbal exchange is inaudible. The Aggies vault back onto the wall, hang over the edge, drop five feet; all but one avoid the mud.

A Corps member peers between the gates, sees a few MOBsters. He gives a signal and the crowd outside breaks into a chant. The dozen policemen present exchange glances and move between the gate and the crowd. The chant ends. "All right, there's nothing you can do here. Why don't you-all go home now?" No one goes.

The concessions in the stadium are open for the high school game later in the evening.

"I gotta stay here all night." A teen-age girl behind the counter looks up from counting quarters. "What are you here for?"

"They say conduct unbecoming a band."

"I'm beginning to wonder."

By 5:30, there are only about 200 Aggies outside the gates, but they continue slowly moving in closer to the cordon of Houston traffic police. The police are now telling the crowd to leave; no results. One woman shakes her finger at a burly cop: "We're paying your salary, not these kids." The light is failing fast. The officer in charge makes a radio request for "all the assistance here you can send." Two squad cars, lights flashing, appear almost immediately.

A quarter-mile away, Rice is going about its business. Security is at the stadium; the administration knows what's happening; the students don't either.

"What are the cops doing here?" A small contingent of Rice students arrive. Behind them come another dozen prowl cars-no sirens this time-on the far side of the crowd. Clearly, they mean business. The Aggies begin to disperse. The stadium lights come on. It is 5:50.

It is another half-hour before the gates open and the Food Service trucks back in, one by one, to pick up their loads of MOBsters and drive them, police cars before and behind, back to the colleges. No incidents. It's over.

It was just beginning. Public reaction was mixed and vocal. Channel 11 condemned the MOB that night and Channel 13 complimented it. Letters in the daily papers were strongly anti-MOB at first, segueing into more balanced sentiments as of today (Thursday). And they're still writing.

The show was discussed by several sports columnists, especially here and in Dallas. Most enjoyed the put-on and felt that the Aggie fans had overeacted.

Bob Galt wrote, in the Dallas Times-Herald, "In recent years there hasn't been a lot to get excited about over Owl football. The only thing that has been consistently good has been the halftime show presented by the Mob...It pokes fun at itself and the world."

Bert Roth and Bob Hord issued an apology to the A&M band for the unintentional offense, saying, "We consider these programs to be a tribute to out fellow schools, because only strong tradition and colorful, individualistic activities are subject to parody."

 

[Cairn Horn88 8283]

11 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

I don't usually expect much from members of the media, but Evan Smith, Editor of The Texas Tribune, is especially deserving of ridicule. I have long mocked him for the garbage his organization publishes.

For those who don't know about Evan or his Texas Tribune online publication, Evan is a former Texas Monthly writer who convinced various corporate sponsors (including the A&M and UT Systems) to finance his publication. In return, Evan panders and lob softballs when journalistic ethics calls for direct questions. Even first raise dmy eyebrows when he assigned Matt Watkins, an aggy, to write hagiographic (and factually incorrect) articles about aggy's athletics department finances.

I spoke to Evan directly, asking why he would assign a writer with an admitted bias about the subject he was covering, and why the Texas Tribune failed to follow up later when additional information was available. Evan's priorities are to his own pockets, not to journalism. His pandering to sponsors such as John Sharp is an embarrassment to his other sponsors, and to legitimate journalists everywhere.

Last week, he sent a "reporter" to interview John Sharp about Texas A&M's "response" to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not once did that "reporter" bring up the promises made by Sharp regarding A&M's having obtained hundreds of millions of dollars to build a "game changing" vaccine development, testing, and production facility.

The entire interview can be accessed via the link below, not that it is worth watching. It stands as testament to how Evan Smith, as Editor of the Texas tribune, panders to sponsors, ignores the failures of government officials who send money his way, and how the Tribune, time and time again, fails its readers.

45 minutes with John Sharp, and not one question regarding whether John Sharp, or any element of the Texas A&M System, delivered on its promises made. Not one.

Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp answers COVID-19 questions

• Apr 8, 2020

https://www.theeagle.com/news/texas-a-m-system-chancellor-john-sharp-answers-covid-19-questions/article_60c4318a-783d-11ea-bc6e-7b30f4a327d5.html

 

Evan Smith's "reporter" somehow missed asking John Sharp to explain his earlier statements, given that we are now dealing with the exact situation Sharp promised to deliver his "game changer" for. She didn't even ask Sharp what happened the money given to A&M by the taxpayers in exchange for the "aggy game changer."

 

I’m guessing “the reporter” was given that interview with Sharp after Sharp dictated what questions would  be asked.  Sharp would not have agreed to that interview if questions came up questioning aggys failures regarding actual virus, or any medical research.

 

 

 

[ButtFumble 5183]

 

did they really move Sumlin to the med school?

[markstanco 12612]

And they were still a 3 loss team that year. 

And per Kyle on Twitter, they had a winning record in the B12 against 4 teams, including okie state who won the last 5 against them while in the conference.

Big dumpster fire!

[Lerka Lerka 1094]

2 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

 

did they really move Sumlin to the med school?

/Katfid?

[Gaffords 757]

2 hours ago, markstanco said:

And per Kyle on Twitter, they had a winning record in the B12 against 4 teams, including okie state who won the last 5 against them while in the conference.

Big dumpster fire!

They were so glad to get away from the BDF and into the SEC where they have real competition and play big boy football...  You know since the BDF was so easy for them to dominate...  It they had stuck around, they would own TCU and WVU also!  Whoop!

I wonder if Maryland fans see their move to the B10 the same as aggy?  Already have an answer....   NO.  It was for the money and not better competition  Didn't even need to look it up.  Only aggy can cold fusion like aggy.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

It would be comical if it weren't utterly tragic. How many lives have been needlessly lost because the aggys were desperate for money back in 2012 and decided to lie to the American people?

aggys lied. People died. Never forget.

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DT: What does this biosecurity center mean for the campus and the staff with A&M’s emergence as a pharmaceutical manufacturing leader?
Sharp: It is a game changer in that respect, not just for the campus but for Texas because we have become almost instantly the third coast for pharmaceutical manufacturing and research. We fully expect large companies to move significant parts of their operations from other parts of the world to here. That center will obviously have a lot of collaboration with our chemists and physicists, particularly with our engineers in the biomedical department, and because we already have the vet school it is also a big part of that. It would have been very difficult to get this without the vet school because so many of this involves the disease of animals. It will create a thousand jobs right off the bat just in the construction phase, that’s without counting the jobs that will move here to become a part of it.

DT: If a pandemic like H1N1 were to emerge again, would Texas be the first to receive the vaccines because we are within the vicinity?
Sharp: I sure hope it doesn’t occur within the next three years while we are getting this built, but yes, if it occurs, ground zero for the solution to that problem is going to be right here.

https://thedailytexan.com/news/2012/06/27/system-chancellor-sharp-discusses-designation-of-the-texas-am-as-a-national

 

Edited April 15, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[Deej 76922]

The flaw in aggy implementing any plan is that said plan is then implemented by aggy. 

Even if they had good intentions, you've got morons doing the work.

Edited April 15, 2020 by Deej

[Randolph Duke 4034]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

The flaw in aggy implementing any plan is that said plan is then implemented by aggy. 

Even if they had good intentions, you've got morons doing the work.

For far too long, the people of Texas have failed to hold the aggys accountable for their words and/or actions (or lack thereof). How many hundreds of millions of health care dollars have been wasted by entrusting money to John Sharp and the idiots at Texas A&M? Those people have no clue what they are doing. What the aggys have proven here is that in fields such as health care, entrusting resources to clueless people costs lives.

Considering how the aggys have completely failed to deliver on the promises of their "third coast for pharmaceutical manufacturing and research," public funding should be cut immediately. The waste needs to stop and that money needs to be redirected to people who believe saving lives is more important than having a shiny football stadium. An investigation is needed to track why the aggys failed so utterly and what happened to the money given A&M for this boondoggle.

Responsible individuals need to start asking John Sharp and the aggys some very pointed, and for them some very uncomfortable questions.

aggys lied. People died. We deserve answers.

Edited April 15, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[Dennis Taylor 18871]

50 minutes ago, Deej said:

The flaw in aggy implementing any plan is that said plan is then implemented by aggy. 

