Jump to content

Leaderboard

  1. closetojumping

    closetojumping

    Burnt Ends


    • Points

      35

    • Posts

      11763


  2. Red Five

    Red Five

    Certifiably Surly


    • Points

      35

    • Posts

      13841


  3. DixonHur

    DixonHur

    Legacy Members


    • Points

      26

    • Posts

      6100


  4. mdmost

    mdmost

    Burnt Ends


    • Points

      21

    • Posts

      25203


Popular Content

Showing content with the highest reputation on 11/11/19 in all areas

  1. Tom, the school song is The Eyes of Texas. Comments? Honestly I didn’t even know that before you told me. That’s not something I pay attention to. Tom your QB is Sam Ehlinger. Thoughts? I had no idea that was the case until just this moment. Y’all think I’m kidding with this stuff but I’m not. It’s just not something I really care to pay attention to.
    17 points
  2. As promised, here are pics of the epic Purdue trip. We met lots of equally nice and strange people–They think Austin is a den of liberal indulgence. The game itself had a truly amazing atmosphere - that was the loudest event that I've ever attended. Saw a few Horns down, which we considered an honor. Best part was waving goodbye to their fans as they left with four seconds left. Of course, they reserve their hatred for IU. Would love to see one of those games. Enjoy! PS. This morning, I spotted a forlorn, middle-aged Purdue fan leaving the hotel. He was carrying a stupid, gold-painted construction helmet and was wearing a very sad expression. Priceless.
    13 points
  3. In communist Russia, you have it our way.
    12 points
  4. Well if he's in the mood to start releasing calls I'd like to hear a few of the ones with Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Let's get the calls from when you spoke to Erdogan about pulling troops out of Syria, and let's hear the calls between Trump/Kushner with Turkey and Saudi Arabia regarding the murder of US journalist Khashoggi. Let's get those calls out in The public record.
    11 points
  5. A.) We don't have access to the transcript B.) Even in the "transcript" you released...based on "notes" and "recollections" of you and your cronies...contains evidence of a crime C.) All of the whistleblower's accusations have been corroborated in sworn testimony by witnesses to the call D.) Go fuck yourself with a hot iron poker
    11 points
  6. You aren't telling us shit. You are acting as though you are informed, and you fundamentally are not. It's obvious to me, and anyone else reading this, who has actually had the conversations around this subject matter with people who work for the school. Shut the fuck up with your word vomit and false claims.
    11 points
  7. Your takeaway from the death of a man who struggled with drug addiction and died of liver failure is that you should have given him more drugs?
    11 points
  8. His "every accusation" bit is becoming extreme. I feel like we're pretty close to "Shifty Adam Schiff wears stupid long ties and wants to fuck his daughter!!".
    11 points
  9. Some of you root for things like Jake Smith transferring just so you can bitch about Herman. It’s pathetic. There’s nothing substantive on this thread, and I’m not sure there’s ever been any legitimacy to the rumor. It’s like you’re begging for it to happen. You’re shitty fans.
    11 points
  10. You listen to me you son of a bitch, we’re going to lose this game by 20 so quit your inverse sunshine pumping. Have you ever seen a receiver surrounded by 6 DBs and yet somehow wide open? And then those DBs all miss the tackle and 2 of them get injured and ejected for targeting each other. Didn’t think so. Do some research next time before running your mouth.
    10 points
  11. I missed Friday's release, so as pennance here's today's release of testimony transcripts of Laura Cooper (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) and Catherine Croft and Christopher Anderson ( advisors to Ambassador Kurt Volker on Ukraine policy). As always, here's the notable excerpts: Laura Cooper: Providing critical security assistance to Ukraine serves U.S. national security in order to “deter Russian aggression elsewhere around the world.” (Page 16-17) The Department of Defense (DOD) was “concerned” that delaying security assistance to Ukraine would weaken “a strategic partner” and make it “much more difficult for them to negotiate a peace on terms that are good for Ukraine.” (Page 95-96) The Department of Defense, in coordination with the interagency, certified in May 2019 that Ukraine met the anti-corruption benchmarks set by the Pentagon