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  1. Anyone know what Lebron's thoughts are on this?
    14 points
  2. I’m just glad to see you posting and doing well. I saw this story and was worried that you had smoked another competitor that didn’t take it too well.
    13 points
  3. Start your own thread in that other shit box.
    12 points
  4. 12 points
  5. People who drive under the speed limit on 2 lane roads in good weather are getting their own special place in hell. Also, truckers that try to pass other trucks that are governed at the same speed on the interstate, thus completely blocking traffic for 20 miles at a time. Fuck those guys. If you've ever driven I-80 across Iowa, you spent 75% of your time going 5 under the speed limit because a truck governed at 65.3 MPH was trying to pass a truck governed at 65.299999 MPH.
    12 points
  6. questions about what can the US do and China has assets in Latin America and brutality on the streets brings up questions about prior policies/doctrines. Monroe Doctrine and its various intepretations, American hegemony, unilateralism, even the response to the communist revolution and the like. While brut force and covert assassination attempts, and proxy wars might not be the right tactic, the peace and harmony from a US perspective in the western hemisphere has been a critical component to US stability over the years and there is no doubt in my mind that keeping others out has been a huge part of that. I get that peace and harmony has involved civil wars, unrest, etc. but for the most part it's been contained and occurred with out foreign actors other than the US taking an influential role (again for the most part). I think having an unstable government 90 miles away is something we can't allow. I certainly don't think the US can intervene heavy handedly but we damn sure need to keep others out and more than anything the US needs stability. While giving Latin American countries a right to self govern is important and retracting from an implementation of policies that resulted in heavy meddling is good, we cannot make the mistake of creating a vacuum of power. Several countries are lost/never found (hati, Venezuela) but letting that grow and inviting an opportunity for China is not good on any level. If the rebels are successful, we have to go in with the biggest aid package the world has ever seen and make sure Cuba is a free, stable and prosperous Cuba and one of our most strategic and important trading partners along with Mexico and Candada.
    12 points
  7. Looks like things are really escalating now. A friend from Cuba just sent me this still shot. I could use some help finding video from Twitter to confirm @Nicole44
    11 points
  8. Texas Ds doing more to halt republican fuckery from a minority position than the National Ds can get done with a majority.
    11 points
  9. I’d like to cite Fuck Around v. Found Out.
    11 points
  10. They probably didn't see this brewing. It seems to have been pretty spontaneous. Seems like a great time to lift the embargo, and flood Cuba with some humanitarian relief with every other MRE containing a loaded subcompact 9mm. CHIEF
    11 points
  11. Looking at this past offseason and the coaching transition that has happened, there are a few things that stand out in stark contrast compared to 2017 and 2014. 1. We've assembled what looks like a conference championship/CFP contender level staff. I'm specifically talking about OL, LB, and DC. Sark already has the experience of working with Flood. Coach K has done a great job at UW given the talent he had to work with. This is a vastly different situation than Strong and Herman bringing their little league comfort hire staffs with them. 2. Sark has done a great job with filling most of the personnel deficiencies by using the transfer portal. 3. Sark and co. haven't engaged in any bullshit gimmicks during the introductory and spring practice phase. I have not heard of any "purges", drill instructor style speeches, or runny eggs/ burnt toast fuckery going on in the program. Sark and his staff have demonstrated the intent to run a professional organization rather than a bush league circus. All of that being said, I don't exactly buy the No. 7 FPI ranking hype nor do I think that a 10-11 win tally is guaranteed. Like posters above me have said, breaking in a new QB and offensive scheme will have its struggles. However, I am very pleased to see the coaching staff establish what looks like framework for long term success. That is the most important thing look for in a coaching staff change, especially given the current state of Texas Football. We can't keep going the three year coaching merry go round we've seen in the past decade.
    10 points
  12. I'll push back against the OL being terrible. Quite average seems right, with enough good pieces to improve a ton with some real coaching. Also, I've posted this before but programs who have a lot of talent improve quickly when they upgrade their coaching. All these coaches were basically breaking in a new qb as well: Notre Dame - 2009: 6-6 2010 (Kelly's 1st): 8-5 Ohio State - 2011: 6-7 2012 (Urban's 1st): 12-0 Michigan - 2014: 5-7 2015 (Harbaugh's 1st): 10-3 Florida - 2017: 4-7 2018 (Mullen's 1st): 10-3 If you hire the right guy, teams that have been underachieving get better really quickly.