Even if they had good intentions, you've got morons doing the work.

[Veerbone 116]

Big news coming out of College Station..  breakthrough!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ABSR 5324]

2 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

For far too long, the people of Texas have failed to hold the aggys accountable for their words and/or actions (or lack thereof). How many hundreds of millions of health care dollars have been wasted by entrusting money to John Sharp and the idiots at Texas A&M? Those people have no clue what they are doing. What the aggys have proven here is that in fields such as health care, entrusting resources to clueless people costs lives.

Considering how the aggys have completely failed to deliver on the promises of their "third coast for pharmaceutical manufacturing and research," public funding should be cut immediately. The waste needs to stop and that money needs to be redirected to people who believe saving lives is more important than having a shiny football stadium. An investigation is needed to track why the aggys failed so utterly and what happened to the money given A&M for this boondoggle.

Responsible individuals need to start asking John Sharp and the aggys some very pointed, and for them some very uncomfortable questions.

aggys lied. People died. We deserve answers.

This would be a fantastic 60 minutes segment.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

3 minutes ago, ABSR said:

This would be a fantastic 60 minutes segment.

Think back to 2012 in aggyland.

What do you think we would learn if we followed the money trail of the fraudulent aggy "game changing" vaccine boondoggle and then matched the list of those who received major financial gains with the list of major donors to fund the shiny new aggy football stadium?

The brightest minds in virology and epidemiology from around the world are struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic and the aggys, whose "medical school" is largely confined to strip mall locations and which has yet to graduate its first "doctor" that understands not every thermometer used in modern medicine is rectal, represented they, with ZERO experience in virology or epidemiology, were going to be the global "ground zero" for the development, testing, and production of a vaccine capable of saving humanity from a major flu pandemic. We still aren't sure how much money the aggys have pocketed from this scheme. Rick Perry claimed up to $41 billion over the next 25 years was at stake.

Who in their right mind fell for that crock of redneck garbage?

These are people who struggle to grasp the concepts of using wood as a building material. And they are going to save humanity from anything? Can people be more idiotic with other people's money?

It would make for a great 60 Minutes segment. Evan Smith sent a reporter to interview John Sharp and didn't ask one question about what the people got for the money they spent on the "game changing" vaccine lab. That should tell you all you need to know about the quality of "journalism" in Texas these days.

aggys lied. People died. Never forget.

[nnm 36640]

10 hours ago, Gaffords said:

They were so glad to get away from the BDF and into the SEC where they have real competition and play big boy football...  You know since the BDF was so easy for them to dominate...  It they had stuck around, they would own TCU and WVU also!  Whoop!

I wonder if Maryland fans see their move to the B10 the same as aggy?  Already have an answer....   NO.  It was for the money and not better competition  Didn't even need to look it up.  Only aggy can cold fusion like aggy.

They wouldn't be owning TCU, any more than UT does.  Maybe Kansas.  

[Dennis Taylor 18871]

35 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

Think back to 2012 in aggyland.

What do you think we would learn if we followed the money trail of the fraudulent aggy "game changing" vaccine boondoggle and then matched the list of those who received major financial gains with the list of major donors to fund the shiny new aggy football stadium?

The brightest minds in virology and epidemiology from around the world are struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic and the aggys, whose "medical school" is largely confined to strip mall locations and which has yet to graduate its first "doctor" that understands not every thermometer used in modern medicine is rectal, represented they, with ZERO experience in virology or epidemiology, were going to be the global "ground zero" for the development, testing, and production of a vaccine capable of saving humanity from a major flu pandemic. We still aren't sure how much money the aggys have pocketed from this scheme. Rick Perry claimed up to $41 billion over the next 25 years was at stake.

Who in their right mind fell for that crock of redneck garbage?

These are people who struggle to grasp the concepts of using wood as a building material. And they are going to save humanity from anything? Can people be more idiotic with other people's money?