to make it eligible to receive security assistance. (Page 24-25, 26-27, 34) OMB informed the Department of Defense and other agencies during a meeting in July that the “funds were held without explanation,” and the Pentagon “did not get clarification.” (Page 44-45, 48-49, 49-50) At a meeting on July 23, 2019, OMB told agencies that “the White House chief of staff has conveyed that the President has concerns about Ukraine and Ukraine security assistance,” and “immediately deputies began to raise concerns about how this could be done in a legal fashion.” (Page 50-52) “All of the senior leaders of the U.S. national security departments and agencies were all unified in their—in their view that this assistance was essential.” (Page 58-59) After President Trump froze the security assistance, the Department of Defense did not conduct an additional assessment of Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts because “DOD participants affirmed that we believed sufficient progress has been made.” (Page 102-104) During an inter-agency meeting on July 31, 2019, “there were many affirmative statements that the Congress has appropriated this, we need to obligate it,” and the Department of Defense explained the only legal options to withhold the funds were a presidential “rescission notice” to Congress or a “reprogramming action.” (Page 56-57, 87-88, 127) In August 2019, the Department of Defense assessed that the President’s freeze on security assistance to Ukraine put at risk “well over $100 million.” (Page 88-90, 90) On August 20, 2019, Ambassador Kurt Volker was engaged in “an effort to see if there was a statement that the government of Ukraine could make” in order to lift President Trump’s hold on the security assistance. (Page 68-69) Based on her conversations with Ambassador Volker and Ambassador Bill Taylor, Ms. Cooper understood that Ukrainian officials were aware that the security assistance had been frozen as of August 2019—before that fact was publicly reported. (Page 72-73, 79-80) Catherine Croft: In May 2019, Ms. Croft discussed with Ambassador Bill Taylor her concerns that if “Biden was going to be a credible rival for” President Trump, “that might push him to change the policy on Ukraine.” (Page 46-47, 48-49) Ms. Croft was “trepidatious” about accepting a position as a special assistant to Ambassador Kurt Volker because “it was possible that the Trump administration would choose to change its policy to suit domestic politics.” (Page 44-45) In speaking with Ambassador Kurt Volker about Rudy Giuliani, Ms. Croft “thanked him for keeping me out of that mess.” (Page 70, 120) Ukrainian officials raised concerns about the hold on security assistance “very early on.” (Page 97-98, 86-87, 100-101) OMB placed a separate, earlier hold on Javelin missiles because Mick Mulvaney was concerned that “Russia would react negatively to the provision of Javelins to Ukraine,” despite the fact that “all of the other policy agencies were in support.” (Page 26-27, 51-52) The hold was later lifted after NSC officials briefed Mr. Mulvaney that “the agencies were in agreement about the policy moving forward.” (Page 28-29) When serving at the NSC, Ms. Croft “received multiple calls from lobbyist Robert Livingston who told me that Ambassador Yovanovitch should be fired.” (Page 14-15) "During my time at the NSC, I received multiple calls from lobbyist Robert Livingston who told me that Ambassador Yovanovitch should be fired. He characterized Ambassador Yovanovitch as a, quote, “Obama holdover,” end quote, and associated with George Soros. It was not clear to me at the time, or now, at whose direction or at whose expense Mr. Livingston was seeking the removal of Ambassador Yovanovitch. I documented these calls and told my boss, Fiona Hill, and George Kent, who was in Kyiv at the time, I am not aware of any action that was taken in response." Christopher Anderson: In March 2019, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine “was trying to keep his job by making himself useful” to “Giuliani and others” by “trying to play into U.S. domestic politics and thereby win favors.” (Page 43-44) In late spring 2019, Ambassador Volker said he “had been in touch” with Rudy Giuliani, “that he did not think this issue was going away,” and that “we’d have to do something to change the narrative.” (Page 48-49, 96-97) After the U.S. delegation attended President Zelensky’s inauguration, Ambassador Sondland arranged a White House meeting within three days because he “had connections to the White House and was taken more seriously than the State Department bureaucracy.” (Page 53-54) During