    10 points
  13. Don’t move the thread hayden For all of you that want to move the thread start a new thread in cr if you see a post deleted it’s because it belongs in cr
    9 points
  14. Isn’t that kind of the same as executing them?
    9 points
  15. Bickering about 40 times of guys from 4 classes ago is a strong indicator that TARS has deserted us again
    9 points
  16. For those that dont know, things have gotten BAD there. Getting close to the “dark days” post soviet union collapse. You get like one bag of rice a month if you are lucky. In the past this wasnt a big deal since they could buy supplies in the store from money sent from US kinfolk. Now the stores are empty. Zero bread, rice, basic staples. Zero medication. We have to send basic antibiotics and diapers to family via courier (matriarch of the family suffered from an undiagnosed stroke and is now bed ridden). Shit is bad. Im really worried about my little 2 year old nephew in havana. He is horribly underweight due to lack of food. we have tried to get him over, but his mom refuses to make the jump. Thankfully family in the small village can hunt for food (with home made shotguns and shells). They bring in duck hauls that would make a coonass blush.
    9 points
  17. Keep in mind that the last thing the locals want/need are expats who fled in the 60s coming back to rule them. Sure the help will be valued, but there is still some mistrust/animosity between the two groups. The people who fled look down upon those who stayed and those who stayed few betrayed by those who left. im doing a bad job in explaining this, just know it’s all very complicated. cuba, unlike most 3rd world countries has one major thing going for it. The population is HIGHLY educated with engineers, doctors, etc. they can do a lot of this own their own. Just need resources and freedom. My greatest fear is that multinationals just come in and buy everything up from state actors / oligarchs and the locals are left out. Last thing we need is a wrecking ball to come out and old cities go down for modern holiday inns and Disney world. It’s a both very exciting and worrying time.
    8 points
  18. there's so much to unpack from today, so i'll just start listing them. tuesday was devastating for oakland, today was twice as devastating for the yankees. they had just started to play better. they're in real jeopardy of not making the playoffs. yankee twitter can't decide if the lede is "oh lookie loo, guess altuve can have his jersey ripped off now" or "fucking christ why can't we close a god damned game?" first off, the only reason they ripped his shirt off today is to tell yankee fans (and the media) to shut the fuck up about it. lol at people looking at a small tattoo that looks like it's in mid-removal and say "i thought he had a tattoo but where is it?!?" as for the closer situation, they're proper fucked. they have one good starter and ~1-2 good bullpen pieces. chapman is junk. green is junk. britton is junk and injured. superteam my ass. they are a long way from being a ~good baseball team. we walked them 14x today and won. i'd say we'll see them in oct, but maybe we'll just see them in 2022. judge was a whiny bitch in 2017 and he was a whiny bitch yesterday, and was probably so happy he got to perform his little touchdown dance celebration that he planned ahead of time. machete laughs at him, and altuve got the last laugh, again. momentum is a real thing, and it would've really sucked to lose 4 in a row, get swept by the yankees, and have the only discussion for the next 4 days be about the astros who weren't in denver. though i still haven't heard anyone say shit about mookie, who's in the midst of his hottest stretch of the year. or any of the other opt-outs. and while we're on the subject, fuck the media for making it into an astros story. trout has been out forever, acuna is now out for a year, glasnow is out, tatis keeps missing chunks of games (though is still a monster). bregman has been out for a month. injuries are crazy right now and i'm fine with all 25 guys sitting in a cryo-chamber until friday. we haven't hit worth a shit since tuesday, but somehow went 3-3 this week. felt much worse a few hours ago. explaining to my wife the unlikelihood of today unfolding exactly the way it did was a whole separate headache. baseball is not like other sports, where you know mj or kobe or elway or brady is going to have the ball and a chance at the end. this could not have been professionally scripted any better from the chapman bomb, through the scandal, all the buzzer bullshit, through the past 2 games, the judge jersey pull, the nonsensical reporting by fox yesterday, to a 7-2 deficit, to altuve coming up with a chance to walk it off. story-fucking-book-shit. g5 of 2017 world series was probably the best postseason astros game ever, followed somewhere by g1 and the tuve blast from 2019. but i'm having trouble remembering a more satisfying regular season (pre-july 15th too) game. how can you not be romantic about baseball?
