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  1. He is wearing a toupee to cover the severe burn scars all over his head. He was shot down while piloting his helicopter in Vietnam in 1968. It caught on fire, burning off his nose, ears, hair, and his forearm that he was holding over his eyes (saving his eyesight). He spent two years recovering through many surgeries at the Brook Army Hospital burn unit in San Antonio, with many months lying face down. Then many months more with his good arm strapped up by his head while a strip of flesh was attached to grow him a new nose. In spite of the severity of his wounds, he recovered well enough to remain in the Army, becoming a helicopter battalion commander and eventually retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Along the way he married a beautiful Army nurse, adopted a child who grew up & graduated A&M, becoming a nurse herself. Unfortunately his wife passed away a decade ago from an aneurysm. Their daughter got married and recently made him a proud grandfather who enjoys making the infant smile by singing military cadence songs (clean ones) to him. He is a true BAMF He and Mrs. Brat were a steady couple from their high school senior year until they broke up their last year in college. We are all good friends to this day.
    73 points
  2. Took the 12 yo daughter to the party - had a great time. She recognized Ella Swindle and got a pic: Hit the Posse for a burger: Hit Congress to watch the bats: Then back to the Littlefield Fountain for some pics. She was very interested in how hard it is to get into UT on the drive home. She’ll always be a big fan, especially after this week.
    71 points
  3. CJ Baxter has been cleared and is back practicing with the team. (IT)
    62 points
  4. This is starting to be more frequent and the simple answer is the moderation team is sick and fucking tired of dealing with people who can't handle the internet with the given tools. If you repeatedly report people for harassment/being mean to you and it is clearly just a disagreement and not really anything bannable you will see it get marked as complete. If you continue to report posts because someone is being mean to you or you don't like them, you will be told to put them on ignore. If you don't put them on ignore and continue to report their posts you will get a ban. If you are harassing people and you are warned to stop, you will receive a ban and you will have that user put on ignore for you by the staff. If you choose to unignore them and the harassment continues you will be banned. The ignore user feature exists for a reason. You don't get punches in your tough shit card for not putting people you can't stand on ignore. Use the features, stop relying on mods to be your fucking babysitters.
    60 points
  5. 53 points
  6. From the JT side I can confirm that he doesn’t have a problem being in the same class as Ojo. He has even texted Ojo about it. I will say Ojo is really feeling himself and when he makes comments about being the number one tackle in the country he means that and expects to get treated and paid as that. His NIL ask is way higher that JT3. Texas just needs to make sure they continue to make JT3 feel like a priority cause there have been times where they acted like it was a done deal and didn’t put in the required time. As of today I expect Texas to get both. They are going to match on Ojo and the officials visit with JT3 went really really and capitalized on some built in advantages.
    52 points
  7. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
    52 points
  8. That dude smokes a lot more than brisket, if you know what I’m saying
    52 points
  9. Listen, the guy you quoted is an idiot and I don't expect him to get shit like this, hence him disappearing from my views many moons ago. You're not that, however. There's nothing needing defense coming from the WR room. I'm fucking around with the rating of Brown. Everyone I know thinks the guy is going to be great. Stewart is more of a debate, but he's always just tenuously in this class. I'm sorry, but what does Blake Lively have to do with any of this? Looks like we've got ourselves another camp fever hero! I really hope Sarkisian is able to bring some titles home because everything else happening with this program right now is off the charts. I always figured that the 2004/2005 rosters were about the best I could ever hope to see at Texas. I no longer think that is the case. The rosters over the next few cycles, if not longer, might be the absolute best in CFB. There are no talent gaps anywhere to be found, only questions about experience and cohesiveness due to NFL departures. Great evaluators, great recruiters, great developers, and every resource that could be desired. Good shit.
