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  2. Those drums are poppin'! Sound rich and good depth...don't have to cut through the mix as they are right up front.
  3. According to that story, the threshold for an offensive plate is would it invoke a response from someone driving by. I have a UT themed personalized plate, and I have invoked many a response from aggy and dirt burglars on the road. I guess I can expect mine to be revoked any day.
  4. So I was given a weapon of mass destruction when I had surgery last year?
  5. This is a good post and I think I need to refine my take a bit. While the official, state-sponsored version of Islam in many Arab, Gulf, and South Asian states provides a scaffolding of intolerance and hatred for other faiths and minorities, it stops short at providing the motives and encouragement to actually become a militant or terrorist. Pakistan is a bit of a special example in that it is more willing to play with the hot stove of terrorism that most Gulf states have abandoned and views militant networks in Afghanistan and India as strategic assets even as it fights its own Pakistani Taliban. It is worth noting that the harshest forms of official Pakistani prejudice are aimed at unsatisfactory Muslims: the “apostate” Ahmadi and to a lesser extent the suspiciously tolerant Ismaili. But in all cases, state-sanctioned Islam, even of the extreme conservative bent, pulls up short of encouraging the type of nihilistic militancy of ISIS or AQ, for good reason: these groups have extreme hostility to the governments that don’t walk the walk and are pragmatic when dealing with the kaffir great powers. And proponents of ISIS-style militant Islam are not long for the world in places where an official Islam exists. Which leads to an odd situation where the most fertile recruiting and proselytizing zones for nihilistic militant Islam are in places where state power has completely collapsed OR inside of open, tolerant, secular Western democracies. They are uniquely unsuited for combatting it, and the paradox of tolerance absolutely comes into play. People would be jailed in Saudi or the UAE for delivering the types of Friday sermons heard weekly in Molenbeek. The most effective ISIS recruiter was an Australian convert who the Aussies struggled to jail until he finally followed through on his calls for jihad and tried to stage an uprising in the Philippines. And, Western authorities lack the nuance and community ties to differentiate between bog-standard conservative Islam (which presents its own issues to a pluralistic society) and the far more acutely dangerous explodey militant version. The great majority of Muslims, even devout or conservative Muslims in the West will do what most people of all faiths do, which is find ways to accommodate deeply held religious sensibilities with their new surroundings and norms. A much smaller number will be unable to do so, and will in fact be further inflamed because in this ideological worldview it is a humiliation for Muslims to be forced to seek material prosperity among non-believers. It is very difficult for Western nations to tackle this issue, not in the least because unhelpful rhetoric about civilizational clashes with all Muslims in the West and calls for absurd crackdowns clashes with equally unhelpful allegations of Islamophobia and racism when a more targeted and sensible approach is being sorted out.
  6. Well yeah I learned that from The Waterboy!
  7. You can never forgive them for being right about VY?
  8. His comments about Rob Reiner is now at the top of my list of reasons for why I hate that motherfucker. Fuck him in the goat ass.
  9. On board with most of that except #3. I’m not touching your trash you don’t need to be touching my fresh drink. If we’re on a wide body and I were in the middle then maybe. But if we’re talking about a section of three seats the flight attendant reaching in and the window seat reaching out is plenty. Nobody needs to be touching each other stuff right there.
  10. I started to watch Spinal Tap 2 last night and was watching Rob Reiner use a rack of films to hold himself up and thought about how old he must be, but it still kind of surprised me and made me a little sad that all the old greats are really old and I’m getting old too. I ended up turning it off to watch something else, it was late and decided I didn’t want to likely fall asleep to a movie I wanted to see. Seeing this news this morning was a shock to say the least.
  11. I know pal, I miss summer too
  12. Can’t set the middles if you can’t pass the ball
  13. Speaking of drums, this actually reminds me we published a new song last week, I forgot to share with the group. I had a few of the boys give it a listen for notes about a month ago. I mightily struggled with getting the drums how I wanted. Feel free to skip the intro, I am perpetually not happy with it.
  14. Welp I hope we have a plan
  15. The epic fail was not getting an experienced MB in the portal and having to break in 2 new MBs (Singletary and Ames, a true FR) Also should have gone after an elite L/DS. Because of that, we had Wenaas having to pass all 6 rotations and play defense in the back row. JE instead went after 2 Opposites in the portal when he already had Byrd, Kahahawai, Tomkinson, and Helmers wasting away on the bench.
  16. I took some really damn strong mushrooms during Art Basel in miami and everyone seemed REALLY happy to me. I started asking random people if ‘it’ happened. Of course my friends knew what I was asking about and were laughing hysterically. Sadly when I came to my senses, asshole was still stealing oxygen.
  17. Every accusation is an admission. It checks out in literally every case with this fucker.
  18. It's not. WGAF she was on a Bravo "reality" show. Kind of funny if you ask me. Perhaps. Wasn't she also a product of the paegent scene? She really looks like a totally different person but she has pumped out a couple of kids in the last couple of years.
  19. I am sure they will be working in shifts with that incredible evidence.
  20. False alarm.
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