It would make for a great 60 Minutes segment. Evan Smith sent a reporter to interview John Sharp and didn't ask one question about what the people got for the money they spent on the "game changing" vaccine lab. That should tell you all you need to know about the quality of "journalism" in Texas these days.

aggys lied. People died. Never forget.

so..have they not even built anything with this money? not even a quack shack? nothing similar to their football program, something that costs a ton of money but when you get right down to it has never done shit...?  not a too-short competition cement pond? a collapsible horse barn? a dorm with sewage flowing into the golf course? Nothing???   

[Tex Pete 20484]

16 hours ago, Bullneck said:

 

Not surprised by the aggies' classlessness. I am surprised that Rice couldn't hire an editor.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

4 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

so..have they not even built anything with this money? not even a quack shack? nothing similar to their football program, something that costs a ton of money but when you get right down to it has never done shit...?  not a too-short competition cement pond? a collapsible horse barn? a dorm with sewage flowing into the golf course? Nothing???   

I have no idea what they did with the money. I think the money trail on this project would be something interesting to look at. What I do know is they have not delivered anything close to approximating a "game changer," and not a single human being, not even an aggy, thinks College Station, Texas is "ground zero" for global efforts to develop, test, or produce a vaccine for Covid-19.

I personally would favor federal and state investigators looking into the promises and representations made by A&M officials and to uncover why they have failed so badly in delivering what they promised at a time of national emergency.

[Deej 76922]

1 minute ago, Randolph Duke said:

I have no idea what they did with the money. 

Those glory holes aren't just going to build themselves. 

[Cairn Horn88 8283]

2 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

I have no idea what they did with the money. I think the money trail on this project would be something interesting to look at. What I do know is they have not delivered anything close to approximating a "game changer," and not a single human being, not even an aggy, thinks College Station, Texas is "ground zero" for global efforts to develop, test, or produce a vaccine for Covid-19.

I personally would favor federal and state investigators looking into the promises and representations made by A&M officials and to uncover why they have failed so badly in delivering what they promised at a time of national emergency.

Well, the current governor sure isn’t  gonna open that can of worms.

[nnm 36640]

aggy now claiming they warned us all about this. 
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Texas-A-M-scholars-urged-U-S-officials-to-15203613.php

edit: and in the related links from the chronicle, I learned that they’re doing a weekly infotainment show to inform all of us about COVID. RD, I assume you’ll watch it for the rest of us and report back. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/Texas-A-M-System-to-launch-TV-series-on-COVID-19-15185277.php

Edited April 16, 2020 by nnm

[Randolph Duke 4034]

8 hours ago, nnm said:

aggy now claiming they warned us all about this. 
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Texas-A-M-scholars-urged-U-S-officials-to-15203613.php

edit: and in the related links from the chronicle, I learned that they’re doing a weekly infotainment show to inform all of us about COVID. RD, I assume you’ll watch it for the rest of us and report back. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/Texas-A-M-System-to-launch-TV-series-on-COVID-19-15185277.php

People think we make this stuff up about the idiocy of those within the aggy culture. We don't.

Here is yet another example of utter aggy cluelessness. They will produce hours of programming about how Texas A&M alone is fighting this pandemic, and no one else on the planet is doing anything except aggys. Not one person will ask John Sharp to explain his earlier statements about the "game changing" vaccine lab Sharp explicitly stated would start delivering a vaccine for the next flu pandemic with four months of receiving a strain of that flu. Also, they won't ask anything about the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars given to John Sharp and Texas A&M to build the failure of a facility.

Ask any other aggy about Sharp's "game changer" and at first they will state they have no clue (which would be true). Once confronted with the exact statements, the ags will revert to fish camp indoctrination and claim the plain meaning of the exact words used did not mean what they say. This was their deflection when King Gill explained that prior to the 1939 radio show he had never heard of any "12th man" tradition at Texas A&M. King Gill supposedly didn't mean what he unquestionably said. John Sharp supposedly didn't mean what he unquestionably said. Classic aggy-level deflection when the facts unquestionably speak for themselves.

At the end of the day, hundreds of millions of dollars designated to prepare the nation to fight a viral pandemic exactly like the one we are now facing were siphoned off by John Sharp and his cronies at Texas A&M and the people have received nothing in return. What happened to the money? Why has this been such a complete and total failure for Texas A&M? Knowing we cannot depend on Texas A&M to live up to their words, what will be the ramifications moving forward?

aggys lied. People died. Never forget.