a meeting on May 23, 2019, in the Oval Office, “the President said something to the effect of the Ukrainians tried to take me down.” (Page 57) On June 13, 2019, National Security Advisor John Bolton warned “that Mr. Giuliani was a key voice with the President on Ukraine” and that “every time Ukraine is mentioned, Giuliani pops up and that the President was listening to Giuliani about Ukraine.” (Page 15-16, 101) After a meeting at the Department of Energy on June 18, 2019, Mr. Anderson and Ambassador Taylor discussed that “it was important not to talk about—not to push for individual investigations.” (Page 103-104, 112-113) Mr. Anderson had “the fear that if Giuliani’s narrative took hold, that the Ukrainian Government was an enemy of the President,” that narrative would undermine the U.S. government’s efforts to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Donbas. (Page 47) Ambassador Bill Taylor “repeatedly expressed his concern that Giuliani would make his job difficult” and requested assurances from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that “our policy for Ukraine would not change.” (Page 60) After Russia seized Ukrainian military vessels in the Sea of Azov on November 25, 2018, the State Department quickly prepared a statement for the White House condemning the Russian escalation—but President Trump “put an embargo on any statements,” and “there was never a statement from the White House.” (Page 14, 30-32)
    9 points
  12. on the plus side, you broke your leg and got taken, so good story there
    9 points
  13. We alternate T-day between my family and the wife's family. We have done it for 8 years now. This week the MIL is realizing it isn't the year we are coming over and she is having a complete meltdown. It is like watching a 10 year old grapple with all the emotions that come with not getting your way. We are still in the lash out phase where she is making all these horrible statements just trying to get under my wife's skin. So far we have shit talking about my mom. Shit talking about us never doing anything for them (I rebuilt part of their roof and all the fascia on my own time/dime and bought and installed a new stove for them all in the last 4 months). It is actually comical how absurd the things she is saying and how wound up it is getting my wife. She just wont let it go and ignore her crazy ass mom. I love the holidays.
    8 points
  14. Managed to grab this one with my phone while visiting with the in-laws over the weekend in Bryan
    8 points
  15. That's a lot of wealth. Should start tickling down any minute now, right?
    8 points
  16. You look at Iowa State over there and it's all about the tradition of having a mascot that's a cross between the Chicken Hawk and Tasmanian Devil.
    7 points
  17. Hell, I'm not even a democrat, I disagree with about 50% of their platform. But here's the deal.... for me, income inequality is the single biggest issue facing this country today. A lot of the other flashpoint issues (health care, education, even racism/classism, etc....) all stem from the fact that it's getting harder and harder for people to get by, let alone prosper and they are fucking pissed off. The US is the wealthiest country in the world, if we cant make it work shame on us. Yet starting with the Reagan tax cuts and their trickle down economic bullshit, there's a very small subset of this country that gets better off every year. The GOP party relentlessly pushes legislation that worsens this situation. Yet Bubba Shit-for-Brains in SEC country keeps voting for them cause....muh guns. The 1% laugh at these fucking rubes and how easy it is to hoodwink these morons. So yeah, I will hold my nose and vote democrat, because for all their faults, they at least recognize what's happening to the 99% and the risks of continuing to ignore them. It's the GOP that started this downward slide and they are only continuing to exacerbate it. If you really believe this ends badly for the US, how the fuck do you keep voting GOP? Maybe it's not a big deal for you, and you are more concerned with building a wall, 'bortions, guns, etc... but for me it is THE issue. So fuck the GOP. Wanna guess what year the Reagan tax cuts started?
    6 points
  18. Busted this guy with my bow on Saturday evening. Hit him in the liver/lungs, he ran 50 yards and crumpled underneath some mesquite. Deer are moving pretty well up in Llano/Mason right now. Small bucks are all chasing and the big guys are just cruising. Had a really nice 9 come through with this guy on Saturday morning, neither gave me a shot. He came through by himself in the evening, had to grunt to get him to stop. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    6 points
