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  1. I've spent way too much time on those two sites lately trying to figure those people out and waiting for them to realize it's all been BS. But with each new disappointment they seem to carry on believing and making up new shit. It's just fucking bizarre.
  2. Not sure the confederate flag guy is correct. In the FBI photo looks like he has a teardrop tattoo, here he does not: https://twitter.com/FBIWFO/status/1348484677288534019/photo/1 Hairline looks different as well. Face is similar.
  3. Pretty sure I just saw on CNN that the FBI is looking for info on this guy. Not sure if he's mis-identified here, or we have one up on the FBI on this one. edit: yep - they are: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/confederate-flag-man-fbi-tips-trnd/index.html
  4. I'm so gotdamned happy the reign of Mitch is coming to an end. Fuckin A. Gotdamn shit bird.
  5. If the Boglehead "method" is basically to just buy 3 specific mutual funds and leave them alone save for a yearly re-balance, I don't quite understand why the forum is so busy.
  6. If I'm thinking of putting in a pool, what am I looking at cost-wise in (SW) Austin right now? I'm thinking around 12k gallons is likely about the size I could fit. Prefer rounded corners over square, but could possibly compromise if square is much cheaper. Prefer salt water. Basic decking. Want a Spa. 6' depth in deep end would be a plus. Also, any recommended companies or ones to avoid?
  7. WAPO headline: "63-year-old Anthony Q. Warner is a person of interest in Christmas blast in Nashville, authorities say" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/12/26/after-nashville-blast-tennessee-governor-asks-trump-emergency-disaster-declaration/ It'll be interesting to see what what the nuts do with that name..
  8. DPS operates much differently than a local PD. The focus and modus operandi of (primarily) highway enforcement and supplementing smaller county LE is just much different than a large city police force. I don't see DPS wanting to take this on or having the expertise.
  9. Great posts Horn4Life. I was dumped into coaching my daughter's team starting in Kindergarten and adopted a very similar philosophy as you, though not nearly as refined. Great ideas there - I wish I had that when I started. I can attest - ditching almost all drills and playing fun games works wonders for the younger kids. Having a ball at every kids feet for 90% of practice improved every kid and made it fun. They all wanted to come to practice every week, and every kid re-signed up over the 3 seasons I coached. We also dominated most of our games, though I had a couple of exceptionally talented kids so not sure I can take full credit there. Here was a regular game we played which was especially good and the kids liked: Freeze Monster Tag: select 1 or 2 kids to be the "freeze monsters" and have them start away from the other kids. All the rest each have a ball and are boxed into half the field (can freely dribble around). When you release the monsters they try to steal the balls. If they get one away from a kid, that kid is frozen. When frozen you stand with the ball over your head and legs spread apart. If another kid kicks their ball through your legs you are unfrozen and can dribble around again. If the freeze monsters freeze everyone they win. Rotate so every kid has about equal time being a monster. Another thing I found helpful - we would close most practices with a team scrimmage. Sometimes I'd get the parents/siblings involved and have the kids play their parents/coaches/siblings. They loved that - it really brought out their competitiveness. And it also allowed them to see first-hand how effective spacing and passing can be which is really hard to teach to the younger kids. When they all charge the ball and the parent passes to a wide open other parent - they learn quick to play a little defense without having to try to drill that stuff.
  10. That's an option.. hate to waste a bird unless it will likely be ruined or unsafe.
  11. Wife got a curbside pickup fresh turkey from HEB. I put it in the fridge not noticing a 1 inch tear in the bag and the thing leaks all over the fridge. I'm assuming it's still safe? But wondering now if the lost juices will affect it. I'm planning to brine it Wednesday and smoke it Thurs. Y'all think the brining will restore any lost moisture? Or what would you do?
  12. What's interesting re: the House choosing the POTUS is that each state's delegation gets a single vote. According to the article The Dog posted, the GOP has a majority delegation in 26 states - but that would change after the election. The new Congress is sworn in Jan 3 and receives the Electoral College votes Jan 6.
  13. It's pretty clearly laid out what happens if the President is incapacitated or dies. It's clear what happens if the Pres and VP both die. It's less clear, as I understand it, as to what happens if the Pres and VP are both incapacitated. Also less clear what happens if someone dies during or after the election. WAPO ran this recently which discusses some of it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/continuity-government-trump-coronavirus/2020/10/02/f20143f8-04ca-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html
  14. My kid was seen today. Has some cuspids or premolars that don't have room to come in properly. Needs a spacer to make room and braces just on front 4 teeth to keep them together as the spacer does it's thing. Apparently my insurance is good and covers half - $1500 cost to me. Not sure about all the checkups and things as I didn't talk to them.
  15. I got a one year membership upon graduation and that same card has been getting me into alumni center for 20+ years. Nobody has ever batted an eye at it. It doesn't say anything specific on it like a year.
  16. Six Flags used to do concerts too.. My memory is hazy so could be mis-remembering, but I think I saw Duran Duran out there, and some band like Foreigner or Journey or something. I seem to remember Joan Jett playing out there too, but don't think I stayed for that one. I'm also now remembering for a while in the early 80s a bunch of the gift shops specialized in heavy metal posters and tshirts.. I particularly remember seeing lots of Ozzy Osbourne stuff for some reason.