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

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The Texas A&M University System is hoping to answer questions about COVID-19 with a new TV show.

“COVID-19: The Texas A&M System Responds,” is an informational TV series about the virus, featuring experts and scientists throughout the system and Chancellor John Sharp as moderator."

"With access to several experts and scholars immersed in research or work related to COVID-19, “we thought, ‘Heck! It might be a really good idea to put these people on for 30 minutes at a time to speak in detail about what the virus is about and their expertise,” Sharp said."

“It’s really interesting,” Sharp said. It’s amazing that these really smart folks are able to condense it down so people who aren’t experts can understand.”

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/Texas-A-M-System-to-launch-TV-series-on-COVID-19-15185277.php

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[Longboard Horn 40518]

On 4/15/2020 at 2:22 AM, Gaffords said:

They were so glad to get away from the BDF and into the SEC where they have real competition and play big boy football...  You know since the BDF was so easy for them to dominate...  It they had stuck around, they would own TCU and WVU also!  Whoop!

I wonder if Maryland fans see their move to the B10 the same as aggy?  Already have an answer....   NO.  It was for the money and not better competition  Didn't even need to look it up.  Only aggy can cold fusion like aggy.

The B1G took Maryland because they wanted the Washington DC market. 

However, the main differences between aggy going the SEC and Maryland going to the B1G is the Maryland Terrapins were also wanted for their academics. aggy was wanted for.... nothing? 

Edited April 16, 2020 by Longboard Horn

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

2 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Maryland Terrapins were also wanted for their academics

not really, the B1G wanted the TV markets and Maryland was drowning in red ink and whored itself out. any other factor was a nice-to-have and/or "not a dealbreaker, look at the TV market" type of thing

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

3 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

They will produce hours of programming about how Texas A&M alone is fighting this pandemic, and no one else on the planet is doing anything except aggys.

Sort of. Aggie is myopic. They don't know or really think about what anyone outside of the state of Texas is doing; they couldn't find China on a map and they think the whole of Europe is gay Frenchmen sipping out of little teacups at outdoor cafes. Their propaganda will make it sound like they were the only school in Texas doing anything about Coronavirus, because that addresses their biggest current insecurity (the Dell Medical School and their lack of anything comparable). 

Edited April 16, 2020 by SwanderedTalent

[Big Frog II 511]

I wonder if the Aggie football players as well as the rest of the SEC teams will be taking a pay cut during this Coronavirus Pandemic?

[Randolph Duke 4034]

40 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

Sort of. Aggie is myopic. They don't know or really think about what anyone outside of the state of Texas is doing; they couldn't find China on a map and they think the whole of Europe is gay Frenchmen sipping out of little teacups at outdoor cafes. Their propaganda will make it sound like they were the only school in Texas doing anything about Coronavirus, because that addresses their biggest current insecurity (the Dell Medical School and their lack of anything comparable). 

Kind of how only the aggys served their country during WWI and the rest of the nation (especially the Texans who studied at the main campus of the state's namesake university as opposed to at the university's agricultural branch campus) only "sipped tea"?

aggys lied. People died. Never forget.

Edited April 16, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[NeverMarryAStripper 21921]

Aggy will read that article and the only thing they will get out of it is "See they are tu"

[Randolph Duke 4034]

4 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Aggy will read that article and the only thing they will get out of it is "See they are tu"

A sad thing for those with only an aggy-level education is that the history of Texas and of their school is FAR more interesting than the fairy tale fabrications they teach. One good example is Rudder's involvement with the D-Day landings back when aggy history claim the U.S., British, and Canadian militaries sent ZERO soldiers onto the beaches of Normandy and only aggys participated in that landing. (I'm guessing the aggy claim all the photos and videos of the day were doctored to show American, British and Canadian flags instead of all aggy flags).