  19. Chick Fil A's secret isn't the chicken sandwich per se. It's quite simply the best run fast-food restaurant I've ever seen. They're clean, they're efficient and they're consistent. All of them. On the flip side, if you can find a Popeye's or Whataburger that is well-run, you've really got something because my experience is they are absolute shit-shows when it comes to operations.
    6 points
  20. Maybe he should catch better. Maybe not fumble punts. Maybe run a route that isn’t fucking embarrassing on film. Then maybe he’d have a legitimate whine and he’d see a lot more field. I’m as anti-Herman as anyone on this board, but the entitlement of some of these pussies is pushing the limits. My view is that Smith would be an idiot to leave, but fuck off if he does.
    6 points
  21. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    5 points
  22. Last week in his office at College State at the University of Texas A&M University Jimbo slowly pulled down her Depends and he was overwhelmed by the odor of day old urine and turds. She soothed him by pouring a bottle of Absorbine Jr. in her ass crack to set the mood. Jimbo watched as she poured. Just as the bottle was empty, Jimbo spewed his load on the floor and fell asleep.
    5 points
  23. “It was humid as usual in Florida, and the room stank of sex and margarita vomit as the five of us lay in a sweaty, sticky heap on the bed and all we could hear was the sounds of each other’s labored breathing. First to break the silence was Jimbo from the la-z-boy in the corner.”
    5 points
  24. I've just been notified that my wife has invited my elderly, eccentric mom to T Day this year. I immediately assigned each family member the task of picking up no less than 100 wadded up and randomly discarded paper towels by my mom. I figure that way we have a fighting chance of not ending up on the show Hoarders by the time she leaves. Fuck me, I still have PTSD from her last visit. We had an Island of Misfit Toys Thanksgiving, single people with no local family, people who had to work and couldn't travel. Everyone had a dish they would work on. I got the bird, wife got whatever, and my mom? She got the mashed potatoes. In the Universe's timeline of Thanksgiving food, mashed potatoes would be the length of time modern man has existed, compared to baking pies (Jurassic period), and the actual turkey itself (the Big Bang). But did that ever dawn on mom? Nope. As soon as the potatoes were ready she placed them on the dining table sat down, and announced "Mashed Potatoes are ready!" Everyone working their ass off in the kitchen kind of looked at each other with a WTF? Being her son, I was not surprised. So we keep cooking, working toward a common goal of feeding everyone at an appropriate time. Once more: "Did y'all hear, MASHED POTATOES ARE READY!" ME: Yeah mom, we heard, but we aren't ready with everything else. Ten minutes go by. Mom: Well hell, I'm just going to start with the mashed potatoes then. Me: (a notch just below yelling) Jesus Christ can't you see we are all working our asses off here! We'll be there when everything is done! Well that did it. She crossed her arms around her chest and sulked until the food came out. Everyone got to eating, drinking, laughing - except mom. She decided to get back at me with completey inappropriate passive aggressive comments. Thing like "Mach 1 used to take his diaper off and twirl it around his head like a lasso. He always was an exhibitionist, hope you grew out of that!" and then "Remember that time the cops caught you and your friends drinking Boone's Farm behind the Circle K? I almost had to send you to military school!" Goddamn embarrassing. Yeah, no one else is going to be invited this year, just the immediate family.
    5 points
  25. Stop telling us what to do, big government.
    5 points
  26. "What does nuclear war smell like?" If you stop to think about that question in an even halfway serious frame of mind, you come to realize it's a lot like a Zen koan. If you're close enough to nuclear war to smell it, you won't smell a thing. If you're far enough away from it to still have olfactory nerves that process smells, you will more than likely smell a lot of dirty, smelly refugees fleeing the blast zone in hopes that their limbs don't fall off before they find an open hospital. And, of course, it also raises an interesting question, what is smell, anyway? Does it exist outside of the frame of reference of a creature who can sense it? Sure, the particles that we physically experience as "odor" are there, but if they don't reach a nose, do they still "smell"? The grand irony, of course, is that I asked my wife just now "what do you think nuclear war smells like?" and she said, "That reminds me. <Daughter's name>! Take out the trash!"