    50 points
  10. 46 points
  11. I'm not going to watch over an hour long press conference, but I'm really get tired of this shit making fun of ASL interpreters. They are "speaking" a different language than you, and that language is entirely visual. Facial expressions are a key component of that language expressing punctuation, emotion, and all that other jazz. Most importantly, you are NOT the audience for that interpreter. Deaf people are. They recognize and utilize visual cues to enhance their signing for added context, urgency, etc. There are only so many signs, and they're often differentiated by facial or exaggerated physical expressions. Yes, to your ignorant, uninformed eyes, it might look silly, attention-grabbing, or whatever, but, again, YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED AUDIENCE. This is not some slapstick comedy routine.. Grow up and focus on what matters most: the conveyance of information in visual (not written) form. ~ Dad of a Deaf kid whose primary conduit of communication with her is through sign language.
    45 points
  12. Something that is underrated right now. Mike's call to have the runner steal second during the intentional walk. It would've been easy to just leave her at first...Reese is being walked anyway, what's the difference? But the fact that she stole second during the intentional walk means that she was able to score the go ahead run on Reese's "fuck your intentional walk" swing.
    45 points
  13. Hell, I thought this was going to be another lecture about our drinking.
    44 points
  14. Oh my God ... Turntine did his Michigan OV. Check out this post-OV quote from his Dad (key portion highlighted in blue) - explains why the Aggies are out. 😂 😂 😂
    43 points
  15. Long post alert and I am leaving out tons. I often try to avoid posting on this, but these posts get made all the time. For reasons I'd rather not expound on, I've known more Mormons than most of the rest of this board put together. Your impression is accurate about some, but there is a grotesque side that outsiders rarely see. Mormonism is a mix of good people, average people and predators that prey on them. There's a reason Utah has more multi-level marketing schemes and victims than any other state. First, the happy all the time is a manufactured image and beaten into you as a child, often literally. It's similar to other prosperity gospel groups. If you aren't happy, it's because you need to be more righteous and God will favor you and make you happy. People learn quickly not to show anything aside from a beaming smile. Especially to outsiders. That faux everyone is always happy bullshit is one of their biggest recruiting tools. The women and children are very frequently unhappy, but have learned to keep it to themselves. Utah's suicide rate is nearly double the national average. Suicide is the leading cause of death for ages 10-17. The suicide rate among kids has tripled in the last decade. It is especially high for LGBTQ+ kids. https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/suicide-is-leading-cause-of-death-among-utahns-ages-10-17-research-shows/ Mormonism itself is also in major flux. They are facing an existential truth crisis thanks to the internet and even to South Park, though South Park barely scratched the surface. As a result, many of the actual salt of the earth people are leaving in droves. Wards are being closed down and consolidated across the country. Exmormon content is some of the highest traffic content on TikTok and reddit. Check out r/exmormon and r/mormon for examples. They realized they've been lied to and exploited their entire lives. Or, they've watched others exploited and can't stay silent, though speaking out often means they are completely cut off by their family, friends, jobs and housing. Some left because rape victims are shamed and blamed for not fighting back enough. That's only one example of many and it's gone on for decades, at a minimum. It's beyond cruel and makes the worst experience of their life even more traumatic. Real salt of the earth people don't blame rape victims and they leave cruel organizations where others do blame rape victims. Recently, a bunch left over how the Mormons treat LGBTQ+ members. You won't see it in public, but many Mormons are fucking monsters to any friends/relatives who come out as LGBTQ+, especially trans. I have a friend who is trans and I'd put the odds at 80/20 she kills her self at some point due to how other Mormons treat her. I'm probably underestimating, she's hardly talking to anyone, or returning texts anymore. I regularly have to ask her to text me an emoji response, so I know she's still alive. It makes me fucking livid that there is nothing