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You get me one? He can afford it. I expect him to wear it at the first Surly tailgate.
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Little League World Series....Needville repping the Lone Star state
Steamboat1874 replied to Bevo&Pevo's topic in Baseball
What a game. I love the LLWS. Always watched with my dad before he passed and I continue to watch. The quality of play in the last 10-15 years has improved incredibly. Love it that they are showing the regionals now too. Oh, and one of the best things about it is it means college football is getting ready to start. -
Spent the day with a crew in Hunt yesterday. I’ve seen hundreds of pictures, videos, and read of the personal accounts, but nothing can really prepare you for it. Pictures and videos don’t do it justice. Surprisingly, I only teared up a few times. It’s just so overwhelming that you almost instantly go numb. The destruction is beyond words, and the amount of work still left to do is incalculable. Most humbling thing I’ve ever done. Roughly a hundred combined man hours amongst us, and at the end of the day, you wouldn’t even know we had been there. It is pretty amazing to see so many people from different walks of life all over the place just doing what they can. You’ve got guys running heavy equipment, folks with shovels, rakes, chainsaws, groups of women/children/olds sifting through debris recovering personal belongings, came across several groups of foreigners that hardly spoke English (obviously a lot of Mexicans, but I heard some Germans and then another group speaking a language I was unfamiliar with but sounded Slavic), groups running long rows of grills cooking up free food for volunteers…all just doing whatever they can. If you have the desire to help, there’s plenty to do. But no rush, they’re going to be at it for a very very long time. Wasn’t something I really thought about, but with the destruction basically just running in a long line its, at the same time, easier and harder to do. On the one hand, you can just close your eyes and point at a spot on a map, go there, and you’ll have the whole area to yourself. On the other hand, it’s hard to stage and move equipment up and down a riverbank. Anyway, I’m mostly still numb from the whole thing but felt the need to put something in writing. Figured this was as good a place as any.
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Yup. I thought Oscar would get him in the final two laps, but good on him for not yielding. Great to see both guys raising their performance levels in this WDC race. Lando winning also was massive point swing. From almost an Oscar DNF behind to just nine points. Going to be a long four weeks.
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A French Tour winner. Inconceivable!
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Man, I'm getting to the point of the Summer where I'll be happy just to see a day on the forecast where the low is even 2 degrees less than the day before. Every single day in the current 14-day outlook for Houston is a high between 92-96, high humidity, and a low of 78 or 79. Groundhog Day weather, where it's just the same day over and over and over. Really looking forward to my upcoming trip to Colorado the week after next. That first evening in town at sunset and it's in the 50's after flying out from a heat index over 100 is one of life's great pleasures.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
BurntEyes replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Texas fans, where QB controversy isn't just the norm, they never end. This thread truly amuses me, QB controversy over players who haven't been here in decades. Awesome sauce. -
corporation for public broadcasting shutting down
sheeeit replied to Hagbard Celine's topic in Daily Texan
I think the cutting of funding for public broadcasting is short sighted and wrong. I think some changes needed to be made but cutting funding is just silly and non productive and political theater. To the above, when shows like Mr Rogers and Sesame street were created (late 1960s) there were only 3 real channels for television. Marketing for the fledgling tv industry had to focus on shows that adults watched because that is what advertisers would pay for. The networks did not have the financial ability to generate exclusively kids shows because there were no advertisers for those shows. There were cartoons that offered mindless entertainment for kids but not educational. So getting PBS to do shows like Sesame was great. A really good use of public funding. What some are suggesting is that times are different now. There are literally thousands of shows on network, cable, streaming services etc that are considered educational children's programming. So it is a fair question whether the public funding is still necessary. I personally think it is but I can see the argument. There is also a pretty big distinction, in my mind, from PBS and NPR. For anyone to suggest that NPR does not have a political lean to liberals/democrats is just foolish. When Berliner resigned he uncovered a lot of what people certainly suspected. Berliner was as "inside" as you can get and worked there for 20 years and was a strong liberal. The staff at NPR, especially the editors, are overwhelmingly registered democrats. Berliner suggested that