    5 points
  27. Herman is getting coaching ideas from Surly and denying it in press conferences.
    5 points
  28. Only to later tell them there was never any soup
    5 points
  29. If slorch can be a cunt there! He can be a cunt anywhere! It's up to you! New York, New York!
    5 points
  30. We always have fall (and spring. and summer. and...) pictures taken of our little girl. This year she wanted Allie to be in some of them. Allie loved the ones where she got to play, but didn't care much for the others.
    5 points
  31. I'm willing to work hard until I'm in a position of trust. Then I'll do a little embezzling.
    5 points
  32. He’ll get fired on his first day. Boss: Strong, why aren’t you baking anything back here? CS: *vacant expression* Well it’s just, the cake’s already been baked. *points at muffins on the shelf*
    5 points
  33. A few of us libtards have kicked around the idea of banding together to support a candidate in a race where our financial contributions would actually matter. We know that Texas turning blue will end the republican party as we know it and the shift to the left has already been felt in recent elections. We are finally living in a time where there is hope for Texas and the demographics support us winning NOW. The main impediment is lack of voter participation and organization. If people still have an interest in this, we can use this thread to discuss potential candidates, pick one, discuss progress and celebrate a blue victory. Some things to consider when selecting a candidate: 1. Is the person in a very competitive district? Bonus points for Texas House as we have a chance to flip it this cycle. Think of the huge loss of power for guys like Patrick and Abbott that this would create. 2. Does the person support policies that the surly liberal elite are likely to support? 3. Is this person running in or near a major Texas city so that people can get involved in other ways? 4. Does this person collect donations through Act Blue? 5. Would this person be willing to drink with surly posters if we organized a gathering of angry drunk liberals? So, my thought is that we can start making sales pitches for particular candidates below. We have plenty of time, so no need to decide in the near future. Once we have a person, know more about them, and the area where they are running, we can decide more. Please post here if you are interested so that we can gauge that. Also, give a write up for your favorite candidate and why they are worthy of Surly support.
    4 points
  34. Just picked up a new-to-me 2018 Shelby GT350 and have to say the Voodoo 5.2 motor is pretty much the greatest thing ever. I can’t believe there’s an 8,250 RPM, 526 HP flat plan crank V8 available in something I can drive to work and schlep kids around. What a time to be alive.
    4 points
  35. My real time reaction every time he posts about his perfect call.
    4 points
  36. Young Karen led a life that was quite steamy She stalked Jimbo who she thought was dreamy But time caused her ovaries to shrivel And filled her Depends with urine dribble While rendering her juices curdled and creamy
    4 points
  37. Just got a text from wife that MIL thinks I should pay them back for all the corn they have taken to our ranch. This year they have taken 20 bags!!11!!1! (I have bought several hundred for reference), I called FIL and asked him if he was upset about me not paying for the corn he bought. He was completely confused why I would ask and told me he is taking more bags up this week because he feels like he hasn't contributed enough to the feeding compared to the deer he has taken there. Of course, like always I told him not to worry about it, we are family. My contention is that the MIL had a mini stroke the way she is acting.
    4 points
  38. A happy 64th birthday to the baddest hand sign in all the land and God bless Harley Clark!
    4 points
  39. 4 points
  40. I will never not be down to beat ND or USC
    4 points
  41. Yeah, I miss my ex too sometimes. then I remember what a crazy fucking bitch she was
    4 points
  42. I say we go after that little dumbfuck Briscoe Cain from Deer Park in Texas House District 128. He's got to be vulnerable and certainly worthy of a targeted Surly campaign.
    4 points
This leaderboard is set to Chicago/GMT-05:00


×
×
  • Create New...