I can do, because all the love I can give her is dwarfed by the hate she is surrounded by, including most all of her family and former close friends. Salt of the earth people wouldn't do that to her. The real salt of the earth people stand up for the vulnerable and are leaving. Also of note on this issue, you may remember the Mormon "church" spending enormous political capital and members enormous amounts of money to take away LGBTQ+ right to marriage in California. Prop 8 would not have passed without their bigotry. Real salt of the earth people allow others to live their lives as they see fit, rather than trying to take away their rights. Others have left recently when they found out the "church" created a bunch of shell companies to hide at least $32 billion dollars from the SEC. The highest levels of leadership were aware and condoned it for 22 years, until a whistleblower turned them in. For 22 years, everyone else, including 3 different President's and all of their first counselors, covered it up. That whistleblower is the only salt of the earth person in that whole bunch. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64727764 Real salt of the earth people don't condone 22years of hiding billions from the SEC, they leave corrupt organizations like that. They report it to the SEC if they find out. Lots of the good people left when they found out about Joseph Smith's many concubines, including his 14 year old "wife" and how he coerced her by telling her that her families salvation depended on her giving herself to him. She lived to regret that decision and wrote about how she missed her lost childhood dearly. Many of those same Mormons you would call salt of the earth people bend over backwards to excuse this, "She was a few months shy of her 15th birthday". It's fucking gross. Actual salt of the earth people know that is deeply wrong and are leaving over it. Others left when they found out about the many "wives" Smith took that were already married, including sending men overseas on missions and "marrying" their wives. Or Brigham Young's 15 year old "wives", genocide and massacres of the Utah Native American tribes and that he owned slaves. Or that at least the first 4 Prophet, Seer and Revelators took child brides. Again, actual salt of the earth people cannot countenance these completely immoral and indefensible actions. Real salt of the earth people leave. Others left because there is a burgeoning awareness of how rampant domestic and sexual abuse of women and children are. Check out https://floodlit.org, a group who are cataloging all known sexual accusations and instances of direct coverup by leadership. They have a backlog of thousands of cases. The "church" has a special hot line for bishops and stake presidents to call that goes straight to their lawfirm, Kirton-McConkie, who "investigates" and covers up everything they can. The "church" actively lobbies to maintain clergy privilege and not have to disclose abuse to police if it's reported to leadership, despite the fact that the bishops/stake presidents have no formal training and are often just one of the richest, most connected members of the community. Right up the present day, Mormon leadership protects domestic abusers and sexual abusers if the family of the perpetrator is well connected. A friend of mine was married to a man who regularly beat the shit out of her, put out cigarettes on her, subjected her to regular and extremely violent rape. The abuser's family was powerful locally. His brother was a bishop in a nearby ward, his father was the stake president. Every time she reported it to her bishop, he heavily pressured her to not report it and to give the abuser another chance. God had brought them together, who was she to question his will? That's pretty close to verbatim what she was told over and over, to the point where she internalized it and began to see it as her fault. When she tried to complain to the stake president, it was the abuser's dad and he also tried to force her to accept the abuse. When she tried to escalate that, she was scolded for going over the stake president's head. She was frozen out completely and told to talk to the abuser's father about it. She was subjected to that for nearly two years until I found out some of the worst details she'd been telling the church leaders for years. I decided if his church wouldn't put the fear of God in him, I would. He hasn't come within 1000 feet of her since. They could have stopped it at any time, but chose not to. Her abuser, his brother and his father all remain members in good standing as of the last time I heard about them. Brother and father were still in high up leadership roles. You can check the subreddits