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  2. How much are we paying Drevno to add no value to our OL? Sark isn't getting much ROI for these "consultants" he's brought in. Does a competent staff need to add 'yes men' with nothing new to add?
  3. Goredho

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    I'm excited, she's got chops with taste, very syncopated and staccato and I think she will fill the void in the trio in a good way. Also, headline should be "Cementing their legacy as musical pioneers, Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee finally get a female to listen to prog rock"
  4. Why do you think that? He's getting his arm twisted to go along with this. This guy came across my feed via this PBS interview. Starting at 4:00 he discusses Trump pressure.
  5. In @BurntOrange&White defense he is the Rock of Gibraltar on his opinions, he thinks everyone sucks and is quite loud about it.
  6. Warning - very tldr, so just skip it if you're not into the whole reading thing... Preface - I lead a Czech polka band, but we do a lot of Oktoberfests etc as well, just wrapped up our fall season. Story #1 - We were playing in Round Rock on Saturday for an Oktoberfest. There is a couple that lives in Round Rock, our band actually played their wedding reception in Austin in 1997, the woman's family is from the Czech Republic so they wanted a Czech band. Their wedding dance song was a pretty waltz called "My Darling". We run into them from time to time, usually at this one Oktoberfest we do every year, and I would always try to have that song in our book so we w could play it for them. Well, we hadn't seen them for a few years so I took it out, I do that from time to time, add new songs, pull old ones out etc. So we played a gig in Taylor back in May. Day-long festival on the town square. This couple showed up, was glad to see them but was crushed when they asked us to play "My Darling" and I realized I didn't have it in the book. I apologized and told them the next time I saw them, I would have it ready. No big deal to them, they were just happy to dance, but it bothered me. So as I was getting our books ready for our "fall tour", I made sure I put in back in the books. Sure enough, Saturday we are playing and I look up and there they are, just hanging out with their friends. Told them it was good to see them again, they danced a few songs, and then left for a little while. I was kind of disappointed, but then they came back, guess they went to get some food or something. Anyway, I told the crowd that we were going to to a song, wasn't an Oktoberfest song but our friends were here, and this is their song so we're gonna do it, and everyone else can just pretend it's a German song (nobody cared, we have great crowds that like whatever we play...). I could see the amazement on their faces when I announced it, they were not expecting it at all. So we played it, they danced, and at the end they came up to the stage and they were both crying, like tears running down their faces (big strong men...). Made me tear up as well. Just to know I could bring that much happiness and emotion to two people just by playing a song. Who knows what their lives have been like over the past 30 years, good times and bad, sickness and health and all that. So to bring that kind of joy to them, wow, made my day. Story #2 - next day, Sunday, we're playing a church picnic down in Hostyn, outside La Grange. A lady comes up and askes if we could play the "Red and White" Waltz, classic Czech waltz, everyone knows it. Said sure, so the next chance we got, we played it. As soon as we started playing it I remembered why. We play this picnic every year, but it's our only gig down that way so I don't know all those people that well. But I look out and see this woman helping up an old woman with a walker, and it hit me. This lady asks for this song every year, it's her mom's (the lady in the walker) favorite song. Once I was her I recognized them both, it all came back. So the lady helps her mom stand up, and they begin just kind of gently scooting the walker around, "dancing". I thought, wow that is nice. So we're playing along, the next thing I see is a a guy, probably 60 or so, crazy guy, was running around all morning talking to people, had a home-made hat that he had made, took two of his favorite polka bands, cuts the hats in half and sewed them together, so a two-billed hat, like something you'd see on Hee Haw. Just a goof-ball. But a good guy, talked to him later, he has prostate cancer but is out there living his best life. Anyway, I see him walk up and talk to the lady for a minute, and the next thing, they are setting the walker aside, the gentleman cradles the old woman in his arms and they begin just rocking back and forth, again, "dancing". Holy hell. I can see the daughter is crying, I'm trying not to choke up as I'm singing. To see that level of kindness and empathy, I didn't expect that at a polka dance. TLDR: there's a lot of love and joy out there, it's just hard to find sometimes, but if you're lucky enough to see it, wow, it'll knock you down.
  7. Why are y'all engaging with an obvious troll?
  8. Adding more PALI here sub $1.80. Got caught up looking at another ticker yesterday so didn't put a description but this one has a similar MOA to ABVX which took off in July. Could even be more effective for things like Crohns. Still very early but some smart people in biotech that I pay attention to think it could be close to $3 by EOY and $4 prior to the next readout. Recent low price action has been low as they did a private placement and the buyer is doing a quick dump to the market. Downside is that some of the data propping up the price is from China which had trouble replicating elsewhere. They have their own non China data which has been good though. Price action is volatile with the low market cap. TLDR joining the PALI-ban
  9. That's gerontocracy baby
  10. Considering the definition of person, we should endeavor to make Delaware the most populous state by 2030.
  11. Keith Inglis: Joey McGuire urges fans to limit tortilla tossing against Kansas
  12. Russia mocks Donald Trump's America - 'Civil war is coming in US' The Russian lawmaker said: 'We should take advantage of their existing differences. We should drive them not only to an economic shutdown, but a political one.' https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2117945/russia-mocks-donald-trumps-america
  13. All Gas No Brakes! The sad thing is as stunned and as pissed as I am there is like 1/3 of me still left that is fighting the other 2/3 of me that thinks we can win out. Talk about Burnt Orange Brawndo I been drinking since I was a kiddo.
  14. No argument from me on that. I wasn't suggesting that Sark should be fired. I am saying he has a problem and it's his to fix. Can he meaningfully address mid-season? I doubt it.
  15. That can be arranged.
  16. Regardless of the terminology, do you or do you not agree that a) community/family values are perceived as a problem if not a real problem and b) that white, hetero Christian marriages are not the only or even an ideal solution to those problems.
  17. Don’t really care for the sentiment there right now Bobby. I think people are reacting fairly to what we’re seeing on the field, which is horrific.
  18. As inventory warehoused in the US depletes, the tariffs will be passed on to you, the consumer.
  19. Rained for a solid hour here in Houston yesterday afternoon. Swamp Ass activated.
  20. These Amazon Prime day days are absolute trash. So this year me upgrading my computer and Prime day deals ended up coinciding with one another. About 6 weeks ago I built out my list of computer parts and priced them. About 4 weeks ago I noticed the price of all of my parts going up. Every week they went up significantly until today where I saw they were "discounted" back to their original price of 6 weeks ago. In the case of my RAM its still actually 25% higher than it was. I ended up losing $30 by waiting and not pulling the trigger 6 weeks ago. Ive read this is a common practice to jack up prices in the weeks leading up to black friday or prime day but I guess I finally got to see it first hand. The moral here is to buy your shit about 6-8 weeks before major shopping "deal days" OR dont buy your shit starting about a month before major deal days.
  21. Average high for October 7th is 86, average low is 64. So yes, 93/75 is what I would call unseasonable.
  22. Ok, so maybe Sark saw OL problems as early as last May, still too late to really fix them. I think it's all going to boil down to canning Flood in the off-season and whatever triage we can do in the portal.
  23. Good piece that really shows the absurdities and contradictions, and anti-intellectualism of the "compact." Author is a prof at UVA and a UT grad. https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia j
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