  17. The summer after 7th grade me and my best friend had season passes. Once or twice a week.my mom would drop us at Six Flags on her way to work and his mom would pick us up on her way home. That was a fun ass summer.
  18. Staying in Port A. I might bring a bike and drop everything off, then drive back to rental and bike back to beach. Looks like it would be about a mile ride or so.
  19. Well, this sucks. We're scheduled to come down Friday Aug7. We booked off beach thinking we wanted to avoid crowds and could just drive until we find a spot NOT crowded. Not planning to eat out or do anything except chill at the rental house and beach. I have a wagon and bike, but any advice on which access might be less of a shit show to get in and/or park?
  20. " I operate under the presumption that they are not ignorant and that they learned the history and are referring to that commonly-available history." That's a loaded word - ignorant. I don't think the players are ignorant. But based on two former players saying otherwise and the use of the word "undertones" in the statement - I don't operate under the presumption that they are only referring to the available history, and I think they are perhaps misinformed - which I've stated a few times so I won't go into it again. "I think comparing white authority structures of the early 20th century to abusive fathers is pretty fair." Maybe, but we're not really talking about white authority structures. We're talking about a song - and you're conflating some "really bad shit" with something that I don't think is "really bad shit" - that is - the lyrics to our Alma Mater which are all positive, to me. The song has nothing to do with abusive fathers or white authority structures of the 20th century. It is disingenuous to frame the argument in those terms, IMO. "Would you sing The Eyes right now after a game knowing that a significant number of players don't want it sung? I don't know, we'll see how this plays out. Maybe the "Baber's Compromise" becomes a popular idea with the players, student, and alumni alike. Maybe the discussion around this causes people who initially reacted negatively to The Eyes to see it in a different light. Maybe the school drops The Eyes and I don't have the opportunity to sing it again in the presence of the players. If your're asking if none of this is resolved yet the band still strikes it up, if I'd essentially be a dick and sing it at a game knowing some people think it means something painful which I don't think it means - I don't know. That would be somewhat antithetical to what I think is the spirit of the song in the first place. I don't see it coming to that - but who knows.
  21. So you were being hyperbolic with the 'repeatedly and at length' statement. In fact, we don't really know. An abusive father yelling at the dog? Upset by his fury? Really? And where are the eyes looking disapprovingly at Aggies in the song from which you make the jump to disapprovingly at blacks? I think you're using emotional language to try to sway the conversation, and it strikes me as a bit disingenuous. I think it is likely that people took out of context the factual history "it came from a minstrel show and a quote by Robert E Lee" and jumped to "it's a veiled warning to slaves that they eyes of their master is on them" - without really examining it. And this interpretation has become the 'truth" of it for some. Now, maybe that factual history is enough to damn it for many - and that's fine - but that's the conclusion I'm drawing so far lacking more information.
  22. Can you, or anyone, point me to some more information on this? Seriously. I have only seen the original request and like two tweets from former players. The original request is this: Changes regarding the entire black community at UT - The replacement of The Eyes of Texas with a new song without racist undertones. - Lifting the requirement of athletes to sing the song It doesn't articulate the problem at all the problem beyond "racist undertones". The wording there again implies to me that they think the lyrics are referring to slaves that "cannot get away".
  23. BT. We're not all idiots, and we're not all enemies of progress. Most of us wouldn't be posting here if we didn't give a shit how the young people of color representing our university feel. I think most are trying to understand it because we feel, or did feel much differently about this particular song than they do. You don't have to argue with every single sentence somebody types. It's non-conducive to having a discussion and to a it's counterproductive to the points you are trying to get across - some of which I appreciate reading.
  24. I'm very close to Troph here in that the song does mean something to me. Traditional and ritual are an important human element to bond us to institutions and to each other, and this is one of those for me, and many others. Participating in singing the The Eyes, more than anything else, makes me feel connected to the University and remember my time there and what the University did for me. I've been doing mental exercises to try to see the song as racist. I can't get there. I think if I could I'd be be all on board with ditching it. What bothers me most (and has been discussed a bit), is that I think the players dislike it based on false assumptions/information. All the comments I've seen from former/current players about it either directly state or seem to imply they believe the song was adapted from words intended to intimidate slaves - that the words really mean that you can't escape your master. Based on the known facts and context I'm confident that's not true. The original and adapted quote were both addressed to either students or soldiers, predominately white - and to me clearly intended to inspire the people to be their best. The other connections to racism (performed at a minstrel show , adapted from quote of Confederate officer, tune of the song).. just aren't enough for me. I can find similar tangential connections to just about anything. But if I thought these were the primary motivators rather than thinking the song was referring to slaves directly - I'd even be closer to ok with it. I'd disagree the logic, but at least I'd understand the "other side's" conclusions were drawn from facts. As an aside, what further sucks is that we're even focusing on this relatively trivial thing when there are real problems and real changes that need to be addressed. Throwing this in sowed division rather than unity - which is unfortunate. Maybe I'm overthinking it...
  25. Trying to learn about a topic and reason through it is not "corporate horseshit". It's called thinking. The players may or may not care about my opinion - I don't think you're the arbiter of that. Regardless, I'm trying to hear and understand theirs, that's what this conversation is about it.
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