The truth is that Rudder wasn't even supposed to be on the beach that day. His role was to coordinate the attacks of both Ranger groups from one of the command ships offshore. The landings were delayed by a day by weather and the officer slated to command the assault on Pointe Du Hoc got drunk on the transport during that delay and punched out the battalion medical officer. Rudder had to relieve that commander of his duties and, against the initial orders of his commanding officer, Rudder assumed command of the assault force on the beach. 24 hours before the greatest invasion in American military history and Rudder had to improvise and take charge. And that's not even the entire story.

Yet, the aggys serve up a pablum or "Rudder's Rangers" and shit like that in the version of "aggy history" they teach.

But hey, they have what aggys insist is a shiny, new football stadium and they get to plaster S!E!C! logos all over everything they can, so it all evens out in the end, right? A shitty education loaded with fraudulent history, but a redneck athletics program. Advantage aggy.

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

[Dennis Taylor 18871]

Put it on the wall!  

Edited April 16, 2020 by Dennis Taylor

[Randolph Duke 4034]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-vaccine-development-sites-ill-suited-to-counter-covid-19-epidemic/2020/03/15/34e8586c-63c4-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html

Investigations

Federal vaccine development sites ill-suited to counter covid-19 epidemic

Facilities funded years ago to rapidly develop vaccines and life-saving medicines

By

David Willman 

March 15, 2020 at 10:33 AM EDT

Nearly a decade ago, the U.S. government invested heavily in four sprawling facilities that officials said could rapidly make vaccines and other lifesaving medicines if America were struck by an outbreak of infectious disease or a biological attack.

But as the nation confronts the coronavirus pandemic, none of the sites — in Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and Texas — have developed or are close to delivering medicines to counter the outbreak, according to records, government officials and others familiar with the facilities.

Instead of leading the rush to find and mass manufacture a vaccine or lifesaving treatment, two of the sites are taking no role, while the other two expect to conduct small-scale testing of potential coronavirus vaccines.

At a cost to date of nearly $670 million, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Pentagon awarded contracts beginning in 2012 and 2013 to build and expand the four manufacturing complexes. Proponents said the sites would work with three private companies and one university to deliver emergency medicines and treatments, including flu vaccine, for both the military and civilians.

A Defense Department statement on Sept. 1, 2011, said its plant, which was eventually located in Alachua, Fla., would provide medical countermeasures and meet the military’s needs with “capabilities to rapidly respond” to “emerging and genetically engineered infectious disease outbreaks.’’

The three new HHS-backed sites — in Baltimore; College Station, Tex.; and Holly Springs, N.C., — would use modern “vaccine technologies that have the potential to produce vaccines for not only pandemic influenza but also other threats more quickly and in a more affordable way,’’ according to an agency news release on June 18, 2012.

The facilities, HHS said, “will provide the first major domestic infrastructure in the United States capable of producing medical countermeasures to protect Americans from the health impacts of bioterrorism’’ and disease epidemics.

When the projects were first proposed, some medical and biodefense specialists warned about the expense and impracticality of rapidly producing such medicines at federally sponsored facilities.

The facilities were structured to handle laboratory tasks for both government and commercial clients. A steady flow of work at the sites, proponents said, would keep the sensitive lab equipment in ready condition for a crisis while maintaining the availability of skilled technicians.

Despite the federal spending commitments, the results have fallen short, according to an examination by The Washington Post.

The overall performance of the four manufacturing sites has been criticized by government and independent biodefense specialists as recently as late last year.

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'Hoping for a Mercedes'

Maintaining a stream of revenue-generating projects also has challenged the College Station site at Texas A&M University, where HHS initially invested $176 million to build a Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing.

In October 2013, the university’s chief executive for the center, Brett Giroir, told a House Armed Services subcommittee that the Texas facility would be “fully capable of performing the advanced development and manufacturing’’ for medicines sought by both HHS and the military.

Giroir said he wanted the center “to be the cornerstone for an emergency response to genetically modified . . . organisms, as well as other unexpected agents that we believe are a growing, real threat to our national security and public health.’’ The center, he testified, would have “the capabilities to manufacture, at scale, vaccines or biological therapeutics required for an outbreak . . . as requested by the federal government.’’

Giroir, a physician, now serves as the Trump administration’s assistant secretary for health and is helping Kadlec with government-wide responses to the coronavirus. The health agency did not make Giroir available for comment.