to see that is far from an isolated case. The top post on the r/exmormon subreddit currently is about a man who raped his daughter for 14 years, went to prison for it, and has just been re-baptised and forgiven. His daughter's life is destroyed forever, but he's re-baptized, so that sin is washed away for him. Her mother chose him over her own daughter. Welcome back into the flock Elder Incest Child Rapist. How can any decent person stay in such a monstrous organization. Actual decent people leave. Kids do one on one "worthiness" interviews with the bishop where they are asked incredibly invasive questions. Many kids first learn about masturbation when the bishop asks them about it explicitly. It's fucked up. For members, including teenagers, that have engaged in extramarital sexual relations, bishops have total leeway in what to ask them. Virtually all of them will ask how many times, what you did, was there oral, hand, vaginal, anal. Some of them want to know exact positions, did you use a condom, did you cum, did you cum inside her, did she cum? Just one example. Bear in mind, the bishop has no formal training, he's usually just one of the richest members of the congregation. It's a religion literally founded on lies, grifting, predatory behavior and sexual abuse of women and children. It continues to be that today. So there are three types of mormons left. 1) The ones who are willfully ignorant, despite the internet being at their fingertips, or 2) are gullible enough to know it and try to make themselves okay with it, or 3) the ones who see it as a guidebook for how to prey on the rest of them. There are still some willfully ignorant good people there. I really do feel bad for them. They are so afraid to find out the truth, they wall themselves off from reality. They are told by their leadership to "Doubt Your Doubts". I understand it is incredibly difficult to walk away from indoctrination that constant and powerful, especially if you are born into it. They've never known any different. But unless they do stand up and leave, they cannot be real salt of the earth people. Not if they support all of the above, plus much, much more awful shit. Real salt of the earth people leave such a monstrous organization.
    43 points
  16. Counterpoint: Stewart's an asshole, Moore ditched us for cash, and the Ducks are only likable when compared to Ohio State.
    43 points
  17. The trainer he's been training with in Texas for the past month has been Derrick Johnson
    42 points
  18. My Longhorn dad, class of 57, passed away on March 2nd. Today would've been his 93rd birthday. I'm gonna be selfish and say they won it for him. Great job bringing home the trophy ladies!
    42 points
  19. The version of this thread on Daily Texan forum is a good example of why there are so few Trump supporters/conservatives that post in CR. They post a bunch of misinformation, gloat about believing this killer is a Democrat, and then once the facts come out... They're gone. Scattered like cockroaches. The only reason CR is a Dem "echo chamber" is because conservatism is dead and has been replaced by pure trolling and disingenuousness. Easier to just stop posting when you can't sincerely defend your positions anymore.
    41 points
  20. Thank you to those who are not with us. We know. To those with active kids. Thank them. We know. May everyone's brisket be moist. Fuck OU
    41 points
  21. Per someone writing the checks we are upping the bid on Atkinson and several others. He’s not gonna end up here but others will have to pay. We are managing things on a high level and even in recruitments we aren’t likely to win we are a big fucking problem for everyone else out there. It’s a fantastic time to be a Texas fan. I’m enjoying it immensely. Once it officially became a game of money and intelligence we rose to the top in a hurry. Fun times.
    40 points
  22. Listening to the Dodgers/Mets game, they played “God Bless America.” I love this country. I just don’t love the version being presented to us, and the world, now. But I desperately want this to be a brief dark period in our history. Not a tipping point from which there is no return. I have to believe sanity has a place in our future. I recently watched the Bin Laden documentary on Netflix and while W had his flaws, he seems like fucking Lincoln when compared to Trump. The infection the orange goon has unleashed on our country is more poisonous than any that has ever occurred in our nation’s history. He has sown division, hate, racism, chaos, anger and madness. And that has been his strategy. But is it ever going to return to some semblance of reason? For my sanity, I pray it will. I love this country too much to just give up.
