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satyanash

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  1. Integration of the Indian States by V.P. Menon is required reading before you can even begin to answer this question.
  2. Meh. There's been no visible troop mobilizations on the Indian side of the border (nothing significant enough to be picked up by satellite imagery, at least). So far it's all been on the Pakistani side of the border. This is what happens pretty much every time. A short period of cross-border firing/shelling that provides cover for militants to sneak across the border, followed by posturing that usually peters out. India has played their card with the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, and now they have free reign to conduct hydroelectric projects at the Chenab, Jhelum and Indus rivers which provide ~60% of Pakistan's water supply in the Indus River Valley. In a few years the sword of irrigation collapse is going to be hanging over Pakistan.
  3. Peach Bowl commemorative rings are in
  4. Don't let this motherfucker steal home
  5. This inning is careening towards disaster
  6. rwHSRM18DF6DMuPG.mp4
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/world/asia/india-pakistan-kashmir.html So far we're seeing the usual cross-border exchanges that follow an attack. Still think India is going to constrain itself to a 'surgical strike' type of response.
  8. Keep them at bay? Pakistan sent their own troops across the border during the 1999 Kargil conflict disguised as militants. India would love it if "unwilling to keep them at bay" was the extent of Pakistan's involvement.
  9. Regardless of your feelings on Sanders, this is fucked up. Literal criminals are routinely drafted, Sanders' only 'crime' is being a cocky asshat.
  10. Colton Loveland over Tyler Warren?? Wow.
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  12. Of the four people mentioned in that post, A&M hired two of them and desperately tried to hire a third as well.
  13. Forgot to mention, one of the placards at the A&M exhibit in the Bush library actually tried to give A&M credit for the invention of the wishbone offense. It proclaimed "The three-back set known as the wishbone was created by Texas A&M head coach Emory Bellard" with zero additional context 😒 They also had a whole section of the exhibit dedicated to Reveille. I think the only actual trophies I saw, in addition to what I previously mentioned, were the Manziel Heisman + Cotton Bowl trophies from the 2012 season, Von Miller's Butkus award, their lone Big 12 championship trophy from 1998, and some random Alamo Bowl trophy from the '90s.
  14. No actual national championship trophy for A&M, since the Associated Press didn't start awarding its trophy until 1941 and the Dickinson System awarded their trophy to USC as the national champions that year. No player rings or watches either, since those wouldn't be in vogue until decades later. The only actual, non-retroactive trophy A&M has for their last national championship is the Sugar Bowl trophy. The players were also awarded charms for winning the SWC, and there's that infamous tapestry that's always in the signatures of the older, more deranged TexAgs posters. A little while back A&M had a football trophy exhibit at the George H.W. Bush Library. It feels uncharitable to call it 'pathetic', but it wasn't especially impressive. They put their 1941 Cotton Bowl trophy on display (from the season we defeated them 7-0, knocked them out of the Rose Bowl, and crushed their hopes of repeating for the national championship) along with a commemorative tapestry from their 1939 and 1940 seasons, a few photos from their 1919 and 1917 undefeated seasons, and various pins, rings and game balls. Most of the commemorative memorabilia for A&M's 1939 national title (i.e. the things that actually say 'National Champions' on them) are things A&M created and awarded themselves much later. For example, in 1998 A&M retroactively created and awarded national championship rings to the 26 surviving players from the 1939 team. And in 2016, when AFCA put together their short-lived 'Blue Ribbon Commission' headed up by R.C. Slocum, they awarded A&M a retroactive Coaches' Poll trophy for the 1939 season after A&M went through the process of applying for a retroactive award. The commission also awarded Okie Lite a trophy for 1945, TCU a trophy for 1938, and SMU a trophy for 1935 before AFCA presumably realized how silly the process was and stopped the project.
  15. Hoo boy. Horrific terrorist attack happened yesterday in Pahalgam, Kashmir. 26 Indian tourists were captured, lined up and killed by terrorists belonging to The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. The terrorists infiltrated the mountainous and remote India-Pakistan border, and have likely fled back across (a manhunt is currently underway). https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/asia/gunmen-open-fire-jammu-kashmir-intl/index.html According to eyewitness reports, the terrorists specifically targeted and killed non-Muslims, confirming the attack as religiously motivated. Diplomatic retaliation is already underway. Today India announced the suspension of the Indus water treaty, a move that could lead to significant water shortages in Pakistan, until Pakistan "credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism." Diplomats in New Delhi and Islamabad have been recalled. For its part, Pakistan has claimed the incident was a false flag, as is their standard response to such incidents. The Pakistani government has also called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council to discuss an "appropriate response."
  16. "When a kid puts on the University of Texas uniform, we tell him that he's just naturally expected to believe in himself. You hear guys who went to another school in our conference—A&M, Baylor or somewhere—talk for 20 minutes on why they didn't want to go to Texas. But you'll never hear a Longhorn bother to explain why he didn't go to another school." -- DKR Still holds true today.
  17. Related to your daughter's anecdote, there is a massive gender diverge in eating habits among the younger generations. Jessica Roy: Is It a Meal? A Snack? No, It’s ‘Girl Dinner.’ Steven Kurutz: Meet the Men Who Eat Meat (and Only Meat)
  18. Left the Texas State game with an injury.
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