The Texas A&M center was also touted by then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who said in September 2014 that the “anchor’’ of the center would be its partnership with a leading pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, to develop and make flu vaccine at the campus complex. (In 2017, President Trump appointed Perry secretary of energy; he resigned in December and could not be reached for comment.)

The 100,000 square-foot HHS-supported manufacturing facility was completed in 2015 at Texas A&M to produce flu vaccine. However, the partnership with GlaxoSmithKline dissolved before a single dose was made.

“The expectations were that the government was going to put more products through there,’’ recalled Scott Lillibridge, who served as the university’s chief scientist for the manufacturing complex until 2017. “We were the garage waiting for the car, hoping for a Mercedes.’’

The Texas center’s current executive director, Daniel J. Williams, declined through an aide to be interviewed.

In response to written questions, a university spokesman, Laylan Copelin, said Texas A&M and a commercial partner now at the site are “obligated to manufacture vaccines at the order of the federal government,” adding, “We have not received that order.”

The manufacturing site in North Carolina, completed in 2018 with $59 million from HHS and now operated by Seqirus, a subsidiary of an Australian company, makes an FDA-approved seasonal flu vaccine.

A spokeswoman for Seqirus, Sharon McHale, said by email that the company is “not under any contracts related’’ to ­covid-19. If a vaccine against the virus becomes available for use, she said, “we have offered our full assistance to the U.S. Government.’’

 

 

[Orange&White 5539]

Coincidentally, I am also waiting for a Mercedes to appear in my garage. However, my garage was not built with federal funds.

[Armybrat 40911]

No doubt if a Mercedes does appear in the aggy garage, they will overhaul it into a Yugo.

[TexasMan 10987]

 

 

[Goodman 3273]

35 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-vaccine-development-sites-ill-suited-to-counter-covid-19-epidemic/2020/03/15/34e8586c-63c4-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html

Investigations

Federal vaccine development sites ill-suited to counter covid-19 epidemic

Facilities funded years ago to rapidly develop vaccines and life-saving medicines

By

David Willman 

March 15, 2020 at 10:33 AM EDT

Nearly a decade ago, the U.S. government invested heavily in four sprawling facilities that officials said could rapidly make vaccines and other lifesaving medicines if America were struck by an outbreak of infectious disease or a biological attack.

But as the nation confronts the coronavirus pandemic, none of the sites — in Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and Texas — have developed or are close to delivering medicines to counter the outbreak, according to records, government officials and others familiar with the facilities.

Instead of leading the rush to find and mass manufacture a vaccine or lifesaving treatment, two of the sites are taking no role, while the other two expect to conduct small-scale testing of potential coronavirus vaccines.

At a cost to date of nearly $670 million, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Pentagon awarded contracts beginning in 2012 and 2013 to build and expand the four manufacturing complexes. Proponents said the sites would work with three private companies and one university to deliver emergency medicines and treatments, including flu vaccine, for both the military and civilians.

A Defense Department statement on Sept. 1, 2011, said its plant, which was eventually located in Alachua, Fla., would provide medical countermeasures and meet the military’s needs with “capabilities to rapidly respond” to “emerging and genetically engineered infectious disease outbreaks.’’

The three new HHS-backed sites — in Baltimore; College Station, Tex.; and Holly Springs, N.C., — would use modern “vaccine technologies that have the potential to produce vaccines for not only pandemic influenza but also other threats more quickly and in a more affordable way,’’ according to an agency news release on June 18, 2012.

The facilities, HHS said, “will provide the first major domestic infrastructure in the United States capable of producing medical countermeasures to protect Americans from the health impacts of bioterrorism’’ and disease epidemics.

When the projects were first proposed, some medical and biodefense specialists warned about the expense and impracticality of rapidly producing such medicines at federally sponsored facilities.

The facilities were structured to handle laboratory tasks for both government and commercial clients. A steady flow of work at the sites, proponents said, would keep the sensitive lab equipment in ready condition for a crisis while maintaining the availability of skilled technicians.

Despite the federal spending commitments, the results have fallen short, according to an examination by The Washington Post.

The overall performance of the four manufacturing sites has been criticized by government and independent biodefense specialists as recently as late last year.