there were zero registered republican editors at the headquarters. May or may not be true but the democrat numbers there are overwhelming. That is an astonishing fact for an institution that receives federal funding. It will never be 50/50 but to not even have a few token republicans on the editorial staff just opens NPR up to legitimate criticism by hard core conservatives. NPR did it to themselves. Even if in their hearts the editors wanted to be balanced and thought they were being balanced, they just couldn't. Every human has personal biases. It is part of our DNA and unavoidable at a subconscious level. When the numbers of people editing stories is 95% left leaning, then it is absolutely inevitable that that bias is going to creep into their thought making. Inevitable. Not every single time. But over a period of time it is simply inevitable. And for certain NPR is not over the top bias like OAN or MSNBC, but it is there. And there is plenty of programming on NPR that is not political at all. But they opened themselves up for this by their own actions and hiring practices. And I have zero objection to any private outfit aligning their staff to a certain ideological similarity, but it just can't exist when receiving public funds. As an analogy, if there was a publication of some sort in Texas that prided itself on diversity of opinions and the entire editorial staff of the publication were TAMU graduates, no one here, including myself, would believe the publication was not biased. We all know aggies that are hard core, moderate and a small group that are actually liberal. But putting them all together will guarantee a right leaning bent to their reporting. It is just human nature. If NPR announced back in 2024 when Berliner resigned that it was going to look inward at their editorial staff and make some changes and really try to add a percentage of diversity of opinion to their staff then they would have a good argument against the far right wanting to defund them. Maybe add 20% of conservative leaning editors. But they didn't. They dug in and kept the status quo and are now suffering for it. -
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Texas Football 2025 Fall Camp - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
BurntOrange&White replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
ITS A BUSTIER! -
anybody know what’s about to happen if miami holds on to the win here today?
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BottleRocket started following Elite private schools and college admissions
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We hired a college admissions consultant only because our son would not listen to my wife and I but hung on every word the consultant said, even though we were all saying the same thing. A complete waste of money but worth every penny because I couldn’t take it anymore.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Born Burnt replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I'm not judging, but it appears you have knowledge of the going rate. -
This always fucking happens.... Something absolutely indefensible is floated by Team Dotard, and within 48 hours the talking heads on tv are asking their guests questions like "Do you think Ghislaine Maxwell should be released from prison?". As if that is the question we need to be asking right now. And the guest, as I just watched on MSNBC, answers something like "Well no I don't think that she should be," as if they're taking one of two possible sides of this "issue". I suppose normalization is the word I'm looking for. This time next week I fully expect to hear "Should Donald Trump be allowed to personally execute Barrack Obama, due to the president's allegations of treason?".
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Biff Tannen replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
You may be joking, but you shouldn’t be. I would almost guarantee this is exactly what is going to happen. -
first arm out of the bp
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Attendance in Miami this weekend: 32,299 34,645 34,602 largest for a 3 game series in loanDepot Park history. watching a 3 game sweep of the Yankees if they can hold a 4 run lead with 5 outs to go. Marlins are about back to be back to .500 and have the 2nd best record in MLB since June 22 (25-10, 0.5 game back of Milwaukee)
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Angel Reese: Fair pay, anti-sexualization, side eyes, and Missed Buckets
Derka replied to Iceman's topic in Basketball
like what. -
Sunglasses - Ray Ban or...
Chips O'Toole replied to Knoxtnhorn's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
I jog a lot, I'm cheap and not particularly careful with shades, and I like lots of color choices. Goodr is my brand for the foreseeable future. They occasionally have quality issues but they will replace them for free if they break randomly. -
Agreed. Good thing we have the best starting pitcher of his generation on the mound today.
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Dubin is about to replace Hernandez Rooney Neris Sousa King Okert Ort Abreu Hader i don’t trust that Pressly is better than any of those guys. unless they just swap Pressly in for Neris (and then never use him unless it’s in a game we’re down 9+)
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