    8 points
  19. Yeah, nobody laughs at menstrual jokes period
    8 points
  20. It’s sad to me that us fans are fully expecting to drop one of the first two games and expecting 7-9 wins. Fuck losing to some directional Louisiana team and a fucking bottom barrel Arkansas team. And fuck losing any games in the big 12. We have out recruited every fucking team including ou. If these coaches can’t get us to 10 fucking wins against the pathetic big 12 and a shitty OOC schedule, then fuck this program. Fucking aggy is expecting to compete for a national championship with a 1st year QB and we’re sitting here wondering if our new staff can out perform that moron Tom Herman. 10+ wins and a big 12 championship appearance is what we need to accomplish.
    8 points
  21. ummm. this is a weird thing for me too. yall always claim that cr is a shit show, but you want to have your cloak room in here sometimes. this is for news. want to talk policy shit? go on to the cloak room. i wish it wasn't this way, but it is.
    7 points
  22. Soccer, America's sport of the future. As it has been since 1973.
    7 points
  23. Not sorry one bit if already posted. Viva italia.
    7 points
  24. Well my post was deleted so I am ass-uming it was reported by our well meaning socialism lovers
    7 points
  25. Another thing that could help stabilize the country, if a successful revolution occurs, is a big influx of Cubans from Miami moving back home. It seems they would be very instrumental in helping establish a republic since most of the Cuban population probably has no idea of how to install a representative form of government. Many of them, I'm sure still love their homeland, and dreamed of the day they could return and help Cuba be successful again. CHIEF
    7 points
  26. i have this same story but instead of meat juice it's the contents of my wife's purse spilling out everywhere as it topples over, and instead of one time in 2009 it's literally every single time she rides with me in the car
    7 points
  27. In 2009 I am flying out of Moatize, Mozambique. At that time Moatize was little more than a village and was just opening up to new development due to the influx of international mining companies coming in. I am booked on a commuter flight from Moatize to Maputo. As we are going through security I notice a villager carrying about 30 lbs of raw meat with him wrapped in newspaper and in a cardboard box without a top. Security lets him through. Once on the plane this individual places the box in the overhead bin. I am watching with fascination as I notice that the box is noticeably dark and wet on the bottom. As the plane is steeply climbing it goes into a sharp banked turn and out from the overhead bin all of this "meat juice" begins to pour out from the bin. It was disgusting. Fortunately for me I was sitting on the opposite aisle so I was not drenched in the fluid.
    7 points
  28. I saw a strange thing today. A rebel was being arrested by the military police. And rather than be taken alive he exploded a grenade he had hidden in his jacket.He killed himself and took a captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't. What does that tell you? They can win
    7 points
  29. I was just digging around our laundry room and found the dog shit money. We still have it. She hasn’t tried to piece it together from what I can tell. But she hasn’t sent it in either.
    7 points
  30. Meanwhile cnn is has a show on talking about the history of sitcoms.
    7 points
  31. Right until he said the Ardennes were a good barrier that hampered the Germans. I think it might have stalled their advanced for a whopping 8 hours. That might have been the first and hopefully only time I read someone spin the virtues of the French defensive strategy against the Germans. I eagerly await the next installment entitled “Poland’s Wizard Plan to Defeat the Blitzkrieg”.
    6 points
  32. I asked a Cuban at the office for his thoughts and he said what's surprising to him is that protests also happening in small towns where everyone knows each other so everyone knows who is out protesting (including the secret police). No anonymity that you might get in the larger cities...
    6 points
  33. At some point, Abbott needs to have a clean call to do redistricting. Because the last thing he wants is for the Dems to keep breaking the quorum, redistricting not get done, and the courts redraw the maps.
    6 points
  34. 6 points
  35. the same Mike Roach that said this at 8 am today? and said this 7 days ago?
    6 points
  36. Let me check my notes and see what I have….. I have us at 15-0…..wrecking shop the entire way except in the semi-final when we edge out Ohio State 49-27 due to some garbage time scores allowed by the backups.
    6 points
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