    40 points
  23. I was pleasantly surprised in Belton. Only got to be there about an hour, but I'd guess 700-1000 people were there in the fiefdom of John Carter the Feckless. Kudos to the olds who showed up, saw lots of older vets. Everyone was cordial, welcoming, and upbeat. Almost zero presence of counter protesters, and LEO must have been staying out of sight. Organizers did a great job. Best sign:
    39 points
  24. Just so we’re clear, if nowhere else, on this board, at least. Texas wasn’t ready for shit in 2020. They weren’t ready on July 1, 2021, either. They didn’t support what NIL has become. They were fucking scared of it. What they weren’t scared of, they were oblivious to or dismissive of in all forms. So was the rest of the CFB landscape outside of Oregon and, well, a small group of us here and Bobby Burton. Small details may not seem important to you and this may seem like a quibble, but to me it is not. We put sweat into creating IP, aligning various skill sets and personalities, and then helping give it all away for the notion of a greater good for Texas and no longer seeing the UT AD be the disconnected, pious, pompous and trodden-upon snob it had become. We didn’t just create IP that was adopted ultimately across all of CFB, we took risk in bringing it to the forefront and then forcing the powers that be at Texas to see it and embrace it. And as to the notion that we’ll ever go back to just letting Bama and others make a mockery of the rules and get over on our fanbase? Not happening. Texas is not only now self-aware, it is assertive. Should that ever falter, we’ll call the banners again and find a way to go to war.
    39 points
  25. If his name was Dia Smith, he'd probably be a high three-star quarterback. He plays a very low level of competition. He hasn't progressed since his freshman year. I wouldn't say he's regressed, but he hasn't progressed. When he has had to step up against other competition, especially the playoff game where he looked awful, it just hasn't translated. Now, the Bell name is important. It's not just the name but what goes into that. Raja was a tremendous athlete. The kid's been taught since a young age. You have to assume based on the success of everybody else in that family that he's going to be good. So, high three-star with the name Smith. Throw in the Bell name you get to a four star.
    38 points
  26. For some reason I was craving an egg salad sandwich from Thundercloud so I ordered it online and asked my wife to pick it up on the way home. I included "I ordered it from the one behind Cane's off Bee Cave road" I get a frantic call "you ordered from the wrong store, they don't have your order but if you send me the receipt they will make it" So I email her the receipt. About 10 seconds later I hear a man say in the background "Ma'am this is Jersey Mikes"
    38 points
  27. 38 points
  28. Home field advantage….
    38 points
  29. Probably my only response in this forum (filled with blind tribalism on all sides - the title of this post is sufficient proof). I don't have the patience for it, but thank you for the page. Your assessment is pretty spot-on, with the "I lost patience with the test-fail-test-fail-test-fail mentality quickly" being my attitude, too. Failure *is* an option... once. Don't keep failing and telling me it's a success. However, you can't argue with the ultimate success of the Falcon 9 series, including both cargo and crewed variants. They were primarily responsible for the success of the US commercial space efforts not sliding into the abyss of failure. Relying on the Russians was never going to be a winning hand - I told my leadership that back during the Shuttle program, pre-ISS. I actually caused a (minor) program incident when I inadvertently insulted my Russian counterpart by "daring to question" his computations (which were wrong - and I saw it/proved it early). When I was "counseled" for not just accepting his wrong data and fixing it later, I reminded them "that's how Challenger happened." They were not particularly pleased with that reminder, but I was right. WRT SpaceX, there are two types of people there now - the fanbois who think everything they do is great (and are evidenced by the crappy PAO-types they shove on broadcasts and the screaming idiots behind the glass at SpaceX mission control), and the ones who actually see the issues, but are somewhat afraid of the consequences of bringing up problems. I know several former colleagues who got there and left because they wanted to be the third type - the ones who see, identify, and voice not only the issue but the solutions... and that wasn't encouraged. Don't get me wrong - the SpaceX engineering team is doing some brilliant things, but the attitude getting to a successful and sustainable program is different than mine. They have a more disposable/test/fail/test/fail mentality that has never appealed to me.
    38 points
  30. Thank goodness the adults are back in charge!
    38 points
  31. Anytime I see someone displaying the American flag now, particularly on a vehicle, I just assume they are a cunt. i would like to go back to the time when that filled me with pride.
    38 points
  32. Texas wins the Director's Cup!!! Bonkers how close it was. And ...
    37 points
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