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-

-

'Hoping for a Mercedes'

Maintaining a stream of revenue-generating projects also has challenged the College Station site at Texas A&M University, where HHS initially invested $176 million to build a Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing.

In October 2013, the university’s chief executive for the center, Brett Giroir, told a House Armed Services subcommittee that the Texas facility would be “fully capable of performing the advanced development and manufacturing’’ for medicines sought by both HHS and the military.

Giroir said he wanted the center “to be the cornerstone for an emergency response to genetically modified . . . organisms, as well as other unexpected agents that we believe are a growing, real threat to our national security and public health.’’ The center, he testified, would have “the capabilities to manufacture, at scale, vaccines or biological therapeutics required for an outbreak . . . as requested by the federal government.’’

Giroir, a physician, now serves as the Trump administration’s assistant secretary for health and is helping Kadlec with government-wide responses to the coronavirus. The health agency did not make Giroir available for comment.

The Texas A&M center was also touted by then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who said in September 2014 that the “anchor’’ of the center would be its partnership with a leading pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, to develop and make flu vaccine at the campus complex. (In 2017, President Trump appointed Perry secretary of energy; he resigned in December and could not be reached for comment.)

The 100,000 square-foot HHS-supported manufacturing facility was completed in 2015 at Texas A&M to produce flu vaccine. However, the partnership with GlaxoSmithKline dissolved before a single dose was made.

“The expectations were that the government was going to put more products through there,’’ recalled Scott Lillibridge, who served as the university’s chief scientist for the manufacturing complex until 2017. “We were the garage waiting for the car, hoping for a Mercedes.’’

The Texas center’s current executive director, Daniel J. Williams, declined through an aide to be interviewed.

In response to written questions, a university spokesman, Laylan Copelin, said Texas A&M and a commercial partner now at the site are “obligated to manufacture vaccines at the order of the federal government,” adding, “We have not received that order.”

The manufacturing site in North Carolina, completed in 2018 with $59 million from HHS and now operated by Seqirus, a subsidiary of an Australian company, makes an FDA-approved seasonal flu vaccine.

A spokeswoman for Seqirus, Sharon McHale, said by email that the company is “not under any contracts related’’ to ­covid-19. If a vaccine against the virus becomes available for use, she said, “we have offered our full assistance to the U.S. Government.’’

 

 

This is so very aggie. "They gave us $670M to build 100K empty facility and say a bunch of stuff that make our cult feel great. Once Johnny decided how to hide the money we quietly went away and provided other shinny objects....If the feds want help, they can send us money and people to do it. We did our part, the facility is here."

[Orange&White 5539]

40 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

No doubt if a Mercedes does appear in the aggy garage, they will overhaul it into a Yugo.

More like a maroon F150 slathered in SEC stickers.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

4 minutes ago, Goodman said:

This is so very aggie. "They gave us $670M to build 100K empty facility and say a bunch of stuff that make our cult feel great. Once Johnny decided how to hide the money we quietly went away and provided other shinny objects....If the feds want help, they can send us money and people to do it. We did our part, the facility is here."

reminds me of a story a former coworker told me, about six months after I left a big IT company, they'd hired this airhead to run my former department and she loaded up the gravy train for all her asshole consultant buddies, one of whom signed a contract to "design" a web portal for the department. The consultant went off and did her thing and then came back a month later and proudly presented her design, on two PowerPoint slides. Slide 1, here's what it looks like, slide 2, here's how long it will take to turn what you saw on Slide 1 into an actual functional web portal.

everyone in the room was like, "um, where's the actual design. like... did you actually build the portal? is there a website you want to show us?"

consultant: "no.... design.... slide 1.... see, this is the design."

She got paid, I was told, a quarter million for two PowerPoint slides. Her "design" was a mockup of a webpage. 

I don't think she was an Aggie but she certainly had the act down.

[DFW Horn 6208]

[lemonandaturd 4285]

JimBaggins has two teams in the top seven!  Whoop!

[Jshep34 2321]

Von miller test positive for covid 19

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[SHOOTER12 8828]

3 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Put it on the wall!  

Rank the stank, advantage aggy!!!!